Little Otik (2000)
- Original title
- Otesánek
- Directed by
- Jan Švankmajer
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film, comedy film, horror film, comedy horror, comedy drama
- Country
- Czech Republic, United Kingdom, Japan
- Runtime
- 2h 12m
- Rated
- 12+
- Rating
- 7.0 of 10 from 152 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A childless couple adopts a tree stump that comes to life and grows into a human-like creature with a ravenous appetite. The creature's eating habits wreak havoc on their lives and the apartment building where they live.
surrealdarkly comicunsettlingabsurdwhimsicalgrotesqueslow-burn
What happens
Little Otik (Czech: Otesánek), also known as Greedy Guts, is a 2000 surreal dark comedy horror film by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová. Based on the folktale Otesánek by Karel Jaromír Erben, the film is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in an apartment building in the Czech Republic. The film uses the Overture to Der Freischütz (1821) by Carl Maria von Weber as the score. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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