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

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)

Trailer

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