Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (2008)
- Directed by
- Nicky Phelan
- Genre
- animation, comedy, fantasy
- Country
- Ireland
- Runtime
- 6 min
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 37 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 grandmother tells the story of Sleeping Beauty to her granddaughter but her version gets progressively darker and more violent. The old lady becomes increasingly unhinged as she recites her twisted take on the classic fairy tale.
darkly comicunsettlingfast-pacedsatiricalanxiousvisually stylizedabsurd
What happens
Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty is a six-minute-long animated socially satirical black comedy short film written by Kathleen O'Rourke, directed by Nicky Phelan and produced by Darragh O'Connell of Brown Bag Films in 2008. The plot centers on Granny O'Grimm, a seemingly sweet old lady, who loses the plotline as she tells her own version of Sleeping Beauty to her terrified granddaughter. In 2010, the short was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film at the 82nd Academy Awards but lost to Logorama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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