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Writer's pictureThomas Bennedetto

January 19th - The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb (1993 Stop Motion Horror Film)

Today is the anniversary of a messed up little stop motion movie I think more people need to watch. The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb is a 1993 stop motion horror movie that is not really a retelling of the story of Tom Thumb so much as it is the story of a human/wasp hybrid homunculus and his search to find his family in a dystopian future england.


This film is definitely creepy, but that's what makes it good. There really are not as many stop motion horror films as there should be, and most of what is out there is family friendly horror. This one is definitely not one to show to pre-teens or grandma. Unless the kids have already seen worse or grandma is cool. But yeah I do recommend this film, but with viewer digression because it's Dystopian, Kafkaesque, Lynchian, and Nihilistic.


[ASSOCIATES NOTE: you made me watch this and I remember afterwards I told you, and I have this saved, that "so that little guy was just there for everything to suck for him, huh". I'd give the movie a 7.5/10]


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crypt1d2c0v3
crypt1d2c0v3
Jan 19, 2023

i'll check that out! as a horror genre lover, i love when stop-motion is used in movies.

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Thomas Bennedetto
Thomas Bennedetto
Jan 20, 2023
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There's not as many stop motion horror films as you'd think there would be, and even less that actually counts as "adult animation", and tightening the gene down to full length films made before 2000, it's clear this one's something rare, and it's not particularly well known both despite and because because of this.

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