When you think about the level of detail and labor that goes into a feature-length stop-motion film, it boggles the mind. It's that elbow grease and abundant creativity that make stop-motion animation ...

The film is full of "striking" images, but as a skewering of a monstrous figure, "it's not quite a stake through the heart". This "boisterously macabre" and deeply violent horror-satire is ...