Childhood nightmares. Fantasy retreats. The real names behind Coraline. Who is Henry Selleck? What’s a Neil Gaiman? Who killed Amanda Palmer? Building a world and playing around in it. The most rundown theater in Chicago. Grey world. Parallels to MirrorMask. Otherworld (button world). Stageshows! There’s dark, and there’s fucked up. The unexpected. Does Coraline have bad parents? Little Nemo gets a DVD release. The child in a flying bed from the NES generation. Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland in contrast to Walt Disney. A world without rules…or physics. Anti-authoritarianism. The Nightmare King.
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Also referenced: Shrek, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, James and the Giant Peach, MirrorMask, Twin Peaks, Pan’s Labrynth, Steven Spielberg (War of the Worlds), The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Penn and Teller Get Killed, Bambi, Aladdin, Fern Gully, Scooby-Doo, Clue, Stage Fright (Deliria), Phenomena
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Coraline
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Director: Henry Selick
Writer: Henry Selick
Starring: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, John Hodgman
An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
Little Nemo
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Director: Masami Hata, William T. Hurtz
Writer: Chris Columbus, Richard Outten
Starring: Gabriel Damon, Mickey Rooney, Rene Auberjonois, Danny Mann
young boy whose dreams transcend reality is sucked into his his own fantasy, which is everything he has dreamed of until he unleashes a century old secret that may not only destroy this perfect dream world but reality itself.
