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On a dark night, as the clock strikes eight, a mother sends her child upstairs to bed with only a candle for light... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 2 wins more
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Best Stop Animation short of all time! more (13 total)

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Referenced in Jeepers Creepers (2001) more

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Best Stop Animation short of all time!, 30 January 2005
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Author: ChrisWN from Santa Cruz, CA

I saw this in one of the Spike & Mike festivals years ago & would say that this is probably my all time fave short. Very simple & short, but quite devastating. I have been trying to track this down on DVD..... The story of the creator is tragic, had he lived longer, I'm sure he would have rocked the animation world. The story is the classic, oft told tale of a kid afraid to go to bed because of what might lurk under his bed. It is told (if i remember correctly) without proper dialogue (I think there are mutterings by the characters, but not of an intelligible language). I assumed from the dark tone & detailed sets & figures that this one came from Eastern Europe, but was quite surprised to find it was not the case. Think Quay brothers, but with real characters in clay & in color.

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