Crowe's short animated feature is compelling and disturbing in equal measures. It's very, very dark and blackly humorous. As a viewer you can't look away from the screen nor can you forget Berkoff's remarkable voice coming at you from all directions. Brilliantly animated and played out!
5 Reviews
Cronenbergesque
entries-601-7130286 February 2013
Somewhere out there in a parallel universe is an alternative version of David Cronenberg who turned his talents towards animation. The closest we, in this universe, may ever get to seeing the results is to watch the films of Devlin Crow who seems to channel this unique Cronenbergesque vision.
Crow has been absent from the auteur animation scene for a while but we were happy to have screened this and also "The Anatomists Handbook" the years they were released and they are definitely well worth a watch if the chance arises.
Malcolm Turner Director Melbourne International Animation Festival
Crow has been absent from the auteur animation scene for a while but we were happy to have screened this and also "The Anatomists Handbook" the years they were released and they are definitely well worth a watch if the chance arises.
Malcolm Turner Director Melbourne International Animation Festival
Lindsay Duncan - actress
devlin-crow28 November 2018
" Many years ago I recorded a few lines as the woman in Devlin Crow's Expelling the Demon but I hadn't seen it until recently. I'm not very familiar with animation as an art form but Devlin Crow's talent - and Steven Berkoff's voicing of the tongue - really impressed me. What a great part the tongue is. Bold and bad. Funny, appalling and tyrannical. The film does exactly what I imagine Devlin wants it to do - it repels and compels. I don't really want the image of that monster lashing tongue to stay in my mind, but I fear it may."
Klasky-Csupo - Review
devlin-crow26 November 2018
A profoundly disturbing work whose discomfort induced in the viewer is legitimized by its exploration of the psychological even pathological recesses of the human psyche.
Keep pushing the creative boundaries of animation as an art form.
Keep pushing the creative boundaries of animation as an art form.
Nicolas Roeg - Film Director
devlin-crow26 November 2018
Here is your 'few words of a kind'......
Devlin Crow is brilliant. I have never seen a film that tells you more about the viewer or critic than the film-maker....Try writing something about it after you've watched it and you'll know what I mean.....Perhaps it should be called 'Exposing Your Demon'! Nicolas Roeg
Devlin Crow is brilliant. I have never seen a film that tells you more about the viewer or critic than the film-maker....Try writing something about it after you've watched it and you'll know what I mean.....Perhaps it should be called 'Exposing Your Demon'! Nicolas Roeg
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