The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb 6:6

This is an animated movie along the lines of Eraserhead or Otesanek, and the target audience isn't young children.

Excerpted from Wikipedia: Though it draws its title character from the fairy tale Tom Thumb, the story and setting is substantially different, depicting Tom as a foetus-like child living in a grim and squalid urban environment.

The story follows the tiny Tom Thumb as he is abducted from his loving parents and taken to an experimental laboratory, and his subsequent escape. He discovers a community of similarly-sized people living in a swamp, who help him on his journey to return to his parents. The film is largely dialogue-free, limited mostly to grunts and other non-verbal vocalizations.

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb was made using a combination of stop-motion animation and pixilation (live actors posed and shot frame-by-frame), often with live actors and puppets sharing the frame. It was originally commissioned as a 10 minute short for BBC2's Christmas programming, but was rejected for being too dark for the festive season. The short version nevertheless garnered critical acclaim through showings at animation festivals, and a feature-length version was commissioned by the BBC a year later.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108069
http://www.bolexbrothers.co.uk/index.html

Category:

Film & Animation

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• british
• united
• kingdom
• bbc
• stop
• motion
• animation
• claymation
• horror
• fantasy
• sci
• fi
• science
• fiction
• dystopia
• dystopian
• surreal
• surrealism
• creepy
• nightmarish

[thornbonez]

O_________O

[cameltoeJESUS]

I really, really don't understand alot of this movie.

[rainkissrose]

The music is wonderful. Where can I get the soundtrack?

[sannaholdert]

ThanX I watched it loooong time ago and was looking for it... It's a piece of ART!!!!!

[Anarchos]

Loved it!

[slitor]

@kezadrone Good thing to because i dont think it would be quite as uniqe.

[maxx88]

@SynerJetics actualy i don't thinks its an afterlife but reincarnation and when tom saw his dad with all the lightning bolts around him it was meant to represent universal contentiousness it was tom in his next life .

[helenkitty23]

5:19 i mean

[helenkitty23]

5:29

lol flashing red light is funny

and that is probably the only funny thing in this movie. Everything else is so dark and confusing D:

[JoseWiiSantos]

THAT was awesome! i loved it!

[SynerJetics]

They all died and in "The Relm of the After Life,The flies made a halo around Tom's head, because Tom was kind to them and other outsiders.