Animated anthology of tales of the macabre, in a variety of styles and shades of black-and-white. More disjointed than it needed to be, what with the intermittent interruptions from a continuing charcoaly chronicle of Dog Bites Man and a geometrical abstraction narrated by a torturously introspective female (“I’m scared of looking down on people who are different,” etc.). The coming-attractions trailer proves to have been just as good a format for the isolated creepy image. Uninterrupted, the final two broody mood pieces, directed by Lorenzo Mattotti and Richard McGuire respectively, are the strongest segments. Other segments are directed by, alphabetically, Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, and Pierre Di Sciullo. (2008) — Duncan Shepherd
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