Uploaded October 2018 | Updated September 2026, 3 hours ago

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Stop Motion is simultaneously one of the most spectacular and, most, terrifying, forms of animation.

I’m not the first to notice that Stop Motion can be kinda creepy. In fact, many creators working with it seemed to have realized this a while ago, given the amount of dark or horror themed films and shorts that go out of their way to exploit this aspect of the medium rather than shy away from it. There’s just something about the movements that seems so mechanical. Something about the textures that makes your skin crawl. It's all so weird, so eerie, so uncanny.

And this Halloween season, I want to talk about what I think makes this tactile trade so creepy for so many.

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♣| MUSIC USED |♣
- Symbol of Peace - Yuki Hayashi
Part of My Hero Academia’s Soundtrack

- The House of Leaves - Kevin MacLeod
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- They Said... - Kensuke Ushio
Part of Devilman Crybaby’s Soundtrack

- The Crawling - Kensuke Ushio
Part of Devilman Crybaby’s Soundtrack

- Anxiety - Kensuke Ushio
Part of Devilman Crybaby’s Soundtrack

- Norman's Walk - Jon Brion
Part of Devilman Crybaby’s Soundtrack

♣| FOOTAGE USED/MEDIA DISCUSSED |♣
- Coraline (2009)

- Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

- The Maker

- Kubo & The Two Strings

- The Haunted Hotel (1907)

- The Automatic Moving Company (1912)

- The Lost World (1925)

- King Kong (1933)

- Morph (Animated Series)

- Wallace & Gromit Great Adventure TV Ad

- The Fast Show (TV Series)

- Crooked Rot
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- The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

- A Close Shave (1995)

- Pluto and the Vessel
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- ParaNorman

- Toaster:
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- Parkour Atlas
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- ASIMO
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bit.ly/2D9Pu5r

- HRP-4C (Miim)
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- Sophia the AI Robot
bit.ly/1UKrR3V

- Bryan Dechart meets Connor & Hank in real life
bit.ly/2AxLRDT

- Ghost in the Shell (2017)

- Animatronic Lincoln
bit.ly/2qhxOfr

- Tin Toy (1988)

- Image Metrics Emily
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- Face Lift
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- Child's Play (1998)

- Isle of Dogs

- FOXED! (2013)

- The Wrong Trousers (1993)

- A KISS IN THE DARKNESS
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- The Cat With Hands (2001)

- The Sandman (1992)

- Anomalisa

- Hinamatsuri

- Next Gen (2018)

- The Nightmare Before Christmas

- Behind the Scenes Footage/Images:
The Boxtrolls
Deer Flower
Kubo & The Two Strings
Coraline
Isle of Dogs
ParaNorman
The Wrong Trousers
Anomalisa

♣| OTHER MEDIA REFERENCED |♣
- The Humpty Dumpty Circus (1897)
- Chicken Run
- Lucanus Cervus (1910)
- Spongebob Squarepants
- Fantastic Mr. Fox, by Roald Dahl

♣| SOURCES/LINKS |♣
- A Brief History of Stop Motion
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- “The Uncanny Valley” 2012 Translation
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- Masahiro Mori Interview
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- Editorial on the Uncanny Valley hypotheses
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- Overview of research on the Uncanny Valley hypotheses
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- Other Articles on Stop Motion’s Creepiness:
inverse.com/article/19872-stop-motion-is-creepy-because-it-s-essentially-zombification
theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/07/subversive-allure-stop-motion-anomalisa-tim-burton

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