The Realm Beyond Reason
2020 · 8m · USA
Directed by Pat Moriarity, Seth Zeichner
Genres: animation, comedy, horror
Tones: dark, darkly comic, surreal
Two teenage brothers take jobs at a mysteriously isolated pizzeria in the woods on what should be a routine first day.
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A cult underground cartoonist's hand-drawn horror is animated via character-rigging software and becomes something no one intended.
Pat Moriarity's hand-drawn comic-book art brought into Adobe Character Animator retains the raw ink-on-paper expressiveness — that's a smart technical pairing, and the cult-comix pedigree justifies the Ren & Stimpy / Kricfalusi reach. Specific and weird.
Pat Moriarity's underground comic ink brought to life via Character Animator so the rawness survives the medium — Halloween energy with a Ren-and-Stimpy spine. Eight minutes of legit cult animation.