If the final product amounts to a fucked-up tone poem rather than a full-cooked meal - an inscrutable, 100-minute nightmare that proves its own concept at the expense of developing it further - that uncompromised sense of experimentation also helps to demonstrate how vital horror movies can be at a time when the rest of the film world is too scared to try anything new. Or a slow cinema version of “Paranormal Activity” that ditched jump-scares for pervasive dread, maintaining the disembodied camerawork of a found footage film while inverting the formula to show a domestic possession from the house’s POV.Ī micro-budget phenomenon that leveraged a fortuitous leak into the kind of buzz that an indie film can’t buy, Kyle Edward Ball’s deeply unnerving “ Skinamarink” might be too indebted to YouTube horror trends to feel like a sui generis genre-changer, but this is still the sort of movie so committed to its own strange language that it’s best translated through references to more familiar work. Enjoy Floyd’s exploits to get his kite down and the expression in every line of the illustrations.Imagine if someone made an entire movie out of the last shot of “The Blair Witch Project.” Or a creepypasta remake of “Home Alone” steeped in the ineffable fear a young child would feel if the rest of their family abandoned them in the middle of the night. Suspend your disbelief for this one because it is ridiculous, but it is so very much fun and I can guarantee that this will become a firm favourite. Then he got inspiration from his nephews playing and came up with the perfect ending! At his talk, Oliver Jeffers mentioned struggling with the ending of this story as he had been trying to think of a way for everything that went up to come down again and it just wasn’t working. The unexpected ending made me laugh out loud when I first came across this book and still makes me snigger every time. So, of course, the only thing to do is throw something else up there to get it down…but then that gets stuck too! The story continues with various objects getting stuck in the tree, gradually getting more and more unbelievable…then Floyd decides to get a saw… The story follows Floyd, a little boy who get shis kite stuck in a tree. I read this book to every class I have and it always goes down well, particularly the unexpected ending. Meeting Oliver Jeffers this week has inspired me to go back and properly review some of his books and I though I would start with one of my favourites – Stuck. It all began when Floyd got his kite stuck in a tree… Childlike in concept and vibrantly illustrated as only Oliver Jeffers could, here is a picture book worth rescuing from any tree. Stuck is Oliver Jeffers’ most absurdly funny story since The Incredible Book-Eating Boy. An orangutan? A boat? His front door? Yes, yes, and yes. Only now it’s stuck! Surely there must be something he can use to get his kite unstuck. But how? Well, by knocking it down with his shoe, of course. When Floyd’s kite gets stuck in a tree, he’s determined to get it out. Published by Harper Collins Children’s Booksįrom the illustrator of the #1 smash The Day the Crayons Quit comes another bestseller–a giggle-inducing tale of everything tossed, thrown, and hurled in order to free a kite! Written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
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