The film of the week this time is LITTLE OTIK.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0228687/

This is a very weird film. Not weird in a quirky Tim Burton, or Terry Gilliam way. More weird in a disturbing mind rape kind of way. This film is about a woman who is so sad about not being able to have a baby, so her husband digs up a tree root and shapes it to look a bit like a baby. The woman not only loves this new tree baby but she tries to protect it as much as she can. Then the crazyness starts when the tree baby comes alive and needs to eat so logically it starts eating people, a cat, and hair.

This film is very similar to the campy B movie It's Alive, but Little Otik is much more surreal and it is based on an old fairy tale. There are a lot of close ups of people eating for no apparent reason, and a creepy pedophile who stares at the bum of an 8 year old girl. The film mixes stop motion animation and live action to make the strange tree baby. I will probably have nightmares about that damn tree baby now. I highly recommend this film if you want to have your brain smacked by a ferret covered in strawberry jam.