10 Recent Horror Films You Need To Stop Sleeping On

Building on his history of success with short-form stop motion films, filmmaker and animator Robert Morgan made his craft meta with his first feature, Stopmotion, combining the animation style he has spent the past few decades creating, and combining it with a live-action story that comments on the trials of this unique art form.

Leading the film is stop-motion animator Ella Blake (Aisling Franciosi), who finds herself teetering on the edge of collapse and creative freedom when her mother - and boss - falls ill. Left to her own devices, Ella conjures a new and horrifying world in which a girl is stalked, through the woods to an abandoned house, by the monstrous Ash Man. Naturally, these events reflect Ella’s current living situation in an abandoned apartment block, and as her story progresses on camera, she begins to feel its reverberations in real life, with her hideous creation manifesting in her day-to-day existence.

As Ella works through her grief and is ensnared by her project, we are never certain as to how much of what she experiences is real, how much is a reflection of something real, and how much fantasy.  And by the time she has fully unwound into the darkest of places, losing touch with the boundaries between worlds, it is too late to find out.

Still a hidden indie gem, this has all the makings of a future body horror classic, but is not for the faint of stomach.