Little Otik

• Duration: 132 minutes
• Director: Jan Švankmajer
• Country: Czech Republic
• Year: 2000
• Rating: (15)

This is a screening by Porlock Press, an independent Nottingham-based film club showing a wide range of cult film, with a focus on animation of all kinds. 

A young couple resort to extreme and unconventional measures to bring a ‘child’ into their lives, with bizarre and deadly consequences! Director Jan Švankmajer blends live action and stop-motion animation to great effect in this absurd and darkly comic story, inspired by the Czech fairy tale Otesánek. 

"Rivals The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby, and Eraserhead as a disturbing treatise on the fear of parenthood.” - The New York Times