visual effects historian Justin Humphreys and assistant Larry Franco
when Hans becomes entranced by the arrival of a visiting baroness
and a death touch that let's him make good on his demented threats
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Erik Buckman
A student at a peculiar school for servants gradually uncovers its secrets and
The Pied Piper W/SLIP USED Crescendo House visual effects historian Justin Humphreys1986, Czechoslovakia, 53 min. Director Jir Barta's stop motion animated masterpiece, based on The Pied Piper of Hamelin, is set in a dark and twisted medieval village of narrow streets and weird Gothic arches, half CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and half Jan van Eyck. The money obsessed citizens, carved out of wood blocks and speaking in an onomatopoeic babble, are like George Grosz caricatures, literally spouting coins from their mouths instead of words.