Stage Fright

Stage Fright (1997)

A vaudevillian's act involving the juggling of dogs is no longer a hit. He and his partner must face a brutal villain and assorted obstacles in order to secure their future.

Data di uscita
1997-11-19
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (15)
Durata
12 min
Generi
Dramma, Animazione, Horror
Regista
Steve Box

Cast

Curiosità

Stage Fright is a 1997 stop-motion short film written and directed by Steve Box, it follows Tiny, a vaudeville performer and dog trainer, as he tries to cope with being overshadowed by the rise of film. All of the characters are voiced by Graham Fellows. The film won the 1998 BAFTA Award for Best Short Animation.

Production

When the movie screen crashes onto Arnold Hugh's head and kills him, he knocks over a bucket with his foot, playing on the classic idiom "kick the bucket". This gag was inspired by a scene in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, wherein Jimmy Durante's character, Smiler Grogan, literally kicks a bucket as he dies.

The Organist that appears at the beginning of the short and later near the end, who shows his spectral self and beckons Arnold Hugh's ghost to the underworld, bears a strong resemblance to Oogie Boogie from Tim Burton's 1993 stop-motion film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Classic stock sound effects were used at several points throughout the short.

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