091. Nick Park & Steve Box: Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

The classic genres… horror, rom-com, monster film, bunny-comedy? In our preparation for the recently released Vengeance Most Fowl, join us as we cover Nick Park’s 2005 Wallace & Gromit feature, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, co-directed with Steve Box. Eli recounts the experience he had watching this in theaters as a kid. Wilson talks about why stop motion animation scares him. And Ben leads us into an interesting conversation about genre, and how comedy operates in this film and in our lives  Paul Santilli: Culture, Evil and Horror Bunny hop over to our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.com Timestamps (00:00) Intro (06:49) Plot summary (08:58) General reactions (13:17) Types of humour (20:55) Genre (28:30) Payoffs (35:30) Stop-motion and humanity (41:42) Margin of safety (45:35) Comedy and horror (47:57) Childhood movies and tragedy (51:27) Outro

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