{"id":16327,"date":"2015-10-18T00:15:55","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T04:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=16327"},"modified":"2015-10-18T04:40:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-18T08:40:43","slug":"will-vintons-claymation-comedy-of-horrors-1991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/18\/will-vintons-claymation-comedy-of-horrors-1991\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Vinton\u2019s Claymation Comedy of Horrors (1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve been spoiled by Will Vinton\u2019s Christmas special, but \u201cComedy of Horrors\u201d just wasn\u2019t my favorite from the man. It\u2019s likely because the narrative he gives audiences just doesn\u2019t fit thirty minutes as a whole. I think this special should have had various segments rather than just one solid story. The story at the center is just never as engaging as I would have loved it to be, and in the end I was kind of disappointed. \u201cClaymation Comedy of Horrors\u201d is filled with a ton of horror references both obscure and mainstream, and I dug the Easter Eggs he included.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s a cameo from the Gillman, and I loved the appearance from Jason Voorhees. Despite those interesting tidbits, even for an eccentric Vinton special, the central premise is just kind of disjointed. Wilshire Pig and his friend Sheldon Snail accidentally stumble upon a map to the lab of Dr. Frankenswine who created his own monster. The entirety of the special is spent on the duo finding the castle where the lab is and crashing a monster party. Now they have to find the lab while hiding the fact that they\u2019re mortal. From thereon in, there are a ton of appearances from various monsters, and there\u2019s even some fun moments including Wilshire\u2019s meeting of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and the blob being a host of an open mic night at the castle.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s just no one to root for here, and Wilshire Pig and Sheldon Snail are irritating protagonists. Wilshire Pig has zero redeeming features, while Sheldon Snail is consistently bullied. There\u2019s no room for any of them to really win over the crowd, and before they can the special just ends. The narrative feels wildly incomplete, which is proven by the closing credits revealing a plot point that feels unresolved. Even when they find the mythical monster, it\u2019s just not funny so much as it is kind of weird. That said Will Vinton\u2019s animation is excellent, and his style definitely brings back shades of nostalgia for me. The special as a whole leaves much to be desired, and should only be seen by hardcore fans of Vinton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe it\u2019s because I\u2019ve been spoiled by Will Vinton\u2019s Christmas special, but \u201cComedy of Horrors\u201d just wasn\u2019t my favorite from the man. It\u2019s likely because the narrative he gives audiences just doesn\u2019t fit thirty minutes as a whole. I think this special should have had various segments rather than just one solid story. The story […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[71,99,210,219,349,441,477,678],"class_list":["post-16327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-horror-month","category-tv-tomb","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-claymation","tag-comedy","tag-fantasy","tag-halloween","tag-horror","tag-monsters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16330,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327\/revisions\/16330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}