I feel like the film was suppose to be scary when I watched it, it was like a scary movie and I thought It was pretty easy to tell that they were trying to make the movie scary. They made it very dark so that you could not see very much and you did not really know what to expect next. The clown doll they used was also scary looking, it reminded me of the movie "Saw" which is a scary movie so I got the same feeling from it. Also the music made it sound scary with the high pitch noises, which are usually in scary movies. They matched up the sounds they were looking for with the instruments they were using very well. The setting of the movie also made me feel the way I did, it was like they were in a basement, which is always the scariest part of a house, and it was a old looking house which is also scary. It was a good movie, but I did not really like the mood it gave me, I was kind of confused watching it and it was pretty creepy. The only thing I would have changed is to make it easier to see what they are trying to show.
Brothers Quay Response
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The Street of the Crocodiles was a pleasant surprise for me because my first taste of the Quay Brothers was completely unsatisfactory. I believe that our initial exposure to stop motion was short YouTube video done by the Quay Brothers, I didn't like the dark or industrial imagery, and at this point in time I wasn't able to appreciate the intricacy of what they were actually doing. The second time around the Quay Brothers proved to me why they were so influential in the realm of stop motion. The brothers were very effective in their in their narrative motives, the dinginess of the whole setting made their disgust for the repercussions of the of the industrial revolution clearly evident. The sounds they used were really useful in creating an ominous situation for the main character to navigate. The sounds, were also great indicators of the directors' feelings about city life because when one walks down certain city streets, an ominous feeling might creep into your spin. I wouldn't change much of anything about this stop motion production, because I believe they were able to influence the work of the good people at Pixar, who came up with Sid's horrifying room (the expressionless doll faces in The Street of the Crocodiles, were similar to the doll head with spider legs in Toy Story).