Short film: Lobster Girl and Other Tales (2021)

Spoiler-Free Judgement Zone

A sort of anthology of animated horror tales with various animation styles. The story of Lobster Girl is broken into three parts with other stories of varying quality interspersed. If you like weird fiction and creepy animation, this one may be for you!

Synopsis

Lobster Girl Part 1

Jake has had his hands transformed into claws so that he can be with the Lobster Girl. She said he would have to feel her pain before she would marry him.

Comments: It’s like a comic book turned into an animated movie, with both 2D and 3D effects. Very nice!

Godless

A man describes getting a girl pregnant back in the 50s. He doesn’t want it; she doesn’t want it. Abortions were illegal in those days, but there were ways. She’s well into her sixth month, but they convince the doctor to do the procedure anyway. The baby comes out alive; now what?

Comments: It uses a sort of rotoscope effect done over super-low resolution video, possibly from stock-footage. This sort of thing used to happen often in the 1950s, and it still happens from time to time now.

All Aboard

Comments: Very nice, very creepy black and white images, but no real story and very short. There should have been more to this.

666 House Street

A mother kills her demon-possessed children.

Comments: This was over before I realized it wasn’t part of “All Aboard.” It was fine, but having the title at the end was far more confusing than it should have been.

Lobster Girl, Part 2

A lobster-handed girl and formerly-abandoned child named Snow have some misadventures in an institution. A baby is produced who has miraculous powers…

Metamorphosex

A woman recounts a rape incident. Is it possible he was the only one who cared about her?

Comments: a collection of painting-style images.

Lobster Girl Part 3

Lobster Girl and Snow do battle. Jake, from the first part, waits on Lobster Girl’s arrival until he finds out he’s not Lobster Girl’s only suitor.