"Little Otik"
2000
Directed by Jan Svankmajer

Surrealist film master Jan Svankmajer combines his distinctive approaches to live-action and animation with this creepy but very funny movie based on an old Czech legend. A childless woman's maternal longings transform a crudely carved wooden doll into a living creature with an appetite that soon makes real trouble for some of the neighbors. "Rivals The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby and Eraserhead as a disturbing treatise on the fear of parenthood" (Andrew Johnston, The New York Times). Czech with English subtitles. 126 minutes.