ParaNorman
Directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler
Written by Chris Butler
Starring Kodi Smit-McPhee, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, John Goodman, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse
Focus Features
Rated PG | 93 Minutes
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Produced by Coraline creators Laika, ParaNorman is a kid-friendly, stop-motion animated spookshow - a witches' brew of '80s classics like Monster Squad and Beetlejuice, with a dash of 1993's Hocus Pocus and a pinch of Gil Kenan's Monster House.
The film takes place in the small New England town of Blithe Hollow, where a centuries'-old witch's curse has unleashed a horde of puritanical zombies upon the townspeople. If there's one thing worse than puritans, it's undead puritans. Turns out the zombies were villagers way back when who, thanks to moral panic and mass hysteria, condemned a young girl to her death for practicing witchcraft.
Blithe Hollow's only hope is a misunderstood, horror-obsessed boy named Norman Babcock (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who has the ability to speak with the dead. Aided by best friend Neil (Tucker Albrizzi), his sister Courtney (Anna Kendrick) and Neil's big brother Mitch (Casey Affleck), Norman will face ghosts and ghouls to save his town from a 300-year-old witch with one Hell of a grudge [...]
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