Fear(s) of the Dark

Peur(s) du noir or Fear(s) in the Dark plays with your imagination in a scary manner. A French animated omnibus of stories from noted Euro artists thrust the audiences in the a nightmarish world where spiders crawl on the legs of little girls and dogs eat their owners.
Blutch, Charles Burns, Marie Caillou, Pierre Di Sciullo, Lorenzo Mattotti, and Richard McGuire are the artists and cartoonists that lend their bleak visions to animation. A couple of segments are interspersed throughout while other stories are told straight through.
With such downbeat themes and material the film stretches its credulity by being animated. Perhaps a live action account of the suffering on display would give it resonance with art house type crowds, as it is Fear(s) of the Dark will be readily embraced by graphic artists and misunderstood by the world at large.