ParaNorman
Short description
Norman Babcock is a boy in the small New England town of Blithe Hollow who can see and talk to the dead. He is mocked at school and dismissed at home, and only Neil, a similarly bullied classmate, believes him. When his uncle tells him about a ritual meant to keep an old witch's curse from falling on the town, Norman becomes the one person who might stop it. Ghosts, witches and risen dead are part of the trouble, but the skeptical adults around him prove just as difficult.
ParaNorman was released in 2012 and runs 93 minutes. It was directed by Sam Fell, whose earlier features were Flushed Away and The Tale of Despereaux, and by Chris Butler, who also wrote the screenplay; Butler went on to direct Missing Link. Produced by Laika Entertainment with Travis Knight and Arianne Sutner as producers, it cost about 60 million dollars and took roughly 107 million dollars worldwide. The voice cast includes Kodi Smit-McPhee as Norman, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and Leslie Mann.
The film holds a 7.4 out of 10 critics' rating from 190 reviews, higher than its audience scores of 7 on IMDb from 117,000 votes and 7.1 on TMDB from 2,865 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- The ringtone set on Norman’s phone is the main theme from John Carpenter's 1978 film “Halloween.”
- In the weeks leading up to the film's release, Laika sent 49 packages to 49 people (including Neil Gaiman and Kevin Smith). Each package contained a Blight Hollow wooden crate filled with 'grave soil' that recipients had to dig through to retrieve a coffin. Inside the coffin was one of seven cursed zombies, complete with a brochure containing their name and background information.
- With the exception of Judge Hopkins, the seven cursed zombies are not named, but they have names: the aforementioned Judge Hopkins, Eben Hardwick, Taddeus Blackton, Lemuel Spalding, Amelia Wilcott, Goody Temper, and Wil London.
- The Laika film company used 3D printers to create all the facial expressions needed for the characters.
- The film was shot using a Canon 5D Mark II camera. To create 3D effects, the camera was mounted on a special device that allowed it to be shifted to a different shooting point after the first frame, in order to take the second.
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