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I had no knowledge at all of this film, the director or the actosr within this film so I had no idea of what to expect. The reason why I watched this was because my tutor at my college wanted us to watch it. It is a mixture of live action and stop-motion animation. It is definitely one of the most psychologically disturbing films I have ever seen. It was deeply interesting to start with but when things started changing, it started going silly, cheesy and, to be honest, predictable.
Jan Hartl's performance as Karel was awesome! Him and his wife Bozena are going through a very difficult time because they cannot have a child. To ease his wife's pain, Karel digs up a massive root from their garden and carvs it into the shape of a human baby. When the root baby was presented to Bozena, she starts treating it like a real baby like feeding it, changing it and everything! Veronika Zilková's performance was for me incredibly disturbing yet psychologically awesome! Her type of character has been used in some films and especially used in TV shows in the past.
This film had great direction with lots of fast moving shots. There was stop-motion involved like Otik as it was crying or screaming. That was obviously cheesy but I don't think they actually wanted actual 3D animation within the film. The film was produced by a studio in Prague where I was going to visit.
Overall, Little Otik is an extremely disturbing fantasy horror film that is very hard to watch. Only flaw is that story goes cheesy at it goes on towards the end. Despite that, it was an enjoyable film to watch.
7/10
