Movie

Anima

1998 · 90 min

A quiet, unsettling descent into suspicion and buried history, staged with eerie puppet-tableaux and a slow creep of dread.

Tagline: A Tale of Human Preservation
Overview: A reporter doing a story on taxidermy discovers an odd older couple that he becomes convinced are ex-Nazi's. The chief item leading to this belief is an odd puppet theater the couple operate in their basement that re-creates the Nazi era using stuffed creatures.
How it feels: Eerie, dark, tense and melancholic. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Obsession, memory, guilt, deception
Content: Mild violence, gore and language. No sexual content.
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Tone: eeriestrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: obsession
memory
guilt
deception
isolation
Places: suburbs
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: single location
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none