Street of Crocodiles

Street of Crocodiles

1986
Animation
Short Film
20m
A man closes up a lecture hall; he reaches into a box and snips the string holding a gaunt puppet. Released, the puppet warily explores the darkened rooms about him. Screws twist out of objects and move about. A boy doll catches light with a mirror, shining it around: he spotlights the gaunt explorer. An adult female doll stands with breasts exposed. Mechanical spools and wheels turn. (imdb)
Your probable score
?

Street of Crocodiles

1986
Animation
Short Film
20m
Your probable score
Avg Percentile 65.17% from 262 total ratings

Ratings & Reviews

(262)
Compact view
Compact view
Rated 14 Aug 2007
30
15th
Surrealist stop-motion puppetry is virtually bound to be interesting on some superficial level. The creepy quasi-organic imagery is serious eye-candy. Other than that, Street of Crocodiles is just unintelligable. A message displayed at the end purports to decode the 20 minutes of bored gawking the viewer will have undergone, and much predictably, it was all a cynical allegory about the evil that is modern urban society. Gee thanks, interpretive postscript! I get it now! Boy do I feel stupid!
Rated 26 Dec 2007
50
33rd
A lot of screwing around
Rated 19 Aug 2010
40
28th
Take your average Tool music video, remove the annoying music, and there you are. Obviously influential for it's time, but too artsy in all the wrong ways. I know it inspired Gilliam and others, but for fucks sake: Lighten up Quays, and figure out what you want to actually tell the world.
Rated 21 Jun 2008
99
96th
Akin to Svankmajer, but darker and hugely influencial to mordern neo-gothic aspirations in film/animation and what not. For fans of Nightmare bf Christmas but with a penchant for something darker. Also, anyone into Giger might want to check this out.
Rated 14 Jan 2011
85
53rd
One of the best stop-motions I've seen. Even if you feel it is too abstract, you have to admit that this is one of the most cinematic stop-motions. Its sense of mood, light, and fluid movement is absolutely genius. I was thankful for the message at the end that helped shed a little light on the film, although I didn't mind imbuing the short with my own personal meanings.
Rated 10 Jun 2020
61
40th
The cinematography is very cohesive, perhaps the best thing about the entire film. I particularly liked a couple of tracking shots down the dusty, half-dead streets, a chance to take in the environment and smell the decay. Great technical skill, but such an abstract that I was left with an idea, a glimpse, but without an emotion, without any lingering touch.
Rated 06 Jul 2007
90
86th
Brilliant, disturbing surreal animation from the Brothers Quay.
Rated 27 Feb 2009
70
61st
Cool short.
Rated 13 Oct 2009
100
99th
Possibly the most beautiful and style defining movie, I've seen in my adult life
Rated 12 Apr 2010
90
99th
Beauty in motion.
Rated 23 Jun 2010
55
9th
Beautiful and creative animation, there's no doubt about that. I have to admit my disappointment, however, that the film utterly failed to connect with me whether it be emotionally, intellectually or viscerally. Maybe some other time I'll watch it and see what I was missing but as of now it was a hollow experience where I couldn't even take pleasure in admiring its unique beauty.
Rated 30 Dec 2010
99
85th
Best stop motion movie ever?
Rated 26 Feb 2011
78
80th
From a simple technical point of view it's hard not to be stunned by the Quay's masterpiece. The animation, movement, score and lighting are phenomenal. "Street of Crocodiles" is certainly an immersive and disturbing experience. That said, on an emotional and symbolic level this piece didn't connect with me on any great level, although its themes become perfectly clear with its end message. Undeniably beautiful.
Rated 02 Jun 2011
83
47th
Surreal and brilliant, even though I typically prefer Svankmajer's work to this.
Rated 06 Apr 2012
40
26th
Perhaps what this shows more than anything is how difficult it is for me to become interested in animation, even when it is of high quality, even when the atmosphere is nightmarish, and even when it purports to convey significance.
Rated 02 Nov 2014
3
30th
i don't get it. i liked the animation. i didn't appreciate the pretentious explanation.
Rated 23 Dec 2015
84
80th
Nightmare fuel for weeks. Its symbolism is only too obvious once its denouement is finally realized, but it's still a mesmerizing piece of work that is as sinister as it is aesthetically revolutionary.
Rated 03 Mar 2016
80
76th
A little bit too creepy for me tbh. Very interesting tho and obviously looks beautiful
Rated 28 Nov 2020
80
67th
The animation and the music are the clear stars here. I didn't love it as much as I would have liked, simply because it couldn't grab me emotionally, but that doesn't mean that the imagery on screen wasn't always interesting to look at, at least.
Rated 22 May 2021
67
32nd
Just read the story by Bruno Schulz.

Collections

(21)
Compact view
Showing 1 - 21 of 21 results

Similar Titles

Loading ...

Statistics

Loading ...