Toxic (short film)

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Movie
Original title Toxic
Country of production Great Britain
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 10 mins
Rod
Director Andrew McEwan
music Simon Desorgher

Toxic is a British stop-motion animated short directed by Andrew McEwan from 1990.

action

A creature awakens from a poisoned mud hole. With its tentacles it throws out spider threads and eats large creatures. At first only worm-like, the creature grows bigger and bigger until it weaves whole stretches of land with its nets and kills the living beings.

Far from awakening into formaldehyde preserved platypus to life and gets out of his glass. It brings other preserved animals, including an armadillo and a mouse-like creature, to life. The animals go out to defeat the monster. On their way they save a woven bird that shows them the way to the monster. Finally, the animals meet the creature, which has since mutated into a huge metal spider. The fight begins and little by little the animals are woven in and killed by the spider or their metal warriors. Only the platypus offers bitter resistance. It can kill the spider with the help of a boomerang . The platypus flies away on the boomerang and the overcast sky tears open. At the end the formaldehyde glasses can be seen; the remains of the monster seem to be caught in a new one.

production

McEwan created Toxic while at the Royal College of Art . It was his only directorial work. The film ran as part of the Four-Mations series on Channel 4 .

Awards

Toxic won the 1991 BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film .

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