(courtesy IMP Awards)
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High above the little town of Grubbers Nubbin, in a castle laboratory, the maddest of all mad professors brings monstrous creations to (almost) life… and then promptly forgets all about them. So, who runs the castle? Who keeps the monsters in line, so the townsfolk don’t form an angry mob? That job falls to Stitch Head – the professor’s very first creation. He does it all, unnoticed and unthanked. But when a ramshackle freak show rolls into town, its sly owner, Fulbert Freakfinder, comes knocking, offering Stitch Head fame, fortune… and maybe even love. A whimsical, heartfelt twist on the Frankenstein legend. Stitch Head is written and directed by English actor / filmmaker Steve Hudson, director of the movies Co/Ma and True North previously, plus the series Cranford. Co-directed by Toby Genkel. Adapted from the graphic novel series created by Guy Bass. Produced by Sonja Ewers and Mark Mertens. (courtesy First Showing)
Stories about those whom society has cast out, usually without thinking and swamped in mindless prejudice, finding a place to call their own are among my favourites things to consume.
It has a lot to do, no doubt, with growing up as the object of incessant bullying but also being gay in a church environment that doesn’t particularly like anyone who leaves the very narrow Christian lane.
So, stories like Stitch Head are exactly my heartfelt jam; even better when they come with quirky characters and a sparklingly funny script and beautifully drive the message home that different isn’t bad, it’s just, well, different and that’s delightfully, fabulously, life-infusingly okay.
I can’t wait to watch Stitch Head , which opens on 29 October, just in time for Halloween, in U.S., when it hopefully makes its way to Australia somehow or another.