Street of Crocodiles

1986

Animation

10
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 92%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 92% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.6/10 10 3284 3.3K

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Plot summary

A puppet, newly released from his strings, explores the sinister room in which he finds himself.

Director

Stephen Quay Photo
Stephen Quay

Top cast

Feliks Stawinski Photo
Feliks Stawinski as Caretaker
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197.04 MB
968*720
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
12 hr 21 min
Seeds 3
365.52 MB
1440*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
12 hr 21 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Eumenides_0 7 / 10

Tremendous Craft for so Little Plot

Reviewed by jason-449 9 / 10

Stunning and opaque nightmare

Devotees of Jan Svankmajer and Kafka, identical twins Stephen and Timothy Quay distill every disturbing dream you've ever had into a decidedly unsettling short film. American by birth, the twins seem European by sensibility and have settled in London to make their films. Street of Crocodiles is one of their better known efforts and is obliquely influenced by Polish writer Bruno Schulz, who published the memoirs of his solitary life under the title, Sklepy Cynamonowe (literally translated as The Cinnamon Shops, although generally known in the English speaking world as Street of Crocodiles). The Quay's short follows a gaunt puppet who is released from his strings as he explores his bizarre surroundings: rooms full of dark shadows, unexplained machinery and strange eyeless dolls. Everything has a sense of decay and Victorian melancholy. There is a notion of a plot, possibly dealing with sexual tension, but really Street of Crocodiles is about establishing a mood and a nightmarish and deeply sinister world. The Quay's use of tracking shots and selective focus is unparallelled in the world of stop motion.
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