A delightfully wacky and endlessly charming stop-motion animation movie from Belgium, A Town Called Panic made its U.S. DVD debut from Zeitgeist on July 20, 2010, for a suggested retail price of $29.99.
Based on the Belgian cult TV series (released by Wallace & Gromit’s Aardman Studios), A Town Called Panic stars three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town that never fails to attract the craziest events. The film’s story concerns Cowboy and Indian’s plan to surprise their pal Horse with a homemade barbeque pit, which goes awry when the 50 million bricks they accidentally ordered online show up on their doorstep. This sets off a raucous chain of events as the trio travels to the center of the earth, treks across frozen tundra and discovers a parallel underwater universe of treacherous, pointy-headed creatures.
The DVD comes with a host of supplemental features, including an animated short by 17-year-old budding artist Isabela Dos Santos of Weston, Florida, whose film was chosen as the winner of the 2010 “Town Called Panic Stop-Motion Animation Contest.” The entry was picked by Panic directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar and producer Adriana Piasek-Wanski.
Here’s the entire lineup of DVD special features:
- video interviews with directors Vincent Patar and Stéphane Aubier
- “Obsessive Compulsive” winning short
- deleted scenes
- line drawing comparisons
- photo gallery
- theatrical trailers
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