I must have Stephen King on my mind this week. Either that or I just can’t think of anything else to write about.
But after writing about King adaptations and debating Danny on which is better — “The Shining” or “Stand By Me” – I was reminded of Bunny Theater.
If you haven’t heard of Bunny Theater, it’s a series of animated shorts summarizing popular movies in 30 seconds — with bunnies. One of the first bunny productions I ever saw was a parody of “The Shining.”
Since then, numerous others have been added, from “Office Space” and “Borat” to “Brokeback Mountain” and “Superbad.”
Bunny Theater is the creation of Internet animator Jennifer Shiman, whose Bunny shorts have garnered over a billion page views — and a gig with Starz. Here’s a pretty decent interview with her.
The great thing about Bunny Theater is that the shorts are so . . . short. So it’s a perfect way to kill a little time at the office.
Not that I would ever recommend that you kill time at the office. In fact, if you’re reading this blog while at work, please stop and work harder.
Meanwhile, I’d recommend Bunny Theater’s versions of “Jaws,” “The Exorcist” and “Fight Club.”
For when you get home, of course.
Posted on September 9th, 2008 by Pat
Filed under: Movies
I love me some Bunny Theater. One of my favorites has to be their version of “Pulp Fiction.”
I’d also recommend Liquid Television’s “Stick Figure Theatre,” which takes audio tracks from famous films and, in some cases, songs (such as Jimi Hendrix’s iconic version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” from Woodstock) and animates them with simple stick figure drawings.
The videos used to be all over the inter-webs but I’m not sure where to find them now.