Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning (DVD)

Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning
A film by Kevin D.A. Kurytnik & Carol Beecher

It's a film about the uneasy co-existence between life and Mr. Death.
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I love this film!" - Nick Cross, Emmy Award winning Art Director - Cartoon Network's Over the Garden Wall (2015)

"Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning is a wonderful tour de force of style and concept. I loved it!"
- Bill Plympton, Academy Award nominated animator - Guard Dog (2004) and Your Face (1986)

"YEAH! so much beautiful character animation, hilarious timing - i said this before, but this film
is like terry gilliam + richard williams + LSD!!" - Malcolm Sutherland, Award winning independent animator - Umbra 2010 Vimeo Best Animation

"Very rarely could one watch the Grim Reaper doing his work and be so amused by it. As shown
in this short film, this terrific animation stands between cartoon and experimental film language,
and can almost be called a classic piece from the Canadian animation school" - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Aug 15, 2005 review of the Weiterstadt Open Air Film Festival

In the 21st century Mr. George Reaper has become your average 9 to 5 working stiff, eking out
an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him
wake up, get ready for work, wait for a bus and suffer humiliation at the hands of Norman the
Daisy.
Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning is an experimental cartoon. Most short animated films seek to
present a single idea, to pare it down to it's essence. This is not one of those films. Conventions
of the animated cartoon are re-imagined and combined with those of experimental and silent
film to present what is the antithesis of animation, a cartoon essay true to the spirit of the
mythological personification of Death.

This limited edition DVD is jam-packed with stuff:
- 17 minute short film digital transfer from original 35mm negative
- 25 minute documentary "Making Mr. Reaper"
- alternate work print version
- deleted scenes
- bonus short films by Reaper crew
- commentary tracks
- and more
+ 20 page booklet of the original Mr. Reaper comic strips from 1989-1991

Format: DVD
Brand: Fifteen Pound Pink Productions
Original Release Date: 2004