Not really sure how well the story holds together here but man the filmmaking has some moves and style to burn. Spookier, more paranoid, and more Gothic than I’d imagined. A whole lot of fun.

Muppets did it so much better.

Just the greatest. I never seem to give it quite enough credit. Each revisit brings more resonant moments, more unforgettable images. This time the strange simplicity of it all--particularly its ideas on the precarious place of children and the other little things of the world-- was almost unspeakably moving. The throw away moment following the local hangman back into his home almost had me in tears.