Post by Mordechai Laub

Her friends warn her not to go to Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island. But Rachel Martin has a crush on Brendan and is excited to be invited. Brendan has a lot of party games planned. But one game no one planned intrudes on his party—the game of murder.

Willa is freaking out. It seems like she's seeing things. Like a dead body in her swimming pool. Frantic messages on her walls. A reflection that is not her own. It's almost as if someone -- or something -- is trying to send her a message.

The Boxtrolls is a bizarre, irreverent and slightly ludicrous amalgam of stop-motion animation and CGI wizardry from the makers of Coraline that somehow works, even better than its predecessors.