Blood Tea and Red String

Blood Tea and Red String is a stopmotionanimated feature film, called by director Christiane Cegavske a fairy tale for adults. It was released on February 2, 2006 after a production time ofyears, having been filmed in various places in the West Coast and in two studios. The musical score was composed and performed by Mark Growden.

Brett D. Rogers of Frames Per Second magazine praised Blood Tea, calling it exquisitely realized ... an antidote to modern digital precision and diluted creativity. The same review highlighted Mark Growdens score as suiting the film perfectly, wrapping Blood Teas intricate scenery and its characters wordless dialect in a lingering, haunting layer of spectral sound.Harvards Deirdre Barrett also reviewed the film positively. Each man kills the thing he loves seems to be message of the film, she wrote, Mice, rats and spider compete for a doll and her exotic child with tragic consequences... The whole film had a dream or storybook feel. But it is the childhood nightmare or the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm. Its magic serves sudden, violent death as often as love or beauty. Its a tale with childhoods imagery but not a tale for children.

Source: Wikipedia