Over a decade on from its release, it’s still kind of hard to believe that ParaNorman — the second feature film from stop-motion animation maestros Laika Studios — actually exists. Seriously, who among us could’ve predicted that after the otherworldly wonder of Henry Selick’s Coraline , Travis Knight’s Portland based studio would follow it up with a silicone-based animated zombie comedy that somehow splits the difference between John Hughes and Carpenter to tell a terror-tinged, tender-hearted, boldly inclusive coming-of-age tale about a spiky-haired pre-teen who sees dead people? But that’s exactly what they did do — and almost a decade and a half on from ParaNorman ’s original release, the spooky movie has become something of a modern cult classic.

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