In Wendell & Wild, stop motion moves to an Afro-punk beat
The spooky, sublime stop-motion animation worlds of Henry Selick are feasts for the eye that can burrow into the imaginations of young minds. In films like The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach and Coraline, the dark, handmade curiosities of Selick have tended to leave a mark.
“That’s what I hope for all my films,” says Selick, 69, smiling. “To shake up those kids but not mess them up for good.”
Jordan Peele, the writer-director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, was one of those shaken kids.