Episode 030: MirrorMask

Kat Elliott Vanderjagt joins MG to discuss one of her favorites: the British indie MirrorMask , written by Neverwhere 's Neil Gaiman and directed by Dave McKean. The two had previously collaborated on the graphic novel ' Violent Cases ,' and McKean himself is most famous for the cover art to Gaiman's award-winning comic The Sandman , but MirrorMask was their first foray into film - and at a budget of only 4 million, the result is an amazingly realized mix of live-action and animation that brings McKean's nightmarish visuals to life within a story that serves as a kind of of dry run for Gaiman's later masterpiece, Coraline ! #MartiniGiant