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The ErlKing

Name: The ErlKing
Director: Ben Zelkowicz
Genre: Animation, Horror
Released: 2003-01-16
Duration: 6 min
Rating: 8.7

January 16, 2003

TMDB8.7· 3

This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.