Stopmotion

Stopmotion (2024) is a British horror film directed by Robert Morgan that you can watch online on iFILM. Ella Blake grew up under her domineering mother's thumb — a celebrated stop-motion animator who used her daughter's hands as extensions of her own. When a stroke takes the mother out of the picture, Ella is left alone with an unfinished film and a head full of fractures.

A girl from the neighboring apartment starts feeding Ella ideas for a new project. Dark ideas. Flesh-and-wire creatures, a story that keeps demanding more. Aisling Franciosi and Stella Gonet are riveting as daughter and mother — the dynamic between them lingers long after the screen cuts to black. As Ella pushes through frame after frame, the puppet world and her own reality begin trading places.

Morgan spent over two decades honing his craft in horror short films before making this feature, and the control shows. This is not a haunted-house story — it is about how creative obsession can hollow a person out from the inside. Stream Stopmotion (2024) online on iFILM.