Audience Award Winner at Fantastic Fest 2009 and the first stop-motion animated feature selected to Cannes, A Town Called Panic follows the wacky, hilarious and often surreal adventures of three plastic toys named Cowboy, Indian and Horse who share a rambling house in a rural town which never fails to attract the weirdest events. Each speedy character is voiced—and animated—as if they are filled with laughing gas. With hysteria a permanent feature of life in this papier-mâché burg, will Horse and his equine paramour—flame-tressed music teacher Madame Longray (Jeanne Balibar)—ever find a quiet moment alone? A sort of Gallic Monty Python crossed with Art Clokey on acid, A Town Called Panic is zany, brainy and altogether insane-y!

In French with English Subtitles.

Made with an anarchic, anything-goes spirit, this is truly a film, not to mention a town, where you never know what's going to happen next. -- Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times (Read the full review.)

A Town Called Panic is an adventure story as fast-paced and exciting as any currently in theaters. -- Mike Hale, New York Times

So this is what deadpan slapstick surrealist Belgian stop-motion animation looks like. I like it! -- Michael Philips, Chicago Tribune

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