Wendell and Wild
If you’re looking for something to match up to South of Midnight’s stop-motion aesthetic visually, who better to come running to than Henry Selick, the man behind Nightmare Before Christmas–no, Tim Burton didn’t actually direct it, and don’t you forget it—and Coraline. It’s a wild little death trip of stop-motion characters trekking back and forth between Earth and the Underworld, while a pair of demon brothers tries to hustle their way up the demonic food chain. At the heart of it, though, is Kat, an orphaned black girl who grows up with a massive chip on her shoulder, and a hell of a lot of black rock/punk/metal artists screaming in her ears. There’s nobody quite like her in all cinema, let alone in what’s ostensibly a kids’ film. You’re gonna love her.
