Numéro Cinq at the Movies: This Is It Collective’s “Don't Hug Me I'm Scared” --- Introduced by R. W. Gray | Numéro Cinq
What begins as a saccharine, over-caffeinated children’s animation whips itself into an orgiastic frenzy of creative impulses gone wrong in This Is It Collective’s “Don’t’ Hug Me I’m Scared.” Directed by Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling, “Don’t Hug Me” subverts the children’s genre expectations and in its transgressions plays with the perhaps imaginary line between
