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Norman attempts to continue reading from the book, to no effect. Alvin, a school bully who always picks on Norman, arrives and prevents Norman from reading the story before sundown.

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He then goes to the graves of the five men and two women who were cursed by the witch, but finds that the book is merely a series of fairy tales. Norman sets off to retrieve the book from Prenderghast's house (having to take it from his corpse). Norman is at first reluctant to go because he is scared but his grandmother tells him it is all right to be scared as long as he does not let it change who he is.

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The next day, Norman sees Prenderghast's spirit who tells him that the ritual must be performed with a certain book before sundown that day then making him 'swear' to complete the task, Prenderghast's spirit is set free and crosses over. His mother Sandra tells him that his father's manner is stern because he is afraid for him. Prenderghast dies of a heart attack.ĭuring the official performance of the school play, Norman has a nightmarish vision of the town's past in which he is pursued through the woods by townsfolk on a witch hunt, embarrassing himself and leading to a heated argument with his estranged and paranoid father Perry, who later grounds him. Prenderghast, who tells Norman that he soon must take up his regular ritual to protect the town. After rehearsing a school play commemorating the town's execution of a witch three centuries ago, the boys are confronted by Norman's estranged and seemingly deranged great-uncle, Mr. Neil Downe, an overweight boy who is also bullied, finds in Norman a kindred spirit. Almost no one believes him and he is isolated emotionally from his family while being looked down upon by his own peers around the school. In the small fictional town of Blithe Hollow, Massachusetts, Norman Babcock is an 11-year-old boy who speaks with the dead, including his late grandmother and various ghosts in town. The film was nominated for that year's Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and BAFTA Award for Best Animated Film, but lost both to Pixar's Brave. It received generally positive reviews from critics, who praised its animation, script, entertainment value and humor, and was a modest box office success, earning $107 million worldwide against its budget of $60 million. ParaNorman was officially released on August 17, 2012, by Focus Features. Jon Brion composed the film's musical score. Instead of using traditional 3D format cameras, the studio had sixty Canon EOS 5D Mark II DSLR cameras film the movie. Production of the stop-motion animation feature took place at Laika's studio in Hillsboro, Oregon for three years, with the animating stage of production lasting about two years and beginning in late 2009.

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The idea of ParaNorman came from Butler, who thought making such a movie for kids could help express the challenges kids face growing up, after realizing that zombie films often contained a degree of social commentary. In the film, Norman Babcock, a young boy who can communicate with ghosts, is given the task of ending a 300-year-old witch's curse on his Massachusetts town. It is the first stop-motion film to use a 3D color printer to create character faces, and only the second to be shot in 3D. Produced by Laika, the film stars the voices of Kodi Smit-McPhee, Jodelle Ferland, Bernard Hill, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Casey Affleck, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe, Alex Borstein, and John Goodman.

ParaNorman is a 2012 American stop-motion animated comedy horror film directed by Sam Fell and Chris Butler (the latter's feature directorial debut), and written by Butler.