This film will always hold a dear place in my heart. It's not one of my major influences, it's the film that pretty much got me into brickfilming in the first place. I had been introduced to stop-motion earlier in the summer of 2004 and saw this a few months later, and only after being completely blown away by it over and over (I must have watched it at least 5 times in that very first sitting) that I was able to connect the dots between my newfound hobby and all the LEGO sets gathering dust in the back of my closet.

Even years later, the film just looks great. The scale of the set design is marvelous, as is its integration of miniatures into the overall cityscape (it only occurred to me years later that the establishing shot of the Daily Bugle was a miniature). Also, for being a film without dialogue, it relies primarily on visual sight gags and musical/sound cues to sell the comedy, which gives it a lighthearted, appropriately-comic bookish charm. It's a wonderful little self-contained superhero story with a clear beginning, middle, and end packaged into a brisk 3.5 minutes.

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All of the Dead was the most influential Spite Your Face Production on my early brickfilming days. It directly influenced the style of the early Reels About Nothing films Brian and I made after seeing it, in conjunction with Plan 9 From Outer Space sort of changed the way I viewed film making, I think I watch Plan 9 four times in a row after seeing it because I was so amazed at it's level of incompetence  coupled with a clear creative directorial vision.

BTW the gentlemen themselves as seen in the documentary. Tony on the left, Tim on the right:

Probably the most influential brickfilm of our time, the animation, cinematography, and special effects can still hold up very well more than ten years later.

That's surprising, I though everyone around here knew about Spite Your Face. The LEGO Camelot song was the first brickfilm I saw, though I didn't realize it until much later. I first saw The Peril of Doc Ock when I went looking for the creators of the Camelot film on YouTube. I was blown away by it as someone who had just really discovered stop-motion as something I might be interested in.

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