Review: Jack Stauber’s Opal

Certainly cut from a similar cloth as The Shivering Truth, Jack Stauber’s Opal is a stop motion animated quarter-hour that follows a little girl named Opal as she goes across the street into a terrifying household to investigate cries coming from the third floor. You would think the source of those cries would be the worst thing that Opal comes across, but the rest of the journey is just as eventful.

Ballads of terror dance around a little girl’s journey that help cloak the fact that Opal, in fact, committed breaking and entering…which is scary in it’s own right. One could look at her adventure as her struggles to try and find out if someone is in trouble, but we could just as easily take the side of the homeowner and say whatever someone does in their house is their business and what the hell is she doing snooping around in the first place?

With clear inspirations from the horror films at the turn of the 20th century, Jack Stauber’s Opal features a somewhat obvious outcome to the old proverb, “the grass isn’t always greener on the other side”. Creepy, and somewhat unnerving, Opal is a perfect centerpiece for Adult Swim’s night of terrors.