![]() In the third segment, “Simpsons World,” Homer realizes that he and his family are robots in a Disney World-like amusement park. ![]() You really felt like she was going to break in there and get Maggie!” We had to make it more terrifying, so we got three dynamic shots of her kicking - bam, bam, bam - and that really shot up the terror. She climbs up the door and starts kicking it in. There’s a scene where Marge floats over to the basement door to get to Maggie. “What is scarier than a mother threatening her own helpless baby? We wanted every shot to have a purpose to make this one really sing. In “The Papadook,” Marge is possessed by a murderous spirit that lives inside a book. Oliver is also proud of the show’s take on Jennifer Kent’s 2014 cult favorite “The Babadook,” which he found quite terrifying. It wasn’t just our characters in an anime style: It looked like this was really their world!” When we saw the results, we all got goose bumps. Caroline Omine did a fantastic job of directing them on how to make our characters into anime. “I knew that if we were going to animate it ourselves, we’d have to make them a lot simpler than the original ‘Death Note.’ But then, when DR Movie studio came on board, they just charged forward. “I was struggling to design these characters and making them animatable for us,” recalls Oliver. To help create the animation, the producers reached out to DR Movie, the South Korean studio that assisted with the animation of the original. It closely follows the premise of “Death Note,” the well-loved anime series based on Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata’s manga. ![]() In the segment, Lisa Simpson finds a mysterious book with a sinister power: When someone’s name is written in it, that person will die. The director, who has been with the show since its eighth season, says “The Death Tome” segment is a perfect example of how the show strives to reflect the visual style and artistic choices of its subjects. You need to have really good stories and create great suspense and then add in all the good jokes.” “I don’t like it when we do the ‘Treehouse’ episode just to show blood. ![]() “We knew this was going to be a tremendous episode because the three stories were so well written,” Oliver says. The Emmy-nominated “Treehouse of Horror XXXIII” from the 34th season of the show featured segments parodying the horror movie “The Babadook,” the anime favorite “Death Note” and sci-fi classic “Westworld.” Written by Caroline Omine (“The Pookadook”), Ryan Koh (“Death Tome”) and Matt Selman (“Simpsons World”), the episode was directed by Rob Oliver, who also helmed the Emmy-nominated “Thanksgiving of Horror” (2019) and the Emmy-winning episode “Mad About the Toy.” Fans have come to expect clever spoofs of popular fantasy, horror and sci-fi films and TV shows in these perfectly calibrated thrill rides. “The Simpsons’” annual “Treehouse of Horror” outing has become a favorite Halloween staple since the first one arrived in October 1990. ![]()
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