The ErlKing (movie)
- User score: 8
- Production country: Canada, United States of America
- Producer: Ben Zelkowicz
- Production companies: ONF | NFB, CalArts
- Genre: Animation, Horror
- Release date: 1/16/2003
- Run time: 6 min.
Movie description
This animated short is a visual representation of Goethe's poem, The ErlKing that uses sand-on-glass animation set to the music of Franz Schubert. The moving images, resembling woodcuts, capture the haunting, nightmarish quality of the tale of the ErlKing who steals and kills a little boy.