Where The Wild Things Are

**1/2 - After murdering a dog, ransacking his sister’s room, telling a rambling James Joyce-ian style stream of consciousness story, and gnawing on his mother’s shoulder, a clearly sociopathic kid runs away from home and enters a bizarre fantasy world full of nightmarish beings. While there, he weaves an intricate web of lies and manages to destroy the civilization built by the enormous beasts. Apparently, though, everything is ok in the end. While the story and most of the dialogue is squarely aimed at kids, the visuals do not seem to be, as the creatures in this are some of the creepiest I’ve ever encountered