The Crabs (1976)

Filed by Max the Cryptid Reporter

The Crabs (Krabi, 1976) is a 12-minute Czechoslovak animated sci-fi short directed by Václav Mergl, produced by Krátký Film Praha – Studio Prometheus, with music by Jiří Kolafa and cinematography by Boris Baromykin and Jiří Ševčík. It's an adaptation of the 1958 short story "Crabs on the Island" by Anatoly Dneprov, told entirely without dialogue using cutout, frame-by-frame animation. The story follows a military scientist who sets out to breed perfect robot crabs based on the pr