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This film is a tribute to the "cutification" of the grotesque. Characters are taken from two cute reinterpretations of classic texts of religious horror: the book of Revelation and the Necronomicon. These text reinterpret harbingers of bloody doom using the Pokemon (Pocket Monster) methodology. The Other is drawn in a "super-deformed" (i.e. cute) style, inverting the horror into a pleasant docility, as when the wolf becomes the poodle.

These images of defanged world-destroyers are brought into a dialectic conflict illuminating the structuralist oppositions between the forms. The style of this discourse mimics that of other cinematics explorations of the hegemonic domination of one symbol system over another through metaphoric violence, as in Freddy vs. Jason.

The ultimate exegesis comes from the juxtaposition of these symbols of cute horror to their converse, a "horrific cuteness," the surreal nightmare world of utopia dreamed from the minds of pre-linguistic infants.