Oh my gosh--I saw the thumbnail for this and immediately thought of Svankmajer! (For some reason I thought the skull was his scissors, but I definitely recognize those chompers now.) I watched the movie in my children's lit/film class this last semester and wrote a paper about it... it was certainly a disturbingly interesting film. o_O
Very well done psychologically/symbolically (the ending was very creepily awesome), but the "...said [blank]" close-ups every five seconds drove me a little crazy... although that might very well have been Svankmajer's intent.