Film Adaptations
Little Suck-a-Thumb (1992), is a psychosexual interpretation of the infamous cautionary tale from Heinrich Hoffman's storybook. The short film by writer/director David Kaplan stars Cork Hubbert (The Ballad of the Sad Café), Evelyn Solann, and Jim Hilbert as the Great Tall Scissorman. It won awards at the 1992 Chicago Film Festival, the 1992 Cork Film Festival, and the 1993 Grenoble Film Festival. It was also awarded 2nd place at the NYU Tisch School of the Arts annual film festival and was screened as an Official Selection at the 1992 Munich International Festival of Film Schools. It is collected with 2 other short films on the DVD Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories.
"Suckablood" (2012) is a short film, produced by popular British collective Bloody Cuts, based on Hoffman's Thumb-sucker story. Set in a non-descript period, it retains many of the elements of the original tale, although twists the story by changing the main protagonist from a boy to a small girl, as well as altering the ending so that is the mother instead who finds herself punished. The film is part 5 in an anthology of horror films, released via the companies official website.
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