If you're a fan of surreal animated humor like Robot Chicken or 2005 madness selection The District! then check out A Town Called Panic. This press kit released before it screened at Cannes earlier this year has a plethora of information. Unfortunately large parts of the kit are in French so for those of you who are still afraid of all things from France because of Martyrs here are a few tidbits from an interview with directors Stéphane Aubier and Vincent Patar:

Animators they're compared to or influenced by: "...there are people whose creative universes really speak to us: Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park or Matt Groening's Futurama... the animation Terry Gilliam created for Monty Python's Flying Circus stands out for its shear fearless outrageousness..."

On what Aliens would think of human's if they watched their film: "... we think they'd assume we're slightly retarded or else absolute geniuses... [though] they'd conclude that this is the stupidest question they've ever heard."

A Town Called Panic screens Friday September 18 at 11:59 pm at the Ryerson and Saturday September 19 at 3:45 pm at the AMC 3.