Paperhouse (1988)
Directed by Bernard Rose
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
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What critics compared Paperhouse to
The live-action portions, the best of them, remind of Bernard Rose's melancholic Paperhouse, but the sum is a bit less than its parts.
A haunting heartbreaker, "Labyrinth" belongs in a class with director Bernard Rose's spellbinding psychological thriller "Paperhouse" and Gunther von Fritsch and Robert Wise's "The Curse of the Cat People" as one of the few films that dares to enter a troubled child's mind to sympathetically sort out the contents.
To that you could add a soupcon of other precursors, including Georges Méliès, whose work is glimpsed repeatedly on a television screen, Bernard Rose’s little-seen gem about children’s creative imagination, “Paperhouse,” James Wan’s fixation on creepy puppets, and more importantly, burgeoning feats of portraying female hysteria, such as Emily Watson’s magnificent performance in “Breaking the Waves.”