Nightmare Before Christmas director Henry Selick may have moved on from Laika, the animation company he helped found and through which he made Coraline, but Laika is still in the business of creating intricate stop-motion movies, and it seems Paranorman will be no different. In ParaNorman, a small town comes under siege by zombies. Who can it call? Only misunderstood local boy Norman (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee), who is able to speak with the dead. In addition to the zombies, he’ll have to take on ghosts, witches and, worst of all, moronic grown-ups, to save his town from a centuries-old curse. But this young ghoul whisperer may find his paranormal activities pushed to their otherworldly limits. The film reaches the UK September 14th, 2012.