When it debuted on August 17, Laika’s stop-motion animated zombie comedy “ParaNorman” might just have made history–in perhaps the quietest way possible. In a small, almost thrown-away ...

Production company Laika announced the 2012 animated comedy "ParaNorman" will return to theaters this Halloween in ...

Butler, Fell and company have built a comically grotesque world of pear-shaped dads, muscle-headed quarterbacks, feral bullies, lumpy teachers and rubbery zombies amid whom Norman, with his ...

The makers of the animated tale "ParaNorman" like to think of their film in terms of odd combinations. Horror and comedy. John Carpenter meets John Hughes. "The Breakfast Club" meets "The Fog." ...

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In this fascinating featurette for the supernatural flick Paranorman, the animators bring the stop-motion zombies alive frame-by-frame. Plus, check out a whole heap of new footage.

Norman, voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee, is seen here in the 3D stop-motion film, "ParaNorman." AP Photo/Focus Features (CBS News) The 3-D stop-motion comedy thriller, "ParaNorman," hits theaters today ...

Now Playing "ParaNorman" thrills and chills. I'm probably going to get some hate over this, but I think zombies are played out. For whatever reason, society's fascination with the living dead just ...

"ParaNorman" has all the ingredients of a children's film, albeit a spooky one: Norman (Kodi Smit-McPhee, "The Road") is the laughingstock of Blithe Hollow, a tourist trap with a Salem-like past.

Opening Aug. 17, "ParaNorman" tells the story of a boy whose ability to talk to the dead makes him the best hope to save his town after a witch's curse raises an army of zombies.

Our movie critic Robert Burleson takes on this stop-motion animation film, from the makers of Coraline.