It's a film about the uneasy co-existence between life and Mr. Death. by Kevin D.A. Kurytnik & Carol Beecher.

Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning plays off of over two thousand years of death mythology, homages to animation's great directors, pop culture, revenge fantasies, and a zest for life culminating in a blackly humorous 17 minute animated film. In the 21st century, Death, Mr. George Reaper, has become your average 9 to 5 working stiff, eking out an ineffectual existence, reduced to a pale shade of his former glorious self. The film has him wake up, get ready for work, wait for a bus and suffer humiliation at the hands of Norman the Daisy. The film is in four parts and is structured loosely on Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Our approach to this film encompasses many influences drawn from our interests and experiences as visual artists, storytellers, animators, filmmakers, and as rabid fans and students of all film genres. The film's style encompasses a combination of seemingly diametrically opposed animation forms - the craft and sophistication of the great fine art animator Norman McLaren spliced to the slapstick madness and frantic pacing of Loony Tunes cartoons.

Mr. Reaper's Really Bad Morning is a hand drawn animation production digitally processed but still retaining the look and feel of old hand painted cel animation.

Since the dawn of time death has reigned triumphant......until today.