Brothers Quay are two amazing filmmakers. They give an Old World feel to their work, mechanized like Steampunk, but viciously dark and you feel like you're in the cogs of some other world that you should not be witnessing and if you get caught spying--your eyes will be poked out! I love the use of music and dolls and machinery to make a land that does not exist, except in our darkest dreams. I played this movie against a shed during a Halloween party with a doll display in front of it so the real dolls were part of the movie dolls.
I own a collection of their work on DVD and there is nothing like it for background creepiness while I'm writing horror-perfect mood, feel and music!