Spirited Away, 2001 – ★★★

I really enjoy that in this world, an evil witch is basically just trying to staff her business. She forces people into servitude, their lives kind of suck, but it’s mostly because she’s trying to run an otherwise legitimate bath house that caters to monsters.

There should be a lot more stories like this, someone building a tale around a supernatural world or heavy, weird elements, but in the service of doing something super normal.

Vampire temp office where they provide overnight employees for stuff?
Ghosts who can pass through walls and make excellent home inspectors as a result?
Mummies who go on the teaching circuit, lecturing about ancient history, aka their day-to-day lives?

My preference would definitely be Working Blobs, a movie about blobs who live on a farm and devour pests while leaving crops alone. Sort of like barn cats, but, you know, pink and probably glow in the dark.

There we go: Monster Farm. Monsters could use their monster-y skills to run a successful farm. Especially when it’s pumpkin patch season.

Oops, sorry, got to go. Phone’s ringing, and it’s almost certainly Hollywood calling.