Little Otik (), also known as Greedy Guts, is a 2000 surreal dark comedy horror film by Jan à  vankmajer and Eva à  vankmajerová. Based on the folktale Otesánek by Karel JaromÃÂr Erben, the film is a comedic live action, stop motion-animated feature film set mainly in an apartment building in the Czech Republic.
The film uses the Overture to Der Freischütz (1821) by Carl Maria von Weber as the score.
Karel Horák (Jan Hartl) and Boà ¾ena Horáková (Veronika à ½ilková) are a childless couple and for medical reasons are doomed to remain so. While on vacation at a house in the country with their neighbors, the Stadlers, Karel decides to buy the house at the suggestion of Mr. Stadler. When he is fixing up the house, he digs up a tree stump that looks vaguely like a baby. He spends the rest of the evening cleaning it up and then presents it to his wife. She names the stump OtÃÂk and starts to treat it like a real baby. She then works out a plan to fake her pregnancy, and becoming more and more impatient, she speeds up the process and 'gives birth' one month early.
OtÃÂk comes alive and has an insatiable appetite. Alà ¾bÃÂtka (Kristina Adamcová), the Stadlersâ daughter, has been suspicious all along, and when she reads the fairy tale about Otesánek, the truth becomes clear to her. Meanwhile, little OtÃÂk has been just eating and growing. One day, he eats some of Boà ¾ena's hair. On another, Boà ¾ena returns home to find that OtÃÂk has eaten their cat. Karel and his wife are then at odds: Karel pushes for killing the creature, while Boà ¾ena defends it as their child. The baby later consumes a postal worker (Gustav VondráÃÂek) and then a social worker (Jitka Smutná).
The resulting deaths lead Karel to tie up and lock OtÃÂk away in the basement of their apartment building, leaving OtÃÂk to starve. Alà ¾bÃÂtka then secretly takes over as prime caretaker. She tries to keep OtÃÂk fed with normal human food, but, when her mother stops her, she is forced to drawing straws (matches in this case) to choose a person to feed to OtÃÂk. The chosen victim is an old man and pedophile, Mr. à ½lábek (ZdenÃÂk Kozák), who has been stalking her recently. Deciding she cannot take the stalking anymore, Alà ¾bÃÂtka lures Mr. à ½lábek to the basement, where he gets entangled by Otik's vines and devoured. Karel himself later becomes a victim when he comes into the basement with a chainsaw, but on seeing OtÃÂk, he hesitates and calls him "son" before dropping the chainsaw. Afterwards, Boà ¾ena goes into the basement and is heard screaming, having become a victim herself. In the end, OtÃÂk disobeys Alà ¾bÃÂtka despite repeated warnings and eats all of Mrs. Správcová's (Dagmar Stà ÂÃÂbrná) cabbage patch, prompting the old woman to take charge.
In the fairy tale upon which the movie is based, the old woman kills Otesánek by splitting his stomach open with a hoe; however, the film ends with her descending the stairs, Alà ¾bÃÂtka reciting the end of the fairy tale tearfully; the audience is not allowed to witness the deed.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 84% based on , with a weighted average rating of 7/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Though rather overlong, Little Otik is a whimsical, bizarre treat."
The film won three awards at the 2001 Czech Lion Awards for Best Design, Best Film Poster, and Best Film.
Little Otik was placed at 95 on Slant Magazines best films of the 2000s.