Director: Ricard Cussó
A city drained of light and a father held captive by a scientist set the stage for Scarygirl, a 2023 Australian animated adventure built around a fearless kid hero and a strange, colorful world.
What is Scarygirl about?
Raised outside the ordinary rules of childhood, Scarygirl finds herself pulled from a familiar patch of coastline into a sprawling city where sunlight itself has been stolen. The trail leads to a scientist whose experiments have swallowed up her father, and the only way to bring him back is to push forward through territory built on shifting logic, mechanical hazards, and creatures that are neither fully friend nor foe. Along the way she picks up allies who each carry their own reasons for resisting the scientist's control, turning what starts as a rescue mission into something closer to a planet-wide stand against the forces flattening it into darkness. The film leans on striking visual design more than dialogue-heavy plotting, letting its color palette and creature work carry much of the emotional weight as the group closes in on a confrontation neither side can walk away from unchanged.
Cast & crew
Jillian Nguyen voices the title character, with Remy Hii, Sam Neill, Rob Collins, Tim Minchin, Anna Torv, Liv Hewson, and Deborah Mailman rounding out the cast under director Ricard Cussó.
Context & significance
Scarygirl began life as an Australian character-design and comics property before this 2023 feature adaptation brought her world to the screen, folding a decade of illustrated lore into a single adventure story aimed at family audiences. The character's distinctive look, an eyepatch and a tangle of red hair, had already built a small following through art shows and toy lines long before animators at the studio behind the film decided her story belonged on screen, and that history shows in how confidently the movie commits to its own visual rules.
Where & how to watch
Scarygirl streams on K-Time with Farsi dubbing, and the film's page here is free to browse without an account. Watching the film itself requires only a quick K-Time login, after which the full Persian-language audio track plays through the platform's usual interface built for Farsi-speaking households, making it an easy pick for younger viewers who prefer to follow along in Farsi rather than reading subtitles.