Mirrormask

One film that not too many people have heard of and they all need to. I wasn't even introduced to it until at least two years after it was initially released. I don't know how I managed to miss it. While I ponder that question in the back of my mind...
Long story short, its about a girl with these wicked artistic skills, Helena, who's family owns and runs a small-time circus. Being the typical moody teenager, she hates her life in the family circus and constantly argues with her mother about it. Until one night when her mother falls unconscious and is rushed to the hospital. Sometime before her mother needs to have brain surgery done, Helena finds herself in a very, very strange world where everyone wears masks. In this world is this creepy thing called the "darkness" which kind of turns people into statues. It's hard to describe. But it comes from the mind of Neil Gaiman so what else can you expect? Anyway, Helena eventually finds out that the queen of the world she's in has fallen into a deep sleep and hasn't awoken yet, which is allowing the "darkness" to spread. And everyone keeps mistaking Helena for this creepy looking Princess even though its pretty obvious she isn't.
The world's full of weird characters like sphinxes that eat books, these creepy walking eyeballs, and a myriad of others. The movie's a bit hard to find but a quick look over on amazon yields some good results. Have fun getting a look inside Gaiman's head, because honestly, if this is what this guy can think up in his head, he's a bloody genius.