[Rhubarb]

Awesome.

That's the catapillar. The one that smokes the hookah in the book.

[Brick McRunfast]

No it's not! That's some kind of horrible sick twisted evil disgusting dentures-mated-with-a-monk/cantelope creature! I've seen less disturbing things at satanic mass murders (which I go to only as a hobby.) I've had acid trips more mundane. Wow.

[Jane Sherwood]

I had the same reaction, only I yelled "JESUS HOLY FUCK!"

I haven't even watched it yet and I'm freaked out! At first I was giggling hysterically over the pictures, but now...yikes. That...that is just disturbing...

Coooooooooool...

[Rhubarb]

Just spreading the love, guys. Just spreading the love.

People, I first saw this film when I was nine years old. About halfway through, when the Red Queen turned up, I started crying uncontrollably and had to leave. It hasn't been shown again since to my knowledge, and as a consequence, I've never actually seen the film all the way through. I've been desperate to watch it again ever since, but I've never been able to find it.

Aside from the White Rabbit and the Catapillar, I found the creepiest thing in that film to be Bill the Lizard. He's a skeleton lizard with glass eyes and scuttles oh so horribly.

So now go check out the Quicktime movie samples. G'wan, they're only tiny.

A similar film (by a different creator) is The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, which sounds like porn but I swear it isn't. Don't have any links for this one (it's a bit less well known) but here's a pic of the title character -



The film is also stop-motion mixed with a living human cast, about a so-ugly-he's-cute little plasticine boy born in a slum, and taken away by evil scientists, and escapes with a mutated lizard-skeleton monster. It's freaky and disturbing and depressing - I found it to be more so than Alice, actually.

[Brick McRunfast]

Uhh, tom's face seems to be slowly melting. Anyone else thing he bears a passing resemblance to everyones stab-happy pal, Jason V., from Friday 2?

[jariten]

looks like a David Lynch film

[SimeSublime]

I remember a time not that long ago when Rhubarb mentioned something along the lines of us coming here due to a lack of social life, and that she only drops in to show a shred of interet in her boyfriends hobbies. But whenever I cruise through lately, you're always listed as reading the topics. So, whats happening?

[Heccubus]

That Tom Thumb movie is a marvel.
Also that particular portrayal of the Caterpillar reminds me of Chatter from the Hellraiser movies.

[Yahtzee]

Tom Thumb looks like what you'd get if Jason Voorhees got over himself for five minutes to father a child with Yoda.

[Rhubarb]

Sime - It's kinda complicated and has to do with me going slightly more nuts than usual a month or so ago. While this wasn't an entirely bad thing, I don't particularly want an active social life at the moment, and I've been messing about on this here PC a lot more.

Whee, Heccubus knows the film. I feel validated.

[Jane Sherwood]

Also that particular portrayal of the Caterpillar reminds me of Chatter from the Hellraiser movies.

That's it! I knew that Caterpillar reminded me of something else!

Also, Rhubarb, you must have been a very tough nine-year-old. I remember being freaked out by Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory when I was four. I couldn't stand to watch that movie until I was about ten or eleven...creepy little Oompa-Loompas...and there's still harmless little kid stuff that scares the hell out of me to this day. It's kind of funny when you think about it, though, that kind of stuff freaks me out and I can sit all day giggling my ass off at the bloodiest of horror movies...

[SimeSublime]

Thank god I wasn't the only kid to be afraid of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

[Dark Comet]

It was what happened to the gum chewer that freaked me out... turning into a huge blueberry and rolled away by a horde of singing orange oompa loompa thingies...

A person on drugs can get used to the sight of seeing their dead grandmother climb up their legs with a knife in her teeth... But NO ONE should be forced to handle that trap.

A basket of Blueberry Muffins and a Coupon Book for anyone who can tell me where the above phrase comes from.

[Rhubarb]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was creepy as all fuck. That scene where they're on the boat ride and he goes insane is officially one of the top 100 scariest scenes in film of all time.

[Jane Sherwood]

I, fortunately, cannot remember that scene...but I kind of want to see it again now.

The blueberry thing is what traumatized me the most, too...(*shudder*) I even got freaked out by what happened to that really bratty girl (Veruca was it?) and the golden goose eggs. Sure, part of me firmly believes that she deserved it, but it was still disturbing.