Any movies or shows that's unintentionally creepy are scarier than some horror themed ones.

The turtle calling Alice a bitch part had me HOWLING 😂

That tossing the baby part made me have an urge to make "only 1930's kids can understand" joke

Fun fact about the Mock Turtle: "mock turtle" was a soup that was supposed to taste like turtle soup but in reality was made with cow heads, which is why the mock turtle hear looks like it had a cow head

Little did they realize this movie would be responsible for 50 percent of the creepy pasta thumbnails for years to come 🤣

Fun fact: I've recently learned that they originally were gonna put in the Eyepot in the Disney animation. Though they deemed it too creepy for kids so they scrapped it.

Modern horror could never compare to some guys in the 1930's *accidentally* creating something THIS TERRIFYING.

To be fair, this is the single most faithful adaptation to the book I've ever seen.

You should also check out the Jan Svankmajer version from 1988. 'Alice.' Some of the most disturbing and yet best made stop motion puppetry I've ever seen. Like, The Caterpillar alone is... a trip and a half. And its all narrated by Alice as if she's reading the book.

Oh god, i remember finding this when i was younger and absolutely fell in love with it because the characters matched exactly what i imagined when i read the original untranslated book

the funniest thing about it is everything that was pointed out was directly from the book. i saw the film and it was almost exactly the book. even the creepy costumes just seemed inspired by the original illustrations.

I actually appreciate how almost all the characters in the movie are actual characters in the books. Like the white knight, the red and white queens, the mock turtle, the lady with the crying baby, humpty dumpty, even the story of the little oysters were in the books. As creepy as they may be, they were real.

Fun fact: speaking of 1939, Disney was attempting to make Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney scrapped it until 1951 due to how disturbing the characters were designed, including how the ending sequence of Alice waking up after the Queen drops a guillotine device on her. Plus the Chesire Cat is quite disturbing.

You can clearly see the amount of inspiration Walt Disney took from this movie for the character designs

I love the SFX of older films like this. They were extremely limited so the creativity even if disturbing is off the charts

If you've read the original illustrated Alice in wonderland book, the charcter designs from this movie are actually really similar to the illustrations in the book.

Being able to see the actor's real mouth inside of Humpty Dumpty has the same vibes as seeing the endoskeleton teeth from the animatronics' mouths in FNAF, which only makes the scene even more terrifying

This definitely inspired American mcgee in creating his twisted version of Alice

It's actually pretty faithful to the books. It's hard to take the illustrator's pictures and convert them to live action,

It would also be worth mentioning that Humpty Dumpty was played by W.C.Fields, the White Knight by Gary Copper and the crying Mock Turtle by Cary Grant.

Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland 1933 is unnerving with that hollow eyes, which made the Kinder Joy's Humpty Dumpty looked like Sesame Street. Also, there's a Czech adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which not only reached into the uncanny valley, but it's also impressive for its stop-motion animation.

I had to pause to double check on seeing his name in the credits, turns out that terrifying Mock Turtle was a very early role for Cary Grant of all people! I know everyone has to start somewhere, but it's pretty wild that the guy who would go on to be one of the biggest leading men of his era in Hollywood did this bit of weirdness.

I don’t know why so many people immediately assume the story is about a girl having an acid trip. People often take things to literally. It’s a story about a girl who finds herself in a whole new world, nothing like the one she’s a familiar with. People around her act so strangely and expecting different things from her then she’s used too. She goes on a journey of wonder, discovery and even self discovery- Caterpillar: Who are you? Alice: I hardly think I know sir just at present- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must’ve changed several times since then. At the end of the scene in which these words are traded, the caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Sometimes she notices herself growing at a startling rate outgrowing things she used to fixate on, (the little door) and yet she can also feel like she’s no more then 3 inches tall. Alice in Wonderland isn’t a story of a girl’s acid trip it’s an analogy for a girl transitioning from childhood into adulthood. ETA: Also “acid trips” are caused by LSD. LSD was first synthesized in the 1930’s. Alice in Wonderland was written 67 years, (if not more) earlier. So how could he be writing about the effects of a drug that didn’t even exist yet?

I've always loved the '33 version. The surreal look and tone fits perfectly with the story. It is supposed to be unsettling. And Charlotte Henry was gorgeous.

Wow, I’ve never seen this version of the Alice and Wonderland story before. This shall be interesting.

The nightmarish creatures actually resemble the original John Tenniel illustrations for the Alice books.

As I was watching the credits I was able to briefly catch the names of Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, and W. C. Fields. Three of the biggest actors of that era. Pleasant surprise seeing their names on there.

The Mock Turtle is actually depicted very similar to the original book's illustration: A turtle with a calf's head, hooves and tail. It turns out "mock turtle soup" was an actual thing, and it was made from veal. (Also, no, there's no such thing as a "mock turtle", just the soup.) Sir John Teniel, who illustrated the books basically made a hybrid based on the soup and it's name.

I just recently read both the original Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, and this seems... disturbingly accurate...

Fun fact: The Fish with the speech impediment is played by Roscoe Ates, who also played in another disturbing film called freaks from 1932. It was directed by Tod Browning, the man who directed Dracula.

The books were criticisms of British society at the time. She didn’t react wildly because it was a metaphor for the real world. The books were brutal: “Beat your baby when he sneezes, he only does it because he knows it teases!”

This is actually the definitive Alice in Wonderland film. The Disney cartoon version is considered mostly just consumer dribble and pablum by real Alice in Wonderland fans.

This adaptation of Alice in Wonderland makes the American Mcgee games look like Spyro the Dragon by comparison.😲😱

There’s actually speculation that Lewis Carol created the traditional Humpty Dumpty egg design. Since it’s the earliest known illustration of the nursery rhyme known.

10:06 This part always cracks me up

It's this movie that actually attracted me to the books. It's "creepiness" actually captures the true essence of Carroll's works. Furthermore, Alice's stoic response to falling down the rabbit hole and encountering all other manner of weirdness is accurate to the original text. This film gets it right; it's most of the subsequent milquetoast adaptations that get it wrong.

Hey steve! Heres an amazing film i highly recommend you cheak out, or even reveiw. The film is called "Jack and the coo coo clock heart" i wont give any big details about it, but it involves blood, death, creepy imagery, abandonment, and amazing story telling and animations. This film is one of my personal favorites, and i believe it could be one of yours too!

6:09 I’m getting so much nostalgia to Steve’s old videos form this, nice to see him animating again.

I enjoy this film because it is very much based on Tenniel's illustrations, which frightened me when I was a child. I finally read the books when I was a teenager and really enjoyed them. My grandmother had an oversized book based on the movie with stills from it. When I saw that, I went on a search for the 1933 movie. I've only seen snippets of the sanitized Disney films and haven't yet seen an adaptation that satisfies me. The books are very episodic with Alice trying to apply logic to the fantastical characters she meets and the situations in which she finds herself. I don' t see how you can criticize the movie for reflecting the book.

Things that amaze Steve, like the white queen turning into a sheep or drowning in soup, or the mock-turtle constantly crying and a pudding insulting alice - all those scenes are presented in the book.

Pretty much every adaptation of Alice in Wonderland uses elements from Through the Looking Glass, the original book was actually pretty short, so it would be very difficult to make a full adaptation of just that one alone, so they always add characters and moments from the sequel to make a full length film, which tends to make it impossible to make a film sequel

have you seen alice 1988? that one is creepy to watch! Alice is a 1988 surrealist dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is Něco z Alenky, which means "Something from Alice"

I saw this movie in the 60's, On tv when I was 11 y.o. or so. It was a Great movie!! I loved it. The special effects were incredible. A great British film. I even named my cat, Dinah after Alice's cat. ❤❤❤❤❤

To be fair this is a lot closer to the feeling of the books than any subsequent adaptations.

13:29: That shot of the giant scary shadow-like crow was also used in the music video for Queens "Under Pressure". I've never seen this movie before, but I recognized that shot instantly when it happened.

Only 20 seconds in and I already recognize that song! I grew up on that Alice in Wonderland movie! I used to watch it all the time, along with the Disney version. I’m so happy someone else knows what it is! THANKS STEVE!!❤️

I have a copy of 1917 Alice in Wonderland ….it’s only 45 min long yet it is a nice peek into early film…I love Charlotte Henry’s performance and the supporting cast……realize that if we didn’t have these early films…there wouldn’t be the special effects that we are amazed by today. These are classics in their own right….❤

I never saw this version before. It looks like it was pretty elaborately done for 1933. People expect something from a few years into the advent of sound movies to have the costumes and special effects of Star Wars. This looks very well done. With W.C.Fields as Humpty Dumpty it must have cost a good amount. When Disney came out with Snow White the original full animated movie it must have been the most awesome thing on earth.

15:24, here’s a way to describe that scene. Flat out insane

Fun fact: apparently, the second world in Through The Looking-Glass (in the book) is *not* Wonderland? I found this really weird (it would have been a good chance to explain more about Wonderland, and it would have been harder to have to create a whole new world, which he did?) It is, instead, very creatively called 'Looking-glass world'.

I’ve never seen this movie but what you’ve shown seems very faithful to both books. That trippy ending scene is straight from the ending to Through the Looking Glass. It looks like this movie at least tried to be faithful and the characters look really similar to the illustrations in the books. One problem with movies based on these books is that the books themselves don’t really have a narrative and that doesn’t always translate so great to the screen.

14:11 tell ‘em to bring out the whole ocean

One interesting thing I discovered is that Charlotte Henry (who played Alice) was already 19 when this movie came out. Pulled off playing a little girl weirdly well.

Though not a film, American Mcgee's Alice has a very interesting take on Wonderland and how it connects to Alice. The soundtrack is incredible as well.

Obviously the producer of this video didn't really understand this film. It was beautifully made. It is a great film with a great cast.

This was a classic, far better than any Burton crap, or Disney! The presenter of this review is a dope who doesn't seem to understand what a great movie is!

This movie looks like an early creepy pasta.💀

I always enjoy Disney’s version of Alice in Wonderland.

I saw this in elementary school when I was a kid Strange and terrifying Loved it

Considering how the "small people" were treated in the past in several careers and jobs I am not surprised they didn't had a problem tossing him like that 9:10

Say what you will, but these effects were massively ahead of their time, and they still hold up today, despite the creepiness.

I remember the 1933 version. I think it is the best because all the story is about a dream of a young girl. The second part of the story was called "Alice through the looking glass". That was more like a nightmare.

8:45 That surprisingly funny how one guy plays a frog to a cat for the Alice and wonderland books series.

The new animated inserts are fun, it's a nice addition to the channel. I never heard about this film before, it's interesting that it includes much of the creepines, violence and characters from the books that most adaptations ignore. Thanks for talk about it!

This was not made for kids, but for the dance of entire family. Even cartoons were intended for audiences including adults. Some examples were Fleischer's Snow White and Swing You Sinners, and Disney's The Mad Scientist.

Something that would fit your channel perfectly would be Téléchat, a french kids show with puppets. It's EASILY the most cursed, unsettling and downright bizarre show I've ever seen, and a lot of it scared the fuck out of me, yet I couldn't stop watching it. It was like a parody of news, with weird events, fake commercials, nonsensical fake science, and a slew of other things that completely flew over my head as a kid. Then again I'm pretty sure sometimes it just didn't even try to make any sense whatsoever, and maybe that's why I was fascinated with it, despite never understanding anything. What I really remember were some of the visuals, characters straight out of a nightmare, and actually one of them looked eerily similar to the thumbnail of this video, he was an iron with a weird human face stretched and grafted onto it. Heck even one of the two main characters made me uneasy, a big anthropomorphic black cat wearing a suit, with a cast on his left arm (which he would open up and take various objects out of). Something about his dead eyes, idk. I'm not sure an english dub was ever made, but I think if you Google it you'll know why it comes to mind when I see other content you've covered on this channel lol

It won a special place in my heart. Drawn by Carey Grant as the Mock Turtle & W.C. Fields as Humpty Dumpty, it was very hard to find. When it's hard to find, it makes it more worth it. Good Luck!

Humpty reminds me of that creepy chocolate egg ad

You know what version of "Alice in Wonderland" I like? The 1960s BBC version where all the actors are in regular Victorian-era clothes, not costume. In fact, that's why most of the actors--including Peter Sellers, Peter Cook, Leo McKern, and John Gielgud--agreed to be in it: they didn't want to wear animal costumes.

"Despite the novelty of having the characters look like pure nightmare fuel..." Or rather, as they did in the original illustrations by John Tenniel. =) While watching the bit about the Mock Turtle, I got hit with a riff by I think Mike Nelson (I can't remember whether it was from Mystery Science Theater or a RiffTrax): "Inside that costume... Sir Lawrence Olivier." Turns out it was actually Cary Grant from "Arsenic and Old Lace" (1941) and "The Bishop's Wife" (1947) Other great actors I hadn't noticed were: White Knight = Gary Cooper "Sergeant York" (1941), "High Noon" (1952) Humpty-Dumpty = W.C. Fields "The Bank Dick" (1940), "Never Give A Sucker an Even Break" (1941) Mad Hatter = Edward Everett Horton "The Bullwinkle Show" Fractured Fairy Tales narrator (1959) "Do I recommend checking this out? I mean, I guess if you're really curious just for the novelty of it..." And getting "curiouser and curiouser" as Alice would say. =)

I remember seeing this on tv when I was a kid. I don’t remember being scared, just thinking it was the weirdest thing I’d ever seen. Never gave it another thought until I clicked on your video. What a trip!

I love the more comical approach to your recent videos, keep it on

15:44 somehow a child dies of a massive heart attack. Experts say she had the worst nightmare known to man.

12:40 Jesus Christ! Looks like they were designed by Meat Canyon!

There is a really creepy version of Alice in Wonderland that's just called Alice. It was directed by Jan Švankmajer in 1988, and probably has the scariest imagery when it comes to Alice in Wonderland adaptations.

I myself am actually a great fan of this version. Different to say the least, especially considering its arguably outdated effects, but I still find it charmingly fascinating in an odd sort of way.

Really appreciate you bringing attention to the original books, as well as more Alice in Wonderland film adaptations aside from the Disney ones, as they’re all wonderful in their own ways!! 💕💜💕 I also really appreciate that you gave the 1988 Burbank Films adaptation some love, including the theme song!! That’s my favorite animated Alice in Wonderland adaptation of all time and it’s literally my childhood 😭😭💕💜💕 I honestly don’t know who I would be today without it

04:01 i wanna see the bloopers of the cat giving Alice a few "skibbidy-papps" with those paws. which you know came after that cats cries of "put me the eff down." went unanswered.

The Mock Turtle is played by Cary Grant- of course it was black and white- they didn't have color then! It's a brilliant movie! LOTS of other great cameos!

Another Interesting Alice in Wonderland Adaptation you Could talk about is ALICE (1988) by Jan Švankmajer. An Experimental Stop-Motion version of Alice in Wonderland.

Honestly the cow head on the mock turtle is so pretty and well done, the rest of its body is kind of horrific to look at but you can really tell how much effort they put into the costume as well as the other costumes

this is a classic, and used to be on the tv in my childhood all the time. the fact that really big stars of the day were in it (like a lot of the versions of the story over the years) like gary cooper and wc fields makes it very watchable to me. the grotesque nature of the characters and costumes was very appropriate for kids at the time, since it mirrored the weird and fantastical halloween costumes of the day (before everything was licensed to hell and sanitized). also, in the 70's there were films with completely topless female actresses that were rated "G" (i assume that's what "U" means in the UK).

This movie is literally both books combined that's kinda impressive.

Dearie me, I did the mistake of trying to eat while watching this and nearly choked more than once at the hilarious comments. You really outdid yourself on this one. Kudos galore!

its so cute he is slowly using animated bits (probably by him)

So, not to be 'that guy' but Lewis Carroll wrote Alice in Wonderland as a protest piece to the "new math" that was being taught to kids in that day. Thats why theres so many numbers and math references. Its to show how life will turn upside-down and be all crazy or us and our kids if we adopt this "new math".

I’ve seen old movies before, but this is by far the freakiest

As a long-time viewer, the quality of the videos are really going up. Nice work :D👍

The song playing at 0:20 (which is from 1988 animated film) unlocked a childhood memory I had completely forgotten about until this moment. As I watched that film often

This narration does such a disservice to how amazing acid trips are, and how truly horrifying weed can be.

I love classic cinema like this. I'm a big fan of the Universal Monsters from around this time. its crazy that this ended up being weirder and creepier in areas

A movie I came across recently, that I think would fit well on this channel is MirrorMask. Gave off Alice in Wonderland vibes... But the computerized animations were absolute nightmare fuel

Steve have you ever thought of reviewing Pink Floyd’s the Wall? Probably some of my favorite animated segments of any film. Love your work man.

your animated segments are entertaining as fuck dude, the "not roofied" thing made me pause because I laughed too hard. Has such a vintage charm to it lmao great video!

5:19 just a minor correction cus im also a prick 😭- the second book doesn't take her back to wonderland, it takes her to looking-glass land, a sort of weird third parallel universe

14:01 Humpty Dumpty reminds me of the 1980s, kinder egg man

No joke, i honesty like the practical effects from this movie. There's creepy stuff sure, but some of this stuff looks so cool, and for the 30s, it looks really good. Specifically the shrinking effects, and even some of the big sets.

The creature effects here are waaaaay ahead of their time. Amazing makeup and costumes.

My favorite Alice in Wonderland was always the one from 1999. Imagine a Cheshire cat with Whoopi Goldberg's face and Gene Wilder singing a song about soup. It's crazy. Not to mention countless other stars

Have you watched the animated short "Malice in wonderland" (1984) by Vince Collins? It's a very bizarre take of the classic story with lots of surrealism and bizarrery. Hope you can review it in another vidoo along with the Jan Svankmajer version.