Scariest Cartoon

[Emmanuel Cruz]

Which cartoon just gives you the chills?

[Thad Komorowski]

"The Painter and the Pointer" (Lantz) has always made me bite my nails, with Butch tied to a gun, and if he moves he gets it, and two spiders pulling him up by a web, planning to eat him alive.

Eh, you and 'yer big ideas!

-Thad:D

[xAzNrKx]

"La Salla" some sort of independent CG Canadian toon. That freaked me out a little bit, but I still enjoyed it. If anyone has seen this, or has a copy of this, please let me know!

[Jon Cooke]

Two Disney shorts are my picks. I would definitly pick "Pluto's Judgment Day" as one of the creepiest cartoons ever made. "Donald Duck and the Gorilla" is also right up there.


-Jon

[Gossamer]

Originally posted by xAzNrKx
"La Salla" some sort of independent CG Canadian toon. That freaked me out a little bit, but I still enjoyed it. If anyone has seen this, or has a copy of this, please let me know!


La Salla, written and directed by Richard Condie and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, was nominated for an Academy Award. It used to run on Cartoon Network when they ran O Canada. I have a copy, but at the moment I cannot dub anything. It has been in-print and may still be available through the NFBC. Excellent, very odd cartoon. Good luck.

[Matt Yorston]

I don't know about any of you but "Scaredy Cat" (1948) really scared the heck out of me when I was 8 years old. The idea of a band of murderous mice plotting to do in Porky and Sylvester, our 2 heroes, just made me really uneasy to the point where I almost couldn't watch it. I mean, the mice would've actually have succeeded in killing Porky if Sylvester hadn't had an attack of conscience at the last minute. Brrr.....

Although, for some reason, the film's 2 follow-ups, "Claws for Alarm" and "Jumpin' Jupiter" never freaked me out nearly as much even at that age. I guess they were executed differently... to the point where it was slightly less unnerving.

Thankfully, a year later, I decided to give "Scaredy Cat" another chance and face up to it. I did and I now respect it as a classic piece of animated cinema.

[Jack]

Originally posted by Matt Yorston
I don't know about any of you but "Scaredy Cat" (1948) really scared the heck out of me when I was 8 years old. The idea of a band of murderous mice plotting to do in Porky and Sylvester, our 2 heroes, just made me really uneasy to the point where I almost couldn't watch it. I mean, the mice would've actually have succeeded in killing Porky if Sylvester hadn't had an attack of conscience at the last minute. Brrr.....

Although, for some reason, the film's 2 follow-ups, "Claws for Alarm" and "Jumpin' Jupiter" never freaked me out nearly as much even at that age. I guess they were executed differently... to the point where it was slightly less unnerving.

Thankfully, a year later, I decided to give "Scaredy Cat" another chance and face up to it. I did and I now respect it as a classic piece of animated cinema.
I was going to say that one too. It's just a chilling cartoon. I think the other two aren't quite so scary becuase they don't take themselves as seriously. "Claws For Alarm" mostly just deals with the mice doing things to try and kill Porky, everything is out in the open. In "Scaredy Cat," who knows what the mice did to poor sylvester after lowering him down in the kitchen, and they actually show the mice going off to kill that one cat in the beginning in a death march for crying out loud. Also, I think the layouts and backgrounds have a big part in it. Lots of reds and dark browns, and they are painted in a simple, flat, but realistic fashion. "Claws For Alarm," while also beautifully designed, is more cartoonie.

I don't quite place "Jumpin' Jupitor" in the same category as the first two, the Aliens aren't really trying to kill Porky, and aren't all that menacing.

I'd say that "Night On Bald Mountain" was sort of scary, though it doesn't really frighten me. I'd second Jon in saying "Pluto's Judgement Day" is freaky, the way the cats sort of sing, and you see that Pluto was quite a cat killer. I find that a lot of Disney shorts give me the willies. Look at their WWII cartoons, like Education For Death, and even though the cartoon is supposed to be funny, I got chills durring the dream sequence in "Der Fueher's Face" the first time I saw it. The MGM short "Peace On Earth" is also like that.


Jack:D

[Dub]

Duck Pimples...The Donald Duck toon by Jack hannah (I believe that was his name)

Its not so much disturbing as just...creepy...

[xAzNrKx]

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Originally posted by xAzNrKx
"La Salla" some sort of independent CG Canadian toon. That freaked me out a little bit, but I still enjoyed it. If anyone has seen this, or has a copy of this, please let me know!
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La Salla, written and directed by Richard Condie and produced by the National Film Board of Canada, was nominated for an Academy Award. It used to run on Cartoon Network when they ran O Canada. I have a copy, but at the moment I cannot dub anything. It has been in-print and may still be available through the NFBC. Excellent, very odd cartoon. Good luck.

ya i read about it winning some stuff. i saw it twice on O canada! thanks for the reinteration. i have no clue what NFBC is but if you can ever cap it i would really love it. if youd like some stuff from my cartoon collection, just contact me via AIM or email.

xaz

[Gossamer]

NFBC is National Film Board of Canada. As for the scariest/creepest cartoon, I would say for me, it's either Iwerks' Skeleton Dance for Disney, The Tell-Tale Heart from UPA or a "charming" Germn short called Balance. That one creeps me out. Brrr!

[Dub]

Speak of the devil !!! I saw Balance the other day and that sucker is creepy. Especially with the 4 guys and the edge of that board and that box @_____________________@


Its not scary...but watching it leaves you with that brrr feeling. :D

[Larry T]

Most of the cartoons you guys mentioned here were picks of mine, too- "Scaredy Cat", "Pluto's Judgement Day", "The Tell-tale Heart" (Two thumbs up), "Education For Death".

Funny thing is, a cartoon that used to really get me paranoid when it came on when I was a little kid was "Hare Ribbin". The whole look and feel of it was kind of unsettling, Bugs was quite ruthless and obnoxious, and the constant ripple glass during the whole cartoon kind of gave it a nauseating feel.... (not to mention the ending!)

"Minnie The Moocher" has a lenghtened creepy feel as well. When the cartoon ends, we AREN'T left saying, "Aw, Betty went to her home sweet home..... awwwwww..." :rolleyes:

"There's Good Boos Tonight" is scary, too- the whole cartoon is very dark and there's a lack of out and out humour- especially seeing one of the characters getting killed in it!

"Hyde and Go Tweet" also kind of makes my skin crawl. If this one aired when I was little, I used to change the channel- I couldn't bear to empathize with Sylvester's plight for seven whole minutes... that bird monster was just plain frightening (especially the scene when he eats Sylvester whole, with nothing but the tail sticking out of his beak!!!!!)

"Birds Anonymous" was another one that I couldn't watch because you knew that under all those "off birds for life" jokes, there was a deeper and more serious allusion (especially for someone who had their share of experience with substance abusers in the family....!!) The monotoned, almost sedated cat kind of scares me too!

As I mentioned once before though, there's this European cartoon (I think by Bruno Bozetto) where an anonymous man falls asleep and a mosquito starts to drink his blood. What ensues is an entire mass mosquito service production chain from the blood of this sleeping man (blood 'gas' stations, blood 'fast food' outlets, etc). After a creepy scene of the man's hand literally shrivelling up, he screams and wakes up, and all the mosquitos run to church to pray for their souls because the man is about to squash them all. God's hand appears in the church pointing at the mosquitos, and they begin to drink from the finger..... This cartoon always scared me. I associated it with that Windsor McCay Rarebit cartoon where the giant mosquito lands on the sleeping man's nose and sucks him dry- ewww, scary stuff!!:eek: