History NightmareFuel / AliceInWonderland

** And unlike the previous and succeeding encounters, there it is [[DerangedAnimation a collection of unusual]] and [[MindScrew bizarre imagery that Alice is witnessing without any context unlike the civilians that at least Alice can talk to to get some logic out of, with Alice encountering Wonderland at its most irrational]]
* Alice, a [[TheWoobie terrified little girl]], has [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever magically been made too big]] [[SealedRoomInTheMiddleOfNowhere to escape a surreal underground chamber]]. This by itself is terrifying, so naturally, she bursts into tears. Then [[FromBadToWorse it gets worse]] - her tears have become proportionately bigger, causing her to literally flood the room in the process. Alice, drinking what's left of the "Drink Me" bottle in a last-ditch effort to escape, nearly ''drowns in her own tears''. These are, on the whole, a ''lot'' of scary things to happen in about a two-minute span.
* The umbrella birds which are revealed to be vultures.
** Early concept art reveals that they were going to be [[FeatheredFiend Jub-Jub Birds]].

** The caterpillar-turned-butterfly getting angry when explaining which sides of what exactly will make Alice grow taller or shorter: "THE MUSHROOM, OF COURSE!!"

* That cage-bird-thing in the Tulgey Wood.
** Of all the weirdness there, that's one of the weirdest. It (a cage with bird legs, neck, and head) keeps a couple of songbirds in it. When they get out (which naturally happens), it chases them down, snaps them up and swallows them alive - back down into the cage. And they're ''happy'' about it. More NightmareRetardant then nightmare fuel, but it will still [[MindScrew melt your brain if you think about it too long]].
*** It's really not that complicated. It's just a [[VisualPun bird cage]], after all. Compared to the book-canon bread-and-butterflies (who subsist on weak tea with cream in it, and are stated to die a lot because they can't find any), really not that disturbing.

* Originally, there was supposed to be a sequence featuring the Jabberwock along with a song. It was never used in the final film. [[https://youtu.be/C6blExDWOq8?si=Hwcup8C_Z_sy0ui0 A demo from the late 40's was recorded.]] The vinyl noise dated from the 1940s gives an even scarier sound, along with the sketches of the Jabberwock.

* Originally, there was supposed to be a sequence featuring the Jabberwock along with a song. It was never used in the final film. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFdL3QfVhnU A demo from the late 40's was recorded.]] The vinyl noise dated from the 1940s gives an even scarier sound, along with the sketches of the Jabberwock.

'''Doorknob''': See for yourself *''gapes and shows the real Alice outside, still asleep under the tree where the story began''*\\

* Disneyland's original ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' ride featured [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/danolson/Blog%20stuff/ALICEFIXED-1.jpg a large figure of the Cheshire Cat]] with larger pupils that laughed manically at riders as they rode by.

* Disneyland's original ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' ride featured [[http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y32/danolson/Blog%20stuff/ALICEFIXED-1.jpg a large figure of the Cheshire Cat]] that laughed manically at riders as they rode by.

** The one that tends to lean the most towards the UncannyValley is one of the umbrella birds [[InelegantBlubbering bawling streams of tears all over its coat]], all while making ''no sound at all''. Plus, being the first creature to fade away, it FREEZES mid-cry while doing so.

* There is a theory that Alice was high on drugs throughout the entire movie, which explains the many trippy imagery and constant drug references. It’s speculated that the flowerbed Alice wanders into at the beginning of the film has infected her brain with it’s supposed toxins, thus everything from Wonderland was just an illusion and she somehow made it back to the tree when the drug was taking affect and she completely passed out when she arrived at the tree. Keep in mind that Alice is a pre-teen girl who is too young to know about drugs and the effects they have on your health, so to actually know that a young girl has just been doped on toxins thoughout the movie is a chilling thought and it took at least an hour and twelve minutes for her to sober up.
** Unlikely, there are very few plants that can cause that kind of effect in an unrefined state, especially in Victorian Britain where this takes place (if it was in a rainforest somewhere, maybe...). However, it's not completely implausible, considering what was considered common medicine at the time. Cocaine and opium were common treatments for almost anything back then.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIeW5LWGiAg The entire ending sequence]], with Alice trying to escape as Wonderland seemingly unravels around her, as she backtracks through the hedge maze, onto the beach and rejoins the Caucus Race [[MindScrew where the Walrus, Carpenter and the oysters have now appeared]] despite only appearing in Tweedledee and Tweedledum's story before, through the Tea Party where the Hatter and Hare drags her into a giant cup of tea that bottoms out into the Pool of Tears. There she finds the Caterpillar, floating on his mushroom. After she begs for help, he just blows smoke in her face, which suddenly transforms into a long swirling vortex. Alice runs through it, pursued by the Queen and seemingly all of Wonderland. She finally returns to the Doorknob, running towards it in slow motion (and the door is suddenly no longer attached to a wall), only for the Doorknob to tell her he's still locked, and she's trapped. When she begs him that she ''has'' to get out... he tells her she already IS out.

* The Cheshire Cat's CutSong, "I'm Odd," sounds downright ''sinister.''

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[[caption-width-right:350:"Someone's head will roll for this! [[NightmareFace YOURS!!!]]"]]

--> '''Doorknob''': [[WhamLine Oh, but you]] ''[[WhamLine ARE]]'' [[WhamLine outside...]]
--> '''Alice''': What?
--> '''Doorknob''': See for yourself *gapes and shows the real Alice outside, still asleep under the tree where the story began*
--> '''Alice''': It's me! [[AllJustADream I'm asleep!]] *cue Alice begging herself to wake up as the maddened Wonderland residents rushes towards her, only to dissolve into a maddened swirl of colors* Alice, wake up! Please wake up, Alice!

[[caption-width-right:350:"Somebody's head is going to roll for this! [[NightmareFace YOURS!!!]]"]]

* The drugged-up, blue caterpillar... They're just talking and then "I am exacicitually three inches HIGH, and THAT IS A VERY GOOD HEIGHT, INDEED!!!" *flashes psychedelic colors and explodes*
-->'''Alice:''' Well, I'm ''not'' used to it! [[SuddenlyShouting And you needn't... SHOUT!]] (''the way she says this causes the smoke from the explosion to disappear, revealing the remains of the caterpillar, now turned into a butterfly'')

--> '''Alice''': It's me! [[AllJustADream I'm asleep!]] *cue Alice begging herself to wake up as the maddened Wonderland residents rushes towards her, only to dissolve into a maddened swirl of colors*