Line #15 NightmareFuel/AliceInWonderland


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4	It's not all fun and games in Wonderland. Sometimes there's danger and death.
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6	* 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.
7	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nql1_RKwQt0 "Walrus and the Carpenter"]] sequence (which is actually from the original book, and it's no less creepy than what Disney came up with).
8	-->''But answer, there came none. And this was scarcely odd because THEY'D BEEN EATEN, EVERY ONE!''
9	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26RTlPgg-tA "mad watch"]] scene is quite intense, with all the screaming and half-crazed profile shots...until the March Hare applies PercussiveMaintenance. The [[OverlyLongGag slow dying of the watch]] is one of the funniest bits in the movie.
10	* The Queen of Hearts, specifically the "Painting the Roses Red/Off with their heads!" scene.
11	** The Queen of Hearts, period. Her temper, the screaming...honestly, good luck sleeping after watching her.
12	*** Either from the laughs you'll get from remembering her funny scenes or being on watch for her so you can save your head from rolling.
13	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JZmU5jwPIk 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.
14	--> '''Doorknob''': [[WhamLine Oh, but you]] ''[[WhamLine ARE]]'' [[WhamLine outside...]]\
15	'''Alice''': What?\
16	'''Doorknob''': See for yourself ''gapes and shows the real Alice outside, still asleep under the tree with Dinah where the story began''\
17	'''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!
18	* The drugged-up, blue caterpillar... They're just talking, and then when Alice declares that "3 inches is such a wretched height," he [[BerserkButton turns red]] and [[ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne snaps at her]], "''I'' am exactically three inches HIGH, and [[SuddenlyShouting IT IS A VERY GOOD HEIGHT, INDEED!!!]]" proceeds to puff a cloud of smoke around himself
19	-->'''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'')
20	** The caterpillar-turned-butterfly getting angry and turning an intense shade of red with yellow sclera eyes with red irises when explaining which sides of what exactly will make Alice grow taller or shorter by suddenly flying inches of her face: "THE MUSHROOM, OF COURSE!!"
21	* Tweedledum and Tweedledee sneaking up on Alice, and the flowers turning on her and chasing her away.
22	* Once Alice leaves the Mad Tea-Party, Alice encounters an [[GrotesqueGallery ensemble of bizarre creatures even by Wonderland's weird yet conventional imagery]] within the Tulgey Woods, animals whose bodies are a mixture of inanimate objects and creatures such as shovel-headed birds, umbrella-bodied vultures, accordion-necked owls, a bird that is just a pair of glasses with a beak, a bird with a mirror instead of eyes, birds with pencils for heads, birds with hammers for heads, a group of birds that resemble squicky horns, a dog with a broom for a head/tail, and a pair of frogs with one having a drum for a body with the other having a cymbal for a head, the Mome Raths, which are pair of different colored legs leading up to a mop of hair with a pair of eyes where the hair/legs meet that can join together to form symbols, and the bird with a cage bird with bird legs, neck, and head with a pair of bird within the cage that comprises the body, which proceeds to eat them to put them back in the cage when they escape, which [[Dissonant Serenity which leads them feeling happy]].
23	** 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 to what's going on unlike the civilians that at least Alice can talk to to get some logic out of their illogical actions, with Alice encountering Wonderland at its most irrational without any comprehension of what she's looking at, and by extension, the audience until the Cheshire Cat finally reappears to provide some rationality.
24	** Early concept art reveals that the umbrella birds were going to be [[FeatheredFiend Jub-Jub Birds]].
25	* This mostly counts as a tearjerker, but during "Very Good Advice", everything around Alice, including, not only all the UglyCute Tulgey Wood creatures [[EverybodyCries crying along with her]], but the ENTIRE forest as well, begins fading away in the process, leaving her in ''complete darkness''.
26	** The creepiest 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.
27	** Even creepier, the mirror bird is not only crying without any visible eyes, but is SMILING.
28	* [[http://lukefarookhi.blogspot.com/2008/08/david-hall-and-alice-in-wonderland.html David Hall's early concept art]] for ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' shown in various books and the DVD documentary Reflections On Alice. The Cheshire Cat has a mouth of pointy shark-like teeth and horrifically staring eyes, the baby's morph into the pig is horrific, the Mad Hatter and March Hare chase Alice with a large pair of scissors and a knife respectively, there’s a creepy dungeon complete with a few hanging corpses, Alice is about to be decapitated by the Queen of Hearts who is riding the blade, and it's all drawn in a horribly grotesquely realistic, ghastly style.
29	** Not to mention the Knave of Hearts being executed, a member of the Queens entourage is her executioner, and the disturbing ending scene where the Queen's castle turns into playing cards just as Alice is about to be executed. Seriously, this concept art would fit better for a horror movie.
30	** Another early concept featured an alternate version of the Cheshire Cat's famous disappearing act; instead of that funny unraveling thing he did in the finalized film, he takes his tail, sticks it in his mouth, starts ''eating himself'' and eventually, nothing is left but the grin.
31	* As funny and cutely animated as he is, the Cheshire Cat and his general craziness can be pretty scary, particularly the way he always appears at first as nothing but [[SlasherSmile a large set of smiling teeth]].
32	** Especially the scene where he's laughing, then suddenly gives a shuddering gasp before disappearing with a comment on his own madness:
33	-->'''Cheshire Cat:''' You...might have noticed...that I'm not ''all there'' myself...
34	** There's also the laugh itself, making a guy like [[BewareTheQuietOnes Sterling Holloway]] actually sounding a little frightening.
35	* 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 40s was recorded.]] The vinyl noise dated from the 1940s gives an even scarier sound, along with the sketches of the Jabberwock.
36	* The Cheshire Cat's CutSong, "I'm Odd," sounds downright ''sinister.'' Mainly because it's about the Cheshire Cat reveling in his own madness.
37	* 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 large, dilated pupils that laughed manically at riders as they rode by.
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Context NightmareFuel / AliceInWonderland