History NightmareFuel / AlicesAdventuresInWonderland

* Creator/JanSvankmajer's 1988 adaptation, especially the [[HairRaisingHare White Rabbit]].

* [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Curious_Alice_%281971%29.webm This]] [[DrugsAreBad anti-Drug PSA]] from 1971, entitled ''Curious Alice'', that ironically is so [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarre & creepy]] that it seems the ''producers'' were on drugs when they made it. ScareEmStraight, indeed.

%% * '' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe''. Spine-chilling.

* '' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mome raths outgrabe''. Spine-chilling.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgIBGjXIoEs The White Queen turning into a sheep]]. Ironically, in the original book, the White Queen randomly turning into a sheep was [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments a funny moment]]. The movie's director, on the other hand, turned it into a [[SurpriseCreepy unexpectedly]] [[NightmareFace scary-looking]] [[HellIsThatNoise monster]].

* The Jabberwocky illustration in the original book. [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Jabberwocky.jpg/399px-Jabberwocky.jpg Enjoy.]]

* The introduction to the Tweedles. When Alice comes across them, they just ''stand'' there, staring at her, [[ParanoiaFuel so still and quiet that she mistakes them for mannequins.]] They do this for several minutes as she gets close them enough to read their names on their collars and contemplate the nursery rhyme. Then they suddenly start to talk and move. In real life, that would easily be a JumpScare. Then there's their [[https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/88/54/72/88547243087266040921c13ab3b91d05.jpg appearances,]] which can seem deep in the UncannyValley to some, what with their little boy clothes and enlarged, caricature-like faces.

* Many of Lou Bunin's stop-motion puppet characters in the 1949 version are [[UncannyValley grotesque and frightening]] to look at.

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* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[DeathOfAChild proper assistance]]"...
** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[ICannotSelfTerminate about Alice's]] [[DeathSeeker mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.
** Then there's the crash that shakes the forest just after Alice leaves Humpty behind, implying his [[ItWasHisSled inevitable]] fall off the wall. We know from the nursery rhyme that the White King's soldiers won't succeed in repairing Humpty – in short, this means he dies just seconds after his conversation with Alice ends.

* The Duchess's Song which includes lyrics of "shaking a baby every time it sneezes"

* Falling all the way down, down, [[OverlyLongGag and down...]]

* The Jabberwocky illustration in the original book. [[http://www.waxdog.com/jabberwocky/pics.html Enjoy.]]

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* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and its sequel, ''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'', were chock-full of nightmarish situations and bizarre mental imagery. The fact that the woodcut illustrations portrayed most of the human characters as hideously ugly with grotesquely large heads didn't help much, either. Examples include:

* ''"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out-- bang!--just like a candle!"'' ExistentialHorror.
* '' 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe. All mimsy were the borogroves, and the mome raths outgrabe''. Spine-chilling.

* ''"If that there King was to wake," added Tweedledum, "you'd go out-- bang!--just like a candle!"'' Existential terror.

* Humpty-Dumpty tells Alice he thinks she should have stopped ageing when she reached seven. She objects that one cannot prevent oneself from ageing, and he replies that she ''could'' have stopped ageing at seven if only she'd had "[[WouldHurtAChild proper]] [[DeathTropes assistance]]"...

** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespairEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DeathSeeker mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.

** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespairEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DrivenToSuicide mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.

** And since this is AllJustADream, and thus Humpty-Dumpty is a projection of Alice's psyche, [[FridgeHorror it may say something]] [[DespaieEventHorizon about Alice's]] [[DrivenToSuicide mental state]]. The fact that she's ''not even eight years old'' makes it even worse.