below is the trailer for one of the most bizarre children's film made, little red riding hood and the monsters. i've just discovered the trailer, i've not seen the film. but man what a trip. freaky and scary at the same time. i can imagine children seeing this dada fest back in the day, not knowing what sort of film it was, and peeing their pants in fear.
it's got to be seen to be believed. feast your eyes.
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that looks remarkably bad. not exactly creepy, to me.
cheap as hell, and awful too. yet the creatues, like carrot head and the stinky skunk, look like a demented person's idea of storybook characters. there's a flavor, and a tone, that simply freaks me out. perhaps it has to do with going to the matinee cinema when i was a kid and i'd see shit like this flick. these movies came out of nowhere and because of the bad dubbing, the costumes and horrible set, as well as the kind of look to the film where the color is almost leached from it, along with a reached for tone of adventure and gaiety that feels forced and his never achieved, much like a person working so hard to be funny that the act of trying to be humorous turns to acid from the desperate force and struggle of the attempt, and man i was shaking in my seat from the weirdness of it all.
despite all that, i loved that sort of experience where i'd see movies i'd never intended seeing and my world was upended and expanded. i recall watching 'doc savage' flicks in this manner. and there is a little horror movie that's stuck with me all these years. i can't recall the name of it but it was about an old farm couple terrorized by a creature that lived in their basement. when the old farmer kills the creature in the end his wife screams out, ' but he is our son'! then bam the flick ends. shit, i'd love to know what movie that is. i was enthralled and seriously creeped out by the tone of the film at the same tim. i loved it. viva trash cinema!
I'm not a horror film fan, but I love fairy tales at their weirdest (that is, non-disneyfied), and this looks really cool and freaky. DId you look up more info on it? Here's what I found:
The original version is Mexican and is called Caperucita y Pulgarcito contra los monstruosos (Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb against the Monsters, a much more interesting title). It's 85 minutes long (I think there should be more movies of this length) and the Ferocious Wolf and the Friendly Red-headed Ogre are good guys!
There are apparently several of these so-called kids fairy tale movies from Mexico at that time, and Gordon Murray dubbed them into English and released them here. Someone should do a film festival!
Btw, did you notice the voice-over pronunciation of "Frankenstein"?
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