Steve Reviews: Alice in Wonderland (1933)

Any movies or shows that's unintentionally creepy are scarier than some horror themed ones.

The turtle calling Alice a bitch part had me HOWLING 😂

That tossing the baby part made me have an urge to make "only 1930's kids can understand" joke

Fun fact about the Mock Turtle: "mock turtle" was a soup that was supposed to taste like turtle soup but in reality was made with cow heads, which is why the mock turtle hear looks like it had a cow head

Fun fact: I've recently learned that they originally were gonna put in the Eyepot in the Disney animation. Though they deemed it too creepy for kids so they scrapped it.

Little did they realize this movie would be responsible for 50 percent of the creepy pasta thumbnails for years to come 🤣

Modern horror could never compare to some guys in the 1930's accidentally creating something THIS TERRIFYING.

To be fair, this is the single most faithful adaptation to the book I've ever seen.

Fun fact: speaking of 1939, Disney was attempting to make Alice in Wonderland, but Walt Disney scrapped it until 1951 due to how disturbing the characters were designed, including how the ending sequence of Alice waking up after the Queen drops a guillotine device on her. Plus the Chesire Cat is quite disturbing.

Oh god, i remember finding this when i was younger and absolutely fell in love with it because the characters matched exactly what i imagined when i read the original untranslated book

the funniest thing about it is everything that was pointed out was directly from the book. i saw the film and it was almost exactly the book. even the creepy costumes just seemed inspired by the original illustrations.

I actually appreciate how almost all the characters in the movie are actual characters in the books. Like the white knight, the red and white queens, the mock turtle, the lady with the crying baby, humpty dumpty, even the story of the little oysters were in the books. As creepy as they may be, they were real.

You should also check out the Jan Svankmajer version from 1988. 'Alice.' Some of the most disturbing and yet best made stop motion puppetry I've ever seen. Like, The Caterpillar alone is... a trip and a half. And its all narrated by Alice as if she's reading the book.

You can clearly see the amount of inspiration Walt Disney took from this movie for the character designs

I love the SFX of older films like this. They were extremely limited so the creativity even if disturbing is off the charts

If you've read the original illustrated Alice in wonderland book, the charcter designs from this movie are actually really similar to the illustrations in the book.

Being able to see the actor's real mouth inside of Humpty Dumpty has the same vibes as seeing the endoskeleton teeth from the animatronics' mouths in FNAF, which only makes the scene even more terrifying

Humpty Dumpty in Alice in Wonderland 1933 is unnerving with that hollow eyes, which made the Kinder Joy's Humpty Dumpty looked like Sesame Street. Also, there's a Czech adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, which not only reached into the uncanny valley, but it's also impressive for its stop-motion animation.

It would also be worth mentioning that Humpty Dumpty was played by W.C.Fields, the White Knight by Gary Copper and the crying Mock Turtle by Cary Grant.

I don’t know why so many people immediately assume the story is about a girl having an acid trip. People often take things to literally. It’s a story about a girl who finds herself in a whole new world, nothing like the one she’s a familiar with. People around her act so strangely and expecting different things from her then she’s used too. She goes on a journey of wonder, discovery and even self discovery- Caterpillar: Who are you? Alice: I hardly think I know sir just at present- at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must’ve changed several times since then. At the end of the scene in which these words are traded, the caterpillar turns into a butterfly. Sometimes she notices herself growing at a startling rate outgrowing things she used to fixate on, (the little door) and yet she can also feel like she’s no more then 3 inches tall. Alice in Wonderland isn’t a story of a girl’s acid trip it’s an analogy for a girl transitioning from childhood into adulthood. ETA: Also “acid trips” are caused by LSD. LSD was first synthesized in the 1930’s. Alice in Wonderland was written 67 years, (if not more) earlier. So how could he be writing about the effects of a drug that didn’t even exist yet?