Because of director Rhys Frake and Disney’s traditional fairytale characters falling into the general public area, films based mostly on cute and cuddly beloved creatures have gotten malevolent and cruel. We noticed Winne the Pooh: Blood and Honey turn into a viral curiosity, and a sequel is already on the way in which. We have now additionally acquired a horror adaptation of Bambi, Peter Pan, and Cinderella within the works.
However this pattern isn’t fully new, there have been loads of titles that borrow from traditional youngsters’s tales relationship again to the ’80s. For this listing, we tried to incorporate films the place the supply materials’s narrative isn’t notably nasty. So the omission of Hansel & Gretel is warranted as a result of that’s already a narrative based mostly in horror.
The Firm of Wolves (1984)
When this film first got here out folks thought it was unusual to do a horror film based mostly on Little Crimson Using Hood. Possibly the identical manner we predict at the moment about Winnie the Pooh. However with all due respect to Rhys Frake (Blood and Honey), this one went past the low-hanging fruit of a slasher and was a creative masterpiece. Simply look who directed it: Neil Jordan!
Sure the person who went on to make The Crying Sport, Interview with the Vampire, and Greta, began out making a fairytale horror film which is a must-see for followers of the style.
Pinocchio’s Revenge (1996)
Low-budget horror movies led to small strains across the theater from the mid to late 80s and into the early 90s. After I first noticed Ghoulies (1985) the auditorium was packed and everybody had a good time. Then Trimark Footage (an off-shoot of Vidmark) form of modified the sport, producing “greater high quality” horror films with elevated screenplays and particular results. Trimark finally merged with Lionsgate in 2000.
However Vidmark did produce some memorable titles together with 1996 Pinocchio’s Revenge, a straight-to-video try and money in on Don Mancini’s Youngster’s Play. This twist on the traditional fairytale admittedly isn’t that nice, but it surely’s a pleasant reminder of when low-budget movies used sensible results to inform tales and needed to be revolutionary sufficient for them to look pretty much as good as they may on display screen.
Rumpelstiltskin (1996)
Republic Footage discovered their fairytale villain, Rumpelstiltskin, on this 1996 field workplace flop, but it surely form of works as a horror film. The crew behind it, Mark Jones and Michael Prescott, had simply achieved cult success with Leprechaun and had been prepared to leap on board its sequel, however the alternative to direct this movie opened up and so they took it.
Snow White: A Story of Terror (1997)
This one is likely to be dishonest a bit because it was launched on Showtime and never in theaters. However the sheer star energy of the manufacturing and the way it drastically adjustments the Disney model’s comparatively tame narrative into a very horrific one needs to be famous. Directed by Michael Cohen (to not be confused with Q’s Larry Cohen), it stars Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill.
Darkness Falls (2003)
Folks laughed on the idea of this film when it was first introduced. A killer tooth fairy? How laughable. However though it’s not the very best, it nonetheless packs a punch and since its launch has gained a little bit of a millennial cult following.
The Gingerbread Man (2005)
Of all of the individuals who have produced and directed fashionable low-budget horror films, Charles Band is likely to be subsequent solely to legendary celluloid mastermind William Citadel. Band is well-known for his ’80s manufacturing home Empire Footage which finally folded. However the prolific director countered that by beginning Full Moon Options which continues to launch films even at the moment.
One might surmise that the thought behind this image spawned from the recognition of Shrek (2001) which additionally featured an Anthropomorphic cookie that was tortured for data (not my gum drop buttons) by the prince. However that may simply be a coincidence. On this movie, eccentric actor and character Gary Busey takes on the titular position which provides to the distinctiveness of this Band favourite.
The Lure (2016)
The Little Mermaid has fangs. Sure, imagine it or not, this 2016 movie relies on the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale made well-known by a red-haired Disney princess. Nonetheless, this mermaid story doesn’t finish very nicely. Two sirens emerge from the ocean within the ’80s and begin acting at a nightclub as backup singers to a rock band. Issues ensue when one of many sirens named Silver falls for the lead singer.
It’s an attention-grabbing spin on the traditional fairytale and it’s been fairly nicely acquired since its launch.
