Saturday, August 05, 2006

Scariest movie ever, so far

Today I will write to you about the movie that I, along with many others, consider the scariest film of all time. No, it's not some Frankenstein movie, or one about that ugly Chucky doll. It's Alice in Wonderland. You know, the one from 1951, by Disney?
I was terrified the first time I watched it, and I still am. I'm not sure I've ever seen the whole thing. So far as I can remember, I haven't. So my description is probably not very accurate, as it is built mostly on foggy, suppressed memories from when I was a wee child, and also a few bits and pieces a few seconds long that I accidentally watch now and then. I mean, how can I give a good description when all I remember about the movie was that it was very, very confusing and enigmatic? My account of the movie is as follows:
First, the beggining is all promising. Alice, a pretty girl with enviable hair that never seems to get tangled, is lying in a tree, with a cute little cat... and then she falls through a hole, and zooms past flying things, and she lands in these dark woods. Then a creepy cat half-appears out of nowhere, and in the scariest voice imaginable, says something I don't understand. It smiles, I scream. And then- this is one of the parts that I can't erase, and I'm shuddering as I write about it (I really am)- the cat laughs, and everything except its horrible, horrile smile dissappears, bit by bit.
Then Alice runs around, and sees the white rabbit. She tries to talk to it, but it sees right through her, it seems. And it's obsessively saying it's late, it's late, it's late...! She follows it as it hops through a gate. And then the bit which is most vividly terrifying begins. The tea.
There's a big banquet, and the bunny hops in. And there are two lunatic people there, who do scary things, and are really mean to the rabbit. They break its watch, and put butter in it, even though the bunny tries to stop them. For some reason I've never been able to understand, Alice seemed to like them, or at least she did as far as I can remember. They did confusing things that didn't make sense, and sang a scary song... then Alice left them, and when she got further away, you could hear their song, getting fainter and fainter.
After that, there was something about growing big inside a house, and breaking it, and a garden with flowers that sang, and then pushed Alice away. And also two scary things with ugly faces that made Alice sit on a log and listen to a song about baby oysters getting murdered; they tried to make her stay for another song, but she escaped. And the cat kept on appearing, and dissappearing in a very freaky fashion the whole time.
And something about some mushrooms that made you bigger or smaller...
Oh, and a doorknob with the same face as the Red Queen and the things that sang the oyster song.
I don't really remember much about the Red Queen, really, only her head, and that she yelled a lot.

I feel all confused and small and lost now, so I'll stop.

I need a hug real bad.

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