It depends on views either you see them predicting this horror movie trend or it just something that happened. This is just a possible Simpsons prediction or a theory at it's core I thought of. Either way I hope you enjoy the madness I'm about to dive straight into. A lot of kids may not wanna watch TV for a long time.
This dates back to Treehouse of Horror 24. Which aired back in 2013, they done a particular segment called Oh, the Places You'll D'oh!. We get a mess up parody of Dr. Seuss stories mostly The Cat in the Hat. Homer portrays a parody of that character named The Fat in the Hat. He ends up killing a lot of people in this story.
I'm sure a lot of people know of Dr. Seuss stories. They are aimed towards children that isn't anything like this. Obviously Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas special among many things. A couple years later, The Banana Splits Movie happened. Which took a very light 70s show turned into this scary Five Nights at Freddy's style movie.
I previously talked about The Mean One. A horror movie with The Grinch killing people. This could've helped jump started this new horror movie trend. A year later, Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey came out. Yes even Winnie the Pooh, one of the most beloved children characters in history. Which now has it's own horror movie franchise.
Next year we got two more surprising twisted versions of classic characters. Bambi as in the famous deer killing people. Thanks to a loop hole, Steamboat can happen without them getting sued. They based their twisted version of Mickey Mouse on his original appearance. Which got into the public domain not long ago.
I know it's difficult to imagine Mickey Mouse too. There's a lot of ways to see this direction. Some quickly think they are running out of ideas. Another possible view could be to make more unexpected horror movies using such iconic characters. Some of them may risk getting sue over their films. Disney previously made a lot of Mickey Mouse, he's their mascot after all.
They also made several stuff with Bambi & Winnie the Pooh. Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas book isn't in the public domain either. The Banana Splits Movie was virtually a desperate attempt to make a movie instead of fully pulling the plug altogether. If The Simpsons could make such a parody within Treehouse of Horror episodes.
I strongly felt more iconic characters could also get their own horror movies. I should point out David Howard Thornton played The Mean One and Steamboat Willie respectively. He's famous for playing Art the Clown in Terrifier series. For years, many holiday characters gotten twisted portrayals in many things. Some of us knew eventually horror would had to go into this direction.
I should point out most of these are notably low budget horror movies. Some of them are a little luckier with getting streamed. Let's be honest, this would be a difficult concept to explain to an child. The last thing any parent needs is seeing just one of these movies. They end up afraid of that character for many years.
Regardless if The Simpsons foresaw this trend before it officially happens or just suddenly happened that way. This concept to use characters you never considered for horror from such franchises. This alone opens the door to possibly making more people afraid. Especially those who were heavily into them growing up.
Then they saw these all of that change in an instant. We already had folklore as well as mythology characters portrayed in so many ways. It was inevitable this was going to happen. It almost makes you wanna imagine such stuff out of boredom. I kinda wanna see someone do this with Barney the Dinosaur I'm very serious.
People seem to love dinosaurs in general. Barney's show ran a long time. I always could go more mess up than that. Let's be honest I could easily take it very far. Clifford the Big Red Dog could go in so many directions. Not even close to the most ridiculous I can go. The Magic School Bus really ridiculous stuff. Just existing I would have to say among the most ridiculous horror movies ever!!!
This bus has so many abilities, they really would have plenty of ideas making that movie. Personally, I see that film even it sucks being nightmare fuel to kids reading those books. Then they saw that movie, this might be too horrific of an idea. There's a few similar concept movies like The Car and Christine. Why would people be so surprise considering Christmas horror movies with Santa?
At this point, any iconic character they can get away with. Very likely going to get a twisted horror movie in the near future. Indirectly the more common horror monsters has too much content. They had to find ways to stand out from those. It's almost like they wrote down ideas. Then a random draw from the hat decides the theme they're going with.
Also going into this direction allows them to create their own lore. Not only that they can make plenty of changes to possibly avoid getting sue over using those characters. Let's go way back to the 1920s with Nosferatu. An unofficial movie adaptation of Dracula that was suppose to be destroyed. Somehow made it to the present within the public domain.
In fact that's getting a new version with a rather odd date around Christmas. The big difference is Dracula always meant to be horror while these characters weren't that at all. They were virtually the polar opposite in nearly every possible way. Another possible reason could be they couldn't do their original concepts for several reasons.
They ended up playing safe in a weird sense. More like a rather risky direction to make a movie happen. There's no way any major movie companies going to jump that train ride. The point I'm trying to make is they used characters everyone knows in a mess up concept to make em more horror like. The internet already done this with a few mythologies like SCP with Garfield named Gorefield.
Yes there exists a horror version of that cat. Characters like that also could've be seen as possible inspirations behind this trend. Some either see this as being very outside the box idea or very uninspired. It's only a matter of time before Scooby-Doo killing people. Also I'm very happy Velma show got canceled.
I don't even wanna consider the broken classic cartoon characters done this way either. This is a topic it's so easy to go on forever about. At the same time, I think I already said more than enough. In one way I do support these companies taking such a risk. But on the other I'm questioning my sanity over some of it.
This is sorta like anything version board games especially Monopoly. This goes beyond that, they're altering such characters to transform em into monsters. It's almost like a horrible nightmare. You know the ones you really wanna wake up from. This trend only going to keep getting weirder as time goes on. I do expect things like this could either burn out quickly or surprisingly become huge money earners.
No comments:
Post a Comment