Things I Watched as a Kid, Part 2

Thanks to _thespookhouse_ I started YouTubing again and discovered a lot of the older, creepy animation shorts and excerpts of stuff I used to watch whilst I was growing up. In the spirit of it being October and me being in somewhat a nostalgic mood today...


( Paul Berry's The Sandman (1991) )

( Excerpt from The Adventures of Mark Twain, The Mysterious Stranger (1985) )

( Tim Burton's Vincent )

Stop-motion is, by far, my favourite medium of animation. There's just something about it that gives me a sense of the eerie and the weird that none of the other animations forms give me. I loved the disjointed motion that one can't get away from even in the more modern ones. Not to mention, I love the meticulousness, attention to detail, and time that it requires to pull off.

( Cordell Barker's The Cat Came Back (1988) )

Interestingly enough, I was having a conversation about these pieces with tangled_cianan and we were both remarking on how in the time that these were released people seemed a little less worried about what would "warp the mind of the youth." There was a lot more of this class of experimental, expressionist, cerebral yet weird stuff available to younger kids. Whereas the shit we've got warping people now seems to be a lot more literal - just more physically violent than anything else.

And as a bonus, something that was introduced to me a few years ago (thanks lizzie_borden!):
( The Graveyard Jamboree with Mysterious Mose )