Here's what Pinocchio would be as a horror film, as if a reanimated doll wasn't scary enough
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Pinocchio could easily be creepy as hell. A childless woodworker makes a puppet and wishes he were real, only to wake up and see that that doll had become animated. Can you imagine a real-life Toy Story situation? You’d run out of the house like Sid did. Roberto Benigni’s adaptation was creepy enough, but what if you twisted the movie into a full-fledged horror film?
That’s what YouTube animator MeatCanyon did, and it’s definitely on the more disturbing end of horror. Just like an AI robot wanting to kill its creator, this Pinocchio deduces that in order to become flesh, he must eat it. One question, though: Who builds a puppet with three rows of shark teeth? Did that come with his wish as well? Where’s Jiminy when you need him? Is this what Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion Pinocchio will be like? There’s much to ponder.
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Or I could watch any of the several horror films based on Pinocchio that already exist. I can think of two off the top of my head. Neither one was very good.
Jan Svankmajer’s Little Otik? (Based on a different story, but close enough.)
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy did a horror take on Pinnochio that was a million times more sinister that this rubbish.Did anyone else get the impression they were trying to channel the rambling style of the Interdimensional Cable segments of Rick and Morty? Gepetto’s lamentations in particular sounded like a slight rewrite of the Tophat Jones’s murder:
Eh that was…ok? I like the classics better, myself:
Well, that was not very good.
slow news day, huh?
Was this a paid advertisement? Someone’s boyfriend?
This isn’t horror. It’s bad comedy.
The was simply animated, not reanimated. Unless Pinocchio died and came back to life. Maybe a good an idea for a prequel?
That was the seed of a reasonable idea, but it’s incomplete. Despite being 45 seconds long it runs out of joke well before the end, and yet also doesn’t pay off what it promised.
If the goal was to post something bad enough to get people to respond, good job.
Wait, Disney’s Pinocchio isn’t a horror movie? Have you seen the scene where they get turned into donkeys? Only slightly less terrifying than the flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz.
The novel was always creepy AF, people just overlook it because the Disney adaptation (which I still love) is what most people think of as being the one true version. Del Toro’s upcoming adaptation is going to be based on Gris Grimly’s wonderfully dark illustrations, so it should much better match the original tone of the novel.