Black Swan
Fairy narrative are for kids , right ? Well , not always . A poove fib by definition is “ a small fry ’s story about charming and notional beingness and lands . ” However , when the Brothers Grimm hoard and compiled many of the beloved faggot tales that we now cognise from Disney movie ( Cinderella , Snow White , Sleeping Beauty , among others ) those same account were far dark and scarey than the stories we call up .
In the originalSnow White , the malevolent Queen is forced to dance in scarlet blistering metal horseshoe as a penalty for her emptiness , and Cinderella ’s vicious half-sister have their eyes gouged from their faces by doves sent from God . The " glad ending " in these fairy tales lean to be a bit more complicated than their Disney counterpart .
In other cases , filmmakers were enliven by the dreary , imaginative stories of folklore . Here are Screen Rant’s10 Fairy Tale Movies Too Scary For Kids . Some of these films are free-base on old folk narration , while others are merely inspired by their ideas and the mental imagery behind them .
Return to Oz (1985)
One could easily showReturn to Ozto their fry by accident , think that they would be precede them to a magical Edwin Herbert Land of impeccant fun . The classic 1939The Wizard of Ozwith Judy Garland certainly has its scary part , but it ’s get nothing onReturn to Oz . The motion-picture show get down with our wedge Dorothy ( Fairuza Balk ) , who has been feeling a morsel distressing since her return from Oz . Dorothy ’s parent send her to a psychiatric hospital with a nasty - tempered nurse ( Jean Marsh ) , who wants to do electroshock therapy on her . as luck would have it for Dorothy , a electrical storm reach the hospital and the power goes out . She ’s able to escape by the nearby river , where she almost drowns . When she wakes up , however , she find herself back in the magical land of Oz , which has gone to ruination since her last time there .
Return to Ozhas been praise for being a rather faithful adaptation of L. Frank Baum ’s laterWizard of Ozbooks . Unfortunately , for any small kid watching the film , Return to Ozalso has a severe witch ( also Jean Marsh ) who exchange her head like pieces of jewellery . If your child does n’t have a sleepless nighttime cogitate about the hall of heads inReturn to Oz , then certainly the wheeler ( human - similar creatures that have wheel instead of hands and feet ) will do the trick . But at leastReturn to Ozhas a happy end .
Labyrinth (1986)
If you have ever had a nightmare about David Bowie as a child , you most likely sawLabyrintha bit too betimes . The protagonist of the film is Sarah ( Jennifer Connelly ) , a steady teenage girl on Earth who wishes her unseasoned brother Toby ( Toby Froud ) would be taken away . To Sarah ’s repugnance , her want is granted by Jareth the Goblin King ( David Bowie ) , who slip Toby and hides him away in his castle , situate in a fantasy land full of weird and wonderful creatures . Sarah spends much of the rest of the plastic film desperately trying to make her way through the labyrinth that Jareth has set up to keep her out .
take one ’s immature brother stolen by a goblin is a rather terrifying premise , but it ’ll certainly assist a young teenage young woman learn a lesson about selfishness . The Earth ofLabyrinthis creepy , and fill up with touch images such as a scene in which Sarah falls into a golf hole , where hundreds of handwriting reach out to grab her . SinceLabyrinthwas take aim by Jim Henson , there are of course creature tool in the film , some more disturbing than others . Hensons also brought his darkly gothic sensibilities toDark Crystal , another film which could have easily made this list .
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Tim Burton ’s freaky dramaSleepy Hollowwas inspired by the shortsighted story “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow . ” In this classic tale , schoolmaster Ichabod Crane and Abraham Von Brunt are both competing for the hand of Katrina Van Tessel , the daughter of a loaded landholder . But after his kernel is break , Crane has a terrific encounter with a brainless horseback rider . The next dawning , he has disappeared and no one can envision out where .
In Burton ’s version of the tale , Crane ( Johnny Depp ) is a police constable sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the beheading of three local residents . The citizen of Sleepy Hollow are convert a headless horseman is creditworthy for these terrible offence . There is also , of path , a love triangle between Crane , Brom ( Casper Van Dien ) and Katrina ( Christina Ricci ) which involves Brom pranking the jittery Crane - a similar storyline to the original narration .
The Hessian Horseman ( Christopher Walken ) is really terrifying in the flashback scenes that expose the origin of the headless equestrian terrify Sleepy Hollow . With razor crisp tooth and hair stand on end , Walken looks part vampire and part zombie spirit . Like all of Burton ’s films , Sleepy Hollowis both laughable and quirky as it spins its tale . But as this tale involves numerous decapitations and tree that transude blood , it ’s good to keep it away from the kids .
The Company of Wolves (1984)
Neil Jordan ’s 1984 filmThe Company of Wolvesis not suitable for children , unless you consider the image of a adult male pull the skin from his face is acceptable kid - view stuff . The Company of Wolvesis a sinister , gothic phantasy picture that loosely follows the story ofLittle Red Riding Hood . The Company of Wolvesalso weave in a variety of tales about werewolves throughout the film for some added revulsion .
ButThe Company of Wolvesis not strictly a revulsion film , it also looks at the dangerous intimate desires which can sometimes pepper themselves throughout fairy tale . By structuring the film as several miniskirt - tale within the larger framework of the Red Riding Hood taradiddle , the motion picture mimics a dreamlike state for audiences who are n’t certain what is real and what is fantasy . The scene where the Huntsman ( Micha Bergese ) tries to seduce the untested girl Rosaleen ( Sarah Patterson ) after rust her grandmother ( Angela Lansbury ) might be enough to traumatize a child , or at least give them a bad illustration of what courtship depend like .
Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)
Roger Ebert probably said it best when he described Guillermo del Toro ’s filmPan ’s Labyrinthas a“fairy tale for grownups . ”Fairy tale , like any good narrative , are for the most part an escape from world . Pan ’s Labyrinthstars a child , but it is by all odds not a youngster ’s film . The film includes scenes of brutality from the human characters , and creatures that could easy frighten or commove young viewers .
InPan ’s Labyrinth , Ofelia ( Ivana Baquero ) move with her meaning mother Carmen ( Ariadna Gil ) to meet her new stepfather , Captain Vidal ( Sergi López ) . Vidal is a cruel man who hunts down communistic rebel in civil war Spain , torturing and drink down those who cross his track . Vidal is exactly the kind of grownup a child would seek safety from , and inPan ’s Labyrinth , Ofelia find a hidden labyrinth that introduces her to many mysterious and wizard creatures . Pan ’s Labyrinthis a wondrously original and beautiful film , but also one so dark in its topic matter that it should be enjoyed by adults only .
Freeway (1996)
small Red Riding Hoodhas inspired several picture over the year , from the musicalInto the Woodsto the perturbing dramaHard confect , but the 1996 filmFreewayis one of the most entertaining and twisted versions of this classic fag tarradiddle . In the original fairy tale , a young girl is stalked by a Hugo Wolf on her way to play food to her grandmother ’s house . Depending on which version you were exposed to as a fry , grannie and Red Riding Hood both terminate up in the wolf ’s belly , or a helpful woodcutter saves them by cutting them out .
InFreeway , our Red Hiding Hood is unseasoned teenager Vanessa Lutz ( Reese Witherspoon ) , whose female parent is sent to jail at the showtime of the film . Vanessa ends up on her way to her nan ’s house , not to bring her some food , but to escape her societal doer . The skirt chaser inFreewayis a Bob Wolverton ( get it ? " Wolverton " ? Anyway , he ’s played by Kiefer Sutherland ) who stalks and kills girls on motorway rather than timberland trail . It ’s a violent , contemporary wrench on the original nance tale , but that only makes it scarier and more distressful .
Black Swan (2010)
The 2010 ballet drama / thrillerBlack Swan , lead by Darren Aronofsky , is a little bit ofSwan Lakemixed with an awful lot of psychological repulsion . Ballet is a beautiful and fascinate artistry form . But there ’s a dark side to the idol need by a concert dance dancer that makes it a premier candidate for a darker tale ( Powell and Pressburger’sThe Red Shoesalso explore this dingy side of ballet ) . InBlack Swan , talented danseuse Nina Sayers ( Natalie Portman ) struggles to prove to her director Thomas Leroy ( Vincent Cassel ) that she is capable of playing both the innocent blank swan and the seductive , evil black swan in her company ’s upcoming production ofSwan Lake .
In the originalSwan Lake , a young female child under a wizard go is a swan by day and a maiden over at night . The maiden over has an evil doppelganger , who tricks a prince into professing his love to her , which destroys the young girl . The insistence on Nina to dead embody both the light-headed and dark side of herself leads to a serial of disturb hallucinations and escalating anxiety for both Portman ’s character and the audience . And standardized to the ending of Swan Lake , Black Swan’sheroine has a dramatic and tragic ending .
Suspiria (1977)
Ballet stories and fairy tales seem to easily go hand in hand . What good heroine could you find than a beautiful and talented young social dancer ? InSuspiria , young dancer Suzy Bannion ( Jessica Harper ) get together a Modern ballet party which is expose to be a front for a sinister witch coven . It is a poove tale that is also truly a horror motion picture .
WhileSuspiriais not directly related to a faggot tale , there are element of the story that parallelSnow White . At one point in the movie Suzy is drugged by the witches , just as Snow White is envenom by an Malus pumila . The twisted storyline in both film involve an older queen who plans to destroy the younger innocent she perceives as a threat .
The very bass connection betweenSuspiriaandSnow White and the Seven Dwarvesis witness in the flavor of the film . Director Dario Argento asked his camera operator Luciano Tovoli to mimic the vivid colors inSnow White and the Seven Dwarves . The vibrance of the technicolor - like hues add to the eerie nightmare Suzy enters inSuspiria , which include maggot falling from the ceiling , servicing dogs attacking their owners , and girls trap in briary telegram .
Rumpelstiltskin (1995)
Rumpelstiltskin is a creepy lineament . There ’s no question about it . He is a outlandish goblin / troll like grapheme who makes Faustian heap with unsuspicious human race , and often takes their babies in the process . In short , Rumpelstiltskin is a nightmare to both the young and old who baffle his course . In the 1995 German horror filmRumpelstiltskin , the little hob ( Max Grodénchik ) is at it again , attempting to steal Shelly Stewart ’s ( Kim Johnston Ulrich ) baby . In the procedure , Rumpelstiltskin freak everyone out with his disgusting appearing , cackling laughter , and the ability to remove his head to sting people .
Rumpelstiltskin’stagline was “ When the fairy narrative ends , the nightmare begins , ” but the film was more successful inducing moan and cringes than cries and screams from consultation . Rumpelstiltskintries to be scary , and it prove to be funny , but it pretty much fail at both . For adults , Rumpelstiltskin is a comically bad villain that incites eye curlicue and gape , he is certainly a scary enough lineament to cause some sleepless nights in child .
The Red Shoes (2005)
The Red Shoesis a famous Hans Christian Andersen fag tale about a vain and selfish girl . The girlfriend is reach a pair of red shoes that set out to dance on their own . At first , the sorcerous brake shoe seem delicious , until the girl realizes that they ’ll never come off . The lady friend is bruise and battered by her non - stop dancing feet , and she asks for her feet to be cut off to stop the agonising saltation . Even after her feet are amputated , the red shoes bear on to torture the daughter until she begs God himself for assistance .
The Red Shoeshas been adapt several sentence as both ballet productions and films , like the 1948 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger classicThe Red Shoes . In 2005 South Korean theatre director Yong - gyun Kim took the Red Shoes tale and added a dire turn to it . In this version , a woman Sun - jae ( Hye - su Kim ) takes home a pair of red heels she found on the underground . before long , she and her friends are both obsessed and terrified by the power the shoe have over anyone who have them . Disturbing delusion and macabre deaths makeThe Red Shoesa disturbing narrative warn against trust what others possess .
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