So no cartoon this week, Fran? Like • Reply • 1 reply Show All Comments. More From Deep Dark Fears. Latest Tweet. LINK Read Deep Dark Fears from the beginning. Back in February 2006, I wrote about an intriguing French animated feature Peur(s) du Noir (Fears of the Dark), which is a black-and-white anthology of scary stories.

Advertisement Usually, and are geared towards younger audiences and depict a fluffy, light-hearted version of the world we live in. I enjoy a, Scooby Doo (pre-Scrappy, of course) and Looney Tunes as much as the next man, but today we’re shying away from la-la land and exploring some very dark minds instead. The following films are not your average animated adventures, but tales of greed, morality and obscure production that take the audience out of their comfort zone.

Feel free to laugh awkwardly, raise your eyebrows or just ponder your own existence. Clonedvd V 4.1 - Working Serials - Fast Download!. The Mysterious Stranger Based on Mark Twain’s last and unfinished novel, The Mysterious Stranger is a claymation story starring an angel called Satan. This particular clip has been taken from the 1986 film and features Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher and Huck Finn as the main characters. There’s definitely a message here, just take a listen to Satan’s final words. Angst Angst is a black and white animation that fuses a naive animation style with real-world footage. The film was created by Dutch animator and tells the story of a child who must overcome his fear of the wind in order to save a pet.

Don Hertzfeldt’s Animations Dont Hertzfeldt is a renowned American animator who has earned more than 150 awards for his creations. Cute Is What We Aim For Rotation Zip. All of his films are beautifully hand-drawn in Don’s signature style and the attention to detail employed earned the filmmaker the 16th spot in a recent survey of the top 100 animators. Like many of Don’s cartoons the first film on the list below, called Rejected, is a quirky comedy that becomes more and more unstable as the film unfolds. Just so you’re aware, these weren’t actually produced for the Family Learning Channel, though I’m sure that’s pretty obvious by about half-way through. Bad Egg The newest film on the list, Bad Egg is a Continuing last week’s theme of short film, today’s Stuff to Watch focuses entirely on rendered productions in this collection of excellent computer generated shorts. As movie studios pump millions of dollars into feature-length 3D productions.

From Indian animators. What at first seems to be the usual Pixar-esque cutesy reveals itself to be a dark story with rather philosophical message. According to the production team the film “disregards the myth that it is very hard for an Indian production house to get time out of its hectic schedule to create original content”. You can read more about Bad Egg over. Monkey Doodle I really don’t know how to describe this one, but to take one YouTube user’s rather frank description: “yeah the other day i was in the arabian jungle with my camel dog and we had to run down this really straight path from this f**king tiger.