Fucked up animated films

The Brave Little Toaster was very disturbing for a kid's movie.

 

We've gone this far without mentioning Watership Down? How is that possible?

 

Why hasn't anybody mentioned Where the Dead Go to Die or it's sequel, When Black Birds Fly?

 

Does stop motion count?

 

I take your End of Evangelion and raise you Urotsukidoji.

I'm honestly surprised nobody's mentioned it yet.

 

I remember seeing this disturbing kids' movie where talking rabbits bite the ears of others as a form of torture.

 

I almost forgot about this. I remember some guy used 'I Am The Black Wizards', by Emperor in one of the Fantasia scenes. It was pretty epic, but it might have been better to use the higher quality new version by Kalisia, rather than the lo-fi original version.

As much as I love Emperor, the synths on their debut did not age well. Some parts sound like they were played on a child's first synthesizer with electronic hiss and an overall cheap sound, which isn't helped by the muddy mix.

 

I think that one of the rules of effective torture is not to dismember the person. Once you cut off a thumb, or an arm, you have a limb that you can no longer inflict pain on. Also, there's only a finite number of times you can cut off a piece of a person's body.

Water torture and that weird bamboo torture seem like better alternatives. Biting ears might not be as effective as the rabbits believe it is.

 

Well in my case, I didn't bring it up because it's kind of a dumb movie anyway, at least when you watch it dubbed. It's messed up, but it didn't really stick with me. I think it's fucked up it was released to American theaters, though, and not End of Evangelion.

Perfect Blue is more disturbing tbh.

 

Perfect Blue is pretty fucked up. I mentioned Urotsukidoji because the subbed version works well as a horror piece, and the campy 90's dub makes for good laugh bait.

As for why Urotsukidoji was released theatrically, that's because Central Park Media and Manga Entertainment pooled their resources together and paid off theaters and film festivals to air it as a midnight movie and it was marketed in a manner similar to exploitation films (think Cannibal Holocaust and other grindhouse fare) as nobody knew what hentai was back in 1993.

 

That sounds like Chirpy the Chicken. It was on YouTube for a while but I haven't been able to find it since it got taken down.

 

In the vein of Fritz the Cat, here's a really messed up adult cartoon from '74 - Down and Dirty Duck. I believe it's animated by one guy. Looks it.

 

Only a dumbass would think something like that is for kids

 

Sounds like something out of Watership Down, which is a movie about bunnies living through a rather gritty adventure including a tribe of bunnies with an evil crazy dictator running the show.

 

im surprised no one has mentioned Akira yet

though another one i remember is legend of the overfiend as well

 

Octopuff in Kumquat

 

It was based on a shonen manga. Then again, stuff like Fist of the North Star, Devilman, JoJo, Evangelion, Attack on Titan, and Demon Slayer, are all considered shonen.

An even bigger one would be Grave of the Fireflies, which was released as a double feature with My Neighbor Totoro and was marketed and rated as an all ages film, despite being so bleak and depressing that the executives thought it might bomb at the box office for being too bleak and depressing and they made My Neighbor Totoro as a palette cleanser for audiences after the depression of Grave of the Fireflies. In the end, people saw both movies mainly for Totoro.
To this day, this film still has All Ages ratings in most of Asia.

 

Most things that Bill Plympton got his hands on tend to qualify, but his film I Married A Strange Person! - a tale of an average joe who finds himself suddenly granted immense Reality-warping powers - is fucked-up and then some. Also, although 'fucked-up' is perhaps the wrong phrase to use, Bruno Bozzetto's Allegro Non Troppo, a parody of/tribute to Fantasia, is certainly off-beat and well worth watching, especially the 'Bolero' sequence.