Horrific Alice In Wonderland
By: Michaela Peterson and Kara Heenan
Movie: Alice in Wonderland into a Horror Film Trailer
Walt Disney’s “Alice In Wonderland” is an animated classic known for it’s psychedelic, artistic story and visuals. The film was aimed at younger audiences, however, the overall nature of the film hints at inspiration of drug use. The overall trippy scenes and the fact that Alice wanders into a world in which she did not choose to go into and that she knows nothing about, made it quite fun to turn this musical fantasy-comedy film into a horror film.
Our trailer for the film makes it look as if Alice wishes for a world of her own, hence the song we chose to use, “World of my Own”, which we re-recorded ourselves so we could change the tone and feeling of the song. She follows a white rabbit, drawn to it by curiosity, but falls down the dark, scary rabbit hole by accident. The world she fell into is like the one she wanted, but much darker. At first, she seems to enjoy herself, but the clips slowly get darker as the trailer progresses. She enters a world unknown and it is clear by the look of her face that she is not happy, we made sure to include scenes where she looked frightened.
She comes across many of the scary characters as she ventures through the land. The characters and what they put her through really are what make the film a horror type, as most often in horror films, the main character tries to escape from a monster of some sort. The terrifying monsters she encounters include: the pink-eyed stressed out white rabbit who leads her into the world in the first place; the March Hare and the Mad Hatter who shove Alice into a cup of tea and chase her; the creepy flowers and their attacks; the angry Queen of Hearts as she yells at Alice, screaming, “off with her head!”; the mysterious smoking caterpillar that blows pink rings on to her and surrounds her in clouds of suffocating smoke; and the pack of cards that chase and try to stab her with pitchforks.
The rough nature of the characters towards Alice, the overall setting, and Alice’s emotion towards it all in a lot of the movie made it simple to convert the genre. We just took the clips that could easily be interpreted as bad, took away most of the dialogue and put them all together to make a horror-filled trailer. The general mise-en-scène is the monsters’ looks and special actions they do, and the trippy settings. We put our own non-diegetic song over it, an eerie version of the song in the movie, as it added to the mood. We downplayed the original bright, happy colors as dark colors tie in with the horror genre. The off center camera angles are also generally used in horror films, as they add mystery and suspense to scenes and is used a lot in Alice in Wonderland, as well as our own editing. Alice definitely got the world of her own that she always wanted, be careful what you wish for!
Clips:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHte24GGHD4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msvOUUgv6m8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4fHre-yRPY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0lbfEb8MMk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=979s7YgpNos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di7dZwidXZU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh0k8q_OXzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzjvVOpYpIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O0f0yviZSY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj09dkOy3IE
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