October 14
Today's shelf is dedicated to the "unexpected horror" in some of the kid shows I watched when I was little. The Wicked Witch of the West and the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz made me run out of the living room when I first saw them.
I was too old to want to see Return to Oz when it was first released (I was 16), but I was intrigued when I heard it had been described by a critic as "a horror movie flying under the flag of family entertainment."
The boat ride and what happens to Augustus Gloop in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is the stuff of nightmares.
The Child Catcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang always freaked me out.
The TV stations in our area when I was growing up didn't air H.R. Pufnstuf, so when I first saw it at my grandfather's (my mom's side) dark and dreary house, I thought I was watching a fever dream. I was done when the flute started talking.
These were all purchased with the intentions of entertaining our daughter, but I don't think she has watched any of these. She did see Tim Burton's remake of Willy Wonka, though.
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