You bring up a lot of excellent points in a brief anecdote. I think you're absolutely right that part of what draws certain children (certainly not all) to the grotesque or morbid (at least I think) must be some recognition, conscious or otherwise, that such violence and atrocity does happen in the real world, even if…

Haha, yeah, I'm still in school, but at least as far as 'dark "re-imaginings" of fairy tales' I was fortunate enough to get into a class taught by an excellent professor who made sure we got both ends of the spectrum (the raw stuff and the criticism). "The Little Mermaid" is an amazingly compassionate story that is…

It's actually already a dark fairy tale about how you shouldn't throw away your life in pursuit of someone who doesn't love you back, but let's continue using Disney films to get our ideas about classic fairy tales rather than actually reading classic fairy tales.

"Your Highness" probably is one of the objectively worst films I've ever seen in my life, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it, and I'm continually appalled with myself because of how much repeat value it has. I genuinely find it funny, specifically because it seems like the kind of world a bunch of 14-year-olds…

"Your Highness" probably is one of the objectively worst films I've ever seen in my life, but I still enjoyed the hell out of it, and I'm continually appalled with myself because of how much repeat value it has. I genuinely find it funny, specifically because it seems like the kind of world a bunch of 14-year-olds…