By the way, people who like this sort of thing might also be interested in The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat, a 1990s update of the old cartoon character that tries to incorporate that old-fashioned weirdness… it sometimes has a sort of R. Crumb feel to it.
I dunno, but thanks for putting it here. It’s like a dream. A dark, weird, funny dream. I love this stuff! These old cartoons were shown long ago in movie theaters before the main picture and not meant exclusively for children, at all. My mother says she remembers seeing an X-rated old cartoon at the movie theater looooong ago, a male character chasing a female character - and (mom whispered) “his you-know-what was stretched way out ahead of him trying to reach the girl!” :eek:
“EverReady’s Buried Treasure,” a mad little exercise put together by the Fleischer Studio just for fun. I saw it in an art theater in San Francisco, but it’s hard to believe it ever made it onto a mainstream theater screen! When and where did your mom see it?
There is an old Pluto cartoon where Pluto accidentally inhales a lot of insecticide and has a nightmare about going to hell (which is run by demon cats). It’s pretty messed up.
Does anyone remember one with some sort of anthropomorphic child dreaming of meeting a variety of horror-film characters? Just as they’re all about to coat him in wax (for some reason), he wakes up. I liked it at 5 or 6, though cartoon horror never actively frightened me.