Alright.. let's go
It's time to return to that dark side of animation to
[celebrate] the spooky month of Halloween let's check out some spooky cartoons
These cartoons aren't necessarily [jump-scare] scary
But they bring shivers down the spines of many or something might just be slightly off about them
So let's check out the top 10 Spoo
Yes cartoon episodes these might not be scary specifically to you
But some of these episodes just move so let's do this countdown
number 10
sponge Bob Squid Bob tentacle pants most of us know sometimes sponge Bob can get a little creepy [but]
[I] never expected them to go into the realm of [using] two bodies together into one hideous
abomination of Nature
Sandy's teleportation machine of course
malfunctions causing SpongeBob and squidward to transmute into one mold being I
kind of like the creativity of the animators combining their body language, but the whole
concept gets genuinely disturbing within three minutes
It almost seems like the creators were just trying to jump scare younger viewers with their various
unsightly joint abominations
And the writers end the episode with this grisly image what seems to be the problem, Mr.
Tentacles [it] all started when I was born
Yeah
Kinda Creepy Joint fuse
abomination struggling to survive in my opinion
This was about as spooky as [sponge] [Bob] has gotten and coming in at number 9
Gravity Falls Weirdmageddon
Gravity Falls always had this beautiful
Mysterious spooky atmosphere to it throughout the series. We got the zombies
Rainbow vomiting gnomes and ghouls of every kind
But things didn't get really spooky until Bill came along even by the end of the series
I'm still not 100% sure what Bill was but when he was given the chance he brought the epoque lips to gravity Falls
Suddenly the whole town has [this] dark hellish glow to it bill began
Turning people inside out forcing them to choke on their own eyeballs turning them to stone
Breaking their minds breaking time or just making a live thrown out of [their] paralyzed bodies
There's this artistic
Beauties of the new intro turning the beautiful town of gravity falls into a hellish landscape of fire
blackness and completed as a dysfunction of all life
while fortunately dipper Mabel and stan do eventually turn the tables on [bill] it was a
thrill of conclusion to watch them fight bill and some of the most creative
Gripping settings. I've ever seen in an animated series weirdmageddon was the perfect
Spooky end to one of the best Disney shows of all time
and the number 8
Steven Universe episode fry Boy
What was going through Rebecca's head when she made this episode?
Occasionally Steven universe and get creepy really creepy
but the weirdest
Unsettling episode was fry. [bo] where Stevens friend P decides to quit being a fries mascot and with the help of Steven gets a
replacement for his job
Unfortunately this creates a tentacle filled blood spewing [prized]
Monstrosity in the process as [PD] comes to terms with his loss of innocence and the responsibilities of adulthood [out] of nowhere comes this
Disturbing imagery in music in what can only be described as a horror see this Fleshy veiny fry
[bo] horror takes over the town forcing them to eat fries, okay?
[it's] not that dangerous, but it's still creepy while Steven universe certainly has adult messages at times
This is one of the few times an episode felt more like a monster horror than the light [Pleasant] cheery emotional Steven universe
We normally know
number seven
Watership down
Technically this cartoon wasn't spooky scary, and I know it's not an episode, but would a ship down creeped a lot of kids out
So now's the perfect time to talk about it in Watership down we get lovely
children's concepts like torture
suffocation and the general smashing of creepily Drawn little bunnies
But that being said this is actually a very sophisticated film bringing strong
Storytelling and good voice acting [together] and all of [this] animation looks painstakingly hand-drawn
I'm all for showing kids a little gore to tell a strong story
But jesus some of these scenes make secret of nimh look like Sesame street
general wound [wart] particularly
This was one creepy little bunny [if] you ever want to encourage a friend not to get a pet rabbit
Showing this blood hungry Little Monster beautiful film or not. I'll take Judy the bunny over
cannibal bunnies any Day and the
Snoopy's Cartoon episode is Gumball the Joy
gumball is normally a pretty tame cartoon, but the Joy was
Different he gave us this continual barrage of creepy imagery weird flashes and odd
Camera Angles, and it did it [really] cleverly the Kuro test
Slithering emotion of joy is infecting the school miss simian recognizes the outbreak and tries to stop it
But her efforts are futile as this joyous sappy disease Fester's through the school
Infecting all I love the way the critters manage makes something
Not really that creepy into both a hilarious and terrifying episode the use of music
Chasing dark Shades and camera Angles makes it feel really spooky yet still managed to remain well and truly g throughout the whole episode
Miss Simian
Particularly really steals the show with her performance in this episode and really sells the character the Joy was a particularly fun clever
spooky romp through gumballs school day and for number 5
all episodes have courage the cowardly dog was there a
single [episode] of this series that wasn't creepy
Courage was just a melting pot of Bizarre tripped-out nightmares
but probably the one that unsettled me the most was called the great Lucy lee essentially Huestis and Muriel get turned into
lifeless Marionettes eternally frozen in place
And then what well courage defeats the great fusilli
But they're still puppets courage makes them move around the bits
And that's the end the only humans who have ever cared about courage are lifeless puppets
brain just puppets in General had this
Unsettling uncanny feel to them and these puppets are no exception courage the cowardly dog was a series with so many
Spooky moments and villains that it was practically made for Halloween
number four
Avatar the puppet master the puppet Master was psychologically chilling and the perfect example of the beautiful
storytelling avatar can do so well for the two people not familiar with avatar a
Waterbender can bend well water but think about that for a second water is everywhere
Including in our blood so what if someone was to learn how to bend the water running through our veins?
Blood bending is essentially the necromancy of the avatar world
this was a gorgeously chilling story that introduces us the
disturbing nature of blood bending and the setting slowly builds this disturbing discovery
Watching the puppet master twist and manipulate every vein and muscle in our team's body is legitimately creepy
[hell] this could be even more horrifying as when you think about it [our] brains are made up of
75% water yeah bending the brain would probably take avatar out of the G4 general exhibition realm
Eventually a hero Katara is forced to [become] a blood bender herself in order to save her friends
This was a powerful moral dilemma, and a great way to end the episode. This is among my favorite
avatar episodes and deliciously spooky to boot and
Squinkies cartoon episode is invader Zim
Dark Harvest a
children's cartoon about the harvesting of bodily Organs only in the 90s with Nickelodeon have
Greenlit this and as much as I adore [invaders] [in] this was one creepy episode the Nickelodeon
We have today is a far
Contrast from this they give us lovely imagery as we get a camera going deep inside Human organs, so look at their beating hearts
We get every organ transplanted and replaced with strange objects zim
Randomly picked out the entire style of this episode is creepy the ways in will sneak up on his
unsuspecting victims and silently dispatch of them it's
Kind of horrible to watch actually and the music for this episode is like something straight out of a horror film
Come to think of it all of zins music is like something out of a horror film
[so] I guess that's pretty normal dib tries desperately to track him down as zim continues his
silent snatching of every Organ he can find
But like all horror films the Hero's efforts are ultimately useless as he inevitably becomes another of the villains victims
creepy disturbing and surprisingly graphic for a cartoon
I think dark harvest is the spooky assim episode of them all more organs means more human and the second
Spookiest Cartoon episode is
Alma, I know I know it's not technically an episode
It's a short Pixar film
But I'm breaking the rules [cuz] I saw this recently and it majorly disturbed me pixar can do creepy
really creepy Alma
meaning soul is a short animation about watching an innocent child touch a doll that steals her soul, and
Isolate [Erna] to the plastic for all eternity
For me this five seconds of footage alone is enough to send chills down my spine
Tell me you don't feel the terror and panic this child is going through the second you see this [oh]
Pixar has the power to move us but they also reserved the power to creep us out interestingly
it was created by the x pixar employee rodrigo known for his work in Wall-e and up, but this x
pixar Employee was later hired by dreamworks to create a
Dreamworks adaption of this terrifying piece of animation, and it's now in development
well, I'm happy an artist got to fully realize their
Horrifying vision, it's probably not [gonna] be my kind of film personally
And I think I'll keep an eye out for inside out too instead and before we get to number one
I like to give some quick honorable mentions
Mickey Mouse
[Black-And-whites] I stand by these Mickey mouse shorts are still awesome
And I once again recommend them black and white had a nice
Spooky theme to it the fun conclusion in case you'd like to take a look disney still shows these for free on YouTube
[so] I've attached a link in the description night on bald Mountain from Fantasia A
beautifully artistically dark scene
Fantasia was good before this, but this was [the] scene that made Fantasia [a]
Masterpiece
nightmare before Christmas
Jack Skellington started this trend in animation of creative spooky cartoons that were still seen today
[it's] a definite staple of Halloween
but Nostalgia critic recently reviewed this movie far more detailed than I ever could so I gave it a skip freaky stories [ah]
Freaky stories were such good fun [each] freaky story was created compelling and a spooky
But pleasant luck the black Cauldron. [it's] a bit of an oDd choice
I know, but this movie actually had some surprisingly creepy imagery for a disney film
I'm not sure if this is part of why it bombed at the box office
But some of this animation was Disney fantasy at its best and with those dead here
We go and the number one
Spookiest Cartoon episode is
every single episode of David Lynch's dumb land!
retarded creepiness
WTF
DUDE, chill
It's David Lynch!
Why just why would you give David Lynch. David Freakin Lynch the tools to animates?
Everyone knows that everything lynch touches becomes
UncAnny and horrifying
JUST ZAP YOURSELF, ALREADY!
What did you expect David Frickin eraserhead Lynch to make with an animation budget?
Something cheery something heartwarming something cognitively coherent and the weird part is this is some of the most simplistic
stick figure like animation
You'll ever see yet lynch still managed to send chills down my spine with it understandably
No, studio was willing to give lynch more than a [13] [dollar] animation budget
Just the way lynch hangs forever on one freaking scene
Why?
Whether he has a large horror movie budget or a 12 ounce mouse budget you Gotta Admire Lynch's
Constant efforts to horrify us with whatever tools
He has at his disposal the story is our hero, Randy
Just deals with his daily suburban life in this cartoon often in unpleasant
Violent and revolting ways and just in that General Lynch fashion that will make viewers feel
I wouldn't show a kid this worn at all this if you're over 18, and you're really curious
And you somehow like the UnCanny Valley
Maybe give it a look with a friend
But personally I'm sticking with my policy of never looking at anything with the word Lynch and to me
This is the spookiest cartoon. I've ever seen
Lynch but honestly, I think within reason
It's good to give our kids a little spooky imagery well not to the point of traumatizing kids
I think a little fear is imPortant Disney Steven universe Gravity falls all the new cartoons know this
Terror is an emotion that both kids and adults have to face at some point and teaching people how to handle those emotions
Young is important because like all the movie cliches say we always fear what we don't understand
I'm not saying go and watch a horror film
[I] just think a little spookiness is good because when we shine a light on that lich in the darkness
He's not always quite so scary in the light
Do you think I missed a particularly?
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