Category Archives: Disney

Coco and the Land of the Dead

March 14th, 2018 | Posted in animation, Day of the Dead, Disney, Halloween

I’m a little slow at watching new film releases. But since Coco won the Best Animated Feature at the 2018 Academy Awards, and my youngest granddaughter is staying with us for a while, I figured it was time to purchase the film and take a look. I can now understand why it has been so […]

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Dr. Syn: Scarecrow of Romney Marsh items

June 22nd, 2017 | Posted in Disney, documentary

Disney was a formative influence growing up, especially the dark aspects that would come out of his imagination at times. One item that I still appreciate was his film released on television in installments as Scarecrow of Romney Marsh in the U.S., but with a different title as a film in the UK. Above is […]

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“Beauty and the Beast” and Fairy Tales

March 29th, 2017 | Posted in Disney, fairy tales

From time to time TheoFantastique looks at the significance of fairy tale in contemporary culture, and with the continued box office success of Disney’s live-action version of Beauty and the Beast, another opportunity presents itself. Readers may enjoy an essay in Jezebel.com titled “‘Beauty and the Beast’ Comes From a Long Line of Stories About […]

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“I ain’t afraid of no ghosts”

October 25th, 2015 | Posted in animation, cartoon, Disney, ghost, ghost-hunter

The other day I watched Disney’s animated cartoon, Lonesome Ghosts (1937). I caught a line in it I hadn’t noticed before. Each of the main characters has their encounter with a ghost, from Mickey to Donald to Goofy. In connection with Goofy’s spectral encounter he says, “I ain’t afraid of no ghosts.” In light of […]

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Disney’s Dark Side in the News

June 7th, 2015 | Posted in animation, Disney

I recently came across two items that dovetail with the TheoFantastique interests in Disney and his exploration of the dark side through animation. The first is an item in USA Today titled “Walt Disney’s Curious Fascination with Death.” The article not only mentions projects where death is the focal point, as in The Skeleton Dance […]

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Hi-Tech and Market Preferences: Mourning the Loss of Disney’s Hand-Drawn Animation

March 11th, 2013 | Posted in animation, Disney

I grew up with Disney animation. It was an incredibly formative aspect of both my imaginative life as a youth, as well as an artistic one, and it continues to hold a special place in my mind and heart to the present day. Of course, the quality of 2D animation that came from Disney Studios […]

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Missing in the Mansion

November 18th, 2012 | Posted in Disney, independent horror films

TheoFantastique has been quiet for a while because I have been on vacation, enjoying a week with my wife at Disneyland in California. To get things going again, and in honor of one of my favorite rides at the park in the Haunted Mansion, I present this indie horror short Missing in the Mansion. This […]

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The Skeleton Dance T-Shirt

August 13th, 2012 | Posted in 1920s, animation, Disney

Already the hint of Autumn and Halloween are in the air, and with that comes the opportunity to enjoy the artistic and the macabre. A perfect way to do this comes in a new t-shirt line, the Disney Artist Collection, one of which features The Skeleton Dance animated short film from 1929. This was one […]

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CFP – Animating History: “Disney Americans” and Other Myths

September 11th, 2011 | Posted in animation, call for papers, Disney

Animating History: “Disney Americans” and Other Myths Area of multiple panels for the Film & History Conference on “Film & Myth” September 26-30, 2012 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA http://www.filmandhistory.org Deadline: June 1, 2012 We live in a world made of myths, legends, and histories that are communicated, and often, conflated, by our entertainment media. For many […]

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Gargoyles: Disney Making Live-Action Film

July 17th, 2010 | Posted in Disney, gargoyles

I learned through a link to my blog from The Grimm Tea Party that Disney Studios has a live-action film on gargoyles in the works. A few websites are reporting on this, including The Hollywood Reporter, which states that The studio is in the process of hiring Zoe Green to develop a story revolving around […]

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