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[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You mean like all the child-friendly content built around Dracula, Frankenstein, Mummies, Zombies, Werewolves, Ghosts, but with Freddy, Jason, Michael Myers, Ghostface, Jigsaw, Annabelle, Chucky, Pinhead, Xenomorphs, etc?

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

Exactly. Don't tell me you wouldn't want to read Horton Hatches the Xenomorph Egg.

[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 37 points 2 years ago

I mean, that does happen with a lot of traditionally scary monsters to be fair. Look at how cutesy Halloween monsters sometimes get portrayed as, or dragons, which at least in the European sense would traditionally have been dangerous and scary monsters but nowadays are just as often friendly or protective as they are hostile.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It would be like when I grew up and saw a George Carlin special on tv and was like "oh that's Mister conductor from Thomas! He does comedy? I have to see this..." And was instantly traumatized in a good way

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Oh wow. I am clearly older than you because Thomas was something that I was way too old for by the time it came on TV and I had plenty of Carlin's albums, but yeah, that must have been a head trip. I wonder if there are any other examples like that. I can't think of any off the top of my head.

EDIT: Thought of one. Bob Saget, the world's dirtiest comedian, playing a dad on the sickeningly wholesome show Full House.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Bob Saget's entire career was a ruse to shock children. Full House and America's Funniest Home Videos. And then literally everything else he did was just different versions of The Aristocrats.

[–] ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Bob Saget is an awesome pick. Tim Allen was sort of similar although it wasn’t nearly as shocking as Bob Saget. America’s funniest home videos was so lame that the bar was as low as possible.

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

haha you should know - George Carlin hosted the very first episode of SNL, with the MUPPETS!

no shit. https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/George_Carlin

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@lemmy.world 23 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Count von Count has entered the chat.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 6 points 2 years ago

I hear he likes to *****!

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Freddie the Friendly Dream Pal

[–] kinther@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

Helps you fight nightmares and is on your side

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] smigao@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

It's a ga ga ga ghooost

[–] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It already exists : https://youtu.be/0pdF1a7Qi9c

Here's some images from the video to incite you into watching this masterpiece :

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[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Didn’t work :(

[–] TWeaK@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Isn't that basically all fairy tales?

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 10 points 2 years ago

Child-friendly fairy tales: a little girl went into the forest alone and got lost, she speak with an owl and ask the owl to guide her home, which the owl agree to guide her home and she went home scared but safe.

OG fairy tales: a little girl went into the forest alone and got lost, she speak with an owl and ask the owl to guide her home, the owl laugh, then fly straight to her and rip her face off, eating her alive.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Imagine growing up and finding out your Freddie the good dream boy is actually murdering people lol

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I guess kids grow up now with like Goofy Frankenstein's Monster, but yeah. It definitely sounds ridiculous to us.

[–] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 8 points 2 years ago

Yokai Watch is basically just that but pokemon, i think. And maybe Hotel Transylvania.

[–] zourn@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

We did that in the 90s while they were still new. See: The Toxic Avengers.

[–] Mamertine@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

That's brilliant, but it's gonna be decades before the things we associate with horror films become public domain.

I was curious what was public domain. I found this article. https://cuttingforbusiness.com/8-characters-public-domain-crafters/

Classic Monsters Any horror genre fans around? If so, good news for you: Many of the classic monsters are in the public domain. These include Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, Creature from the Black Lagoon (film), and The Bride of Frankenstein (film).

What You Need to Know: You cannot use modern day adaptations of these stories. Instead, create your own take on the original stories and characters.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Decades, true, but I still hope one day to see The Very Hungry Freddy Krueger.

[–] JokklMaster@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

There's definitely already stuff like that for Dracula and Frankenstein's monster.

[–] ares35@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

"Hi, I'm Chucky. Wanna Play?"

[–] ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Disney is VERY litigious , meaning that they will sue for copyright , saying that you haven't use the public domain version of a character - you used their version - because their version has a pretty nose or whatever.

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

I mean it's happening already with certain characters that have gone from being in R rated movies to pg.

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

And also fantastic that when children's media characters go into public domain, we get a lot of adult content ;)?

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

lol google stuffed cthulhu plush.. it will horrify you..