I still use Mirror Mask to convey strangeness. If I don't know what's happening, I'll sometimes say, "What in the Mirror Mask is going on around here?!"
I absolutely despise lsbrinth, I cannot watch that movie without feeling uncomfortable, haven’t seen Mirror mask but from what’s shown in this video it seems even worse
I completely forgot, that I watched that owl movie as a kid. Narnia also felt unreal for me as a kid. keep up the good work, this and last vid where a throw back fr.
I'm not sure if you are referring to the big budget movie or the made for tv BBC miniseries Narnia. But I hiiighly suggest the miniseries one if you have the time to spare. It is here on youtube. Fits this vibe big time.
It's also a surprisingly decent adaptation of the books, even the author was happy with it. I do recommend checking out the books, they get quite dark. A lot of psychological trauma and some brutal deaths.
Cool video! My fever dream movies are "Mr Magoriun's Wonder Emporium" and "City of Ember". I saw both when I was about 3 years old and the quickly drifted into obscurity for the longest time to the point that I convinced myself they were just dreams I had 😅
Mirror mask reminds me of that time period in the mid two thousands.When music videos all have that same weird look. Music videos with the band linkin park.
Beowulf was my fever dream movie, i think seeing an r rated animated movie convinced me it couldn't have been real. That and i didn't even realise it was animated until 30 minutes in
@owainrhysphillips4102 Oh yes! The Imaginarium is awesome!Heath Ledger was super-good.Gilliam has had a huge influence on my filming style.They just released 12 Monkeys on YT, for free.I have a few Short films (Horror/Bizarre)on my channel and I'm currently working on a Sci-fi Short.Been building props and almost ready to film.It'll be called:M.A.R.T.H.A...Wish me luck,lol.
@@owainrhysphillips4102 Thank you so much! I don't meet many people with this taste in movies.Do you remember The Cell, with Vincent Denofreo? Also,Lynch is awesome.His Short "Rabbits has been showing up on my feed again recently.
@-WillAlone- I haven't! Would you recommend it? I'm a big fan of Lynch but haven't watched many of his shorts. The style I was shamelessly ripping off on my account was Adam Curtis. He's a British documentary filmmaker and I find his work really intensely hypnotic
YOOOOOO Warriors of Virtue is a movie is saw in theaters as a kid and have NEVER been able to find the name of. DAAAAANG dude. I was eating super atomic warhead sour candy being just as confused as im sure I’ll be when i find a find a stream now 25 years later.
I REMEMBER WARRIORS OF VIRTURE!! it was 2011 and I found it as an old VHS in my grandmas basement. I remember being super freaked out, but thought it was alright
out of curiosity, because I remember this movie when I was a child and then in 2011 I was in my mid 20s, why was it in your grandmother's basement? was it something that one of your parents watched when THEY were kids?
@ honestly I have no idea why it was in her basement because I was 6 or 7 at the time and her kids are 50 now so it wouldn’t make sense. I’m assuming it might of been something my cousins watched and left it at my grandmas because they were 90s kids
@@charliesaunders4744 ahh that’s probably it. That makes sense. And then there’s always some random yard sale that older folks go to lol. My parents always just ended up with the most random VHS tapes in their possession. Scary movies. Comedies. Christmas specials. Stuff I never even heard of.
Hello, Power Rangers super fan here. At 14:30 when the Kangaroo speaks with that gravelly voice it reminds me of Goldar. He was one of the first main antagonists of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. They were probably trying to rip off his voice actor.
I actually saw Toys in the theater and still till this day remember it VIVIDLY. I was 7yrs old, but it was just so strange, and the production design was so unique, I thought it was amazing! I had thought about the idea of training kids to control drones, for miliary use EVER since! Now, seeing how practically the majority of military recruits literally grew up gaming, it's damn near a Boot Strap Paradox..
James And The Giant Peach! I remember a scene where the main character was like a caterpillar?? And he was getting chased by the evil ladies or something. Gosh, that scene freaked me out so much
The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999) is absolutely one of these movies. I still have the DVD. I remember not wanting to watch it as a kid. It had some really weird costume design and disturbing creatures.
Can I tell you about my literal fever dream movie experience? When I was about 9 years old, I came down with a horrible stomach virus that lasted almost a week. Not wanting me to pass the virus to my brothers, my mom dropped me off at my grandmother's house, where I stayed until the virus was out of my system. My grandma had a TV, but only basic cable (this was the mid-90s). So my mom brought over a VCR along with the Back To The Future trilogy on VHS. My grandmother would pop a movie in, let it play, then once it ended, either start that one over or pop another one in. I spent the next several days in and out of consciousness, and every time I woke up, I would catch a bit of the movie, only to shortly fall asleep again. The whole saga just turned into one epic of traveling back and forth through time. Not only that, but I found myself dreaming about the movies as well, so I couldn't remember what was dream and what was movie. I've never watched any of the Back To The Future movies in entirety since and to this day, those movies are a bizarre, otherworldly blur in my mind.
**Sees thumbnail** I wouldn’t describe the Magic Gourd as a fever dream movie, but I do see it as a unique and whimsical movie, kind of like Robots (2005).
I remember liking the original and then watching a few minutes of the sequel with my dad and brothers, but we didn't like it and turned it off. All I remember about the sequel was that there was a different main character, and he went to a "silver city" and he got chased by a bunch of evil humanoid beetle soldiers. I'm not sure if that's exactly how it was but that's how I remembered it.
@ObeseSaga64 Yeah, that's pretty much it. Then there's the one with Jack Black and the rock biter riding a motor cycle with born to be wild playing. Just the fucking worst lmao
Awesome video again, other one was great too. You should consider making more, there’s plenty of weird fever dream movies out there! Never ending story is one of the goats
'Tank girl' is definitely one of these movies. No water so you need to shower with sand. Water buffalo brain in a tank. Kangaroo rat warriors. Shooting cans at the bad guy who has pointy razor arms. Oh boy was this frickin crazy.
lol, warriors of virtue is literally my fever dream movie. I barely remember it, I had a massive fever and I watched it as a child in the 90's on my moms friend couch while sweating out the sickness.
“Chasing the Kidney Stone” is a fever dream movie! It’s a Norwegian film about a boy who shrinks himself and goes inside his grandfather to destroy a kidney stone. I watched an English dubbed version of it on tv when I was younger. For years, I’ve had trouble finding the movie again, but have come across clips of it, so I know it exists. Apparently it was also released under the name “Body Troopers”. It’s such a weird movie and there was a point where I thought I imagined the whole thing.
I was trying to remember warriors of virtue! Lol I remembered kangaroos doing kung fu and that was it. I talked to a buddy about it and he thought I was talking about a ninja turtle character or kangaroo jack.. I knew I wasn’t crazy!
I discovered you channel about an hour ago, and I love the vids you’ve made so far. I look forward to more content you make in the future. Keep on kickin ass
I really like these videos, I haven't seen anyone bring up this topic before and it's very interesting to me because I like such forgotten oldies. Unlike the first video in this series where I watched two of the mentioned films (Spiderwick Chronicles and Zathura), in this second one I didn't know any of them, although I have the impression that I could have seen some trailers or fragments, and it's possible that I watched Legend of the Guardians but I don't know... I guess it all really is a fever dream! I would love to see a part 3, or maybe even 4, 5, 6, 7... Until the point where this whole series becomes one big fever dream, that would be insane! 😄
Fun fact, Artax (the horse from the never ending story) in the Novel can talk and begs for death because he's so overcome with sorrow. Also the movie only covers the first like 40% of the book it gets nothing but wild from there and No the other movies don't go into this at all because they were too scared so they wrote some silly stuff. SPOILERS In the book Bastion after renaming the empress goes into Fantasticac(Fantsia in the books is Fantasticac) to rebuild the world from the nothing by using his own Imagination but every time he uses his power he forgets something from the real world until he has no recollection of it. He recreates all of Fantasticac and in the end Atreyu (Artax's greenskinned owner) has to essentially convince god to leave Fantasticac.
As someone who recently rewatched Toys surprisingly on TH-cam when it was free. I actually was surprised in liking it. So much so that I'll admit, it's kind of a hyperfixation of mine as of late. And as all over the place the movie is, I will say it really was ahead of its time both in film making and what it was trying to push forward. Happy someone else remembered this movie though.
A movie that I personally count as a fever dream movie is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The nonsensical, campy and entertaining story, accompanied with it’s colourful, unique and interesting visuals create for an interesting, surreal and dream, or more specifically, fever dream-like experience. It’s even more of a fever dream if you watched it as a kid. Some more fever dream movies are The Wiz, The Adventures Of Buratino, The Polar Express, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 3 Women (which was based off of a dream so that explains it), The Last Unicorn, Earth Girls Are Easy, Cool World, The Ant Bully, Ferngully, Mommie Dearest and Critters 1 and 2!
Even though it’s a show and it’s was also pretty popular Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock always felt like a fever dream show to me. My aunt owned a dvd of the first season and put it on when every car ride when I lived with my cousins. I’m pretty sure I always fell asleep during the show and thats why it feels like a fever dream.
Return To Oz was the big one for me. The transition from watching the Wizard if Oz over and over in all it's music and cheer and vibrant colors to my mom coming home after leaving on another half a year long meth bender just to be like "Here son, it's the Wizard of Oz 2!!!" And hanging me a blank VHS just for me to watch it and have half the movie roll in near complete silence with everyone turned to statues - including the lion and the Tin Man (except they look nothing like their MGM counterparts and look more like their novel illustration counterparts) while spooky visions of scarecrow pop up here and there with a new DIFFERENT scarecrow having a pumpkin head sadly asking Dorothy if he can call her "Mom" and a short fat tin man always falling over and repeating "Help me up. Help me up." All the while evading horrifying masked singers entities that scream with laughter called "Wheelers" until they finally meet the Nome King in all his chilling stop motion glory is just... Well hell I tried to make the plot sound coherent but even the parts of that film that are meant to be humorous come across as more unnerving and ambient. Especially compared to the MGM original. That being said, as someone who later read many of the Oz books, "Return to Oz" is far more faithful to the tone the books went for compared to how "Hollywood" the MGM classic and all of it's other depictions of the world of Oz would become.
@austins.2495 what the hell? He asked if there were any we would add, which I shared, and then suggested he do TV shows because I enjoyed this video. I'm not the unpleasant one here.
@LavenderLydia YEP! First film that entered my mind. I adore Return to Oz because of that very reason, the uncanny & dreamlike settings & scenarios stick w/you if you watch this as a young kid like I did.
The visual aesthetic of Mars Needs Moms (no not the characters) is highkey been a huge influence on the type of art I like, I hate that even a part of this movie is good to me.
You can also get a lot of these movies at the library for free. They have an app and you can just order whatever you want to watch and have it delivered to any library location. Also, as far as I know, most librarys did get rid of their late fees (just don't abuse it too much or that will probably change back)
Bridge to terabithia was actually a book we read in school long before the movie. Just reading it was sad but was good to prepare kids for reality, which a lot of us learned first hand sadly
Should be noted, Neil Gainmen did ‘Mirrormask’ learned some things then made ‘Coraline’ and his latest work to be translated from book to screen is ‘Sandman’
Starboy & Magic In the Mirror are two 90s fever dreams. One is essentially Guyver for Kids & one has duck people in a world beyond a mirror. Timmy the Toothbrush is tv fever dream.
”The adventures of baron munchausen” was my fever dream movie. Saw it 20 years ago as a kid. Just saw it this year again after I saw a clip of it in a TH-cam video realizing it was real!
Here in Brazil, Bridge to Terabithia, Jumanji and Zathura are certified childhood classic. It's so weird to see someone talking about these "forgotten" movies that only you though u saw like "help im a fish", "shorts" and "mars needs moms" these kind of movies are so underrated and some are really bad, but when a specific scene happens on screen you can remember that scene from the movie for decades. Just now I remembered a movie that I watched once on cartoon network about a rebel boy that hates books and decides to go to a library and somehow he gets teleported to an animation word or something like that, the movie starts in live-action and becomes animation, he becames the hero of that reality or part of a prophecy idk. I wish I could find it someday :/ EDIT: I literally searched "movie about a boy that hates books" and found it lol, the movie name is "The Pagemaster" and looks pretty good Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd are in this movie, WHAT???
There’s a French movie called The City of Lost Children from 1993 is like a fantasy steampunk movie and it has some haunting imagery in it, especially of the main antagonist whose face is burned into my brain. I don’t think it was for kids but I’m sure some kids saw it over the years.
A film that fits this for me is Lucky and Zorba. The scene with the mother seagull trapped in the oilspill haunted me as a kid even though the rest of the movie faded to a blur.
I couldn't believe The Peanut Butter Solution was a single movie when I rediscovered it years ago. Various parts of that movie are so different from each other that it seems like at least three different fever dreams.
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus is one of these movies. It's Heath Ledger's final movie and has Johnny Depp and Jude Law playing his character after he died during filming. Weird movie, but all of Terry Gilliam's films are. Honourable mentions for Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
that's such a weird feeling to learn where a toy from unknown origin from you childhood came from as an adult, isn't it? I experienced this very recently. from the early 90s, I had this action figure with a hologram sticker on it and didnt know its origin. And a few months ago, I saw a TH-cam video about 80s cartoons and learned about this one called Visionaries: Knights of the magical Light.
I was hyped for _Legend of the Guardians_ due to being a huge fan of the book series it was based on; _The Guardians of Ga'Hoole_ , and when I finally saw it I was hit with a big disappointing flop of a film. It fell so short of what it could have been. Like watching _The Animorphs_ get turned into a G-rated edutainment series. Sure, it looked really nice, but it dulled every positive or interesting aspect of the book series down so far as to be nearly unrecognizable. At least we got a killer Owl City song out of it. _Toys_ was definitely my fever dream film, my grandma had a VHS copy of it that I partially saw once as a kid and the majority I remembered was the surreal set design. Which was cool in it's own right.
some other YTber had recently reminded me of the miniseries DINOTOPIA, and ive always had vague memories of a dinosaur character who was academically trained and speak perfect english , and watching his video made it ALL COME BACK, like a eureka moment of "THAT'S IT!!!" cuz i honestly thought i made it up in my head during imaginary playtime
Warriors of Virtue is directed by Ronny Yu, who mostly directs Hong Kong movies with classics like The Bride With White Hair. Once you'd watched Bride, you will see the similarities with the hazy dreamlike cinematography, the crazy villain and the weird shutter speed effects he likes to use. The movie is trying to capitalize on the TMNT craze at the time, but Yu is definitely the wrong director for a children's fantasy with four kung fu kangaroos. Ridley Scott's Legend also has the same fever dream--like quality to the whole movie, similar to the unforgettable classic The NeverEnding Story but a lot darker.
I was not at the "processing what adults in live action are saying" age when I first watched Bridge to Terabithia (or the next couple times) so I totally missed that she died and was mad lost 😭 After the like 4th time I finally got it and it hit hard because I mentally had to go back to how I had missed it so many times prior.
Stuff they showed at school or daycare when I was really tiny that we didn’t have copies of at home, or Disney movies they put in the vault or don’t show anymore
The fever dream cartoon I saw when I was really young had to be 1977's Dot and the kangaroo. The visuals of cheaply drawn cartoon characters over a real footage of forest made me feel unease and it didnt help that the bunyip segment was horrifying for 5 year old me.
I watched Nutcracker: The Motion Picture last night and it definitely fits the fever dream description in fact i think most versions of The Nutcracker do, but the motion picture doesn't even have the traditional ending of Clara meeting Drosselmeyers nephew who looks a lot like The Nutcracker Prince, it just ends with Clara waking up in her bed so we the audience are left to assume that it was all a dream
Toys is amazing. Was obsessed with that movie as a kid.
I still am and i really don't get why this movie flopped so hard back then ;( One of the best lesser known christmas season movies.
Omg mirror mask and labyrinth. I can't believe you're covering so many of my childhood favorites
I still use Mirror Mask to convey strangeness. If I don't know what's happening, I'll sometimes say, "What in the Mirror Mask is going on around here?!"
I absolutely despise lsbrinth, I cannot watch that movie without feeling uncomfortable, haven’t seen Mirror mask but from what’s shown in this video it seems even worse
I completely forgot, that I watched that owl movie as a kid. Narnia also felt unreal for me as a kid. keep up the good work, this and last vid where a throw back fr.
What’s that owl movie called
I had a dream that I was in Narnia. 😅😅
I'm not sure if you are referring to the big budget movie or the made for tv BBC miniseries Narnia. But I hiiighly suggest the miniseries one if you have the time to spare. It is here on youtube. Fits this vibe big time.
It's also a surprisingly decent adaptation of the books, even the author was happy with it.
I do recommend checking out the books, they get quite dark. A lot of psychological trauma and some brutal deaths.
Another good fever dream movie is Ridley Scott’s Legend
Tim Curry was amazing, as usual
My dad had/has and old vhs copy which me and my bro would watch over and over so it’s just a nostalgia movie for me
The first 2 spy kids movies hits me in fever dream
Haha saw all 3 in the theater…classic
Cool video!
My fever dream movies are "Mr Magoriun's Wonder Emporium" and "City of Ember". I saw both when I was about 3 years old and the quickly drifted into obscurity for the longest time to the point that I convinced myself they were just dreams I had 😅
Mirror mask reminds me of that time period in the mid two thousands.When music videos all have that same weird look. Music videos with the band linkin park.
Being 9 and accidentally walking into my bro watching some creepy metal claymation music video on MTV, trauma
@@JasperCasper1996was it Sober by a band named Tool?
Beowulf was my fever dream movie, i think seeing an r rated animated movie convinced me it couldn't have been real. That and i didn't even realise it was animated until 30 minutes in
Same😂
Pans labyrinth is another one😂 i actually love these kinda movies
When bro got stabbed in the face 😭
Great upload. Any film by Terry Gilliam, and in a darker direction, David Lynch; all fever dreams.
Personally, Legend of the Guardians was one of my fav movies as a kid and I still love it now as a young adult :3
Same
Awesome video! Terry Gilliam movies are crazy.
I came here to talk about Terry Gilliam movies! Specifically The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus
@owainrhysphillips4102 Oh yes! The Imaginarium is awesome!Heath Ledger was super-good.Gilliam has had a huge influence on my filming style.They just released 12 Monkeys on YT, for free.I have a few Short films (Horror/Bizarre)on my channel and I'm currently working on a Sci-fi Short.Been building props and almost ready to film.It'll be called:M.A.R.T.H.A...Wish me luck,lol.
@@-WillAlone- Good luck! I love what I can see on your channel so far!
@@owainrhysphillips4102 Thank you so much! I don't meet many people with this taste in movies.Do you remember The Cell, with Vincent Denofreo? Also,Lynch is awesome.His Short "Rabbits has been showing up on my feed again recently.
@-WillAlone- I haven't! Would you recommend it? I'm a big fan of Lynch but haven't watched many of his shorts.
The style I was shamelessly ripping off on my account was Adam Curtis. He's a British documentary filmmaker and I find his work really intensely hypnotic
The Brave Little Toaster is a very fever dream memory for me. It was very surreal to watch as a kid
YOOOOOO Warriors of Virtue is a movie is saw in theaters as a kid and have NEVER been able to find the name of. DAAAAANG dude. I was eating super atomic warhead sour candy being just as confused as im sure I’ll be when i find a find a stream now 25 years later.
I REMEMBER WARRIORS OF VIRTURE!! it was 2011 and I found it as an old VHS in my grandmas basement. I remember being super freaked out, but thought it was alright
out of curiosity, because I remember this movie when I was a child and then in 2011 I was in my mid 20s, why was it in your grandmother's basement? was it something that one of your parents watched when THEY were kids?
@ honestly I have no idea why it was in her basement because I was 6 or 7 at the time and her kids are 50 now so it wouldn’t make sense. I’m assuming it might of been something my cousins watched and left it at my grandmas because they were 90s kids
@@charliesaunders4744 ahh that’s probably it. That makes sense.
And then there’s always some random yard sale that older folks go to lol. My parents always just ended up with the most random VHS tapes in their possession. Scary movies. Comedies. Christmas specials. Stuff I never even heard of.
@ yeah man that’s so real 😂 have a good Christmas!
So hyped there’s a part 2!! Great video bro 🫡
Hello, Power Rangers super fan here. At 14:30 when the Kangaroo speaks with that gravelly voice it reminds me of Goldar. He was one of the first main antagonists of Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. They were probably trying to rip off his voice actor.
Wow!!! You have amazingly good taste in movies sir , I had forgotten many of these classics and you brought me right back , so thanks …peace
I actually saw Toys in the theater and still till this day remember it VIVIDLY. I was 7yrs old, but it was just so strange, and the production design was so unique, I thought it was amazing! I had thought about the idea of training kids to control drones, for miliary use EVER since! Now, seeing how practically the majority of military recruits literally grew up gaming, it's damn near a Boot Strap Paradox..
For me, James and the giant peach could go on this list.
One of my favorite films. I love the Jack Skellington cameo and the ending. 🥲
James And The Giant Peach! I remember a scene where the main character was like a caterpillar?? And he was getting chased by the evil ladies or something. Gosh, that scene freaked me out so much
@ lol briefly remember it now that you mention it
The New Adventures of Pinocchio (1999) is absolutely one of these movies. I still have the DVD. I remember not wanting to watch it as a kid. It had some really weird costume design and disturbing creatures.
The one with JTT?
@boombapdoom493 No, I think this is a sequel to the one with JTT.
Toys is SUCH a a good fever dream aesthetic, like it was all dreamed up by a kid
Can I tell you about my literal fever dream movie experience? When I was about 9 years old, I came down with a horrible stomach virus that lasted almost a week. Not wanting me to pass the virus to my brothers, my mom dropped me off at my grandmother's house, where I stayed until the virus was out of my system. My grandma had a TV, but only basic cable (this was the mid-90s). So my mom brought over a VCR along with the Back To The Future trilogy on VHS. My grandmother would pop a movie in, let it play, then once it ended, either start that one over or pop another one in. I spent the next several days in and out of consciousness, and every time I woke up, I would catch a bit of the movie, only to shortly fall asleep again. The whole saga just turned into one epic of traveling back and forth through time. Not only that, but I found myself dreaming about the movies as well, so I couldn't remember what was dream and what was movie. I've never watched any of the Back To The Future movies in entirety since and to this day, those movies are a bizarre, otherworldly blur in my mind.
WARRIORS OF VIRTUE!!! YESS!! I had all those kangaroo action figures I remember those now holy shit!!
**Sees thumbnail**
I wouldn’t describe the Magic Gourd as a fever dream movie, but I do see it as a unique and whimsical movie, kind of like Robots (2005).
That oil monster from ferngully
Tim Curry lol
Ferngully certainly was a fever dream movie.
Watched Never Ending Story as a kid, that movie is a genuine banger. It's the shitty sequels that truly feel like fever dreams
I remember liking the original and then watching a few minutes of the sequel with my dad and brothers, but we didn't like it and turned it off. All I remember about the sequel was that there was a different main character, and he went to a "silver city" and he got chased by a bunch of evil humanoid beetle soldiers. I'm not sure if that's exactly how it was but that's how I remembered it.
@ObeseSaga64 Yeah, that's pretty much it. Then there's the one with Jack Black and the rock biter riding a motor cycle with born to be wild playing. Just the fucking worst lmao
The cartoon is also not bad
Awesome video again, other one was great too. You should consider making more, there’s plenty of weird fever dream movies out there!
Never ending story is one of the goats
A movie that does not get nearly the recognition it deserves is Tiny Soldiers! Falls into this category of movie for sure!
Does anybody else remember “The Last Mimsy”?
2.5K subs? Guess I’m here early. You’re going places bro. Keep up the good work
'Tank girl' is definitely one of these movies. No water so you need to shower with sand. Water buffalo brain in a tank. Kangaroo rat warriors. Shooting cans at the bad guy who has pointy razor arms. Oh boy was this frickin crazy.
lol, warriors of virtue is literally my fever dream movie. I barely remember it, I had a massive fever and I watched it as a child in the 90's on my moms friend couch while sweating out the sickness.
Thing about bridge to Terabithia, the author of the books son, had a friend who died very similarly. So it’s based on a true story.
“Chasing the Kidney Stone” is a fever dream movie! It’s a Norwegian film about a boy who shrinks himself and goes inside his grandfather to destroy a kidney stone. I watched an English dubbed version of it on tv when I was younger. For years, I’ve had trouble finding the movie again, but have come across clips of it, so I know it exists. Apparently it was also released under the name “Body Troopers”. It’s such a weird movie and there was a point where I thought I imagined the whole thing.
Just watched and wow, this was amazing to see that others have seen these movies like me!
What a cool idea! Thanks for making this!!!
I was trying to remember warriors of virtue! Lol I remembered kangaroos doing kung fu and that was it.
I talked to a buddy about it and he thought I was talking about a ninja turtle character or kangaroo jack.. I knew I wasn’t crazy!
That happens to me too!!
I discovered you channel about an hour ago, and I love the vids you’ve made so far. I look forward to more content you make in the future. Keep on kickin ass
I really like these videos, I haven't seen anyone bring up this topic before and it's very interesting to me because I like such forgotten oldies. Unlike the first video in this series where I watched two of the mentioned films (Spiderwick Chronicles and Zathura), in this second one I didn't know any of them, although I have the impression that I could have seen some trailers or fragments, and it's possible that I watched Legend of the Guardians but I don't know... I guess it all really is a fever dream! I would love to see a part 3, or maybe even 4, 5, 6, 7... Until the point where this whole series becomes one big fever dream, that would be insane! 😄
My wife and I always referred to it as "the magic" and the movies we associated with it was stuff like American Tale and Warriors of Virtue.
2:17 That is Falkor. Put some respect on his name. 😂
Great video!
Fun fact, Artax (the horse from the never ending story) in the Novel can talk and begs for death because he's so overcome with sorrow.
Also the movie only covers the first like 40% of the book it gets nothing but wild from there and No the other movies don't go into this at all because they were too scared so they wrote some silly stuff.
SPOILERS
In the book Bastion after renaming the empress goes into Fantasticac(Fantsia in the books is Fantasticac) to rebuild the world from the nothing by using his own Imagination but every time he uses his power he forgets something from the real world until he has no recollection of it. He recreates all of Fantasticac and in the end Atreyu (Artax's greenskinned owner) has to essentially convince god to leave Fantasticac.
I remember my mum crying her eyes out when we came out from bridge to terabithia, rewatching it later on really showed me why!
Sooo, we are basically just talking about some of my favorite films that I watch yearly? Gotcha 😂 👌🏼
Omg TOYS is one of my favorite movies EVER I have the VHS . Omg I love it.
As someone who recently rewatched Toys surprisingly on TH-cam when it was free. I actually was surprised in liking it. So much so that I'll admit, it's kind of a hyperfixation of mine as of late. And as all over the place the movie is, I will say it really was ahead of its time both in film making and what it was trying to push forward. Happy someone else remembered this movie though.
I was waiting for somebody to bring up brave little toaster. The scene with the clown is like having a bad trip.😂
A movie that I personally count as a fever dream movie is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. The nonsensical, campy and entertaining story, accompanied with it’s colourful, unique and interesting visuals create for an interesting, surreal and dream, or more specifically, fever dream-like experience. It’s even more of a fever dream if you watched it as a kid. Some more fever dream movies are The Wiz, The Adventures Of Buratino, The Polar Express, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, 3 Women (which was based off of a dream so that explains it), The Last Unicorn, Earth Girls Are Easy, Cool World, The Ant Bully, Ferngully, Mommie Dearest and Critters 1 and 2!
Even the kangaroo people in Tank Girl had more personality than the 'Roos in Warriors of Virtue 😂
Even though it’s a show and it’s was also pretty popular Jim Henson’s Fraggle Rock always felt like a fever dream show to me. My aunt owned a dvd of the first season and put it on when every car ride when I lived with my cousins. I’m pretty sure I always fell asleep during the show and thats why it feels like a fever dream.
Return To Oz was the big one for me. The transition from watching the Wizard if Oz over and over in all it's music and cheer and vibrant colors to my mom coming home after leaving on another half a year long meth bender just to be like "Here son, it's the Wizard of Oz 2!!!" And hanging me a blank VHS just for me to watch it and have half the movie roll in near complete silence with everyone turned to statues - including the lion and the Tin Man (except they look nothing like their MGM counterparts and look more like their novel illustration counterparts) while spooky visions of scarecrow pop up here and there with a new DIFFERENT scarecrow having a pumpkin head sadly asking Dorothy if he can call her "Mom" and a short fat tin man always falling over and repeating "Help me up. Help me up." All the while evading horrifying masked singers entities that scream with laughter called "Wheelers" until they finally meet the Nome King in all his chilling stop motion glory is just... Well hell I tried to make the plot sound coherent but even the parts of that film that are meant to be humorous come across as more unnerving and ambient. Especially compared to the MGM original. That being said, as someone who later read many of the Oz books, "Return to Oz" is far more faithful to the tone the books went for compared to how "Hollywood" the MGM classic and all of it's other depictions of the world of Oz would become.
Return to Oz is a big one you forgot. You should do fever dream tv shows
So all you have to say is point out something he forgot, and tell him what to do. You must be really pleasant
@austins.2495 what the hell? He asked if there were any we would add, which I shared, and then suggested he do TV shows because I enjoyed this video. I'm not the unpleasant one here.
@LavenderLydia YEP! First film that entered my mind. I adore Return to Oz because of that very reason, the uncanny & dreamlike settings & scenarios stick w/you if you watch this as a young kid like I did.
Monster House was really good.
The visual aesthetic of Mars Needs Moms (no not the characters) is highkey been a huge influence on the type of art I like, I hate that even a part of this movie is good to me.
You can also get a lot of these movies at the library for free. They have an app and you can just order whatever you want to watch and have it delivered to any library location. Also, as far as I know, most librarys did get rid of their late fees (just don't abuse it too much or that will probably change back)
Bridge to terabithia was actually a book we read in school long before the movie. Just reading it was sad but was good to prepare kids for reality, which a lot of us learned first hand sadly
Watership down always gave me fever dream vibes as a kid, but it also creeped me out.
for me it's gotta be The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
The Neverending Story certainly isn't forgotten in Germany. Michael Ende is still one of the most widely read children's book authors
Should be noted, Neil Gainmen did ‘Mirrormask’ learned some things then made ‘Coraline’ and his latest work to be translated from book to screen is ‘Sandman’
The thumbnail is really eye catching. I thought it was going to be a channel with like a million subs
Starboy & Magic In the Mirror are two 90s fever dreams. One is essentially Guyver for Kids & one has duck people in a world beyond a mirror.
Timmy the Toothbrush is tv fever dream.
I had warriors of virtue on vhs when I was a kid and was obsessed with watching it. I have no idea why
bridge to terabithia made me cry for an hour. it was just too shocking and real to me.
”The adventures of baron munchausen” was my fever dream movie. Saw it 20 years ago as a kid. Just saw it this year again after I saw a clip of it in a TH-cam video realizing it was real!
not sure if u mentioned it as i haven’t finished the video but zathura has this feeling to me
Here in Brazil, Bridge to Terabithia, Jumanji and Zathura are certified childhood classic.
It's so weird to see someone talking about these "forgotten" movies that only you though u saw like "help im a fish", "shorts" and "mars needs moms" these kind of movies are so underrated and some are really bad, but when a specific scene happens on screen you can remember that scene from the movie for decades.
Just now I remembered a movie that I watched once on cartoon network about a rebel boy that hates books and decides to go to a library and somehow he gets teleported to an animation word or something like that, the movie starts in live-action and becomes animation, he becames the hero of that reality or part of a prophecy idk. I wish I could find it someday :/
EDIT: I literally searched "movie about a boy that hates books" and found it lol, the movie name is "The Pagemaster" and looks pretty good
Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd are in this movie, WHAT???
There’s a French movie called The City of Lost Children from 1993 is like a fantasy steampunk movie and it has some haunting imagery in it, especially of the main antagonist whose face is burned into my brain. I don’t think it was for kids but I’m sure some kids saw it over the years.
The Alice in Wonderland movie for TV was a fever dream for me lol. The one with Martin Short
The one with gene wilder singing “beautiful soup?” And the girl from Napoleon dynamite 😂 classic
Not quite human, flight of the navigator, escape from witch mountain. All had the same effect on me as what you’re describing
A film that fits this for me is Lucky and Zorba. The scene with the mother seagull trapped in the oilspill haunted me as a kid even though the rest of the movie faded to a blur.
I couldn't believe The Peanut Butter Solution was a single movie when I rediscovered it years ago. Various parts of that movie are so different from each other that it seems like at least three different fever dreams.
The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus is one of these movies. It's Heath Ledger's final movie and has Johnny Depp and Jude Law playing his character after he died during filming. Weird movie, but all of Terry Gilliam's films are.
Honourable mentions for Time Bandits and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Magic gourds character design is so horror inducing. The original artowtk on the book looks so much better
Super Mario world and Zelda 3 are like fever dreams for me
13:42 I had that toy as a kid. I think it was a hand me down from my brother. I never knew what it was from until now.
that's such a weird feeling to learn where a toy from unknown origin from you childhood came from as an adult, isn't it? I experienced this very recently. from the early 90s, I had this action figure with a hologram sticker on it and didnt know its origin. And a few months ago, I saw a TH-cam video about 80s cartoons and learned about this one called Visionaries: Knights of the magical Light.
I bring up warriors of virtue every once in a while and no one ever knows what im talking about.
I like that for Toys you don't even consider having seen it in the theaters as an option (this is how I saw it)
I loved Warriors of Virtue as a kid
Strings is a great fever dream movie with self aware marionettes that basically nobody has seen.
What dreams may come was the one for me. Saw it as a kid and was never sure what I was remembering was real untill I found it again recently.
Dark Star was haunting me for so many years as a child 😊 would also fit on that list
6:14 holy shit, Toys!! I forgot about this one!
The Never Ending Story 3 is the one that's fresh in my mind.
I was hyped for _Legend of the Guardians_ due to being a huge fan of the book series it was based on; _The Guardians of Ga'Hoole_ , and when I finally saw it I was hit with a big disappointing flop of a film. It fell so short of what it could have been. Like watching _The Animorphs_ get turned into a G-rated edutainment series. Sure, it looked really nice, but it dulled every positive or interesting aspect of the book series down so far as to be nearly unrecognizable. At least we got a killer Owl City song out of it.
_Toys_ was definitely my fever dream film, my grandma had a VHS copy of it that I partially saw once as a kid and the majority I remembered was the surreal set design. Which was cool in it's own right.
some other YTber had recently reminded me of the miniseries DINOTOPIA, and ive always had vague memories of a dinosaur character who was academically trained and speak perfect english , and watching his video made it ALL COME BACK, like a eureka moment of "THAT'S IT!!!" cuz i honestly thought i made it up in my head during imaginary playtime
Idk if TV movie count.. but Tim and Eric's Crimbus special is an honorable mention...
its always been nightmare before Christmas for me or that one magic toaster movie: edit the magic toaster movie is the brave little toaster
Mirror mask is pretty crazy. Ink is a great fever dream movie as well.
warriors of virtue was my favorite movie as a kid
Warriors of Virtue is directed by Ronny Yu, who mostly directs Hong Kong movies with classics like The Bride With White Hair. Once you'd watched Bride, you will see the similarities with the hazy dreamlike cinematography, the crazy villain and the weird shutter speed effects he likes to use. The movie is trying to capitalize on the TMNT craze at the time, but Yu is definitely the wrong director for a children's fantasy with four kung fu kangaroos. Ridley Scott's Legend also has the same fever dream--like quality to the whole movie, similar to the unforgettable classic The NeverEnding Story but a lot darker.
I was not at the "processing what adults in live action are saying" age when I first watched Bridge to Terabithia (or the next couple times) so I totally missed that she died and was mad lost 😭 After the like 4th time I finally got it and it hit hard because I mentally had to go back to how I had missed it so many times prior.
Get in I haven't seen adventures of huck fin that plasticine film for 30 years, I'm gona look for it now, YES
Stuff they showed at school or daycare when I was really tiny that we didn’t have copies of at home, or Disney movies they put in the vault or don’t show anymore
The fever dream cartoon I saw when I was really young had to be 1977's Dot and the kangaroo. The visuals of cheaply drawn cartoon characters over a real footage of forest made me feel unease and it didnt help that the bunyip segment was horrifying for 5 year old me.
The Wiz definitely feels like a fever dream
I actually just rewatched warriors of virtue on edibles a few weeks ago and i still don't remember it, its that much of a fever dream movie.
I watched Nutcracker: The Motion Picture last night and it definitely fits the fever dream description in fact i think most versions of The Nutcracker do, but the motion picture doesn't even have the traditional ending of Clara meeting Drosselmeyers nephew who looks a lot like The Nutcracker Prince, it just ends with Clara waking up in her bed so we the audience are left to assume that it was all a dream
Wait, this video came out four days ago? It has wonderful 2015 TH-cam vibes