Caustic Cartoons: Horrible Mutants Edition
Posted by Qais Fulton
By request, The Inhumanoids: How those of us at Ectomo have missed The Inhumanoids so far is beyond me; rife with unintentional hilarity and a giant mutant monster bearing a resemblance to our dark lord, The Inhumanoids is right up Ectomo’s alley.
The Head Saves the Earth-The Date: A classic tale; boy meets alien, alien takes up residence in boy’s head, boy meets girl, alien takes up residence in girl’s head.
Ah: A gorgeously rendered tale of soup worlds and small zombie children. As often as I despair at the state of CG film, it is the small art films like Ah that reach out a hastily constructed metaphoric hand to stroke my expansive, gelatinous forehead and remind me that everything will be alright.
Bump In The Night: Stop motion animated closet monsters combine forces with their rag-doll cohorts to scare the ever-loving shit out of each other. I have such fond memories of this show as a child, the passing frequency of stop motion animation from the early 90′s is at least lamentable and at worst a tragedy.
The Sunshine Makers: Happy elves inflict horrific chemical warfare on their gloomy, freakish, incredibly dapper cousins. Remember kids, if anyone looks, feels, or acts differently from you it is your solemn duty to poison and/or medicate them until they too enjoy a good red-assed frolicking.
A Cartoon Surprise at the bottom of every box!
Categories: Animation, Art, Freaks, Saturday Morning Cartoons
Posted at 12:48 pm on December 29, 2007
5 Comments -
Oh my god. This is one of those moments where I am absolutely agape. I saw this when I was about 4 or 5 years old, but I could never remember the name. “Was it a dream?” I would ask myself years later.
Once again, Ectomo doesn’t disappoint in putting together the mysterious pieces of an elusive and broken past.
Comment by zamstar — December 29, 2007 @ 5:36 pm
Those are clearly gnomes not elves. And god damn are they scary.
Comment by Hlaode — December 30, 2007 @ 4:57 pm
i had all the inhumanoids glaring at me from the corner closet at one point in my childhood. i remember ribcage being my favourite.
another banner batch of caturday cartoons, all. ^_^
Comment by zanbowser — December 30, 2007 @ 11:27 pm
You know, I’ll never look at alphabet soup the same way again.
Comment by Robert — January 1, 2008 @ 2:36 pm
I remember when the present location of FAO Schwarz opened in NYC (which now has the flagship Apple store on its front lawn), there was a giant claw cavern near the front specifically for Inhumanoids. In later years, long after the show had gone off the air, they coated the “claw” with vines and lichen and it became “The World of Beatrix Potter”. Night and day, that, though one can only assume that bunnies in cardigans have to be some sort of mutation.
Comment by License Farm — January 7, 2008 @ 3:33 am