If i have kids this will be the first thing i show them once they gain sentience. Maybe it will spur them into sentience even, become their first memory
I dunno, I like it as 19 year old almost adult and I`m sure, I would love that as 8 year old kid, I`ve watched way more grim and twisted things than that.
I think the real horror is that, unlike most fables, there is no lesson or moral here. It is a story of an innocent child being preyed upon, nothing more.
Sadly Paul Berry, who created this amazing, albeit dark and disturbing film, passed away in 2001 from a brain tumour. He worked on films like Nightmare before Christmas, the classic tv show the wind in the willows. Poor guy, he obviously had an immense amount of talent. It says more in 9 minutes, and is scarier in 9 minutes, than most Hollywood horror movies even attemp to be. Great little film. Had not heard of it until a few weeks back.
@@bills7595 It's called sharing an experience and paying respect to a person who passed away, that happened to be creative and inspiring. So stfu you ignorant zombie and go back to twitter you can bitch about your lack of humanity and life there all you want, that is where you belong, bunch of lost newage mutants...
There's something interesting that I noted regarding the Sandman's unusual "dance." From the looks of it, for whatever reason, he is unable to wake his victims directly (such as with his voice or by touching him), so he resorts to indirectly stirring him (both the wind and whooshing sounds of his swift movements). I'm also curious of the sound he makes when he knocks his elbows together. It sounds like a resonation, like when two plastic tubes are hit together. Considering he's some type of bird-man, that sound could actually be the sound his his hollow bones.
I love the bird like mannerisms of this monster. How it moves its elbows behind its head like it’s flapping its wings, the way it dances around the kid like a predator circles prey… masterful horror.
Wow! I watched that in english class, yeah. Everyone usually laughs at some films we watch and meake them funny. But not this time. All my friends, the whole class and everyone was just surprised. They did not make fun of it. And this happened today. Then now, 10 mins ago, i found the movie, and i watched it. And i was scared. A bit though. Its actually a nice film.... 😨😨😨 when its not scary
Yeah, Hollywood is too afraid to take chances. I can't really see any major film studio signing off on this unless they were willing to censor this man's brilliant vision.
Ironic how most people believe The Sandman to be a spirit that helps children sleep, and here’s THIS guy ensuring a whole generation never sleeps again!
The short is based on the story of German 19th century writer Ernst Theodor Hoffmann, who is famous for being the author of the "Nutcracker" fairy tale. This cartoon is based only on the frame legend in the original story about the evil night spirit Sandman, who steals children's eyes. The major bulk of the story deals with a young man, who has an obsessive idea, that his university teacher Coppelius is the living incarnation of Sandman. At the same time he becomes smitten with the beautiful daughter of inventor Spalanzani, without thinking that he slowly comes into the evil powers' trap.
In my drama class we actually did a play based on that story and some scenes were directly ripped off from this short (like the ending scene with all the eyeless children, which in our play was one of the first scenes).
I first saw this when I was five. I didn't know what it was called or anything like that. The dude has haunted me for years while I developed into an amateur writer. One day I'm writing a short story that I got inspired to write when reading folklore on the sandman. My research led me to this animation, only to find that I am back where I started. Spooky.
Jimmy Wade yoooo! Me too! MTV late at night, i was probably 7 or 8 when i saw it. Unexpectedly scary clip on MTV. I think i was watching Celebrity Deathmatch
@@garethjones909 Take 2 seconds to look up German expressionism and see that the set and cinematogrophy in this is clearyl taking huge inspiration from the silent movies of 1920s German filmmaking.
Search for it to watch it on repeat over and over again on purpose it's one of the best ways to help me fall asleep on restless nights it's a good way to tuck myself in as an adult
This short is one of the really first memories of my life. In 1997 or 1998 i was playing with Legos in the living room, at the time my sister was 14 or 15 years old and i was 3 or 4, and she was watching MTV. We were watching almost the entire short, i remember that my sister started screaming when the sandman throws the eyes to the little ones, and she was running to me to cover my eyes. I'm 26 now and i spent my entire life with the fear of the dark until 2 years ago. Cheers from Italy! (Sorry guys, my english is horrible)
Italian too! I discovered this short when I was 9 in a DVD (my dad used to download movies and cadtoons and then put them on dvds) it was pretty traumatizing bc I was at home alone :')
@@thelimon4338 i think it was an accident The disk was called 100 years of animation movies or something like that. There were a lot of ww2 propaganda shorts in there (I remember one w gnomes and Hitler)
Almost 20 years old and it still holds up. ^^ Brilliant set construction, character designs, lighting...utterly beautiful and creepy in all the best ways. This, with Vincent, is one of my favourite stop-motion pieces of all time.
My Dad worked on this... Mckinnon and Saunders was the studio. Paul Berry (director) died of a brain tumor a few years later. He was a nice guy, from what I remember (I was a kid)
I like how the sandman looks like a bird with that feathery skin, those big emotionless eyes, the weird dances it makes, and the fact that its nose and chin make the shadow of his head look like a shrieking eagle or hawk
Had the pleasure of knowing and working with Paul years ago; quirky, dry humour, bright red hair, extremely talented! Very shocked and saddened to learn of his passing at such a young age and so swiftly. Rest in peace Paul 😢
From what I'm aware, the children's story featured a kind and well dressed sandman; who gave children their dreams and used sand only to keep their eyes closed whilst he did so. It was a man called Ernst Hoffman who wrote the inverse story that inspired this short animation.
DEAR LORD!! It's been YEARS since i last saw this, and it still has that sinister magic about it! For me, the most frightening bit is the end when the little child stumbles out and finds all the other blind children! Thank you so much for putting this on RUclips!!
This tape is an adaptation of the even scarier german novel called "Der Sandmann" written by E.T.A Hoffmann. It deals with the border and conflict between rational thinking and pure insanity. This piece is not from the time of expressionism but from the lyrical phase called dark romance or horror romance. The novel is mezmerizing through its mental terror.
Absolutely love this. Saw the original puppet at the Mackinnon & Saunders studio. Possibly one of the greatest stop motion shorts, if not THE greatest.
I fucking saw this on telvision in the late 90's or early 2000's as a small child in bed one waking morning, I caught just the end of it and freaked the hell out. I didn't even think I was watching a regular channel, it felt like i'd been tuned into Satan's den.
@@Anarkikus it would make sense. My brothers would go to sleep watching music videos. I woke up or something and saw the end of it too. Haunted me since. Glad i finally found it. Thats Wikipedia
This is so nightmarish and beautiful at the same time. The Sandman himself has such an eerie, mysterious design. Especially how his head resembles the crescent moon. As if to say every time you see the moon out your window it could be him watching you. When he starts dancing around the boy you can tell he’s just HOPING he wakes up.
I seen this around the same age on Halloween, I had just watched Texas chainsaw massacre and didn't flinch, but this short film right here ruined my night
Me too. OMG! You are the first person I've known to had watched this during the same time as I had and on the same channel and program. Let me guess it was Saturday or Sunday night?
This was on TV in the UK on Channel 4's 4Mation in the early 90s when I was about 12. Absolute nightmare fuel! It haunted me for years! Just popped up on my feed. Just about to rewatch. Wish me luck. See you on the other side!
rduggz Fairy tales are part of literature and this is an animated fairy tale from 1992 so our English teachers must have wanted to show us what old fairytales where like
to teach the crucial lesson "don't annoy the entire neighborhood with that stupidly loud drum toy you're playing at the most inappropriate times", I guess but my neighbor's children are always loud af, especially after 22:00, so I may be biased here... 😇
Dear god, I am 20 years old and I am still terrified of watching this. This Sandman haunted my dreams and nightmares for so long and the imagery is so nightmarish that I still have chills with the ending. Saying that, this is a fantastic stop-motion short filled with tones of suspense and atmosphere that leaves you scared still with a music score that is particularly haunting to boot. Quite underrated and needs to be seen more in my option
I still remember the first time I saw as part of an animation collection in the theaters. It is still one of the most horrifying animations ever. I often wondered about the original Germanic folktale on which it was based. How do you tell a story like this to children to get them to sleep?! The poor things probably stayed up all night, wetting the beds.
Actually when you think about it, a lot of fairy tales and even lullabies are really macabre! Even "Rockabye Baby". How is crooning to a baby that the cradle is going to fall from a tree (?) with them in it supposed to be comforting :v There are even theories that such nursery rhymes contain hidden political allegories etc. I think there's actually like an info graph on Wikipedia that breaks down historical/political events claimed to be associated with particular nursery rhymes.
I cant' believe I found this!! This thing scared me out when I was 9 or 10, yet I could not stop watching it everytime it was broadcasted! Thanks for the upload!!
I remember these stop start surrealist animations. late night Channel 4 stuff! Some really twisted shit... so much so you can't find half of what they broadcast back then!
I've been busy these days, and today RUclips recommended this to me. This short film reminded me that Halloween is knocking at the door lol It reminded me of Coraline too.
I remember randomly seeing just the eyeball scene one day while the TV was on MTV or something and this gave me nightmares for YEARS! Thanks for posting it so I can get some closure.
I discovered it when I was 16 and showed it in class with my teach's permission LOL I was the class' nerdy weirdo looking into culty stuff, I also showed them the music video of the Ghost of Stephen Foster during english class (actual english, Im italian) and a few other things
I can't believe I finally found this. It traumatized me when I saw it on MTV when I was really young lol. But now I love macabre shit and I've been looking for this forever
I have been looking for it forever!! It fucked me up when I saw it on Vh1 insomniac when I was in elementary school and I have been lookin for it ever since lol!
I would agree, although that's kind of debateable as Freddy has more ways to frighten somebody, and if you have seen Freddy vs Jason (spoiler warning for anyone who wants to watch the movie)... Freddy would blind the elm street children (and Jason) by sticking his finger blades into the eyes. The Sandman is still creepy as all hell though.
@@AwesomeHyperSonic547 sandman’s older though. So it feels not authentic some how. Not to diss Freddy. But he can be beaten or at least held off. We never see that with the sandman. Their is just so much mor unknown with him.
Imagine this Sandman in "Rise of the Guardians" Come to think of it...he kind of looks like the villain from that doesn't he? But much more creative design-wise.
Same style. It's a movement called German Expressionism, which existed in film and theatre of early 1920's/1930's Germany, and was also a great influence on Bertholt Brecht. If you want a great example of G.E. in action, then watch The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a psychological horror film from 1928.
It also resembles some of his sketches, especially that child. It’s like someone abducted a Tim Burton extra and placed them in a special circle of Expressionistic hell.
Paul Berry was one of the animators in Nightmare Before Christmas. Actually, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari came out in 1919. I think Paul Berry's style is akin ti Henry Selick's other than Burton's, although there are similarities with "Vincent" (1982) the earlier "Hansel and Gretel" and the more recent "Frankenweenie remake". Burton, Selick, and possibly Berry, had the same teacher at the animation academy.
I've just come back from the pub after having bumped into Mr Halls son Simon who worked on this. When he told me what he was involved in this was the first animation I brought up and he was shocked that I'd remembered it. One of my favourite pieces from a kid.
I'm so glad I've found this again. I saw it once years ago and it just occurred to me to try to find it here. It is superb! Stop motion animation has always, to me, seemed quite creepy. Even Camberwick Green gave me the creeps now and again e.g. when the character froze to go back inside the music box. Then there were those Public Information Films of the 70s in the UK about road safety (with Tufty Fluffytail the squirrel) and the ones warning about 'stranger danger' with Charlie the cat. So to see the medium used to deliberately make a frightening story is wonderful. There's even a genuine similarity here to the experience of a nightmare. A mini-masterpiece.
I watched this film with my dad when i was like 9 and it scared the shit out of me. I've been thinking about it since then trying to get the name of the film and i just did thanks to youtube.
6:42 6:42 когда идёшь к холодильнику ночью, стараясь не разбудить родителей when you go to the refrigerator at night, trying not to wake the parents sorry, Google translator
Just rember children nothing to fear but fear it'self I'm bout to be 21 this year and still watching to sleep at night works better than a lulaby but y'all 13 watching y'all sum savages
They showed this during BBC Four's animation season in 2005. I remember watching the Animation Nation programme where there was a section about it and they showed the actual thing after it.
i miss these kinds of animations/films growing up as a kid in the 90s. seems like kids now wouldn't be allowed or would have to be protected from such macabre atmosphere and moods!
I remember back in the early days of RUclips, where if you clicked through enough of the recommendations under/next to a video, you'd start getting into the "weird side of RUclips". Just like that, i came upon this video. Yes, somewhat disturbing, but it has made me nostalgic for a time where it was always possible to come across such videos.
I don't remember when and where I saw this but I saw this as a kid and it stuck with me. I searched for this video for a while now, with no name or anything just descriptions. Thank you for uploading this. I will never understand why this was shown to children. It's scary af
This is amazing, it's something we watched back in English classes in school. I wish they showed children things like this nowadays, it's extremely good and much more thought provoking than a lot of the things they teach. This was probably the only thing I actually liked in English, and we didn't focus on it more than that one lesson. This is some inspirational stuff.
***** The way the music fits with Sandman's movements is nice. The style also reminds me of James and the Giant Peach, it's quite unsettling to me, very fitting for the animation.
+Deku Scrub They do show kids this thing 'nowadays'. I watched it in English (year 9). Personally, I find this slightly more disturbing than inspirational.... :) P.S: I respect your opinion by the way though!
+Deku Scrub I myself am in Year 10 and we looked at this the other day, and I think it was very well made, it's a shame that we aren't studying it in my class.
I’m glad I saw this for the first time as a full-grown adult.
If i have kids this will be the first thing i show them once they gain sentience. Maybe it will spur them into sentience even, become their first memory
@@nickshatssomethings wrong with you
I dunno, I like it as 19 year old almost adult and I`m sure, I would love that as 8 year old kid, I`ve watched way more grim and twisted things than that.
@@nickshats Dap me up my boy 🤝, parenting through existential crisis and man made horrors beyond our comprehension
@@Billy_plays2017 my first memory is trauma so I'm doubling and giving it to the next one
My English teacher showed me this and now I can only sleep with a pistol under my pillow.
Tirell Primus And with the song,"Enter Sandman" play in your head.
jay cutler ha.
I'm keeping a bazooka under mine.
We need to form a sandman protection program.
Same
I think the real horror is that, unlike most fables, there is no lesson or moral here. It is a story of an innocent child being preyed upon, nothing more.
There is a lesson. When you are alone in bed in the middle of the dark night, whatever you hear, keep your eyes shut!
I mean the moral is go to bed amd get rest, but it was definitely depicted as a predatory, cheapshotting, troll dickhead.
It taught children to go straight to bed when they are supposed to and not stay up.
Pretty sure the lesson is, go to sleep or LOSE YOUR EYES
@@PeterRattin this guy just woke up a kid who was sleeping. So no lesson
looks like a cross between a tim burton flick and the puffs tissue animation.
Dialed-in Gaming puff tissue???
Dialed-in Gaming Holy crap you’re right!
Paul Berry the director/animator of this film was an animator on the nightmare before Christmas. When you start to think about it it makes sense.
SOOTHING SHEA BUTTER, ALOE, AND VITAMINS E MY ASS. PUFFS ARE GONNA GET MY EYES SNATCHED BY SOME DUDE LIVIN ON THE MOON 🌚 XD you right though
Dialed-in Gaming get out of my head
Sadly Paul Berry, who created this amazing, albeit dark and disturbing film, passed away in 2001 from a brain tumour. He worked on films like Nightmare before Christmas, the classic tv show the wind in the willows.
Poor guy, he obviously had an immense amount of talent.
It says more in 9 minutes, and is scarier in 9 minutes, than most Hollywood horror movies even attemp to be. Great little film. Had not heard of it until a few weeks back.
The source material was great
Oh you can definitely see the influence on Nightmare Before Christmas in this short!
🤔😲😮Oh that Wind in the Willows! 😱
This was his masters in animation final from Cal Arts Valencia.
@@dominicksebastien2254the source material is great. 👍
How has life been to you since 14 years ago?
what a good dad, taking care of his kids :)
Shout out to single parents everywhere
Single dads don’t get enough credit
The baby birds sound more screeching cats, than they do birds!
Yes that there is the takeaway.
Looking at it from that perspective makes it a little wholesome, I guess. Only a little tho
I went to college with Paul Berry. He was making brilliant films like this even then. I was really shocked to learn he died so young. RIP Paul.
No one cares knowing someone doesn't make you special or interesting
@@bills7595 and being unnecessarily rude doesn’t make you cool or interesting.
@@bills7595 It's called sharing an experience and paying respect to a person who passed away, that happened to be creative and inspiring. So stfu you ignorant zombie and go back to twitter you can bitch about your lack of humanity and life there all you want, that is where you belong, bunch of lost newage mutants...
RIP
Oh my Gosh ! I've actually chatted with him on here!! How old was he when he died.. ?
There's something interesting that I noted regarding the Sandman's unusual "dance." From the looks of it, for whatever reason, he is unable to wake his victims directly (such as with his voice or by touching him), so he resorts to indirectly stirring him (both the wind and whooshing sounds of his swift movements).
I'm also curious of the sound he makes when he knocks his elbows together. It sounds like a resonation, like when two plastic tubes are hit together. Considering he's some type of bird-man, that sound could actually be the sound his his hollow bones.
He also slams doors and stomps on the ground
Demon or malevolent spirit.
I love the bird like mannerisms of this monster. How it moves its elbows behind its head like it’s flapping its wings, the way it dances around the kid like a predator circles prey… masterful horror.
WHY DID MY TEACHER SHOW ME THIS?
AFTER MY EYE OPERATION TOO!
Jazzamaestro I think they did it on purpose
Me too
Wow! I watched that in english class, yeah. Everyone usually laughs at some films we watch and meake them funny. But not this time. All my friends, the whole class and everyone was just surprised. They did not make fun of it. And this happened today. Then now, 10 mins ago, i found the movie, and i watched it. And i was scared. A bit though. Its actually a nice film.... 😨😨😨 when its not scary
***** Oh my gosh! x3
Liberty Price oh my I’m so sorry for that!
scarier than anything hollywood has to offer
Yeah, Hollywood is too afraid to take chances. I can't really see any major film studio signing off on this unless they were willing to censor this man's brilliant vision.
Cayden Michael I'm sorry, but why wouldn't Hollywood do anything with this?
I think a stop motion horror would sell pretty well.
Fivlo Coraline is different than the type of horror I'm going for
Buxtonnes we were shown in on English class at about 9
And it doesn't require any dialogue!
Ironic how most people believe The Sandman to be a spirit that helps children sleep, and here’s THIS guy ensuring a whole generation never sleeps again!
The short is based on the story of German 19th century writer Ernst Theodor Hoffmann, who is famous for being the author of the "Nutcracker" fairy tale. This cartoon is based only on the frame legend in the original story about the evil night spirit Sandman, who steals children's eyes. The major bulk of the story deals with a young man, who has an obsessive idea, that his university teacher Coppelius is the living incarnation of Sandman. At the same time he becomes smitten with the beautiful daughter of inventor Spalanzani, without thinking that he slowly comes into the evil powers' trap.
In my drama class we actually did a play based on that story and some scenes were directly ripped off from this short (like the ending scene with all the eyeless children, which in our play was one of the first scenes).
is sandman a metaphor for masturbation?
Thank you Maksim! I love the Hoffmann shortstory and I discovered this by chance, here on youtube. I find it pretty scary, even for grown ups!
@@cristianosanseverino4899 I can't take that seriously 😂
Is this a play or book I could read?
I didn't watch this in english class...
Katelyn Ashton Your mental health has been spared until the day you watched this
Katelyn Ashton Same here!
Ikr why would they put it on in a SCHOOL.
Wtf I did
My teacher literally put it on in Year 7 (grade 6)
Karina Kolpaczek same here
I first saw this when I was five. I didn't know what it was called or anything like that. The dude has haunted me for years while I developed into an amateur writer. One day I'm writing a short story that I got inspired to write when reading folklore on the sandman. My research led me to this animation, only to find that I am back where I started. Spooky.
He's always watching.
Same as me, but I am not a writer, nor did I know the name of it.
For years
For years..😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Where did you see this?
I saw this at 6 yo while watching tv before going to sleep. BIG MISTAKE, haunted for years too.
It was your destiny
I saw this on MTV when I was little and it literally gave me nightmares for years.
Jimmy Wade yoooo! Me too! MTV late at night, i was probably 7 or 8 when i saw it. Unexpectedly scary clip on MTV. I think i was watching Celebrity Deathmatch
I was 18 or 20 when I watched it on MTV too and it gave me nightmares... lol
Same, I was probably like 6 or 8. Thanks MTV. Very cool.
Almost forgot MTV used to have good shit
same here!!!
Well, to call this disturbing would be somewhat of an understatement.
Matthew Cuellar I would say is creepy
I would say fun
This actually WAS in my recommendations lol and the spot motion is in incredible, it's beautiful and eerie.
The guy who animated this went on to work on “The Nightmare before Christmas.”
Paul Groendes that figures
don't forget Coraline
@@billiennn no he died long before Coraline
HA ! I knew they looked similar ! 🤗
I was gonna say
I love the german expressionism style. It's so dark and brooding and colorful.
It's simply gothic and European folklore. Germans were not even around when that was a thing.
Colin Batty, Paul Berry and Ian McKinnon. Strong German names
@@garethjones909 Take 2 seconds to look up German expressionism and see that the set and cinematogrophy in this is clearyl taking huge inspiration from the silent movies of 1920s German filmmaking.
@@jhamPlays visually but also musically!!
No doubt both the guys who made this were fans of such just like Tim Burton
He's a single father of 3 leave him alone
true
A man’s got to put food on the table 😭
I hope he's getting child support most men don't. pray for this good father 🙏
I thought it was a woman
@ANDCFC95 to be fair its a mythical bird creature i dont think we can or should question what the sandman's got goin on down there
My teacher played this at school and a kid started crying 😂😂
LOL
Swag Yolo don't blame them
He better be careful, the sandman is attracted to really moist eyeballs.
Crazy German how is that funny
@@mintysingsongpeacock9713 That's not grounds for being fired...
My english teacher showed me this, and how are so many other people with the same? (are we all in the same class? dun dun DUUNNNN)
+AshTheMinecraft Mine did :D
+AshTheMinecraft my teacher showed the class this too it was gross and apparantly it would be pg
I introduced this to my teacher
My teacher showed me this today the ending is fucked up 0-0
+Ethan2143 ikr
"everything is so creepy but this isn't so bad"
9:19 mins later:
*left feeling extremely uncomfortable, horrified, and disgusted, with extreme regret*
enobywei oh no I just started watching 🤣🤣 should a click away of it??
my online teacher is telling me to watch this and write down sentences, great.
Search for it to watch it on repeat over and over again on purpose it's one of the best ways to help me fall asleep on restless nights it's a good way to tuck myself in as an adult
@@uoenoit8061 you tell lies mi amigo. pollo loco be coming for u now. hes bringing duolingo with him too, sleep well
This was back in the days where MTV was still playing music and showing Visual Art. This is a masterpiece.
this had appeared for the firts time in LOCOMOTION !!
The kid looks like one of those kids in the tissue commercials.
Your oddly very right
This short is one of the really first memories of my life. In 1997 or 1998 i was playing with Legos in the living room, at the time my sister was 14 or 15 years old and i was 3 or 4, and she was watching MTV.
We were watching almost the entire short, i remember that my sister started screaming when the sandman throws the eyes to the little ones, and she was running to me to cover my eyes. I'm 26 now and i spent my entire life with the fear of the dark until 2 years ago. Cheers from Italy! (Sorry guys, my english is horrible)
Yes Jesus me too, it had me traumatized... it kept replaying over and over again in my head
Italian too!
I discovered this short when I was 9 in a DVD (my dad used to download movies and cadtoons and then put them on dvds) it was pretty traumatizing bc I was at home alone :')
@@Shinyrobin0245 lol question did he do it on accident thinking it was a nice kids fairytale animation or he knew and put it on their anyways ?
@@thelimon4338 i think it was an accident
The disk was called 100 years of animation movies or something like that.
There were a lot of ww2 propaganda shorts in there (I remember one w gnomes and Hitler)
How did you get over your fear of the dark, if you don't mind me asking?
Almost 20 years old and it still holds up. ^^ Brilliant set construction, character designs, lighting...utterly beautiful and creepy in all the best ways. This, with Vincent, is one of my favourite stop-motion pieces of all time.
My Dad worked on this... Mckinnon and Saunders was the studio.
Paul Berry (director) died of a brain tumor a few years later. He was a nice guy, from what I remember (I was a kid)
Rest in piece Paul Berry. He did an animation on Jack Skellington and this is one hell of a creepy beautiful movie. I love this. This is so good.
I like how the sandman looks like a bird with that feathery skin, those big emotionless eyes, the weird dances it makes, and the fact that its nose and chin make the shadow of his head look like a shrieking eagle or hawk
Wow, Count Olaf... the depths you've sank...
Erm, No...? I think you're mistaken.... This does NOT look like Count Olaf at all. I'm sorry :3
Terestrasz Hello Hello Hello
This made my day.
And to Rhys up there,if you look at the illustrations in the books,it so does.
I regret to Inform you, however, I've read The Serious of Unfortunate Events back to back...
Rhys Tobin I thought so.(Me too.)I meant the illustrations.Brett Helquist's,I think.Maybe your copies have a different artist.
Had the pleasure of knowing and working with Paul years ago; quirky, dry humour, bright red hair, extremely talented! Very shocked and saddened to learn of his passing at such a young age and so swiftly. Rest in peace Paul 😢
From what I'm aware, the children's story featured a kind and well dressed sandman; who gave children their dreams and used sand only to keep their eyes closed whilst he did so. It was a man called Ernst Hoffman who wrote the inverse story that inspired this short animation.
Do you wanna build a sandman?
what does that have to do with any of this
@@spaceace9103 it's part of frozen
Go away bronwen
HAHA no
Hell naw dude
That’s not fair! He went to bed on time!
DEAR LORD!! It's been YEARS since i last saw this, and it still has that sinister magic about it! For me, the most frightening bit is the end when the little child stumbles out and finds all the other blind children! Thank you so much for putting this on RUclips!!
This tape is an adaptation of the even scarier german novel called "Der Sandmann" written by E.T.A Hoffmann. It deals with the border and conflict between rational thinking and pure insanity. This piece is not from the time of expressionism but from the lyrical phase called dark romance or horror romance. The novel is mezmerizing through its mental terror.
Absolutely love this. Saw the original puppet at the Mackinnon & Saunders studio. Possibly one of the greatest stop motion shorts, if not THE greatest.
You need therapy, don't you?
A Lamont Look up one called Tom Thumb as well. Not too sure if it's the same people who made it but it's just as dark and fucked up.
Robert John Bell I think I know which film you are talking about, "The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb"? It does look pretty weird lol.
A Lamont That's the one. It was like a Tool video.
I fucking saw this on telvision in the late 90's or early 2000's as a small child in bed one waking morning, I caught just the end of it and freaked the hell out. I didn't even think I was watching a regular channel, it felt like i'd been tuned into Satan's den.
Same
You sure you didn’t see it in English class?
Same. And I live in germany. This is so crazy
Same thing. I remember I was just I child and I'm sure I saw it on MTV. I live in Mexico, so that discards the English class...
@@Anarkikus it would make sense. My brothers would go to sleep watching music videos. I woke up or something and saw the end of it too. Haunted me since. Glad i finally found it. Thats Wikipedia
This is so nightmarish and beautiful at the same time. The Sandman himself has such an eerie, mysterious design. Especially how his head resembles the crescent moon. As if to say every time you see the moon out your window it could be him watching you. When he starts dancing around the boy you can tell he’s just HOPING he wakes up.
I've seen this on MTV when i was 5 or 6 years old 😱😱😱
I seen this around the same age on Halloween, I had just watched Texas chainsaw massacre and didn't flinch, but this short film right here ruined my night
i remember this being different
I saw this on MTV too, on "Cartoon Sushi" Halloween special. I was in high school then.
TomCroce same here!
Me too. OMG! You are the first person I've known to had watched this during the same time as I had and on the same channel and program. Let me guess it was Saturday or Sunday night?
I was curious to see if there was anything after the credits... That bit is probably the worst...
Ikr
Yeah... *Somebody’s* been a busy little bastard.
NO I looked after the credits cuz ya know curiosity and that like actually caught me off guard wtf is this next level of disturbance
fuck you dude why did you tell me about it now i cant even sleep i was still good after i saw ending but credits scene killed me :D
why
This was on TV in the UK on Channel 4's 4Mation in the early 90s when I was about 12.
Absolute nightmare fuel! It haunted me for years!
Just popped up on my feed.
Just about to rewatch.
Wish me luck.
See you on the other side!
Literally dont even know why this was shown in English classes for 😂😂
rduggz
Fairy tales are part of literature and this is an animated fairy tale from 1992 so our English teachers must have wanted to show us what old fairytales where like
Probably for basic plot structure. It has a clear beginning, middle and end, rising action, climax, falling action, etc
Cuz gothic
@@mcwyman7928 exactly
to teach the crucial lesson "don't annoy the entire neighborhood with that stupidly loud drum toy you're playing at the most inappropriate times", I guess
but my neighbor's children are always loud af, especially after 22:00, so I may be biased here... 😇
Dear god, I am 20 years old and I am still terrified of watching this. This Sandman haunted my dreams and nightmares for so long and the imagery is so nightmarish that I still have chills with the ending.
Saying that, this is a fantastic stop-motion short filled with tones of suspense and atmosphere that leaves you scared still with a music score that is particularly haunting to boot. Quite underrated and needs to be seen more in my option
I still remember the first time I saw as part of an animation collection in the theaters. It is still one of the most horrifying animations ever. I often wondered about the original Germanic folktale on which it was based. How do you tell a story like this to children to get them to sleep?! The poor things probably stayed up all night, wetting the beds.
Actually when you think about it, a lot of fairy tales and even lullabies are really macabre! Even "Rockabye Baby". How is crooning to a baby that the cradle is going to fall from a tree (?) with them in it supposed to be comforting :v
There are even theories that such nursery rhymes contain hidden political allegories etc. I think there's actually like an info graph on Wikipedia that breaks down historical/political events claimed to be associated with particular nursery rhymes.
They were probably used to groom kids rather than send them to sleep
It’s based off of the ETA Hoffman story Der Sandman
@@dallasgrey4247 I know. I have anthologies of his works in my personal library.
I cant' believe I found this!! This thing scared me out when I was 9 or 10, yet I could not stop watching it everytime it was broadcasted! Thanks for the upload!!
I remember these stop start surrealist animations. late night Channel 4 stuff! Some really twisted shit... so much so you can't find half of what they broadcast back then!
I've been busy these days, and today RUclips recommended this to me. This short film reminded me that Halloween is knocking at the door lol
It reminded me of Coraline too.
I said give me a dream, not a nightmare.
underrated comment
I remember channel flipping as a kid and stumbling across this.... absolutely terrified me for years
How it's funny in till the end
I remember randomly seeing just the eyeball scene one day while the TV was on MTV or something and this gave me nightmares for YEARS! Thanks for posting it so I can get some closure.
Привет кто с видео о коралине
Мдааааа, это очень странный мульт... пытаюсь понять смысл, не могу и почему то он напомнил о старом фильме снежная королева...
Я с видео о Каролине😂. Он сказал что этот мульт чем-то похож на Каролину в стране кошмаров.....
Я просто обожаю кукольные анимации + фильмы/мультфильмы с глубоким философским смыслом.
Я
Я
Oh man, I wish there were animations on Neil Gaiman's Sandman
I thought this was an animation on neil gaiman's sandman and now im fucking terrified
Am I the only one whom the English teacher didn't show this? I found this on my own
Same
I discovered it when I was 16 and showed it in class with my teach's permission LOL
I was the class' nerdy weirdo looking into culty stuff, I also showed them the music video of the Ghost of Stephen Foster during english class (actual english, Im italian) and a few other things
I saw this in my media class in my first year of college.
man is that for kids?
i am 33 i dont dare to see it
Why
I can't believe I finally found this. It traumatized me when I saw it on MTV when I was really young lol. But now I love macabre shit and I've been looking for this forever
I have been looking for it forever!! It fucked me up when I saw it on Vh1 insomniac when I was in elementary school and I have been lookin for it ever since lol!
Even Freddy Krueger would be afraid of this guy
I would agree, although that's kind of debateable as Freddy has more ways to frighten somebody, and if you have seen Freddy vs Jason (spoiler warning for anyone who wants to watch the movie)...
Freddy would blind the elm street children (and Jason) by sticking his finger blades into the eyes. The Sandman is still creepy as all hell though.
@@AwesomeHyperSonic547 sandman’s older though. So it feels not authentic some how. Not to diss Freddy. But he can be beaten or at least held off. We never see that with the sandman. Their is just so much mor unknown with him.
He would beat Freddy Krueger with his much larger face and nose😂
Imagine this Sandman in "Rise of the Guardians"
Come to think of it...he kind of looks like the villain from that doesn't he? But much more creative design-wise.
*****
And so Rise of the Guardians ended with the kids losing their eyes to Sandmans creepy children.
The End
Holy shit! Yes, he does like Pitch from the Guardians series!
It looks like something Tim Burton would make
Same style. It's a movement called German Expressionism, which existed in film and theatre of early 1920's/1930's Germany, and was also a great influence on Bertholt Brecht. If you want a great example of G.E. in action, then watch The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a psychological horror film from 1928.
It also resembles some of his sketches, especially that child. It’s like someone abducted a Tim Burton extra and placed them in a special circle of Expressionistic hell.
Paul Berry was one of the animators in Nightmare Before Christmas. Actually, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari came out in 1919. I think Paul Berry's style is akin ti Henry Selick's other than Burton's, although there are similarities with "Vincent" (1982) the earlier "Hansel and Gretel" and the more recent "Frankenweenie remake". Burton, Selick, and possibly Berry, had the same teacher at the animation academy.
Nice pfp, Vexen from Kingdom Hearts. Now imagine a game like KH with this style.
@@xXLunatikxXlul Holy shit
I've just come back from the pub after having bumped into Mr Halls son Simon who worked on this. When he told me what he was involved in this was the first animation I brought up and he was shocked that I'd remembered it. One of my favourite pieces from a kid.
Funny thing is that this was on my recommendations right on Halloween.
We had to watch this in my English class... Creepy shit
Same! Teachers are evil! We have to write about it. One of my friends ran out of the room crying
Liberty Price Unlucky it's scary as fuck. We had to write notes about it. I had nightmares about it xD
Xi Python Me too! My cat creaked the steps and as soon as I came out of the door he bombed passed me! SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH...
Liberty Price Haha I have a cat too. What's your cat's name?
Xi Python Midnight Ebony Price lol
Whats yours called?
:)
First time I get to see it!! Ah, yeah good thing I didn't see this when I was younger...😮
Rn I just fished it my self I gotta say wtf
I'm so glad I've found this again. I saw it once years ago and it just occurred to me to try to find it here. It is superb! Stop motion animation has always, to me, seemed quite creepy. Even Camberwick Green gave me the creeps now and again e.g. when the character froze to go back inside the music box. Then there were those Public Information Films of the 70s in the UK about road safety (with Tufty Fluffytail the squirrel) and the ones warning about 'stranger danger' with Charlie the cat. So to see the medium used to deliberately make a frightening story is wonderful. There's even a genuine similarity here to the experience of a nightmare. A mini-masterpiece.
Amazing job!!!!
Vintage stopmotion movies and shorts always have that creepyness that I enjoy.
The animation is gorgeous! Chilling and whimsical. I gotta say I love this short
I watched this film with my dad when i was like 9 and it scared the shit out of me. I've been thinking about it since then trying to get the name of the film and i just did thanks to youtube.
I remember watching this in English class when I was 13. I was not a fan.
Zanderfist same
smae.. had to watch it on Friday i was bloody scared NHHS
Some.guy in my class said - 'thats not a forehead thats a fivehead" 😂😂😂😂
Zanderfist I was 10 when I watched this in class lol
scarred for life
Same
Perfect video for Halloween
6:42
6:42
когда идёшь к холодильнику ночью, стараясь не разбудить родителей
when you go to the refrigerator at night, trying not to wake the parents
sorry, Google translator
А я думала я одна тут русская😅
Русские!))
Hahahahaha I love that translation its perfect
Hey kids, wanna have PTSD?!
heck yeah! i want to spend the rest of my life waiting for the sandman to snatch my eyeballs from my lonely self!
Yes plz, I’m 13 and this is actually generally very scary for me
Hehe I'm currently 13 watching this so yeah lmao
Just rember children nothing to fear but fear it'self I'm bout to be 21 this year and still watching to sleep at night works better than a lulaby but y'all 13 watching y'all sum savages
Nostalgia Critic: (sees Sandman gouge out kid’s eyeballs, then fed to his horrible chicks) “You know, for kids! 😀”
I love this kind of horror. Stop motion with a Burtonesque style. The soundtrack. There are no jumps cares. ITS just perfect!
we had to watch this at school, and i was bloody shitting myself😂😂
Greenrose 007 same
Greenrose 007 I saw it too
same the totteridge academy
Greenrose 007 same we had to watch it in English 😂😂
+Glenn Peal yeah we watched it in English because we're doing gothic fiction in year 8
Awww man!! I messed up, by showing this to my kids, now we all gonna have nightmares! 😱
I love how people are in the comments saying they saw this in English class.
I got the vibes from this too, that it would be in a English lesson
They showed this during BBC Four's animation season in 2005. I remember watching the Animation Nation programme where there was a section about it and they showed the actual thing after it.
i miss these kinds of animations/films growing up as a kid in the 90s. seems like kids now wouldn't be allowed or would have to be protected from such macabre atmosphere and moods!
28 years later and this film is still creepy.
thanks for the post
“Posted 18 years ago” holy fuck I’m getting old
Песочный человек и правда криповый я аж от него чуть не навалила кирпичей
Хххххаакеекке
А я чуть не... Ну вы поняли) 😂
This is a horror masterpiece
I guess you could say that was...
(puts on sunglasses)
... terrif-EYE-ing! YEEEAAAH!
Bruh
your youtube account is older than me
Isn't it highly doubtful that Disney Parks would ever want to make a meet-able character out of this guy?
"Mum I wanna watch the sandman on netflix"
"Nah mate we have sandman at home"
Sandman at home:
Scary but beautiful. My kind of story telling and animation.
Seconding this!
3:54 - "I am the shadow on the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright!"
This is so cool, I come back to watch it every now and then
Let's be real, this was in your recommended - you didn't search it up to relive your nightmares
Yes, and I scared of this
@@ЕленаТитова-л9д I'd hug you for comfort but I am frozen in fright!
This!
So never open your eyes when you feel a presence in your room. Got it.
I remember back in the early days of RUclips, where if you clicked through enough of the recommendations under/next to a video, you'd start getting into the "weird side of RUclips".
Just like that, i came upon this video. Yes, somewhat disturbing, but it has made me nostalgic for a time where it was always possible to come across such videos.
Man, I'm really loving that Sandman design. Creepy and intimidating in appearance, yet graceful and majestic in his movements.
This traumatized me when I was a kid. It still gives me shivers!!!! It's horrible, but amazing, I love this animation!
I don't remember when and where I saw this but I saw this as a kid and it stuck with me. I searched for this video for a while now, with no name or anything just descriptions. Thank you for uploading this. I will never understand why this was shown to children. It's scary af
That was honestly amazing. It was creepy. But the work was just...I'm speechless.
Nostalgia. Hace tiempo, mi profesor de Literatura nos enseñó esto. Años buscándola y por fin la hallé 🤧
I absolutely love the design of the Sandman in this 🔥🔥🔥
Jon solo brought me here. Thanks jon you sick bastard i didn't really need to sleep tonight anyway
Same, thanks Jon, YA JERK
This is amazing, it's something we watched back in English classes in school. I wish they showed children things like this nowadays, it's extremely good and much more thought provoking than a lot of the things they teach. This was probably the only thing I actually liked in English, and we didn't focus on it more than that one lesson. This is some inspirational stuff.
***** The way the music fits with Sandman's movements is nice. The style also reminds me of James and the Giant Peach, it's quite unsettling to me, very fitting for the animation.
+Deku Scrub They do show kids this thing 'nowadays'. I watched it in English (year 9). Personally, I find this slightly more disturbing than inspirational.... :) P.S: I respect your opinion by the way though!
Alice Evans I believe I watched it then as well. I don't know if they do still after though, people get offended over coffee cups these days LOL.
Very True :)
+Deku Scrub I myself am in Year 10 and we looked at this the other day, and I think it was very well made, it's a shame that we aren't studying it in my class.