For a bit of context to The Magic Roundabout, originally it was a French/British stop-motion cartoon from the 60’s, which was really popular in Western Europe, but wasn’t well known in the US. So, when it came to marketing the film for North America, The Winestine Company essentially decided to “Shrekify” the film, by dubbing it over with actors well known in the US and including loads of pop culture references, in order to appeal to a similar target audience. Also, I should mention that there was also a spin-off tv series from the film, which everyone seems to just forget about.
I grew up with this film (original version, not U.S. Doogal version) and it's weird to see it be considered by people as a "fever dream" or forgotten movie. But I had no clue about a spin-off TV show. Weirdly, on the Wikipedia article of the 60's show, it mentions the 2005 film and the spin-off series, but it doesn't actually say what the show was called (unless im being stupid and it was _also_ just called The Magic Roundabout), nor is there the usual table that shows the title and a brief description of each episode. The spin-off isn't even mentioned on the 2005 film's article, which is even weirder considering that it's a direct follow-up. It looks like there's not much info known about the spin-off that not even Wikipedia has all the answers XD
@@milotaylor1175 There's some details you missed. The US dub was originally written as a faithful adaptation, but Weinstein got greedy and butchered it, thinking he could make easy money. Let this be an example to never be like Harvey Weinstein, nor let him near another animated movie.
another case like artthur and the invisible, classic french spoken movies that just don't do well in english places so they trash talk it because they don't get the fine art of it.
Just so y’all know these are not typical of fever dreams. Not at all. This is what a typical lsd trip/shroom trip feels like. Psychedelic truth. Not like the 60s
Loved it as a kid it really clicked for me But I haven't watch it in years. I guess it really informed my taste in movies, always looking for a new confusing fever dream
It’s the same guy from Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with Johnny Deep as Willy Wonka) (2004) and the show The Good Doctor. I found it funny how he was in so many strange movies as well. And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen all of them as well.
Oh boy- where do I start It's nice to finally have someone collectively group some of my favourite childhood movies together with the simple tag of "they don't feel real", as I've struggled to do so for so long. Watching Zathura is the earliest positive memory I have as an infant, and man that says a lot about me/ my upbringing. 9 was my first hyperfixation, and I remembered all of it as a child. Every detail, every scene, even if I only watched it once. Meanwhile my parents would tease me with The magic Roundabout and put it up full blast on our ancient yet large CRT, as some form of twisted game. The other films I don't feel as strongly for, but still appreciate on this list. Except spiderwick chronicles that scared the shit outta me. This video was such a surprise to find on my recommended, and I cannot thank you enough for bringing these 'whimsical' childhood memories back to life.
I know right? 😂 only one I didn't see at the time was doogl and dumbo. The rest on here I've seen at least twice or more and have alot of memories about liking them.
Hell, I even recognized the Santa clip at the beginning of the video. While I don't remember the name of said film, I do know that it involves a Wizard/Warlock
Glad this got in my feed bcuz now I can talk about how genuinely brilliant and subtle of a masterpiece Where The Wild Things Are, instead of symbolism and metaphors being supplementary to the story like most films including the best ones, they literally ARE the story/apart of it. The relationship dynamics of the wild things and how they develop are allegorical to Maxes real life relationships, and their states/which ones get focused on symbolize the current state of different aspects of Maxes psyche throughout the film. Not to mention the fact that every Wild Thing represents a different part of Max himself, including some of his most important ppl in his real life as those are important parts of all of us as people. The Bison who doesn’t talk throughout the whole movie except for when he says “Hey Max, when you go home will you say good things about us?” most likely represents the father that is no longer in his life to the point where he might be kind of a stranger to Max at this point. Theres a lot more to talk abt but you have to experience the bittersweet existential beauty yourself.
The Never Ending Story and Labyrinth were two weird ones from my childhood I remember. The ones in your video were all forgotten in the back of my brain, so thank you for the reminder XD. Gonna have to rewatch all of these as an adult now!
Another movie like that is the dark crystal (I think that’s what it was called) I watched that so many times as a kid, along with the labyrinth and never ending story
I was obsessed with Doogal as a toddler and my mom absolutely hated the movie lol, she would make up lies to me about why we couldn't see it, stuff like “oh that's not actually the movie being shown in that channel, it's just a trailer/commercial, let's watch something else” and of course it worked because I was like, 2.
I’m confident the Hotwheels Acceleracers movies feel like an old dream to most people who saw them. It feels surreal watching movies of characters with realistic shape/anatomy designs but very low quality texturing going through a bunch of dimensions
Machinarium is a 2009 game eerily similar to the movie 9, as a kid i would always dream about it's steampunk worlds. For the longest I thought both of em were only imagination bc nobody talks about them enough.
ITs such a specific feeling. So refreshing to see this exact feeling being talked about, and a bunch of the movies that gave me the feeling being mentioned. Arthur, Zathura, Nine, Spiderwick Chronicles. Such classics that are genuinely fun watches. I think watching these at a young age combined with not watching them more then once or twice adds to the fever dream aspect as you don't really imprint the information nearly as much as something more popular or easily digestable at a younger age.
amazing video for a 700 sub channel, keep it up king. Also that Zathura movie sequence just brought back a part of my childhood that was lost for a long time.
9, saw it when it came out, and became one of my favorites as a kid. I remember Welcome Home by Coheed & Cambria blasting for the 9 trailer. Got me into the band, and their songs are good.
@@abumidas6858 I was obsessed with the movie and its steampunk aesthetic. It scared my parents, and I cried when 2 died. It’s funnier because one of the guys from Stepbrothers is in it, and he voices 5.
You forgot Labrynth!! As a 26 y/o most of these were some of my favorites as a child. My dad passed…he was big into film and man all these bring back so much nostalgia. As a kid (and atill now) zathura was awesome. Still have all the spiderwick books and the movie was frickin creepy! Those goblins were crazy.
The Golden Compass, I remember other classes in school that got to read the book were excited. I remember the local news talking about how controversial it was, I remember some big actors were in it. And I definitely remember the Polar Bear jaw flying off and the audience being shocked me included. But the craziest part is that no ever talked about the movie afterwards.
OH MY GOSH, YEAHH, I remember one time in Primary School the teacher put this film on for my class to watch. And this movie was made before all of us kids were even born so it was completely new to us. I also think it was around Christmas or something, so we weren't really doing work in school. Our teacher also put Labyrinth for us one time, she knew some real great films, haha
@@Zsemlemester99 I was honestly so surprised by it. I usually expect poor tv adaptations of series, especially the good ones like His Dark Materials. But the show actually stayed pretty close to the source material and ended up being surprisingly enjoyable
I would say The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fits pretty well under here, the movie’s plot jumps around so much that it’s hard to have any specific memories of it at all
I wish that the kids of this generation had more movies like these, everything is so watered-down and sanitized now. Where the Wild Things Are, Labyrinth, Neverending Story, the Dark Crystal, 9, Coraline, the Witches, etc are all weird ass movies, but they're the ones I remember most fondly from my childhood. That healthy dose of fear really captivated me growing up. It's a shame Gen Alpha doesn't really get to experience this for themselves, (unless their parents actively show them these films)
I still think there are some pretty good animated movies out there the more unique ones get overshadowed by more popular movies and such. It's likely because we have grown up and nothing really hits the same as we were kids as we have experience so much in amount of years being alive. Still kids today have so many options of movies and shows to pick and choose from regardless if its new or old.
Exactly, I think they are really great at emphasizing creativity to kids, the shows and movies now are just pure brain rot and aren’t allowing the kids to see anything new
Zathur is space Jumanji because it’s written by the same author Chris Van Allsburg. Also a very awesome artist who did his own illustrations for his books, which also have a very dream like quality to them
9 wasn't stop motion, but it was produced by Tim Burton (who is commonly associated with the medium). It was actually done in CGI. All stop motion movies do have a fever dream-like quality, I think, because of how the characters move and the designs and stuff. Not that that's a bad thing. I really love stop motion.
7:55 I was really traumatized by this movie as a kid. The thing that scared me the most at the time was the idea that nobody could see the monsters. Today I smile a bit and like it, but back then it gave me nightmares.
3:50 we all remember this movie it’s just that we don’t want to remember it because it was such a terrible movie that tried to imitate Jumanji but in space. That was something nobody asked for and didn’t want to ever happen and that’s why it’s been swept under. This isn’t a movie that anybody wants to go back to or talk about
Where the Wild Things Are always stood out to me as a kid. I had untreated adhd/autism and OCD, so much of the real world was very scary to me. So, the world where these creatures were unknowable, illogical, and sometimes outright a little frightening was stranglely comforting. I really liked the Wild Things. I related to the main boy who found comfort in the strange beings and went pretty much unquestioningly into the unknown. I had relied on my own imagination and dissociation so much myself that I didn't question the Wild Things either. It was devoid of anything uncanny to me because I think I just kind of...craved something similar happening to me 😅
For me, the movie that really hits the spot for being a fever dream is Coraline. I never knew if the book was real, or if it was a figment of my imagination.
I heavily recommend Help! I'm A Fish (2000). It has pop songs playing out of nowhere in some scenes mixed with a musical setting, plus very unsettling & trippy visuals to add on top. Not to mention a disturbing, yet creative villain death, which is what this movie is mostly remembered for. We're Back! A Dinosaur Story (1993) is a really good pick too.
The animation style of "We're back! A Dinosaur Story" also reminds me al lot of films such as "All Dogs go to Heaven" and "The Secret of Nim". I think those films are by the same people
You should also have added The "NeverEnding Story" , this movie often comes to my mind whenever I try to remember "Starwars The Phantom Menace" for some reason
I share a similar feeling with Ponyo, although it wasn't my first anime or even ghibli film I saw a bit of it once during my 5th birthday and never saw it or knew it's name until years later, kinda weird to think I knew it was a Ghibli film from the arstyle at that age, but it took me so long to figure out the movie's name lol.
The lizards in zathura scarred me as a kid but I could never remember where I'd seen it. The movie truly hides in my subconscious and I won't even consider watching it now
When I was a kid my friend asked me if I had watched the movie “nine lives” and I thought he was talking about “9” and I was confused why he was talking about a cat and I was thinking about a ragdoll having it’s soul sucked. 😭
I am being so for real, 9 is one of my favorite animated movies, possibly top 3, *Surfs up will always be #1* and also, where the wild ones are is peak
Dude u have the greatest movie taste I was so obsessed with surfs up when I was younger, and that chicken dude was the goat, I used to wanna be him fr 😂
One of the films that wasn't mentioned in the video but completely fulfilled the criteria is George Miller's 'Babe: Pig in the City'. It was the first one that came to mind after reading the title.
Oddly enough, there's a reference to the first film (Babe: Pig in the City" is a sequel and I have no idea what the first one is called) in Shrek. The line "That'll do, Donkey. That'll do" was originally "That'll do pig. That'll do" in the first Babe film
Another one you could potentially add would be Journey to the Center of the Earth, another film with a young Josh Hutcherson. I remember that movie having a scene with a dinosaur that made me sob in fear at my friend's house at night. (Edit: I got the movie title wrong)
@ see that was the edit I made because I get that confused with Race to Witch Mountain which does have the Rock in it. I’m convinced they’re the same movie from two different timelines
A movie that felt like a fever dream to me is probably hitchhiker's guide to galaxy. My memories of it are very little but I remember it not making any sense near the end but maybe it's because I watched it at such a young age.
I recommend listening to the BBC radio version if you haven't! I haven't watched the film or read the book so can't compare - only watched the old TV series & the radio show - but the radio show is the original version (before even the book!) and its really good
For real though It didn't help that the movies were on at the weirdest times in Free TV I remember that when I was a child I was on vacation with my parents and there was a marathon of those movies at night I believe I fell asleep some time and for years I thought I had just dreamt up the plot
1:13 hell no, i saw that nightmare of a movie when i was somewhere between 6 and 8 years old. that scene freaked me out so bad i started sobbing in the theater and my older sister dragged me outside lol. i still hate that movie and book with a passion 💀
Interesting how I saw the "Where the wild things are" book the other day and remembered a movie existed and that it literally is NEVER brought up anywhere. I genuinely believe that almost everyone has forgotten it exists.
I'm a simple man. I see 9 and I fucking click. That movie is the polar opposite of a "fever dream movie" to me, in that I remember every detail of it, I was obsessed with it as a kid - I think it played a big part in my tastes growing up (that being, post apocalypse, world war 1 and robots)
As an italian kid, there was this 2003 CGI film called "Little Bee Julia & Lady Life", I'm not sure if it has been distributed elsewhere but it doesn't look like it. The subpar CGI animation, the musical numbers, its EXISTENTIALISM (yes, you heard that, it's a kids movie that tackles life itself and I think Julia actually ages throughout the film and passes away of old age in the ending if I remember correctly). I remember feeling a tiny little bit moved by the mere fact she passed away, and I think there was also a moment where a human character (basically Julia is asking the Queen Bee a bunch of questions and the Queen gives her a bunch of stories to make points about life) who was shown crying because she wasn't able to accept her mortality, and then it faded to her being older but calmer, more accepting of things since it's a gradual thing. But yeah, even as a kid I was like "Ok, uh... is this actually captured footage of someone's fever dream?" because some of those themes and the way they were handled were just so beyond anything a kiddo my age back then could follow (doesn't help that it's a film with a lot of talking, talking, talking AAAAAAND lots of talking, so that united with the Foodfight-esque visuals and bizarre script is not exactly cinematic excellence) and just the CGI and everything else made it so feverish. I'm kind of scared of trying to revisit it LMFAO
Zathura is a totally underrated movie. I saw it in the theater with my grandma and loved it, and then like fifteen years later I rewatched it as an adult with my best friend. Honestly, for a children's movie, it holds up pretty well.
A lot of these movies give me the memories of going to the old movie rental stores like “blockbuster” or “jumbo video” when I was younger. They’re definitely all nostalgic in some way (especially doogal, that movie was almost a lost memory), but there’s also that eerie, unsettling atmosphere which is a huge part of all these movies. I think it’s so cool how they all have this reputation, I don’t think that this type of reputation can be attached with any other time frame for movies. It’s like an old treasure chest that unlocks such incredible lost and forgotten memories. Incredible video
9 was my favorite movie on this list and still is my favorite. As a kid i actually understood the story quite well thankfully, i Loved the mechanical creations from the machine, i want to see so much more designs from that movie if i could
A common theme with these films is that they are usually lower budget films that rarely see much marketing or even a cinematic release. So they end up in dvd stores where if your a kid who wanted something to watch, you'd rent it and think nothing else. They are also usually made by European studios that decide to licence the movie to the rest of the world or made by smaller American/Canadian studios trying to compete with the bigger companies. One movie like this would probably be Coraline but unlike these other films, that one became a huge cult classic. Since that movie has become so popular, it doesn't have that mysterious vibe all these other fever dream movies have since those never get much acclaim from critics or audiences to be noteworthy beyond childhood memories.
Something that I’ve noticed is that there are a lot of movies or shows that over time I’ll forget the name of but something about them always made me remember them. It wasn’t until years later that I’d find out the names. A lot of them having dream like or strange qualities
I'm SO happy to hear you talk about 9. I feel nobody talks about it. I own it on DvD and for some reason it was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Probably because my mom made my family a big fan of Tim Burton and stop motions films, that movie was in that general area of interest. The movie definitely scared me as a kid, especially at the very beginning they show a short shot of a dead mom and their kid in a car. But something about the Stitchpunks and The Machine were very cool to me as a kid which made me love it. I do recommend this movie because I still love it as a adult! Though MAJOR flash warning for later in the movie. Spoiler warning but the snake creature uses flashing lights to hypnotize the Stitchpunks. I don't have epilepsy but it still hurts my eyes as a kid lol
The biggest fever dream movie ever in my opinion is a movie called “The Dark Crystal” nobody I’ve asked about has ever heard of it, but I remember it being on the TV when I was a kid, and every time I even think of it I get extreme fever dream vibes
For a bit of context to The Magic Roundabout, originally it was a French/British stop-motion cartoon from the 60’s, which was really popular in Western Europe, but wasn’t well known in the US. So, when it came to marketing the film for North America, The Winestine Company essentially decided to “Shrekify” the film, by dubbing it over with actors well known in the US and including loads of pop culture references, in order to appeal to a similar target audience. Also, I should mention that there was also a spin-off tv series from the film, which everyone seems to just forget about.
I grew up with this film (original version, not U.S. Doogal version) and it's weird to see it be considered by people as a "fever dream" or forgotten movie. But I had no clue about a spin-off TV show. Weirdly, on the Wikipedia article of the 60's show, it mentions the 2005 film and the spin-off series, but it doesn't actually say what the show was called (unless im being stupid and it was _also_ just called The Magic Roundabout), nor is there the usual table that shows the title and a brief description of each episode. The spin-off isn't even mentioned on the 2005 film's article, which is even weirder considering that it's a direct follow-up. It looks like there's not much info known about the spin-off that not even Wikipedia has all the answers XD
@@milotaylor1175 There's some details you missed. The US dub was originally written as a faithful adaptation, but Weinstein got greedy and butchered it, thinking he could make easy money. Let this be an example to never be like Harvey Weinstein, nor let him near another animated movie.
another case like artthur and the invisible, classic french spoken movies that just don't do well in english places so they trash talk it because they don't get the fine art of it.
Just so y’all know these are not typical of fever dreams. Not at all. This is what a typical lsd trip/shroom trip feels like. Psychedelic truth. Not like the 60s
That's weird. The trailer I always saw for the movie was supposed to be a full on parody of Lord of the Rings
I remember Where The Wild Things Are. Feels so weird looking back at it now. It really does feel like a fever dream
Loved it as a kid it really clicked for me But I haven't watch it in years. I guess it really informed my taste in movies, always looking for a new confusing fever dream
WHY DID THEY LET JAMES GANDOLFINI BE A VOUCE ACTOR IM DYING 😭😭
I've only seen it once when it came out, but it randomly pops into my head sometimes. It's like remembering a dream I had a long time ago.
That's the one movie that I can’t remember and I want to watch it again to remember but am too scared to watch
@@daseapickleofjustice7231 he was fantastic in the role wym
To me, James and the giant peach’s entire message is “biology doesn’t mean family, family is what u make” and I’ve always loved that about it
blood is thicker than water but water runs deeper
@@baldwiniv5339Blood is soluble in water, meaning it runs deeper than water
@@proggz39🤓☝️
@@proggz39It's called a Metaphor.
@@proggz39 "The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" is the original quote
who remembers boxtrolls? i remember remembering it but i dont have any memories of it
I remember it's posters at my cinemas years ago
I remember the crazy red suited villain guy EXPLODING VIA CHEESE at the end.
bro that movie made me feel so uncomfortable
i actually went as one for Halloween one year lol
I remember it surprisingly well and could probably recount 80% of the plot
The Tale of Despereaux (2008) is definitely one of those dreamy, unreal movies
A lot of the obscure movies that came out when I was growing up
That's a crazy memory. Saw it for the first time in a drive in theater with my family
YOOOOOOO broooooooooooooooooooooooo I remember this movie 😂😂😂😂eish. Like it was a dream
I WISH that movie was only a dream. I remember loving the book and the movie was terrible by comparison.
I need to rewatch that! it's been years
It’s funny how the same kid was the actor in almost all these movies 😂
It’s the same guy from Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (with Johnny Deep as Willy Wonka) (2004) and the show The Good Doctor. I found it funny how he was in so many strange movies as well. And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen all of them as well.
These are all different kids apart from 1 who was in 2
Edit: never mind I’m a dumbass
@@KaleKellerSalad he wasn't, that's josh hutcherson
@@KaleKellerSalad don’t stop shooting yung blud
A series of unfortunate events definitely felt like a fever dream
so true, I was just thinking about that, since the series is one of the oldest produced by Netflix
@@dimas-qp6zoI’m pretty sure he’s talking about the original with him Carrey …
@@andrewg4723 oh mb
yess!! a series of unfortunate events with Jim Carrey was one of those movies for me too. i watched it recently and it’s still really weird.
@@lijah9168 the boat scene with the aunt was weird af everything was lmao
Mars meets moms, space dogs, spy kids.
Oh god Mars Needs Moms was crazy fever dream vibes.
spy kids is a huge classic!
spy kids is so memeable, how could you even forget that
space dogs always played on this weird free movie network we had on our tv. I think it was always on Polish for some weird reason 😭
Space chimps
Zarhura hits me hard. One of my parents favorite memories of me as a child was telling my kindergarten teacher “give me a juice box, biotch”.
That's my favorite quote 😂 lol
Arthur and the invisible is such a nostalgic movie for me
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i never noticed it was a weird movie
Man that girl may have been my first crush 😂😭
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@@sledge2742 Same bro
Oh boy- where do I start
It's nice to finally have someone collectively group some of my favourite childhood movies together with the simple tag of "they don't feel real", as I've struggled to do so for so long. Watching Zathura is the earliest positive memory I have as an infant, and man that says a lot about me/ my upbringing. 9 was my first hyperfixation, and I remembered all of it as a child. Every detail, every scene, even if I only watched it once. Meanwhile my parents would tease me with The magic Roundabout and put it up full blast on our ancient yet large CRT, as some form of twisted game. The other films I don't feel as strongly for, but still appreciate on this list.
Except spiderwick chronicles that scared the shit outta me.
This video was such a surprise to find on my recommended, and I cannot thank you enough for bringing these 'whimsical' childhood memories back to life.
The Spiderwick Chronicles was one of my favorite movies growing up. lol
The fact I’ve seen most if not all of these movies is baffling to me
I know right? 😂 only one I didn't see at the time was doogl and dumbo. The rest on here I've seen at least twice or more and have alot of memories about liking them.
Hell, I even recognized the Santa clip at the beginning of the video. While I don't remember the name of said film, I do know that it involves a Wizard/Warlock
Where the Wild Things Are was so underrated. The emotion with the journey Max goes was well done. And it visually looks stunning.
For me it was "Robots".
I still think I've imagined it, when I was a child
I was gonna comment this lol
for me it's astro boy and remember Antz?
I agree. I don't think anyone has ever brought up Robots in conversation to me.
@@malana1359 speaking of Antz, mine was The Ant Bully, maybe this one’ll jog some memories for a few people in here.
yooo robots is so popular in the uk🔥🔥everyone i know thinks it is sick af
Glad this got in my feed bcuz now I can talk about how genuinely brilliant and subtle of a masterpiece Where The Wild Things Are, instead of symbolism and metaphors being supplementary to the story like most films including the best ones, they literally ARE the story/apart of it. The relationship dynamics of the wild things and how they develop are allegorical to Maxes real life relationships, and their states/which ones get focused on symbolize the current state of different aspects of Maxes psyche throughout the film. Not to mention the fact that every Wild Thing represents a different part of Max himself, including some of his most important ppl in his real life as those are important parts of all of us as people. The Bison who doesn’t talk throughout the whole movie except for when he says “Hey Max, when you go home will you say good things about us?” most likely represents the father that is no longer in his life to the point where he might be kind of a stranger to Max at this point. Theres a lot more to talk abt but you have to experience the bittersweet existential beauty yourself.
The Never Ending Story and Labyrinth were two weird ones from my childhood I remember. The ones in your video were all forgotten in the back of my brain, so thank you for the reminder XD. Gonna have to rewatch all of these as an adult now!
Another movie like that is the dark crystal (I think that’s what it was called) I watched that so many times as a kid, along with the labyrinth and never ending story
Labyrinth is so peak
No way this video made me think of the never ending story too
No way this video made me think of the never ending story too
man the never ending story was a wild ride
The arm ripping scene in where the wild things are absolutely scarred me as a kid, I still think of it as an adult
I was obsessed with Doogal as a toddler and my mom absolutely hated the movie lol, she would make up lies to me about why we couldn't see it, stuff like “oh that's not actually the movie being shown in that channel, it's just a trailer/commercial, let's watch something else” and of course it worked because I was like, 2.
autism
😂😂😂I was old enough to put the movie on😂😂😂
I had the DVD and it was called the Magical roundabout and not doogle
I remember how it was like the movie frozen lol
I’m confident the Hotwheels Acceleracers movies feel like an old dream to most people who saw them. It feels surreal watching movies of characters with realistic shape/anatomy designs but very low quality texturing going through a bunch of dimensions
Acceeeeeelerrrrrraaaacerssssss
9 was probably my first hyperfixation I ever had. I would make the characters out of clay and reenact scenes from the film as a kid.
Dahl books are about righteous revenge and recompense/rewards for the innocent or wronged. It's amazing how he tapped into how a child might think...
It’s funny how most of these movies star the guy that plays the good doctor
I AM A SURGEON!
I AM A SURGEON DR HAN!
I AM I AM A SURGEON DR HAN!
2 of them do
Or the kid that later played Peeta in the Hunger games movies
@@amwhik and mike in fnaf
He was The premiere child star back in the day.
Machinarium is a 2009 game eerily similar to the movie 9, as a kid i would always dream about it's steampunk worlds. For the longest I thought both of em were only imagination bc nobody talks about them enough.
ITs such a specific feeling. So refreshing to see this exact feeling being talked about, and a bunch of the movies that gave me the feeling being mentioned. Arthur, Zathura, Nine, Spiderwick Chronicles. Such classics that are genuinely fun watches. I think watching these at a young age combined with not watching them more then once or twice adds to the fever dream aspect as you don't really imprint the information nearly as much as something more popular or easily digestable at a younger age.
amazing video for a 700 sub channel, keep it up king. Also that Zathura movie sequence just brought back a part of my childhood that was lost for a long time.
8:53 I definitely never forgot about this movie it’s always been a classic, the concept of the movie isn’t that hard to figure out even for a child
9, saw it when it came out, and became one of my favorites as a kid. I remember Welcome Home by Coheed & Cambria blasting for the 9 trailer. Got me into the band, and their songs are good.
I swear, I'm glad I'm watching this now. As a kid, I had too many nightmares by just seeing the movie poster.
it’s such a good movie
@@abumidas6858 I was obsessed with the movie and its steampunk aesthetic. It scared my parents, and I cried when 2 died. It’s funnier because one of the guys from Stepbrothers is in it, and he voices 5.
I love it, 9 is so underrated 😊
Where can I watch the film?
You forgot Labrynth!!
As a 26 y/o most of these were some of my favorites as a child. My dad passed…he was big into film and man all these bring back so much nostalgia.
As a kid (and atill now) zathura was awesome.
Still have all the spiderwick books and the movie was frickin creepy! Those goblins were crazy.
Hearing Tony Soprano say “I’LL EAT YOU UP” is somehow more threatening than anything he did in the Sopranos💀
I love how most of these were from the 2000s. What a bizzare and awesome decade for film.
The Golden Compass, I remember other classes in school that got to read the book were excited. I remember the local news talking about how controversial it was, I remember some big actors were in it. And I definitely remember the Polar Bear jaw flying off and the audience being shocked me included.
But the craziest part is that no ever talked about the movie afterwards.
OH MY GOSH, YEAHH, I remember one time in Primary School the teacher put this film on for my class to watch. And this movie was made before all of us kids were even born so it was completely new to us. I also think it was around Christmas or something, so we weren't really doing work in school. Our teacher also put Labyrinth for us one time, she knew some real great films, haha
there was a golden compass game where you play as the bear too
The series (His Dark Materials) is pretty cool tho
It was controversial because the spirit animals were called Daemons, and a bunch of religious middle american moms flipped shit about it
@@Zsemlemester99 I was honestly so surprised by it. I usually expect poor tv adaptations of series, especially the good ones like His Dark Materials. But the show actually stayed pretty close to the source material and ended up being surprisingly enjoyable
I would say The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy fits pretty well under here, the movie’s plot jumps around so much that it’s hard to have any specific memories of it at all
I wish that the kids of this generation had more movies like these, everything is so watered-down and sanitized now. Where the Wild Things Are, Labyrinth, Neverending Story, the Dark Crystal, 9, Coraline, the Witches, etc are all weird ass movies, but they're the ones I remember most fondly from my childhood. That healthy dose of fear really captivated me growing up. It's a shame Gen Alpha doesn't really get to experience this for themselves, (unless their parents actively show them these films)
Yup a lot of cool weird movies back in the day
I still think there are some pretty good animated movies out there the more unique ones get overshadowed by more popular movies and such. It's likely because we have grown up and nothing really hits the same as we were kids as we have experience so much in amount of years being alive. Still kids today have so many options of movies and shows to pick and choose from regardless if its new or old.
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Exactly, I think they are really great at emphasizing creativity to kids, the shows and movies now are just pure brain rot and aren’t allowing the kids to see anything new
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0:30 can anyone tell me this movie, saw it as a kid but barely remember it and really wanna see why it had a lasting impression on me
Scary godmother
It’s “Scary Godmother”. There is also a second movie called “Scary Godmother: Jimmy’s Revenge” and it’s so funny.
@lalaland2107 I never knew they made a second one, cartoon network played the first one every Halloween after school lol
funny how most of this movies take advantage of the early 2000s cgi and this just make it fell even more like fever dream
This video hit me with a huge amount of nostalgia. I read most of the books and watched the movies and loved them so much
Zathur is space Jumanji because it’s written by the same author Chris Van Allsburg. Also a very awesome artist who did his own illustrations for his books, which also have a very dream like quality to them
I used to run out of the family room when where the Wild things are plays when i was 5
I LOVED Arthur when I was a kid!!!
Ditto, brother! One of Luc Besson’s most underrated films!
Still love Arthur to this day, my friends
Me too
Yeah I had a huge crush on the pixie girl
Sameee, she was literally my first crush @@user-kz9zi7rv9p
I’ve been saying this for years. 2000-2009 was an incredibly weird era for movies. You are absolutely correct to call them “fever dream movies.”
“And literally starts geeking” 😭😭😭 that’s a sub bro, please continue w the subtle slipped in gen z dialogue
Where The Wild Things Are was one of my favorite movies growing up
james and the giant peach and 9 were everything to me as a kid, they really helped reinforce my love of stop motion
9 wasn't stop motion, but it was produced by Tim Burton (who is commonly associated with the medium). It was actually done in CGI.
All stop motion movies do have a fever dream-like quality, I think, because of how the characters move and the designs and stuff. Not that that's a bad thing. I really love stop motion.
@ i need to rewatch it i guess lol but i love that they were able to do that through cgi, its a beautiful movie regardless
I watched both 9 on Netflix i think or dvd and peach on vhs i loved growing up in 2000s
Here's some notable mentions: The Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, and The NeverEnding Story
authur and the invisibles rope scene litterally tramatized me as a child
Same
just subbed! you are doing good work here man. i'm sure you are going to be very successful, keep it up! 👏🏻
7:55 I was really traumatized by this movie as a kid. The thing that scared me the most at the time was the idea that nobody could see the monsters. Today I smile a bit and like it, but back then it gave me nightmares.
Bruh the part where the kid gets bitten and it’s all bloody and gross scared me so bad when I watched it
whenever wind would blow leaves towards me I would immediately run inside because I thought there could be invisible monsters lmao
3:50 we all remember this movie it’s just that we don’t want to remember it because it was such a terrible movie that tried to imitate Jumanji but in space. That was something nobody asked for and didn’t want to ever happen and that’s why it’s been swept under. This isn’t a movie that anybody wants to go back to or talk about
The Arthur Trilogy is amazing and I just rewatched them after so long, really good even for movies targeted towards kids
Thank you so much for this video. Several of these hold great memories for me, especially Where the Wild things are, that one struck deep.
I remember seeing advertisements for WTWTA, Zathura and the spiderwick chronicles being everywhere when I was a kid.
Where the Wild Things Are always stood out to me as a kid. I had untreated adhd/autism and OCD, so much of the real world was very scary to me. So, the world where these creatures were unknowable, illogical, and sometimes outright a little frightening was stranglely comforting. I really liked the Wild Things. I related to the main boy who found comfort in the strange beings and went pretty much unquestioningly into the unknown. I had relied on my own imagination and dissociation so much myself that I didn't question the Wild Things either. It was devoid of anything uncanny to me because I think I just kind of...craved something similar happening to me 😅
For me, the movie that really hits the spot for being a fever dream is Coraline. I never knew if the book was real, or if it was a figment of my imagination.
Was more of a nightmare than a dream tbh (i loved it)
The spider witch scared me
Exactly, thank you
Another title for this video is:
Movies that keep you up at night
I heavily recommend Help! I'm A Fish (2000). It has pop songs playing out of nowhere in some scenes mixed with a musical setting, plus very unsettling & trippy visuals to add on top. Not to mention a disturbing, yet creative villain death, which is what this movie is mostly remembered for.
We're Back! A Dinosaur Story (1993) is a really good pick too.
I LOVED Help! I'm A Fish! Is very distinctively Danish, even in the English dub; said dub was also Aaron Paul's first acting role.
Yes these aswell
The Dinosaur movie is definitely an old memory brought back to light
The animation style of "We're back! A Dinosaur Story" also reminds me al lot of films such as "All Dogs go to Heaven" and "The Secret of Nim". I think those films are by the same people
Oh my God the alien in the basement has been haunting me for years and now I finally know what it is.
dude these movies where my childhood loved em
You should also have added The "NeverEnding Story" , this movie often comes to my mind whenever I try to remember "Starwars The Phantom Menace" for some reason
My favorite fever dream movie is spirited away, it was the first time i saw anime and it was amazing
I share a similar feeling with Ponyo, although it wasn't my first anime or even ghibli film I saw a bit of it once during my 5th birthday and never saw it or knew it's name until years later, kinda weird to think I knew it was a Ghibli film from the arstyle at that age, but it took me so long to figure out the movie's name lol.
i remember watching it in school.. forever glad that they played it for us
The lizards in zathura scarred me as a kid but I could never remember where I'd seen it. The movie truly hides in my subconscious and I won't even consider watching it now
9 has been my favourite film for a while now so it was strange to see it here. I agree though, I end up forgetting bits about it when I re-watch it.
When I was a kid my friend asked me if I had watched the movie “nine lives” and I thought he was talking about “9” and I was confused why he was talking about a cat and I was thinking about a ragdoll having it’s soul sucked. 😭
Trust me, rewatch all of these and they’ll become some of your favorites. “Hidden Gem” isn’t a phrase for nothing.
Bro i was obsessed with the spiderwick chronicles books and movie! They really need to make a faithful seeries adaptation for it😭😭😭
The fact I've seen every single one of these has to be why I love this type of genre
I am being so for real, 9 is one of my favorite animated movies, possibly top 3, *Surfs up will always be #1* and also, where the wild ones are is peak
Dude u have the greatest movie taste I was so obsessed with surfs up when I was younger, and that chicken dude was the goat, I used to wanna be him fr 😂
@ thats so real, chicken joe is peak
@@primezilla37 fax bro, godbless and stay safe out there homie 🙏
@ you too
One of the films that wasn't mentioned in the video but completely fulfilled the criteria is George Miller's 'Babe: Pig in the City'. It was the first one that came to mind after reading the title.
Oddly enough, there's a reference to the first film (Babe: Pig in the City" is a sequel and I have no idea what the first one is called) in Shrek. The line "That'll do, Donkey. That'll do" was originally "That'll do pig. That'll do" in the first Babe film
Another one you could potentially add would be Journey to the Center of the Earth, another film with a young Josh Hutcherson. I remember that movie having a scene with a dinosaur that made me sob in fear at my friend's house at night. (Edit: I got the movie title wrong)
God that was weird. For some reason I remember it having the Rock in it but he wasn’t.
@ see that was the edit I made because I get that confused with Race to Witch Mountain which does have the Rock in it. I’m convinced they’re the same movie from two different timelines
@@goodgremlinmedia2757there is a second Journey to the center of the earth that stars the rock😂
one of my favourite films as a kid. So good
@@goodgremlinmedia2757the sequel has the rock in it
5:42 to be fair that's just very Ronald Dahl. He was very anti-adult in a lot of his stories, heck that's the entire point of Matilda.
A movie that felt like a fever dream to me is probably hitchhiker's guide to galaxy. My memories of it are very little but I remember it not making any sense near the end but maybe it's because I watched it at such a young age.
Haven’t seen the movie but the book is definitely a fever dream.
I recommend listening to the BBC radio version if you haven't! I haven't watched the film or read the book so can't compare - only watched the old TV series & the radio show - but the radio show is the original version (before even the book!) and its really good
@@GwynnDdu sounds cool, might wanna check it out
I watch recently for the first time. It doesn't make sense bad movie
Yessss I loved that movie as a kid
Arthur and the invisibles is so nostalgic
For me it was dinotopia. I thought I dreamed it vividly.
For real though
It didn't help that the movies were on at the weirdest times in Free TV
I remember that when I was a child I was on vacation with my parents and there was a marathon of those movies at night
I believe I fell asleep some time and for years I thought I had just dreamt up the plot
I’m glad I’m not the only one who felt this way about most of these movies
1:13 hell no, i saw that nightmare of a movie when i was somewhere between 6 and 8 years old. that scene freaked me out so bad i started sobbing in the theater and my older sister dragged me outside lol. i still hate that movie and book with a passion 💀
arthur and the invisibles was in my dreams as a kid i watched it and never knew how it was named thanks
Interesting how I saw the "Where the wild things are" book the other day and remembered a movie existed and that it literally is NEVER brought up anywhere. I genuinely believe that almost everyone has forgotten it exists.
I remember watching so many of these films but the fact that I’m sleepy and watching this 12:12am does not convince me that there not fever dreams
It’s wild that you talked about surreal movies without mentioning the dark crystal or labyrinth
I'm a simple man. I see 9 and I fucking click.
That movie is the polar opposite of a "fever dream movie" to me, in that I remember every detail of it, I was obsessed with it as a kid - I think it played a big part in my tastes growing up (that being, post apocalypse, world war 1 and robots)
Where the Wild Things Are is genuinely one of my favorite movies. Once you dig a little deeper, it's such a sad, powerful story about growing up.
I think the boxtrolls movie fits this list perfectly
thank you so much for reminding me the title honestly
Zathura is criminally underrated and underwatched
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As an italian kid, there was this 2003 CGI film called "Little Bee Julia & Lady Life", I'm not sure if it has been distributed elsewhere but it doesn't look like it.
The subpar CGI animation, the musical numbers, its EXISTENTIALISM (yes, you heard that, it's a kids movie that tackles life itself and I think Julia actually ages throughout the film and passes away of old age in the ending if I remember correctly). I remember feeling a tiny little bit moved by the mere fact she passed away, and I think there was also a moment where a human character (basically Julia is asking the Queen Bee a bunch of questions and the Queen gives her a bunch of stories to make points about life) who was shown crying because she wasn't able to accept her mortality, and then it faded to her being older but calmer, more accepting of things since it's a gradual thing.
But yeah, even as a kid I was like "Ok, uh... is this actually captured footage of someone's fever dream?" because some of those themes and the way they were handled were just so beyond anything a kiddo my age back then could follow (doesn't help that it's a film with a lot of talking, talking, talking AAAAAAND lots of talking, so that united with the Foodfight-esque visuals and bizarre script is not exactly cinematic excellence) and just the CGI and everything else made it so feverish. I'm kind of scared of trying to revisit it LMFAO
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Zathura is a totally underrated movie. I saw it in the theater with my grandma and loved it, and then like fifteen years later I rewatched it as an adult with my best friend. Honestly, for a children's movie, it holds up pretty well.
A lot of these movies give me the memories of going to the old movie rental stores like “blockbuster” or “jumbo video” when I was younger. They’re definitely all nostalgic in some way (especially doogal, that movie was almost a lost memory), but there’s also that eerie, unsettling atmosphere which is a huge part of all these movies. I think it’s so cool how they all have this reputation, I don’t think that this type of reputation can be attached with any other time frame for movies. It’s like an old treasure chest that unlocks such incredible lost and forgotten memories. Incredible video
Thanks for the nostalgia trip man!
9 was my favorite movie on this list and still is my favorite.
As a kid i actually understood the story quite well thankfully, i Loved the mechanical creations from the machine, i want to see so much more designs from that movie if i could
A common theme with these films is that they are usually lower budget films that rarely see much marketing or even a cinematic release. So they end up in dvd stores where if your a kid who wanted something to watch, you'd rent it and think nothing else. They are also usually made by European studios that decide to licence the movie to the rest of the world or made by smaller American/Canadian studios trying to compete with the bigger companies.
One movie like this would probably be Coraline but unlike these other films, that one became a huge cult classic. Since that movie has become so popular, it doesn't have that mysterious vibe all these other fever dream movies have since those never get much acclaim from critics or audiences to be noteworthy beyond childhood memories.
Something that I’ve noticed is that there are a lot of movies or shows that over time I’ll forget the name of but something about them always made me remember them. It wasn’t until years later that I’d find out the names. A lot of them having dream like or strange qualities
For me it’s this film “Help I’m a Fish”. It’s was a Disney es que movie aimed at kids but was super super dark and scary at the time.
James and The Giant Peach was my entire childhood
Arthur and the invisibles has always given me a weird feeling yet I couldn’t stop rewatching it
You are correct about all of these films. In some cases you even unlocked the memories that I forgot I had.
Stardust and Meet the Robinsons felt like fever dreams to me, I grew up being terrified at *spoiler warning* - - - drowning mid air
Where the Wild Things Are might be my favourite film of all-time.
'Beowulf' (2007) confused me as a kid. But Great video maybe make a part 2!
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Does anyone remember Igor?
Yep. It was kind of odd. He has a bunny sidekick and they create a female version of the Frankenstein monster, right?
Yeah and the bunny keeps trying to commit suicide
In fact yes I do remember I watched it when I was a kid.
Yessss
9 and zathura were my favorite movies as a kid. Watching them brings me such great memories 🥹
I'm SO happy to hear you talk about 9. I feel nobody talks about it. I own it on DvD and for some reason it was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Probably because my mom made my family a big fan of Tim Burton and stop motions films, that movie was in that general area of interest. The movie definitely scared me as a kid, especially at the very beginning they show a short shot of a dead mom and their kid in a car. But something about the Stitchpunks and The Machine were very cool to me as a kid which made me love it.
I do recommend this movie because I still love it as a adult! Though MAJOR flash warning for later in the movie. Spoiler warning but the snake creature uses flashing lights to hypnotize the Stitchpunks. I don't have epilepsy but it still hurts my eyes as a kid lol
The biggest fever dream movie ever in my opinion is a movie called “The Dark Crystal” nobody I’ve asked about has ever heard of it, but I remember it being on the TV when I was a kid, and every time I even think of it I get extreme fever dream vibes
how come you only have two videos, you are a great narrator, and i love the content base, looking forward to more