What ever happened to Charles Dodgson’s wonderful children’s masterpieces, written under the pseudonym (look it up, what am I, a walking dictionary???) Lewis Carroll — Alice’s Adventures Underground & What She Saw There, and Through the Looking Glass???
There was a time when these were kids’ stories, along with the usual fairy tales from Grimm, Andersen and their kinfolk, but kid stuff is a thing of the past, quite clearly.
It’s the new fad to make kid stories into gruesome monstrous nightmarish Stephen King exploitation films, and Alice did not escape the mayhem. Not merely once, but several times this past decade, it has become the subject for someone’s person horror and revelation of early-learning impacts, personal molestations of various kinds, and mind-control of the all-too-willing viewing audience.
In fact, the recent Alice in Wonderland offerings rang clearly with elements of nastiness undreamt of by its original author. Tim Burton is just one of the recent rash of creepy crawly Alice in Wonderlands.
The good news is, I’m making an Alice web-browser game that IS ok for kids. You can find all my recent and updated web-browser games on gorebagg.com — check it out now!