User blog comment:Umbrello/Childhood Nightmares: TV/@comment-26011836-20150130040839

I remember this adaptation of Alice In Wonderland that was made in 1985. My friend had two VHS tapes of this adaptation, which looked like they were taped off TV. The first tape was a live action version of Alice in Wonderland which i didn't really mind that much. Although at the time I first saw this, i thought some of the casting was surreal. For example, Ringo Starr played the Mock Turtle, Sid Ceasar played The Gryphon, and Sammy Davis Jr. played both The Caterpillar and Father William. Though when I think about it today, the story of Alice in Wonderland is supposed to be strange and "out there" so i guess some of the casting fits in that sense. The only scary thing that i found with the first part was that the rabbit hole was a bit dark and spooky compared to the book and other adaptations.

However, the ending of this part is where I got REALLY scared! You see, when Alice arrives home no one else is there but her. However, when Alice hears her cat Dinah's meowing coming from the mirror, she discovers that both her and Alice's parents are on the other side of said mirror. To make matters worse, Alice's parents can't see or hear her. The only thing the parents can see is their own reflection. Unfortunalty, Alice can't seem to find a way to get through to the other side of the mirror. In the meantime, she sits down in a chair, and notices a large strange book next to her. She decides to start reading it and discovers that It's a poem called Jabberwocky that involves a scary monster.

Now here's where the frightning part comes in. As she's reading the poem, the room starts to become dark and a giant, reptilian like monster with red eyes appears in the room and scares Alice tremendously. Oh guess what? That's how the tape ends! It may not seem as scary as i'm making it out to be but this freaked me out so much that I refused to watch the second tape, which continued the story and was also an adaptation of ''The Looking Glass. ''