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Jesse_Custer posted...

The Beast (Over the Garden Wall)

Over the Garden Wall is yet another example of what I love so much about children-focused horror. The Beast almost seems like a fever dream, destined to be one of those figures of lost media hanging around the fringes of the mind, an animated behemoth of pure body horror that scarred the minds of the few children that happened to catch the short airing on channel zero. Except he's real (and he's spectacular!). Over the Garden Wall expertly melds the world of folk horror, classic Americana, & a fairy tale setting with the production & sensibilities of modern children's animation, featuring realistically exaggerated designs & the occasional dash of random humor. Enter, the Beast, an enigmatic figure literally shrouded in darkness & mystery, a villain made for the age of the internet fable yet decidedly classical, a compounding of all of childhood's fears, phobias, and anxieties rolled up into one, crafting a twisted monster that is only shown truly in a flash one time, and I wonder how even said quick flash got approved in the first place. Not that I'm complaining: its alluring singing is ripe for teaching children about stranger danger, its true appearance ripe for internet sharing, theories, and word-of-mouth spread among school mates. It works so well because Over the Garden Wall is as much whimsical fantasy as it is about the simplistic horrors of every day life, and to have such a strong personification of it presented to our minds at our development age, is to create a truly lasting lesson that sticks in our brains forever.

Rating: 8.5/10

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