While you may expect cartoons to be filled with fluffy characters and silly storylines, these 12 cartoon characters have some disturbing backstories.

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Decades of watching severed hands crawl around independently in various iterations of The Addams Family or horror-comedies like Idle Hands and Evil Dead II won’t really prepare you for the melancholy ...

In the 1980s and early 1990s, everyone had a cartoon. Whether you were trying to sell trucks that turned into robots, ninja turtles with zippy attitudes, or a new class of rappers, the Saturday ...

Cartoons from the first half of the 20th century are creepy for a lot of reasons. For one, many of the lead animators in the early days of film had dark senses of humor. Secondly, while cartoons came ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Sadly, that assumption is inaccurate. What a Cartoon! is now nearly impossible to watch. With that ...

I caught Lauris and Raitis Abeles’ Dog of God at Tribeca, and it was an unforgettable experience. I love it when the genre is explored through animation. Films like The Spine of Night, Mad God, Seoul ...

Check out this very NSFW trailer for upcoming animated werewolf horror movie Dog of God which is getting a premiere at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival. The film is set in the 17th century and the ...

A.I. has yet to upend Hollywood. But it is starting to make big inroads in animation. The founders of Toonstar, a small animation studio in downtown Los Angeles, have incorporated A.I. at various ...

A lifelong gamer, film fanatic and fan of all things geeky, Andy studied Film and TV Screenwriting at university and achieved a master's degree in Scriptwriting in 2017. As a professional writer, Andy ...

Clayface will star in his own R-Rated horror film in 2026. The movie may focus on Basil Karlo, a reeling actor, and his descent into wretchedness. The film is expected to explore extreme body horror, ...