A Look at Disney

15/12/2023

The Santa Clause franchise has never had good villains. Toy Santa was the weakest aspect of the second movie and Jack Frost was a waste of Martin Short’s talents as a comedic actor. The man can pla…

07/12/2023

Today, I continue my look at Christmas Villains from television productions. The MCU has been a bit bumpy lately and that is rather evident with their TV shows. For every Wa…

27/10/2023

We close out our look at Disney books perfect for this time of year with a YA adaption of The Haunted Mansion. To be fair, calling this an adaption of the Mansion is rather generous.…

24/10/2023

Today I am looking at another Frozen book that delves into the world of Nordic mythology for another light horror novel starring Elsa and Anna. This book is so interesting as a Frozen fan a…

19/10/2023

Fear will be your enemy I opened today’s blog with that line from a song from the Broadway adaption of Frozen as it seems rather fitting for this book. In the lead-up to Frozen…

18/10/2023

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the most famous ghost story for this time of year. Washington Irving’s classic ghost story has been adapted into many formats and of one of the mo…

17/10/2023

Literary adaptions starring classic and beloved characters are quite the norm and serve as a way to work as an entry point for younger fans to discover these stories before embarking …

16/10/2023

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge Tangled fan and it is always a treat when I get to talk about something related to my favorite Disney movie during this time of year.…

11/10/2023

Frozen may not be a franchise one thinks of when it comes to this time of year and that is only because they have not read the tie-in books. Frozen being a popular movie for The Mouse has le…

06/10/2023

The Haunted Mansion might just be the most adapted Disney Park attraction and that makes sense considering its built-in backstory. We need to look no further than just this year when the second big…

03/10/2023

All this month for Halloween, I’ll be taking a look at books that fit the month of October. An interesting trend in recent years from Disney is to release literary follow-ups to movies that’d be pe…

14/11/2022

Content Warning: This blog includes discussions of sexual assault and r**e. Once Upon A Time is no stranger to adaptional villainy as I have discussed in the past and an offshoot of this is…

10/11/2022

We have now hit an interesting area in our look at live-action Cinderella villains series as I enter back into the world of Once Upon A Time villains. The next three villains I& #8217…

09/11/2022

Years ago, I used to do a segment about theme park exclusive characters called Meet & Greet, it was a bit fun even if I didn’t cover that many characters from the Parks. Y…

08/11/2022

Gender-flipped Cinderella movies are an interesting beast and I am not saying that these are an inherently bad idea as I do think they can work. There have been a few examples of this in th…

07/11/2022

I am quite excited to be talking about Cate Blanchett’s take on Lady Tremaine today. So far during this event, I have looked at two versions of Cinderella’s Stepmother an…

04/11/2022

Today, we turn to the live-action remakes that Disney has been putting out. To say most o these haven’t been that great is an understatement. The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast a…

03/11/2022

There are two versions that most people are familiar with when it comes to the Cinderella story, the Charles Perrault version which seems to have been the basis for most adaptions pe…

02/11/2022

Earlier this year, I did a series of Villains Profiles that were some of the most fun I’ve ever done looking at three different takes on Long John Silver. I’ve decided to return …

24/10/2022

    Little Red Riding Hood is one of the most well-known fairy tales there is and of course, The Wolf is an iconic part of that story. The ABC fantasy drama in its first couple of seaso…

24/10/2022

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21/10/2022

Moviefan12: As I mentioned when I looked at the Hulk and Spider-Man episodes during this event, I wasn’t quite done with superheroes and werewolves. That brings us to the Disne…

20/10/2022

This was originally going to be a blog looking at Werewolf by Night’s appearance in Hulk’s Disney XD show but considering how little he does in the episode, I decided to c…

19/10/2022

Marvel has quite a bit of horror characters in their line-up. When looking at werewolves from Marvel, there are two prominent characters from The House of Ideas. The first is Werewol…

18/10/2022

So Weird was a cult favorite Disney Channel from the late ’90s and rare for Disney Channel nowadays, not a sitcom. Granted, we are starting to see that again with Secrets of Sulphur S…

13/10/2022

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12/10/2022

Recess was a staple show of Disney’s One Saturday Morning staple shows. I quite enjoyed it and have fond memories of it and a lot came rushing back when I went to watch this se…

11/10/2022

Today we continue our journey into space With Buzz Lightyear as we look at the second/last appearance of Ty Parsec and the Wirewolf. This episode even more than the previous one hinges on the trage…

10/10/2022

Today I continue my look at wolf villains from Disney. YouTuber Colinslookback has a wonderful Disney Villains retrospective series but he would ignore characters such as today’s entr…

07/10/2022

Earlier this year, we saw the big screen release of a movie that served as an origin for the true Buzz Lightyear. Though as many Millennials might tell you, there was a whole s…

06/10/2022

Adventures in Wonderland is one of the most 90’s shows to ever come from Disney Channel. And I say that lovingly, it was a fun show that simple moral lessons for kids while also tackl…

05/10/2022

Today we dive under the sea as we continue our look at the various were-creatures from Disney media. The episode that we are looking at presents an interesting case as it is a beat-for-beat…

04/10/2022

Today I start the werewolf event proper. When looking at this event, it helps to understand there are different types of werewolves. Traditionally, werewolves are presented as someone tha…

03/10/2022

It’s been a while, but I am back this Halloween for something I’ve been thinking about doing for a while, and that is a dedicated wolf/were creature event. Now, the three wolf v…

11/05/2022

Moviefan12: To close out my look at the villains of the attraction adaptions, I return to the very first movie adapted from a Disney attraction. It’s a mid 90’s TV movie that aired as part of ABC’s The Wonderful World of Disney. In many ways, it’s humorous that the first attraction adapti....

04/05/2022

Continuing our look at the villains from the Jungle Cruise adaption, we come to the film’s main villain Prince Joachim and much like Prince Joachim, he too is based on a real person. Now finding information about the real Joachim has proven rather hard and it’s hard to tell if he ...

02/05/2022

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These next two entries for Villains Profile provide a rather interesting angle for two reasons. The first being we are looking at two villains from the same movie and they are both based on real people. The latter part is something I didn’t know until doing research for this movie. This is i.....