22 Soviet cartoons that we were all terribly afraid of as children

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Compared to the heroes of these cartoons, even the monster under the bed seems like a sweet and kind animal. Lifehacker has compiled a selection of the most frightening and scary Soviet cartoons so that you can feel nostalgic and tickle your nerves.

1. AMBA

Rex the dog's genetically transformed brain controls an Automorphic Bioarchitectural Ensemble grown from biomass. And there is also a lot of things in the cartoon about radiation, self-sacrifice, cloning and hopelessness.

The cartoon is two-part, but the second part is much more memorable.

2. Scarlet flower

Perhaps many will be offended to the core when they see this completely harmless cartoon in the collection. But you just remember the nightmarish monster groaning in its death throes! After this, the hand does not rise to remove the cartoon from the collection.

3. Egret

Not a cartoon, but a taxidermist's dream: for the sake of a whim of a capricious woman of fashion, people are beginning to engage in extermination of rare white herons and unrestrainedly make headdresses out of them.

4. Wingless gosling

Already from the name it becomes clear that one cannot count on a happy ending here. Abductions of other people's children, burial alive, a fascinating excursion into the dungeon - all this fits into ten suffering minutes.

5. Big Tõll

A heartbreaking drama about the power of love, terrible metamorphoses and terrible military battles. All they do is die and lose limbs. Now this cartoon would definitely be marked with an 18+ mark.

6. Remembrance

The drama of war in all its frightening guise. No kidding, this is really one of the most terrible and difficult cartoons about the war and the ruined childhood.

7. Glasha and kikimora

The plot of this cartoon can be retelled as a children's horror story: on a dark, dark night, an evil, pretentious kikimora dragged a small child into the darkness, and a black-black cat saved everyone. True, not for nothing.

8. Two maples

A terrible story about a feisty and envious Baba Yaga, who hated everyone around and did not want to pay for the services of a maid.

9. His wife is a chicken

David Lynch with his "Eraser Head" can nervously smoke on the sidelines. After all, this is all that remains to be done when we are shown how in an ordinary Soviet apartment a woman nurses an utterly disgusting caterpillar with a human head.

10. Kele

A fabulous Chukchi fairy tale with monsters, abductions and wild dances. Add a couple of liters of blood and Tarantino's new film is ready.

11. The Canterville Ghost

So, so, what do we have here? A fearful ghost, twin children, an abandoned mansion - a whole breeding ground of phobias in one cartoon.

12. Bear - lime leg

A greedy bear with a sweet tooth cannot get out of the sweet captivity of the hive in which his leg is stuck. Therefore, he jumps around the forest, suffers and looks so-so.

13. Glamor

Crypot cartoon about creepy plasticine people, with creepy voice acting, creepy voiceover and a creepy ending. It would seem that it could not be worse, but no.

14. Not at all scary

Compared to the rest, this cartoon is really quite harmless. But only if suddenly you are not afraid of any swarming evil spirits, darkness and suspicious sounds.

15. Anansi the spider and the magic wand

Arachnophobes, step away from the screens! We have a cartoon here about a brave spider, ultraviolence and bullying in the animal world.

16. Pass

Earthlings from the crashed spaceship are trying with all their might to adapt to life on an unknown planet. But it turns out they are so-so.

17. Potts

This is not a cartoon, but a complete sweat. For almost twenty agonizing minutes, incredibly persistent children have been trying to find out from their dying father the meaning of the word "potty".

18. Wise minnow

Full of longing and hopelessness, the story of the Wise Gudgeon, who decided to heed Brodsky's advice never to leave the room (hole) and not make a mistake.

19. Fairy tale of fairy tales

It turns out that lullabies were also sung to the gray top as a child. But only when he remembers this, something sad and completely hopeless begins to happen.

20. Scary story

The gopher and the hamster tell scary stories to each other, trying to maintain a calm air. All this time the feeling of the invisible presence of someone else does not leave them.

21. Caliph Stork

The caliph, despondent from idleness, finds a box with unknown contents. On the advice of the evil sorcerer, he inhales some of the powder, and this is where the mysterious metamorphosis begins. Wow, mutabor!

22. Black chicken

A black hen named Chernushka is rubbed into the trust of the simple-minded boy Alyosha and, as if by chance (in fact, not), lures him into the underworld.