Neco z Alenky (Alice) (1988)

Now I have officially seen every film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland that has ever been made. Some of them are okay, and some are terrible. This is Czech director Jan Svankmajer's version.

There's a lot of focus on dead animals, even in the beginning of the film. A dead stuffed rabbit in Alice's room springs to life, puts on some clothes, and hops away. Sawdust spills out of his chest, where he keeps his pocketwatch. Every time the white rabbit speaks, it's actually Alice narrating, and it shows a close up of her mouth and nothing else whenever she narrates.

The worse part is that when she shrinks, she somehow becomes a doll. This is the least scariest image I saw from the film. 

And what is it with all the drawers? And why can't Alice ever open them properly? For the most part, this film follows the book almost exactly. However, all of the scenery is dirty, rusty, and uninviting. And the animals aren't cuddly cute cartoons. They're either dead stuffed animals or skeletons.

Yes, weird, I know. This whole movie is entirely bizarre. The Caterpillar is a sock with eyeballs. I have no words.

However, I feel this is a superior version to the animated Disney movie. In Disney's Alice in Wonderland, they took both Alice in Wonderland and Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass, ripped the pages apart, and put them back in completely random order.  Also, the characters are colorful and have cute voices. This is not meant to be cute. It's about a girl trapped in a bizarre dreamland who is trying to make sense of anything.  This film should be disturbing, if done properly, and this film is by far the best conceptually. This gets an A+.