Scared the living cack outta me!!!!‘The magical film that haunted the dreams of a generation’ runs the ad-line for this blu-ray release, the first time that this notorious Brothers Grimm adaptation has been released in this format. ‘The scary AF East German fantasy f*ckery that freaked out millions of unwary children’ would be just as accurate, because this is indeed the same uncanny film that the BBC used to make a staple of their kids programming in the 70’s and 80’s. Like many others younglings, I sat down to watch this classic tale of princes, princesses and trolls as a nipper and was utterly weirded out; would the Singing Ringing Tree, now presented in widescreen and full-screen formats, seem so bizarre decades later?…
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