It had been previously established early on that Mrs. Potato Head’s various parts dragging themselves around of their own accord. Likewise, there’s some hilarious stuff that borders on body horror with Mr. Every scene with the monkey screeching the alarm is funny, but it startled younger viewers every time I saw it in the cinema, which nicely underlines the close relation between horror and comedy. The kids have no way of knowing that the toys are alive, but from the film’s perspective, it’s a torture chamber.Ī more overt character reference is the cymbal-banging alarm monkey, who looks like a dead ringer for the one in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but with added bloodshot eyes and violent tendencies for more horrific effect. The same toys that welcome them to Sunnyside’s heavenly Butterfly Room with open arms quickly dispatch the gang to the Caterpillar Room, where the 1:16 scale of our heroes leaves them at a disadvantage to the boisterous toddlers who haven’t learned to look after their playthings. In Toy Story 3, our characters’ hell is made by other toys.
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There are countless horror movies about toys and dolls coming to life, most famously the Child’s Play series, but short of Sid’s well-meaning abominations, who wind up helping Woody and Buzz escape in the first film, there hadn’t been scary toys in the series up until now. He gets back to the horror leanings of the first film, which was altogether more playful with the notion of people being scared by sentient toys. This formative experience might also explain why his Toy Story film (he edited the first two films and co-directed Toy Story 2 with John Lasseter) is so willing to play with horror in a family film. The number 237 is also tagged onto the end of Trixie the triceratops’ online dinosaur pal’s name, ‘Velocistar_237’, and appears as the model number of an ‘Overlook’ brand CCTV camera in the Sunnyside security office. Firstly, RM237 appears on the number plate of a dump truck, (driven by who is believed to be an older Sid, funnily enough), foreshadowing the toys’ eventual reckoning with the trash incinerator at the film’s climax. While Sid’s house had the same iconic carpets as the Overlook Hotel in Toy Story, there are Easter eggs galore here. He also inserted visual references to 237 throughout his own film. Unkrich’s fandom extends to curating a Tumblr blog dedicated to The Shiningand helping to make the recent documentary about interpretations of the film, Room 237, named for the forbidden hotel room in Kubrick’s classic. “I think on one level, it’s because it was the film that got me interested in not only filmmaking but also having a sense that there’s a singular voice controlling the imagery that’s being put on the screen.”
“I’ve thought a lot about why it obsesses me, and I think it’s multi-tiered,” Unkrich told Empire Online at the time of Toy Story 3‘s release. For starters, there’s the influence of director Lee Unkrich, who was inspired to look into filmmaking when he watched his favourite horror film of all time is Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, for the first time at the ripe old age of 12.
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But if there’s been any drastic change in the way that they rate family films, then perhaps it hasn’t been obvious because Pixar hasn’t made another film with such blatant horror movie undertones since.įor now though, we’re looking at the scary side of Toy Story 3, as evidenced in the film’s various homages and influences in horror cinema. Since then, Pixar’s Brave, Inside Out, and The Good Dinosaur have all been rated PG for ‘thematic elements’ (which seems like the equivalent of the BBFC’s ‘mild peril’ warning on this side of the pond) and/or potentially upsetting scenes. Graves went on to say that the film changed their approach to animated family films, and that they would no longer give these movies “the benefit of the doubt” in marking them as suitable for all. Speaking on industry podcast The Business, Joan Graves said that based on feedback they had received from parents since the film’s release, Toy Story 3 should have been given a PG rating “at least,” because of a climactic scene in which Woody, Buzz, and friends find themselves sinking into an incinerator like rubbish. In August 2010, a couple of months after Toy Story 3 was released in American theaters, the chair of the MPAA Classification and Ratings Administration admitted that they might have made a mistake in giving the film a G-rating.
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