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Live-Action Futurama Is Disturbing As Hell

Live-action versions of beloved cartoons don't always work. Sure, Disney's blockbuster remakes are popular, but watching real-life Spanish Simpsons parodies will likely result in your death within seven days. Still, dedicated fans pooled their resources to bring the world of Futurama to ... well, whatever-sized screen that people watch fan films on. The half-hour production Fan-O-Rama is extremely impressive, yet also completely terrifying. Sure, it nails characters like Fry and his robo-pal, Bender.

Cinema Relics/YouTube"Not that you should expect anything less, meatbags."

But then things take a left turn into scary town when Leela shows up sporting her trademark one eye ... and for some reason, two eyebrows.

Cinema Relics/YouTube

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Shrek Retold, The Fan Film That Will Test Your Sanity

Instead of being banished from our consciousness forever, for some reason, Shrek has become a Millennial touchstone. The story of a crudely rendered CGI ogre and his donkey buddy lives on through unpleasant memes, and now in batshit crazy fan films. Like with Star Wars Uncut and Our RoboCop Remake, Shrek Retold is a full-length version of the 2001 movie, but made by a multitude of fans, who each got a small piece of the story to do on their own. The result is a patchwork of diverse styles. The final film is comprised of weird animation ...

3GI/YouTube*Cue Smash Mouth unending screams*

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Mario Warfare -- The Murder-Filled Nintendo Movie

Live-action Mario doesn't always work out so well, lest we forget the 1993 movie that felt like watching a VHS copy of Blade Runner repeatedly throw up on your SNES. So the material was ripe for fans to run with -- and run they did. While the story of a middle-aged plumber who uses magic mushrooms to escape into a monster-filled fantasy land could easily make for a quirky drama, one fan decided that Mario should be reworked in the action genre. The web series Mario Warfare is a hyper-violent version of the beloved video game, with human versions of familiar characters murdering the shit out of each other. Such as a slick, fedora-clad Toad.

Beatdownboogie/YouTubeShy Guys look a lot more imposing in 4K.

Who is promptly killed, presumably because he had no go-kart to escape in.

Beatdownboogie/YouTube

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The Jerry Seinfeld Program Is Seinfeld On Mescaline

The original Seinfeld got dark at times. They killed off George's fiancee, the gang was almost murdered by Nazis, and Newman was disemboweled by a dinosaur after changing his name and entering the IT business. Still, a group of comics evidently thought the show could go even darker. The anti-comedy web series The Jerry Seinfeld Program started out normally, with comedians Dan Klein and Arthur Meyer playing the roles of Jerry and George, albeit in front of an unconvincing green screen and using an absurdly unconvincing bald cap. Yeah, he's pretty much the Bizarro John Travolta.

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These Monsters Inc. Shorts Will Give You Nightmares

Pixar movies are generally rather upsetting. There's everything from Woody, Buzz, and the gang almost being incinerated in Toy Story 3 to the opening ten minutes of Up, in which we see that sweet old man get away with murdering his wife. Somehow Monsters Inc. (despite the fact that it has the word "monster" in the title) is one of the less disturbing Pixar movies. But not anymore. A YouTuber decided to make a series of Monsters Inc. shorts, and they're ... upsetting. The first one is just a harmless song. At first.

Joe/YouTubeAlbeit one falling a teensy bit shy of Pixar's animation standards.

Then come the crazy visuals. Like, the hallucinations you get after eating week-old Taco Bell that's been doused in peyote.

Joe/YouTubeIt's like a haunted GeoCities page.

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Look Upon The Live-Action Ninja Turtles Fan Films, If You Dare

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles aren't, by themselves, disturbing (with the exception of the fact that they're constantly consuming pizza in an underground hovel surrounded by feces). But importing them into the real world runs the risk of treading into unpleasant territory. As we've mentioned before, the third movie, without the help of the Jim Henson Company, turned our beloved heroes in half-shells into grimacing monsters.

Still, that hasn't stopped fans from trying this on their own, such as with the currently in-production Ninja Turtles: Blood Brothers. Judging from the trailer's depiction of a gun-toting, booze-guzzling Bebop and Rocksteady, it will be impressively grotesque.

Bloodbrothersfx/YouTube

Bloodbrothersfx/YouTubeThough in fairness, they're about a thousand times better than any of the official movies' attempts.