Nooo o3o but now im tempted. owo

it was later banned all over europe, so it's probably really hard to find now :c

Well i dont live in europe so maybe it was released somewhere her in the us xD but maybe not haha

Is this it?
http://youtu.be/b53e9BHdXNs

I actually found the episode in english on youtube here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfpAnH4BpY
from about 16 minutes onwards is when it gets creepy '~'

Oooh thank you~ I wanted to watch it. C:

Can't say I've ever seen the Moomins, but this is gorgeous. If the series is a lovely as this is, I am interested in finding it. I love how you handled the snow, the figures.... lovely!

Related to young viewing, however, one of the after school ladies decided Jaws was a great rainy day movie when I was in preschool... My brother & I were both terrified of all sources of water for quite awhile, including sinks and toilets. Like a giant shark was gonna leap out of the spigot or something, heh. ah well :3

part of my fondness for it was probably nostalgia, it was a set of old swedish children's books that was made into an animated series by japanese-dutch collaboration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moomin
very strange and whimsical, but the parts with the groke (who was this weird terrifying ghost that symbolized winter depression) were so scary that the first episode with her was banned. :c So I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only traumatized child, lol.

I had the opposite reaction to jaws, weirdly enough, and became totally fascinated by sharks! I can definitely see why an avoidance of water would come up though, hahah. 8D

I had the same with mirrors after seeing, Poltergeist III when I was, like 6.

Huh, never heard of it. Is it still possible to find?

if you watch from 15:30 onwards here, this is the first episode she appears: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyfpAnH4BpY

Huh, thats rather interesting. I can understand how it could scared a little kid.

My gosh, that made me uncomfortable even as an adult. There's just something about that face!

god, I had nightmares for MONTHS. What really did it for me as a kid is the way she screamed at the end '~'

Aaaack yes, I got a shiver down my spine o-o

Tell me about it >.< i was actually shivering as i watched it.

...or was it just because i'm alone in my cold bedroom without a shirt on?

Wow, English moomin dad sound positively PIMPIN'. "Mnnyou'd better get your frying pan, mmmomma!"
But I might have to make a slight clarification here; Tove Jansson was Fenno-swedish, meaning she was born and lived in Finland, but her mother language was Swedish, and her books were written in same.
So you can really only blame us for about half of your childhood trauma.

Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin I see you
Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin what will you do?

Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin dress all in red
Bonnie-kin, Bonnie-kin soon you'll be dead


wait-what?

aw, old rhymes, why so creepy?

YES! And it still fucking terrifies me. I had the books too, all the pictures were photos of creepy figurine dioramas. check out the groke here :S http://www.thechestnut.com/moomins.htm STILL scares me.

oh my GOOOODDDDDD that is extreme nightmare fuel!! SWEDEN, WHY??? ;A;

Moomins was my favorite scene..and damn..so scary..also the icequeen freaked me out always XD now she looks silly haha xD http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tKR.....F-D3FX92wvMmnw

the gentle song in the background kind of makes it creepier somehow?? The way she thinned her eyes, I can definitely see why a kid would be freaked out by that >_>

I remember her legs creeping me out, and yeah her eyes..scary as shit XD

Yup, it was one of my favorite cartoons^^ And yes, Groke traumatized my childhood;D

mine too! I don't think it ran very long in England though. Probably because the Groke traumatized so many kids!!

Might be, most of my friends were scared of her ;D I remember seeing the series twice or thrice ;)

I was so scared of the Groke I couldn't sleep for days and I stopped watching Moomins forever.

That said picture is gorgeous. There's so much atmosphere. It could be a simple window scene, but then you look up and it becomes so horrific and chilling too. Wonderful.

same here, I had so many nightmares. I don't think I watched it much after that... my mom probably made me stop watching it, hahah.
thankyou so much!

This scares me....

good c:<

Episodes? I read the books. The Groke is spooky and sad.

I never read the books, but I've heard she's just as creepy in them '~'

The books are kind of...dark...in a way. At least, compared to the sanitized fluff America "approves" of as kids stories. I've no doubt that's what drew me to the Moomin stories when I was a kid. I'll never forget Moomintroll finding Little My under a bush where she's looking at a miniature cemetary and, when he's shocked, she says something like, "Do you think these are the graves of my enemies?"

I am always happy when someone else mentions The Moomins! I only ever saw it when I was too sick to go to school.
The Groke was super creepy, and gave me nightmares (probably the expressionless face) , but I wanted more of her! (the same thing happened with the Xenomorphs from Alien). She was silent, creepy, haunting, and sad, but I wanted to know her story.
A couple years ago I looked into it and I think one of the books said she was cursed because she was greedy and "cold-hearted" and now she can never get warm, so all she has is greed. Or something like that.
The point is, I always thought the Groke was hauntingly interesting.

So now I gotta thank you for making a pic of her, and spreading the fear/nostalgia/story

you're so welcome! I always get kind of giddy when I talk to other people that have seen the Moomins, I live in america now where it never aired, but I have really strong memories of it. It was so creepy in so many ways, it really stuck with me. I remember reading that the groke was the personification of winter depression, which I thought was really interesting!

I live in Canada and the only channel here that showed it was a publicly-funded "children-friendly" and "educational entertainment" kinda channel that never had anything good on. But when I was 5 I had super-pneumonia, and one day my mom was looking for something on TV for me to watch when she and saw a cartoon, so thats how I first learned of it. Although I thought most of the episodes were dull, the ghost stuff was always good.

It was totally dull sometimes, I remember being bored with all the stories of the kids playing in the valley and doing pretty much nothing... a certain few really stood out as unsettling and weird, though.

This reminds me of a game named Yume Nikki o: Its awesome!

ahh, I still haven't played that but I've seen lots from it. Thanks! 'w'

If you love to just explore strange things and have patience I'd recommend it! C: If you need any help installing it or wuteva I can lend a hand, it can be tricky :c

It took me weeks to recover after I saw that Moomin movie in the theatre.



Actually, I think I still havent recovered. But I love Moomin. I think its stockholm syndrome

ahh, I never saw the movie! Judging how much just this episode freaked me out I can only imagine how traumatized I'd be if I'd seen it... '_'

I wish I could find the movie in question, but its been hard. I think actually the episodes were screened on cinemas here in Norway back in the 90s, and the groke I remember is the same as from the episode "Tiny Guests" from the tv series.

also I forgot to tell you I love this , you really captured that same... eerie presence of the groke - she doesnt really need to do anything does she? just passive presence is enough.
Anyway, that white kind of dirty static texture you got the really imparts such a nice, frigid atmosphere.

woa man this is too cool

thanks!

so interesting where the original remenents of inspiration come from \|'3 love this gorgeous re-impression of that similar setting~

thanks so much! 'w' it strayed pretty far from anything moomins-related but it's cool to see what influence remained.

totally~! :'>

Very evocative image, simply breathtaking! Great work! :o

thankyou so much!

You're very welcome! :D

i missed out on moomins, but this piece sure does remind me of stephen gammel's scary stories to tell in the dark illustrations that scared the hell out of me.

this is really beautifully spooky.

I loved those books, they were so delightfully terrifying! Hahah. Thanks so much.

I am now moomin addicted

I actually went back and watched some episodes lately too! It's soooo nostalgic for me. :'D

Iys adorable and a bit philisophical

Lovely artwork you did here. :D
And yes. The groke or Hufsa as we call her, game me nighmares as a kid. Even today she still creeps me out alittle. :/

she still creeps me out too! ;-;
thanks!