“Why don’t we psychoanalyze the monster? Maybe its mother was scared by an oak tree.”

77. Wonderland – Zoje Stage

You move into the country and your family gets torn apart by a tree. Well, not exactly, as that would be way more of a monster book and what I think From Hell It Came is like but I keep missing parts of it on TCM – also that’s a tropical climate. Wonderland is set in the crushing misery time of having to deal with snow in order to leave, to get out of your own front door, once you finally get your car shoveled it’s everywhere else you go, just snow snow snow. Snow.

This family doesn’t seem entirely prepared for moving into the country, maybe they thought they would just eat a lot of peaches instead of getting totally trapped by the evil tree. Or is it an evil tree? With TB (tuberculosis, not Taco Bell, in this case)? Anyway, I think we know what happens to families trapped by snow and evil foliage (or topiary, perhaps in the form of a maze), especially when one of them intends to get creative work done. But there are some variations here and a lot of parenting in crisis situations, which is not my thing, I’m more with the random woodland critters that keep showing up and the evil tree…no offense, fictional family.

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Pickles is in hiding, she also thought she was going to be eating a lot of peaches.