the moomins: the lady of the cold

[NoMoreNever]

I remember this so well, that ice lady scared me so much as a kid, and I felt so sad for that poor squirrel.

[dharmarascal]

This is nothing short of amazing. We watched it as kids in Britain - great to see such a properly weighted, 'deep' story for children here!

[Potionette81]

OMG this is like Ingmar Bergmann for children, so atmospheric and moody. Then again kids usually like that sort of thing; I don;t think children's TV needs to be sanitised and safe like it so often is these days.

[PoisonInc]

Nowadays, cartoons wouldn't DARE go quite as dark as this.

[francohipocrita]

wooooooooow is better than  the tv

[x3SURR0UNDx3]

Where Can I Find Little My?

[pussnip]

they were actually a swedish/finnish collaboration. great memories! :-)

[Blissy10]

This is dark as shit.

[klee66]

I'm 32 now and grew up with this. I always thought that the title music was differen't though. The later animated version wasn't a patch on the original. It didn't have the eerie creepy atmosphere. I loved this!!!!

[AprilShowerful]

I grew up with this. It was far superior to the cartoon version in the 1990's. It terrified us as childen.

[Einheri1989]

Eg elskar Mumintrollet.!

[topliff12345]

god i remember watching this episode!

[18mayRe]

O_________________________o

EEHH AMADO TODA MI VIDA LOS MUMINS Y JAMAS HABIA VISTO ESTOOOOOO!

HAHAHAHAHA

NEEEE NADA QMO MI QARICATURITA <3

[ladybrisen777]

I am 37 and I have never seen this.. Its so cute I loved it.... I see tht this is a show that they made several different episodes is that correct?

[ZolotayaKoshka]

@ladybrisen777 Yes, and it is based on fabulous books by Tove Jansson. This series follows the books rather closely and has the atmosphere... But the books themselves are highly recommended. There's a lot in them for adults, too.

I always cried when I read about the poor silly squirrel's death as a child. The ice lady bent down and "scratched him behind an ear, smiling absent-mindedly", and he looked at her beauty and froze to death. Terrible!

[RJBrooker]

Brilliant. Think about the mundane meaningless dribble children's TV is about these days. Kids would be so much more thoughtful (though quite a lot more disturbed) if this was what they were watching.

[aka4x7b]

This episode terrified me as a 5 year old and haunted me for years. I had nightmares about monsters wandering around my garden that would kill me if they saw me looking at them through the window.

[guinnesshead]

I have all the volumes on d.v.d, When I was a child this particular episode really freaked me out, the Lady of the cold is very eerie :(

[olialto7]

Does anyone know which volume this episode features on?

[laerkebay]

This is like so scary!

[r4936]

@sigreph

I totally agree this is the origional and best. Most kids tv from the 80's treated kids like young adults. It was usually intelligent clever imaginative and slightly dark.

Then they remade them all in the 90's etc and treated all the kids like retarded inbreds. The music to the jap cartoon is so inane.

[raddy26]

omg im 30 and still rember the moomins how sad lol atleast now me daughter likes them hehehehe.

[yulaw3]

its swedish /finnish

[zizispoonie876]

this is creepy o.o

[HOLLISTERaddictLAWL]

coooooooooooooooool

[FullmetalAnimator]

Excellent, simple animation. The poses are very clear so even though they all have the same expression you can feel different emotions though their body language.

[ChiyoIshida]

First time I've seen this version. I thought the Japanese one scared me...then I saw this.

[AllyOfTractorMan]

This is actually beautful, even though all of the humans look like they've come straight from the depths of the Uncanny Valley.

[goldamatthias]

But... Too-Ticky's a lady.

[cheekymonkey1979]

@goldamatthias Yes, I could have sworn the Too-Ticky of Moominland Midwinter was a lady. I wonder what could have caused this change in the script, except for perhaps a mis-understanding, or perhaps because the English translators thought that she looked too 'boyish'. Seems a shame to mess with such a great character.

[puffinstuffsmum]

@cheekymonkey1979 Hope you don't mind me butting in, but I looked up Tove Jansson and it seems that she was a lesbian and her partner was called Tuulikki, and it was on her partner that Too-ticky was based, character-wise. Perhaps this explains the reasons for the change?

[mikeratty79]

Fantastic, the cartoon just doesn't work like this. I'm 30 and this just seems to make me feel so happy, maybe i'm a bit strange but it's the original Moomins as i knew it.........

[steviesteppa30]

a lot of kids programs from the 70's and my era the 80's were fucking dark man

[steviesteppa30]

i remember this wen i was a kid around the 80's.shit hot man

[kgrzeg]

Sorry, but this is not nearly as scary as oryginal (Polish) version. UK version is much shorter and devoided of its original sound track. Original high pitched piano "theme sound" of lady of the cold was giving me goosebumps.

[egilssaga1]

I adore The Moomins. They're more like folk stories than childrens' entertainment.

[discoddav1974]

a true classic kids telly. thank you lexie for posting this video on.

[LimitingFactor00]

Yes, still nightmarish to me for some reason I can't as of yet fathom.

[BabiiDalek]

Ok this is actually terrifying. O.o its sending shivers up my spine.. I'm genuinely scared right now...

[Jessiki]

Wow, that was scary!!

[PS89]

Years and years ago, the Moomins gave me nightmares. One of the few TV programmes that ever did. Looking at it, now in my twenties, it still weirds me out just a bit...

[AzanMallory]

I think this is so sad. It made my heart and my eyes cry when I was a child and it still makes my heart cry. Poor poor Squirrel.

[gordongate]

i love the eastern european feel to these animations, scary as anything but that was a good thing, it fueled imaginations

[LimitingFactor00]

@gordongate Wrong fuel, you get out what you put in.

[gordongate]

@LimitingFactor00 Not the wrong fuel at all. its all down to the ability to handle it

look at kids animations today, Bland, formulaic, rushed, no character, no feel, no roald dahl eerieness to the storylines, no craftmanship, just chewing gum for the eyes and a quick fix for the ADHD Generation.

[jojojosephinejojetta]

well said

[whatroom]

in the original Little mi gets frozen

[AzanMallory]

@whatroom Really? In the book little Mi gets frozen? Cos My mother who is from finland used to read these to me in finnish when i was a child and as I remember it the squirrel got frozen.

[JesterDev]

Yep, still get a chilling experience. Kinda miss these though, I always enjoyed being scared when I was a kid.

[45545512]

i used to hate these gits, just hearing the theme tune again sends shivers down my spine...not in a good way

[Mootland666]

Quite disturbing really, poor squirrel. Great viewing though as a kid!

[irrikan]

Loved this episode... it scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid, more so than the so-called "violent" cartoons Mary Whitehouse and co was whinging about back in the day....

[JakisElfiastyGruzin]

Polish moomins! :D I think japanneese are better, but theese are.. "prettier" :) I mean, you could print any picture from this animation, put it into frame and hang it on your wall...

[sirgregh]

Just to remind you all that this animation was created in Poland by Se-ma-for. In my opinion its far better than the Japanese cartoon, it has this spooky feeling...

[Ottisify]

@sirgregh Japaneese? lol its from Finland. :P

[sirgregh]

@Ottisify mate, learn to read :D I said that the Polish animation is better than Japanese ANIMATION. And Tove Jansson (Moomins author) was Swedish-Finn lol :P

Happy now, Mr ignorance?

[turfute]

@sirgregh

the jap version wasn't bad either

[Flowerblood]

@sirgregh The Moomins (Swedish: Mumintroll, Finnish: Muumi) are the central characters in a series of books and a comic strip by Swedish-Finn illustrator and writer Tove Jansson, originally published in Swedish by Schildts[2] in Finland. They are a family of trolls who are white and roundish, with large snouts that make them resemble hippopotamuses

Doy.

[sirgregh]

@Flowerblood I said that ANIMATION is Polish, not the BOOK. I know all this, man.

[Flowerblood]

@sirgregh Fair enough. Haha, almost got into an argument about the Moomins. They still terrify me.

[sirgregh]

@Flowerblood Moomins are serious business:)

[Flowerblood]

@sirgregh Quite right.

[Ragtime95]

@sirgregh I have to say that the cartoon also gives you a spooky feeling!

[BazWaz1975]

This is up there with Mr Noseybonk as shows that used to creep me out as a kid

[Lynx890]

I haven't seen these since HTV transmitted them originally. Still amazing.Thanks for posting them.

[blackpoolprince]

Did you know U can get them all at Amazon - £25

[TheMusic]

they were fucking terrifying. i had so many nightmares of them as a wee girl haha.

[Motown025]

ahhh the proper old moomins, not that subsequent dross!

[trikedesign]

I can't believe it! I remember this episode. The Moomins have been seared into my brain since I was about 4. Especially the winter stories. Thanks for uploading!

[hopintheroflcopter]

Hey, i dunno if you can help me, but i remember something (i think it's from The Moomins), where this kinda monster stalks the Moomins? I think it had a top hat, i'm not sure, but when they looked at it, it just stared at them and stayed still? Or am i thinking of something else? lol

[petitanglais]

It's probably the Groke. She turns the ground to ice when she passes by. Originally, she did not have a hat, but they gave her the Hobgoblin's Hat in exchange for Thingumy and Bob's suitcase (Groke accused T and B of stealing the case and the Hemulen ruled for a trade off so she would leave Moomin Valley).

[hopintheroflcopter]

Ahhhh thanks a lot! :D

[creepcube]

thats the HOBGOBLIN....

[8stringerr]

this is some story