Ballet adds a surreal, creepy quality to many films and tv shows.
Here are 12 of the most unsettling… Ballet is not natural.
Its unearthly, and the whole thing is inherently creepy.
(But not their sons.
Here, we celebrate twelve of the spookiest stories from film and TV featuring ballet or ballet dancers.
Not suitable for little girls:Those demon heads are not for the faint-hearted.
Ballet:Actually none, this episode is about tap and hip-hop.
But two of the girls are wearing tutus anyway.
Spook factor:Frankly, I find Angelina Ballerina supremely creepy on any occasion.
Ballet:Generic twirling.
Not suitable for little girls:Whats scarier than a Dalek?
In an asylum full of insane Daleks.
Whats even scarier than that?
An insane Dalek that thinks its a young ballet dancer, twirling manically in the background of a scene.
In between, they look after animals and do a lot of ballet.
Ballet:A short contemporary sequence in which the girls dance out the life cycle of a butterfly.
Not suitable for little girls:Most of the film would probably go over childrens heads without bothering them.
Theyre unlikely to walk around in the sort of high heels Susan wears regularly outside of class either.
However, we do see some generic ballet steps danced in the practice room.
She appears to die on the spot, presumably from either shock-induced heart attack or severe blood loss.
Do not show it to your ten-year-old who wants to be a ballet dancer.
