Same here. I even found some drawings from my kindergarten time the other day. That was obviously my way of processing this trauma. As a grownup I can laugh about the cheap way it's animated, but the creature itself still stirs the same fears I experienced as a child...
Well I'll be damned. I can't believe I found this. This song is actually one of the earliest memories I have. Or at least the line "or the bunyip's going to get you", and the creepy animation. It must be from when I was about two years old. It's just always been there in the back of my mind, occasionally resurfacing. This is the first time I've ever thought to look it up. Sure enough, second result on UA-cam. It's just like I remember.
Oh my gosh, me too! this song was something that was locked away in the back of my mind as being terrifying. I never could quite place it or fully remember it (I might have blocked it out). but then one day I heard the word "Bunyip" and one Google search later I had my hands on it. thankfully now my subconscious can let it go. LOL
I agree, this scared the shit out of me and my brothers when we were kids. We still get goosebumps when we hear that piano start up in the beginning.This was also locked in the back of our minds as well until I found it on DVD and had to buy it and watch it as an adult. I showed it to my daughter when she was younger and she asked me what the big deal was, kids these days. So desensitised. LOL
try growing up in a remote town surrounded by wilderness where the older generations legitimately believed Bunyip and Yowie existed and would rush home before dark
@@raisingflowers8018 I literally didn't even remember anything about a kangaroo, or the name of the movie or anything. All I remembered was this song. It must have scared the living daylight out of me.
An animated 2D creature looking like a dirty blanket-ghost. A nice old man's voice. A slow, calm tune with an almost cheerful sounding refrain. A cute name sounding like a breed of the sesame street's funny yip yips and a bunny. Mix all this and you get - one of the most creepy and scary scenes I ever watched when I was a child and that still sends shivers down my spine now that I'm 30.
tannerin yes, that last bit reminds me of the story of the witch at Wookey Hole Caves .. I heard that her face got morphed into the rocks and could be seen after Father Bernard turned her into stone
Yes! Other than the opening supernatural screech....so demonic & full of rage....the warbly piano gets me shivering. But the final shot of it morphing into the rock...ALWAYS made me want to hide. It was like it could be anywhere.
I can't believe someone found this clip. This used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was about 4. Dot and the Kangaroo, I haven't seen that in so many years.
For 30 years or so I could never remember the name of the movie or the song. I just kept telling people ablut this white thing with brown spots in a movie that scared me shitless. I could never remember what it was from until someone mentioned it on a list. Amazing how you see things as a kid. I never thought I would EVER figure it out. Haha
savio roy I remember this from Dot and the Kangaroo aswell. The song but mostly the piano tune has haunted me ever since I last saw the cartoon about 26 years ago (when I was 8); the lyrics were quite blurry until now. I scrolled down to see others' comments, one also made a remark on the piano: saying it sounded like that from "The Fog" theme - which I looked up on UA-cam and found what I think was the correct one: by John Carpenter. Yes, I could hear it.
Many sleepless nights as a child because of this. Our home was set on the edge of a forest in New Hampshire with larger than normal windows. HATED to get up in the middle of the night to get water and or use the bathroom. Folks never shut the shades or curtains. Lousy overactive imagination!
This seems like the kind of song that would become lost media, and would come up on some random forum where someone's talking about how much it scared them as a a child, only to find out it was real when other people remember it to.
I like how this has more views than any other clips of Dot and the Kangaroo. Really shows how horrifyingly memorable this scene is compared to other scenes in the film.
Man, this song scared me sh*tless when I was a child! Heck, I'm 39 & it still DOES! As if the music & colors weren't enough, for some reason when the Bunyip 'turns' into the rock wall it chills me even more. The idea that it could be....anywhere...
For years I’ve had the imagery of this scene in my head without fully knowing where it came from. Was like a trip back in time to find this song today, powerful shit to stay with me 30 years later 🙏🏻
Hi I am from Argentina. I saw Dot and the kangaroo when I was 7 years old (28 years ago). It was a sweet movie until this scene appeared that traumatized us all :D
Exactly what I came to say!!! I thought I’d imagined it, I just remembered ‘’the Bunyip’s going to get you’’ with a weird squiggly monster. Must have been 30 years ago that I saw it and it terrified me, but I couldn’t remember where on earth it came from! So glad I found this!! then during an episode of the Lore podcast they mentioned the Bunyip!
omfg me too i’ve been trying to search for what this movie was for so many years all i had was vivid but faded memories in the back of my mind in the vault. can’t believe i found this
I didn’t grow up with this film and I’ve only seen this clip a few odd times, but it still gives me goosebumps The Bunyip sounds like the original eldritch abomination
Fun fact: if you guys didn't know that the bunyip is a mythical creature from australia its a swamp monster resembles a hippo,a tiger, a dog, a seal, a platypus,an otter and a wombat. The word bunyip is translated to "devil" or "evil Spirit" described by natives as amphibious, nocturnal, and inhabiting lakes, rivers, and swamps. Bunyips, according to Aborigines, can swim swiftly with fins or flippers, have a loud, roaring call, and feed on crayfish, though some legends portray them as bloodthirsty predators of humans, particularly women and children. Bunyip eggs are allegedly laid in platypus nests.
Plus in Australia they built the Bunyip Bridge the Bunyip itself was Animatronic it was also scary it didnt resemble the Dog or Tiger, Seal but similiar to this Bunyip in song, he was putted in Sewer which had dirty mussy water and it has also child, the bunyip later was replaced with little friendlier looklike. Today the Bunyip name was replaced with "Bert". If you want to see how did Bunyip Animatronic looked like here Old - ua-cam.com/video/9ZOgH661Grc/v-deo.html New - ua-cam.com/video/tEaDaAKNTbk/v-deo.html
I was terrified of the Bunyip for years when I was little! I used to see red phantom limbs in the darkness reaching for me through the doorway of my bedroom! Sometimes I would scream until my parents came. The animated movie Watership Down had some scary elements too. This is like a Dot and the Kangaroo: Bunyip therapy room! Other children used to laugh at me when I said I was afraid of something called a bunyip. Sounds like ya git bit on yer buns and yip like a pup or sumpthin!
I never visited Australia, but have some deep rooted connection with Aussie culture, I know not why. I can imagine a bunyip lurking in a billabong on a foggy winter morning, in a remote countryside of Australia. This song paints exactly this in my mind. I know not why.
I have LITERALLY had this song and images in my head since I saw it as a child. But I could never place it. Finally I heard someone say "Bunyip" on Tv and I decided to look it up. So now I finally know where it came from in my memory. Thank goodness!!!! Now I can go back to never seeing that shit again.
@@Jakerocksteady Yeah, I have the DVD with me at home. It scares me as an adult, or at least as a teen, but I still enjoy the song. This how you make a monster sinister and scary as hell without actually showing it once. A powerful name drop, if you ask me.
This was so much scarier if you were Aussie... There's a "waterhole" near the foot of the Blue Mountains in NSW I would never go in thinking there was a Bunyip in there
Do you know what the magic ingredient is here folks? Simplicity. Listen to the subtle piano tone. Listen to the lyrics. The simplicity of the animation. No cgi. Nothing overdone or overwrought. Nothing screaming for your attention. Tones and vibrations everything just set to a murmur not a scream. That is the secret sauce. Subtlety. Your imagination fills in the gaps.
Okay so literally I was obsessed with this as a kid. I watched Dot and the Kangaroo almost every night, so watching this is like a punch in the face of nostalgia omg wow
As a kid, this song terrified me, especially with the imagery. I always had this haunting moaning and the memory of that figure coming towards me which, even though before I thought "Bunyip" was a silly sounding name, still left me with a feeling of horror and dread that's persisted to this day, and watching it again for the first time in years now, I'm glad to see that the creepiness still holds up pretty well. Now I wonder whether the Bunyip would work as a good monster for a movie. I'm not sure anyone could really do it justice, seeing as this is a creature that apparently terrified Aboriginals so much they couldn't even describe the creature with any real consistency. At least I can take pride that one of the most mysterious and haunting creatures of myth came from my own country (even if I do have to have nightmares as a result of it).
I think if he was represented right with the same level of creepiness and menace as shown here, he could be a pretty scary monster in a movie or TV show! :) and about this scaring the Aboriginals, you do realize the real-life bunyip wasn't a spirit thing like this right? It was supposedly a fearsome cryptid (strange and bizarre animal).
tall32guy I know it's not supposed to be a spirit, I never said it was. But the lack of consistent description of what it's actually supposed to look like does partly stem from fear. They didn't know what it was, heck we can really only guess for the most part.
My parents watched this when they were kids then put it on for my brother and I. Sometimes the song pops into my head as an adult from time to time and I begin humming it. I’m glad you posted this 💖
I remember when I was younger my grandma's friend ran a consignment shop and she gave us a box of free things she couldn't sell. In the box was this movie. I remember watching it and being terrified of this. That movie always gives me an eerie feeling.
I haven't seen this in over 35 years and I am so glad to see it again. The phrase "the bunyip's going to get you" stayed in my head all those years. However, I thought the bunyip was cool and I would have given my eye teeth for a plush toy of him.
It's funny how something like this would affect you decades later. I am in the Australian outback right now and had this in my head. Being surrounded by nothing other than the bush, animals, caves and stars, you'd certainly imagine something like the Bunyip!
I sent this video to my buddy that was broke down in the middle of nowhere (no idea how he got reception) but he was pissed. Said he quit working on his car and sat inside with the doors locked. Lol.
So it's actually a real thing that exists holy shit. I always had this memory of a strange dream about a terrifying monster screaming "I'll get you in the light of the moon" or something along those lines, and I remember having this dream night after night for quite some time as a kid, but I always kind of assumed that it was something that my imagination made up, but actually I must have watched this and it really stuck in my subconsious and basically played back this video in my dream every night xd I couldn't remember the word bunyip though, so I had no way of looking up if it is from something, just now after many years I accidentally stumble upon this song and finally everything makes sense!
Well the aboriginals CLAIM it’s a real thing. Obviously it doesn’t look anything like this, but whatever it looks like has always said to be quite menacing. They said it has the look of several animals at once.
Actually a linquist thinks he cracked it. There was one tribe of Aborigines that used the word "bunyip" for an actual animal. The leopard seal. Thing was, they had a word for "seal" and a word for "leopard seal" but they didn't consider a leopard seal a seal. Not hard to see why: Leopard seals are terrifying monsters that are basically intelligent amphibious sharks, and back in the before time, they used to swim up rivers inland from the coast which would then dry out. Trapped, starving and dehydrated, they would very likely scream at and attack anything that came near them.
I watched this movie when I was maybe three years old. It scared me so bad I never opened the DVD case again, and I didn't remember any of it except this song. For the past fifteen years, I've thought about the clip of the singer going "or the bunyip's going to get you..." every night before falling asleep. I can't get it out of my head. Watching this again now is so strange, and I don't know how I feel about it.
Nope nope nope nope nope. It's 2am. I'm alone in my room. I'm on that weird side of UA-cam looking for nostalgic cuteness and this came up and I played literally five-seven seconds of it and I can't do it. I watched this when I was like 4 and I'm still freaked out by the Bunyip. Nope! Not today!!! Noooooo thank you
when I was little, I had a portable DVD player that I used on road trips and long car rides, but I only had like three movies. one of them was Dot and the Kangaroo. for some reason it was always nighttime when we came home from these long trips out of town, and I would watch this movie. since I was unable to "come home quickly" and hiding was impossible because we were in a car on the highway, this was terrifying. many nightmares were had.
Saw this when I was 5 and this song/sequence absolutely frightened the hell out of me. Never forgot it and quite a few nightmares in my youth because of it.
It freaked me out in a bad way a couple of weeks ago when I watched it, but now I'm watching it again and it's not having much effect on me. The reason I'm watching it again, believe it or not, is to get over my fear of it! That's how they say one gets over a fear of something, to expose yourself to it! LOL :-D
well, I sure as hell ain't plannin' on watchin' it anymore! maybe once or twice in the future, if I get a wild hair, if that, but nothing else! Because, even if it don't scare me anymore, it's still creepy and dark, and I try to stay away from such things.
This scared the shit out of me when I was little! I'm 38 and it still gives me the creeps. Seriously why did they put this in a kid's movie? Any time I was scared as a kid the Bunyip would pop into my mind and the part of the song "the bunyips going to get you"....Ahhhhh! Why the hell did I watch this?
I remember like 15 years ago looking up what a mermaids natural predator would be (hypothetically of course) and the first real answer I could get was the Bunyip. This was the first thing that came up when I searched simply the Bunyip and holy hell this song still gets to me years later. It's about time I sit down and actually watch the movie it's originated from.
It's a scary scary monster 👹👹👹👹 it lifted in Australia on lakes rivers and swamps but they could be monsters around the world 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍 really might be really freaking scary 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨
I'm 35 years old and I loved this song when I was a little girl and I still love it today. Just goes to show you how awesome Australia really is. I feel blessed being born here. Lol.
Same. Honestly I watched the beginning of it and I got so freaking scared like it opened a sacred memory in the back of my head. Watching it now I'm not that terrified, but it gave me such a traumatic moment as a kid that I still kinda get scared 😅
this never left me. i still remember it was the day after Halloween and little 10 year old me was chowing down on Halloween candy's. i was up at 6 in the morning before anyone else and there wasn't much to watch so i scanned trough the channels until i saw a cartoon and it was this.... it terrified me so much i never forgot i am 26 now and went on the hunt to find this clip i honestly never thought id find it... but it still gives me the chills
I'm in my 40's, I saw this with my younger brother and sister way back in the '80s - kids back then loved to be scared and loved monsters (I'd already seen tons of horror movies by then), and you bet we ate this up - I haven't seen the movie since then (it's a bit hard to find), but my brother and i could still remember the song and video decades later. You could find plenty of "kid movies" from the '70s and '80s that had eerie or scary parts like this in them - seems like that's not as much a "thing" anymore, but it was completely normal to mix a little old-fashioned ghost-story-around-the-camp-fire style horror with the kiddie entertainment when I was a kid....
Well thank you, Australia, I hope you're proud of yourself for traumatizing me when I heard this song for the first time-in my 20's. I can't imagine what this would have been like to hear this as a kid. (It doesn't help that it comes from a movie with the premise of a 5 year old getting lost in the Australian Outback! A 5 year old!)
Just woke up from a dead sleep and remembered this from when I was a kid, took me hours to find it. Why did my mother let me watch this, this is terrifying.
I cannot believe I actually found this ... I wasn't even sure I knew how to spell "bunyip" in my search, but it popped right up. Thank you for posting this, because I was such a small child when I watched this. Brings back a lot of memories.
Im so glad u posted this, I've been trying to think of the Bunyips name as i kept thinking it was the Bunyan,lol. Anyway i was probably 8, now Im 43 and this has haunted me my whole life
I remember watching Dot & the Kangaroo at school as a kid in England maybe twice… and seem to recall it had a sad ending…but the Bunyip is the only part I really remembered- “You’d better run home quickly or the Bunyip’s going to get you…” this scared the Hell out of me then, & decades later….it still does.
Woah... I'm working on a short story for an anthology about cryptids and Bunyip showed up on a random list. Just reading the word had my heart start pounding and I had the biggest urge to hide under my covers. I had to search around a bit to figure out where I knew the word from lol Freakin' Dot and the Kangaroo! This movie scared me so much when I was little, but I know I watched it a million times. What was wrong with me? LOL Hadn't thought of this movie in decades.
I enjoyed this movie when I was young and yes, this song gave me the willies in those days like everybody else here! Those opening roars gave me chills hearing them again even now, decades after the fact. Well done, Mr. Young and Mr. Assang!
I was 5 shit didn't get that far and when I found out that I lived in Australia Sydney and understood what this movie was really about, holy fuck you better go to church now.
This song/scene terrified the HELL out of me as a kid. 40+ years later I'm finally watching it again, and it's still sending chills down my spine in a sort of pavlovian response.
This is so interesting to stumble upon. Being from America, I’ve never even heard of the Bunyip, but I’m just as certain I would be scared of it if I had seen this when I was younger
I’m 17 and my father had me watch this when I was very young 😭😂😂 I’m so “old school” that I still watch water babies... I still cry at the ending of this movie 😭
I saw this is recommended, and the minute I heard that music a wave of nostalgia washed over me, my dad used to torture me with this song. It terrified me so much as a little kid and he used to play it all the time and I would run screaming out of the room, but I haven’t seen it in like 10 years
I feel exactly the same about Dot and the Kangaroo. I don't think I ever watched it as a kid either (unless I did and it's locked in the deep recesses of my subconscious). Maybe because Dot and the Kangaroo feels similar in a lot of ways to shows I did watch, so I know how my kid self would have reacted to it.
OMG! I remember after watching Dot and the Kangaroo on HBO and this was the only part that terrified me when I was little but that’s not the worst of it, I COULDN’T GET THAT SONG OUT OF MY HEAD!! I’m no movie director or author but It would be cool if someone made a R rated movie about the Bunyip and it would have to have a surprise jump scare unexpected scenes that have to be more frightening than the Conjuring or something oh and use this bunyip song for the title of the movie too 😎👍🏼
I’m from Sweden. I never Heard- of the bunyip until I saw a video were a girl was talking about the mythical creatures of Australia. I’m only seeing this video and hearing this song for the first time now, yet it gives me both chills and a strange sense of nostalgia I think it might have to do with the fact that the design is similar to different monsters in children’s books. And then there’s the neckless oval head with a freaky face bearing similarities to that black monster from moomin valley who brings about winter and death wherever he goes, and also an image of black madame (basically like Swedish Bloody Mary). When we’re kids we get fed with these ideas of what a monster should look like and then in the dark of night as we lay in bed that is what our minds make us believe we see, or when we’re asleep, that’s what appears in our nightmares
What makes this even more terrifying is that the music is actually pretty much just vocals and a plaintive piano…sung in the style of a lullaby Sure, crashing drums or discordant riffs might have worked…but this makes it a bit more believable
did this scare anyone else so much as a kid it still bothers you to this day
Just watched it and yes, I am seriously creeped out, still to this day!
Pfffsh!
I found this video two years ago, it's giving me nightmares *now*
I'm 19.
yep
YES
YES
This was by far the most traumatic part of my childhood.
I mean, look on the bright side? If a song was the most traumatic part of your childhood, you probably had a pretty good childhood.
Scout Rautman same! It terrified me as a kid.
@@dragongirl7978 Good point!!
Same here. I even found some drawings from my kindergarten time the other day. That was obviously my way of processing this trauma. As a grownup I can laugh about the cheap way it's animated, but the creature itself still stirs the same fears I experienced as a child...
True story. This outdid Watership Down and Atrax in the swamp.
25 years later and those opening piano notes still give me the chills
Mark Baldwin this is why I was afraid of thunder storms when I was little
It's so haunting. At 36 years old, I still get chills hearing it.
Very John Carpenter
Its creepy
This was on cable a lot when I was little. The piano was my cue to find somewhere else to be for 5 minutes.
Well I'll be damned. I can't believe I found this. This song is actually one of the earliest memories I have. Or at least the line "or the bunyip's going to get you", and the creepy animation. It must be from when I was about two years old. It's just always been there in the back of my mind, occasionally resurfacing. This is the first time I've ever thought to look it up. Sure enough, second result on UA-cam. It's just like I remember.
Oh my gosh, me too! this song was something that was locked away in the back of my mind as being terrifying. I never could quite place it or fully remember it (I might have blocked it out). but then one day I heard the word "Bunyip" and one Google search later I had my hands on it. thankfully now my subconscious can let it go. LOL
I agree, this scared the shit out of me and my brothers when we were kids. We still get goosebumps when we hear that piano start up in the beginning.This was also locked in the back of our minds as well until I found it on DVD and had to buy it and watch it as an adult. I showed it to my daughter when she was younger and she asked me what the big deal was, kids these days. So desensitised. LOL
superchief86 I thought I was alone.
Are all of you people from australia ?
Why do I still have this in my memory like seriously! I was at least 6 years old when I saw this....
this scared me so much as a kid.
Gotta love how no matter what video, no matter how old, there are always people who commented only today
Same
Yeah, this scared the shit out of me too when I was a kid.
try growing up in a remote town surrounded by wilderness where the older generations legitimately believed Bunyip and Yowie existed and would rush home before dark
Average Guy same here...
Bunyip eat a snickers, your not you when your hungry
XD
- Schattenpflanze -
You: Better?
Trump: Better.
- Schattenpflanze - After who knows how long this is literally the only thing that can make this seem not scary XD
Randolph1824
And this man is now the president of the United States. Fuck me.
Jhon Carter We should have let him stay the bunyip. :(
Never has nostalgia been so terrifying.
I think where the kangaroo tells the story was more creepier then the song
@@raisingflowers8018 I literally didn't even remember anything about a kangaroo, or the name of the movie or anything. All I remembered was this song. It must have scared the living daylight out of me.
agreed
An animated 2D creature looking like a dirty blanket-ghost. A nice old man's voice. A slow, calm tune with an almost cheerful sounding refrain. A cute name sounding like a breed of the sesame street's funny yip yips and a bunny. Mix all this and you get - one of the most creepy and scary scenes I ever watched when I was a child and that still sends shivers down my spine now that I'm 30.
😂😂😂 🙏🏼
Emu kangaroo dingo
Yep still
huh
Bro is 42
As if there weren't enough deadly animals in Australia already ...
Yeah, this one's the most dangerous (without venom or poison)
I wouldnt want to meet bunyip myself tbh
There's also the Yara ma yha who, yowie, hawkesbury river monster, muldjewangk and stop bears!
Evan Miller Don't you mean 'drop bears?'
@@knightofarkronia8652 yes. Stupid auto correct...
That slightly warbly piano and the way the bunyip's face crudely morphs into the rock at the end...
tannerin yes, that last bit reminds me of the story of the witch at Wookey Hole Caves .. I heard that her face got morphed into the rocks and could be seen after Father Bernard turned her into stone
Yes! Other than the opening supernatural screech....so demonic & full of rage....the warbly piano gets me shivering. But the final shot of it morphing into the rock...ALWAYS made me want to hide. It was like it could be anywhere.
I can't believe someone found this clip. This used to scare the living daylights out of me when I was about 4. Dot and the Kangaroo, I haven't seen that in so many years.
Ikr, it the white ghost thing scared the crap outta me
For 30 years or so I could never remember the name of the movie or the song. I just kept telling people ablut this white thing with brown spots in a movie that scared me shitless. I could never remember what it was from until someone mentioned it on a list. Amazing how you see things as a kid. I never thought I would EVER figure it out. Haha
i still hhave the movie :P
savio roy I remember this from Dot and the Kangaroo aswell. The song but mostly the piano tune has haunted me ever since I last saw the cartoon about 26 years ago (when I was 8); the lyrics were quite blurry until now. I scrolled down to see others' comments, one also made a remark on the piano: saying it sounded like that from "The Fog" theme - which I looked up on UA-cam and found what I think was the correct one: by John Carpenter. Yes, I could hear it.
Happy birthday to the Bunyip, who turned 1,045 years old last December, evidently.
Many sleepless nights as a child because of this. Our home was set on the edge of a forest in New Hampshire with larger than normal windows. HATED to get up in the middle of the night to get water and or use the bathroom. Folks never shut the shades or curtains. Lousy overactive imagination!
Try living in Australia as a kid watching this
This seems like the kind of song that would become lost media, and would come up on some random forum where someone's talking about how much it scared them as a a child, only to find out it was real when other people remember it to.
"I am Crack Master!"
this WAS lost media though
@@ymhyhybaybay1958 Really? Do you know when?
Does anybody else remember a show called Candle Cove?! 😏
I like how this has more views than any other clips of Dot and the Kangaroo. Really shows how horrifyingly memorable this scene is compared to other scenes in the film.
Still scares the crap out of me. The piano is so haunting
Piano?what about the thing itself?
"Momma had to coddle you" -Bunyip
Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun
I saw this as a child and i never picked up that movie again. No joke, I literaly broke the dvd a couple years later.
You watched it on DVD? You lucky thing, it would have been redone. I watched a very old VHS; Lo-fi. I think we still have it somewhere.
So I thought about the bunyip all the things scared the shit out of me
I still have one
@@AlienWithABox We had a bootleg copy recorded by my cousin from HBO on a Beta tape.
@@AlienWithABox Did they keep that racist bit where aborigines commit ritual murder?
Man, this song scared me sh*tless when I was a child! Heck, I'm 39 & it still DOES! As if the music & colors weren't enough, for some reason when the Bunyip 'turns' into the rock wall it chills me even more. The idea that it could be....anywhere...
The fact that the people and dogs were so scared and that the creature had no redeeming qualities was enough for me.
FilmmakeroftheFuture
True there! When we hear the words "The Bunyip is always nasty..." that pretty much says it all.
EXACTLY! It gives you the impression that he could just suddenly appear like a ghost- and chase you down and eat you.
It's creepy as hell...
My brother said that was the scariest part too
I'd call it timeless composition and performance.
Can't believe they put this in a kids flim, im now 23 and still have nightmares over it
What the fuck, are they still showing this to kids?
I am 36 and still traumatised.
Those make for the best kids' movies, I believe. Better to be scared with fiction than reality.
What movie?
@@SethAurelius94 Dot and the kangaroo
There should've been a pg warning on this video seeing it had a really scary scene that could easily traumatise a young child.
Moral of this song: Watch out for That Dadgum Bunyip
Also the moral of the song: You can summon the Bunyip if you put a shrimp on the barbie...
@@commandercaptain4664 O.O
For years I’ve had the imagery of this scene in my head without fully knowing where it came from. Was like a trip back in time to find this song today, powerful shit to stay with me 30 years later 🙏🏻
Ikkk xD
Hi I am from Argentina. I saw Dot and the kangaroo when I was 7 years old (28 years ago). It was a sweet movie until this scene appeared that traumatized us all :D
Exactly what I came to say!!!
I thought I’d imagined it, I just remembered ‘’the Bunyip’s going to get you’’ with a weird squiggly monster. Must have been 30 years ago that I saw it and it terrified me, but I couldn’t remember where on earth it came from!
So glad I found this!!
then during an episode of the Lore podcast they mentioned the Bunyip!
was this from a movie or something because i remember seeing something like this when i was very little but i swear it was in a movie
omfg me too i’ve been trying to search for what this movie was for so many years all i had was vivid but faded memories in the back of my mind in the vault. can’t believe i found this
I didn’t grow up with this film and I’ve only seen this clip a few odd times, but it still gives me goosebumps
The Bunyip sounds like the original eldritch abomination
Fun fact: if you guys didn't know that the bunyip is a mythical creature from australia its a swamp monster resembles a hippo,a tiger, a dog, a seal, a platypus,an otter and a wombat.
The word bunyip is translated to "devil" or "evil Spirit"
described by natives as amphibious, nocturnal, and inhabiting lakes, rivers, and swamps. Bunyips, according to Aborigines, can swim swiftly with fins or flippers, have a loud, roaring call, and feed on crayfish, though some legends portray them as bloodthirsty predators of humans, particularly women and children. Bunyip eggs are allegedly laid in platypus nests.
HORRIFYING!!!!!
Plus in Australia they built the Bunyip Bridge the Bunyip itself was Animatronic it was also scary it didnt resemble the Dog or Tiger, Seal but similiar to this Bunyip in song, he was putted in Sewer which had dirty mussy water and it has also child, the bunyip later was replaced with little friendlier looklike. Today the Bunyip name was replaced with "Bert".
If you want to see how did Bunyip Animatronic looked like here
Old - ua-cam.com/video/9ZOgH661Grc/v-deo.html
New - ua-cam.com/video/tEaDaAKNTbk/v-deo.html
@@bruhokverycool9325The old way is so much better!! Both are cool though!
I was terrified of the Bunyip for years when I was little! I used to see red phantom limbs in the darkness reaching for me through the doorway of my bedroom! Sometimes I would scream until my parents came. The animated movie Watership Down had some scary elements too. This is like a Dot and the Kangaroo: Bunyip therapy room! Other children used to laugh at me when I said I was afraid of something called a bunyip. Sounds like ya git bit on yer buns and yip like a pup or sumpthin!
+Soterion Coil the bunyips comign to get you tonight! be prepared.
Simon0 lol :p the bunyip had me already - it dead meat now
so glad im not alone in this, because of this movie i never forgot the word bunyip
my friends thought I was ascared of some kind of 'ass-biter' creature.
Same omg
I never visited Australia, but have some deep rooted connection with Aussie culture, I know not why. I can imagine a bunyip lurking in a billabong on a foggy winter morning, in a remote countryside of Australia. This song paints exactly this in my mind. I know not why.
try the brian weiss past life regression exercise on youtube and you might find out why
@@RescuedRhythms thanks mate
That thing looks like a giant walking pizza
Lmao
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Is it bad that I think this song is really cool? The song's low-key, menacing tone makes it sound oddly powerful.
I've always loved it
Honestly it really is a good song both visually and sound editing wise.
It's amazing actually but so very cursed
It’s what makes it so scary :)
Actually like it myself.
I have LITERALLY had this song and images in my head since I saw it as a child. But I could never place it. Finally I heard someone say "Bunyip" on Tv and I decided to look it up. So now I finally know where it came from in my memory. Thank goodness!!!! Now I can go back to never seeing that shit again.
Exactly!!!!
Same
Same here! I remember this song and imagery from a video we used to watch in preschool. Never could place it. Then stumbled across this.
Same, bruh. Same 😐
@@Jakerocksteady Yeah, I have the DVD with me at home. It scares me as an adult, or at least as a teen, but I still enjoy the song. This how you make a monster sinister and scary as hell without actually showing it once. A powerful name drop, if you ask me.
This was so much scarier if you were Aussie... There's a "waterhole" near the foot of the Blue Mountains in NSW I would never go in thinking there was a Bunyip in there
Do you know what the magic ingredient is here folks? Simplicity. Listen to the subtle piano tone. Listen to the lyrics. The simplicity of the animation. No cgi. Nothing overdone or overwrought. Nothing screaming for your attention. Tones and vibrations everything just set to a murmur not a scream. That is the secret sauce. Subtlety. Your imagination fills in the gaps.
I mean, the growling is pretty creepy too
Okay so literally I was obsessed with this as a kid. I watched Dot and the Kangaroo almost every night, so watching this is like a punch in the face of nostalgia omg wow
As a kid, this song terrified me, especially with the imagery. I always had this haunting moaning and the memory of that figure coming towards me which, even though before I thought "Bunyip" was a silly sounding name, still left me with a feeling of horror and dread that's persisted to this day, and watching it again for the first time in years now, I'm glad to see that the creepiness still holds up pretty well. Now I wonder whether the Bunyip would work as a good monster for a movie. I'm not sure anyone could really do it justice, seeing as this is a creature that apparently terrified Aboriginals so much they couldn't even describe the creature with any real consistency. At least I can take pride that one of the most mysterious and haunting creatures of myth came from my own country (even if I do have to have nightmares as a result of it).
I think if he was represented right with the same level of creepiness and menace as shown here, he could be a pretty scary monster in a movie or TV show! :) and about this scaring the Aboriginals, you do realize the real-life bunyip wasn't a spirit thing like this right? It was supposedly a fearsome cryptid (strange and bizarre animal).
tall32guy I know it's not supposed to be a spirit, I never said it was. But the lack of consistent description of what it's actually supposed to look like does partly stem from fear. They didn't know what it was, heck we can really only guess for the most part.
the Song is catchy af thou
***** Nobody said it was.
***** mysterious n haunting? U need a tinfoil hat go to magical school of hogwarts
My parents watched this when they were kids then put it on for my brother and I. Sometimes the song pops into my head as an adult from time to time and I begin humming it. I’m glad you posted this 💖
I remember when I was younger my grandma's friend ran a consignment shop and she gave us a box of free things she couldn't sell. In the box was this movie. I remember watching it and being terrified of this. That movie always gives me an eerie feeling.
They should make a high budget movie with The Bunyip!
I couldn't sleep at night when I was younger because of this.
Smae here
Let my nephew watch this, poor lad refuses to go in the woods now.
Mika Kitsune may i ask way the woods the legend seeks of swamps wear the bunyip lives not the forest
Bunyip swamp seeks im sorry auto correct
30 years later and I remember the horrors this brought me as a child. Unimaginable horror
I haven't seen this in over 35 years and I am so glad to see it again. The phrase "the bunyip's going to get you" stayed in my head all those years. However, I thought the bunyip was cool and I would have given my eye teeth for a plush toy of him.
It's funny how something like this would affect you decades later. I am in the Australian outback right now and had this in my head. Being surrounded by nothing other than the bush, animals, caves and stars, you'd certainly imagine something like the Bunyip!
If there's something strange
in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
*GHOSTBUSTERS !*
SUB ZERO LIN KUEI LOLXD I should have seen that coming. =)
NUT BUSTERS!!!!
Get Five Nights At Freddy`s to take care of that Bunyip guy.
+SUB ZERO LIN KUEI GHOST FUCKERS! Did I Get That Right?
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I sent this video to my buddy that was broke down in the middle of nowhere (no idea how he got reception) but he was pissed. Said he quit working on his car and sat inside with the doors locked. Lol.
When I was younger this scared me so much! In fact it affected to this day.
So it's actually a real thing that exists holy shit. I always had this memory of a strange dream about a terrifying monster screaming "I'll get you in the light of the moon" or something along those lines, and I remember having this dream night after night for quite some time as a kid, but I always kind of assumed that it was something that my imagination made up, but actually I must have watched this and it really stuck in my subconsious and basically played back this video in my dream every night xd I couldn't remember the word bunyip though, so I had no way of looking up if it is from something, just now after many years I accidentally stumble upon this song and finally everything makes sense!
Well the aboriginals CLAIM it’s a real thing. Obviously it doesn’t look anything like this, but whatever it looks like has always said to be quite menacing. They said it has the look of several animals at once.
Actually a linquist thinks he cracked it. There was one tribe of Aborigines that used the word "bunyip" for an actual animal. The leopard seal. Thing was, they had a word for "seal" and a word for "leopard seal" but they didn't consider a leopard seal a seal. Not hard to see why: Leopard seals are terrifying monsters that are basically intelligent amphibious sharks, and back in the before time, they used to swim up rivers inland from the coast which would then dry out. Trapped, starving and dehydrated, they would very likely scream at and attack anything that came near them.
I watched this movie when I was maybe three years old. It scared me so bad I never opened the DVD case again, and I didn't remember any of it except this song. For the past fifteen years, I've thought about the clip of the singer going "or the bunyip's going to get you..." every night before falling asleep. I can't get it out of my head. Watching this again now is so strange, and I don't know how I feel about it.
this thing is a no joke monster. i see this in real life i am bolting.
El1t3HUNT3R13 I believe you better keep that flash light aside you every night
I desperately need to see _Crocodile Dundee vs The Bunyip._
Nope nope nope nope nope. It's 2am. I'm alone in my room. I'm on that weird side of UA-cam looking for nostalgic cuteness and this came up and I played literally five-seven seconds of it and I can't do it. I watched this when I was like 4 and I'm still freaked out by the Bunyip. Nope! Not today!!! Noooooo thank you
😂😂😂😂
This song makes me feel very strange.....
IKR it’s somehow both calming and terrifying at the same time
when I was little, I had a portable DVD player that I used on road trips and long car rides, but I only had like three movies. one of them was Dot and the Kangaroo. for some reason it was always nighttime when we came home from these long trips out of town, and I would watch this movie. since I was unable to "come home quickly" and hiding was impossible because we were in a car on the highway, this was terrifying. many nightmares were had.
Saw this when I was 5 and this song/sequence absolutely frightened the hell out of me. Never forgot it and quite a few nightmares in my youth because of it.
I'm 17 years old and this scared the absolute crap out of me.
I'm 22 and was afraid to go to sleep afterward.
It freaked me out in a bad way a couple of weeks ago when I watched it, but now I'm watching it again and it's not having much effect on me. The reason I'm watching it again, believe it or not, is to get over my fear of it! That's how they say one gets over a fear of something, to expose yourself to it! LOL :-D
Be careful though, I've learned from experience that sometimes exposure can make it worse (but mostly if it's combined with shame),
well, I sure as hell ain't plannin' on watchin' it anymore! maybe once or twice in the future, if I get a wild hair, if that, but nothing else! Because, even if it don't scare me anymore, it's still creepy and dark, and I try to stay away from such things.
Good for you tall32guy.
This scared the shit out of me when I was little! I'm 38 and it still gives me the creeps. Seriously why did they put this in a kid's movie? Any time I was scared as a kid the Bunyip would pop into my mind and the part of the song "the bunyips going to get you"....Ahhhhh! Why the hell did I watch this?
Probably the same reason Nicodemus the rat was killed by a falling cinder block in the Secret of NIMH.
Hey are you still 38?
This video takes me back 25+ years. Whoever made the original Dot and the Kangaroo movie, you guys are freaking awesome!
I don't remember being scared by this, but I WAS SOBBING SO HARD everytime this movie ended.....
That brought back memories, I totally remember this part captivating me as a child, especially the moment the bunyip faded into the rock.
That was so fucking scary
Nah that's okay, I didn't plan on sleeping tonight anyway.
DoomedDiceThrower you fucking crack me up😂😂😂😂
I remember like 15 years ago looking up what a mermaids natural predator would be (hypothetically of course) and the first real answer I could get was the Bunyip. This was the first thing that came up when I searched simply the Bunyip and holy hell this song still gets to me years later. It's about time I sit down and actually watch the movie it's originated from.
Creepy thing still scares the hell out of me even after all these years!!
Also, WHY THE HELL AM I WATCHING THIS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT?!?!
*gives you a hug and some chocolate because chocolate fixes everything lol*
@@Dragontamer135 *returns the hug and happily munches chocolate* thank you! *shares chocolate*
@@LchanOtakudom =^.^=
It's a scary scary monster 👹👹👹👹 it lifted in Australia on lakes rivers and swamps but they could be monsters around the world 🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍🌍 really might be really freaking scary 😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨😨
I'm 35 years old and I loved this song when I was a little girl and I still love it today. Just goes to show you how awesome Australia really is. I feel blessed being born here. Lol.
This was one of my favourite but scariest childhood movies!! The bunyip song traumatised me
Same. Honestly I watched the beginning of it and I got so freaking scared like it opened a sacred memory in the back of my head. Watching it now I'm not that terrified, but it gave me such a traumatic moment as a kid that I still kinda get scared 😅
I particularly like how everyone can't help but staring at it, even as they run. That spells fear alright :)
Even the kangaroos, and they don’t run from anything!
this never left me. i still remember it was the day after Halloween and little 10 year old me was chowing down on Halloween candy's. i was up at 6 in the morning before anyone else and there wasn't much to watch so i scanned trough the channels until i saw a cartoon and it was this.... it terrified me so much i never forgot i am 26 now and went on the hunt to find this clip i honestly never thought id find it... but it still gives me the chills
I'm in my 40's, I saw this with my younger brother and sister way back in the '80s - kids back then loved to be scared and loved monsters (I'd already seen tons of horror movies by then), and you bet we ate this up - I haven't seen the movie since then (it's a bit hard to find), but my brother and i could still remember the song and video decades later. You could find plenty of "kid movies" from the '70s and '80s that had eerie or scary parts like this in them - seems like that's not as much a "thing" anymore, but it was completely normal to mix a little old-fashioned ghost-story-around-the-camp-fire style horror with the kiddie entertainment when I was a kid....
Well thank you, Australia, I hope you're proud of yourself for traumatizing me when I heard this song for the first time-in my 20's. I can't imagine what this would have been like to hear this as a kid.
(It doesn't help that it comes from a movie with the premise of a 5 year old getting lost in the Australian Outback! A 5 year old!)
Just woke up from a dead sleep and remembered this from when I was a kid, took me hours to find it. Why did my mother let me watch this, this is terrifying.
This looks like something you would randomly wake up to in the middle of the night on some random cartoons channel
Si senor
I cannot believe I actually found this ... I wasn't even sure I knew how to spell "bunyip" in my search, but it popped right up. Thank you for posting this, because I was such a small child when I watched this. Brings back a lot of memories.
It’s even creepier because it’s like an Aborigine cave painting
Creeped me out as a kid in late 70's... So i bought the dvd for both my kids. They were terrified.
Haha! Passed on childhood fears!
Im so glad u posted this, I've been trying to think of the Bunyips name as i kept thinking it was the Bunyan,lol. Anyway i was probably 8, now Im 43 and this has haunted me my whole life
Are you thinking about Nick Bunyun? The CS: GO dude?
well i know wat is my new ringtone
Imagine somebody calling you in midnight and this started playing
i once fell asleep during nightmare on elm street woke up on the big fredy kill moment and was like o darn i mist the scary things
Don’t do it!!
Laura Wallace too late the bunyip moon shines over here
It's that clanging piano, the man's pronunciation of Bad & the way the song starts off loud, then decreases, then is loud again! 😉
This was the first youtube video I ever watched on my own & the first thing I ever googled!
***** I was 7 and I watched it because we were learning about the dreamtime stories at school
I remember watching Dot & the Kangaroo at school as a kid in England maybe twice… and seem to recall it had a sad ending…but the Bunyip is the only part I really remembered- “You’d better run home quickly or the Bunyip’s going to get you…” this scared the Hell out of me then, & decades later….it still does.
Ahhh I remember this from my childhood
Good memories
Good, horrifying memories
😔
My mom had to leave the lights on and my bedroom door open for days. Thanks Australia. This Texan was actually traumatized for life. Who knew?
Sleep wasn't that important anyway
Woah... I'm working on a short story for an anthology about cryptids and Bunyip showed up on a random list. Just reading the word had my heart start pounding and I had the biggest urge to hide under my covers. I had to search around a bit to figure out where I knew the word from lol Freakin' Dot and the Kangaroo! This movie scared me so much when I was little, but I know I watched it a million times. What was wrong with me? LOL Hadn't thought of this movie in decades.
I enjoyed this movie when I was young and yes, this song gave me the willies in those days like everybody else here! Those opening roars gave me chills hearing them again even now, decades after the fact. Well done, Mr. Young and Mr. Assang!
This scene traumatized me as a kid 😭
Ditto, man. Ditto.
@@Steelburgh it scared my father when he was a kid too, lol
This has to be the CREEPIEST, SCARIEST, MOST UNPLEASANT thing I have ever seen in my whole life... I'm not sleeping tonight
I was 5 shit didn't get that far and when I found out that I lived in Australia Sydney and understood what this movie was really about, holy fuck you better go to church now.
This was on at like 7.30am when I was about 6 years old. They really didn't care what kids saw in the 80s
Same
@@JonnyInfinite What if I told you that the bunyip is real
@@sagnikmustafi2374 oh god no
Thank you, Cracked, for making me curious enough to relive one of the most terrifying things I ever saw as a kid.
Still terrifying.
Lol, just came across this movie on tubi and was hit with flashbacks from when I was crazy small. Funny how you remember things like these.
This song/scene terrified the HELL out of me as a kid. 40+ years later I'm finally watching it again, and it's still sending chills down my spine in a sort of pavlovian response.
This is so interesting to stumble upon. Being from America, I’ve never even heard of the Bunyip, but I’m just as certain I would be scared of it if I had seen this when I was younger
I'm American, I definitely remember seeing Dot and the Kangaroo if only once. Not sure what it was on. I want to say Nickelodeon but not sure?
@@romulusnr ..HBO played it
I once pushed "play" on the old VHS player then ran out of the room, locking my little cousin in there on his own with THIS!! 😂😂 I'm evil
Scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.
This terrified me as a child, yet every time it played on HBO I was right there to watch! So glad to find this piece of my childhood!
THE BUNYIP'S FACE THOUGH!! I AM PROBABLY NOT GET TTING ANY SLEEP THIS WEEK!
he would have been easier to deal with if he didn't have those damn red eyes! O_O :(
when it comes close to the screen it just freaks me out
Ahhh the memories. I still love this movie.
I’m 17 and my father had me watch this when I was very young 😭😂😂 I’m so “old school” that I still watch water babies... I still cry at the ending of this movie 😭
I'm an American 21 year old, and this movie was still a big part of my formative years
I saw this is recommended, and the minute I heard that music a wave of nostalgia washed over me, my dad used to torture me with this song. It terrified me so much as a little kid and he used to play it all the time and I would run screaming out of the room, but I haven’t seen it in like 10 years
This makes me feel strangely nostalgic and I don't know why because I never watched this.
I feel exactly the same about Dot and the Kangaroo. I don't think I ever watched it as a kid either (unless I did and it's locked in the deep recesses of my subconscious). Maybe because Dot and the Kangaroo feels similar in a lot of ways to shows I did watch, so I know how my kid self would have reacted to it.
OMG! I remember after watching Dot and the Kangaroo on HBO and this was the only part that terrified me when I was little but that’s not the worst of it, I COULDN’T GET THAT SONG OUT OF MY HEAD!!
I’m no movie director or author but It would be cool if someone made a R rated movie about the Bunyip and it would have to have a surprise jump scare unexpected scenes that have to be more frightening than the Conjuring or something oh and use this bunyip song for the title of the movie too 😎👍🏼
Songs catchy as hell and after 30 years I still remember the words
@@struanmackenzie3849 Definitely agree with that
I’m from Sweden. I never Heard- of the bunyip until I saw a video were a girl was talking about the mythical creatures of Australia. I’m only seeing this video and hearing this song for the first time now, yet it gives me both chills and a strange sense of nostalgia
I think it might have to do with the fact that the design is similar to different monsters in children’s books. And then there’s the neckless oval head with a freaky face bearing similarities to that black monster from moomin valley who brings about winter and death wherever he goes, and also an image of black madame (basically like Swedish Bloody Mary). When we’re kids we get fed with these ideas of what a monster should look like and then in the dark of night as we lay in bed that is what our minds make us believe we see, or when we’re asleep, that’s what appears in our nightmares
My sister and I adored this movie when we were kids.
What makes this even more terrifying is that the music is actually pretty much just vocals and a plaintive piano…sung in the style of a lullaby
Sure, crashing drums or discordant riffs might have worked…but this makes it a bit more believable
trippy and rather unsettling, especially for a kid's show. also not for nothing but this is a pretty catchy song