“The Banana Splits Adventure Hour” was Hanna-Barbera’s first live-action addition to the Saturday morning lineup, modeled after the psychedelic pop-music romps of The new movie’s sinister twist is, to put it mildly, a departure from that formula. Nevertheless, he immediately developed a strong passion for the medium and began aggressively expanding his knowledge, using any and all downtime at his old office job to scour the depths of Marvel Unlimited, ComiXology, and the occasional wiki page to help fill in the gaps. The Banana Splits hits … It’s Probably Not What You Think.From left, Bingo, Drooper, Snorky and Fleegle (all voiced by Eric Bauza) in the new “Banana Splits Movie,” before things get heavy.Finlay Wojtak-Hissong, left, and Dani Kind play the son and mother at the center of the new movie, which includes a death by lollipop. This video is unavailable. That would be actually offensive. But when the Splits learn that their show has been canceled, their true nature is revealed in a twist as over-the-top as the many creative ways they find to start butchering the studio audience.For horror fans, it’s not an outrageous idea given the genre’s history of finding evil in the comforts of childhood (like the doll in “There’s also just something uncanny about anonymous adults dressing up in big furry suits. The beloved children's franchise The Banana Splits is being reimagined in an unthinkable manner: as a horror film. LExecutives at Blue Ribbon, who conceived the movie idea before commissioning the script and hiring a director, “Their films, and the saccharine, candy nature of kids’ television at the time, were garishly lit, with oversaturated colors on incredible sets,” he said. Covering the hottest movie and TV topics that fans want. His love of comics is rivaled only by that of his love for Star Wars. If you're so inclined, you can follow Jon on Twitter at @JonArvedon. Fifty years ago, four furry creatures took fun trips in “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.” In a new horror movie, they take lives. A one-stop shop for all things video games. A little less silly, a little more murder-y, they’re the gleefully sinister villains in the new “Some fans of the sugary original are sure to balk at the change of sensibility. It was Hanna-Barbera’s first live-action show, drawing inspiration from the psychedelic pop-music romps of “The Monkees.” “You don’t know who’s in that suit or what they do when they go home or what messed up things they do on their own time,” said Scott Thomas, who wrote the film with Recasting a sweet children’s show as a macabre, gory horror movie is, nevertheless, a renegade move. Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and Syfy are reviving the cult favorite Banana Splits children's franchise as a horror movie.The movie, which will arrive in 2019 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment before making its television debut on Syfy, centers on a boy named Harley and his family, who attend a taping of The Banana Splits, of course, is the fictional animal rock band that starred in Jon Arvedon is an editor and writer for CBR and he has been contributing to the site since 2017. A scene from the original series, which aired on Saturday mornings from 1968-70. All the latest gaming news, game reviews and trailers Fifty years ago, four furry creatures took fun trips in “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour.” In a new horror movie, they take lives. It’s especially startling considering the source material comes from Hanna-Barbera (now owned by Warner Bros.), the animation studio behind such family-friendly 1960s favorites as “The Flintstones” and “The Yogi Bear Show.” As Bill Hanna wrote in his 1996 It was a working formula. Because this time the Splits aren’t just sidesplitting. Watch Queue Queue. Translation: “The Banana Splits Adventure Hour” was a Saturday morning children’s variety show that ran on NBC from 1968-1970.