What weirdness am I remembering?

Azhrei

I've got a weird one here, guys. When I was a young'un, I watched either a film or a television show that freaked me out somewhat. In my distorted memory, it was a film much like Watership Down - talking animals and all that. The reason I bring it up is because I have a memory of "eyes" floating around and speaking to the animals. For whatever reason it made an impression on me because whenever I was bored in school, I would absently draw on my copy books - and it was always the same drawing. The eyes as best as I can remember them, a horizontal figure-of-eight, much like a mask. For years I would draw that without having to think about it.

I've drawn it on my tablet in a program called Draw Something Sketchy on Android. The program uses weird sketching patterns to draw it out, but it gets the idea across (and I can draw it far better using my fingers than I can a mouse in a paint package anyway), and here it is -



Now, as I said, the piece of work that comes closest to what I'm thinking of is Watership Down (another film that traumatised a young me!), specifically the character of the Black Rabbit of Inle. This rabbity grim reaper has several different appearances and may indeed be what I'm remembering, but the eyes don't quite match up. It may be that my memory is so vague or distorted that it is this character I'm remembering, but it may not be. I have searched for films or tv shows like Watership Down but haven't found anything else that has anything remotely like I'm remembering. I don't remember if it was rabbits that these "eyes" were talking to, I just remember it talking to animals in my head. The character in Watership Down does not talk.

Now, the Black Rabbit of Inle looks like this in the stylised intro -



I remember the "eyes" being black or red, or possibly both. This looks like a possibility.



This is what it looks like throughout the rest of the film. Looking at the head straight on, you see something that looks like this.

So the Black Rabbit of Inle fits with the ghostly presence aspect of the thing that I remember, but I specifically remember the thing speaking with animals, while the Black Rabbit does not. It may have been teasing them if I remember that one right. So, I'm not sure what I'm remembering. I couldn't think of anywhere else to ask about this, so sorry for being so vague! I've written all that I can remember of it. I couldn't think of anywhere else to ask but here. If anyone has any suggestions, that'd be awesome.

If not, no worries, I'll just keep doodling the eyes from time to time and continue to wonder

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

that bottom rabbit looks incredibly familiar....

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actually I might just be remembering evil the cat from earthworm jim....

Azhrei

You haven't seen Watership Down, by any chance?

The King of Moo

Might you be thinking of The Secret of NIMH?

Azhrei

No, it's definitely not Nimh, I read the book but didn't see the film until I was in my teens. Good try, though!