It's way too easy to think of The Golden Compass as typical prepubescent entertainment, despite a PG-13 rating and heady subject matter. In that regard, of the three films featured in this Total Recall, Golden Compass is most similar to Alice (100 percent): they're deceptively innocent and surprisingly mature. Released in 1988 and directed by stop-motion maestro Jan Svankmajer, Alice is by far the bleakest cinematic adaptation of Lewis Carroll's books.  As the titular Alice, Kristýna Kohoutová portrays the only human character; the rest of the world is populated with dolls, mannequins, and sharp objects brought to life by Svankmajer's deft manipulating hand. A hypnotically sad and harrowing film, Washington Post's Hal Hinson claims Alice "takes us back to a time in the history of movies when audiences responded to the images on screen with a combination of awe and fear, when in submitting to them, we felt as if we were submitting to a spell."

Though Disney's version of Alice in Wonderland (77 percent), which emphasizes Carroll's light-hearted whimsy, has dominated culture for generations, others have seen a sinister edge to the story. In addition to Svankmajer, American McGee's 2000 video game, Alice, features the heroine embarking on a violent journey through Wonderland after being institutionalized. A film adaptation has been long in the works, currently being slated for release in July 2008 starring Sarah Michelle Gellar and directed by Marcus Nispel.

Alice meets the Queen of Hearts.