1980's puppet movies are f*cking horrifying

[CavaliersFTW]

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http://static.gamesradar.com/images/totalfilm/n/new-garbage-pail-kids-movie-in-development-86623-470-75.jpg

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Garbage pail kids

Gremlins

Dark Crystal

Chuckie

The list goes on. Why are 80's puppets so f*cking scary? To this day I get very uncomfortable watching them. It's not jump-scary at all, but the creep factor for me is just off the charts. Anybody else creeped out by the puppet effects in 80's movies?

[iamgine]

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[Knicks101]

Return to Oz is the scariest movie of all time.

[rezznor]

http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/garbagepailkidsmovie.jpg

http://static.gamesradar.com/images/totalfilm/n/new-garbage-pail-kids-movie-in-development-86623-470-75.jpg

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http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3800000/Dark-Crystal-dark-crystal-3863683-448-418.jpg

Garbage pail kids

Gremlins

Dark Crystal

Chuckie

The list goes on. Why are 80's puppets so f*cking scary? To this day I get very uncomfortable watching them. It's not jump-scary at all, but the creep factor for me is just off the charts. Anybody else creeped out by the puppet effects in 80's movies?
Yoda was a puppet :no:

[DukeDelonte13]

i've seen labyrinth with david bowie. Bowie was scarier then the puppets in that movie.

[Myth]

i've seen labyrinth with david bowie. Bowie was scarier then the puppets in that movie.

Was it the bulge?

[Yoda]

Yoda was a puppet :no:

A puppet you are.

[Patrick Chewing]

Genesis's Land of Confusion is a terrifying video.


http://i.imgur.com/kXWX2.gif

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131207014900/spittingimage/images/0/01/Genesis.JPG

[KirbyPls]

Genesis's Land of Confusion is a terrifying video.


http://i.imgur.com/kXWX2.gif

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131207014900/spittingimage/images/0/01/Genesis.JPG

Welp, didn't want to sleep tonight anyway.

[Mr. Jabbar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeT9EtpZxzc

[They Won]

http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/garbagepailkidsmovie.jpg

http://static.gamesradar.com/images/totalfilm/n/new-garbage-pail-kids-movie-in-development-86623-470-75.jpg

https://38.media.tumblr.com/d947d74723764bfa2ad4fd0ec191ed2b/tumblr_my70c5BcLe1qedb29o1_500.gif

http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/3800000/Dark-Crystal-dark-crystal-3863683-448-418.jpg

Garbage pail kids

Gremlins

Dark Crystal

Chuckie

The list goes on. Why are 80's puppets so f*cking scary? To this day I get very uncomfortable watching them. It's not jump-scary at all, but the creep factor for me is just off the charts. Anybody else creeped out by the puppet effects in 80's movies?

I've always wanted to watch Garbage Pail Kids.

[Myth]

http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/garbagepailkidsmovie.jpg


Yikes, Josh Gad looked terrible in the 80s.

[CavaliersFTW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeT9EtpZxzc
:biggums:

I'm gonna be sick. WTF is with 80's effects. Always went for that slimy shit.

[CavaliersFTW]

Genesis's Land of Confusion is a terrifying video.


http://i.imgur.com/kXWX2.gif

http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131207014900/spittingimage/images/0/01/Genesis.JPG
God damnit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHmH1xQ2Pf4

:biggums:

[Droid101]

Return to Oz is the scariest movie of all time.
This.

[Practice?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeT9EtpZxzc

What movie is that?

[CavaliersFTW]

The Dark Crystal, full movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqwW8Y5AX9M

This is actually a great movie IMO. But it doesn't change the fact the the puppets in it have always made me feel uneasy and probably always will. Puppets are just too damn creepy, especially those damn skexis or w/e they are called.

[Droid101]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeT9EtpZxzc
Holy shit Tobias Beecher.

[west_tip]

OP is 100% correct, my sister was shit scared of the Dark Crystal and I had to bail out of the theatre halfway through the Never Ending story, it shitted me right up.

[CavaliersFTW]

http://youtu.be/oNtL5cwa_cM?t=1h21m18s

This was a fvcking kids movie

[CavaliersFTW]

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[senelcoolidge]

I'd take puppetry and practical effects over CGI. CGI is so overused these days..it makes movies look like cartoons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48

[CavaliersFTW]

I'd take puppetry and practical effects over CGI. CGI is so overused these days..it makes movies look like cartoons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjIXwkX1e48
I saw that movie when I was 8 years old. It was traumatizing.

[CavaliersFTW]

http://youtu.be/AB6vUegT6Oc?t=24m10s

Seriously, ever other 80's movie has some ****ed up slimy puppet scene :biggums:

[jongib369]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeT9EtpZxzc
*when bae makes your bath and you say it isn't too hot

[senelcoolidge]

http://youtu.be/AB6vUegT6Oc?t=24m10s

Seriously, ever other 80's movie has some ****ed up slimy puppet scene :biggums:

Willow was the shit.

[thefatmiral]

https://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=zMFnAdDdgig
puppetmaster

[west_tip]

The Dark Crystal, full movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqwW8Y5AX9M

This is actually a great movie IMO. But it doesn't change the fact the the puppets in it have always made me feel uneasy and probably always will. Puppets are just too damn creepy, especially those damn skexis or w/e they are called.


Just watched this for the first time in 20+ years courtesy of your link. WTF were Jim Henson and Frank Oz smoking at the time they made this? This movie is simultaneously brilliant and bewildering, its just completely and utterly weird. The final scene when those slow moving animals come in and merge with the skexis, :wtf:

Oh and you're right it spooks the shit out of kids, my 6 year old daughter caught a little bit of it over my shoulder as I watched it on my laptop. Needless to say she was most unnerved.

[gigantes]

The Dark Crystal, full movie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqwW8Y5AX9M

This is actually a great movie IMO. But it doesn't change the fact the the puppets in it have always made me feel uneasy and probably always will. Puppets are just too damn creepy, especially those damn skexis or w/e they are called.
i don't know about that... when you're aware that it's a henson movie and have seen your share of fantasy movies, i think it's more creative and refreshing than it is creepy. maybe younger kids shouldn't watch it, but if you're a teenager, especially today, you're surrounded by worlds of creepy stuff anyway, right? :confusedshrug:

[Megabox!]

90% of 80's movies practical effects are nightmare-fuel

[Thorpesaurous]

I love practical effects. The editing was better too. They don't look great in gif form now, but they'd cut them at the time so that your imagination did 75% of the work. Now they want to show you everything, and it loses some of the impact.

Dark Crystal is a great movie.

And I posted this the other day in a thread about creepy robots, but this is based some on the Uncanny Valley Theory of humans being creeped out by things that are humanoid but don't move quite as naturally as humans. It accounts for robots, zombies, puppets, the elderly moving quickly, or even the use of things like fish eye lenses or editing tricks to make things move unnaturally.

It's pretty interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

[gigantes]

interesting theory. like a varient of that feeling when you were almost tricked by an outsider trying to pass themselves off as a 'normal.' this probably goes way way back in our evolution and biology.

so... better to be a genuine outsider than one trying to fit in and failing, maybe.

[Thorpesaurous]

interesting theory. like a varient of that feeling when you were almost tricked by an outsider trying to pass themselves off as a 'normal.' this probably goes way way back in our evolution and biology.

so... better to be a genuine outsider than one trying to fit in and failing, maybe.


Someone told me about it after I was a little freaked out by the Direct TV wireless commercials with the marionette family.

I had a huge fear of a ridiculous movie called Dead Dudes In The House as a kid, which featured a decreped old woman in a house terrorizing a bunch of co-eds in a giant house. She would sort of wonder around, then move freakishly fast when she attacked them. That movie scared the hell of me.

[Practice?]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeT9EtpZxzc

Nobody knows what this is from?

[Droid101]

Nobody knows what this is from?
I tried to figure it out but couldn't. Anyway, the actor not melting is Lee Tergesen, so if you want to go through his IMDB and take a guess, be my guest.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855564/

Edit: comments say it's from the show "Masters of Horror"

[Practice?]

I tried to figure it out but couldn't. Anyway, the actor not melting is Lee Tergesen, so if you want to go through his IMDB and take a guess, be my guest.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0855564/

Edit: comments say it's from the show "Masters of Horror"

Thanks :cheers:

[pauk]

You dudes aint seen shit yet until you have seen Peter Jacksons work in the 80s... Bad Taste.... and Braindead, 1991-92 but, close enough... Meet the Feebles is ***ed up aswell...

[gigantes]

You dudes aint seen shit yet until you have seen Peter Jacksons work in the 80s... Bad Taste.... and Braindead, 1991-92 but, close enough... Meet the Feebles is ***ed up aswell...
funny how he went from ***ed up to epic canned ham.

[pauk]

funny how he went from ***ed up to epic canned ham.

lol yea, thats why i was a fan before most knew of him (pre LOTR etc).... i was surprised he came back that big, like where the hell did he get the money from? But at the same time disappointed, i want the good ol Peter back making gruesome baby massacre movies :D the guy was a sick sick man and he probably still is, but just does this crap today only for money or something..... With todays technology he could bring back that Snuff-Horror-Comedy genre back big time if he really wanted.... but noooo he wants to be Spielberg or something..... dude went Beta...

[They Won]

lol yea, thats why i was a fan before most knew of him (pre LOTR etc).... i was surprised he came back that big, like where the hell did he get the money from? But at the same time disappointed, i want the good ol Peter back making gruesome baby massacre movies :D the guy was a sick sick man and he probably still is, but just does this crap today only for money or something..... With todays technology he could bring back that Snuff-Horror-Comedy genre back big time if he really wanted.... but noooo he wants to be Spielberg or something..... dude went Beta...

His old stuff was clearly more fun.

[pauk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxpk2NcZI1Q :lol

[gigantes]

lol yea, thats why i was a fan before most knew of him (pre LOTR etc).... i was surprised he came back that big, like where the hell did he get the money from? But at the same time disappointed, i want the good ol Peter back making gruesome baby massacre movies :D the guy was a sick sick man and he probably still is, but just does this crap today only for money or something..... With todays technology he could bring back that Snuff-Horror-Comedy genre back big time if he really wanted.... but noooo he wants to be Spielberg or something..... dude went Beta...
he got the money from studios, but how he convinced them to finance him is a good question.

anyway, maybe he got tired of sacrificing money for his art. i'll have to check out his earlier stuff, because his tolkien stuff leaves a lot to be desired, at least for me.

[pauk]

he got the money from studios, but how he convinced them to finance him is a good question.

anyway, maybe he got tired of sacrificing money for his art. i'll have to check out his earlier stuff, because his tolkien stuff leaves a lot to be desired, at least for me.

I guess so, anyways, movies you have to see:

Braindead
Bad Taste

You will laugh & vomit at the same time, Peter even stars in those especially in Bad Taste, two sick characters, see the youtube link i posted above for a taste. :)

The other is optional:

Frighteners (pretty good horror imo with Michael J. Fox)
Meet the Feebles (muppets on crack, creepy puppet splatter galore)
Heavinly Creatures (good drama/crime, got 7.5 on imdb)

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

World would be a better place without puppets clowns and dolls.

Literally speaking

of course we need people who fitb those labels though lol

[CavaliersFTW]

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:biggums:

80's practical effects will forever be nightmare fuel to me :eek:

[CavaliersFTW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9SJP27mR1g

:biggums:

[AlphaWolf24]

one of faves....1986 The Fly

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l72gwvXXN31qzdf0go1_500.gif

http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/fly.jpg

http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/fly-2-a.jpg

http://jarviscity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/the-fly.gif

80's Practical effects were amazing...

[CavaliersFTW]

one of faves....1986 The Fly

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l72gwvXXN31qzdf0go1_500.gif

http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/fly.jpg

http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/fly-2-a.jpg

http://jarviscity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/the-fly.gif

80's Practical effects were amazing...
Yep def another good one... they make me sick yet I can't stop watching them :oldlol:

[DeuceWallaces]

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:biggums:

80's practical effects will forever be nightmare fuel to me :eek:

Dead Alive is one of the greatest horror movies ever. Hardly anyone knows about it. More people know the Re-Animator and From Beyond, but Dead Alive is tops. We used to watch it all the time in high school to freak people.

As someone also mentioned, Meet the Feebles is ****ED UP.

[John Tesh]

one of faves....1986 The Fly

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l72gwvXXN31qzdf0go1_500.gif

http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/fly.jpg

http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/fly-2-a.jpg

http://jarviscity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/the-fly.gif

80's Practical effects were amazing...

Classic.

[Nick Young]

A puppet you are.
how does Yoda always know when he's mentioned in a thread? GOAT level gimmick dedication

[John Tesh]

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http://discdoesretro.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/jackson.png

:biggums:

80's practical effects will forever be nightmare fuel to me :eek:

I recognize that but can't place it. What is it from?

[DeuceWallaces]

I recognize that but can't place it. What is it from?

It's Dead Alive.

[John Tesh]

It's Dead Alive.

Thanks. I knew I had seen it.

[DeuceWallaces]

The dinner scene in Dead Alive is probably the most disturbing thing I've watched. The Re-Animator's "headless" cunnilingus scene is another good one.

Always good for a laugh at parties.

[DeuceWallaces]

Lol I can't believe it's on YouTube.

Definitely NSFW:

http://youtu.be/7hxLfSmZXRk?t=3m19s

[Yoda]

how does Yoda always know when he's mentioned in a thread? GOAT level gimmick dedication

Appreciated your awareness is.

[zoom17]

Lol I can't believe it's on YouTube.

Definitely NSFW:

http://youtu.be/7hxLfSmZXRk?t=3m19s

Nice tits.

[DeuceWallaces]

Effects guy Rick Baker is auctioning a ton of stuff. Check it out.

Lots of Gremlins 2/Men In Black/Harry and the Hendersons/Ape stuff. Suits/models/animatronic rigs.

http://www.propstore.com/content/rickbaker/catalog.pdf

I'll go for the Starman baby, Moonwalker helm or hands, Brain Gremlin costume and one of the lesser puppets, and the full size Harry suit.

[Lebron23]

1980's Horror Movies are the best.

[TheSilentKiller]

Return to Oz is the scariest movie of all time.
this man

[Thorpesaurous]

one of faves....1986 The Fly

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l72gwvXXN31qzdf0go1_500.gif

http://www.slantmagazine.com/assets/film/fly.jpg

http://www.joblo.com/images_arrownews/fly-2-a.jpg

http://jarviscity.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/the-fly.gif

80's Practical effects were amazing...

The Fly was on last night. It's jam packed full of this stuff.