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THE BEST...

posted 19 years ago by calicutie80
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This was always one of my favorite movies to rent from the video store as a chile. I was lucky enough to find a copy on Ebay, and at a resonable price. This movie is very hard to come by, because I believe it is out of print. Did y'all know that Sanrio (Hello Kitty) distributed the film. I love the stop motion animation. The puppets are absolutely beautiful. The movie can be a bit creepy I remember being scared as hell of the RAG MAN sequence. But this is definitely one to have in your collection if you are a fan of stop motion, a creepy yet endearing story and just for pure nostalgia.

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[–] NYCActor718 19 years ago

I am 21 years old and the Rag Man STILL haunts my dreams!! I swear! It is one of the most frightening movies I've ever seen... and then there's that song "Tick tock tick tock..." AHHH! Sooo scary!

[–] meeris 17 years ago

I had Ragman nightmares for a long time after seeing this movie when I was little.

I'm a big tough girl. I tie my own sandals and everything.

[–] madmickeymike 16 years ago

Same here, this movie scared the ever loving you-know-what out of me, I was taken to see it when I was very young and it haunted me for many many years.

One of the first things I did when I got an internet connection in the 90's was to hunt a copy down and rewatch it!! All in all, despite how much it affected me initially, it is actually an amazing film.

[–] milano67 14 years ago

Totally, the re-work of the story was awesome. New ideas meet the classic story. Music was great, and the story was pretty deep! Violent and scary but sweet and genuine. She's certainly loved Franz...I remember being little and at the end when her aunt opens the door and Franz is there with the flowers, but not as the Nutcracker, the look on her face was priceless. So in the end she got her man, along with a pretty cool adventure. Def an awesome nostalgic movie from back in the day. Glad to know I wasn't the only one who remembered it.

[–] scribe1270 10 years ago

I remember seeing it on TV when I was a teenager. I recorded it at the time (don't know where the tape is now) but I have always remembered it. You don't see too many works of art like this film ever. Another movie (also from Japan) that I liked (and was pure animation) was "The Little Prince and the Eight Headed Dragon" which is also hard to find I believe. I can't believe the patience that was needed to make this film though. With traditional animation the characters don't move unless the animator switches to another cel with the character painted on it, but one wrong bump, sneeze or whatever while doing stop motion and you could be looking at days worth of work ruined.