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I remember a scary movie from around the 80's...

posted 15 years ago by moscatomg1
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I remember a scary movie from around the 80's that terrified me as a kid—I don't think it was Babes in Toyland, but I thought others familiar with Babes in Toyland might know it. It had some kind of fairytale “lost girl” element to it I think (I had thought it was a PBS version of Alice in Wonderland, but I checked and that’s not it). Near the end, the girl returns home (or to what she thinks is safely home) and no one else is there. Then a monster or perhaps monster’s giant hand breaks through the mirror or wall, maybe by a staircase; I think it’s also suddenly dark and stormy in this scene. That’s about all I can remember; I just know it scared the hell out of me at the time with what had seemed more a children’s movie.

[–] prestonpopp 15 years ago

I am 99 pecent sure this is the film you are thinking of by description although I can not find it on imdb right now. My sister and I saw this version of Alice in Wonderland on the Disney Channel way back in the very early 90s maybe 93 ish or before. And it had a girl like alice on a train in a mystical world of dark and magic and typical wonderland type characters/creatatures and at the end she runs home to find to look into a mirror again only to hear a scream and a beast (thinking almost dragonlike from memory) shreik and the mirror brakes and that was it...that was the cruelist part. I learned years later there was another part to it but my sis and I never saw that air on Disney. It was so dark to end it there. I hope this helps.

[–] PickUrFeetInPoughkeepsie 15 years ago

Haha! I only caught the very end of that film but remember it to this day, that dragon-like monster won't leave you!

[–] TravisTidmore 15 years ago

It is most definitely this version of Alice In Wonderland http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088693/
As I remember Carol Channing as the White Queen it also had:
Red Buttons, Sherman Helmsley, Shelley Winters, Scott Baio, Sammy Davis Jr., Ringo Starr, Pat Morita, John Stamos, Lloyd and Beau Bridges. And many others in an amazing cast.
I just always remembered it ends with Alice finally getting home and the Jabberwocky (one of the most terrifying things from my childhood) comes through the mirror.

[–] TravisTidmore 15 years ago

While I typed this I was thinking there was a second part and there was. The believe it was a miniseries and the first night ended with the Jabberwocky and the second part picked up with that same scene. It was an adaptation of both Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

This might be the scene:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7dxhbHAGRE&feature=related

[–] LadyDaisy23 15 years ago

The Jabberwocky used to scare the pants off me. I remember that the lights would start going off and on and that's how you knew it was coming. My sisters and I used to flip the light switch to try and scare each other. I think I've been scarred for life by it. :)

[–] erin-mycupofjoe 15 years ago

ROFL - my sisters and I did the same exact thing!

I love that movie. :)

[–] BamaWorley 15 years ago

Just in case it is not the Alice in Wonderland movie, there is also The Gate, although it was a young male (Stephen Dorff) and there's something about a staircase or something and he has a sister.

Also there is the 'Labyrinth' but I'm probably way off base, but just in case, I know how it feels to not find a movie you are looking for.

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[–] CannibalCraig 12 years ago

I am responding to an old post but whatever.

As others have said, it is definitely the made for tv Alice in Wonderland of the 80's. It was a two part mini series that starred quite an ensemble cast. The part the OP was referencing was the Jabberwocky scene that probably scared the bejeesus out of most of us that remember watching it as a kid back in the 80's (didn't scare me but I loved it nonetheless).

The Gate didn't have any mirror scenes. There were a bunch of biped miniature demons and a very, very large multi-armed demon at the end of the film. Cool movie. Understand it's being remade.

And of course it's not Labyrinth. Although that film did have its creepy moments (the garbage collector scene).

I'm just a guy that likes horror flicks.

[–] hiddenagenda1 15 years ago

It's definitely Alice in Wonderland (1985). It's hard to forget my favorite movie of all time.

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[–] ri0tgrrl71-1 7 years ago

This is many years later, lol, but I think the movie is "The Company of Wolves." I was fairly young (saw it on HBO I think), it didn't fully make sense to me and it scared the crap out of me.

Ok, scrolling down, it could be that Alice version everyone's posting about I remember it being creepy too...¯\_(ツ)_/¯ but if it wasn't and you still care almost 10 yrs later, lol, maybe the wolves one.