Did this movie scare anyone else at first?
I first saw it when I was very young.. It scared me.. hah
shareagreed, freakiest film EVER and I blame it for my fear of puppets.
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Hell yes! but my fear of puppets actually came from watching "Magic" when i was 4 back in 1986 on video or TV! You know the movie with Anthony Hopkins and his evil ventriloquist dummy? brrr that movie terrified me and made me afraid of dummies especially "Making Contact" (a.k.a. Joey) which had a demonic dummy that also terrfied me like the one in "Magic".
I saw this movie at theaters at the mall in St. Louis when i was 5, this scared the bejesus out of me with that transformation and the hallucination sequences! almost got a "PG" rating here.
"Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb"-Batman.
Hell yeah!!
Scared me for life, that whole transformation scene with him begging and crying. No wonder Filmation is no more.
Anyone else think the girl puppet was kind of hot? I was all about her when I was 4 years old.
shareIt scared the *beep* outta me when i was 6-8. I think i saw it like 2 times, and both times i was scared to death. but i would love to see it again
shareI found my video and just watched it tonight. It's still very creepy. It doesn't "scare" me exactly, but I still maintain that this should never be shown to children.
sharedude i totally know what you mean hahahahaa i used to think the same thing...
"If you really loved something, wouldn't a little bit of it linger?"
-Susan Orlean, Adaptation.
I live in STL - which mall/theater did you see this at?
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The St. Louis Galleria Survivor147 i believe which was this grand mall that had a nice theater as i remembered being a 4 and 5 year old from 1986 to early 1988 before leaving to Omaha Nebraska.
It was a great theater where sometimes i would see a movie or at some other theaters like that one that was by ShowBiz Pizza. After a movie i would go to Showbiz and that was awesome, it was the original Chuck-E-Cheese before it changed it's name to that.
I still have good memories of that mall and some other malls in that city, seeing Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night at age 5 in december of 87 was a scary experience for me. After christmas day, at night my mom took me to see it since i wanted to see it since i saw the trailer to it during "Creepshow 2" in a theater and of course TV Spots. But what i got was a terrifying experience as that infamous Puppetino scene which got me all creeped out in fear, my heart was racing with stomach flying and was clinging on my mom. There are other freaky stuff like the hallucination scene where he got high, the Emperor's hands, the turning of Puppetino etc. they still disturb me to this day but when i rented this movie i would run away from the scene of Puppetino turning Pinocchio into a puppet until it was over but 10 years ago i found it on VHS at a flea-market in it's New World video form and enjoyed it, i even put it on youtube.
all they want are demented madmen running around in ski-masks hacking up young virgins.
That theater and mall still exists and is still thriving. How cool! I was living in the south county area so I didn't go up that way much in the 80s when I was a kid. Which Showbiz Pizza were you going to?
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