Did this movie scare you as a kid?
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shareIt scared the crap out of me when I was a kid!
I couldnt remember the name of the movie, and found it somehow on google.
MovieChat Forums > The World Beyond (1978) Discussion > Did this movie scare you as a kid?
Reading these reviews it's amazing how so many us who watched this as children strongly recall the scene where the Mud Monster's arm gets chopped off. I've always wondered what movie that was from. It sure made an impression on us youngsters.
shareMy experience of terror at a young age in the wake of this film has long stood out in my memory, especially as I lived on the far end of a trailer house in rural northern Minnesota, where the wind whistled through trees, and anything could be just beyond sight in the forest.
It is most heartening to see that a good number of people (in the reviews) were similarly affected as children by the same iconic scenes. I doubt my folks ever forgave my grandparents for letting us kids watch that with them.
It ought to be remastered and made available for viewing, given the apparent ability to push specific buttons. I lay awake for many a night in terror waiting for that mud-man to lurch from the woods to my single-pane, cheap-ass windows out in the middle of nowhere where the wind would mask my screams...
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I came across this site just today and was amazed to find this movie mania about "The World Beyond." I just wrote up a review about it here on IMDb Pro (should approved soon). I have really fond memories of it because I was in it as a stand-in, second unit AND as the guy who fell down the basement stairs! I was also the one who was trying to keep the door knob from turning, and the one tried to pick up the severed hand. Hey, it was all terrific fun and I have some pics from the shoot that I should post.
-R
I would love to see your picks if you want to post them. Any recollections on how they made the hand move? Was it controlled by wires or batteries?
Somehow this eluded me as a child, but I'm catching up now!
Lol. It was a real hand. There was a hole in the floor and someone put their hand through it.
I do have pics that I can upload.
-Rainer
Another unusual story about this movie. Many years later, I was meeting with a friend about a business venture in the Beaches area of Toronto. My friend brought her friend who was a tall dude who looked vaguely familiar. After some small talk, we both realized that he was the actor who played the MUD MONSTER in this movie. Talk about coincidences! By the way, the poor guy almost drowned when he fell into the water because the costume was so heavy. Divers had to drag him out.
shareThat is a cool coincidence! That costume does appear to be unwieldy.
It is odd that I've never heard about this until watching it recently. I had a reoccurring dream throughout the '70s about being chased by a disembodied hand, but as I recall that one was covered with a white glove instead of mud. It may have inspired by mimes like Shields and Yarnell, whom I found pretty creepy.