Alice in Wonderland. Creepy version???

[mary lou 102]

Has anyone else seen this really creepy Alice in Wonderland movie from the mid-80's? It came on T.V. and had a little blonde girl in an orange dress. and she went into her mirror and this scary monster thing tried to kill her. It really scared me as a kid.

[mshulman5]

I vaugely remember seeing this is a kid. It was a made for TV movie correct?? From what I can recall it creeped me out as well. That's something that may be hard to track down, lol.

[mary lou 102]

I think it had a good cast too. It may have had like Sid Ceaser and Carol Channing. I remember them and that it was a musical. It was creepy. I think the monster was called the Jabberwocky or sumin. My video store had it and they don't have it now. I used to rent it all the time.

[Mr. Movie Man]

It's a great movie! My sister and I used to watch it as kids.

[mary lou 102]

All I know is that it also came on the Disney Channel. Mabye, Sammy Davis Jr was the catapiller. It was cool. I miss it.

[JurassicMik]

Sounds like this one

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088693/

[mary lou 102]

Yep that's the one. I ordered it. Can't wait!

[TheKingOfMasks]

I remember this one too. Wasn't there some plot about a "jabberwocky" and if I recall, a hilarious scene involving Carol Channing turning into a goat (ahhh, that's 80's made-for-television movies for ya).

[mary lou 102]

yeah! Tht seen actually scared me when I was younger. She had cut her finger. Alice said that she coulden't belive that the looking glass world lived both ways(they can think forwards and backwards). Then Carol(as the White Queen) sayts " You caaaaaaaant?" than Alice is all like " I hope you're better now". Then the White queen is like " Beeeeter. Much beeeeter!" Then she turns inot a goat.

The weird thing is, this is all in Lewis Caroll's book" Alic eThrough the looking Glass"

[TheKingOfMasks]

:D LOL, this is all coming back to me much clearer now! I even remember Carol Channing's little ditty:

"Jam tomorrow, jam yesterday... jam comes every other day but not today!"

Timeless.

[mary lou 102]

yep! Ya gotit right. U should seriously pick up a copy from Amazon. It's great! I got mine a couple of days ago and it's a little corny and kiddy-ish, but I did actually jump at a part towards the end.

[TheKingOfMasks]

Damn, all these fond memories is making me want to see this again. Doesn't the Disney channel re-run it?

I'm not sure if I want to buy a copy for myself... :eek:

[Miss Belladonna]

Oh my god wow! I have been trying to find that for soooo long!

[mary lou 102]

Disney sucks now! They only show teenei bopper shit with Hilary Duff instead of the classics. They also had a musical fairy tale series on in the late 80's and mid- 90's. It had:

Rumpelstiltskin with Amy Irving and Billy Barty,

Snow White with Sarah Patterson(from Company of Wolves) and Diana Rigg,

Puss in Boots with Christopher Walken,

Sleeping Beauty with Morgan Fairchild as the queen and Tahnee Welch as Rosebud,

Beauty and the Beast with Rebecca DeMornay as Beauty and John Savage as the Beast/Prince,

The Frog Prince with Annie's Aileen Quinn as the princess and
Helen Hunt as her evil stepsister,

Emperors New Clothes with Sid Ceaser,

Hansel and Gretel with Cloris Leachman and David Warner,

and Red Riding Hood with Isabella Rossolinni and Craig T Nelson.


Red Riding Hood is avalable on DVD from MGM, but the others are all out of print now and extremely expensive.

Any one remeber these? They were not Faerie tale theatre wich was also live-action and had big stars.

[TheKingOfMasks]

omg, I remember these! You're really bringing back a flood of memories now!

These were a part of the Cannon Movie Tales that aired on Disney in the late 80's. I remember the one with Cloris Leachman in Hansel and Gretel! She was an evil bitch.

[mary lou 102]

yep! U shoud seriously pick up Red Riding Hood. It's for sale at Best Buy for like 10 bucks. The rest are rumored to be released in October, but Im still not sure. Rumpelstiltskin has been on HBO, HBO Family, and Cinemax for the past 3 months. U might even be able to catch that one if U got the channels. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty played on WGN in Novemeber and December.

BTW, Hansel and Gretel is the scariest shit I've ever seen. Kids should not be subjected to that! The movie was practically an intense horror movie with a couple of songs, that tried to lighten the mood, but it didn't really work.

I remember that a lot of things from the late 80's/early-90's was a little scary for kids. Labyrinth scared mea little when I was 5. Then there ws the creepy ass Nick show "Are You Afraid of the Dark?". I bought some episodes of that on eBay and they still creep me out.

It's nice to know someone who remmebers these things.

[TheKingOfMasks]

hehe, I so agree with you! "Labyrinth" scared me when I was a kid, especially the scene where she and Ludo are in those caves with those talking walls that turn around.

And if you thought that was scary, I used to love watching "The Dark Crystal" and for laughs, "The Ewok Adventure" (aka "Caravan Of Courage"). There's a creepy scene where the ewoks are trying to make it across a huge spiderweb and a nasty huge spider comes down and knocks one of them off into the chasm below.

In "The Dark Crystal", there were some spectacular moments that freaked me out - like the tubular plants that moved, or the scenes involving the gelflings getting their lifeforce drained out of them so they turn into empty souls...

Why don't they re-run these movies more often? I haven't seen them in many years...

[mary lou 102]

It's true. No one really appreaciates kids entertainment from the 80's! They are just now being re-released on DVD. Labyrinth now has a Suberbit edition and The Dark Crystal has been re-released as well with 5.1 surround and some extras. The movies are not scary now, a little strange, but not scary. They look great. The effects are as mind blowing for me now as they were when I was a kid. The sets and puppetry are really amazing.

I remember seing this movie when I was young. It was in the Fantasy section of Blockbuster. I don't know them name. All I rememebr of it was this guy in this King Aurther-ish type period and he is staying with this girl in a tent or sumin. The girl makes a potion that will make him fall in love with her. he drinks it and then they start having sex. You could see the dude's butt going up and down and I remember it cause that's when my mom stopped it cause of the nudity. Can anyone help me with it?

[TheKingOfMasks]

Hmm, I think you're thinking of "Beastmaster" with Marc Singer...

But if you remember a scene with a creepy guy sitting on a horse in a golden suit of armor with a kid's laugh, then this is probably it. There was also a tree with rotting skeletons hanging in it... that movie was "Excalibur".

I used to get the two mixed up as a kid... but I think you're thinking of either one of those.

[mary lou 102]

That could be it. I saw the cover and it was this guy and girl. The girl had blonde hair and it wasn't a still shot, it was a drawn image, like a portrait. There was also some scene(maby the opening) of the main dude sitting at a stain glass window. I remmber the lady at Blockbuster told my sister that it was rated PG and that her kids loved it.

I've seen Excalibur, great movie! I thought it was that one too, because the cover looked a little bit like that one I saw as a kid. It was a terrific movie, but not the one.