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« on: April 14, 2009, 01:36:56 AM »

I recall going to a matinee showing of a stop-motion "Hansel & Gretel", one of the many weekend-matinee movies shown in the NY area when heavily advertised on TV (and it got me to go, obviously.)   Any info on that one?

Also, I have a nightmare memory of being very spooked by some movie on TV Question Question where a guy gets pulled under the water from the shoreline by a giant squid or octopus.   That was MY "Jaws" fear of approaching the shoreline for many years.....
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« Reply #1 on: April 14, 2009, 06:56:38 AM »

The 2nd one sounds like "The Raft" a Stephen King story from Creepshow 2.   
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« Reply #2 on: April 14, 2009, 08:06:16 AM »

When did you see the octopus movie?  It could be "Tentacles" (1977).  The other possibility, if it was an old B&W film, and if the octopus was HUGE, is "It Came from Beneath the Sea" (1955).
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« Reply #3 on: April 14, 2009, 10:21:32 AM »

It Came From Beneath the Sea is my guess for the second one.  Another possibility is "Equinox".  There's a brief bit of an evil squid monster that pulls down a house with a man inside.

Third pic down is the squid monster:

http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/reviews/E/equinox.html
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« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2009, 05:19:16 PM »

The octopus could also possibly be Harryhausens version of the MYSTERIOUS ISLAND....

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What year was the HANSEL and GRETEL film? Imdb has a puppet toon type made in 1954...

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193995/combined
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« Reply #5 on: April 15, 2009, 01:03:59 AM »

The octopus was an old film...maybe "It Came From Beneath The Sea".  I saw it on TV when I was a kid in the early 70s.   So that might be the one, though I think it might've been more obscure.   Definitely not "Mysterious Island" or anything similiarly large budget.

The Hansel & Gretel a George Pal puppetoon?  Possibly.
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« Reply #6 on: April 15, 2009, 04:48:24 PM »

The octopus was an old film...maybe "It Came From Beneath The Sea".  I saw it on TV when I was a kid in the early 70s.   So that might be the one, though I think it might've been more obscure.   Definitely not "Mysterious Island" or anything similiarly large budget.

The Hansel & Gretel a George Pal puppetoon?  Possibly.


Here'a a TV short promoting the film...
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...and a clip from the film itself.

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From what I gather at imdb...it was re-released to matinee showings numerous times.
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