Stop-motion "Hansel & Gretel"? And an octopus on the shore?

[filmfestivalbob]

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 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.....

[princess dragonmom]

The 2nd one sounds like "The Raft" a Stephen King story from Creepshow 2.   

[Andrew]

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).

[akiratubo]

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

[RCMerchant]

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19Isvd4WvtM

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

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0193995/combined

[filmfestivalbob]

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.

[RCMerchant]

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...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brPHKejPAvg

...and a clip from the film itself.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1PFb_RkgTU

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