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Some movies you don't want to dignify by calling them films. Some you might not even want to call movies. I don't know if that's really the case with today's offering. Actually, it's more entertaining than a whole bucket of present-day fantasies, horror movies, musicals, or what have you, and by a great coincidence, it partakes of the nature of all these things!
It's LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND TOM THUMB VERSUS THE MONSTERS, one of several Mexican children's movies imported to US shopping malls by K. Gordon Murray. The most famous of these was SANTA CLAUS, where Santa lives in a Fortress of Solitude that seems to be in the sky, and he has a telescope that sees everywhere, a tele-ear that hears everything, and a crystal ball that sees your dreams! He battles a minor minion of Satan and has a shrine to the Baby Jesus, which he visits on his way to talk to Merlin. I forget if it's before or after the Kids of All Nations put on a talent show. One of the dreams involves little Lupita, who resists the devil-sent temptation to steal a doll, and later must undergo a nightmare with giant dancing dolls who tell her that dolls don't like little girls who won't steal.
But that's another story.
This movie, from what may well be the same incredibly inventive hands, features the creepily adult-voiced Riding Hood, the Wolf, Tom Thumb, Stinky the Skunk, the Wicked Queen, a werewolf, a pinhead, evil Siamese twins, and more. The link takes you to part 1 of 8. It takes a minute for the movie to start, but if it doesn't kill you, you'll be way stronger for having experienced it.
Be good and maybe I'll link to more.
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Some movies you don't want to dignify by calling them films. Some you might not even want to call movies. I don't know if that's really the case with today's offering. Actually, it's more entertaining than a whole bucket of present-day fantasies, horror movies, musicals, or what have you, and by a great coincidence, it partakes of the nature of all these things!
It's LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND TOM THUMB VERSUS THE MONSTERS, one of several Mexican children's movies imported to US shopping malls by K. Gordon Murray. The most famous of these was SANTA CLAUS, where Santa lives in a Fortress of Solitude that seems to be in the sky, and he has a telescope that sees everywhere, a tele-ear that hears everything, and a crystal ball that sees your dreams! He battles a minor minion of Satan and has a shrine to the Baby Jesus, which he visits on his way to talk to Merlin. I forget if it's before or after the Kids of All Nations put on a talent show. One of the dreams involves little Lupita, who resists the devil-sent temptation to steal a doll, and later must undergo a nightmare with giant dancing dolls who tell her that dolls don't like little girls who won't steal.
But that's another story.
This movie, from what may well be the same incredibly inventive hands, features the creepily adult-voiced Riding Hood, the Wolf, Tom Thumb, Stinky the Skunk, the Wicked Queen, a werewolf, a pinhead, evil Siamese twins, and more. The link takes you to part 1 of 8. It takes a minute for the movie to start, but if it doesn't kill you, you'll be way stronger for having experienced it.
Be good and maybe I'll link to more.
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