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Worst/creepiest puppets/puppeteer work

Mo Frackle

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I . . . I actually don't know what made me think of this again, but . . . :sigh:

So, almost ten years ago, I found this Film School 101 production on YouTube called WONDERBANG ISLAND. Now, this was supposed to be an homage to H.R. PUFNSTUF, with a "what-if" scenario involving Jimmy having grown up on the island and becoming fed up with all of the zaniness around him. Now . . . ehh . . . the characters and the suits and all are actually rather well-done for a no-budget film school project, and the scenery and everything is very much Krofft-like, so I give it A for effort for that . . . but the story . . . the story is just so . . . it's so disturbing and kind of dark, that it makes the whole film seem all the more creepy when factoring the Krofft-like atmosphere into the equation, which somehow doesn't even help the story.

So, if you think you can stomach it, here it is - and IMHO, part 1 starts off okay, parts 2 and 3 get darker and more disturbing, and part 4 is just downright depressing. Oh, and caution: there's a couple of racist caricature characters, a strongly implied rape scene, a tries-to-be-graphic depiction of a diseased baby dying, and defacation. . . . All wrapped in a Krofft homage:
Wow... that was... um.... interesting. Creative, certainly. Not to mention dark. As someone who has majored in this area, I wouldn't say that I would call this Film 101 quality - it's better than that, honestly.
 

D'Snowth

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I wasn't saying the quality is Film 101, I'm saying that this really was this guy's film school project (I think there's information about that during the end titles).
 

D'Snowth

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Once again, this is an example that I would say A for effort, but the combination of poor performance and low quality video kind of makes it worse than it is. That, and whoever did this is calling this "Muppets."

 

mr3urious

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Now here's something I'm curious about. There was an old French children's block that aired in the '80s called Zappe! Zappeur. It was essentially about a lazy dog with an short attention span who has a habit of rapidly channel surfing, eventually causing it to explode in a Muppety fashion. It was a beloved show to many people in France who grew up in that period, so much so that no one has bothered to upload any taped footage yet. :confused:

But the theme song does exist in album form.


http://lostmediawiki.com/Zappe!_Zappeur_(lost_French_children's_puppet_show_block;_1987)
 

ErinAardvark

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Some of this stuff makes me appreciate Nickelodeon's first show, "Pinwheel," a little more. Of course, your mileage may vary when it comes to the puppets and the puppetry used on it.
 

WereFox

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Here is a REAL horrifying Christian puppet. Meet Stephanie, if you dare...


Hideous, huh? The title says it all!
 
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