Anyone remembers Filmation's Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night?

~~Cropsy~~ · 02-11-2010, 01:46 PM

It's a dark and creepy 1987 animated feature from Filmation (Makers of He-Man, She-Ra, Bravestarr, Fat Albert, Ghost Busters, Star Trek animated and more) and New World Pictures.

It starred James Earl Jones, William Windom, Tom Bosley, Scott Grimes, Ed Asner, Rickie Lee Jones, Frank Welker, and Jonathan Harris. It came out on Christmas in 1987 as it underperformed at the box-office and got mixed reviews, today it has a cult following and i'm one of it's fans. It's a sequel to the legendary Collodi story set a year after Pinocchio became human as a creepy mysterious carnival is in town, he just celebrated his first birthday as a human and has to deliver a jewelbox to the mayor in town for a good price. However he makes a dope of himself as he gives the jewelbox away to a raccoon con-artist and his monkey assistant for a worthless fake ruby. It pisses his dad off so much that he decides to run away to join the carnival, he does get seduced by a lovely girl puppet that he has fallen in love with at the carnival but gets tricked by an evil puppeter who is the minion of the title villain as he becomes a puppet again. Luckily he gets rescued by his father godmother again to become human as he escapes to find the two scoundrels that swindled him earlier but discovers they have to go after the carnival that has the jewelbox only to end up in the hellish nightmarish realm of the empire of the night conducted by the evil emperor who wants his soul.

It's very entertaining, well made and enjoyable as i think it's Filmation's best achievement. It took five years to make and a labor of love for them, it did underperformed at the box-office and got mixed reviews from critics but today it's somewhat of a cult film even among kids of the 80's such as myself. I saw this movie in a theater when i was 6 in 1987 after Christmas as my mom took me to see this at a St. Louis shopping mall theater at night and it scared the living **** out of me even that horrifying scene where Puppetino tortures and turns Pinocchio slowly back into a puppet, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

The film is put on youtube for anyone's nostalgic viewing pleasure:

02-11-2010, 01:46 PM	#1
~~Cropsy~~ Banned Join Date: Oct 2008 Posts: 92	Anyone remembers Filmation's Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night? It's a dark and creepy 1987 animated feature from Filmation (Makers of He-Man, She-Ra, Bravestarr, Fat Albert, Ghost Busters, Star Trek animated and more) and New World Pictures. It starred James Earl Jones, William Windom, Tom Bosley, Scott Grimes, Ed Asner, Rickie Lee Jones, Frank Welker, and Jonathan Harris. It came out on Christmas in 1987 as it underperformed at the box-office and got mixed reviews, today it has a cult following and i'm one of it's fans. It's a sequel to the legendary Collodi story set a year after Pinocchio became human as a creepy mysterious carnival is in town, he just celebrated his first birthday as a human and has to deliver a jewelbox to the mayor in town for a good price. However he makes a dope of himself as he gives the jewelbox away to a raccoon con-artist and his monkey assistant for a worthless fake ruby. It pisses his dad off so much that he decides to run away to join the carnival, he does get seduced by a lovely girl puppet that he has fallen in love with at the carnival but gets tricked by an evil puppeter who is the minion of the title villain as he becomes a puppet again. Luckily he gets rescued by his father godmother again to become human as he escapes to find the two scoundrels that swindled him earlier but discovers they have to go after the carnival that has the jewelbox only to end up in the hellish nightmarish realm of the empire of the night conducted by the evil emperor who wants his soul. It's very entertaining, well made and enjoyable as i think it's Filmation's best achievement. It took five years to make and a labor of love for them, it did underperformed at the box-office and got mixed reviews from critics but today it's somewhat of a cult film even among kids of the 80's such as myself. I saw this movie in a theater when i was 6 in 1987 after Christmas as my mom took me to see this at a St. Louis shopping mall theater at night and it scared the living **** out of me even that horrifying scene where Puppetino tortures and turns Pinocchio slowly back into a puppet, it haunted me for the rest of my life. The film is put on youtube for anyone's nostalgic viewing pleasure: