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Jim Henson's THE CUBE (1969)

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It was a Sunday afternoon, February 23, 1969, when the anthology show NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION aired a one-hour teleplay by Jim Henson, then best known for being the man behind "Ralph the Dog" on the JIMMY DEAN SHOW.

Jim Henson created this unique film, titled simply THE CUBE. It starred Richard Schaal as a man trapped in a white cubical room. He had no idea how he got there or where it was. And although anyone could enter, he couldn't leave....


More here: http://tv.groups.yahoo.com/group/JImHensonTheCube/

I found me a bootleg. This trippy flick about our perception of reality and the roles we're made to play is definitely worth seeking out. And don't worry, it's so bitter that Scientologists can never claim the goings-on as their own.

My source also included a short little provocative film by Henson called Time Piece. Sweet Jesus, this man didn't need puppets for his brilliance. Watching these, I wonder what his output would have been like if he had eschewed the Muppets altogether. I'm guessing the themes would have been darker. Much darker.
 
Does the Henson Cube have any relation to the sci-f-/horror film Cube, from the late nineties?
 
I can't help but think the filmmakers must have seen it at some point.
 
It does sound suspiciously similar.
 
I wonder what Jim Henson would have thought of The Happytime Murders? Extreme bad taste, all sorts of Muppet Porn. Muppets murdered, having the stuffing literally knocked out of them. A great pastiche of the hard-boiled LA Private Eye genre. Raymond Chandler is chuckling in his grave. 8/10. On Netflix.
 
I wonder what Jim Henson would have thought of The Happytime Murders? Extreme bad taste, all sorts of Muppet Porn. Muppets murdered, having the stuffing literally knocked out of them.
Especially as the director & producer was his son Brian Henson....
 
Happytime Murders sounds absolutely horrible, like someone taking your childhood toys and stomping all over them to amuse the cynics. qv: The Banana Splits horror movie.
 
I wonder what Jim Henson would have thought of The Happytime Murders? Extreme bad taste, all sorts of Muppet Porn. Muppets murdered, having the stuffing literally knocked out of them. A great pastiche of the hard-boiled LA Private Eye genre. Raymond Chandler is chuckling in his grave. 8/10. On Netflix.

I like the idea of The Happytime Murders but you're the first person I've heard make a positive comment about it.
 
Happytime Murders sounds absolutely horrible, like someone taking your childhood toys and stomping all over them to amuse the cynics. qv: The Banana Splits horror movie.

Great fun, a muppet being torn apart by live dogs! A muppet dalmatian dominatrix !
 
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