So, I just watched watched one of the Dark Crystal for the first time with my Grandkids. It’s (whichever one has the pic of old heavyset character puppet as cover. . I’m talking Jim Hensen puppet movie. So, there’s a part where the old vultures draw a Gelfling into a cave and they hook her up to pumps and use a crystal to drain the life from her and collect some sort of whitish fluid into a vial from her.
Now that I have learned alot on here, I’m thinking Adrenochrome.
From CDAN crazydaysandnights.net FRIDAY, JANUARY 01, 2021
Blind Items Revealed #5 July 15, 2020
He would sucker you in with the shows and the wholesome image, but it was the movies that he showed his true vision. He was A+ list and was a director and a head of a studio and a behind the scenes performer. With his television shows, he made parents feel it was safe to take kids to see his movies, even when they seemed like they might be too much. There is a prequel streaming right now of one of his biggest visions. He made a movie decades ago that encompassed everything he believed and always thought if he could get kids to watch it, that he could somehow control them. The movie was essentially about mind control, rituals and blood sacrifice disguised as a children's movie. He said he wanted to make those kinds of movies so kids would get used to those ideas and think of them as normal later in life.
Jim Henson/Dark Crystal/Labyrinth
That’s heart breaking. Everything I thought I liked in the world of entertainment is shit.
Oh, I hope not - I met him years ago at a sci-fi con. He would not even sing along with a slightly naughty song we were all singing, even though no kids were present.
And Dark Crystal does end with the evil characters vanquished, so there's that... not sure what other films of his would be "too much" for children. The Muppet movies are all entirely wholesome unless I missed something. Muppet Christmas Carol is beautiful. Dark Crystal is the only one I know of with truly evil characters, but sometimes you need those to tell a story.
CDAN is usually pretty good, but I hope they're wrong on this one.