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  • Jun 25, 2013, 09:44 PM
    Da6dsabo
    80s puppet movie - dark/scary
    I have a vivid fragment of memory from when I was young in the mid 80s and catching the end of a movie on tekevision my mother was watching. It was either all puppets or mixed with live actors - but the important point is that it seemed to be about a vengeful jester who was abused and then killed off the royal family in gruesome ways, taking quite some pleasure in it. I seem to recall a grotesquely fat king maybe drowning in a bathtub/being boiled alive... and at one point the jester hanging from a chandelier and giggling like a madman. Was this all a bad dream or an actual movie?

    HotFrog is all I can think of as the name, but that yields zilch when googled...
  • Jun 26, 2013, 01:04 PM
    aliseaodo
    I think you're looking for something associated with the short story "Hop-Frog". (There's info about its origin here:Hop-Frog - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
    It looks as though there were a few adaptations, maybe the one you saw was the 1992 version called Fool's Fire...
    Fool's Fire (TV 1992) - IMDb

    *EDIT* Puppet king character picture... http://www.notcoming.com/reviews/fools-fire/

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