![]() ![]() Perhaps the more frightening elements worked so well because we were being told them second-hand. And – as ever – Jim Henson’s creature workshop allowed the episodes to blend human actors with masterfully-created monsters to sweep us away to magical lands that felt like they really existed. However these retellings weren’t afraid to include the darker bits, the scarier characters and the bleaker endings. These were versions of stories we all knew and loved, such as ‘Sapsorrow’ which was very close to Cinderella and ‘Hans My Hedgehog’ recalling Beauty and the Beast. ![]() I owned all nine episodes across four VHS tapes and watched them more times than I could count. In 1988 in the UK Channel 4 aired all nine episodes of Jim Henson’s The Storyteller (1987), a limited series which retold a number of European folk tales. But as a kid who loved a touch of horror it was the likes of Labyrinth (1986) and The Dark Crystal (1982) which gave me that mix of cute critters, fantasy worlds and terrifying creatures – such as the Skeksis – that I was looking for. Films like The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) and Muppet Treasure Island (1996) were very rarely out of my VHS player. As part of our series on Kid’s Horror, Kim Morrison looks back at one of Jim Henson’s lesser known creations…Īs a child, there was no denying I was a massive fan of Jim Henson and the magical worlds he created. ![]()
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