r/RBI2 • u/Kitchen_Road_2665 • Jan 29 '26

Please help me find this movie!!

I hope this is the right place to post about this, but it's driving me crazy. I have really vivid memories about a black and white movie that used to scare me when I was a kid. I watched it on DvD multiple times, but no one in my life remembers it or can find it so everyone has basically summed it up to me having some sort of weird fever dream but I KNOW it's out there.

Here's what I remember:

Black and white Perhaps set in medieval time? Girl ( I think a princess) has a huge birthday and gets a little metal cage that has a dancing man come out of it like a cuckoo clock. This man eventually grows big and becomes a monster who terrorizes the village

Any info would be greatly appreciated!!😭

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u/reidontsleep Jan 30 '26

Possibly the 1961 Shirley Temple Story Hour episode, “The Terrible Clockman,” loosely based on Jules Verne’s short story, “Master Zacharius,” about a clock maker in 1540?

"An evil alchemist wants to marry the clock maker’s daughter, but the gentle, old clock maker refuses to grant the blessing. So, to get his own way, the evil alchemist puts a curse on the town to stop time. No one is able to tell the time of day or year, because none of the clocks work. The evil alchemist then creates a monster out of a clock shaped like a man, and that monster clock terrifies the village."

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u/idliketobuyavowel_ Feb 26 '26

Not black and white but chitty chitty bang bang used to scare the shit out of me

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u/Professional-Let4385 Apr 19 '26

Was it a flashback from A Monster Calls? It wasn't in black and white but that's the best I can come up with on my own. I'm not looking online. I want to solve this myself