DR SEUSS - 5000 FINGERS OF DR T - ELEVATOR DUNGEON

[lalaland13ish]

omg this scene used to give me nightmares!

[HMGen14]

The Cat in the Hat and How the Grinch Stole Christmas are another two live-action Dr. Seuss films lol

[msbforever]

who are the older male actors? the plumber and the music guy?

[alieekuzam]

I've seen this movie a million times, it was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I have 2 copies of it :)

[PossibleTheory]

@alieekuzam You're a nerd. :P

[alieekuzam]

@PossibleTheory oh hush. lol. you knew this.

[xINVISIGOTHx]

I think I just added about 100 views to the counter in the last 2 days :s

[bcrkris]

I'm amazed at the number of people, (including me), who thought that this scene was from a childhood dream. I remembered bits and pieces of this movie. Luckily, I remembered the title. When I finally saw this movie again years later, it was a sense of relief that I wasn't imagining this.

[ripwfdopplr]

LMFAO! the dude who asks to go down said 'please' as though he were as intimidated as everyone else :D

[TheHeenanFamily]

Well that was the most awkward elevator ride. Shall we press on?

[starguard]

I've never seen this movie

[seattlegrobanite]

@starguard It's really good. It's weird but has some of the best music and it'll probably end up being one of your favorite movies. It's hard to find the whole movie these days but if you can track it down, I recommend watching it!

[FarginBastiges]

Creepy scene but man, that guy could sing!

[MisterMoccasin]

This film confused me so much as a kid I thought It was a bad dream.

[MovieRatIan]

I love that little skeleton man groovin' in the corner. No idea what he's doing there or where he's going, but he's dang happy about it!

[mrgolem33]

check out mr. bungle cover of this... great band!

[SirSmoldham]

From Green eggs and Ham to this. Dr Seuss warped my soul. Thank God for him.

[Oecobius]

I recognize this song from some Mr Bungle shows; they used to cover it when they played live.

[AFriendOfJesus1]

Man, that elevator guy sure gave me the creeps as a kid...maybe it's because of his "head" and that his eyes seemed to be staring directly into your soul. lol

[SRZsmack]

this happened because they didnt put the black DOTS candy in with all the others, its a rebellion...

[boomkrakatoa]

THIS IS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE MY ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE. I HAVE BEEN WATCHING THIS SINCE I WAS 2 YEARS OLD (I SHIT YOU NOT), AND I HAVE NOT HAD A SINGLE NIGHTMARE FROM IT. AND GODDAMMIT, THE FUNNIEST LINE IN MY OPINION IS THIS:

"IS...IS IT ATOMIC??"

"VERY ATOMIC!!!!!"

[BUZOSKARSON]

THIS MOVIE: "5000 FINGERS OF DR T" IS LIKE THE ROLLING STONES

ALBUM: "THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST", PEOPLE EITHER,

SIMPLY LOVE IT OR REALLY HATE IT. I LOVE THEM BOTH, BUT MY

BROTHERS HATED BOTH.

[Cadmium77]

Wow, what memories you just brought back. Thanks a lot.

[eexot]

This song would make an epic metal song. Someone totally needs to cover this.

[mrgolem33]

@eexot

mr. bungle did it in 92.... search for mr. bungle 3rd floor dungeon ;)

[sentpacking]

Original lyrics, with a third floor, before being edited and re-released:

FIRST FLOOR DUNGEON Assorted simple tortures. Molten lead, chopping blocks And hot boiling oil.

SECOND FLOOR DUNGEON Jewelry department. Leg chains, ankle chains, Neck chains, wrist chains, thumb screws And nooses of the very finest rope.

THIRD FLOOR DUNGEON Household appliances. Spike beds, electric chairs, gas chambers, roasting pots, and scalping devices.

BASEMENT DUNGEON Ev'ry body out!

[shaheed79]

I just can't get over the abnormally sick pleasure the elevator guy takes in scaring the crap out of little children. You can tell he lives for that pleasure.

[holyrockthrower]

Like so many others here, this scene was my sole memory of the movie. With it's powerful ability to capture the popular imagination and horror, it should have won an Oscar! The movie ought to be a popular classic!

[deepemissions]

Thats disturbing...



[ucsfsfpd]

I remember seeing this almost 35 years ago.  I was 10 and this scene still had been in my mind all these years till now. Wow. Thanks!

[miasansom]

This is like for kids? Really? wow.

[GiantPetRat]

"My God.... his pecs.... I can't stop staring at those man's pecs!"

[MrsEllieRey]

This always scared me when I was little :[

[beatlesopera]

I really hope that man singing isn't dubbed. Hard to tell with the scary mask.

[lawofficers]

I saw this scene a 15 years ago when I was a kid at age five, and then I wondered, "What the hell is with that helmet the singer is wearing?" I couldn't really tell.

[ScorpioBornIn69]

I remember this one! I saw first as a young kid and again when a teen.

[jiggerlo]

my faaaaav scene! 

[simrai18]

Dude! Whats with the fake black dude? Couldn't hire a real one?

[ajaben]

holy shit! the symbolism!

[movieswithpopcorn]

Just found out about this movie on npr's website. Wow! Can't wait to watch it!

[nate4021]

@movieswithpopcorn Yeah it's been 17-18 years since I saw it and could never remember the name until I saw the npr article. As a kid, I quite vividly remember this film moreso than any other having the unique ability to completely entrance me while scaring the bejesus outta me at the same time. Can't wait to see it again!

[Nackles]

Holy. Shit. This is where serial killers come from. I cannot believe this was a movie for children.

[DoomsdayOdd]

VERY atomic indeed o_O

[ala5530]

Wow. Anyone else notice the elevator operator radically changes skin colour when the shot changes to inside the elevator?

[Keitafox]

@ala5530 That's most likely due to the lighting plots for the two different scenes. Outside the elevator you have the incredibly powerful studio lights bouncing off the creamy colored walls. Inside the elevator you have dimmer lights and darker walls, so there's not much to brighten the elevator guy's skin.

[shaheed79]

@ala5530 Just noticed that. I can totally imagine the director keep saying "NOT.....CHOCOLATE ENOUGH!"

"And Remove Those NIPPLES!".

[flapdoodle64]

Business as usual at Gitmo.

[cheeseisgood999]

its ATOMIC!

[andyjay729]

I'm guessing this movie didn't do so well because it was just too much for the '50s (ahead of its time).

These days it would probably be a huge hit. But it's still nightmare fuel in any decade.

[TiniNormi]

@Andronx

Under yo mama's lips.

[TheTimBurton1]

please help me, there was a dr. suess movie and there was some woman with thewe cat in the hat, and yertle and lorax was in.

[TheITinFITisBack]

@TheTimBurton1 It might be "in Search of Dr. Seuss", a special made where a reporter (Kath Najimy) explores the world of Dr. Seuss trying to learn more about him.

[monsgraupus]

I remembered a frightening film from when I was a kid. All I remembered was a lift, executioner, and a man in a drum. Through the marvels of the internet I have found it more than 40 years later. Strangely I remember it in black and white and in reverse. The executioner character was on the right not the left

[obiwansh1nobi]

What's with the skeleton jogging in place at the bottom right of the screen?

[ijwi]

They cut out a bunch of the lyrics from this film that Dr. Seuss wrote. I wonder why?

"Third floor dungeon

Household appliances.

Spike beds, electric chairs, gas chambers, roasting pots, and scalping devices."

And what's with the "pickle juice" and siamese twins on rollerskates?

"We are Two Terrible Twins With a Terrible Siamese Beard. Don't get fresh with us now, Or you will get choked by the beard of the twins with the Siamese beard, with a terrible twin on each end."

David Lynch, anyone?

[shaheed79]

That elevator guy should have gotten the oscar! In fact he should have gotten all subsequent Academy Awards ever handed out since then!

"JEW-la-ree-Dee-part...MINT"

Perfect!

[ROBOTkw]

OMG!! so THAT's where this song came from! Way back in 1978, a room-mate sang it on an elevator at a STAR TREK Con. It stuck in my head ever since. I LOVE this movie! Kinda like Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory, in METROPOLIS. KooL. I need a Beanie and T-shirt!

[TheSupremeBiscuit]

why has he got freakishly long fingers.............ewwwwwwwww­ww dr seuss is creepy with a capital green eggs and ham

[amaranth7777]

I remember this film...it was kind of creepy in a Brothers Grimm style.

We seem to have lost that apart from the works of Tim Burton.

[racookster]

It's odd what different people find frightening. A lot of folks are saying this executioner's eyes are scary, but when I saw this movie as a kid (I'm 51) I just thought he was funny. He's clearly a Dr. Seuss executioner: cartoonish, not threatening. But, kids nowadays laugh at the YouTube clip from the movie "Ghost Story" where the hideous rotting corpse scares the old man into falling off a bridge. When I watched "Saw," the theater was full of laughing kids. I confess, I don't get it.

[MrTheviolindude]

@racookster haha oddly, I think people who laugh at those kids of movies are really intellectual, a different sort of intellectual than people of prior decades...crude humor is in

[racookster]

@MrTheviolindude Perhaps, Violin Dude, but I can't help thinking that they've lost the capacity to willfully suspend disbelief, which is an intellectual ability in itself.

As for crude humor, it's always been in.

[nibelung34343]

was the basement dungeon teh tickle torture

[Gesmehod]

This is like Willy Wonka's creepy uncle.

[Spenturion]

who's got happy fingers?

[LordSvzklx]

oh god, this movie is REAL? I thought I'd dreamed it up or something...

[Yougotsblounchsked]

Wasn't Dr. T played by Hans Conried, the same guy who played Captain Hook?

[WizardOfHumor1989]

@Yougotsblounchsked Yes! Hans Conried was Captain Hook and Mr. George Darling, the father.

[Sykosomatix]

I LOVED this movie when i was little, used to borrow the vhs from from the library all the time

[BlueChipNinja]

Bring out the gimp... The gimp?

Zed.. The Gimps Asleep..

WELL WAKE HIM UP!

[WizardOfHumor1989]

OOOHH his eyes are by far the most frightening!

[demboys18]

wow, talk about crazy eyes.

[WizardOfHumor1989]

The most frightening eyes anyone can lay their eyes on.

The perfect eyes fit for a masked serial killer / rapist / gunman / burglar. The perfect dude to frighten any young woman.

[WizardOfHumor1989]

@demboys18 It's the Reaper serial killer from the show CRIMINAL MINDS.

[EllaKiyaBeatleGirl]

My boyfriend watched this part and he said"Now I know why you love this movie...It's got a chocolate man in it' XD

[pendy16]

I always wondered if I'd actually seen that scene or if it was just a nightmare I had as a kid... good God, man that's horrifying.

[InfectedFire57]

@pendy16 YES, I FEEEL THE EXACT SAME WAY, I just thought i was crazy, because I had a fucked up dream about some kid who fell asleep playing piano. But no, you and I pendo16, are among many who have had our retinas molested with trippiness and musical splendor at a young age.

[Miredninja]

Yep. Still as creepy as ever. Haven't seen this in years!

[chartwel1990]

Does anyone know who plays the singer?

[iheartthemaxx]

I heard that the voice actor of Gaston from Beauty and the Beast was a black man (although I was only told that, I cannot claim it as factual.) and his deep operatic voice sounds similar to it. Could it be maybe the same guy???

[oldestandwisest]

Since the movie and the show were about 50 years apart, I think that is unlikely.

[WizardOfHumor1989]

Alan Aric.  He's an E-movie actor.

[chartwel1990]

Wow. That scared me! I am never trusting elevators again!

[jadetoblack]

Fantastic! I love this movie!!

[msbforever]

this part always creeped me as a kid, well his eyes are still creepy I think

[AlgusUnderdunk]

...I wish they made Bobbleheads of the Elevator Guy...

It just seems perfect...

[Karalovesmusic]

haha, that would be pretty awesome! I would def. buy one. :D lol!

[D00m0g]

Some good-ole' fashion nightmare fuel!

[GayGeisha]

Amen to that

[ShesAVamp]

@D00m0g well i beg to differ

this video is just narmy

[BattousaiCV]

This is oddly catchy.

[MagicEmperor]

Goodness, that guy had wild eyes.

[NitekMuscle]

I loved this film as a child.

[ufo5440]

That dungeon guy is going to be my next Halloween costume. Creepy as alll helllz!

[seattlegrobanite]

omg this man scares me so bad. i've seen this movie so many times and every time he never fails to freak me out!!!

[ekedolphin]

And how!

[DrQuarterPounder]

I love this song!!!!

The guy's eyes do creep me out though

[wickedfeylady]

Thanks Dr. S, for proving what kids like me already knew- one effin' crazy piano teacher can ruin your childhood.

[tonsurewimple]

A friend took a woman to this as a first date - playing in a movie theater. She just looked at hime afterwards and left quickly.

[RhiThePea]

has anyone else noticed he's got freakishly long straight fingers? you can see them when the door is first opened

[EllaKiyaBeatleGirl]

Someone needs to put up the duel and get togeather weather

[guerreroenpantalones]

yes! someone please do that! and the "a boom boom boom....A BOOM" part hahaha thats the best part.

[EllaKiyaBeatleGirl]

Yeah XD

[EllaKiyaBeatleGirl]

Chocolate man...YAYS I love this movie and scene

[Gravidtron]

Hey, an actual black person! You don't see many of those in Seuss's books... or white people, or often anything even resembling people.

I can't tell if the song is dubbed or if it's the actor's real voice, but if it's the former, you have to admire the attention to detail; his face is completely covered and he's STILL lip-syncing.

[ihopeyoudntmind]

yeah i came across this movie when i was high one night and it scared the shit out of me, but i couldnt stop watching.

before this scene the kids in the dungeon and theres like 500 hour scene where more and more people with "instruments" come running out.

[2napoleon6]

I love the fact he's greased up and nipple-less.

[Ludlow889]

Surprisingly dark and creepy for a kid's movie. It seems nice old Dr. Seuss was a little twisted deep inside.

Am I the only one who thinks some of the scenes had a gay S&M vibe to them?

[HaggyWaggy]

I think he was just high as fuck

[PGR2TTR]

This is soooo scary to watch when you're stoned off your ass

[2napoleon6]

We did that. It was amazing. The hall of screeching violins had us in stitches.

[Boonedaba]

I want the elevator operator's pants.

[Ravie3]

Weirdest. Kid's movie. Ever.

[LeeJack3939]

Ok, Dr. Suess was a serious sick dude. This really creeps me out. And this was a kids movie? Fuckin hell!

[orangeviolins]

And I forgot this was yet another Suess classic. Figures. Love Suess!!!

[Baal616]

Allah bless you for uploading this.

[GotTheMethod]

Wonder if anyone has the video of this song with the "3rd floor" verse which is cut out of this.

[hebneh]

Probably most people today wouldn't understand what this scene is satirizing, but you'll see other similar sequences in movies and cartoons of the same time period.

Many elevators used to require an employee to operate them because they didn't work automatically by passengers just pressing a button. In big downtown department stores, the operators would announce the different floors and what merchandise was sold on each one. That's what this guy is mimicking in his song.

[Leme666]

youre stupid

[TheRedNationStates]

FIRST FLOOR DUNGEON.

LINENS.

[minastronasse]

Brilliant and weird, 1953 vintage !

[silverknight2113]

great movie! thanks for uploading this!

[LovelyxXxcomplex]

GREATEST THINGS EVER!

...I always thought he said funion when I was little. :P

[bigg3469]

look in the right side of the screen, THERE'S A LITTLE SKELETON" dancing!!! I don't recall a little skeleton @ the right side of the screen.

[Rollman1]

Is this guy running a music school or a death camp?

[mynie]

Both, actually.

[sddweller]

My Mom plunked me down if front of our b&w tv when I was 7 to watch this movie. This scene and song melody are the only things that seemed to stick in my mind all my life - The only words from the song I thought I remembered was "castor oil". This is the first time I've seen this scene since then - THANKS for posting!

[KareenCasey]

fuckinnnn scaryy

when i was 5 i ran away...........

it was sooooo creeepy this movie scares me :S

even today lol im turnin 16 in a couple weeks and it scares the shit outta me next level................

same with chitty chitty bang bang. classic's my mom told me to watch when i was young. i havent recovered. :(

loll. i love them tho! but CREEEEEEEEEEEEEPY

[bigg3469]

The eyes of the Elevator Dungeon operator's eyes. VERY,VERY, CREEEEEPY!!!! EEEEEEEEEEEK!

[RiotShield]

I didn't notice it until my dad pointed it out, but he's got like black facepaint on around his eyes to make them stand out.

[latoyalewis]

i never friggin noticed that! this was like the scariest part haha.

[otacon451]

my heart leapt into my throat when that door opened.

[tedperkins]

Wow...I never noticed that. Honestly...was that considered to risque?

[LittleRachie2]

Freaky

[PercyAGrainger]

There was supposed to be a third verse, but as it somewhat insensitively mentioned something akin to gas chambers, they cut it out. Not a sucessful film, but a strangely resonant one...

[Gregorius24]

Yes, there is a cut of the above-mentioned verse. I have the complete audio track for this -- can't remember where I got it, though. My guess is that the studio found it a little "un-PC" with the references to "electric chairs" and "gas chambers." The missing lyrics are:

(**THIRD FLOOR DUNGEON

Household appliances.

Spike beds, electric chairs,

gas chambers, roasting pots,

and scalping devices.**)

** Deleted from final edited release prints (total original song time - 1:57)

[TsunogaiDanshaku]

Well, if you can find it, it would be great if you could put it up on here. I know I can't get enough of this song. ^^;

[Losaru]

We have it somewhere in my house. At least it's better than some movies nowadays.

[imakegoodcake]

This movie is the bomb diggity! I still watch it to this day after 13 years and will never stop loving it!!!!!!

[ravenhawk1326]

I grew up on this movie- i love it! i could never get enough of it. especially the roller skating scene with the twins

[Markfly]

Mr. Bungle covered this song back in 1992. You can find it on here. Check it.

[NickWilliam89]

When I was little, the elevador operator reminds me of The Shredder from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

[ayeamex]

Ah memories that was so scary as a kid. And I agree, its too bad America can't still pull off movies like this.

[RONJAN2]

everybody out

[cortezopossum]

I want one of those Happy Fingers beanies.

[InsanebutnotaKILLER]

could always get some cloth and a yellow latex glove and make it yourself lol

[vaughntrapp]

I wish America could still pull off psychedelic fukt up films like this...

[erbland2006]

Hans Conried makes a great villain.

[ravenhawk1326]

i love him as a villian

[Rollman1]

Is this Guy a music teacher or Hitler ?

[pwner560]

i just saw that movie and that guy in the mask freaked me out! i pretty much had to sleep with my parents :P but now it isnt that scary for some reason...but still...that mask!

[SecretWindow5]

that was so scary! omg

[Snowleoperd]

nice sweater

[1776fan]

I agree, it's so cool!

[PageKarasu]

That bellboy scared me... I was like 10. Dr. T rocks. Laugh so hard now when i see him.

[pwner560]

me too! he looks so funny now! hahahahahaha!

[robofabi]

fucked up

[ZonkOut]

Michael Showalter is really good in this movie.