Looking for Some Good "Shrinking Person" Movies (1 Viewer)

[Scott-S]

I was recently wanting to watch a movie in which someone gets shrunk down and roams around everyday objects etc. I found (and watched) the 1950"s Incredible Shrinking Man, but I have not been able find many others. I know of the Lilly Tomlin one from the 80's (incredible Shrinking Woman) but it seems it is almost impossible to find for some reason. It does not seem to be on Blu-Ray and even finding a DVD is hard. Netflix doesn't seem to have it, and the only ones I can find on Amazon seem to be sold on Recordable DVD-R.


I thought there would be loads of them, but other that the "Honey I Shrunk ....." movies and the two I mentioned above, I came up blank.


I was hoping the good folks here could give me some suggestions of good "Shrinking" movies.

 

[tanaleaf]

Attack of the Puppet People (1958)

Land of the Giants (TV series, 1968-70)

Ant-Man (2015)

 

[Malcolm R]

Innerspace (1987)


Available on DVD; blu-ray released soon.

 

[Scott-S]

I forgot about innerspace. Too bad it is almost all inside a submarine ;(


I am hoping Ant Man is good.


Don't think I heard of Attack of the Puppet People. I will try and find it.


Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[Malcolm R]

Not exactly a "shrinking people" film, but there's also The Borrowers (1997):


The Borrowers are four-inch high "little people" who live under the floorboards. When the owner of the house they live in dies and evil realtor Ocious Potter wants to destroy the house to build luxury apartments on its place, they start to fight him with the help of the son of house owner, Pete.

 

[Winston T. Boogie]

The Tomlin film is available on Amazon.


http://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Shrinking-Woman-Lily-Tomlin/dp/B0033PSH72/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1436550879&sr=1-2&keywords=the+incredible+shrinking+woman

 

[Bob Cashill]

And The Secret World of Arietty, Studio Ghibli's take on The Borrowers. There's not a huge list of titles, maybe The Three Worlds of Gulliver, too, in part.

 

[Scott-S]

The Lilly Tomlin DVD on Amazon is a DVD-R.

DVD-R Note: This product is manufactured on demand when ordered from Amazon.com

 

[Scott-S]

Thanks for the suggestions. I have added the Borrowers, Attack of the Pupped People and The Secret World of Arietty to my Neflix Queues.


I knew this was the place to ask. It has only been 30 minutes and I have at least 3 new things to watch.


This place rocks.

 

[Vic Pardo]

In DR. CYCLOPS (1940), the first Technicolor science fiction feature, the title character shrinks the entire rest of the cast to doll-size:




Earlier films with shrunken people include THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935):

...and DEVIL DOLL (1936):

 

[davidHartzog]

Here's two.

 

[Mike Frezon]

Not as good as the others' suggestions...because it doesn't really fit your criteria.


But it's sorta close.

 

[atfree]

Fits the "shrinking person" motif:

 

[Malcolm R]

Here's two.

Dollman! That's the one I was trying to think of. My mind kept coming up with Trancers, which is a different franchise.

EDIT: It's "Trancers" (the Tim Thomerson, Full Moon picture) that I meant, not "Tracers" (the recent Taylor Lautner parkour film). Sheesh!

 

[Jonathan Perregaux]

I'm reaching here but... Antz? A Bug's Life?

 

[Brent Reid]

Can't believe no one's mentioned it yet, especially for this forum, but the first to pop into my head was The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). Great looking BD too.


There's obviously also some person shrinkage action in Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977).


Congratulations Scott, I think you may have discovered a new genre!

 

[Bob_S.]

Paul McCartney gets shrunk in Help!.


Dr. Shrinker episodes from The Krofft Super Show.

 

[Tony J Case]

Can't believe no one's mentioned it yet, especially for this forum, but the first to pop into my head was The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958). Great looking BD too.

God, that princess was smokin' hawt, too.

 

[Vic Pardo]

I recently watched an episode of "Ultra Q" (1965/Japan), called "The 1/8 Project" about a plan to shrink people to 1/8 their size to save space and resources in Japan. The heroine gets shrunken against her will and her partners trudge around a miniature city set (like Godzilla) in order to find her.

 

[Scott-S]

I just stumbled across a movie that seems to fit this topic, and it is one I have never heard of.


It is called "Arthur and the Invisibles"


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0344854/


It is sort of a combination live action and animation, like James and the Giant Peach. I actually thought the animation style was quite good.


I also liked "The Secret World of Arietty", so thanks Bob for that suggestion. I am beginning to really did Studio Ghibli's work.


Thanks again for all the good suggestions.