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Little Nemo in Slumberland?
The way the world is, I think a silly evening in the theatre is a good thing, to take our minds off terror. -Tim Curry
I don't think it is the one... it seems very interesting, though. :)
...I've seen this movie. Let me look around.
edit: And you're right, the animation was different from Little Nemo. I too am certain that it was a different movie.
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Okay, apparently there is a Japanese film, and an American adaptation of the same film: http://www.kindertrauma.com/?p=8412
I kept finding videos and pictures of the Japanese one, which wasn't the one I saw, but the screencap in the page I linked is of the American adaptation and it resembles what I watched, so maybe that's it?
Edited by Mazz
Little Nemo in Slumberland was originally a comic strip drawn by Winsor Mc Cay and published in U.S. Newspapers from 1905 to 1914.
According to The Other Wiki, it has been adapted to film three times:
1. A 1911 black and white silent with a mixture of live action and animation that Mc Cay was involved in making, called either "Winsor Mc Cay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and his Moving Comics" or else just "Little Nemo"
2. A 1984 film called either "Dream One" or "Nemo" that seems to have been live action—I can't find too much info on this
3. A 1989 film called either "Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland" or else just "Nemo" (dang these alternate foreign titles!!) that was mostly made in Japan and is animated. There was also a videogame based on this, which was released in America before the film itself was released in America (the film having first been released in Japan)
This movie has been bugging me for years now. I'm from Hungary, so I don't know when or on which channel it was aired originally, but I saw it in the mid 90s (I'm 100% sure it was before 1998). My memories are very vague: I'm not certain whether the whole movie was animated or just parts of it (but probably the latter). It started with a boat sailing at night, and the story was about a kid who somehow gained entry into a fantasy world/dreamworld, but the more time he/she spent there, the more things sneaked into the real world. I remember specifically a creepy dark boat which resembled a bit to the one in All Dogs Go to Heaven (when Charlie experiences Hell), and that the water level was rising in the kid's room in the real world. As you can see, it's a very dark movie, but I loved it as a kid, and I hope you can help me finding it again.