Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Amazing Stories : The Greibble (1986)

Made for NBC, airing November 3rd in the US.
Season 2. Episode 6.
The story: One rainy school day morning Mrs. Simmons announces to her young son Bobby that today is the day she will be cleaning up his room.
She tells Bobby that he is just too old now for all the baby things he still has hanging around.
With sadness, Bobby agrees to allow his mom to get rid of his old toys.
After cleaning Bobby's room, Mrs. Simmons sits down to her soap opera but soon loses the electricity due to the rainstorm.
Next, there is a strange noise in the house and just like that a pillow next to Mrs. Simmons is taken from behind her off the couch she is sitting on.
She jumps up in fright to find some sort of creature who is now looking for everything that isn't edible inside the house to eat.
Mrs. Simmon's tries and tries but she just cannot seem to get rid of the creature.

Stars Hayley Mills, Justin Mooney, Dick Miller, Don McLeod, (voice) Frank Welker, Jim Jansen
Directed by Joe Dante
Not Rated
SCIFI/MYSTERY/FANTASY/HORROR/COMEDY/SERIES/HALLOWEEN

"Nummy, nummy, nummy..."

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