Easter Eggs that show the future of Nintendo video game Super Mario Bros. (1985) may been seen through 1958 sci-fi horror film Attack Of The Puppet People. Spoiler Alert. In this story John Hoyt plays doll company owner Mr. Franz. He happens to have a collection of extremely detailed / lifelike dolls which people who have come up missing under mysterious circumstances. Sally (June Kenney) discovers this fact after answering a newspaper ad and becoming the doll maker's secretary. Franz is actually luring people into his lab and zapping them with a shrinking raygun.<br /><br />I did some previous videos on Nintendo related game easter eggs I thought may show up in another John Hoyt sci-fi movie, 1964's The Time Travelers.<br />I thought the laboratory viewscreen / portal may look similar to a type of top down 2D / 3D layout shown in 1986 RPG The Legend Of Zelda. <br /><br />Looking at Attack Of The Puppet People:<br />- On the subject of scale (& the shrinking ray) I thought the film's depiction of real world items and animals being supersized similar to what was shown later in Super Mario Bros. 3 (1989). World 4 in this NES platform scroller is known as Giant Land and also has upsized monsters.<br />- June Kenney worked with director Roger Corman & writer Charles B. Griffith on 1957 hard edged female gang film Teenage Doll. <br />- Corman & Griffith worked on 1960 horror comedy The Little Shop Of Horrors. The opening theme of this film is very similar to the theme music of the Fortress level of Super Mario Bros. 3. The piranha plant shown in the mario games is also similar to Audrey in Little Shop. <br />- I thought the Shrinking ray shown in "Puppet People" similar to what was depicted in Walt Disney's Honey I Shrunk The Kids (1989). Actor Rick Moranis starred in that, playing a tinkerer who invents a beam that shrinks his children by accident. Moranis was also in the musical remake of Little Shop in 1986. I thought there were very similar visuals in this to "Puppet People" & Mario 3.
