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Early 80s. Conan-style flick. Witches with eyes stitched shut standing over a cauldron. That's all I remember, except that I was a huge fan of the film and it came on after Valley Girl one night on HBO. Help a brother out?

Dustin, was it Beastmaster? I believe the witches were blind in that and there were the awesome ferrets, Codo and Frodo.

I only caught the last few minutes of this movie on television and would love to see the rest of it. A grocery store manager (or clerk?) gets transported back into midevial time with only his car and a chainsaw. I believe he then fights off zombies (or some such). The few minutes I saw were pure wonderful cheese with the final battle between the zombies and the castle inhabitants and of course it continued in the present day grocery store at the very end.

Can anyone help me with this movie that I saw as a child? It's been bugging the hell out of me-- it may have been a made-for-TV movie.

It was a sixties-ers flick about two young women who become friends at a boarding school. The redheaded troublemaker of the pair ends up becoming a nun. Did I just imagine this film?

KB-you didn't make it up, I remember that movie! I don't remember what it's called, but I remember it.

libraryliz: Army of Darkness?

KB - I think the one you're looking for was just called The Hand. It had Michael Cane in it.

libraryliz that was totally Army of Darkness featuring the unforgettable Bruce Campbell as Ash. That was actually the third installment of the Evil Dead Trilogy, although Evil Dead II was basically a remake of Evil Dead I.

It's a fantastic movie and everyone should really see it for their lives to be complete.

Got one for you. Don't know when this is from but I saw it in the mid-80's - or at least part of it - scared the crap out of me plus I was at a friends house and I needed to leave before it ended:

Messy, psycho killer horror movie. Scenes inlcude a baby sitter getting it on with a boy friend and susequently getting hacked up. I belive there was a scene at some peep show - killer had some form of fixation on one of the performers.
Lots of knives, cutting and blood involved, but nothing mystical, back from the dead (I think). Just a verrrrry disturbed individual and a knife.

Fifties film. American girl, all dark-haired, perky cuteness, takes a post-collegiate trip to Italy. Gets job at an English bookstore in Rome run by an spunky American woman. Romance with a Italian hunk. Scooter rides. Fab fifties costumes. Gorgeous shots of the Italian Alps.

I have deep sense of nostalgia for this cheesy little flick. It was one of the many I saw during late night TMC binges with my grandmother who passed away a year ago.

The only killer appliance movie I know of is Maximum Overdrive, but that would not have been on TV in '84...so I guess I am saying I am no help.

Here's one for you:

A young boy witnesses beings from outerspace living in caves. They take over everyone's minds. His parents try to feed him raw hamburger. I think the alien beings looked like big mr. potato head types.

This was either a movie or a very vivid dream!

Mary Ann - I think the movie you're talking about is The Trouble With Angels. Is it with Hayley Mills? I really liked that movie as a kid.

Dustin - I have also seen that movie with the stitched witch eyes, and it too freaked me out as a kid, but I don't think it was Beastmaster. I could be wrong, but that just doesn't seem to be correct.

Here is mine that I just thought of. A movie made in the 90's, I think it's foreign, where going to the bathroom in front of people is a socially accepted, even desirable act, but eating is not. The scene I remember in particular is a bunch of people sitting on toilets around a table chatting socially, when someone gets up and goes to a separate room to eat something.

Okay, I've seen the whole movie a few times, but cannot remember the name of it for the life of me. The plot involves the serial killing of brides-to-be. One memorable scene is of a bride-to-be getting stabbed in a movie theater, and it's the one scene that's been stuck in my head for years. Very cheesy, maybe late 70's, early 80's?

Help!

YES! Thank you so much, Heather, that is exactly it.

I feel like I should have a cigarette now. :)

#1 - "Pulse" was a movie where evil electric current jumps from house to house and infects the appliances (and kills your grass!)
It was released in 1998, a stars Joey Lawrence in his first movie. I tried to post the IMDB link, but it diverted me into the spam filter.

this is on behalf of my husband..he has been trying to remember this one for years.

he saw this scary movie when he was younger, but it is an older film, black and white. it is about a little girl and a lake. there is a house by the lake, with a scary old woman living in it. he talks about this movie scaring the crap out of him, and possibly being the creepiest movie he ever saw, but can't remember the name.

i can try to get more details later and repost, but he was at work, and couldn't get into too much detail.

seriously, libraryliz...

Here's one that's nagged me for some time: a teenage boy (probably angst-ridden) finds a crate in a lake/pond/algae-filled body of water behind his home/barn. I think the crate fell from the sky. Inside is a weapon that looks like a ghostbusters proton pack, with a handgun that fires a thick blue laser. At one point, as I recall, he fires it at a man, who ends up with a large hole burned through his abdomen. I think there was also a scene with him firing into the air and yelling. And there's a girl involved, somewhere. Any ideas?

Boo And Patrick, I think you are both talking about Invaders from Mars.

thanks patrick!! another one for the queue..

Patrick, I think we might be referring to the same movie, because that sounds very familiar....(see above post, I guess?) It's the one I'm trying to remember as well.

I think.

I have no idea what is going on.

Boo And Patrick, I think you are both talking about Invaders from Mars.

Mary Ann, someone may have already answered this, but you may be thinking of The Trouble with Angels.

Mine: There was a movie on tv when I was a little kid that featured a thunderstorm and a young kid with his grandfather screaming at something outside the window (a monster? I have no idea). In my head the grandfather looks like the Wilford Brimley. Aaaaand that's all I remember.

Thank you all - it definitely is Army of Darkness! And I now have a huge desire to see all of the Evil Dead films. (Courtney, you're right, I should be ashamed to have not seen them especially as my appreciation for cheesy over the top movies knows only the bounds of my friends'/roomates'/boyfriends' tolerance levels.) I am also ashamed at my inability to spell medieval.

KB: That movie is totally The Hand. We were the first family I knew to get HBO (no cable, just HBO and it was only available from 5 pm until early morning) and showed all kinds of bad and inappropriate for an 11 year old movies (like Friday the 13th and many MANY teenage sex-romps (this was the early 1980s). I remember my mother stayed up late one night, working on a costume or something for me and telling me the next day that she'd watched this movie called The Hand and complaining about how stupid it was, that this dude couldn't get away from this disembodied hand. She'd do this impersonation of the hand crawling all over the living room furniture, coming to get me and I'd run and giggle. Then we probably sat down to watch The Jerk for the 15th time. Because that's the kind of family we were.

David - got to love Wikipedia: Search for The Ark in Space - stupid filter is blocking links

There is even a picture there of a slimed guy. Appears to be available on DVD in Engalnd.

Johnny: Heeeeeee.

Two: there was a movie that had two developmentally challenged men, perhaps at a group home . . . one man was deaf. There was a terrible scene near the end with a train, where the deaf man was walking on the tracks and was killed, because he couldn't hear it coming. I remember crying, it was very sad. I think there was also a bully, and a prank involving a hand-made gift or something.

The other was, I think, a French film, which I happened to catch a bit of from the tv's at the gym, of all places. I remember subtitles, but that could have just been closed captioning. Style was sort of artsy, Keaton-esque . . . only scene I saw involved the hero walking through a closet into a field; there was a girl there as well, they ran off together.

Sorry for the vagueness, but that's the point of this diversion, I guess.

courtney, Thank you so much!
That's been bothering me for ages...

I saw this movie, I think it came out in the 70's. It was about a family and the father was a big shot in the mob. He had three sons, one wasn't very smart, one was too hot headed and the third wasn't interested in going into the family business? I think there was a scene where a guy wakes up with a horse in his bed. At the end of the movie, the reluctant son ends up taking his father's place. I know this is an obscure movie, but I was hoping someone would have seen it.

OK, please someone help me:
40's (I think), black and white, set in a theater, chorus girl gets big role, theater is losing money, girl is being seduced by two men, one rich and skeevy, one less well off (I think he's a director?), in the big finale dance number, the stage LIFTS OFF THE GROUND and is floating in the sky while the dancers keep grooving.

It's killing me, this one, and I JUST watched it on TCM less than a year ago.

libraryliz - No shame necessary! I found out this weekend a friend of mine had somehow managed to neve hear of Goonies. Now that requires some shame.

Dustin...I think it was The Sword and the Sorcerer...I saw it in the theatre.

...Evil Dead II was basically a remake of Evil Dead I.

Ahem, I hate to be "that guy", but WRONG! Evil Dead II is its own movie; the beginning merely recaps the events of Evil Dead, although slightly modified. Again, sorry to nitpick, but this whole trilogy is pretty high on my all-time list; I must defend it to whatever end.

To "a":

The movie with the 'snake' alien parasite and the weird light sounds like The Hidden (1987), starring Kyle McLachlan and Michael Nouri.

A - that sounds like The Hidden with a very young Kyle MacLachlan as the good alien

Oh, yeah:

Schadenfreude - you're thinking of Rocky II.

HA!

There was a TV horror flick from the mid to late 70's about folks who moved into an old house with small creatures (brownies or gremlins, maybe?) that would scurry around the baseboards. As I remember, only one of the female occupants could see them. I was around 10 or 11 and imagined things moving at the edge of my vision for days seeing it.

I thought this was "Let's Scare Jessica To Death" until I Netflixed and found LSJTD was a vampire movie (and still a creepy one).

Sara, your #2 isn't "Legend", is it?

Dustin, is that "Red Sonja"?

A grandfather/older patriach type is telling a story to the whole family around the fireplace about a man/monster who had really big ears so he could hear really well - and the more he heard the bigger his ears became. So vicious circle and such. Maybe the "ear monster" broke through the window at the end? I'm thinking it would have been on TV in the early/mid 80's.

I might be crazy.

Sorry for the mix-up over A Song is Born and Ball of Fire...I guess remakes aren't such a modern evil after all.

Oh well. I still love the Danny Kaye version! Watch it if you have the chance, Annie. No one plays befuddled quite like the inimitable Mr. Kaye.

OOOOOOoooo!!!!

I got one! I got one!!!

Okay, so there are these troll-like...thingies, and they are terrorizing this family on Christmas (or close to it). They wear Santa suits, and I remember the little girl thought it was Santa trying to deliver presents, but it was THESE THINGS!!!

I remember one of them trying to get through a second floor window on a ladder...

And I remember the mom freaking out...

And I remember all of them eating what looks like a giant cake, but it's a PERSON...

WHAT IS THIS MOVIE?????!!!!!

Katy, the film where it's socially accepted to go to the bathroom in front of people is The Phantom of Liberty. It's a great Luis Bunuel film from the 70's. The film is a string of surreal sketches that flow into one another. A character from one sketch walks into the next sketch, or has a dream, or tells a story. The structure is similar to Slackers.

In the Horror Movie that Freaked Me Out category, this would have aired on television in the early 80's, and one scene, a nubile young teenage girl (of course) was hiding from the maniac in her house in the air ducts, then he opened the grate and pushed her down, and she slid down into a choping-type thingy? The idea that that girl would be choped up from the feet up really freaked me out as a small child.

How about this one: I crazy guy dressed like Santa Claus kills a convenience store clerk by shooting him, then he robs the place. I saw it probably around 1986 and it disturbed the hell out of me. I was about 6 years old though.

Charlie:

The convenience store robber as Santa Claus is in Silent Night, Deadly Knight.

two movies

1. its 80s movie about two brothers who die and go to the afterwoeld only to be cought up in the battle between hell and heaven. it based on a german book. roughly translated its :"braveheart brothers" or alternatively "the cherry garden"

the movie is narrated by younger brother who is in a wheelchair. when the older one dies trying to save the younger one from a fire, the younger brother is visited by a dove telling him that his brother is waiting for him in the cherry garden and that he must kill himself to be with his brother.

younger brother kills himself, goes to afterworld, meets older brother and a cast of other characters, finds out that theres a battle between this afterworld and some other afterworld with a dragon as the main weapon.

older brother dies in battle with dragon, younger brother awaits dove.

anyone? anyone?

also, theres an animated movie (again 80s, possibly japanese) about a unicorn looking for other unicorns. (its not the legend of the last unicorn) rather one about a baby uniocorn.

again, anyone anyone?

S. Pisaster...the movie you're thinking of is Unico.

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!

Now I recall my grandmother talking about how she always thought Suzanne Pleshette was pretty.

I also remember Troy Donahue was hunky but SUCH a bad actor!

"It was a sixties-ers flick about two young women who become friends at a boarding school. The redheaded troublemaker of the pair ends up becoming a nun. Did I just imagine this film?"

MaryAnne: I believe the movie is "Where Angels Go,Trouble Follows" with Hayley Mills (she becomes the nun) and Rosalind Russels (she plays Mother Superior, I believe)

I saw this movie when I was younger, this coming-of-age flick about this young girl growing up in the 1950s or 60s suburbs. I don't remember what she looked like, but I remember she spied on her older neighbor, a teenage girl that was like sixteen or seventeen, and she fell in company with her and this older boy. I don't remember barely anything about this movie except that the neighbor girl's dad died of a heart attack, and that they went bowling or something and the three of them made a record...like them speaking about a night out they had, and then their parents found it and played it and she got in trouble. Anyway, that's all I remember and it's been killing me because I can't figure out what it is.

Oooh, ohhh, I have another one:

It's an animated movie, from the 80's I believe. A girl or a princess is sent away by her step mother, blah blah she lives in the woods blah, and at some point towards the end she is being pricked with a pin to see if she can feel pain (I think they believed she was a witch?), but she can't make a sound because something would happen that I can't remember. I'm assuming it was bad. Heeeeee.

And she may or may not have been turned into a swan at some point (it's not 1994's A Swan Princess).

@be right back: OOOOH, you know what it wasn't Golddigger's, but your Busby Berkeley mention triggered something in my head, and I was able to find it! It was Dancing Lady!
And WOW my synopsis is bad!

sarah: Is that movie "My Girl"?

kushiro & thatchick, THANK YOU!! I have been trying to figure that one out for years...

s. pisaster (and possibly sara) -- you're thinking of the Unico movies. There were three made, I think, but only two were released in the states. The one with the goblin in the cave is the first one. The second one dealt with a magician and his apprentice who transformed people into the living building blocks that he built a castle out of on an island somewhere. Unico saved the day or...something.

I was about five when my babysitter let me watch a horror movie with her. It was made in the 80's and the movie took place in a high school. An evil psycho spends the day finding creative ways to kill the teachers and students in the school. The part that sticks out in my memory the most was when the killer uses the sharp end of a flagpole to impale a student on the trampoline. At the end a couple rides off in a red convertible.

Julie - that could be some movie version of the twelve swans - the girl's brothers are turned into swans and to save them she has to not say a word for seven years.
Thanks guys - I just found Unico on youtube. damn... guess I know what I'm doing tonight.

Ok the movie I would love to know the name of but for the life of me can't remember is the following.

It is a black/white movie from 40s/50s about this white guy who is temporally blinded during WW2 and is recovering in a hospital in the US. He must wear a bandage over his eyes for several months, so he must learn to deal with his new disability. While he is in the hospital he meets another patient who is going through the same experience. In a short time they become very good friends spending many hours together playing checkers and just shooting the shit. One day our main character makes a racist comment directed towards African Americans and the room goes silent as his best friend leaves the room. At this point he finds out from a nurse what the audience had already known that his best friend was black.

Even at a very young age I really loved the social commentary of this movie.

KUSHIRO I LOVE YOU.

lol also i thought the unico movie was so profound-- that it was a series breaks my heart.

also while on the subject, did anyone ever see this japanese series where the hero's gender would transform if you threw water on her / him?

hot water made him a girl, cold water a man ( or vise versa)

anyone anyone?

krebz: Close. After some searching, I found a 1989 flick called Deadly Weapon. Evidently, it was originally intended to be a sequel to Laserblast, but it was turned into a government-weapon-fallen-into-teenage-hands dud. A VHS copy is currently on eBay for $1.99 or something.

this has been plaguing me:

From the 70's (seen on TV as a child):

last shot is a small group of women (like a gang) standing satisfied on a beach, after they have just murdered/drowned some man/men... That's all i've got...

Please help me with some closure!

Leeb

I'm almost sure that's Stand By Me.

sara - Ranma 1/2

Leeb: Stand By Me.

leeb - You're describing a scene from Stand By Me.

Leeb - It was in fact Stand by Me, only instead of raw eggs, "Lardass" drinks castor oil before the competition.

Melissa - It's not what you're thinking of, but Ang Lee's Hulk actually does feature a giant zombie/demon poodle. If the poodle gave you nightmares you should watch it, because the Hulk kicks it ass.

Now this is obscure - I saw it many times in the theater when I was 3-5 years old (late 70s) in Hungary, no less (though I don't think it was a Hungarian movie. I also saw the Jungle Book many times during this period). It's a nature documentary about creatures living in the desert. The dramatic conflict comes near the end when a particularly long drought leaves the resident animals close to death. The rain comes, eventually, and everyone is saved.

Anyone?

Julie,
If no one answered you yet, I think the movie you may be referring to is "Something Wicked This Way Comes" starring Jason Robards as the old man/librarian/father who saves the little boys at the end of the movie by yelling something into the storm. I haven't seen it in ages but it used to scare the crap outta me when I was a kid.

Early '80s flick. A kind of Softee ice cream that's very addictive and everybody wants to eat it and eventually America's addicted. It becomes America's favorite drug until two people discover that the softee is actually an alien (?) that takes over people's brains (like the Astronaut's Wife). Teens manage to destroy the supply but there is still a container full of that stuff somewhere.

Bartap: Not so obscure, actually one of the most popular nature documentaries. It's "Animals Are Beautiful People" from 1974.

Wow, Leeb, you and I shared almost the exact same traumatic childhood movie experience. I agree with Ranylt that it's probably Stand By Me. I vividly remember being about 5 years old and walking into the living room where my family was watching that scene of that movie. I hid behind the couch because the throw-up was too much for me and, to this day, I have never been able to watch Stand By Me.

Jeff: That's The Peanut Butter Solution.

Hooray, I got one!

Cathy, the movie you're thinking of is "The Stuff" when people eat the delicious goo, aliens take over their brain or something.

Thanks Gitley. I watched the trailer on Netflix and I think you're right. Now I just need to rent it and see if I like just as much 30 years later.

Early '80s flick. A kind of Softee ice cream that's very addictive and everybody wants to eat it and eventually America's addicted.

@ Cathy...You're thinking of "The Stuff". I rule.

Thanks Kevin!! I never thought I'd have a chance to ask people about this who might actually know the answer.

Twig: Hiding Out starring Jon Cryer.

Alabamapink,

Yours almost sounds like Roman Holiday.

brite:

That might be "Pigs," a truly ridiculous but awesome "horror" flick from the 60s or 70s (I think). My local video store sells all their VHS tapes for like $3 and a friend and I will go buy like ten when we get in a mood. We bought Pumpkinhead, but inside the case was this movie "Pigs." We were intrigued so we watched. It is truly hilarious and horribly made. I can't remember exactly what the deal was with the slutty mother, but it seems there was some element like that. And possibly incest. Just weirdness going on altogether. Oh, and killer pigs. Also, the cover of the movie is hysterical. It's, well, what you'd imagine a killer pig might look like. As drawn by a 2nd grader.

Sammy - was it maybe Child of Glass? That was a staple of my Halloween sleep-overs when I was little and it seems to fit your description :)

(back to lurking)

@ AnnArrogance

1. I believe that is "Battle of the Planets" also known as "G-Force" (originally titled Gatchaman)

2. Uhh, you're on your own with that one.

Stacey - I'm sure this is wrong because it doesn't exactly match your description but there was a movie called Career Opportunities with Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly where they were trapped in Target for the night. They weren't "kids" though.

Stacey: Career Opportunities with Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly.

Black and white - probably 30's or 40's. An older man, a pianist, is living in some cottage or house somewhere, I want to say near a shore. There is a much younger girl who comes in every day and brings him his food on a tray. He is either physically ill or mentally sick, but either way for some reason he is confined to this house and the only other character I remember is that young girl. I think she falls in love with him (or his piano playing).

re: Pigs. Apparently it was rereleased or something under the name "Daddy's Little Darling." I had forgotten the major plot point, which is that the main character left a mental hospital after she had killed her father for abusing her (hence my memories of incest). She then begins killing all these other men who remind her of her father. And the pigs aren't really killer pigs, at least not throughout most of the movie. They've just developed a taste for human flesh (for some reason that I've forgotten), so the old man that the girl stays with uses the men she kills to feed his pigs. It is just a bizarre and fascinating movie. Weirdly (mostly badly) shot and edited with strange music and this craziness about the pigs juxtaposed with the crazy revenge killings by the girl. I recommend it for a fun movie night with beer and friends where you're fully prepared to ask yourself numerous times, "What the fuck?"

As for the topic: I'm not totally sure if it is the movie you're looking for, brite, since there's no mention of the slutty mother, but anyway.

Courtney: it sounds a little like the movie "The Enchanted Cottage." The male character's face was disfigured (in the war I think), and the female character is just a plain Jane who wishes she were beautiful. The man was originally very good looking and is very bitter about his face, so the woman comes to work for him so he doesn't have to leave the house and see people (or something like that). When they are together in the cottage, they see each other as flawless and beautiful. They later realize that only they see each other that way and that everyone else sees them as they really look. It's a great movie. Does that sound like what you're thinking of?

YES! G-Force! The Ringing Bell! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU Manny, Patrick, and Be Right Back! I love you all SO much! I'm off to hunt them down on any format I can find right now!

I found Ringing Bell a few years ago on VHS and recognized and bought it, but somewhere between Indiana, Boston, and Texas is vanished and I forgot the title again. G-Force, however, has been driving me CRAZY since I was about 12 and the movie store closed!

Thank you guys again!

And I'm really sorry that I suck and I can't seem to recognize any of these (except Stand By Me), but I'm going to check back and keep trying!

Erica O: I also thought of Lambert as soon as I read that description! I loved Lambert the Sheepish Lion when I was younger. I think I have it on a VHS somewhere around my house, I'm going to have to dig it out and dust it off.

Oh wait, crap... Ringing Bell is right, but I don't think G-Force/Battle of the Planets is. I distinctly remember it being a stand-alone movie, not a series. Anyone else have any ideas?

Sally, what a small world. The Reflecting Skin was my "name that movie" for years, because it scarred me as a child when I saw the exploding frog scene. I always wondered if I'd actually just dreamed it until I happened to stumble across that description only to find it was a real movie with Viggo Mortenson and Lindsay Duncan, of all people. I swear, TMN here in Canada gets some pretty strange movies.

mmsmle: The movie is "42nd Street." I saw it on Broadway a few years ago.

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Demon Seed, with the luscious Julie Christie, based on (wait for it) a Dean Koontz book. Trust me.

OK I'll stop now.

Heathertea: Sounds like "Prom Night"

Nico: Sounds like "Amityville: The Possession" or possibly "The Gate".

N. Wood: It's "Brokedown Palace" with Claire Danes

Nico: I take that back. I meant "Amityville 3-D"

Rob, you may be thinking of Waterbabies.

Another "weird anime I saw as a child" movie (mid-eighties): There were fairies having a festival, all light-coloured dresses and glee, but then a monster arrives and EATS the fairies. I think the monster looked like Jabba the Hut. Traumatic because it was one of the first movies I saw where some of the "good guys" died.

Monsters live in the basement or walls of a house, and they call out to the woman who lives in it. Her name is Sally.

My parents spent YEARS hissing "Saaaaaaallyyyyy..." at each other, but neither of them remembers the name of the movie.

okay, hmm, boy lives on a shipyard and finds a dragon? and his grandfather was mad at him (for being all dreamy, natch---the movie ends when his grandfather accepts him and blah)? the dragon was really puppet-like and maybe purple; i believe it could talk.

This one has been racking my brain for years. The movie was 50's or 60's era since I saw it in the early 70's. It was a horror flick that featured a "Snake Pit". All I remember was people falling into or being thrown into a Snake Pit. Anyone??

A movie I've forgotten the name of, but it was about a Taiwanese (?) men's volleyball team, only the men were crossdressers and transvestites, except for maybe one guy, the captain. It had subtitles and it was really quite funny. At one point they get arrested for a bar fight and they're all in crazy costumes because they were celebrating their manager's birthday. It's based on a true story.

And a second one: I know it stars Rider Strong, and it's about a boy who goes to a boarding school to kill another guy who saw a murder (or something). The second guy is a champion swimmer. They become friends because Rider Strong doesn't know this is the guy he's been sent to kill and, you know, drama. It was kind of a dorky movie, but I really liked it.

I'm apologizing for ALL these posts. I just see one comment at a time and answer it (hopefully with the correct movie)!! The movie with the kid finding the dragon is most likely, "Pete's Dragon".

Dustin's mystery movie would be Clash of the Titans. Apologies if this has been stated already.

@'Cuno=the transvestite volleyball movie is Thai and called "The Iron Ladies"

@elisamaza: Ranylt's appliance horror movie may not be "Pulse" (the one from 1988, mentioned before), but I think your movie with the boiling shower is.

O.k. I've got one. I'd love to read everyone else's, but this thread is just out of control.

It's a very cheesy 80s fantasy film in the vein of Beastmaster, but it's not nearly as good.

There's this guy being held captive by this little troll guy in a cave. I think he's doing labor for the troll as a blacksmith. He makes this sword and tries to turn it on the troll, but when he brings the blade down full force on the troll's skull, it just bounces off magically. The troll constantly taunts him and points at his own head to indicate that he's impervious. I think the troll has a pet crow that constantly caws in the background. Also, the musical score has this really goofy theme for the troll that comically accompanies the troll as he waddles in and out of the cave.

Finally, the guy gets some help (from where I know not), and the sword he forges is imbued with the magic to defeat the troll. The troll taunts him by pointing at his skull and laughs. "Give it your best shot," and so forth. The guy strikes with the blade and cleaves the troll in half right down the middle!

That's all I remember. I think that only comprises the first twenty minutes of the movie or so. It was so bad that we quit watching it, but we loved riffing on that goofy troll, his crow, and that score.

Okay meretyping,
That should be you're not your. I really should not drink and type.

"Pete's Dragon," yes. thanks. now, to be repetitive, i have another mystery dragon movie (guess my brother liked them, or something):

a 60s thing, i'm pretty sure, by disney---whenever we used to rent tapes, it would be on the reel at the beginning set to happy days music. boy finds baby dragon, brings it home. baby dragon is cute, but less so as it gets older. boy has to let it free, and at the end of the movie the boy is grown up too and supposed to kill his old dragon friend. "Dragonwings" strikes me as the title, but of course that can't be it because this is not about Chinese immigrants making planes.

Courtney! It's "Phantom of the Paradise" directed by Brian de Palma and the Swan character is played by Paul Williams. The rock star he is trying to promote is named "Beef".

Totally craptastic movie, by the way.

superdeluxebabe, sounds like "The Kiss" with Meredith Salenger, and the woman who played Doc Holliday's wife in Tombstone. (I forget her real name, but she'd be the new stepmom.)

AnnArrogance: Are you thinking of Robotech? It was a series, but sounds kinda like what you're describing.

Sally, what a small world. The Reflecting Skin was my "name that movie" for years, because it scarred me as a child when I saw the exploding frog scene.

That's The Reflecting Skin. A great movie and really hard to find these days. It had Viggo Mortensen in it before he hit it big in the LOTR.

YES! The Reflecting Skin! Viggo Mortenson? Really? Now I'm going to have to find it again...

No, it wasn't Robotech. I remember that one! In fact, my husband is watching it on his computer right now! But thanks!

I was looking around on You Tube, and it reminds me a lot of the character design in the "Star Blazers" series, but the animation is a little cleaner and I THINK I remember the chick being a redhead, not blonde as I originally said. It was more action-y and serious than "Star Blazers," not as much "we're trying to find a new planet to live on." And the ship didn't look like a tanker ship. And again, it wasn't a series like Star Blazers. Man, this is going to drive me nuts!

I'm also thinking that "5" might have been in the title somewhere, but maybe I'm making that part up, too.

AnnArrogance: There is a Star Blazers standalone movie that looks like it has cleaner animation than the original series. I haven't seen it, but if you think it's similar, you can check out this link: www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3751

There's like half a dozen versions of that story - crazy!

I think every movie I knew the answer for has been answered already... So, let me add one:

Possibly '80s film, a comedy. All I remember is that it was one of those comedies where everything goes wrong for a guy trying to do the right thing (a la After Hours). The scene stuck in my mind has a Russian (or so) male, insane ballet dancer that at some point gets locked in a closet. Everytime the poor "hero" opens it by accident (when trying to solve some other misfortune), the crazy dude jumps out from there and screams some word in his language, while ballet-posing.

There's a big chance the movie is not funny at all, but I laughed my ass off then, as a kid, and I wanted to know what it is just to know if I'd laugh today too. Hell, I don't even know if the movie is in English...

Emily: The red flannel shirt guy was the bailiff from "Night Court." "Storybook" is the movie.

The movie I'm looking for is an animated movie. There's a Guy, who's all logic and science and reason. Somehow he gets transported to a magical kingdom. While there Guy meets a beautiful girl (BG), her wizard father (who has a library of every book that has or will be written, including one by Guy) and two dragons that BG calls brothers. Guy and BG fall in love. Somehow, Guy becomes the younger of the two dragons. He becomes human again and has to battle an evil wizard. Guy defeats the evil wizard with math. The end has Guy coming back to the regular world where he brings the evil wizard's crown/hat to a pawn shop. And then BG comes in behind him with a big gold plate and they kiss and all is well.

And I'm long winded. But that's okay, because details are helpful, right? Right.

I'm trying to find a zombie movie that was probably made for TV. Everyone in this lab died, but when people came to get the bodies they were gone and someone had broken their way out with an axe. I also remember that rescuers had to cut through blast doors with a torch to get inside. Probably a horrible movie, but it made life difficult for my babysitter that night.

Elizamarie, that sounds like a compaction of the plot of an horrifically frightening movie called The Believers. It starred Martin Sheen and Helen Shaver. I don't think the two scenes occurred at the same time in the story--the unforgettable electrocution scene starts the plot rolling, the shower scene featuring Helen Shaver follows later on.

Okay, here's my puzzling movie: it features Sofia Loren and possibly Cary Grant (but maybe Gregory Peck). It takes place in Naples, after the war, and Sofia Loren is a showgirl who performs the song (tu vu fa)L'Americano (or whiskey, soda, rock n' roll) in the movie. Anyone?

Well it's a pretty early movie, silent, black and white. Man kills lots of women, maybe gets hanged, girls come back from the dead, maybe. Church scene with lots of devils, do things to nuns.
sorry its a pretty vague description

2:55: I believe that is "Phantasm." Super-weird!

Okay, I have three actually:

1. Black and white movie I saw on TV when I was a kid. A scary dude with wild black hair lured women to his basement and slowly plastered over their faces until they couldn't breathe.

2. A detective movie starring all kids in adult roles. I think the blonde actress who played Margeaux in Punky Brewster was the femme fatale.

3. A cartoon I saw in the 80's, the color palette was all washed-out grays, tans. A man takes his camper on vacation and keeps having mishaps, but it's not so much funny as kinda depressing.

Late 80s or early 90s. Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMagio, and Albert Eistein in some kind of stand off. I swear I'm not making it up. But what the hell was it?

Matt K - Marilyn Monroe, Joe DiMagio, and Albert Einstein all meet in Insignifigance, a trippy Nicholas Roeg film.

"a", the hidden is one of my guilty pleasures (wait, that was a different topic a few weeks ago, wasn't it?). anyway, it has a kick-ass concrete blonde soundtrack, from before they went all "joey" commercial. I recommend it. kyle mclachlan is perfect as an alien - he doesn't need to act.

So, I thought maybe I had made this up, but my sister seems to remember it too:

It is set in the 80's. There was a teen age boy who was eating ice cream and dropped it on a record player then for some reason or another was chased and ended up under the rainbow or a bridge and befriended a mermaid, a troll (who looked totally normal) and a man dressed as a giant turtle. The Troll was really kind, but I think he got really sick in it. I feel like the song "If You Believe in Magic" was also in it. Pleeease Help.

A fun idea for a comment diversion for sure, but the Onion AV Club runs a feature very similar to this every Friday. You can submit questions about movies, books, or even video games and the editors will either e-mail the answer back or post it in the column if they get enough requests for it.

MJ: "Night of the Creeps" perhaps. it came out in the 80's but sounds similar to what you are describing.

I saw this movie around '95, but it could be earlier or later by 5 years. It involves a boy whose parents lived in India (both white), who die and the boy is forced to live with his aunt in I think Canada, maybe the midwest. His aunt is in the middle of losing her house to the government because they want to build a road through her property. So the teenage orphan boy decides to fast himself in protest like Gandhi.

Any ideas?

Gitley, not sure if this is right, but the movie that seems a likely double feature with "Taps" would be "Lords of Discipline" from 1983. Both are about military schools. I don't remember a puppy, but it's certainly intense.

My mystery movie is something that I saw one day when I stayed home sick from elementary school. In the 1970s, afternoon TV was either soaps, the 700 Club, or random movies, so I saw a lot of random movies. One that has stuck with me is from the '50s? '60s? (I recall it being B&W, but maybe that was just our TV) involving the kidnapping of a young boy by two youngish men and something of a showdown in the desert for the ransom payoff. I just remember this kid being tucked up in a crevice in the bluffs and a very young me thinking, "that kid's never going to get out of this alive."

I've got one!

It's an animated film, probably from the late 80's or very early 90's. I remember the VHS cassette was pink and blue.

It's about some kids, a brother and sister I think, with blue skin - I think the girl may have had a Pebbles Flintstone style ponytail. They were wandering around these underground caves. There were also these big rat-like creatures, and a flute that the kids would play. For some reason I don't think there was any dialogue, and the title had the word "Paradise" in it.

I hope I'm not too late to the party, because this one's been bugging me for, like, a decade and a half.
It's another dragon movie, although more of a high-fantasty one than a modern-day setting. The dragon gets a maiden a year -- I think there's an agreement whereby in exchange for a girl, the dragon won't terrorize the countryside? So there's a regular lottery to decide who gets thrown to the dragon, and the princess finds out that even though she's eligible, she's never entered into the lottery because her father (the king) doesn't want her to die. The princess rigs the lottery so she'll lose and have to be thrown to the dragon, where she's eaten by the baby dragons. Also, there's a young woman who's disguised as a boy to avoid the lottery but she falls in love with the hero (one of the heroes?). Can anybody help?

So a bunch of kids are in the Outback of Australia or something, and they're being hunted by three maniacs (I think), one of which is dressed up as "Father Christmas". They kill him with a bow and arrow, I think, or stone him, I can't remember. Any takers?

Thanks, nikab It's definitely not Maximum Overdrive, which I'm familiar with.

The movie I'm thinking of seems to take place in one suburban home with very garish 70s interiors (I recall lots of oranges, reds and checkered greens). The woman with the oven is a mom in an apron (housewifey as hell), and the electric knife scene is in a suburban dining room with a family gathered 'round a table, eating turkey or roast beef.

Ah well, it'll deliver itself to me some day.

@Ben: why are you asking questions you know the answers to?

But I love a good cookie: 3) Body Heat, borrowing from Double Indemnity (Body Heat is from 1981, though, not the seventies. Close enough?)

Hi Liz, the movie you are looking for is Dragonslayer. I loved all moves that had anything to do with dragons when I was a kid, and I always thought this was one of the better ones. The special effects were pretty good for a move made in '81.

So this one has been bothering me for ages:
It's a black and white film, probably from the 40's or 50's. There's a man looking to pull a heist and for some reason he needs this dancer/singer/nightclub performer (?). The first part of the movie you actually watch them pull off the heist, but everything is quiet and the woman doesn't talk at all. Then you realize that that's just how the man wanted it to work and it turns out the woman is really obnoxious and talks a lot. I think they were setting out to steal a crown from a king, maybe in Thailand? And I think the woman had to seduce him? And there's something to do with a mask? Although I could be making that last part up.
Anyway, this has been driving me crazy for forever, so any help would be great.
We should totally have another afternoon comment diversion with books. I've got one that's been driving me nuts for years.

Alabamapink ftw...Summer of Fear indeed it was...though apparently the movie (according to imdb) was called "Stranger in Our House." Added awesomeness when I found that the face that "seemed familiar" was actually Linda Blair.
And directed by Wes Craven! All this mixed with the genius of Lois Duncan (though to be honest I was always more of a Caroline B. Cooney girl)and I may have to pay a revisit.

KRK, thanks for the help but that wasn't it. I did some intensive googling and eventually found it. It's called Evilspeak, and is some sort of B horror movie starring Clint Howard. Here's a synopsis I found:

"EVILSPEAK.
Clint Howard of "Gentle Ben" fame (and the brother Ron Howard) stars as a poor sod at a Military Academy whose always being picked on by the other cadets because of his obsession with computers. He finally gets his revenge when he discovers a book on black magic, which after copying it onto his hard drive, allows him to do all sorts of wierd stuff including summoning up a pack of man eating picks. Dog lovers won't like the scene where his puppy is murdered by some of the sadistic cadets, but the scene where a severed head is being used as the ball in a game of soccer is an absolute howler."

mandasarah: i knew i had seen him somewhere before! you have no idea how grateful i am.

i wish i could be more help to others, but i think everything i knew has been answered.

Shepps: You are describing Galaxy Express 999, I think. There are lots of versions/iterations/imports out there, so check the wiki to see which one you're remembering (my guess: Adieu [or Sayonara] Galaxy Express 999 Terminus Andromeda, a stand alone movie released in 1981)

A kid is riding in the back seat of a car and has a bleeding headwound. Instead of a bandaid they stick a maxi pad on his forehead

I just don't know....

How about this one, I only saw the beginning. It is a black & white film. probably 50's or 60's. A black man (whom I thought for a long time was Sidney Poitier but now doubt myself) wakes up to find himself the only person in NY City and possibly the world. He wanders around alone for a bit & then meets a white woman. They become friends and then a white guy from brazil (i think) shows up. That's all I have - anyone?

katy - I do not remember the original name of your anime show but I believe it was re-released under the name "eagle riders" in early 00's

@erro0257 - I think your post-apocalyptic movie may be "The World, The Flesh and The Devil," starring Harry Belafonte

OK, I only know sketchy details about this because I was about five when I saw it at the drive-in (it would have been around 1987) and it scared the crap out of me. There was a man in it who had a shock of black hair and who makes me think of Edward Scissorhands, and he gets into an elevator which takes him to another world. At the end of the movie he comes back up the elevator - and that's all I can remember. Haha, I don't expect anyone to have an epiphanie from THAT explanation, but I remember the film was very weird and atmospheric and creeped me out for days.

I barely remember the movie, but I very much remember all of us sitting through it repeating "wtf?" It's an old black and white that takes place in the desert and had people dressed very Lawrence of Arabia-esque, but I remember like a Sultan-ish guy with no shirt and the movie itself is serious, but between random scenes a camel would talk and make snide comments about the story unfolding. I kid you not, we couldn't figure out if the camel had been added years later (possibly by the tv station airing the movie) or if the camel had always been a part of the movie. And I know nothing else about this movie.

Courtenay-
Phantom of the Paradise...great movie with a very creepy Paul Williams and a very young Jessica Harper directed by Brian De Palma no less.I loved this movie and memorized every word on the soundtrack album!

@Lannie The Taiwanese movie you describe sounds like Vive L'amour by Tsai Ming-liang. Was it kind of slow and have little dialogue?

This one's really lame, people. It's so lame that I'm embarrassed that maybe someone could possibly recognize me somehow, and it would bring shame upon me until the day I die. That said, it's been killing me that I can't name this movie.

I remember seeing this animated movie on the Disney channel when I was younger (mid-to-late 80's) and not knowing its name has killed me ever since.

It's an animated movie with a little girl whose parents (along with all the other adults in her area/village/land)are turned into these robotic stone creatures that are used as slaves by the main villain and she goes on a mission to change them back and save her parents from the bad guy. I'm pretty sure she uses a musical instrument like a flute to control them and probably has a magical friend/creature/animal that helps her out. I'm ignorant but it could even be japanimation/anime (I'm not savvy enough to know the difference or distinction among these types of cartoons.) Of course, google/imdb doesn't really help out because this description is but a rapidly fading and probably half misremembered memory. Every time I try to ask a family member if they remember it, they give me a blank stare and I feel like a complete jackass. Thanks for anyone's help.

Probably a made for TV movie...

Opens up with a low down camera view of a lawn, I recall a fenced yard. Two teens jump the fence or something and are hiding in the uncut grass, rolling around and making out IIRC. You then see the low down camera view of a garden hose that starts moving by itself in the grass to get the teens. IIRC they leave unscathed? Then later there is a young woman who lives in the house and she is protected, over-protected by the house and the house kills people. The end I recall is the house was built by her grandfather or something and it is protecting her but wont let her love anyone else. I know there was some big shot of a fireplace and eventually the house tries to take her with it as it destroys itself. Late 70s movie IIRC.

Anyone know what movie this is? I've searched and searched. Pretty sure it's a made for TV movie. Cheesy, but ok story.

Anyone?

ok. british movie (i think) made within the last 15 years. a boy and his father are walking down the street when the boy says "dad do you wear condoms?" his father says something, and the boy says "funny. i can't imagine you in a condom."

or something like that. what the hell is it?

Think I found it...

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_movies/2369-this-house-possessed/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083192/

IMDB users say good movie

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083192/usercomments

I just IMDB'd it, and you're spot on, Kathleen! Thanks much. I'm going to have to secretly find a way to watch it for nostalgia's sake now!

Cathy was the name of the flick THE STUFF?

I've got two:
1. There was a movie that my sister and I watched a few times as kids... there were aliens who came to a little town and pretended to be pets to a few kids in the town... like they could look like normal dogs/cats, but they could also look like aliens when they wanted to. I remember a lot of awful jokes... references to not needing any stinking badgers, for example. The acting was terrible, but for nostalgia's sake I want to know what it was!
2. All I can remember is a kid lying in a bed and his hair growing really really freaking long... and I think it was being used to make paintbrushes. And there might be something to do with peanut butter.

Okay, this one is really weird so pardon me,
It's an animated movie that takes place (I believe) on the biblical ark, it's about these bugs who eat wood and look like worms who come into conflict with these other bugs that look like roaches. The evil bugs don't talk and follow scent trails to get around. I think eventually the worm-son gets captured and kept in a spun coccoon like as spider would make...Please tell me someone knows what the hell this is? I loved it as a kid but we recorded it onto a vhs that is now lost.

Sara: The first one I know as a book. It´s not German though. It´s Bröderna Lejonhjärta (which translates into The Brothers Lionheart) from Astrid Lindgren. Me and my boyfriend just bought it (at IKEA, ha!) because he loved it as a kid. Hope that helps.

A kid is riding in the back seat of a car and has a bleeding headwound. Instead of a bandaid they stick a maxi pad on his forehead

Kelly - the movie is Josh and Sam.

screw this - could that be The Full Monty? I don't remember that line in particular, but it sounds like it would be a line from that movie, which involved a deadbeat dad trying to organize a strip show (with his son's help)to raise money to pay his child support. It was actually a very charming movie.

I don't even know what genre it was but I remember it scaring the crap out of me when I was very young. There was one scene where a bunch of red ants crawl into and out of a man's facial orifices. I don't know if he was dead or unconscious but he was in some sort of hospital building. Yeah... it's plagued me for years.

Lex said: Appwitch, the insect movie was Bug in 1975 I believe.

THANKS! Given that date, I must have been about 7 or 8 when I saw it. What was my mother thinking?

When I was a kid I saw a few minutes of a movie where the characters were living in this old, kind of broken down house, and in this house there was a woman lying in bed and a man was taking care of her or had just been in the room. As she's lying there, she feels something around her feet, looks down, and sees some kind of insects crawling all over her feet (maybe scorpions or fire ants - something unpleasant), and starts screaming. At this point, I freaked out and stopped watching.

Ariel - The movie you're thinking of is Man In The Moon, starring a very young Reese Witherspoon and Jeremy London. *sigh*

Now here's mine:

When I was a child, I watched this cartoon that I was obsessed with. If we weren't home in time for it to come on I went all Rainman on my mom. It was about a family of four, parents and a brother and sister, who were superheroes. They would jump up into the air and shout a special phrase or word and then turn into birds. I know it sounds like "Wonder Twins" but I know that's not it. My mom remembers it well too, but neither of us can remember what it was called. Here's where it gets weird - about ten years ago I was flipping across the channels, and it was on Univision! I don't speak spanish, so I couldn't figure out what the hell it was! ARGH! Anyone?

@Cuno: Your Rider Strong movie is called "The Secret Pact"

#1 I saw this years ago on First Choice which is the precursor for Canada's TMN, I always thought it starred Kiefer Sutherland, but after searching through IMDB, nothing comes up. The movie begins with a guy getting a call from a scientist who thinks he's warning his son about two nuclear weapons accidently set off and heading towards Chicago. Instead of leaving the city the guy spends the entire movie looking for his girlfriend only to die in a sinking helicopter as the bombs eventually hit the city. I remember this being incredibly stupid, but not knowing what it's called, is slowly killing me.

#2 I think this was a made for TV movie in the 80s, the only scene I can remember is a young girl who's fallen asleep in the back seat gets her shoelaces tied together by her brother and sister? The car crashes and she can't get out because her shoelaces are tied, she dies, it's winter. And that's all.

Anyone?

AnnArrogance:
Your first movie sounds like an early version of the Power Rangers, at least that's how I always remembered them. If the characters wearing white and red/blue/green/yellow are flying mechanical tigers? cats? that can become one giant robot, then we're thinking of the same thing. I used to have the green guy as a toy and my brothers had the castle which comes with a gold key. I've seen the castle on an episode of Robot Chicken and I'm pretty sure they've spoofed it. My brothers remember this as the anime version of Power Rangers. And if we're not thinking of the same thing then never mind.

Jen310---I remember that movie "Green Eyes." It was horribly sad and depressing. Also, Jen Diff, I know what you are talking about and I am pretty sure it is based on a Stephen King story, but for the life of me I can't remember the name.

Here's mine..when I was a kid, maybe 10, I was spending the night with my grandmother. Her brother and wife were also staying there. I woke up late at night and wandered into the living room where my great-uncle and aunt were watching TV. All I saw was a scene of a man (?) chopping off a woman's (?) head with a hatchet in front of a blazing fire. He had to chop, chop, chop and it was pretty graphic. This was in the mid 70's and the colors were very vivid. I can't imagine what it was, because I think it was on one of those great late-night movie shows. That one scene has creeped me out for years.

I love all you guys!! This thread was a brilliant idea!!

I don't know if this is a totally obvious movie that everyone has seen - and I really don't think I want to watch it again - but for peace of mind I'd love to know the title. When I was a kid, I had a friend whose mother seemed to always be renting wildly inappropriate movies for us, and this one is no exception. It's from the 80s, and I think the main character is some kind of alien-woman who comes to Earth with this little floating/flying television that has its own sort of personality. She doesn't fit in well with humans and when she needs to know how to do something the floating television shows her some associated clips on its screen as a means of instruction... I think it even showed her how to seduce someone? I remember finding it all very disturbing, though I think it was intended as a comedy.

Great diversion!

I've been trying to figure this one out since I was 12. I was on a ski-trip with my grandmother and saw a film on TV that I wasn't able to finish.

Story is: An angel on a building in the city comes to life in the form of a handsome, dark haired man. After taking someone else's appointment, he falls in love with a woman of the city, who happens to be engaged to someone else.

He doesn't know much about the customs of the day - I remember distinctly that he gave the REAL nectar of the gods to said woman and her fiance at their wedding shower thing.

Ultimately, he has to decide if he's going to live, or going to go back to being a statue - I remember the statue crying at some point. I didn't get to finish the story, and I'd love to!

@courtnet: Is your movie "Starcrossed?"

mae: THANK YOU!!!

Wow, I hate to add to such a huge mission of a topic & confuse everyone further, but I have 2 films Ive been puzzling over for YEARS!....

1) A German (I always assumed anyway) Cinderella story, where she had wooden clogs on, hid in a dove cote & the 'Fairy Godmother' was a huge golden talking tree. I would be eternally grateful if someone could help me track this down.

2) Another scared-me-when-as-a-child movie. There is a man in a field of sunflowers, he may have a scar or something, he comes across an elderly black woman in a rockingchair who tells him she is very very old & various cryptic things, she then looks into the sky & says 'Theres a storm coming- HIS STORM' & she points to a really crap scarecrow with lamps or something for eyes...& then the guy wakes up.

Haha, very embarrassing when I remember how long that daft scene stayed with me, I still get the creeps when someone observes that there is a storm coming :p

Thanks in Advance xxxxx

Okay, I think this movie is awful, but I saw it years ago (80's) when I was home with the flu and cannot remember the name of it. A rag-tag bunch of underwater welders (an the requisite ex-con) are the subjects of a documentary by a big oil company. A (female) reporter is asked to join them on their ship. The reporter, of course, falls in love with leader/main character. Someone dies from diving to far at some point. It's really, really cheesy and painful, but so help me I need to know what it was called!

Lauren--I wish I knew the answer to your question re: the movie with the homemade toy and the train accident. I was *just* describing this movie to my main squeeze the other day!

My recollection is that it was a school for the deaf and the kid who was killed by the train was developmentally delayed in addition to being deaf--or simply older and hadn't been in school before (which explains why he was bigger than the other kids).

This older kid made a toy--I believe one of those wooden snakes which will "slither" because of the notches cut in it--for his friend (who was blonde) and the mean bullies broke it and laughed at him. This was his Christmas gift to the blonde friend. After this incident, I believe he runs away and doesn't hear the train (though you would think he would feel the rumblings...).

This movie came up for me recently, because I was explaining to said main squeeze that this movie is why I know, to this day, the ASL sign for friend: The blonde signs to the dead kid's parents that their son was his friend.

So frickin' sad! It made me tear up when I was describing it.

It came out sometime between 1979 and 1983, I believe.

This is your movie too, yes?

CJ--I think you're thinking of Voltron, which was one of my favorite cartoons as a kid! The costumes in my mystery anime (which I'm now pretty sure is one of the Star Blazers movies) were really similar, but the space planes didn't turn into anything. Thanks, though!

Thanks dammitjanet! That was it exactly!

And b:
I think the movie you're thinking of is My Stepmother is an Alien with Kim Basinger, Dan Aykroyd and Alyson Hannigan.

Hahaha, thanks CJ - I just Googled that and you are absolutely right. Woooo for a solution to 20 years of wondering! ;)

b- That movie is My Stepmother is an Alien. Kim Basinger and Dan Aykroyd doing Jimmy Durante. Ha!

I've got 2 that have been bothering me for years. I hope I'm not too late.

1- Beginning of the movie: Two girls are getting ready to take communion for the first time. One girl murders the other. The evil girl is late for the ceremony and when receiving the communion, vulgarly sticks out her tongue to receive it. The priest knows something is up. Someone discovers the body... I think it was from the 70s but I saw it about 10 years ago.

2- I remember nothing about this movie except an old man (Burgess Meredith?) keeps repeating: "You want it, you got it. Toyota."

Definitely more important for me to figure out #2 before #1. It has to be Burgess Meredith. It's his voice.

ontheflye, I believe you're thinking of a little gem called Dragonworld.

JJ McClay, I think your flick is When a Stranger Calls Back. (although Wednesday Addams employs the blend into the wall technique in Addams Family Values as well)

B, your flick might be My Stepmom's an Alien.

b said: I don't know if this is a totally obvious movie that everyone has seen - and I really don't think I want to watch it again - but for peace of mind I'd love to know the title. When I was a kid, I had a friend whose mother seemed to always be renting wildly inappropriate movies for us, and this one is no exception. It's from the 80s, and I think the main character is some kind of alien-woman who comes to Earth with this little floating/flying television that has its own sort of personality. She doesn't fit in well with humans and when she needs to know how to do something the floating television shows her some associated clips on its screen as a means of instruction... I think it even showed her how to seduce someone? I remember finding it all very disturbing, though I think it was intended as a comedy.

b! I remember that movie! There was one scene where she's hooking up with the dad and a clapping and barking seal comes on the TV, so she starts clapping and barking in the middle of kissing him. I THINK it was "My Stepmother is an Alien" with Kim Basinger.

This was one I remember one of my elementary school teachers playing for us right before summer break.

These people live on a planet where there is no sun except for a small part of the day every so many years. The majority of the story takes place in a school and one of the students is a girl whose family recently moved there from earth. So, she still remembers the sun and even has a butterfly collection.

Anyway, everyone is all happy about the sun coming and the students are told they have to behave if they want to go out in it. A bunch of bullies lock the girl from earth in a closet or locker or something (I can't remember why except they were bullies). But, the sun comes out and they forget they locked her in there.

Everyone is really sad when they realize what she missed.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

PissBoy, you just saved my brain! I was convinced that it was Burgess Meredith and kept coming up with dead ends. SO FRUSTRATING!

And I think I saw Communion on PHL-17! Either that or that strange random channel, 48 I think it is, that shows all of those random old B-movies like COMMUNION. Holy shit! You rock! Thank you!

This was a black & white movie from the 50s. I saw it on a local tv station, who would play Godzilla, The Blob, etc on Saturday afternoons back in the 70s. My movie, was about a black rock. A meteor? Whenever this rock would get wet, it would grow. Somebody on the porch of a white farmhouse thought it was dirty, and threw it in a washtub to clean it. But it grew! And then it rained. It went apeshit! It was growing and falling over and crushing all in it's path. What was it?

Another great movie I saw around the same time that I actually remember the name was "The Beast With Five Fingers," about a disembodied hand crawling around and causing mayhem. I'm totally looking for this on dvd now that this thread has made me think of it!

"be right back"- Bingo! Thanks so much.

cmoody-- That sounds really familiar. I think it's from a Ray Bradbury story called "All Summer in a Day."

Ok this one was bugging me for so long, and so hard to explain!

It's about a young boy, maybe early teens. I believe he has interactions with a few different types of families, but I know at one point he is with an eskimo family and they are going to send the older grandfather out to see on an iceburg to die I think and the kid is really upset and maybe rescues him? ahh I know its a real movie!

Erin - that sounds like North starring Elijah Wood. One of the worst movies of all time.

Rob: 'Dot and the Kangaroo' might be the part live action/part cartoon movie set in Australia.

If anyone is still reading....
we watched a movie in 6th grade based on a short story we read in class. there is a family and they have this room with a big movie screen and you can tell it anywhere in the world you want to go and it appears on the screen. At the end the kids want to go to Africa and they are watching a pride of lions, but something goes wrong and the lions come out of the scene and kill the kids.
does this story sound familiar to anyone?

If anyone is still reading....
we watched a movie in 6th grade based on a short story we read in class. there is a family and they have this room with a big movie screen and you can tell it anywhere in the world you want to go and it appears on the screen. At the end the kids want to go to Africa and they are watching a pride of lions, but something goes wrong and the lions come out of the scene and kill the kids.
does this story sound familiar to anyone?

@jmurae: I think that may be the "Ray Bradbury Theatre" (a TV anthology series) installment entitled "The Veldt" (based, of course, on his short story)

short4astortrooper - your first one I don't know, but you might try looking it up under the German version of Cinderella, Ashenputtel. I know her mother comes back as a tree and helps her in the fairy tail. Your second one sounds like the made-for-tv version of Stephen King's the Stand.

cmoody - don't know the movie but it must be based on a Ray Bradbury short story, "All Summer in a Day" - that's the exact plot.

@jmurae "The Veldt" was also adapted into a segment of the 1969 movie The Illustrated Man. So you could be remembering that, I suppose. (Though the TV series was on HBO in the 80s/90s, I think, so it seems more likely your teacher taped it off of that/bought that DVD)

You guys are really brilliant! If anyone is still reading, please help. Movie from the '80s, a family lives in their house, nothing out of the ordinary happens, until one day they realize there's a strange green sticky substance getting into the house through the windows and the doors, it gets worse with every passing day, they cannot leave the house, they cannot do anything, the substance will crush them to death. At the end, it turns out, they're just dolls in a doll house a little boy/girl is playing with and he/she spilled chewing gum or something in it, and that was the green substance. This has been bugging me for years.

This thread is insane.

I have a doozy, if anyone can help me...

Its a British series, I saw it on BBC in the early 2000s. About four(I think) men, I think they are all supposed to be having midlife crises or something.

In one scene (pretty famous, older British actor) wakes up in the morning next to some naked leggy blonde 20 years his junior. She keeps talking about how her new Missy Elliot ringtone is "bitchin"

There's another hilarious scene where the younger black character, who's wife/girlfriend is very pregnant and about to pop, wakes up in the middle of the night and makes this face and rubs her stomach like its hurting. The guy starts freaking out about "the baby? Is it coming?" etc, etc but his gf just farts very loudly, turns the light off again and goes back to sleep.

Anyone?

Bex...U in Philly Area? mother Effing LABYRINTH just played at the Ritz this weekend.

I just IMDB'd Communion...

Communion is Alt US Title for when aired on TV (Kind of like how one time i watched 'Gleaming the Cube' on FOX, and they called it 'A Brother's Justice'). Alice Sweet Alice is the official title...that rings an even bigger bell.

No longer in Philly. I grew up there.

Labyrinth at the Ritz? Awesome! Coincidentally, I was watching it at my parent's place this weekend. I'm sure if they still lived in Philly, my sister and I totally would have dorked it up to see Bowie's grey leggings-wrapped package on the big screen.

Sammy and Allee! It's "Child of Glass"! I know this because it has bugged me my whole life, and everyone kept telling me I must be thinking of "Watcher in the Woods," (duh, obviously not), so this winter I finally had to join a Disney forum when google failed me. Those people are FREAKS, by the way--something wrong when you still idolize Mickey at the age of 40--but, one of them was able to supply me with the title "Child of Glass." I tried to buy it, but it was $300 on eBay. Maybe it's time to try again... Imdb link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077325/

Thanks so much Tara and Nickab!!! "Fortress" scared the crap out of me then and still pops in my head occasionally.

thanks "helcat"; even though the plot does sound similar, i'm pretty sure the movie was a little bit earlier than 1984--1982/3 at the very, very latest. thanks though, i love that someone tried to answer it for me!

I have been waiting for this thread most of my life! When I was really, really little I loved watching horror movies with my dad, mostly Freddy Kreuger but we branched out to Lifeforce and others occasionally.

When I was about 4 I saw a movie with a teenage boy whose toddler sister gets kidnapped, and he finds her in some sort of fantasy world lying on a stone table of sorts, like a Snow-White type coffin. It was a very green, misty, forest-y kind of area. I remember the villains were short and troll-like, and they were trying to get something from the boy in exchange for his sister. I loved the movie at the time but that's all I know.

This isn't about a movie but rather a syndicated tv show from the early nineties about twin brothers i think might have been aliens but felt what the other was feeling to comedic and raunchy effect. I remember watching this show on Saturday afternoons all the time because they were always chasing girls and it was about twins which i sadly am please help me on this slight movie diversion

Thanks, djo! I'ma hunt it down as soon as I can.

cj said: "...this winter I finally had to join a Disney forum when google failed me. Those people are FREAKS, by the way--something wrong when you still idolize Mickey at the age of 40."

Oh, like my science professor who is obsessed with Disney so much that he even showed us a "making of Epcot" video in class to make some point about environmental science and city planning? And who has posted blogs on his MySpace page about how he has crushes on various male students in his class?

*Shudder* Yeah. They're freaks.

Gaby...I think what you're referring to is an episode from Hammerhouse of Mystery and Suspense...Here's the link...

http://www.tv.com/hammer-house-of-mystery-and-suspense/childs-play/episode/149312/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;11

Tamatha and Lex, thank you for the clues! I'm not entirely sure "Amy" is the film I'm looking for, but it's a step in the right direction. Cheers!

Thanks for the help with my other two movies, here's two more, unfortunately both very vague.

1) Something about aliens/mini flying saucers that come to Earth and they end up in a diner and then there's something about being up on the rooftop... The main guy makes me think Rick Moranis, though I'm pretty sure that's not who it is. He had curly dark hair. And something about hiding in a kitchen.

2) Okay, I think this is a movie... All I can remember is a polar bear and a witch dressed all in dark colours, and the polar bear is dying, I think? And she's maybe gloating over it? I think there was a kid or two. I want to say one of the kids goes to the witch's ice castle and she gives him sweet stuff and puts a blanket over him and he starts to turn to ice, but that might also have been a story. Actually, it might've been one of the Narnia books. Um. Anyway, the movie-part had a polar bear and a witch.

'Cuno, the first movie you're thinking about might be "Batteries Not Included"

ShannonAnn - - THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

ueberbill : "Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II?"

Jen Diff: "H.G. Wells' Empire of the Ants?"

Two for you guys: Color. British. Late 70's? An older woman is stabbed in the belly with a knife. Her corpse is placed in a wheelchair with a blanket covering her wound as she is wheeled through a courtyard. I saw it on cable in the early 80's.

Technicolor. 60's pirate movie. Ends with the film's femme fatale screaming as she's left to the "mercy" of the ship's crew while the protagonist (captain?) walks away along the dock. I caught the last part of it around '87.

Both of these films disturbed me as a child. I still have issues with penetration thanks to that first one. That sounded so much dirtier than intended, but still...

wow. what a great idea. i have read most of what's above and all the ones i knew have already been answered.

here's my entry:

i saw this at my grandmother's house on broadcast television in the late '70s. it was in color, was live action, and was either american or british. it could've been made as early as the late '50s, all the way up to the mid '70s.

it concerned two young siblings, a boy and a girl, who get a chinese dragon kite, and when they fly it alone (away from adults), the kite turns into some sort of chinese clown (an actual actor in semi-elaborate chinese opera make-up/costume). he befriends them and i think in the end they lose the kite and never see him again.

the setting was urban.

i saw it once and have never forgotten it.

please help!

Deleted Space - I'm fairly sure the movie you're thinking of is "Love-Struck," which is actually about Cupid. Venus is played by Suzanne Somers. Hehe.

http://imdb.com/title/tt0119580/

I remember this one because at the time I thought Cupid was really hot and so I watched it several times. I had to look up the name, though.

thanks appwitch!!! that's totally it! now if only they'd release it on dvd...

Thanks Mary and Lex - I'll check it out!!

@Cuno your 2nd movie might be "The Snow Queen"?

Frank, I Wiki'ed Empire of the Ants but that's not it. The ants in the movie I'm thinking of were normal sized and they may have had nothing to do with the rest of the movie, other than that one scene where they crawled all over an unconscious/dead guy. I was just really young and very disturbed by them. But thanks!

Somewhere in the late eighties, early nineties, I was up late with my babysitter and happened to see a part of a movie in which some kind of vengeful scientist cuts a hole in his floor directly above a woman sleeping on the lower level, inserts a tube and dribbles honey on her face. Then he sends down a swarm of flesh eating flies, and when the woman is found she is dead and her face has been eaten off. I was unable to sleep for the following week, and made multiple trips every night into my parents room to search for holes on the ceiling and make sure her face was still there. Does anyone know what movie that was? I have a morbid desire to see it again.

Yes, lex, thanks! I think that's it!

Alexis - your first one is Enduring Love (it's a doctor who tries to help with the runaway balloon that dies in the beginning, not the kid or his grandpa). Good movie, you should definitely check it out. it's one of the reasons I was happy to see Craig as the new Bond.

Ooh, so glad I finally know a couple.

Catherine, your movie is "The Abominable Dr. Phibes" from 1971, and it is entirely creepy and twisted and weird. Vincent Price plays the murderer who is murdering all the doctors he feels are responsible for his wife's death...and all of the murders are as strange as the one you describe, one guy gets his skull crushed by a frog mask, and Phibes drains out all of another's blood. It's really sick.

Alexis, the Daniel Craig movie with the hot air balloon accident is Enduring Love from 2003 based on the Ian McEwan novel.

I've got a few:

1. Early '80s horror - I just saw the trailer when I was a kid, but it scared the bejeezus out of me. A family moves into a two story house, everything seems to be okay, but then the teenage son starts transforming into some kind of slimy creature (I remember an elongated face and possibly fingers) who I think starts attacking the family.

2. '50s/'60s fantasy - Saturday morning movie, Sinbad or Harryhausen style. The images I most remember are of a vivid blue rose that the hero obtained, and the hero wearing an invisibility cloak, and there might have been some kind of encounter/fight while he was invisible on a bridge. Those scenes might be from separate movies...

3. Late 80's early 90's teen movie. I think its Corey Haim, but in some speech he gives he's describing how he wants to go some tropical island where the girls will say "Hello Honey!" with a strong emphasis on the first accents of those words. The way he said that was a joke between a high school friend of mine and me for years, but I totally forgot the movie we got it from.

anthony, your second movie sounds like "The Thief of Bagdad" starring Steve Reeves

catherine, the movie is definately "The Abominable Dr. Phibes." The film is in color, and Vincent Price's face is barely seen on screen. For all I know, they just dubbed Price over a double for most of it. I don't recall his having much dialogue outside of a few scenes, which might explain the confusion.

Jen Diff, the problem is I've seen the same movie, but I can't remember it either. Thankfully, it hasn't exactly haunted me though, so I just spitballed what didn't stick.

ueberbill, I remember liking "Mary Lou" the last time I saw it, at a dollar show on initial release. I know it made the basic cable rounds, but I've never revisited it. I'm just a Buddy Holly fan, so the tune serves as a constant reminder of the flick.

THANK YOU Lex, I think I love you! Really, that bugged me for such a long time but I was so young that I couldn't remember it was a TV show. I'll get those DVDs as soon as I can.

Thanks for the diversion Pajiba!

The only thing I remember about the movie is that my mom was watching it and she didn't want me to. I saw it in the early 90s but that might have nothing to do with the release or production of it.

There is a boyish man on a tractor-mower and an expansive span of green green grass. There's also a big tree. But anyway, something on the boyish man gets caught on the mower or in the grass or something and there is someone running towards him but they aren't fast enough and the boyish man ends up getting run over by this lawn mower.

I hope someone knows this because I asked my mom and she certainly didn't...

Cizzie: The Snow Queen is definitely the story I'm thinking of, but I'm not sure if it's the movie. Damn, I wish it wasn't so vague. It was live-action and I must've watched it in the mid-90's. For some reason it also sort of makes me think of Ladyhawke, you know how they got changed into animals... Which makes me think of the story 'The Golden Bear', but that was a bear that came out of the fire, not a polar bear. I'll keep searching, thanks anyway.

Emily:

What you're describing about the witch and the book reminds me of an "Are You Afraid of the Dark" episode called "The Tale of the Bookish Babysitter". The kid always watches TV and the babsitter has a habit of making kids like to read because she makes the stories come alive. Anyway, the kid does something he isn't supposed to do and ends up in peril and somehow gets out. I know it doesn't fit the time frame, but it's all I've got since the only other ones I know have been answered...

Cheesy 80s or 90s fantasy sci-fi kids movie. The premise is that a teenage boy is babysitting his little sister and takes her to the video store. She wants to get the movie that she always gets but he picks out this different one. It may or may not have been purple? Anyway the little girl is told not to watch the movie too close but she does and it sucks her into the screen, which is controlled by some kind of satanic man. So the brother has to go rescue her through some kind of bizarre movie world. I have been wondering about this my whole life it seems!

emily--I think I remember that one! Was it "Stay Tuned" with Jeffrey Jones as the devil? I saw that one a couple of times as a kid.

Someone else just mentioned Dot and the Kangaroo. I think that's the movie I saw when I was 4 or 5, so it would have been 1985 or so, and I cried terribly. Didn't the kangaroo die? I was crying so hard that my mother came out and asked if the cat scratched me. I didn't know how to explain that I was weeping at something on the tv.

Frumpie Fox: is yours "Pet Cemetary"?

Cuno - your first movies was Batteries not Included - was a great movie!

Hey Kash, is your first movie The Man in the Moon? with a very young Reese Witherspoon? The guy's name was Court, and I believe he was reaching for his hat or some such, fell off the tractor and got run over by it. Not a pretty way to go. Reese's character was in love with him, but he was into her older sister, if I recall correctly. I this Court was played by one of those London twins.

(Doesn't anyone know my movie? It's really driving me crazy now! here's what i said before:
i used to watch this movie practically every week, but i can't remember much about it or the title. i rented it continuously during the mid 80s or so, so it must've been made right at the beginning of the decade. i believe there were two girls, and a weird/haunted house, and some kind of local condemned mine? and towards the end, they end up in the mine, and there's a big hole that someone/thing falls into? i seem to recall the cover of the VHS being a mostly dark line drawing of the house--very Victorian--and one of the girls. i think she was blonde.

seriously... someone has to know this movie. please?!)

ok..i think again this is an 80's/90's thriller/aliend type film i watched when i was young. i vaguely remember that all these seperate characters wake up one day and everyone else in the world seems to have disappeared. something has wiped humans off the planet - it turns out the survivors had all been using electrical items

Hey one I know, unfortunately not the title though.

It was part of an anthology TV series like amazing stories, or the twilight zone. These scientists had been working on some kind of energy that would be all through the air, so that e.g. an airplane could refuel in the air as it was flying. One day they switched it on and BANG, the only people who were still in existance were people who had been at the moment of death. The main guy was one of those scientists, I think he was attempting/committing suicide, then there was a girl who had electrocuted herself with her hairdryer and a guy who was being drowned. There was a scene where the man found a crashed plane with no passengers, but all the seat belts were closed (because everyone had just winked out of existance). However, because everyone just disappeared a baby would only have survived to die and be maggoty if it had been dying at the relevent moment (don't remember anything like that).

There was also a scene where the scientist guy was measuring the charge of an electron with the oil drop experiment and it was changing!

Well I'm afraid that's very long winded for not much extra information, but hopefully it'll help someone else give you the title.

I can't exactly remember the end, but of course because the guy was one of the scientists who caused the whole mess he knew they had to go back to the lab and switch off the experiment.

OK, here comes another one:

80's horror/thriller. A detective (?) is trying to save a young woman from a coven of witches. All I really remember is the last scene where he infiltrates the coven at night right before they sacrifice the girl, only to be tricked by the coven and captured and killed himself. It was the first movie I remember seeing where the bad guys won in the end, and I would love to be able to watch it again now that I am older.

Shane: Not "The Wicker Man," right?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quiet_Earth_%28film%29"

'The Quiet Earth is a 1985 New Zealand science fiction doomsday film directed by Geoff Murphy and starring Bruno Lawrence, Alison Routledge and Pete Smith as three survivors of a cataclysmic disaster. It was based on the 1981 science fiction novel of the same name by Craig Harrison.'

That's definitely the film I meant, not an amazing tale then. Thanks docsmartypants. I guess that's the answer for you Ruthie

Yup "Be Right Back"....I think that just might be the one!!! Now I just have to buy it!

ok..i think again this is an 80's/90's thriller/aliend type film i watched when i was young. i vaguely remember that all these seperate characters wake up one day and everyone else in the world seems to have disappeared. something has wiped humans off the planet - it turns out the survivors had all been using electrical items

That actually sounds a bit like The Langoliers, which is based on a Stephen King novel. It starred Patricia Wettig, Dean Stockwell, David Morse and Bronson Pinchot. It was a mini series from 1995. I believe it aired on ABC.

Here's a summary from IMDb: On a red eye flight to Boston from LA 10 people wake up to a shock. All the passengers and crew have vanished. When they try to contact the ground they make no connections. They land the plane only to discover that things haven't changed. But its like the world is dead. No one is there, the air is still, sound doesn't echo, the food is tasteless. And a distant sound is heard coming closer. A race of monstrous beings bent on their destruction is heading for them, eating everything in sight.

Ok this one has been driving me bonkers, I've looked it for a bunch of times online and haven't been able to come up with anything.

It's an old horror movie, probably late 70s but possibly early 80s; the french title (which im assuming was a translation) was "La maison sur la colline" (house on the hill; it's not house on haunted hill or the house by the cemetery).

All I really remember was that as some point, a mother reaches into the oven to get something out and the oven door slams on her hands, trapping inside the hot oven. I also remember that there is a little girl (i think she is blond) who has her eye popped by the drumstick of a little toy monkey who then begins to drum rapidly on his drums.

Help! Ive been obsessively trying to find this one, and so far, nuthin'!

@WhoWhatWhere This is probably well after you've stopped checking this thread, but your cat-based horror movie triggered something in me that compelled me to figure out what I was remembering.... and I finally figured it out: "The Uncanny," (1977) a campy campy "anthology" horror movie with three stories that all revolve around cats. The effects are pretty cheesy too ... could this be it?

And Ranylt: this is probably as wrong as Amityville was, but while I was searching the cat movie, I ran across other 70s horror movies, and two were about houses that were more possessed than haunted -- appliances running amok, etc. I haven't seen either, so I'm just throwing them out there: "Burnt Offerings" (1973) and "Dark Places" (also 1973).

Ranylt Yay! I looked at it and it sounds kind of great and garishly gross from the description. I mean, it has "Teddy Bear" and "Mutilation" as ID tags! Anyway, I'm glad I could help.

I figured you'd probably seen "Burnt Offerings," with Karen Black in it and all, but "Dark Places" looks worth checking out, all tweedy and brown the way that British films sometimes are. Plus, Joan Collins! The tiny clip on YouTube is a hoot, if only for the creepy kids methodically breaking their toys, then menacing (an actor who may be) Christopher Lee with their blondness.

One boring afternoon when I was young, remember randomly catching a film on the limited channels I had. I know it had some scary images and a kid in a wheelchair. He had glasses. This is all I know and I am still scratching my head. This is so vague but any scary film with a kid with glasses in a wheelchair? I just want to give this piece of crap film a title and push it out of my head. Help?
:(

Causaubon:

#2 is The Misfits starring a very young Courtney Cox. Which is not the reason I remember it. I remember it for reasons more pathetic than I care to share, but I'm sure this is the show you're looking for. I believe it's available on vhs at least, if not dvd.

#3 might be Explorers with Ethan Hawke and River Phoenix. They meet some aliens who have learned all about Earth by picking up our television signals beaming through space. It turns out that what they think are grown-up aliens are actually kid-aliens who've commandeered their parents' space ship for a joy-ride.

#4 is definitely one of my all-time favorite movies, Bugsy Malone with Scott Baio as Bugsy (he's a sinner, candy-coated) and Jodie Foster as Tallullah, a singer/gangster's maul at Fat Sam's Grand Slam Speakeasy. IMO, one of the best movie soundtracks ever. Paul Williams is a musical genius. I adore this movie.

Thanks, berightback. "The Burmuda Depths." Whoa. This diversion sure is a trip down memory lane. I always wondered if anyone remembered "Bugsy Malone" the way I did. I had the soundtrack and I remember it being really great. The Jodie Foster song, "My Name is Tallulah, I live till I die, something something but I don't ask why..." and the really sad one by the kid who sweeps the floors. And Tatum O'Neill? WHICH reminds me of a lost movie which played on cable in the early 80's. It was basically a "Lolita"-type story with Tatum O'Neil (circa "Little Darlings" and super-cute) and pre-death RICHARD BURTON. He was a crusty old painter-dude, and she was a poor-little-rich-girl, and I remember distinctly at one point she gets naked. I used to tease my ex-boyfriend with this movie (he still carried a torch for Tatum from his teen years) and he was really interested in finding it, but of course I couldn't remember the name. Anyone?

Im sorry if this question is vuage, But I am desprate to find the title of a film my boyfriend has been going on about for a while...He says...He watched it when he was younger, (hes now 21...) He says its about a young boy, who goes into a cave..and finds some slime (red I think he said it was)..he makes this slime into figures/creatures of some kind..and they end up coming to life...That is all the description i can give, I have done searches on the internet for hours and hours on end..I would love to purchase it as a suprise gift so pls help me find it!!
thanks

Liz - Thanks for that. Since I only remember the scene I'm not sure if it is the correct movie or not but I'm definitely going to check it out. Thanks!!

causaubon Is your #2 TV show "The Tomorrow People," which ran first as a mini-series and later as a regular series on Nickelodeon in the '90s?

I'm trying to find this movie I think I saw in the 80's. All I really remember is a blonde playing with these stuffed tooth dolls goes in to brush her teeth. She's putting gobs of toothpaste on her toothbrush when she is killed by a drill in her mouth.

genuflecked - your hippie doper killing innocent critters movie was bless the beasts and children. it was awful.

hey,
so i was wondering if someone could help me with the name of this movie. I saw it with my dad when i was 5 (1988) it was 2 girls go to a movie and the movie is about a guy who goes around killing girls for their eyes. one girl gets creeped out and goes to the restroom where she sees the guy from the movie killing the ticket lady and taking her eyes
i think his mother was telling him to do it
that is all i can remember and it has been frustrating not knowing the name of the movie!
forever gratefull
Brooke

Kids movie about babysitter that saves a boy by going into a world of trolls, witches, monsters etc. Had a special name. era 1990's. Babysitter read a book and I think the name of the book is the title of the film.
PLEASE HELP
MY CHILD JASMINE NEEDS TO WaTCH THIS MOVIE

"Black and white movie I saw on TV when I was a kid. A scary dude with wild black hair lured women to his basement and slowly plastered over their faces until they couldn't breathe.
Posted by: Kristin at August 13, 2007 8:29 PM"

I think that is Tourist Trap, starring Chuck Connors! I love it, I have it on dvd! hehe
If it's the same one, he also had a room full of mannekins and some psycho relatives, and it all happened in the middle of nowhere.
When will these suburban-type vacationers learn never to stop at weird roadside attractions to ask for directions?

Can someone name the film in which people are killed and fed to pigs.

The movie where the girl was brushing her teeth and the got killed was about a high school. It was in the spirit of the 80's Ramones movies, a comedy/horror spoof with cheerleaders.

I remember seeing it, too. However, I can't remember the title. If anyone remembers, now I'm going to wonder myself.

ok, so i remember this film from when i was around nine or ten.
the plot was something like a young boy is given an apple (possibly golden?) and he is transported to another world where he is a prince
and has to go on a quest to rescue all the children of the land who have been turned into crows by an evil king who has a stone heart.

the boy has a white horse and is given an invisibility cloak on the journey. i remember one scene where he and his friend, another small boy, get lost in some caves and they have to find each other and the way out by playing little pan pipe flutes.

i'm sure i'm not confusing lots of fairytales together and that this is in fact a film.
does anyone remember a title?

ITS DRIVING ME MAD!!!!
please send me an email wet_elf@hotmail.com
thanks

ok, so i remember this film from when i was around nine or ten.
the plot was something like a young boy is given an apple (possibly golden?) and he is transported to another world where he is a prince
and has to go on a quest to rescue all the children of the land who have been turned into crows by an evil king who has a stone heart.

the boy has a white horse and is given an invisibility cloak on the journey. i remember one scene where he and his friend, another small boy, get lost in some caves and they have to find each other and the way out by playing little pan pipe flutes.

i'm sure i'm not confusing lots of fairytales together and that this is in fact a film.
does anyone remember a title?

ITS DRIVING ME MAD!!!!
please send me an email wet_elf@hotmail.com
thanks

Erika, I'm almost 100% certain that it's "The Watcher in the Woods" you're describing. Camp family cult classic a la Disney, c. 1980.

i know this is tardy but...
@Ranylt: the movie you describe (WWII/checkers) sounds very much like a novel by Nevil Shute. I don't know if a film was ever made of the novel, but it was called "The Chequer Board." Mayeb you could check IMDB.
@superdeluxebabe: Your movie with a grandfather telling a story to young ones about a monster sounds like an episode of Tales from the Dark Side entitled "Seasons of Belief." The monster of the tale is the grither. The grither's name must not be mentioned aloud or it will be summoned and consequently kill the summoner. At the end of the episode it reaches its arms through the windows and.... :)

ok, i can't remember much of this one, but here's somethings i can... 80s movie, the main character is 10 - 12ish years old, so it's a kids movie, but i remember it being more like a thriller. the boy goes out to this lake/swap in a boat (for some reason). the water starts to bubble like a monster is going to errupt from the lake. he sees this happen a few times and proceeds to try to solve the mystery. the only line of the whole movie i remember, is when the boy is walking down a dock at night, and he passes and old man walking and the man says "ever dance with the devil in the pale moon light?" and it's really creepy. at the end of the film they find out it was some big piece of machinery at the bottom of the lake.
does this ring a bell for anyone??

thanks!

To answer "help!" the boy eats a golden apple I think and travels to THE LAND OF FAR AWAY. I think it has Christian Bale as a ten year old or so, but that's the movie.

Now help me...I have two movies.

I want to say they are both from the 80's? The first one has a boy (I thought Peter Billingsley from A Christmas Story, but no) in high school and I think it's aliens or something that look like people and they eat frogs and the end of the movie he finds their ship or base or what not and goes inside to stop them. That's all I remember.

The second may be from 70's...I barely remember it, but it's basically a group of seven or eight guys that run a deadly race. Kind of like Running Man in the sense that there are different ways to die...I remember a guy in a blue jumpsuit falling from a cliff? The main guy I want to say looks like MacGyver and towards the end, he is making it through an alley perhaps, with white buildings, and he looks up and sees what reminds me of an executioner in all black with an axe maybe? Maybe a red headband? I saw it as a kid and it must have been 20 years....I've tried to figure this one out FOREVER. I thought it was called The Bad Games or something like that.

Any help with these???

Looking for a movie made in the 80's possibly. Might be a Disney movie. A young boy is bullied as a kid, given or eats a golden apple which takes him to a land far away. There's something to do with a magical bowl and a unicorn. It's definately NOT Mio min Mio. It's close, but not the right movie. The movie I'm thinking of is also NOT animated.
Thank you for your help! Please email a.s.a.p., I have a bet going on this one!!! lol

i saw this movie on disney channel when i was kid that had this girl getting ready for her prom and she got into the car with her date then all of the sudden this song called susie q comes on and her bf drives off the bridge and they die. she comes back from the dead and talks to her black friend i cant remember the rest of the movie.

There was a bad late 80's / early 90's horror movie, that i saw. It might have been made for TV or not, i honestly dont know. I honestly dont know anythng about this movie excpet for one scene.

It involved a woman driving away from a house with a watermelon in the backseat. Then the watermelon like sprouts tenticals and wraps around the ladies neck and feet and kills her. But as they are driving they goe across a bridge and drive off it, and i think the car explodes.

That is honestly all i can remember and it has bugged me forever.

I'm looking for an old movie that I only saw part of a very long time ago. I remember one scene where it was raining and a mother was driving on a wet bridge with her twin daughters in the back seat when the car swearved. The one car door opened and one girl fell into the water. The mother goes in after the girl and ends up hitting her head on a rock and dying. A women on the shore, recuses the girl but can't reach the mother with a stick.
That's all I can remember. Please help. I've been looking for this movie a long time.
Raina

okay me and my brother have been racking our brains trying to come up with this movie. I was born in the 80s...and i remember this particular movie was on Betamax...so thats old... It was about these group of kids i believe they were going to do work on this old ladys house..this old lady had a daughter and both of them were crazy..the mother killed all of them..but it was like night of the livin deadish..one of them was cut in half by the window..one had a pole in his chest..one of the girls had scissors in her back..one person had a table saw in his head...even though they were dead..they were still walking aruond trying to kill their "friends".I saw this movie right around the time People Under The Stairs came to betamax..Please help me if anyone remembers what i'm talking about.

Ok, a movie I saw in the 80's 2 kids, brother and sister, they were somewhat abused, left in a cold room, with the windows open, so they would get sick. Anyway, the house catches on fire, and they die. It is basically a little ghost story for kids. Someone PLEASE help/ thanks

Princessxoxoxo the movie is called Susie Q, really cute movie with Amy Jo Johnson. You can find it on IMDB:)

Last resort! Don't know if anyone still checks this diversion out, but I remembered a movie I saw a few years ago and I can't find out what it was, who it was done by...

The movie was probably no older than 98-99, most likely being made within 2000-2004. It's about a young girl who is targeted by assassins or some such bad people - that, or the assassin is targeted by bad people, the girl is trying to escape somewhere (Latin America? Eh?) to her dad or uncle or something.
Anyway, the assassin (or whomever) takes care of the girl and helps her to wherever they go. I remember some scene with an old dude being consulted by the main character about the girl, in some underground place with a trailer where she sleeps before they leave.
At the end, a big building blows up.
I remember one scene where the girl first encounters the assassin - she stows herself away in his car, I think.
No, no, it is not Leon. It may not have been in English, but I can't say for sure. If anyone knows, arg. Please help. The title may or may not have also been the young girl's name.
I think there's a church at some point, too. And the assassin may or may not have sex with a woman in the church, and the woman may or may not get shot later on and die.

I've been trying to remember the title of an animated film I'd seen as a child on disney channel in the early 90's.

It's a rather old trippy looking cartoon style I'm thinking perhaps made in the 60's or 70's (could be wrong) and has a young male musician as the hero whom has to thwart an evil troll looking king who is covered in brambles or thorns and is outright evil. If I'm not mistaken he also has to save a princess or maiden from the king's clutches but ends up lost in a forest and falling into an underground cave where mushroom creatures start singing and telling him he's going to turn into a mushroom. He eventually gets out and goes to the castle of the evil king only to be tied down to a horrible torturous machine with nasty metal parts which will kill him. I'm not entirely sure but I think he starts singing and this causes the machine to bust enabling him to get free and eventually rejoins the princess/maiden to defeat the king whom when defeated turns into a flower as opposed to his previous thorny appearance.

It's not the thorn king either, I'm pretty sure but seems to be very rare and/or obscure though if anyone can help me figure out the name of this film I would appreciate it very much since it's been nagging at me for years.

Also feel free to email me with the answer at Demonvenom@excite.com. :)

I can only remember this one scene:

Young friends go to bed and when they dream, they meet up flying in the air with the clouds.

Ideas?

I also need to know what movie had a boy walk in on an adult that turned around an was eating a frog. (sci-fi)

This is either a movie or a made for TV movie I remember from the 80's...although I think the movie was from the 70's. It's about a boy who has some sort of disability, I recall his face having some deformity. He was kinda like the "Tatoo" character from Fantasy Island, from memory. There's a woman who's like a caregiver or perhaps a teacher, and they develop a bond.

I just remember a sad scene from the film's end where somehow the lil guy is going to die, apparently some group deems it so. At the last second, the woman runs up to the little dude and they both get vaporized, somehow.

This is the ONLY movie in my memory that I can't shake!...if somebody can help out, thanks!

Library Lady, your movie is "Warriors of Virtue" from 1997.

Jeremy, your second movie is the remake of "Invaders from Mars".

Arkane, I *think* your movie is "Magic Trolls and the Troll Warriors". Optionally, it could be "The Princess and the Goblin".

Causaubon, if your still reading this thread your answer to #1 is probably The Wizard with David Rappaport

Help! This has been bugging me, It is a movie about three young boys who found a girl on the road and helped her, only to end up sexually assaulting her. Thinking they killed her they threw her body out in the woods.Only she doesent die. Years later ( I cant remember much here) One of the boys ends up in prision, and he becomes obsessed with a drawing of christ. When he gets out he starts a cult up. I cant remeber what the other two guys end up doing, but they all meet up again. The girl is out for revenge.....It was a book made into a movie, and for the life of me I cant remember the name. I want to say something brothers?? hopefully someone else out there knows what Im talking about . Thanks

I saw a clip of this movie and would like to see it. Appears to be 70's-early 80's British. Two young boys in short-panted school uniforms are attacked by cookies and other snacks.

Ok, I'm trying to remember this movie I saw when I was a child. For some reason I have been thinking about it lately. It was a children's movie, and may have been British-made, and it was half cartoon and half live action. I'm pretty sure it took place in a relatively contemporary setting. Ok, so all I remember from the plot was there was this young princess who was in trouble, and this boy gets drawn into helping her. And it involves going underwater (at which point it becomes a cartoon so he can breathe, etc.) because she is some sort of water princess. Any leads anyone has would be great! Thanks!

This movie was Australian, I think, the plot involved a bunch of armed men in masks. I remember one of the masks being that of Santa Claus, but in the movie he was called Father Christmas. I think another one was a duck or cat. Well these masked men kidnapped a bunch of kids and there teacher from their schoo. The kidnappers through the kids and teacher in a cave. The hostages get away and end up killing the bad guys with a pit of stakes or something...HELP!

drewp--I believe the movie is "Fortress" starring Rachel Ward as the teacher. According to imdb, it was released in 1986. Good movie.

There is this movie that I remember watching as a kid. It is about a boy who gets in an argument(I think) with his parents and goes around the world looking for the right family. He stays with a cowboy family and an eskimo family. When he was with the eskimo family I remember the grandpa was old and he sat on a glacier with a lawn chair and floated away, everyone saying bye. With the cowboy family they were having dinner and singing and they picked him up in a big limo with horns on the front. If anyone knows the name that would be awesome. thanks =]

By the way, the movie I'm trying to think of that was about the boy and the water princess was made sometime before approximately 1984 since that's when I saw it. Thanks.

There is this movie that I remember seeing 2 or 3 times when I was a kid in the sixties. There was a prince and princess in an Arabian Nights type setting. The princess is poisoned OR put under a spell and falls asleep. She cannot be awakened. The prince goes on a journey to find a flower (I think black or white rose). This flower will save the princess. The prince goes through many lands. One land has man-creatures with hokey football-heads and a deep ravine that can only be crossed on an invisible bridge. It is in black and white. I know it is probably not a very good movie but I loved it as a kid. Nobody I know seems to remember the movie. Was I dreaming? Must be 40s or 50s. Can somebody help?

Anyone remember a movie where a guy has to pour washing up liquid/ detergent into a slice in his throat? 80's, Might be Australian or New Zealand.

Natasha, your second movie is "They" from 1993.

Jo, your movie is "The Quiet Earth" from 1985.

Kids movie about babysitter that saves a boy by going into a world of trolls, witches, monsters etc.

80s (teen) comedy: Bar by the pool. This dude wants to make some crazy cocktail so he puts frog in a blender and grinds her. Another dude drank that stuff, I think...

Mr. and/or Ms. Kalisha, your movie is "Labyrinth".

okay I NEED help figuring out this movie from the disney channel in like the 90s where a man with white long hair walks on stairs that are on the ceiling (like a maze) .. there's bubbles flying around and the man wears a bird mask and there's a girl trying to find her brother or something?

none of its in that order but if someone could help that'd be AMAZING!

Ms. Brittany, your movie is "Labyrinth".

Okay, my fiance and I have been scouring the net for this all night. It's driving us crazy! I'm pretty sure it's from the 80s, and all we can remember (although we're not even sure about this either) is either a guy (or girl) taking a shower (or bath) when something either comes up outta the drain or he/she sees an eyeball looking back at her from the drain. I insist he/she gets sucked down the drain, but my fiance says no. We both agree that there were monsters in his/her basement though. And it's not C.H.U.D. We checked that out already. Any ideas?!?!

this movie came out around 1986-1988 its about a teen boy who's parent died in a car accident he lives alone and at night he playes a computer game and is hypnotize and kills people

Rodney, I think your movie is 'Brain Scan' with Edward Furlong..

This has haunted me for a very long time. I barely remember any of it but what I do remember is so vivid in my mind that it's like I watched it yesterday even though some of the details are fuzzy.



This is an animated fantasy(D&D) type movie. There were three different races involved one of which was human. The other two I believe were dwarf and goblin(orc).



In the part I remember there was a human army marching along what seemed like a mountain pass, from another direction along another pas came the dwarves(I believe they were dwarves) and when they met they began to argue. The argument almost erupted into fighting when from somewhere else(this part a bit fuzzy) came a third much larger army. The third army consisted of goblins(orcs or something along these lines) and was the enemy of both human and dwarves. At this point the humans and dwarves put aside their differences, joined forces and foughtthe goblins(orcs).



End of memory. I saw this back probably between 75 and 82 on TV but could have been made earlier though it was in color.



Any help would be greatly appreciated.

never saw an answer to this message from Cris (august 13, 2007)-I saw the same film and have been looking for the title forever...I thought the girl might have been Tuesday Weld (or someone like her).

Probably 50s, early 60s, black-and-white. Setting: NYC or other city. Young woman walking home at night gets pulled into some bushes/park and raped. She goes home and cuts up the dress she was wearing and flushes the pieces down the toilet. Somehow she ends up being held prisoner in some blue-collar guy's very depressing basement apartment, where she stays pretty catatonic until he gets through to her. It ends with her parents coming to visit her and I believe they get married.

I saw this as a little kid on tv in the 60s and it's been haunting me ever since. Anybody???

Ok, I know this is vague, but this is killing me trying to find this movie.
I remember seeing it in the video rental store in the late 80s/early 90s. All I remember about it was that the cover of the movie had some guy's face with a tentacle coming out of it, and when I watched part of the movie, this tentacle was the first part of some really big transformation.
Eventually, the character on the box turns into some devouring slug, and manages to persuade the main character to let this tentacle thing come out, which for the person having the tentacle come out was something of a euphoric drug.
The whole movie had a Videodrome feel to it, though that definitely isn't the movie I'm thinking of.



If anyone remembers anything like this, please let me know. Thanks!

I'm trying to find the title of a film its an English film set in the early to mid 20th century its about a football team that always lose the film starts off with the team losing a game 8-0 and a supporter goes home and says to his wife 8-0. 8 bloody 0 and then starts smashing the house up i cant remember much about it except i recall an argument when the team is training about a pair of shorts . its an old film i remember all the cobbled streets . any help would be appreciated

I have the same problem as someone else, so I'm reposting her ad because it's the only scene I remember well anyway. So if the person comes back then hopefully she'll have answer also.
'Okay I have another one. Probably early 90s.
From what I remember a teenager girl's dad starts dating a new woman after her mother has died and the new woman is a witch of sorts. I just remember one scene where the dad and the new lady are getting it on and the scene is intercut with shots of the daughter looking all sorts of scared and she starts her period I think. And another scene where her friend gets her necklace caught in an escalator and is choked.
I don't remember anything else, but I think of the escalator scene randomly when I'm in malls.'
I was about eight when I saw it and my dad rented it. I always used to think it was called Eternal or something I'm not sure. The front cover depicts a woman sprawled out .. well she's looks like in a sacrificial position. It's not the one with Christopher Walken either, as the movie we're both talking about must have come out between 1991-1994. Oh and I'm pretty sure the woman dies at the end .. well the witch.

I just spent 1 hour reading posts from august...wow this is a great site.. and I have to say that people mistook Clash of the Titans for Beastmaster....but thanks for When a stranger calls back.. that movie has been killing me for years

I have a film from the 80s. May be Australian film. I remember one scene where a guy is in a police station jail cell in a town. Two women go behind the jail and one starts dancing topless on an oil drum while the other is laughing. Then they break him out.

Larry,

Your movie is My World Dies Screaming (1958) aka Terror In The Haunted House. It was written by Robert C. Dennis - the man who wrote for shows such as The Outer Limits, Charlie's Angels, Dragnet, Batman...the list goes on.

ok i need help tryin to remember the name of this movie it is from like the 1990's it is a childrens movie and it has an old lady who acts really crazy and has a talking tree in her living room and also has a prize winning pig that is really fat and has a blue ribbon on his neck.

doug,
your animated adventure sounds like the rank and bass cartoons of the hobbit or the lor of the rings series from the mid-late 70's. sounds like the hobbit to me, near the end, with the battle of five armies.

Schadenfreude:
I haven't seen this answer for you, but it's SCARFACE with Al Pacino. Great Classic!

I have one,
80's- kids get kidnapped and the kidnapper makes them grow their hair long and then makes paintbrushes out of it..anybody?

Lisa,

I'm pretty sure The Peanut Butter Solution is what you're looking for. :-)

Hope someone can help me with this movie... I remember in the 70's seeing this movie about a turtle. it was small but every other day she would show up on the beachand grew every time. it also at one point was able to turn into a girl and fell in love with this guy. the ending is so clearly in my head, he was in a boat and there was a rope around his leg and she pull it and drag him under water so he could be with her... if anyone could help me find the title of this movie would really appreciated...it's been bugging me for years now..
Please help

Tim,

I know I'm probably wayyyy off here, but your movie vaguely sounds like Dragonheart, in which there was actually a video game based on the movie called Dragonheart: Fire & Steel.

Mr. Tim, your movie might be "Flesh+Blood" from 1985, starring Rutger Hauer and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and directed by the notorious Paul Verhoeven.

thanks alot...it does sound like the right one...will look it up thanks

slye,

Yippee! I got one! And you're most welcome. :-)

anyone know a 90's (maybe 80's) thriller where there's a woman in an apartment and a man builds walls inside the original walls and can walk around watching her. creepy idea but i think it wasn't a very good movie.

Hello everyone.

My mom asked me to find a movie she really liked but she hardly remembers any of it. the only parts she rememebrs is that the movie is etiehr french or italian (or neither of htose, who knows) it's old (like, the 80's?) and it's several different stories. the movie begins with a newlywed couple driving in a red convertible, and it crashes. while the guy stays with the car someone gives her a ride somewhere and she has an affair or whatever. please help, i hope you can.

WHAT A GREAT CONVERSATION!

I figured out a few movies, but someone else has beaten me to every one. So here is mine:

Most likely made for TV (after-school special type movie), 80's or 90's, about the dangers of drugs. Nice girl and her best friend get into the drug scene. Nice girl gets sent to rehab, best friend dies of drug overdose. Nice girl cleans up and I think becomes valedictorian in less than a year (she's already a senior)?

Nice girl has straight medium length reddish-brown hair I think and best friend has medium-long curly black hair.

I remember thinking that they did a really good job at showing how messed up you can get using meth or cocaine or whatever they were doing. I specifically remember a scene where Nice girl is walking down the hall at school just looking tore up!

Oh, yeah, and Sarah McLachlan's "I Will Remember You" plays at the ending scene or the credits, can't remember which. It was the first time I heard the song, and I think it made me cry - I'm such a wuss!

Any help would be greatly appreciated...