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An Afternoon Comment Diversion / Ranylt Richildis

Comment Diversions | August 13, 2007 | Comments (620)


Years ago, at the tender age of seven or eight, I sat in my grandmother’s den watching an old movie. I can’t remember anything about it but for one scene, one exchange of lines that has never left my brain: a man and a woman seem to be in some kind of straits, and when she says something along the lines of, “I never learned to laugh but I know how to cry,” he responds with “I never learned how to cry, but I know how to laugh.” Close-up diffusion lens on the dark-haired woman with one diamond tear sparkling on her cheek.

Odds are the film was made in the 40s or 50s, and odds are even better that it isn’t very good, but damn if that silly-smeary scene hasn’t been nagging about my brain all this time. Thanks to IMDb, knowing the name of even one actor usually solves these types of mysteries, but we don’t often have even that much to grasp onto. I would love to identify that film and put it to rest (the Googling does nothing).

Today’s Diversion springs out of this desire. Post details about your own mystery movies below (era, color/B&W, genre, scene or plot description, etc), and see if another reader can’t help you out by naming that movie. With luck, it’ll 187 that nagging bee in your head, and give other readers a chance to be know-it-all movie-trivia cubicle-wizards, live and in public (I am expecting great things from Manny).

Two more to get the ball rolling:

1. A 70s or early 80s horror film (it aired on TV in 1984) that features killer household appliances: an oven that blisters a housewife’s arm, and an electric carving knife that makes a hash of a Sunday family dinner. [UPDATE: Thousand thanks to be right back who helped me solve this one: a 1983 French film “Demon dans l’ile” (The Demon of the Island).]

2. A Dracula film, no question, but which one of the dozens out there? Possibly a hey-day Hammer, possibly a 1970s revival. A Van Helsing type encounters his undead daughter in a sewer-like zone. She opens her mouth and growls out paaapaaa, and her torn nightgown is rotting, and Papa’s crucifix goes flying and sinks under the liquid scum (it was at this point that my brother and I ran straight into Mommy’s arms—we were consoled with murmurs and gingerale). [UPDATE: David knew this one to be John Badham’s 1979 “Dracula” with Laurence Olivier and Frank Langella, which I have since re-watched and loved (psychedelic vampire lovemaking scene? Yes please!). That daughter-ghoul is still creepy after all these years. You, sir, are one of the truly rocking.]


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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?

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at August 13, 2007 2:39 PM

Beastmaster??? Or were their eyes covered with scales? Hmph...

Posted by: lola at August 13, 2007 2:45 PM

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

Posted by: Lex at August 13, 2007 2:46 PM

dustin, i remember that one! sorry though, that's all i have. those witches freaked me out.
anyway -
early 80's - a guy is driving down the highway with his arm hanging out of the window when a truck passes too closely and takes his hand. then the hand follows him around. and maybe does bad things? did i make this up?

Posted by: kb at August 13, 2007 2:47 PM

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.

Posted by: libraryliz at August 13, 2007 2:49 PM

Dustin: Is it Beastmaster (1982)? I haven't seen it in a while, so I may be wrong, but it sounds familiar. That's the one that also has the yucky creatures with leathery wing-ish things that engulf their prey and transform it into bones? Or was this all a dream I had? The IMDB also mentions witches, which rings true.

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 2:49 PM

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?

Posted by: Mary Ann at August 13, 2007 2:49 PM

It may be The Beastmaster. The ferrets do certainly ring a bell. And I certainly remember the bones. I so have to see this again.

kb -- That was definitely The Hand, one of Oliver Stone's first works.

Posted by: Dustin at August 13, 2007 2:50 PM

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

Posted by: Courtney at August 13, 2007 2:51 PM

libraryliz -- I think the movie you're looking for is Army of Darkness, which is one of the most awesomely cheese-tastic movies ever made.

Posted by: Kathleen at August 13, 2007 2:52 PM

libraryliz: Army of Darkness?

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 2:52 PM

Kb, it might be The Hand, starring Michael Caine. I think it was directed by Oliver Stone. He loses his hand in a car accident, and it follows him around murdering people. Does that sound right?

Posted by: Erin at August 13, 2007 2:53 PM

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

Posted by: Greg P. at August 13, 2007 2:53 PM

libraryliz: That's (the masterpiece) Army of Darkness. Pure brilliance.

Posted by: Sean at August 13, 2007 2:54 PM

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.

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2007 2:54 PM

this one has been bugging me for YEARRRRSSSS

80's movie, or earlier i believe. typical epic following a typical strong hero (i believe).

only defining thing that always brings it to mind is the hero had a 4 pointed boomerang/cross. i remmeber he could summon it back and at one point it gets stuck in [the evil creature]'s hide and he's struggling to get it back to him. i was really young. this could have all been a dream, just forwarning...

Posted by: MAx at August 13, 2007 2:55 PM

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.

Posted by: Brian at August 13, 2007 2:55 PM

#2 is Dracula, starring Frank Langella and Sir Laurence Olivier, directed by John Badham. The undead daughter is Mina Van Helsing (the screenwriter took some...ahem...liberties).

I've been trying to track down the name of a Doctor Who episode (to buy it if it's available). The Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companion find themselves on a space station where something (some sort of green slime) is killing the astronauts. Eventually they track it down and shoot at it, but it manages to escape. The last scene of Part Three of the storyline has them come face to face with one of the astronauts (their leader?) who has been partially eaten/assimilated by the slime creature.

Can anyone help me here?

Posted by: David at August 13, 2007 2:57 PM

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.

Posted by: Alabamapink at August 13, 2007 2:57 PM

MAx that movie is Krull. It was a pretty good fantasy/sci fi movie.

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2007 2:57 PM

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.

Posted by: Marcus at August 13, 2007 2:57 PM

Mary Ann, the movie you're talking about is The Trouble With Angels. Haley Mills plays the red head. I used to love that movie!

Posted by: Heather at August 13, 2007 2:58 PM

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!

Posted by: boo at August 13, 2007 2:58 PM

libraryliz - Can there really be a Pajiban who doesn't know the Evil Dead movies by heart? Check out the whole trilogy...it really is just as cheese-tastic as you think!

Posted by: Courtney at August 13, 2007 2:58 PM

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.

Posted by: katy at August 13, 2007 2:59 PM

Ranylt: the scenes from your "revenge of the appliances" movie sound an awful lot like scenes from of the 1979 version of The Amityville Horror movie. Or is that too obvious? (the evil oven ends up claiming the family parakeet, too, right?)

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 3:00 PM

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!

Posted by: Christina at August 13, 2007 3:01 PM

Late 40s, Early 50's movie.
A Gangster's moll seeks refuge with a group of men writing an encyclopedia...she pretends to fall in love with the youngest man and over the course of the film has to decide either to return to her seedy past or get married. At one point she answers the phone with "What's buzzin, cousin?"
Title maybe has the word rose or fire in it?
I used the line of dialouge in something and am looking for the source!

Posted by: Annie at August 13, 2007 3:02 PM

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

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

Posted by: Mary Ann at August 13, 2007 3:02 PM

Here's mine. I saw this as a Saturday afternoon movie sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. It focused on a young (12ish?) kid, when an Alien invasion comes. The aliens were short, roundish, and I think they had lasers on their shoulder but I may be making that part up. He's running around with his English teacher or some sort of female teacher through most of the movie.

The main thing that had this movie stick out to me was at the end he woke up, just to see the Alien Spaceship landing, so it was a dream, but then it was about to happen for real. That scarred me as a child, I think that was the first movie I saw without a nicely packaged happy ending.

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2007 3:03 PM

#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.

Posted by: Jenn at August 13, 2007 3:07 PM

Katy -
I didn't see the movie, but the idea of eating being unacceptable, but going to the bathroom is okay is based on a story by Robert Heinlein. Sorry I can't give more details!

Posted by: NewPapa at August 13, 2007 3:07 PM

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...

Posted by: jacque at August 13, 2007 3:07 PM

guys this is actually REALLY important to me. if anyone can tell me what these movies are ill be forever GREATFUl

ok

so first movie: roughly translated the title is : the Cherry Garden 9although i doubt thats the name of the movie). its based on a book, and its the story of 2 brothers who die and go into a magical world where they have to fight this dragon. the older brother dies while saving the younger one who is weelchair ridden.

the original book is a german book.

younger brother gets message from a dove that older brother wants him. younger brother kills himself. he then enters the heaven/hell where there is war between the two worlds and a dragon is the main weapon of the opposing side. in the end of the movie older brother dies again.

2. involves a baby unicorn. this is not the "last unicorn" but rather the story of a unicorn looking for his parents / smthng.

Posted by: sara at August 13, 2007 3:07 PM

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?

Posted by: Sean at August 13, 2007 3:07 PM

David THANK YOU--the moment you said Olivier, I saw his face clearly.

be right back Definitely not Amityville...

Christina That one sounds like Mario Bava's Hatchet for the Honeymoon, to me, with Stephen Forsyth in awesome Archie-Comics 70s man-clothes. (Love it, own it.)

Posted by: Ranylt at August 13, 2007 3:08 PM

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

Posted by: Erin at August 13, 2007 3:09 PM

the hand! yes! thank you pajibans! and how deliciously obvious!
i'm thinking really that dustin's movie is beastmaster and considering how many times i watched that movie as a child, it's really bad that i couldn't place it. now i want to find it and watch it tonight. i loved that movie. i cried when the ferret fell into the fire.
oh my and Krull! and Maximum Overdrive! god i love you people!

Posted by: kb at August 13, 2007 3:09 PM

thanks patrick!! another one for the queue..

Posted by: MAx at August 13, 2007 3:10 PM

#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.

Posted by: Jenn at August 13, 2007 3:10 PM

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.

Posted by: boo at August 13, 2007 3:11 PM

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

Posted by: Erin at August 13, 2007 3:11 PM

I have no idea what is going on.

Posted by: David at August 13, 2007 3:11 PM

Annie - You're thinking of "A Song is Born" with Danny Kaye. The moll takes refuge with a group of reclusive professors in order to hide from the cops, but ends up leaving her gangster boyfriend for Danny Kaye's absentminded nerd. Here's the imdb link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040820/

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 3:11 PM

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

Posted by: Erin at August 13, 2007 3:12 PM

Annie - You're thinking of "A Song is Born" with Danny Kaye. The moll takes refuge with a group of reclusive professors in order to hide from the cops, but ends up leaving her gangster boyfriend for Danny Kaye's absentminded nerd. Here's the imdb link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040820/

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 3:12 PM

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.

Posted by: Julie at August 13, 2007 3:13 PM

PERFECT topic! Another horror movie here:

There's some kind of alien that takes over people's bodies and uses its new host to murder people (I have absolutely no idea what the motivation behind this was). It enters people's bodies by opening its (host's) mouth and these snakes (or tentacles? I don't remember) come out of the mouth & enters the new host's body. Once it does this, the old host dies.

However, there seems to be a good alien that is trying to stop the tentacle-y alien, and in the end it opens its mouth & you expect tentacles to come out of its mouth, but instead a soft light enters the new host's body (the new host has just died in the hospital - I think it was a human guy helping the good alien?).

I think it's a movie from the late 80s, maybe early 90s. My uncle seems to think that it's a Canadian film, but he doesn't know the name of it either.

Posted by: a at August 13, 2007 3:14 PM

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.

Posted by: libraryliz at August 13, 2007 3:15 PM

Erin! My HERO!!

Posted by: boo at August 13, 2007 3:18 PM

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.

Posted by: Rebecca D at August 13, 2007 3:18 PM

I saw a movie about a bus that had to SPEED around a city, keeping its SPEED over fifty, and if its SPEED dropped, it would explode! I think it was called, 'The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down'.

Posted by: Johnny at August 13, 2007 3:18 PM

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.

Posted by: Brian at August 13, 2007 3:19 PM

If no Pajibans know the answer to your mystery movie, I recommend visiting the imdb "I Need to Know" message boards. You can find it here: http://imdb.com/board/bd0000001/threads/

Those people are amazing at figuring out what movies are based on limited clues, and you will probably find what you are looking for there. You need an imdb account to post, but it would be worth it if you are desperate to know the movie.

Posted by: mae at August 13, 2007 3:21 PM

Johnny: Heeeeeee.

Posted by: Julie at August 13, 2007 3:21 PM

Hey Annie - the movie you're looking for (one of my favorites!) is Ball of Fire. Barbara Stanwyck is pretty awesome in it.

Posted by: Donna at August 13, 2007 3:22 PM

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.

Posted by: Lauren at August 13, 2007 3:23 PM

correction - available on DVD here as well (Amazon, Netflix, etc...)

Posted by: Brian at August 13, 2007 3:23 PM

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

Posted by: Annie at August 13, 2007 3:24 PM

Posted by: Annie Balls of Fire with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck , remade into A Song Is Born with Danny Kaye and Virgina Mayo !

Posted by: Meander at August 13, 2007 3:24 PM

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.

Posted by: Schadenfreude at August 13, 2007 3:25 PM

I remember seeing this one when I was little (late 80's) and swear it was on the Disney Channel.

A family moves into a haunted farm house. The little girl finds a well on the land and in it there's a doll sitting on a ledge. The doll is supposedly the doll that belonged to the little girl that used to live on the farm and died in the well. The doll begins talking to the new little girl and keeps trying to get her to come down the well. The doll is wearing a blue floral dress and white apron and has black hair and red lips.

I always thought I dreamed this movie but my brother brought it up the other day and it's been looming above our heads ever since.

Posted by: Sammy at August 13, 2007 3:26 PM

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.

Posted by: missmle at August 13, 2007 3:26 PM

You guys are right.....Ball of Fire=Stong is Born. I was looking at the imdb photos and wondering why the heroine was blonde...

Posted by: Annie at August 13, 2007 3:27 PM

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.

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 3:28 PM

Schadenfreude - you're thinking of Rocky II.

Posted by: Johnny at August 13, 2007 3:29 PM

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

Posted by: Taliesin at August 13, 2007 3:29 PM

The movie with the kid and grandfather screaming out the window COULD be "Something Wicked This Way Comes".

Posted by: Melina at August 13, 2007 3:30 PM

...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.

Posted by: Cody at August 13, 2007 3:30 PM

Julie, I think you may be thinking of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Not Wilford Brimley, but definitely featured lightning and a screaming Grandpa (played by Jason Robards).

Posted by: Mary at August 13, 2007 3:31 PM

To "a":

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

Posted by: kushiro at August 13, 2007 3:32 PM

I think a's movie might be Brother from Another Planet, directed by John Sayles.

Posted by: Esme at August 13, 2007 3:33 PM

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

Posted by: thatchick at August 13, 2007 3:33 PM

This is one of the best threads I've seen in a long time here. Long live Dracula's Dogs.

Posted by: Fairmaiden327 at August 13, 2007 3:33 PM

Oh, yeah:

Schadenfreude - you're thinking of Rocky II.

HA!

Posted by: Cody at August 13, 2007 3:34 PM

sara - did the baby unicorn maybe have pink hair? and it spent some time in a cave-like place with a gray goblin-thing, then somehow it ended up at this house with an old woman and it turned her little black cat into a girl? I have no idea what it's called but I think I watched it several times when I was younger. Very wierd, anime type cartoon, but I totally loved it.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 13, 2007 3:34 PM

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"?

Posted by: Shaz at August 13, 2007 3:35 PM

Cody: I know it wasn't really a remake, but I almost prefer to think of it that way. It's a pretty big lapse of judgment to take your girlfriend to the same cabin all of your friends from college were brutally murdered in. I love the movies also, I just can't see Evil Dead II as a direct sequel to Evil Dead I, I like to think Ash is better than that.

(And to Erin, that was definitely the movie! Thanks!)

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2007 3:35 PM

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.

Posted by: superdeluxebabe at August 13, 2007 3:35 PM

If no Pajibans know the answer to your mystery movie, I recommend visiting the imdb "I Need to Know" message boards. You can find it by going to the imdb boards (http://imdb.com/boards/) and clicking on the first link under Trivia, "I Need to Know."

Those people are amazing at figuring out what movies are based on limited clues, and you will probably find what you are looking for there. You need an imdb account to post, but it would be worth it if you are desperate to know the movie.

Posted by: mae at August 13, 2007 3:36 PM

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.

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 3:36 PM

missmle: I've been less than stellar in the "name that movie" sweepstakes, but that sounds like a slightly garbled memory of the Busby Berkeley classic "Gold Diggers of 1933." Do you remember a pig latin version of "We're in the Money" being involved?

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 3:36 PM

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?????!!!!!

Posted by: Ralph at August 13, 2007 3:38 PM

EEEEE!! Melina and Mary, that's totally the movie, thank you! I've been wondering about that film for years.

Posted by: Julie at August 13, 2007 3:38 PM

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.

Posted by: Kevin at August 13, 2007 3:38 PM

This movie must come from the early 50's - all I remember about it is a little Mexican boy asking this horse "Horse, are you dead?" - absolutely mortified me - cried for days.

Posted by: julia at August 13, 2007 3:38 PM

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.

Posted by: thatchick at August 13, 2007 3:39 PM

David, I think your Doctor Who episode is "The Ark in Space".

Posted by: Shaz at August 13, 2007 3:40 PM

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.

Posted by: Charlie at August 13, 2007 3:41 PM

ooo - also on the weird anime I saw as a child front - there was this one involving a boy robot and at some point his arms got ripped off (I was HORRIFIED) and somebody replaced them with really powerful robot arms. He was all angsty about the whole robot thing fro what I remember.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 13, 2007 3:44 PM

Charlie:

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

Posted by: kushiro at August 13, 2007 3:45 PM

Okay, I am starting to get lost in all the comments-between all the mystery movies and the answers. Maybe tomorrow someone (that someone NOT being me) should compile all the unanswered mysteries into a single article for people to peruse and post answers.

Especially that one with mob and the dead horse head in a guy's a bed. Man, that one's a real brain buster!

Posted by: Alabamapink at August 13, 2007 3:45 PM

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?

Posted by: sara at August 13, 2007 3:47 PM

Alabamapink, you're thinking of ROME ADVENTURE with Suzanne Pleshette and Troy Donahue. It also features Angie Dickinson. The romance of the movie worked so well that Pleshette and Donahue briefly married.

BALL OF FIRE kicks A SONG IS BORN's ass.

Posted by: Andrew at August 13, 2007 3:50 PM

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

Posted by: Lex at August 13, 2007 3:51 PM

Hey Sara,

I think your movie might be based on the book "the brothers lionheart" by astrid lindgren. i didn't know there was a movie, but i loved the book as a kid, and still do.

Posted by: Clara at August 13, 2007 3:52 PM

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!

Posted by: Alabamapink at August 13, 2007 3:53 PM

Okay, I've got one.

It's a zombie movie from the 80's, but for some reason I remember a zombified poodle in it. It was huge, bigger than a man, kind of like a were-poodle.

Does this movie exist? Because if it doesn't, someone really needs to make a movie about were-poodles.

Posted by: Melissa at August 13, 2007 3:53 PM

"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)

Posted by: PatriciaP at August 13, 2007 3:55 PM

Dustin - Clash of the Titans.

Sean - Laserblast.

Shaz - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. (Starring Kim Darby)

Ralph - Sounds like Gremlins to me. The first one.

Posted by: krebz85 at August 13, 2007 3:56 PM

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.

Posted by: sarah at August 13, 2007 3:57 PM

Unico! That's totally it - might be your baby unicorn flick too sara.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 13, 2007 3:58 PM

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).

Posted by: Julie at August 13, 2007 3:59 PM

What was that one where some big boat ran into an iceberg and killed most of the people on it? I think it was called Weekend at Bernies 2.

Posted by: Tron at August 13, 2007 3:59 PM

@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!

Posted by: missmle at August 13, 2007 4:01 PM

Sara, Clara:
The Brothers Lionheart was indeed adapted into a Swedish film called Bröderna Lejonhjärta (see imdb).

Posted by: kushiro at August 13, 2007 4:01 PM

sarah: Is that movie "My Girl"?

Posted by: Charlie at August 13, 2007 4:01 PM

Sarah: Could it be That Night, with a young Eliza Dushku and Juliette Lewis?

Posted by: Julie at August 13, 2007 4:01 PM

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

Posted by: a at August 13, 2007 4:02 PM

sarah - you're thinking of That Night, with Eliza Dushku and Juliette Lewis (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105572/)

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 4:02 PM

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.

Posted by: Kathleen at August 13, 2007 4:03 PM

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.

Sarah, the movie is called "That Night." It's based on a book of the same name, and the movie starred Juliette Lewis. I LOVE that movie.

Posted by: Melissa at August 13, 2007 4:04 PM

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.

Posted by: Meagan at August 13, 2007 4:06 PM

Melissa:

I looked this up and Amazon has a movie called The Boneyard, starring Phyllis Diller, Norman Fell, and, yes, a giant zombie poodle.

Posted by: kushiro at August 13, 2007 4:06 PM

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.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 13, 2007 4:08 PM

@sarah: It sorta sounds like The Man in the Moon...

Posted by: missmle at August 13, 2007 4:09 PM

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.

Posted by: Mr. Ranylt at August 13, 2007 4:13 PM

When I was very young (so early 80s, though it mayb bot have been a new release) I saw a double feature featuring Taps and another movie about recruits or young military men who stage a coup or uprising or something. "Or something" being the operative words. Basically there were young people either training to be or already in the military and they faced an internal conflict of some sort. The part that sticks with me, though, is of one of the young men having a puppy that he loved. I believe the puppy is strangled or otherwise killed near the end, and the fellow cries over it.

This sure is a vague one, but I hope someone can help me out.

Posted by: Gitley at August 13, 2007 4:13 PM

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?

Posted by: sara at August 13, 2007 4:16 PM

It's a pretty big lapse of judgment to take your girlfriend to the same cabin all of your friends from college were brutally murdered in. I love the movies also, I just can't see Evil Dead II as a direct sequel to Evil Dead I, I like to think Ash is better than that.

Well, that's the point I was making. That opening part is meant to be a recap of the events from Evil Dead. Sam Raimi wasn't allowed to use actual footage from Evil Dead, so he just retold what happened, except only with Ash and Linda (as I said, slightly modified). The story of Evil Dead II technically doesn't begin until Ash is being pushed through the woods (which is where Evil Dead ended...See?).

Posted by: Cody at August 13, 2007 4:16 PM

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.

Posted by: Sean at August 13, 2007 4:17 PM

I was about 8 when I saw this film and it freaked me out beyond belief, it would be nice to put a name to the film.
A group of young children (maybe teens) were camping and were sitting round a fire telling stories. One of the stories involved a pie eating contest. One child prepared for this by eating raw eggs. Come the day of the contest the egg eating child ate so many pies that he began to vomit (if memory serves it was a lovely shade of violet.) This begins a chain reaction of vomiting of fellow contestants and audience members. I seem to remember one woman vomiting into her bag. All vomit was ejected at lightening speed.
I don't even have a particular dislike to vomit but this scene has haunted me for years.
It's making my skin crawl thinking about it.

Posted by: Leeb at August 13, 2007 4:17 PM

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!

Posted by: Marsh at August 13, 2007 4:17 PM

@missmle: cool. And "Dancing Lady" looks great -- you gave me a good movie to seek out. Thanks.

@s. pisaster: This is almost undoubtedly wrong, since it is very recent, but your robot arm/angst animation sounds like Fullmetal Alchemist, especially near the beginning. Maybe that'll jog your memory to get to the real movie you're thinking of.

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 4:18 PM

Leeb

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

Posted by: Ranylt at August 13, 2007 4:20 PM

OK totally random, but this has been killing me for almost 20 years - It's a movie I used to rent all the time until I was about 5 (1988) It's about fairies (obvs.) and they live on a pistachio ice cream mountain. There is also a brown rabbit. I know this is super weird, but if anyone knows what I'm talking about please tell me the name of this movie!!

Posted by: Katie at August 13, 2007 4:20 PM

sara - Ranma 1/2

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 13, 2007 4:21 PM

Pisaster: That's DEFINITLEY the story-thanks!! Now I just have to figure out where to get that movie :)

Posted by: Julie at August 13, 2007 4:21 PM

Leeb: Stand By Me.

Posted by: Gitley at August 13, 2007 4:21 PM

@sara: Ranma 1/2.

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 4:22 PM

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

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 4:23 PM

@sara: Ranma 1/2, he's biologically a boy and I think it's cold=girl, hot=back to boy

Posted by: missmle at August 13, 2007 4:24 PM

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.

Posted by: bartap at August 13, 2007 4:25 PM

okay, so i'm not sure if anyone will be able to help me with this one. it was a favorite when i was a kid (so probably made in the 80s or early 90s).

basically, it's a kid who falls into a storybook, or something involving a book (not the neverending story) and has to beat this evil queen, witch woman whose hair is a different color everytime we see her. she also has a snake that shows her what is going on in its eyes. the boy meets up with a lumberjack (in a black/red checked flannel shirt) and at one point they cross a lake filled with pirhanas on a raft.

that's all i can remember and it has been bugging me forever.

Posted by: Emily at August 13, 2007 4:27 PM

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?

Posted by: bartap at August 13, 2007 4:28 PM

Emily: Are you thinking of the Pagemaster? With Christopher Lloyd and Macaulay Culkin?

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2007 4:29 PM

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.

Posted by: Pudenda at August 13, 2007 4:30 PM

nice try patrick, but it's not animated at all. you have no idea how much hunting i've done to figure this one out.

Posted by: Emily at August 13, 2007 4:31 PM

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.

Posted by: Cathy at August 13, 2007 4:33 PM

Ok, these kids get hold of this magic hair growth formula and some Asian kid decides to put it ..um.. "down below" and gets a full head of hair growing out of his pants. I believe there is also a house in it that when people walk in see something scary that makes all there hair fall out. God, that sounds nuts, but it's a real movie.

Posted by: Jeff at August 13, 2007 4:33 PM

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

Posted by: Gitley at August 13, 2007 4:35 PM

Ok, we watched this film a bunch of times in college, because it was just.so.freaky, but I can't remember the name.

Kids start disappearing and the main character's dad gets accused by the sheriff because of a prior "incident" so the dad goes outside at immolates himself at the family's gas station.

The main character kid finds a fetus and thinks it's an angel.

The disappearing kids are actually being abducted by a groups of all-black wearing folk who may or may not be vampires.

Does anyone know the title? And, for the love of god, does anyone know the point of this movie?

Posted by: Sally at August 13, 2007 4:36 PM

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.

Posted by: littlesilverboulder at August 13, 2007 4:36 PM

OK, this one is old and obscure (kinda like me) but I watched twice when I was young (on TV, so it may have been in color or B&W)and it scared the bejeebus out of me.It was probably made in the late 50's early 60's and seemed to be an updated version of the Lizzie Borden story involving a young woman, her mother who was kinda slutty and axes and pigs....all I really remember is the axe scenes but it could probably still scare me if I saw it today. Anyone?? Anyone????

Posted by: brite at August 13, 2007 4:37 PM

Jeff: That's The Peanut Butter Solution.

Hooray, I got one!

Posted by: Matthew Tobey at August 13, 2007 4:38 PM

Cathy: Your alien ice cream movie is called "The Stuff."

Posted by: Melissa at August 13, 2007 4:42 PM

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

Posted by: Lex at August 13, 2007 4:46 PM

This has been bugging me forever:

Two women and a man (the brother of one of them, I think) are arrested in a foreign country for smuggling, but they are innocent. I think all of them end up executioned, I remember one of the women being prepared for the firing squad, you see urine running down her leg, outside in the sunny, hot day.

The man, I think, is mentally disabled, and has some pretend/fantasy thing to comfort himself.

I don't even know if it's a foreign film or not, I just remember some flashes of these scenes.

HELP!!!

Posted by: N. Wood at August 13, 2007 4:48 PM

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.

Posted by: bartap at August 13, 2007 4:49 PM

80's movie. Young-looking guy escapes into high-school to avoid mafia hit. Argues with professor about Nixon. Falls in perilously statutory love. Does not die.

Posted by: twig at August 13, 2007 4:49 PM

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.

Posted by: Manny at August 13, 2007 4:52 PM

Ok, there is this horror movie, that I saw when I was younger. Only, because it scared the crap out of me, I would only watch bits and pieces before closing my eyes... however, I remember the end, sort of. It was in the basement, and in the basement was this well with light coming out it. two people were standing around screaming about something or other. then one of the guys says "i'll do it" and puts his head over the well. A ghostlike figure comes up out of the well and I wanna say takes his head off, I don't remember the rest, but I think the house is destroyed after that...any help?

Posted by: nico at August 13, 2007 4:54 PM

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

Posted by: katy at August 13, 2007 4:54 PM

OK, these two has been driving me crazy for like 12 years. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE help me out! I used to rent them all the time when I was a kid, and our independent video store has since been Blockbusterized, so they are, alas no more. Both are mid-late '80s animated.

1. '80s anime about a group of starship pilots who wore costumes similar to the Voltron costumes. I think there are like 3-4 guys and a really hot blonde chick. I THINK they're all on one big ship/space station, but they all have their own individual spaceships (they look more like planes) which are white, but accented with "their" individual color. Don't remember what they're fighting. Sorry to be so vague, but that's about all I remember! Oh, and the lead guy was really cute and wore white and red. This one I REALLY want to find.

2. Stylized '80s animated movie about a lamb who tries to protect his flock from a big, bad, hungry wolf. I think he ends up being raised by the wolf (who has a scar over his eye or a missing eye) and grows into this big, scary ram with huge horns and ends up killing the wolf at the end when he attacks the flock, throwing him off a snowy mountain. It made me cry, but it was really good.

PLEASE HELP ME!!!! =)

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 13, 2007 4:54 PM

Twig: Hiding Out starring Jon Cryer.

Posted by: Matthew Tobey at August 13, 2007 4:55 PM

Sean -- Laserblast, once featured on MST3K?

Posted by: Phillip at August 13, 2007 4:56 PM

Alabamapink,

Yours almost sounds like Roman Holiday.

Posted by: Kevin Longrie at August 13, 2007 4:56 PM

Okay, this is slightly off topic but please help me anyway.
The movie's name is Green Eyes, it was a TV movie that came out in 1977 when I was six years old, it has haunted me every since I saw it, and I must know the correct ending.
My sister (who is six years older) made me watch this because we shared a bedroom and she had a TV.
This movie was about a black Vietnam vet who goes back to search for the son he fathered with a woman there. He searches all these pitiful orphanages to find his child. The ending, as I remember it, has him find a dying child in some refugee camp and cradling him as the boy's eyes roll back in his head to reveal that he has - GREEN EYES.
This freaked the hell out of me - I was six after all - and I have to know if this terrifying vision in my head of a man, finally finding his dying illegitimate child, is what I actually saw and not something my brain just made up.
I would ask my sister but she doesn't even remember what she had for breakfast today.
I need to exorcise this demon from my mind immediately. Can anyone show me some love? Anyone?

Posted by: jen310 at August 13, 2007 4:57 PM

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.

Posted by: tinmo at August 13, 2007 4:59 PM

This topic is pure genius.

There is a movie, I am pretty sure it was in the late 80s or early 90s and the plot is basically four or so kids are trapped in a Target for the night. IMDB and Google know nothing of this movie and it has been driving me crazy for YEARS.

Someone please help my neurotic heart...

Posted by: Stacey at August 13, 2007 4:59 PM

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)

Posted by: kerisilver at August 13, 2007 4:59 PM

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 :)

Posted by: kerisilver at August 13, 2007 5:00 PM

@ 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.

Posted by: Manny at August 13, 2007 5:00 PM

Sally,
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.

Posted by: osmate77 at August 13, 2007 5:03 PM

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.

Posted by: Johnny at August 13, 2007 5:05 PM

AnnArrogance: Are you thinking of Battle of the Planets? (aka Gatchaman aka G-Force: Guardians of Space).

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2007 5:05 PM

Stacey: Career Opportunities with Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly.

Posted by: Matthew Tobey at August 13, 2007 5:06 PM

AnnArrogance: The #2 (lamb/wolf animation) is The Ringing Bell, I believe (aka Chirin no suzu -- originally Japanese)

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 5:07 PM

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).

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 5:14 PM

LEEB--Definitely "Stand By Me."

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 13, 2007 5:15 PM

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.

Posted by: tinmo at August 13, 2007 5:15 PM

AnnArrogance: The movie you're thinking of sounds similar to one of my favorites as a kid, "Lambert, The Sheepish Lion." The fact that there was apparently a genre of movies based on the battle between sheep vs. wolves is hilarious!

Lambert was a lion mistakenly delivered to a flock of sheep by a stork, so he grew up mild as a lamb, until the day the wolf came after mother ewe. Doesn't sound the same as yours, but wow! Did those memories come flooding back quick. I've even got the Lamber, the Sheepish Lion song stuck in my head and I didn't even know it was still knocking around up there.

Posted by: Erica O. at August 13, 2007 5:18 PM

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?

Posted by: tinmo at August 13, 2007 5:22 PM

Boo--
I'm pretty sure your raw hamburger-feeding parents are Larraine Newman and Timothy Bottoms in the awesomely bad 1986 INVADERS FROM MARS, also starring Louise Fletcher and Karen Black. I'm embarassed to say I've seen the movie numerous times. No, I can't explain why....

Posted by: Chichi at August 13, 2007 5:26 PM

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!

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 13, 2007 5:28 PM

Dustin, Taliesin is absolutely correct, your movie is "The Sword and the Sorcerer," starring Richard Moll. I think I still have your VHS copy from HBO!

Posted by: idiot dentist at August 13, 2007 5:30 PM

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.

Posted by: Patrick at August 13, 2007 5:31 PM

My movie is a horror movie, probably from the late 80s, I saw it around 1988 - it involves a scene in which some kids are playing hide and seek, i think, in an old, empty school. a girl falls out of a window and her neck is somehow sliced by the glass in the window. there is a scene where the kids are looking at her down on the ground in some kind of rubble all bloody and dead. i think one of the other kids was her brother. i think then it goes to present day and the kids never told any one what happened. I can't remember much else.

holy crap this movie scared the eff out of me when I was 8, it scarred me for years, I couldn't even look at an empty school building that had more than one storey.

Posted by: heathertea at August 13, 2007 5:31 PM

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?

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 13, 2007 5:33 PM

heathertea

That really sounds like the prologue scene in Prom Night. Freaked me right out, too, as a kid.

Posted by: Ranylt at August 13, 2007 5:36 PM

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.

Posted by: Lannie at August 13, 2007 5:37 PM

all the mystery movies that i know have already been identified.

i have one--i believe it is from the 70s--a woman moves into an automated(?) house and the house ends up taking her hostage. the house falls in love(?) with her and ends up raping and impregnating her. at the end she delivers something--i swear i'm not making this up, although i'm not entirely clear on the details. i saw it on tv when i was a kid and i have been wondering about it for years.

Posted by: pq at August 13, 2007 5:37 PM

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

Posted by: Rachel at August 13, 2007 5:37 PM

@AnnArrogance

1. Battle of the planets, or G-Force. The ship could become the fiery phoenix!

Posted by: Branny at August 13, 2007 5:37 PM

pq

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

OK I'll stop now.

Posted by: Ranylt at August 13, 2007 5:38 PM

Erica O--I LOVE Lambert! I have the song stuck in my head now, too!

And I'm sure it wasn't G-Force now. I just checked out an ep. on YouTube and I KNOW they didn't have bird costumes. The costumes were all white with red/blue/pink/green/black accents depending on what the character's "color" was, and sleek and form-fitting. No capes, and no bird theme. And the spaceships were sleeker, more like F-15s.

I THINK there's a scene where the main guy and the chick are sitting in this big round porthole at night looking out into space and down onto Earth/whatever planet it was and having a subtle "romantic" moment, but I could be making that part up or confusing it with another movie.

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 13, 2007 5:40 PM

Heathertea: Sounds like "Prom Night"

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

Posted by: Rob at August 13, 2007 5:41 PM

pq, is the movie Demon Seed? It was parodied in a Simpsons Treehouse of Horror episode.

Posted by: L at August 13, 2007 5:41 PM

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

Posted by: Rachel at August 13, 2007 5:45 PM

Here's one I need help with:
70's or 80's children's movie about a British boy staying with relatives in an English manor. He gets sucked up a chimney and out into the pond but when he hits the water he becomes animated. The rest of the movieis animated until the end. Could have been Australian and not British. This one has vexed me for ages.

Posted by: Rob at August 13, 2007 5:46 PM

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

Posted by: Rob at August 13, 2007 5:48 PM

wow. I'm watching Unico on youtube right now and it is exactly how I remember it :) Thanks guys.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 13, 2007 5:49 PM

Rob, you may be thinking of Waterbabies.

Posted by: docsmartypants at August 13, 2007 5:50 PM

1) Older French Film where a woman with a faulty heart offs her husband, a sadistic school teacher with her gal pal. Only trouble it that he isn't quite dead. People say it does to bathtubs what Psycho does to showers.

2)A film whose title belies it. In this ensemble film, a seemingly normal world ends up going to the outer limits between disturbing and hilarity. Characters include a recent Oscar winner as a prank caller who makes vulgar calls to his attractive neighbor as well as a doctor who starts to grow interest in younger boys. It may ward you off Tuna Salad Sandwiches for a while.

3) This steamy seventies classic borrows it's story from a famous Film Noir in the forties. A detective falls for a dame, sparks fly and it turns out she's in a loveless marriage. Suddenly, the two go from simple lovers to partners in crime.

Posted by: Ben at August 13, 2007 5:51 PM

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.

Posted by: Natalie at August 13, 2007 5:58 PM

@ben: In case you're not just baiting the board with decoys, 1) Diabolique, 2) Happiness

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 6:01 PM

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.

Posted by: Chris at August 13, 2007 6:02 PM

Ranylt and L

y'all are my heroes--that movie has bothered me for years! i'm going to have to check out that Simpsons episode--don't know how i missed it.

Posted by: pq at August 13, 2007 6:03 PM

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.

Posted by: meretyping at August 13, 2007 6:09 PM

the movie where the cop goes undercover in the school and creepily falls in love with the teenager (and recites e.e cummings' "She Being Brand New" in English class), is called Plain Clothes. I rented it weekly in high school.

Posted by: Melina at August 13, 2007 6:10 PM

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??

Posted by: Rexkarz at August 13, 2007 6:15 PM

Oh, Dustin, my love for you grows every time I cruise this site. As others have now cleared up, it is Beastmaster: if I'd known about the shameful movie thread a few days back, that would have been my #1. Love.That.Crap.

Here's my question for you guys: I saw about 5 minutes of something once (on TV, in the mid 90s, I believe). I think it started with some weird voodoo-looking scene (gang of scary looking folks dancing around and screaming), then went to some house elsewhere. We see the digital temperature display for the hot water in the shower (huh?), then someone steps in and begins to bathe. Meanwhile, downstairs in the kitchen, someone is piddling around, making breakfast. As the temp. in the shower rises and rises, a carton of milk in the kitchen spills itself and the puddle creeps ominously (trust me) across the floor to the feet of the person making breakfast. I think the person in the shower starts screaming just as the kitchen person plugs something in and gets seriously fried. I changed the channel then, but the image has obviously stuck with me...ok, I'm a chicken - DON'T JUDGE!

Any takers?

Posted by: elisamaza at August 13, 2007 6:17 PM

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.

Posted by: 'Cuno at August 13, 2007 6:17 PM

Oh and the person asking about a movie with a zombie poodle...it could be the Boneyard...

Posted by: Melina at August 13, 2007 6:18 PM

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".

Posted by: Melina at August 13, 2007 6:20 PM

meretyping: Puff the Magic Dragon?

I have one. It was a late 70's movie, I think, and was very creepy. A vain musician makes a deal with Satan to stay young forever in exchange for collecting souls as a corrupt music producer. He tricks a talented composer into signing his soul away, I think by arranging for him to be sent to jail, where he is tragically burned and his teeth are replaced by metal teeth as part of a prisoner experiment, then giving him the opportunity to write music for the love of his life. I think the evil music producer's name was Swan or something, and he was also trying to promote a frankenstein-like rocker named Meat (or something like that). This movie was trying to be both Phantom of the Opera and Rocky Horror Picture Show, but just managed to freak the hell out of me.

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 6:22 PM

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

Posted by: Nadha at August 13, 2007 6:24 PM

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.

Posted by: superdeluxebabe at August 13, 2007 6:27 PM

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

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 6:28 PM

docsmartypants: I IMDB's "Waterbabies" and you are absolutely correct. Thanks!

elisamaza: sounds like "The Believers" with Martin Sheen.

This one is really vague but I seem to remember a half cartoon/half live action movie that took place in the Australian outback. Maybe all cartoon. I remember digareedoos (sp?) were in it.

Posted by: Rob at August 13, 2007 6:30 PM

@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.

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 6:33 PM

Hey meretyping,
I think the movie your thinking of is "Pete's Dragon". Green cartoon dragon, young boy, Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, coast of Maine. Disney live action/animation from the late 70s.
Could be wrong, but check it out at IMDB.
Loved that movie as a kid.

Posted by: jen310 at August 13, 2007 6:34 PM

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.

Posted by: Rob at August 13, 2007 6:36 PM

Pete's Dragon is totally what I meant. Sorry for the confusion.

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 6:37 PM

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

Posted by: jen310 at August 13, 2007 6:37 PM

There are lots of fantasy movies with blind witches. Dustin will have to let us know which one it is. For the record, I did mention Clash of the Titans and Beastmaster on the guilty pleasures thread the other day, but only to decry their status as "guilty." They are great!

Posted by: Rob at August 13, 2007 6:40 PM

"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.

Posted by: meretyping at August 13, 2007 6:47 PM

I vaguely remember a movie I saw on TV when I was a kid, around the mid-eighties. I think the movie could not have been older than 1970. There were three (I think ) monsters roaming around these woods. Each monster was different, like one was hairy, one was frog-like, etc. and they each had to be defeated in a different way. I'm pretty sure one was vulnerable to soundwaves. I guess the monsters were killing people, but all I remember is them walking slowly through the woods. Something about the way they did that really scared the hell out of me.

Posted by: Todd at August 13, 2007 6:50 PM

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.

Posted by: Alabamapink at August 13, 2007 6:51 PM

@superdeluxebabe: I have seen that, and the stepmother, like, harms people by making out with them, something inside of her...now I'm totally bothered.

Posted by: missmle at August 13, 2007 6:53 PM

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.)

Posted by: Todd at August 13, 2007 6:55 PM

Well, I think it was a book rather than a movie, but it's been haunting me for years... a boy falls off a riding lawnmower, is run over, and bleeds to death on the lawn. I have very vivid memories of the scene, so it may have been a movie, but I think it was an early-80s young adult, coming-of-age, best-friend-dies-horribly-type book. Please help!!

Posted by: ariel at August 13, 2007 6:59 PM

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

Posted by: kuzum at August 13, 2007 7:00 PM

Alabamapink - Thank you! Phantom of the Paradise is exactly it. It is indeed craptastic. The scariest part? I just did an IMDB search on it, and it looks like there may be a remake in development.

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 7:01 PM

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...

Posted by: Sally at August 13, 2007 7:05 PM

Okay, I think I've exhausted my capacity to answer other peoples' inquiries, but I do have a movie I'd like the title to. It's a cheesy live action fantasy movie with wizards and dragons and the like, and it is unbelievably terrible. The most memorable part of the movie is a witch/wizard who keeps killing off her dwarven henchmen in fits of pique until someone cries out to her "we're running out of dwarves!" This line has persisted as a family joke ever since, but almost evey other detail is lost. However, I'm pretty sure I'd recognize it if I ran across it, and I'd like to. Anyone?

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 7:09 PM

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.

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 13, 2007 7:14 PM

Pardon if I browsed past this, but we have three ardent proposals for Dustin's movie, the key scene being the three witches/seers with their eyes sown shut. I'm almost positive that this is Clash of the Titans, but BeastMaster and Sword and the Sorcerer have also been cited. The whole oracle hags thing is so greek mythology, as well as the image I have matching the effects and cinematography I put with CotT. Not definitive, however.

Posted by: denadn at August 13, 2007 7:23 PM

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!

Posted by: pinkcheese at August 13, 2007 7:24 PM

Rob and Be Right Back: Thanks! YouTube confirms The Believers as the kitchen electrocution movie. Whew, that's been dogging me for years! Pulse does seem to involve a murderous hot water heater and shower, so perhaps I'm conflating TWO traumatizing snippet experiences? Will do some more research - thanks for the titles!

AnnArrogance, I think you have the same shadowy memories of RoboTech that I have. If you remember it as stand-alone, you might be thinking of RoboTech: The Movie (1986)...

Posted by: elisamaza at August 13, 2007 7:24 PM

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...

Posted by: gargumma at August 13, 2007 7:26 PM

This was a 70's horror flick (I'm noticing a trend here) that was on every Saturday afternoon when I was growing up. All I remember is that there is a girl whose family takes in her "cousin" who is actually a demon, witch, possessed, or something equally nefarious. Anyway, she butts her way into the family, tries to seduce the main character's boyfriend, and kills people. The only other thing I really remember is that the main character was really into horses. I think she was a 70's B-movie frequenter, as her face was always really familiar.

Posted by: Barabajagal at August 13, 2007 7:38 PM

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.

Posted by: mandasarah at August 13, 2007 7:40 PM

pinkcheese--that may just be it, then! I know, it's such a vague description, but that's all I can remember! After watching some on YouTube I THINK I remember the blue bad guys, too. I'm going to find a cheap copy on eBay and check it out. Thanks! I think it might either be the first one or the second movie, "In the Name of Love." The VHS cover shown on Amazon looks somewhat familiar.

Thanks again! And if anyone else has any other suggestions as to what it might be, I'm still open!

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 13, 2007 7:53 PM

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.

Posted by: wakefield at August 13, 2007 7:55 PM

OK, can anyone help?

I probably watched this in the mid-90s, but it may have come out earlier. It's about a kid in the UK whose parents have died (I think) and so he has to go live with relatives in rural Scotland or something. I remember a scene where he's complaining about what's for dinner, says he wants a burrito, and the grandmother (?) doesn't know what that is. I remember lots of bag-piping in the Scottish castle and a happy ending.

Posted by: ontheflye at August 13, 2007 7:59 PM

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?

Posted by: chachaheels at August 13, 2007 8:00 PM

@chachaheels: I think your Sophia Loren movie might be "It Started in Naples," with Clark Gable

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 8:10 PM

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

Posted by: ellen at August 13, 2007 8:12 PM

Brilliant...I hope you guys can help me.

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???

Posted by: Cris at August 13, 2007 8:17 PM

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

Posted by: samantha t at August 13, 2007 8:25 PM

[b]@be right back[/b] Correct!!
Guess number 3 and you get a cookie!(Well, not really but still.)

Posted by: Ben at August 13, 2007 8:25 PM

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.

Posted by: Kristin at August 13, 2007 8:29 PM

tinmo - thanks!! You just erased 20+ years of mental torture!

Posted by: courtney at August 13, 2007 8:31 PM

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?

Posted by: Matt K at August 13, 2007 8:35 PM

Shaz - Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. (Starring Kim Darby)

Ralph - Sounds like Gremlins to me. The first one.

Posted by: krebz85 at August 13, 2007 3:56 PM

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When I saw Shaz's movie I just about sh*t! That movie made me afraid of the dark pretty much from then on!!!!! Thank you krebz85!

I have another one a sappy feel good one from the 80's (I think). Some little boy in like Nebraska or Iowa decides to quit playing baseball on his team that is the best in the league because he wants all the nations of the world to get rid of their nukes. Then all the other athletes of the world decide to go on strike as well. A famous basketball player joins the boy and flies out to stay with him. Pretty soon all organized sports are on strike to support the kid and the basketball player. The mob gets involved and either kills or tries to kill the basketball player. I think Hal Holbrooke plays the prez in the movie and I swear to God that Jamie Lee Curtis is int the movie.

Posted by: Clevelandchick at August 13, 2007 8:37 PM

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

Posted by: Kevin at August 13, 2007 8:39 PM

Barabajagal! I believe the movie you are thinking of is "Summer of Fear" which started out life as a young adult horror novel by Lois Duncan. How do I know? Because somewhere amongst my belongings I have an autographed copy that I got in the fifth grade. I won some silly contest designing a bookmark and got to meet all these young adult authors. "Summer of Fear" creeped the hell out of me and so was the favorite of the books I got that evening.

Posted by: Alabamapink at August 13, 2007 8:42 PM

"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.

Posted by: rocky at August 13, 2007 8:48 PM

WOW, pajiba-ians is there something your collectie genious doesnt know?

Posted by: sara at August 13, 2007 8:53 PM

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.

Posted by: Al at August 13, 2007 8:59 PM

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.

Posted by: Al at August 13, 2007 9:00 PM

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.

Posted by: X at August 13, 2007 9:03 PM

Horror movie from the late 70's. It must have been on TV because we probably didn't have cable back then. There were these parasitic type bugs that would attack people and kill them. This damned movie haunted me at night. I remember one scene in particular: a woman was hanging up laundry to dry outside and you see the sheets fluttering in the wind and the it cuts to the lady with one of the things on her face, covering her eye, and she's screaming like a banshee. Since I was a mere kidlet, I might be confusing this with another movie but I think the 'hero' was bald and I remember a scene at the end that showed a person's head run over by someone in a van. The head was just squished flat. yikes. where were my parents and their guidance that night?

Posted by: MJ at August 13, 2007 9:03 PM

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

Posted by: Rob at August 13, 2007 9:09 PM

Al - The Boy who loved Trolls. I didn't even remember that movie until you described it.

I've got another one (aahhh) also involved a troll (I think) little orange hairy guy. This kid was hiding him and might have brought it to school with him

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 13, 2007 9:27 PM

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?

Posted by: Baramos at August 13, 2007 9:27 PM

Marsh Are you sure about the 70's? It sounds exactly like the end of Peter Greenaway's brilliant "Drowning by Numbers," a movie all good Pajibas should see and love. Imdb listing underrates it. It's unspeakably malicious in a good way.

Posted by: John at August 13, 2007 9:31 PM

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."

Posted by: KRK at August 13, 2007 9:31 PM

A Iive-action Disney film from the seventies or early eighties. It featured a little kid (I can't remember whether it was a boy or girl) who was haunted by the ghost of a girl who died (was murdered?). The kid who was alive had found the ghost's china doll. There was a treasure involved that some bad guys were trying to locate. In the end the treasure was diamonds found when the doll of the ghost-child was broken in the process of trying to hide from the bad guys. There may or may not have been a mill or windmill involved in the hiding. It was during the "Watcher In The Woods" era of Disney film. I've been trying to figure our the name of this for years - I loved it when I was little!

Posted by: allee at August 13, 2007 9:32 PM

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.

Posted by: thelastpolarbear at August 13, 2007 9:37 PM

Brian: You are my personal Jesus. The serial was The Ark In Space, indeed. It's available as a region 1 DVD. Bless you.

Posted by: David at August 13, 2007 9:37 PM

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?

Posted by: Liz at August 13, 2007 9:45 PM

mandasarah -- It's "The Flight of Dragons," and was probably my all-time FAVORITE movie when I was a kid.

Posted by: Kathleen at August 13, 2007 9:48 PM

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?

Posted by: Fernando at August 13, 2007 9:54 PM

Ranylt
Maximum Overdrive does feature a scene w/an electric turkey knife, but it attacks a waitress. Most of the movie is of a diner being attacked by trucks, but the beginning does feature lots of scenes of people being killed by appliances, including a baseball player beaten to death by a vending machine.

I have two weird movies,
it's from maybe the 80's and it's of a family, where one of the girls is evil. I remeber the final scene where the mother is sleeping in her bed but when she looks down, she sees the girl at the foot of the bed with a pizza cutter. The movie features the family moving and a car wreck where one of the children dies.

the other is about a family that buys a lamp that's probably possessed. they take it home and it tries to take over someone. I remember the final scene where the house is on top of a cliff. i think the family believes they have gotten rid of the evil, but the cat they own has become possessed.

Posted by: nikab at August 13, 2007 10:01 PM

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.

Posted by: Ranylt at August 13, 2007 10:14 PM

30s/40s black and white, subtitled, I think the dialogue is half french, half german. Set in France during WWI. A woman comes to a town to be with her fiancee, who is a German officer. She meets a French resistance fighter and they fall in love. I think she had a dog and he (the frenchman)was at one point (near the beginning?) injured and hiding in a church. It ends with both of them lying on a bed while the building they are in collapses around them.

I saw it on CBC tv late one night, probably 10 years ago. I think the french title may be something along the lines of "Foret des amoureux" which translates as "Lovers Forest" or "Forest of Lovers". The final scene has really stuck with me but, it's driving me nuts that apparently no trace of it exists except in my own mind.

Posted by: random at August 13, 2007 10:17 PM

@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?)

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 10:22 PM

Clevelandchick - Amazing Grace and Chuck.

Posted by: Johnny at August 13, 2007 10:23 PM

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.

Posted by: W at August 13, 2007 10:26 PM

this is a movie from the 90s, it involves a man with long hair in a bird mask. i remember him standing over a bridge. there were always children coming into contact with birds.

there was a lab, there were birds attacking women and i remember there was some sort of hospital scene. there was also bird shit.

by the way the man had long blonde hair (fabio-ish)


tell me i didnt dream this

Posted by: saharn at August 13, 2007 10:30 PM

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.

Posted by: suze at August 13, 2007 10:38 PM

Fernando, your movie is "Fortress". It haunted me for a long time that at the end they have some part of one of the kidnappers in a jar in their classroom...

Posted by: melissa at August 13, 2007 10:38 PM

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.

Posted by: Barabajagal at August 13, 2007 10:39 PM

I am so glad I found this comment diversion! There is an anime movie I saw years ago, probably mid-80's, that I have never been able to completely remember. There was a young boy who was traveling on a train that could fly around space. It was really strange, the train track just went up into the sky and the train would float off the end and travel around. The boy was looking for a woman, I think it was his mother. At some point he meets a tall, slender woman with really long light blue (white?) hair and she begins to travel with him. They end up at a planet covered with ice. There are people frozen under the ice and the woman he is looking for one of them. When he finds her she looks just like the woman he is traveling with (I could be making that part up - I was just a wee one when I saw this) and the woman is actually a robot??? Can someone please end my suffering?

Posted by: Shepps at August 13, 2007 10:41 PM

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."

Posted by: gitley at August 13, 2007 10:52 PM

Allee said: "A live-action Disney film from the seventies or early eighties. It featured a little kid (I can't remember whether it was a boy or girl) who was haunted by the ghost of a girl who died (was murdered?)..."

That's "Child of Glass", also one of my favorites. All the plot points you mentioned are correct.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0077325/

Posted by: appwitch at August 13, 2007 10:53 PM

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.

Posted by: Emily at August 13, 2007 10:59 PM

There are two old horror movies whose names I can't remember:

(1) Seventies vintage, probably from the early days of Showtime... a rift opens up and large bugs like cockroaches come out. They hitch rides in people's tailpipes and can make fire. There's a scene where one crawls up into a woman's hair and starts it on fire.

(2) Old black and white... I think it has Vincent Price in it. A guy hypnotizes people and perhaps gets them to kill themselves. I just remember a woman tries to stick her face in one of those old unshielded fans.

Posted by: appwitch at August 13, 2007 11:00 PM

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)

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 11:11 PM

I've got one:
70s? possibly early 80s?? saw it on television!
Some catastrophe has befallen the earth/city?? The survivors come upon 'victims' that have been turned into dust--little body-shaped piles of dust. The survivors are running around looking for food. Something also about school buses...
The victims may have turned into dust by massive bright light explosions???
Anyone??

Posted by: maxpurr9 at August 13, 2007 11:15 PM

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....

Posted by: Kelly at August 13, 2007 11:23 PM

Thank you so much!!!! UGH that has been killing me!

Posted by: Sarah at August 13, 2007 11:25 PM

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?

Posted by: erro0257 at August 13, 2007 11:29 PM

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

Posted by: lex at August 13, 2007 11:32 PM

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

Posted by: erro0257 at August 13, 2007 11:32 PM

Kristen: the detective story starring all kids...is it "Bugsey Malone?" I loved that movie as a kid! Shooting each other with pies, Scott Baio (before he was a skeeve of course!) Jodi Foster and I think Tatum O'neil.

Posted by: trixie at August 13, 2007 11:42 PM

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

Posted by: be right back at August 13, 2007 11:51 PM

Thank you Todd! I checked IMDB and they have details that confirm for me that is it "The Kiss." I can sleep well tonight now. :)

Posted by: superdeluxebabe at August 13, 2007 11:52 PM

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.

Posted by: Ali at August 13, 2007 11:53 PM

Tinmo- thanks for all the research and it sounds so close to the mark but can't be Daddy's Deadly Darling because that was made in 1972. I know I saw this movie when I was under 10...sooooooooo the search continues.

Posted by: brite at August 14, 2007 12:10 AM

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.

Posted by: elc at August 14, 2007 12:12 AM

This one is a bit of a long shot. I watched it in a film class and then lost the syllabus and haven't been able to track down the name of this movie. I think it was Taiwanese, and involved two men squatting in a house up for sale, and a female real estate agent. It was rather quirky and I seem to remember a scene involving bowling with fresh produce. Does this sound familiar to anyone??

Posted by: Lannie at August 14, 2007 12:12 AM

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!

Posted by: brite at August 14, 2007 12:19 AM

Trixie: I think you may be right. I went to imdb & the synopsis sounds right. I will see if I can find a copy of it... Thanx!

Posted by: erro0257 at August 14, 2007 12:23 AM

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

Posted by: be right back at August 14, 2007 12:26 AM

s. pisaster: I can't believe you figured out The Boy Who Loved Trolls. I googled it after you said it and that is definately it! Thanks!! That has been bugging me for years!

Posted by: Al at August 14, 2007 1:05 AM

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.

Posted by: Stoop at August 14, 2007 1:13 AM

Stoop, I'm thinking that's the second Unico movie, Unico in the Island of Magic. There's an evil magician who, with the help of his apprentice, uses a magical flute to turn the inhabitants of a village into living puppets, which he uses to build a castle and island. The girl is the apprentice's sister, and she and Unico -- a pink-haired unicorn foal -- team up to stop the magician and restore the people to their normal selves. There are a bunch of clips on YouTube.

Posted by: Kathleen at August 14, 2007 1:20 AM

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?

Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at August 14, 2007 1:26 AM

be right back: that's it! I just checked YouTube and Galaxy Express 999 is the movie that I remember. Now I need to find a copy to see if it's as weird/wonderful as I remember. Thank you!

Posted by: Shepps at August 14, 2007 1:38 AM

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?

Posted by: screw this at August 14, 2007 1:44 AM

Early 60s movie or something in color about a gold brick heist where they stole the gold from armored cars by stopping the car procession and then cutting a hole underneath the cars and stealing the gold through underground sewage lines. The robbers get caught in the end. Anybody?

Posted by: Mehdi at August 14, 2007 1:47 AM

Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at August 14, 2007 1:53 AM

mehdi, sounds like the original The Italian Job, 1969

see imdb for details

Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at August 14, 2007 1:57 AM

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!

Posted by: Stoop at August 14, 2007 1:57 AM

Mine is a movie my cousins were watching while they babysat me--I couldn't have been more than five or six, so it would have been the early 80's when this was on TV. All I remember is a crazed maniac chasing women around the woods; a woman flayed and hanging by her feet (?) from a tree; the killer having a burned-up, disfigured face/head; the camera switching to the killer's POV quite often as he ran through the woods; and most memorably, a loud, slow heartbeat on the soundtrack every time the killer was about to strike. (My mom had a Huey Lewis & The News tape and used to play "Heart of Rock N' Roll" all the time...the first time I heard that song after seeing this movie, I freaked right the hell out. Bah BUMP. Bah BUMP.)

Horror movies do bad things to my brain, so I haven't seen any of the horror classics of the 70's or 80's...is this something really obvious like Friday the 13th?

Posted by: Jen at August 14, 2007 2:08 AM

Cathy was the name of the flick THE STUFF?

Posted by: Edward at August 14, 2007 2:28 AM

This one has plagued me for years. I think it's a horror movie ..young girl, i think a cousin of the family, is like a devil or possessed... one scene in the beginning sees her tying the shoelaces of the daughter together in the car and they have an accident and she cannot get out and dies...then the son is on the roof and falls off at the same time a watermelon splats onto the kitchen floor....an iguana creeps into bed with the grandma and kills her..... that's all I remember.... HELP!

Posted by: sam at August 14, 2007 2:44 AM

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.

Posted by: Nikki at August 14, 2007 3:51 AM

Haha Nikki, the last one is The Peanut Butter Solution, and was the subject of a Pajiba conversation previously. In fact, I think that's probably what started this whole thread :)

Posted by: Ali at August 14, 2007 4:15 AM

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.

Posted by: feanethe at August 14, 2007 4:19 AM

Looking for a foreign language film with a title similar to "menage et trois". Looked on imdb and only get porn. Its about a husband who has to share his wife with another woman. Very funny. Just difficult to find

Posted by: Jenni at August 14, 2007 4:52 AM

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.

Posted by: nicole at August 14, 2007 5:17 AM

GREAT idea for a thread!!

I always try to tell people about this movie I saw when I was a kid that scared the CRAP out of me. It was a horror movie, and the main baddy-guy was a ventriloquist and he would paint himself to look like his surroundings (eg a brick pattern or something) so that he could stand against the brick wall and then project his voice out so his victims had no idea where he was. This movie scared me so much as a child, and I used to walk around my house running my hands along the walls to check that no baddy-ventiloquist-painted people were waiting to kill me.

This has been bugging me for so long!

Posted by: JJ McClay at August 14, 2007 7:30 AM

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.

Posted by: Johnny at August 14, 2007 7:41 AM

i likeall these movies that are coming back to the conscious surace and woud like to see them, may i suggest pajiba take ALL the movies that have been rediscovered today and list them, so we can have a reference the next time we got to the video store?

Posted by: sara at August 14, 2007 7:55 AM

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.

Posted by: courtney at August 14, 2007 8:10 AM

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.

Posted by: Jen Diff at August 14, 2007 8:16 AM

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.

Posted by: Jen Diff at August 14, 2007 8:17 AM

JJ....what year would you say you saw the movie? Was it an old film? (B&W, or washed out color)

Posted by: PissBoy at August 14, 2007 8:20 AM

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?

Posted by: Appwitch at August 14, 2007 8:47 AM

Okay! I have no clue how obscure is, maybe it's quite well known, but I can't figure it out!

This was an anime-style cartoon that aired on Nick Jr. (aka Nickelodeon) in the 80's. It was about this little girl whose dad gave her a toy koala, and when she rubbed her nose to it, it magically came to life! She kept this a secret from her father. I think this koala wore little blue overalls, and it also had a sister who was a pink koala (of course). The sister koala had a little red purse with lipstick in it, and she could draw a circle on the wall and make a porthole to the magic koala world. The window of the girl's bedroom had an eucalyptus tree outside of it that she would place the koalas on so they could eat...
Man, I remember loving this show, and that there was a really intense series finale where the girl goes flying into magic koala land, wearing a little koala face-mask, so as not to be recognized or apprehended by the koala authorities... Uh. Yeah.

Did anyone else enjoy this cracked out show as much as I did? Once I wrote everything down I realize how insane it sounds. Why the hell are children's shows so weird?

Posted by: Brenda at August 14, 2007 9:08 AM

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.

Posted by: oggi at August 14, 2007 9:53 AM

Brenda-
I believe that is The Noozles - I remember really enjoying it as a kid! And, yes, pretty weird sounding when you actually write out the plot....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noozles

Posted by: superdeluxebabe at August 14, 2007 9:53 AM

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?

Posted by: Kitty X at August 14, 2007 10:15 AM

I hope people are still reading these...

Here's mine. Might've been a made-for-TV...creepy movie where in the beginning there's this tiny schoolhouse, like an Amish schoolhouse where kids of all ages get taught by one teacher. Men with Halloween masks pop in the window and take the whole class hostage. They take them all over, at one point they are in a barn that catches on fire, and the masked men kill an old couple. I remember the goldfish tank breaking and the fish dying. At the end, the masked men force the whole class down into this cave-type thing in the ground and they have to swim through water to safety. Anyone???

Posted by: Tara at August 14, 2007 10:17 AM

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

Posted by: mae at August 14, 2007 10:18 AM

Thanks for the answer guys.

Posted by: Leeb at August 14, 2007 10:18 AM

#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.

Posted by: CJ at August 14, 2007 10:47 AM

Don't know many of these, though I read the one about the orphaned Indian kid going to stay with his aunt and hunger striking to save the house.

I've got one scene that terrified me when I was little. It's early 80's and I think a little girl was playing in the garden, then she saw something and called her parents. Then a skeleton ends up being dug out, then it turns into a real woman, like the flesh grew back. That's the part that terrified me, though it might have been indended to be a flash back.

b) a kids series (dubbed from a 70's German show???) about a kid who sells his smile in return for winning every bet. Then he wants his smile back but it takes a few adventures to realise that he just has to bet he'll get it back.

c) An animated kids series of which I just saw one episode. There are some people/aliens going through space and one of them is an alien woman with, I think, grey skin, big eyes and antenna? Then they land on a planet and she finds a little girl of her race (which was presumably scattered) and they are really pleased to see each other. But the girls guardian betrays them as he is being threatened with the murder of the little girl alien.

Posted by: ChrisD at August 14, 2007 10:51 AM

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!!

Posted by: dammitjanet at August 14, 2007 11:00 AM

"I always try to tell people about this movie I saw when I was a kid that scared the CRAP out of me. It was a horror movie, and the main baddy-guy was a ventriloquist and he would paint himself to look like his surroundings (eg a brick pattern or something) so that he could stand against the brick wall and then project his voice out so his victims had no idea where he was. This movie scared me so much as a child, and I used to walk around my house running my hands along the walls to check that no baddy-ventiloquist-painted people were waiting to kill me."

JJMcclay and Pissboy - please remember this movie!...it has been in my head for years. I think it was a 90's movie and I think the bad guy was stalking a young girl...maybe a babysitter????? I think she had a run in with him before and it was happening agian? It scared me oh so much.

Posted by: Cizzie at August 14, 2007 11:04 AM

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.

Posted by: b at August 14, 2007 11:13 AM

CJ, I think you are thinking of 'Miracle Mile" with Anthony Edwards. He is looking for Mare Winningham after overhearing a phone call from a general calling his family to warn them of the attack. Good movie.

Posted by: dammitjanet at August 14, 2007 11:14 AM

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!

Posted by: Deleted Space at August 14, 2007 11:16 AM

Really cheese sci-fi. 80's. I want to say James Spader was the lead. He finds this weird girl who he thinks is Russian, but really she's an alien. they fall in love, bla, bla, bla, and I think at the end when she returns to her planet she leaves him the gift of knowing everything. God, this is embarrassing just writing it!

Posted by: courtney at August 14, 2007 11:22 AM

@courtnet: Is your movie "Starcrossed?"

Posted by: mae at August 14, 2007 11:30 AM

nikab and Sam are both thinking of Don't go to Sleep. The older sister dies in the beginning when her sibling tie her shoes together in the car and she can't get out after the fiery accident. Then she get revenge on everyone.

Posted by: ShannonAnn at August 14, 2007 11:31 AM

mae: THANK YOU!!!

Posted by: courtney at August 14, 2007 11:34 AM

Ranylt, thank you. I think it is Hatchet for the Honeymoon. I found the trailer on youtube, but hell it hardly shows anything. I might have to rent it to know for sure.

Posted by: Christina at August 14, 2007 11:47 AM

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

Posted by: short4astortrooper at August 14, 2007 11:50 AM

short4astortrooper...the second one sounds like a scene from the made for tv Stephen King movie, "The Stand".

Posted by: lex at August 14, 2007 11:52 AM

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!

Posted by: courtney at August 14, 2007 11:53 AM

Deleted Space...is it Wings of Desire? That was, I believe a German movie that was remade as City of Angels, with Nic Cage and Meg Ryan.

Posted by: dammitjanet at August 14, 2007 11:56 AM

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?

Posted by: tamatha at August 14, 2007 12:05 PM

Brian: You are my personal Jesus. The serial was The Ark In Space, indeed. It's available as a region 1 DVD. Bless you.

Your welcome

I will pass on the whole Jesus thing though. The first one has not worked out to well for my fellow members of the Chosen People and I'm not looking to continue in that tradition. Enjoy your DVD

Posted by: Brian at August 14, 2007 12:13 PM

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!

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 14, 2007 12:22 PM

I remember a movie about a deaf boy getting hit by a train called, "Amy" came out in 1981. Is this your movie, Tamatha?

Posted by: Lex at August 14, 2007 12:23 PM

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.

Posted by: CJ at August 14, 2007 12:25 PM

Cizzie...the movie you are thinking might be "When a Stranger Calls Back" (a young Carol Kane was in this!) where the killer stalks a babysitter. I remember at the end he blends into the wall.

Posted by: Lex at August 14, 2007 12:35 PM

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

Posted by: b at August 14, 2007 12:41 PM

Jenni, you may be thinking of Gazon Maudit, a.k.a. French Twist.

I saw a low-budget, indie-type movie in the mid-90s that's been really bugging me because I remember it so clearly but I never knew the title. This guy goes to visit a friend of his and ends up becoming friends with everyone in his buddy's apartment building. They all go camping, and the guy starts to get close to this woman and her two kids (boy and girl). But every time the kids start to like him, the mom gets mad at him, and every time the mom starts to like him, the kids get mad. He takes the kids for a canoe ride, but the canoe sinks. The mom comes out in another canoe and picks the kids up, but leaves him there. While he's swimming back an old man in their group has a heart attack or something, so they have to leave. Later on the guy has to go back home, but he doesn't really want to since he's gotten to like everyone in the building. He says he can't quite decide to stay and his friend says, "Well, you can decide on the way to the airport." So they drive off and leave his luggage on the sidewalk, and that's the end. It was pretty funny.

Posted by: Todd at August 14, 2007 12:42 PM

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.

Posted by: Bex at August 14, 2007 12:47 PM

CIZZIE and JJMCLAY....help me out here. Gimme a key scene in the movie or something like that. The only thing i can think of where someone looks like their background and can throw their voice is Predator...but the concept is ringing a HUGE bell in my head. Gimme something!

Posted by: PissBoy at August 14, 2007 1:02 PM

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.

Posted by: Mary at August 14, 2007 1:06 PM

BEX - #2 is Forget Paris...but definitely NOT Burgess Meredith. He was the dude from Tales from the Darkide the movie who wanted the cat dead...did the voice Dr Finklestein in Nightmare Before X-Mas...dude in the pet shop from 'My Blue Heaven'

#1 is a movie called Communion!!!! I have that shit on BetaMax!!!! Brooke Shields is like the ONLY person in it. She's the one who gets killed.

Posted by: PissBoy at August 14, 2007 1:10 PM

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.

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 14, 2007 1:10 PM

DAMN! On the same Beta tape is a movie called Killbots! I remember recording this when i was like 6 years old. It was on PHL-17 in Philly. I wish I still had a functioning betamax player now. :(

Posted by: PissBoy at August 14, 2007 1:12 PM

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?

Posted by: cmoody at August 14, 2007 1:34 PM

ok, i have one, if anyone is still reading this. 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.

on the other hand, this all could've been a weird dream, too! if anyone knows this movie... i will love you forever!

Posted by: Liz at August 14, 2007 1:40 PM

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!

Posted by: Bex at August 14, 2007 1:46 PM

B: It very well might have been My Stepmother is an Alien, but I hope -- for comedic sake -- that you're referring to Earth Girls Are Easy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rNfZxgkH7k

Posted by: Dustin Rowles at August 14, 2007 1:50 PM

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!

Posted by: shelleyh at August 14, 2007 1:50 PM

MJ & Appwitch--I believe you have the same movie, and I agree with Lex that it is Bug. The first horror movie I ever saw. I was far too young and it freaked me out completely.

Jenni--I second Todd's suggestion that the movie you are describing is French Twist.

Lex--I just checked out imdb and it doesn't have enough info for me to know if Amy is the movie. But it does look/sound vaguely familiar, so that could be it... THANKS.

Speaking of horror movies from the mid- to late 70s, there is a (probably made-for-TV) movie that came out around the same time as Bug. It involved a monster made of mud and took place in a house on a lake with a dock underneath it. In one memorable scene, the monster is trying to get into the house and they close the door on its arm. The severed arm is still alive and (I believe) finds its way to the trap door in the floor that leads to the lake below...

Any ideas?

Posted by: tamatha at August 14, 2007 1:50 PM

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

Posted by: Lannie at August 14, 2007 1:57 PM

cmoody:

I think the movie you're talking about is a short based upon a Ray Bradbury story called All Summer In A Day. I think part of the movie has the kids lined up in front of sun lamps. Am I wrong?

Posted by: Kitty X at August 14, 2007 1:57 PM

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

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 14, 2007 2:01 PM

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

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 14, 2007 2:02 PM

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!

Posted by: Erin at August 14, 2007 2:16 PM

Ok, I know I'm a day late. This one has been bugging me for awhile.

Definitely a crappy 80's sequel to something. Dead girl comes back to life and starts terrorizing a high school boy. At some point they actually go into this weird alternative reality where it's like that high school but in the 50's/60's and everybody's dead. I think. Somebody ends up trying to drive a car into or out of a tunnel to escape at some point, I do believe.

Anybody?

Posted by: ueberbill at August 14, 2007 2:20 PM

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

Posted by: Johnny at August 14, 2007 2:27 PM

long time reader, first time commenter...b/c this movie has been running around in my brain for years.

I saw it on cable tv in the 80s. It involved people in masks (there was possibly a nixon mask, a reagan mask, a pig mask?) coming up on a farm house and killing some of the family that lived there and holding the rest hostage.
At another point in the movie, one of the women who was being held hostage escapes and part of her escape requires her to swim in a lake/cave where the water is covered in ice and she almsot gets trapped under the ice.

Anyone?

Posted by: ads510 at August 14, 2007 2:30 PM

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

Posted by: docsmartypants at August 14, 2007 2:35 PM

Hahahaha - thanks for that one Dustin. Yeah, I'm fairly certain now that it's "My Stepmother is an Alien"... though I have no greater motivation to watch it now than I did before.

Posted by: b at August 14, 2007 2:40 PM

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?

Posted by: jmurae at August 14, 2007 2:41 PM

WhoWhatWhere: I think the movie you are looking for where the house is in love with the woman who lives there is called "This House Possessed."

My friend and I used to watch it all the time when we were kids. It was pretty silly, but had a few scary bits.

Posted by: Erin at August 14, 2007 2:41 PM

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?

Posted by: jmurae at August 14, 2007 2:42 PM

I finally found it! I had almost convinced myself that it was StarBlazers, but something just didn't feel right about it. I knew the characters were close, but not quite right and the animation was too fuzzy and the ship was wrong. And I kept thinking there was a Five in the title. And there is! I found it and I'm so happy and you all helped lead me to it, so THANK YOU ALL!

It's "Force Five: Spaceketeers." I never would have found it without this thread and the leads y'all gave me. Thanks so much! I just bought an old VHS copy on Amazon.

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 14, 2007 2:48 PM

@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)

Posted by: be right back at August 14, 2007 3:04 PM

maxpurr9-
Is your movie "Night of the Comet?"

Posted by: Helcat at August 14, 2007 3:10 PM

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.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 14, 2007 3:10 PM

cmoody,
if you make it down this far, the two previous posts about your movie memory are correct and there is a nice discussion on the story and movie at the Onion AV Club's website from a few months ago. Be sure to read the whole article and the comments too.
Here's the link:
http://www.avclub.com/content/feature/ask_the_a_v_club_april_27_2007
Enjoy.

Posted by: jen310 at August 14, 2007 3:12 PM

@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)

Posted by: be right back at August 14, 2007 3:25 PM

Tara,

your movie is Fortress, an australian movie from 1984. I had completely forgotten about this movie (seen it about 3 times on tv over 10 yrs ago). I think the children keep the brain of one of the kidnappers in a jar, but i just might be making that up.

Posted by: nikab at August 14, 2007 3:34 PM

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.

Posted by: Gaby at August 14, 2007 3:47 PM

Thank-you AnnArrogance! You've solved something my brothers and I have been wondering for years. We always thought they were Power Rangers but they're Voltron. Awesome, thanks!

Posted by: CJ at August 14, 2007 3:55 PM

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?

Posted by: Kaybie at August 14, 2007 3:56 PM

Kaybie: It's not Manchild, is it?

Posted by: pinkcheese at August 14, 2007 4:21 PM

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.

Posted by: PissBoy at August 14, 2007 4:23 PM

Yes, KittyX, they did have to line up in front of sun lamps. Thanks to you an AnnArrogance. I have tried to explain that movie to so many people and they all think I made it up. Wait till I tell them its based on Ray Bradbury.

Awesome.

Posted by: cmoody at August 14, 2007 4:36 PM

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.

Posted by: Bex at August 14, 2007 4:49 PM

Nik ab---Thank you! That's so cool that you knew that one. That's totally it! I've been trying to figure that one out for many, many years.

Ads510--I think we are talking about the same movie--Fortress (see Nik ab's post above.)

Thanks again, all!

Posted by: Tara at August 14, 2007 5:00 PM

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/

Posted by: cj at August 14, 2007 5:05 PM

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... Go look it up in imdb.

Posted by: cj at August 14, 2007 5:05 PM

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

Posted by: ads510 at August 14, 2007 5:50 PM

CHRIS-the movie with monsters yelling "Sallllly"
is Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" with Kim Darby (that Shaz questioned earlier). It scared the
bejeebers out of me and my husband and we still remember the "Sally monsters" as some pretty fear inducing critters.

Posted by: djo at August 14, 2007 6:03 PM

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!

Posted by: maxpurr9 at August 14, 2007 6:04 PM

How about this one: Horror movie, I'm guessing from the early to mid 80s. A guy steals his girlfriend's corpse from the morgue, then somehow brings her back to life.

The two scenes I remember are when she kills some crabby old lady by throwing a basket ball at the lady's head, causing the lady's head to explode; and the very end, when she's back in the morgue, and the guy goes to get her out again, and she pulls him into the morgue "drawer" with her.

I hope I'm not too late to get in on this!

Posted by: frumpiefox at August 14, 2007 6:25 PM

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.

Posted by: Skeggjold at August 14, 2007 6:33 PM

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

Posted by: Tom B at August 14, 2007 6:39 PM

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

Posted by: Tom B at August 14, 2007 6:40 PM

Frumpiefox, is your movie, Wes Craven's "the Dead Friend"? I remember someones head getting blown up by a basketball in that movie.

Posted by: lex at August 14, 2007 6:56 PM

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

Posted by: Chris at August 14, 2007 6:57 PM

Correction: Wes Craven's "Deadly Friend"...

Posted by: lex at August 14, 2007 6:57 PM

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.

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 14, 2007 6:57 PM

Thanks Matthew, Manny, Edward and Melissa!

N. Wood, I think that you're referring to an early Nicole Kidman film called Bangkok Hilton. It's the same premise of "Brokedown Palace"

Posted by: Cathy at August 14, 2007 7:00 PM

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

Posted by: lex at August 14, 2007 7:47 PM

Gaby...google Hammerhouse of Mystery and Suspenses and look at episode 12: Child's Play and see if that's what you're looking for. Hope it helps.

Posted by: Lex at August 14, 2007 7:49 PM

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!

Posted by: Lauren at August 14, 2007 8:17 PM

Tamatha said: Speaking of horror movies from the mid- to late 70s, there is a (probably made-for-TV) movie that came out around the same time as Bug. It involved a monster made of mud and took place in a house on a lake with a dock underneath it. In one memorable scene, the monster is trying to get into the house and they close the door on its arm. The severed arm is still alive and (I believe) finds its way to the trap door in the floor that leads to the lake below...

That sort of sounds like House (maybe House 2?) to me.

I have very, very, vague recollection of images from a movie (made-for-tv movie?) from the mid to late 80s or early 90s. The movie was more of a thriller than a horror movie, I don't know if anyone died, but the "killer" wore black leather gloves, possibly fingerless (although I don't why any shady person would do that...), and maybe a mask. He was hunting some unfortunate lady or ladies, and I think he might have been wooing them with a different personality while trying to kill them. A babydoll, sisters and a tattoo may have been involved involved. The scene that made a big impact on me was one of the final scenes, where the "killer's" reign of terror finally ends as he is killed or apprehended at a carnival, by a ferris wheel--it's possible he falls to his death after climbing the wheel chasing his victim. The images have been haunting me!

Posted by: RipeTomato at August 14, 2007 8:26 PM

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.

Posted by: 'Cuno at August 14, 2007 8:32 PM

1) This was an asian movie, dubbed in English, about a band of young space travelers. The only two things I remember were messages were sent around space in flying walnuts, and the space travelers stopped at a space dump and chased the flies (that were little points of light that died when you touched them).

2) Animated film in which humans were kept as pets, and the aliens spirits traveled in bubbles.

Posted by: shake at August 14, 2007 9:16 PM

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

Posted by: lex at August 14, 2007 9:38 PM

Okay this movie i've been trying to remember since forever. I think its an 80's or early 90's movie and I think it was some kind of romantic comedy and its about these two men, i think they were brothers, and somehow one of the brothers was either born with, or came to possess some kind of telekinetic control over fire. The other brother was jealous of his abilities and i think at some point gained either control over fire or something equally dangerous, and i think the climax of the movie was them super power fire fighting over some girl they were both in love with, and some fireball burned all of the grass in the lawn.

Posted by: shay at August 14, 2007 10:02 PM

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

Posted by: sam at August 14, 2007 10:11 PM

Shay: The fire-starting romantic comedy is Wilder Napalm with Dennis Quaid

Posted by: Kevin at August 14, 2007 10:25 PM

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...

Posted by: Frank Lee Delano at August 14, 2007 11:46 PM

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...

Posted by: Frank Lee Delano at August 14, 2007 11:46 PM

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!

Posted by: matt at August 15, 2007 12:50 AM

i am so happy for this discussion. i also want to add, for the hand people, a possibly overlooked hand tale that i just rediscovered, called netherworld.
there's also a cartoon i watched once or twice around the early 90's in southern california, the characters were vulture-like and grotesque, the colors were really dingy like greys and pastels, and the only really distinct thing i can remember if that one episode dealt with a character's bunion. this was a kid's show...
and most importantly, there is a looney tunes episode or feature in which daffy (maybe going by another name?) is in a saloon, and is served a multicolored, chemically volatile drink that makes him shoot through the ceiling....???

Posted by: elisa at August 15, 2007 3:30 AM

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.

Posted by: Kris at August 15, 2007 4:12 AM

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.

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.

Posted by: Kris at August 15, 2007 4:13 AM

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

Posted by: allee at August 15, 2007 4:55 AM

Hey thanks Todd and Tamantha. After looking on imdb. It certainly is Gazon Maudit. Forever in your debt people..

Posted by: Jenni at August 15, 2007 6:03 AM

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

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

Posted by: Cizzie at August 15, 2007 6:57 AM

Thank you, but I don't think it's either Brokedown Palace or Bangkok Hilton... The scene I remember include the firing squad! Women being dressed in shirts with targets on them, and shot by firing squad... the premise is similar to these movies though. It may have been foreign.

Posted by: N. Wood at August 15, 2007 7:40 AM

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!

Posted by: Jen Diff at August 15, 2007 8:30 AM

Frank Lee- thanks a billion. Of course I should've thought of the prom night series. That movie was freakin' WEIRD. I believe it ended with the titular Mary Lou popping out of a trunk of a car? Maybe? I wish I knew your flicks, but never seen 'em.

Posted by: ueberbill at August 15, 2007 8:53 AM

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.

Posted by: catherine at August 15, 2007 9:15 AM

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.

Posted by: catherine at August 15, 2007 9:16 AM

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

Posted by: frumpiefox at August 15, 2007 10:51 AM

Ok, I've got a couple. (btw, is it just me, or did a lot of these involve aliens from the '80s? god what a shitty decade)

1. Never actually saw this, but a professor mentioned it and I don't remember the title. He said it started out with a terrible hot air balloon tragedy where a grandfather and grandchild die, or fall out of the basket or something. I think he said Daniel Craig was in it.

2. This was a MST3k movie...all I remember is a girl with very tight jeans and a two-pointed stick wandering around a grassy field looking for water.

Posted by: alexis at August 15, 2007 10:56 AM

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.

Posted by: s. pisaster at August 15, 2007 11:40 AM

Damn, do I have one of these! It's something I've thought about periodically my entire life. At age 6 or 7, maybe (so that would be 1975 - 78) I watched a TV movie that moved me so much that I remember the feeling it gave me to this very day -- tenderness combined with awe, edged with a tiny shiver of horror, too; just enough to make the aching sweetness a little sexy tang. The movie was about a giant turtle. The turtle was once a tiny little turtle owned by a little kid and he had a little girlfriend and they carved their initials (soandso+ soandso) in the turtle's shell. Well, I guess a whole bunch of crazy shit went down and the kids went their separate ways, but eventually they got together as adults under crazy circumstances being that there was this GINORMOUS (and those were the days long before any of us could adequately describe something both "gigantic" AND "enormous," imagine) turtle in the sewers terrorizing the city. But all of that is extremely hazy in my mind. The only thing I remember very clearly is the very end of the movie, as the credits were rolling. It was the image of this turtle, which was somehow freed and not killed (possibly by some machinations of the former childhood sweethearts) swimming happily in the ocean. AND THE INITIALS WERE CARVED IN IT'S BACK! Somehow, I didn't see this coming and the irony and pathos of it effected me very deeply. [Funny, but I can only think of one other work of art, or film I guess, that came even close to giving me this feeling. It was an installation piece at the Chicago MCA in the late 90's: a little room projected on all sides with images of swimming fishes and seaweed waving under the ocean. And a tape playing all the while with a girl singing in a thin, high, quavering voice the song "Wicked Game" by Chris Isaak. I must have stayed in that room for, like, half an hour while my friends moved on. Hypnotized. Does ANYONE out there remember THAT?]

Posted by: genuflecked at August 15, 2007 12:18 PM

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.

Posted by: BabyTyrone at August 15, 2007 12:34 PM

Baby Tyrone,
Thanks for posting! I checked out The Abominable Dr. Phibes on IMDB and it doesn't look familiar at all. I recall the movie I saw being in color; and I don't remember Vincent Price being in it. But, I could be wrong. I was 6, after all.

Posted by: catherine at August 15, 2007 1:18 PM

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.

Posted by: anthony at August 15, 2007 1:25 PM

catherine, you should go rent the movie and see if it jogs the memory, it'll be worth it even if it isn't for the sheer mind-buggering insanity of the film, which is almost without peer.


here's a quote from a summary of "Phibes":
"He breaks into the room directly above the one Nurse Allen is sleeping in. He drills a hole through the floor and then drips this weird green syrupy cocktail made out of brussel sprouts on top of her. Nurse Allen is asleep mind you, so obviously she is unaware that twelve pounds of this nasty shit is being dumped on her. Because-- you know. She's like--asleep and all. On top of that, Phibes begins pumping in swarms of locusts into her room. The locusts are attracted to the brussel sprout juice like flies on shit and they eat at Nurse Allen until there is nothing left but her skull. Fortunately for nurse Allen, she was asleep during the entire affair. I'd hate to think what her reaction would be if she had actually woken up while the locusts were busy eating her face."

It's possible that the same technique was used for a murder in more than one movie, and some of the details are different (locusts, not flies, juice from brussels sprouts and not honey) but you'd think if there were such a movie then it would be listed on the imdb page under "movie connections"...

Posted by: BabyTyrone at August 15, 2007 3:15 PM

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.

Posted by: Frank Lee Delano at August 15, 2007 3:37 PM

Shake--

Your second movie is Fantastic Planet.

Here's what Wiki has to say:
Fantastic Planet is the English title of La Planète sauvage (literally "The Savage Planet") an animated 1973 science fiction film directed by René Laloux. The film was an international production between France and Czechoslovakia and has been distributed in the United States by Roger Corman. It won the special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973. The story is based on a novel, Oms en série, by the French writer Stefan Wul.

My stepfather rented it a couple of years ago, and weirdly, I had already seen it (though didn't remember its title). Had to ask him the name of the film.

Posted by: tamatha at August 15, 2007 4:23 PM

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!

Posted by: Gaby at August 15, 2007 4:49 PM

@genuflecked Your sea turtle film is "The Bermuda Depths," from 1978, starring the queen of made-for-TV movies, Connie Sellecca.

Posted by: be right back at August 15, 2007 5:24 PM

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...

Posted by: Kash at August 15, 2007 6:37 PM

And actually, I have another one, but this might've been talked about already with the appliances and stuff, however, I don't remember anything about it killing grass.

Anyway, there's a woman in the shower and whatever electrical current is in the house prevents her from opening it. It also heats up the water a bunch and as she tries to escape from being burned she ends up having to break through the glass door of the shower which I'm pretty sure kills her.
I also remember someone trying to escape from the house in the garage but the mystery killing thing won't open the garage door and then turns the car on. I'm not sure if they died though...

Posted by: Kash at August 15, 2007 6:41 PM

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.

Posted by: 'Cuno at August 15, 2007 6:58 PM

P.S: Whoever was thinking about the Stephen King short story Maximum Overdrive is based on? That would be 'Trucks', which you can find in the collection Night Shift. King apparently dislikes the movie, which he directed, or that's what I got from a reference he made in On Writing.

Posted by: 'Cuno at August 15, 2007 7:06 PM

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...

Posted by: Kash at August 15, 2007 7:13 PM

I have another one, saw many many years ago.

Really bad cheesy horror movie. Cats...black cats that attacked people and killed them, I recall one scene where people were in a room and the cats were at the door trying to get in(and the door was sure moving/giving a lot for just two measly cats). I recall it was a pair of black cats. Really cheesy.

Posted by: WhoWhatWhere at August 15, 2007 7:18 PM

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!

Posted by: emily J at August 15, 2007 11:53 PM

Hey ueberbill I think the movie you are thinking of might be called Susie Q...they used to play it on Disney Channel a lot. Basically a girl died during the prom and now she haunts this teenager while still acting like it's the 50s.

Posted by: emily J at August 16, 2007 12:06 AM

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.

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 16, 2007 12:17 AM

Allee: The fact that you even MENTIONED Watcher in the Woods made my day!! I haven't seen that movie since I was in elementary school. They showed it to us in the library (same smart people that showed us Old Yeller in the gym and were met with a torrent of sobbing 7 year olds). Anyway, that movied F*#*ED me up. Seriously. Bad. Wasn't Bette Davis the old neighbor lady? I would kill to see that movie again and prove that I can't be scared anymore. But I probably will be.

Posted by: Sharon at August 16, 2007 1:36 AM

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.

Posted by: Sharon at August 16, 2007 1:50 AM

KRIS. You knew! Even with the angelic misinformation!

You have totally made my week. I am off to google 'til I find a place to rent and watch the ending.

And yeah, Cupid was hot...

Posted by: Deleted Space at August 16, 2007 2:22 AM

Frumpie Fox: is yours "Pet Cemetary"?

Posted by: Helcat at August 16, 2007 9:55 AM

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 (eg a hairdryer which i think shorted out) and this somehow saved them. i remember one awful scene where someone looks in a pram and it's filled with maggots. no idea what happens in the end but would love to know the name!

Posted by: Ruthie at August 16, 2007 10:04 AM

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

Posted by: Ruthie at August 16, 2007 10:14 AM

I saw this movie about a bus that had to SPEED around the city, keeping its SPEED over fifty. And if its SPEED dropped, the bus would explode! I think it was called..."The Bus That Couldn't Slow
Down."

Anyone?

Posted by: George at August 16, 2007 10:45 AM

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?!)

Posted by: Liz at August 16, 2007 11:59 AM

Thanks Tamatha, now I can go rent Fantastic Planet and see if it was as freaky as I remember!

Posted by: Shake at August 16, 2007 1:34 PM

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.

Posted by: ChrisD at August 16, 2007 2:09 PM

ChrisD: Sounds like The Quiet Earth (1985).

Posted by: docsmartypants at August 16, 2007 3:04 PM

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.

Posted by: Shane at August 16, 2007 3:22 PM

And not to be totally greedy and off-topic, but a friend of mine and I recently found where we'd written down movie quotes and lines we stole from shows like SNL, MAD TV, and American Idol. We found one that said (phonetically, of course):

"Shi-Can-Coo-Corrie-Corrie-Cahtchoo"

Does ANYONE have any idea what skit or show this chant (I'm pretty sure it was a chant) was from?

Posted by: Shane at August 16, 2007 3:32 PM

Shane: Not "The Wicker Man," right?

Posted by: Frank Lee Delano at August 16, 2007 3:46 PM

KittyX, AnnArrogance, cmoody: Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I saw this movie (All Summer in a Day, apparently) when I was a young 'un in about 3rd grade in England (about 1989?), and the part where the Earth girl is in the room and only gets to see the tiny sliver of lights...well, it was the first movie that ignited my sense of injustice. I've been wondering for years what this movie was--At the time, I was sort of under the impression that it was a short made-for-tv British movie or something they only showed in schools. I will sleep better with this knowledge.

Posted by: Catherine at August 16, 2007 3:50 PM

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

Posted by: ChrisD at August 16, 2007 6:40 PM

@Shane Your movie sounds like it could be "Spellbinder" (1988), but it's hard to say for sure. Worth a quick IMDB trip? It's a pretty good (if quite 80s-y) movie regardless, IMHO.

Posted by: be right back at August 16, 2007 10:13 PM

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

Posted by: Shane at August 17, 2007 12:06 AM

Just in case anyone is still reading:

80s horror. Garishly bright colored house. Very obese woman punched in the stomach by her son. His hand gets stuck into her fat and a goop starts pouring out of the hole and her mouth.

Any ideas?

Posted by: Noah at August 17, 2007 12:12 AM

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.

Posted by: RipeTomato at August 17, 2007 4:15 AM

Hey Ripe - defo wasn't Langoliers (though I loved that movie and the short story by King). I think Quiet Earth sounds like the one...so thank you sooooooooooooooooooooo much people. Wow, after 20 years I can put that one to rest. Best afternoon comment diversion ever!

Posted by: Ruthie at August 17, 2007 8:02 AM

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'!

Posted by: Julian at August 17, 2007 1:47 PM

Julian

I think your movie could be my movie (see article at top) about possessed appliances. My version was also possibly in French, because I saw it in a hotel room in Montreal in 1984. Unfortunately I don't remember which language I was actually watching it in...

Misery loves company.

Posted by: Ranylt at August 17, 2007 4:05 PM

@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).

Posted by: be right back at August 17, 2007 9:15 PM

be right back--I think I found it! (I knew it wasn't Burnt Offerings, which I've seen, but while I was Googling Dark Places, your other suggestion, I somehow unearthed a lead to this one--THANK YOU!!):

"Demon dans l'ile" (Demon on/of the Island), a 1983 French horror movie, with this as a description (from IMDb):

"Local citizens have increasingly dangerous accidents involving otherwise mundane household appliances or objects: Coffee makers shoot scalding water, wine glasses shatter and splinter into mouths, electric carving knives strike back at their operators, razors start chopping away masses of flesh, a microwave oven teaches a chef to keep her cotton pickin' fingers to herself, and finally a small drum of cooking gas explodes, claiming two lives."

(Julian, does that sound familiar?)

Posted by: Ranylt at August 17, 2007 9:27 PM

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.

Posted by: be right back at August 17, 2007 9:47 PM

This is a French movie that I saw on an airplane, so I don't know if anyone knows it. It probably came out around 2000 or so and might have been a sequel/threquel.

It is a comedy, set in France. There are about 3-4 main male characters. Some of them try to set up a textile factory with not much success. I think that in the end they end up making doll's clothes by accident. Also mobsters/mean financiers may have been involved.

Posted by: Julie at August 18, 2007 12:56 AM

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?
:(

Posted by: Sabina at August 18, 2007 3:10 AM

i'm prolly too late to get in to the swing of things here and two of things that i'm looking for are TV shows, but here goes:

1) mid-80's TV show with a midget that is like a magician/inventer guy. he's kinda ornery but makes really cool gadgets and smoke bombs and stuff and solves mysteries.

2) mid-80's TV show about a group of teens with special powers. the only scene that i remember is of one of the teens (I think his name was Johnny in a leather jacket- the "rocker" one) saves the rest of the group by sucking up the electricity from a power transformer and shooting lightning bolts at the bad guys while "Johhny B. Goode" is playing.

3) mid-80's movie about a gang of nerdy boys that make a spaceship out of their tree house and go into space and meet some aliens.

4) 70's?/80's? gangster movie but instead of shooting bullets they throw pies and shoot whipped cream.

anyone?

Posted by: causaubon at August 18, 2007 1:10 PM

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.

Posted by: divadaisy at August 18, 2007 3:57 PM

Oops. That should be The Misfits of Science!

Posted by: divadaisy at August 18, 2007 4:00 PM

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?

Posted by: genuflecked at August 19, 2007 11:29 AM

@genuflecked I check this thread every once in a while, since it is informing me of crazy movies I'd never otherwise hear of, and your Tatum O'Neal movie inspired me to peruse her IMDB. This turned up what must be your movie, which is called "Circle of Two," and all of the comments stress how "tasteful" the 15-year-old-falls-in-love-with-the-sixty-five-year -old storyline is handled. Also, this is the only quotable quote they pulled from the script:

Sarah Norton: Have you thought about going to bed with me?
Ashley St. Clair: Yes.
Sarah Norton: [walks over to the bed] Let's.
Ashley St. Clair: Obviously, no.
Sarah Norton: Why? Is it because you think I'm a virgin? Because if you think I am...
Ashley St. Clair: You are.
Sarah Norton: I am.

Tasteful indeed! (though they could be right; after all, the movie is Canadian).

Posted by: be right back at August 19, 2007 6:57 PM

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

Posted by: kate A at August 20, 2007 8:24 AM

Dude. "Circle of Two." How profound. Probably not out on DVD, but if it was I'd send my ex a copy. Seems my head is full of old 70's/early 80's movies and not much else. This would actually make a pretty good trivia game, though. Another one (circa "Burmuda Depths") my brother and I watched on TV late one night had us both in tears. It was about a group of 70's pot-smoking post-hippie kids whose parents decide to send them to some kind of camp where grizzled cowboy-types teach the worthless punks how to be real men -- by shooting animals. I think at the end one of the kids gets accidently shot or something. The title was memorable because the theme song was sung by Karen Carpenter. Anyone?

Posted by: genuflecked at August 20, 2007 11:52 AM

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!!

Posted by: Kash at August 20, 2007 3:09 PM

I'm probably not being much help,Dustin,but it may be "Clash of the Titans" you're thinking of. I haven't seen "Beastmaster" in years, but I clearly remember three visually challenged elder women in "Titans".

Posted by: B-rant at August 20, 2007 5:48 PM

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?

Posted by: AnnArrogance at August 21, 2007 1:00 PM

Thanks Johnny!

Posted by: kelly at August 21, 2007 6:34 PM

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.

Posted by: Jennifer at August 22, 2007 3:45 PM

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.

Posted by: Jennifer at August 22, 2007 3:45 PM

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

Posted by: gilly_62 at August 24, 2007 1:10 AM

this is either an 80's or early 90's movie I don't remember much other than there is a witch lady in it and she has a bunch of heads in glass jars that she can change and her mood depends on the head she is wearing. I think there is a kid in it but I dont remember much else......this has been driving me crazy for years

Posted by: Jen at August 25, 2007 3:17 AM

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

Posted by: Brooke<3 at August 25, 2007 10:56 PM

Jen, I think your movie about the witch with the switchable heads is RETURN TO OZ, the underrated early-'80s sequel to THE WIZARD OF OZ starring Fairuza Balk and directed by editing/sound design genius Walter Murch.

Posted by: Paul at August 26, 2007 11:42 AM

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

Posted by: Sascha at August 26, 2007 9:18 PM

Sascha, do you mean Labyrinth starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie? Lots of great Bowie music and puppets. Fantastic movie.


"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?
Posted by: Mary Ann at August 13, 2007 2:49 PM"

Mary Ann, did anyone answer you? I believe it was "The Trouble With Angels."
Hayley Mills became the nun, is that right?

Can anyone help me with thissun?
It was a horror/thriller movie about a scary psycho guy who would kill people and leave a doll exactly like them at the scene. And at the end a giant pile of metal chains from a warehouse or warf falls on him and crushes all his bones but he doesn't die, he is paralysed and his mother paints his face up to look like a doll. It freaked me out for weeks.

Posted by: Loob at August 28, 2007 12:44 PM

"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?

Posted by: Loob at August 28, 2007 1:01 PM

Hello! I watched a movie around 12 yrs ago and have been desperately trying to get my hands on it for around 4 yrs now. I saw it on Bravo when they used to play weird movies at 11pm every night. (where i first saw Bad Taste!) Anyway, i'm 99.9% certain it is set in Australia. Here are a few scenes i remember:

1 Two men in their late teens drive to a farm
house
2 Weird family live there
3 Think the granny watches porn in a hidden room?
4 The daughter takes a wooden stake and tries to
stab one of the young men through the groin with
it
5 They get chased with a tractor near the end

I doubt that any of you will remember this, but i'd appreciate it if any one could help. Would love to see it again with a few beers!

Thanks. Gav

Posted by: Gav at September 2, 2007 4:04 AM

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

Posted by: Wendy at September 5, 2007 11:43 AM

YOU SUCK

Posted by: reece at September 6, 2007 8:33 AM

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.

Posted by: daphne at September 10, 2007 5:11 AM

Jennifer & Daphne: The movie with the cheerleader who is killed with a drill while brushing her teeth is the tragically underrated horror spoof, 1982's Pandemonium. One of my childhood favs, starring all kinds of great people: Judge Reinhold, Paul Reubens (Pee Wee!), Tom Smothers, Carol Kane, Eileen Brennan, Eve Arden, Edie McClurg... even a really, really young Phil Hartman! Totally bizarre, campy fun.

Posted by: julie at September 19, 2007 1:14 AM

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

Posted by: else at September 22, 2007 4:44 PM

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

Posted by: else at September 22, 2007 4:46 PM

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

Posted by: else at September 22, 2007 4:49 PM

I watched this movie when I was really young.I remember a ring of kids standing around a girl,then a bell falls on top of her and she vanishes.I believe throughout the movie she haunts people or people catch flashes of her.in the end the kids,all grown up now,realize the only way to get her back is to recreate how she vanished.So they stand in a circle,(i believe) a bell drops,and bam there she is,still a kid(i think).This was probably 60's-very early 80's movie stuff.I just cannot remember the title,if I ever knew it.

Posted by: Erika S at September 24, 2007 9:09 PM

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.

Posted by: Ranylt at September 24, 2007 9:20 PM

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.

does anyone remember a title?

Posted by: help!!!! at October 8, 2007 9:49 PM

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.... :)

Posted by: mary at October 10, 2007 3:29 AM

Flight of the Dragons.

Posted by: kgthan at October 10, 2007 1:47 PM

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!

Posted by: maxim at October 15, 2007 1:42 AM

Gav: I think I saw that movie, too! Does the farmer's daughter end up topless at one point, still trying to stab one of the guys? I've asked so many people about this movie, and they just look at me like I'm nuts. It's NOT a porn, but it's definitely campy, probably from the 70's. Are we thinking of the same film??

Posted by: Brookie at October 15, 2007 2:06 AM

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???

Posted by: Justin at October 15, 2007 10:14 AM

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???

Posted by: Justin at October 15, 2007 10:16 AM

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

Posted by: Pirategirl at October 17, 2007 1:31 AM

Maxim,
That movie is called The Quest. It took me awhile to find it on imdb. Apparently it was made in Australia and was released there under the name Frog Dreaming.

I loved the movie when I was a kid.

Posted by: Erin at October 17, 2007 3:35 PM

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.

Posted by: princessxoxxo at October 19, 2007 2:59 PM

Anyone remember a movie where at the very end we see a flashback where the main character as a kid walks into his father's bedroom, and he's with a hooker. He decapitates her with an axe and then stands on top of his father who is tied to the bed, and puts the axe right through his forehead. This has been driving me crazy for years.

There are also scenes where, as an an adult, he's at peep shows, and every time he gets turned on we see him debilitated and foaming at the mouth.

Posted by: Cobra at October 21, 2007 9:55 PM

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.

Posted by: Van at October 23, 2007 10:00 AM

How about this:

1. probably viewed in the 80's...

Playing hide and seek and there's some sort of nuclear/radiation thing and this one kid who was hiding (from his/her parents?) was hiding behind this piece of plywood against a wall.

2. Very obscure memory: Anime style in the 80's - has a girl who is left alone at somepoint on a tower? The characters could fly - and it seems there was some sort of castle or maybe an evil something in the sky ... ???

Found this page when trying to answer what another obscure movie was - ended up being the Peanut Butter Solution - so thanks to all ya'll!

Posted by: deboranna at October 24, 2007 3:15 PM

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

Posted by: Raina at October 26, 2007 10:47 AM

RE: Gav: I think I saw that movie, too! Does the farmer's daughter end up topless at one point, still trying to stab one of the guys? I've asked so many people about this movie, and they just look at me like I'm nuts. It's NOT a porn, but it's definitely campy, probably from the 70's. Are we thinking of the same film??

It could be the same one. What else do you remember about it? Even some character names? I'm so determined to get this!

Cheers

Gav

Posted by: Gav at November 3, 2007 5:16 PM

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.

Posted by: Shima at November 3, 2007 10:06 PM

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

Posted by: Blaize at November 6, 2007 1:03 PM

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

Posted by: Blaize at November 6, 2007 1:04 PM

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

Posted by: Blaize at November 6, 2007 1:04 PM

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

Posted by: Blaize at November 6, 2007 1:12 PM

I have been obsessed with this movie that I saw in the 80's. Its about a teen girl that wants to be a boy. She's always on her rooftop wishing that she's a boy, until one day after falling asleep outside. That she wakes up with a penis. Her parents are perplexed, and she's kinda happy because now she can dress like a boy. Of course, until she starts hanging out with boys and falls for one. At the end she wishes on her rooftop or kisses him thats when she turns back into a girl. Do you guys know what movie I'm talking about? These weird plots always make me feel like I imagined it, but there were so many strange movies like this back then. Thanks!

Posted by: Jenn at November 6, 2007 4:17 PM

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.

Posted by: Lola at November 6, 2007 4:44 PM

I've been trying to figure out what movie this is for years. Statues found in cave/tunnel/underground statues come alive and are some kind of party animals. I swear Randy Quaid was in it and gets ate by the critters while listening to headphones in a recliner. I find no mention of it in any of his flim lists. Munchies seems to be the closest I can come but I don't think that's it. Movie seems a rip off of Critters and Gremlins.

Posted by: Techyo at November 11, 2007 1:29 AM

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. :)

Posted by: Arkane at November 13, 2007 4:13 AM

ok, this is a really vague description, but it's all i remember. i saw this movie years ago -- all i remember is a boy who was in a wheelchair got kidnapped by some man and was put in his basement. the man looked like your typical creepo with big glasses, and i remember the boy got out.

if anyone remembers, feel free to email the answer to meliss101382@yahoo.com thanks!

Posted by: melissa at November 13, 2007 2:37 PM

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)

Posted by: Jeremy at November 15, 2007 4:48 PM

I am trying to find the name of a movie from maybe the 80's about some kids that are on a water tower and one falls in. He nearly drowns and while unconscious he dreams/meets a kangaroo....while with the kangaroo they battle Fire Wind and Water??????? Can anyone tell me what it is???
Thanks!

Posted by: Library Lady at November 15, 2007 8:51 PM

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!

Posted by: John at November 17, 2007 11:38 AM

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!

Posted by: John at November 17, 2007 11:38 AM

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".

Posted by: Purukivel at November 18, 2007 1:05 PM

Bah, I retract one of my answers above. I just this second found out that Arkane's movie is actually the animated flick "The Elm-Chanted Forest" from 1986.

Posted by: Purukivel at November 18, 2007 1:16 PM

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

Posted by: laffndragn at November 19, 2007 11:38 AM

horror: Saw the movie in the 90s, probably a movie on tv at the time. I remeber very few things, the scene is a couple playing a game of strip hide and seek, the girls is hiding and hides in a garage. She asks the guy to give her his jacket and he does, then he procced to step into some ooze and it melts/eats him. i think she was possesed maybe not.

Posted by: Jeff at November 22, 2007 11:26 PM

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

Posted by: Lisa at November 26, 2007 6:14 PM

Think this film is Austrailian and was was made in the early 80s -
I remember that there has been an end of the world apocalyse, with the earth experiencing some kind of natural disaster resulting in a shift of its axis (I've only just remembered that bit!)
There are only 3 survivors - a woman and two men. They survived because they died at the exact moment of the axis shift and this reversed their death. The women was electrocuted while drying her hair, one man was commiting suicide, but I can't remember about the other man.
The film ended with the woman and a man leaving the other man behind (I think).
Thanks for any ideas.

Posted by: Jo at November 28, 2007 2:02 PM

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.

Posted by: Barb at November 29, 2007 3:34 PM

hi there, i'm trying to find out the name of an old black and white movie i saw as a kid about a deaf man who was villanized by the hearing community. the way it went is the deaf man was homeless and marginalized, maybe a hobo. a hearing child went missing and everyone thought he was responsible but he's not. in the end the deaf man helps to find the child and the child responds with empathy to the deaf man which was very unusual behaviour at the time. there's a scene in the movie when the deaf man is walking beside a creek and a lynchmob of hearing men see him and go after him because he is their number one suspect in the kidnapping. thanks for your help, P.

Posted by: b&w movie with a deaf homeless man at November 29, 2007 11:23 PM

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!

Posted by: Larissa at November 30, 2007 3:22 PM

This movie was Australian, I think, the plot involved a bunch of men in masks. I remember one of the masks being that of Santa Claus, but i remember them calling him father Christmas. I think another one was a duck or cat. Well these masked men kidnapped a bunch of kids. Then the kids get away and end up killing them with a pit of stakes or something...HELP!

Posted by: drewp at December 1, 2007 12:09 AM

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!

Posted by: drewp at December 1, 2007 12:13 AM

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 their teacher from school. The kidnappers threw 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!

Posted by: drewp at December 1, 2007 12:15 AM

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

Posted by: Barb at December 2, 2007 2:59 AM

Name that movie: I am trying desperately to remember the name of a movie that came out in the 70's or early 80's with Robby Benson I think as a teen that is left behind for some reason and lives in the walls of his former home. Please help this thing is driving me crazy.

Posted by: Delila at December 2, 2007 10:22 PM

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 =]

Posted by: Erica at December 3, 2007 4:08 AM

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.

Posted by: Larissa at December 4, 2007 3:31 PM

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.

Posted by: Larissa at December 4, 2007 3:32 PM

Delila, the movie you are thinking of is "Bad Ronald". Scott Jacoby was the actor; Robby Benson wasn't in it. I loved that movie.

Posted by: Barb at December 4, 2007 5:46 PM

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?

Posted by: Deano at December 5, 2007 10:01 PM

horror: Saw the movie in the 90s, probably a movie on tv at the time. I remeber very few things, the scene is a couple playing a game of strip hide and seek, the girls is hiding and hides in a garage. She asks the guy to give her his jacket and he does, then he procced to step into some ooze and it melts/eats him. i think she was possesed maybe not.

Posted by: Jeff at December 6, 2007 4:11 AM

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.

Posted by: Gavin at December 6, 2007 5:18 PM

Ok This has been bothering me for many years ..there are 2 movies i am dieing to find the name of.. i have done many searchs and found nothing....

#1

OK this movie is a horror movie.. it somehow involves an evil doll... and the evil doll is girl doll.... she belongs to this girl who died who is buried on the property... everyone always thought the girl was evil.. at one point they show the casket open with the doll in it.. i dont know much else.. other then there was a mother and father and another little girl who now had the doll who belonged to... lol i dont know i just know it scared the crap out of me and my husband when we were like 8 years old!

OK #2
This movie is about a little girl who i belive was some kind of dancer ... and she has a little sister.. well anyways shes in a car and some of her family are in the ca behind her or something and she turns around and the they get in a car crash and she dies...well then some how the family ends up and this old womans place.. could be there grand ma or something .. but at this place.. all the souls of the children.. i think its just the kids.. but they are in the woods and around the house.. i remember loveing the movieing.. but i have no idea the name of it.. also i think it had something to do with wind chimes hanging from the trees... if anyone has any idea i would love to know .. it was from the 80's or early 90s

Posted by: natasha at December 12, 2007 8:53 PM

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

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

Posted by: Purukivel at December 16, 2007 12:28 PM

Erika, your movie is "North" from 1994.

Posted by: Purukivel at December 16, 2007 12:30 PM

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

Posted by: kalisha at December 16, 2007 12:58 PM

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

Posted by: kalisha at December 16, 2007 12:59 PM

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...

Posted by: Alexander at December 18, 2007 12:55 AM

I've been trying to find these two flicks that I saw as a child:
1) Two girls are taken to the hospital with brain injuries. One girl was hit by a bus, I think. The other dies and the one that survived the bus / pedestrian accident gets the other girls brain and in time is haunted by flashbacks of the other girl being murdered by a hair dryer in the tub.
2) the lead is a reporter or anchor and sports a heavy beard. There is a scene where he is kidnapped and his fingers are broken one by one and a hot coffee pot is placed on them. In another scene he and his girlfriend are arguing and he slaps her and they both fall to the floor laughing....

Posted by: Jon at December 20, 2007 6:02 PM

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

Posted by: Purukivel at December 23, 2007 11:19 AM

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!

Posted by: brittany at December 27, 2007 2:21 AM

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!

Posted by: brittany at December 27, 2007 2:22 AM

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!

Posted by: brittany at December 27, 2007 2:22 AM

Ms. Brittany, your movie is "Labyrinth".

Posted by: Purukivel at December 27, 2007 6:57 AM

horror: Saw the movie in the 90s, probably a movie on tv at the time. I remeber very few things, the scene is a couple playing a game of strip hide and seek, the girls is hiding and hides in a garage. She asks the guy to give her his jacket and he does, then he procced to step into some ooze and it melts/eats him. i think she was possesed maybe not.

Posted by: jeff at December 27, 2007 11:03 PM

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?!?!

Posted by: lilac1713 at December 30, 2007 9:35 AM

I have been trying to find the name of this movie for years. It's black & white, about an alcoholic (Irish, I think) who movies into a house with a bunch of kids (East End Kids, Lost Kids, something like that). He quits drinking (I think) & it's around Christmas time, & at the end of the movie he drags home a Christmas tree. It seems to me that the kids were going to be split up & sent to orphanages or something & that's why the alcoholic straightened up. Any ideas?

Posted by: Sharon at December 30, 2007 2:50 PM

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

Posted by: rodney at December 31, 2007 4:44 PM

I have been trying to find some old movies for my collection, one is about a chinese movie. I thought was called the 'white dragon'. he was up in a tree and a woman passed by with her little bother or son. and he talked to them. he fought with a weaver beam and at the end the boy jumped on his back while this awesome fighter fought, becuse he was wounded he won killing at least a hundred men. he was still standing with the weaver beam in his hand pocked into the ground the boy ran up to him and his hero fall to the ground dead awesome movie i sure would like to find it.

Posted by: frances at December 31, 2007 4:47 PM

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

Posted by: Jon at December 31, 2007 5:20 PM

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.

Posted by: Doug at January 2, 2008 9:22 PM

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.

Posted by: Doug M at January 2, 2008 9:33 PM

Sorry about the double post, feel free to delete one. Problem was I didn't see my post appear on the main page and no link to a page two but it does seem to show up at the bottom when I preview a post so I know it works.

Posted by: Doug at January 2, 2008 10:03 PM

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???

Posted by: debwolfe at January 9, 2008 12:46 PM

Mr. and/or Ms. Debwolfe, your movie is "Something Wild" from 1961, starring Ralph Meeker, Carroll Baker, and Jean Stapleton.

Posted by: Purukivel at January 10, 2008 8:47 PM

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!

Posted by: Nala at January 12, 2008 12:29 AM

GREAT SITE! I have been wondering about an old horror movie for a long time now. I would have to guess it was made in the 40s or 50s. It's about a newly wed couple who move into a new house that the wife seem to vaguely remember. It turns out she used to live there and she remembers this when she sees both of their initials carved into a tree in their yard. It turns out she had lost her memory when she saw someone hanging in the attic and her husband had know this all along. I think that the attic may have been haunted or something too. I would be greatly appreciative if anyone out there could help me to remember the name of this movie because I have been wanting to see it for years now. Thank you very much

Posted by: Larry at January 14, 2008 7:22 PM

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

Posted by: david glover at January 15, 2008 7:10 AM

I'm so glad I found this page. Ok, sometime in the early ninetys my dad was watching some movie where these people found some kind of monster or demon that was the size of an action figure toy. They found out that they could make wishes and they wished for cash and a car and stuff like that. But like overnight i guess the things they got would turn into shit. Like the money in his pocket was shit or the car in the drive way was a pile of shit. Then they slowly began turning into a man sized version of this monster. I remember one part where the group of teens go to a really fancy restaurant and the one guy gets sick and he is in the bathroom and then he bursts out of the stall and he runs through the place and like his rip cage falls onto some woman's lap. I was really young and the bits and pieces i snuck to watch gave me nightmares. Please if some could help me with this movie, I'd be so gratefull!!!

Posted by: Buddy at January 15, 2008 11:08 AM

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.

Posted by: Maylee at January 15, 2008 11:31 AM

I woke up late after being a nurse on Intensive Care during the night. I put on the TV and there was this movie, I dont know whether it had just started but it was about a couple a husband and wife. The husband was offered a job interview where the job was guaranteed and he was so upbeat. They arrived in this town in the USA and they came when it was bright and sunny as the interview was to be at 5pm,the wife went to the hairdressers and husband went into a pub to have a drink and while away the time. But at 5pm sharp the landlord of the pub ordered everybody out, and soon everyone was rushing, running to catch their bus and train,car. He was left alone in this street. His wife also returned from the hairdresser's with her hair in rollers. Their car was the only one in the car pound which was now being guarded by 2 ferocious dobermans that were barking and jumping at the fence. Suddenly it got dark and there descended gangs of punks with neon coloured hair styles (I remember vivid red,vivid greens, purple) wearing chains, snarling and fighting, and breaking up shop windows. The couples had to hide in telephone booths. The punks faces look like living dead. They were long and frightening nothing human like. The couple noticed a small police station across the road but how to get there without the punks seeing them. When they managed it, the police station was abandoned. Suddenly there was this small rounded police car honking and sirens blazing, very small blue light flashing, but it did not stop anywhere but sped round the police station and disappeared. There is more nightmare to this story but I would like to know if there is any body who lived in the 60s or 70s who knows the name of that movie because I would like to see it from the beginning. HELP HELP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. I am still haunted by that movie. Its horror is along the lines of "Soylent Green". Same era

Posted by: Hannah at January 15, 2008 8:04 PM

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

Posted by: Pamela at January 16, 2008 4:14 AM

Mr. and/or Ms. Maylee, your movie would seem to be 1988's "The Kiss" from Canada, directed by Pen Densham, who, if I recall correctly, did a hell of a lot of work on "The Outer Limits" or some show like that. It stars Joanna Pacula.

Posted by: Purukivel at January 17, 2008 8:41 PM

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.

Posted by: Anthony at January 21, 2008 7:18 AM

Buddy,

Your movie is The Gate II. I don't remember the ribcage falling into a lap part, but the demon and shit (haha!) parts...definitely The Gate II. Check it out. :-D

Posted by: lilac1713 at January 21, 2008 7:22 PM

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.

Posted by: lilac1713 at January 21, 2008 7:54 PM

this is a movie that i saw years ago and i can only remember little parts of it.
it's an animated movie about a princess (?) who gets lost in a mine (i think). she meets a boy and together they find their way out by following a magic string, but they have to go through trolls and other things along the way.
would probably be about 8 or more years old.

Posted by: amz at January 24, 2008 5:45 PM

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.

Posted by: Steph at January 27, 2008 9:45 AM

AMZ, The dark crystal or Labyrinth?

Posted by: Wok at January 27, 2008 10:18 AM

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.

Posted by: some Guy at January 27, 2008 11:35 AM

Looking for a movie from the 80's maybe the 70's set in a medieval type world has princess who gets taken by an older mercenary twice her age. The young prince guy ends up looking for her and killing the kidnapper. Called Blood or Fire or Steel or Dragon?!?

Posted by: Tim at January 29, 2008 2:36 AM

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?

Posted by: Lisa at January 30, 2008 12:07 AM

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?

Posted by: Lisa at January 30, 2008 12:08 AM

Lisa,

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

Posted by: lilac1713 at February 1, 2008 4:21 PM

Oh, and I'm not 100% sure, but I think Schadenfreude's movie is THE GODFATHER...with the whole horse head in the bed thing.

Posted by: lilac1713 at February 1, 2008 4:28 PM

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

Posted by: slye at February 1, 2008 4:33 PM

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

Posted by: slye at February 1, 2008 4:34 PM

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.

Posted by: lilac1713 at February 1, 2008 5:42 PM

slye,

Your movie sounds an awful lot like "The Bermuda Depths" (late 70s). That has a giant turtle, a hot chick, and some dude being pulled to his death under water by a rope. Is this what you were looking for????

Posted by: lilac1713 at February 1, 2008 6:26 PM

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

Posted by: Purukivel at February 1, 2008 8:24 PM

horror: Saw the movie in the 90s, probably a movie on tv at the time. I remeber very few things, the scene is a couple playing a game of strip hide and seek, the girls is hiding and hides in a garage. She asks the guy to give her his jacket and he does, then he procced to step into some ooze and it melts/eats him. i think she was possesed maybe not.

Posted by: Jeff at February 2, 2008 5:55 PM

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

Posted by: slye at February 2, 2008 8:30 PM

Lilac1713
just to let you I did find it and it is the exact one I was looking for Thank You

Posted by: slye at February 2, 2008 8:41 PM

slye,

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

Posted by: lilac1713 at February 3, 2008 2:16 AM

Jeff,

I'm thinking your movie is "Amityville 1992: It's About Time." Or at least one of the Amityville movies...I feel like there was a lot of "melting in puddles" going on in that series. ;-)

And yes, I believe the girl is possessed by the house...or the evil clock inside the house rather.

Posted by: lilac1713 at February 3, 2008 2:34 AM

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.

Posted by: doc at February 4, 2008 5:34 PM

doc,

I'm gonna take a guess and say your movie is "Crawlspace" (1986), although I don't think that's it. I swear there are some other "living in walls" movies out there...minus "The People Under The Stairs," that is. I'll keep looking for ya'. :-)

Posted by: lilac1713 at February 5, 2008 5:18 PM

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.

Posted by: Barbara at February 7, 2008 7:32 PM

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.

Posted by: Barbara at February 7, 2008 7:32 PM

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...

Posted by: Lori at February 8, 2008 11:00 PM

Purukivel Flesh and Blood it was thanks!!!

Posted by: Tim at February 9, 2008 5:51 AM





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