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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?

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

libraryliz: Army of Darkness?

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?

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

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

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.

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...

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.

#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?

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.

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

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.

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!

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!

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!

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.

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?)

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!

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!

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

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

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.

#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.

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!

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...

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.

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?

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.)

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

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!

thanks patrick!! another one for the queue..

#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.

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.

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

I have no idea what is going on.

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/

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

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/

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.

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.

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.

Erin! My HERO!!

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.

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'.

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.

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.

Johnny: Heeeeeee.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Schadenfreude - you're thinking of Rocky II.

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

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

...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.

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).

To "a":

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

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

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

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

Oh, yeah:

Schadenfreude - you're thinking of Rocky II.

HA!

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.

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"?

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!)

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?????!!!!!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Charlie:

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

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!

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?

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

"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)

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

@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!

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

sarah: Is that movie "My Girl"?

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

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

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

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

I 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.

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.

Melissa:

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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?).

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.

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.

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!

@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.

Leeb

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

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!!

sara - Ranma 1/2

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

Leeb: Stand By Me.

@sara: Ranma 1/2.

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

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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????

Jeff: That's The Peanut Butter Solution.

Hooray, I got one!

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

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

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!!!

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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!!!! =)

Twig: Hiding Out starring Jon Cryer.

Sean -- Laserblast, once featured on MST3K?

Alabamapink,

Yours almost sounds like Roman Holiday.

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?

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.

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...

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 :)

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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 :)

@ 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.

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.

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.

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

Stacey: Career Opportunities with Frank Whaley and Jennifer Connelly.

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

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).

LEEB--Definitely "Stand By Me."

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.

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.

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?

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....

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!

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!

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.

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.

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?

heathertea

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

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.

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.

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

@AnnArrogance

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

pq

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

OK I'll stop now.

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.

Heathertea: Sounds like "Prom Night"

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Rob, you may be thinking of Waterbabies.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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??

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?

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.

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

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".

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.

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

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.

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

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.

@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.

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.

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.

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

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

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!

"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.

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.

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

Totally craptastic movie, by the way.

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

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.)

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!!

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

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.

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...

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?

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.

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.

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!

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)...

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...

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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?

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

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

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???

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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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.

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

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.

"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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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?

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.

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."

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!

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.

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

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?

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

@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?)

Clevelandchick - Amazing Grace and Chuck.

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.

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

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.

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...

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.