The Definitive "Help Me Figure Out The Name Of A Movie I Can't Remember" Thread - Page 5

Okay here's a challenge for you chewers. Well hopefully not.

There was this old horror movie. i'm not sure if it was black and white or color but it was definitely an oldie and it was about a doctor or scientist that found a bone fingertip. He finds that when water gets on it, it begins to regenerate. He's not sure what it is, but he knows it's not human. He performs more and more tests on it and then while sending it to another scientist via carriage on a rainy night, the carriage tips over, sending the finger/hand into the water drenched earth. The final scene (or the last scene I saw) has the scientist getting a knock on his door. He answers it and the creature is there, ready to kill him.

Radb707: The film you are looking for is The Creeping Flesh
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068424/

Okay, this one's been brewing a long time for me.

I remember watching some technicolor-era movie, where a number of friends/couples are staying at a beach house. One person dies/is killed and their ghost sticks around causing chaos for their murderer. This leads to everyone/their ghosts in the house killing off each other.
For the longest time I thought it starred Fred MacMurray, but after consulting his filmography I can't seem to find it.

Any clues?

documentary about gangs

Does anyone know the name of the documentary about New York streetgangs that was taken down from youtube?
The one that Walter Hill supposedly drew from for The Warriors?
Is there a legitimate way to see it?

This was named in the Shout at the Devil column today. 80 Blocks from Tiffany's.

Here's one - I think it was British, can't remember if it was color or b&w.

A kid has a pet bird - duck? chicken? parrot? Dunno. He's showing it off to these other kids in a playgorund or park, and the kids circle around and are sort of playfully throwing pebbles at the bird, and giggling.

The kid who owns the bird joins in, and the group of kids work up to a frenzy where they're pelting the bird with rocks, delight on all their faces, including the kid who owns the bird. A grownup stops them, but too late. The bird is a pulpy feathery mess on the ground. The kid snaps out of it and starts bawling.

What the f was this movie?

I have no idea what movie you're talking about but a quick search for 'bird stoning movie' on google reveals that it may be A Girl Named Sooner.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073047

The user comments mention the scene you ask about here.

Wow! Thanks.

My parents went to the theatres lately and told me about a movie trailer that left a huge question mark for me. I'm quite sure I know about every bigger release that'll come out in the next two years, but their description didn't make much sense.

They said, the trailer advertised a movie about a distant future, in which scientists discover huge machineries under the ground and travel deep into caverns, probably near the core. The trailer apparently doesn't show much and is more of a teaser trailer (they didn't remember any name actor), but they said the big machines were significantly shown and a narrator said something among "One day, mankind discovered a whole new world beneath their feet. A world with wonders... and death".

First thing I thought of was The Golden Compass, because I assumed they didn't get everything and only saw the huge inside of the clock in the trailer. But they couldn't do anything with the trailers on the net, so no Golden Compass. Next thing I thought of was JOURNEY 3-D, starring Brendan Fraser, which just doesn't have any trailer out yet.

This sounds a bit like Jeff Long's The Descent, but again no movie in the works. Anyone an idea?

Overlord
If the movie with the never-ending label isn't An American Tail, it could be Raggedy Ann and Andy: A Musical Adventure.

Here's one for me:
Possibly middle to late 80s (or earlier), most likely made for tv. I have two vivid memories of this movie in which I believe a young teacher and her students are kidnapped. In one part they are escaping and have to swim through this underground cave. At one point the teacher runs out of air and swims to the top, gasping for air in a space of about two inches between the surface of the water and the roof of the cave.

Near the end I think they set a trap for the man (men?) who is following them and they escape. At the end of the movie the teacher is in her classroom with her students and a police officer or detective is saying that they found the body of the kidnapper and it looks like he had been mauled to death by a wild animal. The weird thing is, all his parts are still there except his heart. Cut to the camera moving toward the back of the room where a distinctly human heart floats in a jar by the window.

Any guesses? It may have been set in Australia or the Western U.S. Somewhere arid, definitely.

That would be Fortress, SarahLynne.

ok this is super random...my friend and i were trying to figure this otu the other day and couldnt for the life of us... its an 80s movie. . . cory feldman is in it... and it takes place in a highschool where these kids cause a lot of trouble.. thats about all i remember. . .

Perhaps.....

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/

Unfortunately your spare description describes every piece of work in the Corey Feldman filmography from the mid-80's onward.

Perhaps you could narrow down the search further. Remember any other actors in the film. Corey Haim, or perhaps Corey Hart?

Actors all wear their sunglasses at night, don'tchaknow?

Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever?

It's probably Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100504/

Edit: Damn you Amphibatron!!!! That's what I get for going to IMDB to verify the correct spelling of "and" in rock 'n' roll for the title.

The better question would be is there a weird girl who's a witch or something? Do they have a scene where they're using apple juice for peeing in a cup for drug testing? Is there a Dr. Vader?

IF the answer to any of those questions is YES then it's Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever.

Sorry for the lack of description.. but yes rock n roll highschool! Thanks!!!

Please note that the Forever is important. Rock 'n' Roll High School is the classic with the Ramones that came out in 78. Rock 'n' Roll High School Forever is a Corey Feldman movie that came out in 1990.

Okay, here's one: I'm pretty sure it was a made for TV movie from the late seventies about an alien invasion. The aliens basically killed every one of the main characters but at them end used a special ray to raise them back from the dead as good as new. They were trying to teach the earthlings why it's important top be nice to each other, I think.

Directed by the brilliant Freddie Francis. Weird little flick. Atmospheric and creepy.

Thanks Amphibatron!

Okay, I bet this one's a challenge. I only saw one scene of this movie, but it haunted me for weeks.
A little boy is playing in the rafters in a barn. He jumps off the rafter into the hay, thinking he'll just land safely. We then go to his P.O.V. as he falls to the hay, laughing, then suddenly the laughter turns to a scream as we see, still from his P.O.V., an upright pitchfork buried in the hay, its prongs pointed straight up. We then cut to the little boys funeral where his brother (I assume) is greeting guests. A shaky, trembling, slow witted (from the way he talks) farmer approaches, apologizing profusely, telling the brother that it was him who left the pitchfork in the hay.

And that's just about all I can remember. I loved how it was shot, how they made the death of a child so disturbing without even showing him actually dying. If anyone, ANYONE, know this movie, let me know.

Almost sounds like the climax of Friday the 13th Part V.

I don't think that's the tree you're sniffing up.
Sorry.


ALSO - if anyone knows anything about how I can find or watch the made-for-TV "The Ivory Ape" (1980) with Jack Palance, let me know.

I've got two that I think I watched as a kid in the late 80's/early 90's, although I sometimes wonder if dreamed them or maybe mixed up bits and pieces of other movies I saw and turned them into these two memories.

The first is about an adult woman and I believe her mother hiding/protecting a friendly alien or aliens in their house, and a group of bad guys are trying to find these aliens. The bad guys may be the government but I also think at least one of them is actually an evil alien in disguise. At one point he is hurt or killed and there is a little special effects light show transformation that reveals his true form, which is this reptilian skeletal deal. I also vaguely remember a scene in a spaceship, which I can picture pretty vividly - had a post Star Wars/Alien industrial sort of look with metal grating and railings and stuff. That part makes me think I'm just blending together a couple different movies in my mind, but never the less I remember this as one movie.

The other one is another sci-fi/fantasy sort of thing, again sort of like Star Wars in that it's sort of futuristic and old at the same time. Not clear if it's in some distant future or fantasy past. It's about a man and a woman, who are scientists I guess, working at this mountainous desert outpost to try and build some sort of flying machine - or maybe time machine. But I think it had something to do with trying to either break the sound barrier or travel close to or at the speed of light. I'm pretty sure the machine had a primitive look sort of like early attempts at flying machines and early airplanes.

That's all I've got. Hopefully someone can let me know if either of these are even close to being real or if they're just the hallucinations/fever dreams of someone who watched a lot of random sci-fi movies as a kid.

The Other.

This is likely Stranded (1987). I don't recall any spaceship interiors in that one, but '80s sci-fi films had no shortage of gratings-and-railings set design.

Damn, Amphibatron, I didn't expect such a quick answer. I also didn't expect the movie to be a horror movie. Here I was thinking it was a sad drama.

The Stone Boy (1984) may be closer to your conception, though that pitchfork demise is indeed from The Other.

Yeah, that definitely seems right. Like I said, the spaceship part might have come from another movie, although one of the reviews the IMDb page links to says that it ends with the good alien beaming up to his ship. Either way it's good to know that I might not have imagined the whole thing. Thanks.

So I am trying to remember the name of this German film I saw a few years ago. It's about a dominatrix and it's one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. I remember that there is a notable German actor in it, but I can't remember his name. At one point in the film, a journalist (I think) begs the dominatrix to use him as a toilet and she turns him down. I don't know how obscure this film is, but the German department at my college screened it as part of their film series. Somehow I got extra credit for watching it.

So I searched the German department website and I figured it out. It is Seduction: The Cruel Women. The German actor I was talking about is Udo Kier. If you want to see him as a gimp, this is the movie for you.

(edit) I got nothin'.

Here's another one that bugs me. I don't remember much but some guy who posed as a cop. Real dick. Maybe alien, but definitely no real cop. I think he kills one or two and threatens more, before being hit by a SHOVEL. He is basically put asleep with it and then buried alive, thus dying by suffocation.
Probably black hair, and the flick could have been a tv movie ca 1990-1994.

Sounds alot like a scene from Wes Craven's Shocker until you add the buried alive part.

Some fucked up 70s tearjerker I saw on TV long ago. Like an afterschool special, but heavier. A teenage kid, an old man, and an indian know each other somehow. The old man dies. The kid hangs himself. The indian climbs a tree and blows his head off with a shotgun.

Really.

Any ideas what film (or melange of films) this might be? Probably doesn't help much, but it had to be from the 80's, early 90's at latest.

Anyone know where this is from:



This was included either in a documentary on bizarre films, or I've actually seen the bizarre film itself.

This sounds vaguely like Slipstream (1989), with Bill Paxton and Mark Hammill, plus Bob Peck as a robot.

I believe this is what it is: http://imdb.com/title/tt0246507/

I just watched this during a silent film event I went to last year. They showed a bunch of films from the early 1900's using a classic film projector and live organ. It was fantastic.

EDIT: For spelling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2tP9s8y2Ic

Disturbing, and reminded me of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_kSTtjplkM

Chris, this could be Journey 3-D. I saw the trailer in front of Beowulf, but it was in 3-D and very corny. It's all I can come up with though.

Fantastic, Darkmite!

You rock sir. It's been bugging the shit out of me all morning.

The title rings a bell, definitely could be it

that. is. terrifying.

Help! I've discussed this with 2 other people who have seen the movie but can't remember the name of it either!

Here are the parts that I'm 99% certain of:

I know the chase starts with the driver intentionally heckling officers outside of a police station pretending to be drunk, intentionally drives into their parked cruiser, and then the chase starts. I'm also 99% sure that the driver is hired to test a getaway scheme and there's the scene where he drives under a semi/tractor trailer going perpendicular and loses the top of the car. And I know it ends with spike strips, on a quiet road (just when he thinks he got away) and happens during the daytime.

I'm pretty sure this is how it goes:

So this group of criminals get together and they need a getaway driver for their heist/con/crime. The one leader of the group guy goes out and gets a getaway driver, and the rest of the crew reluctantly accepts him as their driver.

Driver goes out, steals a BMW (convertible, i think) and pretends to be driving drunk, heckling some cops outside of a police station. He bumps into their car with his, and chase ensures.

Car chase goes on, I think it takes place in LA, he goes through LAX airspace to lose the chase helicopter.

Throws mud-filled balloons or something at cops windshields so they can't see. Eventually, goes under a tractor trailer/semi/18 wheeler (semi's going east bound, he's going north), ducks, and loses the windshield. Just as he's about to get away, cop lays down spikes and he's toast.

Any ideas? Here is what else I remember about the movie:

I have some vague memories of the cast...I feel like, in the gang of professional criminals, there was a leader who seemed like a cool guy, a burly black guy, and I feel like the driver was kind of a weasley guy, kind of like a weasle edward norton. And nobody wants him, but "he's the best."

I also feel like they get in touch with him after he's arrested and he says something like "it can't be done" or "there's no way it can be done"

Figured it out. Turns out it wasn't a movie, it was a TV show.

Specifically: Heist (Episode 2, 2006, NBC)

The recap 3rd last paragraph, matches perfectly. Thanks for the help. If you're interested:

http://www.tv.com/heist/sex-lies-and...753/recap.html

Here's something I remembered while reading the Anthology Horror Films thread in the Creature Corner. I saw it on the Sci-Fi Channel as a kid, before they came to focus on shitty original programming and still showed all sorts of interesting older movies and syndicated TV shows from the 60's, 70's, 80's - some classics and some obscure curiosities. I vividly remember watching this on a saturday afternoon along with an unsettling old documentary about UFOs (quite possibly Chariots of the Gods). It was almost definitely from the 70's, had a low budget feel. Could have been a TV movie, perhaps a segment from an anthology film, and maybe even an episode of Night Gallery or some other anthology series.

Here's how I remember it: it was a period piece set in a small rural town (think late 1800's/early 1900's), and somebody discovers a mysterious and seemingly bottomless pit on their property, with weird sounds and smoke emanating from it. There is a lot of speculation about what the hole is, where it leads, and debate on what to do with it. Some of the more religious townspeople think it's a gateway to hell, etc. Some of the braver men in town decide they will lower themselves in to try to solve the mystery, much to the dismay of their wives and families. The story focuses in particular on one of these men and his family, and I remember a scene where his wife waits at home in fear while the expedition is set to begin, and at the moment that things inevitably turn bad a framed picture of him cracks, an omen to the wife that the worst has happened. I think that some of the men vanish and the main character loses his mind and is unable to say what they saw/what happened down in the hole. It had a very creepy Lovecraftian vibe to it.

Any ideas?

Sounds like one of the Amityville sequels.

Edit:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085159/ Amityville 3-d

No, it's definitely not that. I enjoyed Amityville 3D in all its cheesy glory as a kid, especially Robert Joy getting pulled down to hell by the demon in the basement. This thing I'm thinking of is definitely older, cheaper, and takes place in a historical setting. Also I don't think you ever get to see what is in the pit or find out why it's there. Thanks for the reply though, keep the ideas coming.

The description is NOTHING like 'Slipstream'.

[imdb]

Set in a post-war atmosphere, Byron (Bob Peck) is an android who has the power of healing and wants to have human traits. He is also wanted for a murder which he didn't commit and is running from the law. Tasker (Mark Hamill) and Belitski (Kitty Aldridge) are ruthless lawmen who capture Byron and are on their way to taking him back. They stop at a rundown diner and run into Matt (Bill Paxton), a poor, two-bit arms dealer who kidnaps Byron in hopes to cashing him in for a big reward.

Matt and Byron fly off into the "slipstream", a dangerous wind current that was created by man's destruction of the environment. The evil Tasker and the sympathetic Belitski, are trailing them in hopes to gain back their criminal. Matt and Byron seek refuge at a location run by a newly reformed society. There, Matt and Byron bond as friends, and Byron finds true love. But when Tasker, enters the new civilization, all hell breaks loose. That's pretty much the heart of it. There's more to tell, but I'll stop here.

The film has that "post-war" feel to it, as seen in many movies like, the "Mad Max" films and "The Postman". The look of the film is great, the film's score by Elmer Bernstein is spectacular and the premise is very intriguing. Mark Hamill is most of the reason why you should watch the film, he delivers probably his best performances ever here. Playing the sinister lawman Tasker, Hamill sports a black trench coat, mustache and beard, a slick weapon and drives a wicked aircraft. The man is the complete opposite of Luke Skywalker, looks like he could've blended in with "The Matrix" crew. Bill Paxton is always cool, always funny, yet not used in this film properly, maybe miscast. Peck is perfect as the android Byron, however the very cute Kitty Aldridge could use some help in the acting territory. Oddly enough, Oscar winners Ben Kingsley and F. Murray Abraham turn in respectable cameos.

Written by Tony Kayden, whose effort before this was the ridiculous Anthony Michael Hall actioner "Out of Bounds", really dropped the ball on his script. There are so many things that could've been done with this material, and it fell short. The story even gets boring at times, it needed more action and more plot development. This film had potential to be a really good science-fiction fantasy. Director Lisberger does all he can do with the dying script, definitely not a worthy follow-up to his admirable "Tron". But it's definitely worth a look if your a genre fan, even if its just to see Mark Hamill at his coolest.

I wouldn't say 'nothing'-- Strangefist recalled a 'used future' aesthetic and primitive aircraft, and placed its release in the late '80s. Have you seen the film?

I'd say LAIR OF THE WHITE WORM but that couldn't be it...could it?

Encounter with the Unknown (1973)