The Definitive "Help Me Figure Out The Name Of A Movie I Can't Remember" Thread - Page 10

Wow, that was lucky. Glad I could help. I know how frustrating it can be trying to figure out the names of strange movies you remember seeing as a kid. There are a couple that haunt me to this day.

Okay, got another one. I saw this as a kid with my older sister. Probably on Creature Features.

It's in b&w and looks like it's from the 50's/early 60's. The plot concerns a philandering husband who lives in a large house with his wife. He has a mistress who begs him to leave her. So he kills the wife (I forget how), making it look like an accident. The authorities have no clue.

Now comes the freaky part. The guy moves the mistress into his house and strange stuff starts to happen. The film climaxes with the guy laying in his mistress' lap, her stroking his hair oblivious to the carpet unrolling itself into the fireplace. The mansion catches on fire and the two die, even though I forget how. I seem to remember the wife's ghost doing other stuff as well.

My sister, who usually remembers every single horror flick she's ever watched, has forgotten this one. I've searched for this online but haven't found anything even close.

I trolled through some lists of sword & sorcery TV movies from the late 70s/early 80s and I didn't recognize anything. I remember the movie being prticularly cheap-looking, so I'm pretty certain it was made for TV. The one scene I remember is from the end (or toward the end). The heroes are in a rocky area moving cautiously toward the mouth of some kind of cave. There was a sidekick/comic relief character who was a thief or something... I think I remember him having knives and, anachronistically, a NY accent with which to deliver his tension-breaking quips. I think they hear a booming and foreboding voice from the cave and the hero says something like "Who are you?" and the sidekick says, "who cares who he is?" The hero might have been adept with a special or magical bow.

Sounds like Lucio Fulci's Conquest

Here's one... I think it's a DTV movie with Michael Madsen. Something to do with hostages in a bank or something... At one point a TV journalist (she's a foreigner) goes in there with her camera (and an arrogant attitude, despite Madsen's warnings) to get an interview with the bad guy and he ends up raping her instead while everyone at headquarters just watches on the video feed.

Sound familiar?

Living And Dying

Hi Phil: Was it this: 'The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire' (1981)? You mentioned a magical bow, and the hero in this has a heartbow.

Bingo. Grazie.

I searched the thread but couldn't be buggered to read the whole thing.

I watched Grass the other night, narrated by Woody Harrelson and with the latest Children of the Acorn entry I seem to recall some kind of campy clip film that I used to watch that showed clips from a bunch of movies and I don't recall whether there was any kind of theme to the clips but I do believe Attack of the Killer Tomatoes and Reefer Madness(specifically the "Faster. Faster. Play faster" piano portion of the film) were featured.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you, big Sister!

Fuck you Paramount:

I'm willing to bet it's It Came From Hollywood, with John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and Cheech and Chong presenting legendary bad movie clips.

EDIT: Dammit.

A late eighties early nineties movie. Most of the world's female population have become sterile. I think it is about one of the few women who is not and how she's treated. I never saw the movie but remember a movie review show that talked about it, so it was a theatrical release. It might be a french/canadian or British production, but not sure.

Any idea?

The Handmaid's Tale

That's the one! Thanks man!

Glad to have stumbled upon this thread. here is my very vague description of a film i'm not even sure truly exists. I saw it in the 5th grade at a sleepover at my friends house and it scared me because I was in the fifth grade.

For some reason I think it was Australian, Possibly British, but then again possibly neither. I recall the movie was about a teacher and a group of students who were lost out in the wild and were being pursued by a gang of murderers?

I remember a scene where they have to escape by swimming through an underwater tunnel in a cave.

Then they end up on a farm where the gang is, and the gang is wearing animals costumes, like a big bird mask maybe? and I believe one of the gang members gets his head cut-off, with mask on, and stuck on a fence.

sooo, did anyone see THAT movie?

http://www.datafriend.com/timc/found300.html and #213

I can't remember if this was a full-fledged movie or TV movie, but I distinctly recall it from my youth-

It takes place in some indeterminate future where instead of currency everyone is given a set lifespan at birth that they can barter with through the use of these hand-held debit-card reading-type devices. Once they use it all up, they die.

I only recall two scenes in particular from it - a kid (who I think was a main character) getting praised at one point for earning six months at a garage sale, and another where this self-destructive casino floozy uses up the last of her life on slots and drinks and dies right there on the casino floor, with everyone refusing to give her any life-extending freebies.

What the hell was the name of this flick?

I have no idea, but that sounds fucked up

Overlord's post from 2 years ago

The film Overlord is looking for from the second page of this thread is called The Mouse and His Child. It had been incorrectedly identified as American Tale and Raggedy Ann. Check it out at youtube. It is really quite unsettling. Love it though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OWdw1IwdYY


Better late than never, Overlord. Unless of course someone did identify this for you. In which case, I apologize.

Overlord's original post

I hope I'm right on this one. I love this movie. Anyone recall a (swedish?) dubbed animated/live action film about a mountain man who kidnaps some toys from a boy (Hans?) who takes chase? Boy's father gets help from a bee as he tracks his son? Starnge scene with a fairy sending the boy bread and cheese in a dirty river that the boy eats. Boy and dd are live action, the rest of the characters are animated and sing a lot. Thanks!

Strangest description ever.

Thanks a million for pointing me to a mouse and his child. Along with watership down and hugo the hippo, that movie formed the triumvirate of nightmare spawners from my early childhood. I should probably toss old yeller in there.

I am just happy to contribute to the conversation, sir!

I have two movies that I saw as a kid, but have no idea what they are.

The first one was a horror flick. I can't remember if it was made-for-TV or not, but it was about this family - mother, father and their two kids, a boy and a girl.

At some point they are in their car, and some kind of incident causes the car to catch on fire. All of the family members make it out except the daughter, and the car explodes. Flash forward a year or so, and the parents are being antagonized by the ghost of the daughter because she believes they are responsible for her death. Only her brother can see her. The twist at the end is that it was actually her brother's fault because he tied her shoelaces together while she was sleeping in the car and she was unable to escape. I remember this movie scared the hell out of me as a kid.


The other movie was a sci-fi space flick that was a mix of action and comedy. I don't remember much about it, other than that there was a fat guy who could shoot lasers or something out of his hands. The only scene I remember is that the group of people he is with are holding his arm up like a gun at the bad guys while the bad guys all have guns trained on them. There's this dialogue exchange that goes something like this:

"You drop it."

"No, you drop it."

"No, you drop it."

Is the second one Ice Pirates? Not sure on either of those.

I've repeatedly thought that the second film was Ice Pirates, but I can't seem to find a synopsis of the film anywhere that goes into enough detail that would shed some light on it. I may just have to rent it and watch it for myself.

well i remember seeing these movies as a kid from saturday show (captain usa or what ever it was) and for the life of me i can't remember the titles but i do remember some things from the movies

Movie 1
takes place in the bayou or near a lake. there is some kinda humanoid creature stalking people. one scene their is this dude in a row boat and this water starts to bubble then all of a sudden it drags him in. their is this crazy women who was throwing chickens into the lake and the bubbling would happen and the water would turn red. then this thing was kill people on land blah blah blah and down to the hero and women. i think the tag line was half human, half animal and half you don't know what (i think that was the tag line)

Movie 2
Bunch of friends go to a cabin in the woods (that is orginal) and something that looks like a grerullia is stalking them. well one dude falls on a rock and the creature takes him off. later on the main chick is trying to find her boyfriend and she finds one of her friends wandering near a cliff. she turns around and her eye ball is hanging off the stalk and she is walking like some kinda zombie. later on she is in this cave with a creature like (looks like the main creature from Invaders from Mars) and she wakes up next to her boyfriend and finds out he is some kinda monster then she wakes up again and if i remember the room is dark.

these films were either from the 70's or 80's but could not remember the titles so if anyone happens to know that would be great. then i can look up the titles on you tube or something and watch some clips if they are their.
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No clue on either of those, but I'm half-tempted to adopt 'Grerullia" as a username.

I've seen this movie before a long time ago on the USA network. Sorry but I don't remember the name but the scene involving the female friend who turns around with the fucked up face and the ending you mentioned are the only scenes I remember from this movie.

I've seen this! I'm pretty sure it was a Twilight Zone episode, actually, from the revamped version of it, not the original series. If it isn't Twilight Zone it's definetly a TV job, not theatrical cinema.

As this was a direct-to-video martial arts flick from the late 80's/early 90's, I might have better luck asking in the B-action movie thread but I'll try here first.

The basic plot was some dude and his girlfriend were kidnapping martial artists and/or kickboxers and getting them to fight him to the death in the ring. There were maybe four people kidnapped, including some chick with long, blonde hair (don't think it was Cynthia Rothrock) and I think a black guy. One of the guys who gets kidnapped is caught when the evil dude's girlfriend injects him with a syringe while she's having sex with him, cowgirl position. All the martial artists fight the evil dude one-on-one and end up getting killed until we're left with only the blonde chick, who fights the guy and wins.

That's pretty much all I remember.

You're probably right - even though my recollection of it is hazy at best, it definitely came across as a strictly made-for-TV affair.

fricken pain in the ass can't remember them at all right

Don't go to sleep

For years i have been trying to find the titles of these 3 movies. I figured if the good people of CHUD can't come up with an answer then all hope is lost...

First one is a fairy tale movie, i think from the 70s/80s which i saw when i was very young. The story is about a princess who only marries if her suitor knows the answer to her riddle. If he doesn't know he turns to stone. There was a scene which they showed the previous suitors of the princess as statues in the garden. It might not even be an original English movie maybe dubbed even because the sound wasn't much in sync with the picture.

Second one is a B-movie thriller (maybe made for tv) which i vaguely saw because i came tired from work and fell asleep pretty soon. One scene that i remember is that a woman is trapped in a penthouse/apartment and she's banging on the window but no one hears her, she writes Help in (big) capital letters on the window but no one outside seems to notice. I think she does escape but traps a guy in that same apartment who i think imprisoned her there in the first place.

The last one was about about a married couple going to an island. (not sure if they were on honeymoon or on holiday). Anyway strange things happen the guy assures his wife she's imagining things but the woman doesn't trust the whole thing and starts investagating. In the end it is revealed that everyone on that island (and her husband) are part of an ancient cult (or something like that). They all want her to join but she doesn't want that and escapes. The movie ends with her on a small boat rowing away from the island.

So i hope someone out there knows the answer preferably to all 3 movies. Because man they've been bugging me for years......

I'm guessing, but this sounds like the Carpenter-penned Someone's Watching Me! (aka High Rise)

Thanks Phil but unfortunately that's not the movie i was looking for. Someone who did see this movie put a detailed summary on this site: http://www.cinemademerde.com/Someones_Watching_Me.shtml
and nothing that fits my description.

While i was thinking a bit more on the movie it could not have been that old. I think it was a 90s movie but i'm still not sure if it was was a made for tv or feature length movie.

I did some research again trying to find the movies i described. Unfortunately i still haven't found any answers or anything that remotely resembles what i'm looking for.
I thought as much that this proved a difficult task to get some answers even from seasoned movie experts

I'm pretty sure this last one is Bay Coven, written by our good friend Tim Kring.

THANKS Humanoid, you just made my day!! Now if i had an emoticon cheering and dancing i would have posted here.

It was indeed like you said Bay Coven. I found a summary but i never knew that half the people involved were tv stars then. Woody Harrelson there? How could i not remember that?? http://killer--kittens.blogspot.com/...oven-1987.html

Now if i just could find the names of the remaining 2 movies..............

Zombie movie where the zombies are reanimated by some kind of nerve gas but I recall a coffin like container with a small glass window on the front that gets cracked at some point in the movie and the final stand was in a building that was a morgue or something(where the coffin-like container is located) to that effect I believe.

RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD.

Okay, I only remember one bit, but it was hilarious. I don't think the movie lives up to it. A main character is talking to a room full of whores. They offer him some advice, and he takes it and says something about how everything is going to end up all right after all. One of the girls corrects him, 'Oh, not for us. We're whores!' It's been driving me nuts all week.

Only saw a single, short clip on a news program about ten years ago, and it deeply disturbed me—two guys, probably military, are tied to chairs in a bright, concrete room. Both are beat all to hell and bloody. Three interrogators are berating them; I have the strong impression they're terrorists but I don't remember how that's indicated. Two of them are male and are yelling; a third is female, silent, and is brandishing this enormous industrial drill. One of the guys has several drill holes in his legs already, one of his eyes is either swollen shut or missing, and he's weeping; the other guy is not as messed up yet, and looks scared as hell.

Here's one.

It was this cartoon I saw when I was a kid. Well, actually it was a mix of cartoon and live action I think. It was about this boy and his stuffed bunny. They would play and play together outside all the time. Then the boy got sick. He was sick in bed for the longest time. No matter what they would do, the sickness would still come back. The whole time he's holding on to his stuffed bunny because it's his favorite in the world. THe bunny loves him too and snuggles up with him and hopes he'll get better. Then it's revealed the reason the kid keeps getting sick is because of the bunny. It's so dirty that it keeps giving him the infection.

So instead of just washing it, they throw it into a fire outside. As it burns the bunny is sad. The boy recovers and the remains of the burnt bunny see him back outside with a new stuffed animal, as if the kid just didn't care.

The Velveteen Rabbit. You never read the book?

I can only remember a few things about the movie I'm trying to remember. It was a biker flick, and at the end of the picture, there is this huge drug party. At one point, the guys are so messed up that they take their recently deceased buddy out of his coffin, and lay him on the sofa. I believe they also put a cigarette in his hand to give off the appearance that he's still alive, I don't know.

Am I being too vague?

Okay, so my buddy and I are trying to figure out a movie he and his friends used to love way back in the day. It's some 80's sex comedy. Unfortunately he can't remember too much about it except one key scene. Here are his words:

"This kid, with bigg-ish dark hair, is in bed in his pjs, reading a book on how to pick up chics when suddenly two babes enter the room, one brunette, one blonde - hair probably permed. This awesome electronic score starts playing (something like Tangerine Dream) as they immediately disrobe (I think they're literally in robes) revealing that these babes are in fact, big-titted 80s babes. One of them makes out with him while the other peeks under the comforter, makes a face that says she likes what she sees, and goes down on him under the covers.

Then suddenly he wakes up, with an obvious popped-tent boner, and it
turns out... his DOGS are in bed with him licking his face! And what's worse, there's
even a little dog under the covers that must have been blowing him instead of the hot chick!

Also he may make a deal with a gangster in Mexico or something, like they're trying to make a porno, or something to do with video tapes. I also think a kid gets kicked out of a strip club. And I think someone goes to a bowling alley to talk to some shady guy about a loan. Also, there is definitely a weird 80s poster that looks like a Max Headroom version of Abe Lincoln in the kid's room who has the 3some with his dogs."

And ideas?

This part makes me think it might be The Night Before, starring Keanu Reeves and Lori Loughlin (of Full House fame). I've only seen the movie a couple of times, and I always miss the beginning, so the part with the dogs I'm not sure of. But the part I quoted definitely fits with where TNB goes plotwise.

Hmm... I just checked the imdb and THE NIGHT BEFORE is rated PG-13, so I suspect it wouldn't have that raunchy naked chicks dream sequence.

Thanks for the suggestion in though!

For an 80's movie, it's possible.