The Definitive "Help Me Figure Out The Name Of A Movie I Can't Remember" Thread - Page 16

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After watching it, It does have a few similarities, but I don't think it's the same thing I'm remembering. I remember the guy specifically knowing he was dead and the falling on the gearshift, those are my two clearest memories. Though, thanks for the help. 

Aha! The gearshift thing finally clinched it for me. It's Tales From the Crypt, not Hitchcock Presents. If you'd mentioned the Humphrey Bogart lookalike it would have come faster:

There was a VHS box at I Love Video in Austin (the Guadalupe store). It was an action/revenge movie with an Italian body builder type from the 80's. He is holding a big drill, like a piece of construction equipment. The actor did a lot of bad guy work in the 80's and the movie looked like a third generation, urban "Rambo" knock off. With a big drill.

Whatever it is, it sounds like something I'd want to watch!

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There was a VHS box at I Love Video in Austin (the Guadalupe store). It was an action/revenge movie with an Italian body builder type from the 80's. He is holding a big drill, like a piece of construction equipment. The actor did a lot of bad guy work in the 80's and the movie looked like a third generation, urban "Rambo" knock off. With a big drill.

Abel Ferrara's The Driller Killer?  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079082/

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Originally Posted by dr.cyclops 

There was a VHS box at I Love Video in Austin (the Guadalupe store). It was an action/revenge movie with an Italian body builder type from the 80's. He is holding a big drill, like a piece of construction equipment. The actor did a lot of bad guy work in the 80's and the movie looked like a third generation, urban "Rambo" knock off. With a big drill.

Could this be it?  It's the first thing that came to mind.

Yes! Jackhammer/not drill, but yes!. Thanks.

found this variant cover too....

yeah, actually not an action movie at all, but a slasher.

Just to clarify - is that a jackhammer with a laser site?!

Exactly what is the range on those things?

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Originally Posted by Tax Master 

I went to see this movie at my local arthouse theater back in 1995. It starts in East Germany and shows a group of teens who try to escape through the sewer tunnels. Some make it but others don't. The movie focuses mostly on a man and a woman who are split during their escape and one stays in the east while the other lives in the west. The movie climaxes with the fall of the Berlin Wall and ends with the two of them seeing each other for the first time in years.

 

Please help.

Possibly "The Promise"? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111613/

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Originally Posted by Stale Elvis 

Just to clarify - is that a jackhammer with a laser site?!

 

Exactly what is the range on those things?

Perhaps it was Stallone's 'Cobra' site. Lyle Alzado was an NFL guy who copped to having done a lot of 'roids.
 

Saw a very good art house war film recently, our artsy foreign language channel in Australia always has weird and wonderful films on that I catch part way through and never get the name.

My memory is a little hazy on this one, but these two american GI's are lost in the woods and they're on the run from the (ze) German's and find this abandoned house. There's a French woman there who tries to fight them off but they over power her and the older soldier is about to rape her when the younger one stops her.

The upper floor of the house is full of orphans and the woman's severely wounded husband. When the German's show up with tanks to blast the house apart the heavily armed orphan children, try and fight them off with the GI's. The older solider, guilty over his rape attempt, sacrifices himself to draw the German forces away from the house so the rest can escape.

Film was low budget and had a very dream like quality to it. Any guesses?

 "Straight Into Darkness" 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0287733/

Looks pretty cool, maybe i will check it out. 

Wow, hats of to you Doctor. I didn't think anyone would ease by brain constipation.

It's a low budget film and it shows, but still one of the best war films I've ever seen.

Also, holy shit the orphans in the movie were real oprhans hired from orphanages in Romania? That's.... that's a little bit messed up.

Two movies

First late 80's early 90's.  basic plot is that there were cops or vigilantes who uncover a plot to sterilize people through the use of some addictive designer drug.

Secondly, early maybe mid 80's  about travelers who come across a cult all I can remember is the last scene all of the cult members in robes and a fountain that is colored with the blood of the fallen cult members.  Maybe the travelers head out in an RV.

House of Cards

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Originally Posted by Graham 

That would be 'Treasure of the Four Crowns'...

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084781/

Holy shit, thanks for the fast response!

Not only was almost every single aspect of the film terrible, but it was punctuated throughout with the multiple exclamation points of repeating almost every 3D effect shot three or four times in rapid succession.

Isn't the first one "I Come in Peace"?

I have one... and I'm sure it'll be really easy.  It's from the 70's. Parody-style movie. It has a commercial in it for some material (something "45") that looks like shit, being dispensed like soft-serve. If this is really easy and I'm an idiot, I apologize. Oh, and please, don't tell me it's "Kentucky Fried Movie".  I'll go hang myself.  It was just stolen from me.

Loose Shoes? The Groove Tube? There were several parody anthologies in the '70s...

Groove Tube! Thank you!

"Let's see how good you guys are....

My details on this are ridiculously vague as I saw it when I was really young, but here is my synopsis.

There's this martial arts white guy who joins this gym/fighting company. He realizes they are all taking steroids (possibly tries to get out). The climax is a final fight where the hero dons a kick-ass pair of american flag parachute pants and I guess he kicks the shit out of one of the steroid dudes.

There are other bits and pieces I remember, but it's like some weird dream...everything I remember is in pieces and it doesnt make sense for shit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated"

Never watched the end (so can't vouch for the last scene), and Don "the Dragon" Wilson isn't white, but that sounds a lot like:

http://www.amazon.com/Whatever-Takes-Don-Dragon-Wilson/dp/6305313229

Falls into the "so insane it's good" category - Maybe the only movie ever made where the three biggest stars all have middle names in quotes. 

Does anyone know this one?

It's an Indiana Jones knock-off where the knock-off guy and his hot blonde female side-kick are stranded in the South American jungle surrounded by a tribe of cannibals.  At one point the Indiana Jones guy kills a bunch of cannibals and when the chief finds the corpses he tells his tribe to "fillet the bodies".  The chief kidnaps the blonde girl and ... um .... makes her his girlfriend.  The Indiana Jones guy rescues the blonde and they escape in a plane.  It sounds like one of those crappy Allen Quatermain movies, but it was definitely rated R, with gratuitous nudity and violence.

If this movie only exists in my mind, I don't have a problem with that.

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Originally Posted by WendellEverett 

Does anyone know this one?

 

It's an Indiana Jones knock-off where the knock-off guy and his hot blonde female side-kick are stranded in the South American jungle surrounded by a tribe of cannibals.  At one point the Indiana Jones guy kills a bunch of cannibals and when the chief finds the corpses he tells his tribe to "fillet the bodies".  The chief kidnaps the blonde girl and ... um .... makes her his girlfriend.  The Indiana Jones guy rescues the blonde and they escape in a plane.  It sounds like one of those crappy Allen Quatermain movies, but it was definitely rated R, with gratuitous nudity and violence.

 

If this movie only exists in my mind, I don't have a problem with that.

The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck, with Playmate of the Year Kathy Shower.... http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795294/

That's the one!

They should probably not have played an unrated version of this movie at 4:00 in the afternoon on HBO twenty years ago.  That definitely distracted me from homework.

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Originally Posted by Ninhead 

Isn't the first one "I Come in Peace"?

 

I have one... and I'm sure it'll be really easy.  It's from the 70's. Parody-style movie. It has a commercial in it for some material (something "45") that looks like shit, being dispensed like soft-serve. If this is really easy and I'm an idiot, I apologize. Oh, and please, don't tell me it's "Kentucky Fried Movie".  I'll go hang myself.  It was just stolen from me.

I still remember that bit from when I saw it at the age of 12."Brown 25". It was indeed "The Groove Tube". It is now on The YouTube

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=008BPUdQ1XA

There was also "Tunnel Vision" to round out Martin Blank's list.

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Originally Posted by Chris Bell 

Let's see how good you guys are....

My details on this are ridiculously vague as I saw it when I was really young, but here is my synopsis.

There's this martial arts white guy who joins this gym/fighting company. He realizes they are all taking steroids (possibly tries to get out). The climax is a final fight where the hero dons a kick-ass pair of american flag parachute pants and I guess he kicks the shit out of one of the steroid dudes.

There are other bits and pieces I remember, but it's like some weird dream...everything I remember is in pieces and it doesnt make sense for shit.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Chris, you're looking for Superfights.

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Please help me find this clip! '80s
flick that I saw on Cinemax years back. It has a scene where two
couples (i think one is bro/sis) are playing tennis against each other
in white sweaters/shorts. Very yuppy, rich society types in their
early teens, late twenties. There's a scene, shortly after, where one
the tennis players (a blonde with big boobs) takes off her top as
she's about to have sex with a guy she was playing tennis against. I
have no clue what this movie is! Any help?

That sounds like Pretty Smart.

Hey, all.  Please help identify this horror movie.  I remember very, very little about it and at this point I'm not even sure I'm recalling specific details correctly.  This movie played a Drive-In in Plainville, MA sometime between 1976 and 1983.  It was the B-show of a double feature, and I was supposed to be asleep in the backseat of the car while the sitter and her boyfriend made out up front. :D   But here's what I remember...

The following scene happened relatively early in the movie (I think), if that helps.  There was a cave or a chamber of some kind and a bubbling cauldron or pit of boiling, steaming lava or blood (probably blood).  After some sort of High Cult Priest and some Helpers did some sort of voodoo blood-cult incantation (I can't remember if there were more chanting cult members there with them), a woman arose from the pit/cauldron/whatever.  She was totally naked, except covered in the blood, possibly suggesting that she was created from the blood itself as a sort of monster woman or devil woman.  The film may have been foreign/dubbed, I don't recall...    It wasn't Hammer's Blood from the Mummy's Tomb, though.  I know that much...

Any ideas...?  Thanks, in-advance!

Hammer's The Reptile?

Not sure.  I'll have to look around for clips and screencaps of the above scene to be certain.

Thanks for the lead... Will research and get back to you.  :)

You SURE it was a WOMAN?...Cause this sounds more like the beginning of 'The Sword and the Sorcerer'...not, saying you can't tell the difference, but if you were young enough for a baby-sitter...

Well, anyway...check this out...

That is remarkably close.  The time is about right (1982-ish).  I remembered it being lower-budgetish, with more people and the blood woman/man/whatever sort of being lifted and ceremonially paraded around a bit...  Could be I just remember it wrong.  As far as the gender confusion, it seems the Head Priest/Conjurer figure that I thought was a man was a woman in that clip, so it this could be a case of fuzzy memories / half asleep-ness on my childhood self's part, way back...  (Gotta love the way she works that Blood Guy's hand, though.  "Va-va-voom, Voodoo Lady!")

I still have to look around for that Hammer The Reptile, but if that doesn't turn out to be it I think I'm ready to call the above the winner.  

It's the closest I've seen yet, anyway.  Thanks people! 

Okay, this was a 90s movie but I suppose it could've been late 80s as well.  There's this three person family (Dad, Daughter, and Son; the mother has died under circumstances I don't recall) they go a on a yacht or some sort of boat trip, I mainly remember the captain is this tall gray-haired guy with a beard who in the memory in my head looks like a cross between Richard Dreyfuss and James Coburn in Maverick and if memory serves the Dad looked like the guy from Airplane.  Under circumstances I don't recall they travel to this fairy-tale world.

I don't remember a lot of where the movie goes but I remember one of the antagonists is a big Conan-looking guy who has this wall that for some strange reason things stick to.  When he's introduced he kills this guy and throws him on the wall where his corpse just sticks there.  I know it wasn't a spiked wall because toward the end of the movie the family drags the captain there and sticks him up against it in a sitting position and leaves him for dead(?)  There was also a part where in the process of trying to complete the quest the Dad ends up in what looks like his home and meets his dead wife who turns out to be some scary red demon thing with big black horns that kind of looks like Tim Curry in Legend (I mistakenly bought Legend thinking it was this movie.)  Also there 's a part when they first get to the fantasy world where either the daughter or the sun walks out on a pier in this village and some unseen monster chases them back to land destroying the pier as it follows.

So... Any ideas?

And here's another one I've been wondering about...

A black and white sci-fi film in which the urban future is all flying cars and super skyscrapers and such, like always.  But here's the scene I recall best.  A couple wants to have a baby...  So they go to an automat and buy one out of one of those coin-operated door things that automats used to sell sandwiches and fruit out of.  I think I saw a clip of this on the old USA Network show, Night Flight.  All I know is that it's not Fritz Lang's Metropolis...  nor Things to Come (1936), which I always thought it was until I rented it last summer.   

I love this thread.  Thanks again, people!

Brave New World?

That's Just Imagine.

You guys are fucking STARS!  I've been wondering about that one for about 15 years!  Thanks very much!  (I'll actually check both out!)  :)

Three that have been baffling me since I was a kid, one feature, two possible shorts:

1) Atlantis, maybe TV Movie.  Late 60's to early 80's.  Yatch expedition finds Atlantis under the sea, expedition member is eaten by eel/dinosaur handpuppet.  Introduced to royal court of Atlantis, disaster happens, more rubber monsters, giant octopus sinks the yacht at the end.  A siamese cat is involved.

2) Short? Cable TV in late 80's, possible anthology series.  Family takes newborn to priest to be blessed.  Priest is standing in an industrial structure, behind a copy-machine looking thing.  Priest gives the blessing, hot metal credit card pops out of the machine, priest brands the baby with the card.

3) Another possible cable short, incredibly depressing.  Young girl and boy live horrible, depressing, lives in trailer park.  Boy puts bugs on golf balls and tries to whack them into space.  Girl tries to shine shoes to raise money, is taken advantage of of quirky rich couple who want her to shine all their shoes for a quarter.  Last scene is girl and boy drifting through space on giant golf balls.

I must find, and watch that immediately. Doug Mclure is even in it!  how the hell did I miss that?

Thank you so much Graham!

Edit: Aaaaand I don't see it on video, but it's on youtube!

I was fairly confident the giant mudskipper/handpuppet monster lived in a pond in my backyard.  I would never go near it.

Any ideas on the other two?  I've googled every iteration of the keywords I can think of, and still drawing a blank.

It was originally titled 'Seven Cities to Atlantis'...had this come out during the advent of video, I'd of probably missed it....but it was a big deal in '78 in the UK.

Drawing a blank on the other two, though.

AIP did a great, funky series of Burroughs adaptations in the late '70s, all featuring McClure. I recommend At the Earth's Core.

No clue on the others, though that card-branding bit sounds like something Álex de la Iglesia might do.

At the Earth's Core is even a favorite of mine!  That's why I now feel really stupid for not finding Warlords of Atlantis.

I remember seeing a WWII movie that had Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas in it, they looked like they'd just stepped off the set of Dirty Dozen, but it wasn't that. I think it was about Allied forces and Nazi's trapped in bunkers during a harsh winter.

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I remember seeing a WWII movie that had Charles Bronson and Telly Savalas in it, they looked like they'd just stepped off the set of Dirty Dozen, but it wasn't that. I think it was about Allied forces and Nazi's trapped in bunkers during a harsh winter.

Might have been The Battle of the Bulge.

Okay, one more.  And this may be one I've completely jumbled up in my mind...  Another horror/adventure from the mid-to-late 70's or early 80's.

I thought it was a Bigfoot/Sasquatch movie but it might not be.  Some hunters/hikers/prospectors/mountain men are sitting by night at a campfire deep in the woods, possibly on a hill overlooking the wilderness (possibly the Pacific Northwest).  They're just talking by the fire, cracking jokes, what have you.  One is cooking up some hot baked beans in a skillet.  Suddenly, there is a loud, frightening, growl/shriek/roar monster type sound and they all quickly stop talking in sudden fear.  The one cooking the baked beans stands up, his eyes wide in total shock...  When suddenly the piping hot baked beans slide out of the pan and fall on the crotch of the guy sitting next to him, who comically screams like a madman.  Boiling baked beans on the junk!  Instant audience pleaser, right there.

It's not from Ed Raggazino's SASQUATCH: THE LEGEND OF BIGFOOT (1977) -- I thought it might be because I remembered the poster from my childhood, but I did just find the movie and the baked beans scene isn't in there...  And I don't think it was Charles Pierce's THE LEGEND OF BOGGY CREEK (1972) but it's possible... It also might not have been Bigfoot.  Could've been almost any woods animal or monster.  Thanks again!

Was it:

Bigfoot: The Mysterious Monster

http://www.stomptokyo.com/scott/nerds/?p=2125

It wasn't in Boggy Creek 2, as far as I know.