Result: The Brain That Wouldn't Die (1962) with Virginia Leith and Jason Evers. A hilarious Mystery Science 3000 spoof version is also available. Thanx Alli, yortsnave. Mar 19, 2007
I'm looking for an old horror film that is black and white. It was a scientist that keep the head of his dead wife alive in a glass box. It reminds of the the floating head you see in Haunted Mansion at Disneyland.
Result: The Changeling (1980) with George C. Scott. Thanx mkr.
I saw it when i was very young back in the early 80's. On TV, in color, but back when color was kinda crappy. From my recolection the images that stand out in my mind are a dark setting, but not night, probably just after sunset or maybe even very early morning, very foggy, somthing like a vermont, maybe even out in the woods of the UK a kind of wooded area. The setting seemed a bit 60's maybe even 50's and A house that seemed a bit large to be a normal house, maybe a small mansion type house. The only scene i remember that stickes in my head is a small boy either hiding from someone or being forced into what seemed like a wood stove or like a wierd fireplace. a very small boy probably about 8yrs at most kinda paleish. I feel like for some reason this stove thing was up on a second floor balcony.
Result: Bug starring Bradford Dillman. and the submitter may be interested to note that parts of the movie were shot in the set used for the Brady Bunch house, and the infamous burning roach in the hair scene takes place in the Brady's kitchen! Thanx Stareater, goblyn79, Mark. Mar 6, 2007
The movie has cockraoch creatures who may come from out of space and they burn people.In one scene they are on the back of a woman's head and they burn itsetting fire to her hair and head . I think scientist are worling out what these creatures are also.The film is colour and from the USA and probably made in the 1970
Result: Don't Talk To Strange Men (1962) Thanx Marphisa. Jan 9, 2010
This is a black and white movie I think its from the 1960's (black and white). a young girl accidently picks up the phone in her aunts pub ( or her mums) and has conversations with a man with a sexy voice and begins and is attracted to him.From that point he phones back and she has some over the phone romance with him. You never see the man's face but he is phoning from a telephone box. I think she is warned but in the end she finds out where he is phoning from and secretly goes to spy on the mystery caller. She is repulsed by what she see( the audience never see him).It is quite an ordinary film , but it did frighten me when I saw it, due to the mystery and never seeing the man's face .
Result: House Of The Dead (1978) aka Alien Zone. Anthology movie. Thanx Alli. Mar 9, 2007
Was a made for TV movie and was in color. Had to be from 1970 to 1983 and it appeared more than once on channel 43 in north-east Ohio on the saturday afternoon movie.I believe it was an anthology since I can remember two segments that did not seem linked in any way but were in the same movie.The first one was a business man on his way to a job interview and he passes a hobo who wanted change and he puts him down about getting a job. He than enters this building for his job interview and it looks abadoned but he enters through a door and it is shut behind him. Now he is tormented in this room, by having the walls with spikes close in on him but stop before killing him. Bottles of booze are slid to him under a door and he drinks them. A few days have gone by and he is released through a side door back into the world and he looks much like the hobo in the beginning, a dirty suit, unclean and unshaven. He walks out to the street and he also asks another business man for change and that man rebukes him about getting a job, before THAT business man enters the same building he did.The other segment , my memory is sketchy at best, but it involved what looked like a birthday party for kids and they wore masks and a woman was showering and the kids came into the bathroom but they seemed more like demons because of themasks they had on and it appeared they were coming to eat the woman with their cake encrusted hands reaching for her.
Result: The Final Terror AKA Campsite Massacre, Carnivore and Bump in the Night Thanx Midnight Creeper, Alchemy Montok. May 8, 2007
This is a camping slasher flick I saw when I was a kid. I KNOW it isn't Friday the Thirteenth or Sleepaway Camp. My only memories are of two death scenes; one involving (I think a girl) jogging in the woods into a trap setup with sharp can tops flying out and cutting her. Also possibly razor wire/fishhooks, but I might be making that up. Definetly sharp can tops, (like tuna cans). The other scene is after someone gets killed, others are rafting (yellow raft?) and the killer flings the body out of the woods onto the raft.The "surprise" ending involves killing the killer, but then his crazy mother also being a killer. Something about a shack. End scene involves logs. Maybe the killer was crossdressing?
Result: Beast Of Blood (1971) Thanx Kim(poster). Mar 11, 2007
It is a horror movie I saw in the theater (low budget) in the late 60s or early 70s; a disembodied head movie (not The Thing That Wouldn't Die/Nor The Brain That Wouldn't Die/Nor The Head). In the movie, the talking head was decaying, really gross with the eyes bulging and the teeth protruding (the movie was in color). The head was sitting in a dish or bowl and being kept alive by an evil scientist or doctor. The head's decaying corpse was laying on an operating table near the head. The head was saying taunting things to the doctor/scientist. The decaying head willed the corpse to rise and strangle the doctor/scientist. Then the body and head went out into the woods. I believe it may have been dubbed; maybe Italian made or something. This is the only scene I remember over 40 years later.
Result: Journey Back To Oz animated The scene mentioned is the witch Mombi chasing Dorothy on a herd of magical elephants Thanx ryee. Mar 10, 2007
This is probably a kids movie and for the longest time I swore up and down that this was part of The Wizard of Oz (but its obviously not) but the scene I remember distinctly had a witch chasing a girl (in my mind this is the wicked witch of the west and dorothy respectively, but obviously not) while riding an elephant and she quite sinisterly chants at the girl "Elephants Never Forget!" over and over again.
Result: Ghost Story (1973) Spare Parts" episode Thanx Midnight Creeper. Jul 13, 2007
This movie is from the late 80's early 90's. Either its a really convoluted story or its possibly an anthology movie. Eitherway its pretty weird. In the first bit that I remember this woman kills her rich husband by rerouting the exhaust from his car back into the car. Later in the movie the ghost of her husband (who is invisible) puts the hose on the car to reroute the exhaust into the car so that she will die too. Then there is a bit where this couple moves into an apartment building where they have a housewarming, and I'm pretty sure they get this really ugly vase from an anonymous person (or its possible that it was in the apartment already, or they bought it themselves). Anyways, they try to get rid of it by throwing it down the garbage chute and it keeps coming back. Some weird stuff happens in the apartment and the woman blames it on the vase. Finally, the woman from the apartment (or if its another movie or anthology movie some other woman) is getting stalked by these two people (one is a sleazy guy the other is a sexually ambiguous rather fat person). I know at one point the fat one is chasing her with a car, and then in a store, except when the girl asks for help the shop keeper doesn't see the person. Later the fat person is chasing her dressed as a nurse (though in the past he/she was dressed as a male).
Result: Shadow Of The Hawk (1976) Starring Jan Michael Vincent Thanx Plissken. Apr 19, 2007
The movie was kind of an adventure/horror movie where this group of archeologists or something like that were on this mission to find some sort of native american (or possibly Aztec, Mayan, etc...) totem type creature. I remember a scene where I'm pretty sure they took peyote or were in a smoke house and were having hallucinations. Anyways, the totem thing kept getting seen looking at them across this river and it looked like a pile of old furs with bones and maybe a skull face. At the end of the movie they find the thing except its dead (I think, or just inanimate) and bring it back to the museum. The final scene is an eerie shot of the thing in a museum case. I'm pretty sure this is from the late 70's early 80's.
Result: Friends (1971) and the sequel is Paul & Michelle (1974). Thanx Alli. Mar 14, 2007
Looking for a film in early 1970's about 2 teenagers, girl is french I think, who meet and run away to australian outback and have a baby. Seems like there was an original movie and a sequel. They are eventually found and go back to "real" life.
Result: The Time Of Their Lives (1946) Abbott and Costello Thanx Janet the Film Goddess. Apr 14, 2007
I dont know who any of the actors were in this film. Its dated around the 30's/40's. Its an old black and white film about a father and daughter who are ghosts, its a comedy and i think the daughter falls in love with the man in a house. They always seem to be sitting in a tree and i think the father floats around in a puff of smoke. I'm not sure if they were witches or not.It is not "i Married a Witch" as i have seen this. I saw this on tv.
Result: The Colditz Story (1955) WWII POW Thanx jcase. Apr 12, 2007
The film is a black and white war film ( possibly). It is not stalag 17 or King Rat.There is a spy in the camp, the men find out who the mole is and he ends up getting shot by the Nazis I think and they all esacpe. I think they escape while they are performing a play. Very similar to stalag , but different also
Result: Defence Of The Realm (1985) starring Gabriel Byrne, Greta Scacchi, and the late Denholm Elliott. Thanx Midnight Creeper. Apr 26, 2007
I saw this film in the 1970s/80s sorry I can't be more accurate. It was in colour, set in London England and I saw it on TV. It was about a reporter investigating a government conspiracy. The reporter decides to protect himself by sending the information he has gained to a friend / solicitor? The ending sees the reporter sitting in his flat. He puts a vinyl record on his record player (classical I think) and the door bell rings. He answers the door and the flat blows up the bomb being linked to the record player I presume. Next thing newspaper headlines show details of the government conspiracy after his death. I cannot recall the actors names I'm afraid it is the ending that sticks most in my mind.
Result: More (1998) Written & Directed by Mark Osborne. Watch it free online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDSevIVbuFY Thanx Jeremy. Mar 8, 2007
I saw a short at the beginning of an IMAX film - Everest. It was an animated short about a character that lived in a dark world and I believe worked at a glasses factory. He tried on a pair and everything was bright and sunny. No words but music. I loved this short and have seen it once before on the internet somewhere but I can not think of the name nor can I locate it again. This would have come out around 1997-1998... I believe.
Result: Obsession (1976) starring Cliff Robertson. Thanx Marphisa. Mar 22, 2007
I dont remember the exact year but I would have to guess early 80's. The movie was about a family and the mother goes upstairs to check on her child. She doesnt come back down and the father goes up to check on her. He finds they have both been abducted. The movie is him trying to find them along with the police. I believe the end of the movie is a chase scene between the police and the kidnappers with the mother and child in the car. They go off a bridge and the kidnappers, mother and child are all killed. I believe this was a made for TV movie. I remember seeing it on TV when I was a kid... I am now 36 years old. I would say late 70's to early 80's.
Result: The New Adventures Of Pippi Longstocking Starring Dick Van patten ,and Tami Erin as Pippi Thanx anon. Apr 21, 2007
I am looking for a movie, it could be two or three i am not sure if my memory has combined them.... i .saw them both early 90'sFirst is a gentleman in a wheelchair coaxes a child in a playground to him by throwing a candybar on a string and then dragging it over, if I remember correctly it was rather foggy.Second, again may be the same or different, A scene with a treasure chest (pirates) being buried in a wooded forest. For some reason I remeber it then being haunted, not like the scene in jumanji, but close to it. Third, someone gives a kid some boots that he can walk up walls with. but then he gets stuck going up a brick house.
Result: Chances Are with Robert Downey Jr. Thanx Nat, Addison. Mar 2, 2007
I watched a movie around 1990-1993, it was rented by my parents so i watched it on video tape, it did seem quite modern for that time. It was in colour but i dont remember the name of the film or any of the actors, this is why i am not having much luck in finding this movie, so i hope you can help me.Near the beggining of the film, a man rushing to see his girlfriend who he is going to propose to, but gets ran over by a car on the way to the restaurant. He goes to heaven and pleads to go back to earth which the people agree to but he doesnt take the medicine which makes him go back into his same body at the same time as when he died, so we nect see him in a car not knowing who he was and he is a librarian. the film goes on and he meets a man who invites him for lunch at his house and when he goes round, the main character's old girlfriend is there and also a big tree in the back garden which he and his girlfriend planted as a shrub before he died and he starts to get flashbacks. They both eventually find out who he is and start their relationship again but then he starts to think about the other man and how he loved her and should have her because he is meant to be dead. It ends with the main character killing himself in a lorry/truck and then him being on a different weird planet.
Result: David (1988) (TV) with Matthew Lawrence as David. Thanx Alli. Mar 6, 2007
There was a movie I saw quite awhile back, roughly between 1985-1990, about a young boy who's father kidnapped him and burned him. The boy did not die, and I believe this movie was based on a true story. However, as luck has it, I can't find any info on what it may be called. For some reason I recall the boy's name being Kyle, though I could be completely mistaken on that.
Result: Circle Of Iron (1978) starring Jeff Cooper and David Carradine, along with Roddy McDowall, Christopher Lee, and Eli Wallach in his greatest role as "Man-in-Oil". It's a strange little martial arts flick written by Bruce Lee and James Coburn. It's more than a touch on the bizarre side and has a high cheese factor (especially when our hero fights the Monkey King), but it's one of my favorites. Thanx Midnight Creeper. Mar 1, 2007
There was a movie I saw on HBO in the late 70's or early 80's. The movie's setting would be chinese dynasty type setting. A lot of small villages and animal skin type clothing. It was about a young man on a quest for this book of knowledge located in some temple. His character had brownish blonde shoulder length hair. On his quest for the temple, he visits a villages and meets a man that has been living in an oil jar for years. I remember the guy made a comment about his legs and other parts shrinking to nothing. He also encounters this leopard man. The man finds the temple and meets the monk there who shows him this book of enlightment. The books is opened up to show as a mirror. The guy laughs and goes back home.
Result: The Man With Two Brains Thanx Mark. May 1, 2007
I beleive that this movie was in the ninetis or late eightiesthere was this modelor just a beautifull woman and she was coming down a hotelstaircase and when one of the bellhops saw her he became a man facial hair grew in just as he was watching her??
Result: Greta The Misfit Greyhound Thanx concord_nh. Mar 8, 2007
Disney movie, circa 1982-ish. It is about a greyhound dog who is disqualified at his first race, so the owner leaves him out in the desert to die. The dog walks for miles in the heat, burning off the pads on his feet. A shepherd finds him and makes him little leather booties for his feet. He then teaches the dog to herd his sheep. I have been trying to find this movie for years!
Result: Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland American release 1992 (Japanese). The comic strip was popular many years ago, and was written by Winsor McCay (who did Gertie the Dinosaur, one of the first animated films---1914---she still looks terrific!) Thanx Janet the Film Goddess. Apr 14, 2007
I'm looking for a color movie that i'm not sure how old it is. it was a cartoon movie that i remember watching it as a kid on my tv many times. i must have been about 5 so that would make the movie be atleast 12 years old. the plot as i remember is that this boy goes to sleep in his bed and somehow ends up in this magical world. he meets a girl there and falls in love with her. also while wandering around he finds these huge doors that have a big lock on them and someone tells him that a great evil is locked behind them. for some reason the boy opens the doors and releases the evil. then it is up to him to use this big golden scepter with a big blue ball on the tip to fight the evil. the scepter shoots blue rays of light. the most specific thing i remember is in the end the boy is back on his bed and the beds 4 legs have grown into very long legs and is carrying him around. at the very end he is about to kiss the girl and he wakes up right before they kiss when his mom walks in and tells him it was all just a dream.
Result: Orlando (1992) Thanx RomanyX. Mar 25, 2007
in 1986( possibily nov 85) i saw a color movie on cable showtime about a woman who travels forward in time starting out in early biblical days, then jumps to midevil europe,then pre ww1. I think susan sarandon played the lead role, but I am not sure. It had to be scifi with all the time travel,I believe it had a one word title.
Result: Urga (1992) aka Close to Eden Russian Takes place in the China/Mongolia area. Thanx Janet the Film Goddess. Apr 14, 2007
I saw a film in the early nineties, at a small eclectic film house in Baltimore. I believe it was Chinese and the plot was simple a woman in a very remote village was fed up with her husband for being so fertile that she gave him an ultimatum, go to the city and buy condoms or no more sex! The city was clearly an extremely long distance from village because the whole film was about his journey. That's all I can remember, except for that I thought the film was quirky and funny.
Result: Fantastic Planet aka La Planete Sauvage Directed by René Laloux. You can watch it free online : http://www.jonhs.net/freemovies/fantastic_planet.htm Thanx tevans, Jeremy. Mar 3, 2007
An early seventies colour animation. Possibly eastern European. About two races of people one very small, the other gigantic by comparison. The big race tries to exterminate the smaller race with pills give off a poisonous gas. Seen from the point of view of the smaller race.
Result: Son-rise: A Miracle Of Love (1979) (TV) Thanx Suzanne. Mar 24, 2007
This was a movie based on a true story (I think) about a married couple who's young son (maybe 4 or 5 years old?) is mentally impaired and they help him become normal. One of the scenes I recall clearly is of the boy sitting and watching a dinner plate spin around the floor and waving his hands in the air until the plate stopped and then he would pick the plate up and do it again. The parents are determined to help him overcome his impairment and work with him tirelessly. He shows great improvement and then suffers some sort of setback and they have to start all over again. Their hard work pays off and he becomes completely normal. At the end we see a scene where he is a normal boy playing in the park with his parents and they encounter a family with an impaired child and the now normal boy asks his parents what is wrong with that kid. This was made in the early 80's or possibly late 70's.
Result: Son-rise: A Miracle Of Love Thanx Suzanne. Mar 24, 2007
I saw a movie on TV in 1978 or 79 (not sure if it was made for tv or an actual movie) that was about parents of a baby boy who was diagnosed with an unspecified mental disability (or maybe an autism-like disorder) and everyone recommended they institutionalize him, but they refused and worked with him at home until one day when he was 2 or 3 they had a breakthrough and I think at the end, he became "normal". May have been based on a true story.
Result: Mystery Mansion (1984) Thanx Midnight Creeper. Apr 28, 2007
This is from the early 80's tv show or made for tv movie. I was young maybe 6 or so, which would be around the year 1984. it has been haunting me... I only have vague memories about it. There is a family and a little girl. There is a ghost of a little girl I think who is dead in a fireplace. Living little girl goes into fireplce and finds family missing documents or money. There are robbers as well, I think.
Result: Deadly Friend (1986) with Kristy Swanson and Matthew Laborteaux. Thanx Alli. Mar 6, 2007
This movie starts out as a love story between two teenagers, a boy anda pretty blonde girl who lives next door. They love eachother, but the girls abusive fatherhates the boy and finds anyway he can to keep them apart. The boy also happens to be experimenting with robotics. One day the boy and girl sneaked away to see each other but are caught bythe girl's abusive father and I believe the boy and father are fighting when the girlgets involved between the two and falls and either breaks her or bumps her head and dies.Now since the boy has been experimenting with robotics he is somehow ableto save her and bring her back to live. But, in a wicked twist she neveractually came back but was used as a vessel for the robot inside her body to grow into a complete robot that breaks out of body one night whenthe boy is kissing the robotic girl and the boy is slowly killed bythe robot.Now this color movie came out in the 80's I believe, but it could bethe early 90's at the most.
Result: Terrorvision (1986) starring Diane Franklin and Chad Allen. Thanx Stareater. Mar 2, 2007
This is a horror movie that involves some kind of monster that is a housebut stays in an indoor swimming pool. this creature is able to impersonateanyone that it eats, and the creature wants to trick the people it encountersinto the pool so that it can eat them. Now I believe this color movie was released in either the late 80's or early 90'sand it shouldn't be too hard to find because it came on tv alot during the early 90's
Result: Nell (1994) starring Jodie Foster costarring Niam Leeson and Natasha Richardson. The plot summary on imdb.com begins "Nell is a girl who's been brought up in an isolated world. The only person she knew was her mother and twin sister." with Jodi Foster and Liam Neeson. with Jodie Foster and Liam Neeson Thanx Midnight Creeper, Jessica, fishrockcarving, Alli. Mar 1, 2007
I've watched a color TV film in the late 90's (the time of production must be late 80s or 90s) about a young girl living alone in a forest house, almost wild. She had a twin sister and a mother (who learned them how to talk a little bit), but then they both died: her mother of natural death, and her sister drowned in a lake by their house, while they were playing. The main action takes place about five years later, when the girl is already about 20 years old, and is discovered by a group of friends. One of them tries to make her talk again etc., but she can only remember a lullaby she used to sing to her sister (with some words like "don't cry, my little chick" or smth), and simple phrases like "You.. and me". In general, she behaves in a weird way, avoids communicating, and when this guy takes her to a city, she doesn't see anything unnatural in pulling her dress up(with no underwear, of course) and turning around, laughing, just because there were some men who paid attention to her. Moreover, the death of her twin keeps tormenting her.In the end, she falls in love with this guy, they stay in that house, she learns the language and meets his sister, who somehow reminds her of her own.
Result: Hellbound: Hellraiser II (1988) Written by Clive Barker. Thanx Jeremy, anon. Mar 2, 2007
I saw a movie around 1995, but I was home sick from school and it was on TV, so I can't give you a great reference as to when the film was made. It was probably and early 90's, late 80's film. All I remember is the end of the movie, where a woman is being sucked through a portal, with another girl holding onto her hands. The woman's skin breaks around her spine, and her skeleton gets sucked into the portal, leaving her skin and hair behind.
Result: Le Passage (1986) starring Alain Delon. Thanx Mike. Nov 26, 2008
I remember seeing this movie when I lived in East Europe as a kid in the early 1990s. The only real part I remember is a witch or monster of some type watching a set of monitors as a parent (not sure, but think it was a father) is reunited on a beach with their child.
Result: High Spirits (1988) Thanx goblyn. Mar 1, 2007
I've been looking for this movie for over 15 years. I use to see it all the time on HBO when I was a kid in the late eighties. It involved a castle, and I'm not sure if the castle was haunted or a fantasy world, but it was very trippy and stuff kept happening to the people, but it seemed almost like it had slapstick humour, one scene that realy sticks out is a painting comes to life and theres a huge ship fighting a squid in it and the squid pulls the boy in and all the people watching (I think they were all drunk) see the boy in the painting. I remebere it being somewhat of across between Who framed Roger Rabbit and Young Frankenstein, but really late eighties.
Result: Dead End (2003) Thanx goblyn. Mar 1, 2007
i watched this film (on dvd so it was in the cinema at some point) about a year ago (2005/2006) and i didn't really understand it so want to watch it againa family (a mum, dad, son, daughter and her husband) were driving up to the mother's family for a holiday (christmas or something) and the father decided to take a shortcutthey drove along the road for ages and then reliased they were going round in circlesthey started to get killed off and every time this happened a childs buggy would appear and a black cari think the last character was the dad/daughterat the end of the film the last character wakes up and is told his family were killed in a car crash then he drives off in a black car
Result: Thriller This is an episode of the British tv series The episode is called "Someone at the Top of the Stairs" and starred Donna Mills. It was shown on tv in America in the 70s as a movie. Thanx Moongirl. Dec 28, 2007
I saw this film 25 - 30 years ago.There was a boarding house/rooming house, with a portrait of someone sitting with their hands folded, with index fingers pointing upward. Most or all the tenants would select a new tenant to murder/make disappear. Their signal that they had decided to murder? All would sit at the dining room table with their hands folded, w/index fingers pointed up.
Result: Night Cries (1978) (TV) with Susan Saint James. Thanx Alli. Mar 9, 2007
I am looking for the name of a movie that came out probably in the late seventies or early eighties. I remember it coming on tv all the time in the eighties. It is definitely not Rosemary's Baby. Anyway, all I could remember is a woman who kept having strange dreams about a child or child birthing. There was a scene, I suppose she was dreaming, with a doctor telling her that her biological was ticking. It seems like I remember her hiding/waking up in a closet. I think she kept hearing a baby crying throughout the movie. Toward the end of the movie, I think a nurse had her baby and was trying to take off with her child. It seems like the two women were struggling in a boat or maybe the nurse had a car and maybe crashed into the water or something.
Result: Strays (1991) starring : Kathleen Quinlan as Lindsey Jarrett ,Timothy Busfield as Paul Jarrett,Claudia Christian as Claire Lederer Thanx George. Apr 5, 2007
the film i am trying to find is around the date of 1996, i saw it on tv so it as to be a couple of years be4 that date. its about a family who move into a house tht is being watched by a grey cat. the cats is not seen at the begining but you are looking through the eyes of it watching anybody going in the house and u hear the cat making noises like hissing sounds. when the family move there thy find a white? cat with kittens they take it in to the house and look after it. I remember a man going into the sellar and he gets killed i cant remember how but i no it was the grey cat. near the end of the film the baby is left in its room sleeping and the grey cat and some other cats come through the air vents and get the baby sleeping, the mother comes in a see the cats and grabs her baby from the cot and runs out of the house.just be4 the film finishes is shows another family about to move in. im not sure who stared in it or were it was set i can remember that the house was in the middle of nowhere, it had trees all around it with a wendy house out side
Result: The Legacy (1978) Thanx goblyn. Mar 1, 2007
I remember seeing a movie as a child in the late 70's early 80's. The only part of the movie I remember was a girl was swimming in a pool and she goes underwater. When she comes back up for air she is surprised to find that she is trapped. When she went underwater a large glass sheet raced across the pool keeping her from resurfacing.
Result: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour episode: Where the Woodbine Twineth First aired January 11, 1965. Thanx RomanyX. Mar 26, 2007
There was a terror movie when I was a kid in the 60ths about this blond rich girl that her father brought a black doll. They always play together and the doll became alive every time they played. One day they were playing in the forest and the black doll started running leaving the blond girl turned into a doll forever. It was in black and white (of course it has to be).
Result: The Pit (1981) Thanx goblyn. Mar 1, 2007
This a thriller from the early 1970's. I think it was made for tv and in color. The story was about a boy who was killing people and making it look like an accident. The main one I remember is when he stopped by an elderly womans house while she was working in the yard. He did something to scare her and as she was trying to get away from him, she tripped and fell on her garden sheers. Her death looked like an accident. This wasn't "The Other" about the twins, but it was on TV around the same time(give or take a year). I think the elderly woman was his school teacher whom he wanted to get even with for embarrassing him at school.
Result: The Monster Club (1980) An anthology film, The segment is called The Shadmock. Thanx RomanyX. Mar 26, 2007
I saw a B horror movie (grainy color) from the late 70s or early 80s that completely scarred me. I saw it on tv in NY on channel 11s "Saturday Matinee" line-up(possibly in '85). The only scene I remember is a woman with long brown hair and a green dress approaching the camera. Her face looked like it was possibly melting, an obscure white and brown mix. Her voice sounded almost robotic.
Result: Picture Mommy Dead (1966) Thanx Marphisa. Feb 19, 2007
I saw this film in the mid to late 70's. It was a dark film maybe in colour. It may have starred Vincent Price, but I'm not sure. The setting is a huge mansion in the country. A little girl sees her dead mother's portrait bleeding. She tells her father what she saw but then looks at the portrait again and it is fine. I saw this on television so it could have been on "Outer Limits" or "Tale from the Darkside" or "Twilight Zone" because I would often sneak and watch t.v. in the hallway after bedtime.
Result: Taste Of Fear (1961) aka Scream of Fear Thanx Marphisa. Feb 19, 2007
i seen a film about 15 years ago, (i was around 8), it is an old film done in black and white, all i can remember is there is a girl in a wheelchair, and i think (can't be sure) she is rich. Anyway, everyone in her house are trying to make her go insane. I remember one scene where she goes into a room and all sorts of noises and stuff happen, i think she see's a ghost or something. Then she faints, when she wakes up, she tells her staff (servents and maids) of what she seen in the room, then they take her to the room and it's all clean as if nothing had happend. I think her staff or someone is trying to make her go insane. ANother scene that sticks out is there is a part where a wheelchair is at the edge of a cliff and someone pushes it off. I can't tell you a date for the film, but it's black and white and done in a sort of House on haunted hill (original) sorta style, mix with Alfred Hitchcock style.. it could be them. i have told my friends about it, and they seem to think it has something to do with Cats in the title...but they can't remember and i can't find anything coming up on the internet about cats..
Result: The Snorkel (1958) Thanx Marphisa. Feb 19, 2007
I saw this suspense film on TV (the "Mid-Morning Movie" segment) when I was about 11 or 12, so that would make the viewing date around 1972 or 1973. For a long time I thought it starred Pamela Franklin but I can't find the movie among her titles. What I recall is that the main character, a young girl, comes home from school to find out from her older sister that their mother has died. Turns out a criminal has actually killed the mother. Possibly the villain is somehow tied to the older sister-- boyfriend maybe? Anyway, the end of the movie is what I recall. The killer gets trapped below stairs (basement?) when the young girl moves a huge heavy piece of furniture over the trap door. Movie ends with the killer banging on the trap door and no one is left in the room to hear him. Maybe the young girl leaves the house, knowing the killer will die. Or maybe she's going to call the police to come get him? Not sure. I can still see the corner of the piece of furniture just covering enough of the trap door so that the guy beneath can't open the trap to get out. I think this takes place in a beach house.
Result: Invasion Of The Saucer Men (1957) Thanx ctjlang, Marphisa. Feb 18, 2007
I'm looking for a film I watched on television in the mid-70s, probably on one of those Saturday evening "creature feature" programs. I'm pretty sure it was black and white, or an early color film, so might have been made before the 70s. It was a horror film about aliens with huge, bald, bulbous heads and long, sharp, pointy fingers - almost like thin knife blades. Part of the action takes place at a farmhouse, and there is a scene where one of the aliens kills a cow. I know that's not much to go on, but this movie scared the heck out of me so much that I hid under the dining room table, and it's driving me bonkers not to know the title. This is a long shot, but I thought I'd try, since I've Googled everything I can think of with no luck.
Result: Psychomania (1971) starring Nicky Henson. Thanx Stareater, Marphisa, Mark, Alli. Feb 19, 2007
I'm looking for a movie that i saw on tv around 1975 - 1977 ? I belive it was called Seven Witches.I think the movie was british. The plot as far as i can remember was about a motorcycle gang in which their leader kills himself but then comes back to life and can never die again. At firt they don't belive it's true but he convinces them that if they kill themselves and belive, they'le be just like him. All the members do it and it works. Except for one guy. At the last second he has doubts. so when he dies, he never comes back to life. These seven member turn out to become very evil and terrorise the local towns. At the end of the movie, someone figures out some kind of spell and the seven witches end up turning to stone forever. I know it sounds like a corny movie but as a kid it scared the crap out of me. Can anyone find info on this movie.
Result: Kidco Thanx benjamin, Mark, Addison. Feb 20, 2007
I'm looking for the name of a color movie from the early 80s (maybe late 70s). I only remember certain parts about the movie but not the actual plotline. The film is set on a dusty ranch or a farm of some kind in the middle of the summer. The main charachter is a dark-haired boy, maybe 10-12 years old, incredibly precocious. I remember he is running some kind of underground bingo game in his basement to make money (maybe to save the farm) and all the neighborhood kids pay money to come play. He wears a visor and calls the bingo numbers as he pulls them from the bingo spinner thing. The boy has a bunch of sisters and he and all of them wear jeans and western type shirts the whole movie. I don't remember seeing any parents in the movie but at some point some cops or welfare people get suspicious and are sent down to the farm to check in on them. They, the boy and his sisters develop this elaborate plan and pretend they are a poor family living in the barn. The oldest sister pretends she is pregnant and leads them around the barn and pretends her sisters are her kids. That's about all I remember. There may be a scene in the beginning with the oldest sister riding a horse. And one of the sisters is not much younger than the main boy and has braids. I think they end up developing their own business of some kind selling the manure from the farm and making a lot of money.
Result: Beauty's Revenge (1995) aka Midwest Obession (TV) with Courtney Thorne-Smith and Tracey Gold. It's sooo cheesey!! Thanx Alli. Feb 19, 2007
i watched this movie on late nite tv once i forget what it was called but it was about these two girls that fall in love with this guy who works at a gas station and he goes out with one but thyen dumps her and goes out with the other one and gets her pregnant so then the one he dumped who likes cows goes crazy and kills the pregnant girl and she goes to jail.
Result: Practical Magic (1998) starring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman. The only thing left out in the description is that the 2 sisters are witches. Thanx benjamin. Feb 21, 2007
I saw it in theatre, Late 90's-Early 2000 so i'm guessing its not a very old movie. I remember two sisters? i believe they were sisters, if not then they were best friends. One a brunette one a blonde. I remember int the beginning they are at some public place, maybe a club, I'm not sure but there was a guy and I think the blonde had some kind of attraction to him I dont remember how. Then i remember the blonde ends up going completely insane over something, I wanna say over a guy but I dont know for sure. Then I think towards the end I remember the blonde on the floor maybe having a seizure or hearing voices or something then at the end i remember they show the yard and there is someone barried under the ground, and I think it might be the blonde's boyfriend or something. Throughout the movie I'm pretty sure the brunette was normal and trying to help the blonde. Someone told me they thought it was "Sisters" but that movie seems to old because i searched it on google and in that movie the brunette was insane. I know for a fact that the blonde was the crazy one. And it was farely new. It was in color, I'm pretty possitive.
Result: Fire Down Below (1957) starring Robert Mitchum, Jack Lemmon, and Rita Hayworth. Thanx benjamin. Feb 20, 2007
I would like to know the name of a movie I saw on tv (not a made for tv movie)in color with a disturbing ending. I cannot remember too many details, only that the ending involved a man on a boat who was doomed to die on that boat because, if I recall correctly, there was no way to get him off the boat without killing him. A male friend (possibly a former adversary?)was there at the end watching helplessly. It was most likely made in the 1950's or 1960's. For some reason I thought Tony Curtis was in it, but I can't seem to find it when I look through information about Cutis' films. I don't even remember if the man was left to die or if he was mercifully killed quickly - I'm leaning toward the latter.
Result: Split Second (1992) Ian Dury had a small role. Rutger Hauer starred. Thanx RomanyX. Mar 26, 2007
looking for horror film, possible ian drury had small part in it, american lead actor set in london? being takes up everybodies dna it kills, hides in underground either late 80's early 90's
Result: The Hugga Bunch Movie Ugh, this one is up there with "Child of Glass" and "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" and "Fortress" as "Help me with the name of this movie!" requests. Thanx Midnight Creeper. Jun 18, 2007
i saw this movie like in the early 90's i believe and there were two dolls and one had yellow hair and the other had red hair and the only part that is clear to me is that at one part the redheaded one was stuck in a dryer. i think it wasnt a cartoon, but im not sure...i think the girls were kinda like puppets...
Result: What Dreams May Come Thanx Midnight Creeper. May 22, 2007
there is a film i seen a few times, once on tv and rented it another time.the name of it is WHAT DREAMS MAY COME with robin williams.The movie always intrigues me and i am in awe of it but i could see it a hundred more times and still not understand it. could you give me some insight on this movie so i am led out of the dark. thanks so much. please reply to karabn4@sbcglobal.net
Result: Arnold but was re-released around 1976. Stars Roddy McDowell and Stella Stevens. Thanx Alli, Marphisa, Mark. Feb 12, 2007
I'm looking for a movie I saw in a drive-in theatre in 1977, I think. A rich man has died, and the heirs are gathered around his casket in his home. He has hidden his wealth, and they search for it. He talks to them (a ghostly voice just happens--I think it's a tape, but they don't know it) and tells them what to do. One by one they disappear (maybe die?). When there's only one left, the disembodied voice tells him the money is hidden in the stone tomb/vault attached to the house, but when he goes to get it, the door closes behind him, and he is trapped. Somehow it's his greed that made him get trapped. I remember this as very funny, but it might not have been comedy. I also have a vague memory that the ghost may have been named Charlie.
Result: In Between (1991) with a four-person cast made up of Robert Forster, Alexandra Paul, some chick, and the acclaimed Wings Hauser, who not only acted in the movie Vice Squad but also sang its theme song Neon Slime. Thanx Midnight Creeper. May 9, 2007
I'm looking for a TV movie I saw a long time ago. I think it was in the 90's on USA? It's about three strangers who appear trapped in a house. None of them know each other or how they got into the house. Then an 'angel' appears and tells them that they all died today, but there's been a backup/mistake in heaven and they will need to stay in house until things get worked out. The last thing he says before he leaves is that one of the 'mistakes' was one of them will get their life back, but they will have to decide who that will be. The rest of the movie follows the three strangers as they get to know each other more and argue over who should get to 'go back'. In the end, they decide that the older of the two women should go back and the other two embrace heaven by walking into a light with the angel.There are only four actors in the entire film. (two male and two female) I know that one of the men has short, curly blond hair and plays a very angry character.
Result: The Phantom Tollbooth Thanx Marphisa, Mark. Feb 13, 2007
This is a film I believe I saw in the early 70s. It has haunted me for many years now, and has hit that stage where I can't remember if it was a movie or a dream.I believe it must have been a childrens film, and this is what I remember: It begins with a boy waking in his bedroom and to find a largem strange machine there, like a big computer with a door in it. When he puts part of his body through the door, it comes out on the other side as animated.He after some trepidation, he finally steps through the door into an animated world. For some reason I think this world is on the seabed, but I may be wrong. The next thing I remember is that in the distance he hear's this chant "Guilty guilty guilty guilty..." and it's getting gradually louder. He looks up to see a strange policeman, speeding towards him, with a flashing light on his head, and perhaps a wheel instead of legs. Then he is accused of something and arrested. There then follows an animated adventure.At the end, all is resolved and the policeman is seen speeding away chanting the "Innocent Innocent Innocent Innocent etc"Then the boy re-enters his room, goes to bed, wakes up and the machine is not there.
Result: Dream A Little Dream Thanx Beth. Apr 16, 2007
I saw this movie I think in 1996 on TV, HBO probably and it has stuck with me since. I thought that the two boys in the movie were Cory Feldman and Corey Haim but I have looked up all of their movies and none of them are the ones. All I really remember is that the two boys were into something they shouldn't be with some really bad people. One of the boys had a girlfriend and they snuck her out of her bedroom window, they were dressed really nice and they went and got married. Her parents if I remember forbid her to see this boy and she did it anyways and got married with out them knowing and they were going to run away together. Something happened and she ended up getting shot and he snuck her back into her room, it was night time. I remember he really loved her. Their clothes they wore in the movie makes me think it was either a movie made and set in the late 80's or early 90's and it is in color. It is set in the USA but I can't remember the names of any of the character's.
Result: Sunshine (1973) (TV) Thanx Marphisa, Hendu. Feb 13, 2007
Sounds like Love Story - me I think from the seventies. It was a love story about a man and woman. They were kinda like hippies. They got married and had a baby, then the woman got sick. I think she had leukemia. She died and left the man and daughter. I think they made a tv series about it later on.
Result: Village Of The Damned with Christopher Reeve and Kirstie Alley. Thanx blooeyedgal. Mar 19, 2007
I've look at the found pages, and two movies sort of sound like this movie. Either "The Children", "Village of the Damned" or something else. Essentially there are a bunch of children that have glowing red eyes that electrocute people in a farmland community. When they electrocute people with their hands, the people turn into instant skeletons. And then there is an ever present chord that continuously plays when they do this, like two consecutive piano keys unharmoniously being played together, may have been strings. I'm thinking this is a 1980s film. I don't remember black finger nails and the summaries for "The Children" never mention red eyes. So this is where the confusion is present.
Result: Trial Run (1984) from New Zealand. Thanx Midnight Creeper. May 6, 2007
Ok, I'm looking for a colour film from the late 70's or early 80's, I'm 95% sure it's an Australian or New Zealand film, about a women who is staying in a remote farmhouse with no phone, I think it's near the sea. The nearest phone box is a mile away. She jogs every day. As the movie progresses strange and scary things start to happen - she feel's she's being watched/stalked etc. One night she wakes up to see a spectral figure at the window. She thinks she's going crazy. Eventually I think it turns out to be some local weirdo, and in the middle of the night she has to run to the phone box to seek help. It's possibly called "the runner", or "the mile" or something like that. I've googled it to death but can't find it - it's been bugging me for years! I saw it on video arround 1988.
Result: Ring Of Fire (1961) starring David Janssen, Frank Gorshin and Doodles Weaver (Sigourney's uncle). Thanx bruhajzmah. Mar 8, 2007
I remember and movie when I was younger. This is going back to late 60's early 70's about a small group of prisoners who were loose/lost in the woods. One guy flicks his cigarette butt on the ground and it sets a forest fire. These guys try to escape out of the woods but are combatted by the fire. I also remember the main character trying to get across a big wooden bridge that is engulfed in flames on an old train. It may have been a Canadian flick, but not 100% certain.
Result: From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973) starring Ingrid Bergman. starring Ingrid Bergman. Thanx Marphisa, benjamin, benjamin. Feb 13, 2007
My brother and I have been searching for a late 70/80's film. It is about two kids living in a museum. It maybe a diseny film but we have been searching for weeks. There was a waterfall in the mesueum and the kids actually live there. Sorry it is so vague. We are going way back with this one.
Result: The Vulture (1967) starring Robert Hutton, Akim Tamiroff, Broderick Crawford Thanx MystMoonstruck. Nov 21, 2008
I remember watching a movie around 1985 or so. I watched it on TV and don't remember much about it. It was in colour and there was a large vulture like bird that was killing a family in a mansion off one by one. Specifically I remember a scene where the 'bird' took a little girl right out of the upstairs bedroom and carried her to a rock peak and picked her apart.
Result: La Cabina (1972) (TV) aka The Phone Box. You can watch it on YouTube! I did! Thanx Alli, Marphisa. Feb 12, 2007
Ok, I believe this is a European film, possibly Italian, but it is difficult to remember because there was no real dialogue. Basically a guy goes into a phone box. The phone doesn't work and the door will not open. A lorry/van pulls up and two men lift the box onto the back and drive off without acknowledging the occupant. The rest of the film is a drive through the country, villages, towns etc whilst the man tries to get peoples attention. Eventually they deposit the phone box in a huge cavern where there are hundreds of other phone boxes with people in them in various degrees of decay. It should be boring but it is compulsive and ultimately really disturbing.
Result: Troll 2 (1990) Thanx Alli. Feb 12, 2007
My nieces and nephew said that I used to watch a movie around 1993 that involved a family that just moved into a house there was a witch that lived in an castle in the woods she had green food when people ate the green food they turned into monsters or something there was someone in a shower (a mom or daughter) upstairs and a beach ball was falling down the stairs at the end someone is killed in the shower and green stuff goes down the drain.
Result: Playroom Thanx anon, V. Feb 17, 2009
I saw this movie as young child in the late 1980s on Cinemax. It was one of those horror movies that they only showed when they did horror movie marathons. What I remember about it was that a family made up of a husband, wife and son moved back into their old house which they hadn't been in since their son was a small boy. He is now all grown up and almost 18. The reason they moved away in the first place had something to do with the boy having an imaginary friend who got him into big trouble. The imaginery friend is actually a demon or the devil who looks like a young boy about 12 years old dressed in I think a grey hooded sweatshirt. Upon returning to the house the son begins to see the young demon boy and he slowly starts doing stuff with him including killing people. No one but the son can see the demon boy. One scene in particular that I remember was that they strapped a woman into a torture chair which seperated in the back and a saw blade comes out and cuts here in half vertically. After she's dead the son and the demon boy are arguing about who should clean up the mess. With the camera only showing the shadow of what is going on the demon boy reaches into the remains of the woman and pulls out an arm or leg bone and holds it up to the son and says "wishbone for it?" The ending takes place in the basement of the house and I believe the son dies and the father fights with the demon who he can now see. The demon boy transforms into a creature with wings I think and the fight begins. I don't remember the rest of it. But the film seemed to have a moderate budget and nicely done for what they had to work with.
Result: Who Will Love My Children? (1983) (TV) starring Ann-Margret Thanx Marphisa. Feb 7, 2007
I have been trying to find the name of a film I saw in the early 80's or maybe late 70's.Ê It was about a dying woman that had either four or five children.Ê She was dying from cancer or some other illness and she struggled to find homes for her children.Ê The father did not want to give them up but he could not take care of them.Ê Two of the children were boys similar ages and the mother found a home for them together with a family.Ê Another one I think went to an institution or something like that due to autism or something.Ê The other one was the oldest daughter that helped the mother.Ê The mother ended up dying.Ê Hope you can help me.
Result: Every Breath (1993) an independent film starring Judd Nelson. Thanx benjamin. Feb 27, 2007
Ok, I think the time period was mid 90s. like 94-96, not exactly sure. It was in color and I'm pretty sure it was on cable. I thought it was HBO but I've searched all the films they've released and I don't think any of them was it. I have no idea who the actors were but it was set in the US. It was about this couple who invited people over, by seducing them sometimes and when their visitors woke up, they were inside a coffin with a video camera inside where the couple could watch them scream in the coffins.
Result: The Legacy (1978) starring Katharine Ross. Thanx Marphisa. Feb 7, 2007
I saw this as a kid in the late 70's. Color film, on TV, I'm thinking American actors. There's a huge mansion and one of the resident men has evil powers, like a warlock. He is killing members of the house. The best scene I saw: A girl is swimming in an indoor green-tiled pool and there is a balcony above it on the second floor. She dives to the bottom of the pool, and there's a white tile design there that she runs her hands over. This man appears on the balcony. When she tries to resurface, there is a clear film, like glass that drowns her. She beats and kicks the glass, but when she is found, they think she drowned naturally.
Result: The Kiss (1988) starring Meredith Salenger. Thanx Marphisa. Feb 7, 2007
I saw this movie around the late 90s but I think it was made either in the early 90s or 80s. I think it might have "kiss" and "sun" in the title. I tried searching for it on google but couldn't find it. It's about this girl who's parents die in a bizarre car crash when they're sitting in a restaurant. Like the car just crashes right into the window and kills them. Then she goes to live with her dad (??) and he finds a stepmother (??) and the woman turns out to be an evil vampire. Anyway, I think she founds out about the woman's true intentions or something and there's a scene in a church (maybe)...with scary mannequins and stuff where the woman's trying to kill her/turn her into a vampire (???).
Result: The Unnamable Thanx Marphisa, Tony. Feb 7, 2007
I'm looking for a movie (possibly an episode from a "tales from the crypt" type show). I only saw the last 20 minutes or so of it 5 or 6 years ago. It looks like its an 80's early 90's film, set in that time period. It was about a group of people in this big house / mansion. In the garden I'm pretty sure there was like a tomb, or a statue of some description, and at some point a hole appears next to it. This monster appears, it was taller than a normal man, but not overly huge. It had a satanic / pagan look about it, it stood upright and had wooly legs and hooves (kinda like a goats rear legs cus I think the knees bent the wrong way) I can't really remember much else, tho I remember the end credits showing the title of the film, and I'm pretty sure it was just one word, or "the *******"
Result: The Curse Of The Living Corpse (1964) with Roy Scheider. Thanx benjamin. Feb 21, 2007
A wealthy, reclusive man has a condition that can make him lapse into a deep coma. It's happened before; he was buried alive and had to claw his way out of the grave. He warns his children, and particularly his daughter - the only one he can really trust - to make sure he's truly dead, not just in a coma, if his time comes. But the daughter is away when he does, indeed, lapse into a coma. His other, greedy, self-centered children are there and arrange a hasty burial.Of course, he comes back and kills each of his children and their spouses (and here's the AWESOME catch) each according to their phobia. A preening handsome son, terrified of disfigurement, is dragged to death behind a horse. Another who is terrified of drowning is drowned. Terrified of fires, one is burned to death, etc.I remember this movie so fondly from Creature Features, but have never been able to identify it.
Result: Troll 2 Thanx George. Apr 5, 2007
the other movie i am tryhing to figure out is this movie i saw when i was like 8 so in like 1992. it had to do with an old broken down town, i remember the movie had to do with this green slim or something with green. i remember that there was this one scene that this lady braught a guy into her trailer in the middle of the woods. and she was getting naked or something and she kills him. i do not remember if this movie had to do with a witch's or goblins.
Result: The Puppet Masters (1994) starring Donald Sutherland. Thanx benjamin. Feb 21, 2007
the first one had to do with these spider or huge leech like things that were white/grey. they would stick to peoples back. one scene i remember these people mabye they were with the president but there was a helicopter or a plane and the pilot had one of those things on his back.
Result: Nightmare City (1980) starring Hugo Stiglitz. Directed by Umberto Lenzi. Thanx Stareater. Feb 5, 2007
All i can remember about this film is the end. a man is on a rollacoster chased by zombies he falls of the ride then wakes up as if it was all a dream.i saw it about 1983 or 84 on video