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In the early 90s I watched a movie based on the story of Hansel and Gretel. Wikipedia and IMDB list several movies based on the story and there doesn't seem to be any way of telling which one it was I saw. Perhaps someone can I identify it based on my vague description? It was in the early 90s, so the film couldn't have been made until about 1992 at the latest-- if I had to guess I'd say the film was probably an 80s production, but I'm not at all sure. (It was in colour, anyway.) To my young self the film seemed quite terrifying, because it added some extra sinister elements to the gingerbread house. Specifically I recall giant gingerbread men lining the path like statues-- but the gingerbread men had people trapped inside, like the wax figures of House of Wax. :-O Anyone got any idea?
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I've got one, but I'm not sure if it's TV or a movie. It's been bugging me for weeks. All I can remember is a character, who is French or Hispanic pronouncing Penelope as "Peen-e-lope". Please put me out of misery!
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Jul 31, 2008 11:52
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zombieman posted:I've got one, but I'm not sure if it's TV or a movie. It's been bugging me for weeks. All I can remember is a character, who is French or Hispanic pronouncing Penelope as "Peen-e-lope". Broken Lizard's Club Dread I certainly don't blame you for blocking the rest of the movie from memory. It was such a letdown compared to Super Troopers.
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Jul 31, 2008 13:25
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Erasmus Darwin posted:Broken Lizard's Club Dread That's the one. Thanks. I seem to remember enjoying parts of it, but I'll be hosed if I can remember which parts.
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Jul 31, 2008 13:53
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zombieman posted:That's the one. Thanks. The only part that's funny is when they're trying to decipher the lyrics.
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Jul 31, 2008 20:47
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Popcorn posted:In the early 90s I watched a movie based on the story of Hansel and Gretel. Wikipedia and IMDB list several movies based on the story and there doesn't seem to be any way of telling which one it was I saw. Perhaps someone can I identify it based on my vague description? I vaguely remember this. Are you sure it was a movie or was it part of a show? I kinda get a "Tales from the Darkside" vibe associated with my memories of this.
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Jul 31, 2008 21:54
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Popcorn posted:In the early 90s I watched a movie based on the story of Hansel and Gretel. Wikipedia and IMDB list several movies based on the story and there doesn't seem to be any way of telling which one it was I saw. Perhaps someone can I identify it based on my vague description? This is strange but did it feature babies hatching from red eggs? There was some avant garde fairy tale themed film from a while ago that might have had the eggs and the stuff that you're talking about in it. If I'm wrong can anyone tell me what I'm thinking of?
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Jul 31, 2008 22:38
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John Q Russia posted:If I'm wrong can anyone tell me what I'm thinking of?
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Jul 31, 2008 23:07
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Are you guys thinking of Deadtime Stories? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092850/
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Aug 1, 2008 03:24
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There's a part of a movie that's been in my head for the past few days but I can't remember from which movie it's from. The main character is stopped in his car at a red light and looks over to the right, where there's a black dude singing extremely enthusiastically to some poppy song playing on the radio. I think he was wearing a suit and glasses, and the way he was singing and looking over at the main character was hilarious.
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Aug 2, 2008 21:52
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Empty_Spaces posted:There's a part of a movie that's been in my head for the past few days but I can't remember from which movie it's from. Click? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAfLo1Pl5w
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Aug 3, 2008 06:38
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There was this film I saw when I was really young. The only scene is remember is this girl getting chicken blood put on her by a voodoo guy with white face paint on and the whole time she is screaming.
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Aug 3, 2008 06:41
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BrandoButter posted:There was this film I saw when I was really young. The only scene is remember is this girl getting chicken blood put on her by a voodoo guy with white face paint on and the whole time she is screaming. I don't recall any particular scene like that, but you might try Live and Let Die or The Serpent and the Rainbow
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Aug 3, 2008 06:54
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BrandoButter posted:There was this film I saw when I was really young. The only scene is remember is this girl getting chicken blood put on her by a voodoo guy with white face paint on and the whole time she is screaming. I haven't seen it for a while now, but I'm pretty sure there's a scene like this in Angel Heart. It could also possibly be The Serpent and the Rainbow.
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Aug 3, 2008 06:54
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Hm, my mom was (hell, still is) a hippy dippy baby boomer, she probably would have rented anything with the word rainbow in the title. I'm pretty sure it's either that or Live and Let Die. The only way I'll know for sure is if I watch both.
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Aug 3, 2008 07:13
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I skimmed through the 58 pages of this thread looking for the movie, but didn't see it; if I missed it, sorry. I saw this on TV in a hotel room about 12 or 13 years ago, and judging from the violence, it was probably on HBO or similar pay cable channel. From the sets and special effects, it seemed like a lower budget science fiction movie. The few details I remember are that a man was taken over by an alien, and was on a rampage through some kind of space station or ship. People kept trying to shoot him with lasers, and eventually succeeded in taking him down. However, the alien entity that was controlling him left his body, and jumped at the face of one of the people that stopped him. The one enduring image I have of this movie is an extremely phallic alien forcing its way down a terrified man's throat, while he desperately tries to fight it off. After the alien makes it down the dude's throat, it takes him over/rampage continues. This terrified me, but I'm sure it would look cheesy as hell, now. I'm hopeful one of you more familiar with genre dreck can help me out with this. Thanks for any input.
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Aug 3, 2008 12:37
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Popcorn posted:In the early 90s I watched a movie based on the story of Hansel and Gretel. Wikipedia and IMDB list several movies based on the story and there doesn't seem to be any way of telling which one it was I saw. Perhaps someone can I identify it based on my vague description? I remember it also, I think it's the 88 version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A_mjhZzkm4
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Aug 3, 2008 12:52
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I'm trying to recall a film from the 60's or 70's. Classic film of that era such as Spartacus, the fall of Rome, etc. The only part I remember is this guy, a friend of the movies's star, was really good with the bow. In a display in front of the king somewhere in Arabia he steps forward to show they how good he was, he stands far further back than all the soldiers and takes the shot - and hits it dead on. His friend said to him something along the lines of 'if you had missed the king would have had you killed'. Can anyone remember this film?
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Aug 3, 2008 14:07
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Rob was taken posted:Click? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HAfLo1Pl5w Definitely it, thanks a lot. I kept thinking it was Office Space.
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Aug 3, 2008 19:14
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morestuff posted:lower budget science fiction movie. The few details I remember are that a man was taken over by an alien, and was on a rampage through some kind of space station or ship. People kept trying to shoot him with lasers, and eventually succeeded in taking him down. It doesn't take place on a ship, but throat diving/body control is how our little friend gets around in The Hidden. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093185/
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Aug 4, 2008 00:51
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I've been thinking about a movie I saw as a child for ages but I cannot for the life of me remember the name. I remember it started with a pirate captain cutting the head off one of his me to guard a buried treasure for all time. Then it followed some kid who had a crazy grandpa, to be honest the only thing I remember about him is that he drove a giant eye for halloween. Then I think he went to some foster home where the girl he liked was staying, the foster home was also mostly green and had lots of grog for some odd reason. Anyways some poo poo happens and the kid finds the treasure and sends the pirate ghosts to the foster home to pillage the booze. I remember thinking that it was very mediocre at the time but think the hilarity of how bad the movie is might have improved with age.
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Internet Gentleman posted:It doesn't take place on a ship, but throat diving/body control is how our little friend gets around in The Hidden. Thanks — I just watched most of this movie. (Thanks, YouTube!) I don't know if this is exactly the flick I remember, but there are certainly some familiar elements that could have been been influenced by my imagination and time. I seem to recall the alien being similar in shape to a baby chestburster, though, and less the slug from this one. It was fun to see Kyle MacLachlan as an FBI agent pre-Twin Peaks, too. morestuff fucked around with this message at 04:14 on Aug 4, 2008 |
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Aug 4, 2008 03:49
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Trying to remember the name of a terrible movie I watched. A group of kids get together to make a low budget horror movie on a set where a past crew was murdered. I believe the set was even closed because I'm pretty sure they had to break in. I don't remember too much else except that in the end the hobo was the killer. It's a really bad, low budget movie. Any help?
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Aug 4, 2008 03:55
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I can't seem to find anybody that remembers what this film is. It's a horror movie, but pretty badly rated. It had a blonde actress ( I remember that she doesn't usually do scary movies ) and the story was about her going to a house in the country to nurse this old man/be a maid or something. In the house, there's an attic that outlines all this magic voodoo stuff about reincarnating your soul into another person's body. She gets understandably freaked out but stays to save the old man, who turns out to be the lawyer, but they had stolen his body?. If anybody can find out/knows, it'd be appreciated.
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Aug 4, 2008 11:00
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Tiara posted:I can't seem to find anybody that remembers what this film is. It's a horror movie, but pretty badly rated.
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Halp. Move: Students skip class or a field trip or somesuch and go chill in a missile silo that one of the found and bad things happen. Any clue? I am fairly sure it should be identifiable by that alone, but maybe not.
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Walked posted:Halp. vvvv Cool! vvvv Runcible Cat fucked around with this message at 15:06 on Aug 4, 2008 |
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Aug 4, 2008 14:34
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LittleSunshine posted:The Hole? Yep. Thank you 
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SneakySneaks posted:I've been thinking about a movie I saw as a child for ages but I cannot for the life of me remember the name. I remember it started with a pirate captain cutting the head off one of his me to guard a buried treasure for all time. Then it followed some kid who had a crazy grandpa, to be honest the only thing I remember about him is that he drove a giant eye for halloween. Then I think he went to some foster home where the girl he liked was staying, the foster home was also mostly green and had lots of grog for some odd reason. Anyways some poo poo happens and the kid finds the treasure and sends the pirate ghosts to the foster home to pillage the booze. I remember thinking that it was very mediocre at the time but think the hilarity of how bad the movie is might have improved with age. George's Island http://www.canuxploitation.com/review/georgeisle.html http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097419/ I remembered seeing this when I was a kid.
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This one is weird and probably inaccurate, but here goes. Gene Wilder in an outlandish suit, in a carnival setting. He seats a guy in a metal chair, and hooks some kind of device to the guys face. Wilder then stresses how important it is that the man keep his foot on *this* pedal, because if he lets go, his jaw will snap. Wilder then gets distracted by someone and leaves the poor sucker hooked up to this crazy chair, trying to call out for help with a mouth full of metal. To be honest, this may not even be a movie, but I am at wit's end trying to figure out what the hell it is.
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Aug 6, 2008 00:41
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initfo posted:This one is weird and probably inaccurate, but here goes. drat, sounds like Willy Wonka and the Saw Factory one of mine: I watched a movie on a premium cable back in the late 90s, early aughts (I'd date the movie no earlier than 90s) where a family is taken hostage similar to Firewall, only the father is not the hero, the genius hacker son is. Not only does the son manage to do some Macguyver poo poo by electrocuting one of the henchman who was trying to run a brute force program to find some password (and then stealing his uzi) but he also knows a lot about German lugers (which one henchman carries). Basically the bad guys are mercenaries hired by somebody because the dad in the family has some super secret blueprints or other. The father offers to "double" the money they are paid and the main baddie (may or may not have been played by Tim Curry) goes "you couldn't possibly. There's also an angsty teenage daughter who was earlier about to hook up with some dude while her brother spied on them with a remote control cam car. Later she attempts to seduce one of the henchman by making out with him on a pool table but another henchman puts a gun to his head and tells him off. Alan Smithee fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Aug 6, 2008 |
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initfo posted:This one is weird and probably inaccurate, but here goes. gently caress, I think I brought this scene up in one of the threads already, but didn't get an answer. They showed this to us back in an elementary school assembly once. I *think* it *might* be Pete's Dragon, but I cannot be sure unless I rewatch it. Can anyone confirm/deny? Also, I don't remember it being Gene Wilder. edit: check this out, specifically at 1:26. It's quick, watch out. Glass Joe fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Aug 6, 2008 |
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Aug 6, 2008 03:45
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Glass Joe posted:gently caress, I think I brought this scene up in one of the threads already, but didn't get an answer. They showed this to us back in an elementary school assembly once. I *think* it *might* be Pete's Dragon, but I cannot be sure unless I rewatch it. Can anyone confirm/deny? This has got to be it. I remember watching this movie repeatedly when I was young, though I had to watch the youtube vid to remember it. That scene always haunted me, even though I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be funny. I have to idea what made me think it was Gene Wilder though. Thanks a lot! edit: downloaded a subtitle file to confirm. It is Pete's Dragon. initfo fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Aug 6, 2008 |
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initfo posted:This has got to be it. I remember watching this movie repeatedly when I was young, though I had to watch the youtube vid to remember it. That scene always haunted me, even though I'm pretty sure it was supposed to be funny. Dammit, and I skipped through that whole drat movie to find this. Starts at 6:57 Seriously, it was a loving musical? Good lord it was interminable!
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Aug 6, 2008 04:58
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Coffey posted:Trying to remember the name of a terrible movie I watched. A group of kids get together to make a low budget horror movie on a set where a past crew was murdered. I believe the set was even closed because I'm pretty sure they had to break in. I don't remember too much else except that in the end the hobo was the killer. Slaughter Studios.
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Alan Smithee posted:
gahhhhh i've seen this movie before and can't for the life of me remember the name or any actors in it. for some reason i kept thinking kevin pollack, but that's not it. imdb is failing me. it'll come to me. eventually ... in a month.
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I saw this once as a kid, ages ago. I think it was made in the 80's. This guy moves into an apartment, and from his window he can look into another apartment across the road, where this hot lady lives whom he kinda obsessively watches, but he notices this really ugly billboard welder guy also checking her out. Cut to a scene where this ugly dude steals that lady's handbag and our protagonist chases after him, and then seems to run out of breath or has some sort of heart problem, and the ugly dude fishes through the handbag, finds something, and then runs off howling triumphantly. Later on we see ugly dude getting into pretty lady's apartment with a huge drill and he kills her with it. Our hero sets off to find out what the hell happened, and he seems to start with the porn industry. I stopped watching when he goes into a bathroom named "slut" and makes out with the porn star he's looking for.
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Skywarps Hat posted:George's Island That's it, thanks. I'll try looking for it on netflix (doubt there's a dvd through).
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Aug 7, 2008 21:49
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ZeeBoi posted:I saw this once as a kid, ages ago. I think it was made in the 80's. Body Double
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Sizzlechest posted:Body Double
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