The 'Identify A Movie For Me' Thread 2 - Identify Harder

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Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

You Are A Elf posted:

My dad and I were watching an old episode of T.J. Hooker earlier, and one of those character actors you see in everything was a suspect in a crime. Going from my dad's "Hey, that guy was in [X] movie!," here are the details:

This guy played a P.O.W. during Vietnam, and the Vietcong was keeping him in dark isolation underground. I guess they were doing experiments on him because they would only feed him raw meat and nothing else. Eventually, the guy turns into some monster like a werewolf or some carnivorous creature from eating nothing but the meat.

Sorry, but that's all my dad remembers. I don't even know the actor's name, but maybe this will stir some memories. Of note, Hooker was on in the early 80s, so this movie had to have been from that time or maybe a few years earlier.

Cannibal Apocalypse?

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Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

magpie. posted:

two movies.

(1) it was made in the 70s or late 60s. i saw it on TV a few halloweens back, so i guess it was supposed to be some sort of suspense/horror movie but it wasn't particularly scary. there was a very pretty young woman with long blonde hair and pale eyes, and her mother -- or maybe the girl, or the grandmother, or someone -- had been kidnapped, or locked up, or something, or maybe no one was locked up or kidnapped at all, i don't really remember. there was no father as far as i can remember.

anyway, i think there was a scene where the girl was talking to the mother, or the grandmother, and the grandmother was senile, and the mother would prattle on histrionically about something, maybe being kidnapped, or having been kidnapped in the past, or something else entirely. there were also two henchman like guys, and one had dark hair and was neanderthal like, and i think he was dating the girl, but he might not have actually been dating her; maybe she was pretending to love him. in any case, one scene i know for certain is that they (the blonde girl and the dark-haired neanderthal like person) were walking through the woods, or some kind of field, and there were trees and things. i think it was sunny. there was some kind of purpose or plot to this or something.

i really don't remember anything about the movie very well.

(2) i think it was an 80s or early 90s movie. it was a horror movie. i saw it maybe two decades ago, when i was very young. i only remember one scene. there was a girl (or maybe girl-like boy) with dark hair and very pale, sallow skin, and she had her tongue cut out, and when she spoke it sounded like someone who had had their tongue cut out. i think she was trying to tell the person who found her something, but wasn't able to.

(1) Long shot, but maybe The Shuttered Room aka Blood Island? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062266/

(2) Not a horror movie, but there's a scene like that in Flesh+Blood. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089153/

# ¿ Oct 25, 2010 07:33

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

VampireRobot posted:

1. My mom used to show me this weird horror movie when I was a kid. I think there might have even been a sequel or even maybe a series. It was sort of a monster movie, where the monster was a severed hand. As far as i can remember, the hand would roam around and cause all kinds of trouble and kill people and stuff. I think the hand was pretty gross-looking too.

One of the segments in Dr. Terror's House of Horrors?

VampireRobot posted:

2. This one is even more vague. I think I saw this late one night on TV while I was watching alone. It seemed like it was sort of psychedelic and there were lots of characters with long hair and beards, so I think it might have been from the 70's. This too was some kind of horror movie. i THINK that the main characters were actors in a play, or were trying to put on some kind of production. Or, it might have just been some kind of dinner party. The main thing that I remember about it was that there was some kind of object or something, i think, and when people looked into it, all of a sudden they were being hypnotized by this evil-looking dude's face that may or may not have had red glowing eyes. I believe this face also had long brown hair and a beard or mustache. From what I can remember, people would become possessed after seeing this face, or else hypnotized. Then they either died or killed someone else. All I remember is that something bad went down. The main thing I remember of the movie is just that there was a group of people and they were being terrorized by this evil face that was trying to hypnotize or possess them.

Horror Express? Although it's not apparent from the IMDb description, the kind of stuff you describe goes on in this movie.

Sir Nose fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Nov 1, 2010

# ¿ Nov 1, 2010 17:05

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

VampireRobot posted:

I'm not sure about the other ones, I'm going to try to track down some more information on the movies you guys suggested, and see if they're the ones. Thanks very much for helping out!

I'm telling ya, your second one is Horror Express... This guy look familiar?

VampireRobot posted:

Now I have one more! Another obscure horror movie.

I only saw a bit of this movie, when I was a kid. My dad was watching it and my mom took me to the store partway through.
I think it was about aliens or monsters taking over the planet by incubating in people and then coming out. Not Alien.
The scene that I remember most is that there was this guy, who had a thick mustache, and I think that he becomes "pregnant" and everyone is amazed that a guy is pregnant and nobody can explain it. Then, one day, he's on his floor in his living room and in pain, and suddenly his stomach is flayed open and there are these little nasty monsters popping out. For some reason I seem to remember that there was little blood and it showed the flayed edges of his stomach looking like torn up baloney flapping around. That really grossed me out as a kid and is an image that has stuck with me. This whole thing might have been one segment in some kind of anthology movie.

I hope this is a real memory and not some kind of amalgamation of memories of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Alien, and American Werewolf in London

This might be Shivers aka The Parasite Murders aka They Came From Within.

# ¿ Nov 2, 2010 20:10

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

One of the Universal Soldier movies?

# ¿ Nov 4, 2010 20:51

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Blood Freak

# ¿ Nov 5, 2010 04:38

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Kneel Before Zog posted:

When I was a wee lad I think I remember seeing a horror movie box cover with people that looked just like those coneheads from the coneheads movie but with scary faces and really sharp teeth. Does anyone know if any horror movies like this exists?

Poke around this fantastic site, I bet it's in there somewhere:

http://www.critcononline.com/video_companies_cover_art.htm

# ¿ Nov 23, 2010 05:59

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

How dreadful! posted:

My dad is trying to remember some Charles Bronson flicks:

1. He's in a house surrounded by bad guys, so he makes a blowgun out of the tube from a ceiling lamp and kills them all.

2. He's an assassin for hire and he takes on an apprentice.

3. He's a cop and he has to escort a girl.

The only CB film I've ever seen was The Dirty Dozen, so I'm completely in the dark. Help, please.

#2 is THE MECHANIC. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068931/

# ¿ Dec 27, 2010 19:23

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

einTier posted:

Here's one that came up today and I couldn't remember the name of it to save my life.

I can't remember much of the plot, because I was very young and didn't really pay that much attention to it, but it had something to do with actors being killed and replaced with robots so they didn't have to pay the actors anymore.

The scene I remember is a big shoot-out / chase scene through all the scene rooms they had set up, and the robots just kept on doing what they were programmed to do, as they couldn't tell that unexpected things were going on around them. In one part, there's a family having breakfast like nothing at all is wrong while a guy who was just shot dead is sprawled across their table.

For some reason, I found this scene to be particularly funny as a child.

Or this might be the "Terror Over Hollywood" segment of the 1967 horror anthology TORTURE GARDEN.

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Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

I don't remember any helicopters in Papillon.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2011 01:35

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

dorkasaurus_rex posted:

Its an old stop motion movie that was probably made in the 60s or 70s (leaning towards 60s) that I THINK used to air on Cartoon Network in the 90s as a late-night movie. I don't remember much except it had almost no actual humans, just two petite main characters in a human world "frozen" in time, trying to save the world from a huge cloud of ink that was gradually taking over everything. It was on every so often and I remember never watching it for all that long, but I'd really love to see it again if I could.

I think one of the characters had a top hat. Think back on it, it could have been straight animation and maybe not stop-motion. It's been nearly 20 years.

Twice Upon A Time?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086489/

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Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Lower left is Mildred Pierce.

# ¿ Jun 10, 2011 00:47

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

trunkwontopen posted:

Another one, this one is a bit difficult. I remember being entranced by an advertisement on the back of a TV Guide when I was younger, perhaps 10-12 year old age. It was a horror flick, the advertisement had a house at the top, and a zombie-like dog's head at the bottom. Been searching for the "poster" all over, and once I find the poster, I find the movie. I thought it was called "hell hound" or "Demon dog" .. but nothing is connecting when I look up the posters.

Maybe Devil Dog: The Hound of Hell?

# ¿ Jun 10, 2011 05:36

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Astrolite posted:

I remember watching parts of a movie several years ago:

The visual style sorta reminded me of Fellinis Satyricon, and the movie must have been from the 70s or thereabout

I remember two scenes:

- Presumably in hell, a huge red devil butt is making GBS threads out sinners or whatnot.

- A man is lying in a bed, perhaps he is dying? He tells someone of a secret, maybe a treasure, and that it is hidden underneath him. The person reaches under the man, but when he does, the man farts in his hand, and bursts out laughing.

I would be forever indebted to anyone who helps me reconnect with this lost gem.

Pasolini's Canterbury Tales. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067647/

# ¿ Sep 29, 2011 23:23

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

While you're at it, you should also watch Pasolini's Decameron and Arabian Nights.

# ¿ Sep 29, 2011 23:50

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Pweller posted:

Had a conversation today about fire that reminded me of a live-action comedy scene where someone who is alone, accidentally lights a very minor fire, but in trying to put it out manages to spread it to bigger and bigger things until it gets ridiculously out of control.

Fawlty Towers?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWTie3fgWSc

# ¿ Oct 27, 2011 22:58

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Fiscal Conservative posted:

I saw this movie in the late 90�s on either HBO or Stars, I have no idea what the plot was. It appeared to be some kind trashy 70s/80s adventure movie where the blonde headed hero was traveling with a young female cohort. They were being chased by a guy with a self propelled siege tower where he used this to assault a castle alone (probably because they had no money for extras?). I believe the evil guy was afflicted with small pox and popped blister at some point. Also there was a sex scene in a medieval hot tub.

I want to find out what the hell this movie was about because I remember the siege tower being laughably ridiculous.

Flesh+Blood http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089153/

# ¿ Mar 29, 2012 21:04

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

SevenStringGuru posted:

I saw this film about 5 years ago but it was a much older film I would say in the 1960s or so. International film that may have been called 'fancier time, fancy time/happy time' I don't remember the rest. The main plot of the movie is following the actions of one man who keeps missing other supporting characters by a few moments in each scene. Eventually the main character ends up bumping into the other characters at the end, and each scene where he just missed them adds up into one entire story.

This may have taken place in France. The buildings were very modern, silver. And there is a scene where a new hot restaurant opens up at the end. All of the characters we have seen before are here, then all hell breaks loose. If I remember correctly there is hardly any dialog for most of the film.

Play Time http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062136/

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# ¿ Apr 7, 2012 06:25

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Or this guy?

# ¿ Nov 2, 2012 06:19

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Mr. George Kaplan posted:

I saw a clip of this movie in a documentary about African Americans in pop culture. The protagonist/villain (and I think title character) was this big guy who I believe was actually from Africa, possibly a king, who was declaring how powerful he was as bullets bounced off of him. Looked like it was late thirties/early forties. It was an example of racism so it might have been swept under the rug as much as possible. Any ideas?

Probably The Emperor Jones http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023985/

At one point he says about himself "It takes a silver bullet to kill Brutus Jones."

And maybe this is the documentary you saw: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091018/

# ¿ Dec 14, 2012 02:00

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

toiletbrush posted:

There's not much to go on here but here goes...a ~60s-70s horror (miiiight have been Hammer) and all I can remember about it was that when I saw it aged 15 or so it wasn't very scary, but had some loving awesome scenes in a huge, decaying, derelict greenhouse type thing that possibly had a nasty dirty pool in it, all over grown with vines and stuff. There was possibly also a body hanging from a tree at one point. Erm...

Might be "Die, Monster, Die!" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059465/

# ¿ Jan 15, 2013 20:24

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Kaizoku posted:

Okay, this is a movie I heard about in an actors profile somewhere online (I want to say it was the AV Club, but I haven't found the right search terms if so). It is a film from the seventies with an actor similar to Stacy Keach, who plays a Bad Lieutenant-style anti-hero cop with an extreme racist streak. Apparently the intent behind the film was to show this characters actions as wrong, but the actor went to a screening of his own film in a coastal metropolis (I think New York, but it could've been Seattle or another similar city) and the audience was cheering the lead on. The actor supposedly swore off all similar roles past that. I'm really curious as to if this is a real story, or if somehow in the past few years of searching I've added or altered details to the anecdote.

I'm not certain, but I think the name of the film was also the name of the main character, like Henry or Willard...

Sounds like Peter Boyle's reaction to JOE.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2013 20:24

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Spanish language film that hit the art-house circuit in the late 70s or early 80s, about a matriarch and her relationship with her gay son and his boyfriend. Got some press for the unusual (for the time and country of origin) subject matter, but I remember it being rather toothless... genial, but bland. Lots of annoying Jess Franco (RIP) style zoom-ins. Title may have been similar to "Dona Flor and her Two Husbands"... "Mama so-and-so and her Two Sons" or something like that.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2013 20:22

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Captain Equinox posted:

Just a shot in the dark, could it be Y Tu Mama Tambien?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0245574

Naw, too recent. I saw it in the theater when I was in high school, early 1980s.

I am old.

# ¿ Apr 11, 2013 19:21

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Arturo Ui posted:

This? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089048/

This is it, thank you!

# ¿ Apr 12, 2013 19:53

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Dalai Lamacide posted:

So when I was a small child back in the nineties I saw an old horror movie on VHS or tv maybe. It was color, but possibly fairly early color. It centered around a man whose wife had died, he placed her body in a casket in a cave of some sort. A mineral spring from the cave seeped into her casket and revived her. There was some kind of conflict about the water, perhaps another party attempting to retrieve it for their use.

I possibly recall a shot towards the end of the movie where something had happened to the mineral spring and the life water runs out, so the wife turns back to a skeleton while wearing a wedding dress.

This has bugged me for years.

This is the first segment of Twice-Told Tales. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057608/

# ¿ Mar 5, 2014 20:45

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Detective Thompson posted:

I'm trying to remember a name of a kinda obscure movie from the late-40s/early-50s, was controversial for its time. I thought it was called Jesus In Concrete, but that doesn't seem to be the case, though I'm sure it had 'Jesus' in the title. I don't remember a whole lot of it, but it was set in New York, or maybe Chicago. The main character worked on construction sites, lived in a run-down apartment with his family, and if I remember right, had an Italian accent. I don't recall much of the details, but I remember him having having lots of trouble at home and at work, he might have had a mistress on the side. He may possibly have been agitating for unions, as I seem to recall his bosses not being fond of him. Anyway, at the end, he decides to pull things together with his life, goes back to work, and it ends with him falling into some concrete from a scaffold or other high spot and drowning in it. He might have been pushed, if the union thing is a correct memory. I remember one of the last images is of him with his head and hands just above the surface of the concrete.

Give Us This Day aka Christ In Concrete (1949) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041416/

# ¿ Mar 22, 2014 08:13

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

skog posted:

I saw a really early found footage movie from the mid 90's about two college kids going up to some house in the mountains to stay in a house for a class. Eventually the male main character starts to go crazy. I can't remember the name of it at all and I can't even remember how I found it.

Maybe THE LAST BROADCAST http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122143/ ?

# ¿ Apr 6, 2014 07:30

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

angry climber posted:

Heres a pretty hard one, I posted it 2.5 years ago and its unsolved.

This is a horror movie. I think the opening scene is in a parking garage where a woman is going to her car, drops her keys and gets killed in some fashion but it doesnt show who killed her. If its not the opening scene its in the movie somewhere.

There is one scene where a grave is dug up/ someone put in a grave/ a body is missing from a grave. There might have been a dog in the grave/or a child.

I think the ending takes place is some sort of research lab/hospital at night.

I think the monster is some sort of shapeshifter/takes human form or something to that effect.

By shapeshifter i didnt mean werewolf, just someone/something taking form of other people. (not the thing).

In the ending, a guy is in the research facility and the glass revolving door leading to the outside is locked or something and the woman outside is trying to tell him that someone is inside there with him who is the monster. And I think someone gets thrown through a window in the end/possibly how the monster/dude dies.

The movie seems to be from the 90s maybe early 2000's. I watched this is Russia so it might have been a foreign film.

CzarChasm posted:

Kind of sounds a little like "Mimic"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(film)

Could you be mashing more than one movie together in your memory? Parts of what you describe also sound a bit like the ending of THE RELIC http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Relic_(film), and the dog/child in the grave is right out of THE OMEN.

# ¿ Apr 26, 2014 05:07

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

SnakePlissken posted:

Here's one that's probably easy. Saw an old movie on TCM a couple of years ago, was one of those really over-the-top musicals from the golden era of musicals, extremely campy. Included a singing stint with a white guy or four, singing in a giant cauldron about to get cooked by natives, who were probably whites with black paint. And IIRC, the guy was singing either in this number or another, or maybe all of them, in a really irritating parody of Sarah Vaughn's style. Maybe not aimed at Sarah but at the general style.

Maybe GENTLEMEN MARRY BRUNETTES, is this the scene in question?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sUyxMwjyUA

The cauldron shows up about 4:20.

# ¿ May 6, 2014 06:49

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

codyclarke posted:

This one is really bugging me. It's some sort of period piece about the 40's or 50's, in color, centered around a young guy who starts working for a big newspaper? Maybe he's a critic or something? Came out in the late 70's or 80's or very early 90's. I remember it's got a really high rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and is well-revered, but not particularly well-known and kinda dated. In my mind, I'm lumping it in with like Brighton Beach Memoirs and those kinda movies.

Maybe My Favorite Year?

# ¿ Jun 18, 2014 05:50

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

TTBF posted:

a dude who I think is young Dan Akroyd is wearing make-up to make him look old and fat (so he looks like modern Dan Akroyd)

This is usually Nothing But Trouble http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/ but I've never seen it so I don't know if any of the other stuff you describe is also from this movie.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2014 15:27

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Tuxedo Ted posted:

Thank you! Finally, I can sleep at night. And then in the morning I'll show it to all the people I asked about it who questioned if such a movie even existed.

MATINEE is pretty great and it's a shame it's not more well known. You should show it to everyone you know, not just the people to whom you asked about it.

# ¿ Jul 22, 2014 05:12

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Flux Equals Rad posted:

1. A woman gives graphic birth to a demon baby thing. Pretty sure it's not The Howling III.

Maybe TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER?

# ¿ Aug 12, 2014 16:32

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Lori posted:

French movie where the bad guy is some minor character who claimed he lost his arm (maybe on an expedition to Africa?) but it turned out he had the arm and it was all mangled and deformed and he controls some sort of monster(s)

If I recall, it ends with someone being executed during the Revolution.

Brotherhood of the Wolf.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2014 21:21

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Zamboni Apocalypse posted:

At the very least, I went to see it based on "Steven Seagal kicking people in the face" and not "Kurt Russell... uhm, he's not wearing an eyepatch? Yeah, doing anything I guess."

I should have learned my lesson from "On Deadly Ground".

Actual content:

Era: VHS - early-to-mid 1980s, certainly not later than 1990
Type: Live-action theatrical release, with trailers containing all the best (IE, watchable) parts. Action/adventure, pretty sure it was PG-rated.
Keywords: clone/ripoff/coat-tail rider of Indiana Jones - manly (not really) adventurer in khakis and leather jacket facing the tropical <?> hazards and enemies both primitive and modern. IIRC he had a geeky glasses-wearing partner, and jeeps were featured heavily (possibly just in the trailer). Nobody famous that I can recall, but just a couple clean-shaven white guys. I remember renting this shite based purely on the trailer, and managed to sit through it exactly once.
Not: Raiders/sequels, King Solomon's Mines, Firewalker, Romancing the Stone, or any TV show/cartoon/anime.

I've been vaguely curious as to what this is for years now, and am still only vaguely interested.

Treasure of the Four Crowns? The Further Adventures of Tennessee Buck?

# ¿ Jan 1, 2015 08:45

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

second-hand smegma posted:

Trying to identify a movie I saw when I was a teenager, could've been mid-to-late 90s. There is a scene where an empty house is floating down a river (being transported between locations?), and I may be misremembering but there is a scene where a woman is in the floating house and has sex with a man on the hardwood floor (perhaps he's recently deceased?).

actually I have no loving idea anymore if this is a movie I saw or a dream I had.

It's a church on the river, not a house, but maybe Oscar and Lucinda?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119843/

Sir Nose fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Jan 12, 2015

# ¿ Jan 12, 2015 20:06

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Alan Smithee posted:

Wondering what movie this clip is from, starts at about 15 seconds. Looks like a bad 80s action movie, a blonde woman blows up a helicopter piloted by what looks like Al Leong from Die Hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep0FjrfbozQ

I think it's Hard Hunted

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104391/

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 16:10

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Wow I remember reading about this movie in Film Threat back in the day, and thought it was never released. Was it any good? While FT gave the impression it had potential, that trailer looks pretty awful.

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# ¿ May 14, 2024 18:47

Sir Nose: Mar 28, 2009

Snapchat A Titty posted:

My mom is trying to describe a movie and I have no idea:

It's a lot of famous actors, sounds kindof like an ensemble thing, the title may include the number 7 or there are 7 characters. There's a woman who's dying, being taken care of by her blind daughter, and across the street there lives a dwarf who watches her get the mail in the opening scene, and then "a lot of things happen". It's supposed to be very good.

Sure it was a dwarf? If it was a little kid, it might be Anya's Bell http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218819/

# ¿ May 9, 2015 04:36

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