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

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HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

invalid user posted:

Ok, I have one.

I saw this in a hotel as a kid on tv.

It's a horror movie where apparently people were getting murdered by what I think may have been their dopplegangers... in any event the each actor had an evil counterpart that went up and tried to kill them.

One of the guys looked like Ben (the indian guy) from Short Circuit.

The deaths included one guy getting garotted by his twin and one guy being pulled face first down the toilet after seeing a bubbly mess come up from it (yes, similar to the blob). Someone else walks in and sees the bubbly mess forming in the toilet and backs up into their double who is going to kill them.

Any ideas?

This is a shot in the dark, but possibly Bloodbath at the House of Death, an 80's horror spoof. There's not much said about it on the internet, unfortunately, so I'm limited to my lovely memory. I think the guy who looked like Ben (comedian Kenny Everett) had a metal prosthetic leg, and there was a running gag of him having to leave the group to take a leak.

There was another guy who had a giant mole on his arm. After he had gotten killed, his girlfriend came in and found the double. The double asks her, "Do you love me?" to which she replies, "Yes." The double then says, "Even my mole?", raises his arm, and the mole splits open and a snake thing or something shoots out and grabs the girlfriend.

At the end all of the main characters had been killed and their doubles congregated to, um, somewhere wearing white robes. That's pretty much all I can remember.

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HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Manny Calavera posted:

I'm thinking of a film, some scientists clone a caveman or something. They observe him under controlled conditions, within this big science place in Antarctica or something.

He somehow escapes, he thinks the helicopter is some kind of bird-god, I think he grabs onto it but falls from it and dies after having taken off.

Iceman
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087452/

edit: curse you

# ¿ Feb 21, 2009 22:09

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Chrpno posted:

Just wondering what movie this quote is from (or even getting the quote correct!)

The villain has been foiled again and again by the hero, but finally has him cornered and asks him "What is it you want? Money? Drugs? Women?......... men?" (with appropriately raised eyebrow)
(may also have been girls/boys)

Kind of Naked Gun/Mike Myers-ish I guess, and a good funny line. If anyone remembers it then thanks!

That happens in an early episode of Family Guy, I think when Stewie gets caught by an airport security guy.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2009 04:41

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

This is a shot in the dark. I don't know if it is one movie made of several unrelated stories, or maybe an HBO series.

It was in the 80's, probably mid eighties. There were two separate stories I remember:

One of the stories involved a kid going to live with his aunt or grandmother. I think she was rich. There was a monster in her house. I'm not 100% sure on this but I think he told her about it but she didn't believe him. Anyway at some point, the kid locks the creature in a cupboard or wardrobe by putting a slim stick (like a pencil or something) between the loop handles. The thing pounds and pounds on the doors, and I think the aunt/grandmother lets it out. The next shot is from the creature's point of view, on the left and right sides of the screen you see its hands, with the aunt/grandmother's terrified face in the center of the screen. They run away and I don't know how it ends, but you see the creature's face (maybe for the first time?) during the ending credits of this story. It was white.

The second story involves a group of kids locking one girl into a shed in a field. She absolutely freaks out and screams but they don't release her. Hours later one of the kids comes back, unlocks the door, and I think apologizes.

I was thinking these stories might be from Ray Bradbury Theater, but I went through plot descriptions of all the episodes and none of them sounded right.

HaroldofTheRock fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Jul 25, 2009

# ¿ Jul 25, 2009 20:49

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

foodfight posted:

I remember watching parts of a movie on TV one time where I think the plot centered on either two neighbors making a deal to either kill each others wife or sleep with each others wife. Anyways, something goes wrong and then I really don't remember much else. I think there was a saxophone involved somewhere. I feel like one of the Bills (Paxton or Pullman) was in it.

This is a shot in the dark but maybe Throw Momma From the Train with Billy Crystal?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094142/

# ¿ Jan 14, 2010 00:58

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

the Bunt posted:

This movie was centered around a young blond woman (maybe early twenties or younger?), and it's a sort of road trip kind of movie. She's driving across the country in a van with a bunch of friends/siblings and they rob people along the way.

The main scene I remember is the girl having some kind of revelation and cutting off all her hair in a bathroom. Then later on, there is a giant statue with her likeness on it and she's a hero for something.

I would probably say it came out between 85-95

The Legend of Billie Jean.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089470/

FAIR IS FAIR

# ¿ Jan 20, 2010 02:46

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

a foolish pianist posted:

There was a movie that I saw in the 80s about a kid who lived near a lake reputed to have a monster in it. He kept going and seeing bubbles rise and hearing weird noises (this may not be entirely accurate - I saw this thing in 1988 or so) and eventually found out that it was a sunken piece of construction equipment that was letting lake gas up every now and again.

I remember the movie being somewhat scary, but I was nine, so I can't be sure of that. Anybody know?

That one comes up a lot in these threads:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091810/

# ¿ Mar 17, 2010 01:11

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

I believe that happens in Story of Ricky.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2010 12:51

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

This one should be easy, it's fairly recent I think...

Two guys are running through the forest, being chased by an army. One of the guys steps on a land mine and knows if he lifts his foot, it will blow up. He tells the other guy to keep going, then makes a racket so the bad guys find him. They shoot him because he won't drop to the ground (he can't due to the landmine), finally one of the bad guys approaches him to knock him down or something, at which point the guy lifts his foot and blows everyone up.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2011 02:29

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

LesterGroans posted:

Could it be the TV movie 24: Redemption? Was the landmine guy Robert Carlyle?

Holy poo poo, you're right. I would never have thought of 24.

Thanks to everyone who guessed.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2011 14:00

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

FreshFeesh posted:

Two movies that have been bugging the crap out of me for well over a decade:

Movie 1 - Period piece, a man is executed by decapitation, and his head falls into a river far below the execution site. His daughter (?) jumps in after the head and is found later holding it.

Movie 2 - Maybe a war film, all I remember is a girl looking for her father, who is in the military. Towards the end she finds the truck he's on but it's already moving down the road, faster than she can catch it. She stands in the middle of the road and cries, but then her father comes walking back to her.

It's likely these films were made in the mid-80's at the earliest, and maybe 95 at the latest; I believe I caught them on TV back then.

#2 sounds like The Journey of Natty Gann.

# ¿ Apr 20, 2011 00:12

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Sounds like Time Bandits

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/

# ¿ Oct 9, 2011 04:48

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Nushergrudger posted:

Okay, so this has been bothering me for years and I just thought of posting it here.

I saw a movie, maybe 10-15 years ago. I believe it was about some people that were lured to a house under the premise that it was for a reality TV show or something. The owner locked them all inside and started killing them.

The only scenes I remember is an acid shower, a person getting ripped open at the stomache by a trap in the kitchen and the final scene where the survivor started cutting her face off.

Eh I don't think this is it, but worth a shot:

My Little Eye
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Eye

# ¿ Nov 21, 2011 07:46

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

innocent_deadly posted:

Alright, I searched the first 30 pages and the last 30 pages and didn't find anything that identified the movie based on what I know about it, which is very little.

I saw it probably about 10 years ago on television so it is older even than that. All I remember is that there was a man and a woman building a jigsaw puzzle upside down. The man was probably the woman's father or grandfather and I think he died so she finished building the puzzle by herself and then at the end she flipped it over. I don't even remember what the picture was.

I tried Googling and just got a Yahoo! question where someone asked about the movie and no one had answered it yet. A girl I work with remembered the same part too, but nothing else about the movie.

Thanks in advance.

Well I can tell you that happened on an episode of Salute Your Shorts when Budnick and Michael pretended to be sick. Budnick starts the puzzle upside down and Micheal is incredulous but soon the puzzle is finished. Micheal flips it over to reveal what the picture is...ice cream! As he sees the picture, he looks up to find that Budnick got the key to the padlocked refrigerator somehow and they ate a bunch of ice cream.

# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 03:06

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

This is going to be an odd request:

I think it's a Harrison Ford movie from the 80's. I'm like 90% sure it's either a Star Wars or Indiana Jones movie.

This is what I'm trying to figure out: In one of those movies, there is a scene where the good guys are planning their attack, or else they have already planned it and are lying in wait for it to begin.

The soundtrack has some slow, low strings playing and there's what I think is a trumpet going "dun-dundun-dunnnnnn". It's low key and really helps build the tension. I have the music going in my head and I want to watch the scene, it's driving me crazy.

The trumpet's playing a single pitch for all its notes. My music is very rusty but I think the notes would be written as: one quarter note. Two eighth notes. Then the final note is a total of 6 beats. All the same pitch.

dun-dundun-dunnnnnn

Three or four measures of the cello doing it's thing, then the trumpet comes in again.

dun-dundun-dunnnnnn

# ¿ Dec 26, 2011 21:32

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Mr Darcy posted:

I'm not good at music. But if it's Star Wars then the most likely suspect would be this track:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJPooQ4Tl2U

from Return of the Jedi

Thanks for trying, but that's not it. The one I'm thinking of is much quieter. There's no action happening, it's the lull before something big goes down, and the music is playing softly and building the tension.

That said, I'm almost positive it's a John Williams piece. I listened to that whole track you linked and while it wasn't the right one, I loved every second of it. Makes you want to get up and go have an adventure

# ¿ Dec 28, 2011 18:48

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Skeevy Mcgee posted:

Not too long ago I saw a trailer for a horror movie, and if I remember correctly it was a single, continuous POV shot from a car driving past some kids running in a field toward what seems to be a scarecrow. Then they start stabbing it, and you realize it's probably not a scarecrow and you're witnessing a murder. I'm pretty sure it's a British movie. Does anyone know what I'm talking about, if it's been released, and if it's any good?

Was it this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw6N4ynLI8Y

# ¿ Jul 27, 2012 00:26

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

I have one: this is an old black and white movie. I think people were trapped in a house with a bunch of booby traps or something. One guy goes running blindly into a room and there's no floor! Luckily he held on to the doorknob and pulls himself back up.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2013 21:45

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Rupert Buttermilk posted:

House on Haunted Hill? With Vincent Price?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051744/?ref_=sr_2

Hmm, I don't know, I'll have to check it out. Thanks for the suggestion!

# ¿ Feb 4, 2013 20:35

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Nerdfest X posted:

My question: in what movie does Richard Belzer give himself an air embolism with a syringe? Combing IMBD and Wikipedia unsuccessful so far.

I believe that is The Puppet Masters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppet_Masters_%28film%29

# ¿ Jun 2, 2013 23:14

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

HaroldofTheRock posted:

I believe that is The Puppet Masters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puppet_Masters_%28film%29

edit: maybe not, if I remember right, a character in that movie uses his IV drip to do it.

edit edit: gently caress, the fabeled "edit is not reply" thing. gently caress me.

# ¿ Jun 2, 2013 23:17

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

Not real sure on some of these details, but I think it was a movie from the 70s. A police officer (out of uniform) and his son are in a car. They have a passenger, another guy. The guy turns to the kid and says "So when you grow up are you going to be a cop like your old man?". He seems to realize he used the word "cop", so he turns to the officer and says "sorry".

# ¿ Oct 17, 2013 00:29

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

ClydeUmney posted:

Yeah, the non-TV line is "Well, they finally did it - they killed my loving car."

And it totally matters that they're nihilists. Say what you will about the tenets of National Socialism, but at least it's an ethos.

The best line of that movie is "'FAIR??' WHO'S THE loving NIHILIST AROUND HERE?"

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 15:22

HaroldofTheRock: Jun 3, 2003; Pillbug

White Water Summer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VVVhy_DV24&t=150s

# ¿ Jan 29, 2016 06:07

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