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

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Gasmask posted:

It was a pretty weird movie, but good in a kind of Lynch way. Any ideas?

Almost undeniably The Doom Generation.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0112887/

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 17:54

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Donkeylips posted:

I saw a trailer for a horror movie a couple years ago or so.

It was a pan on a beach covered with those things that stop tanks. Then there were a bunch of these weird zombie kinda things wearing gasmasks getting up.

That's all I remember.

It's not actually a movie yet. It was a proof of concept trailer for a movie called Worst Case Scenario. It's not been made yet and has funding fall through a number of times. Read all about it here.
http://www.gorehoundinc.com/news.html

# ¿ Feb 6, 2007 11:07

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Mike N Eich posted:

I'm sorry if these two have been done already but here goes nothing:

The first one was a really campy "horror" film I saw on UPN when I was a wee-lad. Probably 80's to early 90'sI remember an old decrepit family headed by, I think, was an old Judge, a really fat daughter that the Judge tried to hook up with the protagonist, and a bunch of youngsters that were senteced to a rollercoaster that led to some sort of death machine that shot out all of their bones at a bulls-eye. I distinctly remember the death-rollercoaster.

The second was a film (same time period) where dismembered hands start attacking people. The protagonist actualy fights his own hand off from choking him. It isn't "Idle Hands."

Nothing but Trouble
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/
The Hand with Michael Caine
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0082497/

# ¿ Feb 9, 2007 11:29

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Kid Knee Bean posted:

What is the name of this crime/action movie that begins at a football game, where the running back takes out a gun and shoots the defender in the middle of the field? I don't know if that's the main plot because the movie switches to another story after that opening scene, but I'm sure it's important! It's a gritty-looking 80's (possibly late 70's) movie.

Last Boy Scout
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102266/

Edit: Clyde :argh:

# ¿ Feb 12, 2007 04:29

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It's from notable horror series Phantasm which has given us the orb, the tall man, killer dwarves, and four barrel shotguns. :rock:

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0079714/

# ¿ Feb 24, 2007 01:06

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You'd be looking for the epic Charles Band series Dollman starring Tim Thomerson.

http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0101751/

# ¿ Feb 25, 2007 20:41

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Alan Smithee posted:

Was wondering if there were any zombie movies made before 28 Days Later that featured running zombies

Conceptually, The Crazies is sort of a running zombie movie. Return of the Living Dead had pretty swift zombies. And at least one Italian movie had zombies that could take down sharks, so they must have been pretty nimble.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2007 05:52

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Edit: Whoops

# ¿ Mar 22, 2007 08:54

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Internets LOL posted:

I'm thinking this movie was made in the 1990's. I remember a scene where a bunch of guys are dressed up in fur suits and they were sitting in a conference room. The leader was having a discussion with the other members and he pulls out a gun and shoots one of the other members. Throughout the scene they refer to each other as Mr. (Animal Name). I think this was a fairly popular movie because I saw this on either HBO or Comedy Central.

This is The Avengers. It's the most absurd scene in the entire movie and was the only thing I really enjoyed about it. The entire bear suit scenario is hilarious.

# ¿ Apr 5, 2007 15:50

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Alan Smithee posted:

Another movie: Saw this back in the early 90s, I'd date around there too. So it's this sort of military movie type deal. A unit of soldiers for some reason or other are being held in a camp, only I got the impression they were American soldiers being held by American soldiers. The camp is run by a sadistic bald man (who I believe is the same baldy who plays the principle in Back to the Future who always yells "slacker!"). For some reason or other he likes to have them in states of undress and he rapes one of the female soldiers at one point. When one of the protagonists finds out (he has a beard I think) he's dragged away by either guards or other guys in his unit while he screams "YOU RAPED HER"

This is Opposing Force. The commander is Anthony Zerbe, who was the leader of Zion. It's also got Tom Skerrit in it, who might be the guy you're talking about at the end (I saw it years ago).
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091688/

# ¿ Apr 7, 2007 07:39

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LowJack posted:

The movie I'm trying to find was one made in the 70s or 80s, which I saw as a little child. Basically the precursor for "The Cell", it was about a guy who could enter the dreams of someone else. I remember in the beginning he is in a room with a child who is being stalked by some kind of monster.

Freaked me out as a kid, anyone have an idea?

Dreamscape
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0087175/

Also, 'freaked me out as a kid' is something nearly everyone in the 80s who saw it will say. It's pretty nightmarish.

# ¿ Apr 8, 2007 18:35

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Never seen it, but you gave enough to google it.

Manny's Orphans / Kick!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0207597/

# ¿ Apr 8, 2007 21:51

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Goldmund posted:

I'm trying to remember the name of an American 70s era muscle car chase movie. A friends younger brother had this on VHS in the early 90s, and he claimed it was the longest car chase on film. The chase itself was at least 45-60 minutes long, but we came in after the movie had started so I don't know for sure how long it was. I also can't remember the type or color of car, but I'm fairly sure that at some point there was a female passenger. I also think that at some point they drove through a car wash during the chase, but I might be wrong about that. I know the car was being chased by police.

I know for certain it isn't Death Race 2000 or French Connection. I'm fairly certain that it wasn't Vanishing Point, but there were enough similarities that watching it recently triggered my memory of this mystery film.

Well, it has no passengers, but it certainly is the movie with the longest chase sequence (40+ minutes) and a carwash comes into play.
Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) - referred to in Grindhouse.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0071571/

You can watch a bit of it here http://youtube.com/watch?v=WXBiSis1Oh8

# ¿ Apr 14, 2007 23:55

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Bombajio posted:

I know the movie is pretty old and if I remember correctly it's directed by a very famous director and moviemaker by now. Who, I don't remember.
It was about a guy who was trying to get home from work, I guess, but there was a huge truck who kept trying to kill him. By that I mean he tried to push the guy (in his car) onto the train-tracks, he tried to shove him down a cliff and so on.

Steven Spielberg's Duel
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067023/

# ¿ Apr 17, 2007 12:15

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The whole deal was that he was collecting human endorphins, which were a drug for aliens. He'd shoot the victims up with a high dose of cocaine (the tube in the chest) and then ram a spike through their head to collect the endorphins.

As for the title, it's just ironic. He'd say it to people just as he was using them as drug factories.

# ¿ Apr 19, 2007 10:41

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Alan Smithee posted:

loving lame. It might as well have been called "I Have Not Come To Harvest Your Endorphins, Killing you in the Process"

But then you wouldn't have the last line in the trailer.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=I8F92p1ept0

# ¿ Apr 19, 2007 23:26

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Lawncare posted:

There's a movie sometimes mentioned in PYR for a gif of one of the characters yelling "EVERYONE!". What movie is this?

Never seen the gif, but I know for a fact that this is Leon: The Professional.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0110413/

Edit: http://youtube.com/watch?v=i0xumu3nA0g
Edit2: Make sure you see this movie. Great, great movie.

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# ¿ Apr 21, 2007 03:19

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Alan Smithee posted:

Speaking of spaghetti Westerns and the French, which movie had Clint Eastwood dodging French troops and teaming up with a nun?

I haven't seen it for a long time, but wouldn't that be Two Mules for Sister Sara?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2007 03:27

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dentedsanity posted:

The second is another cheesy horror flick in which some weird amorphous alien(s) which can blend into anything white (and are referred to as killer marshmallows/killer marshmallow fluff at some point in the movie, I believe) kill a bunch of people before their weakness to fire is discovered and some folks with flamethrowers and cheap perfume+lighters, etc save the day.

In one scene, a guy hops into bed next to his wife, only to have one of the things (in clever disguise on his pillow) "grow" across his face in an attempt to smother him. She burns it somehow, which is how that weakness is discovered, if I recall correctly. I recall them bubbling heavily under fire as well.

P.S. Was the movie in which a man gets engulfed by another amorphous alien and sucked into a radiator pipe (or just a plain old pipe...I remember there being a rotund policeman and a few other people there when it happened) with a horrible, juicy crunching noise one of The Blob movies? I've been told that it is not, but can't find any info on such a scene through searching. I saw that when I was about 8 and know that it was in at least partial color, but I think that the alien was red and everything else was B&W.

The former sounds, especially the thing about the pillow, like The Stuff. It's a goofy and fun horror movie by Q's Larry Cohen. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0090094/

The second definitely sounds like the remake of The Blob where a restaurant dishwasher is pulled face first down a sink drain. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094761/
You can see it in this fanvid. Warning, it spoils all the awesomeness of the remake. http://youtube.com/watch?v=3jmpLA6deBc

# ¿ May 10, 2007 03:48

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Probably not, but could it be Into the Night with Jeff Goldblum? Not nearly as serious as Falling Down, but it might be something like what you're talking about.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0089346/

# ¿ May 10, 2007 21:35

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Alan Smithee posted:

speaking of the Blob remake how did that one end? I think in the original they freeze it as they can't destroy it, only contain it (communism anyone?)

They blow up an artificial snow blowing truck to flash freeze the whole thing after it has grown way big. Frozen into crystals, they plan to pack it in ice.

Meanwhile, the priest, wounded by fire and half crazy, has collected a number of the frozen shards from an earlier brief freezing encounter and locked them in a jar. Sometime later, he's shown preaching at a religious revival tent and is approached by a lady asking when the end times were coming. He looks at the thawed and quite active little blob in the jar and tells her it'll be "soon".

# ¿ May 11, 2007 09:36

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Manny Calavera posted:

I only saw the one scene, it looked pretty cool so I want to see the rest.
I know for a fact that it's sci-fi, because it was part of Film Four's (UK) sci-fi run of films.

Cypher, the second notable film from the creator of Cube and it has Lucy Liu in it. Not too bad, you might like it if you rent to end your curiousity.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/

# ¿ May 13, 2007 03:42

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Panty_HaX0r posted:

The second movie I want to identify I remember more about. There's a female teacher and a bus full of children in I think Australia that gets hijacked and kidnapped by some guys with guns and animal masks. The teacher ends up rescuing the kids and there's one suspenseful scene where they all swim underwater in cave. This movie sticks out in my mind because it was on our local Fox affiliate and at some point showed the woman topless on network television and I was very confused.

This is Fortress, guaranteed.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091069/

# ¿ May 13, 2007 06:24

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Amarcarts posted:

2. The other movie I remember a little more of: A family is on a road trip and they get arrested in some hick town for running a stop sign. They get taken to see the town judge and he's about to let them go when he discovers that the main character (who I remember was played by a tall actor, possibly wearing a white suit in the film) is a banker. The judge really hated bankers or something so he sentences the family to death.

To close it out, this is Nothing But Trouble with a penis-nosed Dan Aykroyd.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0102558/

# ¿ May 13, 2007 21:04

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# ¿ May 14, 2007 07:20

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Alan Smithee posted:

I believe on Comedy Central they had this movie on, I'd say 80s. Anyway the main character is talking about all the martians around them, and he's in a mental institute. I don't remember if the institute people could see the martians but he could. Basically he talks about how they were making GBS threads everything up. One scene he's loving his girlfriend and the martians pop up out of nowhere to watch. I think the martians were dressed sort of like blue man group only not blue and with tinfoil hats or something. At the end he figures out how to get rid of em, by playing a song on the piano or something

I'm thinking this might be a movie that had a set of horrible B and C-level stand up comics playing green painted martians. I can't remember the movie at all for the life of me.

Might be your movie, but I can't find the title to save my life. The movie I saw was horrendously lovely, so unless you're going to inflict that pain on someone else, I can't see I'm doing you a favor in answering it. Unfortunately, the title will haunt me until I figure it out.

Edit: Thank god he got it while I left the editing window open to GIS it. lovely, lovely, lovely MOVIE.

# ¿ May 18, 2007 09:11

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http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2453017

Has links to the trailer and discussion.

Edit: :argh:

Smeep, no strawberry fields for you... forever!

# ¿ May 24, 2007 00:45

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oldbrownshoe posted:

There's this "scary" movie I remember seeing as a young kid (had to be late 80s early 90s) with this little monster dude. He was so small I think he hid in a hole in the wall, like a mouse hole, that I believe he made himself. I really can't remember details, but I know there was an orange tabby or something in the movie that has a hand (or paw really ) in killing the furry creature. I think he gets chopped up into tiny bits by a fan blade or something.

Does anyone remember this movie??

This is one of the episodes of Cat's Eye, the one with a young Drew Barrymore.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0088889/

# ¿ May 25, 2007 13:55

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Psi posted:

I remember seeing a movie when I was a kid that was some kind of cartoon/animation. I think the movie was made for kids, but it had a pretty dark look/story for that. It involved mutants/aliens/something (the characters were blue skinned I think) running away from something towards some kind of cliche promised land.

I don't remember much about the plot beyond that but it had a very distinct atmosphere--there were tons of silences and the movie "felt" very dark.

I don't know if that's enough information

When I think blue animation, I think Light Years or Fantastic Planet.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0095525/
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/

# ¿ May 31, 2007 02:46

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Incitatus posted:

It had a jungle tribe that held another captive, one secen they paint them blue and have them run towards the jungle while shooting arrows/hurling javalins at them as they ran, 2 at a time and had a warrior with a weapon at the end to get any people that made it past the projectiles.

One guy made it and stabbed the guy at the end and then the other people chased him through the jungle.

This is Apocalypto. Did you see a whole string of jungle movies all at once or something, because it's hard to lose that one in the shuffle so recently?

# ¿ Jun 2, 2007 22:55

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Cumfart Cocktail posted:

Horror film.
I think that it was set on an oil rig or something.
Something is hauled up and infects one of the crew and it kills people.
I think that it then goes on to infect others.

Sorry about the hazy memory, but it was many years ago (something like 20 years ago)

Could also be Leviathan with Robocop and Col. Trautman.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0097737/

# ¿ Jun 5, 2007 18:57

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Falling Down
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0106856/

# ¿ Jun 18, 2007 19:31

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Alan Smithee posted:

Speaking of scifi from way back, I caught a clip of a movie on Starz years ago, I would say it's about 70s/early 80s. Anyway so this guy's on a spaceship, he's got the crazy oldschool hair and looking out a window, I think he was in a kitchen, and you see a big ol American flag draped on the side which kinda suprised me because I can't recall any scifi space shows that suggest the USA still exists as a nation rather than becoming some consolidated Federation or United Earth Something or Other

For some inexplicable reason I'm getting a Silent Running vibe about this. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0067756/

# ¿ Jun 21, 2007 18:52

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oscartheduck posted:

The portion I can remember of this movie is that there is a subplot involving a court case similar to the OJ Simpson case, but a man was accused of killing his brother, maybe?

Either way, what I can definitely remember is that the accused was saying that the killers were asian, they sounded asian, and that the power or something went out during the court verdict while everyone was watching it.

The Cable Guy, with Ben Stiller playing the part of the accused. It's really a much better film than I think it gets credit for, with more substance and somewhat good writing behind the silly voices and faces.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0115798/

# ¿ Jun 24, 2007 04:05

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PonchtheJedi posted:

This is an 80's movie. I think it was a bunch of short stories, one of which is this kid sneaks into an arcade at night. He's playing this game and gets to the highest level in the game (I think it was the 35th) and then gets sucked into the game. I seem to remember him rocking out to headphones while he plays. Anybody?

You're thinking of Nightmares where the kid is Emilio Estevez.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0086014/

# ¿ Jun 26, 2007 14:57

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Alan Smithee posted:

I remember some horror movie covers freaking me out as a kid though in reality they were probably cheesy. One had a broken window (I think it was broken) and a dude in a tuxedo with roses, only this dude was bleeding (I don't remember if it was cuz he was shot in the chest or bleeding from the face/eyes but he was bleeding).

The other was a cover that showed a monster hand ringing a doorbell, and the tagline was this "Dying dong, your dead"

The first is most probably Night of the Creeps, which is awesome and funny.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091630/

The second is House, which I know definitely used the tagline "Ding Dong, you're dead" in some of the VHS covers. It too is also an awesome horror comedy.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091223/

# ¿ Jun 28, 2007 21:02

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Smoogle posted:

Does anyone know the name of a movie in which about 4 kids, one of whom was a girl with really short brown hair, found a monster in a lake. The children could only see his eye, thats all i have to go on, anyone know this movie?

Is it getting airplay on Showtime-ish channels right now? If so, it might be Magic in the Water.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0113737/

# ¿ Jul 1, 2007 07:20

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Fantastipotamus posted:

Here's one I can't recall the name of..

All I really remember is at that it was one of those 80's kids movies that were somewhat scary (like 'The Watcher in the Woods'), but at the climax, the main characters were.. "fighting" I guess what looked to be a derelict steam shovel in the middle of a pond.

This is incredibly hazy in my memory, so I wouldn't be surprised if a key piece is wrong, and no one gets it.

I'm pretty sure this is the movie The Quest. The monster legend was that it was a donkey engine tractor that gets shortened to an Aboriginal name.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091810/

# ¿ Jul 3, 2007 16:44

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phobophobia posted:

Sometime between 1985 and 1991...

I can't make heads or tails of the dog in a suit part, but there's large parts of this that conjure Dead Heat to memory. The horizontal table, the chamber, it all seems sort of correct.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094961/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=m-cuqDjpwnA

Besides, if it isn't, at least you can enjoy the lovely Zombie Duck Heads. It really is a kickass 80s cheeseball.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2007 00:58

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# ¿ May 4, 2024 17:54

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Rodney Munch posted:

This one might be rough since I really remember jack poo poo, but i'll give it a go anyways.

It's a thriller or maybe a murder mystery type movie that came out somewhere in the early to mid 90's. The only part I really remember was the ending. It had one of those surprise twist endings where the bad guy is finally revealed. Turns out that one of the main characters who you thought was a good guy ends up being the badguy/killer/traitor or whatever. I'm also pretty positive he was black, possibly Morgan Freeman or Laurence Fishburne although I guess it could have been anyone. I think the main protagonist might have been female but I could be wrong there too.

Oh yeah the one part I do remember is that this final scene with the big reveal takes place at night in a swamp. Probably New Orleans although I guess it could be Florida too.

Could be Just Cause perhaps.
http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0113501/

# ¿ Jul 6, 2007 22:28

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