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Internet Gentleman: Mar 17, 2006; I'm so happy to be here.

HystericFactor posted:

The setting was some medieval kingdom where the palace of the rulers were besieged. The queen took her kid son and some sword that was magic or something, and brought them to this ugly rear end troll/dwarf guy to look after. In order for the guy to agree, the queen had to give up the goods: ie off-screen sex. The prince grows up, tries to kill the troll guy when he's given the magic sword, except it breaks because it's a fake. Then he gets the real one and runs off to claim back his kingdom or something.

Definitely not The Beastmaster (no dwarf or magic sword).
Did the sword have 3 blades? It may be The Sword and the Sorcerer http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084749/
But again, no dwarf.

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 16:10

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SplitSoul posted:

I remember watching a movie during my childhood that scared the poo poo out of me, but it wasn't particularly horrific or anything, I was just young. Some little kid's parents, or maybe just his father, get murdered and he is kidnapped by the two perpetrators. One is mostly calm and one is a total psycho, both male. The psycho ends up having his head crushed in an oil well or something, and the other one gets shot by the police, maybe at an intersection. The flick was either from the '70s or '80s.

Cohen and Tate http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097074/

And in The Boys From Brazil the old Nazis are trying to make a new Hitler by having the new clones grow up in similar situations as young Hitler did.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2006 03:50

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Alan Smithee posted:

Err, like fighting in a losing war leading to economic instability in his country and being a failed painter?

I should have said childhood. Son of a minor official and all that.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2006 06:22

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freeranger posted:

It was an Asian film, and I remember it was about either Vampires or Zombies. They moved by jumping slowly with their arms stretched out. And in one scene they performed a ritual on a coffin or something, and it involved chickens blood and rice and some other weird stuff.

Do you have any more details on this movie? In Hong Kong movies thats how the zombies move. European/North American zombies are the slow shambling ones, Asian zombies hop with their arms outstretched.

Mr. Vampire http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089371/ was pretty popular (spawning 5 or 6 sequels)

And allow me to recommend one of my favorites:
Kung-Fu Zombie http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0199148/

# ¿ Dec 31, 2006 09:05

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Alan Smithee posted:

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

Return of the Living Dead
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/

They also run in Return of the Living Dead 2, but that movie is crap.

# ¿ Mar 3, 2007 23:20

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Alan Smithee posted:

Second, I wanna say 70s/80. Scene I saw was girl (blonde) sitting naked on a couch post-coitus (I assume) and a dude walks away. Next scene blonde is working a fast food joint (think dairy queen) and she's talking to a girl friend about how the dude could last pretty long despite being young. Later scene some dude is arguing with another dude because he hosed some girl he liked (I think). Sorry to be vague, only scenes I saw

Execept for sitting nude on the couch, this sounds like Fast Times at Ridgemont High
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083929/

# ¿ Mar 11, 2007 00:58

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FSFunky posted:

2. A french guy goes to Japan and fucks up some Yakuza. He had a goofy sidekick. Yeah, that's all I can remember.

Could be Wasabi
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0281364/

# ¿ Mar 13, 2007 22:06

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Alan Smithee posted:

There was a 80s movie, this blonde chick in a car just chatting away, a moment later some ghoulish looking cops stand next to it and she screams, and they cover her mouth. 2 chicks in an empty department store. Later some thugs in sunglasses come in with guns. One of the chicks gets an uzi or something and holds one punk hostage. The leader guy shoots the guy and she calls him a psycho. He says "I'm not a psycho, I just don't give a gently caress!"

Night of the Comet
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087799/maindetails

# ¿ Mar 14, 2007 07:22

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Von_Doom posted:

Mystery Zombie Crappy Horror Movie Guess Time!

Cute Girl:
Side Ponytail with Ultra Frizzy afro
Vietnam-era jacket
Big Bracelets
Big Earrings
jean skirt(?) over leggings
Medium complexion
American with horrible fake accent maybe...possibly a Newzie (I kid-I kid)

I was a strange kid I know and thanks in advance.

I could be Return of the Living Dead http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089907/

It was made in 1985, takes place in both a cemetary and mausoleum with typical mid 80's trashy chicks - one with big earring and a blue skirt, the other with leggings. I think the blue-skirted girl was trying to pull off a valley-girl accent. The legging girls ankle gives out and she is eaten by zombies.
Heres a pic of the gang:

There is no flying coffin, but

Von_Doom posted:

I've done lots of drugs since then.

may explain it.

# ¿ Apr 27, 2007 21:01

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Evil Dick posted:

Cheesey horror movie from the late 60's/early 70's, lots of "mod" style clothes. Anthology style, and I think the segues had something to do with an elevator.
The part I remember was an artist whose paintings had a kind of voodoo doll quality to them and he decided that to keep himself safe, he locked his portrait in a safe. There's no air in there, so he starts to suffocate and he takes it out. Later, a can of paint thinner falls on it and he melts. I think the ending had something to do with the characters getting off the elevator to find out they're in Hell.

Vault of Horror the 1973 follow up film of 1972's Tales From the Crypt.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070868/

# ¿ Aug 4, 2007 16:28

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Vincent posted:

Crazy angel death.

Don't know the movie, but it is not Deathstalker.

Duck_King posted:

There's a movie I saw a little bit of when I was a kid, and I've been wondering what it was for years now (keep in mind I saw this almost 15 years ago so some of my memory might not be correct). It was an independent (I think) movie about a guy who's a bit of a loser, and gets attacked by a vampire woman. Hoping he will turn into a vampire, he tries to act like one, with miserable results. In one scene he goes into a store that sells high priced vampire teeth, only to walk out with the cheap plastic kind kids wear at halloween. He ends up murdering a few people, trying to drink their blood, and gets scolded by the woman who attacked him, calling him "pathetic". In the end, he ends up begging a cop to plunge a stake into his chest.

Anyone know?

It might be Martin
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077914/

# ¿ Sep 29, 2007 19:51

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Rodney Munch posted:

Its an animated cartoon movie 70's sci-fi.

Scene 1: A little boy and an old lady watch in the distance as a bunch of massive alien bug creatures approach. The bugs are like 500 feet tall or something and look like big worms/larva. The boy looks over at the woman and says "does it hurt when you die?"

Scene 2: There is a chick in this skin tight spandex jumpsuit, except there are 2 holes in the chest so that her titties are just hanging out, flopping around constantly. She runs over to this bug larva on the ground, picks it up and starts breastfeeding it

Yeah I watched this poo poo when I was 7. It was loving nuts.

Sounds like it could be La Plan�te Sauvage
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070544/

Its called was Fantastic Planet for the U.S. release and is an animated tale of humans kept as domesticated pets by an alien race of giant blue humanoids.

# ¿ Nov 6, 2007 06:31

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FitFortDanga posted:

Except for the fact that none of that poo poo happens in Fantastic Planet.

Yeah, except for the fact the movie was an animated sci-fi movie that came out in the 70's with giant worms in it and a blue woman in spandex with her breasts exposed.

But your post has given him a much better lead to follow. Thanks!

# ¿ Nov 6, 2007 07:39

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Twitch posted:

-A lot of the movie also focused on a cop, and most of the police parts of the movie didn't look like they fit in very well (almost like it was two movies spliced together).
Low-budget sub-Troma budget. So cheap that the dialogue was all added in with ADR.
And I don't think Michael Dudikoff ever had a ridiculous Borat-esque mustache.

Sounds like a Richard Harrison Ninja film.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0365835/

In the 80's he made several Ninja films with Godfrey Ho, probably the worst director in all of Asia. Godfrey would film an actor for one movie, then take all the unused footage of the actor and splice it into any other unfinished movies he had. He paid you for 1 film and you starred in 8.

Sorry I can't narrow it down any more, but the reusing of the footage makes it hard to tell the films apart.

Here's a trailer for Ninja Dragon with Richards mustache in all its action-packed glory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehPt6zqqyrM

# ¿ Dec 21, 2007 05:16

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Gyver posted:

I think this came from a late 80's action movie of some sort. In the scene a female police officer gets shot with a fancy pants super bullet, through movie misinformation I believe the bullet casing was still attached on the x-ray. The bullet has some chip on it that if they attempt to remove it it will explode, so they bring in this huge robot arm to remove it, but another cop steps in saying the robot is too slow an would kill her. He ends up whipping out a pair of tweezers and yanking the bullet out of her arm and chucking it across the room just before it explodes.

Runaway
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088024/

# ¿ Dec 28, 2007 20:11

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nacho posted:

Some movie about kids who go up to Canada from the US, and one of them wants to smuggle drugs across.

Crossing the Bridge
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104030/

# ¿ May 6, 2008 07:01

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Videodrew posted:

Saw this movie in the early nineties, but it may have been older. Had sort of a Naked Lunch feel, where this detective, or maybe just a normal dude, is imagining dinner with every course being served in the form of cigarettes. Everyone around him is smoking, and the cigarette food on his plate starts talking to him. Later on in the movie there is a talking cat, I think.

Any clues?

It sounds like the 'Quitters Inc.' segment from Cat's Eye
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088889/

# ¿ Jun 30, 2008 03:32

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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.

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.

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/

# ¿ Aug 4, 2008 00:51

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I think we found Motel Hell's #1 fan.

# ¿ Sep 3, 2008 18:29

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Arctic posted:

This will a very difficult one, I've scoured the internet with no results.

This is a paranoia film about a guy around his 20s who finds a camera embedded in the walls of his bedroom, this includes a little part where he follows the copper wire a bit trying to trace where it goes. He confronts I think his girlfriend about the camera but she's completely dismissive of the camera.

Throughout the movie he goes around seeing cameras everywhere like he sees a red flashing light above a door and assumes it to be a camera.

It's a movie that came out around the mid to late 90s or early 2000s, I don't believe it to be a big name film and it was not the Truman Show.

There was an episode of the 1989 Twilight Zone series with David Naughton that had the same premise:
http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/special-service/episode/34418/recap.html?tag=episode_tabs;recap

# ¿ Oct 13, 2008 22:32

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Admiral Goodenough posted:

I think I saw this around 2000, but it was on tv, so it was probably made earlier than that. It was a thrillery, "cops-chasing-a-murderer"-type of movie (think Se7en) set in some major American city.
The only distinguishing feature I can remember is that the case had something to do with severed body parts, especially hands, and that someone was locked up (in custody?) and kept scratching words on the walls.

Does this sound familiar? I've been thinking about this ever since I saw it.

Maybe Resurrection?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142804/

# ¿ Nov 13, 2008 00:02

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Nate RFB posted:

It was an animated film that had come out (in English, at least) at least by 1990, perhaps a little bit later but I think that's unlikely.

The plot basically entailed a young girl being kidnapped by a count who turned out to be a vampire, or otherwise some kind of evil supernatural thing. There are really only two images I can somewhat vividly remember, one being the kidnap scene occurring in a rose bush, garden, or forest of some kind (rose imagery being prevalent throughout, if I recall), and the mansion he takes her to having a lot of elegant staircases. The movie ends, or ends close to after her escape or attempt to escape.

Sounds close to Disney's Beauty and the Beast.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101414/

# ¿ Feb 26, 2009 01:28

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Brandy Alexander posted:

First one.

A teenager girl locks herself into her room and tells her mother she's going to kill herself. they have a conversation through the whole movie and she may end up killing herself at the end (though i don't exactly remember) this movie has that 90's feel to it but i may be wrong.

'night, Mother
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090556/

# ¿ Apr 22, 2009 18:31

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the posted:

A co-worker:

-Something about a shadow that gets a girl in an alley, followed by a bird
-A tattoo on people that identifies them
-Starred White people (he's Black)

lol. Any ideas?

Mimic ?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119675/

Tattooed white people - American History X or Memento?

# ¿ May 4, 2009 22:12

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Bubakles posted:

I saw a werewolf/wolf movie waaay long ago (in the late 80ies maybe). This is what I remember:

- Wolves/werewolves terrorize people
- Set in New York/other big US city
- Two (?) cops (?) set up an ambush in an old apartment building, armed with M-16's
- The one cop gets his head bit off in the end inside a car by a wolf/werewolf
- Looks like it was made in the late 70ies, or early 80ies

That is all I got, please help me identify it. Thanks

Wolfen
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083336/

# ¿ May 11, 2009 04:13

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Evilreaver posted:

I remember this movie where the idea is that a person is reliving a day over an over again. I was virtually positive it was Groundhog Day but after renting it recently the scenes I remember aren't there, so maybe it's a made-for-TV or maybe even just a TV series, but either way it's driving me nuts.

12:01 ?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106188/

# ¿ May 24, 2009 04:15

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Egbert Souse posted:

Is there a movie with a scene with soldiers being given a talk by a sergeant... It's sort of like Full Metal Jacket's opening. Except the sergeant shoots a private in the head for talking and he falls down dead. I'm sort of thinking it's Starship Troopers, but not sure.

It might be Starship Troopers - but the Sarge yelling and the guy getting shot in the head happen at different times (but both in basic training).

# ¿ May 30, 2009 06:24

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Right at Your Door ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WV32U3wq-wI

# ¿ Jul 3, 2009 07:02

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Rort posted:

I need to confirm for myself whether I saw this movie or dreamed it. It was early to mid 90's on cable/satellite. I remember it being either sci-fi/action or sci-fi/horror with a creature that was a pretty blatant rip-off Alien, it had an inner jaw that snapped out just like Giger's Alien, except it was white/dull silverish as opposed to black

Possibly Scared to Death or the sequel Syngenor.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081457/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100728/

# ¿ Aug 1, 2009 18:06

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Action Andy posted:

This one is for my mum, she wants to know the name of a 'weird' film that involved the midgets from the Wizard Of Oz staying at a hotel or something and a guy that may or may not have been Chevy Chase.

It was Chevy Chase.
Under The Rainbow
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083254/

# ¿ Aug 15, 2009 15:21

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Awakenings?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/

Got any more detail on the movie?

# ¿ Nov 26, 2009 13:46

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Bacon55555 posted:

The amoeba, which I know they called it an amoeba in the movie, is the large red/pink blob and I seem to remember the planet sort of more a red/pink tint, but it could have been another color. Damnit, I will figure out what movie this is even if it kills me.

Here is a review of The Angry Red Planet with some pics at the bottom showing the CINEMAGIC (red tint) effect.
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/angryred/

They fight a giant amoeba too, but more people remember the giant bat-rat-spider.

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# ¿ Jan 29, 2010 04:56

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The Asphyx
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069738/

# ¿ Feb 1, 2010 07:39

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teknetik posted:

I saw this movie years back (had to be during the late 1990's-2000's) They used to play it on WB11.

The only scene I remember is a guy on a black bike overlooking a large lake with people swimming in it. I think the bike was some super-advanced prototype and the guy on the bike was the "hero." He might have been an alien or something, I honestly have no idea.

Cyclone has Heather Thomas fighting evil on a high-tech motorcycle, but I don't think it's what you are looking for.

http://io9.com/5263673/in-which-heather-thomas-defeats-evil-with-a-laser-motorcycle

# ¿ Apr 10, 2010 05:37

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zombieman posted:

I'm trying to remember the title of a British gangster movie set in the 60s (I think). All I can remember is something to do with a gangster being murdered because he was a gay rapist, or something along those lines. I thought it was Gangster No 1, but I just watched that, and that wasn't it.

Possibly The Krays
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099951/

Not sure if this is the one you want, but it does have a gay British gangster.

# ¿ Sep 4, 2010 19:24

Internet Gentleman: Mar 17, 2006; I'm so happy to be here.

The Dead Zone

Slasherfan, how could you miss that one?

# ¿ Sep 5, 2010 04:53

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anticake posted:

Almost La Femme Nikita.

Probably Thriller: A Cruel Picture
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072285/

# ¿ Mar 15, 2011 13:50

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His dad may have seen the censored version under the title They Call Her One Eye which had all the hardcore inserts edited out.

And it's a Swedish film.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2011 20:25

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Mr Kukaramanza posted:

So I saw this movie around 15 years ago on TV and all I remember is one scene from it.

There were two guys in a jeep in some desert, then they stopped and came out of the jeep and one of the guys starts bleeding from his feet. He says something along the lines of "get the cure" to the second guy, who then gets a big axe from the car and proceeds to chop off the first guy's hands and feet.

Help me identify this horrible movie, thanks!

It might be the very beginning of Dead Alive
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103873/

Someone put the first part on Youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzdg50y_ngg

And you should watch Dead Alive anyways because it's awesome.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2011 17:48

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 16:10

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Pretty sure its Layer Cake
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0375912/

# ¿ Aug 19, 2011 15:49

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