We received enough requests to help people remember the names of movies based on brief memories that we decided to start a page dedicated to the concept.
As a heads up, I find that the badmovies.org “What Was That Film” board can be the best place to ask these sorts of questions, particularly if the film your looking for is in the horror or science fiction genres. It may be a good idea to ask there as well.
The latest request comes from a reader named “alan.” I reprint his question here as “Movie 1″. Barry Jones sounds confident that this is Robin Hardy‘s The Fantasist.
MOVIE 1
I saw a movie once, definitely a Psychological Thriller, something from the early eighties (or late seventies) which was about some girl who ends up with a guy who is a murderer. She bluffs her way out of a certain death. A scene follows that is really something else! She has sex with him (almost explicit scene, but more intensely erotic). At the end of the film she kicks the fellow overboard (leaving a leg prothesis behind). Sounds weird?? Well, I know!
There is also an unsolved movie from a prior post, from “John,” that I’ll include here in case in rings a bell for someone:
MOVIE 2
Starts in Heaven. God is going to destroy the world. Instead He sends an angel down. Angel takes the form of a dog then water then wind … ‘Angel’ helps a young film maker. Helps him make a film but it is not a commercial success. Final scene is the film is projected onto a sheet in the Notre Dame in Paris.
I have been searching for three years for the answer!
From “Patrick”: I consider this one solved, though Patrick never confirmed.
MOVIE 3 – SOLVED! (Desperate Living)
The latest mystery movie. Not much to go on.
MOVIE 4
Strange, supernatural things happen to a family in a tower block. Near the end of the movie in a plaza sitting in a circle are a group of people trying to decide who to curse next. She’s absolutely confident that it’s East Asian.
One from Zelenc. Morgan seems pretty sure this is Jodorowsky’s The Rainbow Thief:
MOVIE 5
…a surreal movie when in I think first or one of the first scenes a baron or something invites his parents to dinner and dogs eat with them at a table… dogs are served caviar and guests bones, than guests became angry and leave i think… couldn’t find this one, it’s a comedy…
From Alvaro:
MOVIE 6 – SOLVED! (Quicksilver Highway)
From Sirena:
MOVIE 7 – SOLVED! (oddly enough this was also Quicksilver Highway…)
MOVIE 8 – SOLVED! (Midnight Offerings)
This is going to be a hard one because Mike M. only remembers one scene, and there’s nothing outrageous about it.
MOVIE 9
I saw this around thirty-something years ago, age 6-7, and not sure if it was on TV or maybe at the drive-in.
Only one scene stuck with me: a young boy about 7-10 in bathing trunks, running around the pool of a hotel, no guests around. Two to five men in black suits and sunglasses are after the boy, not running but walking and not saying anything. The boy goes into the pool, the men follow after, grab the boy, and push him under until he’s drowned. They then calmly leave the scene.
From Jo. Ubermolch suggests In the Mouth of Madness (1994). Maybe.
MOVIE 10
There was a man & Woman driving,looking to get to their destination,but kept ending up back in the same town.They couldn’t seem to get out of it.At one point the woman got out of the car & got attacked by a tree.They went to get help from the Police,then the police tried to kill them.They were also running down a Alley & there was a time portal.
From The Awful Dr. Orloff. I originally marked this Solved! with the suggestion The Wild East [Dikiy vostok], but the Dr. has returned to say he still has his doubts, so I restored the description in case anyone has any further thoughts.
MOVIE 11
saw this film many years ago at the Edinburgh Film Festival. At the time you could get a cheap season ticket that let you into any film showing before the main evening screenings, which meant that people like me could at no extra cost risk watching a couple of hours of almost certain rubbish in a near-empty cinema when all the sensible movie connoisseurs were having lunch.
I’ve repeatedly tried to convince people that I saw this film, but nobody believes me. Basically it’s an Eastern European remake of “The Magnificent Seven”, subtitled of course, with all the beleaguered villagers played by dwarves and midgets. They live in a vaguely post-apocalyptic village obviously built in a quarry. When the bandit problem ensues, the heroic midget goes off to hire a bunch of heroes, and somehow ends up with a strange bunch of historically mismatched tough guys (yes, I know this is exactly what happens at the end of “Time Bandits” – I presume the idea was stolen from there), including a totally anachronistic Japanese in full samurai armour – a subtle nod to Kurosawa!
Anyway, the action veers erratically between the various source movies and “Mad Max” before the heroes are temporarily thrown off-balance by the arrival of a considerable number of unexplained fully-costumed Nazis in half-tracks (presumably the local WWII reenactment society came cheap), but luckily the day is ultimately saved when the heroic dwarf suddenly descends into “Star Wars” territory and in some mystic fashion is granted a magic dagger (obviously purchased via the small-ads in a heavy metal mag) and thus the bad guy is slain and everything’s tickety-boo. Or whatever.
As you can see, I remember more about this movie than most of your inquirers do; it’s just that it sank so totally without trace (not without reason) that nobody else does. I promise you I’m not making it up – has anybody else in the world actually seen it?
From Anika.
MOVIE 12 – SOLVED! Through the Eyes of a Killer (1992)
MOVIE 13 – SOLVED! Suckerpunch (upcoming)
From Casey. Sunbear suggests Casey might be thinking of Eyes Wide Shut, but I’m not sure that’s a good fit overall. It occurs to me that Casey might be thinking of Paul Bartel’s Private Parts (1972), which is coming up in the review queue soon.
MOVIE 14
I watched a movie a few years ago, and can’t for the life of me remember what it’s called. I actually don’t remember a lot about it, but I’m pretty sure it was considered a horror movie. Honestly, when I first remembered it today, I thought it was The Serpent And The Rainbow because that movie feels very similar to it, I think. The guy(s?) goes into this house (I keep wanting to say it was a weird whorehouse, but my memory might be serving me wrong there) and through all these rooms and in all of them are different visually bizarre things. Lots of them sexual. Something about someone maybe having bird feathers? It was really trippy and I think there were parts in it that had to do with voodoo. I think there was some off-kilter sex scenes in it, too, but I could be mistaken. It was made in, I think, the 70′s or 80′s. I’m pretty sure I rented it from a video store. It reminded me a lot of David Lynch and Stuart Gordon’s movies. Any idea?
From Jennifer. Dementia/Daughter of Horror (1955) seems a likely match.
MOVIE 15
I’ve been looking for this movie for years. If I remember correctly, I saw it on PBS in 1993 during the time of the OJ chase, I think I kept switching between the two. For some reason I think it’s a late 80′s or early 90′s film. It’s in black and white, except for some red blood at the beginning. I think someone was murdered in a office. It also had no dialogue, except for an apartment scene where the TV was going. It had a very powerful music soundtrack, very tense. I thought I recognized the composer’s name in the credits, but don’t remember the name. There was a woman wandering around an abandon town or maybe she was being stalked or something. I think at the end she went into a big warehouse-type building and there was something up in the rafters or by some upper windows. I’d really appreciate any ideas.
Sent via email. I am sure enough that the sender is thinking of Cremaster 2 to call it solved.
MOVIE 16 – SOLVED! Cremaster 2
From bluenotered.
MOVIE 17 – SOLVED! The Ninth Configuration
From Len. LRob suggests Louie Malle’s Black Moon (1975); a few things match (teenage girl protagonist), but others don’t (no female lawyer or bathroom electrocution). Mofo Rising seems confident that it’s Vagabond (1985), and the description does seem to match. We’ll leave this up for a while for Len to confirm.
MOVIE 18
I am trying to locate the name of a French film I watched on videotape sometime in the late 1980s/early 90.It was a violent and depressing film that appeared to have been shot in the late 1960s-early 1970s. It was in black and white, I think. The protagonist was a teenage girl trying to escape (something). She hitchhikes around France looking for a place to fit in and people to hustle. She encounters a middle-aged successful woman (a lawyer, maybe?) who seems to harbor affections for her. In a shocking scene, the women is accidentally electrocuted in her bathroom. Later the girl ends up on an almost medieval farm run by a very young couple; the farm is centered on sheep raising.
I can’t remember what happens in the end, though, which is one of the reasons I want to find it again. Overall the movie is quite bleak and hyper-real (a la cinema verite), with no elements of pleasantness or comfort; nevertheless, it remains embedded in my psyche.
From Michael.
MOVIE 19 – SOLVED! Out of Control (1985)
From Elise. I have no suggestions; I probably would have been one of the one’s telling her it was The Triplets of Belleville. If she saw a commercial for it, it had to be something that was in fairly wide release.
MOVIE 20
I was a teenager at the time I remember the commercial. It was like this animated movie with this weird song that sounds similar (from what I remember) to Roisin Murphy’s “Ramalama Bang Bang.”
I think I remember overgrown people and like spiraling and tunneling. It was creepy and weird and I always wanted to see it, but I never had the opportunity to. People have told me it was probably The Triplets of Belleville, but I don’t think it was. I’ve seen that movie, and it didn’t remind me of the commercial.
I do remember people singing and they have big heads or maybe the angles are funny.. I don’t know how to describe it. I think I was between 13 and 16 at the time, so the movie had to have come out sometime between 2000 and 2003. Maybe even as late as uhmm… 2005, but I pretty sure it came out before I turned 18.
With nothing but a title and a vague genre to go on, I suggest this one: Phoenix [AKA Ashes and Flames] (1995).
MOVIE 21
I’m looking for a move called like something “The Pheonix” or “Pheonix” … but it definitely has the word Pheonix in the title. It’s kind of a violent/horror/psychological thriller … my uncle said it was kind of weird but who knows at what point (he rarely watches weird stuff…).
From danlo215:
MOVIE 22 – SOLVED! Memories of a Survivor (1981)
Lilkitties hasn’t confirmed yet but the match is so close I’m going to call this “solved” unless I hear otherwise.
MOVIE 23 – SOLVED! Bad Ronald (1974)
From Stephanie. Since two readers separately identified the movie as Nothing But Trouble, I’m calling this one solved unless Stephanie tells me differently.
MOVIE 24- SOLVED! Nothing But Trouble (1991)
From “Tony” via email:
MOVIE 25
This was a movie that I saw in a small movie theater in Brooklyn,New York back around 1972 through 1976. It was the second movie of a double bill about Witchcraft / Devil Worship.
I don’t remember if it was American of Foreign (probably British) and don’t remember if there were any major Movie Stars in it. I only remember the basic premise of the movie and how it ended.
This is what I remember of the movie:…. It was about a man who was into Witchcraft or some sore of Devil Worship. He had a son who you never saw throughout the entire movie (until the very end). You only see his eyes through a slit in the door in the course of the movie. The son is locked away in a room in the basement and the man feeds him by sliding his food under the door. During the course of the film, the son begs his father to let him out of the room. Towards the end of the movie, the father is either stabbed or shot in the stomach and he stumbles down the basement steps and he finally unlocks the door where his son is, and you finally see what the son looks like. He has the body of a human, but the head of a goat like in Witchcraft / Satanism.
I know it is not “The Dunwich Horror”, “The Brotherhood of Satan”, The Antichrist”, “The Beast In The Celler” or “The Devil Rides Out” since I have all these movies on DVD already. I also know it is not “The Ghoul” starring Peter Cushing because I have this movie on VHS.
Other Titles People Guessed, But is not the Movie: “Asylum Of Satan”; “Blood On Satan’s Claw”; “The Witching”; “Judgment Day (Mexican)”…..
***A friend also suggested that this movie could have been made earlier that when I saw it in the movie theater and released under a different Title. And then when I saw it in the 1970′s the title was already changed which was done on many occasions especially with Hammer Films…..
This request, received via email from Jared, comes accompanied by screenshots. I have no suggestions, and the screenshots are too dark and blurry to help. Readers?
MOVIE 26 – SOLVED! (By the asker) Nightbreed (1990)
Asked by Tasha on another post. I have no suggestion. The description of the actress reminds me of Barbara Steele, but I don’t think she was in any films as a child.
MOVIE 27
I am trying to figure out the name of this movie I watched as a little girl on “Sammy Terry”. The little girl was possessed and she had long black hair and some of the darkest eyes. You would be so frightened by her stare. The part I will never forget is when her mother was laying in the bed and she heard a noise. She rose from the bed looking around the room and didn’t see anything. Then all of a sudden you see this face arise at the end of the bed and the mother screams for her life. Can someone please help me remember the name of the movie?
Posted in another thread by “Saxerio.” Not much to go on here.
MOVIE 28
Someone remember an old movie where the scene was a couple sleeping, and a green trunk appears and starts sucking through woman pants??? I’ve trying so hard to find it, it’s from the 80′s or 70′s.
From James. It obviously sounds a lot like Ringu (1998) or The Ring (2002) but the timeframe is wrong.
MOVIE 29
I have been trying to remember the name of this movie (could even be an episode or segment of a movie) for years and years. I saw it as a kid on MonsterVision and it think it was around 1994 when I saw it, but the film had a late 80′s, early 90′s feel. Some things might be a bit jumbled, but what I can remember is this: VHS video displays strangely appear in movie rental stores and the movie boxes are all black with nothing on them. I think the display itself is just mirrored with no words or images at all (although that might be inaccurate). So, people are oddly compelled to rent this movie even though they have no idea what it is. When they watch the movie, they see themselves getting killed while watching the movie and then they get killed in exactly the same way as they just saw, as if the movie was a vision of their immediate future. Anyway, two people figure this out and try to stop it and I think in the end it turns out to be some kind of messed up experiment (though that could very well be inaccurate).
From vicman. I have no ideas; can anyone help him out?
MOVIE 30
I saw this movie in the 80′s: it was about this family (husband, wife and daughter), somehow the end up in an island where they found a man who lives there alone with his son. This boy was educated with the bible and without any human contact but the father. The boy is kind of a “Jesus”, he can perform “miracles” and other things….
From Iberio. He never confirmed but we’re calling it
MOVIE 31 – SOLVED! Nothing But Trouble (1991)
MOVIE 32 SOLVED! Eden Log (2007)
From Morgan. I have no suggestions right now, anyone else?
MOVIE 33
The only time I remember seeing this was on a TV in a video rental store. I had no idea if was a biker film or what, but two scenes stick out. One is where a biker makes love to a woman on his motorcycle while pieces begin to fall apart one by one. The other takes place next to a gas station with old glass gas pumps. Someone either fires a shot at one or causes a pressure build up which sends the pump blasting up from the ground like a rocket. The final areal shot shows the pump whizzing past the camera. Anyone?
Brent needs help with this one, and I have no suggestions. Does the description below ring any bells?
MOVIE 34
It was on the Independent film channel some time ago, I forgot what age I was but it was definitely in the late 90′s like 1996-98. From what I remember it didn’t have much or any dialogue and it took place in two major settings: the first being that of an apartment complex or cheap hotel in which several individuals were staying, and the second setting was that of this dream “dinner party” where each of the individuals (who i assume did not know each other previously to the dream) would appear at this table, the film would have each sequence end with something happening (im not sure all of what happens) and then re-enter this dream dinner from a different characters view point (and i think some of the elements were reoccurring and something would change each time a new characters view would be taken on) I specifically remember in great detail one of the strange happenings that near the end (I think) all the guesst are becoming rather distraught and i think out of nowhere someone sitting next to someone takes a stake knife and stabs it threw their neighbors hand and at that moment several hands bang on the windows in the background and shortly after the final character is woken, then the ending scene is all or most of the individuals exiting their rooms walking to this car ( i think the car is smoking) and in the cars trunk is either a dead body or a deer carcass.
“Zander Seven” is looking for the name of a direct-to-DVD erotic vampire movie/musical from the early 2000s. I’m afraid I don’t have a clue, anyone?
MOVIE 34
…[a] straight to dvd, erotic vampire movie in the vein of Zalman King….. It had a really cool Industrial Metal Techno soundtrack that played during the movie….when the songs would start playing, the artist and song titles would pop up during various scenes in the movie….it was like watching a music video during the movie. I remember watching it in the Fall of 2004….rented it with girlfriend at the time…..very cheesy vampire erotica in the vein of Zalman King, but I recall the Industrial music being decent.
From Sasa Novakovic.
MOVIE 35 – SOLVED! Dark City (1998)
Sterling asks about an erotic thriller involving perfume and possible lesbianism. I don’t have a clue; anybody?
MOVIE 36
The movie is from the 90′s I believe. It’s a psychodrama/erotic thriller/ suspense type. Anyway, it’s about a woman who owns/operates a cosmetic or perfume company. After deliveries of the perfume to women she is then killed (I think with the bottle itself being sharp or something) and I think doused in the fragrance. Cops/detectives think it may be the delivery guy but in the end it appears it was this woman’s assistant or something like that. A woman kind of lesbian’ish air it seemed. She wanted to frame this woman or destroy the company for some reason. Cops tried following the delivery patterns and who was to get it next. I think California based setting.
From “Miradoniz.” Mofo Rising/Rob convincingly suggests this is the adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron produced by Showtime in 1995.
MOVIE 37
I’ve seen this film as a child, I was very impressed by it and I don’t know its name!
It’s about a world where people wore some headbands to inhibit the functions of their brains; they were stupid but happy, intelligence was illegal. A boy, the day before he was supposed to get a lobotomy because he was too intelligent, is taken to a prostitute to experience “pleasure” and she … plays chess with him! The police comes, I’m not sure what happens next. At some point someone takes control over the city’s radio station and plays Beethoven and other not so stupid and forbidden works, talks about art etc. He is “defeated” but then commits suicide at a live TV show! After his death (who is considered very “cool” by a lot of teenagers) children would gather in their rooms and secretly would get their headbands down thus continuing what that man was trying to do for them.
From “Yaki.” the description isn’t an exact match but it has a lot of similarities with MirrorMask.
MOVIE 38
Sorry for my bad Engish.
I watched this film a long time ago. Probalby when I was 4-7 years old. And the movie is completely surreal. I’m not sure does the name of the film have word ”mask” or ”diary” (by the way, it’s not movie where Jim Carry is) or a horror movie. I will describe the parts I remember the most. There is some emo chick in the movie that haves a disease and her mother (I think she is in the weels) and she lives in the skyscaper. She haves some white mask. I think she enters her dreamworld and walks in some weird city. There are some weird toothpick men that are grey faceless with no arms and the girl was on the floor. They were all connected together. They can talk and they pick up the girl and left her somewhere infront of some big weird brown door. She enters the building and she finds some creepy witch woman who gives her some tea. Creepy woman had some animal and the chick tried to pet it but the animal was angry on her and the pet ran away. After that, there was some weird man with a part of rectangle and sirqle (the mask was black and white) and with sirqle eyes and mouth like bracket. (White eye was on the black side and black eye was on the white side). He was wearing a white dress with long sleeves and he had thongs (on the feet).
He leed the chick somewhere. Then the chick visited some crystal room and there was some woman there and she was telling a story about whire queen how she was sleeping or something. She told her that she must find a key. Then some huge sand people (one was man and another was a woman) were holding hands together. The sand giant gave a box witch has a key in it. They were flying. The sand woman couldn’t hold the hand anymore with the sand man and she feel on the floor and she was destroyed. Emo chick was walking next to mirror and she saw herself with someone in her room. They were kissing together. The emo chick was mad and started knock on the mirror. In the end,weird man leeds her to the door where is her mask (witch is probably white.). The chick opens the door and she was about to put mask on her face but her negative side took her mask and she put the mask on her face, then she woke up. She watched from the skyscaper the sunset with someone.
A real toughie from B Donnybrook.
MOVIE 39
I was hoping somebody might know of two very obscure films that I watched at a film festival in Toronto maybe twenty years ago. It was done by a DaDa artist that also was famous for produced interesting collage artwork. There were two black and white short films-the first was nothing more than the image of a stone angel statue with music. The second film was also very experimental, with repeated, cut-up images of a heroine from a silent film that looked to be from the 1920′s…indeed..very obscure….
Ed asks:
MOVIE 40
SOLVED! This was an episode of “Jam” (called “The Gusher”?) This sequence was even mentioned briefly in our review of the series.
Matthew Hardgrove asks about a scene that is almost certainly from Lost Highway. See the very first scene in the trailer below.
MOVIE 41
From what I remember – I only caught one scene – a guy is in a club and there is this very very strange looking guy talking to him. The strange guy tells him he is in his apartment. At some point the guy’s cell phone rings, he picks it up, when he does it is the very strange guy who he is still looking at but isn’t on the phone. He tells him again that he is in his apartment right now. This would mean that this very strange looking guy is looking at him, talking to him on his cell phone, and supposedly in his home all at the same time. The guy also looks very strange and this one scene peaked my interest but I was never able to figure out what movie it is.
Stewart asks about a movie incorporating footage from the old newsreel “Hop-picking in Kent.” I have a strong suspicion this is Hidden City (1987).
MOVIE 42
A journalist finds some distressing footage inserted into some reels of old stock newsreel footage he is examining. There is a sinister air of violence about the inserted footage. People are being restrained/ tortured. The footage abruptly ends with a tantalising clue – a title “Hop Picking In Kent”. The journalist then tries to find a newsreel of that name and the film unfolds as the investigator tracks down the missing reels to piece together the story of the people in the sinister footage inserted into the innocent newsreels. The movie ends in a similar fashion to Raiders of the Lost Ark in a massive warehouse with lorry loads of film reels being dumped in a massive skip. I’m certain it was a Channel Four screening but I might well be wrong.
If you have weird movie memories of your own that you can’t place, mention them in the comments and we’ll see if someone here can help.
Our latest request, listed above as “Movie 26,” comes via email and comes complete with (unfortunately dark & blurry) stills. I have no suggestions so if anyone has a clue, please chime in!
“I was at a friends party and was browsing the web and watched a trailer I watched during the party. I only have 3 screenshots from the trailer now, I have no clue how I found it… Its got this crazy big fat monster with a long neck that walks into a room and then there’s also some crazy guy dropping blood into a clear glass of wild eels, also a girl is freaking out she backs up and falls onto a piano, part of me thought it was from a Dario Argento film, but now I’m quite certain its not, its been months this has been driving me crazy.”
I feel a bit silly solving my own riddle, maybe all I needed was to put the question out there after searching and not knowing for a few months! Nightbreed(1990) !
Not at all, Jared, we’re happy for you and glad you reported back on your success! Nightbreed is a movie I’ve always wanted to check out but haven’t gotten around to yet.
A new mystery movie from Saxerio, posted in another thread: “Someone remember an old movie where the scene was a couple sleeping, and a green trunk appears and starts sucking trough woman pants??? I’ve trying so hard to find it, it’s from the 80′s or 70′s.” Can anyone help?
I have been trying to remember the name of this movie (could even be an episode or segment of a movie) for years and years. I saw it as a kid on MonsterVision and it think it was around 1994 when I saw it, but the film had a late 80′s, early 90′s feel. Some things might be a bit jumbled, but what I can remember is this: VHS video displays strangely appear in movie rental stores and the movie boxes are all black with nothing on them. I think the display itself is just mirrored with no words or images at all (although that might be inaccurate). So, people are oddly compelled to rent this movie even though they have no idea what it is. When they watch the movie, they see themselves getting killed while watching the movie and then they get killed in exactly the same way as they just saw, as if the movie was a vision of their immediate future. Anyway, two people figure this out and try to stop it and I think in the end it turns out to be some kind of messed up experiment (though that could very well be inaccurate). Any help would be appreciated – this has been killing me.
Sounds like the Japanese Ringu or its American remake The Ring, except the timeframe is off. I do seem to remember that there was a killer video tape movie or two before Ringu, but for the life of me I can’t find any titles. Readers?
Edit: Remote Control (1988) has a similar killer-tape plot but doesn’t seem to be a great match otherwise.
Movie 10 might be In the Mouth of Madness. Maybe.
This is a very belated response – the last comment was in January – but, while the suggestions that my weird movie was “The Wild East” make a lot of sense, I’m not absolutely sure that they’re correct. I’ve seen lots of movies at the Edinburgh Film Festival that have never, ever appeared on a cinema screen again (hands up all of you who saw “Caligari’s Cure”). “The Wild East” is a catchy title which I’m sure I would have remembered, but if that’s the film I saw, it may have been showing under a different title, probably directly translated and therefore very clumsy.
The thing is, I don’t remember there being any rational explanation at all for the set-up – there were just these midgets in a quarry, who were set upon by various people, and sought help. The reviews you quote don’t mention the total anachronisms that occur throughout – actual Nazis in full uniform appear at one point, even though the whole thing is supposed to occur in the future – or the insane mystical finale where the bravest midget is given a magic dagger by some sort of disembodied voice.
It is however entirely possible that I saw an early version of a film so ridiculously un-commercial that it was later drastically re-edited, possibly with hastily re-dubbed and re-subtitled dialogue to explain why this nonsense is taking place. I will therefore have to track down a copy of “The Wild East”, which at the moment seems to be unavailable as a region 2 DVD. I suspect that if I ever see this film again, much of the craziness I recall from my first viewing will be missing. Then again. perhaps there really are two movies this daft?
Incidentally, is James perhaps talking about “Videodrome:?
I restored your description since you’re still unsure The Wild East is the movie you were thinking of. Although all the details aren’t in place, it seems to fit too perfectly—how many all dwarf Soviet remakes of The Seven Samurai could there be in this time period?
I saw this movie in the 80′s: it was about this family (husband, wife and daughter), somehow the end up in an island where they found a man who lives there alone with his son. This boy was educated with the bible and without any human contact but the father. The boy is kind of a “Jesus”, he can perform “miracles” and other things….
anyway, this is what I remember. It was a very weird movie!
Afraid I don’t have an idea right now. Can anyone help vicman out?
movie 14 is netherworld,released by full moon
im sure 14 is netherworld,but i think it came out in the 90′s
I just wanted to confirm Movie #5. The scene with dogs eating caviar comes from the disowned Jodorowsky film “The Rainbow Thief”. Christopher Lee plays the confused soon to be dead “baron”.
Thanks guys! It’s nice to see some folks still helping out on some of those unsolved titles. I hope the original questioners will return someday and confirm those identifications, but we’ll see. I’ll leave the descriptions up for a while so they can confirm, and mark them “provisionally solved” if they don’t come back after a while.
looking for this movie for awhile, its been bugging me. dont remember much, but i know some key momments. i think the movie is about some crazy old guy who is hosting a party, while some people who were only looking for help end up being stuck inside this guys house. the old guy looks dresses like huegh hefner,and is really ugly. there is this one scene thats stuck in my mind, when the old man goes in his dresseing room in private, someone is spying on him and see’s him taking off parts of his face. it was really weird, he takes of his nose, ears off and eventually ends up just showing his skeleton. i know its not much to go on but if someone can help me or give a glue that would be much appreciated
Iberio, read the answer and check out the trailer I posted at the bottom of the main post.
I am trying to find a movie, and can’t get a hint anywhere. The fil was very weird and I would like to whatch it again to get a better feeling on what was going on. So the plot goes like this , a man is traped somewhere underground as I understood it , that was hell, and trough the whole movie he is trying to escape and reach the surface, he meets a woman along the way who was somkind of biologist or somthing like that she weared som kind of a protection suit. The main characther had vision and moments when he would go insane in one of those moment he raped that woman , and during the scene i rember the picture flashing and revealing him as some kind of a monster , a demon, at the end of the movie he reaches the surfeces and sees a big tree , and kills him self in front of it. I think the movie was black and white but I am not sure, as for the plot the same , I am not sure did I mixed some things up , but this is what i recall. I hope you can help mw with this one , kind regards , luke
Hopefully we can solve this one right away: please check this Eden Log review and get back to us.
This is “Eden Log.” I don’t remember the rape/demon stuff, but the rest of is very clearly “Eden Log.” Decent enough, as I recall, but not amazing.
My first thought was Eden Log too. A second vote from a dependable source means I’m going to call this one solved, unless luke says different.
Let’s see if I can get an answer for this one. The only time I remember seeing this was on a TV in a video rental store. I had no idea if was a biker film or what, but tow scenes stick out. One is where a biker makes love to a woman on his motorcylce while pieces begin to fall apart one by one. The other takes place next to a gas station with old glass gas pumps. Someone either fires a shot at one or causes a pressure build up which sends the pump blasting up from the ground like a rocket. The final areal shot shows the pump whizzing past the camera. Anyone?
I’m afraid I’ve got nothing for you right now… anyone else?
I have a mystery movie, it was on the Independent film channel some time ago, I forgot what age I was but it was definitely in the late 90′s like 1996-98. From what I remember it didn’t have much or any dialogue. and it took place in two major settings the first being that of an apartment complex or cheap hotel in which several individuals were staying, and the second setting was that of this dream “dinner party” where each of the individuals (who i assume did not know each other previously to the dream) would appear at this table, the film would have each sequence end with something happening (im not sure all of what happens) and then re-enter this dream dinner from a different characters view point (and i think some of the elements were reoccurring and something would change each time a new characters view would be taken on) I specifically remember in great detail one of the strange happenings that near the end (I think) all the guesst are becoming rather distraught and i think out of nowhere someone sitting next to someone takes a stake knife and stabs it threw their neighbors hand and at that moment several hands bang on the windows in the background and shortly after the final character is woken, then the ending scene is all or most of the individuals exiting their rooms walking to this car ( i think the car is smoking) and in the cars trunk is either a dead body or a dears carcass
Sorry Brent, I don’t have any suggestions for you. Hopefully someone else will stop by with the answer.
Haven’t seen it, but this could be “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie” by noted weirdo Luis Bunuel.
Do any of you folks know of a film (French, I believe, probably from the 70s) in which people are at a party … the farcical plot reversal is, it virtually all takes place in a very open, very public bathroom, where folks are relaxing on toilets. Whenever anyone gets hungry they kind of shyly ask to be excused, and then retire to very private bathroom-like stalls, where they quickly eat some food, almost shamefully. Then come back to the party and carry on, sitting on toilets, etc…
Please don’t tell me I’m insane. I know I saw this film (I was living in Rome at the time –maybe it was Italian?)– it was very funny.
That one is easy enough, Eric—you’re describing a segment from Luis Bunuel’s The Phantom of Liberty (1974).
Can anyone solve this one…. Does anyone know the title to this straight to dvd, erotic vampire movie in the vein of Zalman King….. It had a really cool Industrial Metal Techno soundtrack that played during the movie….when the songs would start playing, the artist and song titles would pop up during various scenes in the movie….it was like watching a music video during the movie. I remember watching it in the Fall of 2004….rented it with girlfriend at the time…..very cheesy vampire erotica in the vein of Zalman King, but I recall the Industrial music being decent.
Anybody know the title to this DVD?
well my english is bad but I`l try to desribe it…I watch it few years ago somewhere from the midle of the movie I cant remember names of the actors but I think there is Sir John Gielgud he is somekind chhef of aliens on earth and they change everithing every night city , people memories just everithing I can remember that main charakter in the movie is searching the way to the some beach but he can find it…movie is all in dark colors etc etc…thanks
Sounds to me like you may be thinking of Dark City, even though Sir John Gielgud isn’t in it. The rest of the description fits. Good movie we will eventually review.
yes that was it thaks so much, well I thought there is charakter like Sir John Gilgeud…thanks
The movie is from the 90′s I believe. It’s a psychodrama/erotic thriller/ suspense type. Anyway, it’s about a woman who owns/operates a cosmetic or perfume company. After deliveries of the perfume to women she is then killed (I think with the bottle itself being sharp or something) and I think doused in the fragrance. Cops/detectives think it may be the delivery guy but in the end it appears it was this woman’s assistant or something like that. A woman kind of lesbian’ish air it seemed. She wanted to frame this woman or destroy the company for some reason. Cops tried following the delivery patterns and who was to get it next. I think California based setting.
I don’t have a clue; anybody else?
I’ve seen this film as a child, I was very impressed by it and I don’t know its name!
It’s about a world where people wore some headbands to inhibit the functions of their brains;they were stupid but happy, intelligence was illegal.A boy, the day before he was supposed to get a lobotomy because he was too intelligent, is taken to a prostitute to experience “pleasure” and she … plays chess with him! The police comes, I’m not sure what happens next. At some point someone takes control over the city’s radio station and plays Beethoven and other not so stupid and forbidden works, talks about art etc. He is “defeated” but then commits suicide at a live TV show! After his death (who is considered very “cool” by a lot of teenagers) children would gather in their rooms and secretly would get their headbands down thus continuing what that man was trying to do for them.
Does anybody know the name of this ??? Thanks!!!
Sorry Miradoniz, I don’t have a suggestion at this time. Anyone?
I’m almost positive this is “Harrison Bergeron.” It’s a film based on a Vonnegut short story starring Sean Astin. I’ve seen the movie but don’t remember much about it.
However, all the write-ups of the movie hit most of the major points the original poster mentioned. Take away line, “You haven’t made people equal! You’ve made them the same! There’s a big difference.”
Sorry for my bad Engish.
I watched this film a long time ago. Probalby when I was 4-7 years old. And the movie is completely surreal. I’m not sure does the name of the film have word ”mask” or ”diary”(By the way, it’s not movie where Jim Carry is) or a horror movie. I will describe the parts I remember the most. There is some emo chick in the movie that haves a disease and her mother(I think she is in the weels) and she lives in the skyscaper. She haves some white mask. I think she enters her dreamworld and walks in some weird city. There are some weird toothpick men that are grey faceless with no arms and the girl was on the floor. They were all connected together. They can talk and they pick up the girl and left her somewhere infront of some big weird brown door. She enters the building and she finds some creepy witch woman who gives her some tea. Creepy woman had some animal and the chick tried to pet it but the animal was angry on her and the pet ran away.After that, there was some weird man with a part of rectangle and sirqle(the mask was black and white) and with sirqle eyes and mouth like bracket.(white eye was on the black side and black eye was on the white side) He was wearing a white dress with long sleeves and he had thongs(on the feet).
He leed the chick somewhere. Then the chick visited some crystal room and there was some woman there and she was telling a story about whire queen how she was sleeping or something. She told her that she must find a key. Then some huge sand people(one was man and another was a woman) were holding hands together. The sand giant gave a box witch has a key in it. They were flying. The sand woman couldn’t hold the hand anymore with the sand man and she feel on the floor and she was destroyed. Emo chick was walking next to mirror and she saw herself with someone in her room. They were kissing together. The emo chick was mad and started knock on the mirror. In the end,weird man leeds her to the door where is her mask(witch is probably white.). The chick opens the door and she was about to put mask on her face but her negative side took her mask and she put the mask on her face, then she woke up. She watched from the skyscaper the sunset with someone.
I really want to know what’s films name so I can watch it again because after years I found out how much that movie attracts me. Please respond ASAP.
The scenes don’t go all in row. I just told what I know.
Peace.
It’s not an exact match with your description, Yaki, but a lot of that sounds like MirrorMask (the mask, the key, the emo chick…) Check out the trailer and see if it looks familiar.
I was hoping somebody might know of two very obscure films that I watched at a film festival in Toronto maybe twenty years ago. It was done by a DaDa artist that also was famous for produced interesting collage artwork. There were two black and white short films-the first was nothing more than the image of a stone angel statue with music. The second film was also very experimental, with repeated, cut-up images of a heroine from a silent film that looked to be from the 1920′s…indeed..very obscure….doubt that anybody knows what I’m talking about, but thought I’d try…I’m all googled out…..thanks…
Hi B, that’s going to be tough. One thing you didn’t make clear was whether you saw screenings of older movies, or of then-current movies (from the 1990s?) done in an archaic style. If it’s the former then you could might seen something from Man Ray, who was one of the few artists associated with the original Dada movement who actually made films (well, films people saw, at least). Other than that, I personally have no suggestions.
Thanks for the response G. These films looked as if they were created in the 1950-1960 period. I researched really all the major DaDa and Surrealist movements artists, including Mann Ray, Dali, Bunuel, etc, and still no answers. All I know is that the film maker was also a painter and collage artist. These series of films were the most visually beautiful, austere things I have ever watched. They were completely minimalist with a strange ethereal quality. I recall the one film was a cut-up black and white1920 film with a heroine in jungle escape scene, along with some trapeze and other circus people. Anyway, even if I were able to discover the names of the films it is highly unlikely they ever made it to DVD. Great site, BTW….
There’s a mockumentary (or at least i can only assume/hope it was mock) that I’m FAIRLY sure i watched a number of years ago, although it was really late at night, and to this day I have no idea if it was a dream or not. I would have been watching it on UK television, probably BBC1, 2 ITV, Channel 4 or possibly Channel 5 – doubt it would have been digital TV.
The premise of the mockumentary was based around this medical condition that a number of porn stars had been having where they couldn’t stop continuously ejaculating. They go on to say that to begin with they were using them to make some crazy porn, but eventually the semen starting going black and the guy’s body started wasting away.
No idea where it went on from there, but it seemed like such a crazy idea that i’ve been trying to find out what it was/if it exists ever since!
Any ideas?
Sorry Ed, I have no suggestions for you. Hopefully this description will ring a bell for someone.
The mockumentary that you are referring to is actually an excerpt from the black comedy show, JAM. I believe that this particular scene is called “The Gusher.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItYU6u84lJ0&feature=related
Skip to 11:00 This is where the segment in question starts.
You are the man (or woman) SaviorMachine! That’s exactly what Ed was describing. We’re calling this one “solved”.
I really wish I remembered more of what I saw in this very weird movie. From what I remember – I only caught one scene – a guy is in a club and there is this very very strange looking guy talking to him. The strange guy tells him he is in his apartment. At some point the guy’s cell phone rings, he picks it up, when he does it is the very strange guy who he is still looking at but isn’t on the phone. He tells him again that he is in his apartment right now. This would mean that this very strange looking guy is looking at him, talking to him on his cell phone, and supposedly in his home all at the same time. The guy also looks very strange and this one scene peaked my interest but I was never able to figure out what movie it is. This is very little to go by and I will be impressed if someone gets it.
I agree Matthew, that will be a hard one. But you never know if someone saw the same thing and remembered it.
its lost highway,the weird guy is robert blake
Oops, how embarrassing for me! Give kumanthong80 a cookie. That has to be what Matthew was thinking of! See the trailer I embedded in the main post.
that is embarrassing,just kidding-very easy for a afficianado
Help me with this movie please! Seen on British TV in the late 90′s – early noughties. A journalist finds some distressing footage inserted into some reels of old stock newsreel footage he is examining. There is a sinister air of violence about the inserted footage. People are being restrained/ tortured. The footage abruptly ends with a tantalising clue – a title “Hop Picking In Kent”. The journalist then tries to find a newsreel of that name and the film unfolds as the investigator tracks down the missing reels to piece together the story of the people in the sinister footage inserted into the innocent newsreels.
The movie ends in a similar fashion to Raiders of the Lost Ark in a massive warehouse with lorry loads of film reels being dumped in a massive skip.
I’m certain it was a Channel Four screening but I might well be wrong. I’ve never seen the film since and no-one I’ve asked has seen it. Title please!
Stewart: “Hop-picking in Kent” was a real newsreel. You can see it on YouTube. If you read the full comments you’ll see someone discussing the fact that the movie Hidden City (1987) used footage from this film. Read the description of Hidden City on IMDB and I’ll wager you’ve found your mystery movie!
in regards of film 11 i know of an all midget cowboy flick called tiny town = http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030845/
not seen it myself though.
Thanks for trying Jim, but I have seen Tiny Town and I’m sure that’s not what Orloff was thinking of. No Samurais or Nazis in Tiny Town. I still think he’s remembering The Wild East, there are just too many similarities.
BLUE CAP WITH HAND IN WHITE GLOVE ON THE TOP: Something like willy wonkas, there is a little boy that wins some privilege to enter a “subterranean dysneyland world” he receives from the ruler of this strange new world a blue baseball cap with a white hand – glove attached to the top, there are thousands of kids like him, everyone wearing that blue cap – white hand on their heads and they are like slaves for an evil purpose, so this child starts a revolution against the evil but fantastic subterranean land, at some point he gets caught by the enemies and falls down through a slide to a bizarre jail and there is a monster and a big music machine that makes strange weird music. Other scene i remember is the thousands of kids playing one gigantic – endless piano keyboard, all at the same time, everyone whit those blue – white glove caps on their heads.
No problem – that is The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953). Check out the trailer.
Thank you very much G. Smalley!, i’ve been waiting this for years, thanks!