What Was That Weird Movie?

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.

In March 2012, we cleared out the “solved” movies to save space on the page (explaining the gaps in the numbering).

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:

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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!

The latest mystery movie.  Not much to go on.

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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:

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…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…

This is going to be a hard one because Mike M. only remembers one scene, and there’s nothing outrageous about it.

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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.

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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 Casey. Sunbear suggests Casey might be thinking of Eyes Wide Shut, but I’m not sure that’s a good fit overall.

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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.

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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.

From Len. L. Rob 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.

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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 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.

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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).

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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 “Tony” via email:

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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…..

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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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 Morgan.  I have no suggestions right now, anyone else?

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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? Because of the “dinner party” scenariotoastedavalanche suggests The Exterminating Angel, but I’m not sure it’s a great match with the rest of the details Brent provided.

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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 guests 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?

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…[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.

Sterling asks about an erotic thriller involving perfume and possible lesbianism.  I don’t have a clue; anybody?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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….

Gary is looking for the names of three short films he thinks he saw on the A&E Network.  These should be challenging; hopefully someone else caught them and can help him.

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I am looking for three very surreal short films that really made a heavy footprint on my mind. As I recall, I saw them on A&E several decades ago.

The first featured a writer living below someone who constantly threw buckets of water out the window above. He had a deadline but couldn’t write because of the distraction. Finally he got past his writer’s block and could write, till she died and the water stopped. Then, he couldn’t write. He ended up paying someone to be upstairs throwing water out the window.

The second featured a family and culture where everyone was very hostile and carried guns. The whole family threatened to shoot each other constantly. Finally, I think the teen son killed both mom and dad.

The third featured a young man walking along a dirt road beside an open meadow. He stepped in a hole and was stuck. Every time it looked like he would be saved, something bad happens. Something chews on his leg as he sinks further into this small hole, ending (dead) with one foot sticking up. A bum comes along and takes the tape out of the man’s Walkman and puts his own in. He then measures the shoe on the remaining foot and takes it off for himself. The foot vanished down the hole. More details available.

We did so well with his first mystery movie that Stewart has another challenge for us. I have no clue; anybody?

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I was a sucker for all that Erik Von Daniken “ancient aliens seeding Earth” stuff when I was 9 or ten years old. One night (probably 1973-1975-ish) the BBC screened a film/ trailer/ pilot where an American West Coast journalist character seeks out ancient sites and followed clues which eventually lead him to a cave out in the desert somewhere. I think it ended with him finding silver discs with strange carvings on them.

I keenly watched out for the follow up series as my years drifted into my teens. The series never materialised on this side of the pond as far as I know and I havent a clue what the film/ pilot/ series was called.

I almost forgot to update this one, asked by Tess. All I can think of is that the song “I’m a Little Teapot” was used in two Stephen King adaptations—Rose Red and Storm of the Century—but I don’t think either of them match the rest of your memories. Can anyone help Tess?

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I last saw it when I was just a child. I remember the world was split or divided into a world of darkness and a world of light. The darkness world had landmines in the sky and it was always stormy and they looked like vikings. The day side of the world looked normal and the people still rode around in horse pulled carts. I remember the wife being killed to the song “I’m a little teapot” by one of the darkside people who invaded over the border of the two worlds.

I can’t help him, but maybe you can. John wants to know:

MOVIE 47

I’m trying to find a movie I saw in a movie theatre in Berkeley, CA around 1994-1996. It was animated, I don’t think it was a short (maybe an hour long?), maybe European, perhaps mostly silent, artsy/surreal. The main thing I remember is that there were insects that would crawl out from the furniture or something, then disappear again. The insects didn’t have obvious to do with the plot, just a weird, gratuitous, almost subliminal detail.

Parasvati asks about:

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I can’t find the title of a Japanese horror movie that affected me intensely, which I couldn’t even watch the entirety of– it scared me too much. And now of course, I’m obsessed with it. It has a person walking around in a building of some sort, they look up and see something in the wooden rafters– the camera zooms in very fast to freeze on a horrible-looking ghost up in the rafters. I’m sorry, that’s all I can remember.

Huzefa needs help with an arm-wrestling for women movie:

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I don’t remember anything except one scene, where three guys and two females are in a remote place (jungle maybe) and its night so one guy takes one women ‘behind the bushes’ now two guys and one gal is left and as one of them tries to take the gal with her the other invites him for an arm wrestling match indicating the winner takes the woman for the night.. as the match commences the earlier man and women from behind the bushes come back to see the match.. finally there is no result but the two players of the match take the two woman and the guy who earlier got the women stays back wondering… !!

Despite the fact that we couldn’t help him the first time Gary is back with another mystery movie, this one with Bruce Dern. We’ve had two independent suggestions for Family Plot (1976).  Gary says he doesn’t believe that’s the movie he’s thinking of but admits that he might have crossed two plots.

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This featured Bruce Dern. It seems as if he played a psychic or clairvoyant who was working with the police to solve a murder that he, himself may have committed. I remember him on a child’s swing set. I also remember a dead woman upside down in the passenger side of the floor of a Volkswagen Beetle. As I recall, the movie was “folded in half” in that it started at both the beginning and the end, and kept jumping back and forth till it ended in the middle, then everything made sense.

From kostas.

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SOLVED! 4 Rooms (1995)

And also from kostas. He says it’s not Novo (2002).

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Someone has the same day again and again (AND NO ITS NOT Groundhog Day!) The film ends on a park and was a kind of soft…porno!

A mystery from blue. It’s a short from the 1960s or earlier and I think it’s going to pose quite a challenge.

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Hi, I’ve wondered for years what the heck it was that I saw-any suggestions appreciated!
It was back in the mid to late 1960′s, when I was between 7 & 10 years old. I think it may have been part of a short film festival that was a special event at the Pacific National Exhibition (a local summer fair) that my Grandmother always took me to. I’m sure it wasn’t a full length movie. It was a dark, grim story which I believe may have been about a little girl wearing old-fashioned clothes and a doll. I think it was in black and white and possibly silent as well. (?) The scene I remember the most is the doll being lost or abandoned at the bottom of a cliff at the edge of the sea. I think it may have been thrown over the cliff by the girl, landing on the beach. I seem to have a memory of it falling through the air as well as it being on the beach. The scene was filmed looking down from the top of the cliff where there was an ornate iron railing right along the edge. I know it isn’t a lot to go on, but the image of the dark sheer cliffs and the small white doll on the black beach has stayed with me for most of my life. It would be great to solve the mystery…

Another mystery from Gary. Shoot… I thought I had this one for a moment but then I realized the date is way off. Ping! stars “Incredible Hulk” Lou Ferrigno as a dogcatcher—but it wasn’t made until 2000. Can anyone think of a similar movie from the 70s era?

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This was probably in the 70′s, too. It’s about a boy and his dog. The dog gets picked up by a cruel and very muscle-bound dog catcher. The kid spends the movie trying to get his dog back (which he does and the bad guy gets his in the end). I don’t remember much else but that the dog catcher was huge like a body builder. I showed this as an ARMY projectionist decades ago. Anyone remember this movie?

From “Alex.”

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I’m looking for a 60s or 70s underground dark bohemian movie….I remember the cover (that I saw on Allmovie looking for another movie) had 2 characters, one man and one woman, dressed up like for a funeral or something (black and white I believe). The title was short….like maybe 2 or 3 words and if my memory is right, the title had the word “crow” or “raven” or the name of a bird in it (not 100% sure though). But for the rest, I’m sure.

Kayra needs help finding a silent film with a bald winged man. It could be The Bat (1926) or The Bat Whispers (1930) but I don’t remember any tinting in those.

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I remember seeing a film, an early silent chaplin-esque one, with a bald winged man/creature in it. the chaplinish guy was trying to run away from it, then the mist on floor would become red and we’d see him losing his arm. later, his whole lower body. does anyone remember something like that?

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.