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What Was That Weird Movie?

UPDATE 10/12/2012: The What Was That Weird Movie? forum is now open.

Explanation: This page has become very popular, which is gratifying. Unfortunately, it has also become a pain to maintain, which is not. As a solution I have adopted a forum, a feature which I had toyed around with adding anyway for other reasons.

I think that the forum system will prove easier to use: your mystery movie will now have its own post to which people can respond if they have a solution. I think this will be much better organized and easier to follow.

I will keep this page up for the time being while we work out the kinks, but I encourage you to try out the forum instead.

Now back to our regular movie guessing exercise.

 

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. Here is the page feed: it may be a good idea to grab it if you ask a question so you can check for updates.

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.

Some idea of when the movie might have been made is helpful. If you saw it in 2005 then say so so we won’t suggest movies made later. Remember, something like “I saw it when I was six” isn’t that helpful because we don’t know if you’re 16 now or 60!

In August 2012, we cleared out the “solved” movies to save space on the page (thus explaining the gaps in the numbering) and also took away the first 50 unsolved movies (thinking that if no one’s found your movie by this point, it’s not going to happen, and you’re probably not checking anymore). If we removed your unsolved movie please feel free to ask it again (and I’ve archived the unsolved movies on my personal hard drive).

From kostas. He says it’s not Novo (2002). Natasha suggests there is a movie with a similar premise called 00:01 (or 12:01), but if this is it the porno part seems unlikely.

MOVIE 51

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.

MOVIE 52

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? Addendum: Movie 109 below may be the same film.

MOVIE 53

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?

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. ppok suggests “Harpya, ” which is a good guess—it’s not an early silent movie but it’s done in a similar style.

MOVIE 55

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?

“Pamela” has a toughie but she does have a link to help out:

MOVIE 56

Can anyone provide info on the film used in this music video for the band This Heat (“Not Waving”): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ5LgJPNMzY
A title card appears near the beginning that says “The Island of the Dead,” but I can’t find anything about this film online. It’s quite surreal and is made to look like it was made in the silent film era, but I suspect it was made more recently, perhaps as an experimental or student film.

Another toughie from Lyss D. A. Coleman suggests that this ” sounds like an adaption of Ray Bradbury’s short story ‘There Will Come Soft Rains,’ maybe from the television show ‘The Ray Bradbury Theater’?” The only problem with the RBT suggestion is Lyss thinks it wasn’t in English, but the source material could be correct. There was a Soviet adaptation of “There Will Come Soft Rains” in 1984, but it was animated, and Lyss didn’t mention animation; it’s still a possibility. Matt also believes it’s the Soviet “There Will Come Soft Rains” and provides a link to a clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LNHYz89sNc.

MOVIE 57

I saw this short film, maybe about a year ago. I have no idea how old it is, when it came out, or what language it was in, but it definitely wasn’t English. I really have no idea. It was very dark. It’s a science fiction. It takes place in a future, dystopian scenario. These machines are basically running peoples lives for them. They wake them up, they wash them, they dress them, they feed them, they do everything possible for them. Except, the people are dead, and they must’ve been for a long time, because all the beds and chairs are filled with ash, ash shaped like people. They were all long dead, but the machines keep running. It was so disturbing, I loved it so much, but I can’t find it for the life of me!

Gee says Teresa’s movie is the British miniseries Gormenghast.

MOVIE 58

I am looking for a movie that aired on tv, it is English and really colorful. It might be fantasy and I remember that the title is the same as the main character. I just remember this scene where there were two old women who the main character somehow killed and they were up in a tower sitting in chairs already dead for days. I think he was trying to kill the entire royal family or something.

From Matt A. My long shot suggestion is Pit and the Pendulum (1991). A better suggestion is “Sword and the Sorcerer (1982, stars L. Horsely, S. MacCorkindale, R. Lynch, R. Moll).  Yes, the new recruits get caught sneaking in; yes they’re in prison–helplessly watching Eliz. have tongue torn out (she kills herself rather than provide leverage).  One of my fave “sword and sorcerer” flicks___Shannon”

MOVIE 59

I have a movie I saw on tv in the late 80′s/ early 90′s. I’ve been trying to find for years. It was a Fantasy-esque film (swords and all that). The once scene I remeber is this band is goinh to try and snek into the villans stronghold. The next scene we cut to is a jail cell where we see many of them imprisoned. Someone drags in a woman and a man from the band who have both had their tounges cut out for not telling who sent them. The executioner type tells the guy in the cell that if he doesn’t tell him who sent them he’s going to flay the woman alive. The prisoner says nothing and the camera focuses on his face as the executioner kilsl the woman. The man who had his tounge cut out tries to fight back but gets killed by the executioner type. This is the only part of the movie I can remember…

From lilbrowncat. Can someone help with a B&W 1960s American movie about a disease that wipes out the population? A. Coleman suggests The Last Man on Earth.

MOVIE 60

60′s American black and white film about a disease in the wind that wipes out large chunk of the population. Vague memory of our hero witnessing his wife wake up as a zombie…..please help!

Kirshark is looking for a pre-1984 experimental movie:

MOVIE 62

I’ve been trying to figure out a movie I saw as a young child for years and years. Rented it in Manhattan in the early 80′s (’82? ’83?) but don’t know the release date. However, the soundtrack as I remember it was pretty experimental (Liquid Liquid reminds me of it) so I think fairly contemporary to its VHS release. The film consisted entirely of a white background and variety of multicolored, fantastic creatures flying by, occasionally with little visual jokes (for example, one holding a banner that says “Hi, Mom”). Sometimes there were mutterings or other vocal cues but they were muffled and indistinct background noise. I recall it being fairly long (not a short film).

PlayV is looking for the title of a demon-possession movie set on an island. Matt A. is “almost 100% certain” he’s thinking of Stephen King’s Storm of the Century.

MOVIE 63

I saw this movie when i was a kid and i can’t remember it’s name: it was about an island, i think the action took place in summer and all of a sudden a heavy winter came, there was a murder, an old lady was killed in her house, covered in blood, the police had no clue and i think there was something written with blood on the wall or i’m just confused, anyway the bad guy was an old man possessed by 7 demons, the ones that jesus sent into 7 pigs from a possessed man, and they were back and wanted to make all of the people on the isle suicide by jumping into the water one by one, also when the man was laughing he was showing demonic fangs. The people were hiding in the church so he couldn’t do anything to them, but when all the kids were asleep he entered into their dreams and was holding their hands and was flying with them. He wanted one of the kids to come with him and if the people wouldn’t decide which one he would release the hands of the kids and that would kill them so they decided which kid to go by drawing lots and it was the child of the main character. In the end the man was gone and everything was fine on the isle. The main character was walking in a city outside the isle and saw the man with his child and the child laughed and showed the same demonic fangs as the old man and the movie was over.

May searches for a movie about a man who kills (?)  lover by hitting her with a hammer in her sleep.

MOVIE 64

I watched a movie years ago and it was about a woman with two daughters. Her daughters are grown up in their 20s. The mother meets a man and him and her seem very happy and she loves him. And eventually he kills her in her sleep or just injures her by hitting her in the head with a hammer. The actor, i think, had long-ish brown hair. Thats all I know.

Natasha has extensive memories of a sketch/anthology film full of ironic stories, but no name to go with the memories. Can someone help her?

MOVIE 65

I’m looking for a movie that I’m pretty sure was set in the 90′s. It’s made of various sketches, all of them starting with the name “Lost in….” something. In one of them, a midget falls in love with a woman, but she’s in love with a guy who’s not a midget. The midget then cuts off his rival’s legs, and shows up in the woman’s doorstep on top of his legs, so he’s of average height now. She’s moved by this, and the sketch ends with her pulling up her skirt and showing him she wears prosthetic legs below the knees. I’m pretty sure there’s no dialogue in this sketch.

The other sketches I remember are:

Two guys meet in a hotel lobby, they make a bet, and the prize’s a Ferrari. One of the guy wins, but the other leaves him with a toy car. There was also one where some people are waiting outside a theater to see an artist that’s a Master of Disguises, and only later they realize that the artist was there all along, disguised among them (no dialogue on this one too).

In the last one, a guy wakes up after a night of heavy drinking, and finds out his wife left him. He gets pissed off and calls her, and it takes a while for him to realize that she didn’t leave her, he slept in the neighbour’s instead.

Marie is looking for what she’s pretty sure was a French a movie about a girl with no friends. matchstickman suggests In Your Image: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307343/

MOVIE 66

So, it might be a french movie (certain 95% it was) and it was about a family with one young girl. The girl didn’t have friends at school or something like that and I remember her mother trying to invite some girls from school to come to her birthday party. Then I remember at her birthday party that the girl at some point started screaming. Not much after that comes back except that her mother (and I think her father too) were confined in some kind of asylum, they must have gone mad or something. Maybe her mother killed herself in the end. Also, the mother was blond.
That’s what I remember, I must have seen it more that 5 years ago.

Stephanie is looking for a full-length “The Little Match Girl” adaptation that starts with a Gypsy caravan.

MOVIE 67

My nanna had it on video/dvd (I dont remember) in about 2002/2004. It started with the girl and her grandmother in a gypsy caravan, then her grandmother, whilst in the caravan, rolled into a frozen over river and died. then the girl went on the have her story in the city selling match sticks. For the life of me, I cant find it! And no one can remember what it was called/who it was by/etc!

Krissyleec wants the title of a movie about a witch in a tree stump. Matt is sure this is from the miniseries “Tin Man” and advises to go to “http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Man_%28TV_miniseries%29. Ctrl + F on the link I gave you……Then put in the word hand, read that sentence and voila, I’m amazing.” (P.S.–he is amazing).

MOVIE 68

There were two sisters playing in the forest. They went inside the trunk of a tree and there was a witch in there. The sisters held hands and they glowed. The witch couldn’t hurt them. Then the sister ran away and the other sister was taken over by the witch.

iamaries03 seeks the name of a movie about a perfume that grants a girl psychic powers.

MOVIE 69

I’m looking for a movie about a girl who found some magic perfume or something of the sort, and she sprayed it on herself and when she did, she was able to feel other peoples emotions or what they were feeling when she thought about the person. There was a scene where she was thinking about her boyfriend, and he was cheating on her and having sex, and she felt all of the sexual tension and emotions of the boy while he was having sex with someone else.

casjacobs simly remembers a film featuring cutout animation:

MOVIE 70

I recall seeing this on television when I was very young sometime during Christmastime, but I don’t seem to remember anything Christmassy about it. It was in an animation style very similar to Terry Gilliam’s Python work, but the cutouts were hand-drawn, not lifted. One scene involved two bumbling people climbing up a slope inside a cave. At the top of the slope, there was the face of an old man in stone. The two characters fell down the hill. Another scene involved two old people talking inside a sort of flying saucer type vehicle. It could teleport, I believe. Wow, writing this down, it sounds really crazy. I hope these bits might jog someone’s memory!

James is looking for an anime featuring multicolored eyes. Matt suggests Kaze no Stigma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rURt0l_QCz8

MOVIE 71

I’m looking for an anime movie. At the beginning there a girl/boy priestess with multi colored eyes. I think the eyes are red and blue, and her village is attacked by somebody, they drop down in crates and burn the village to the ground, in 1 scene there is a ring of fire and the boy/girl uses some kind of wind power to escape. There is a desert scene when he/she hides with a guy trying to protect her but then tanks roll up from the desert and manage to capture them or something. After being captured their taken onto a ship where a rather muscly guy harvests their eye power into crystals and after that he stabs himself in the eye with the crystals to gain his/her power.

Whatwasthatfilm is looking for a movie from the 1990s or earlier with a naked man being served at a feast. mslang suggests The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and though it didn’t occur to me at first I think he may be onto something. judas beast suggests Rocky Horror Picture Show but I think Cook…Lover is more likely (it’s dark and foreign).

MOVIE 72

All I remember is that I set a VHS to record it one late night about 15ish years ago. 2 scenes I remember are a big table and a big feast being served and on the table was a big naked guy. Another scene took place in a big bathroom. Can’t remember any dialogue, and feel like it was a bit Lynch, weird-ish, quite dark, sinister, possibly foreign.

Shannon is looking for an anthology film with a segment where a boy trades in his parents. judas beast says it’s “Children’s Zoo” from the 1980s incarnation of “The Twilight Zone”–I think he nailed it!

MOVIE 73

Does anyone remember a short movie that was on Twilght Zone or Amazing Stories movie? It has a 8-10 yr old boy sitting at breakfast and his parents are fighting. The boy reminds his parents that they would both take him to the zoo or something. When they get there, mom and dad are sent to a waiting area. The boy goes in and looks down a hall filled with displays of parents in different backgrounds. He looks and finds one couple who looks normal and nice and chooses them. On the way out he sees his real parents in a new display begging him to take them back. The boy just walks out with his new parents. It has more short stories or movies after that. Like the Twlight Zone The Movie.

Melissa seeks the name of a murder mystery movie from the 80s or 90 where a pair of guilty women escape punishment. Rob M. suggests “Mortal Thoughts (1991), directed by Alan Rudolph, starring Bruce Willis and Demi Moore.”

MOVIE 74

…it goes somehting like this…a woman’s husband was killed/murdered and her and her best friend are telling the cops the story, proving their innocence. They get let go and then it talks about how it really happened and they actually killed him. It was an older movie…80′s maybe 90′s?

Dana Xu is looking for a silent movie featuring a socialite in a car crash.

MOVIE 75

Silent movie from the 20s/30s where a young socialite kills herself in a car by hitting a tree at the end. Saw it on HBO in the 90s and its been haunting me since…

anika remembers a movie with a wolf boy and a tree with red or orange flowers.

MOVIE 76

Saw it on tv in the late 90s. I think it was a fantasy movie.the only scene I remember is there was a boy a wolf/dog and a magical tree. The tree had some huge orange or red colored flowers. Sorry but this is the only part I can remember.

Kyle is looking for a movie where a video game controller thingee attached itself to a person’s hand. It’s not Videodrome. Dr. Orloff  and MikeV both vote for eXistenZ.

MOVIE 77

I have been looking for this movie about this guy who gets this video game controller or something but it looks like it is made out of flesh and it like attaches to him or something and he goes into this wierd place. I might be off on some parts but it was a long time ago. But the living thing ends up dieing or something and i think it was a guy and girl running away with this thing from some people or something along those lines.

Anthony has a memory involving a boy submerged in a capsule, possibly a sci-fi/horror from around 1990 aimed at kids, and it could be from a TV show as well.

MOVIE 78

A boy is in a capsule that looks like a water heater. I believe it is outside a house. I don’t remember if he was forced in or got in himself. There is a window on top and you can see they boy in the water and his mother is screaming his name trying to get him out. I remember it as a scary movie or tv show and it may have had sci fi elements. I feel like the boy wanted to go in there like it would heal him or clone him but these are distant memories. I just vividly remember his mother screaming at the little window and you could see his face under water and it freaked me out!

Timeframe: I’m guessing this was around 1990. At first I thought it might have been on the Disney Channel because I was also looking for another movie that I had remembered scenes from and found out it was “The Watcher in the Woods” but I have looked and can’t find this in anything related to Disney.

Maxwell is looking for a “fog horror.” Steve says “Movie 79 is The Monster Club. It’s an anthology horror with one story as described. I vividly remember the bit where they’re reading from a book describing them finding a creature by a grave ‘gnawing’ on bones.”

MOVIE 79

British movie probably from the 60′s or 70′s where a young couple is driving around and I believe they get a flat or breakdown. There’s this whole quaint English village full of fog. The fog surrounds the place and has turned the villagers into cannibals or murderers. The couple tries to hide in a church at one point and I believe the priest was also a murderer/cannibal. Eventually they get police in on the case who start helping them out but turn out to be murderers/ cannibals too. It’s possible that they tried driving away but couldn’t leave the foggy village.

Jack Plumm is looking for a B&W Gothic animation with a spider.

MOVIE 80

A black and white (and possibly silent) film I saw in the late 90′s. It had title cards like a silent film and I swear it was an adaptation of the spider and he fly except no adaptation of it ever made matches what I saw. It was cell animated and very Gothic in influence.

Demyan is looking for a ghost movie.

MOVIE 81

I watched this movie in 2008 but it could be older, it´s about a family that moved into a building and there always a ghost that you never get to see except for a few seconds, but basically I think it shows 3 versions of the stories or possibilities but it always end up one of the family members getting killed or kidnapped, the only part I remember is a kid hanging from a balcony, you think is the mother but no she is looking for him you think is an accident but no you can see someone holding him.

joking420 remembers a scene where a housekeeper walks in on a couple making love, from a French movie.

MOVIE 82

Ive been searching for a movie i remember from late 90s on HBO or something. It was a French film about a girl. The only scene i really remember is she is working as a housekeeper at a hotel and she walks into a room with 2 people having sex. When she sees this she run into the bathroom to be sick. The lady in the room follows her into the bathroom and tells her she could have her fired.

Alex is looking for an anime featuring a mysterious mask.

MOVIE 83

6 years ago (when i was 6) i watched an show that was about a group of middle or high schoolers whom found a strange mask, through the show, the mask appeared in several places but had not been moved, a few times it appeared in the house of the victim, that person put it into a draw to make sure it didn’t move, but as they went downstairs the mask would appear there, in place of one of the paintings in the stairway.

It was definitely a horror movie but in a cartoony format, an anime, I can’t remember what it was called and I’ve searched many times, but cant find it. The reason I couldn’t remember what it was called is because it was in Japanese, but with English subs.

Nina has a vague memory of a fantasy with a girl fleeing a villain in black on a sleigh. Jolene suggests this could be Babes in Toyland (1986 version) with Drew Barrymore.

MOVIE 84

I remember there being a teenage girl in the movie who went into a magical land. I remember the villain was a man dressed in black, and at one time in the movie she was on some sort of sledge trying to get away from him and she veered into a tree. I know this is vague but I really want to know if I just imagined this as I am SURE I watched it.

Kevin seeks an anime featuring a demon invasion and rape. I suggested he check out this IMDB search but someone else may recognize his description right off the bat.

MOVIE 85

The movie i am looking for is a anime of the mid 80′s i want to say, its similar in many ways to the series called Urotsukidōji or legend of the overfiend, and it starts off with a bunch of demons running around terrorising people in the town and everyone is searching for the reincarnated ruler of all the demons, it turns out to be a boy in a catholic school and just like in legend of the overfiend he is a push over and his powers don’t show unless he is being bothered or getting very emotional for any reason, so there is this girl in the school and she gets raped by two upperclassmen one male and one female, the girl is a friend of the main charectors and the two upperclassmen turn out to be some sort of angelic beings and fly the girl to what looks to be heaven at the end of the movie which sends the main boy into an uproar and he unleashes all of his dormant power and all of the demons in town seem to be able to feel the power of their ruler awakening.

Lacey is looking for a movie with a bicycle crash and the word “street” or “road” in the title (not Arlington Road). Denise R. suggests “Reservation Road with Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo.” Matchstickman suggests Roadflowerhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0110999/ — as an alternative.

MOVIE 86

I watched it from a video rental store when I was young probably around 6-8 or 9, so late 90′s. All I remember is there’s this one scene where this kid is on his bike and he’s at the end of this street and crashes because this van or car comes and hits him. Then I remember his dad was trying to figure out what happened and or stop it from happening again and I remember the movie being called something street or road, I use to think it was Arlington road but obviously not that.

SamuraiFox18 remembers a scene with what he recalls as a half-woman in a computer chair. John Sherman thinks this may be an episode of “Amazing Stories,” and Stacey even has an episode name: “Miscalculation.”

MOVIE 87

Its in a guys bedroom, and there is half of a woman attached to a computer chair. the woman moves herself closer to the guy who has a magazine in his hand. the guy freaks out and tries to get out of the room… I saw it around 1996 and it looked like it was late 80s or early 90s.

From Jack Plumm. It’s not Flowers in the Attic.

MOVIE 88

A group of children are forced to stay upstairs during an adult party. In the trailer there would be pleasent clips of the adults enjoying themselves down below to cheery party music, but it would keep cutting back to gory scenes of the kids upstairs being murdered and mutilated. They would call down for their parnts for help but they wouldn’t listen or couldn’t hear. amy mum says it was similar in feel to Black Christmas but wasn’t the same.

From Matto: a gopher (?) in a toilet, and he’s not thinking of Ghoulies.

MOVIE 89

There was an 80′s (maybe early 90′s) movie where a woman was scared by a ?gopher? that reared up from the toilet. Then her ?boyfriend/husband? was there in a daze and she said “I love you!” and he replied, “Even with a ?gopher? in my arm?” and it popped out and scared her. I think there may also be a man in a completely dark room that gets his head chopped off. The animal (not monster) that was in the toilet also was in the guy’s arm. (there were two).

Jensee is looking for a thriller.

MOVIE 90

I remember watching a movie in the late 70′s or early 80′s that seemed like a horror or suspence film, where a young boy (or girl) is suspicious of a dangerous man and follows him to a house where the man is having sex in the shower with some woman. I don’t think it was The Stepfather, but that always comes to mind. The suspence has a similar feel as The Stepfather.

Robin is looking for a B&W movie with someone who believes himself to be Jesus—possibly Whistle Down the Wind? Nicolai Jensen has what may be a better suggestion: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s Ordet.

MOVIE 91

I saw it on IFC around 2005 or so. I think it may be Scandinavian or possibly Eastern European. It’s in black and white although it’s a modern movie. It’s set around 1900 or earlier in a very rural sort of rustic place. There’s a man who lives with his parents and he and they believe him to be Jesus.

Cc9540 remembers a movie about an alien girl who doesn’t understand Earth showers. E.J. thinks she’s found it: the Australian TV show “The Girl from Tomorrow.”

MOVIE 92

There’s this girl and I think she’s from another planet and she wears this jewel on her forehead (I think). how they “shower” is the stand in this little squared out area and touch their shoulders and this energy beam thing comes down there entire body while they have there clothes on and that’s how they get clean. she come to earth and makes a friend and the alien girl is trying to figure out the shower. She stands in it, touches her shoulders and nothing till she realizes there is a “waterfall” in their own house. She puts her clothes in the microwave and sets it on fire. One scene the two girls are sitting in the tree house and it looks like they are in the middle of space. The mom comes up to check on them and freaks out from what she sees and falls from the tree house.

Jose Perez has vague memories of a sexy scene with four black actors.

MOVIE 93

I would like help on a movie that i saw when i was a little kid. There’s two blacks guys that open a door and find two naked black girls. One of the guy leaves scared, and i guess tje other one bangs both girls, but my parents covered my eyes. So this is really killing me to try to find out. 1996-2000???

Chris Baird is looking for a short film about experimental bicycles, probably from the 1960s or 1970s.

MOVIE 94

In the early 1970′s there was a short film that was shown to fill time on the Mississippi Public Broadcasting network. It was silent, in color, and appeared to be from the late 60′s or early 70′s. It showed people riding experimental bikes, and as the movie went on the bikes became more complicated. Towards the end of the movie the bikes went out of control, carrying their riders into a lake or river. The movie ended with people standing waist deep in water, looking for their bikes. This short film was often shown with the Canadian film Cosmic Zoom, so it may have been Canadian.

Mitchell G. is looking for a Taiwanese (?) horror movie with a demon dog. Rae suggests the Pang brothers’ The Child’s Eye.

MOVIE 95

The movie is a horror type set in i believe Taiwan with some high school students that are stuck because of a riot in the city the take refuge in a crappy hotel where after a while the story moves to there being ghosts and a shadow like realm where everything’s the same but all nether world also is a demon dog thing which you later learn is a guy’s daughter, all revolves around some curse of killing a dog…

Amanda C. is looking for a fantasy film:

MOVIE 96

I’m looking for this movie that I watched when I was a child. I think it was kind of old, from what I remember of the picture quality. I don’t remember much about it except I think there was a young girl (or boy?) and they were traveling with an old man (I think he was a knight or a soldier) and in one scene, I believe they were escaping some kind of tyrant king? I remember this particular scene being very red with lots of fire and the castle or ship or something was coming down around him. I think the king thought the old man was trying to take his queen? And then the queen distracted him with a kiss or something while the others escaped and then the king and queen died?

fenasi kerim has a vague memory of a sleaze movie:

MOVIE 97

…a pervert man was spying out women’s houses and sometimes rapes them at night when they are sleeping, finally one of the women realises the situation.

From Johnson: a parody with Darth Vader and Madeleine, circa 2002.

MOVIE 99

There’s a movie that has darth vader in it and also madeleine and the girls from the house that madeleine lives in are all in a room and darth vader appears in the window. I know i’m not making this up because my sister remembers it. I watched it like 2002. it might have been a parody.

Asked by Shawna: probably late 1960s, a girl dips a cat’s paw in blood to sign a letter.

MOVIE 100

…was shot late 60s, early 70s, looks similar to movies from that era. A blonde teenaged girl has witnessed a murder, I think, and is trying to solve it. At one point she writes a note to someone I think she thinks is it and signs the note by dipping her kitties paw into ink and putting it to the paper. There is a scene where she’s snooping and ends up in a meat locker and I think there’s a body in there. A lot of the scenes are at night, from what I can remember. I think she also has a crush on a man in the movie and is following him (NOT the Lemon movie) and I think that’s how she gets mixed in with the murder stuff. Of course the murders are following her and for some reason I have the impression they were Asain, but I could be mixing my movies… I think it was late 60s as apposed to early 70s, and I think there was something about kitties in the title. I think. lol Not much help, I know. :/ Oh and the blonde heroine’s hair was in a ponytail, I think.

Chanse Lyle Howe is looking for a movie where a “higher being” falls in love with a human girl.

MOVIE 101

…the first thing that i remember is it focusing on a clock. The movie fires on and you find out this guy is like, i say, not human because he’s not an alien but he was of a higher being? So he falls in love with this girl but his people keep trying to make him forget keep trying to make him forget cause its against the rules or something to love a human. I know it sounds like a movie called 9? By that’s not it. If i remember correctly the guy i keep referring to was also their leader.

Nikita is looking for the name of a movie she suspects is 1970s erotica:

MOVIE 102

I remember being young and watching something forbidden for kids on TV that looked like 70s erotica.

The movie took place underground where a man was kept by a group of naked women. They had a queen with a beautiful crown and a cape…but everyone was naked.

This man was kept as a toy that women would play with, and I remember a scene where he was tied down to the floor of a huge white room and all these women were touching him including the queen..it was erotica…not porn! There were two women who were planning on escaping…now I don’t know if they were all held captive there, if they knew each other before this, but the two of them were rescuing him.

I am not sure what the language was, it might have been Italian, or English.

The last scene is of them crawling out from underground. The man was carrying a butterfly in the cage…and that is the last thing I remember.
Also, he resembles that main guy with a mustache from The Gods Must Be Crazy movie.

bartdan87 is looking for a movie where dogs or creatures eat their tormentor—he thinks its a short from the 70s or 80s that might have played on the BBC. The Awful Dr. Orloff suggests it could be wither a segment from “Hammer House of Horror” with Peter Cushing or from the Amicus horror anthology film Tales from the Crypt.

MOVIE 103

All i can remember through is a man who is locking up some dogs or creatures of some kind underground, or something and am pretty sure the ending was these starving dogs/ creatures get out and eat this man. It was a short TV film possibly on BBC set in 70s/ 80s by the graphic/ acting i can remember.

Ephream remembers a single scene from an animated film with a witch pretending to be a girl’s mother, made sometime before 2000:

MOVIE 105

A girl is lost in a magical world and she has this friend she made in that world, throughout the movie she is looking for her mother, in this one scene she thinks she sees her mother, but then her friend quickly stops her saying that its a trap, and her mother turns out to be a witch in black robes… saw this back in around the 90′s.

dennis remembers a military base setting and rats in a movie from the late 90s or before.

MOVIE 106

…two girls are with this military guy and they go to his place back at the base, i remember at one point they’re in the back of this truck and kill these rats that appear, later they accidentally kill the guy, and i think i remember some military guys wrestling, anyone think this sounds familiar? Saw it when i was like 12 in the late 90s, 96-99 sometime I think.

Roxxe needs help with a movie about a girl painter who’s work is stolen by a famous artist who lives in a houseboat. It’s not I’ve Heard the Meremaids Singing.

MOVIE 107

…it starts off with this girl, who is a talented painter, at her school painting a scene for a play. The girl is friends with this boy with glasses. Somehow the girl meets this man who she thinks is a famous artist, he lives in a house boat on a river. The girl does this really great painting and the “artist”, being a con-man, claims the painting as his own. The girl tells everyone that she did the painting and, of course, no one believes her. He friend, however, has a picture that he took (in disguise) while the girl and the “artist” were at a restaurant that shows the girl with the painting. In the scene at the restaurant the “artist” hides behind the painting be cause he doesn’t want people to see him.

Not much to go on with william’s mystery movie: drug addict, swamp, three oddball brothers. Dave says this is “The Shy People w/ Barbara Hershey, mid 80′s.”

MOVIE 108

A movie about A mother who moves her drug taking daughter to the swamps to live with A strange relative and her three oddball sons.

Cesar describes several scenes from a movie about an old man looking for a white dog, possibly the same as movie 53 above:

MOVIE 109

I am trying to find the name of a movie, with a similar description as MOVIE 53.
In that description, Kayra says that it was a boy trying to find his dog.
My memories are about an old an trying to find whis white little dog (the breed maybe was Coton de Tulear) with the help of a young man.
I remember some passages of the film.
One of them, both persons entering to a doghouse, trying to recover this dog and they met with the dog catcher, which yes, he was mouscle-boun and there was an inevitable fight between this dog-catcher and the young man. The fight was long and the young man was loosing, while the dog-catcher put some extrange liquid over his knuckles (maybe anesthesia). Suddenly, the young man asked the old man to play his mouth-organ (or harmonica). After listening to the music (maybe any melody) this gave him (the young man) like certain energy or rithm to fight better.
Another passage I remember of this film is that they realized that this dog had been bought by a little girl, so they (the young man and the old man) found out where the address of the owner was, and went in front to that house waiting for the moment when the door was oppened. So, when it happened, the old man began to whistle very loud so that his dog listen and get out. And it happened, unfortunately the dog came out of the house so quickly that no one realized that a big truck was passing by the street and the only thing it is seen, is that apparently the dog finished under the truck, it braked very hard, and all was in silence, and after a few seconds it was heard the shout of the old man but happy, taking his little dog up on his two hands, and turning on his feet.
I think this is the end of the film.
Another passage I remeber very well, is this old man, with the young man, trying to enter to a evening dress party. The old man was always wearing like an old smoking. So he said (in spanish because it was a translated film) “…one day I said to me, why having two dresses, if I can have two dresses in one”..and then he wrapeed his smoking taking out like a tail, and making his hat bigger just pushing it from the inside and he took out, I do not know from where, a cane.

Jessica seeks the name of a post-apocalyptic teen movie. Mofo Rising/Rob suggests Larry Clark’s “awful” Teenage Caveman.

MOVIE 110

I watched [it in] either the late 90s or early 2000s. All I vaguely remember is a group of teenagers (i think) trying to survive the ending of the world, or something of that sort. The teenagers stuck together to try and repopulate, also it was future based. They were in some sort of warehouse where they had all of their supplies.. One scene I remember is, one of the females has sex with a male and she got pregnant, but she died or got killed. The ending is, the guy who tried to inseminate the females was the only one left because he killed the other males, and he successfully started a new population.

A description of a very crazy-sounding movie from Andrew:

MOVIE 111

I’m trying to find a movie that I saw when I was young, sometime between 1995 and 2000 I think. It was about a man who starts seeing the world differently, literally. I remember there was a scene with a burning skeleton going down a slide, guy in a biohazard suit, Marilyn Monroe’s Happy Birthday song, and especially a scene where the protagonist is escaping with a girl and runs into police with guns, but he sees them as priests with wooden guns, so he laughs, opens up the floor and escapes. Then he goes through some electric underground grid and talks to some architect type guy. Then I remember something about him seeing his parents in a desert-like place and they have some electric voice box things in their throats to speak. Sorry, that’s all I remember since I was very young (5-10) and an immigrant to the US.

Kern wants the name of a movie about a teenage runaway who’s seduced by a woman who takes him in, with a famous actor:

MOVIE 112

I think I watched this when I was fairly young so probably somewhere the 90s to 2000…

It seemed like one of those coming of age movies maybe? I just remember the main guy was like teenage boy that was becoming a young man sort of deal. He either ran away from home or was an orphan. He lived with different people and it was about his experiences about that. The one scene i remember because it was so messed up when I watched it. So he’s probably 16? 18? Pretty young and he gets taken in by this married couple. Like in their 40s 50s probably. So they treated him like a son. But the messed up part was the lady/mom basically would sneak into his room and have sex with him. And I think he did it only because he felt like he had to. And at some point i think he had to run away from them too.

The actor was sort of famous for his time? I think…i just remember thinking he’s pretty cute.

Joe’s memory involves a failed suicide attempt and nudists in a van:

MOVIE 113

I think I watched this movie maybe 10 years ago, it was something like this:
I remember there was a girl in a car trying to kill herself with the car smoke but failed and a guy for some reason joined her later..
and I remember another scene that four people (2 guys and 2 girls) drive to a place just outside the town and get to the back of a van and get naked, they were like nudists or something.

Kelly’s mystery movie has a woman trapped in a computer and a head in a freezer:

MOVIE 114

I’m trying to find a movie I saw in about 2000-2005. There was a guy and he had a wife/girlfriend. And there was a girl in a computer(???) and he was in love with he and trying to find a way to get her out or something like that. And his wife/girlfriend was really jealous and the guy gave her a gift at some point in the movie. And for some reason the chick that was in the computer, her body was frozen, and he kept her head in his freezer. Then his wife/girlfriend found the head and took it outside to the road and smashed it on the road. Then in the end of the movie the guy gets the woman out of the computer or whatever it was. And then the guy’s (best?) friend somehow gets into the computer, but he actually wants to be there, unlike the girl. And I think that the computer’s background was just plain white, but I’m not sure.

justin’s looking for an “evil grandma” movie from the 1990s or before. Sam suggests Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door.

MOVIE 115

I saw maybe in the late 90s so its not that old but from what i remember it was about 2 girls who had to go live with there grandma I think because there parents died but there grandma hated them and was horrible to them and towards the end of the film she tied them up in the basement and had the neighborhood kids rape and torture her and one kid tried to set them free but she ended up dying right as the kid got her necklace back from the grandma to give to the one girl.

Roy Dixon seeks the name of an old (pre-1968) black and white movie about ghosts in a hotel.

MOVIE 116

This black and white film I think I saw it in 1968 or there abouts was about Ghosts living inside this Hotel and if anyone who stayed at the hotel escaped then all the ghosts would disappear. I remember right at the end this guy did finally “escape” BUT he swung open this big iron gate and sank back against it and breathed a sigh of relief only for the gate to swing back and impale him on this large iron spike. So he became a ghost and the other ghosts all stayed.

Ryan Healy remembers a movie with a machine that strips women, probably from the  1960s-1970s. Jason suggests he may be slightly misremembering the “Excessive Machine” sequence from Barbarella.

MOVIE 117

I saw a clip of a film when I was a kid, in the mid 90s. Sixties/seventies era, color. A scientist is using a machine to rake a woman’s clothes off. It was broadcast on airwave tv, so it may have been editied, a tv movie, or a tv episode. I don’t remember anything else.

abby only remembers a couple of kids, a houseboat and a black panther.

MOVIE 118

I watched a movie on TV in the 80′s and it seemed like it was older then… I was just a little kid so I”m not sure… It was not black and white… It had a little boy and his sister on a house boat. The house boat crashed and there was a black panther stalking them.. Thats all I can remember…

denny’s looking for an offbeat romantic/horror movie (?) about a possible cannibal.

MOVIE 119

think it was released in the early 00′s about a functional special guy in his 20′s who starts to spy on this gal across the street from his apartment. its a classic long shot situation, he’s from a dysfunctional family (mommy issues) she’s a young professional who’s always throwing parties and luring guys back to her place. you watch this through his apartment window and eventually it becomes more intense and the question if she is a cannibal starts to flourish.

Mike is looking for an HBO comedy short. Mofo Rising/Rob recognizes it:”Stalker Guilt Syndrome” by Mark Maron.

MOVIE 120

I saw this Short on HBO back in the late 90s early 2000s. It was on between movies. It was a comedy about a guy who gets off a bus at the same stop as this girl. Every time she makes a turn, he happens to be making the same turn. He starts to worry that she’ll think he’s following her (the movie has his inner thoughts as a voice over).

He tries various things to make it clear he’s not, but everything he does just makes it worse. One example I remember was that he stopped to tie his shoe so that she’ll get far ahead of him, but at the same time, she stops at a new stand to get a newspaper, so it just looks like he was waiting for her.

bobby remembers a flick about a cop framing people.

MOVIE 121

I saw this movie i around the 2004-2006 time but i know i was made before either of these. i was young and i only remember a couple parts about it. i think the story line was about a evil cop/ sheriff who kidnapped people by saying they were under arrested and i know that one of the people he kidnapped had a flashback about when he/she was a kid and was riding a bike with a friend and the friend got hit by a car and went flying into a wall and even thou he was wearing a helmet his head cracked open and i think he died. another part is when the cop pulled someone over on a motorcycle and planted drugs in a smiley face bag on them and might have taken him in. i think the motorcyclist in the movie was like famous in the movie and he might have bribed his way out but i don’t remember any help would be great its not silent or in b/w.

From Samantha: anime, early nineties or prior, reincarnation and a heavenly train… zombiebait is sure this is A Chinese Ghost Story.

MOVIE 122

I watched this as a kid in the early 90′s. It was an anime movie and the most vivid part I remember was when ppl died they got on this train in heaven where they were dropped off somewhere and start falling from the sky. Next they get transformed into babies and a mallet pops out, hits them on the head (think that’s to signify them losing there memory from there previous lives) and they get born again. I also remember a boy and a girl character telling each other not to get hit so they remember to meet under a tree.sorry that’s all I can remember…

From skyler: an army with torches that villagers mistake for a dragon of fire. My long-shot suggestion is Throne of Blood. Bailey’s much better suggestion is The 13th Warrior with Antonio Banderas.

MOVIE 123

I’m trying to find a movie where some village people are seeing an incoming a giant fire snake or fire dragon in the forest but it turns out to be a marching army of enemies with torches. I also remember the enemies wearing bear skin or something. The village has to stay away from the forest at night or else they will be killed.

From lane: horror, mid 90s or earlier, monster dies by having a microphone shoved down its throat. Jason suggests The Outpost a.k.a. Mind Ripper a.k.a. The Hills Have Eyes Part 3, “presented by Wes Craven” and starring Lance Henriksen.

MOVIE 124

I saw the movie in the mid 90′s, all i can remember is that they were in the desert and there was a cave. there was a person also i think he was a monster as well and to kill people he had this long thing come out of his throat and it had a small spike on the end of it. and to kill this thing his spike comes out of his mouth and one of the actors shoves a microphone on the end of it and it electrocutes him and he dies. that is all i know.

From chavezac: a Star Wars ripoff with space pirates. Kellrayc suggests The Ice Pirates (1984) as a possibility, and so does Jason.

MOVIE 126

I remember a movie from the late 70s or early 80s that I liked as a kid. It was a sci fi movie and the opening scene had a group of space pirates in a warehouse shootout with blasters. I don’t remember what they were after or if they found it but after that they got in their ship and flew off. Most of the film from there is hazy but I think they were being chased and split up. One of the gang was an alien who went to a space station hotel of sorts. Another of the gang met him there and after the meeting the alien killed himself. Sorry not much detail, but any ideas?? We had it on Betamax, so when our player broke when I was a kid I lost the movie. It reminded me a lot of Star Wars…

From MikeV: A little boy kills robbers who are holding his family hostage. The description sounds like a violent version of a Home Alone movie.

MOVIE 129

It is movie about robbers (i am not sure) taking members of rich family as hostages except little boy. The boy kills robbers one by one with homemade stuff/traps. All I remember is that one bad guy is killed by water gun filled with lighter fluid and one guy (he was some kind of computer specialist) is killed by electicity when he steps on wet carpet. That’s all I remember.

From Jonida: a house on an island full of dolls, from the 1980s or earlier.

MOVIE 130

There was this movie in the 80s. There was this illegal girl of a woman to whom her mother left one house in one small island. The girl goes to stay in a hotel just in front of this island and during the night she sees light in the house and during the day she sees someone in the window. Everytime she takes the boat and goes to this house but she finds lots of dolls and one of them even cries. At the end the house burns, the girl watches it from the hotel and also sees someone at the window.

sophie remembers a scene with a spaceship and a woman being dropped and eaten by a giant snake.

MOVIE 131

There on some spaceship or something, and there on this ledge, and there is a guy holding onto a woman, and trying to help her up. But he doesnt and lets go accidently, and some giant snake thing swallows her whole.

from Jamie: Woman falls in love with an imaginary robber/rapist wearing a black glove.

MOVIE 132

I think this one is a suspense. A woman meets a man in a store while it is being robbed. The guy places his black gloved hand over her mouth during the robbery (and maybe gropes her as well?). The movie goes on to show them develop a really hot and heavy relationship. We are led to believe they are mutually fond of one another. At one point, they have sex in a tunnel at a park, then they go to one of those photo booths and get their photos taken. She carries it around with her. Later, she is telling the story of how she met the guy to some detectives (I can’t remember why). They think she’s made it all up. So, she goes to show the photo of them together. She sees the guy, but he isn’t really in the picture. So, she imaged the whole situation. That’s about all I’ve got.

from Amanda: 1990s or earlier, two brothers and a sister, depressed and lobotomized pulling a toy train, and running through a forest blindfolded (this part matches Intacto, but nothing else does).

MOVIE 133

I saw a movie in the 80-90ties. I think there were two brothers and a sister she was the youngest. The older brother was depressed and at the end he was lobotomized pulling a toy train. I think there was a fire too. And one time the big brother took his sister to the forest and he run blindfolded without hitting any trees. She tried this later but she ran in to the trees.

From Dave: Possessed stranger at sea, plot similar to Fallen with Denzel Washington, not Dead Calm.

MOVIE 134

It could be 70s or 80s but I mostly remember a couple finding a stranger at sea who turns out to be possessed, it’s not dead calm but as far as I know it followed a story line not far from the movie Fallen with Denzel Washington!

From Star: 2007 or before, painter dies falling off ladder, demon and altar in basement.

MOVIE 135

It starts out with a house being painted, the painter and ladder fall, painter dies. A young women, bf/husband and their friends come to this house and at night is when the terror starts. Everyone is pulled away from this young women and tortured and killed, one of her friends is killed …by fire and one by being hanged. Towards the end of movie in basement she is on like an alter of sorts and the demon tries to kill her, but the young women during this time has a vision of a doll that had a dagger in side it’s body, she finds this doll being a part of the crumbling basement wall after she wakes up and using the dagger to kill demon. At the end you see her with her backpack walking down the road away from the house. I saw this movie between 2003-2007 on Syf…

from silky: a pretty generic memory of what sounds like a noir/neo-noir.

MOVIE 136

What is the movie where there is a accident, wife disapears, crazy husband, cheater, and murder?

from Alice: Mid 80s or earlier, probably from the BBC, runaway gets involved with an older man.

MOVIE 137

Mid-80′s, most likely BBC, one film or mini series, blond teenage girl called Claire (?) runs away, sees older guy called Mac (?)

From Emily: a movie where monsters in a film reel come to life, possibly black and white.

MOVIE 138

An old movie, i think in black and white, where a boy goes in the basement of some old house (his grandpa’s?) and finds a film reel with monsters and then the monsters end up a coming to life?

From Zahraa: kid with moving toys kidnapped to help rob a bank? matchstickman suggests Malcolm: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091464/

MOVIE 139

It starts when a really small guy goes to two old people house in a rainy day and they keep him with them and he lives in a room which his toys can move then two men steal him to rob a bank that’s all I remember…

From Ralok: Underground creature, claims he’s a great warrior, trying to recharge his people’s sun? jmweasle suggests A Gnome Named Gnorm with Anthony Michael Hall: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109912/

MOVIE 140

It was about a creature . . .kinda like dobby, and he was like, coming up from underground or somewhere, and he claimed he was a great warrior. And he was trying to like, recharge his peoples sun or something, I think it took place in new york . . . the film wass weeeeird.

from Shane k: Father discovers son is a serial killer using the color white as a calling card.

MOVIE 141

There was a movie I saw in the 2000s about a father and son. The father always broke plans with the kid, but gave him 20 dollars every time he did. I think the father was a cop? The son ended up being some murder mastermind, and his calling card was the color white. At the end, the father finally goes in the sons bedroom and discovers its entirely white.

From Angela: sticky marshmallow stuff on a plane. Morgan suggests The Stuff (1985). Matchstickman suggests a TV show: “‘ Doomwatch.’ The Plastic Eaters, first episode, released in 1970 – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065290/.”

MOVIE 143

…made in the 70′s (I think)..people on a plane…floor is marshmellow-like substance and people step in it and get stuck…spreads through plane…

Also from Angela: 1980s, young people renovating a hotel.

MOVIE 145

…group of older teens (maybe early 20′s) finds and repairs an old hotel that’s falling apart….one scene, they’re painting the wooden siding outside and they paint each other in a musical montage of renovation…nearby town officials try to stop them (I think they dam up their irrigation or something)…made in the 80′s.

Martin H believes his mystery movie is a short silent film about a man eating blocks of fat and flying out a window.

MOVIE 146

I remember seeing what I believe to be a short film and a silent movie about a fat man who eats big blocks of fat, loses weight and finally flies out the window.

From Alex: foreign (Swedish?), girl in car separated from mother during rainstorm, says “mammooo mammoo” (or something similar).

MOVIE 147

I saw this movie on Netflix from April to May of 2012. As I can remember it was a foreign movie, possibly Sweedish. It starts off with a mother and her daughter I think in a car, maybe van, driving through a rain storm and the car either crashes or they stop for some reason. But the mother gets out for some reason and the daughter stays in the car. After a while the daughter worries why the mother has not returned to the car and she starts to hear things and goes out to look for her mother. She begins to say “mammoo mamoo” over and over again. She says it really weird and it sounds really funny, similar to how I spelled it out there. But she hears scary noises and then she rushes back into her car and locks the doors. The rain is loud and heavy and she hears scary noises and suddenly things start hitting the car and mud is thrown on the windshield. That is all I can remember.

From Roo: Room with wall full of drawers (?) and rats crawl out of the walls…

MOVIE 148

There is this weird guy in a dark room with all these draws [drawrs?] that make up this wall, then there is a little girl, then all these rodents crawl out of the walls? and the scientist was really tall…

From darkcyeote: short (TV episode?) featuring Michael Douglas (?), portal to another dimension.

MOVIE 149

It is a short. Perhaps 15 min long. I want to say it features Michael Douglas, but I may be wrong. Horror theme with a modern-day setting. The military has found some sort of “portal” into another dimension. They can see in this dimension, but they can’t enter. On the other side is what appears to be a “little house on the prairie” type homestead complete with a large family. The main protagonist (Micheal Douglas?) is obsessed with a blonde woman on the other side. Was it because of a deceased wife? The military somehow knows that the portal opens for only a small amount of time at random intervals. They use a simple ice cannon that “tests” the interface day and night. The protagonist tries to have a “lip reader” sent to understand what the people on the other side are saying. The military commander reprimands the protagonist and cancels the lip reader. The next day the portal is open and the protagonist jumps through. He meets the blonde woman who seems overjoyed to meet him. Her mouth then opens three feet long and she starts to devour him right along with the other inhabitants. An old man on the other side notices the protagonist and seems to cast a spell closing the portal. The end scene shows the family trying to get through the portal to the other side using a femur bone. End.

Peter Drury has little to go on:

MOVIE 150:

A film ends with a group of people looking for a girl who had run away in the snow.

from Dinos: older movie (70s or earlier) where children rule adults.

MOVIE 151

I’ m looking for an English-language movie i saw in Greek tv in late 70′s. (’78 or ’79). It’s about an imaginary place where young people rule, while the older are being prisoned(i think). I remember the last scene where the young leader behaves badly to a 13years old (or something) who gets angry and mumbles “When i get a little older I’ll get you prisoned”

From PD: short film, people murdered on a train, twist ending.

MOVIE 152

My sister visited a film festival some 5-10 years ago, where she saw a short action movie (like 10 minutes max). This is the plot: A Subway station, a woman in long coat gets on the train. There are three other folks in the wagon: one, lying on the seat, another one, listening to music on his walkman, and a a third one, old guy with a walking stick, rhythmically knocking with it on the floor. The train departs, there’s a tunnel and darkness, and when the view lights up again, one of the guys is dead — killed by a stab wound in his neck. Another tunnel, darkness, then light — second dead, once again with a small round bleeding hole in his neck. Third tunnel, and another dead character. Finally, the identity of the killer and the reason for the killing is revealed (don’t want to spoil it) in a surprising plot twist.

from alex:

MOVIE 153

…a scary movie but in it the mother forces her two children to have sex with each other.

From JC: horror movie, kids, snowy forest, slide.

MOVIE 154

…kids who get taken end up trapped in a snowy forest and then all the kids escape by going down the slide..

From Jessica: family drama, teens dating, girl breaks her nose in a car accident.

MOVIE 155

A daughter dates a boy who i think her father despises. one night they’re driving and he obnoxiously puts on a pair of sunglasses, then they get into an accident. they both live but she had a broken nose. then at some dance or event her ex is seen with another girl dancing and kissing, so the girl with the broken nose goes over and punches him in the face. i think she had a younger sister too. i’m pretty sure it was a family drama but it ends good i think.

From yezenia: serial killer movie, head in freezer.

MOVIE 156

I’m looking for a movie i saw in middle school sometime from 2005-2009. there’s this serial killer guy who draws women in with his charm, and then kills them in his apartment. Most of the movie from what i saw, takes place in his apartment.

Here’s the two scenes that i remember:

1. he brings a girl home and then she finds a head of someone in his freezer, and she tries to play it off like she didnt see, but is really freaked out.

2. he takes a girl to bed, and while they are completely under the white sheets, and everything sounds like normal sexual behavior she starts screaming, and suddenly the sheets are soaked with blood. then he hops out of bed and she is dead.

From Paula:Black and white, comedy, people getting hit on the head with mortar as building’s being built.

MOVIE 157

I watched a movie in black and white where some men are building a house and each time they do some thing like mixing mortar it fall out of the bucket and hit some one or the ladder fall, something turn over it’s a real funny movie i watch it from the 80s. It’s like a army movie where a general goes around and see that everything is done bt in the end it’s he who get duck with the water or the mortar…

From Tony: Italian,? doctor in asylum has sister who’s a patient, nudity.

MOVIE 158

Italian? movie about an asylum, a fair share of nudity, a young doctor trying to find a cure for madness?, because as it turns out his sister is one of the inmates and he’s afraid it may be genetic. He vists his sister in a cell where she lies naked hiding in a corner covered in straw. A nurse is seen in her bed with a pillow between her legs. A naked inmate is covered by a nurse and pulls off the blanket.

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.

1,521 comments to What Was That Weird Movie?

  • 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.”

    • jared

      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?

  • James

    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.

  • ubermolch

    Movie 10 might be In the Mouth of Madness. Maybe.

  • The Awful Doctor Orloff

    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?

  • vicman

    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!

  • steve

    movie 14 is netherworld,released by full moon

  • kumanthong80

    im sure 14 is netherworld,but i think it came out in the 90′s

  • Morgan

    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.

  • Iberio

    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

  • luke

    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

  • Morgan

    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?

  • Brent

    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

  • Eric Menn

    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.

  • Zander Seven

    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?

  • Sasa Novakovic

    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

  • Sasa Novakovic

    yes that was it thaks so much, well I thought there is charakter like Sir John Gilgeud…thanks

  • Sterling

    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.

  • Miradoniz

    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?

    • Mofo Rising/Rob

      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.”

  • Yaki

    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.

  • B Donnybrook

    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.

  • B. Donnybrook

    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….

  • Ed

    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?

  • Matthew Hardgrove

    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.

  • kumanthong80

    its lost highway,the weird guy is robert blake

  • steve

    that is embarrassing,just kidding-very easy for a afficianado

  • Stewart

    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!

    • Stewart

      Thanks… you are absolutely bang-on the money there. “Hidden City” is exactly what that film was. I can see I might have a bit of bother tracking down a copy but at least I know what I am looking for now. Many thanks for your assistance in identifying this strangely affecting and still-haunting-me-after-all-these-years film.
      I actually had trawled Youtube for the Hop Picking clips hoping to find a mention or a link but failed where you have succeeded. Great stuff G Smalley!

  • jim

    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.

  • Janet

    hi, I’m new to the site

    i recall a black and white cut out animated short that looked very similar to monty python. i thought it was when i first saw it, but after watching the all the episodes from beginning to end, i could tell that it wasn’t. but it went like this: a man with large wings lands in a city where all the stores are empty and all the people are either giant dinosaur skeletons or heads on birds and insects. there was even a walrus with a top hat. later on, the man is tortured by a machine. when i told my friends, they though it was terry gilliam’s “brazil”, but it wasn’t. although it really looked and felt like brazil. can anyone give me a title?

  • B Donnybrook

    I’m no expert…but I,m wondering if that was something from the “Brothers Quay”. It sounds like the sort of thing they might have done?

  • Gary

    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.

    I have searched through thousands of films looking for these. Does anyone know them?

    • Christian

      I remember the one with the hole. It was shown on Channel 4 in the UK and seemed like it was a British setting. Didn’t a remote controlled plane crash into his face? It was a nihilistic little piece of weirdness.

  • Stewart

    Okay this film / pilot for series has haunted me since the 1970′s. 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.
    Can you help at all?

  • John Caron

    Im trying to find a movie I saw in a movie theatre in Berkeley, CA around 1994-1996. It was animated, I dont 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.

  • Morgan

    I just want to confirm movie #43. Oddly enough, this is one of my favorite animated shorts. It’s a 1963 Polish film called “Labirynt” by Jan Lenica who (oddly enough) was a source of inspiration for the Brothers Quay. This has to be what Janet saw:

  • Janet

    hey, thanks alot for that! i had no idea that it was a polish film. i guess that really solves my question. thank you everyone for your commitment.

  • Parasvati

    Hello there. Thanks for this forum where I can ask a question that has driven me bonkers for a long time. 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. But it was awful.
    Thanks.

  • Huzefa

    I watched a movie many years back buy 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… !!

    What the hell was this movie ?

  • Gary

    Ok, let’s try another one. 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.

    Anyone recollect anything like that? I looked all over IMDb but nothing rang a bell. It’s an older movie so he’s pretty young.

    Thanks.

  • Bruce Dern didn’t play the psychic, but Hitchcock’s Family Plot (1976) has some similarities—did you already eliminate that as a possibility?

    • Gary

      Thank you, but no, I’m sure it wasn’t Hitchcock. Hmmm… I hope I haven’t gotten two movie fragments crossed. I reckon I could read all the synopses of his filmography. I wish I knew when it was. All I know is it was quite a while back when I saw it.

  • kostas

    Hi Weirds!
    I cant remember 2 films so…i need your help !
    1.A movie in a hotel that everyone acts crazy.Every room and another crazy person or pair.Comedy.
    2.This is hard…someone has the same day again and again(AND NO ITS NOT THE Groundhog Day!)the film ends on a park and was a kind of soft…porno!
    Thanksssss

  • kostas: 1. is a little vague. Maybe it’s the anthology film 4 Rooms (1995)?

    2. The description “a soft core porn version of Groundhog Day” sounds familiar but I can’t think of a title. It’s a bit off the wall, but possibly you’re thinking of Novo (which is actually more like a soft core version of Memento)?

    • kostas

      G.Smalley:No 1 was 4 rooms i figured out 2 hours later but anyway thanks a lot!
      No2 as i mentioned is a hard one and unfortunately its not NOVO…

  • blue

    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…thanks.

  • Gary

    OK, one more time: This movie is about a guy who is the top pro at electronic bugging. Someone bugs him. They keep calling and playing back sounds of what he has just been doing. This bugs him. He begins looking for the bug, certain he will find it. He doesn’t. He tears the entire house apart, removing wall, celing and floor boards. After he looks everywhere, he gets another call. It ends with him sitting in a simple woden chair, in his underwear, playing what I think was a French horn (he sort of went nutz). Finally, the camera slowly starts zooming in on the one place he never thought to look for the bug: down the throat of his French horn… fade to black. Fin.

    Anyone know this movie? Thanks.

  • Gary

    Yes! That’s it. Now I remember Gene Hackman, too. Thanks! Now to find it….

    • Glad we could (finally) help! One out of three isn’t too bad. It should be easy to find a copy; it’s a relatively popular movie (it often turns up on “best 70s movie that you’ve never seen” type lists).

  • Gary

    Great. Let’s try another (I’m not trying to play ‘stump the expert’ or anything; I also enjoy trying to figure out some of these movies):

    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?

    Thanks!

  • Alex

    Alright 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.

    Thanks in advance!

  • toastedavalanche

    Movie 34 (the one about the dinner party) could be Bunuel’s ‘The Exterminating Angel’ (1962). Not sure about the ending with the deer in the trunk. But there is a party trapped in a house and some scenes of witchcraft. Hope that helps.

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