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Lost Theater - What was the name of that movie?

Started by Camazotz Automat, September 09, 2014, 04:12:59 AM


zeebo

Quote from: Tarbaby on September 29, 2014, 01:06:39 PM
ha! I had conflated two Sherlock Holmes movies, "Dressed to Kill" and "the woman in green". Save goes to Zeebo! Er, even though it turned out to be the wrong movie. :-[

haha well looks like I can at least take partial credit for, um, something.   :D

area51drone

Quote from: coaster on September 29, 2014, 03:45:11 PM
Found this on another site. 
- "It was called 'Grandma and the Kids.' My fourth grade class watched it on video in the early 90s in Vancouver WA. "

Ahh, good find.  "Go to Hell"'s canyon... great!   Maybe I can find it through the library system now.   Thanks

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on September 09, 2014, 04:12:59 AM
I believe this is from the 1960s. This scene occurs at the end of the film. A middle-aged woman and a younger man are having drinks over a coffee table. I believe she was wearing gloves and a mink coat. The woman begins to trace the rim of her glass with a finger in repetitive circles.  I "think" it starts vibrating, making a tone, as it is crystal. The man croaks.

I saw this when perhaps seven or eight years old - the glass making a tone, gloves, etc, can be a bad memory/embellished recall, though I can hear the tone in my head as I type this. 

I want to say that the woman was a "medium" but can't say for sure. I want to say that perhaps she was a "fake medium" and was tying up a loose end by killing her partner.


Could it be "Night of the Eagle"?

Quote from: missing transmission on September 30, 2014, 01:27:14 PM
Could it be "Night of the Eagle"?

No, MT, but thanks for playing "Camazotz is mightily screwed on this one it seems."

I do have a parting gift for you.  An Oliver Reed stuffed animal werewolf doll. Please flash it on the Bellgab midway. I need to attract more players.

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The third film I'm attempting to identify:

A mentally challenged/handicapped/damaged young man steals a small robotic bear statue from an arcade shooting gallery. The type of light-sensor equipped bear you shoot with a light gun to score points and/or make it change direction.

He carries this toy-sized bear under his coat.  He sometimes takes it out and brandishes it at people while growling, frightening them. At some point, possibly before he steals the bear, he has lunch with a few old men who are talking about "black lung" as if about mining and asking him if his lungs were black or pink.

This flick ends,  I think, with the man on the ground crying/screaming in front of a movie theater or perhaps in front of the arcade.  Shot in the 1950s or 1960s and depicts the same time frame.

My young mind interpreted it as chaotic horror instead of as tragedy/drama. Possibly set in a predominantly Italian neighborhood.  The bear was not flat metal as many arcade shooting targets can be, but a three dimensional more complex automaton perhaps sixteen inches tall.

The tone of this movie was like watching a Fellini film while eating lithium-laced popcorn.

My most recent search was the exact string "bear under his coat."

Nine irrelevant hits on google. Only nine.

When this page is eventually indexed, it will become ten.

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George Drooly

Haha, all right, you're just making stuff up now.

Quote from: George Drooly on September 30, 2014, 06:20:15 PM
Haha, all right, you're just making stuff up now.

I wish I were.

I even recall the time of day I watched it, in the venue of a local "Dialing For Dollars" show presentation.

Tarbaby

Yes, cam, we need to talk. I'm afraid these are not movies, these are dreams you've been having…

zeebo

Quote from: Tarbaby on September 30, 2014, 07:36:43 PM
Yes, cam, we need to talk. I'm afraid these are not movies, these are dreams you've been having…

Can someone get me the script to Cam's dreams?  I wanna make that movie.   :D

eddie dean

Quote from: zeebo on October 03, 2014, 11:16:26 PM
Can someone get me the script to Cam's dreams?  I wanna make that movie.   :D

Substituting a squirrel for the bear no doubt. :)

zeebo

Quote from: eddie dean on October 03, 2014, 11:35:55 PM
Substituting a squirrel for the bear no doubt. :)

Well yes, sometimes certain, um, creative adjustments are necessary to heighten dramatic effect.   8)

Quote from: zeebo on October 03, 2014, 11:16:26 PM
Can someone get me the script to Cam's dreams?  I wanna make that movie.   :D

The script to many of my dreams has been optioned by Paul Giamatti.  His interest in portraying "that Camazotz crazy bastard" has been well documented.



The fourth film I am attempting to identify:   

Far more recent and less annoying. Hopefully soluble, despite my lack of information.

From the late 1980s or early 1990s and portrays the same time period. Almost certainly a teen flick, and possibly a teen horror flick.

No plot information. What makes this film different is the inside joke hidden by the director or set designer.

In multiple scenes of the film, a rabbit is represented.  As a statue on a television set, a stuffed toy, etc.  Similar to spotting the Superman that appears in so many Seinfeld episodes except these are multiple, different rabbits within a single film.

I have a vague memory of a car crashing into an electrical tower or generator of some sort, but am not positive it is the same film. If it is the same film, I recall the budget being so low and the effects so poor that a stunt man could be seen in the passenger seat of the car, co-driving, dressed in black like a ninja to hopefully be invisible to the camera, but the optics failed spectacularly.

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paladin1991

Quote from: Camazotz Automat on October 06, 2014, 05:40:15 PM
The script to many of my dreams has been optioned by Paul Giamatti.  His interest in portraying "that Camazotz crazy bastard" has been well documented.



The fourth film I am attempting to identify:   

Far more recent and less annoying. Hopefully soluble, despite my lack of information.

From the late 1980s or early 1990s and portrays the same time period. Almost certainly a teen flick, and possibly a teen horror flick.

No plot information. What makes this film different is the inside joke hidden by the director or set designer.

In multiple scenes of the film, a rabbit is represented.  As a statue on a television set, a stuffed toy, etc.  Similar to spotting the Superman that appears in so many Seinfeld episodes except these are multiple, different rabbits within a single film.

I have a vague memory of a car crashing into an electrical tower or generator of some sort, but am not positive it is the same film. If it is the same film, I recall the budget being so low and the effects so poor that a stunt man could be seen in the passenger seat of the car, co-driving, dressed in black like a ninja to hopefully be invisible to the camera, but the optics failed spectacularly.

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I'd buy that for a dollar.  Well, to see Giamatti play a ninja.

Kelt

Let's see if anyone gets these three.

First, Some guys are spelunking (which sound like it's a gay porn movie, but isn't) and one guy is poking his head out of a tunnel, looking into a cavern, and this glowy-eyed Gollum thing sneaks slowly up from behind and (honest it wasn't gay porn) and grabs the guy. I think it would be from the 60's or 70s.  That's all I remember.

Second one, A man and woman are peeking into a room, via a small window... I think they're standing on a chair, watching a choir boy with a fucked up mask doing some sort of thing with a candle... again, not porn... and the choirboy opens the door and catches them.

Yeah... not real hopeful.




Quote from: Kelt on October 07, 2014, 12:51:53 PM
Let's see if anyone gets these three.

First, Some guys are spelunking (which sound like it's a gay porn movie, but isn't) and one guy is poking his head out of a tunnel, looking into a cavern, and this glowy-eyed Gollum thing sneaks slowly up from behind and (honest it wasn't gay porn) and grabs the guy. I think it would be from the 60's or 70s.  That's all I remember.

Second one, A man and woman are peeking into a room, via a small window... I think they're standing on a chair, watching a choir boy with a fucked up mask doing some sort of thing with a candle... again, not porn... and the choirboy opens the door and catches them.

Yeah... not real hopeful.

That's only two. 

Kelt

It is only two... it was originally going to be three, then I figured out the third one was The Dunwich Horror.

That's, The Dunwich Horror.

Still, I did ask for three, so here's another one...

Foreign language movie, night be French or Russian, possibly set post apocalypse (though if it's Russian that might just be how Russia looks), where the guy's basement is flooded and there's some kind of creature living under the water.


Quote from: Kelt on October 07, 2014, 01:19:41 PM
It is only two... it was originally going to be three, then I figured out the third one was The Dunwich Horror.

That's, The Dunwich Horror.

Still, I did ask for three, so here's another one...

Foreign language movie, night be French or Russian, possibly set post apocalypse (though if it's Russian that might just be how Russia looks), where the guy's basement is flooded and there's some kind of creature living under the water.

And it's not gay porn, right?   :D

"possibly set post apocalypse (though if it's Russian that might just be how Russia looks)"

Yeah, I think the apocalypse already happened in Russia and they just haven't noticed yet because it doesn't look any different.


Kelt

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on October 07, 2014, 01:26:39 PM
And it's not gay porn, right?   :D

"possibly set post apocalypse (though if it's Russian that might just be how Russia looks)"

Yeah, I think the apocalypse already happened in Russia and they just haven't noticed yet because it doesn't look any different.

Spent a bit of time in Russia a few years ago.  It's like an alien planet.

It took about 15 minutes after the wall came down for the Russians to reacquire their traditional czarist social model.


onan

You guys... the apocalypse is gay porn... everyone knows that.

Quote from: Kelt on October 07, 2014, 01:29:58 PM
Spent a bit of time in Russia a few years ago.  It's like an alien planet.

It took about 15 minutes after the wall came down for the Russians to reacquire their traditional czarist social model.

From everything I've ever learned, it sounds like it's always sucked to be Russian.  You were either doomed to a miserable life of poverty and oppression, no matter who was in charge, or if you had money and prestige, there was always someone trying to kill you, imprison you, and/or confiscate all your stuff.

Quote from: onan on October 07, 2014, 01:32:20 PM
You guys... the apocalypse is gay porn... everyone knows that.

And I saw a fifth horse which was lavender, and upon this horse sat Liber Arche. Ignoring my admonition at the end of this book, did I remove this part of the vision, as the burden was too great to believe.

Really, "John"?  This is where you drew the line?  At the purple horse?

Quote from: Kelt on October 07, 2014, 01:19:41 PM
Still, I did ask for three, so here's another one...

Foreign language movie, night be French or Russian, possibly set post apocalypse (though if it's Russian that might just be how Russia looks), where the guy's basement is flooded and there's some kind of creature living under the water.

Could it be The Deadly Spawn?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Spawn

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Quote from: Camazotz Automat on October 07, 2014, 01:47:14 PM
And I saw a fifth horse which was lavender, and upon this horse sat Liber Arche.

And this Liber Arche was a beast of surpassing savagery, clad in furs and exquisite cloth of many bright hues, and with fingers numbering four score and eight, each bejeweled beyond measure which doth caused him to shine with the blinding brilliance of a great bedazzling flame.

Kelt

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on October 07, 2014, 01:46:34 PM
From everything I've ever learned, it sounds like it's always sucked to be Russian.  You were either doomed to a miserable life of poverty and oppression, no matter who was in charge, or if you had money and prestige, there was always someone trying to kill you, imprison you, and/or confiscate all your stuff.

Pretty much, I think.

My Russian history is somewhat fuzzy, but I think it kind of went something like...

Hunter-gatherer subsistence, fighting off various superpredators during vicious cold cycles.

Viking groups settled and killed anyone who had a problem it.

Mongols invaded and killed anyone who did or didn't have a problem with it.

Peasant society formed under rule of Boyars. People lived in huts made out of shit and plague, and were killed for laughs by the ruling elite or robbed of all their 'valuables' by the priests.

The Swedes killed a bunch of them.

The French killed a bunch of them.

The Germans killed a bunch of them.

The Germans killed a bunch of them again.

The Russians killed a bunch of themselves.

The heyday of the KGB, where the only colour allowed in either clothing or building material was grey. Potato becomes mythical food of magical wonders... Cabbage is only food available, though.

Wall comes down

15 minutes of partying.

Army tries to re-establish military rule, but Russia is saved by a drunk superhero driving a tank.

Everyone is poor except for a few criminals with connections...  Sorry, entrepreneurs... who live in mansions made out of Platinum and tits.

Putin re-establishes czarist dominion.

This is probably far from complete, but yeah... sucks to be Russian.

paladin1991

Quote from: Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost on October 07, 2014, 02:39:45 PM
And this Liber Arche was a beast of surpassing savagery, clad in furs and exquisite cloth of many bright hues, and with fingers numbering four score and eight, each bejeweled beyond measure which doth caused him to shine with the blinding brilliance of a great bedazzling flame.
Flamed as only the flame broiled can flame, did he prance ceaselessly and, verily, ceaseless was he in his prancing as he flamed.  He lisped a medley of celestial showtunes, and tunes of a celestial medley of shows, did he lisp.

Made for tv movie from the 70's I think, that was billed and written up as terrifying in it's last scene. I think it went like this: a woman talked to her husband through a locked door. At the end of the movie, she manages to get the door open and I think he's a living corpse. I think. All I remember is that it was supposed to be really frightening, parental warnings and all that. The only description that's come close is The Norliss Tapes, but since I've never seen it, don't know if that's the one.

HorrorRetro

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on October 07, 2014, 05:53:57 PM
Made for tv movie from the 70's I think, that was billed and written up as terrifying in it's last scene. I think it went like this: a woman talked to her husband through a locked door. At the end of the movie, she manages to get the door open and I think he's a living corpse. I think. All I remember is that it was supposed to be really frightening, parental warnings and all that. The only description that's come close is The Norliss Tapes, but since I've never seen it, don't know if that's the one.

I was going to say it was the Norliss Tapes. I've seen it several times. It was a pilot for a series that never happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJB0OM7giI

paladin1991

I've been haunted by a vague memory of a movie about some morons who dig up a stiff.  Couldn't place it.  Then when I was gonna type it here it came to me. Children shouldn't play with Dead Things.  Gotta dig that little gem up.

Quote from: Unscreened Caller on October 07, 2014, 05:53:57 PM
Made for tv movie from the 70's I think, that was billed and written up as terrifying in it's last scene.  ... All I remember is that it was supposed to be really frightening, parental warnings and all that. The only description that's come close is The Norliss Tapes, but since I've never seen it, don't know if that's the one.

Quote from: HorrorRetro on October 07, 2014, 06:21:15 PM
I was going to say it was the Norliss Tapes. I've seen it several times. It was a pilot for a series that never happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMJB0OM7giI


These posts about The Norliss Tapes intrigued me.  Was surprised and pleased that Netflix has the Anchor Bay 2006 DVD release available.  I added it to the October mix and placed it smack dab in the middle of my American Horror Story : Coven DVDs shipments ... heh.

A Dan Curtis production featuring Roy Thinnes and Angie Dickinson with material by William F. Nolan?

How can this NOT be an enjoyable blast from the past? 

Anchor Bay has a reputation for releasing good editions ... with any luck, there will be some extra material featuring Thinnes/Dickinson/Nolan.

While I am not locating my own lost films so far, this topic is great for ~mining the obscure.~

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