What is the title(s)?

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:12 am **Post subject:** What is the title(s)?

ok, four films I saw like 10 years ago or something and never got to finish.

1. Was a sorta 'Beetlejuice' story, but in a normal house (ie, not a big mansion). Family moves in.. finds house haunted by ghost/thing/man, which I think turned out not to be bad after all. don't remember much more other than the fact that the kid in it had a tree hut which he could climb in and out of through his window.. oh, and there was something about bubbles... hmm.. Vague I know.. now I saw this in some birthday party and they'd rented that together with the original Ghost Busters.. must've been in '87 or something?

2. Was some medieval film. Started out with a school trip to Stonehenge I think. Some girl fell and hit her head and was transported back 3-400 years or something. Remember there was a scene with two knights fighting and one got his head cut off, only to continue fumbling around like a blind. Think there also was a dragon..

3. Was a sorta 'haunted mansion' film, but I think it was meant to be humorous. My mom wouldn't let me watch it anyways. =( There was like a bunch of people having a sleepover on this mansion and lots of strange things started to happen. They all would be in one room, then one guy would walk out a door and enter another room, only to turn and walk back in the first one, but all the others had disappeared. Eventually they discovered there were two of every room, and they moved about... There was a weird host guy who always spooked them, and I remember in one scene he pretended to cut off a finger with a kitchen knife, but it turned out it was just a carrot he had cut off. After a while they found out everything was fake, even down to the fog which was produced by some smoke machine. Think this film was kinda old, but in color.

4. was a 'Poltergeist' kinda film without the $$$$ budget. Family moves into house and finds strange goings on. Remember it turned out to be built on an ancient Indian burial ground or something. Was a big tree on the front lawn with lots of dark birds (hmm, might actually just have been one bird) always in the branches. It ended just with them moving away I think and it said it was based upon a true story.

I know these are all very very vague and it's not really important. Would still be fun to find out what these movies were called, and see them again. Come to think of it, all but the 3rd one were watched at birthday parties. =)

Katya · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 6:20 am **Post subject:**

must have been some strange birthday parties :lol:

wargand · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 8:19 am **Post subject:** Re: What is the title(s)?

John_Doe wrote:

3. Was a sorta 'haunted mansion' film, but I think it was meant to be humorous. My mom wouldn't let me watch it anyways. =( There was like a bunch of people having a sleepover on this mansion and lots of strange things started to happen. They all would be in one room, then one guy would walk out a door and enter another room, only to turn and walk back in the first one, but all the others had disappeared. Eventually they discovered there were two of every room, and they moved about... There was a weird host guy who always spooked them, and I remember in one scene he pretended to cut off a finger with a kitchen knife, but it turned out it was just a carrot he had cut off. After a while they found out everything was fake, even down to the fog which was produced by some smoke machine. Think this film was kinda old, but in color.

Was it this one:
Murder by Death
Please tell me it was this one and not a cheap rip off I absolutely don't want to see. This one is absolutely great.

Jack Deth · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:25 am **Post subject:**

Hell - do you know me dude? All of those sound familiar, but damned if I can remember a name for any to save my life!!!

Hell if anyone knows please let me know as well. Just like the gentleman above I'd like to know those titles as well, since I remember those films vaguely, but not the titles. God damned weed and alcohol - just fucks with your - what was that again???

satan · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 11:34 am **Post subject:**

Jack Deth wrote:

Hell - do you know me dude? All of those sound familiar, but damned if I can remember a name for any to save my life!!!

Hell if anyone knows please let me know as well. Just like the gentleman above I'd like to know those titles as well, since I remember those films vaguely, but not the titles. God damned weed and alcohol - just fucks with your - what was that again???

What he said. :matrix:

manzarek · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 1:34 pm **Post subject:**

wargand -> I am 100%sure that the movie is Murder by Death with Peter Falk and Peter Sellers and other great mystery/comedy movie!

I have that one if needed I will reshare just PM me

wargand · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:29 pm **Post subject:**

Hi,
not only J.D. has films, which he once saw, but cannot remember the title, I have the same problem. Since this is a fitting thread:

1. Not really horror, I think.
It is a cinema, which shows an old western movie and during the show a man in the first row is shot. The following police investigation shows strange things, the shot came from the screen, the bullet was from an old colt. It seems the all persons sitting on this special seat are shot by one of the cowboys in the film.

2. This one I remember even more vague. It is a haunted film studio I think. I is long abandoned, but a group of people break in and suddenly cannot get out anymore. Doors disappear or lead in other times, dimensions (?). And of course one by one get killed. When they finally find an exit, they don't use it, because they discoveres some old valuable film rolls? (?).

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue Aug 12, 2003 2:56 pm **Post subject:**

manzarek wrote:

wargand -> I am 100%sure that the movie is Murder by Death with Peter Falk and Peter Sellers and other great mystery/comedy movie!

I have that one if needed I will reshare just PM me

tnx man!!! I've had Murder By Death (1976) DivX [she3i3i] ShareReactor.avi in my que for ages, but on pause. Since there is a 'SR' in the name I guess it's well spread. will let you know if not. Really hope this is the right one.

As for your films, I have no idea. the 1st one sound a little like 'Deep Red' with the person being killed in a cinema.. but not shot from the screen.

John_Doe · **Posted:** Mon Apr 05, 2004 6:55 am **Post subject:**

I found I'd mixed up nr. 3 a little. Half of it was right and was from 'Murder by death', but the 'cutting off finger with kitchen knife, only to discover it was only a carrot cut in two'-scene was not there so that must've been from something else. any clue? It had alot of the same story, with a group of people being hassled by some scary weirdo guy...

Still would love to be able to find out what nr 1, 2 & 4 are. oh, and another one:

This is much more difficult. Think it was british, and I saw it on Sky-channel or something... It's about two people who say they are aliens and want to take people back to their home planet for a better life. Alot of people join and want to go, but we get the impression that all is not what it seams. One person tries to warn everyone, but they wont listen. It ended in some desert at night, with lots of flashing lights and stuff. The person trying to warn everyone was the only one left and when you finally got to see where the flashing lights came from it was from helicopters and alot of army dudes.. Think it might have been named something like 'Two visitors' but have been unable to find it at imdb.

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Mon Apr 05, 2004 8:13 am **Post subject:**

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This is much more difficult. and I saw it on Sky-channel or something... It's about two people who say they are aliens and want to take people back to their home planet for a better life. ... join and want to go, but we get the impression that all is not what it seams. One person tries to warn everyone, but they wont listen. It ended ... at night, with lots of flashing lights and stuff. The person trying to warn everyone was the only one left and when you finally got to see where the flashing lights came from it was from helicopters and alot of army dudes.. Think it might have been named something like 'Two visitors' but have been unable to find it at imdb.

Half of that is a simpsons halloween special :lol:

Quote:

4. was a 'Poltergeist' kinda film without the $$$$ budget. Family moves into house and finds strange goings on. Remember it turned out to be built on an ancient Indian burial ground or something. Was a big tree on the front lawn with lots of dark birds (hmm, might actually just have been one bird) always in the branches. It ended just with them moving away I think and it said it was based upon a true story.

Sounds a lot like The Amityville Horror (1979). It's based on a 'real story', or as close as they come involving haunted houses. One character mentions it maybe 'built on an ancient indian burial ground' if i recall correctly. Don't remember the birds or the tree house though, but maybe there (very long time since i saw it).
http://www.stomptokyo.com/movies/a/amit ... orror.html

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2004 4:54 am **Post subject:**

nope. wasn't amityville. the house was more suburban I think.. like in poltergeist. and the scariness was very subtle suggestive...

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2004 4:56 am **Post subject:**

what about the simpsons halloween special? :lol:

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2004 5:42 am **Post subject:**

spudthedestroyer wrote:

what about the simpsons halloween special? :lol:

Well they like to make their own versions of things.. so maybe we could find out what it was originally spoofed of?

spudthedestroyer · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2004 6:43 am **Post subject:**

Code:

    + Don't Open `til Doomsday (Outer Limits episode)
        - The implosion of Bad Dream House
    ~ Ghostbusters
        - The kitchen acting up as a woman puts away groceries
    + The Lone Ranger
        - Tonto
    + Frankenstein
        - disclaimer
    + EC Comics Horror Tales
        - Halloween episode
      The Shining
        - everyone trying to kill each other with knives, hatchets, etc.
    + The Exorcist
        - Maggie's head turning all the way around.
      Poltergeist
        - Bart strangled by house
        - The behavior of the haunted house.
        - Indian graves in the cellar.
      Addam's Family house
        - inspiration for Bad Dream House
    + The Amityville Horror
        - inspiration for Bad Dream House
        - Blood oozing down the walls. {my}
        - The wall with a chimney running up the center and
          quarter-circle windows on each side. {dl}
    + Psycho
        - The shape of the haunted house.
      The Fall of the House of Usher
        - The death of the haunted house.
    + The Fly
        - The `Ow' you hear when the bug zapper does its thing.
    + Star Trek
        - Kang is the name of the Klingon commander (``The Day of the Dove'')
        - Kodos is the name of another bad guy (``The Conscience of the King'')
        - Serak is a pun/anagram on Sarek, Spock's father, with perhaps
          some influence from Surak, a Vulcan philosopher.
    + Twilight Zone (To Serve Man)
        - The cookbook, `How to cook for forty humans'
    + Mafia Staff Car bumper stickers
        - Mafia Staff Apron
    + Vertigo
        - track and zoom as Lisa seen the spaceship
        - the moving staircase in Bad Dream House is also reminiscent of this
    + Alien
        - the corridor on the spaceship
    + Edgar Allen Poe [thank you, Curtis Hoffman]
        - Bust of Poe
        - Cask of Amontillado (on Homer's table)
        - Bust of Peter Lorre (who starred in Tales of Terror, inspired by Poe)
        - Forgotten Lore, Vol. II
        - The Pit And The Pendulum
        - The Tell Tale Heart
        - The Purloined Letter
        - The Raven (well, as long as I'm making a list...)
    + Cornelius Vanderbilt, 19th Century mogul
        - Cornelius V. Simpson
    + Casper, the Friendly Ghost
        - Casper, the friendly boy

Simpsons really is an 'original' series :lol:

The segment is called Hungry are the Damned and its from the Simpsons Treehouse of Horror (original):

Code:

| [Hungry Are the Damned]
    ... James Earl Jones also played `the Preparer'?
    ... Homer's apron reads, ``Mafia Staff Apron''?
    ... when the bug zapper is turned on, there's a big, juicy zap and a
        little `Ow'  (From `The Fly')?  ``My, that was a <big> momma.''
    ... the aliens are watching `Itchy and Scratchy'?

http://www.snpp.com/episodes/7F04.html

MCMLXXXVIII

John_Doe wrote:

4. was a 'Poltergeist' kinda film without the $$$$ budget. Family moves into house and finds strange goings on. Remember it turned out to be built on an ancient Indian burial ground or something. Was a big tree on the front lawn with lots of dark birds (hmm, might actually just have been one bird) always in the branches. It ended just with them moving away I think and it said it was based upon a true story.

Sounds like this one: The Uninvited.

John_Doe · **Posted:** Tue Apr 06, 2004 3:56 pm **Post subject:**

I think it very well might be.Tnx!!!!
now for a request!

John_Doe

I think I found the 1st one:
Mr. Boogedy (1986) (TV) http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091566/

John_Doe · **Posted:** Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:54 am **Post subject:**

pretty sure I found the 4th one now:
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992) (TV) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104365/

just 2 more to go..

MCMLXXXVIII · **Posted:** Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:15 am **Post subject:**

John_Doe wrote:

pretty sure I found the 4th one now:
Grave Secrets: The Legacy of Hilltop Drive (1992) (TV) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104365/

I've just remembered that I've seen Grave Secrets, it was pretty good for a TV movie. The mystery movie is more likely to be this one than The Uninvited I think.

John_Doe · **Posted:** Fri Apr 09, 2004 2:20 am **Post subject:**

yeah, after checking out the trailer I'm sure it's right. the title also rung a bell far down there. and the year seamed somewhat more right.

I've found the 2nd too now:
Arthur the King (1985) (TV) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088739/
aka Merlin & the Sword

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