Movie Identification (Post here if you're looking for the name of a movie)

redz11 · 12-06-2012 1:34am

I remember a movie I saw on video at a friends house, it was most likely sometime between 1990 and 1995 ... I think!

The main scene that I remember is a teenage boy, in his bedroom. And some sort of vortex opened up in the middle of his bed, and it sucked in everything in his bedroom, and him, too.

I'd know the scene straight away if I saw it again ... gave me nightmares for years!

I've a feeling it's a pretty mainstream movie, so hopefully someone here will know it!

gzmdmc · 12-06-2012 8:47am

deepmemory wrote: »

I need help to identify a movie that I saw when I was child/teenage on a TV. The story is about a black male child that come to a house where it turned out to be a prison/lair for kidnapped children. The antagonist (child kidnapper) was the householder (either only a male or a couples of husband-wife (?)). Then either the black kid found out their secret so the antagonist trapped the black kid into their house and tried to kill him, OR the black kid discovered their house so the antagonist decided to kidnap/kill him (?). Either way, the black kid eventually got trapped into their house, so he tried to run away from the antagonist and find a way to get out of the house. Inside the house, the black kid was helped by a white female child (who had been kidnapped by the houseowner (?)). The female child was very agile - moving and crawling from behind house wall - helping the black kid. Probably the female child was kidnapped since baby, thus she grown up in the house and never leave the house so she was very adapted into the house environment. In the end, the bad guy was defeated and their crime was exposed.

I remember vaguely, the title or dialogue has words "born under star" or something like that. The words refer to the black kid whom his mother said he is a lucky child because he was born under ... star..., like that.

The movie is a colored film. The spoken language is english. The background of movie is in a modern city, not sure what country it is, but it's probably U.S. or it can be U.K. too. The 80% of movie scenes are happened inside the house. Unfortunately, I forget what year I watched the movie. The release year must be before 2008.

Would it be Wes Craven's 'People Under The Stairs'??

Worztron · 12-06-2012 8:50am

French film. Possibly from the 1980s/early-1990s. At the end a guy rescues someone (woman?) in a car junk yard.

gzmdmc · 12-06-2012 9:02am

Worztron wrote: »

French film. Possibly from the 1980s/early-1990s. At the end a guy rescues someone (woman?) in a car junk yard.

Maybe this?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy_for_the_Devil_(film)

Worztron · 12-06-2012 9:05am

gzmdmc wrote: »

Maybe this?? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathy_for_the_Devil_(film)

No, it was much later than that. Thanks though.

the purple tin · 12-06-2012 10:21am

redz11 wrote: »

I remember a movie I saw on video at a friends house, it was most likely sometime between 1990 and 1995 ... I think!

The main scene that I remember is a teenage boy, in his bedroom. And some sort of vortex opened up in the middle of his bed, and it sucked in everything in his bedroom, and him, too.

I'd know the scene straight away if I saw it again ... gave me nightmares for years!

I've a feeling it's a pretty mainstream movie, so hopefully someone here will know it!

The Gate?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOX6-Rw5PWc

HellfireEire · 12-06-2012 11:04am

redz11 wrote: »

I remember a movie I saw on video at a friends house, it was most likely sometime between 1990 and 1995 ... I think!

The main scene that I remember is a teenage boy, in his bedroom. And some sort of vortex opened up in the middle of his bed, and it sucked in everything in his bedroom, and him, too.

I'd know the scene straight away if I saw it again ... gave me nightmares for years!

I've a feeling it's a pretty mainstream movie, so hopefully someone here will know it!

Could it be Nightmare On Elm Street? There is a scene where the main male character is pulled down into his bed with his tv etc, killed and the room fills with gore.

Here is the link *Warning* violent scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz9DWbfmSbI

ianhmoore · 13-06-2012 5:59pm

redz11 wrote: »

I remember a movie I saw on video at a friends house, it was most likely sometime between 1990 and 1995 ... I think!

The main scene that I remember is a teenage boy, in his bedroom. And some sort of vortex opened up in the middle of his bed, and it sucked in everything in his bedroom, and him, too.

I'd know the scene straight away if I saw it again ... gave me nightmares for years!

I've a feeling it's a pretty mainstream movie, so hopefully someone here will know it!

Does sound like the scene from Poltergeist. Where one of the kids is swallowed by the tree and while the parents are distracted trying to save him their daughter is left alone in the bedroom. Closet door opens up and everything (including her) is sucked into the closet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qweaPhmWqo

Riskymove · 14-06-2012 11:10am

redz11 wrote: »

I remember a movie I saw on video at a friends house, it was most likely sometime between 1990 and 1995 ... I think!

The main scene that I remember is a teenage boy, in his bedroom. And some sort of vortex opened up in the middle of his bed, and it sucked in everything in his bedroom, and him, too.

I think that might be Time Bandits when the kid gets sent off in time

Smiles35 · 14-06-2012 11:53am

Riskymove wrote: »

I think that might be Time Bandits when the kid gets sent off in time

That's what I thought of too. But I was sure the op would have remembered the little guys coming out of the closet.

lauraww · 22-06-2012 7:31pm

hi there i am trying to find out the name of a movie,i saw it years ago in the nineties,it may have been a two part mini series,im not sure.It is about a husband who is abusive to his wife,he is a psychopath.The scene that i remember from the film is this,the woman is sitting in the car and her husband is sitting next to her, then suddenly there is a big spider either on the wife or at her side of the car that the husband put there.Then as she is screaming and panicking,her husband is laughing and he has a camera,he is either recording her reaction or photographing it.

thank you,please help me cos its driving me nuts trying to find this film

ianhmoore · 22-06-2012 10:52pm

lauraww wrote: »

hi there i am trying to find out the name of a movie,i saw it years ago in the nineties,it may have been a two part mini series,im not sure.It is about a husband who is abusive to his wife,he is a psychopath.The scene that i remember from the film is this,the woman is sitting in the car and her husband is sitting next to her, then suddenly there is a big spider either on the wife or at her side of the car that the husband put there.Then as she is screaming and panicking,her husband is laughing and he has a camera,he is either recording her reaction or photographing it.

thank you,please help me cos its driving me nuts trying to find this film

I don't know about the spider scene, but I'm thinking it could be Nil By Mouth? It was filmed in that shakey hand held camera style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiZPoJ5up8&feature=related

lauraww · 23-06-2012 12:58am

ianhmoore wrote: »

I don't know about the spider scene, but I'm thinking it could be Nil By Mouth? It was filmed in that shakey hand held camera style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiZPoJ5up8&feature=related[/QUOTE]

its definitley not nil by mouth,the movie i am looking for is an american film

ianhmoore · 25-06-2012 7:26pm

lauraww wrote: »

ianhmoore wrote: »

I don't know about the spider scene, but I'm thinking it could be Nil By Mouth? It was filmed in that shakey hand held camera style. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZiZPoJ5up8&feature=related[/QUOTE]

its definitley not nil by mouth,the movie i am looking for is an american film

Hmmm, only thing that comes to mind is a scene in which a kid had put a toy spider in the sunvisor of the parents car as a joke, however when the mother opened it and the spider fell on her, she had an all out panic attack and caused a car crash. Oh great, now I'm going to have to find out what THAT movie was....

Got a time frame for the movie you're thinking of?

lauraww · 26-06-2012 2:37pm

ianhmoore wrote: »

lauraww wrote: »

Hmmm, only thing that comes to mind is a scene in which a kid had put a toy spider in the sunvisor of the parents car as a joke, however when the mother opened it and the spider fell on her, she had an all out panic attack and caused a car crash. Oh great, now I'm going to have to find out what THAT movie was....

Got a time frame for the movie you're thinking of?

its from around 1993 or 1994 i think.it has a stephen king vibe to it but i dont think it is one of his movies.

Hank Scorpio · 26-06-2012 11:41pm

Guys I'm looking for a movie. Its about the last day on earth, I don't remember much about it or how the ending happened, I remember this guy and a girl were standing on like an apartment balcony, I'm almost sure it follows around a select number of people only and there isn't a massive story line. I remember the guy in the movie calling into his parents and drinking wine I think then going, he wanted to die alone. Its made in kind of a requiem for a dream style if that's any use, and its modern enough, definitely in the last 20 years. Its pretty dark. I thought it was called something like "Last day" or similar. Thanks.

P.s. I think the guy made a plan about his end, something like drinking a certain beer and lying on a sunbed on his apartment balcony

brian_t · 27-06-2012 12:14am

nuxxx wrote: »

Guys I'm looking for a movie. Its about the last day on earth, I don't remember much about it or how the ending happened, I remember this guy and a girl were standing on like an apartment balcony, I'm almost sure it follows around a select number of people only and there isn't a massive story line. I remember the guy in the movie calling into his parents and drinking wine I think then going, he wanted to die alone. Its made in kind of a requiem for a dream style if that's any use, and its modern enough, definitely in the last 20 years. Its pretty dark. I thought it was called something like "Last day" or similar. Thanks.

P.s. I think the guy made a plan about his end, something like drinking a certain beer and lying on a sunbed on his apartment balcony

How about "Last Night" (1998 film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_(1998_film)

Hank Scorpio · 27-06-2012 12:43am

brian_t wrote: »

How about "Last Night" (1998 film)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Night_(1998_film)

dead on man, thanks a mill

GalwayKiefer · 30-06-2012 1:52pm

I've searched for hours trying to figure the name of this film and given up so I'm hoping someone here can help me.

It's an American film and the scene I can picture is set in a 2 level golf driving range during the day where some type of Russian/Eastern European gangster goes to see a huge fat Hawaiian/islander looking man who is sitting on a sofa with some minders around him and one or 2 skinny girls in very little clothes. The guy who turns up takes out either a golf club or some sort of meat clever type weapon and rests the end on a small table in front of the fat guy. The fat guy tells the girl who was on his lap/the couch something along the lines of "Go take a walk baby."

I think prior to this scene another character had gone to the fat guy with a list of illegal things he needed acquired.

Joeface · 30-06-2012 2:09pm

GalwayKiefer wrote: »

I've searched for hours trying to figure the name of this film and given up so I'm hoping someone here can help me.

It's an American film and the scene I can picture is set in a 2 level golf driving range during the day where some type of Russian/Eastern European gangster goes to see a huge fat Hawaiian/islander looking man who is sitting on a sofa with some minders around him and one or 2 skinny girls in very little clothes. The guy who turns up takes out either a golf club or some sort of meat clever type weapon and rests the end on a small table in front of the fat guy. The fat guy tells the girl who was on his lap/the couch something along the lines of "Go take a walk baby."

I think prior to this scene another character had gone to the fat guy with a list of illegal things he needed acquired.

Remake of Italian job . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317740/

poor quality but is this the scene : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QbUTRKJUoA
he is skinny pete.. Gawtti , suppose to be a rapper

GalwayKiefer · 30-06-2012 4:55pm

Joeface wrote: »

Remake of Italian job . http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317740/

poor quality but is this the scene : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QbUTRKJUoA
he is skinny pete.. Gawtti , suppose to be a rapper

Thanks for that, much appreciated.

gzmdmc · 02-07-2012 8:37am

lauraww wrote: »

ianhmoore wrote: »

its from around 1993 or 1994 i think.it has a stephen king vibe to it but i dont think it is one of his movies.

Maybe... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husbands_and_Wives#Plot

Bullseye1 · 08-07-2012 2:56am

There was an interesting sci-fi movie starring the actor who played the Leutenant in charge of Swat in Hill Street Blues. I cannot recall the actors name.

kitakyushu · 08-07-2012 3:18am

Bullseye1 wrote: »

There was an interesting sci-fi movie starring the actor who played the Leutenant in charge of Swat in Hill Street Blues. I cannot recall the actors name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_B._Sikking
?

Bullseye1 · 08-07-2012 3:32am

That's the guy. Thanks. Now the search for that movie.

Bullseye1 · 08-07-2012 3:35am

You know it must have been an episode of The Outer Limits.

Departed · 08-07-2012 3:50am

Bullseye1 wrote: »

There was an interesting sci-fi movie starring the actor who played the Leutenant in charge of Swat in Hill Street Blues. I cannot recall the actors name.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morons_from_Outer_Space ?
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capricorn_One ?
or
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronaut ?

ruadhri44 · 08-07-2012 6:53pm

Bullseye1 wrote: »

There was an interesting sci-fi movie starring the actor who played the Leutenant in charge of Swat in Hill Street Blues. I cannot recall the actors name.

I saw this film back in the early 90s. Could this be it?

Final Approach from 1991.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101874/

Bullseye1 · 08-07-2012 7:51pm

I think that's it. Must see if I can rent it again. It is years since I watched it. I thought it was quite interesting at the time.

Owryan · 10-07-2012 1:37am

Ok, please bear with me on this one,

My 3 yo was watching a film on tv ,Saturday gone by, it involved a clown been chased through a woods by people who were throwing rocks/sticks at him .

he has me gone mad asking to watch it again but i ve no idea what the film is , its his description so im really sorry bout the vagueness .

bnt · 10-07-2012 2:02am

Could it have been Fantastic Mr. Fox (Film4, about 6PM)? It's stop-motion animation, I think it had forest chase scenes, and Mr. Fox in that ridiculous suit may have looked like a clown ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2igjYFojUo

You can search yourself by using TV Guide: tell it which channels you have, and look back in time a few days.

kitakyushu · 10-07-2012 2:10am

Owryan wrote: »

Ok, please bear with me on this one,

My 3 yo was watching a film on tv ,Saturday gone by, it involved a clown been chased through a woods by people who were throwing rocks/sticks at him .

he has me gone mad asking to watch it again but i ve no idea what the film is , its his description so im really sorry bout the vagueness .

When I read your description I thought "Octopussy" straight away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXSAHnc6rQU

I'm fairly certain I even saw a bit of this movie whilst flicking around the channels last w/e too. That might be your movie

Sleepy · 10-07-2012 9:28am

Yep, Octopussy was on over the weekend alright and it opens with a clown being chased through a woods and murdered for the fabergé egg he's carrying iirc.

Not really suitable stuff for a 3 year old!

Owryan · 10-07-2012 1:02pm

thanks a million guys, think it was octopussy , can remember it been on at some stage

the fine print · 11-07-2012 2:14pm

I vaguely remember watching an old film (pre-1960s) as a kid. There is a challenged quest for a mythical bell and in the end it turns out that the bell is hidden behind plaster, actually forming the entire dome of a chapel or temple on top of a sea-cliff. Ringing the giant bell causes it to fall off the cliff entombing many of the antagonists.....
It could have been a reference to the above-mentioned bell in Burma, (but may well not be); a friend of mine being involved in the modern salvage plan for it is reason I keep thinking about the film; its not even a very good one I think, but I was only 10 or so when I watched it first.

thanks!

flanree · 12-07-2012 3:37am

I've had this idea for a film plot for years but I thought this thread would be a good place to check if it has been made before to any extent?

Concept:Main character is a talentless loser type who relies on google for any information and always tries to make a quick buck avoiding making any effort. He gets sent back in time accidentally to the mid 20th century. The film follows him desperately trying to recreate successful ideas of the latter 20th century that haven't yet happenned in a vain attempt to cash in. Being a talentless philistine with no resources he fails spectacularly to: recall key details of major events, recreate classic works of various artforms, reinvent great inventions etc. I would see it as a comedy but it could go down the road of him redeeming himself by averting some final disaster (perhaps by accident).

Two films have hinted at aspects of the idea, both of which honestly came out after I thought of it: Forrest Gump and more so Be Kind Rewind. Have there been any films made closer to the above plot?

Reon · 13-07-2012 9:57am

ok 2 movies

1- i think it was angelina jolie in it and 2 boys in there teens they built her or maybe she came from space or something theres one scene where she goes to the boys house and ties up the father or something cant quite remember its a very old movie.

2- ok this is going to be vague and **** lol its a chinese samurai movie i rememebr some english lady goes to china and works some the king or leader idk and minds the children and some chinese guy and girl falls inlove with eachother and the leader/king doesnt approve and gets there heads choped off during this scene the man and woman look at eachother.. lol if you know would be amazing being searching for years

Basq · 13-07-2012 10:00am

Reon wrote: »

ok 2 movies

1- i think it was angelina jolie in it and 2 boys in there teens they built her or maybe she came from space or something theres one scene where she goes to the boys house and ties up the father or something cant quite remember its a very old movie.

Weird Science maybe? Not that old, mid 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qd04u2Yj44

Mickeroo · 13-07-2012 1:15pm

Reon wrote: »

2- ok this is going to be vague and **** lol its a chinese samurai movie i rememebr some english lady goes to china and works some the king or leader idk and minds the children and some chinese guy and girl falls inlove with eachother and the leader/king doesnt approve and gets there heads choped off during this scene the man and woman look at eachother.. lol if you know would be amazing being searching for years

Chinese samurai movie? unlikely :P

But that could be Anna and the King with Jodie Foster and Chow Yun Fat. I think its a remake of The King and I, just without the singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7U6Cw77kr0

brian_t · 13-07-2012 4:44pm

flanree wrote: »

I've had this idea for a film plot for years but I thought this thread would be a good place to check if it has been made before to any extent?

Concept:Main character is a talentless loser type who relies on google for any information and always tries to make a quick buck avoiding making any effort. He gets sent back in time accidentally to the mid 20th century. The film follows him desperately trying to recreate successful ideas of the latter 20th century that haven't yet happenned in a vain attempt to cash in. Being a talentless philistine with no resources he fails spectacularly to: recall key details of major events, recreate classic works of various artforms, reinvent great inventions etc. I would see it as a comedy but it could go down the road of him redeeming himself by averting some final disaster (perhaps by accident).

Two films have hinted at aspects of the idea, both of which honestly came out after I thought of it: Forrest Gump and more so Be Kind Rewind. Have there been any films made closer to the above plot?

Timecop and Time Chasers both deal with people going back in time to profit themselves only to be stopped by other time travellers. I would imagine that there would be several others I can't think of at the moment.

To be honest I don't think that the two examples you give do even hint at that kind of plot or have any kind of time travel - but it has been a long time since I've seen them.

danger_mouse_tm · 14-07-2012 5:39pm

Does anyone know the name of the American 80's movie in which a couple rent out a room in their home to a tennant from hell who drives them to the point of almost leaving there house. But they discover that this guy is a wealthy con man who has done this many times before in order to get the house. The bad guy is quite famous but I can't remember his name....

kitakyushu · 14-07-2012 6:10pm

danger_mouse_tm wrote: »

Does anyone know the name of the American 80's movie in which a couple rent out a room in their home to a tennant from hell who drives them to the point of almost leaving there house. But they discover that this guy is a wealthy con man who has done this many times before in order to get the house. The bad guy is quite famous but I can't remember his name....

Pacific Heights

DazMarz · 16-07-2012 7:45pm

I'm fairly sure it's The Last of the Mohicans, but just want to be sure. It's a film that has a scene in which a man has his heart cut out of his chest while he looks on in horror, as the man who cuts the heart out says something along the lines of "We will wipe your seed from the earth" or something. The man getting disheartened (:p) is dressed in what looks like American colonial uniforms or possibly British redcoat uniform, and the killer is a Native American warrior.

Cheers.

Mickeroo · 16-07-2012 7:49pm

DazMarz wrote: »

I'm fairly sure it's The Last of the Mohicans, but just want to be sure. It's a film that has a scene in which a man has his heart cut out of his chest while he looks on in horror, as the man who cuts the heart out says something along the lines of "We will wipe your seed from the earth" or something. The man getting disheartened (:p) is dressed in what looks like American colonial uniforms or possibly British redcoat uniform, and the killer is a Native American warrior.

Cheers.

Yep thats Last of the Mohicans without question.

Josey Wales · 19-07-2012 4:40pm

I have very little to go on here but I'll try anyway.

There is a large conference table where all the people sitting there have had the water extracted from their bodies. All that is left is a pile of dust on each seat.

At the end I think a machine is used to add water back to the dust to recreate the people.

Any ideas what this could be?

kitakyushu · 19-07-2012 4:46pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

I have very little to go on here but I'll try anyway.

There is a large conference table where all the people sitting there have had the water extracted from their bodies. All that is left is a pile of dust on each seat.

At the end I think a machine is used to add water back to the dust to recreate the people.

Any ideas what this could be?

Maybe I'm way off but I reckon that's the 1966 Batman movie (or one of the episodes of the show anyway).

westies4ever · 19-07-2012 4:46pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

I have very little to go on here but I'll try anyway.

There is a large conference table where all the people sitting there have had the water extracted from their bodies. All that is left is a pile of dust on each seat.

At the end I think a machine is used to add water back to the dust to recreate the people.

Any ideas what this could be?

I think thats an old Batman movie from the 60's with Adam West?

Josey Wales · 19-07-2012 5:18pm

westies4ever wrote: »

I think thats an old Batman movie from the 60's with Adam West?

Wow. I always thought that I hadn't seen that. I must check it out.

westies4ever · 19-07-2012 9:51pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

westies4ever wrote: »

I think thats an old Batman movie from the 60's with Adam West?

Wow. I always thought that I hadn't seen that. I must check it out.

I just remember the weapon in it was the dehydrator! And the conference room was the world trade centre. Haven't seen it for years. Hope I'm not on the wrong track.

Blue850 · 19-07-2012 11:19pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

I have very little to go on here but I'll try anyway.

There is a large conference table where all the people sitting there have had the water extracted from their bodies. All that is left is a pile of dust on each seat.

At the end I think a machine is used to add water back to the dust to recreate the people.

Any ideas what this could be?

Tank Girl

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