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

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120975826#Comment_120975826

Not Green Mile, is it?

biketard

I tried this one several years ago, but no-one was able to help at the time. Can't for the life of me find the original post. I'm hoping someone may have come along since then that recogises it.

The film starts out with either Nazis or similarly nasty soldiers (possibly not even soldiers) killing a bunch of people in a small village and leaving a pile of bodies behind. Our future protagonist is shot in the head and left for dead. The story is all about him tracking down the killers one by one (if I remember right, they are now in pretty different locations) and killing them.

At one point he sees a doctor who tells him that the bullet is still lodged in his head and could very easily kill him if he overexerts himself.

The movie ends with him running away from killing the last guy (I think in an alley) with, I think, a happy look on his face (camera is looking right at his face and I think it slows to a stop) because he doesn't care now if the bullet in his head kills him.

I would probably have seen this in the 80s, possibly up to mid 90s. I feel like it had a European feel to it.

Thank you in advance for any help.

El Gato De Negocios

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972344#Comment_120972344

Deadbeat at Dawn or Hobo with a Shotgun?

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121043773#Comment_121043773

It wasn't Hobo, that only came out in 2011. It was least a decade earlier that I saw this clip.

Pretty sure it wasn't Deadbeat At Dawn either. I dont think the guy was deliberately run over, but whoever was driving was panicking and reversing/ accelerating. I think the was scene was supposed to be played for laughs, though it was more gross than funny.

jh79

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972344#Comment_120972344

Any chance it's Street Trash?

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121045768#Comment_121045768

Never seen that, but from the overall synopsis there doesn't seem to anything matching that scene.

Thinking about it more I think the hippy guy was wearing little or no clothes, only in his underwear maybe.

jh79

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120972344#Comment_120972344

I think i have it. Sean Moncrieff had an interview with the director because the movie was being shown in Cork and was quite graphic.

Hustler White by Bruce LaBruce.

From the link ..... "In the opening scene, Monti, fleeing a john in a stolen car, hits a pedestrian, severing his foot, but drives on.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/hustler_white.html

Be careful googling it , Bruce LaBruce is an infamous gay pornography director.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121056738#Comment_121056738

Oh, that's it all right. Its coming back to me now. Yes, there was a gay angle to the movie now that I remember. Great detective work.

Edit: found the scene! Its starts 30 seconds in. (Viewer discretion, foot scene is a bit graphic and more realistic than I remembered)

https://youtu.be/_4n8MNG8Ebs?si=38PdYcTIvH3TW0D3

Spon Farmer

This one popped into my head this morning for some unknown reason.

A British TV movie (or possibly an episode of an anthology series) from late 80s or very early 90s. Set on a working class street, focuses on two brothers, at least one a teenager. An albino man moves into the street and the brothers play pranks on him (can’t remember how serious it gets). The mother apologises to the man but I think he leaves and the boys regret their actions.

There were other plot lines too. And as I type I think one of the boys was narrating as an adult so the story may have taken place in the 70s.

The albino had Beetles style white hair and sunglasses. I think he wore polo necks and a purple jacket.

Jack Daw

Irish film shown in the Big Big Movie slot on Saturday evening on RTE in the 90's.

Family name in the film was Cronin.Set in the 50's or 60's in Dublin I feel.

Feature a younger boy (about 9) and his older brother (about 18) , father of the family was absent (either idea or abandoned them)

The phrase "i'll rip your head off and shove it up your arse" was said in the film during a quarrell.

Just popped into my head for some reason

Does it ring any bells with anyone?

biketard

I'm going to throw this one out there again and describe it differently in the hope that someone new recognises it (didn't have any luck a few years ago, but would still love to figure it out).

Man at the beginning is shot in the head and left for dead on a pile of bodies. I think it's kind of a war crime situation, though I could be wrong. He spends the rest of the movie tracking down the people involved and killing them one by one. The whole time, he still has the bullet lodged in his brain and has been warned by a doctor that it could kill him at any time, especially if he overexerts himself. The final scene of the movie is him running away from killing the last of the… baddies, towards the camera, in slow motion, with a smile on his face.

All of the above is assuming I remember it right, of course.

spurious

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121992543#Comment_121992543

It's 'The Boy from Mercury'.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115740/

degsie

A more recent "cult" movie I think. A young girl meets a monster in a cave or dark woods and if I remember there are nazi soldiers involved. I thought it was called Labyrinth or something like that. Thanks.

odyssey06

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001444#Comment_122001444

Pan's Labyrinth? Was it Spanish language?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%27s_Labyrinth

degsie

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122001495#Comment_122001495

Bang on! Yes now I remember it was Spanish. Thank you :)

Alawaiha

I can't find the title of a thriller I saw as a child anywhere. It was probably a TV movie. It was on Polish TV around 2011, but it wasn't natively Polish. It was about an epidemic of a virus that causes coughing up blood. The main character's husband became infected with this virus, was taken to hospital, where doctors examined him and tried to cure him. It seems to me that the woman regularly came to the hospital to hear from the doctors how her husband was doing and whether there was any progress in investigating the mysterious disease in order to find a treatment for it. But the doctors were helpless, they couldn't save him, and he finally died. Shortly after his death, a terrible scene took place in which a woman returns home and finds that her daughter has also been infected with this virus, finding her ominously pale and coughing blood into her hands. The daughter was maybe 12-13 years old and had long, straight, loose hair, probably dark blonde. Some other person, who asked in some Facebook group, probably also about this movie, wrote that this virus caused such a strong cough that it resulted in broken ribs and punctured lungs.

Trying to find this movie, I typed in all the words and phrases that fit it into Google. I also searched the Polish telemagazine in the same way. I asked people about this film on various forums, Facebook groups and subreddits, but no one knew the title. I also searched IMDb thoroughly using keywords. I checked a huge number of articles that mentioned films about epidemics. I also searched carefully on the Wikipedia. And I still haven't found the movie. So it's definitely not one of the famous movies like Contagion, Outbreak, Carriers and so on. It's definitely an extremely little-known film. I even reconstructed what this scene with daughter looked like using AI.

omri

A scifi horror movie probably from late 80s. Watched as a kid, a spaceship was burrowed underground, with aliens that would control humans or maybe they could turn into humans by jamming some kind of thing into back of their neck. Main characters were able to get inside through some sort of trap tunnels going to the ship or den. They used a coin to hack access to those controled people or weapon the monsters/aliens used. I think it was US made movie but was never able to track it.

Mr Crispy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013884#Comment_122013884

It sounds like the 1950s movie Invaders From Mars. I haven't seen it, but there was an 80s remake that I assume has the same story?

Capt'n Midnight

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013884#Comment_122013884

Might be one of these ?

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)
• Body Snatchers (1993)
• The Invasion (2007)

omri

It could be Invaders From Mars - but will know once I watch it. Thanks all.

El Gato De Negocios

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122013884#Comment_122013884

100% the remake of Invaders from Mars. Saw it in the cinema when it came out and the scene described above is a long needle being jammed into the back of people's necks.

omri

Was there a bit where they used alien guns of some sort jamming something metal in them too?

ianhmoore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120024672#Comment_120024672

You're thinking of RainMan with Dustin Hoffman. Tom Cruise goes to take a bath and Dustin Hoffman freaks out, it was part of the backstory of why Dustin Hoffmans character was institutionalized to begin with "Raymond had saved an infant Charlie from being scalded by hot bathwater one day, but their father blamed him for nearly injuring Charlie, and committed him to the institution, as he was unable to speak up for himself and correct the misunderstanding."

ianhmoore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118939096#Comment_118939096

You sure it wasn't the british movie Shooting Fish?

ianhmoore

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122026892#Comment_122026892

The alien guns used copper strips to work, the kid uses his copper coin collection to activate the gun or something. It's Tobe Hoopers (terrible) remake of Invaders from Mars.

Hangdogroad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122054850#Comment_122054850

No, definetly not that. It was Australian and from very late 80s/early 90s.

Main character was a young woman who had some kind of ability to communicate with horses. She was kind of "kooky". There was a lot of footage set around some big Australian horse racing event, maybe the Melbourne Cup.

RickBlaine

I'm looking for two Japanese or Korean horror movies. They could actually be the same movie but I think they are different.

One involves seemingly normal people committing murder. I think a policeman kills a guy outside his police station (I think the station is no bigger than a terrace house), and I'm pretty sure a doctor is involved in another killing too. I think these people are being influenced by some strange young women.

I remember less about the other one except the end involves a women somehow burying herself at a beach and the main actor arrives at that beach looking for her not realizing she is buried.

Any help would be appreciated.