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

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    The only credit for that track on IMDB in a soundtrack is for a Swedish film called "Blodigt jävla helvete"


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    jasonb wrote: »
    Hi there...

    Not a lot of info to go on for this one, sorry! I was in a local record store today, and in light of yesterday's sad news, they were playing Bowie's 'Low' album. Specifically the instrumental track 'Art Decade':

    The moment I heard it I thought it was from a film, and even asked the guy behind the counter. But a Google search has shown up nothing. The melody starts about 12 seconds into the song. It strikes me as something I might have seen in a Film/TV program/Trailer back in the early 80s, kinda Blade Runner/Tron/even Betty Blue, but I know it's none of them. Anyone any ideas if it was used in Film/TV?

    Thanks...

    J.



    The soundtrack from Furyo, by Ryuichi Sakamoto, perhaps?

    This is 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'



    Start around the 50'' mark.

    It's not the track you mention, but parts of it remind me of this one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭jasonb


    Thanks for your replies! Needless to say, it's not 'Blodigt jävla helvete'! Though I did enjoy looking at the trailer online... :)

    Interesting link there New Home, as while that's not it (as you say) it's another piece of music that had I heard it, I'd be wondering where I know it from!

    It's definitely Art Decade that I recognise, but it doesn't look like it's from anything mainstream (or even not mainstream). I wonder if it was used in TV Promos for a sci-fi film, or even a trailer for a film or something like that?

    J.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Or maybe from some videogame?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭jasonb


    New Home wrote: »
    Or maybe from some videogame?

    That's a good call, I didn't think of checking video games. Off I go...

    J.


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  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    Tell us if you find it, I'm curious now...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    I don't know if this helps but any time I hear the song it always reminds me of the music from A Clockwork Orange. They're not really that similar when it comes down to it but there's something about Art Decade that always reminds me of the Wendy Carlos score.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24 fad460


    New Home wrote: »
    Tell us if you find it, I'm curious now...

    I don't think it is in any film/TV. My friend is a huge fan and she would have known.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Seeing as Low was a huge influence on countless bands from the late 70s onwards it could have been something that just ripped off Art Decade or sounded very similar.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,340 ✭✭✭jasonb


    fad460 wrote: »
    I don't think it is in any film/TV. My friend is a huge fan and she would have known.

    Yeah, I think you're right. I'm wondering now if I either heard it through a TV promo for a movie/season of movies, or maybe a radio promo. Either way, I doubt I'm going to find out!

    J.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    I'm sure it was outer limits or twilight zone but it could have been some kind of amiture film... at the end she kills him or badly maims him thinking he was lying all along and when she goes to the surface there's nothing but destruction and fire from a Nuclear bomb..


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    'The Day After', 1983, deals with the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, but I don't know if that's the one you're looking for.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,686 ✭✭✭tonyheaney


    New Home wrote: »
    'The Day After', 1983, deals with the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, but I don't know if that's the one you're looking for.


    no its more recent like with in 1-year or so but this movie looks interesting :):D


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    I watched it when I was 12 or 13 and it scared the bejaysis out of me.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Low budget 1980s video nasty type film that I saw on a pirated videotape years ago at a friends house.The storyline ripped off loads of other horror/exploitation movies of the 70s and 80s.The main character was a Vietnam vet living in a run down apartment with his wife and a baby that was kind of deformed like the one in Eraserhead.It ripped off elements of Taxi Driver,there was something to do with a child prostitute who he was rescuing from a pimp I think and he shoots dead members of a criminal gang who are terrorising the neighbourhood,maybe one of them was the pimp I can't remember.I remember there were these Vietnam flashback scenes at the start that used stock Nam footage of planes dropping bombs etc and was then cut in with these really cheap looking scenes of yer man with his rifle dodging in and out behind trees.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭jh79


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Low budget 1980s video nasty type film that I saw on a pirated videotape years ago at a friends house.The storyline ripped off loads of other horror/exploitation movies of the 70s and 80s.The main character was a Vietnam vet living in a run down apartment with his wife and a baby that was kind of deformed like the one in Eraserhead.It ripped off elements of Taxi Driver,there was something to do with a child prostitute who he was rescuing from a pimp I think and he shoots dead members of a criminal gang who are terrorising the neighbourhood,maybe one of them was the pimp I can't remember.I remember there were these Vietnam flashback scenes at the start that used stock Nam footage of planes dropping bombs etc and was then cut in with these really cheap looking scenes of yer man with his rifle dodging in and out behind trees.

    Sounds like "Combat Shock " think it is on the Troma Channel on Youtube and Arrow released it on DVD a few years back.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    jh79 wrote: »
    Sounds like "Combat Shock " think it is on the Troma Channel on Youtube and Arrow released it on DVD a few years back.


    Yes,thats it!Looking at the trailer its quite misleading,its being marketed as an action film which it wasn't really.I think they were aiming for a sort of art house social realism but down to bad acting and special effects and untra low budget it came across like an exploitation B- movie.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭jh79


    darkdubh wrote: »
    Yes,thats it!Looking at the trailer its quite misleading,its being marketed as an action film which it wasn't really.I think they were aiming for a sort of art house social realism but down to bad acting and special effects and untra low budget it came across like an exploitation B- movie.


    Never a fan of the Troma stuff but as a collector of video nasties and 70's / 80's exploitation i had heard of it. The Exterminator would be my recommendation of a Vietnam vet whose had enough type movie.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    jh79 wrote: »
    Never a fan of the Troma stuff but as a collector of video nasties and 70's / 80's exploitation i had heard of it. The Exterminator would be my recommendation of a Vietnam vet whose had enough type movie.


    It didn't strike me as a typical Troma film,it was played straight unlike their typical spoofy stuff,probably worth a look.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,310 ✭✭✭jh79


    darkdubh wrote: »
    It didn't strike me as a typical Troma film,it was played straight unlike their typical spoofy stuff,probably worth a look.

    My mistake, it is distributed by troma in the US. I should give it a look on youtube. I do like Mothers Day so probably shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,624 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    I'm sure it was outer limits or twilight zone but it could have been some kind of amiture film... at the end she kills him or badly maims him thinking he was lying all along and when she goes to the surface there's nothing but destruction and fire from a Nuclear bomb..

    I remember this from the last few years but it wasn't a full film as you say but maybe a short story amidst other stories.

    was it she wakes up in the bunker and the neighbour tells her she was knocked out and he brought her in just before the disaster happened and even though it indicated that he was trying to Fritzl her that when she escapes outside that the world is destroyed?


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    tonyheaney wrote: »
    I'm sure it was outer limits or twilight zone but it could have been some kind of amiture film... at the end she kills him or badly maims him thinking he was lying all along and when she goes to the surface there's nothing but destruction and fire from a Nuclear bomb..

    There's an episode of Metal Hurlant Chronicles luke this, with James Marsters as the guy and Michelle Ryan as the girl, could that be it?


  • Registered Users Posts: 717 ✭✭✭Wishox


    Whats the name of that movie, you know the one with the guy in it? he had hair. Anyone ?


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Wishox wrote: »
    Whats the name of that movie, you know the one with the guy in it? he had hair. Anyone ?



    Westworld with Yul Brynner.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭Kev W


    Wishox wrote: »
    Whats the name of that movie, you know the one with the guy in it? he had hair. Anyone ?

    Kuffs.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,624 ✭✭✭✭Skerries


    Kev W wrote: »
    There's an episode of Metal Hurlant Chronicles luke this, with James Marsters as the guy and Michelle Ryan as the girl, could that be it?

    that's the one I was thinking about alright but not sure if this is what the OP was looking for



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    searching for a movie i saw a few years back. I can only remember a few scenes. A group of friends decide to film an expedition to a town, where apparently a century previously several dozens of persons disappeared in the local wilderness.

    I can remember that during there expedition the friends start to hear a humming sound and decide to follow it to its source deeper and deeper into the wilderness and along the way the sound has a mental effect on them.

    Could be a found footage movie.

    thanks.


  • Moderators, Arts Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 77,192 Mod ✭✭✭✭New Home


    The Blair Witch Project?

    Mind you, I've only seen the trailers and not the actual film, so it's very unlikely I got it right...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,526 ✭✭✭✭Darkglasses


    johndoe99 wrote: »
    searching for a movie i saw a few years back. I can only remember a few scenes. A group of friends decide to film an expedition to a town, where apparently a century previously several dozens of persons disappeared in the local wilderness.

    I can remember that during there expedition the friends start to hear a humming sound and decide to follow it to its source deeper and deeper into the wilderness and along the way the sound has a mental effect on them.

    Could be a found footage movie.

    thanks.
    New Home wrote: »
    The Blair Witch Project?

    Mind you, I've only seen the trailers and not the actual film, so it's very unlikely I got it right...

    Don't think it's that, but it sounds incredibly interesting, would also be interested in the name of it!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,497 ✭✭✭✭Kolido


    johndoe99 wrote: »
    searching for a movie i saw a few years back. I can only remember a few scenes. A group of friends decide to film an expedition to a town, where apparently a century previously several dozens of persons disappeared in the local wilderness.

    I can remember that during there expedition the friends start to hear a humming sound and decide to follow it to its source deeper and deeper into the wilderness and along the way the sound has a mental effect on them.

    Could be a found footage movie.

    thanks.

    Not this is it?


    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398428/?ref_=wl_li_tt


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,375 ✭✭✭✭kunst nugget


    Kolido wrote: »

    That's the one I was thinking pod but couldn't remember the name! Wasn't bad iirc but very odd by the end.

    There's also one called Dark Mountain that might fit the bill. I haven't seen it but it would fit the bill.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    Kolido wrote: »

    that's it thanks


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,882 ✭✭✭johndoe99


    That's the one I was thinking pod but couldn't remember the name! Wasn't bad iirc but very odd by the end.

    There's also one called Dark Mountain that might fit the bill. I haven't seen it but it would fit the bill.

    Dark Mountain is one i'm gonna look for too.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭EternalHope


    My Aunt told me about a psychological thriller she saw in the 1970's. The only part she can remember is there was a few people male and female visiting at a house having dinner.One of the men fancied one of the women but she did not fancy him.

    Something frightening happened and she wanted to leave so bad she said to him " If you take me away now you can spend the night" so she was really scared. I am not sure was the source of fear in the house or on the way. It could have been earthly like a killer or supernatural like spirits.

    I would love to see it if anyone know what it was


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    My Aunt told me about a psychological thriller she saw in the 1970's. The only part she can remember is there was a few people male and female visiting at a house having dinner.One of the men fancied one of the women but she did not fancy him.

    Something frightening happened and she wanted to leave so bad she said to him " If you take me away now you can spend the night" so she was really scared. I am not sure was the source of fear in the house or on the way. It could have been earthly like a killer or supernatural like spirits.

    I would love to see it if anyone know what it was

    I was reading an article in Sight And Sound from a couple of years ago about BBC horror/supernatural shorts from the 70s,many of which were part of the Play For Today series.Sounds a little like this one maybe,which starred Clive Swift(Richard in Keeping Up Appearences)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346845/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭EternalHope


    darkdubh wrote: »
    I was reading an article in Sight And Sound from a couple of years ago about BBC horror/supernatural shorts from the 70s,many of which were part of the Play For Today series.Sounds a little like this one maybe,which starred Clive Swift(Richard in Keeping Up Appearences)

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346845/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4.
    thanks, will check it out. No not it. In the film you linked the couples are married. in the film i want at least one man and one woman aren't. She does not like him but is prepared to spend the night with him if he takes her away as she is that scared


  • Registered Users Posts: 234 ✭✭Reon


    Movie ..some guy needs to pass a drug test for the cops or something but ends up smoking weed before hand he then buys a pippete and some chemicals i think its vinegar and pippettes it inside his penis to pass the test.but the cops find out what hes done anyway ? Anyone know?


  • Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭woof im a dog


    Reon wrote: »
    Movie ..some guy needs to pass a drug test for the cops or something but ends up smoking weed before hand he then buys a pippete and some chemicals i think its vinegar and pippettes it inside his penis to pass the test.but the cops find out what hes done anyway ? Anyone know?

    Is it maybe Harsh Times

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Times


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭Vito Andolini


    Looking for a movie... Set in post civil war America I think, a guy come back after the war to his best friends wife and farm and try's to pick up where his friend left off before the war pretending to be his friend?
    Thanks


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 937 ✭✭✭Dair76


    Looking for a movie... Set in post civil war America I think, a guy come back after the war to his best friends wife and farm and try's to pick up where his friend left off before the war pretending to be his friend?
    Thanks

    Sommersby?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭Vito Andolini


    That's it thanks, it must be 20 years since I saw it.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Want to identify what the movie was that this scene I remember was from.It was a subtitled movie set in a village in either Italy or Greece during the second world war.The scene was a group of resistance members who were discussing assassinating a local bigwig who was collaborating with the Germans.They were sitting around a table drinking wine and were pretty drunk.The discussion got round to using a bomb for the assassination and one of them starts off laughing and going "boom boom" then they all start,laughing and shouting boom and making big explosion gestures with their hands.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Aglomerado


    Wild guess but maybe i conformista (the conformist) by Bertolucci?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065571/


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,628 ✭✭✭darkdubh


    Aglomerado wrote: »
    Wild guess but maybe i conformista (the conformist) by Bertolucci?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065571/

    Hmmm.it could well have been set in Facist era Italy but I don't think it was that film,I saw The Conformist years ago and certain its not that.The one I'm trying to remember was as far as I recall set entirely in a village.Thinking about it I'm sure that scene was all done in a single take or something unusual about it like that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭MfMan


    A film trailer from way back late 70s/very early 80s; adolescent boy meets girl, relationship frowned upon, boy probably a bit of a tearaway. Boy also a good swimmer, scenes of him swimming in competition. Later, scenes of him in hospital, electrodes attached to his head, possibly in a coma. A teen movie of sorts I think. Any ideas?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭EternalHope


    MfMan wrote: »
    A film trailer from way back late 70s/very early 80s; adolescent boy meets girl, relationship frowned upon, boy probably a bit of a tearaway. Boy also a good swimmer, scenes of him swimming in competition. Later, scenes of him in hospital, electrodes attached to his head, possibly in a coma. A teen movie of sorts I think. Any ideas?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_People

    ??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,489 ✭✭✭MfMan


    No, more teen-based I think rather than adult-centric.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,221 ✭✭✭RichyX


    MfMan wrote: »
    No, more teen-based I think rather than adult-centric.

    Predator 2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,905 ✭✭✭deravarra


    Movie - i think British made ...
    A group of new age hippies meet in various locations and are burned by some high intensity light (like a laser) coming from the sky.
    There was one scene where a survivor was in hospital, and he started levitating despite being in an induced coma, and reached the ceiling lights, was electrocuted and died.
    From memory, all the hippies were always talking about "the planet"

    It frightened the lard out of me at the time.

    Anyone know what it was/is?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    deravarra wrote: »
    A group of new age hippies meet in various locations and are burned by some high intensity light (like a laser) coming from the sky.

    Quatermass, a mini series from 1979.


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