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Okay, so I remember watching this movie when i was a kid. I remember it being kind of full of Nightmare Fuel, though in retrospect, what little I can remember makes it seem like it was just plain bad. Anyway... There's something about a kid brings home a videotape he wasn't supposed to, and because he played the tape in the player some bad guy inside the TV (who is trying to steal every shade of every color, for some inexplicable reason) kidnaps his little sibling because the color of their eyes is one of the few shades of color he hasn't collected yet. So the kid has to follow their sibling into the TV to rescue them. And so the kid travels through different channels, and there's like, a sci-fi channel, and a yeti (I think), or something, at one point. And as the kid gets to higher numbered channels eventually they reach channels that are all black and white because the bad guy stole all the color. To be honest, I don't remember liking the movie, I just have this weird memory of it and I want to know what it was because it's bugging me that I can't really remember such a strange movie.
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I've been looking for this movie, I think it was originally Italian, a sort of horror-comedy about a priest who find out that the Antichrist will be born in a few days, and decides to become a Satanist to gather information so he can find and kill the infant Antichrist. He teams up with a big bearded biker-type dude and a smarmy TV occultist. There's a scene in the beginning when the cross on an altar in a church falls down and crushes someone who's praying for guidance, and a scene where the priest and biker are performing a ritual in a circle and lots of bugs and rats swarm around and a black goat walks up to the circle and stands up on its hind legs. The climax of the movie takes place at the construction site of a building built in the shape of the 'mark of the devil,' which looks like this: / I want to say that the movie had a name like "Adversary!" or "Antichrist!" or something like that, but I really don't remember. Has anyone else heard of this? Thanks in advance.
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Only saw the end of this film on TV more than a decade ago, maybe even 2 decades ago, and my memories of it may have changed. It was about a kid who seemed to be trained to be as an escape artist. When I got into the show he is apparently making his escape from some kidnappers. I remember him contorting his body to get off his cuffs. By the end he gets out and is being chased by the crooks. He hides inside what seems to be a public mailbox. A suspicious crook drops a knife inside and the kid gets hurt, but does not shout. Once the crook leaves the boy comes out and goes his way, dropping what seemed to be some origami or small artifacts on the road. And that's how it ended. Anybody knows this?
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Let's see, it was a football (soccer) themed film set in the European Championships in Portugal (Euro 2004) and it was about a British man sneaking to these matches during his honeymoon in Portugal with an American woman. There was also some comic relief with some guys as sports commentators talking about his little charade as a sort of football match. (trust me, I don't recall it making much more sense IN context)
Was made approximately 2005-2007.
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It's an animated film with talking animals living in a forest. I remember that one of them was named Abigail (possibly a squirrel) and there was a skunk (or something black and white) named Michelle. IIRC, a poisonous gas was putting all the animals in a coma and Abigail and her friends were sent to find a way to revive everyone and save the forest.
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A comedy about a geeky son of a crime lord who is about to take the place of his father after the father died. An uncle I think, wants to kill the son to take his place by hiring to assassins but the two keep failing in a hilarious manner.
The second film I remember even less but have one character said, "You can run but you can't hide. OK, you can hide but we'll find you. OK, maybe we wont find you but we'll keep looking" or something to that effect.
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There was a film I watched a while ago with a plot similar to Bedtime Stories. There was a father and an estranged son (who I believe were both black), and the father was competing with a guy who claims to be a Native American. He gets the upper hand by interpreting his son's drawings, whose results actually carry out into real life. Near the end, the Native guy figures it out and hypes his son on Red Bull to level the playing field.
Anyone remember this? The actor portraying the "Native American"'s name was Thomas [something].
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I saw this one on TV in Canada, but can't find out what it was called. It was about a little boy who was kidnapped by a profession wrestler and taken to an island hidden by fog in the middle of a swamp. The wrestler had two assistants, one was a fish man and the other was a chicken lady who was in love with him. There were a bunch of kids stuck here, being terrorized by the wrestler. However, the main character (who I think was called Jimmy) realized that the wrestler was actually a nice guy who bullied kids to make himself feel tough. After all, no one that evil would be nice to their dog.
Meanwhile, a pair of ineffectual child heroes were trying to save them. They didn't do much of anything. Eventually, the fog was dissipated, the lair was exposed to sunlight, and the two assistants turned back into what they were made out of (fish and chickens). This turned out to all be a daydream and the show ended with Jimmy getting yelled at by a salesperson for stealing a tomato.
Anyone remember it? I kept thinking Jimmy Two-Shoes, but that's a cartoon.
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I'm trying to figure out the name of a strange movie that I saw a clip or trailer of a few months ago. I think it's from the nineties or early 2000s. The main character was a fat man who was schizophrenic or mentally ill in some way who wears headphones and may or may not be homeless. I think it was shot on video tape and has a very unconventional structure. I saw it while looking for films similar in style to those of David Lynch. Some of this description might be wrong but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
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1) Some old black and white movie. Death comes to claim some guy. I think the guy had an apple tree that whenever someone goes up in it, they always get stuck and can't come down. So the guy asks Death to go up into the apple tree and get him one last apple before he dies. Death does as he asks, and then he is stuck in the tree. Nothing can die after that.
2) Possibly the same movie, but I think a different old black and white movie. Some rich people in a huge house are negotiating with Death, or trying to get out of a deal with Death or something? I'm not sure but Death is in their house for the duration of the movie for some reason, and he is supposed to take someone in the house. At the end, you think he's supposed to take that person, but then he takes off his hood and cape and announces that he wants to stop being Death. I think he fell in love with a woman in the house, or maybe there was some other reason? I mostly just remember my Mom yelling "Copout!" at the TV when I saw it as a kid.
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Looking for a film which is set in a school/college. There's an art student who's handing his work into his teacher, it sort of looks like this◊ album cover, but in pencil and drawn on tracing paper. Somehow it gets ripped up. While this is going on, the school is having windows broken. It turns out that the main character is punching the windows, but can't remember doing it. He has his hands bandaged up I think. At the end, his friends tape back up the picture and give it back to him.
It was probably made in the late eighites to late nineties. Saw it on the BBC around 10 years ago.
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This one has been nagging me for years. As I remember it, it's part of a movie. There are girls, in what I think is an orphanage, and they're in a bedroom. One of the girls is telling the others a story, which is shown on the screen. The story has a man, maybe a prince, dying in a forest. A deer comes along and licks his wound, and ends up giving its life so the man can live. That's all I can remember, and I'd be eternally grateful if anyone could tell me what it was from.
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I think I saw this in the theater, so it would likely be early to mid 2000s. It was about these siblings who were stealing few million dollars from the bank their mother worked at in order to keep their horse racing track afloat. I remember the mother said "I think about you every day at work" and it turns out that one of the passwords is her kids names. Ring any bells?
All I know about the movie I'm thinking of is that it was a comedy involving college kids vs vampires.