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Horror/Thriller Film
Wife, husband & her little sister go to some cliff to take pictures, sister falls down after railing breaks, big sister grabs her but little sister still falls to death, big sister goes to therapy to conquer fear of heights along with other members that die one by one apparently by her little ghost sister haunting her but in the end she was trying to warn her from husband who wants to kill her for inheritance I think?
Both sisters are also blonde & adults.
show with girl telling stories in a box
The most memorable episode of this show had her growing a foot and this joke or the raining cats and dogs one. I also remember this episode with this band and i think the instruments were alive or something. Does anyone know what the show is called? It's animated
Edited by SDF78EScary stories YTV show from early 2000s Live Action TV
I remember seeing this show, pretty sure on YTV on their Dark Corner segment, that included a story about these girls at a sleepover. One wakes up because she feels like she's being watched and she looks at the open doorway of the bedroom and sees a pair of glowing red eyes looking back at her from a darkened room across the hall. Can't for the life of me remember the name of the show. It might have been scary but true/real scary stories but looking at the synopsis of the episodes I don't think it's from that. Any ideas?
Canadian children’s series of short episodes on the topic of art/ cultural artifacts Live Action TV
I remember watching episodes of this short show in between programming on either CTV or CBC. It might have also been on PBS, Family channel or maybe a local channel. Aired in late 90s and/or early 2000s. The show started with a catchy song that went something like “They’re artifacts, artifacts...”. Intro was a 90s crude CGI tree and bumble bee that flew into a picture frame I believe, or maybe an old trunk. Then cut to different works of art/paintings/sculpture, or maybe cultural things like snowshoes or indigenous masks from the west coast....my memory is a little fuzzy (I was quite young). A child’s voice, and maybe even a live action young girl would narrate about the object in the scene. It was purely educational and was maybe 5 minutes long per episode. Please help me to find it!
Haunted House Comedy Anthology Live Action TV
I remember a very short-lived (less than a whole season) horror comedy anthology show. Each episode took place in the same house, but with different characters facing different horror tropes. There was a ghost episode, a zombie episode, a Rosemary's Baby parody, werewolf, and so on...
What I remember most was a scene where zombies are attacking, and a pair of preppy girls (dressed like Clueless characters and speaking in Valley Speak) are saying stuff like "Oh my god, you guys are so gross! You know why? Cause you're dead!"
No Title Live Action TV
There is a accidental proposal that i cant think what show its on, a woman is hiding from someone and she sits at a mans table while his girlfriend has gone to the bathroom and the restraunt staff mistake her for his girlfriend
A movie about an aspiring serial killer Film
Does anyone know the movie where some guy, I think he’s in high school, wants to become a serial killer and this girl agrees the help him on the condition that she gets to be his first victim
Ace Attorney fanfiction where this happens? Videogame
Maya is accused of destroying town with her powers as a total accident, and the accuser...dies, I think after being accused of lies, by Phoenix, simply because the two characters have a history of not getting along or something.
Anime with half-human half-cricket or Grasshopper main character Anime
When I was young and visiting Tunisia, I remember an anime that looked like it came from either studio Ghibli or nippon animation world masterpiece theater. The main character, or at least the one I saw in the Intro, was a half-human half-grasshopper or cricket like character who rode a bike. He had the face and a lot of body parts of a human, but he had antennas and abdomen of either a cricket or a grasshopper (my memory is very bad about this series). So, this would fall under the trope "Little Bit Beastly", but looking in the Trope page it or some similar series is not listed there (and I was sure to double check. If you want to prove me wrong, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO DO SO). Also, the fashion of the series seem to look like something out of the late 1800s and early 1900s.
This series has been giving me a headache trying to figure it out for a long, LONG time, so I'd really appreciate it if anyone knows what I was talking about. The series was dubbed in French, but I KNOW it wasn't a french cartoon or even a Tunisian one. It was very clearly an Anime.
About a wire cutting partygoers in half... Live Action TV
I can't remember whether it was a series or a movie.
The scene I recall was on a rooftop setting, I believe. There was a pretty fancy party going on at night, men were dressed in suits and women had cocktail dresses. Fancy champagne glasses, too. Suddenly, everyone goes deadly silent and go completely still, before the camera cuts to one of those champagne glasses in someone's hand falling apart like cut in half. A younger, distressed looking girl is bracing and kept safe by someone(?) who has crouched to safety with her. Or perhaps the girl was only spared because of her height. The camera pans out to a vibrating, high-strung fish(?)wire that clearly has drops of blood on it, before it becomes clear the wire went across the entire party space at hip height. People slowly fall, completely severed at the waist, some crawling to their dismembered lower halves.
I saw it on tv no later than 2008 or 2009, so it can't be too new.
Been driving me crazy for years!
children cartoon TV show or movie from early 2000's
I am looking for a cartoon I watched as a child, the only thing I remember are these kids finding one half of a map in one of the kids grandparents attic, than being told by the grandma her friend has the other half, when they get the other half, the map goes to a barn. When they get to the correct spot, the barn must of been torn down long time ago , and they had to lift plywood from the spot to go into the basement of where the barn was.
Opening scene of a tv show with giant face in ocean Live Action TV
All I remember is a scene, I think in the beginning of the show, of a giant face appearing in an ocean of large body of water. The face looked like a man and was either screaming or laughing? That’s all I remember. I believe it was around 2003-2005
Episode of sci-fi type show - late 80s/early 90s
I remember watching an episode of what I suspect what a sci-fi show. Not sure if I ever watched any other episode of it...
Basically a woman has been travelling back in time and killing people. I can't remember why.
When the episode starts, she shoots her latest victim and accidentally leaves fingerprints on a lamp in his house.
Move to the present day (late 80s/early 90s) and a police detective is investigating the 'weird' murders. When she gets the fingerprints of the killer, she cannot understand how a girl in kindergarten could have possibly shot someone.
She interviews the woman, who flatly denies involvement. After the detective leaves, the killer goes back and wipes her fingerprints away. We are then shown the present changing, with the police detective examining the fingerprints suddenly having no idea who the killer even is.
The episode ends with the detective and the killer both going in time for another kill, and the killer ending up being killed herself.
Any ideas?
(Solved) Astro Boy-esque anime movie with child protagonist and a robot girl Anime
Edit: the movie was Metropolis (2001), thank you!! now I can die complete
I watched this movie very late at night on I believe Cartoon Network or Boomerang when I was fairly small, at least 7 or 8. From what I can remember, it's a (possibly) post-apocalyptic world where robots and machines are everywhere. Entire buildings are made of metal and from what I remember everything was fairly trashy and gunky looking. The protagonist is a young boy who befriends a young girl (I believe she's a robot). I was fading in and out of sleep when watching this movie, so all I remember is the ending - the girl had presumably died and the boy and all the robots (which did not look human like the girl did) were tearfully wishing and waving her goodbye. I'm also certain there was a massive explosion at some point in the film, or at least the large collapse of one of the metal buildings (which may or may not have led to the girl's death).
The animation style seemed old, how old I can't be sure but it gave me Studio Ghibli/Astro Boy vibes, however I don't think the art style was similar to Ghibli or Tezuka's. Again, the world and setting seemed post-apocalyptic; everything was dirty and brown and most of the metal looked rusty. The boy was the only human I remember seeing in the film. The movie was dubbed when I watched it, and the dubbing was pretty poor. If anyone knows what this movie/OVA was that would be a life saver as it has been the bane of my existence since I first ever watched it. By this point I'm honestly wondering whether I dreamed it up.
Edited by taruandtobiSpecific One piece episode? Anime
Hi. I'm looking for a certain one piece episode that won't get out of my head. In the episode episode Chopper fell overboard. He was saved by Robin, she used her devil fruit powers to grab him before he fell into the sea (I thought for sure Luffy would streth and grab him, but Robin came to the the rescue). And they were in the air, maybe flying or falling, or maybe something like a seaking knocked them out of the sea. I think it was pretty stormy. The thing is, I remember that scene really clearly, but I don't remember which episode it was. And I would really like to see that episode again. I also THINK Robin called Chopper "Chopper" and not "Doctor-san", so it might've taken place after enies lobby, maybe even after the timeskip. I cannot say. I also don't know if this scene was from an ordinary episode or a tv-special or a movie, but I suppose it was from the anime. Please, please, please help me find this!
Edited by Pepsilovin-pikaEarly 90s Fairy Tale Series Western Animation
I know there are a lot of animated adaptations of fairy tales out there, but here's what I remember:
I watched this sometime around 1990-1991.
It was not on Nickelodeon and not the anime Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics that aired on Nick Jr. (I watched that one too and have more clear memories of it).
It was possibly on The Family Channel.
I had a lunchbox with some of the characters on it. I recall Rapunzel being a blonde girl wearing a pink dress, the Ugly Duckling was gray, and the Emperor from The Emperor's New Clothes was a lion wearing a crown with purple boxers with white polka dots.
Each episide was self-contained as one story.
I think the reason I can't remember the title is because it was something really generic. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
kids show from either late 2000s or early 10s
I've tried searching everything I can think of to find this show and I'm coming up with nothing. I remember it had a scientist (real actor) who had this machine that saw into the lives of different animal characters that were animated. when he had a problem he would look through all the different worlds and decide on one who could best help him. they would then run at the screen and jump out into the real world in 3d (like cgi). I can't remember all the different characters but there were 2 polar bear cubs who would roll everywhere in a ball, and a rhino who lived in the forest, and there was also a farm world. I've been searching for ages and would greatly appreciate any help :)
Old kids show Western Animation
There was a cartoon that used to come on early mornings on the oldies type channel between with a little boy who would chase I think a black widow type villan through time. Each episode was a different piece of history, the two places I remember are ancient Greek Olympics are the worlds fair. I can't find it anywhere
A movie Film
First there was some girl celebrating her birthday and receives a sword and a dress, and talks about how she's going to Paris. Then she gets taken to some island (I think?) and is pretty disappointed about having to eat porridge for breakfast. Then she meets a girl who she thinks is her sister for some reason, and adopts a baby pig. The girl's brother is angry about them pretending to be sisters and trips over the laundry she did. (I think he said something like "Of course it took a while because you washed it with pig's piss anyway") At some point she has a dream about a dead baby who went to the Island of the Dead that talks about how she can't blow her own nose and burps. Then the girl and the other girl's brother become friendlier and she tells them the story with the dead baby. The other girl finds a sword and they clank swords and declare themselves sisters. Later the first girl's mother shows up and gives her cocoa and cakes but she only eats porridge now. At the end there's a montage of the kids doing stuff.
Animated movie I watched when I was little Western Animation
It started with a bunch of duck eggs hatching and their parents giving them names. Then one of them turns out to be mute and the father duck is disappointed. At some point some other bird steals money from the humans. Then the mute duck gets taken in by humans for a while and learns to write. When he gets back to the other ducks, he writes "Hi everybody" on a rock or something and draws a heart around it, but the other ducks don't understand it. Later the birds give the humans back their money and the mute duck gives a girl duck a heart-shaped rock and she doesn't get it.
Help Western Animation
So, i remember it had an animation style simillar to kaijudo: rise of the duel masters. I think i watched it on netflix as a child. There were 3 kids who found a dial or something, and one of them could see their imaginary friend. There were 3 other goth/punk trouble maker type kids, who were the real chosen ones. Not the kids we watched. There was an old Chinese guy who's was a powerful ruler or something, i remember they could morph with their imaginary friends. They also played a basketball game in egypt??? I remember the girl got flirted with by a birdman i think.
Anyone know this show? Live Action TV
This was an educational show that my teacher used to bring in on a VHS tape. It "starred" a female reporter and a bug puppet that wore glasses. They would show ways to fix grammar and things like run of sentences. Was Elementary or Middle school so would be late 70s early 80s
looking for a television show or movie that aired in 2013
In one scene there is a woman in a red outfit with blond hair sitting alone in a pitch black room that vanishes while moaning.In another scene a man uses lockpicks on a keychain to unlock a door while standing next to another woman.He fumbles through the lockpicks while the woman is panicking before eventually finding the correct one.In the end credits someone says whoever is watching us is definitely testing us.In another scene a man and a woman encounter a room with racks of weapons.
Edited by EndurableKeetShow About a Guy Living in an Apartment Building w/ Puppets Live Action TV
I seem to remember a show where a guy moves into an apartment building where either his neighbors, or his roommates are a bunch of puppets. This show had only 1 season & aired on USA Network (I think) in the late 90s early 00s.
Bird Feathers Literature
An old book I read when I was younger- a kid's book, though it dealt with some heavy stuff.
I remember the MC had split parents, or at least that the mum was the main parental figure. MC seemed very anxious and definitely neurodivergent in a lot of ways, and would come home and announce to the empty house that "I can see you" in case anyone was hiding in wait. He's obviously a bully's target. At one point, their class goes to an old people's home and they get paired up with old people.
I have more details but this might get long so if people need more I can reply with some other stuff I remember.
The gist is: creepy house, sewing feathers onto a shirt (to make a bird coat), bully goes too far, MC snaps & seriously hurts him and is suspended, also the old woman's kid died of an asthma attack when he was young (in the creepy house), and the old woman dies at the end.
Yeah, I don't remember it being a super happy book, but I'd like to find it again.