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openMonster inflates kid's head Film
Someone posted this on Reedit 5 years ago, and have not received an answer, but some guesses, none correct of course. The user inquired this film was mostly from 80s to 00s, maybe it was a TV show or movie. A group of kids, don't know how old, are seen outside on a sunny day, and we see the monster (cannot remember the description). The monster catches one of the kids and inflates their head like a balloon. The effect as they remember was rather cheesy, so perhaps a bit disturbing. The movie is *not* It, Killer Klowns from Outer Space, or Stitches (as two suggested) (though it was quite similar to the head explosion scene). I just replied to the post, very surprised usually someone cannot reply to a post from that long ago, so they might see my reply, but I was hoping you knowledge buffs can help someone out. I suggested 'the Monster Squad', perhaps it was a 'Goosebumps' or 'Are You Afraid of the Dark' episode. Please help! Thanks much.
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openteen adventure movie? Film
I watched this at the very least 6 years ago when I was very young so my memory isn’t great but we bought it from a Redbox at a local grocery store. The cover of the movie used the same exact font as those used for Harry Potter, however it had zero connection to it so it was just a ploy to get more people to rent it. The only things I can remember about the movie itself was that it was very low quality, I believe there is some scene where there is a giant evil robot of some kind, I remember most of the scenes being shot at a trailer park, in the woods or in a church. The movie is named after the main character who I think was named Chris (something), and the title was something simple like “the adventures of Chris ___.” I am of even less certainty about these next two things but I think there also may have been a plot line similar in some way to the part in Percy Jackson where they eat the lotus flowers, and I think a lot of the movie may have been an allegory or reference to a lot of biblical themes
openMicronations documentary Film
A live documentary about the micronations of the world which aired live and featured the Islamic Sultanate of Qarsherskiy, Sealand, Molossia, and other well-known micronation.
openSome movie from a long time ago. Film
I dont really know the details, all I remember is that the main character was a boy, it was animated, it took place in medieval times, and there was a scene where a man was trapped under a giant church bell.
openGlowing tracers rounds being fired from BB guns at neo-Nazis Film
I was watching a film on You Tube or Television (can't remember which but if it was the former it is definitely well-known) and the soldiers from the Islamic Sultanate of Qarsherskiy were firing B Bs that were glowing Green and Red called "tracer rounds" at a group of neo-Nazis near Aiden Stalnik's Forest Lake & Trail in Newport News, VA, USA. I also remember RC boats on Lake 'Aydn and model rockets packed with M80s fired off the boats from the middle of the Lake.
openRobin Williams movie Film
I'm pretty sure it was Robin Williams. I only remember one scene. Williams character was in a forest, I think he was lost. And he was said that he needed to walk, making sure to keep the sun on his back. And he was also traveling with a woman.
openRed Jacket Demon Movie Film
The cover of the movie has three characters standing next to each other and the middle one is wearing a bright red leather jacket. I confuse the title with Donnie Darko, pretty sure it has the same alliteration. There's a scene in the movie where they're in a supermarket talking to a severed head.
openHorror premise mash-up film Film
I remember a movie where the protagonist had to deal with a whole bunch of events that would all be instigating factors for a variety of different horror movie premises. At the end, it turned out that there was one ghost responsible for everything, and the ghost just really liked horror movies and wanted to celebrate them. The twist is kinda similar to Cabin in the Woods, but it was a very different type of movie, since none of the intermediate horror premises ended up playing out. I can’t remember the name of the movie at all. It might have been an episode of a TV show instead?
openAsian woman and Gang invade house party then kidnap little girl who looks like the woman Film
I remember there was a movie my late father would watch, I think I've seen it twice or just once. The opening of the movie starts with a group of family just having a neat potluck or a house warming party (Just enjoying their time together), then outside comes a gang, only the front person there was an Asian woman (Either Japanese or Chinese Idk), She commands her posse to invade the house (which gruesomely involves everyone getting shot down, including a small child that desperately tries to wheel his grandmother away), then at one point the woman shoots the grandma (iconic yet horrifyingly, She shoots her through the head which blasts through her bun). Then They enter the room where a girl that looks like as if She's her daughter is then kidnapped, only one survivor, an Asian(?) man (I don't recall any of the characters names because the audio was low). He crawls away from the house because it got caught in an explosion, then there's this scene where the woman brain washes the little girl for reasons I don't know. Then there's a time skip(????) where ANOTHER woman that looks like the gang leader (I don't know if it's the little girl all grown up or the gang leader herself), She ends up having intercourse with a black guy then kills him in a pool. Then later a Japanese/Chinese boxer was boxing alone, then a chick (same woman from before btw) approaches him, the boxer thinks that's his wife (excusable, maybe He couldn't see her well in the dark), but he sees like dead bodies?? And realizes that's not her, so he fights her then ends up getting killed. There's a funeral for him held by his wife and two children, then a clan of people come in and proceed to disrespect it then slapped the widow for- well because They hate him, then there's this guy from nowhere that proceeded to kill the clan and then leave. There's a last scene from what I could remember, so the guy escaping (Memory's foggy) was like walking in an office space or something... That's all I could bring to the table, there's a reason why I had to explain the whole/half of the plot because I don't know if this is obscure media, I tried finding it before and I'm wondering if anybody in TV tropes might help...
resolved Japanese(?) Horror/Psychological Movie Film
I remember very little about this film, but I think I watched it around 2009-2011. I believe it was Japanese but it may have been from somewhere else.
There's a woman who claims to be a psychic and works with the police to find a missing girl, but she's caught making stuff up/lying about being psychic.
There's a little girl who is kidnapped and ends up in a black box/bag in a green forest after she's killed.
Maybe the kidnapper is a woman? Who keeps the girl in her house until she accidentally is killed/dies.
Sorry for lack of info, its very vague in memory!
openSome film that I saw a gif from on Archillect Film
I remember seeing a gif on the Archillect twitter account a couple years ago that has stuck with me to this day. It was black and white and depicted this man trying to stop a clock hand with an axe on it from reaching another clock hand with a head on it. It's probably going to be some obscure movie that probably nobody will know, but it's worth a shot.
openRemember the scene, but not the movie Film
Greetings to all! I recently reviewed "ndiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" and kept waiting for the scene where Indiana and Short Round would come to the Willy's door. She opens it. Indiana asks: "Will you leave the orphan for the night?" (alluding to Short Round). She agrees. He sends Short Round and comes in himself. Such a comical scene. And I didn't see it. Then I watched the movie again, found the script and realized that I remember this scene exactly, but apparently it's from another movie altogether. And who played there: Harrison Ford or Bruce Willis or someone else - I don't remember. There must be a self-confident, arrogant but charming hero. The scene takes place in a hotel? I do not remember. Help, moviegoers!
openWild West Dental Hygiene Educational Film Film
This would have been in the late 80s / early 90s, small town USA. In grade school they played a live action educational movie that was set in a town in the Wild West (I think the kid protagonists may have got there through time travel from a playground somehow) about dental hygiene. The kids ran into a local bandit / obvious bad guy type, who grew increasingly agitated as they explained to him how plaque disclosing tablets show where you haven't brushed. He finally lost his temper and yelled "That does it! This town is miiiine!" At that point the projector broke and we never found out what happened next. I can't find any trace of it online!
openabout revenge for the death of a guy, a game of cat and mouse Film
I didn't watch this movie, but my mom did, so the description is from her words.
I think it's thriller from about 1990 to 2010 (mom said she watched this movie on the TV when i was little child, i was born in 2000, so the film could have been made earlier).
The plot is something like this: a guy catches his wife cheating (perhaps at work). he gets out of there by car and gets into an accident where he dies. his father (but this is not certain, maybe a friend) begins to take revenge on his cheating wife for the death of this guy. he sets up various traps to kill this wife, plays cat and mouse with her. he eventually succeeds and she dies in the bath/shower.
openAn animated movie regarding a kid with a marble [SOLVED] Film
I recall the movie taking place in a house/orphanage with multiple bunk beds, All the kids were wearing green shirts, I recall a scene where the protagonist was playing catch with several other kids and the ball rolled into the basement, the protagonist kept a marble that was cyan or white, I recall this one who was ginger or had brown hair stole his marble. The protagonist noticed someone took his marble and yelled who took it. It was 2D and I never finished it
Edited by ZvlphvropenMovie Scene Where Guy in Suit Plays with Kids Film
I'm not thinking of John Travolta in Look Who's Talking Too with "All Shook Up"—though maybe I am. I'm actually thinking of another scene at a kids play place in a movie where the man plays with the kids while I think the song in the background is "Chantilly Lace". Maybe it was something I just imagined I saw all these years and was never actually real though, so there you go. Haha.
openOdd memory of an movie ad on the radio. Film
This is probably gonna be a hard one but when I was a little kid (this would be about late 80s/early 90s) I was in the car with my dad and this scary ad for a movie came on. All I remember for sure is hearing some woman screaming something like "We have to escape"! At the time I asked my dad why she was screaming like that and he said something like "This bad guy showed up at her house and had some kind of monster with him". Seeing as I was a little kid he might have been lying to me for some reason (e.g. maybe the bad guy was really a Serial Rapist or something and he didn't want to tell me about that sort of thing), but whatever it is, I'm still curious. I know this is really vague, but maybe someone can figure it out.
openVague Memories of a Show Film
Hi! I was directed here by a friend because I haven't been able to figure out what movie this was. My brain associates it with shark boy and lava girl but its not the same, maybe it has some similar actors? If it helps, this movie was something I watched when I was a kid, 16-18 years ago.
Basically, a young boy and his grandpa are wearing these suits(?), and they have their lives displayed on the suits..? Im not sure why they were there, but there was some girl as well and a mean-ish boy they meet, and they have to complete these tasks in this weird space/video game adjacent world, where they die and turn into these dust/pixels, and if they have lives they come back obviously.
I remember the grandpa dies and its like, really sad, and the boy has to continue without him. the older ish teenage girl drags him along basically. Maybe there was a giant robot thing they had to fight? I vaguely remember there were these platforms that would appear in front of them as they jumped like it would in a video game, and there was some big bad with a plot twist. I dunno if they were like trapped in a game or what.
I appreciate the help!
resolved Woman with huge blond wig and rhinestone gun Film
I don't actually know whether this is from a film or a TV show, but there's a reaction image I see a lot featuring a white woman with a huge semicircular blonde wig with barrettes, a hot pink blazer with a blue bow on one lapel, and a gun covered in pink rhinestones. What's it from?
EDIT — never mind, I should have guessed it's from RuPaul's Drag Race. Thanks anyway!
Edited by higgledypiggledy

Basically, it's about a family living off grid, Father, Mother and daughter. The Father's mother comes to take the daughter back to civilization. Also, the mother was played by an actress wearing a fat suit and it came out 2018-2019.