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Spree Killer Murders Several Witnesses Film
I vaguely remember recently reading the premise of a film (Or perhaps a real life case? Seems unlikely though) in which a man kills someone, then discovers someone who witnessed that murder and kills them, then there's another witness to kill, and so on. I believe it totaled at five victims. Not sure of any other serious details, the plot may have revolved mainly around the detectives/attorneys but I can't be certain.
Oh, crap, I'm the antichrist Film
Circa 2000, a movie in which a guy becomes aware that he is - I don't know if he's the antichrist, or just a demon, or what, but it's bad news with Religious Horror themes - possibly on his thirty-third birthday. At one point he is looking at a crucifix, the corpus of which jump scares the viewer by detaching from the cross. At the end, the deadline to transform into the whatever seems to come and go without effect, but then he goes Satanic after all and the babe has to save the world by shooting him.
Insect horror Film
I just remember that the bugs flew into peoples mouths or ears and took control of peoples bodies and actions. Also the house was surrounded and it came down to one girl left and she blows up the house and escapes. She eventually finds a priest who is revealed to be infected with these bugs and he lunges at her and it ends.
Line from TV show or movie: Do you remember what we do when we say goodbye? Film
Late last night a couple of lines of dialogue from an old TV show or movie popped into my mind from the far recesses of my brain. I cannot remember where the scene comes from, and it is driving me crazy. It seems to me that this was from the end of an episode or movie and that it may have been set in the past (16th-18th century). This would have been something I saw on TV in the US sometime between 1998 and 2010.
Woman: Goodbye. Man (flirtatiously): Do you remember what we *do* when we say goodbye? Woman (softly): I think I do. They kiss.
Romance movie made in the new 10's Film
I saw this live-action film years ago, about a straight couple. The one thing I remember from the movie is that the main leads loved a series of paintings that belonged to a man's private collection, bu when the man died they could only get hold of one. However, the man's will stipulated in a clause that whoever adquired that specific painting would automatically own all of his collections. I remeber online critics laughing at how cheap that development was. I think it might have taken place in the southern United States.
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Movie about girl who runs away with white cat? Film
I saw this movie when I was younger and it was about a young girl who has a white cat and runs away from home to escape her mean mother who likes her sister more and the mean soap maker man who wants to marry the mother and kill the cat. The girl runs away and there’s a scene where she gets to a house with a bunch of salve/maid girls and the man finds the cat and brings it to the front door and asks if the girl is there and if the cat belongs to them and when they say no he says he’ll kill it? Or he threatens to kill it so they say yes. There’s also treasure or something in the house? There’s a basement stairway leading into a dark room and it has a stag horn symbol or stag horns hanging on the wall. There may be other people trying to find the treasure too? But there are secret passageways and the girl and her new kid friend use them to go to the creek and find a crayfish. I think the little girl also knows how to hunt with a homemade crossbow and her dad died one day when they went rabbit hunting and he got killed by a wolf. I think I remember the dad going “Once you can hit that rabbit target in the eye, you can go hunting with me.”
I also know this is a book series because I stumbled upon the first book and read it one day.
Alternate realities and a man in search of a wife Film
I actually have no idea of the genre as I am pretty sure it was described to me a while ago (that or my brain made it up). Anyhow, there is a guy with a wife and children who finds that alternate reality versions of himself keep coming by to try and steal his life. After fending them of for a while, he joins a forum of himselves and realizes that he is not the original him in that universe. IN the end, the selves ask his wife to choose, and I think she chooses him, since she knows him best, but many of them don't give up and there is a chase and it gets hazy after that but I think they either all jump to another dimension or kill off the others.
Sci Fi/Horror Alien Invasion Film Film
This has been bothering me for a number of years. I remember a film on TV featuring aliens invading or reaching Earth and one growing/gestating inside a watermelon or some other big fruit. A man was going to cut into it but was distracted and never actually did it in one scene so the alien was never discovered. It was then given to a woman who put it in the back of her car to drive somewhere. Of course while she is driving the creature hatches from the melon (if it was one) and attacks her with tentacles causing a crash. I never found out the name of the film and have never seen it on any channel since!
If I remember correctly it looked like a 70s/80s film though could've been later.
Modern horror film Film
I remember a movie I discovered a long time ago (found it while browsing IM Db), but I don’t remember the title. From what I can recall, it features a demon who lives in a house, possesses(?) kids, and makes them kill their families. Said murders are recorded on a video tape, and all the tapes are stored in the attic, with the spirits of the kids watching them until the demon’s next victims pop up. I also remember what the poster looked like: a young girl walking past a wall, letting her hand drag across it, with patterns in blood popping up where the hand was. Does anyone know the title?
Shaman Crawling Out A Woman's Back Film
My aunts were discussing a movie scene that scared them as kids, and it was apparently about a woman who had some form of growth on her back. They remember a Native American Shaman crawling out of the growth, and they remember it being painful. Does this sound like anything?
cant remember the title Film
its about four friends, in an episode one of the friends has a crush on a girl that is getting married and they go to the wedding and the guy plays a quitar but the groom and his friends chase one of the main characters
Scene where teen girl protests not being able to study during detention Film
A couple years ago on Tumblr I saw a photos-with-captions version of a scene from some movie. There was a girl(pretty sure brunette) who was probably the main character. She was in detention and tried to start doing her homework. The teacher stopped her and said they are supposed to just sit there and do nothing during detention. The girl protests and says something about how their contributing to dumbing people down and teaching them not to work. I feel like this must be really famous. Link to scene would be good if possible. Thanks.
From Unpopular to Popular Film
Hey!! I'm looking for a movie where the character is unpopular and one day moves up on the popularity ladder. The character (I believe female) sits at the popular table and thinks that what they talk about is going to be really interesting, but when she sits down she finds they are all pretty stupid and don't talk about anything of substance. For some reason, one scene, in particular, is stuck in my head. The main character tries to join in the conversation but the popular jock tells a story about a TV show he watched the night before saying "Guys. I have to tell you something... I watched this TV show last night. AND IT WAS AWESOME!" He does the same thing the next day at lunch. LOL any help would be appreciated. Thanks!! (idk if it's a tv show or a movie)
Treehouse wars Film
There was a bunch of kids in the woods with a treehouse and they were fighting other kids using Balloons and warms.pure 90s movie. I remember a scene a bunch of kids get captured and they get humiliated infront of girls.
Shelves and a spider Film
I think I saw this on Disney channel or a something simulacra. The scene was a kid in his brother's room. There were shelves opposite from the bed, full of board games and other junk. Anyways, the kid starts climbing these shelves, trying to reach something on the top shelf. The brother kept his tarantula in a clear plastic cage (I want to say with a green top?) on the shelves. The shelves collapse, freeing the spider, who crawls away.
No Title Film
There’s a part where one guy with glasses finds this dead fat guy on the toilet. The dead guy had pooped out this alien-like thing. The guy with glasses is addicted to toothpicks, he tries to keep the lid of the toilet seat down so the alien thing doesn’t get out. He drops all his toothpicks and like freaks out trying to reach them. His friend comes to the doorway of the bathroom and his head blows up. That’s all I remember of this movie.
90s Kids' Film Featuring Dinosaur Ninjas Film
I remember this film starred a young boy who falls into a swirling vortex and ends up in a fantasy world populated by anthropomorphic dinosaur-people. It was live-action, and all of the dino-folk were done with prosthetics. The lighting was reminiscent of Pan's Labyrinth; everything was kept pretty dark, probably to hide any faults in the make-up. The kid meets up with a five-man band of ninja dino-folk, each one utilizing a unique weapon and associating with a certain element. It was very ninja-turtles-esque, but trying to be serious about it. The only two characters that stand out in my memory are Heart, the only female on the team, and Metal, who wielded a pair of chakrams and was mute.
No Title Film
I never actually saw this one, but saw various allusions to it on the Internet many years ago. I still wonder where it comes from. It must be from some rather old movie or TV show, likely British.
Anyway, there's a scene where one character reveals his obvious racist or fascist leanings in conversation with another character, who reacts by graciously offering to introduce him to a distinguished gentleman who shares his ideas. One moment later, this gentleman is revealed to be Adolf Hitler (or possibly just some local Nazi leader with a painting of Hitler prominently displayed in his office).
Some movie with a scene of someone watching Howdy Doody... Film
In the mid or late 2000s I heard part of a movie my dad was watching, have no idea how old. Looked pretty modern(I think). All I saw/heard was a scene of someone turning on Howdy Doody, and some man hearing the theme song (It's Howdy Doody time! It's Howdy Doody time!), and frantically saying something along the lines of "Oh no, it is not Howdy Doody time!" and turning it off. Thanks.
castaway / desert island / hostage / family / slave / escape / 1900s Film
Hello, i'm looking for a TV film that was broadcast in the UK around 1985-87. It was based on 2 children, who I believe were brother and sister, who were held on an island, possibly as slaves. The girl was allowed to leave (possibly saved) whilst the boy remained until his adult life. I have a vague memory of him serving on a ship at some point. Eventually escaping, he tracked his sister down who was then living a life of luxury. At first she didn't recognise him but I'm sure they got to talk although I cant recall the ending! I could be mistaken but it was set around the early 1900s and had similar clothing as North and South that was out around the same time. The actor had brown hair!
Not much to go on but i'm hoping someone can remember it. Thank you
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No Title Film
It's a movie that I only saw a trailer for, in mid-2005 (in a theather), and it has been bugging me since then.
I think it was an American thriller/horror - something that felt a little like The Grudge (but that wasn't it). The things I think I remember about it are: 1. The protagonist was a white woman in her 20s/30s; 2. There were some shots of her swimming in a pool, wearing a swimming cap, goggles and one-piece swimsuit, filmed from underwater; this, probably combined with some other shots I can't remember, gave me the feeling there was some kind of water theme in the movie (which led me to thinking it was Dark Water, but it wasn't) 3. Lots of dramatic music (yeah, like that's gonna be helpful...) 4. Some very dramatic scene of the protagonist running (?) between the cars on some city street (at night?), there might have been a car crash involved (I'm... really not sure what I saw)
I cannot find a single trace of this movie. I watched tons of trailers for films released in that timeframe, none fit it. I've checked literally all even vaguely fitting movies that were screened in my country (Poland; not that it would help a lot) from mid-2005 to mid-2006, and none ring a bell. Though of course, I could have always missed something.
At this point, I'm almost certain that I'm mixing up two different movies (still, I'd like to know, what movies?) or just dreamed the whole thing up (which is not impossible). I'm just giving it a last chance here; maybe someone proves me wrong.
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80's sci fi about a space prince in the ghetto Film
I'm trying to remember the name of a movie I saw a long time ago, I think it was from the 80's-early 90's. It was about a prince from another planet as I remember, who was sent to a ghetto on earth to prove he could rule his planet or something. He had psychic powers and fell in love with a social worker, I'm pretty sure. The thing I remember best about is when he used his powers to help a little girl feel better by imagining she was stretching her mean aunt's nose and playing it like a guitar. I'm going crazy trying to remember what this was called so I can see it again.
Probably the wrong lyrics but Film
There was this song I heard that had a female singer and the chorus sounded like "game on, gamer" (or maybe "gamer, game on", I can't remember). I'm pretty sure that's not right and I could barely hear it over the noise at the store, but it's the right number of syllables. I can't say what genre maybe pop?