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I saw this movie when I was around eight years old, it was on Nickelodeon, I think. It was the late 90s, '98 or '99, around Halloween, and they were showing a marathon of 'scary' kid's movies and shows,and I never saw it again, despite watching for it every year since.
The part I remember is this: These kids are trying to save their friend, who was sick or dying.. I remember that they thought they'd found him him, trapped in a gargoyle or turned to stone or something? I think either the kid died or nearly died. And I want to think the kids who were trying to save their friend were dressed up, but I'm not sure. It really scared me as an eight year old kid, though, hearing the kid's voice come out of the gargoyle saying 'Helllp meee'.
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This film is maybe late 80s. I remember the plot but don't know the title. A businessman gets ahead in life and work with a series of murders.
First is his wife, who he kills by rigging a basement lightbulb to electrocute her when she changes it; her last words to him were "I forgive you for failing", in reference to something I forget, which he sees coming and which confirms his decision to kill her.
Later, he kills an office rival who's making his life at work miserable after being promoted over him (but lacking the authority to fire him outright), including putting an assistant in his office.
At the end, he kills one more person by blowing up his private plane.
A detective is hot on his trail but hits a brick wall due to someone's death (by suicide? I forget).
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This was on TV - possibly Comedy Central - back during George H. W. Bush's term in office, so the early 90s. I have no idea what it was called and I only remember bits of it. It had both humans and puppets; it seemed to center around a bar. The scene I remember had the Bush puppet entering the bar and being accosted by the Freddy Krueger puppet, and the human bartender had to rush in and save him. I remember this of the dialogue:
Bartender: Freddy, no! You can't kill him! He's the President!
Freddy: *confused* I didn't vote for him!
Bartender: But if you kill him, then DAN QUAYLE will be President!
Freddy: Augh! *releases Bush immediately*
I was in my very early teens when it aired and I thought it was incredibly funny, but because I only started watching it halfway through, I never did find out what it was called or who the human bartender was played by. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
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Pretty sure it was a film. Had a little kid who'd been shown with his 6-shooter toy guns. There's a later segment after the bad guys have been introduced, where he jumps out, his toy guns clicking as he "blows away" the bad guys followed by a cut away from the scene as they imply that he died shortly thereafter.
Pretty sure I'm not just misremembering that scene from Bubba Ho Tep involving the old guy dressed as the Lone Ranger... it was more of a "dive from cover guns blazing" movement than slowly backing up while firing ineffectually.
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I once saw this one episode of some animated show in a hotel room, and since then (about 10-12 years) I've wondered about it.
In the episode, some kids were on a class trip to an ancient Egypt museum. Four of them broke off from the group, and found a sarcophagus with a shiny golden thing on top of it, which they found out was called the "golden scarab"; one girl misheard it and thought it was "golden scab". When they were leaving the room, one of the characters heard a voice saying "I am the golden scarab. Take me." So he (I think it was one of the boys) did. Soon the group realized they were being chased by an evil mummy that came out of the sarcophagus after they had left the room, and when they found out that the kid had taken the golden scarab, they rushed to put it back before the mummy caught them. When they put it back, the mummy froze in place.
Just then, they realized that the sun was in some position (its peak?), which meant that the doors out of the museum were closing. They made a break for it and just barely made it through all the doors that were slamming down; the brainy girl character ended up using the book about the museum she'd been referring to the whole time to force the last door open just long enough for them to slide under it.
There was also a part somewhere along the line where the group found the rest of the class, and they were all in mummy gear, with the teacher saying something about joining them on the next step in their adventure.
At the very end, the scene went to a boy in some sort of control room, watching the whole thing on a screen, and he was annoyed that the kids escaped. Then the golden scarab fell through a door or something in the ceiling and hit him in the head, followed by enough sand to bury him (although I'm 50% sure he popped his head out afterward).
Edited by ProgenyExMachinaopenNo Title Anime
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pkhygu3TeY where does the scene from 1:17 to 1:20 come from?
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I'm looking for an infamous story on the internet. I remember it being some kind of crossover fanfic, and the main character could turn into a wolf and was a God-Mode Sue.
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"ISLAND OF THE...?" A low-budget sci-fi movie that aired on TV when I was growing up in the Seventies. People on an island menaced by creatures—can't recall if they were aliens or the product of an experiment gone wrong. Here's the gimmick: they looked like giant tortoise-shells with long, snake-like heads. They didn't move very quickly, but they were silent and unstoppable and multiplied frequently (splitting in half, revealing a spagetti-like interior.) If they "got you" they'd suck all the moisture out of you—or some nonesense like that. I guess they mostly got you in your sleep, or by stealth—certainly there were no chase scenes!
Ring any bells?
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A teenage girl or young woman gets menaced by a member of The Conspiracy because she donated bone marrow to a cousin or something and that landed her on some sinister database. For some reason I think it's Animorphs, but I can't think of a reason the Yeerks would ever menace anybody before infesting them, so I'm probably wrong.
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Ok now this one is TURBO-MEGAOBSCURE, and I've been looking for it with no success for years.
Back long ago, in the wondrous days of the Clinton Administration (no later than 1999, possibly no more than 1997) I saw this commercial for a toy.
I don't recall the name but it was a playset that you use along with a video cassette tape, with the flashing lights and sounds somehow activating little guns and "battle damage" on the playset. The villain, in the commercial at least, was a guy in a blue tunic and half of his body was made of stone like a kind of Two-Face/The Thing crossover.
The playset itself, if memory serves, had a large red dome on one part of it that had a hexagonal pattern to it and, again if memory serves, it was mainly dull silver or grey with orangish parts to it. Maybe some red too.
The whole gimmick was that it was "interactive" and there was possibly some light and sound to go along with it, in fact it may have had some extra figures or little jets to play with too, and the video I presume had a full story of sorts.
If you asked me, I'd say it was between 1993 and 1997, but frankly, for all I know, it was way earlier or even sometime in the 00s. My gut tells me that the dependence on videos means it was in the 90s.
If anyone can tell me what that was called or shit just point me towards some info on the web, I'd be very grateful.
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I'm not a huge fan of horror/slasher films, but I was trying to remember this one so I could put it on The Un Favourite page.
A seemingly perfect family adopt two sons (can't remember if they were both adopted at the same time). Son 1 is very bright, but easily bored, while Son 2 is sweet natured with learning difficulties (I seem to remember the former was called Daryl or Darren or some sort of "D" name). The parents appear to dote on Son 2, constantly helping him with schoolwork, while Son 1 gets bored and frustrated. One scene I remember is where Son 2 is being assisted with his homework, while son 2 complains that it's boring. The father yells at him and shouts increasingly difficult sums at him, which son 1 answers correctly...whereupon the father tells him to get into the basement for a beating (for being arrogant, presumably). Despite the favouritism, the two boys get along well with each other. However, Son 1's relationship with the parents deteriorates until he is eventually sent away as a teenager (can't remember where they sent him to), and he is replaced with younger, cuter Son 3, who quickly becomes the favourite of the parents. However, the newcomer is cared for by both his brothers. When Son 1 comes to visit for a garden party(?), his parents refuse to allow him into the house, even to help clean up. Son 2 goes after him, and Son 1 vents his frustration, telling Son 2 that he wants to kill them.
The parents are later found murderered...by being hacked to death with an axe.
Naturally suspicion falls on Son 1, but at the end it's revealed that it was Son 2 who killed his parents. He'd just come home from his first date, and his mother freaked out about it (I can't remember why...did he break curfew, or did he just spoil his "perfection" by dating?) They refuse to be specific about what exactly he's done wrong, but he overhears them his dad telling his mum that they'll just send him back and get another son. Realising that his parents see himself and his brothers as accessories, not as children (far less people), and that the same thing will probably happen to his beloved baby brother, he goes Ax-Crazy and kills them.
Most of the story is told through flashback - Son 2 is talking about what happened to a detective or a psychiatrist, only revealing at the end that he was responsible. As you can guess, I remember a fair bit about this film...except its title! Help?
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A European Funny Animal comic, featuring a white cat and a large dog (or possibly a bear) that may or may not have been dressed like a policeman. It seemed to be some sort of adventure comic from the 60s-70s. I once even found its official website, but I can't for the life of me remember what it was called.
I could have sworn I first heard about it from this Wiki, but I can't for the life of me remember where, and I'm 99% sure we don't have a page for it.
Never mind: it was Tom Poes.
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I'm unsure if this a film or an episode of something. Nonetheless it was live action. I recall it being a scary movie, or at least it was to me when I was five or six. It was from sometime in the late 80's to early 90's, I assume. The only part of it I remember is this:
A young girl is in her bed ready to go to sleep. She is suddenly attacked by claw-like plants or something that come out from behind her bed. There's also something lurking in the closet I believe. She screams and her parents who were downstairs drop their pots and pans and run up. They try to get into her room but it's locked. They shake the door and knock on it as well.
That's all I remember. Help would be appreciated.
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It was either a childrens show (Probably animated but could possibly be live action) or some sort of toy commercial.
There was a song that went like "Put the petal to the metal, it's -character's name-" or something. My mind insists that the first name of the character was "Duncan" but I could be wrong.
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Hello,
hopefully this hasn't been asked a million and one times >.>
I remember two CGI short films, from a long long time ago, the first was a short about a three fingered hand that apparently was a stand in for a valiant computer virus trying to delete a record, before dying.
the second, was about a dystopian little thing about a robot killing either mice or rats which were quite anthropomorphic in various bloody but hilarious ways. I think the robot had the ACME logo on it, but I definitely remember the thing killing two rodents with a giant hammer, and a few more I think with a blender. kind of like that SNL roach motel, clip.
thanks in advance.
All I can remember of this film are bits and pieces, the major thing being that a boy drew a picture of a snake that has swallowed an elephant, and everyone makes fun of it because it looks like a cowboy hat.
It seems the boy travels to a planet made entirely of books or something at one point...
Anyway, I remember catching a couple of scenes of this and thinking I would like to finish it, but can't remember the name.