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open"Cobra" or "Hydra" serial killer Film
Saw it on late night TV in the mid or late 1970s. In a major US city (NYC?) there's a serial killer of young men & women in their mid twenties — like, 23-26 or so. The movie is about the search for the killer and/or the media frenzy around them, not about the killer themselves. Other than their ages the authorities can't find any demographic similarities the victims had. Then they somehow figure out that they were all born at the same hospital. The killer is seeking some kind of revenge on the doctor who delivered them, or something like that. The killer was killing all the babies one particular doctor had delivered during his time working at that one particular hospital. Or maybe a nurse who assisted in the deliveries. Or maybe the doctor/nurse is the one doing the murders for some reason.
The killer may have been nicknamed "Cobra" or "Hydra" by the media. I think that because after each new victim is discovered there's this animated interstitial of a wicker basket and another snake head pops out, either cobras or possibly a hydra where all the heads are the same animal.
Edited by randomsurferopenA videotape about military moving. Film
My dad used to be in the coast guard, and to deal with the constant moves, my parents bought me a video tape about kids who had to do many military moves and how they dealt with it. There was a kid named Eli, a black kid who played piano, a girl who said she liked "bagels on Sunday and the moon in [her] window, and other kids. There was a lot of singing too. Anyone know it?
Edited by Loopytires55openOn The Search For A Certain Chistmas Movie That's Bugging Me Because I Googled Everywhere Film
Looking for the name of a specific Christmas movie with a little girl who is named Alexandra who I think is from the orphanage and making short bread cookies with her mom or the one she was living with was speaking Spanish and Alexandra the little girl was singing along with the song "Mamacita Dónde Esta Santa Claus" and then she went to her room to get a Christmas gift for her Mom or the one she was living with and the police show up with a warrant for her arrest and gets arrested and the little girl who is named Alexandra ends up on Main St. with a dog named Chico and looks through the dumpster and finds a blanket and sleeps by the dumpster for the night and then a woman named Chloe after ordering a Latte at a coffee shop stumbles upon the little girl and the woman calls her friend that works at Child and Family Services and gets Alexandra registered into the system and then as the movie goes on Chloe decides to take Alexandra in to be part of her family along with her new boy friend. If anyone out there could please tell me the Title name of the movie it would be sincerely greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.
openLate 90s/early 2000s Film
I only remember a scene wherein a woman in a bathrobe is being chased around her home by a killer in a ski mask. He eventually kills her and then cuts some sort of message into her leg using a small handheld circular saw. Bear in mind this is a memory coming from over 20 years ago when I was 4 or 5, but these are just details I can recall.
open"Story of my life... the end" in mysterious girl's journal Film
I remember seeing a scene from whatever this was, it looked low-budget, on US TV about 10-15 years ago. A young adult guy finds a young adult woman passed out on the sidewalk. He is giving normal-guy vibes, she is giving manic pixie dream-girl vibes. He carries her into a house and lays her on the bed, and I remember he takes her boots off. She's asleep. He looks through her bag or something, and finds her journal. He opens it to the first page spread and it's cutely decorated with big lettering saying "The Story of My Life." He turns the page, and it's blank. The next page is also blank. He then flips quickly through the journal, all blank pages to the end, where again it has cutesy lettering and decoration, saying "The End." There was no dialog. I am of the impression it was on PBS and was some kind of indie short film but I'm not sure. I don't think that scene was the entirety of the piece, I think it was the beginning, but that was the only part of it I saw.
openSome movie happening in a farm? Film
I just saw a scene about a guy working at a farm and some guy coming to talk to him. I think the guy was giving a "we are not so different" speech and the farmer said he was going to talk with their leader. Then they started to fight and the farm owner came to stop them. Turns out the farmer was drinking, so his boss dismissed him, and then threatened the other guy to leave his property, or he would shoot him next time.
openNo Title Film
Low-Budget, possibly on Tubi. Three Main (Live-Action) Asian Characters, One Cocky 20-something Male, One Sexy 20-something Female, One Sniper older Male. Most of the Film is in a Black/White Scanline/Grid VR. In the end, to the surprise of the 20-something Players, the slow Sniper kills the last Boss. A Dragon.
Edited by C4rn463H34r7openJudge, tall bench, defendant standing, ruling, electric chair appears, pleads, killed Film
I need help figuring out the movie or TV show in which the following is a part of. I only remember a small scene of it; this was a long time ago (maybe even 10+ or 15+ years ago, but should be a release of after 1995).
I remember blue(greenish blue?) lighting in a courtroom. A woman was the judge with a white wig. A defendant in a tank top and shorts and arguing with the judge and at some point spotlight shows an electric chair being unveiled behind him.
The judge's bench was significantly elevated and lit with blue(greenish blue?) lights. as the defendant had to argue looking up. Then the defendant turns back and sees it and starts to describe his work history and how long he's been a part of some organization, but he's quickly interrupted by the judge as she yells "silence" and a then two men cloaked head to toe with something making them look like boogie-men and dragged the defendant to the electric chair and killed him (defendant pleads innocence throughout the whole dragging and killing parts). This electric chair was so simple I wouldn't be able to distinguish it from patio furniture (but metal with circular holes). And the courtroom was dark!!!! Like NO windows! At all! That's why they needed a spotlight for the electric chair because the back of the courtroom was pitch black.
While the man was being electrocuted the camera cuts to the disappointed looks of some people watching from some luxury looking rooms with hands to their forehead and the judge gave the occasional side-eye while continuing to write on her bench watching the execution.
It was definitely not a black and white movie. The electric chair was inside the courtroom behind the people who were there. The scene was extremely dark apart from the men from luxury rooms who were watching disappointed; it also had a serious tone.
openLine 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.
openplease help Film
It was a movie and i remember two girls (one might have been a guy idk) maybe more were held hostage in either a van or small rv. So one woman reached out the window and signaled the truck behind them that she was in danger. The truck then got in front of the hostage vehicle and slowed down causing them to also slow down. This allowed that woman to jump out with minor injuries. The truck driver assumed that she was the only one in danger and returned to normal speed. Another person in the vehicle ignored this and still jumped out, leading to their death. The 1st woman ended up leaving the body and a trail was left in the mud.( It had been raining). This story covers the news as they look for the woman who left the body.
openBoxing comedy. Film
Broad comedy. A scene in a boxing ring where one of the combatants is the Invisible Man. In color. Looks like it must have been from the 80s forward. His opponent is... very afraid to fight him and tries to leave the ring. Aired on TV, Comedy Central or something.
openAnti-Modern Anthology on Netflix Film
I saw this before I even knew Black Mirror existed, maybe 2008-2012? I believe it was on Netflix. It has a similar but different tone to Black Mirror. Instead of "spooky technology" the show seems to be critical of Capitalism, or at least modern work/life balance, society, and consumerism. I will attempt to recall two episodes that are fuzzy in my memory.
1st episode I remember is more vague. There is someone working on a floor, lets say floor 43 for the sake of it. Floors look upon the higher floors with respect, while demoting to a lower floor is seen as a disgrace and causes some individuals to commit suicide. The whole episode seems to have a narrative that develops around an intercom announcing promotions/demotions/and general announcements, as well as people from various floors coming to speak to the main character. I don't think the show ever explains what these people actually do for an occupation, other than trying to advance to the next floor and avoid being demoted.
The other episode is more clear in my mind. It revolves around a husband and wife who live in the suburbs in a very large house. The husband and wife live a very mundane consumer-culture lifestyle. The wife watches a show which advertises products that she always must buy and participate in. The show is a sort of read-along of a book which is supposed to be a recipe for happiness. The husband seems discontent with this lifestyle. After awhile, a family member/acquaintance of some sort needs to stay at their place, and this family member is a free spirit. He gradually, day by day, transforms their yard into a carnival of sorts. At the beginning of the episode, the family member is just playing basketball, or using a trampoline. But I seem to remember as it goes on and on he gets more and more things/people and it's like a carnival of entertainment. The husband seems to tolerate it only because he is envious of that lifestyle.
Eventually there is a breakdown in the episode where the wife's show about the book of happiness ends and the host of the show thinks the book ending is terrible, because the final message is anti-consumerist. The host begins screaming and crying with rage and discontent and so the wife follows along and is the same way. This causes the husband to break and he eventually leaves this life behind and tries to be more free-spirited.
I really hope I have provided enough detail as I'd love to watch it again since I have been getting into various anthologies such as Electric Dreams, Inside No. 9, and others.
openWhat is this audio clip from? (solved!) Film
There is a You-tube video titled "[YTP] Violet's Belt Explodes", at 0:40. A man can be heard screaming "help" (hheeeelllpppp!) in a somewhat eerie fashion (not overly creepy or scary or anything, but think of the classic gut-wrenching scream). Is that from anything particular? I apologize if I used the wrong media for my post. I do not know if it is from a film, a TV show, a video game, or what. Please help, thank you.
Listening to it a few times, it sounds as if he is screaming from inside someplace, probably in space or in a cave, in a hidden area at the most. In the video, before we hear this scream and Willy Wonka reciting the boat ride poem, we hear a brief clip from Hotel Mario (a Super Mario Bros computer game), in which Mario briefly says, "gee it's kinda dark."
Edited by thestormtrooperopenFilm about anorexia Film
15+ years ago in France, I saw a trailer on TV for a film about a girl with anorexia. The trailer insisted on two scenes I can remember:
- In one, the girl is looking at herself in the mirror and seeing herself as fatter than the really is.
- The other was a shot of her throwing some sandwich/chocolatine/etc. out a car window instead of eating it.
opengruesome corpse scene Film
I remember seeing one scene of this western movie where a girl enters her car and finds a note that tells her there's a surprise inside her car hood. She goes to open the hood cover and discovers a gruesome burnt corpse inside.
openMovie about a Nazi camp. Film
Movie about prisoners of a Nazi camp in World War II. Not sure exactly which kind. In color. Only thing I can swear to is, someone had somehow smuggled in a small amount of outside food. Like a small cube of meat and... I want to say an onion. Had it in a napkin.
openRomance movie starring Christina Ricci Film
I remember this film with a rather hilarious scene where Christina Ricci's character accidentally bumps into a guy riding a bicycle and they both tumble down into a lake. Don't know the title though...
openMovie about dreams Film
I remember about a movie that used to be one of my favorites, from what i remember it was about a girl and her father living together on a farol or sm, dont want to spoil much of the plot but on a part the girl founds some strange man that was on some dream prison that they if they stay they wont woke up, what i was always searching about is the name
openZebras Film
Years ago I saw part of a film , possibly japanese, "arthouse-stylish", with Zebras appearing in the headlights of a car driven through fog, rain or even snow drift - I don't remember any other details, only that the Zebras were seemingly completely unrelated to the story. Searching for "Zebras appearing in Film" or similar only lead to anything from "Madagascar" to "Zebraman" ... Does someone know what film that was?

Scene in a live-action film or tv show where a girl and a guy are punching each other to the song True by Spandeu Ballet and then they kiss
Rating: PG-13 or R
Years: 2000s