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A docuhorror/found footage/mockumentary movie I watched not too long ago, about a guy who's documenting the facts of a murder case whom no one has been accused of yet, but the guy seems to be trying to prove the innocence of one speculated suspect, until *SPOILER* the murderer wAS HIM ALL ALONG!!! switches out of found footage/mockumentary unexpectedly for the ending.
I didn't think it'd be that hard to remember or look up but here i am.
edit: it's the last broadcast. nevermind. good work everyone you all may go home now
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I need help identifying a movie, I think may have been from The '90s... I'm not exactly sure if it's a horror/thriller movie, but it certainly was dark, and I only recall seeing a brief glimpse of it maybe on TV Guide (or maybe even when it was Prevue) Channel.
Alls I remember was there was this fairly ordinary-looking businessman who actually had connections with Hell, he could actually travel to and from Hell via elevator. I don't what his business was down there, I just remember seeing him standing somberly in an iron-gate elevator as he travels deeper and deeper into the earth, and the next thing we see is the elevator opening up in the underworld and him stepping out, brushing past some buff-looking devils.
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It was about football IIRC. It had a scene where some teenagers are out in the woods, shooting up the old shitty car one of them owned. I remember at least one of the characters present had a Southern drawl of some kind ("die, you sumbitch").
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Okay this is a bit of a long shot, but....my younger sister went to Germany in 2011, and while she was in her hotel she watched a movie that she wants to find. It was a (seemingly) old Cowboys .vs. Indians movie. It may not have even been in german. Other than the fact that it was Cowboys and Indians, the only thing she can really remember was a group of cowboys in one area, and the head cowboy was yelling at another one- then everyone held up a sign that said "JOHN" in some form.
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Only scene I really remember from this movie is some law-enforcement types talking about how someone had found a way to make a plastic-like substance out of marijuana, and they were building TVs out of it and smuggling it into the country. I think there was also a bit where someone was wandering around a warehouse looking for a toilet to do #2, but wasn't having any luck, but that might have been a different movie. If so, the one about the weed TVs is the one I'm really wondering about.
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I remember watching a movie sometime around 2004-2006 about a boy whose mother reads him a bedtime story that had something to do with a rooster singing in a barnyard. Then the boy has a nightmare inspired by it. It starts with some character from the story pulling him out his window, but he manages to clamber back in. Then I think he gets dragged out again and can't get back this time. At first, the boy, his mother, his house, etc. are filmed in live action, and the characters from the story and the dream are animated. Then something happens that turns the boy into an animated cat or squirrel or something. At the end of the dream, the kid gets either killed or very badly injured and turns back into a human. When he wakes up, he tells his mother that he had a dream about the characters from the story, which causes her to picture him in live action wandering around the animated barnyard during the closing credits. I can remember almost nothing about the story of the dream, except that someone gets electrocuted at some point (can't remember if it did any damage, but it let us see his bones for a few seconds).
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I remember seeing a movie more then 10 years ago (can't even guess in what language it was originally). It was a horror/comedy I think??? Something about a family who were actually praying mantises that could take human form? I really can't remember much else. Was this movie even real or have I hallucinated it? Because I love mantises
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I'm curious about this memory of a heavily-promoted film from 1991-92 that I don't seem to have ever heard about again. It was about a truck driver. It involved getting a woman to a hospital to have her baby, but that might not have been the central plot. The title had something to do with speed or relentlessness, like "Don't Slow Down" or "Gotta Keep Moving."
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So about 4 years ago, I spent a few months in Japan. At one point my host family put on a movie for their daughter who was about 4-5 yrs old. I'd like to find it again but at the time I sucked at the language, so I don't know what its called.
There was a girl and she had a story book that I think was very loosely based off the frog prince. It was live action movie - or the girl was at any rate. She went to someplace where there were older people (maybe a hospital?) who read it to her, but it sort of alternated between 2 realities: 1. the older people reading the story to her 2. the older people actually being the characters and the girl was visiting their world.
I distinctly remembered that the frog died near the end and everyone was very sad (and maybe that world kinda disappeared too?), but somehow everything was fine again when the girl pressed a big red button in her book (I think it was a pop-up book) and then either the movie ended, or my host family stopped playing the movie at that point. It was a truly surreal movie, though it might have made sense if I'd actually understood any of the dialogue. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
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Live action movie from The '90s where the bad guy was a puppet dog. I think the good guy was a puppet also but forget what he looked like. I remember the dog had a human master who we only saw from the legs down and who treated the dog badly but eventually the dog turns on him
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A film I saw on T.V. once maybe seven or so years ago about a girl who lives on a circular space station that is is being ejected into space section by section because it is out of orbit or something. There's a bratty girl there too. The first girl gets a message on her phone-like device from the aliens that consists of three notes,and when the bratty girl bursts into her room and asks her what it's about she says she that it's part of a song and the aliens obviously want her to go to earth to find the rock star who wrote it, and whom she admires. She tells the other girl not to follow her, but they both end up going to earth by hiding in wooden crates. The rock star has a blueish-purple force field around his house and doesn't want anything to do with them at first, but after hearing them he agrees to go to space with them, though they have to carry all his stuff. They, and a few other people (maybe the protagonist's parents) end up in a spaceship falling fatally towards the moon, but they are saved at the last second by a green force-field, which belongs to the aliens, who are telepathic, look like colorful clouds of glitter, and have a ship that looks like a giant luna moth. The rock star thinks they want to talk to him, but they say - via the protagonist - that they were just using his song as a way to communicate, and that what they actually want is a some fuel for their ship. One of the adults asks why they didn't just take it, (there may have been something more about their all-powerfulness), and the aliens say that's unethical. They are given fuel for their ship, and in return reconnect all the pieces of the space station that came unattached (or were jettisoned)and push it back into orbit. The credits roll as the characters and others have a party and the rock star sings a song to the protaginist.
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This was a live-action film from around the early 1970s. I can't remember a lot of detail, but it was a kind of love story about this boy and girl who meet as kids on a beach. They may have been marooned there, but maybe not. They carve their initials in the back of a baby sea turtle. They end up getting rescued or separated some other way, I think, and then meet up again when they were in their teens or early 20s. I think the last scene shows the same sea turtle all grown up, but with the initials still on its back.
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I vaguely recall a movie from the mid-90s(?). The main characters were a boy and a girl who get transported to a magical realm (is there a trope for that?) by a magical talisman. In order to find their way home, they acquire the help of a Disembodied Head. At one point in their adventure, they make a grappling hook out of a vine and some incredibly sticky tree sap. At the end of their journey, they find some sort of chamber where they place their talisman on a table and summon dozens of other children to them, each with a similar talisman. This, in turn, wakes up the talismans' maker(?) who wields a bubble-wand.
Of note: all people from the real world are played by humans, all people from the magical realm are portrayed by puppets.
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I was reading the Amnesiac Lover article and it suddenly occurred to me that I've watched a film that would be a perfect addition to its examples...except that I naturally can't recall its title at all. It was a foreign-language film (probably Japanese, but definitely Asian at the very least) that I watched on a plane trip last year, and its main plot was that a boy had broken up with a girl when she was diagnosed with cancer and coincidentally got amnesia right after their break-up in a bike/car accident that caused him to lose all memories of their relationship. The girl plans to wait five years before she approaches him again because if she lives that long, her cancer is more likely than not to stay in remission.
Of course, since love is an inexorable force, the boy approaches the girl himself one year before her five-year mandate is over even though he still doesn't remember her. She discourages his advances at first but eventually caves and agrees to be in a relationship with him; he even asks her to marry him after, oh, about three meetings from his perspective, but she convinces him to wait one year for that. She doesn't tell him anything about their past history or her cancer, but then her cancer relapses with a vengeance and he finds out the truth. He also finally remembers that while he did leave her when he first found out about the cancer, he had a change of heart soon after, only to get into that amnesia-inducing accident before he could reconcile with her. There's a rather sad scene where he secretly bikes her out of the hospital and they have a date under the stars where they pretend for a while that she'll live long enough for them to marry. She doesn't.
I've tried Googling what I remember of this film's events, to no avail. Anyone out there better at search-fu than I am?
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Two movies I vaguely remember, and I only remember one scene from each. Both are live action.
The first one I believe was some kind of a mob movie or something (not like a 40s gangster flick or any of those noir movies); I remember a guy - middle-aged or elderly - being pinned down in his recliner by some thugs while another guy bashing the soles of his feet, for whatever reason; the scene then cut to large bucket of ice the guy sticks his feet into as he sits down to dinner with his family.
The second I believe may have been a comedy or something. The scene takes place in an office conference, where this rather butch-looking lady with surprisingly nice legs was speaking; I think the guy who was sitting across from her at the conference table had dropped something on the floor, and he kept trying to reach it with his foot, but accidentally kicked her in some way, causing her to jump out of her chair and give him a chewing out.
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A made for TV kid's movie from The '90s. Possibly Disney although it was live action rather than animated. Was about this kid who is secretly a robot or android and only his family knows. The bad guy is some weapon manufacturer who wants to turn the kid into a weapon. Badguy's name was something like Fogel or Vogel?
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I recall from deep in my childhood memories, a kaiju movie involving some kind of brontosaurus (which was still a thing then). As best as I recall, some archeologists excavated a frozen foot from some frozen wasteland, and take it to a laboratory for research. It was kept in a refrigerated room, because, being a lizard, it could grow back from a mere cell (This movie most definitely did not do the research... The Dino in question is also treated as a carnivore). Naturally, it ended up thawed and came back to life. It went on a standard kaiju style rampage, using its laser breath that it had for some reason to blow up buildings. Eventually it somehow got blown up, leaving only a foot for the stinger when it twitches. It was rather creepy to a young kid, like all kaiju movies, thanks to the twitchy stop motion.
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A sci-fi film, probably early eighties, that I remember fragments from.
A young boy is kidnapped by or stows away with a band of mercenaries or space pirates. Over time, the boy bonds with the crew, especially with their leader. The crew consisted of at least two humans, one male named Hawk, one female, but by the end only Hawk survives.
I remember a scene where Hawk teaches the boy to use the ship's weapons to blow up asteroids, with the line "Goddamn rocks", and later uses the skills he learned to defend the ship; a scene where Hawk is talking about the past, and says he used to be General Hawk; a scene on the surface of a planet where the woman is killed in a firefight in dramatic slow motion; a scene where the boy uses medical skills learned from observation to help a wounded Hawk.
It may also have used stock footage from "Battle Beyond the Stars" (doesn't narrow it down much, I know).