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openNo Title Film
I'm trying to figure out the name of a strange movie that I saw a clip or trailer of a few months ago. I think it's from the nineties or early 2000s. The main character was a fat man who was schizophrenic or mentally ill in some way who wears headphones and may or may not be homeless. I think it was shot on video tape and has a very unconventional structure. I saw it while looking for films similar in style to those of David Lynch. Some of this description might be wrong but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about.
Edited by wfletchopenNo Title Film
1) Some old black and white movie. Death comes to claim some guy. I think the guy had an apple tree that whenever someone goes up in it, they always get stuck and can't come down. So the guy asks Death to go up into the apple tree and get him one last apple before he dies. Death does as he asks, and then he is stuck in the tree. Nothing can die after that.
2) Possibly the same movie, but I think a different old black and white movie. Some rich people in a huge house are negotiating with Death, or trying to get out of a deal with Death or something? I'm not sure but Death is in their house for the duration of the movie for some reason, and he is supposed to take someone in the house. At the end, you think he's supposed to take that person, but then he takes off his hood and cape and announces that he wants to stop being Death. I think he fell in love with a woman in the house, or maybe there was some other reason? I mostly just remember my Mom yelling "Copout!" at the TV when I saw it as a kid.
openNo Title Live Action TV
I'm trying to find out if I'm just crazy or if this was actually on the air at one point. It could have just been a Canadian thing, or it could have been international (or it could have been a Candle Cove/Eldritch Abomination thing)... This was in the late-80s/early-90s or so.
Anyway, there was this girl (I think her name was Hope), and an evil witch/queen/something. The witch had a henchmonster (fuzzy brown puppet guy) called Erg (possibly spelled differently, but pronounced as I spelled it). There was also a talking waterfall/spring/pond/well/something. I think it was probably either a well or a waterfall, because I seem to recall if being an alliteration with the word 'wise' or 'wisdom'.
Edited to correct 'canned' to the more accurate 'called'.
Edited by OmegaX123openNo Title Literature
Okay, this is one that's been bugging me for years. It was a pretty thick fantasy novel, hardcover, and the cover had a girl standing in front of a pair of gates that had wings wrought into the design, so it looked a bit like she had wings. I remember the title being something very simple, and I'm pretty sure it was just one word.
Setting was either France, or something like it in feel. Or maybe it was just the characters that gave me that impression. Anyways, the main character is/was nobility of some kind, I think. She definitely was in the palace for a time, taking care of the queen, I believe, along with a bunch of other girls. They would take some kind of pill to give them enough energy to take care of the queen, dance, and socialize all the time.
For the plot, there were, I think, 3 machines that the people had discovered/unearthed. They didn't understand what they were, but I know they eventually started feeding people into one of them to kill them. It was the one with a more feminine name, Kokotte or something like that (spelled phonetically, because I remember taking the trouble to sound it out). There were also women that called themselves the "Coquettes of Kokotte". The main character's grandmother is fed to this machine.
There was also a boy, a street-urchin type, I think, towards the end that takes in the main character and hides her from people that are searching for her.
Anyone know of/read this? Much appreciated. :)
Edited by oneboot17openNo Title Anime
This one has been bugging me for years, and I just can't figure it out. I believe the film was anime of somekind, and it involved an innocent girl who starts the film in a wheel chair. And there is some kind of evil thing that sits on a throne in some other place trying to destroy her. He has minions who makes out of grubs in a bowl near his thrown and tries to stop the girl from doing something, not sure what. There is also some kind of world change or something and the girl can walk in this other place. Any ideas?
openNo Title
I remember watching a muppets YouTube Poop with the phrase "shit everywhere!" in it a lot
openNo Title Literature
There's a kids' novel I read in the 80s or 90s that I want to add to But You Were There, and You, and You, but I don't recall the title. This girl's sister or cousin gets kidnapped by evil goblins and she goes on a quest to rescue her. Her quest companions include a robot similar to her know-all brother, and an eagle who reminds her of her father. At one point they meet the queen, who has no legs (the girl's mother is bedridden with illness). And the goblins turn out to have been torturing the sister or cousin by brushing her teeth until the enamel thins and scrubbing her face until she loses layers of skin (yeah, good hygiene as Nightmare Fuel. It was that sort of book...)
Edited by DaibhidCopenNo Title Literature
My girlfriend is trying to remember a Young Adults book (maybe in more than one part) that involved both killer sheep and 'zombie' snails (that when captured in a box, would move in the direction of the Big Bad). The protagonists were brother and sister, and their mother had died in a bus crash previously - there's a scene where they revisit the decaying bus and time starts skipping backwards, a skeleton of a goat rebuilds itself. Kind of creepy but offbeat in tone. Probably had a green cover?
openNo Title Music
It's a music video actually, but here's what I remember:
It starts with a concert for a boy band type group, with the audience cheering and whatnot. The boy band is on stage singing, when suddenly the audience stops cheering, and looks back. Some guy shows up in a medical gown with a bald cap and starts singing the chorus of the song. The audience just stares at the guy, and the band tries to out-sing him. The guy looks at the band and starts shooting lasers from his mouth and killing the band members one by one. Eventually the guy gets back on stage and the band reappears in different costumes and they start singing again.
I know this is a long description, but the music video just kind of freaked me out and I can't remember the name of the band or the song. The video looked fairly recent, at least based on the special effects.
openNo Title Anime
I vaguely remember this show (I think it was anime) that my mom rented for me when I was little (mid-90's). All I remember was that there were giant centipedes throwing the world into chaos because they were eating fairies which I think controlled nature or something. And there was a scene in a church/cathedral of a priest writing something with a quill pen by candlelight. Does this sound familiar to anyone?
openNo Title Western Animation
I remember watching a cartoon when I was little that I think was on the Disney Channel at one point. It was about two cars (or something like that), an little which I think was red, and a bigger car that I don't remember the colour. All I can remember was that the little car wasn't allowed to play near the train tracks. At one point the little car decides to rebel, dons a raccoon-skinned cap and drives off to the tracks. I think he ends up getting hit by a train, because the next scene I remember was about the little car being in hospital.
I'm not sure whether this was a real cartoon or just a weird dream that I remember, but I think it was an old Disney Cartoon.
openNo Title Live Action TV
Allright. There's this show that comes on at least once a week on Japanese TV, and it's about a group of monsters. There's a kid with huge ears and stretchy limbs, a werewolf, a frankenstein-type monster, a vampire (with an Ill Girl love interest who he met at the supermarket), an elderly woman and two younger kids. There's also a powerful monster underground that a different group is trying to revive... does anyone know what the title of this is, because I don't speak Japanese and I have no idea.
openNo Title Anime
An animated tv-series. COULD have been an anime, but I am not sure. The characters were all anthropomorphic felines. Only their heads were animal-like, the rest of their bodies (apart from the fur) were human. The protagonists were three typical Adventurer Archaeologists: Always hunting treasures in ancient ruins, at least one of them dressed like Indiana Jones, seemingly living in the first half of the 20th century, ect. They were two males and one female. Interestingly, the female was more anthropomorphic than her two male companions: (Caucasian) skin-coloured instead of fur-coloured, and with a less protruding and less animal-like muzzle.
Edited by LobsterMagnus

I saw this one on TV in Canada, but can't find out what it was called. It was about a little boy who was kidnapped by a profession wrestler and taken to an island hidden by fog in the middle of a swamp. The wrestler had two assistants, one was a fish man and the other was a chicken lady who was in love with him. There were a bunch of kids stuck here, being terrorized by the wrestler. However, the main character (who I think was called Jimmy) realized that the wrestler was actually a nice guy who bullied kids to make himself feel tough. After all, no one that evil would be nice to their dog.
Meanwhile, a pair of ineffectual child heroes were trying to save them. They didn't do much of anything. Eventually, the fog was dissipated, the lair was exposed to sunlight, and the two assistants turned back into what they were made out of (fish and chickens). This turned out to all be a daydream and the show ended with Jimmy getting yelled at by a salesperson for stealing a tomato.
Anyone remember it? I kept thinking Jimmy Two-Shoes, but that's a cartoon.