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I need to know about a film that I saw as a child, but I can't remember the name. I had it on VHS, and the plot went like this:
'Two children, a boy and a girl, if I recall correctly, somehow enter a world of talking Loch Ness monster-esque creatures named after emotions/personality traits, like 'Happiness' or 'Pompousness'. If I recall, the Pompousness character was the main villain, and had two henchman. There was an elf-like, old man who seemed to act as a leader for the Nessies. And there was some sort of ship, as well, but I can't remember what purpose it served.'
Does anyone have any idea what this was called?
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A movie with witches, magic, kids, and a talking cat.
Edit: Wait, never mind, I found it! Hocus Pocus
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An animated children's movie I saw in the 90's. It was about these spiders who wore clothes and went to school and played in a band. The smallest spider was the underdog/hero of the movie and played a piccolo. The others wouldn't let him join the band. The spiders go inside a human home, are spotted, and are captured in a glass jar, except for the smallest. He has to get the others out before they run out of air. Unfortunately, he ends up outside, and has to get back inside the house first. He tries climbing a waterspout, but it's raining and he's washed away. When the rain stops, he tries again and gets to a window, then goes in through a gap in the window. The jar with the other spiders is on that windowsill, along with a bunch of other stuff. Small-spider finds a way to break the jar, by pushing a baseball, which topples a ruler, which hits the windup mechanism on a Godzilla toy, which walks forward and pushes the jar to the edge of the sill, where it's easily toppled. After everyone has gone back to school, they all play a cover of "Itsy Bitsy Spider".
Edit from 9 years later: Solved! It was "The Real Story of Itsy Bitsy Spider" (aka "Spider Junior High"), part of "The Real Story of..." series
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I'm looking for a film. All that i can remember that it had something like a book, made out of many pieces. And the villian was collecting them. I think he wore some kind of full body suit, which hid his face and features. The last piece was on the space ship of main characters and at some point of the movie began glowing and floated in the air. I remember chase scene or something like that, after which it was revealed that the Villian was someone Main Characters had been looking for all along. A father of one of them. I think he was part of some group that went missing, and that was probably why someone had been looking for them. I know it's too little but... The book was like an alien artifact or similiar and was (i think i do remember) it was always open.
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Okay, i'm looking for a movie probably. The only thing i remember is that it had some kind of underground world, filled with people that were ordinary humans at some point but spent too much time there. One thing about them is that if light would shine upon them they would shrink into their clothes, and in the dark would again regain their form. One of main characters spent too much time in there, and was also affected by this as his hand shrunk in his sleeve. I also remember (and i think it was the same movie) that there were a kid with his hands *glued* to his face, like Home Alone poster. And some jerk ripped his head off, threw it in basket and replaced it with small pumpking. The end of the movie was, that main character climed out of underground world to find himself on the beach, i think in another city. And a little before that he was told that he shouldn't worry about turning into one of underground dwellers, he just had to spend some time out in the sun or something.
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Okay, either no one found it or i missed but... There was a movie, live-action. Which i hardly remember anything but the ending. All i remember is that it involved climbing atop the clock tower, and the Hero was a male. Evil witch or queen, controlled it and made everyone around her age fast with each passing hour. The hero failed to climb to the top, and the ring he had on him, which had a small diamond, fell from his hand, and diamond fell out, falling down and lodging itself between gears. Thus stopping cursed clock and saving "almost" everyone. The hero aged so much that he was an old man with long white hair, and looked about 90. After clock was destroyed he regained his youth and so is everyone else.
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Some animated movie I saw (not all of it) maybe 15 years ago. Not sure what was the original language. A boy and a girl are going on a quest to help a beetle recover an arm its grandfather or some other ancestor lost because of an evil woodcutter. I remember some fairy saying that the quest must be undertaken by two kids who never harmed anyone.
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90's, probably. Horror. There was some creature or entity killing people in this town. They would just vanish, leaving behind anything metal. One such object was a pacemaker, if I recall correctly. I think the thing was down in the sewers. I think it had a one word or short title, and I thought it was called "Entity" but IMDB is giving me nothing useful with that.
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Some rather forgettable movie I saw at least ten-fifteen years ago. It centered around a good brother and an evil brother, with constant flashbacks of good brother and his beloved, ending with her taking an arrow for him. There was also a scene of their father giving the good brother a magical sword... with the magic, apparently, being the ability to float out of a scabbard behind his back and into his hand. I remember that effect looking veeeeery cheap.
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I don't know if this film was released in theaters or if it was made for television.
I saw it on television in the 1990s (USA), and I think the characters had hairstyles and clothes to match 90s styles.
It was about some teenage boys at a summer camp. The protagonist (who I think was blonde) really didn't want to be there. He was put into a cabin with several bunkmates, and one was a troubled kid who usually wore black clothes and slept upside-down (and I think he had red hair). He said something about it being because that's the way bats sleep. I don't know if that guy was supposed to be goth or emo or depressed or what, but he acted weird and usually refused to participate in group activities at the camp. Also the weird kid always had a toothbrush, and he was very possessive of it. He usually had it in his mouth and he would talk to it and claimed that it talked back to him.
I'm not sure about this, but the summer camp might have been for delinquents. The protagonist kid had to teach the others to work/play together, and to be proud of their group, even if it was a summer camp for rejects. So there was a sports competition or something, probably against other summer camp groups, and the kids had to learn to work together to compete against the others. At the end of the film, the weird red-haired kid showed a very drastic change of personality. He no longer acted depressed, he participated in sports, he was much more extroverted, had higher self-esteem, and I recall that the protagonist asked him about the toothbrush he had in his mouth. The red-haired kid smiled and said something like, "You know, toothbrushes sometimes say the darndest things!" and then threw it away to signify that he didn't need it anymore since he had learned to make real friends.
I tried searching for this with no luck. Anyone know this one?
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In this 90s-00s movie, a team of scientists makes a human from scratch by injecting blue fluid (possibly deoxygenated blood) into a nonexistent body. However, an accident causes the human to become savage and decompose. There are also dogs that are kept for experiments. What's that title again? It's at the tip of my tongue!
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A live-action movie that's somewhat of a Spy Kids ripoff where the protagonist is a robot boy made by KineTech. In one scene, he plays with water, with predictable results. Can't remember the rest...
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There was this movie I never actually saw but read about. All I remember reading is there was this scene where the main character (who's name was Sarah something) masturbates while someone else secretly watches. Also for some reason I think the movie might have had something to do with a ship but can't remember.
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This movie from The '80s or The '90s that had to do with racism and the Civil Rights struggle. All I remember is 1. the protagonist is a girl 2. the villain is her uncle or father. 3. At one point the girl's mother talks about a time when her uncle slammed a piano lid on this black kid's hands and broke them
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Movie I saw in the 90's or early 00's. A guy sees a light in the night sky and develops powers after that. He sees into the future, heals quickly from injuries, does large calculations in his head quickly, pushes objects telekinetically when his hands get close to them, and can hear and decipher radio signals. He sends a message to officials saying that he's cracked their code and tells them to improve it. They do so, but he's still able to crack it. He's only trying to help them, but they see him as a terrorist and call him "Rogue". He sends them an email saying "i'm not rogue i'm not rogue i'm not rogue i'm not rogue...(etc.)" In the end, he finds out from a doctor that he has a brain tumor and weeks left to live. The doctor says that it could be removed, increasing his lifespan to months, but he would run the risk of losing mental functions. He chooses not to get the surgery.
Also, I remember a scene which may be from this movie or a different one, where a man is being questioned/tested and he rolls a pencil back and forth with his fingers without touching it (telekinetically). When his interviewer asks him how he's doing that, he replies that they're all made of the same stuff. "Wood?" "Energy, Bob." ('Bob' is probably incorrect.)