ok, on Man Lab this evening they made a fake monster, like Nessie, to promote tourism to skegness.
there was a kid's tv show or a film with the same plot when i was a kid (ie around 35 years ago). monster had kids inside, built around a bicycle?
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
^ uk. and i think it was a uk production. felt like a Children's Film Foundation film (but nothing on their list rings a bell), or BBC. possibly canadian?
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
not 100% sure but:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067278/
The Johnstown Monster (1971)
set in ireland
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe this:
http://marciodisneyarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/strange-monster-of-strawberry-cove.html
title seems familiar. disney, burgess meredith...
― koogs, Thursday, 25 April 2013 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
johnstown monster looks familiar from the utube clip i watched. wikipedia sez it was shown as part of the cbs children's film festival so that's when i would have seen it, mid-to-late 70s-ish.
― slugbuggy, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure it's the Strawberry Cove one because that monster was definetely bicycle powered.
― everything, Thursday, 25 April 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
2) This one was definitely a TV series: it featured a boy who ended up in space in a rather weird way. Someone or something dislodged his room (but nothing else) from his parents' house, and the room was floating in space. So when he opened the door to his room, all he could see was stars! The series also had a cyborg bad guy with a scary, glowing cyborg eye.
― Tuomas, 1. maaliskuuta 2010 19:29 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Still looking for this series... A friend of mine remembers seeing it on Finnish telly, and someone over at TVTropes remembers it too, so I don't think I've imagined this one. Neither of those remembered the name of the series though.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 January 2014 13:37 (ten years ago) link
Can anyone here think of a 80s/90s film that features a character with a crescent moon shaped head? I'm asking for a friend, but suggestions that have already been made and were shot down include:
1.) Mac Tonight (from the McDonald's commercials)
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130730083542/creepypasta/images/5/54/Mac_Tonight.png
2.) Nightbreed
http://content9.flixster.com/question/40/33/70/4033707_std.jpg
3.) This Sandman cover
http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2013/10/Untitled-161.jpg
4.) UHF
http://www.bunnweb.org/smbunn/hester/uhf/uhf10.jpg
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:37 (ten years ago) link
Nightbreed would have been my first answer!
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:44 (ten years ago) link
Oh, and it was this Sandman film that was suggested, not the Sandman comic, apparently:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU
― how's life, Thursday, 26 June 2014 12:50 (ten years ago) link
actually, that was the first thing that sprang to my mind, little short animation. was someone's graduation project iirc, Paul Berry, looked like robert smith. went on to do james and the giant peach and died young.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0077651/
wither four-mations...
― koogs, Thursday, 26 June 2014 13:22 (ten years ago) link
Basket Case 2 or 3 lemme check
― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
http://www.dvdactive.com/images/reviews/screenshot/2012/10/bc2c.jpg
this is from 2, can't remember if the same character reoccurs in 3, god i need to watch these again
― clockpuncher (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
2 is p good, 3 is ... not. 1 is a classic obvy
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 June 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
ah man this thread is heartwarming.
― thomasintrouble, Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
― Tuomas, 17. tammikuuta 2014 15:37 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I still haven't managed to find this one. All the other movies/series I mentioned in this thread have been identified, so hopefully this one will be too some day.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:46 (nine years ago) link
I remember watching it on Finnish TV in the 80s, if that's any help.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 17 December 2014 11:47 (nine years ago) link
French, or maybe Spanish or Andorran film, late 90s or 2000s. I saw it in late 2009 but it was not necessarily new. It's set at some kind of orphanage or boarding house (kids are there, in any case) out in the boonies, kind of scrubby countryside, some hills. I can't remember the plot at all except that it is mostly or entirely set out at this orphanage, and there are mobsters or criminals that come out there to ...kill everybody? Or they just want some money or a particular guy? I feel like the climax is the kids kind of surviving against these gangsters. One kid spends a lot of the movie out on his own, maybe trying to run to the next town? Like he's really good at sports? And you think he's dead at one point but actually he survived and made a plan and comes back in the nick of time, I think. I'm making this sound a little like Home Alone but the kids are older than that and the tone is a lot heavier, though I think there are some laughs.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 25 April 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
That kind of reminds me on a movie I've been trying to identify since I saw it on TV maybe 15 years ago. I think it's from the 80s, and it's about this kid who defends his home and accosted family from intruding burglars/mobsters/criminals. At one point he fills a super-soaker with gasoline and, from a considerable distance, shoots it so that the stream of gas lands directly on the end of one guy's cigarette. At another point he goes to the bathroom, puts a bunch of chemicals on a rag, and then holds it to the criminal's mouth, knocking him out.
― ed.b, Sunday, 26 April 2015 10:58 (nine years ago) link
el espiritu en la colmena
― laraaji p. hensen (clouds), Sunday, 26 April 2015 12:45 (nine years ago) link
both of them
ed. b., yours is Playing Dangerous I'll bet - - - see 8:50 forward here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGI-BKctOK8
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 26 April 2015 14:20 (nine years ago) link
omg, thank you! this answers so many questions.
― ed.b, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:11 (nine years ago) link
Interesting side note, for many years I thought that movie was "Stuart Saves His Family" because it's literally about a kid named Stuart saving his family, but then I realized what Stuart Saves his Family actually is.
― ed.b, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:14 (nine years ago) link
:( I thought someone had found the typewriter film
― kinder, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
They did! Further upthread.
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
It was Destiny to Order: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099412/reference
― emil.y, Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
i jsut read this whole thread for the first time... wow!!!!
i found out where i can procure this which i am mos def going to do when i get home
― Who M the best? (Will M.), Tuesday, 28 April 2015 20:58 (nine years ago) link
dr. casino: the devil's backbone?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/?ref_=nv_sr_6
― lxy, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
Hrmmm, no, set in the present day for sure. Contemporary cars, the running kid has sneakers and stuff. There might even be some French North African immigrant tensions in play.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 29 April 2015 18:14 (nine years ago) link
a three part? erotic film -- one segment was set in hong kong? maybe taiwan? it featured a man having awkward sex with a woman in wheelbarrow position... they ate crabs together, i believe. in my memory, the eating of crabs bestowed some sexual power to the man in the film.
what was it?
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:03 (nine years ago) link
mid to late 90s, arty
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:08 (nine years ago) link
can't tell you but i do know that i now need to clear my search history so thanks for that
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2015 05:12 (nine years ago) link
i've been googling it for a decade.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:31 (nine years ago) link
i saw it on the drambuie showcase review or possibly bravo, late at night. i feel like the man learned the sex secrets from a book, possibly some taoist sex manual.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:36 (nine years ago) link
i actually haven't been googling it for a decade. i thought about it for the first time in 17 years while eating crab today.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 07:45 (nine years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_and_Zen
This movie has a man learning sex secrets from a manual, and it also has two sequels. Can't remember any crab-eating scene, but I haven't watched it since the 1990s. It has a fairly memorable scene the where the guy has replaced his small penis with a horse's dong (not shown onscreen), and needs to use a ladder to have sex with some woman.
― Tuomas, Sunday, 5 July 2015 13:38 (nine years ago) link
it was arty + modern. the actors may have had british accents.
― dylannn, Sunday, 5 July 2015 22:32 (nine years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145893/
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:47 (nine years ago) link
TriviaSarah Michelle Gellar has stated that this is one of her least favorite films that she has been in.
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:59 (nine years ago) link
probably not it
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 06:38 (nine years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114134/
haven't seen this since the late 90s and don't recall a scene like you describe but ticks some of the boxes
― efreet liberal (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 07:03 (nine years ago) link
it makes finding it more difficult but it was a short film and i believe part of an anthology of erotic shorts.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:00 (nine years ago) link
i am offering a $100 USD prize to whoever can find this.
The Pillow Book is a v. good guess. Other possible contenders:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082422/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/?ref_=nv_sr_2
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459666/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:00 (nine years ago) link
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082422/ -- too old, not the right contemporary setting. have you seen this? is it good?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101316/?ref_=nv_sr_2 -- tony leung as "the chinaman." not even close but... looks interesting?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459666/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 -- i love this movie. the goofiness of the sex, the taoist sex manual and the crab eating makes hou hsiao hsien a good guess but it wasn't hou hsiao hsien.
but none of those.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:12 (nine years ago) link
Five Senses of Eros? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587422/
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:20 (nine years ago) link
too recent. no crab eating or wheelbarrow position.
― dylannn, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:29 (nine years ago) link
cpostSaw Fruits of Passion many years ago, in the memory it's pretty barmy and worth seeking out
Haven't seen The Lover, it had a 'shocking' reputation for a while in Britain because it featured a very young English actress who went on to make a terrible film with Bruce Willis
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:31 (nine years ago) link
Lady In Heat? http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film730748.html
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 08:58 (nine years ago) link