Need to identify this eighties/early nineties film.

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.

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

Nightbreed would have been my first answer!

Oh, and it was this Sandman film that was suggested, not the Sandman comic, apparently:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgHbRrnjhU

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...

Basket Case 2 or 3 lemme check

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

2 is p good, 3 is ... not. 1 is a classic obvy

ah man this thread is heartwarming.

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, 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.

I remember watching it on Finnish TV in the 80s, if that's any help.

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.

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.

el espiritu en la colmena

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

omg, thank you! this answers so many questions.

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.

:( I thought someone had found the typewriter film

They did! Further upthread.

It was Destiny to Order: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099412/reference

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

dr. casino: the devil's backbone?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/?ref_=nv_sr_6

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.

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?

mid to late 90s, arty

can't tell you but i do know that i now need to clear my search history so thanks for that

i've been googling it for a decade.

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.

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.

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.

it was arty + modern. the actors may have had british accents.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145893/

Trivia
Sarah Michelle Gellar has stated that this is one of her least favorite films that she has been in.

probably not it

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

it makes finding it more difficult but it was a short film and i believe part of an anthology of erotic shorts.

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

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.

Five Senses of Eros? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1587422/

too recent. no crab eating or wheelbarrow position.

cpost
Saw 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

Lady In Heat? http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film730748.html

shit, getting CLOSE. but not it.

Erotique http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109742/

Segment 3 is "Wonton Soup." Here an Australian-Chinese man tries to rekindle his affair with a Chinese woman by returning to their roots: both in the kitchen and in the bedroom.

The Pillow Book is a v. good guess

First thing I thought of but I don't remember there being any, errrr, crabs in it.

Ha, just noticed the post above mine, you owe anagram $100!!!!!!

I was just about to post Erotique! I remembered watching some multi-part erotic film that had an Asian segment, and the only other thing I remembered about it was that Priscilla Barnes (A Chrissy replacement on Three's Company) was in it, so I went to her imdb page.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hSnLqancDA

This is all there is on youtube from Destiny to Order.