Need to identify this eighties/early nineties film.

KJB is one of the real deal WTF film dudes. He referenced Final Flesh in another thread and freaked out about the GG Allin blowjob reactions in the Hated thread - not a super big surprise he has this handy.

New t-shirt design:

Front: Listen To Walter Galt
Back: Screen grab from Barbara Rubin's Christmas on Earth aka Cocks and Cunts

Sent the download link to those who mailed me.

got it! and thanks, tuomas. haven't watched it yet...

Using the typewriter the villain does all sort of nasty things to the writer: first he turns him into a woman...

*reproachful mark loi face*

ha, that's a point..

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Jason_of_Star_Command/70066208?trkid=2361637

beloved

Looks like there must've been some kind of deal between the local Finnish television channel and the Canadian distributor of "Destiny to Order", because a lot of of obscure Canadian movies (including this one by the same guy who wrote and directed "Destiny to Call") were shown on Finnish TV back in the 80s and early 90s.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1078280/releaseinfo

Okay, I have another thing I'd love someone to identify... This one's an animated short, stop-motion, made in the early or mid-90s. It's sort of a faux Japanese folk tale about a samurai who has to save a girl from a demon. The animation is the made to look as if we're watching a play, so the camera remains stationary, and instead of cutting from scene to another the props behind the characters change all the time. Also, since it's supposed to be a play, it has a on-stage narrator, an old guy with a beard. I don't remember much about the story, except that the samurai beats the demon and gets the girl. The narrator then walks to the stage, takes of a mask he was wearing and reveals that he's not actually an old guy but the samurai of the story, who's joined by the girl he saved. You'd think the story would end there, but all of a sudden the camera moves (for the first time in the movie) much closer to the characters than previously, and we see the demon attack the samurai and the girl. The demon kills both the samurai and the girl in a rather gory manner, and the short ends with that. It's quite a shock to have an ending like that, as the rest of the story was more like a classic children's animation. I think the short won some big price for short films, but I can't remember which one.

i sympathize but nobody is going to go through this again for you tuomas, i'm sorry

At least you know he's telling the truth this time

Oh yeah, and I'm pretty sure the animation was made in the UK or USA, not in Japan.

is it claymation, or what? you could try going through short/animated film fest websites for their winners, although maybe they don't go back that far.

not this?

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-rcStfxnHSX4/TiUkKJCyVZI/AAAAAAAAAhM/PMOIIoQzSF4/s1600/samurai_jack.jpg

is it claymation, or what? you could try going through short/animated film fest websites for their winners, although maybe they don't go back that far.

Not claymation, stop-motion puppets, like Nightmare Before Christmas.

Wait, so did contenderizer (or any other veteran of this thread) actually get the download link and confirm the existence of the magic typewriter ball-rap sequence?

You don't believe my word that the scene was there?

You sent me the dropbox link, but I had problems with it for some reason (format maybe?).

I was really hoping that some enterprising ilxor would have gotten some pertinent youtubes up by now.

i dropped the ball on this. started to watch the movie (thank you, t), but it was so awful that i never make it more than a few minutes in. have since deleted it (trying to save space during file migration).

Okay, I have another thing I'd love someone to identify... This one's an animated short, stop-motion, made in the early or mid-90s. It's sort of a faux Japanese folk tale about a samurai who has to save a girl from a demon. The animation is the made to look as if we're watching a play, so the camera remains stationary, and instead of cutting from scene to another the props behind the characters change all the time. Also, since it's supposed to be a play, it has a on-stage narrator, an old guy with a beard. I don't remember much about the story, except that the samurai beats the demon and gets the girl. The narrator then walks to the stage, takes of a mask he was wearing and reveals that he's not actually an old guy but the samurai of the story, who's joined by the girl he saved. You'd think the story would end there, but all of a sudden the camera moves (for the first time in the movie) much closer to the characters than previously, and we see the demon attack the samurai and the girl. The demon kills both the samurai and the girl in a rather gory manner, and the short ends with that. It's quite a shock to have an ending like that, as the rest of the story was more like a classic children's animation. I think the short won some big price for short films, but I can't remember which one.

― Tuomas, 16. elokuuta 2011 19:51

I did eventually find this one, it's called "Screen Play", and you can watch it on Youtube:

http://youtu.be/VG4rkjQI7d4

Anyway, while we're on the subject, there's another film I saw as a kid that someone might identify. I think I was quite small then, so this must be from the eighties. It was a sci-fi film set in the future, or maybe even on another planet. It had a small group of heroes trying to reach some goal, possibly escape from somewhere, and of course they had to fight some bad guys along the way. Most of the group were humans or human-like, but it also included one cyborg and one robot reminiscent of R2-D2. I distinctly remember that the cyborg got killed while helping the others to escape. Possibly he was electrocuted. That's all I remember, but maybe someone can identify this movie.

― Tuomas, 24. lokakuuta 2007 14:55 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And this one turned out to be Eliminators.

This one, however, I've never managed to identify:

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

It was on the telly when I was a kid, back in the mid-80s, so it can't be newer than that. For some reason I recall this series being British, but I could be wrong about that. It was definitely in English, though.

I just found a hopeful looking page. It turned out to be the question you posted to tvtropes.

Yeah, TVTropes was able to identify the other two things I was looking for, but so far I've had no success with this sci-fi series.

Hmmmm, so I'm sure I've asked this here somewhere before, but here goes nothing . . .

This is One of the movies I overwatched on VHS as a kid (tape sadly missing/destroyed now). Things I remember:

• Live Action
• Presumably Australian judging by accents and . . .
• A koala plays a narrative role, piping up and explaining stuff while being carriecd about by a kid.
• The plot involved natives in a jungle (I can't remember where they are nagtives of) who make a green snack-sized bar that makes you go loopy when you eat it.
• I remember the main baddies being a ruthless-guy-in-a-suit type, in my head looking a little bit like Ricardo Montelban in Naked Gun
• I distinctly remember one bit where the hero dude has to play a tennis match against a pro player as a diversion, and he does a Marx-Brothers-style gag of drinking lots of water to stall the diversion a little onger

It doesn't matter what film it is.

Norman Panama's penultimate directorial effort, Barnaby and Me was originally filmed for Australian television. The title character is a talented Koala Bear, who is to Australian fans what Benji is to Americans. Pausing in his escape from a vengeful mobster, American con artist Caesar falls in love with Juliet Mills, whose daughter Sally Boyden keeps Barnaby as her pet. The kooky koala teans up with Caesar for a series of picaresque adventures. It's hardly The Sting, but it's easy to take. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

That looks like the fella. Thanks ledge!

it is this thread still working? im looking for the movie destiny to order. Sorry if its to late, but im just discovered this forum. Thanks

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?

^ 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?

not 100% sure but:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067278/

The Johnstown Monster (1971)

set in ireland

or maybe this:

http://marciodisneyarchives.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/strange-monster-of-strawberry-cove.html

title seems familiar. disney, burgess meredith...

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.

Pretty sure it's the Strawberry Cove one because that monster was definetely bicycle powered.

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