obscure 80's horror film
I'm looking for a horror film, don't know if it's the late 70's or early 80's. Movie starts out at a high school i think with a ramones punk track? there are students having sex in a boiler room or somewhere dingy as the bell rings? and then all i remember is there is a nerdy kid who gets picked on and at the end he turns into the devil or something crazy and powerful. haven't seen the movie in 16 years, so i don't really remember much. please help!
Horror movie title game
OK folks, here's whatcha' do.......make a story out of as many horror movie titles as you can, and I'll start with this one:
The Phantom's House
One day the Phantom of The Opera invited me to his House
to see his prized possession, the Masque Of The Red Death.
As I rang the doorbell, the Castle Freak opened up The Gate
and let me in. Walking into the Chamber Of Horrors and down to
The Vault Of Horror, I saw Boris Karloff and Vincent Price having
fun with Barbara Steele as she was was laid out over The Pit And The Pendulum. "Welcome to our Mad Monster Party" said Boris.
Vincent said he wasn't feeling too well, as he had eaten a half pint
of The Stuff and it wasn't faring well with him. Barbara sugested he
see the mad doctor at Nightmare Castle for a cure for his upset stomach, and Vincent asked if he could help with The Tingler he had in his spine as well.
Anyhow, as the Phantom and I neared the room holding all his collectibles, I laid my eyes upon The Mask that he prized so much. And next to it was a strange looking head in a jar, and it looked strangely familiar, and it was then I recognized it, when the Phantom told me They Saved Hitler's Brain. A strange creature that looked like a detached brain with a spinal cord sat next to it.
"What's The Thing sitting next to The Severed Head I asked him. "Why that's my Fiend Without A Face he said."
Well as you can see Dagons Blade...not too many people are into this thread...so allow me to put my two cents in.
I am just AN AMERICAN PSYCHO, but previously I was known as AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN PARIS and before than AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Though, I have started to notice I have CABIN FEVER whenever I think of CARRIE. She just happens to be a part of THE CHILDREN OF THE CORN, but THE DARK HALF of her is DEAD AND BURIED. So together we looked started to surf the internet and found FEAR DOT COM, while I was working the GRAVEYARD SHIFT on HALLOWEEN. As we looked she shrieked JEEPERS CREEPERS as looking out the window we saw KILLER CLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. They approached and said I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER...I laughed and began to MIMIC them as I led them out to the PET SEMATARY. It was PITCH BLACK and the PHANTOMS chanted for the QUEEN OF THE DAMNED. She lived in the HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL.
But it was all just a URBAN LEGEND, and now I am just a lonely VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN. But just WAIT UNTIL DARK, for I will rise 28 DAYS LATER.
Kewl! Good job A.D. Skinner.
Now, as I was saying........
It was The Day The Earth Stood Still..
Years ago, we fought the War Of The Worlds
against a group of Aliens who tried to destroy
us with their Starship Invasions.
We fought long and hard and eventually repelled
the Invaders From Mars and we won, but many
of us were lost...this was our Independence Day,
the day we freed ourselves from the clutches of an Alien
race of beings who came from a distant Galaxy Of Terror.
We fought The Alien Factor and had won, but at what price?
Word had it that the military spotted a group of their special
Zone Troopers headed our way...and we braced for impact
as we prepared to fight to The Last Man On Earth once more,
but who could fight against Plan 9 From Outer Space?
We were doomed unless we could enlist the aid of the Robot Monster.
So DARKNESS FALLS and it's PITCH BLACK. Some fellas were watching the news about some POLTERGEIST and THE MISSING kids from THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. I turn to FRANKENSTEIN, who by the way, is sitting next to DRACULA, and ask, "Do THEY have a SIXTH SENSE or something? " THE LOST BOYS?" they ask. No, the THIRTEEN GHOSTS, I respond sarcastically. Then I learn, ROSEMARY'S BABY plays with THE BIRDS from DUSK TILL DAWN. She's gonna need THE EXORCIST. CARRIE, now she's a real PYSCHO. I remember on HALLOWEEN, me and THE OTHERS, road a GHOST SHIP to THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL. Boy I wished it was my FINAL DESTINATION. THE EXORCIST is a really good actor. He talks about a PET SEMATARY, and something about THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW. THE RING he was wearing was awesome and I still have IT. 28 DAYS LATER, I wake up next to an ALIEN. He implants a probe into my body forcing me to tell this pointless story over and over.
Guess The Movie Title
Spoiler:
Note the number of the movie is above,not below.
But i give wicker_man right this time.
Movie 1
Movie 2
Movie 3
Spoiler:
The Mask - wicker_man
Movie 4
Spoiler:
Cross Of Iron/Järnkorset - wicker_man
Movie 5
Spoiler:
Jumanji - wicker_man
Movie 6
Spoiler:
Godzilla - wicker_man
Movie 7
Movie 8
Spoiler:
Die Hard - wicker_man
Movie 9
Spoiler:
The Core - wicker_man
Movie 10
Spoiler:
Con Air - wicker_man
What is this movie?
As a TV-addicted child of the 80's, I saw my share of obscure, moderately entertaining low-budget fare in all genres. While the titles and other vital information has faded, the memories have not. The IMDb and other sources have, of course, helped tremendously in helping me track down some of the least-known of them when I want to relive a fond memory of childhood. Still, I am stuck on two of them; I know they existed, but cannot find them anywhere (as you will soon find out why). I most likely saw them on HBO sometime between 1982-86.
The first is an action-adventure feature about a group of specialists called upon to retrieve some ancient treasure. Not too promising, I know, but it is my fervent hope that some of the only specifics I can remember about it might be recognized by a fellow movie geek on this board. The movie's theme is almost certainly an attempt to cash in on the popularity of Indiana Jones (like the Allen Quartermain movies or "High Road to China"😉. It is set in modern times (early 80's), the hero is a thick, dark-featured adventurer. He's craggy-faced and not too handsome (which is probably why I can't remember anything about him. He kind of reminds me of Claude Akins. I do recall him wearing a long-sleeved, button-down red shirt, having shoulder-length black hair, and possibly black jeans and cowboy boots.
The film begins with the hero narrowly escaping death during some excursion, then returning to his "Marcus Brody"-type supporting actor to chastise him about the unexpected dangers he faced. The supporting actor reminds the hero that he did tell him basically who or what he'd be up against, to which the hero replies:
"Well, ya sure left out a helluva lotta details!"
The hero has associates, and almost certainly a love interest, but I can't remember anything about them. Near the end of the film, the hero has to negotiate a moss-covered, trap-filled edifice to obtain the prize. As he gingerly climbs the steps of a giant statue, a long, silver blade thrusts forward from the hands of the statue (the hands are pressed palms together, prayer-style, and the fingers face forward; the sword looks like it's shooting from the fingertips). The hero ducks to the left with cat-like reflexes, gets the treasure, and that's it (at least, that's all I can remember, but I'm pretty sure that's close to the end).
Well...anybody know what movie this is? Thanks. I'll post the other movie in a separate message.
What is this movie? (Part II)
Okay, the other movie I can't remember was released sometime in the early-to-mid-80's. It begins in modern times, somewhere probably near the mountains of California. A leggy, blonde lady (possibly a reporter) is at a mad professor's house (he looks more like a high school Chemistry teacher), where he has just invented some sort of device. He either falls in or jumps in, and is teleported to another dimension. The woman panics, but just hangs around the house until some electrician or phone repair guy shows up. The guy falls into the machine as well, and she, not wanting to be left alone, jumps right in after him.
The device is against a wall, and looks basically like a teleportation booth; a little metal, some flashy lightning, etc. When the lady pops out to the other side, she is in a grassy field. The electrician shows up and asks her how long she waited before she jumped in after him, and she tells him "a few seconds". He tells her he's been here for a week, and that, since the professor had jumped a few hours earlier in their dimension, he could have been here for a year already.
It turns out that the professor has not only been there for a long time, he goes to work for the evil overlord as a wizard, showing him the secrets of gunpowder and what-not. The hero, at one point, has to square off against a big, dumb behemoth in one of those "defeat our champion and I shall spare your life...maybe" deals. I was sure that the behemoth was played by character actor Irwin Keyes (Hugo the bodyguard from "The Jeffersons", et al), but the IMBb doesn't have him in any movies fitting this description. Anyway, the electrician has to kick the behemoth in the family jewels to beat him. The behemoth is wearing gold lamee' bikini briefs, and may have been made up in some sort of paint on his body and face.
Well, I don't know which is the more obscure movie of the two, but if anyone here has any idea, it would take a great load off of my mind, and I could finally get on with my life. 😛 Thanks.
It sounds a little like "American Gothic" (1988), or possibly "Motel Hell" (1980). The former had adults acting like children, but it wasn't a motel (or hotel); the later was about a motel, but didn't have any oversized babies that I can remember; just a garden full of dead people. It's been forever since I saw it, though, so there could be an oversized baby.