name this film!

[Foxbat]

Originally Posted by Quokka

I wonder if we could get this thread stickied, we probably don't need a whole section like the book search but a running thread for half remembered movies might be fun, Where Have All The People Gone had been bugging me for years before I finally found it.

We are not keen on too many stickies here but will do for now. If there's plenty of activity then fine, if not, I may unstick it and let it drift into the sunset at a later date.

[Ice fyre]

I think I remmber this film and I'm sure it had a poor dog frozen to death in the hold (poor wee Puppy!!) it was about the time that disaster movies were being churned out ten to the dozen. I'm sure its Horror at 37,000 feet or something very like it.

The episode of the twighlight zone featuring the gremlin was originally in black and white and as I remmber was re-made for the movie, "wanna see something scary?" still chills me to the bone.

[Grimward]

Originally Posted by Nesacat

Ah Grimward thank you. I read the post and wanted to know the movie too and had been asking Google. Am very fond of creepy movies.

Am adding my vote for a 'sticky'.

You're quite welcome, Nesa. I will confess that I'd recently been wondering about the name, too!

Originally Posted by UltraCulture

Thanks Grim, that's the one.

I dont recall it being that bad.

And you, as well, UltraC. I didn't think it was that bad when I first watched it (on TV, although it was prime time TV) either, but seeing the excerpts from it again on YouTube, it is definitely aged in terms of the special effects (one would expect this), but also appears to have captured most of the exaggerated side of Shatner while simultaneously losing the intense side. And then there's the fact that they're basically running away from possessed mud (not my idea of a stirring premise) for most of the movie. Still, I'd probably watch it again on late night cable if I was up and had limited or no other choices, so perhaps I'm being a little harsh! Anyway, thanks for the opportunity to do a little sleuthing.

[Quokka]

Just remembered another movie, I posted it here once before but have still not been able to find a title for it. It's a horror movie 80's or early 90's and it's pretty standard teenagers end up in a big old house at night and mosters start killing them one by one, the only twist is that in the end one gets out of the house (I think it was a girl) and just as you think she's safe the monsters pop up again. The monsters win!

Sorry for the spoiler but it wasn't a great movie I thought the title was something like Creepies/Creepers but have never been able to track it down.

[ravenus]

Sounds like Evil Dead, except there it was Ash aka Bruce Campbell that survived and then got attacked by the unseen creature of the woods (he did survive for the sequel, though )

[Quokka]

It definitely wasn't Evil Dead, I saw it on TV one night and wouldn't be at all suprised if it was a straight to video movie, it certainly wasn't a big hit anyway. I also thought it might have had a Ouija board in it but it wasn't turning up on google/imdb searches so maybe not, again I'm almost sure that it was a one word title, something refering to creatures/monsters... except I'd have thought I could find this movie and the fact I can't may well mean I'm not remembering everthing correctly .

[Tansy]

Originally Posted by Quokka

Just remembered another movie, I posted it here once before but have still not been able to find a title for it. It's a horror movie 80's or early 90's and it's pretty standard teenagers end up in a big old house at night and mosters start killing them one by one, the only twist is that in the end one gets out of the house (I think it was a girl) and just as you think she's safe the monsters pop up again. The monsters win!

Sorry for the spoiler but it wasn't a great movie I thought the title was something like Creepies/Creepers but have never been able to track it down.

It wasn't Critters was it?

Critters (1986)

[Quokka]

Nope, I'm sure it was a small group of teenagers in something like a haunted house at night, I seem to remember them getting killed individually or in pairs and I'm sure there wasn't one monster type, each person or pair was killed by a different type of monster/s. It's the ending I remember most, a girl running away from the house and just as you think she's safe something jumps out to get her.

It's strange but the other thing I've always remembered is the screen going to the add breaks, I'm sure it was a one word tittle (again something like critters, creepers....) written in red with monsters around it, double o also seemed right but I couldn't find anything there, no it's DEFINITELY not goonies and we're talking more than 20 years ago here so who knows.

I don't think I ever saw it again (it was definitely American not Australian) so it's probably wasn't a particuarly good or popular movie.