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Old 07-17-2006, 11:13 AM
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Can you identify this film?

I'm watching late-night Belgian TV and catch about half of a moderately gruesome film. Unfortunately I doze off before the final credits. Nothing came to light on IMDB. Here's what I remember:

- a group of attractive teenagers turn up in a small US town
- before I started watching, they had apparently taken drugs and rescued an attractive older woman from some problem (road accident?)
- they are gradually captured by a devil worship cult, including a 'priest', local shopkeepers and the aforementioned older woman
- a couple of teenagers are tied to an 'altar' and sacrificed to the Devil in a large red barn, before one 'left-for-dead' teen rescues the others

Have at it, Dopers!
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Old 07-17-2006, 12:10 PM
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Can you make guess as to what timeframe/decade it's from?
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Old 07-17-2006, 12:41 PM
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Could it have been "House of 1000 Corpses"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/

Don't remember the movie all that well, but the plot sounds similar.
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Old 07-17-2006, 06:16 PM
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Can you make guess as to what timeframe/decade it's from?
It had the air of a US film (US actors + settings).
However it wasn't a big budget (I didn't recognise any actors and there were no expensive locations or effects.)
Not many clues from the fashion - perhaps 70s?

Sorry I can't do better, but I was half-asleep.
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Old 07-17-2006, 06:18 PM
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Could it have been "House of 1000 Corpses"?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/

Don't remember the movie all that well, but the plot sounds similar.
It's a similar film, but there were three sets of teenage victims. Also the theme was devil worship and human sacrifice, not serial killing.
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Old 07-17-2006, 06:21 PM
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I have a vague memory that two of the female teen actresses had the same surname - 'Lyon'.

Unfortunately my hotel picks up Belgian, UK, French, Italian and Dutch TV channels, so it could have been any of those (which makes it tricky to look up TV listings....
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Old 07-21-2006, 11:20 AM
Earl Snake-Hips Tucker Earl Snake-Hips Tucker is online now
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I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDB board, and one of the experts posited that it might be "Devil's Prey" (2001). The IMDB entry doesn't have a lot of info, but the user comments on Amazon.com might give you a better idea if this is it:

http://www.amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0245866/usercomments
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Old 07-21-2006, 07:01 PM
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Devil's Prey is also what I came up with. The movie has a group of teens fleeing murderous Satanists who prowl raves looking for victims, a wounded woman on the roadside, a town called Howards Point, a helpful minister, and a doubting sheriff.
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Old 07-22-2006, 10:30 AM
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I took the liberty of posting your question on the IMDB board, and one of the experts posited that it might be "Devil's Prey" (2001). The IMDB entry doesn't have a lot of info, but the user comments on Amazon.com might give you a better idea if this is it:

http://www.amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0245866/usercomments
Earl (may I call you 'snake-hips'?) - you've nailed it!

Walloon, thank you too.
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