# Can you identify this film? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 17, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870 "2006-07-17T16:13:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/1 "2006-07-17T16:13:24Z")
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! ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/2 "2006-07-17T17:10:26Z")
Can you make guess as to what timeframe/decade it’s from? ---
**Author:** ![Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/2bfe46/32.png) [@Long\_Time\_Lurker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Long_Time_Lurker)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/3 "2006-07-17T17:41:57Z")
Could it have been “House of 1000 Corpses”? > **[House of 1000 Corpses (2003) ⭐ 6.0 | Horror](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/)** > > 1h 29m | R Don’t remember the movie all that well, but the plot sounds similar. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/4 "2006-07-17T23:16:36Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] Can you make guess as to what timeframe/decade it’s from? [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/5 "2006-07-17T23:18:02Z")
[QUOTE=Long Time Lurker] Could it have been “House of 1000 Corpses”? [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251736/) Don’t remember the movie all that well, but the plot sounds similar. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/6 "2006-07-17T23:21:24Z")
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… ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2006, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/7 "2006-07-21T16:20:53Z")
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](http://Amazon.com) might give you a better idea if this is it: [http://www.amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0245866/usercomments](http://www.amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0245866/usercomments) ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/8 "2006-07-22T00:01:00Z")
_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. ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-identify-this-film/364870/9 "2006-07-22T15:30:41Z")
[QUOTE=Earl Snake-Hips Tucker] 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](http://Amazon.com) might give you a better idea if this is it: [http://www.amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0245866/usercomments](http://www.amazon.imdb.com/title/tt0245866/usercomments) [/QUOTE] Earl (may I call you ‘snake-hips’?) - you’ve nailed it! 🆒 Walloon, thank you too. 🙂