# Describe a movie you saw and liked as a kid but can't remember its title **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 4, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911 "2014-01-04T23:41:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/201 "2014-05-04T17:03:14Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ The squid (actually, an octopus) movie is “It Came from Beneath the Sea.” > > Can’t help you with the other one, yet. 😉 > > [The Iron Claw](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033761/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) OMG!!! How in the world did you find this? I have been searching for this for many years now. Oh My! How in the world did you ever find this in just a few minutes? Please don’t tell me you traded your soul to the Devil for magical powers! I couldn’t believe that! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/202 "2014-05-04T17:06:39Z")
By the way, for anyone who has some children around 5 or 6 years old, I would be very interested to see if you could (safely of course) show this Octopus movie to them and then see if modern children get anywhere nearly as scared as I did when I was 5 or 6. I remember screaming my head off in the theatre and I was honestly and truly scared out of my mind by that friggin’ Octopus. I had nightmares for many days after seeing this movie. But I watched it again a few years ago and I was amazed at how just cheezy it seemed to me now. Not at all scary. Not in the slightest. Burpo! I take my hat off to you! And if I ever meet you, I will give you some dog biscuits for sure! Arf! Arf! Arf! ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/203 "2014-05-04T17:08:32Z")
Heh, heh, heh! 😉 Lots of info over on the IMdB (the Internet Movie dataBase). You supplied the title, the rest was there for the asking. I spend WAY too much time on the IMdB. Still working on the alien-skeleton-ray-gun film; I just KNOW it’s there. State of the art has moved on for SFX. Biscuits are good! ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/204 "2014-05-04T17:16:00Z")
Burpo, I just cannot tell you how much this means to me. I’ve been searching for years and years for this “Iron Claw” movie and you found it in a few minutes? I am floored! I yam amazed. I cannot tell you how stoked I am. Thank you ever so!! You can’t imagine just how amazed I am. People in this forum will undoubtedly think I’m nutz. But I don’t care about that. I yam just so amazed that you found this after I have been looking for so many years. By the way, I have a few others … 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/205 "2014-05-04T17:19:19Z")
This is nothing new: I doubt any child that would understand a '50s BEM is going to be scared by the FX. Luckily, YOU got to enjoy the scares when you were a youngster, but now you have to watch those old chestnuts for the sub-text (sometimes it’s there, sometimes it needs a nudge). Example–Creature From the Black Lagoon; when you’re 8 YO, the Creature is just gonna tear up the bathing beauty, when you’re 50 YO, your thoughts might go to a darker (sexual?) place. As for FX: 50 years from now, the Lord of the Rings trilogy will look like crap; it can’t be avoided. ☹ Bring on those others; other guys here are a lot better at this than I am. ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/206 "2014-05-04T18:21:11Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Did you catch the third movie at the bottom of the page, _ **Twist around the Clock** _? Thanks, I’ll keep it in mind. ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/207 "2014-05-04T19:12:24Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > The one thing I remember most vividly was that these looked very much like Earth people and were wearing a silvery type space suit and they each had a weapon that looked like a handgun but more like a child’s toy ray gun and they would aim it at a human and pull the trigger and it would make sound and the human would then turn into a skeleton…. > > When the alien pulled the trigger, the gun made a high pitched sound and it think it also glowed or flashed a light. Sorry, I don’t remember the title, but I remember the ray gun. Anyhow, this may be cheating, but if I saw it, it was probably on Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoon on WLVI in the '70s. Here’s [the list of movies.](http://www.creaturedoublefeature.org/movie_list.htm) (The have a page with [pictures of the creatures](http://www.creaturedoublefeature.org/?page_id=122) but they don’t say which movie they are from. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/208 "2014-05-04T19:39:11Z")
> [@j666](#): > > Sorry, I don’t remember the title, but I remember the ray gun. > > Anyhow, this may be cheating, but if I saw it, it was probably on Creature Double Feature on Saturday afternoon on WLVI in the '70s. Here’s [the list of movies.](http://www.creaturedoublefeature.org/movie_list.htm) (The have a page with [pictures of the creatures](http://www.creaturedoublefeature.org/?page_id=122) but they don’t say which movie they are from. Oh Gosh! I had never before seen Creature Double Feature. I will have to check this out. Thank you ever so much. Wow! All I can say is Wow! ---
**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:** [May 4, 2014, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/209 "2014-05-04T19:43:32Z")
> [@Charlie\_Wayne](#): > > . . .The one thing I remember most vividly was that these looked very much like Earth people and were wearing a silvery type space suit and they each had a weapon that looked like a handgun but more like a child’s toy ray gun and they would aim it at a human and pull the trigger and it would make sound and the human would then turn into a skeleton. “Teenagers from Outer Space.” ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2014, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/210 "2014-05-04T20:11:48Z")
OMG! Just going through this list of films. Who ever taught these people words like Amoeba & Zebra? Then they figured out these words rhyme all on their own and we get titles like The Amoeba Zebra? How are You supposed to cope with shit like this? I can’t do it. I just can’t do it. How can that be fair? Oh come on! How can this be fair? In reading this over, it sounds just like my six year-old whining about his allowance being too small. “This is just not fair”, he whines. Just wait until you get a job, kid. Then, you can talk to me about your salary being fair. Wait till then. We will have a talk then. In the meantime, you can wait till then. How the Hell can this be fair? How can it be fair? ---
**Author:** ![wargasm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ba8739/32.png) [@wargasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wargasm)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/211 "2014-07-09T01:28:13Z")
**old thread bump. heeelp** \* When did it come out?\* watched on tv mid 90’s late at night sci-fi but not necessarily a B-movie, almost positive it was in color _Who was in it?_ main protagonist was a kid/teen (most likely trying to escape) There were adults in the movie, possibly trying to rescue kid? main antagonist evil bald dude sits in chair _What plot if any do you remember?_ towards the end of the movie… kid is going through an obstacle course. Giant spiked objects, huge rolling pin type things, walls and floors moving. I don’t know if he’s coming or going, but the evil bald guy (and others) are watching him. I don’t think it was a game, more of a sick twisted, you’re not going to survive this, type of thing. Had a madmax feel but cleaner and more out of world, sci-fi element to it. somewhere else in the movie adults, maybe coming to the boy’s rescue, running across a catwalk/platform, they had guns -modern, automatic shooting bullets not lasers. there were… --best i can describe-- …stay-puff marshmallow men, normal human sized, type creatures, underneath the catwalk trying to grab at their feet as they ran past. squishing their marshmallowie fingers through the grating. 3(?) possible adult males 2 white 1 black, they were in a green jeep. before they ran across this platform thing ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/212 "2014-07-09T02:08:06Z")
[http://irememberthismovie.com/](http://irememberthismovie.com/) is a site devoted to this topic. Might want to check it out. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2014, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/213 "2014-07-09T02:17:47Z")
> [@wargasm](#): > > **old thread bump. heeelp** > \* > When did it come out?\* > > watched on tv mid 90’s late at night > sci-fi but not necessarily a B-movie, almost positive it was in color > > _Who was in it?_ > main protagonist was a kid/teen (most likely trying to escape) > There were adults in the movie, possibly trying to rescue kid? > > main antagonist > evil bald dude sits in chair > > _What plot if any do you remember?_ > > towards the end of the movie… kid is going through an obstacle course. Giant spiked objects, huge rolling pin type things, walls and floors moving. I don’t know if he’s coming or going, but the evil bald guy (and others) are watching him. I don’t think it was a game, more of a sick twisted, you’re not going to survive this, type of thing. > Had a madmax feel but cleaner and more out of world, sci-fi element to it. > > somewhere else in the movie > adults, maybe coming to the boy’s rescue, running across a catwalk/platform, they had guns -modern, automatic shooting bullets not lasers. > there were… --best i can describe-- …stay-puff marshmallow men, normal human sized, type creatures, underneath the catwalk trying to grab at their feet as they ran past. squishing their marshmallowie fingers through the grating. > 3(?) possible adult males 2 white 1 black, they were in a green jeep. before they ran across this platform thing Was it _Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone_? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/z351Gqxiv8E/hqdefault.jpg "Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone (1983) (TV Spot)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z351Gqxiv8E) ---
**Author:** ![Nippless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/df788c/32.png) [@Nippless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nippless)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/214 "2014-07-14T08:36:11Z")
[quote=“Accidental\_Martyr, post:213, topic:677911”] Was it _Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone_? [/QUOTE] And this is why I just don’t post much. Last week I saw this thread for the first time. Over a couple of days hints of a movie I could submit in this thread came to me. Today I come in to make my post, pretty much figuring it’s too rare/old/weird and will never be answered anyway. I glance at the thread before jumping in. Last post in the thread looks suspiciously like it could be the answer (\*are you shitting me??\*HTF). I look at wargasm’s description… ayup, that’s me and my rare childhood movie question taken care of. Well done. This board fucking rules. (and I see Molly Ringwald is in it! LOL) ---
**Author:** ![Dougula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@Dougula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dougula)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/215 "2014-12-28T15:54:48Z")
Hi Biggirl The movies that you are looking for are The other 1972. and the littlest angel 1969. I hope this helps ---
**Author:** ![Dougula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@Dougula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dougula)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/216 "2014-12-28T18:14:07Z")
that movie is called the quest AKA Frog Dreaming ( original title ) ---
**Author:** ![Dougula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b19c9b/32.png) [@Dougula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dougula)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/217 "2014-12-28T18:20:06Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > I saw a movie in the mid-1970’s. It was shown in my school, but I’ve never seen it anywhere else. It was in color, and the plot was about Loch Ness (or possibly some lake that was just like it but in the U.S.) which was supposed to have a legendary monster in it. A businessman was buying up land around the loch (lake) and to save their homes or preserve the environment or something, a boy and a girl pretended that they’d seen the monster, which got a lot of publicity. (I don’t think they built a fake monster, I’m a big fan of the book **The Mad Scientists’ Clu** b and would have recognized that plot.) Anyway, the businessman was suspicious, and followed the kids (who were in a rowboat) in a rowboat of his own, and somehow found proof that they were lying. (Maybe they did make a fake monster?) He loudly rejoiced that, “There’s no monster in this lake!” (Or something.) Needless to say, the next shot was of a sea monster angrily lifting up its head from the lake floor, surfacing, and scaring the living daylights out of the businessman. He gave up his plan (don’t think he died) and the day was saved. > > Any ideas? it was The Quest Aka ( Frog Dreaming ) ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/218 "2014-12-28T18:25:52Z")
OK, here’s one I saw on TV as a kid. Might have been black and white – it was probably from the 40’s or 50’s and the plot was something like the old “Heiress has to stay in the haunted house overnight”. As I recall, there was a wise-cracking journalist/love interest involved. As they enter the house, a skeleton slides down a cable. The journalist examines it and says something like “Your father had quite a sense of humor”. That’s pretty much all I remember. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/219 "2014-12-28T18:37:55Z")
> [@Dougula](#): > > it was The Quest Aka ( Frog Dreaming ) Thanks, but that’s not it. The Quest was made in 1986, and I saw the movie I’m asking about in the mid-70’s. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2014, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911/220 "2014-12-28T19:29:09Z")
> [@Finagle](#): > > OK, here’s one I saw on TV as a kid. Might have been black and white – it was probably from the 40’s or 50’s and the plot was something like the old “Heiress has to stay in the haunted house overnight”. As I recall, there was a wise-cracking journalist/love interest involved. As they enter the house, a skeleton slides down a cable. The journalist examines it and says something like “Your father had quite a sense of humor”. That’s pretty much all I remember. I’m about 99.99% sure this is “[Two on a Guillotine.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059837/?ref_=nv_sr_1)” Connie Stevens, Dean Jones and Cesar Romero. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/describe-a-movie-you-saw-and-liked-as-a-kid-but-cant-remember-its-title/677911.md?page=12)