I’m just now spotting this, Charlie Wayne. Thanks for the kind words! ![]()
Here’s one:
“Little bad people” come out of the register behind the fireplace to abduct you.
FWIW, the last scene is a woman being dragged off feet first into the hole, and the man trying to save her calls out her name (no, I don’t remember what it is) into the bottomless pit.
That’s “Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark,” a made for TV movie from the early 1970s. Gave me nightmares when I was 8.
ETA, IMDB link: Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (TV Movie 1973) - IMDb
You forgot the best part: all through the movie, the “little monsters” whisper to each other; at the end, they drag Kim Darby into the pit and the last thing you hear is her whispering along with all the other monsters (waiting for the next person to drag off to the pit).
Early to mid 90’s. An animated short, seen on TV as part of a collection of shorts from (I think) some animated-film festival.
The short has an anthropomorphic-cat lady torch singer and a cat guy who has a crush on her and is trying to get into the cabaret where she is performing, but keeps getting tossed out by the bouncer and/or running into various mishaps.
The audio consists entirely of the torch song the lady cat is singing, which as far as I can remember goes something like this (or at least the chorus does):
“My baby don’t want no diamond rings, no (other thing), no (third thing),
My baby don’t want no (4th thing), no (5th thing), no (6th thing),
My baby only wants me,
Only wants me”
That’s the video to a pop song. See it here
My Baby Just Cares for Me - Wikipedia80’s. The protagonist’s mother goes to her mailbox and there is a rock inside. The kid yells “Mom!!, no don’t touch it, it’s pure evil” …or something like that. She touches it.
There is this devilish looking guy, red robe perhaps and he is evil. It may have been called Evil or similar. I saw it on Betamax. That’s all I remember.
Here is another one from the 80’s. It was an ABC after school special for kids. It was about a haunted house, I just remember this candle holder floating and the ghost was this kid i believe but he was laughing…I mainly just remember this 5 stick candle holder covered with cobwebs, in a library perhaps, floating around…it creeped me out as a kid.
Description reminded me of Tooth Fairies with Katy Holmes but I know that’s not what movie your talking about.
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That’s the video to a pop song. See it here
[/QUOTE]That’s it! I didn’t remember it as being claymation, but 20 year old memories aren’t the most reliable.
I definitely remember it being part of a collection of shorts all shown together; it must have been part of a special on Aardman Animation (the Wallace and Gromit people) or something. (Also, in looking this up I found out that they also did the music video for Sledgehammer, which I did not know.)
The song itself is from 1958, so it qualifies as a torch song. 
Thanks, that’s it!
This was a two-episode of SPACE:1999 Entitled THE BRINGERS OF WONDER.
Apparently repurposing the monster from the ep “Dragon’s Domain.”
Saw both of these on TV back in the 1970s – Both were shown as a local “weekday afternoon movie” on the local ABC station in New York City. They were both movies of the SF/Horror variety, and I was left with the impression they were both initially produced in the late 1950s or early-to-mid 1960s. I’m afraid I only saw the last 5-10 minutes of each movie, but the ending of each movie was striking:
MOVIE #1: Some scientists are trapped in an underground cavern which is roughly bowl-shaped. Fast-flowing mud is streaming down the sides of the cavern, and the little dialogue I recall from the scene indicated that touching this mud would be fatal. (I think at least one scientist falls victim to this strange mud in the last few minutes of the movie.) The last two surviving scientists (a man and a woman IIRC) escape the cavern and the mud by putting on some scuba gear and swimming out via a pool of water at the bottom of the cavern; there’s an underwater tunnel which eventually leads to the surface, but it takes at least a minute of swimming before the survivors reach the surface and safety.
MOVIE #2: All I really remember about this one is the very end – there’s this strange creature/monster which looks like a lumpy, over-sized hood which can “fly” (although from the motions of the thing it was obviously being suspended from a thread, as it bobbed and swayed a bit as it moved.) For about a minute you see this creature “flying” through a field, slowly approaching a house. The creature flies through an open window and “pounces” on person inside (a middled-age woman IIRC) by completely covering the victim’s head and neck. The victim briefly tries to rip the creature off but is apparently unable to, and their cries for help are muffled by the creature… and after several seconds, a large amount of blood starts streaming from a “nozzle-like” lump on the creature – the monster is apparently rapidly draining the victim of all their blood, which forms a puddle which is rapidly increasing in size… and then there’s a brief shot of the peaceful fields outside the house just before the end credits roll…
So… can anyone help identify either movie?
I don’t remember the aliens in “Bringers of Wonder” having the kind of tentacles you see on the “Dragon”, plus there were several of these aliens walking about… but I suppose they could have cut-up and re-used the original “Dragon” to make multiple alien costumes and left off the tentacles.
Movie 2 is Not of This Earth (1957)
It was an episode of the original (1963) TV series “The Outer Limits”: “Specimen: Unknown” starring Richard Jaeckel, Stephen McNally, Gail Kobe, and Dabney Coleman.
THAT’S IT! Found a copy on Youtube and found the scene I remember (though it wasn’t as close to the end of the movie as I thought). And the local ABC station used to show a lot of Roger Corman movies, so it all fits. Thanks SO much!
Now if I can only find the name of the other movie, I can die a happy man…
I’ve been puzzling over this one for years:
On cable TV in early 1990s.
Modern-day boy is super into ancient Egypt and has pyramids and stuff hanging from his suburban bedroom ceiling. Something happens and he finds himself in ancient Egypt. He has plucky boy adventures there and falls in puppy love with a pretty girl his age–the Pharaoh’s daughter or something. It ends with him waking up in standard “it was all a dream” fashion, but then looks out the window to see that a family is moving in next door and the daughter is the girl from the dream.
In my mind it was part of a series, but I don’t know.
I hope somebody can help. I saw a movie about 40 years ago, which, in some ways, was similar to"The Super" starring Joe Pesci. Anyway, here it goes: A young man, twenty-something, stands to inherit his father’s kingdom of tenements. Dad wants to make sure that he can handle the empire, so he makes him the landlord of one tenement. Early on, some of his tenants (all people of color, by the way), ask him if he wants to play some basketball. They end up getting a game of three-on-three together, and then suggesting a wager. Okay, sure. He picks two guys for his team, and then they take on three other guys. Once the game starts, however, it seems like the two guys he picked have completely forgotten how to play. After the game is over, he goes back inside, and the other five guys split the money between them. His mother comes to see him “at work” and decides that the building looks too depressing. She picks out a woman (and it seemed to me that the woman–who was never named, nor had any lines–looked an awful lot like Esther Rolle, but nothing in Esther Rolle’s list of credits on IMDB sounds anything like this film), anyway, she gives this woman her Macy’s credit card, and tells her to go buy some curtains for the building’s windows. The woman (and the Macy’s card) are never seen again; neither are the curtains. Then his tenants invite him for a little enlightenment. They sit and pass a joint around and tell him that the white man has always tried to dilute other bloodlines, so that, in the end, everyone is the same. I’m afraid that’s everything I remember from the movie. So, any ideas?
This is probably The Landlord starring Beau Bridges, although you have some details wrong, e.g. the young man (Bridges) buys the building on his own, nothing to do with a kingdom of tenements.