Could they be episodes of Freddy’s Nightmares? That ran on NBC on Saturday night in that timeframe. They did short episodes like that, all crammed into an hour. One I remember quite clearly was some guy who worked the drive thru, and weird stuff happened, and it ended with a car coming to the window - but it was driven by a corpse!
Mine is maybe a TV movie, but I think I saw it on HBO. Seven-ish people are trying out a nuclear bomb shelter, and the people on the surface fake a nuclear attack while they’re down there. Don’t really remember the point, but I remember two things quite clearly - it must have been subtitled, since the attack announcement on the shelter TVs read “Achtung!” and one line - they were discussing how the shelter was equipped, and someone mentions they have included seven body bags. One of the leads says something like “How is the last person supposed to zip themselves in their bag?”
I think I saw this movie on television around 2000. It probably came out some time before then. I only caught the beginning of it. What I definitely remember is there was a scene in which the housekeeper is dead on the kitchen floor, blood pooling around her. What I think I remember (I am not sure if this actually happened) is there was a new family who moved to the house. One of them came back to find the dead housekeeper.
I tried searching for the movie, and the only one which had any semblance to what I remembered is What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), which I have seen described as a dark comedy, and I remember the movie being described as one as well. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t sound quite right.
Here’s one: I’m pretty sure I saw it on TV the summer I spent in Colorado with my dad, which would have been 1967. Don’t know if it was in color or not, and I think it was European, which means it would have been dubbed into English. It was about the antics a unit of peacetime soldiers in what looked like WWII British uniforms, but I’m pretty sure they were Swedish (maybe part of a UN contingent).
The one scene I remember well was when they were at a mountain lake and saw a hot babe in a bathing suit standing at the end of a pier. One of the soldiers gives a whoop and takes off after her, clomping down the pier in his combat boots, and grabs her to give her a kiss. He spins her around, and her face is butt-ugly, so he falls backward off the pier in shock.
I described this to my husband, Shoujin, and he thinks it’s Space: 1999 as well, before I even got to this paragraph. He mentioned one hallucination with a guy who thinks he’s in a dune buggy being chased by a gorilla (?) but it’s really a fellow human in a spacesuit who’s after him.
Back in the early eighties, HBO used to run short fillers between movies. Stuff like music videos or short animated films.
I remember one of the animated films they showed was about a bunch a men wearing suits and top hats. They were running around a city in a panicked manner and the city was changing around them. Stone buildings turned into brick and then brick buildings turned into glass and steel. The implication was that the city was becoming more modern. I also remember there were a lot of shots of clocks. As far as I recall, the film had no dialogue.
I’ll give these a shot:
–a film that used to run all the time on the Discovery Channel in the late 80s, although it was from the early 70s. It was about a retarded teenager and how he lived his everyday life. It was a scripted movie, but many of the shots seemed out of a documentary. The only specific scene I remember was him trying to buy Carpenters and Jerry Reed albums at a record store.
–a movie where they pan up a hotel or apartment building as they call out draft numbers (obviously it was set around 1970).
–a clip from a spoof of forties B-movies where there was a “no necking” public announcement between the features.
A friend has given me information about an old movie (or TV movie/TV episode) he is trying to find, that he saw as a child, and remembers little of. I want to help him find it, and solve the mystery. I will relay this information as best I can
The movie was viewed by my friend in the early/mid 70’s. His view is that it was from that period, as opposed to the 50’s or 60’s. It was viewed on a b&w television, so it is uncertain if it was black & white or colour. Here is the story as my friend remembers it;
A group of men are somwhere where it it is snowing outside (maybe north pole or antarctic station?) and one night there is a knock on the door and there are some people standing there, one of them, a woman. They are actually dead relatives of each of the men in the team. Somehow this is not regarded as too strange in my friend’s memory of the movie/TV show, and that the ghosts state that they know they are dead and talk openly about death, the dead and where they go. There is one black man who has no dead relatives present, as, he states, he was an orphan. He brandishes a machine gun with growing suspiscion of the visitors. At one point he tells them he was only ever close to one thing, a pet dog. the next time the visitors return, they have with him the black man’s pet dog, but he remains suspicious of them all. Later, one of the men in the team follows the ghosts when they leave, to see where they go. He returns dishevelled and shaken, stating that he saw the visitors ‘change’.
This is all my friend remembers. He did not see this story to the finish.
If anyone has any ideas to help identify this story, I would be much obliged.
When did it come out? - Not sure, I saw it only once on late night network TV sometime in the late 70s/early eighties. Assume a mid seventies production.
Who was in it? - no clue
What plot if any do you remember? - According to my memory, this was a horror anthology film with four or more separate stories. I THINK both of these stories come from the same film but no promises.
One of the stories takes place on Halloween night. A group or young, similarly costumed children knock on a woman’s door and she invites them in. Once in the house they just stand there mutely without accepting the candy she offers or responding to anything she says. Eventually she get frustrated and yells at them to take off their masks. The kids faces are revealed to be monstrously bestial at which point they attack and kill the woman.
The other story involves a well dressed businessman in a hurry and scorning a homeless person. Through some means I don’t recall, the businessman falls or is thrust into a small chamber underneath an elevator shaft in the basement of an office building. This is some kind of a modern day torture chamber where he his abused over a period of several days. I remember that one of the things his unseen captors do to him is that they force a series of long spikes to slowly emerge from the wall in order to painfully but non fatally skewer the businessman. After an undetermined amount of time, one of the walls slides up a few inches and a partially filled bottle of whiskey is rolled in for him to drink. After other unseen abuses, we see the businessman back on the street but this time as a homeless, hopeless alcoholic, scorned by the type of people he used to be.
What was special to you about it? - I was young, on summer break from school and this was probably the first ‘scary’ movies I ever saw without parental supervision.
Seen in the 1960’s, on a b&w TV in New York City.
It had the feel of a live action show, but definitely for kids
It was a retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk, but then things get fuzzy - the hero finds his dad, long thought dead, up in the giant’s lair with amnesia.
Upon seeing his son, the dad suddenly remembers that he’s supposed to be a dentist (!) There was also a lot of running around with a real live goose under their arms, and the giant chasing them.
Strange, but I’ve been thinking about this movie for ages!
Thanks,
Wallet
I remember this being on CBS on my birthday, 7 January, which fell on a Sunday back around 1970. I especially remember the two boys getting into a fight with some bullies, one of whom said “Oh, protecting your fat friend, eh?”
