Lately I have been trying to remember the name of a movie I remember seeing on television in the 70s and early 80s. The plot as I remember it involved a ring like flesh protusion growing on the main (male) character’s stomach or chest. The main character and his buddy had to stop the growth from becoming a full circle because that would kill him and they did eventually stop the flesh ring from growing by pulling a pin (or pins) out of a voodoo doll like object. Everything was connected to a demon of somesorts that they either killed or sent back to hell in the final scenes in which the demon reverted back to a lizard looking creature that I can still remember having a Godzilla like scream as the flames burst around it. This occurred in secret a satanic place underground of where they and several other people were staying. It was also where they had previously been attacked by some sort of primitive human/psychotic person who they fought off before the attacker mysteriously disappearing (what I remember most about the scene was watching it as a kids and thinking why did that thing just stop attacking them, it was my first encounter with plot moments that didn’t make sense). And the two leads discovered the mummified corpse of some guy who had either been missing for a long time or who they thought was alive among their group of friends stuck in the space between the open door and the walls of the secret satanic place. And for some reason, I keep thinking Rodney Macdowell was one of the two lead actors. I know this is rambling and incoherent, but it’s that way in my head. And it’s wasting usefull brain cells as I try to remember the name and more details about the plot. Please help.
Do you think it might have had Rodney’s cousin, Roddy MacDowall in it?
Help, my memories are so fuzzy on this, I can’t even get the names of the actor’s straight.
Man… lot of stuff to wade through here
Sounds like something The Twilight Zone would have done.
That sounds oddly familliar. I do not think it was a Twilight Zone, but it may have been Tales of the Dark Side, or even a made for tv movie. And it does sound like something Roddy McDowell would have been in.
[I know people rag on actors for doing cheesy movies, but they pay the damned bills, and are work.]
I’ll mull it over, something may spring to mind.
I’m pretty sure it’s Spectre. It doesn’t have it in the Wikipedia entry, but the main character did have a ring or indentation in his chest that would eventually kill him and he was saved when they pulled a pin from a voodoo doll.
Also, the main villain did turn into a lizard like creature at the end and they did find a mummified body crushed by a door (which was the person the demon had been impersonating).
Thank you, the information IMBD makes it look like a good match. It looks like Roddy MacDowell wasn’t in the cast after all. Oh well, I guess I saw him in too much 70s television that the memories get blurry. Thanks again.