# How many "ID the movie" threads have there been?  Well....

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**Created:** [July 2, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-id-the-movie-threads-have-there-been-well/627032 "2012-07-02T21:10:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2012, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-id-the-movie-threads-have-there-been-well/627032/1 "2012-07-02T21:10:23Z")

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…I have another. And I have very little hope of finding what this movie may have been, but the Dope has come through for folks before.

I would have seen this film on TV when I was in elementary school, in the mid-1960’s. I remember it in black and white, but the friend’s house where I saw it may not have had a color TV yet. My family didn’t get one until the later 1960’s.

It’s a horror film and scared the crap out of the younger version of me. I literally had nightmares. There was a creature, I think it was kind of shaggy with long, skinny arms. it capture people and hung them up on a wall in a sort of cocoon, as a spider would, and would feed on them. At one point a dying victim is found by another character and then the creature arrives. There was some screaming, and I may have turned away, so I’m not sure who was doing it, the dying person, the other human confronting it, or whatever.`

I may have not recalled things right, but I have had no luck searching, as the terms I use have probably been too general. The creature was roughly man-sized, and it walked upright, as it was in all likelihood someone in a costume.

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**Author:** ![blue\_infinity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blue_infinity/32/2817_2.png) [@blue\_infinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blue_infinity)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-id-the-movie-threads-have-there-been-well/627032/2 "2012-07-03T01:07:44Z")

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Perhaps the [Beast from Haunted Cave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVl1CPEHmNI).

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**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2012, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-id-the-movie-threads-have-there-been-well/627032/3 "2012-07-03T01:41:14Z")

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That’s got to be it! When I read the part about it being snowy, that also helped, because I remember for a good part of the film the characters being in winter gear, coats, boots and such. And at IMDB it mentioned feeding on living victims.

Thank you blue infinity. I figured a Doper could help, if nobody else.