# ID an Old Horror Movie? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022 "2015-09-30T09:29:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/1 "2015-09-30T09:29:28Z")
Ok, so I saw this movie on TV a long time ago, 1991 or before. It involved some older woman struggling with these “creatures” or something that looked like mostaccioli coming out of her drain. She didn’t speak much, but seemed pretty terrified of them, and kept grunting. I think there may have been someone shooting at her house, or something that caused her window to break. It was an older movie then, so late 1960’s or 1970’s. I know its vague…but that is the only scene I can remember. I’ve tried for several years to figure out what this movie is. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/2 "2015-09-30T09:52:35Z")
With the exception of the mostaccioli, it sounds like a Twilight Zone episode called [The Invaders](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734648/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_41). Alas, I couldn’t find the episode on YouTube. Did the older woman look like Endora from Bewitched? ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/3 "2015-09-30T10:01:46Z")
Yeah, it does sound like it. Unfortunately, it isn’t. This was in color. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/4 "2015-09-30T11:10:20Z")
My thoughts on reading the OP were: 1.) That sounds like the old Twilight Zone episode _The Invaders_, and 2.) What the hell is _mostaccioli_? Having looked up mostaccioli, I have to concede that it can’t be the TZ episode. Your saying that it was in color clinches that. Did the Pasta have teeth? Because it’s possible that you were seeing _The Deadly Spawn_ from 1983, a low-budget film that was better than you’d expect (although I don’t recall a scene exactly as you describe) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Deadly\_Spawn](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deadly_Spawn) ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/5 "2015-09-30T19:26:28Z")
It’s possible, based on the trailers I loooked up. It’s looks to be about the right time frame, with the low budget look I remember. I may not have been remember ing the scene with 100% accuracy…I was about 5 when I saw this movie originally, so its been aong time since I saw it. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/6 "2015-09-30T19:55:47Z")
And you’ve been afflicted with _pasta-phobia_ ever since? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/7 "2015-09-30T20:09:01Z")
Aye, the description in the OP sounds like _The Deadly Spawn_. I don’t recall the drain scene, but I do remember that there was a kitchen scene where one of them was on the losing end of a fight with a food processor or blender. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/8 "2015-09-30T20:21:16Z")
OP sounds a little like “They came from within”, aka “Shivers”, but there was a lot of sex stuff going on in that movie so it’s likely not it because that would be more memorable. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2015, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/9 "2015-09-30T21:45:48Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > OP sounds a little like “They came from within”, aka “Shivers”, but there was a lot of sex stuff going on in that movie so it’s likely not it because that would be more memorable. It may be…I’ll have to look that up when I get home. 4 or 5 when I watched this, so I doubt the sex scenes would have stuck with me. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/10 "2015-10-01T07:11:54Z")
It’s not _They Came From Within_, I watched that on YouTube, and plan on adding it to my collection of low budget movies. Although the creatures look more like mostaccioli in that than they do in _The Deadly Spawn_, I think, with pretty good accuracy, that it is _The Deadly Spawn_. I saw the kitchen scene online, and it isn’t how I remembered it, but I know how my mind works…and it’s a good bet that is it. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/11 "2015-10-01T15:22:30Z")
Alternatively, Ida Lupino wrestles with oversized maggots in **Food of the Gods** (1976). They look sort of like cavatelli. ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/12 "2015-10-01T15:50:21Z")
Sounds like Dario Argento to me. There was a rain of maggots in Suspira, that was in '77, a little late for the 60’s. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/13 "2015-10-01T17:17:44Z")
Damn! This thread makes me hungry! ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/14 "2015-10-02T02:35:45Z")
It’s not _Supiria_. That’s one of my favorite movies. I know that one pretty well. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/15 "2015-10-02T02:49:03Z")
> [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > Alternatively, Ida Lupino wrestles with oversized maggots in **Food of the Gods** (1976). They look sort of like cavatelli. That’s it!!! I confused the spilled peaches with maggots, and the counter for the sink. I knew this was it when I saw the two mouse holes in the wall…I remember them being there, but didn’t know what they were, and had no way of describing them, because I wasn’t sure what they were when i was younger. I wanted to say the woman had hair like my great grandmother, but I knew that wouldn’t be helpful, and Ida Lupino has a similar hairstyle to her in this movie. Ironically, I was looking at some of her other 70’s films, mainly _The Devil’s Rain_ the other day. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/16 "2015-10-02T03:20:45Z")
> [@Mudshark](#): > > > [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](#): > > > > Alternatively, Ida Lupino wrestles with oversized maggots in **Food of the Gods** (1976). They look sort of like cavatelli. > > That’s it!!! Good job, **Ellis**! Man, I haven’t thought of that movie in decades. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/17 "2015-10-02T03:24:08Z")
I knew someone here would know. I’ve been meaning to ask here for years. Thanks for your help. ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2015, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/id-an-old-horror-movie/733022/18 "2015-10-02T05:40:43Z")
Happy to help. That was the first movie I ever saw on HBO, back in 1977 or so when HBO was still a new thing.