I saw a movie on TV during some creature double feature in the early 80s, and it’s sort of stuck with me.
It was from the 60s or 70s, with a Hammer Horror/William Castle vibe.
The scene I remember was a coven of witches in a dimly lit room with one of the witches being judged. The coven called forth the image of a woman, and as the witch was looking at it, the image turned into a skeleton (This effect was super cheesy. It was obvious that the actress playing the image was standing behind a pane of glass, and the skeleton image was just superimposed). The leader of the coven--an older man--held up a baby's shoe, and the shoe was engulfed in flames while you could hear the sounds of a baby crying (Note that the baby itself was not shown). The witch being judged began to scream, and the rest of the coven attacked her.
Any clues? TIA
Hey thats on you and serendipity. I had just happened to see a trailer for Brotherhood of Satan three days ago and you mentioning a ‘baby shoe’ made it all click and reminded me I had actually seen the damn thing decades ago.
Hey, I’m cool with it. Finding that movie was one of the high points of my week. I pretty much grew up with those monster movie matinee flicks, and there are so many of them that I vaguely wonder about (although the answer to 80% of the IDs has the words “Hammer Horror” in there somewhere). If I could help ID a movie for someone else, that’s just icing on the cake.
Oh, also I forgot to thank you for the ID. Thanks, it might not seem like much, but believe me, this question has been gnawing at me for a couple of months. You helped me sleep better at night.
Flipping stations very late one night in the mid-90s, I stumbled across a movie that upset me enough to walk away from (plus I had to get up for work in the morning) but fascinated me enough to wonder what it was ever since. My memory or understanding may be faulty, but here goes:
Stalin-era Russia (definitely NOT Nazis, although the rest my seem like it should be). All I remember was people standing in front of doors that didn’t open, and then getting shot in the head. A mass extermination. There were several doors and several lineups. This went on for some time. No heads were shown exploding, but one victim was a prostitute who was puffing her last smoke at the time, and the cigarette was shown hitting and sticking to the door as part of a mess. People would talk briefly as they lined up, and then boom. Everything was done emotionlessly, almost as if in a documentary.
I also remember something about a huge pile of bodies outside a building (execution chamber?) being loaded into a truck.
Any ideas?
Thank You All.
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That does sound disturbing. I hope someone can identify it so I can see :eek:
Mine is a hazy, weed influenced memory…
This would have been around 1988, though I couldn’t say what year the movie was from. I was at someone’s house and we were hanging out and the tv just happened to be on but we weren’t actively watching it so I only have bits and pieces.
The film was black and white and seemed to be set in an orphanage or some kind of house where many children lived.There was a woman in charge and she was the stereotypical evil character. I don’t remember the plot or too much more about what was going on. Only that there was . . a meat grinder in the basement and children were being ground up. No, I am not conflating it with the Pink Floyd video.
I remember being horrified and wondering why my friend wasn’t having any reaction, though again, we weren’t really watching it so she might not have caught any of it. I was kind of freaked out for the rest of the day.
Ha! I know The Simpsons has been around for a long time, but I think this predates it. Definitely nothing cartoon like or amusing about this flick.
Again, I could be completely missremembering, but it had a “foreign vibe”. This was a Saturday afternoon so it was most likely one of those cheesy movies they used to show on things like *Elvira *and Sinister Cinema.I seem to remember the grinder scenes being shown in silhouette against the basement wall. Again again, I am not thinking of PF’s video, though perhaps their video was inspired by this. It was defintly made long before The Wall.
