# Old horror movie a friend asked me about... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 14, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091 "2014-07-14T18:16:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/1 "2014-07-14T18:16:57Z")
I’m an Old Horror Film buff so a friend asked me about this… Some people live in a house where little monster elflike things live in the fireplace. They end up dragging the people into the fireplace. Anyone have any ideas? I’m stumped. I’m waiting for her to get back with me about if it was color or B&W. ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/2 "2014-07-14T18:22:49Z")
Sounds like it could be [Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069992/?ref_=nv_sr_2). ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/3 "2014-07-14T19:13:30Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > Sounds like it could be [Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069992/?ref_=nv_sr_2). I just sent her that message. She hasn’t responded yet, but I think we have a winner. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/4 "2014-07-14T19:15:29Z")
> [@Anamorphic](#): > > Sounds like it could be [Don’t Be Afraid of The Dark](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069992/?ref_=nv_sr_2). That’s almost certainly it- but wasn’t that a made-for-TV movie in the Seventies? ---
**Author:** ![Anamorphic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anamorphic/32/3057_2.png) [@Anamorphic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anamorphic)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/5 "2014-07-14T19:20:08Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > That’s almost certainly it- but wasn’t that a made-for-TV movie in the Seventies? I think it was, yeah. I was only 3 when it was made, so I saw it many years later, almost certainly on VHS. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of people saw it and had no idea it was made-for-tv. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/6 "2014-07-14T19:50:52Z")
That’s funny, I just read an essay _today_ about that movie (it’s in an anthology of horror film essays that my husband just put out.) I thought it was funny that I’d never heard of it. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/7 "2014-07-14T21:31:30Z")
That’s a classic. The creatures when finally revealed are utterly hideous. ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2014, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/8 "2014-07-14T23:37:59Z")
It could even be **The Boogens**. ---
**Author:** ![joyfool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@joyfool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joyfool)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/9 "2014-07-15T00:15:29Z")
Good grief. I knew it the instance I read it and was still too late. Curses! Foiled again. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/10 "2014-07-15T03:50:24Z")
I used to have this big book of horror movie monsters, and this was the only movie description I found really scary ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/11 "2014-07-15T15:47:22Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > It could even be **The Boogens**. Oh, man! I think I saw that one on cable about 30 years ago. The monsters looked like Muppet turtles! ---
**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-horror-movie-a-friend-asked-me-about/693091/12 "2014-07-15T16:27:40Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Oh, man! I think I saw that one on cable about 30 years ago. The monsters looked like Muppet turtles! Yup, that’s the one. It’s actually a decent quality early-80s slasher movie with an entertaining plot (monsters get released through underground tunnels when they re-open an abandoned silver mine in Utah!) and good actors. The opening credits are in the style of a Ken Burns documentary, except that this movie came first.