Stump the movie-watching Straight Dopers

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I pride myself on my knowledge of movies. Name a movie with obscure hints and I’ll rack my brain until I figure out what it is. So here’s another game. You give hints on a movie and all the other dopers try to figure out what it is. Rules: It has to be a movie that was released somewhere. (No fair naming a movie that you and your college buddies made in film school.) Also, you have to give enough hints that if somebody has seen it, they know what you’re talking about.

I’ll start it off with an easy one. This movie features redneck vampires. It features not only Lance Henriksen, but Bill Paxton in a supporting role. Portrays a fairly believable view of vampires in the midwest. It also has the song “Fever” as sung by the Cramps. What movie am I talking about?

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Near Dark (1987) I can’t think of one now, so you’ll have to think up another one. Sorry–too tired.

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How about just character names?

Harry Joy and Honey Barbara

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An egomaniacal director shooting a World War I film.
An on-the-lam guy who needs a place to hide.
The director hires/hides the guy.
The guy soon believes the director is trying to kill him to get a great scene for his movie.

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Bliss.

A torture victim get revenge with the aid of her panties.

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Damn, you’re good (and fast!) I should point out for those who haven’t seen it that this is an Australian film released in 1985, not the more recent American film. It’s one of my all-time favorites.

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Equipoise,

That’s The Stunt Man.

O.K., here’s my clues for a movie: set in the 1950’s, communists, child shooting adult, Murgatroyd.

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Wendell, good for you!! Peter O’Toole and Steve Railsback make such a great team in that wonderful film.

Ok, here’s another one:

Brand new, clean-cut, scared recruit is sent to the front during the Korean war.
He meets Endore, a creepy guy who scouts by night and sleeps by day. The war is the best thing that’s ever happened to him.
Thus begins a haunting, psychological tug-of-war between the two men.

This is an criminally neglected, unfairly obscure movie. Not only is it an excellent film, it marked the film debut of two very well-known actors (one of them went on to win an Academy Award many years later), and featured a few others most film buffs know (including another future Academy Award winner). Even an uncredited bit player went on to win Academy Awards. It’s never even been released on video.

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An alien that is a beachball with claws stuck on it, and a bomb that gets taught existentialism.

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Cumber Dark Star.

Equipoise I’ve gone to too many war film festivals for that one to get by me :wink: but I’ll leave it for somebody else. hint 2 words. 2[sup]nd[/sup] word is something you’d do in orange.

Anybody got mine yet.

A torture victim get revenge with the aid of her panties.

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Yojimbo: Death and the Maiden?

Can I suggest that the use of character names makes it too easy to find the answers on the IMDB?

Here’s mine: There’s a headmasters’ conference in Norwich.

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Clockwise.?

At the beginning you really wish Noodles would just answer that damn phone.

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The beginning? That damn phone rang for the first half hour of the movie. Once Upon a Time in America

This movie version of a famous fairy tale used lycanthropy as a metaphor for adolescent sexuality.

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A Company of Wolves

Here’s a easy one. Little girl takes out jogger with a paint gun.

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The Professional?

Here’s another easy one:

Bloody water backs up out of the toilet.

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here’s one…

A real life playboy bunny plays a cajun queen who enacts a little kick ass swamp justice.

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A man wishes someone were trying to kill him. His buddy gets naked at airport security.

Cordially,

Myron M. Meyer
The Man Who

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An unemployed filmmaker gets mixed up with a mobster when he tries to sell his 500-page script to raise rent money.

(And what was that Korean War film?)

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Crunchy Frog writes:

> Bloody water backs up out of the toilet.

That’s The Conversation

No one has as yet gotten my film. The clues were “set in the 1950’s, communists, child shooting adult, Murgatroyd.” I’ll add one more clue: rabbit.

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Ok, we have four unanswered clues here . . .