How about helping me figure out this one for one of my customers?
Monster goes around snatching people’s hearts out of their chests. Cast includes big blond guy, possibly Brian Bosworth? Title possibly includes the word “razor”.
Any ideas on this one?
Here are my clues so far:
> O.K., besides set in the 1950’s, communists, child
> shooting adult, Murgatroyd, and rabbit, here’s another
> clue: Someone in it won the AFI award in 1989 for Best
> Supporting Actress. I won’t say what AFI stands for.
Johnny L.A. guessed:
> I haven’t seen it, but Lena Olin won Best Actress in a
> Leading Role in 1989 for Enemies, A Love Story. But that
> was set in 1949.
Lena Olin and Angelica Huston were both nominated for Best Supporting Actress for the Oscars in 1990 (i.e., for a 1989 film), but neither one won. Anjelica Huston did win Best Supporting Actress from the National Society of Film Critics and Lena Olin did win Best Supporting Actress from the New York Film Critics Circle. None of those is an AFI award, though. Furthermore, that isn’t the right year. This actress won in 1989 because this was a film released in 1988. Now let me throw out a huge hint: AFI stands for the Australian Film Institute.
Heck, when I saw it, my brother and I were the only two in the theatre. I’m pretty sure the movie lasted around a week before kindly moving its way into oblivion.
A girl and boy team up with the help of a robot and fight would-be robbers as they make their way across Japan.
I haven’t seen it but you provided enough clues for me to look it up in the IMDB (besides character names you can also search for awards, nice).
The actress: Victoria Longley
The film: Celia: Child of Terror
It sounds like a fascinating film that I’d love to see.
Aha! I was searching the American Film Institute site! (AFI has a bit of a large presence in this town, y’see…)
Well it played at one. In the Irish Film Centre which every now and then puts aside a wkend to a certain genre.
I had never heard of it but the cast seemed interesting and I wasn’t doing much else. It was very good.
Okay, last clues. The actors ommitted from above are Steve Buscemi and Seymore Cassel.
“In the Soup” (1992)
Okay, I guess it’s my turn to come up with an obscure movie too.
mmmm…maybe tomorrow
Enderw, I may have seen bits of that one but I have no idea what the title is. Were the kids about 12-14 yrs old?
and Jackamus, a quick search of ‘razor’ titled movies at IMDB came up with possibly “Stripped To Kill II” (which was released elsewhere as “Razor-girls” or something like that). It had a villain that attacked strippers with razors (that is, the villain had razors). Looks like the only male character billed was Eb Lottimer; don’t know if he’s big & blond or not.
Well, here’s my contribution to the list :
A hillside of blossoming trees, three men lost in the snow, and a barking dog with dead soldiers.
man on a boat with nothing but monkeys. a lot of monkeys.
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Oooh, I know this one! It’s my 2nd favorite film by this actor/director team. My first favorite film by them also involves a boat, as well as an opera house, rubber trees and the same river as the monkey boat.
An additional clue for the monkey film: Conquistadors.
Party like it’s Supervolcano Eve!
Correct, Shadowfox!
It’s been ages so I can’t remember if the monster has a special fondness for hearts, but I wonder if the movie might possibly be Rawhead Rex, a really, really bad monster movie set in Ireland (how many monster movies have been set in Ireland???), made in 1986. I loved it!
(It didn’t star Brian Bosworth though. David Dukes was the lead guy, and I don’t remember if he was blonde.)
You’ve made that film sound so interesting that I now have to see it. I’d want to anyway, just for Steve Buscemi and Seymour Cassel.
Hey, could you movie experts take a glance at my post:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=41381
I really want to find the name of this movie. Thanks so much!
It isn’t familiar to me at all, sorry. Good luck.
bunch of crazy people take over the asylum (forinstance, by jumping on top of a suitcase to sever a doctor’s head). main insane dude hacks with an axe, then eats a popsicle. the end…
I like In the Soup, but if you like Steve Buscemi you may want to check out Living in Oblivion. I like it better than In the Soup. Here’s what the box says:
“The leading man has just had a disastrous one-night stand with the leading lady. The cinematographer is breaking up with the assistant director. The director’s mother has wandered onto the set and the dwarf hired for the dream sequence has an attitude.”
I’ve been on enough no-budget film sets to find Living in Oblivion really, really funny.
OK, Monkeys/Conquistadores is “Aguirre, the Wrath of God”
Boat/Opera House, etc. is “Fitzcarraldo”
Both D: Werner Herzog, S: Klaus Kinski
BTW, I took a photo of the boat from “Fitzcarraldo” in Iquitos, Peru back in the mid-80’s. I was working on an oil rig upriver at the time.
Oh, I suppose I should propose one…
Also set in South America, this one involves an Irish sailor who, at the end of WWII, fixes up an old seaplane to bomb the German sub that sank his ship and stranded him there in the first place…