Can someone help me remember a movie?

[SteeleDude]

Okay, I am going to give some very vague details to two movies here and hopefully someone can help me name the movies that haunted my childhood memories. Keep in mind, they could have been bad dreams, tv shows, tv movies, etc.+

1. A kid who's dad is gone (dead, run away? Can't remember) starts having conversations with this creepy wooden puppet. The puppet may or may not be evil but seems to be warning the kid about something more evil...or something. That's all I can remember. Oh and a bunch of kids I think go into a house and die. Like little kids. That seems to be what bothered me.

2. I think this may have been one of those 3 movies in one deals like the Creepshow. The one I remember is a couple gets stranded at a creepy house in the country. They get seperated. The guy is freaked out running through the haunted house while horrible things happen. He finds a knife or machete or ax along the way and runs into a witch. So he cuts the witch's head off but it turns out it was his girlfriend/wife who had thrown a "scary surprise" party for him. So while his girlfriend's head rolls around in front of him he looks around at all his shocked friends. Or something like that.

[SteeleDude]

So did I stump everyone or is it lack of interest? Or both!

[CHANCE]

Sounds very familier...

I'm gonna do some digging...

[Ratlehed]

I remember the story of the guy and girl in the scary house. I remeber the part where the guys accidently kills the girl. It was a 3 part story type movie. It came out in the early 80's but I forget the title. There was another story in that movie where some girls are being chased through the alleys of a city by dogs.

[SteeleDude]

Originally posted by Ratlehed
I remember the story of the guy and girl in the scary house. I remeber the part where the guys accidently kills the girl. It was a 3 part story type movie. It came out in the early 80's but I forget the title. There was another story in that movie where some girls are being chased through the alleys of a city by dogs.

You're right! I remember that one too. Probably horrible stuff overall but damn I want to see it.

[deadeye]

The name of the movie for the anthology series is "After Midnight". I checked on the IMDB because I remembered Marg Helgenberger was in the last segment about the phone answering service operator with the broken leg.

The first, is that the movie with the human size wooden dummy named Morty? A plot about something like facing your personal fears or being killed by them?

[SteeleDude]

Originally posted by deadeye
The name of the movie for the anthology series is "After Midnight". I checked on the IMDB because I remembered Marg Helgenberger was in the last segment about the phone answering service operator with the broken leg.

The first, is that the movie with the human size wooden dummy named Morty? A plot about something like facing your personal fears or being killed by them?

1. Awesome on the anthology deal. I gots to see if I can find it.

2. No, not Morty...is that Fear by chance? Just curious. The movie I'm thinking of would've been made in the 80s most likely. I saw it around 85 or so on HBO. I know that one's going to be harder because the details are vague...but again, thanks for the anthology!

[deadeye]

No prob! Good luck finding it. I'll see what I can find about the other one--and yes, the name of the Morty movie is Fear, thanks for reminding me.

[CHANCE]

Isn't it that flick Pinocchio's Revenge (1996) ?

[ParileseMonster]

That first one sounds like that stupid ass movie
Making Contact.

[SteeleDude]

Nah, not Pinochio's Revenge. Still too new. It would have been in the 80s. Thanks for the suggestions though.

You know what got me to thinking of it was the Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. That weird grainy image of a shadowy person walking out of a house or something--there is something very familiar to that in the puppet movie I am talking about.

The puppet seems to think, if I remember correctly, that an evil spirit is trying to manipulate the boy by pretending to be his dead father. In the end the boy turns on the puppet and helps the spirit and I remember it comes into his room and looks kind of grainy and shadowy like the figure in the Prince of Darkness. Anyhow, it's probably too obscure and sucks ass so I suppose I should give up.

EDIT: Dude--I think you're right. I looked up "Making Contact" on IMDB and got something else made in 1999 so I didn't think much of it, but then I went back and saw "Joey: Making Contact" and that might be it.

And you're right. It does look like it sucks ass.

ANOTHER EDIT: It's funny, after reading about it on IMDB it appears I am not the only 5 year old who was scared to death by this movie only to come back 22 (?Jesus that many years??) years later and think what a little douche I was.

[ParileseMonster]

LoL, that was funny guy your humor is great!:D

[CHANCE]

Originally posted by SteeleDude
Nah, not Pinochio's Revenge. Still too new. It would have been in the 80s. Thanks for the suggestions though.

You know what got me to thinking of it was the Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. That weird grainy image of a shadowy person walking out of a house or something--there is something very familiar to that in the puppet movie I am talking about.

The puppet seems to think, if I remember correctly, that an evil spirit is trying to manipulate the boy by pretending to be his dead father. In the end the boy turns on the puppet and helps the spirit and I remember it comes into his room and looks kind of grainy and shadowy like the figure in the Prince of Darkness. Anyhow, it's probably too obscure and sucks ass so I suppose I should give up.

EDIT: Dude--I think you're right. I looked up "Making Contact" on IMDB and got something else made in 1999 so I didn't think much of it, but then I went back and saw "Joey: Making Contact" and that might be it.

And you're right. It does look like it sucks ass.

ANOTHER EDIT: It's funny, after reading about it on IMDB it appears I am not the only 5 year old who was scared to death by this movie only to come back 22 (?Jesus that many years??) years later and think what a little douche I was.

Alright then...It's "Camerons Closet" (title might be a little different...)



Plot Summary for
Cameron's Closet (1989)
A father who experiments with his sons psychokinetic powers, is unaware that these experiments release a demon from hell, which lives in his sons closet, preparing to take over the young boys soul.

Synopsis from IMDB

"Summary written by Erik Adelfred {eca_97gr@edu.ats.dk}

A young and lonely boy named Cameron has telekenetic powers which his father experiments with. The young boy's loneliness is the cause of a strange spell to be cast. A demon from hell is unleashed and tries to take over the boy's soul. A delusional police officer and his new girlfriend psychiatrist are the only one's able to help the child after his father and mother's boyfriend are killed. The demon lives in the boy's closet and in a part of the mind that can only be reached by entering it."

I rememberd that the kids toy warns him about the demon(created by Carlo Rambaldi of Alien and E.T. fame)...I hope this is tha one you for you SteelDude...

[ParileseMonster]

No this is not the movie we are speaking of, for sure!

[SteeleDude]

Thanks Chance, but I've already been proved by ParileseMonster to be a wuss. It was in fact his guess at the craptastic Roland Emmerich (of Independence Day and Godzilla fame) movie called Joey: Making Contact. Which turned out to be a scary movie for 5 year olds but a lame ass rip off of ET and every other Spielberg movie for anyone aged 6 and above. The sad thing is I was probably 12 when I saw it--that's how far behind the maturity curve I am.

I wish it was your movie Chance as Cameron's Closet might have actually let me walk out of here with an ounce of self respect!

[CHANCE]

Originally posted by SteeleDude
Thanks Chance, but I've already been proved by ParileseMonster to be a wuss. It was in fact his guess at the craptastic Roland Emmerich (of Independence Day and Godzilla fame) movie called Joey: Making Contact. Which turned out to be a scary movie for 5 year olds but a lame ass rip off of ET and every other Spielberg movie for anyone aged 6 and above. The sad thing is I was probably 12 when I saw it--that's how far behind the maturity curve I am.

I wish it was your movie Chance as Cameron's Closet might have actually let me walk out of here with an ounce of self respect!

Cameron's Closet is actualy pretty good...beter than anything from Roland Emmerich...I remeber that flick Joey, you were scared by this?....Ah well...Michael Jacson still scares me, so there you go..

[rtatick]

Originally posted by ParileseMonster
That first one sounds like that stupid ass movie
Making Contact.

This has to be it.

[leprechaun]

Originally posted by SteeleDude
[ANOTHER EDIT: It's funny, after reading about it on IMDB it appears I am not the only 5 year old who was scared to death by this movie only to come back 22 (?Jesus that many years??) years later and think what a little douche I was.

I could go on for days about the movies that scared me when I was 5, and how when I think about it now, I realize what an incredible weenie I was.