Movie Identification (Post here if you're looking for the name of a movie)

Riskymove · 12-01-2016 2:34pm

The only credit for that track on IMDB in a soundtrack is for a Swedish film called "Blodigt jävla helvete"

New Home · 12-01-2016 3:39pm

jasonb wrote: »

Hi there...

Not a lot of info to go on for this one, sorry! I was in a local record store today, and in light of yesterday's sad news, they were playing Bowie's 'Low' album. Specifically the instrumental track 'Art Decade':

The moment I heard it I thought it was from a film, and even asked the guy behind the counter. But a Google search has shown up nothing. The melody starts about 12 seconds into the song. It strikes me as something I might have seen in a Film/TV program/Trailer back in the early 80s, kinda Blade Runner/Tron/even Betty Blue, but I know it's none of them. Anyone any ideas if it was used in Film/TV?

Thanks...

J.

The soundtrack from Furyo, by Ryuichi Sakamoto, perhaps?

This is 'Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence'

Start around the 50'' mark.

It's not the track you mention, but parts of it remind me of this one.

jasonb · 12-01-2016 4:43pm

Thanks for your replies! Needless to say, it's not 'Blodigt jävla helvete'! Though I did enjoy looking at the trailer online...

Interesting link there New Home, as while that's not it (as you say) it's another piece of music that had I heard it, I'd be wondering where I know it from!

It's definitely Art Decade that I recognise, but it doesn't look like it's from anything mainstream (or even not mainstream). I wonder if it was used in TV Promos for a sci-fi film, or even a trailer for a film or something like that?

J.

New Home · 12-01-2016 4:47pm

Or maybe from some videogame?

jasonb · 12-01-2016 4:57pm

New Home wrote: »

Or maybe from some videogame?

That's a good call, I didn't think of checking video games. Off I go...

J.

New Home · 12-01-2016 4:57pm

Tell us if you find it, I'm curious now...

kunst nugget · 12-01-2016 5:18pm

I don't know if this helps but any time I hear the song it always reminds me of the music from A Clockwork Orange. They're not really that similar when it comes down to it but there's something about Art Decade that always reminds me of the Wendy Carlos score.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI-mDTdeKR8

fad460 · 13-01-2016 1:31pm

New Home wrote: »

Tell us if you find it, I'm curious now...

I don't think it is in any film/TV. My friend is a huge fan and she would have known.

darkdubh · 14-01-2016 12:18pm

Seeing as Low was a huge influence on countless bands from the late 70s onwards it could have been something that just ripped off Art Decade or sounded very similar.

jasonb · 14-01-2016 10:06pm

fad460 wrote: »

I don't think it is in any film/TV. My friend is a huge fan and she would have known.

Yeah, I think you're right. I'm wondering now if I either heard it through a TV promo for a movie/season of movies, or maybe a radio promo. Either way, I doubt I'm going to find out!

J.

tonyheaney · 15-01-2016 5:41pm

I'm sure it was outer limits or twilight zone but it could have been some kind of amiture film... at the end she kills him or badly maims him thinking he was lying all along and when she goes to the surface there's nothing but destruction and fire from a Nuclear bomb..

New Home · 15-01-2016 5:53pm

'The Day After', 1983, deals with the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, but I don't know if that's the one you're looking for.

tonyheaney · 15-01-2016 9:43pm

New Home wrote: »

'The Day After', 1983, deals with the aftermath of a nuclear explosion, but I don't know if that's the one you're looking for.

no its more recent like with in 1-year or so but this movie looks interesting

New Home · 15-01-2016 9:45pm

I watched it when I was 12 or 13 and it scared the bejaysis out of me.

darkdubh · 16-01-2016 11:26am

Low budget 1980s video nasty type film that I saw on a pirated videotape years ago at a friends house.The storyline ripped off loads of other horror/exploitation movies of the 70s and 80s.The main character was a Vietnam vet living in a run down apartment with his wife and a baby that was kind of deformed like the one in Eraserhead.It ripped off elements of Taxi Driver,there was something to do with a child prostitute who he was rescuing from a pimp I think and he shoots dead members of a criminal gang who are terrorising the neighbourhood,maybe one of them was the pimp I can't remember.I remember there were these Vietnam flashback scenes at the start that used stock Nam footage of planes dropping bombs etc and was then cut in with these really cheap looking scenes of yer man with his rifle dodging in and out behind trees.

jh79 · 16-01-2016 11:40am

darkdubh wrote: »

Low budget 1980s video nasty type film that I saw on a pirated videotape years ago at a friends house.The storyline ripped off loads of other horror/exploitation movies of the 70s and 80s.The main character was a Vietnam vet living in a run down apartment with his wife and a baby that was kind of deformed like the one in Eraserhead.It ripped off elements of Taxi Driver,there was something to do with a child prostitute who he was rescuing from a pimp I think and he shoots dead members of a criminal gang who are terrorising the neighbourhood,maybe one of them was the pimp I can't remember.I remember there were these Vietnam flashback scenes at the start that used stock Nam footage of planes dropping bombs etc and was then cut in with these really cheap looking scenes of yer man with his rifle dodging in and out behind trees.

Sounds like "Combat Shock " think it is on the Troma Channel on Youtube and Arrow released it on DVD a few years back.

darkdubh · 16-01-2016 7:20pm

jh79 wrote: »

Sounds like "Combat Shock " think it is on the Troma Channel on Youtube and Arrow released it on DVD a few years back.

Yes,thats it!Looking at the trailer its quite misleading,its being marketed as an action film which it wasn't really.I think they were aiming for a sort of art house social realism but down to bad acting and special effects and untra low budget it came across like an exploitation B- movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTH6ntY9IaE

jh79 · 16-01-2016 7:34pm

darkdubh wrote: »

Yes,thats it!Looking at the trailer its quite misleading,its being marketed as an action film which it wasn't really.I think they were aiming for a sort of art house social realism but down to bad acting and special effects and untra low budget it came across like an exploitation B- movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTH6ntY9IaE

Never a fan of the Troma stuff but as a collector of video nasties and 70's / 80's exploitation i had heard of it. The Exterminator would be my recommendation of a Vietnam vet whose had enough type movie.

darkdubh · 17-01-2016 3:49pm

jh79 wrote: »

Never a fan of the Troma stuff but as a collector of video nasties and 70's / 80's exploitation i had heard of it. The Exterminator would be my recommendation of a Vietnam vet whose had enough type movie.

It didn't strike me as a typical Troma film,it was played straight unlike their typical spoofy stuff,probably worth a look.

jh79 · 17-01-2016 3:57pm

darkdubh wrote: »

It didn't strike me as a typical Troma film,it was played straight unlike their typical spoofy stuff,probably worth a look.

My mistake, it is distributed by troma in the US. I should give it a look on youtube. I do like Mothers Day so probably shouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.

Skerries · 20-01-2016 2:00pm

tonyheaney wrote: »

I'm sure it was outer limits or twilight zone but it could have been some kind of amiture film... at the end she kills him or badly maims him thinking he was lying all along and when she goes to the surface there's nothing but destruction and fire from a Nuclear bomb..

I remember this from the last few years but it wasn't a full film as you say but maybe a short story amidst other stories.

was it she wakes up in the bunker and the neighbour tells her she was knocked out and he brought her in just before the disaster happened and even though it indicated that he was trying to Fritzl her that when she escapes outside that the world is destroyed?

Kev W · 21-01-2016 6:15am

tonyheaney wrote: »

I'm sure it was outer limits or twilight zone but it could have been some kind of amiture film... at the end she kills him or badly maims him thinking he was lying all along and when she goes to the surface there's nothing but destruction and fire from a Nuclear bomb..

There's an episode of Metal Hurlant Chronicles luke this, with James Marsters as the guy and Michelle Ryan as the girl, could that be it?

Wishox · 22-01-2016 2:32pm

Whats the name of that movie, you know the one with the guy in it? he had hair. Anyone ?

darkdubh · 22-01-2016 3:02pm

Wishox wrote: »

Whats the name of that movie, you know the one with the guy in it? he had hair. Anyone ?

Westworld with Yul Brynner.

Kev W · 22-01-2016 3:42pm

Wishox wrote: »

Whats the name of that movie, you know the one with the guy in it? he had hair. Anyone ?

Kuffs.

Skerries · 26-01-2016 12:46pm

Kev W wrote: »

There's an episode of Metal Hurlant Chronicles luke this, with James Marsters as the guy and Michelle Ryan as the girl, could that be it?

that's the one I was thinking about alright but not sure if this is what the OP was looking for

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnxYoJgfmzE

johndoe99 · 06-02-2016 10:15pm

searching for a movie i saw a few years back. I can only remember a few scenes. A group of friends decide to film an expedition to a town, where apparently a century previously several dozens of persons disappeared in the local wilderness.

I can remember that during there expedition the friends start to hear a humming sound and decide to follow it to its source deeper and deeper into the wilderness and along the way the sound has a mental effect on them.

Could be a found footage movie.

thanks.

New Home · 06-02-2016 10:54pm

The Blair Witch Project?

Mind you, I've only seen the trailers and not the actual film, so it's very unlikely I got it right...

Darkglasses · 07-02-2016 2:45am

johndoe99 wrote: »

searching for a movie i saw a few years back. I can only remember a few scenes. A group of friends decide to film an expedition to a town, where apparently a century previously several dozens of persons disappeared in the local wilderness.

I can remember that during there expedition the friends start to hear a humming sound and decide to follow it to its source deeper and deeper into the wilderness and along the way the sound has a mental effect on them.

Could be a found footage movie.

thanks.

New Home wrote: »

The Blair Witch Project?

Mind you, I've only seen the trailers and not the actual film, so it's very unlikely I got it right...

Don't think it's that, but it sounds incredibly interesting, would also be interested in the name of it!

Kolido · 07-02-2016 8:29am

johndoe99 wrote: »

searching for a movie i saw a few years back. I can only remember a few scenes. A group of friends decide to film an expedition to a town, where apparently a century previously several dozens of persons disappeared in the local wilderness.

I can remember that during there expedition the friends start to hear a humming sound and decide to follow it to its source deeper and deeper into the wilderness and along the way the sound has a mental effect on them.

Could be a found footage movie.

thanks.

Not this is it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398428/?ref_=wl_li_tt

kunst nugget · 07-02-2016 9:59am

Kolido wrote: »

Not this is it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398428/?ref_=wl_li_tt

That's the one I was thinking pod but couldn't remember the name! Wasn't bad iirc but very odd by the end.

There's also one called Dark Mountain that might fit the bill. I haven't seen it but it would fit the bill.

johndoe99 · 07-02-2016 11:20am

Kolido wrote: »

Not this is it?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1398428/?ref_=wl_li_tt

that's it thanks

johndoe99 · 07-02-2016 11:22am

kunst nugget wrote: »

That's the one I was thinking pod but couldn't remember the name! Wasn't bad iirc but very odd by the end.

There's also one called Dark Mountain that might fit the bill. I haven't seen it but it would fit the bill.

Dark Mountain is one i'm gonna look for too.

EternalHope · 18-02-2016 4:03pm

My Aunt told me about a psychological thriller she saw in the 1970's. The only part she can remember is there was a few people male and female visiting at a house having dinner.One of the men fancied one of the women but she did not fancy him.

Something frightening happened and she wanted to leave so bad she said to him " If you take me away now you can spend the night" so she was really scared. I am not sure was the source of fear in the house or on the way. It could have been earthly like a killer or supernatural like spirits.

I would love to see it if anyone know what it was

darkdubh · 19-02-2016 11:35am

EternalHope wrote: »

My Aunt told me about a psychological thriller she saw in the 1970's. The only part she can remember is there was a few people male and female visiting at a house having dinner.One of the men fancied one of the women but she did not fancy him.

Something frightening happened and she wanted to leave so bad she said to him " If you take me away now you can spend the night" so she was really scared. I am not sure was the source of fear in the house or on the way. It could have been earthly like a killer or supernatural like spirits.

I would love to see it if anyone know what it was

I was reading an article in Sight And Sound from a couple of years ago about BBC horror/supernatural shorts from the 70s,many of which were part of the Play For Today series.Sounds a little like this one maybe,which starred Clive Swift(Richard in Keeping Up Appearences)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346845/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4.

EternalHope · 19-02-2016 5:43pm

darkdubh wrote: »

I was reading an article in Sight And Sound from a couple of years ago about BBC horror/supernatural shorts from the 70s,many of which were part of the Play For Today series.Sounds a little like this one maybe,which starred Clive Swift(Richard in Keeping Up Appearences)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346845/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4.

thanks, will check it out. No not it. In the film you linked the couples are married. in the film i want at least one man and one woman aren't. She does not like him but is prepared to spend the night with him if he takes her away as she is that scared

Reon · 20-02-2016 3:47pm

Movie ..some guy needs to pass a drug test for the cops or something but ends up smoking weed before hand he then buys a pippete and some chemicals i think its vinegar and pippettes it inside his penis to pass the test.but the cops find out what hes done anyway ? Anyone know?

woof im a dog · 20-02-2016 4:02pm

Reon wrote: »

Movie ..some guy needs to pass a drug test for the cops or something but ends up smoking weed before hand he then buys a pippete and some chemicals i think its vinegar and pippettes it inside his penis to pass the test.but the cops find out what hes done anyway ? Anyone know?

Is it maybe Harsh Times

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh_Times

Vito Andolini · 20-02-2016 8:21pm

Looking for a movie... Set in post civil war America I think, a guy come back after the war to his best friends wife and farm and try's to pick up where his friend left off before the war pretending to be his friend?
Thanks

Dair76 · 20-02-2016 8:27pm

Vito Andolini wrote: »

Looking for a movie... Set in post civil war America I think, a guy come back after the war to his best friends wife and farm and try's to pick up where his friend left off before the war pretending to be his friend?
Thanks

Sommersby?

Vito Andolini · 20-02-2016 8:34pm

That's it thanks, it must be 20 years since I saw it.

darkdubh · 21-02-2016 1:24pm

Want to identify what the movie was that this scene I remember was from.It was a subtitled movie set in a village in either Italy or Greece during the second world war.The scene was a group of resistance members who were discussing assassinating a local bigwig who was collaborating with the Germans.They were sitting around a table drinking wine and were pretty drunk.The discussion got round to using a bomb for the assassination and one of them starts off laughing and going "boom boom" then they all start,laughing and shouting boom and making big explosion gestures with their hands.

Aglomerado · 25-02-2016 3:54pm

Wild guess but maybe i conformista (the conformist) by Bertolucci?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065571/

darkdubh · 25-02-2016 9:48pm

Aglomerado wrote: »

Wild guess but maybe i conformista (the conformist) by Bertolucci?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065571/

Hmmm.it could well have been set in Facist era Italy but I don't think it was that film,I saw The Conformist years ago and certain its not that.The one I'm trying to remember was as far as I recall set entirely in a village.Thinking about it I'm sure that scene was all done in a single take or something unusual about it like that.

MfMan · 02-03-2016 9:57am

A film trailer from way back late 70s/very early 80s; adolescent boy meets girl, relationship frowned upon, boy probably a bit of a tearaway. Boy also a good swimmer, scenes of him swimming in competition. Later, scenes of him in hospital, electrodes attached to his head, possibly in a coma. A teen movie of sorts I think. Any ideas?

EternalHope · 02-03-2016 3:14pm

MfMan wrote: »

A film trailer from way back late 70s/very early 80s; adolescent boy meets girl, relationship frowned upon, boy probably a bit of a tearaway. Boy also a good swimmer, scenes of him swimming in competition. Later, scenes of him in hospital, electrodes attached to his head, possibly in a coma. A teen movie of sorts I think. Any ideas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_People

??

MfMan · 02-03-2016 3:25pm

No, more teen-based I think rather than adult-centric.

RichyX · 03-03-2016 11:10am

MfMan wrote: »

No, more teen-based I think rather than adult-centric.

Predator 2.

deravarra · 08-03-2016 11:00pm

Movie - i think British made ...
A group of new age hippies meet in various locations and are burned by some high intensity light (like a laser) coming from the sky.
There was one scene where a survivor was in hospital, and he started levitating despite being in an induced coma, and reached the ceiling lights, was electrocuted and died.
From memory, all the hippies were always talking about "the planet"

It frightened the lard out of me at the time.

Anyone know what it was/is?

Zubeneschamali · 09-03-2016 11:33am

deravarra wrote: »

A group of new age hippies meet in various locations and are burned by some high intensity light (like a laser) coming from the sky.

Quatermass, a mini series from 1979.

Movie Identification (Post here if you're looking for the name of a movie)

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