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Name that film:

 
  

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Shrug
13:59 / 30.12.06
Could be one of the Return from Witch Mountain series?
At a wild/wild guess.
 
 
Hydra vs Leviathan
16:33 / 01.01.07
Ok, i've just remembered one...

Possibly British (most of the cast were, IIRC) but big-budget "apocalyptic" supernatural thriller, at a guess made in the 90s, seen (the last half of) on UK TV in approx 2004. Plot revolved loosely around the birth of a direct descendant of Christ who would be the world's only hope against the Antichrist, or some such. The protagonists were an "odd couple" pairing (a little like Mulder & Scully) of a hippyish, Goddess-worshipping woman who was (maybe) a descendant of Christ, and a cynical, atheist male archaeologist(?).

The villains were some sort of genetic engineering conspiracy who were using DNA from a holy relic or something to create their "Messiah" child, who was actually the Antichrist, and trying to kill the woman who was to give birth to the real "Christ-child". There was some stuff in it about ancient Gnostic depictions of Christ as a hermaphrodite, IIRC.

It ended with the couple in hiding protecting the real messiah child, while the GM Antichrist's birth was announced on TV as the "Saviour", and cataclysmic signs of the apocalypse were starting. IIRC, there was rather odd and slightly-out-of-place "Celtic" music (think Enya or similar) playing throughout a lot of the action scenes...

Any ideas?
 
 
Corey Waits
02:00 / 02.01.07
Was it a mini-series? Sounds like something based off of a Stephen King novel, but I can't remember the name.

Anyway, I've got one. Not knowing it isn't driving me crazy, but it did inspire a childhood nightmare that I can still vividly remember to this day.

I saw it on TV as a Midday Movie sometime in the early-mid 90s, it was a pretty B-Grade sci-fi horror movie about a theme park full of animatronic people who go crazy and try and kill the (real) people who were visiting the park.
Sort of like Jurassic Park or that Episode of Simpsons at Itchy and Scratchy land... or that issue of Seven Soldiers Guardian for that matter...

If you need more than that I might be able to scratch up some details.
 
 
gridley
02:24 / 02.01.07
Did the amusement park have a old west theme, JD? If so, it was probably Michael Crichton's Westworld. If not, it may have been the sequel Futureworld.
 
 
Corey Waits
03:23 / 02.01.07
I thought there might have been different sections that had different themes, but there was definately some Wild West style stuff in there.

Either way it's one of them though, so Thanks!
 
 
GogMickGog
08:32 / 02.01.07
Westworld, despite the name, does feature a whole bunch of areas - if memory serves, a Roman one and Medieval are also involved..
 
 
Janean Patience
14:13 / 03.01.07
Alright, this is going to be weaker than chimp tea, but it's worth a go.

A Spanish film, released in the last few years. About some people who are incredibly lucky, or possibly immortal. There's like a secret society of them, maybe, and they start having this war or possibly it's just an elaborate con trick.

Any or all of that description could be wrong. Please help.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:33 / 03.01.07
Intacto.
 
 
Janean Patience
15:38 / 03.01.07
I got only two elements right: Spain and luck. Thanks for finding the sense in it.
 
 
Triplets
02:20 / 12.02.07
A film. A family is held hostage by a pair of brutal sadists. However, every time the family get a chance to escape the killers are able to rewind time and replay things to their advantage.

I remember the idyllic family road trip opening was sountracked by some (intentionally) jarring rock/metal noise.

I saw it while I was off my face at the Dedbeat festival in... 05? 04? Christ. Anyway, the actual film might vary.
 
 
Janean Patience
06:44 / 12.02.07
Funny Games?
 
 
Spaniel
07:56 / 12.02.07
I'm not sure the killers rewind time in Funny Games, but then I've never watched it all the way through.
 
 
Mistoffelees
08:26 / 12.02.07
Yes, they do that at least once. It´s Funny Games.
 
 
Spaniel
10:01 / 12.02.07
Do they? Christ, I must've turned the film off pretty early.
 
 
GogMickGog
10:24 / 12.02.07
Almost. The film rewinds, it's a meta-narrative trick to baffle and torture the audience. The way it's been put so far is sounding like the killers are some sort of 'Butterfly effect' cast off. Haneke's just fuckin' with you, is all.
 
 
Ron Stoppable
14:49 / 13.02.07
Here's one I've pitched before but with no joy:

British horror flick of the nastier end of the Hammer school (though may not be Hammer; more vicious than camp.)

Protagonist is a troubled schoolgirl who lights fires, commits horrible murder and has a gang of other schoolgirls in thrall.

The opening scene is during a coach ride on a class outing. Main evil girl is playing with a cigarette lighter, has some contretemps with the driver - cue flaming wreck and dead adult. Think dead adults on fire might be a theme.

When investigated by the coppers, it turns out that she's a ward of the state or something and her birth mother is a creepy drunk fortune teller, played by Beryl Reid only in my mind and probably not in the actual movie.

Think the girl may have supernatural hexy powers.

Anyway, the whole thing ends up on bonfire night with the mother / copper / teachers / i'm not sure as the guy on the bonfire, wicker man-style.

Any ideas? My memory is hazy but I remember being creeped out by it and may have conflated a few movies into one. IMDB isn't helping.

Cheers!
 
 
GogMickGog
16:18 / 13.02.07
You might want to ask the knowledgable sorts over here -

britishhorrorfilms.co.uk

They have a thread dedicated to solving just such a bugaboo, but you have to register to post.

Good luck.
 
 
A beautiful tunnel of ghosts
22:05 / 13.02.07
A black-and-white Scandinavian film, in which a small boy enters a clearing in a wood to see an old man hanging by his neck from the branch of a tree. He asks the old man, 'When will I die?', to which the old man replies 'Aaalllwwwaaayyysss...'.

I'd be grateful for anyone who can offer further information, and thanks very much in advance.
 
 
Earlier than I thought
08:23 / 14.02.07
The above 'creepy girl' movie is Nothing But the Night, one of my all time favourites. Made around the same time as The Wicker Man. I won't ruin the twist revelation for you, as it turns up on TV an awful lot. The Beryl Reid you remember is Diana Dors, which is the first time that sentence has ever been used.
 
 
Triplets
15:33 / 18.02.07
Funny Games! Thank you!

Another one, a film released between, say, 2005 and now. From the trailer it looked like an updated version of The Craft but with lads as well as girls.

I remember one bloke in the trailer saying "I want what everyone wants - more power". There was also a dude flying/getting chucked through a barn roof. So, pretty much The Craft, with penises.

Name! That! Film!
 
 
Bear
16:36 / 18.02.07
That would be this Triplets -


Avoid card accidents with magic

Looks bad in an almost good way.. possibly.
 
 
Triplets
16:51 / 18.02.07
Fabulush, Bearo! It does look bad in a Mystery Science/Van Helsing/Edward Furlong in Brain Scan kindof way.

Review and tears coming soon.
 
 
rizla mission
12:11 / 19.02.07
"Nothing But The Night" sounds amazing! Must track that one down...
 
 
Triplets
04:08 / 25.02.07
Guys, I know I abuse your knowledge a lot, but...

Okay...

There's a film, probably from the 90s, and it's about this massive machine in the desert

Anyway it turns out that this machine is a big UFO and inside the aliens actually turn out to be future humans from the future (obvs)

And the protagonists (or at least the female/male protagoniats) turn out to be the forefathers of these futurehumans.

And at the end the UFO spins round and it ends up with them jumping out of it dangerously? And there's an APC or JVC involved?

Don't tell me I dreamed it

Don't tell me I dreamed it



Don't tell me I dreamed it
 
 
Triplets
04:43 / 25.02.07
Okay, googling "future human aliens" has lead me to this: it might be called Official Denial, from 1994 which stars Dirk Benedict! as a bad guy!

Ace!

Even if it's not the film it still sounds like a good waste of an afternoon. D'dict!
 
 
Corey Waits
02:52 / 04.06.07
My girlfriend was trying to think of this film, and though I've never seen it, I do remember it being reviewed on a movie show and looking interesting.

The film is about an elderly (I think) woman from either Russia or a post-USSR nation who wakes up from a coma after having been in it since before the collapse of the Berlin Wall and Communism in Eastern Europe.
The woman's family try their hardest to keep the current state of the world a secret from her so she doesn't freak out about all the Coca-Cola billboards going up, and the like, but eventually she finds out.

Searching around IMDB looking for keywords and plot didn't bring anything up... A little help?
 
 
Mug Chum
03:41 / 04.06.07
Goodbye Lenin
 
 
Mug Chum
03:43 / 04.06.07
Here is the imdb link.
 
 
Spaniel
12:04 / 22.06.07
Okay, it's about newspaper journalism and I'm pretty sure it's black and white and it was rereleased (in the UK, at least) last year and it's supposed to be very good and it most definitely isn't All the President's Men.

Very little info, I know, but I wants to watch it.
 
 
Mug Chum
12:17 / 22.06.07
Good Night, and Good Luck?

Edward R. Murrow, Senator McCarthy, Red panic?

Mos Def Gud.
 
 
Mug Chum
12:38 / 22.06.07
Sorry, didn't see the "rereleased" (and the "newspaper" instead of "broadcast").

All I can vaguely rememeber, if an old movie, Ace in the Hole?
(when you ask the guy at the rental store, I can imagine him typing in the computer the two search words and holding a laugh to your disdain)

In case the "REreleased" was misspelling, I haven't seen it yet, but there's also the Sodenbergh's "The Good German" he made as if it was a fifties' noir, where George Clooney is a reporter in 1945's Germany. But I don't think it's about journalism as much as "good german"="good nazi american" or somewhere in the middle.

All I can remember...
 
 
grant
14:19 / 22.06.07
If it isn't His Girl Friday, it should be, because that movie's ACE.
 
 
Spaniel
14:19 / 22.06.07
Sorry, Shazam, neither of those, although I have to agree that Good Night and Good Luck is brill.

I think it has something in common with Shattered Glass - about journalistic integrity, that kind of thing
 
 
Spaniel
14:22 / 22.06.07
Grant, sounds good but no.
 
 
Spaniel
14:34 / 22.06.07
Ben-ney! Shattered Glass has already been mentioned (by me - and I liked it a lot).

For the record it isnt one of these

# The Front Page, 1931
# I Cover the Waterfront, 1933
# It Happened One Night, 1934
# Libeled Lady, 1936
# Nothing Sacred, 1937
# Everything Happens At Night, 1939
# The Philadelphia Story, 1940
# Foreign Correspondent, 1940
# His Girl Friday, 1940
# Citizen Kane, 1941
# Meet John Doe, 1941
# They Got Me Covered, 1942
# Johnny Come Lately, 1943
# Deadline, U.S.A., 1952
# Roman Holiday, 1953
# While the City Sleeps, 1956
# Teacher�s Pet, 1958
# All the President�s Men, 1976
# Network, 1976
# Superman, 1978
# Absence of Malice, 1982
# The Year of Living Dangerously, 1982
# Under Fire, 1983
# Eyewitness, 1984
# The Mean Season, 1985
# Broadcast News, 1987
# Newsies, 1992
# The Pelican Brief, 1993
# The Paper, 1994
# The Insider, 1999
 
  

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