Old movies you remember watching, but can't remember the name of

[Matthew Jabour]

When I was a kid, I'd see a lot of movies and not know what they were called, or what they meant. Example: a movie about a small town, where one guy tries to shake things up while everyone else would rather keep things the same. To illustrate this, the town was shown in black and white, while the guy was colorful.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

When I was a kid, I'd see a lot of movies and not know what they were called, or what they meant. Example: a movie about a small town, where one guy tries to shake things up while everyone else would rather keep things the same. To illustrate this, the town was shown in black and white, while the guy was colorful.

Sounds like Pleasantville, a movie with Tobey Maguire from the 90s.

 

[Lilani]

This is sort of a shot in the dark but what the hell.

I remember a video my parents had a looooong time ago that I watched as a very young kid. It was an animated series of fairy tales and fables, but they weren't really fully animated. They just kind of faded and cut to and from different stills, like a partially animated comic book. I think it had the story of little red riding hood, and there was some story about a rabbit I think, which might have been the tortoise and the hare but I'm not sure.

Soooooo...yeah, lol. Good luck.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I remember watching a movie when I was young that had little claymation men (8 inches maybe?) who came from under the earth. The came up and started terrorizing people, with the ability to put themselves back together and slide under doors, and to just mess people up. Eventually, the people have to go underground for some reason, and bad things happen.

Shit gave me nightmares for almost a decade, and I can't remember the movie itself.

Shit.

 

[Lilani]

I remember watching a movie when I was young that had little claymation men (8 inches maybe?) who came from under the earth. The came up and started terrorizing people, with the ability to put themselves back together and slide under doors, and to just mess people up. Eventually, the people have to go underground for some reason, and bad things happen.

Shit gave me nightmares for almost a decade, and I can't remember the movie itself.

Shit.

Hm, maybe Gumby? Gumby had lots of surreal stuff like that, and did a lot with the idea of claymation figures splitting up and getting mashed together.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I remember watching a movie when I was young that had little claymation men (8 inches maybe?) who came from under the earth. The came up and started terrorizing people, with the ability to put themselves back together and slide under doors, and to just mess people up. Eventually, the people have to go underground for some reason, and bad things happen.

Shit gave me nightmares for almost a decade, and I can't remember the movie itself.

Shit.

Hm, maybe Gumby? Gumby had lots of surreal stuff like that, and did a lot with the idea of claymation figures splitting up and getting mashed together.

No. This was a straight up horror film from what I remember.

From what I remember, the clay guys were gray, and the people the terrorized were real (Everyone was real but the clay guys).

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

I remember watching a movie when I was young that had little claymation men (8 inches maybe?) who came from under the earth. The came up and started terrorizing people, with the ability to put themselves back together and slide under doors, and to just mess people up. Eventually, the people have to go underground for some reason, and bad things happen.

Shit gave me nightmares for almost a decade, and I can't remember the movie itself.

Shit.

Hm, maybe Gumby? Gumby had lots of surreal stuff like that, and did a lot with the idea of claymation figures splitting up and getting mashed together.

No. This was a straight up horror film from what I remember.

From what I remember, the clay guys were gray, and the people the terrorized were real (Everyone was real but the clay guys).

Perhaps it was The Gate from 1987?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093075/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Youngsters accidentally open a door to hell and all sorts of fun shenanigans ensue! Seriously though, the small demons were claymation and it sounds similar to your description.

 

[Nazulu]

Yeah, I have four from when I was child. Three were animated. Last one was a horror.

The first animated one was about a young blonde man (I think) and was guided by a muscle guy with a horned mask (kinda like Mightors) but he used a sword. The only part I remember at the end was there was a fight between some evil wizard and the horned mask character. The evil wizard was trying to freeze him stiff (not ice) but he couldn't hold horny down.

The second animated flick I'm thinking of was mainly based around a bold (no hair) young hero making it through all the elements (I think) to save a girl. I think they had an Arabic type fashion. Bugger all I can remember now.

Unfortunately the only part I remember of the third animated movie is that the world blew up at the end but it was somehow still a happy ending (I think) with the main cast going to heaven or some shit.

I only remember one part of the horror film I've been trying to find. It really stood out to me as a kid. I think it was a young girl (could be a boy) and many older men was on one side of this big hall looking room with many holes in the floor, while the evil guy who I think was a demon (looking) was on the other sitting in a chair, and something ticked the men off so they decided to charge at the demon, but the demon just clicked his fingers or something similar and poof, the men running towards him were suddenly impaled.

I haven't looked hard, but I would like to see them again.

 

[DefunctTheory]

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I remember watching a movie when I was young that had little claymation men (8 inches maybe?) who came from under the earth. The came up and started terrorizing people, with the ability to put themselves back together and slide under doors, and to just mess people up. Eventually, the people have to go underground for some reason, and bad things happen.

Shit gave me nightmares for almost a decade, and I can't remember the movie itself.

Shit.

Hm, maybe Gumby? Gumby had lots of surreal stuff like that, and did a lot with the idea of claymation figures splitting up and getting mashed together.

No. This was a straight up horror film from what I remember.

From what I remember, the clay guys were gray, and the people the terrorized were real (Everyone was real but the clay guys).

Perhaps it was The Gate from 1987?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093075/?ref_=nv_sr_2
Youngsters accidentally open a door to hell and all sorts of fun shenanigans ensue! Seriously though, the small demons were claymation and it sounds similar to your description.

...

Shit.

And then I never slept again...

 

[davidmc1158_v1legacy]

Yeah, I have four from when I was child. Three were animated. Last one was a horror.

The first animated one was about a young blonde man (I think) and was guided by a muscle guy with a horned mask (kinda like Mightors) but he used a sword. The only part I remember at the end was there was a fight between some evil wizard and the horned mask character. The evil wizard was trying to freeze him stiff (not ice) but he couldn't hold horny down.

I think I know your first one! It is one of my favorite animated movies. May I present Fire and Ice!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085542/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The animation was rotoscoped (live actors were filmed doing the movements and then animation was made based directly on that film).

I'm afraid I'm clueless on the other ones. I'm going to keep an eye on this thread to see if anyone else knows them. They sound very interesting.

 

[MrBaskerville]

I've been able to find most of the movies from my chldhood due to remembering certain actors and using the power of Imdb. But there was a series of cartoons that i faintly remember, they were probably French or from Belgium. It was short cartoons about a group of young people who spray painted walls (atleast in the intro) and the main character had hair a bit like Tintin and a very round head. I think they spoke nonsense (or perhaps a foreign language, but there were no subtitles or attempts at translations so i assume it was nonsense). There was something about a bumbling cop who chased the main character around, i think.

Also, and now it's getting obscure, there was this french comic thingy i bought on a vacation. One of these books where you have to collect images, it was something about a young boy who encounters dinosaurs (perhaps through either VR or by time travel). Only vaguely remember it, but it seemed like it was a thing outside of the collection comic.

 

[Flatfrog]

I only remember one part of the horror film I've been trying to find. It really stood out to me as a kid. I think it was a young girl (could be a boy) and many older men was on one side of this big hall looking room with many holes in the floor, while the evil guy who I think was a demon (looking) was on the other sitting in a chair, and something ticked the men off so they decided to charge at the demon, but the demon just clicked his fingers or something similar and poof, the men running towards him were suddenly impaled.

You're not thinking of Time Bandits, are you? It isn't a horror, but it does have a moment in the final battle that sounds remarkably like what you're describing.

For me, there's a Christmas film I remember featuring a bunch of toys in a toy store trying to make their way up through various adventures to reach Santa, to ask him for something. I remember almost nothing about it except that I was very excited in the end credits to see Santa credited to 'himself'

 

[Nazulu]

I think I know your first one! It is one of my favorite animated movies. May I present Fire and Ice!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085542/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The animation was rotoscoped (live actors were filmed doing the movements and then animation was made based directly on that film).

I'm afraid I'm clueless on the other ones. I'm going to keep an eye on this thread to see if anyone else knows them. They sound very interesting.

You're not thinking of Time Bandits, are you? It isn't a horror, but it does have a moment in the final battle that sounds remarkably like what you're describing.

For me, there's a Christmas film I remember featuring a bunch of toys in a toy store trying to make their way up through various adventures to reach Santa, to ask him for something. I remember almost nothing about it except that I was very excited in the end credits to see Santa credited to 'himself'

Did you know I love you both? Those are exactly it! Just wonderful. Thank you both.

I looked them up and man did I remember them poorly. I called the last one a horror movie because that one scene horrified me as a kid. You just can't expect that kind of thing.

I tried to find that Christmas movie Flatfrog, but no luck. However I think I've seen something similar and now I want to find it. Including another about the Easter Bunny, and I can't remember if it was with clay-mation or dolls, but at the end these men thought they caught the rabbit but they only had a chocolate dummy of him, and decided to gorge themselves.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

There was a boy and a girl, I think they might have been bears or animals or something. They are working with a human wizard in his tower and he has some kind of crystal. I think the girl turns evil at some point. It's a cartoon I watched as a kid.

 

[Matthew Jabour]

Another movie I'd like help with:

This black guy had a son who had to be taken to the emergency room. The doctors tried to usher him out, and then started surgery right in front of him, which caused him to freak out a bit. It wasn't too gory, but probably worse than an elementary schooler like me should've been allowed to see!

Also, there was some talk about a disease and a bit at the end where an EKG of a little girl started to drop but then recoveredin the nick of time - as if that narrows it down at all.

 

[Dani_Phantym]

I remember seeing this movie when i was younger i can't remember the title and i assume it was made in the 70s or 80s but its a vhs kid movie i only know bits and pieces.

Piece 1: its about a you'd boy being followed by a talking shadowy black bird with big eyes that looks like an emu.

Piece 2: there's a part with an creepy looking old woman hiding behind a tree talking to the boy from afar.

the movie looks pretty dark the whole time and i don't think the boy talks.

 

[Irish Coffee]

As a kid I saw this movie. I have a vague recollection it and I remember only (part) of the ending.

Some people/family/friends are gathered in a spot (I guess a house or so), when an old man with a cane enters (the cane might be blue of colour).
He introduces himself and says that the purpose of his visit is to take a young kid with him to become his successor. The man displays some magical powers of some sort.

There is some sort of argument over who is to let go of his kid. In the end one is selected. Of course there's a lot of drama involved in the selection proces...

I believe the movie ends with the kid (a boy) being brainwashed and the old man and the kid are standing on the rim of some high structure/a mountain.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Another movie I'd like help with:

This black guy had a son who had to be taken to the emergency room. The doctors tried to usher him out, and then started surgery right in front of him, which caused him to freak out a bit. It wasn't too gory, but probably worse than an elementary schooler like me should've been allowed to see!

Also, there was some talk about a disease and a bit at the end where an EKG of a little girl started to drop but then recoveredin the nick of time - as if that narrows it down at all.

Maybe "John Q?"

It's a Denzel Washington movie about a guy whose son needs a heart transplant, but his insurance doesn't cover it so he goes to the hospital and holds the doctors at gunpoint to try and get them to do the surgery. The movie is from 2002, so depending on your age it may or may not have been out while you were in elementary school.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0251160/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_16

 

[renegade7]

I remember that the first movie I saw was this space thing with Tim Allen in it. I was 6, so I don't remember extremely well. I remember really being into it and it was kind of my launching point into science fiction, and I have a really good recollection OF the movie, just not the title.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I remember that the first movie I saw was this space thing with Tim Allen in it. I was 6, so I don't remember extremely well. I remember really being into it and it was kind of my launching point into science fiction, and I have a really good recollection OF the movie, just not the title.

The only Tim Allen Space thing I can think of is Galaxy Quest, which is basically a parody of Star Trek and its fandom.

It was pretty alright, and it has a bunch of good actors in it including Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman.