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JonFromMaplewood

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #15 on: June 29, 2011, 11:25:41 PM »
Anything by Andy Sidaris

Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 

Faces of Death

Thank God It's Friday


And I second Tourist Trap (scared the crap out of me), Salem's Lot (which still scares me),  Moving Violations, and Ice Pirates.

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #16 on: June 30, 2011, 07:54:57 AM »
Anything by Andy Sidaris

Me and my highschool friends so a movie nite while chatting over mIrc. We recently watched Malibu Express and Hard Ticket to Hawaii. My theory is he made movies for the sole purpose of seeing women's breasts.

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #17 on: June 30, 2011, 12:00:43 PM »
Mondo Africa. Luther the Geek. Ilsa, She-Devil of the SS. The Devil's Rain.

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« Reply #18 on: June 30, 2011, 12:21:31 PM »
The horror comedy (I guess? haven't seen it since) House (not Hausu). My cousin showed that to me when I was waay too young. Freaked me OUT. Also, same cousin showed me Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters when I was maybe 11.

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #19 on: June 30, 2011, 01:46:50 PM »
Phantasm. Tourist Trap. Mondo Africa. Ilsa, She-Devil of the SS. The Devil's Rain.

I think all of these are great, Dave. You're hitting them out of the park (unless you think these are crummy).

By rights, Tourist Trap shouldn't be as creepy as it is. It sounds stupid on paper but has atmosphere to spare.

I saw the The Devil's Rain as a "creature feature" on late-night UHF TV as a kid. It definitely stuck with me as well. It's ridiculous, but something about the tone of the thing is intriguing. And the ending is very funny.

Salo

Incredible movie. I like Morricone's score a lot.

Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters

I'm relucatant to admit that I love this movie, given how inescapable zombie-related business is nowadays. The Beyond and The New York Ripper are probably better movies, but I like that most of Zombi 2 takes place during the day and in the tropics. And Fabio Frizzi's music is something else!

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #20 on: June 30, 2011, 01:50:40 PM »
"Nothing But Trouble"  Chevy Chase, Akroyd, John Candy, Demi Moore.

It's not funny and terrible but it so, so bad, and I think I had really been looking forward to seeing it (because of my age and then-reverence for Chase, Candy, Akroyd)  that I seem to remember whole chunks of this movie. 

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #21 on: June 30, 2011, 01:55:39 PM »
The horror comedy (I guess? haven't seen it since) House (not Hausu). My cousin showed that to me when I was waay too young. Freaked me OUT.

I saw that in the theater!  If memory serves, I believe it stars the Greatest American Hero and Bull from Night Court?
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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #22 on: June 30, 2011, 02:04:35 PM »
Sleepaway Camp

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #23 on: June 30, 2011, 02:17:25 PM »

Fulci's Zombie Flesh Eaters

I'm relucatant to admit that I love this movie, given how inescapable zombie-related business is nowadays. The Beyond and The New York Ripper are probably better movies, but I like that most of Zombi 2 takes place during the day and in the tropics. And Fabio Frizzi's music is something else!

I have since seen Zombi 2 aka Zombie Flesh Eaters a couple of times, and I wholeheartedly agree - it's one of my favorite zombie movies. The Beyond didn't really do it for me.

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #24 on: June 30, 2011, 02:47:09 PM »
For some reason, The Annihilators has stuck with me for over twenty-five years. I think it's because it contains the first quasi-rape scene I'd ever seen and it horrified me as a seven-year-old. I'm willing to bet it's actually pretty tame, but it got to me at the time.

I haven't seen it since.

I saw The Evil Dead around the same time and weirdly thought the reel-to-reel machine was very creepy. Like every other sad nerd, I like that series a lot now.

Sleepaway Camp

Good god, another great one!

I recently made the mistake of watching Return to Sleepaway Camp, though. It was unsurprisingly horrible!
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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #25 on: June 30, 2011, 08:08:29 PM »
Pink Flamingos.  I probably saw it when I was 8 or 9 years old.  Good rental choice, Mom and Dad! 

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« Reply #26 on: June 30, 2011, 08:24:53 PM »
I actually don't remember the name or most of the movie I can't forget but there is definitely an image I can't get out of my head. I was watching this movie real young with my truck driving uncle. It was about a high school prom or reunion or something. There was a guy with a long blonde ponytail and he wore glasses. Eventually he winds up dead and I think hung by the ponytail.

Any idea what this might be?

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« Reply #27 on: June 30, 2011, 09:55:15 PM »
I actually don't remember the name or most of the movie I can't forget but there is definitely an image I can't get out of my head. I was watching this movie real young with my truck driving uncle. It was about a high school prom or reunion or something. There was a guy with a long blonde ponytail and he wore glasses. Eventually he winds up dead and I think hung by the ponytail.

Any idea what this might be?

I do not know that movie, but I totally get what you mean about snippets that stick with you.  So many times in my youth I would be channel surfing through ALL 13 CHANNELS and I would hit upon something deeply disturbing on channels 5,9, or 11.  I remembered some movie in which a bunch of people floated up into the air and then exploded while onlookers cheered (I only found out later it was Logan's Run) but that scene terrified me for a long, long time afterwards. 

I also remember an old black and white movie in which a tree with a face slowly follows some people through the woods and one of the people gets caught in quicksand. I still have no idea what that movie was, but it messed me up but good.
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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #28 on: July 01, 2011, 12:54:21 AM »
Junebug. I've only seen it once, and I went into the theater knowing nothing other than that Stanley Kauffmann liked it. I still think about it all the time. I'm sure if I saw it again I would see a bunch of flaws in it so I've avoided seeing it again.

Bad Boys 2. I went into this one cold too. I didn't know who Michael Bay was. It felt like getting punched in the back of the head. In the last couple of years I've noticed that it's often cited as the ultimate in aggressively terrible movies (Hot Fuzz, How Did This Get Made, etc), so I take some comfort in that.

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Re: Movies You Can't Forget
« Reply #29 on: July 01, 2011, 02:08:20 AM »
Salem's Lot - Vanishing Point (original) - Apocalypse Now - Hud - The Verdict - Magic - The Horsemen - Cold Turkey
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