Does anyone remember a film made about '84 or '85 about a boy and a vantrilquest dummy that held the spirit of an old man. The boy had a single mother and played with toy R2D2. The school bully always wore his Darth Vader helmet. Is this ringing a bell with anyone?
shareYeah, I do! And he had some psychic ability and at one point his mom had some one over and with his mind threw knives at the door or something? I think the kid had Star Wars bedsheets too if I remember right... I it was called Making Contact. For some reason, I dont see it on the IMDB.
Here it is on amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Contact-Joshua-Morrell/dp/B00006LPCC
I rememeber hearing about the movie because it was a preview on the Peanut Butter Solution VHS.
Yeah, but I remember when my rented it for when I was kid it was called Joey. But thanks for the info fellow 80's Kid!
shareI remembered the title in French, and typed it in the search, and voila! Here it is: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092806/
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Okay, here's another movie mystery.
Just like 'The Peanut Butter Solution', I thought this film or TV show didn't exist and that I just dreamt about it, but I have a feeling it was something that I saw as a kid and I rmemeber it scaring the crap out of me! Anyway, here goes.
It takes place with a group of kids, all about 12 years old, and they're walking through the dark or the woods somewhere, but every time the lightening strikes one of them disappears. Then when they find them again they've changed into something horrifying. One boy disappeared and was transformed into a tree and from what I remember he was all bloody and disgusting looking. And a girl with a pink bow disappeared, then she returned as a skeleton of an animal or dinosaur of some kind, and every time the kid tried to move the bones would move in his direction. It was such a weird thing and I swear I saw it on TV with my parents sitting on the couch behind me, and ever since I've never seen or heard from it again.
Does anyone know what this could be, it's driving me mad?!!!
I have one as well. I don't know if this was a horror movie or what, it seems like it. The only part I saw was a girl was sleeping in her room and an old woman's head woke her up and started floating above her bed. She'd scream for her parents, they would come and the head would be gone. Then as soon as they'd leave, the old woman's head would return. It was creepy. I wish I could remember exact details, it sucks trying to remember things like this because your perception when your younger is quite different. It may not have happened exactly the way you remember it. This was probably around 1990 though the movie could be older.
shareI think I can solve both of your mysteries.
lycanthropic-689-275769 - You are thinking of an episode of "Punky Brewster" titled "Perils of Punky." This was notoriously scary to little kids (including me). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRf6hjm9hvU
branenj001 - You might be thinking of an episode of Goosebumps titled "Welcome to Dead House." Here is a clip of that scene (it's actually supposed to be a young zombie girl floating over her bed but she looks old). This is notorious for being super scary for kids who all write about being traumatized by it (ironically I was researching "Goosebumps" last week and watched this episode recently). https://youtu.be/cOIOmMOrSbw?t=16m20s
So it seems the reason you couldn't track down these movies or they were both two-part scary episodes of (supposedly) kids television. Which also explains why you watched it at such a young age.
Oh your good!!!!! :-D
shareI have another 80s (maybe early 90s) movie mystery that I'm hoping one of you amazing folks can solve.
I believe it was actually an Unsolved Mysteries style TV show (maybe even UM itself?) that featured re-enactments of unsolved crimes. There was a segment (or maybe a piece of a larger story) involving a young girl who had a physical abnormality that caused bumps in her fingernails. The girl went missing, and the only clue was that the family received a mysterious phone call from a deep voiced man who told them he had killed their daughter. When they asked why the should believed him, he said "She had lumpy fingernails" and hung up. If I remember correctly, the camera shifted to a severed hand in a refrigerator/freezer before the commercial break.
That segment, much like scenes from The Peanut Butter Solution, has been haunting me for years. It gave me nightmares as a child, and as an adult its made me question whether I somehow made the whole thing up. No one seems to remember anything of the sort.
Help me folks, you guys are my only hope.