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years of searching, finally recovered (Spoilers within)


I went on vacation and On a whim, I happened to come across this film in an old public library. I rented it and watched it after years of wondering what the heck I'd been subjected to as a child of 5, I now put my nightmares to rest. A quick synopsis:
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The story follows a kid who gave some money to this whino the day before he was burned to death in a fire. The boy is curious and goes into the burnt house and is severely scared by a ghost and as a result of fright, his hair falls out. During the night the ghosts come and give him a recipe to grow more hair, it works...too well.
The hair doesn't stop growing...(funny side note that we probably didn't get because were too young was that his little freind asks to borrow the solution for "down there!" and spends half the movie walking around with hair growing out of his pants.) So for some odd plot twist the kids art teacher kidnaps him and all his freinds and uses the boys hair to make magic paintbrushes that turn whatever you paint into reality. The boys freind who is also kidnaped, cons the man into painting the old burned house and going inside. The art teacher does , becomes scared and all his hair falls out. Then the boy goes into the house, confronts the ghosts and his hair stops growing, the cops come and save the kids from the art teacher. Really weird movie.
Still trying to find other strange 80's Disney greats like Mr. Boogedy, Boogedy's bride, Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss, and others.

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I know it's been awhile since you posted this, but if you find any more 80s Disney movies, let me know. I am trying to recall this movie I remember seeing about a boy chasing around a city to find some pot of gold. That is all I can remember, but I have been so intrigued by trying to find this movie for like 7 or 8 years. Disney came up with some reallllly weird movies then. Not Disney- but do you remember Tommy Trikker and the Stamp Traveler or How to be a Perfect Person in 3 Days or The Electric Grandmother? I swear my parents must have been on crack picking out these movies for me to watch!

email me at [email protected] if you think of some!!

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we are all an amazingly small group of 20-somethings (i assume) who remember this film!!! this is so nuts to find people who can relate- my friends always think i am nuts when i talk about it! luckily, video library in jackson, ms has a copy of the movie...i'm just too scared to rent it!!

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Ooooh! Mr. Boogedy was SO good. That vacuum cleaner bit always scared the crap outta my sister. LOL She wouldn't go near our vac for over a month!

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This is weird, all of us are pretty much 20. And we all thought it was a dream. I always thought back to this movie that I saw when i was real young and rememebred the kid standing in bathroom putting penut buttero nhis head. I dont remmeber much else, but that it scared me too. I actually just searched on here for "peanut butter on head" and it gave me peanut butter solution. I couldn't believe I found it. It was good to reminisce with all of you and read that everyone my age pretty much thought same stuff and affected them same way. Later.

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Yeah. I watched it when I was 9 and never found it in another video store again. i do wanna see it again. It's been 18 years since I saw it but have vivid images of the scenes you all have described. And I remember the teacher saying "Human hair grows only half and inch a month, no more." the boy says "Not my hair, sir." It depressed me, cause I wanted to grow my hair long, and I did the math. It would have taken me 16 months to get my hair where I wanted it. HAHAHA I can't believe I remember that.

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Holy crap.
I don't know what made me type in peanut butter solution into the search box. For years, I was sure that this had just been a weird dream, nobody could really make a movie this deranged.

I need to find this and watch it again. Chalk up one more to an 80s child who thought it was a ll a bad dream.

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I'll add my name to the support group too. I saw it for the first time when I was 6 or 7, and I had nightmares for quite a long time. I used to pray every night that what happened to that boy would never happen to me. I was very surprised that I ended up with nightmares after watching this film because I was already watching horror movies and had no problem with those.

"All universal moral principles are idle fantasies." (Marquis de Sade, from The 120 Days of Sodom)

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Wow, same story as most. I saw it when i was about 6or 7 and I happened tp be talking to a friend about movies we liked as kids and I started to remember this movie. I tols him about the peabut butter growing hair and he freaked out and shouted out "The Peanut Butter Solution"!!!!!!! He thought he was the only person in the world that had even seen or remembered this movie.

Im 24 now and I still think about this film once in a while and shiver at the memory of being so freaked out by this movie as a kid haha

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I never had nightmares, but it was a vague memory of the film. I just DL'd it off Demonoid.com. Wierd how it's a vague memory or it scared the bejeezes out of people. It never scared me. Cats eye was far more frightning.

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Add me to that list.

I too only had vague memories...... This is strange

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OMG

Really?

You all remember this movie?!

I was sure it was a dream I had when I was little!

I don't remember being really freaked out by it - but I remember having a recurring dream about sliding down a chute out of the burnt-out house - (does that actually happen? I haven't seen this movie since I was tiny!) the dream didn't scare me but I remember being a little creeped out by it

how weird is this?! us all having pretty much the same experiences - imagine if the peanut butter solution turned out not to be the only thing we had in common! Imagine if it turned out there's a whole generation of us who saw this film and now can only eat peas on tuesdays and have a goldfish named Harvey?

but the weirdest bit? you guys all sound like you're from the States - I live in New Zealand - Imagine how far the peanut butter phenomenon could reach?!

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This movie must have vanished off the face of the earth only to recently return to video to be sold by amazon, or maybe we're all finally stumbling across it thanks to the good old IMDb.

Add me to the list of kids who had nightmares about this movie and totally forgot all about it until like 18 years later!

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Yet another one! I saw this movie when I was about 7, and over the years have tried in vain to find other people who saw it. I'm 26 now, and this is the first time I've achieved my goal. Huzzah! Thanks for sharing the experience!

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i don't understand why people are so frightened by this movie. I love this movie so much, its so weird and unique. It is definitly unlike any film i have ever seen. I did not experience any nightmares from this movie, so maybe thats why i am not creeped out by it. The only movie that gives me nightmares is the 1988 remake of The Blob, i can't watch that movie.

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I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS!

I'm in my early 20's and I saw it on television, in England, when I was very young and afterwards I thought the film was a dream. I kept having these dreams about the kid walking through the windown into that burnt-down house and then silence. A loud scream would follow and I'd wake up, it haunted me for years. I knew it existed because when I mentioned it to my sister she vaguely remembered the plot. But I could never find it anywhere, and I kept having these dreams. I bet there is no other film that has had such a mass affect, like this, on people before. I found it a couple of years ago and I love watching it.

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I found both Mr. Boogedy and The Bride of Boogedy on dvd.

There are potholes on the road less traveled....

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