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Post by foreign object on Jun 12, 2014 12:13:41 GMT -5
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Post by Mod City on Sept 2, 2015 14:55:28 GMT -5
OK, time to knock some of the dust off this thread and see if any of the experts left on this board can help me out.
I'm trying to remember the name of a film, of which I'm pretty sure I'm thinking of the trailer. It's a horror film, and as I remember it, at the end of the trailer, you are looking down the hallway of what appears to be a church. A priest walks by from right to left in a perpendicular hallway in front of you. Then, following silently behind said priest, is a ghostly apparition of a nun. It appears to have no legs and floats along behind him without, apparently, him noticing. I remember the nun's habit billowing as if it were riding on air.
I remember the image quite clearly and was sure it was part of Exorcist III. I just recently looked up a few trailers for that film - and while there is a very spooky scene known as the "nurse's station scene" in Exorcist III that has somewhat similar characteristics (it also appears in one of the trailers for the movie, but in the middle, not at the end), I'm almost sure that it is not what I'm thinking of.
I also haven't seen Exorcist III, so the scene I'm thinking of may very well be in that movie, just not in any of the trailers I've found for it so far. If it's not Exorcist III, it would likely have been from around that same era - late-80s to early-90s, I'm guessing.
Any guesses out there? Any help is much appreciated!
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Post by Torgo on Sept 2, 2015 23:18:56 GMT -5
It's admittedly been a while since I've seen Exorcist III, but I'm pretty sure that scene wasn't in the movie. I do remember a scene (which might be the one you're describing) where a priest is checking rooms, looks into one room then turns around and walks into another and pretty much immediately afterward is followed by a nun who is holding hedge trimmers in a threatening manner walking out of the room he just checked. That scene always stuck with me. Pretty sure she had legs though. I'm pretty sure this isn't what you're looking for, but I remember recently going through old horror DVDs and coming across an odd trailer for a movie about a killer ghost nun who attacks through water for some reason called simply The Nun. It's really the only result I get when I type in "ghost nun" in a search engine and I was like "oh yeah." Do you remember a year you might have seen it? Or a format? Like if it was on VHS that would narrow it down to movies before the turn of the millennium. If not, maybe these will help... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Haunted_house_filmsen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Ghost_filmsI tried, at any rate.
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Post by Mod City on Sept 3, 2015 10:56:30 GMT -5
It's admittedly been a while since I've seen Exorcist III, but I'm pretty sure that scene wasn't in the movie. I do remember a scene (which might be the one you're describing) where a priest is checking rooms, looks into one room then turns around and walks into another and pretty much immediately afterward is followed by a nun who is holding hedge trimmers in a threatening manner walking out of the room he just checked. That scene always stuck with me. Pretty sure she had legs though. Yeah, that's the nurse's station scene I mention above, and it is a creepy scene. I'm almost positive that's not what I'm thinking of. The two in the scene were walking the other way, from right to left, and I don't remember any music or sound effect or anything. It was a priest (as I remember it, could have just been some dude) walking quietly, perhaps reading or praying. He walks by, and a nun in a white habit floats silently behind him. I always remember it being a cool/creepy image. I'm starting to think I may have just dreamed it or created it in my head out of the nurse's station scene. I haven't checked that one out but it doesn't sound right. Again, I'm thinking of a trailer for a movie, not necessarily the movie itself. I would put it at the vintage of Exorcist III - late-80s to early- or mid-90s. There are a number of places I may have seen this trailer, the options including: 1. On a rented VHS tape - it may have been part of the previews before the feature. 2. Television - I checked what appeared to be a few TV spots for Exorcist III but didn't see what I was looking for. 3. Pay-per-view preview - Back in the old satellite PPV days they would show a lot of trailers while you were waiting for the movie to start. It's entirely possible that whatever footage I'm thinking of was exclusive to the trailer - it may not have appeared in whatever feature it was promoting. I'll have to review those lists. Thanks for the effort, Torgo
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Post by gamera99 on Oct 10, 2016 9:18:44 GMT -5
Someone please help me remember the name of an early 70s frankenstein film - a man and woman somehow end up at a castle, at the end frankenstein is after them - chases them out to the front yard of the castle, dracula is there or the butler or somebody and attacks them with a morningstar, frankenstein has an axe sticking out of him, is on fire, and walks off a cliff. Kind of like a Hammer film.
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Post by Torgo on Oct 10, 2016 11:12:55 GMT -5
I haven't seen the film in question, but if it features Dracula, could it possibly be 1971's Dracula vs. Frankenstein?
Other Frankenstein films of the 70s: The Horror of Frankenstein (1970) Lady Frankenstein (1971) Frankenstein 80 (1972) Andy Warhol's Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) Blackenstein (1973) Frankenstein: The True Story (1973) Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (1974) Young Frankenstein (1974) (I highly doubt it's this one, lol) Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974) (featured on Cinematic Titanic)
I checked their Wikipedia pages to see if I could find any of the scenes your describing, but not many of them are that richly detailed. Lady Frankenstein has a climax involving fire, though it doesn't claim the monster fell of a cliff. Horror of Frankenstein and Monster from Hell are both actual Hammer films, so if it's "like" a Hammer film they might be somewhere to start.
I've seen Frankenstein: The True Story, Young Frankenstein, and Castle of Freaks, and I don't recall those scenes being in any of them (though it's been a while since I've seen True Story). So I hope that narrows it down.
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