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Post by siamesesin on Oct 24, 2006 0:49:45 GMT -5
I need to remember a flick with a man posing as an alien, and possibly at some point the alien is in the basement with a little boy's dog and the dog dies. It's an oldie and a baddie, and I'm having a helluva time remembering.
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Post by Chuck on Oct 24, 2006 5:47:39 GMT -5
I need to remember a flick with a man posing as an alien, and possibly at some point the alien is in the basement with a little boy's dog and the dog dies. It's an oldie and a baddie, and I'm having a helluva time remembering. Color or black & white?
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Post by siamesesin on Oct 24, 2006 10:06:32 GMT -5
B&W, I think. 1950s-early 1960s.
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Post by siamesesin on Oct 25, 2006 20:49:22 GMT -5
I don't usually double post but somebody please help! It's driving me MAD!
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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Oct 25, 2006 22:41:36 GMT -5
It almost sounds familiar, but I'm completely stumped. Sorry, SS.
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Post by Chuck on Oct 27, 2006 18:04:28 GMT -5
I don't usually double post but somebody please help! It's driving me MAD! Sorry. I remember vaugely something like that. Low budget. The Invisible Ray keeps popping in my head, because Karloff gets a deadly touch when he's exposed to the strange meteor and its radiation. He touches his dog and it dies. But I seem to have vauge images that suggest a shot of a dog in a basement under a stairs laying there. Low budget. Corman-esque. Do you think there's hope for me?
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Post by siamesesin on Oct 27, 2006 23:38:44 GMT -5
That's where I'm at. Poop.
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Post by Veepa on Oct 27, 2006 23:56:24 GMT -5
Are you possibly thinking of "The Brain from Planet Arous." The aliens are giant brains, and they take control of a human.. I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember a dog... The dog knew that the man was an alien or something, so he may have killed it..
I don't know. Just a guess.
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Post by Chuck on Oct 28, 2006 9:38:01 GMT -5
Are you possibly thinking of "The Brain from Planet Arous." The aliens are giant brains, and they take control of a human.. I haven't seen it in a while, but I remember a dog... The dog knew that the man was an alien or something, so he may have killed it.. I don't know. Just a guess. GOOD job, Veepa!!! I had forgotten all about that one. I think I have Svengoolie hosting it. Haven't seen it in ages.
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Post by mightyjack on Oct 28, 2006 12:09:45 GMT -5
I thought the dog survived? Didn't the good aliens possess the dog and help defeat the bad brain alien? It's been a while, I just remember John Agar taking a stick of some kind and going ape-chit crazy on the Brain (with visable strings) and laughing my ass off at that.
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Post by Chuck on Oct 31, 2006 21:21:08 GMT -5
I need to remember a flick with a man posing as an alien, and possibly at some point the alien is in the basement with a little boy's dog and the dog dies. It's an oldie and a baddie, and I'm having a helluva time remembering. I've been working on this. I belive it is PRE 1965 for some reason. I keep thinking AIP or some evern more low-budget company. And I am thinking "no names" - meaning we'll recognize NO ONE in the cast. As the computer on the Enterprise is want to say, "Working."
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Post by siamesesin on Nov 22, 2006 17:49:03 GMT -5
You are a god, my friend. I've had no luck myself.
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Post by Rotting Elvis on Nov 24, 2006 14:36:34 GMT -5
a pizza cutter gets up from the counter by itself, rolls up the bannister and cuts a phone line when a woman is attempting to call someone.
I saw it in the early 80's, when I was but a youngin'.
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Post by lstcaz on Dec 15, 2006 16:32:01 GMT -5
My guess would be 70's TV movie. Kid kills younger girl, his mother hides him in secret room or attic or something for years while police look for him. She dies he manages to stay hidden in house when new people move in. I think it was supposed to be based on true story.
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Dec 18, 2006 1:57:43 GMT -5
My guess would be 70's TV movie. Kid kills younger girl, his mother hides him in secret room or attic or something for years while police look for him. She dies he manages to stay hidden in house when new people move in. I think it was supposed to be based on true story. The true story part I don't know about. But the movie you're seeking is one of the best cheesy-bad TV movies of the '70s, Bad Ronald. David Hofstede's excellent book What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History has a good chapter on Bad Ronald. (It's only number 90.) A movie called Bad Ronald has gained a cult reputation as an unsettling suburban gothic that gave nightmares to a generation of kids in 1974. But what terrifies at age nine can look like processed cheese 30 years later, and such is the case with Bad Ronald. And yet the film has more fans than ever now, who revel in its offbeat story, laughable technical credits, and over-earnest cast of TV Land bit players. Ronald is a shy, geeky senior, overprotected by his mom and ignored or teased by his peers. One night, when his dream girl's snotty little sister makes fun of him and his mother, he pushes her... and she hits her head on a rock and dies! Ronald runs home to tell his mom how he "found a shovel... and buried her." "You could spend the rest of your life with degenerates in jail!" she cries. She decides that Ronald should hide until the investigation is over. They work through the night to build him a hiding spot behind the pantry, where Ronald remains for weeks. The plan succeeds until Ronald's mother dies during surgery at the hospital. Her last words had been, "Close the door, and don't open until I return." Being a good son, Ronald does what he is told. He overhears his mother's fate from the realtors showing the house, and drills peepholes in many of the rooms. He makes full use of these after the arrival of the new owners, with their three cute teenage daughters. His sanity crumbling after months of isolation, he imagines "in true geek fashion... the fictional world of Atranta," with himself a prince and one of the daughters his princess. What with all the odd noises, missing food, and the inexplicable death of a nosy neighbor (who just happened upon Ronald and dropped dead of a heart attack, forcing him to find another shovel and another good spot for an impromptu grave), the family is pretty jumpy. But they leave the attractive daughter home alone one weekend long enough for Ronald to burst out of hiding, grab the girl, attack a visiting boyfriend, and crash into the arms of police! Writer Andrew Peter Marin handles this bizarre scenario with not a trace of humor, which makes the result even more fun to goof on. And for those who first saw Bad Ronald on a bootleg video--it's not the condition of your tape, the movie was actually that poorly lit and murky in its first run as well. Scott Jacoby [as Bad Ronald] inspires neither fear nor sympathy with his wooden performance. He may be the most boring crazed killer ever introduced.
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