looking for the name of a really weird movie...

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 14, 2006, 5:34 pm

The main character is a kid that is losing his hair and at one point he makes a some kind of magical blended mixture of peanut butter, dead flies and other weird things and it makes him grow tons of hair. So much hair that each day he cuts it off and the next day its long enough to touch the ground again.

And then there is this evil old man who steals children and makes paint brushes out of their hair. Using the paint brushes he can trap kids inside the paintings he makes. This old man steals the main chracter because of his magically growing hair, so he can make more and more of these paint brushes and trap tons of children in his paintings..

I'm pretty sure it was a PG movie for kids, but it was a really fucking weird and scary. I remember it giving me nightmares as a kid and I always remember these little bits and peices of it, but can't remember what it was called.

It may have been some made for TV movie that noone saw? /shrug...

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » March 14, 2006, 5:47 pm

Haha and then his friend was like "So this will grow hair anywhere?" and he went into the bathroom with the mixture and then he had hair comming out the bottom of his pants!

Yeah. I don't have a clue the name of that movie either.

nneenaK · Post by **nneenaK** » March 14, 2006, 5:52 pm

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089789/

Oddly enough titled....wait for it....The Peanut Butter Solution.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 14, 2006, 6:11 pm

Awesome, I actually just found it a few mins ago after more googling. Thanks though.

Now I need to go rent it. I have been talking with friends about "forgotten" movies from our childhood. We've been re-discovering a bunch of '80s fantasy movies that we all had vague memories of. Noone remembered The Peanutbutter Solution- everybody thought it was something I dreamed up.

We just watched "Mio In The Land of Faraway", which someone dug out of their VHS collection a couple weeks back. For a movie I hardly remembered it has a kick ass cast, and it's actually GOOD aside from shitty special effects. ABBA made the theme song also!

Drolgin Steingrinder · Post by **Drolgin Steingrinder** » March 14, 2006, 6:14 pm

Do yourself the favor and read the original story, written by children's author par excellence, Astrid Lindgren (the mother of Pippi Longstockings, The Brothers Lionheart and many others). She's one of the few great people to come out of Sweden.

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 14, 2006, 6:17 pm

Ah no wonder ABBA did the song for it! I'll definitely get the book along with The Brothers Lionheart(the movie sounds great too). I've read Pippi Longstockings though.

nneenaK · Post by **nneenaK** » March 14, 2006, 6:56 pm

Watership Down
http://imdb.com/title/tt0078480/

The Dark Crystal
http://imdb.com/title/tt0083791/

Thinking of movies and my childhood, I always come back to these two movies. I haven't watched them in years, I just seem to remember them being violent. Who needs to see a bunny get torn apart in a childrens cartoon!

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » March 14, 2006, 7:32 pm

Labyrinth with David Bowie... really more of my sisters movie who is about 5 years younger than me but I got a copy the other day and my son loves with the funny Bowie songs in it. We plan on getting Dark Crystal soon as well though...

I haven't seen the one with Christian Bayle but that would be cool to tell him that was Batman as a little boy

Now if I can find it anywhere, anyone know if Netflix has it?

Marb

Samin · Post by **Samin** » March 14, 2006, 7:41 pm

This movie disturbed me as a kid, I can remember having serious nightmares about it. Most people I know who saw it as a kid say the same thing. Pretty fucked up for a PG movie. I am pretty sure it was a Canadian movie. Not sure why, but everyone I knew saw that as a kid, but most people outside Canada havnt heard of it.

Bojangels · Post by **Bojangels** » March 14, 2006, 8:01 pm

The Care Bears movie scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. The one with that evil book that opened all by itself to the page with the face that took over your mind. I had nightmares about it. I haven't watched it since I was little, maybe I'll go back and check it out again

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 14, 2006, 8:35 pm

The Secret of NIMH freaked me out also. That was G rated and very dark.

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » March 14, 2006, 8:40 pm

The Brave Little Toaster scared me shitless as a kid.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » March 14, 2006, 9:26 pm

If I'm not mistaken, this movie was made in Quebec and was originally french to begin with.

I remember bits and peices of this from childhood as well.

The 2 dogs at the end of GhostBusters are what scared me as a kid.

Kwonryu DragonFist · Post by **Kwonryu DragonFist** » March 14, 2006, 9:30 pm

As a kid, the first Horrormovie i saw was "The Thing", it was new back then and what really scared me was the dogpen-scene.

Yeah i thought those two final bosses in Ghostbusters were kinda scary too!

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » March 14, 2006, 9:50 pm

Jaws and Cujo are the ones that scared the crap outta me. I remember watching Cujo at my babysitter's house, and she had a big mean-ass pitbull...never went back to her house.

Samin · Post by **Samin** » March 14, 2006, 10:28 pm

Haha just checked out:

http://imdb.com/title/tt0089789/

And if you read the "This gave me nightmare" thread there is about 20 people who were equally freaked out by the movie.

Gonzoie - Luclin · Post by **Gonzoie - Luclin** » March 15, 2006, 1:23 am

Legend could possibly be the greatest movie of all time, which is why everyone must see it.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » March 15, 2006, 2:58 am

flight of the navigator anyone? that movie totally kicked ass

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » March 15, 2006, 2:59 am

edit: hot double post that cant be deleted!

laneela · Post by **laneela** » March 15, 2006, 9:29 am

Omfg, The Brave Little Toaster was ACES. That and Bedknobs and Broomsticks were two of my favorites. Now, The Phantom Tollbooth... *that* was a scary movie.

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » March 15, 2006, 9:55 am

JAWS fucked me up something fierce. The first horror movie I remember secretly watching was Dark Night of the Scarecrow. That one did a nice little number on my subconscious as well.

Gonzoie - Luclin · Post by **Gonzoie - Luclin** » March 15, 2006, 10:49 am

Zamtuk wrote:flight of the navigator anyone? that movie totally kicked ass

Funny, i originally had Flight of the Navigator and Legend in my post, but i cut it out and just went with Legend alone!

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » March 15, 2006, 11:36 am

Never saw the Peanut Butter Solution or Mio in the Land of Faraway but I definitely remember childhood greats like Labyrinth (Bowie was so awesome), the Dark Crystal, the Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, etc. I'm surprised someone mentioned the Brave Little Toaster, that movie was epic!

When I was young, whenever I visited my grandmother's house I'd always end up getting to rent tons of movies which would all either be cartoon movies or horror movies my parents wouldn't allow me to get and I have this vivid memory from some animated children's movie of just one scene... there's this dark blob that's going around eating / consuming people - I want to say they were faeries. I can't remember anything else but thinking it was a rather dark movie. I'm not talking about that Ferngully shit that came out in the 90's either. I can't remember anything else about the movie other than the aforementioned scene =/

Morgrym · Post by **Morgrym** » March 15, 2006, 12:04 pm

Neverending Story? The Nothing was kind of like that.

Drinsic Darkwood · Post by **Drinsic Darkwood** » March 15, 2006, 1:41 pm

No, it was animated. A cartoon movie.

Fenna · Post by **Fenna** » March 15, 2006, 2:03 pm

My dad let me watch "The Exorcist" when I was like 9 years old and that scared the shit out of me. I was afraid of our basement for years.

I was obsessed with "The Dark Crystal," and I was very jealous of the main elf-dude. I wanted to be him and score with that she-elf chick. I still do, kind of.

Demags · Post by **Demags** » March 15, 2006, 2:54 pm

Hey Fenna, you dont have time to be trolling the messageboards, you should be PACKING right now. Hurry up and get that moving done so we get our main cleric back! (not to mention that average rogue)

Demags

Keverian FireCry · Post by **Keverian FireCry** » March 15, 2006, 8:57 pm

there's this dark blob that's going around eating / consuming people - I want to say they were faeries. I can't remember anything else but thinking it was a rather dark movie.

This had faeries in it. I don't remember if there was a black blob that was consuming everything. It also had swearing and adult themes like prostitution- I remember it was strange and creepy when I saw it as a kid.

Abelard · Post by **Abelard** » March 16, 2006, 1:14 am

Ernest Scared Stupid.

Jesus, I couldn't sleep on my side for years out of fear that a troll would materialize behind me.

Leonaerd · Post by **Leonaerd** » March 16, 2006, 4:00 am

Abelard wrote:Ernest Scared Stupid.

Jesus, I couldn't sleep on my side for years out of fear that a troll would materialize behind me.

cadalano · Post by **cadalano** » March 17, 2006, 4:38 pm

The episode where Sideshow bob frames Krusty.. He laughs maniacly at some point. That particular scene scared me.

Also the trucker lady and the clowns from Pee Wee Herman

masteen · Post by **masteen** » March 17, 2006, 4:47 pm

Tell em Large Marge sent ya!

cadalano · Post by **cadalano** » March 17, 2006, 4:54 pm

thats not funny you fucker

Fash · Post by **Fash** » March 17, 2006, 7:39 pm

Howard the Duck......

Gamei · Post by **Gamei** » March 17, 2006, 11:32 pm

I remember watching some movie about a bunch of kids left in this somewhat large house alone.

They dug this giant fucking hole in the backyard and all these little demons or something came out. Turns out it was a hole to hell? Something.

Anyways these demons start moving through walls or something, and I have this memory of some giant lizard-like demon shooting up through the floor and some kid firing a rocket at it.

Or something.

No fucking clue what the name of the movie could have possibly been, I would've been like 6 or 7 at the time. It scared me a lot but sounds ridiculous now!

Gamei · Post by **Gamei** » March 18, 2006, 12:19 am

Wow, found it by googling: kids open a hole in the backyard and demons come through

Fairly amusing synopsis here: http://www.necfiles.org/mov6.htm

IMDB link here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093075/[/url]

Nilaman · Post by **Nilaman** » March 18, 2006, 12:57 am

The Gate... maaaaan...

I watched that when I was little, it wasn't bad. I think they made a sequel.

Since a few people are talking about old movies... I can't remember the title of this but I'd love to know it.

There was this kid that was adopted(?) by a strange rich couple. They had a big house and they gave the kid all the junkfood he could eat, which their servant brought to him at any hour. At some point during the movie the kid started getting the idea that they were vampires (they used the term "Let's paint the town red" at some point) and the kid decided they were fattening him up to eat him later on.

Anywho, something happens and he gets away. Then he comes back in the middle of the night and they answer the door. The kid is like "I know you guys are vampires.. but I figured out something" and the vampires are like "Vat is that?! /fang on" and the kid is like "AWOOOOO! Im a werewolf and we eat vampires!" The end!

I don't even know if that is a real movie or some TV crap but I'd like to see it again for the hell of it!