Hey guys,
I saw this movie as a kid and I've never been able to find it again. All I remember is that there is a woman and her family is trying to drive her crazy. They put a corpse in a window of the house directly across the street for her to see. Does this ring a bell for anyone?
Sean
Hello!
This is what I can remember about a movie that freaked me out when I was 7 years old. I saw in on TV, in Spanish… so, that may not help.
A brother and his sister are in the attic (?), laying on their stomachs, maybe in front of a mirror, drawing a squiggly version of this (which in my memory is way creepier and looks less like a confused, thin, Minion) with red crayons, chanting something along the lines of "Momma gay, give us your power". (Momma gay, dans tu poder.)
The girl is sleeping and the brother places a hand held mirror in front of her face, which reveals the picture they drew. In what I assume was the final scene, the family is going somewhere, you have an eagle view of a yellow (?) car driving up the highway, among trees, and you hear the piercing scream of the girl, inferring she caught her reflection in the rearview mirror.
I'm 32 now. I remember I spent a week avoiding mirrors, and then only allowing certain parts of my body to be reflected, only a leg, or a hand at a time; running past mirrors, washing my hands with my eyes closed, opening my eyes real slow when I felt brave… And I've been looking for this movie, while not always wanting to find it, ever since.
Does it ring a bell?
Bee
Hey gang!
Asking for a friend, so could get touch and go if you need additional info. They told a story this weekend about a movie their parents exposed them to when they were but a wee lass that has ruined their brain for most of their life. They said it was new-ish at the time of viewing, so we're looking early – mid 80's. Set in early 1900's. Quite possibly subtitled and quite possibly French (though this could be incorrect, so hopefully it doesn't misdirect too much). Story is something along the lines of a woman ends up marrying some horrible husk of a man who gaslights her like crazy as she slowly loses her mind. Standout scenes included going to see a doctor (or maybe/more likely a dentist), asking where he keeps the arsenic, plunging her hand into the paste and smearing it all over her mouth and grinning at him in an attempted suicide. Another scene involved her in a prison where prisoners are kept below the floor under a metal grate. The woman apparently walks over top of the grate and squats down saying something like, "you are all my lovers now!" and slurping sounds can apparently be heard.
I can maybe try and extract more, but that's all that she was able to recall about it this weekend. My searches have yielded nothing. Hopefully there's not too much misdirecting info in there to bog down the investigation.
Cheers and more cheers! Thanks for all the trauma always!
-Art L.
These movies (most likely Italian) were played late night around 1989-1991 on cable TV usually around 1-3 am.
A very strange movie where a man is essentially lost and stumbles upon a family in a house where the family is a little weird. It's a bizarre movie and during a dinner scene they converse with him about the subject of death, whereas one of the family members states that their guest is a young man and would probably rather talk about life instead of death.
That is all I have, although I found it strange that a foreign film was repeated played in the US.
Another film (and perhaps this may even be the same one) is a man is lost and trapped in a casino in the middle of the desert. He has no idea where he is or how he got there. At one point he tries to leave, but the heat of the desert exhausted him and strange people from the casino find him and bring him back to the casino where he cannot leave or escape.
That is all I have unfortunately and wish I could locate what in hell I saw.
Thanks and best,
Chris B.
Hi,
First off, I love your website! The Name That Trauma section is one of my favorites to browse in my down time. I was an easily traumatized child and searching the depths of the internet for the culprits of my fears has been a long term hobby. However, there's one vague memory I have of what I believe to be an episode of a TV show (possibly even a show for kids or teens? Disney channel? I swear the intent wasn't to scare) in which a giant insect, I think it was a bee, is roaming the halls of a high school.
Here's where my memory gets hazy and weird. I believe it's possible this trauma was truly a dream because I've never found anything online that sounds remotely like what I remember watching. In my memory, the insect was possibly a human who found the head of a costume (or school mascot?) of the bee/insect thrown in a trash can. When they picked it up and put it on, they became the insect and started to fly around the halls. I think the cause of the whole situation and center of the episode was a science experiment gone wrong.
That's it. That's all I remember. It deeply bothered me as a child. I always hated bodily transformations as well as costumes/masks changing people, so it really affected me. If anyone has an idea of what this could be, let me know. Even if it's only slightly similar to my memory. I suppose it's possible the giant insect was not a human to begin with, and that I'm combining multiple traumas in my head. Again, it's hazy and could have been a dream, but I've been searching for this for years. For time period reference, I'm 20 now and I want to say I was between 5 and 10 when I saw this.
Thanks for your help,
Emma D.
It was an old B&W horror about identical quint boys who are about 10yo. 4 of them were adopted out to good families. But at 10 they start getting terrorized and murdered. Turns out it was by the 5th baby. The grandmother comes forward and explains that #5 killed her young daughter so she threw the baby into the ocean to die.
Can you name this movie? My friend told me she has looked for the name for years!
Hello. I am from Spain and I just discovered you. I was looking up the hot sauce scene from SpongeBob and found a trauma confession about it. I do not believe people got scared about it. I thought it was funny.
However there was something I was scared about when I was a little girl. I do not remember which cartoon it was in.
It was the early 1990's and I was on a vacation to America with my parents. We stayed at hotel in Massachusetts and I wanted to watch cartoons. So I turned on Nickelodeon. At the time, I believe it was America only.
They were showing a cartoon about a cute animal with cute voice but I did not understand a lot of it because it was all in English. The episode I watched had him trying not to touch a button. As time passes, he can not take it any more and touches it. At first nothing happened but then he had his eyes closed and opened them to reveal hideous red spiral eyes. Accompanying it was noise that sounded like a burst of electricity if someone interpreted it on synthesizer.
When I saw his eyes, I screamed and turned the channel. I did not have nightmares but I remember thinking Massachusetts was little creepy for the rest of the stay. I also felt very sad for the poor animal because he looked very cute and I wondered what kind of person would do that thing to him. I'm 29 now and I hope it won't be that scary as I remember it to be.
-Maria M.
Hi! My brother and I have been trying to search for an older movie that scared the crap out of us when we were children. We both remember it might have been made anytime between the 70's to the early 90's. It was about two guys travelling by bus in a foreign country and they get stranded in a small poor village. All the villagers are devil worshippers and the two guys witness a sacrifice and ritual one night and are terrified. One of them, we think, was captured and tortured. That is all we remember, but we would really like to find out what that movie may be! Any ideas?? *Note this movie is NOT Race With the Devil or Midnight.
It's an early 80's film (between 1981-1984). The film is essentially a one man show. I think it was originally in 3D. It's a low budget sci-fi flick. The protagonist is a thief of sorts. He's trying to steal a gem or gems from a church that has large number of booby traps. The entire movie is him navigating a series of traps to reach the alter where the jewel[s] are. I think he ultimately gets killed in the end. I've been searching for the title to this flick for a long time.
UNK SEZ: Hey, Rob! Not every piece of the puzzle fits perfectly but so much of what you described sounds like THE TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS from 1983. I wrote a review about the movie way back HERE, you can watch a trailer HERE and check out the incredible head-spinning scene below! Let us know if we caught the appropriate culprit!
This has been driving me nuts. It's been practically forever, and I still cannot find what movie this scene was from. It's the only scene I remember from the movie. I don't remember being scared to the point of crying or running to one of my parents, but it did deeply disturb me. It's one of those things that gives you a weird, uncomfortable feeling in your chest, you know?
I was born in '94 and saw this as a little kid. I want to say that I saw it on TV. With that in mind, I know that the movie can't be any more recent than the 90s. In the scene, a building is burning. Outside the building a woman is running around screaming as she burns alive. A kid is watching this all unfold from a car, very nonchalantly and uncaring, too. If I remember correctly, an adult, a woman I think, joins the kid in the car. I think this scene took place at the very end of the movie.
Can anybody tell me what movie this is? Thanks!
