This has stuck with me for so long that it's almost impossible to believe it ever existed! A short film I saw as part of a double feature in Scotland at the local cinema (maybe with When a Stranger Calls?) -late '70s/early '80s. The parts that stick most is that it is British, short and it's about a woman who repeatedly "sees" or remembers a murder being committed, no one believes her and she is hospitalized. In the very end of the film it turns out to be a premonition of the murder of her own family by a psycho hiding in the back of the car. The film ends with her seeing a hand with a knife come up from the back seat as she stands horrified… Help me remember what this film was!

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My sister and I have been searching for info on this for years. In the early '80s we saw a horror short on HBO (may have been USA?) where a lady had some type of monstrous hand in a jar. One night, I think she was in the shower, and the creature came back for the hand. I believe the short ended with someone else displaying the jar, but it had the woman's hand in it. Any info you have on this would be so great. Thanks, and keep up the good work!

Hey you guys!

I was just visiting with my cousin and he was telling me about a movie he saw in the '70s that scared the crap out of him and it sounds really cool – but I have no idea what it is.

There's a woman running through a house being chased by someone – or a group of people – and she keeps seeing herself either on a TV – or multiple TVs throughout the house – being killed. Or it might be in a painting. But it seems like the TV thing was more what his memory was. And she is either being burned or hung – or maybe both – in what she is seeing. And what she is seeing is making her run from the people chasing her. He said it was color and seemed like it was made in the '70s.

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This was one of those movies that we were shown in elementary school to scare the shit out of us to straighten up and fly right. It was made in the ‘70s. These kids are annoyed that their parents are constantly telling them what to do, what to wear, making them go to school, etc., the standard stuff that kids bitch about. And then one day, when they are rooting around the attic of their house, they find some kind of magic dollhouse, which contains a slip of paper that says that if you make a wish to this house, the wish will come true. Naturally, the kids wish that their parents let them do whatever they want to do.

The next morning the kids wake up and go downstairs and see that their parents are still in bed. They ask if they have to go to school. The groggy parents say, "Whatever you want to do, honey." So they stay home and have a good time. Meanwhile, the father doesn't go to work and the mother just sits around doing nothing and days go by, the kids don't go to school, the dad doesn't go to work. At one point, the kid's friend's come by and ask them why they're not going to school, they say that they just don't want to. The daughter asks the mother if maybe they should go back to school and she says "whatever you want to do, honey." Things start to become desperate. The parents just walk around in robes, no one is going grocery shopping, the heat and electricity in the house is turned off, the daughter is shown scraping the last remnants of peanut butter out of a jar because she is so hungry.

In the last scene, the father builds a fire in a fireplace so they can warm up and the kids put the magic house in the fire and then there is a freeze-frame. This movie totally fucked me up. I had nightmares about it and so did my friends. What the hell was this movie and why was this shown to kids?

Hi, I have a trauma I have been thinking about for a couple years and I decided to finally submit my memory to you in hopes someone can figure it out.

It seemed to be set in a desert area of the U.S. A teenage girl (maybe a little older) dressed in potato sacks, took care of her old father out in the middle of nowhere. But her dad dies and she is alone.

One day a city guy's car breaks down near her desert shack, and somehow she takes him hostage, like a pet or something. That's all I can remember except that at one point I can remember he gets cold, so she crawls in next to him to warm him. This isn't some kind of a hostage love story. The guy is really terrorized and tries to escape. I can't remember the outcome at all. I don't think it was good because my feeling about my memory of this movie is that it upset me.

To the best of my recollection, it was a movie from the '70s. I would guess early seventies, but I'm not sure.

The girl was a sort of a homely thin blond. The man she took hostage was slim and dark haired.

Can anybody remember this movie?

Thanks so much,

Naja

PS, I have been really enjoying your website since I found it a couple years ago.