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Help me find more 80s soundtrack theme songs ABOUT their parent films.

Help me remember music videos from that magical era when bands would record theme songs for (often horror) movies that were actually lyrically about the movies themselves and the artist would sometimes appear in the video and the video would be a story video and...well you know. Think Ramones' "Pet Sematary" or Dokken's "Dream Warriors" [more inside]
posted by Senor Cardgage on Feb 19, 2014 - 58 answers


Can you name these two films?

I remember glimpses of these two films from my childhood (they're most probably 80s movies, but I'm not sure). #1: I remember some dark scenes set in a morgue, with bodies lying down under the sheets (I think) and they slowly come to life. I remember the bodies looking like cyborgs or robots. They then continue to hunt down the protagonist I think. #2: Some scenes of a huge cage in some sort of backyard, which sort of makes things bigger or older. There's a scene where the kid protagonist enters this cage and turns it on (there are these electrical waves all over the place I think), and as he gets older/bigger, his feet grow out of his tennis shoes. There's also a shot of a little pumpkin growing into huge one. If you can name one of them, it would be great.
posted by omar.a on Oct 27, 2013 - 6 answers

What is this movie??

I need help identifying a movie from the 80s! [more inside]
posted by paperclip2000 on May 12, 2012 - 2 answers

Help me identify the names of these three movies.


80s scifi with gladiatorial mangling machines?

Which film gave me twenty plus years of recurring nightmares about weird grindy cog machines coming to mangle me? [more inside]
posted by KateViolet on Mar 6, 2012 - 10 answers

Captain Robo Gold Armor 80s Man

HelpMeThinkOfThisMovie/TVShowFilter: back in the mid-80s I used to rent these VHS kids movies about a sci future where this special group of soldiers (or something) wore their own individual Robo-Cop-Like Suits. It was NOT animated. The main character wore gold armor suit and I think had a Cyclops-like visor. I want to say the word "Captain" was in the title... [more inside]
posted by Lacking Subtlety on Jun 14, 2010 - 9 answers

80s movie. Lingering memory.

I can't remember this movie from the 80s. I can remember a few fleeting details. Stupid getting old. [more inside]
posted by kbanas on Apr 9, 2010 - 4 answers

Help me find this dystopian movie!

NameThisMovieFilter: Dystopian society of people living in a domed city, who don't leave their homes and spend a great deal of their time in their dream machines. [more inside]
posted by sunshinesky on Sep 14, 2009 - 10 answers

New Wave (not French) Movies

Looking for New Wave movies. No, not the French New Wave. Movies from the 80s and beyond that were significantly influence by New Wave music, including using the music on their soundtrack and having characters that were New Wavers. Some punk crossover is fine.
posted by Astro Zombie on Jan 4, 2009 - 40 answers

Early 80s movie? Help?

[Movie Filter] Watching The Black Hole (gravity so strong it sucked the science right out of it!) last night, I was reminded of another movie from the late 70s/early 80s with a sci-fi bent--but hell if I can remember what it was. Help? [more inside]
posted by elfgirl on Dec 24, 2008 - 6 answers

What from the '80s was actually good?

posted by Metroid Baby on Apr 3, 2008 - 75 answers

70s aliens hate sous chefs

What's the name of this late 70s/early 80s low budget scifi movie? [more inside]
posted by Tacodog on Aug 3, 2007 - 6 answers

Shared delusion or actual movie, you decide

Help me and my husband prove we aren't crazy and/or having the same delusion. We swear we saw a trailer for a movie based on an 80s/90s cartoon and we can't figure out what it was. [more inside]
posted by JonahBlack on Jul 7, 2007 - 7 answers

Can someone help me identify an odd movie with black goo coming down the chimney?

When I was about ten when I saw this movie about a family trapped in a house. Their windows and doors were bricked in and they could not get out. Whenever they turned the television on a strange logo appeared. I think I remember the mother accusing the father of having done something to cause this situation. The thing that sticks in my mind was a scene towards the end of the movie where tons of black goo comes down the chimney and out of the fireplace. [more inside]
posted by Sonny Jim on Sep 14, 2006 - 14 answers

What is this movie about an ex-military man against a police force, surviving a fire by hiding in a metal box?

Can anyone identify a movie for me? I saw it on television (it could have been on a movie channel), probably in the early 80s. The portion I remember had to do with a guy holed up in a house (or other building). [MI] [more inside]
posted by bucko on Dec 9, 2004 - 10 answers

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