Memory Mysteries!
Let’s try a different sort of survey tonight.
Google’s gotten so good that we take the accessibility of information for granted. There’s almost nothing we can’t learn more about in two seconds flat.
Sometimes, though, we’d love to read more about something, but we can’t remember quite enough about that something to Google it effectively.
So let’s use tonight’s thread to help each other in the areas where Google has failed us.
Do you half-remember some movie, TV show, old candy, old toy or whatever? Having trouble finding an exact match on the web?
Describe it as well as you can in the comments, and maybe another Dino Drac After Dark reader can fill in the blanks!
I’ll start with two of mine:
1) “Tron meets Dungeons & Dragons?”
Years ago, an X-E reader mailed me a movie he thought I’d like to review… and I almost did, but the movie turned out to be so awesome and so full of stuff that I simply found it too daunting to summarize.
For the life of me, I can’t remember the name of this film. From what I remember, it was about a nerdy guy being sucked into his computer and having to fight in various fantasy adventure lands. It was like four movies in one, loaded with monsters and weird effects and all sorts of crazy shit. Any clue? I really wanna see it again!
UPDATE: JsynX has correctly named The Dungeonmaster from 1984 as the missing movie. Yes!
2) Scary Eye Movie?
As a kid, I remember watching this ancient black-and-white short about a dude who “inherits” a disembodied eyeball and cannot get rid of it no matter what he does. Like he’ll try to burn it or bury it, and the eye will just be back in his house the next morning.
At the end of the short, after taking severe measures to rid himself of the eyeball, not only does it return the next day, but it brings along a *second* eyeball. I know I didn’t dream this, but I’ve never been able to find it online. (If it helps, I believe it was a silent film.)
Any ideas?
Looking forward to hearing about your memory mysteries, too!
Robot Holocaust!
I spotted this tape in the wild several months ago, and was immediately smitten:
That’s some box.
I’ve been told that the actual movie isn’t very good, but there’s only one way to know for sure:
Here’s Robot Holocaust, from 1986.
I’ll borrow the summary from IMDB: A highly unlikely band of heroes traverses a post-apocalyptic wasteland to rescue a scientist from the tyrannical Dark One and his army of robots.
Enjoy… if you can.
Mickey’s Trailer!
Well, it doesn’t look like last night’s pick went over so well. I’m surprised. I thought a thirty-year-old movie from a nondescript genre that nobody has ever seen or heard of — run at midnight on a Monday — would’ve inspired a huge discussion!
Ya win some, ya lose some, but I still have this wild idea that at least a couple of you bookmark these things and save ‘em for rainy days.
Here’s something a bit less intense:
Released in 1938, Mickey’s Trailer is one of my all-time favorite Disney shorts. Featuring Mickey, Donald and Goofy, the real star of the short is the trailer itself — a literal house that transforms into a rolling, four star hotel.
I was obsessed with that trailer as a kid. Used to (badly) draw it all the time.
Tonight’s survey:
Name your favorite animated Disney short or movie.
Summer Camp Nightmare!
I just got this in on VHS and then noticed it sitting on YouTube, so what they hey, here’s Summer Camp Nightmare:
I expected it to be something like Sleepaway Camp, but from what I’m reading, it’s a thriller more along the lines of Lord of the Flies — albeit produced with far less finesse.
Summary: Kids rebel against shitty counselors and take over a campsite, but with their revolution comes all sorts of chaos. Seems like it gets pretty heavy.
(Released in 1987. It’s rated PG-13, so I guess it can’t be that trashy.)
