1980s Era Movie Help..
04-19-04, 06:50 PM
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1980s Era Movie Help..
Hey all..
There are a few cheesy movies back in the mid to late 1980s era that I need help identifying (maybe some spoilers):
1. A shopping mall recently upgrades its security force to a squad of robots and while they are sitting at the control center one night, lightning hits them and whaddya know, they turn killer. A group of teenagers is trapped within the mall overnight and the robots hunt them down and kill them.
2. Yet another robot flick, this time a boy creates a robot -- the name BeeBee comes to mind -- and shortcircuits or something and starts to kill. I recall the robot chucking a basketball and decapitating the "old, nasty lady" that lives across the street.
3. A horror flick about killer slugs? They could be alien, but I recall them looking like black slugs and they could launch themselves into a body opening like the mouth and proceed to lay its eggs in your brain or something. After that, the person turns into a zombie of sorts. I recall the one of the last scenes of a man with a duct-taped mouth exploding a bottle of alcohol or using a flamethrower on the nest in the basement of this one building.
Thanks for any insight!
There are a few cheesy movies back in the mid to late 1980s era that I need help identifying (maybe some spoilers):
1. A shopping mall recently upgrades its security force to a squad of robots and while they are sitting at the control center one night, lightning hits them and whaddya know, they turn killer. A group of teenagers is trapped within the mall overnight and the robots hunt them down and kill them.
2. Yet another robot flick, this time a boy creates a robot -- the name BeeBee comes to mind -- and shortcircuits or something and starts to kill. I recall the robot chucking a basketball and decapitating the "old, nasty lady" that lives across the street.
3. A horror flick about killer slugs? They could be alien, but I recall them looking like black slugs and they could launch themselves into a body opening like the mouth and proceed to lay its eggs in your brain or something. After that, the person turns into a zombie of sorts. I recall the one of the last scenes of a man with a duct-taped mouth exploding a bottle of alcohol or using a flamethrower on the nest in the basement of this one building.
Thanks for any insight!
04-19-04, 07:03 PM
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I'm going to leech off your thread rather than start another. I think this was an 80's horror flick, but it might have been early 90's. I remember seeing it on USA's Up All Night... or at least seeing most of it. I have very scattered and vague memories of it, but hopefully someone has a clue.
- Took place in a mansion. The monster had the bottom half of a goat.
- At one point or another he steps on and crushes someone's head.
- A male character performs magic in the cemetary outside (might have worn a wizard hat of some kind) to get rid of the monster. I believe some skeletons/zombies came out of the ground.
And that's about it... It was on TV and I was young, so not much to go on. Remember it scaring me, but at that age, it probably wasn't saying much.
- Took place in a mansion. The monster had the bottom half of a goat.
- At one point or another he steps on and crushes someone's head.
- A male character performs magic in the cemetary outside (might have worn a wizard hat of some kind) to get rid of the monster. I believe some skeletons/zombies came out of the ground.
And that's about it... It was on TV and I was young, so not much to go on. Remember it scaring me, but at that age, it probably wasn't saying much.
04-19-04, 07:07 PM
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Re: 1980s Era Movie Help..
Originally posted by devynal
1. A shopping mall recently upgrades its security force to a squad of robots and while they are sitting at the control center one night, lightning hits them and whaddya know, they turn killer. A group of teenagers is trapped within the mall overnight and the robots hunt them down and kill them.
1. A shopping mall recently upgrades its security force to a squad of robots and while they are sitting at the control center one night, lightning hits them and whaddya know, they turn killer. A group of teenagers is trapped within the mall overnight and the robots hunt them down and kill them.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090837/
04-19-04, 07:15 PM
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#3 might be Blue Monkey.
04-19-04, 07:35 PM
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...ahh... Chopping Mall... ahh the memories... and Deadly Friend, too... and Blue Monkey... ahhh...
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04-19-04, 08:14 PM
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I'm pretty sure number 3 is Night of the Creeps, which is a favorite of mine from the 80s. There were a lot of similar movies made back then, but Night of the Creeps has everything you remember. There's even a link to the trailer on the imdb page so you can check out the brain-leech goodness.
04-20-04, 02:25 AM
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You sure #3 isn't They Came From Within?
and still no DVD 
04-20-04, 11:29 AM
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Originally posted by devynal
#3 is definately Night of the Creeps -- the IMDB description is dead on.
#3 is definately Night of the Creeps -- the IMDB description is dead on.
04-20-04, 07:48 PM
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The general description for #3 also fits The Hidden and Henenlotter's Brain Damage.
