I'm searching for the full part 1 film if anyone can send me websites or anything other than the 18 minutes that exists would really help my search for it please and thank you (no one go on sketchy websites or anything
Obviously, not to be confused with the 1999 post-SCREAM slasher (starring a pre-fame Anna Farris), the announcement for LOVER’S LANE first appeared in Box Office Magazine in October 1980 as an upcoming production from Cannon Films. This was a busy time for the Golan-Globus trash powerhouse, which had grown confident in the burgeoning success of its exploitation and horror library and took out six full pages to advertise upcoming titles and boast of current successes. Featured titles included X-RAY (aka HOSPITAL MASSACRE), listed as starring Jill St. John (who was eventually replaced by Playboy Playmate Barbi Benton). Also NEW YEAR’S EVIL (advertised here as for U.S. national release on December 19, 1980—just in time for, yes, New Year’s). Another page boasted of the box office success of Cannon’s then newly released SCHIZOID, which was listed as grossing over $4 million in its first month of release (over $12 million in today’s money). The bottom half of that page announced a title called LOVER’S LANE, featuring a silhouetted image of a man holding a knife looming over a car with a necking couple inside. Given its company, it seems this was going to be another slasher schlockbuster title for Cannon.
But what about the time when LOVER’S LANE was in pre-production? A common misconception about the slasher boom of the late 1970s and early 1980s was that it was just that—a sustained boom. Christian Williams, writing in The Washington Post, exclaimed: “This Autumn of 1980 will be remembered in Hollywood as the season when horror movies, those unspeakable celluloid things, cracked out of their pods en masse to gorge anew on the wallets of American filmgoers.” It was a veritable slasher gold rush, fertile ground for fledgling slasher projects, but as with any boom, it’s tricky to know when it will bust.
As early as the release of TERROR TRAIN in October of that year, major studios—who measured the success of a picture against the combined box-office juggernauts of HALLOWEEN (1978) and FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980)—expressed disappointment with their returns. Even genre barometer Roger Corman canceled a horror film and said the market would be oversaturated by spring the following year. Williams exclaimed with a small amount of glee: “So it's a hello-goodbye to the biggest glut of nightmare movies in film history.”
However, it wasn’t time to write off the subgenre just yet. Filmways said that a third of the 150 scripts they received each month were still horror scripts. Avco-Embassy said the number of similar proposals was “uncountable.”
In November 1980, while The Washington Post declared the horror movie’s fortunes in decline, it admitted that LOVER’S LANE (among others) would soon join the likes of FRIDAY THE 13TH and PROM NIGHT (also 1980) in “throbbing like abscessed teeth in the gaping maws of the nation's multiplex theaters.” Curiously, perhaps hinting at production troubles, even as late as March 1981, LOVER’S LANE was still being announced (around the time it was originally due for release). The, ahem, ever-reliable World Weekly News stated: “Las Vegas heartthrob Wayne Newton wants to be a movie superstar. The entertainer has signed on to play a nutty murderer in ‘Lover’s Lane’” (although the same issue detailed how Faye Dunaway was supposedly being haunted by the vengeful ghost of Joan Crawford on the set of MOMMIE DEAREST. Perhaps she had seen the rushes!).
While the LOVER’S LANE ads in both Variety and Box Office Magazine tantalize with the possibility of a bona fide lost slasher, it is worth considering their nature and purpose. They were trade ads, not intended for the public, and mixed bragging, bravado, and investor shopping. Indeed, stars and directors often changed from those listed in these ads—and, in many cases, the films never made it in front of the camera at all for lack of backing, a shift in a genre’s popularity, or some other reason.
Or, if they did, as in the case of THE SPACE VAMPIRES (slated here for a Christmas 1981 release), it was eventually made by Cannon as LIFEFORCE by Tobe Hooper and released in 1985. The advertising feature lists at least one other potential horror film that wasn’t made, called HARVEST OF FEAR. However, for months Box Office Magazine repeatedly listed LOVER’S LANE as coming soon for a spring 1981 release. Then a double-page ad in Variety announced its world premiere at Cannes that May. Given Cannon was boasting of the financial success of SCHIZOID, why would LOVER’S LANE not end up being produced?
Despite murmurs that the teen slasher boom was almost over shortly after it started, independent producers still scrambled to make them in the hope that some of that blood-splattered gold would rub off. After all, they were relatively cheap to make, and profit was still likely even without major studio pickups. However, that led to another problem: a glut of independent productions and limited space in theaters. This meant many slashers sat on the shelf, some for years. But could LOVER’S LANE have been made but never released? Was LOVER’S LANE a real lost slasher?
The truth is that reels of Cannon’s LOVER’S LANE celluloid are not lying in some long-forgotten, dusty corner, waiting to be discovered. Sadly, the cameras never rolled. The film fell through after NBC ran a 1980 story linking Newton to organized crime, spooking investors. This came to light when Newton sued the network in 1986 for defamation. The article confirmed that Newton had hoped to portray a psychotic killer in the film.
Billy Fine—a Hollywood film distributor who released films such as I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE (1978) and PENITENTIARY II (1982) and served as executive producer on NEW YEAR’S EVIL—testified in the case that he couldn’t take the chance after the NBC broadcast, saying: “We had a very conservative group of investors, and image-wise we didn't want any problems or hassles; they wanted a clean deal.” Presumably, the idea of Wayne Newton donning a fedora and carving up teens met with their approval, while the whiff of alleged criminal activity frightened them off. Newton won the case and was awarded $19.2 million in damages (though that figure was later overturned on appeal).
In 1986, Fine said he now had his own money and would love to make the film with Newton. But by then, the slasher bandwagon had long since left town, and LOVER’S LANE was safe from knife-wielding maniacs for a few years, yet ...
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I’ve been looking for a movie called Red Lipstick and I haven’t been able to find anything about it online besides a description of the movie in the fact that it’s not on streaming services. I know it was released in 2000 and the director is Alexandra King and it has Jane Lynch, James Lorinz, Steven Polito.
From the descriptions, I’ve read it’s about two drag queen’s going on a Bonnie and Clyde like adventure but neither wanted to be Clyde.
From the pictures I’ve seen one of the main characters wears a green dress at one point but that’s the one ss I’ve seen of it outside of the trailer
(Also sorry if this is poorly written it’s manly thought voice to text)
Any information about where I could buy it or just confirmation that the full DVD exist would be greatly appreciated because I really wanna watching it lol
animated movies with flying boards. Guys help me find this movie i watched it in cinema with my dad 2008-2011 and i can’t find it.
Hello, I'm trying to find J.A.W. (2011) a short film directed by Nate Parker.
I came across this film looking at films starting Glen Powell on letterboxd, and was intrigued as I'm also a fan of Jesse Williams from Grey's Anatomy.
Though I'm more curious to know if there's anywhere to watch this now because it has such little online presence.
Any and all help would be appreciated.
The titles of these two are
"McKENZIE" (or maybe "Scott McKenzie"),
and
"DENNIS DUNBAR THE KING OF SUPER 8" (or "Dennis Dunbar the king of VHS" or "Dennis Dunbar the VHS king"...).
Both in English language.
I saw these two documentaries or mockumentaries around the mid 90's (I think).
For more details and context: I saw them on an Italian TV program called "FUORI ORARIO" (in case some Italians are reading this, maybe this detail helps them to remember something). Iirc, many things on that program were often released (at least here in Italy) through the company RARO VIDEO.
The "McKENZIE" one was about a guy (maybe Scottish, but I could be wrong), Scott McKenzie, who "invented cinema" before the Lumiere brothers, without any credit for his invention. What makes me think it was a mockumentary is that not only there's no trace of him anywhere, but the "documentary" was filled with hyperbolic "facts", like: he casually filmed a guy who successfully invented the first airplane, before the Wright brothers, and he also was uncredited and fallen into obscurity!!!
The "DENNIS DUNBAR" one was about an amateur no budget filmmaker, who used to make DIY movies, initially on super 8, and then, with the advent of the VHS, switched to that (then) new format. In the documentary (or mockumentary) there were even some clips of his alleged movies!!! One that I remember vividly was a sort of "alien" rip-off, with an actor wearing a white t-shirt, and a cheap puppet (a monster or a toddler doll, I'm not sure) covered in red syrup, bursting out from underneath the t-shirt! It was glorious!
Since the internet became a largely available thing, I tried to searching for info about these two documentaries (and if these two people were real or made up!) and never found ANYTHING!
I'm pretty sure the aforementioned titles are correct (or at least very close to the correct ones). I don't know why I can't find any trace of these two docs!
I'm quite sure I watched both more than once in the 90's. I mean, I'm screwed up, but I know they exist!!!
Is there anyone who can help me?
Thanks in advance.
I cant find anything about it online at all and it says starring neil cicierega, I don't know what it could be anybody have footage of it or know about it? The wiki doesn't talk about it either
i have been wanting to watch this movie but cannot find it anywhere. The film premiered at the 2004 AFI Fest and you can see some more info on it on their website here: https://fest.afi.com/2004/latin-cinema-series-2004/malachance a trailer for it was posted on youtube : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e7W3HCm6u2g&ra=m any information and feedback will be greatly appreciated.
Hello everyone,
I'm searching for the original German theatrical dubbing of Disney's Pinocchio (1940) from 1951.
The Library of Congress / Moving Image Research Center has confirmed that they have a German optical soundtrack in the Walt Disney Company Collection, on nitrate positive film dated 1949. Unfortunately, the surviving track in their collection is only about 54 minutes long, while the complete film is approximately 88 minutes.
I'm therefore trying to find out whether a complete 35mm print, VHS recording, audio recording, or another surviving source of the 1951 German dub exists somewhere.
There have also been reports from collectors about old VHS material containing parts of the old German dub, but I have not yet been able to locate a complete version.
Does anyone here own, know of, or have information about a complete 88-minute version of the 1951 German dub?
Even a lead to a private collector, archive, old VHS, 35mm print, or other surviving source would be extremely helpful.
I also have correspondence from the Library of Congress confirming the 1949 nitrate German optical track and can provide screenshots if anyone would like to see the documentation.
Thank you very much for any help! 🙏
I’m trying to track down a copy of Uncommon Valor (1983), also known as Fire at County General — the obscure American TV movie/pilot starring Mitchell Ryan and Ben Murphy.
I remember watching it on VHS in the UK when I was younger, and I’m almost certain this is the film.
It originally aired on CBS on 22 January 1983 and apparently became an unsold TV pilot, which seems to explain why it’s almost impossible to find now.
Has anyone actually seen this film or, even better, does anyone know of anyways to watch it again?
8mm home movie; cruise ship to an unknown location. Found Footage purchased online.
This film confiscated and kind of disappeared. You can find it on IMDB but can't find the film anywhere. Slasher Face done in 1969. I saw it on a tiktok.
Im looking for a short film from sweden named ""Bilder av Dina"". If anyone knows where to find this information. https://www.iltapulu.fi/svt-bilder-av-dina/20140729014511 & https://www.svenskfilmdatabas.se/en/item/?type=film&itemid=72162
My mom is in this movie and I've been looking for my life for this. I cannot find any sort of archive of this. The last time this short film was shown was 2014 on SVT1. I cannot find an archive of this even on the smdb. There is only 3 verified people that I have seen that watched it. All of which have been inactive for years.
This has bothered me for years because I can’t find anything about it online, but my mom remembers the tape too.
It was an old kids VHS that belonged to my mom when she was growing up in the 80s. She kept it and played it for me when I was really little, probably around 3–5. Once we got a DVD player I basically never watched it again.
I don’t remember the title at all.
It was live action and followed a small group of about 4 kids spending the day with an adult they called Mr. Jim. I don’t remember any of the individual kids or most of the plot. The part I remember best was them at a playground.
Whenever they were going somewhere they would sing this repetitive song about staying close to Mr. Jim because he would keep them safe. I don’t remember the actual lyrics, and I’m not going to attempt to hum the melody lol.
The thing I remember much more clearly is that every once in a while the video would suddenly switch to hand puppets.
It wasn’t like there was one puppet character in the show. Mr. Jim would be a puppet, the kids would be puppets, and they would act out a whole scene that way. Then it would cut back to the real people afterward.
I never questioned this when I was little. I just accepted that sometimes they were puppets.
I remember the ending as the kids singing some kind of “see you next time” song and then leaving with their parents. This (along with the general vibe of it) leads me to believe now that it was probably one episode of a show/mini-series. But it’s my understanding that there were also lots of one-off VHS tapes from that era.
I finally asked my mom about it recently and she immediately knew what I was talking about. But she remembers a lot more about the tape than I do.
She remembers there being around 7 or 8 kids, and apparently they spent the tape going around to different ordinary places with Mr. Jim. She remembers the playground too, plus some kind of store and somewhere they stopped to eat, and a part that’s completely missing from my memory, where they spent a significant portion towards the end praying at a church. Although she couldn’t remember much more than that.
The interesting part is that she says the puppet scenes weren’t random at all. According to her, the puppet scenes were specifically about what could happen if one of the kids wandered away, went somewhere without Mr. Jim, or otherwise got separated from the group. Apparently that was basically the point of them. They would switch over to puppets, act out one of those situations, and then eventually go back to the real kids. I have no memory of that being the pattern, but I trust her recalling much more than mine.
She also remembers the song much better than I do and says the whole “stay close to Mr. Jim / Mr. Jim will keep us safe” thing was repeated a LOT, especially when they were moving from one place to another.
I asked her if she still had the VHS, but apparently she sold basically all of our old tapes at a garage sale years ago. She doesn’t remember the title either. She thinks her parents may have gotten it through her church growing up, but admits that detail could be completely wrong.
I’ve searched every combination of Mr. Jim, old kids safety VHS, hand puppets, playground, etc. I can think of and haven’t found anything that looks familiar.
Does else anyone remember this? I really hope it wasn’t too niche to be archived.
Pre-dating THE INITIATION (1983), CHOPPING MALL (1986) and PHANTOM OF THE MALL: ERIC’S REVENGE (1989) was THE MALL. Announced with some ballyhoo at Cannes in 1981, this Hemdale-produced slasher was promoted as being very much cut from the same cloth as FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980). Its promotional artwork showed a knife poking out of a jagged hole in a shopping bag (the tagline being “shopping at the mall is murder”).
Scant plot details reported by Starburst Magazine suggested that the story concerned a group of teenagers partying at a mall after everyone else has gone home at night. They are subsequently picked off one by one by a deranged killer who has made the mall his home and has recently escaped from an asylum after killing his parents when he was a child. At the time, director George Cosmatos enthusiastically described why he thought this concept would hit a nerve with global audiences: “The mall background is so similar worldwide that I expect moviegoers from Bangkok to Kyoto to Helsinki to Naples to be equally familiar with such complexes and thus to experience the same kind of shocks and terror from the action drama they will be watching. The setting will be like another actor in the picture.”
Cosmatos, who went on to direct RAMBO: FIRST BLOOD PART II in 1985, boasted such set pieces as a murder in the lingerie department and another where a teen is decapitated in a bowling alley. He also promised innovative camera tricks to “… get in on my characters' atmosphere, and thus create further frightening visual experience.”
Hemdale - who would hit pay-dirt a few years later with THE TERMINATOR (1984) - had distributed the New Zealand-lensed semi-slasher STRANGE BEHAVIOUR (aka DEAD KIDS) that year. However, neither this nor their other quasi-slasher project THE GRADUATION PARTY (Paul Lynch’s mooted follow-up to the previous year’s PROM NIGHT (1980), which had Maniac’s Joe Spinell hunting marooned teenagers on a deserted island) came to light - presumably after failing to secure full funding at the festival. However, Starburst Magazine did state that THE MALL was “currently before cameras” (although, seemingly contradictorily, it also stated that the role of the killer had not yet been cast). If any footage was shot (principal photography was due to commence on June 15th - a month after Cannes), it’s sadly never seen the light of day.
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Hello, I’m looking for an animated movie or series that I used to watch on DVD when I was little. I don’t remember the plot, but I recall it taking place on a boat that looked like a tugboat. There were sailors wearing red-and-white striped sweaters and hats; one of them was a lookout. Finally, the last thing I remember is that at one point they fought a giant crab. I think the crab was black, but I’m not sure. That’s all I remember; I know I never saw it anywhere other than on DVD. Its all I got
The tape itself only has a label on the non flap side that has the name, and the flap itself being tan makes me worried it’s some recorded tape. Given the rarity of this film and its physical releases, information out in the wild is incredibly scarce. I got it for a great price, but I want a real copy of this film in my collection as I think it’s truly an excellent one.
I don’t really like to post on Reddit, but I was unsure of where else to go with my question. I’ve been looking for HeartBeat in the Brain for a while now, the 1970 short film 27 year old Amanda Fielding preforms a trepanation on herself. I’ve seen the two and a half minute edited version of the film, but for the life of me I can’t find the full 12 minute film anywhere. I understand it hasn’t gotten an official release, but I was kinda hoping that once Fielding passed away we’d hear news of a release of some kind. It’s been over a year since Fielding died and I’ve yet to hear any sort of announcement that HeartBeat in the Brain will be released publicly. I heard the film was on Vimeo for a while, but it must have been taken down because it’s no longer there. If anyone knows any sort of way I would be able to watch it I would really appreciate you sharing with me. Thank you.