Another vague film id request. Minnie?

[5t3IIa]

It won't be Shelly Winters, it'll be Shirley McClain, betcha,

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

or Shirley Temple

 

[ViolentPanda]

When I said fairly well known, I may have been wrong, and may have meant fairly well known by the standards of obscure horror films. To recap the scenario:

A group of friends meet and decide to go to a place (large house of some kind) for a hedonistic weekend (I think). A sort of anarcho-terrorist group is mentioned, which brutally murders people.

They go to the place and are killed one by one, I am fairly sure various drugs are involved. One of their number turns out to be a member of said group.

It's one of those things which can't really be confused with another film.

Are the group of friends posh "met at uni" types with a line in eugenics on the lower orders, who get the tables turned on them by a member of the anarcho gang whom one of them (IIRC) has picked up hitch-hiking?

If so, it's "The Last Supper", with my man Bill Paxton as one of the extremists.

 

[kittyP]

Horror, probably 70s, colour. Churches are involved, and death. There's an evil possession spirit thing going on characterised by a distinctive hand gesture performed by the possessed character. Touch tip of thumb to tip of little finger, then to ring finger, middle index, repeat creepily. That's about all I can remember

Oh that really rings a bell, haven't read the whole thread, did you find it?

 

[kittyP]

Oh oh Cid, now don't laugh, I think it might have been an episode of Jonathon Creek.
The nuns ran the girls school and they would lock them in a room, the was some sort of hallucinogen released from somewhere and the hallucinated someone coming out of the picture in the room.
The girls formed a wicca club of some sort.
It looked like the 70s as they were researching an old case and speaking to one of the girls from then when she was older.
They did the hand/finger thing!

I am sure that is it!

 

[Cid]

It may well be kitty, it may well be. If so I'm slightly disappointed as I was hoping for some classic horror. I think I was battered on shrooms at the time, so probably wouldn't have picked up on things like sub-par acting and time.

 

[Cid]

Are the group of friends posh "met at uni" types with a line in eugenics on the lower orders, who get the tables turned on them by a member of the anarcho gang whom one of them (IIRC) has picked up hitch-hiking?

If so, it's "The Last Supper", with my man Bill Paxton as one of the extremists.

Nah, good try though... It was probably an episode of Midsomer Murders or something.

 

[Cid]

kittyP I can't find it on the wiki plot summaries and I don't want to watch my way through them as I'm trying to stop drinking.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

I love this thread

mind you I'm on day three of an essay so I'm easy to amuse

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It may well be kitty, it may well be. If so I'm slightly disappointed as I was hoping for some classic horror. I think I was battered on shrooms at the time, so probably wouldn't have picked up on things like sub-par acting and time.

The episode Kitty may be talking about could be The Clue of the Savant's Thumb

Does this look familiar?

 

[Cid]

Minnie I do appreciate you trying to help, but if it was something that was first broadcast 3 months ago I wouldn't have been looking for it for 10 years.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Minnie I do appreciate you trying to help, but if it was something that was first broadcast 3 months ago I wouldn't have been looking for it for 10 years.

Well I forgot about the 10-year bit. Blame Kitty!

 

[Cid]

Gah, there's not even an archive of TV listings for me to trawl (although that's probably a blessing).

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So there were nuns in the film then?

 

[kittyP]

I think I have got things confused
The finger to thumb thing definitely rings massive bells though.

 

[maya]

So- have we solved this mystery yet? ... I need closure, dammit !

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

So- have we solved this mystery yet? ... I need closure, dammit !

which one, Shirl's or Cid's two?

 

[maya]

which one, Shirl's or Cid's two?

All of them. I get really upset if there is no answer, my brain always demands it.
(*or else I'll just endlessly try to solve the mystery in my head, and it's so frustrating- plus I get OCD twitches if there is no resolution- we need a beginning, a middle and an end. All neat and orderly... Questions must get answered. Or my brain melts! )

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

There is no answer to any of them.

We may never ever know.

 

[maya]

There is no answer to any of them.

We may never ever know.

- ARRRGGGGHHHHH!!


(((( ... ))))

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

- ARRRGGGGHHHHH!!


(((( ... ))))

Shirl and Cid will probably remember the names of thefilms after we're dead and buried

 

[maya]

Shirl and Cid will probably remember the names of thefilms after we're dead and buried

No, they won't... They'll have mixed up the details of three completely different and unrelated films

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

No, they won't... They'll have mixed up the details of three completely different and unrelated films

A hedonistic tennis player possessed by the spirit of a witch

 

[maya]

A hedonistic tennis player possessed by the spirit of a witch

Doing twitchy possessed finger movements...

 

[maya]

... in a nunnery.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I'm excited. I think I may have found the answer to one of Cid's ones.

Be back shortly

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Scrub that. Don't think this is it

Five extremely disturbed, sociopathic children escape from their psychiatric transport and are taken in unwittingly by a group of adult villagers on winter vacation.

This quirky psychological thriller involves a quintet of weird kids who stumble into the luxurious winter retreat of a wealthy patriarch (Gene Evans) and his arrogant guests. Little do the effete vacationers realize that the children are escapees from an asylum for the criminally insane -- a fact they realize only after their doom has been sealed. The only known film from director Sean MacGregor (released theatrically as People Toys), this is a seldom-seen but thoroughly satisfying horror sleeper with a sardonic sense of morality, taking great delight in knocking off Evans' circle of decadent snobs in graphic and innovative ways (one guest is joined in the bath by piranhas; another is pummeled with chains in a creepy still-photo montage). Known also to some drive-in venues as The Horrible House on the Hill, no doubt as part of a double-bill with Wes Craven's Last House on the Left. ~ Cavett Binion, Rovi

A bus overturns in the snow with the only survivors being the five child passengers (Leif Garret, Tierre Turner, Dawn Lyn, Tia Thompson, and Gail Smale) en route to an asylum. They are unwittingly taken in by a collection of back-stabbing and inebriated wealthy vacationers in an isolated cabin. When the dead bodies start turning up, the remaining adults must face off with the pint-sized maniacs (who come up with some creative ways of killing off the adults like a bath full of piranhas). While it lacks the emotional resonance of Narcisco Ibanez Serrador's WHO CAN KILL A CHILD?, DEVIL TIMES FIVE is a disturbing film for featuring some assured child actors perpetrating R-rated violence against some recognizable TV and stage adult actors (including Shelley Morrison who viewers may recognize as the South American maid Rosario on "Will & Grace"). A release of Jerry Gross' Cinemation Industries (who distributed everything from Joe Sarno's artful erotic INGA to Lucio Fulci's DAWN OF THE DEAD inspired gore-fest ZOMBI), DEVIL TIMES FIVE does not shy away from grindhouse level brutality.

Sorry if anyone got excited

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Blimey, Leif Garrett stars in it. That's a blast from the past

 

[emanymton]