Week 1 - (from May 4, 2005)  Matt writes: This has been bothering me for a long time. I remember it was around 1984 I was over at a friends house who had just got a satellite dish. We were flipping around all these great (still unscrambled at the time) movie channels and we came across the end of this movie. My recollections are vague at best here so please bear with me. Three people all tied up or bound somehow standing in a room.. I believe they might have been gagged too. I think it was two guys and one girl... but not positive about this. Each one shoots some sort of light or rays or something from their eyes at some other people in the room that are not tied up. I think I remember a fat guy with glasses and mustache ...who is like the guy who is studying these three people. 

This fat guy is one of the guys who gets hit by these rays coming from these peoples eyes I believe, Now if you thought it was sketchy before... this is where it gets real sketchy...I think they shoot these rays from their eyes and they bounce back from the fat guy with the mustache and then something horrible happens to each one of the tied up people one at a time. Like the first person melts like the Nazi with glasses in Raiders of the Lost Ark. The second one head explodes. The third one entire body explodes everywhere. But I seem to remember the fat guy with glasses melting away too...I seem to remember his mouth opening and closing while he is melting away. So that makes me think that maybe the three people standing and tied up just shoot the rays from their eyes at these people that are watching/studying them and kill them with these powers they have...perhaps they just do all of these horrible things to the fat guy with the mustache and glasses. The only thing I am certain about is that its 3 people tied up, they shoot some sort of rays from their eyes, and that someone melts like in raiders of the lost ark,a head blows up and body blows up. It was at that point we were forced to turn the channel. I would love to know what this movie is because I would love to see it again.

We have a winner! We received 4 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing. 

Eve Matelan writes: " 'Scanners.' You think this is wacky, check out videodrome. Long live the new flesh!" 

Also answering correctly were: Gordon Vincent, Michael Gurwitz and Jonathan Kaulay. Honorable mention to Reed Teckenbrock for most original answer: "That isn't from a movie, that was live coverage of the 2004 Vice Presidential debates! The fat guy was Cheney."

Week 2 - (from May 30, 2005) Len Kopel writes: "I saw a movie on cable in the 80's that was scary/arty. One of the characters had an overwhelming fear of "vagina dentata". His fear was realized before the end of the flick. What movie was this?"

We Have a Winner!    Gordon Vincent writes: " 'The Final Programme', aka 'The Last Days of Man on Earth.' Featuring Michael Sarrazin, from "Frankenstein the True Story" ("beautiful, Victor!"), who asks the dentatafied one, "I've been wondering. What do you do with the bones?"

Week 3 - (From June 19, 2005) Alex Thomson writes: I remember seeing this on USA Up all night back when I was prolly around 10 years old. I have been trying to find it ever since. It was about a man who was woken up in the beginning by a clock that declared it was time for him to start the Armageddon. so of course he starts at a high school. He goes to high school and starts recruiting an army. One guy is the computer teacher who is overtaken by a killer computer and becomes a killer monitor-head guy. Another is a sex crazed student who gets an evil condom pulled over his head and becomes a zombie, another is a guy who puts his chuck taylors in a microwave for too long to dry. He puts them back on and gets sucked into the shoes and then explodes out and onto the ceiling and what's left is a little troll in red converses. another guy is the statue out front of the school. They form a basketball team and the good guys have to beat them in order to save the planet. I also remember the sex ed room was a sleazy bedroom with rotating bed and a double sided mirror where the students would "learn." I believe the girl in it was a French foreign exchange student. the villain guy wore a real cheesy eighties duster that was glittery...as you can tell I remember everything but the title. please help me find the name of this so I can finally move on with my life. Joe Bob rules! Bring back monster vision!!

We Have a Winner!   We received 16 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing.

Jonathan Crimmins of Waltham, MA writes: " 'Monster High.' Alex isn't the only one who remembers seeing this 1989 horror/comedy on USA; several of the reviews on the Internet Movie Database make reference to the fact that it got played on "Up All Night". The IMDB also says that the lead actress had three body doubles for nude scenes, but they all had different shaped breasts!"

Also answering correctly were Jason Burchfield, James Dover, Roy Muniz, Kevin DiLoreto, Micah Bowen, Jeff Weston, David Cohen, Michael P. McCormick, Barton Kimball, Dave Smith, Cory Enns, Scott Graves, The Reverend Shayne Dark, Allan Mott and Tom Doty.

Week 4 - (From August 7, 2005)  Chris Aurilio writes: I saw what must have been a Chinese movie on the Independent Film Channel a few years ago and have been trying ever since to track down the title. It was shot in very rich color and tells the story of an abusive man's wife fooling around with one of his workers. When the affair is discovered the young man cripples the woman's husband, keeping him alive indefinitely but confined to what looks like a small basket. The couple goes on to have a child. It was a very striking film that, I'm guessing was not incredibly recent. The only other detail I can provide is that it was shown on IFC a few years ago. This is probably too vague a description to come up with anything, but thanks-in-advance either way.

Melissa McCauley writes: " I can't believe I know one of these! This movie is the haunting 'Ju Dou,' by acclaimed Chinese director Yimou Zhang (he's directing the ceremonies for the next Olympics in China), starring the incomparably beautiful actress Gong Li (who, if gossip can be believed, was Yimou Zhang's mistress at the time."

Also answering correctly were Richard Brandt, Jonathan Crimmins, Allan Mott, Jeff Mensinger, and C. Steven Hager

Week 5 - (From August 21, 2005) Bill Donohue writes:  All I can remember about this old black and white horror film is this one scene where an undertaker is riding on a horse-drawn hearse and singing a parody of "Sing A Song Of Sixpence."   One of the lines in the  song he's singing is "Four and twenty corpses, food for the worms."   This film might be an old Roger Corman film, but I can't be sure.   Does anyone know the title of this movie???

We have a winner!  We received 17 correct answers so the winner was chosen by a drawing.

Bert Tilley writes: "Yeah, it's a Corman classic, "THE UNDEAD". The plot dealt wth pass lives regression under hypnoisis. This lady comes in as a test subject and is regressed to when she was a witch in medevel England. Look for Billy Barty in this clunker. Also, Mystery Science Theater 3000 used this movie for one of their shows."

Also answering correctly were Justin Case, Thomas Y. Swafford, Gregg Bartley, Steve Schafer, The Reverend Shayne Dark, Mike Overton, Jeffrey Leggiero, Bill Donohue, Craig J. Clark, Eric Houston, Bert Tilley, Chad D. Jones, Roger Barron, Todd Frye, Patrick Burns, and Tom Doty.

Week 6 - (From October 17, 2005)

Jean Clayton writes:  Joe Bob, When I was a kid, my parents would drop us off at the local movie house and not pick us up till it closed. It was their version of Saturday day care. We would have to watch the movies over and over again until they picked us up. The one that preys on my mind was a stop motion picture that had a monster living in the "princess's" doll house. He was a lizard looking guy and would peek at her when she was sleeping. The only other thing I remember from this movie it the big flying bat thing that dripped drool on the pirate crew in the pirate boat. What movie is this please?

We have a winner! We received 3 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing.

Also answering correctly were Adrian Boyd and Steve Gaddis.

Week 7 - (From November 7, 2005)

What I remember is the movie involved an older man and a younger woman. He brought her into his home and gave her opium. He showed her a table with a hole in it, and told her it was for eating the brains out of living monkeys. He then proceeds to chop off the brown thing sticking out of the table but it turns out to be some fruit or a coconut, no monkey. He then shows her this strange contraption. He tells her about it while she walks up to it. It is some sort of old or ancient bondage device with self locking restraints. The girl stands up right places her wrists into the cuffs and they snap shut self locking. Of course she walks up and puts her wrists and ankles in and finds herself locked up. He then strips her clothes off her and whips her.

This is all I can remember about the movie, I must have seen it when I was in my early teens which would have been the 80's but the movie could have been from an earlier time frame. It was a color movie, though I couldn't be certain if it was English or a foreign movie with subtitles.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

We received 2 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing.

Lee Arnold of Charleston, WV writes: " For some reason that description is conjuring up images from
'Bloodsucking Freaks.' There was lots of she torture going on in that one.

Also answering correctly was Barton Kimball.

Week 8 - (From December 1, 2005)

Here's a three-parter this week, let's see who comes closest--good luck!

Mike Sheehan writes:

Hi Joe Bob,

I sent this to you way back in December 2003, and it didn't make the cut then. Trying again.

This has been in the back of my mind for about 30 years. When I was a little kid in the early 70's, my parents went to a lot of drive-in movies, especially scary ones. I have vivid memories of particular scenes from these. I don't know if these are all from the save movie, or from different ones. First one: a guy gets crushed by the scoop of a bulldozer; you briefly see a rivulet of blood beneath the scoop. Second: some older guy is in a darkened, spooky house and gets hit in the back of the head by some tiny figurine on a shelf that had come to life (note: I know it's not "Trilogy of Terror"). Third: another older man--for some reason I'm thinking it was Dick Van Dyke--is in a black jacket and armed with a gun, desperately searching for something in a kitchen; he's on the run from someone. I'm guessing the year I saw these scenes was around 1973.

My parents can't remember the name(s) of the movie(s) these scenes were from. I did some fruitless searching around in Usenet and IMDb.com too. Can you and your readers help?

Well, nobody guessed all three, but it doesn't matter because EVERYBODY WINS! Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays from the Joe Bob Report to:

Craig Edwards, Casey Bocock, Ryan Clark, Tom Doty, Michael Gurwitz, Glen Davis, Craig Blamer, Timothy John Bowen, Saul Fischer, Justin Case, and Bill Donohue.

From Week 9- (From December 18, 2005)

Blackravgirl writes:

My first time on your web site, so I hope this works. About 7 years ago I saw this foreign movie on a cable channel. it had something to do with "white snow witch"., or something similar. What I remember from the movie which was chinese or japanese, was that this father went out hunting, I think for firewood, and while out met this witch. I remember she had something to do with the weather (and it was snowing throughout the movie). She gave him some kind of warning or threat that had something to do witih his family or his luck. All details are vague now, but I remember loving this movie. Anyone can find this one-you're awesome....

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Arinn Dembo of Knoxville, TN writes: "The movie is almost certainly 'Kwaidan,' directed by Masaki Kobayashi in 1964. This was an anthology film of horror shorts based on the original short stories first recorded by Lafcadio Hearn. "The Woman  in the Snow" is based on a classic Japanese vampire legend, of a creature called the 'Yuki Ona'. "

We recieved 32 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing. Also answering correctly were:

James Dover, Kenneth Reid, Andy Austin, Richard Brandt, Thomas "Ratman" Swafford, Michael D Morgan, Christopher Turner, Gordon Vincent, Daniel Collinelli, Steve Gaddis, Craig J. Clark, Jeff Mensinger, David Cohen, Michael D Morgan, Donald Lee, Rick DeSantis Charles Edgar Quinn, Anton Sherwood, Bob Schaffer, Josh Lagle, Blayne Turner, Scott Standridge, Jack Lockhart, Andrew Kuchling, Oliver Lyons, Victor Cyr Pelletier, Jr., Warren Auyong, Sean Ross, Roy Muniz, Brenda Buell and Bailey Jones.

ANDY AUSTIN writes: Hey I hope one of Joe Bob's friends can help me get a title from one of my scariest childhood memories.  I watched a movie about Bigfoot stories and all the stories were all reenactments.  It was on about mid 70s to late 70s.  The story I remember was about a couple who lived in a house that was in the woods off the road a little bit.  The husband had gone to bed and the wife was watching TV on a couch in front of a big picture window.  You see the bigfoot coming out of the woods.  It was night so all you see is its shadow.  You see a form come up to the window behind the woman.  Then a hairy arm breaks the window and grabs at the woman.  She screams and and runs toward her bedroom where her husband is.  He is already coming in the living room with a gun after hearing her scream.  Then he throws open the front door and the Bigfoot is standing in the doorway.  That's all I remember.  It scared me so bad that even though I lived in the city, I never sat in front of any picture window and when I did spend anytime in the woods I was always looking over my shoulder.   So I hope someone knows the title because I want to add it to my 700 + horror and sci-fi movie collection.   Thanks.

WE HAVE A WINNER!

James Christopher Conner of Carrollton, TX writes: "'The Legend Of Boggy Creek'...It's still pretty creepy until you use the freeze frame/slow mo on your DVD player and realize that
'Bigfoot' is played by a guy in a cheap ape costume. Still one of my favorites, though."

We received 21 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing.

Also answering correctly were Craig J. Clark, James Dover, Bailey Jones, Eric Houston, Joe Markle, Ben Staton,Gordon Vincent, Steve Gaddis, Marion Gary Lindberg, Blayne Turner, Victor Pelletier, Jr., Danny Runion, Mike Frink, Michael Gurwitz, Mary Celeste Stepro, Steve Steffek, Marcel Leroux, Sarah Hooper, Ben Staton and Dwight Wood.

Rebecca Smith writes:

Joe Bob,

I saw this movie at the drive-in when I was a kid. I believe it was playing with "The Brood". Anyway, the movie is about a family with a bunch of kids and they are in a park. Somehow they end up helping a young pregnant woman and after she has the baby, she vanishes. The family keeps the baby but, at every stage of the baby's life she ends up killing one of the other kids. I remember a scene in a crib and the one baby kills the other. In another scene the little girl rips out a clump of another kids hair and maybe in this scene or another there is a fall/push off a stack of hay bales. What I remember as the end of the movie is the father is again in the city at a park and across the way he sees the lady that gave birth to the little killing girl and he is running towards the people she is talking to and trying to warn them.
Can anyone help?

WE HAVE A WINNER!

We received 5 correct answers, so the winner was chosen by drawing.

Craig Blamer of Chico, CA writes: "That would be THE GODSEND, a 1980 British film with Angela “Donald’s daughter” Pleasence as the pregnant mother. A pretty tame entry in the whole evil child genre of that era, with most of the murders happening offscreen."

Also answering correctly were Rick Matthews, PJ Shapiro, Dan Gerth and Michael Dillon Morgan.

From November 2, 2006

Miranda Pennachi writes:

I remember seeing this film on TV when I was a kid, so late ‘70s or early ‘80s. It begins with children in the backseat of a car. One child falls asleep and the other child/children decide to play a trick on him by tying his shoestrings together. There is a terrible accident and the parents and other child/children escape. However, the child with the tied shoelaces burns/explodes in the vehicle.

Fast forward to some time later?one of the surviving children beginns receiving visits from the deceased sibling. The ghost child is guiding the other to kill off family members one by one. There is one vivid scene atop the house where someone gets pushed off and another really creepy scene where the killer child cuts the phone line with a pizza cutter.

I’m sure the movie ends with the child being hauled off to an institution or something like that, but I just can’t remember the exact ending. If anyone could help me out, I would be eternally grateful to have that mental itch of 20 odd years scratched at last.

WE HAVE A WINNER!

Uri Lessing of Prairie Village, KS writes: "Don't Go to Sleep. This was a TV movie from 1982 with drive-in legend Dennis Weaver and Valerie Harper."

We received 16 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing.

Also answering correctly were:

Annie Bulloch, Kevin Matthews, Scott Graves, Jason Burchfield, Sean Ross, Craig Blamer, Dan Gerth, P.J. Shapiro, Charles Edgar Quinn, Danny Runion, Dana L. Estes, Chuck Michaels, Anne Bleyman, James Dover, and Jeff Mensinger.

Micki Wright writes:

This movie was made mid to late 80's. I remember that people ate this marshmallow stuff or ice cream (I believe it is marshmallow stuff) and it turned them into zombies or killed them, I vividly remember a young girl and this "stuff" oozing out of her mouth. Not a lot to go on I know, but it is driving me crazy!! Help!

We have a winner!

Dan Lagomarsino of Middleton, MA writes: " 'THE STUFF.' 1985 anti-Fluffernutter propoganda film."

We recieved 91 correct answers so the winner was chosen by drawing. Also answering correctly were:

Kevin Matthews, John W. Coburn, Thomas "Ratman" Swafford, Bud Simmerman, Bryan Renfro,
Jason Bacon, Justin Case, Patrick Michael Farmer , Holly R. Olsen, Ronald Janes, Roy Muniz, Steve Pearce, Mark Turner, Diana Small, Evans Robicheaux, Allan Mott, Mark Sinnamon, Michelle Smith, Jennifer Rathbun, Terry Collins, Michael Todd, Glenn Ferrara, Beaux Hemmer, Kevin M. Hagerman, Eric Bock, Scott Jacobs, Jason Burchfield, Derrick Bray, Daniel Collinelli, Sean McElroy, Michele Driscoll, James Dilbeck, Shawn Bradley, Doug Nadeau, Rich Eldert, Steven Doyle, Rob Freese, Chris Echeverry, William Whitehouse, Sean Cloran, Edward Smith, Robert Meeker, Brandon Lee Dorton, Nathan Wade, Davis Christine Smith, JJ Weber, Brian Kaiser, Dan Gerth, Scott Graves. Reed Buccholz, Rick Matthews, Scott Standridge, Rebecca Brock, Raymond Arotin, Aaron Mason, Roger Barron, William Beaulieu, Amber Smoot, Linda Colby, Jack Lockhart, Kevin Matsumoto, Keith Hueston, James Dover, Mitchell Lovell, Robert Conlin, Matt Pennachi, Joe Markle, Christen Garver , Dana L. Estes, Richard Brandt, Charlie Quinn, Timothy John Bowen, Jeffery Reynolds, Glen Davis, Catharine McDonald, Jon Chernes, Johnald Buttrick, Michael Gurwitz, Michael D Morgan, Bill Donohue, Michael Durbin, Holly R. Olsen, Marion Gary Lindberg, Nathan Johnson, Matthew Allen Miller , Tom Cartwright, Sean Whitley , Brent Lonkey, Danny Runion and Jeff Mensinger.

 

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