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Started by The Auto Surgeon (Mark) in Chit-Chat

I am trying to remember the name of horror/thriller movie I saw many years ago. Think it was made in the late 70s/early 80s.

Was set in somewhere like Maine, US (and it’s not a Stephen King one, at least I don’t think it is) and the old women kept putting poison in tea/coffee of people who had been going there (not really sure why, but I bet she thought she had a good enough reason). The daughter/grand-daughter found out in the end and poisoned her (and throws her in the basement), then the boyfriend (who was also the local police officer) turns and the daughter/grand-daughter proceeds to make a cup of the poisoned brew (with the camera panning away from the house, to the backdrop of the area in autumn colours and leading into the end credits).

Please help! :-(

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 11:59

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#1

Dennis wrote:

Jaws…?

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 12:06

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The Auto Surgeon (Mark) wrote:

Err… No!
Not really set near enough to water for that film.

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 12:08

#3

Dennis wrote:

AH ha I think I have it then…

…Dune…?

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 12:09

#4

The Auto Surgeon (Mark) wrote:

Ah, Dennis your wit knows no starting point!!!! :-D

And … no, as there is no Sting appearing in it!

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 12:17

#5

Cuchulain wrote:

Children of the Corn , maybe ?

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 12:41

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butters (mikey) wrote:

whatever it is…it sounds shit

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 12:45

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Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

The Auto Surgeon wrote:

I am trying to remember the name of horror/thriller movie I saw many years ago.

I used to have to answer random questions like this in my old job all the time. This one guy in the office was really good at getting them.

I had a go there, best I could find was Children of the Corn as well (set in Maine, made in 1984, and involves posioned coffee).

Can you remember any other details? Especially key words?

And it does sound sh*t alright

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 13:08 in reply to an earlier post

#8

wyrd wrote:

It doesn’t seem like Children of the Corn… but I have no clues…

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 13:20

#9

The Auto Surgeon (Mark) wrote:

No, it’s not Children of the Corn - and yes that is a sh*t film.

I guess it’ll haunt me forever.

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 14:26

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butters (mikey) wrote:

can you give us a bit more information on it…any specific actors or any sub plots

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 14:32

#11

The Auto Surgeon (Mark) wrote:

Unfortunately not, and that the real bind - if I knew a name then I could “web” their name through acting credits.
But that’s the problems with the 70’s american horror, a lot of them featured nobody’s who did nothing further.

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 14:37

#12

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

It’s reminding me of this one a bit

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066815/

But it’s not. Are you sure it was coffee and tea that was being poisioned? This is becoming an itch I can’t scratch!! :-(

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 14:48

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butters (mikey) wrote:

dude, ive been looking on wikipedia, imdb, and google for 2 hours now. i know exactly how much its annoying you

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 14:52

#14

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

^I loudly guffawed in the office at that!

Whatever it is, it must be incredibly obscure.

Are you sure you didn’t dream it?

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 15:02

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Dennis wrote:

I think it was called…”The Bus That Couldn’t Slow Down”…

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 15:18

#16

Cuchulain wrote:

Methinks TAS is taking the piss.

Is it not something you once dreamt ?

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 15:24

#17

butters (mikey) wrote:

i think if anything, its probably a feature length episode of tales from the crypt or something like that

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 15:26

#18

Dusty (Chris Davies) wrote:

@ Dennis , Great Simpsons knowledge :).

Posted on Thu, 8 May 2008 at 17:34

#19

The Auto Surgeon (Mark) wrote:

@ Cuchulain - I ain’t taking the ‘P’. :-(

I did admit I was fuzzy about some of the detail - but I think i might have found it. http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074806/
Whatever I’m going to order it & see. If so “Horray”, if not the search goes on.

Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 at 12:00

#20

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

That’s not even remotely what you described! :D

Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 at 13:16

#21

Dennis wrote:

That sounds well dodgy to me.

Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 at 13:17

#22

RoyBatty (Steve) wrote:

The Auto Surgeon wrote:

…that’s the problems with the 70’s american horror, a lot of them featured nobody’s who did nothing further.

No offense, but I think Jodie Foster furthered herself nicely in her subsequent work! :)

Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 at 15:39 in reply to an earlier post

#23

butters (mikey) wrote:

apart from sphere
that was shit

Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 at 16:26

#24

RoyBatty (Steve) wrote:

Do you mean Contact? I think Sharon Stone was in Sphere. Correct, though, both are quite shit.

Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 at 16:57

#25

butters (mikey) wrote:

yeah thats the one…when she ends up going through all those wormholes and and meets an alien who takes the form of her dead father and hes saying how theres loads of different civilisations out in the universe. then she ends up back in the base where the machine is kept and the rest of the dudes are all like ‘but you didint go aywhere, it didnt work’

lame
and sphere was equally as lame

Posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 at 18:09

#26

The Auto Surgeon (Mark) wrote:

well RoyBatty that’s your personal opinion, but if you like Nell & Panic Room, then you go right ahead & enjoy them!! :-D

Posted on Tue, 13 May 2008 at 11:28

#27

mrs h wrote:

I thought Sphere was an awful film too - but I really enjoyed the book.

Posted on Tue, 13 May 2008 at 12:09

#28

butters (mikey) wrote:

i have to admit, being an avid fincher fan…panic room was a big let down.
so much so that i still havent bothered to see zodiac yet

Posted on Tue, 13 May 2008 at 14:32

#29

RoyBatty (Steve) wrote:

The Auto Surgeon wrote:

well RoyBatty that’s your personal opinion, but if you like Nell & Panic Room, then you go right ahead & enjoy them!! :-D

Uggh. Forgot entirely about Nell. “Fuzza hezza muzza…fuzza (insert Method Acting 101 facial tic here)…” :-D

Huh. I rather enjoyed Panic Room. Oh well, to each his own. @ butters, I thought Zodiac was decent but not great. A bit of a departure from Fincher’s other stuff in that it’s not overtly stylish and more cerebral than visceral.

Posted on Tue, 13 May 2008 at 14:59 in reply to an earlier post

#30

Taunty Dan's Brain wrote:

If you feel like your brain has failed YOU then just take a moment to imagine how your brain feels about the way you turned out yourself.

Get a divorce with it and start a new life. Best thing I ever did.

Posted on Wed, 14 May 2008 at 07:47

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