Author: aunt john

Hi Kindertrauma!!

I'm writing you this email to ask your help. I've been looking for a movie for years now, and even if I can't erase some pictures from my head, its name is still unfoundable. I'll try to describe my memories for you. God knows.

I live in Belgium, and the movie – or feuilleton – had been broadcast when I was something like 7 or 8. (It means 20-25 years ago.) I may have seen it in a show like Disney Parade, on Sunday evening.

The story was really scary. It was about a little girl, whose mother was dead. Her uncle was very mad, maybe a wizard, and wanted something from her, but she didn't know exactly what. She always had a sort of teddy bear or blanket with her, she couldn't be separated from it.Once in her dreams, she saw her mother who told her what her uncle was looking for was hidden in the teddy bear. It was like a treasure.

Well, that's everything I remember.

Do you have an idea?

Thanks a lot for having read this.

My best regards,

— Marie-Pierre

Sorry if my English isn´t that impressing but I´m writing you from a far out country called Germany. The reason why I´m writing this is because of the NAME THAT TRAUMA part on your fabulous site…(…okay maybe it´s a little bit sadistic to dig out that hidden fear of boys and girls who thought they would be safe now…!)

I saw this movie…(or maybe t was a episode of some series) in the late Eighties…I think I was 5 years or so…and the story took place in an old abbey the setting of that movie had this adventure kind of style and the main actors where two kids (they could be on a quest or at least searching for something or someone, their parents maybe?)…the age in which it played seemed like the mid-ages cause they wore historical hipster stuff, potatoe-sack-style.

So the kids reach this abbey and they get friends with an older (but not a kung-fu-monk-age) monk which represented the classical type of his profession: A dark beard, a big belly, little bit drunk all the times and a big big heart…he seemed like this strange "animal-lovin´" guy from the HARRY POTTER movies that they have banned in this cabin in the woods for doing his wildlife-touching stuff…don´t remember his name but that´s not the point. Fact is: he liked the kids and the kids liked him and he offered them his help trying to find whatever they were looking for. Because of his friendly, adorable character he made himself some enemies in the abbey…bad mood monks…always praying always working, always worshipping and yelling orders. They didn´t liked it either that the kids were looking for their things behind this abbey walls. And now it comes:

The friendly monk is trying to find some arguments so the kids could stay but the other fanatics were already closing in as an "no talk-just action" mob! The lovely monk thinks they are just shitting around, tries to calm them…"no boys…what u doing? Let´s get some drinks…etc…" But it´s too late! They force a big wooden bucket over his head which seemed to be boiling water, or hot oil…so steam rises and the nice teddy-bear-buddy-guy is CRYING OUT IN TOTALLY PAIN AND AGONY…the others are laughing in the most evil way and the kids are forced to watch this scene (so did I…I remember that it was only afternoon – not the time of day for this kind of stuff)…while the wailing of the bud-spencer-monk became the silent sounds of death.

And now comes the scene which burned a image in my brain that I can hardly forget: The bad-monks are removing the bucket only to reveal the blank skull-face of the monk with the flesh still falling off..oh man…I cried because of this poor guy and realized in this moment that their must be many, many horrible ways to die in this cruel outside world. So that was the whole story…greetings from over the ocean and keep on doing this great site and the brilliant idea behind it…(if you can´t post this I understand: I believe their must be million of people out there who are trying to get behind their trauma…)

Lot´s of peace, guys!

— BARTEL-BOY

Three films & one T.V. show. I was born in 1973 and saw these between 1977 and 1980:

First one was a second part of a double feature drive-in that was a documentary about the afterlife.

The second was a possible made-for-TV movie… had a feeling of like the JOAN COLLINS' DEVIL WITHIN HER… all I remember was a dream like sequence when a mother comes out the doors of a mansion (her POV)… there is a baby carriage with balloons… I believe the idea or feeling is that the baby is dead…???

One other film… also I think made-for-TV…perhaps based on a book…in the early '80s had footprints in the sand at night… a boy and perhaps pirate ghosts…NOT THE FOG.

The TV show might have been the CHARLIE'S ANGELS in a haunted house… I remember a bulb breaking while the girls were walking up a staircase…???

Any help would be so greatly appreciated!

Love the Site!

Sincerely,

Austin M.

Hello.

I was on your site, led there by a Google search as I was trying to find the name of a movie that traumatized me as a child. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find the name of the movie.

When I was young (in the very early 1970s), my father let me watch a movie on TV. I don't remember it that well, but it was a black and white movie, and the men seemed to be on some kind of spaceship. There were plant people attacking them (and the special effects were bad because the plant people were people with ivy draped around them). The plants would grow and reach out from the plant people, and sometimes when someone wasn't looking, or was asleep, then the plants would turn the normal person into a plant person.

I was so traumatized that I had trouble getting to sleep at night, and I kept waking up my parents with my nightmares. My father eventually came up with a plan: if I slept with my covers completely over my head, then when the plants dropped out of space, they wouldn't be able to get to me. (I don't know why I trusted my blankets more than I trusted the ceiling and walls.) I slept that way every night for years. Then in the early '80s, I had to read about the "Bell Witch" of East Tennessee for a school assignment. According to the book, she liked to go through the house and pull the covers off people while they slept. I was again traumatized, haunted by the thought that some witch could come along and pull my covers off, and then the plant people would get me. I was in high school by this time.

My children would like to see the original movie that has caused me so much trouble. (They are hoping that it will be on MST3K since the visual effects were so bad.) If you have any ideas what this movie could be, I would appreciate your help.

Thank you for a great web site and blog.

By the way, I'm now almost 50 years old, and I still sleep with my covers over my head.

Best wishes,

Cath

I have been trying for many years to find the black & white thriller about a woman trapped in an apartment with many ways to commit suicide, but no way out. Probably made in the '50s, I remember watching it on TV in the early '60s. But I don't even remember the names of any of the players. I just remember watching a woman try to find a way out, only to find several ways to kill herself.

Does this sound familiar to anyone at KinderTrauma?

Sure would appreciate any thoughts you might have to help me find this flick.

Thanks!

— Ed B.

I'm trying to track down the title of an old black & white suspense/thriller movie set in England in the 1940s or '50s I saw on T.V. that included a killer who disposes of a (woman's?) body by disguising it as a Guy Fawkes effigy and then putting it on one of the public bonfires on Guy Fawkes night.

It kind of had the air of some of the ALFRED HITCHCOCK shows, but I couldn't find it in a list of his T.V. episodes?

Any thoughts?

— Chas