Author: unkle lancifer
Name That Trauma:: Gil on Two Horrifying Little Men
Hello,
I just stumbled across your site while researching "One Step Beyond's" "Reunion" episode and after reading your manifesto, it occurred to me that perhaps you could answer a question that's bugged me for years. I remember as a small boy of seven of eight years old in 1972, I was living with my mother in my grandparents creepy old house on Ursulines Avenue in New Orleans. I saw an old black and white film which featured two really horrifying little men. They were either dolls or undead midgets. They would do their master's bidding by stabbing their victims with long spike/needle-like daggers. I remember the little men would shrink back in horror from a crucifix, or anything that reminded them of the fact that they could never receive salvation. The master very nonchalantly informed onlookers of the little men's fear.
I've never been able to find anything remotely about this film.
Can you help,
Gil
New Orleans, La.
Traumafession:: Amanda M. on Incident at Dark River (1989)
I caught part of a movie on TV when I was a teenager. There was a little girl with a doll playing in a river. Soon, she becomes deathly ill and has to go to the hospital. Some time later they let her out, only she's pretty much in a catatonic state, and only days later she dies. Her mother finds her body in her bed and begins screaming and crying. It was at this point I changed the channel, greatly disturbed by what I'd just seen. I never forgot it, though I didn't know what the movie was. I tried to find it today, and although I discovered what it was, I couldn't find it to watch online. It's called Incident at Dark River: A Father's Revenge (1989). I tried to find it on youtube, but all I could find was the trailer. There's another movie called A Father's Revenge, from 1988, but it's not the same movie.
Here's the trailer for Incident at Dark River:
Name That Trauma:: Chris D. on a Firing Squad Execution
Greetings Kindertrauma:
Was wondering if you could help, or if anyone out there might be able to shed some light on a snippet of a film that I saw on Channel 13 (Tri-State Area, some sort of TV special I think – not positive) ? Here's my only recollection particulars:
There was this TV special on channel 13, with a guy who looked like Peter Frampton/Roger Daltrey – type who got executed at the end of the movie, on like this white and black checkered firing squad patio. It was some British type show. Any info or thoughts would be awesome….????
Thanks/Cheerio-
Chris D.
Name That Trauma:: Brian N. on an Upsetting Table Setting
Howdy Kindertrauma!
I've solved all of my childhood mystery movie memories — save one — and it's perplexed me for years! Here is what I can recall:
The scene takes place in a bar/restaurant. Some people are sitting around a table, and there may be some sort of aquariums (?) in the background. A man or men walk up to their table and it's a little tense. What really scared me, though, is what was on the table. There was some sort of centerpiece that frightened my young eyes. I'm not sure it was meant to be scary, but it was to me and has remained the centerpiece of this movie mystery memory for over 45 years. I'm not sure if it was a movie or TV show, but I know I saw it on TV, not in a theater.
I would've see this sometime between 1969 and 1971, when I was 4-6 years old. Thank you for any help you can give me! It's been a looong, frustrating trip trying to solve this one.
Brian
P.S. There is an early 70's anthology that has vampires in a restaurant, but that's not it.
