Category: Name That Trauma!

One of my early traumas comes from a snippet of a movie I don't know the name of. My cousin was watching this movie one day and I walked in and caught a scene that's stayed with me ever since (I was in my single digits I think). There was a man surrounded by a lot of tubes or pipes or something. He screamed, then the movie cut to a scene in a sterile white prison cafeteria. All of a sudden a bunch of blood and guts comes falling through the ceiling. That's when I noped out of the room, so I never caught what the movie was. Can you help me? I'd really appreciate it.

Hello there,

My name is Vojta, 25 years of age and I'm from Czech Republic. A friend of mine recommended me your site and told me, that you could – perhaps – help me.

I'm struggling with finding this movie for a really long time now. I literally had nightmares and trauma still many years afterwards. I couldn't fall asleep at nights as I was seeing the scene right in front my eyes. Actually, I still do and I would be so very grateful if you'd know this movie and help me out from my 15 years of misery, haha.

Alrighty, so this is what I remember…

The camera is looking on a staircase in quite a big and spacious family house with a door above it. When the door opens, a mother with their children (or maybe just one child) walks out the door and they all look frightened, looking around and so. Under the stairs there is an office desk with a chair behind it turned backwards to the table/camera. Then, they slowly go down the stairs, being as quite as possible. When they reach the desk, the armchair starts turning and there's sitting this creepy man/creature.. (sadly I can't describe him much).

That's all I remember, because then my parents turned it off.. It wasn't later than 2005, I think.

If you know this, again I would be so grateful.

Have a great day,

Vojta

Hey! WINCHESTER opens today and the screenplay was written by my very own brother so make sure you go see it! In the meantime, below are images from twenty haunted house flicks. How many can you identify?

Scott P: Not my trauma, but one of my favorite musicians ( Ginger Wildheart ) was asking about this on Twitter, & I suggested he come here to see if any of the experts can crack it. In case he didn't see that Tweet, I thought I'd send the details he mentioned :

Trying to remember a movie where there are monsters inside of an old house. Some are tall, some are hunched deformed things. It was made in the last decade. The action kicks off in the kitchen, and culminates in a tall creature chasing a woman down the hall, while a hunched over goblin thing sits in the corner.

It was not a found footage film. I think the premise of this horror movie was a house built on top of Hell, or something.

These monsters all looked different from each other. Different shapes, sizes and looks. Some of these monsters weren't remotely human shaped.

It was a small budget movie, not much promotion. I think it was American, but had more of a European horror than a 50's B-movie feel. It was an indie flick, similar vibe to Digging The Marrow, looked fairly expensive too.

Any chance we can figure this out for him? Thanks!

~ Scott P.

Hey, I'm looking for titles from a few movies. I'll try to be as specific as possible. Hope you can help me.

Movie number 1

Horror film from the ‘80s, I think. It's about a troubled boy who has to take his medication on time to make sure he doesn't go crazy. His parents go away for the weekend and his mum insists on taking his medicine. He invites some friends from school to have a party. His ex is also at the party and tries to persuade him to give it another go but he has a new girlfriend now. She is also at the party but she's kinda new so nobody really knows her. One couple goes in the Jacuzzi and the guy goes back inside to get champagne or wine and the girl gets killed in the Jacuzzi. Apparently this 'new girlfriend' is a lot more crazy than the guy poppin' pills. In the end she seems to be the killer.

Movie number 2

Horror/thriller from the ‘90s, I think. A group of people bury some guy with his face down cause he should go straight to hell. The wife of this buried guy is out for revenge and kidnaps the child of one of the relatives of the people that killed him ‘cause apparently she is the last one to still be alive. The child is kept in some kind of dungeon underneath the house. The mother does a neighborhood questioning and ends up with the wife of the buried guy but of course they don't know right away that she has the child locked up.

Movie number 3

Horror film from early 2000s, I think. Some people end up at some kind of farm in the middle of the night, the guy gets out ‘cause he sees someone running around, and pretty much right away he gets shot by a shotgun (it reminded me of the movie PLAGUE TOWN a little bit but that's not the one). Two of the other guys run off since their friend got shot, the killer hunts them down and finally they come across some cabin and hide there. Pretty quickly they find out that the cabin belongs to the killer. I believe it was raining a lot and the killer wore a raincoat.

I hope you can help me in my search, thanks in advance.

Koddie K.

Hello, Kindertrauma!

This must have been the mid-to-late-70's. There was a show on PBS that I actually saw a couple of times–I believe it was broadcast for a few years around Halloween. It was a group of actors with ghoulish makeup on a plain black-box set performing a series of stories in a sort of readers' theatre/oral interp style. I don't remember most of the stories, but I believe one of them was an adaptation of the Grimms' fairy tale about the Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear. The actors took on most of the narration duties, but there was also an unseen narrator for some parts–a guy with a creepy/soothing voice. The whole thing was accompanied by organ music, and it all ended with a song number by a group of classic monsters about how they found a home together in a haunted house. I've googled every possible descriptor I could come up with, and no dice all around. It's driving me a little crazy!

Love the website!

Best regards,

Richard R.

Hey there, Kindertrauma!

I have a super obscure Name That Trauma that I'm hoping someone out there might be able to help me with. I remember seeing a commercial on TV, probably sometime in the very late 1990s or very early 2000s. It was for what I am pretty sure was a TV movie (though I suppose it may have been a series) that was most likely airing on one of the big networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, or maybe FOX), as that's primarily what I would've been watching at that time. All I can remember is one scene that showed someone (whether a man or a woman, I don't know) seeing an old woman standing a the foot of what looked like a set of stairs to an attic. I even think they may have seen her in the reflection of a mirror, though I can't be positive. I'm quite sure the commercial framed her as a ghost, because it definitely had a spooky context. It may have been the ghost of the protagonist's mother (at least that's how I remember it, but I may have just assumed that at the time). There was nothing outwardly creepy about the woman herself, it was all context. From what I recall, she had her hair pinned back in a bun or braid or something, and was wearing a dress with long-sleeves. I wish I could remember more, but that's the only image that really stuck with me, and has for almost twenty years. Any tips would be appreciated!

– Sebastian L.

A while ago on the TV channel Chiller I watched a short. I can't find it or remember the time I watched it. It was some time in the past 14 years. I think it was about the five senses of fear. It involved a guy looking for love who finds a rather attractive woman and all I remember is that they go to a hotel, the door closes and there is a sound of screaming coming from the room. The camera zooms out to a doctor's bag and the name on the bag is Van Helsing! The name of the short I am thinking of is "(unknown name)"s lament." That is all I can remember. Did I make this up? I can not find this anywhere on the web. Can you help?

Hey Kindertrauma! Dylan Donnie-Duke from The Walter Paisley Movie House here! A TWPMH member asked this question, and I am at a loss, so I am looking to the real experts for help. Thanks in advance! Here's what he asked:

Do any of you Gen Xers remember an animated movie from the early 80s? I think it was on HBO a lot. It was about pirates, brothers who were a pirate and an admiral, and there was this weird Chameleon critter in it as well. I also seem to remember this movie being somewhat lascivious.

Hello Horror Fans!

I am trying to recall the title of either a short story adapted for television, or a television episode that I saw around 1979-1983.

I don't remember much about it. It was on one of those PBS educational shows where they would adapt a youth novel or short story for television. The only scene I remember involved a girl trying to guess what something meant in French (and coming remarkably close, for a guess).

She thought it *sounded like* it might mean "ghost if I can," or "devil if I can.' The translation was something like "diable si je peux," which does indeed translate into "devil if I can." I don't think she was a native speaker, because she was reading it and trying to figure out. She actually said the second part "sounds" like "if I can."

It was a darkened room, possibly a study or library in an old house where she was reading. Suspenseful music was playing, and she may have been reading by candlelight

That's all I remember. Did anyone else see this?

Thanks

Dustin in Minnesota