Category: Name That Trauma!

Hi,

Let me nerd out for a second and say "thank you" for this site. Besides being a lifelong horror fan, it's also helped me remember some great memories that I had associated with some of these films.

I'm trying to remember the name of a movie/show. I remember only two scenes. The first was a woman shopping in a grocery store and she walks away from her cart for a moment and a gloved hand (because every killer must wear gloves) with a syringe injects something into the meat thru it's package. The next scene is then the woman going home, eating and dying from being poisoned. ???

Thanks in advance,

Josh K.

I'm trying to figure out what movie from my childhood scarred me. Foggy memory, indeed. It was probably from the 70's and about the only scene I remember is a guy's hand gets put into a meat grinder. Did his arm fall in or was it forcibly pushed in? I don't know… I just remember the shot of the "meat" coming out of the grinder while the guy screamed. Possibly one of the "Omen" films? But I don't know.

Ellow there Kindertrauma,

I'm looking for a movie and was hoping you guys can help me out once again!

I believe it's a movie from the 60's or 70's, probably a British one. It's about an old countess who has to drink the blood of young women to stay young. At the end of the movie, the countess is captured and locked up in a cellar, the camera zoom's in on her creepy old face, then the movie ends.

That's all I know about it.

Thanks in advance,

Goorlap

UNK SEZ: I hope I'm right on this! It sounds to me like you are looking for HAMMER's COUNTESS DRACULA (1971) which is based n the Eizabeth Bathory legend and stars INGRID PITT. Check out the trailer below and let us know if it rings any bloody bells! And if anybody has any other guesses make sure you leave them in the comments section!

Hi. I currently peruse the site under the user name "duckofthedead." I'm not a prolific commenter but I enjoy reading everything.

Anyway, I'm searching for a book. It was a book about UFOs and I am 99% certain I got it either at a school book fair or through the mail order book lists we got at school. It would have been between 1980-1985 because I know I got it while in elementary school. The book had a lot of the usual UFO photographs but one stood out and gave me the creeps. The photo in question was of a sculpture of sorts of an "alien." What makes it different from everything I have seen since is it had three legs and looked like it was covered in foil (I thought for years it was connected to Hopkinsville, KY incident but when searching online I found nothing connected to that remotely resembles the photo I remember). I know it's not a lot to go on but that picture stands out. In the years since I have remained intrigued in all things paranormal and have never seen that picture again. The book itself was paperback with black and white photos. I think the cover was primarily dark blue at top of the cover with grayish on the bottom half of the cover. The title may have been in yellow but I could be wrong.

Thanks for any help and thanks for your site.

Duckofthedead

Hi! I have a question. I saw a movie when I was younger and to this day can not figure out what it is. I saw it on TV so I don't know if it was a TV movie or an actual film. But this is what I remember:

-it's most likely from the late 80s

-the children in it had some sort of tree house

-the monsters or spirits in it sucked the kids into the walls or ceiling.

I know that's not a lot to go on. But I thought you may have a clue since you all seem to know so much and I very rarely watch horror films.

Thank you so much for your time!

UNK SEZ: I have only a guess for this one based on the time period, the presence of a treehouse and folks getting stuck in walls. Could it possibly be 1987s THE GATE? Check out the trailer below Mindy and if anyone has another theory please let us know in the comments!

Greetings friends of all things creepy!

Here's one that hopefully one (or more) of you will be able to answer.

When I was growing up, I was a fan of horror comics. Although they would give me terrible nightmares, I would keep buying and reading them.

One of them that stands out in my mind I didn't buy, but found in my grandparents' attic. I am assuming it had belonged to one of my uncles. I am estimating this to have happened some time between 1977-81. I don't recall the title of the story or the comic in which it appeared, but I remember vague details from the story line. It involved a creepy house that the main character was curious about. In one of the panels toward the end of the story, it showed him standing outside of the house in the daytime, thinking about going inside. He finally did, and at the end he fell into a pit. I think the final frame showed him falling, his face either screaming or frozen in horror. There may have been a "spiral" he fell into — either that, or I'm confusing it with the intro to Lidsville. I am positive on him falling into a pit, though.

Do any of you horror comic fans know either the comic or the story title I'm semi-remembering?

Thanks!

Dustin in Minnesota

I remember as a kid, turning on my little b/w tv set and seeing, what was either the ending of a movie, or an episode of anthology series. It had to have been around 81 or so. In it, a woman wakes up and upon opening her bedroom window and door, discovers that she has been bricked in! But this was apparently a nightmare. When she wakes for real, she opens the bedroom window and sees trees and hears the chirps of birds. Opens the bedroom door and nothing… But when she opens the front door to the house, it has been bricked up!

I may have the events scrambled a bit. (It has been 30+ years ya know!) Any leads would be greatly appreciated!

Keep up the great work on this AWESOME site!

Hey there Folks,

Just stumbled across your great website and thought I would add in my two cents. There's a movie that's been floating around in my head since I was a little tyke…but I can't remember what the heck it is. It may even be a TV show.

All I remember is a room that is on fire (possibly) and a creepy red cowboy boot moving across the floor on it's own. I seem to remember it killed people or something stupid like that. I just can recall a lady in a room on fire, with a red boot passing by her, as if the boot has caused this mayhem. That might sound incredibly stupid, but it has been in my head for years. Think you guys could help me out?

-Ren

Dallas, Texas

Hi folks,

I've been visiting your site for a couple years now and really enjoy it. I was hoping you guys could help me with the name of a movie.

It was a mid-to-late '70s movie with people in a cabin being attacked by a mud monster. During one point in the movie, the front door is opened and the monster is there. They shut the door on its arm and cut if off. It comes toward them and I think one of them throws it against the wall. Plans for "building" the monster are found.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

UNK SEZ: That's a good one Charles! You're thinking of another Kindertrauma favorite, the 1978 TV movie THE WORLD BEYOND, which also aired as simply THE MUD MONSTER! It featured a pre-POLTERGEIST JOBETH WILLIAMS and was a follow up to another TV flick called THE WORLD OF DARKNESS, both were produced in hopes that a series might follow. Oh, how I wish one did! Check it out below!

Hello! I only found your site a few days ago, but have already trawled through pages and pages of NTT. I am incredibly impressed with the answers you guys pull from obscurity and tiny clues, and so hope you can help me with a movie that I still remember giving me the utter creeps as a kid.

This would have been sometime in the early '80s on TV, in my memory of the movie it feels like late '70s production/design etc., but this was 30 years ago so I could be wrong on that. It involved a ship/yacht/boat that ended up being lost and having something evil show up, kill people one by one and pretend to be them. It ended with the last survivor(s) escaping, only then we go back to the empty boat and we see the body of one of the people who just escaped (I want to say it was hanging upside-down from the rigging, but that might have been an earlier death–that's the big image that sticks with me though).

For years I thought the name was 'The Devil's Triangle', but that doesn't seem to be a movie that actually exists, and searching for variations on that has proven to be not a fruitful source of inquiry.

Is there any chance you guys can help me? I really enjoyed the spooky movie, it wasn't til later when I tried to go to sleep that the creeps got me, but I'd at least really like to know what the movie was.

Thanks, and keep up the good work!

—Kaina in NC

UNK SEZ: I'm so glad you found us Kaina! The movie you are searching for must be 1975's SATAN'S TRIANGLE! I spent years looking for that one myself. It scared the crap out of me as a kid and the very first thing I did once I had access to the Internet was track that darn thing down! It had such a profound effect on me that I was actually scared to watch it again. In fact, wondering if others had similar experiences is what led to KINDERTRAUMA being born! I'm happy to tell you that currently SATAN'S TRIANGLE is available to watch on YouTube. Be careful though, it's still as creepy as it ever was!