Category: Name That Trauma!

Hey there Kindertrauma,

I was wondering if you could help me figure out a book that scared me for years.

O.K., all I remember is it was a Dr. Seuss book, the cover was different shades of dark blue.

My cousin used to bring it out to freak me out (gotta love relatives).

I have no idea what it was called but it was something about "Scary."

I've looked everywhere to find this book but nothing.

I figured someone who loved Dr. Seuss as a kid might remember it???

Wish there was more info. to go on.

It's always bugged me.

Keep up the trauma,

Burgen

UNK SEZ: Burgen, based on your description I think you are looking for "What Was I Scared Of?" by DR. SUESS. It's blue for sure and has "scared" in the title! Turns out you are not alone with this trauma, we got a traumafession on it once before HERE!

It wasn't super traumatizing…but I'm trying to figure out what the crap this show was called.

Family with daughter move to Ireland?

Possibly something about trolls and they put out milk and it turns to blood?

Dad has a dream of the mother screwing someone else and the guy says, "Somebody likes to watch."

Helllllllp!

—Brie

UNK SEZ:: Brie, I think I've got this one! Sure, I've been known to miss a "Name That Trauma!" or two concerning classic movies directed by my heroes, but I'll be damned if I don't recognize a direct-to-video GREG EVIGAN movie! I'll bet you a bowl of blood that the movie you seek is 1996's SPECTRE (aka HOUSE OF THE DAMNED)!

Most dismiss this one as a stinky clunker but your Unke Lancifer actually owns a VHS copy of it! Don't judge me folks, how can I resist B.J. from B.J. AND THE BEAR and BAYWATCH's ALEXANDRA PAUL (who also starred in JOHN CARPENTER's CHRISTINE) hanging out in a haunted house in Ireland? Plus, as you can see from the trailer below this movie offers both an exploding car and a blood squirting turkey! I'm only human ya know!

I was discussing horror films with a friend and he remembered a movie, but no title. He said:

"I remember the main character (a woman) having flash-forward dreams of her walking out of a church pissed off with overlapping talking, a mirror that was painted over and the devil or a demon was inside, and she removes the paint and lets him out of the mirror. A guy is talking to some people on the second floor of the building – but it's not him, it's the devil/demon animating him because his head falls off and he's filled with cockroaches, and to try and kill the devil she jumps into the mirror at the end, and she's suspended in mid-air and then the flash-forward scene is the end, and it's a reporter talking."

Being a loyal fan, I told him the wonderful guys at Kindertrauma might be able to help!

UPDATE: NAME THAT TRAUMA SOLVED! Thanks to reader Tim Tylor for realizing that this trauma comes from JOHN CARPENTER's PRINCE OF DARKNESS!

Hey,

I'm pretty savvy when locating little oddities from the past but here's three that I'm afraid I may never see again.

Somewhere between '83-'86 I had my first glimpse of MTV while spending the night at my grandparents house. I remember seeing this video of a neon pinkish man with a wheel in place of legs wheeling around and singing in what appeared to be the innards of of a VCR. I was transfixed by this until my deeply religious Grandmother abruptly flipped the channel.

Next, a few years later I watched a teen summer camp type movie which I could have swore stared a young MICHAEL J. FOX (IMDb says no) but there was some subplot about a disappearing kid and a weirdo/killer in the woods named Wally. I think the kid finally turned up but Wally may have actually just been a little slow but not a maniac.

Finally, in the early '90s I was ill and my mother had taken my little brother to the video store and he picked out some bargain bin-type kids fantasy flick. The film involved a kid and a likable vagrant drifter who happened to be from, or at least aware of, some fantasy realm that looked like GYMKATA meets the 'It's a Small World' ride. Extremely bizarre.

Anyhow, if any of these happen to strike a bell that would be amazing, otherwise I may have imagined them.

Thanks much,

Trent

I have two mysteries for the Kindertrauma crew.

The first comes from another site, I have a clip but no other info.

The second is from my childhood. The movie is about a beautiful young woman who at times looks like she is decaying. Part of the movie takes place in a harbor, I want to say Hong Kong but I am not sure. The girl is Anglo and when she transforms, her face looks like it is melting. I am pretty sure the movie is from the '60s or '70s. I thought I saw it as part of Commander USA's Groovie Movies but I looked at the Wikipedia list of the movies featured and compared them against YouTube and IMDb… I got nothing. The movie was in color and the woman was blond (I am pretty sure about the hair color.)

If anyone can help, I know my fellow kindertots can!

Dear Kindertrauma,

I'm interested to see if you can help me identify a horror/sci-fi movie I saw years ago. The movie itself was probably from the 1980s and I remember seeing it on HBO. I only caught the movie from what I thought was its last scene. The scene involved men, possibly some sort of military, rappelling up out of a cave or crater (is that even possible?) while firing automatic weapons.

They appeared to be trying to escape a large crate or sarcophagus that was sitting on the floor of the room that was in the cave/crater. Tentacle-like arms burst forth from the sarcophagus/crate and shot out and impaled the rappelling commandos like they were spears. That's when it was revealed that there was some sort of fleshy blob inside the crate and it shot these tentacle things. That's all that I remember.

So far my best guess is that it may be THE TREASURE OF THE FOUR CROWNS.

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Thanks,

Tom

Hey guys,

I have a problem that could be right up your alley.

My girlfriend keeps telling me about a horror movie scene that she can't place and I'm stumped as well.

A guy/girl goes to a big mansion and as he or she is walking upstairs, the piano downstairs starts playing 'Fur Elise' and once they make it to the top of the stairs they see a ghost on the opposite end of the hallway who then jumps out of the window.

This scene scared my girlfriend so much she was unable to listen to 'Fur Elise' for years afterwards and now she says she would like to see if it still has the same effect on her. I would love to see it as well.

Any help, guys?

My mom used to make me watch ELVIRA: MISTRESS OF THE DARK when I was a kid. So I often remember bits and pieces of movies but not the titles or anything, and it drives me crazy!

All I can remember of this one is it had something to do with a man's hand that had been cut off. The main scene I can remember is the heroine, a woman with long dark hair and in a beautiful old-fashioned gown, was standing in front of a portrait of the owner of the hand. As she stands there a spectral hand appears around her throat and begins to strangle her.

I also vaguely remember a scene where the hand is running along the grass on its fingers.

Movie was in color. Had to have been filmed late '60s/early 7'0s. I think it was English – or at least set in England.

Maybe not.

It could've taken place just after the American Civil War.

— Jami JoAnne Russell