Hallo!

I love your site, and am very glad it exists, thank you!

There's something I'd really, really like to find.

It was an animation and I know it showed on T.V. at least twice sometime in the late eighties to early nineties, in the U.K., but probably elsewhere too.

It looked a bit similar to DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS visually ('realistic' human figures), but didn't have the same feel at all, some of it was really menacing and alien but it was showed during the day, and it had no sense of humour. It had a title a bit like 'LORDS OF TIME AND SPACE' or something like that, but I've searched and can't find anything like it so far.

I remember a particular part where there were three young male characters, one was a boy I think and the other two were both young men, one was blonde and one was dark – and these two did not seem to like each other.

They were on some kind of mission and had to get into some place where some weird sacrificial thing was happening (it felt like that anyway). It's all a bit of a blur, but I think one of the two young guys ends up sacrificing himself for the others (the dark one I think, but I have a feeling it's because he thought he was going to get something out of it) and there's a totally weird image where he jumps down into some pit from a platform, and he's having a nasty shock then on a weird white fleshy orb with white tentacles sticking out of it, and they're all flailing up around him with all this white, yellowish, hard flashing light.. it was not nice at all! The other two escape and I guess he dies there.

It didn't seem to relate to anything else on T.V. at the time, a one-off thing.

I really hope someone else remembers this clearly and can name it! I'll do anything to see that horrible thing again!

Thanks!

Kind regards,

Kathleen

I have been trying to find out the title of this film for years – just to make sure I avoid it, it scared me so much; but not in a, "Oooh that gave me the creeps" way, but in a, "Someone just got murdered right in front of me!!!!" kind of way. I always thought it was a version of MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY but from what I've managed to glean from Google, it's not.

I must have been about 10-11, so somewhere between 1979-81 and this film was on T.V. in the UK. At that time we only had three channels in this country, so that narrows it down – I don't think I'll forgive the BBC if it was them!

The only scene I remember was the part that traumatised me (I left the room and never returned until much later when I knew the damned thing HAD to be over). Set in the late 17th-early 18th century, with large masted ships, the scene had either (1) A crew rebelling, or (2) pirates attacking; whichever it was a young man in a naval uniform of the time (black tailcoat) and brown hair in a ponytail was hanging by his foot/feet from a rope tied to one of the crossbars from the mast which would hold the sail, and was swung back and forth, quite high and fast, as the other men (or maybe just one man) stabbed him in the chest and he screamed. It was very realistic and completely unexpected, coming as it did on a Saturday afternoon.

Please can someone help me? I know it wasn't a dream as my nightmares are much more surreal than that!

Kind regards,

Elizabeth M.

Dear Kindertrauma,

When I was a kid, back in the early to mid-80s, my father used to take me into the record store in our local mall (specifically, the Listening Booth in the Palmer Park Mall in Easton, PA) on occasion. While he was digging through the LPs, I was staring at the images in the heavy-metal posters that loomed at adult head-height over the shelves.

I was particularly terrified of one large poster that depicted a sort of Frankenstein-esque monster holding up by its hair the head of a freshly decapitated witch. The witch's body lay on the ground at the monster's feet, and a number of red and blue veins were dangling from the head and extending to the neck. (That's the part that is seared indelibly on my brain.)

Much later, I grew up to be the sort of adult who loves horror movies. I'd love to look at this image again to see if it really is as horrific as I remember.

What I can't remember is what musician or band this poster was advertising! My Google-fu is usually pretty good, but I can't come up with anything for this image. Unfortunately, the record store went out of business years ago, so I can't ask them. I know it's not the sort of thing that Kindertrauma generally handles, but maybe it will ring a bell for you?

Even if it doesn't, I adore your blog! Thanks for any leads you might have.

— Carolyn