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#291913 13-Dec-2021 11:01
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Following on from my successful "name that song" thread, I've got another one - name the movie!
This one is a bit more obscure and I'll be surprised if anyone remembers it.

 

It was a horror movie from either the 70s or the 80s (I remember it was in colour). I think it was set in America or Canada. No idea of actors or specific timeframe.

 

My Mum used to rent out VHS movies in the late 80s for my sister and I to watch, and - for some reason - we ended up seeing this one.

 

The scene that sticks in my mind (and it's quite grisly, even by today's standards): there was a couple driving in a car (from memory LHD, so either America or Canada) following a logging truck up a hill. Something happened and two logs slipped off the truck, slid backwards and into the windscreen of the car behind, basically chopping off their heads and killing them in the process.

 

That's the only scene I remember and it was quite early in the movie; I think I was probably too traumatised to watch much more! To this day I always allow a realllly long distance when following any logging truck, so it obviously had an impact on me!

 

If it sounds familiar to anyone, I'd like to know.

 

Note that this is not so I can show my boys...this is just for my own curiosity as to what it was called.


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  #2831294 13-Dec-2021 11:35
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That sounds like a scene from Silent Night, Bloody Night. A movie I saw on VHS when I was too young to see it, as my mum worked in a video store and I helped myself. 





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  #2831298 13-Dec-2021 11:38
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A quick Google suggests it's Final Destination, but IMDB says that was made in 2000, so more a DVD than a VHS, I would've thought. 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: I then found this: 

 

 

 





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  #2831313 13-Dec-2021 11:50
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Cheers, definitely not Final Destination - I saw that one this century ;) I think we were both in the same boat, too young to see a movie like this! I'll have a look into Night Warning, it sounds quite close.

 

I remember it was a couple however (male and female) driving in a car, going uphill following this logging truck, if that's any help? If not for the driving on the other side of the road I would almost have thought they were just outside of Nelson :D




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  #2831319 13-Dec-2021 11:55
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  #2831320 13-Dec-2021 11:57
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Looks like "Night Warning" from '82 might be a contender

 

https://youtu.be/W76nXF-IBps?t=26

 

 


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  #2831382 13-Dec-2021 12:26
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Cheers for the clips, but I don't think it was that one :( the image of them both being decapitated by the logs looked like it was filmed in the back seat of the car, and two logs came flying through the window. That one is close though...


 
 
 

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  #2844879 7-Jan-2022 16:12
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Thread bump for 2022, just seeing if anyone has heard of it :)

 

I remembered another detail - the scene with the logs was viewed from the back seat (for here, this would be the seat behind the driver) looking towards the driver's seat on the LHD, but both front passengers were visible if that makes sense? And I distinctly remember two logs coming through the windscreen.


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  #2968273 14-Sep-2022 19:16
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Along the same lines, let's see if this one jogs anyone's memory. Again, no idea of the name.

 

Either made in the late 70s or 80s - I think I saw this in the mid 80s.

 

It was an American (or Canadian) comedy (possibly a sex comedy?) about a young couple, just newly married on their honeymoon. From memory their surname was Webster, and the husband's name might have been Rich. They were just hanging out to "do the deed" but obstacles kept getting in their way - I remember one scene where they both got really sunburnt by a swimming pool.

 

Finally they got to "do the deed", despite almost everyone in the motel trying to push the door down - for some reason.

 

Does this sound familiar to anyone?


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  #3012159 20-Dec-2022 08:58
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Thread bump for Christmas, see if the description above rings a bell for anyone over the Christmas break.

 

I remembered another detail - just as the door gets busted down (while they're "doing the deed") at the end the new wife says something like, "oh Rich, you're special."

 

Does that help anyone? Googling doesn't return anything of value, even with that line...


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  #3012191 20-Dec-2022 09:46
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I can't find anything on my usual search spots. 

 

Very interesting...and will keep me going for a while I think





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  #3012193 20-Dec-2022 09:48
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Thanks 🙂 it is pretty obscure but I know it exists. Sadly given that I last saw this move in the mid-80s, my memory on this one is a bit fuzzy 😕


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  #3012206 20-Dec-2022 10:11
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quickymart:

 

Thanks 🙂 it is pretty obscure but I know it exists. Sadly given that I last saw this move in the mid-80s, my memory on this one is a bit fuzzy 😕

 

 

I think this is the issue - we "remember" things - but actually we often mis-remember things too. Plus we combine memories, so one movie in our head is actually likely two or three. 





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  #3081060 29-May-2023 20:07
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Here's one I remember seeing on Sky a few years ago, and I think it was from the 80s as well.

 

No idea of the title or cast, but (from memory) it involved a lot of people in a cafe and a bomb down the road or somewhere nearby was about to explode. It was a big bomb too - almost nuclear or atomic scale. The people (with their 80s haircuts) were all panicking but I seem to recall one bloke could fix it or stop it or defuse it.

 

Sadly I never saw the entire thing, only bits on Sky - but would love to know the name of it so I could watch the complete thing from start to finish 🙂


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  #3082587 30-May-2023 21:36
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Found the perfect Reddit thread for you

 

TOMT: When you can't remember that…thing… (reddit.com)


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  #3082693 31-May-2023 11:21
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My mother used to live in Rhodesia.

A man who lived next door was driving back to the farm after a night out and drove into the back of a logging truck left by the roadside with no warning lights etc with the same outcome as you described in the film!





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