Okay, my dad says he remembers a film he saw on Channel 4 (UK channel) in the 80s that he would like to know the name of. He says it may have been subtitled, but he's not sure. All he can remember is part of it was set in a big house/castle in the desert, the lead guy looked like Jim Morrison from the Doors, and he may have had a blonde sidekick with a mustache.
He can't remember anything else, but he reckons it was from the late 60s or 70s. Any help would be appreciated. I don't think he wants to see it again, he just wants to know what it's called.
Quote from: I am the Female Dracula on August 03, 2010, 01:08:00 PM
Okay, my dad says he remembers a film he saw on Channel 4 (UK channel) in the 80s that he would like to know the name of. He says it may have been subtitled, but he's not sure. All he can remember is part of it was set in a big house/castle in the desert, the lead guy looked like Jim Morrison from the Doors, and he may have had a blonde sidekick with a mustache.
He can't remember anything else, but he reckons it was from the late 60s or 70s. Any help would be appreciated. I don't think he wants to see it again, he just wants to know what it's called.
any recollect of the genre?
yep, that's not much to work on, but I am searching... ;D
gonna throw this out there, sure it's not the film,but... "The Clonus Horror" 1979, not a house or castle,but a Large Compound in the desert..
He says it was a very very weird film. It may have had supernatural elements, but it wasn't really scary. Just surreal
Quote from: I am the Female Dracula on August 03, 2010, 03:26:11 PM
He says it was a very very weird film. It may have had supernatural elements, but it wasn't really scary. Just surreal
Sounds perhaps like maybe a film dealing with LSD?
Maybe BLOOD OF DRACULA'S CASTLE? That movie was set/filmed in the Calfornia desert, around 1969, directed by
Al Adamson. Part of the movie is on YouTube, if it helps?!? ;D
Manos: Hands of Fate?
Wait--Torgo had a beard not a mustache.
Never mind.
Dad would like to add that it is SURREAL! And he also thinks that it 'looped'- at the end the film was back where it started.
Oh boy, is this gonna be the next UMA mystery, since the school bag ? I was wayyyy off in my thought process, I was thinking Circle of Iron or some kind of quest type movie. Hmmmmmm loops back to the beginning......
Castle in the Desert (1942)?
Quote from: judd on August 04, 2010, 07:57:58 PM
Castle in the Desert (1942)?
she mentions that her dad said late 60s or 70s.... ;D
Were Karate and or Nazis involved? If so I'd recommend Kill or Be Killed (also known as Karate Olympia and Karate Killer).
If there was student rioting and explosions at the end, then try Zabriskie Point by Michelangelo Antonioni. From 1970 and set in partly the California desert, this would fit the surreal part.
It's not Robert Quarry's Vampire hippie thing "Deathmaster" is it?
It's not a horror film! I forgot to clarify that. I only asked because you guys have seen almost everything. He says it's an 'art' film.
Dad also would like to add about the ending thing, that it opened the same (sorta like in The Prisoner, when Patrick McGoohan drives the car at the start, and at the end of the last episode) but had a new significance. At the end the lead guy (with really curly dark hair) had decided he would go off to do something, or start another dreamlike thing. It's very hard to explain.
It's not any of the titles you suggested I'm afraid
Quote from: I am the Female Dracula on August 06, 2010, 12:16:28 PM
It's not a horror film! I forgot to clarify that. I only asked because you guys have seen almost everything. He says it's an 'art' film.
Dad also would like to add about the ending thing, that it opened the same (sorta like in The Prisoner, when Patrick McGoohan drives the car at the start, and at the end of the last episode) but had a new significance. At the end the lead guy (with really curly dark hair) had decided he would go off to do something, or start another dreamlike thing. It's very hard to explain.
It's not any of the titles you suggested I'm afraid
Ok, so it's not a Horror flick. Well, then I'm stumped?!?
He might be talking about "Seconds" staring Rock Hudson...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060955/)
He says it doesn't have anyone famous in it. So no Rock Hudson I'm afraid
I googled several surreal type of movies from the 70s, and have not found one that describes any what was listed.
However, I wont quit til I find it tho... ;D
I keep thinking it's Zabriskie Point. Does everything blow up at the end?
No, Dad's seen Zabriskie, it's not the same film
Quote from: Opera Ghost on August 03, 2010, 03:27:52 PM
Sounds perhaps like maybe a film dealing with LSD?
Much like your home movies of the period.
Quote from: Scatter on August 06, 2010, 04:39:26 PM
Much like your home movies of the period.
Nah, after 1961, only home movies we had were flipbooks
FemDrac, have you considered simply having your pop go through electro-shock therapy so he can just forget this film?? It may be easier. ;)
Now that was funny. No offense. But come on, it was funny.
Quote from: Scatter on August 06, 2010, 04:43:35 PM
FemDrac, have you considered simply having your pop go through electro-shock therapy so he can just forget this film?? It may be easier. ;)
I'm still thinking LSD might be a factor
Quote from: Opera Ghost on August 06, 2010, 04:56:48 PM
I'm still thinking LSD might be a factor
her dad took LSD and tripped it? or do you mean the movie is a LSD film? ;D
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on August 06, 2010, 05:15:00 PM
her dad took LSD and tripped it? or do you mean the movie is a LSD film? ;D
YES
Quote from: Opera Ghost on August 06, 2010, 05:21:54 PM
now pass the fatty
what does scatter have to do with this? :o
Quote from: Dr.Teufel Geist on August 06, 2010, 05:28:18 PM
what does scatter have to do with this? :o
LOL!! Hey, I'm workin' on it!!
(http://funnypicblast.com/wp-content/imgdir/2008_10/fat_monkey.jpg)
Quote from: Scatter on August 06, 2010, 05:30:01 PM
LOL!! Hey, I'm workin' on it!!
(http://funnypicblast.com/wp-content/imgdir/2008_10/fat_monkey.jpg)
now ROTFLMAO
I was thinking of something more along the lines of.........
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