I'm calling these movies and not films because of the B-listed nature of them all... Some of the movies listed here are not actually movies, but TV shows or "made for TV" movies... I count them as movies though because they were viewed by me on VHS several times a year for my entire childhood. I suggest you watch the ones that you've never seen. OR - If you remember seeing any of these as a child, please watch them again to see how they may have impacted the way you think nowadays.
11. Huggabunch
A girl travels through her mirror into HuggaLand to find a way to keep her grandmother, the only one who knows how to hug, young.
10. The Garbage Pail Kids Movie
Seven disgusting kids but nevertheless of interesting personality are being made of the green mud coming out of garbage can. Once alive their master gives them rules to obey although they think that life is funnier without following stupid regulations like no television or no candy. Naturally this will cause some conflicts.
9. The Peanut Butter Solution
Peanut butter is the secret ingredient for magic potions made by two 'friendly' ghosts. Eleven-year-old Michael looses all of his hair when he gets a 'fright' and uses the potion to get his hair back, but too much peanut butter causes things to get a bit 'hairy'.
8. The Boy Who Could Fly
Milly and Lewis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him.
7. House 2
The new owner of a sinister house gets involved with reanimated corpses and demons searching for an ancient Aztec skull with magic powers.
6. The Ren and Stimpy Show
An intense, hyperactive chihuahua (Is there any other kind?) and a happy-go-lucky, empty-brained cat share bizarre and often repulsive adventures. Their experiences usually involve hairballs, filthy litterboxes, "magic nose goblins", sentient farts, jars of spit, outhouses, eating dirt, monkey vermin and any other imaginable disgusting substance.
5. Chip An' Dale (1952)
Donald needs a log for his fire. Unfortunately, the one he picks is occupied by a couple of chipmunks and their stash of acorns. When he cuts it down, Chip and Dale fall out, but their acorns stay behind, so they work at putting out Donald's fire and retrieving their stash. Donald, of course, takes this as calmly and cheerfully as you would expect.
4. Beetlejuice
This is the story of Adam and Barbara who live in a beautiful house in New England. One day while driving home they are involved in a terrible auto accident. They manage to walk home only to discover later that they have died and now haunt their house. When their house is purchased by an out of state family, they feel their home is threatened by the over-the-top artists wife and real-estate idea-man husband. Their only relief is the Gothic daughter of the family. Their attempts at scaring the family out of the house are ignored or laughed at. Finally they fall to the temptation to use the people-exorcizer Beetle Juice. When they find his tactics too dangerous, they attempt to contain him and save the family they were trying to boot.
3. Pee Wee's Big Adventure
Pee-wee's bicycle, a material object he desires above all human relationships, is stolen. The journey he is forced to make exposes him to the land that suburbia forgot, a mythical working-class America filled with truck stops, waitresses and runaway convicts. This is Tim Burton's remake of Vittorio De Sica's Italian neo-realist classic, The Bicycle Thief.
2. The Stuff
Weird yummy goo erupts from the earth and is discovered by a couple of miners. They taste it and decide to market it because it tastes so good. The American public literally eats up the new dessert sensation now known as the Stuff but, unfortunately, it takes over the brains of those who eat it, turning them into zombie-like creatures. It is up to ex-FBI agent David Rutherford and a kid named Jason to stop the spread of the mind-devouring dessert.
1. The Gate
The boy Glen (Stephen Dorff) and his best fried Terry (Louis Tripp) accidentally open a gate to hell when a rotten tree is removed from the backyard of Glen's house. When his dog die and a friend of Glen's sister, the teenager Alexandra (Christa Denton), buries the animal in the hole, demons from an ancient civilization are released, seeking for two human sacrifices to dominate the world. Glen, Al and Terry, who are spending the weekend alone in the house, fight to save their lives and close the hole.
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good list.
i'd forgotten about a lot of these. i've brought 'The Peanut Butter Solution' up in conversation a few times and never had I met anyone who had seen it. it creeped me out a bit. i remember worrying about losing my hair for a while afterward.
...and wasn't natalie from facts of life and fred savage in 'The Boy Who Could Fly'?
on a similar note, some friends and i were listing all the movies that traumized us as children a couple month ago. ever see 'Watership Down'?
thanks. Not many people have seen The Peanut Butter Solution... and yes, Natalie and Fred were definitely in The Boy Who Could Fly... Never seen Watership Down though... Ill have to check it out.
dude, you can watch the peanut butter solution at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2798924676514781836
fo free
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