2/20/2007

Yesterday I talked about how you guys often help me solve problems- and today, let’s get to my solving yours. I get all sorts of e-mails, with folks asking if I can help them come up with the name of a film they describe that they don’t quite remember a lot about, especially the title. Sometimes it’s easy- and sometimes, it’s almost impossible. There are times when I know instantly that it’s not a movie I’ve ever shown, no matter how much they protest that it was (but- having been on the air for so many years, I’m sure the years might blur movies seen elsewhere with ones that were on Sven shows.) I’ve been the victim of trying to find a title for years- for a movie I saw on a rainy afternoon, decades ago, as a kid. The film scared the heck out of me. It was an old black and white film- with people being killed by- some creature. I remember there being a family crypt, which had a statue of a wolf in it, that then actors occasionally stood around in. At one point, while they stood there discussing something, a chain on the floor was slowly and mysteriously being dragged around the corner of the base of the wolf statue, and no one seemed to notice. I recall only that, at the end of the movie, it turns out there’s a werewolf (the only time he’s seen, I think, being right at the end-when he was shot –I think- and he pokes his head up over a cliff, snarls, then disappears.) I’ve never seen it again, and have no idea what movie it is- do you?! Anyway, I get many questions from folks in a similar dilemma- One lady wrote, asking if there was a Sven film with a disembodied psychic head. That threw me for a while- as films like “Shrunken Heads” came to mind- until I guessed that maybe she meant “the Brain that Wouldn’t Die!” The head of the mad doctor’s fiancée, kept alive after being severed in a car accident, did develop psychic powers- and controlled the dreaded “thing in the closet” with them. But- what about this one? A viewer asked about a film where the “humans” were small flesh-colored creatures, at odds with larger blue-skinned creatures. The smaller humans were under the control of the blue-skins. I have no clue what movie that might be- could it be the old “Time Machine”-with petite blonde Yvette Mimieux and her like companions facing the ugly, sort of pale greenish-blue-skinned Morlocks? Or, was it “Head of the Class Meets the Blue Man Group?” Sometimes answers aren’t easy to find…but, I’ll always try- and enlist your help as well- time and again, you guys prove you’re much smarter than me!