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Alien invasion movie, including the line: "We are the food"
Is this the TV-movie, Survivor (1999)...?
An Arctic oil rig crew discovers something strange far beneath the Earth's surface, which may or may not be responsible for the series of murders that begin ...
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What are these classic 80's action movies?
The scene at 2:41:01 (white spherical explosion between tall dark buildings) is from 1988 iconic anime masterpiece "Akira", in particular from the penultimate scene.
Screenshot from the ...
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Movie where a man is talking to a parasite in his stomach
Is this David Cronenberg's Shivers (1975)...?
The residents of a suburban high-rise apartment building are being infected by a strain of parasites that turn them into mindless, sex-crazed fiends out ...
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What are these classic 80's action movies?
The "blue floating face" in scene #4 is from Time Bandits:
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70's or 80's movie in which an older gentleman uses a magic paintbrush to paint living children into paintings they can't escape
This does sound to me very much like The Peanut Butter Solution, released in 1985, but with a few important differences. In the film a boy named Michael is scared by a ghost and loses all of his hair. ...
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SciFi movie where woman has alien baby
Progeny (1998)? Wikipedia gives a basic plot summary:
Sherry Craig, a professional woman, happily discovers she is pregnant. While this is happy news for her and her husband Craig who is a doctor, ...
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Short video of insurance salesman summoning a demon who also is into insurance
As noted by Stanley Webb, this might be the 32nd episode of Monsters (Episode 8 of Season 2), "The Demons", which is an adaptation of a Robert Sheckley short story of the same name.
A ...
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Film from the 1960s, like "She," that ends with a lost underground city being destroyed by an atom bomb
Is this Journey Beneath the Desert (1961)...?
From Wikipedia:
Journey Beneath the Desert (Italian: Antinea, l'amante della città sepolta) is a 1961 adventure film based on the novel Atlantida by ...
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Sci-fi / Action movie involving portals appearing in the desert and soldiers accidently passing through into another dimension (last 10 years)
This sounds a lot like the 2020 movie Monster Hunter based on the video game of the same name.
Quoting from the plot summary on Wikipedia:
On Earth, U.S. Army Ranger Captain Natalie Artemis and her ...
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What's the title of the movie where flesh and muscle monsters eat humans
This is Feast II: Sloppy Seconds (2008).
The monsters have made it into a small neighboring town in the middle of nowhere and the locals have to band with the survivors of the bar' slaughter to ...
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Movie where a man invents a spray that removes sounds
I believe this movie is The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953) which is the only feature film written by Dr. Seuss.
The young protagonist must take piano lessons, which he hates, and dreams a surreal dream ...
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70's or 80's movie in which an older gentleman uses a magic paintbrush to paint living children into paintings they can't escape
It sounds like you're describing an episode of the TV show Are You Afraid of The Dark? from 1995: The Tale of the Unfinished Painting.
In it, a young girl meets a woman at an art gallery full of ...
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What does "Crossbone Crunch" mean?
"Crossbone Crunch" appears to be a fictional brand of snack chips of some description. An earlier version of the script also has him finding a fictional brand of soft drink, "Diet ...
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Which old black and white movie is the end of the "(Don't Fear) The Reaper" video based on? (Not "Death Takes a Holiday!")
Might you be referring to the HIM cover of the song? That video is a mix of several old B&W movies along with more recent color films that have been given the B&W treatment.
There is a scene ...
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Horror movie where a girl gives a boy a necklace for protection against an entity that ends up killing his mother
Is this Darkness Falls (2003)...?
A vengeful spirit has taken the form of the Tooth Fairy to exact vengeance on the town that lynched her 150 years earlier. Her only opposition is the only child, now ...
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UK horror movie involving a team of University students studying and documenting a possessed girl they keep locked in room
Could this be The Quiet Ones (2014)?
A university professor and a team of students conduct an experiment on
a young woman, uncovering terrifyingly dark, unexpected forces in the
process.
Allegedly ...
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I'm trying to find a short thriller film about a light bulb and kids in a room
It was a short movie called Click from 2010. "Alter" was also in the title:
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70's or 80's movie in which an older gentleman uses a magic paintbrush to paint living children into paintings they can't escape
Is it perhaps The Pagemaster, starring Macaulay Culkin and Christopher Lloyd?
It came out in the early 90s, features an older gentleman (Lloyd) who transforms the protagonist into an animated ...
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Live-action movie where a boy goes fishing and the fish appear above the lake
I'm certain that you remember the recent Netflix series "Raising Dion", about ordinary people who develop super-powers after a bizarre incident with the Aurora Borealis.
The fish scene was a ...
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Sci fi movie with a blind skeletal robot hunting a man in a warehouse
It sounds like you're describing the final chase scene in the film Westworld (1973). Yul Brynner's character 'The Gunslinger' is designed for outdoor use and mistakes our character's heat pattern for ...
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Sci-fi movie with lost astronauts, ending with the phrase “let’s see what’s out there”
I think you may be thinking of an alternate ending to Disney's The Black Hole (and a bit of Star Trek: The Next Generation)
In the original theatrical film, The Black Hole ends with
In several ...
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Does the German movie translation of Lord of the Rings intentionally use 'du' in this way?
The reason that Gandalf addresses the Balrog with du is quite simple:
Sie is reserved for people. Germans never address non-human beings* with Sie. As the Balrog isn't a person†, it is addressed with ...
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90's movie involving a super-soldier, a fear-smelling "monster" and a trapped man & woman
Looks like it is Death Machine (1994), YouTube trailer
Plot
After a mad genius inventor of killer robots and cyborgs at Chaank
Armaments Corp. kills execs, he unleashes his ultimate death machine
on ...
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Movie where two people meet and fall in love in a dream
Possibly Paperhouse
While suffering from glandular fever, 11-year-old Anna Madden draws a house. When she falls asleep, she has disturbing dreams in which she finds herself inside the house she has ...
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Story where hospital staff succumb to aliens and wear them close to their bodies
If it was a bit later than you remember, it could be the 2006 Candy Stripers (not to be confused with the 1978 porn film of the same name)
Candy Stripers begins with a blind girl taken into the ER ...
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