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Posted 5 days ago
In the hope that some of you are film maniacs, I would like to ask you if you can remember two specific horror films I’m looking for. Both I saw on TV, not cinema. So, they might had been released much earlier.

The first is an exorcism film, maybe the only one I have ever seen, as I’m avoiding this type of films. I had seen it around 1996, or so (I wasn’t an adult then), and it may as well be one of the first exorcism films released. I remember that it was about a teenage boy (not a girl) that had some symptoms and was taken into a hospital, but a priest realized that it was a possession, not a medical condition. Another thing that I remember is at the end (or near the end) of the film, the priest was so shocked about what the evil spirit was causing to the boy, in front of him, that in an act of love, he asked of the evil spirit to possess him instead. Then we see as the boy having been “healed”, while the priest telling him to get out of here (the building they were in), as the priest’s fingernails were beginning to grow rapidly and his face changing. I don’t want to watch the film again, I just want its name.

The second film I’m searching for is more difficult to be found, because I remember just one scene. I guess I got terrified, that I changed the channel (it was around 1996 too). The scene was in a room of a castle, but the film wasn’t an epic fantasy. It was, supposed to be, happening during the present time (of the film’s time, I mean). In that room there were some stationary metal knight’s suits (as we have seen in other similar films too). Two young men enter the room and hide in different hiding spots. Suddenly, (I think) 3 creatures come. The creatures move and look much like the Gollum (but uglier), and they are real monsters (I mean that, contrary to the Gollum, they have no logic, they don’t talk, etc.). They find and kill one guy, while the other is weeping silently, as he sees that. I don’t know what happened next, I stopped watching that.

Since I can marked as solved only one answer, I will mark so the second one, because I want to watch that film.
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Posted 5 days ago
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CarChris: In the hope that some of you are film maniacs, I would like to ask you if you can remember two specific horror films I’m looking for. Both I saw on TV, not cinema. So, they might had been released much earlier.

The first is an exorcism film, maybe the only one I have ever seen, as I’m avoiding this type of films. I had seen it around 1996, or so (I wasn’t an adult then), and it may as well be one of the first exorcism films released. I remember that it was about a teenage boy (not a girl) that had some symptoms and was taken into a hospital, but a priest realized that it was a possession, not a medical condition. Another thing that I remember is at the end (or near the end) of the film, the priest was so shocked about what the evil spirit was causing to the boy, in front of him, that in an act of love, he asked of the evil spirit to possess him instead. Then we see as the boy having been “healed”, while the priest telling him to get out of here (the building they were in), as the priest’s fingernails were beginning to grow rapidly and his face changing. I don’t want to watch the film again, I just want its name.

The second film I’m searching for is more difficult to be found, because I remember just one scene. I guess I got terrified, that I changed the channel (it was around 1996 too). The scene was in a room of a castle, but the film wasn’t an epic fantasy. It was, supposed to be, happening during the present time (of the film’s time, I mean). In that room there were some stationary metal knight’s suits (as we have seen in other similar films too). Two young men enter the room and hide in different hiding spots. Suddenly, (I think) 3 creatures come. The creatures move and look much like the Gollum (but uglier), and they are real monsters (I mean that, contrary to the Gollum, they have no logic, they don’t talk, etc.). They find and kill one guy, while the other is weeping silently, as he sees that. I don’t know what happened next, I stopped watching that.

Since I can marked as solved only one answer, I will mark so the second one, because I want to watch that film.
"Never on Sunday"(Μαρία Αμαλία Μερκούρη) ;--))
Posted 5 days ago
I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, I FOUND THE FIRST OF THEM!! It was Amityville 2: The Possession (1982)! So, it was released many years before I watched it. Now if anyone remembers the second one?

Also, you are right, KeoniBoy. Maybe I should have waited till Monday. Not many people come online on a Sunday (although it could make sense, as most people don't work on Sundays, so more free time to sit in front of the PC!).
Posted 4 days ago
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CarChris: I CAN'T BELIEVE IT, I FOUND THE FIRST OF THEM!! It was Amityville 2: The Possession (1982)! So, it was released many years before I watched it. Now if anyone remembers the second one?

Also, you are right, KeoniBoy. Maybe I should have waited till Monday. Not many people come online on a Sunday (although it could make sense, as most people don't work on Sundays, so more free time to sit in front of the PC!).
"Never on Sunday"(1960), set in Piraeus, and starring the incomparable Μαρία Αμαλία Μερκούρη, told the story of a "lady" of pleasure, who "rested" on Sunday, giving a big party to thank all her best clients for their loyal patronage. Hubba! Hubba!
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CarChris: The second film I’m searching for:
I remember just one scene [taking place in a castle].
There was a room with some knight’s armors on display.
But the movie was playing during the present time (the film’s present) - not in medieval times.
Two young men entered the room and hid in different hiding spots.
Suddenly, Gollum-like creatures entered the room.
They found and killed one guy, while the other was weeping silently, as he watched it happen.
Well, one scene isn't really much, if it's not something absolutely iconic.

Your description has me thinking of several different scenes, that I have seen over the years in different movies...but there's no bell ringing, that would allow me to pinpoint it to one movie in particular.

Any chance, you can narrow down the "film's present"?
Was it the 70s? 80s? 90s? Or maybe even earlier than the 70s?

Especially in the 70s, the market got flooded with cheap horror movies - both: made for cinema and made for TV.
Did it look like something made for cinema? Or rather something made for TV?

Did it have a certain setting, that you can remember?

You say, it wasn't set in medieval times - but wasn't there anything remarkable about the film's setting, and the time (period) it was placed in?

You also say, the scene took place inside "a room in a castle"...but was it actually a room inside a castle?
Or was it just a room that looked like it could be in a castle, but was really somewhere else (let's say: a mansion, a museum, etc.)?

And finally: would you say, it was an international release or "made in Greece"?
Posted 3 days ago
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BreOl72: Well, one scene isn't really much, if it's not something absolutely iconic.

Your description has me thinking of several different scenes, that I have seen over the years in different movies...but there's no bell ringing, that would allow me to pinpoint it to one movie in particular.

1) Any chance, you can narrow down the "film's present"?
Was it the 70s? 80s? 90s? Or maybe even earlier than the 70s?

2) Especially in the 70s, the market got flooded with cheap horror movies - both: made for cinema and made for TV.
Did it look like something made for cinema? Or rather something made for TV?

3) Did it have a certain setting, that you can remember?

4) You say, it wasn't set in medieval times - but wasn't there anything remarkable about the film's setting, and the time (period) it was placed in?

5) You also say, the scene took place inside "a room in a castle"...but was it actually a room inside a castle?
Or was it just a room that looked like it could be in a castle, but was really somewhere else (let's say: a mansion, a museum, etc.)?

6) And finally: would you say, it was an international release or "made in Greece"?
By putting some more pressure to my mind, I will try to answer the questions as I've numbered them.
1) The film's present must be in the '70 or '80s, but before 1985. The two men were wearing "modern" (to that period) clothing. They also had that particular hair style, as we’ve seen it in old movies.
2) Now that you mention this, it seemed to me that the film was more fitting as a straight-to-video film, though I guess the standards can change in filming eras. It may have been a very low quality film.
3-4) As I wrote in 1, they weren't wearing clothing as we've seen in, let's say, LOTR trilogy (or something like that). They were wearing usual clothing as people of those decades ('70s-'80s).
5) A most interesting question! I didn't actually see the outside of the room's building. That scene was the only one I saw. I don't even know what they were doing in there, or what they were searching for. I remember the walls of the room to be somewhat grey, having this type of bricks (pic. A). I also remember the bluish light of all the scene, as we’ve seen in films where the filmmaker want to show that it’s night and that the protagonists can barely see around them.
6) It was a film, where the two men were talking in English. No way this would come out of Greece (even if it had been a very low quality film). No talent in filming-imagination/script-writing here.

Something more: A) the creatures started actually eating the one guy, not just killed him. B) I think that, before they hide themselves in different spots of the room, the guy, who would later be eaten, had given something to the other one (although I may be mistaken in that).

Edit: Now that I ponder it some more, it may not have been a straight-horror film, as we deem them nowadays, but it could have been considered another type.
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Posted 3 days ago
Something newer crossed my mind for the second film. As we watch the scene from the camera, the weeping guy is on foreground and at the right side of the screen, while the attacked-by-monsters guy is at the background, around the middle of the scene (with the monsters attacking).
Any thought is welcome to point me to some possible directions. I will then check them out one by one.
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