Please help me identify these three '60s / '70s movies!

[Thin Guy]

I need help with these three movies. They are probably all turkeys, but a vague memory of them has been bugging me for a while and I need to know what they are and if they are any good. These summaries are meant to be somewhat silly (but accurate - with no intention of actually obfuscating the descriptions.)

MOVIE #1: An adolescent girl has a "dark secret". She has been taking injections for years and been told that they are insulin or something. In one scene she goes out on a boat with a boy who likes her. Hanky-panky occurs and he is so disturbed by what he discovers that he manages to kill himself in a boating accident in his hurry to get back to dock. The girl is soaked, but unharmed, and is visibly upset at the events as she is led away by family members... and the movie goes on from there. I did not get a chance to watch the rest of it.

MOVIE #2: This one is from the '70s psycho-babble genre. The bad guy is a flamboyant wacko. In one scene, he has hot waxed dripped all over his back. When the wax has formed a 3/4" thick hard layer, he says "remove the wax" and then sighs heavily when his assistant complies. Near the end of the movie, the bad guy manages to "get the drop" on his accosters by feigning like he is having some kind of freak-out. Ultimately, he is killed. THE END!

MOVIE #3: This jewel starts out with a "witch" being burned at the stake in Colonial times. She manages to put a curse on the town just prior to being consumed. The movie then comes forward to modern times. The remaining scenes of the movie consist mostly of a woman, dressed in black, walking across fields! Now, in one scene, the woman does come to a barn. Upon entering the structure, she finds a sickle and throws it over her shoulder. The sickle lands next to a hammer in a configuration similar to the Soviet "Hammer and Sickle" flag. She vocalizes a self-satisfied "HRUMPH!", then exits the barn and continues her trek across the fields... (THE END?)

Have at it!

[qnr]

Don't know any of them, sorry, and welcome to DU - if you actually

are new here :hi:

[DanCa]

1. They sound like Bruce Campbell movies.

Did you try a search on IMDB under actors credits? I am clueless to thier actually title however.

[DanCa]

2. Oh welcome to DU thin guy

:hi:

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. Even I, the bad movie master, is baffled by these descriptions

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

18. Am baffled? Are baffled?

:shrug:

[Floogeldy]

4. What is "psycho-babble?"

Welcome, Thin Man!

:applause:

[Thin Guy]

5. Thanks, Everybody!

The way I used the word here, "psycho-babble" just means those pretentiously experimental, somewhat kaleidascopic movies of the '70s with over-the-top villains, too-groovy clothes, lots of violence and nudity. The era when Hollywood and the Independents went a little nuts after the collapse of the studio system and the relaxing of the censorship, I think!?

[Floogeldy]

6. Groovy

;)

[sendero]

19. I think the genre is called

"psychotronic".

[Thin Guy]

20. as in "The Psychotronic Man" 1980

Thanks, I looked up the term on Wikipedia and was directed to Michael J. Wheldon's website. I guess "cult-film" has been used, albeit more generally.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. "Psychobabble" is a term used to describe use of psychiatric jargon

by non-professionals, especially when they have no idea what they're talking about.

[Thin Guy]

24. It just seemed appropriate...

...and a little kick^

[Nevernose]

7. Movie #3: Is that from an MST3K episode?

Witches burned at the beginning, then modern day, with the witch wandering around lots of fields. Seems like there's also some pseudo-Amish people and a guy trying to pick up on one of their daughters?

[Thin Guy]

10. Hmmm

Nevernose,

Is that movie from around 1970? I did a quick search for MST3K candidates and there was nothing obvious. I'm going to try again tomorrow. Thanks!

[lakemonster11]

11. I think you're thinking of the MST3K episode "Touch of Satan"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066476/

I'm not sure it's the same, but it does sound similar.

[Nevernose]

13. That's the one

On his way to California, Jodie decides on a whim to make a brief side trip to a farm, where he meets and falls in love with Melissa, the proverbial farmer's daughter. Or so it seems. In between the overlong dramatic pauses, we learn that Melissa is in fact a 120-year-old witch, and her remarkably spry "great-grandmother," Lucinda, is actually her sister, who has been pitchforking people to death in her spare time. When Lucinda murders a local policeman, things start to get real complicated for Jodie.

Very, very slow, and very, very "seventies." According to some poster on the BB, the cinematographer actually went on to be someone famous in the (small) cinematography community.

[realisticphish]

17. "This is where the fish lives"

:rofl:
I LOVE that episode
"There's been a walnut uprising!"

[kevsand]

8. That is some pretty obscure sh*t.

I've seen (or read about) a huge volume of low-budget indie films, and I'm drawing a total blank on these...

[Aimah]

9. If you need help check this.

When I have a question about a movie I usually go to this site. It's the link to the chat.

http://www.aintitcool.com/chat.php

Edited to correct link.

[newyawker99]

12. Hi Thin Guy!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Thin Guy]

14. Thank you Nevernose and lakemonster11!

That is a very promising candidate for the witch movie. I'll look into it some more. I really thought that would be the toughy of the three although the possibility of a MST3K broadcast was definitely anticipated. (I never watched the show myself.) Now, for the others!

[Left Is Write]

15. I have no idea, but #1 sounds intriguing.

[Thin Guy]

16. Thanks, Newyawker99!

It turns out that the "Touch of Satan" director went by about 5 different pseudonyms and the movie itself had at least 4 different names and may have been released anytime between 1970 and 1974. Just about everybody hated it! It may be out on DVD, if the Amazon entry is any indication, but this may be a different movie...

[begin_within]

21. The Jenna Bush Story, The Newt Gingrich Story, and The Karen Hughes Story.

[Thin Guy]

22. LOL!

Excellent - actually, those are the remakes...

[kmla]

25. First one kinda sounds like 'The Sound of Music" to me...

But I could be wrong.

:D

[Thin Guy]

26. ...or they could be three Episodes of "Little House on the Prairie"

after about the fourth season - when the show collapsed into melodramatic disasters from rapes to drug addiction to fires, etc.

[Thin Guy]

27. A Kick for the Weekend crowd

nt

[Thin Guy]

28. One Final, Shameless Kick and then no more...

nt