soundmotor
07-21-2006, 02:38 PM
It's like an itch you cannot scratch. You see a film as a child and cannot remember the title or find anyone else who saw it. Over the years there were three for me, two of which I nailed down over there years but one still cannot name.
The first two were "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" & the second was "The Giant of Metropolis". The first I own and had seen once when I was 4 or so. It left a mark. Decades later when I finally figured out what I had seen & saw it again, I realized that my impression of how warped it was was not an inaccurate one. The second was an early 60's Italian scifi. It's now out on DVD and I plan to pick it up. I'll reserve comment on it until I see it but in my memory it was also pretty bent. And then there is the one I cannot find anything on. The story is thus -
A young blond woman living in a NY apartment buildind is kept as a prisoner by the building super and repeatedly raped in his apartment. At one point she kicks him in the eye and puts it out and he has a patch on the rest of the movie. She begins to have feelings for him eventually (Stockholm Syndrome I guess) and I believe apologizes for putting out his eye. This is bad enough but there is a dream sequence that stuck with me.
She is running through a museum and there are people in it but they have no faces, they are smooth. They are closing in on here and she is getting more panicked as she is caroming through the museum as fast as she can. She is getting more desperate to escape as the doors are locked through out the museum. Eventually she sees an exhibit room that is open. It is large and on the oposite wall is a painting of a forest scene with deer & stag. She runs to it and the camera focuses in on the stag where it's eye falls out of the painting. Whereas she awakes screaming still trapped in the super's apartment. Tough stuff when you are 12!
Has anyone seen this film? I would have sworn that the main role was played by Sandy Dennis but her IMDB CV does not confrim it.
The first two were "The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T" & the second was "The Giant of Metropolis". The first I own and had seen once when I was 4 or so. It left a mark. Decades later when I finally figured out what I had seen & saw it again, I realized that my impression of how warped it was was not an inaccurate one. The second was an early 60's Italian scifi. It's now out on DVD and I plan to pick it up. I'll reserve comment on it until I see it but in my memory it was also pretty bent. And then there is the one I cannot find anything on. The story is thus -
A young blond woman living in a NY apartment buildind is kept as a prisoner by the building super and repeatedly raped in his apartment. At one point she kicks him in the eye and puts it out and he has a patch on the rest of the movie. She begins to have feelings for him eventually (Stockholm Syndrome I guess) and I believe apologizes for putting out his eye. This is bad enough but there is a dream sequence that stuck with me.
She is running through a museum and there are people in it but they have no faces, they are smooth. They are closing in on here and she is getting more panicked as she is caroming through the museum as fast as she can. She is getting more desperate to escape as the doors are locked through out the museum. Eventually she sees an exhibit room that is open. It is large and on the oposite wall is a painting of a forest scene with deer & stag. She runs to it and the camera focuses in on the stag where it's eye falls out of the painting. Whereas she awakes screaming still trapped in the super's apartment. Tough stuff when you are 12!
Has anyone seen this film? I would have sworn that the main role was played by Sandy Dennis but her IMDB CV does not confrim it.