What movies are these?

[JR]

I watched tons of cheesy and bad horror movies as a kid and have memories of quite a few films that I can't recall very much about, including the titles.  I have a couple books, like the Psychotronic Video Guide and Phantom of the Movies Videoscope, that have helped me figure out what these movies were, but I can't figure a few out still.

1.  From 80's probably-- There are people having lots of hallucinations or perhaps they are supernatural things happening in a haunted house or something.  One happens when a guy is underground, I think.  He sees stop motion food products, like a doughnut, maybe, dancing around.  I wish I could remember more, but that's all I have to go on.  Hopefully somebody knows what I'm talking about.

2.  Also from the 80's I think-- This one I figured out what it was a while back, but my ADD has caused me to forget it again.  Anywho, a boy gets kidnapped by two old people in a car.  The one old guy has a disfigured hand.  They use a rag with chemicals on it to knock him out.  It seems like they were at the Alamo or some historic place before it happened.  This movie I think has a showdown between some bad guy and the kid's dad at the end.  Possible that it had to do with spies or something.

3.  Late 70s-80s--  I don't think it is the same movie as 2, but it has another boy having to fight off some guy when he breaks into his family's motor home.  I saw it on A&E a few years back.

Movies I've figured out include The Pit, The Believers, Invaders from Mars (80's version) which may give you a time frame of the movies I watched as a kid.

[Ringneck]

JR, Number 2 is, I think "Cloak and Dagger".  The boy is running from spies because his video game (called cloak and dagger) is secretly implanted with spy data that displays when you hit a certain level.  He is on the look out for a spy with a gympie hand when an old couple befriends him, and actually believe his story.  Once in their vehicle he sees the old woman dowsing a rag with drops from a bottle and she pulls off here dainty with, you guessed it, a gympie hand.  He then gets knocked out.  The scene you mention, a chase in a mall, and the basic plot are about all I remember.  I think the Comic Book Store Guy from the SImpsons is based on a similar character from this movie.

BradLaGrange

[Mofo Rising]

It's a long shot, but number one could be YOUNG EINSTEIN.  I know there are a lot of hallucination scenes in this movie, and at one point "young" Watson has a hallucination that he has being attacked by dancing food.

That's my only idea.

[John]

2 and 3 sound a little bit like "Death Valley", an 80's Slasher film with Wilford Brimley, Catherine Hicks, and Edward Hermann.

[JR]

"Cloak and Dagger" and "Death Valley!"  Thanks guys, that was quick.  Yeah, I know the first one isn't Young Einstein, it was definitely a horror film... Maybe it wasn't a hallucination and I've just used that to make the scene make more sense.   Hopefully it is a movie and not a TV show or something.  I know I was pretty young when I saw it.  I think it was a group of teenagers in a house or castle or something and the part I'm thinking of the guy goes down like a mine or something under the house.  The little food guys seem cute at first and then they just go apes**t on the guy, I think.  Man, I'm reaching here.  I wish I could remember some other scenes from it.

[Dwight Fry]

...but Young Sherlock Holmes (1985), directed by Barry Levinson, written by Chris Columbus and produced by Spielberg.

[Lee]

OK I'm going a little off topic here sorry. JR, I don't think your ADD is why you couldn't remeber more than a few details of those movies. Like you said you were younge when you saw them and when your younge you tend to not pay attention to a whole lot of details. Granted ADD is an attention disorder(I have it to) but I don't think this is part of it.

[JR]

Actually, it has nothing to do with my ADD.  I watched these movies with my two older sisters, and whenever I bring them up, they don't remember them at all, so at least my memory of them is better than theirs.

[JR]

Sorry Ringneck, I can see that's what you meant, now.  Thanks for clearing it up Dwight.  I can't believe it was Young Sherlock Holmes.  I went to the iMDB and checked it out, and as I read some of the comments, more of the movie came back.  Granted, I had to have been around four or five when I saw it, but it scared the living hell out of me.  That's why I thought it was a horror movie I guess, because all I remembered were the deaths and army of pastries.  What's sad is that I knew I'd seen Young Sherlock Holmes and had seperated the plot of him and Watson from the actual case they were probing, and thought they were two different movies.  I really need to watch this again, and laugh at the stuff that scared me when I was little.  I'm sure it's much worse in my head than what was actually on the screen.

Thanks a ton, guys!  If I have anymore vague memories of movies (and I know there are a couple that I just can't think of right now), this looks like the place to figure them out.

[Lee]

I bet your sisters remeber every single moment where you did something they didn't like. I'm still getting in trouble for stuff that happened so long ago I don't remeber doing it!