What was this movie called?
March 27, 2008 4:47 PM Subscribe
What was this movie called?
A group of people all travel to a mysterious island resort, but can't quite remember how or why they got there. Gradually, they come to realize they've died and this is Hell, just without the pitchforks and fire and so forth. It's referenced in the 2003 film Identity and is at least some sort of object floating in the background of the Lost collective consciousness.
A group of people all travel to a mysterious island resort, but can't quite remember how or why they got there. Gradually, they come to realize they've died and this is Hell, just without the pitchforks and fire and so forth. It's referenced in the 2003 film Identity and is at least some sort of object floating in the background of the Lost collective consciousness.
Wish I could remember. I was just trying to recall the title of this movie the other day
posted by mcgillicutty at 5:40 PM on March 27, 2008
posted by mcgillicutty at 5:40 PM on March 27, 2008
And I don't think it's the Agatha Christie adapatation. I remember seeing it in the 80s on TV and the production definitely had a 70s vibe.
posted by mcgillicutty at 5:41 PM on March 27, 2008
posted by mcgillicutty at 5:41 PM on March 27, 2008
Someone on the IMDB boards says that the movie that the character Clea DuVal mentions in Identity is Ten Little Indians, which is the American version/remake of And Then There Were None.
posted by iconomy at 5:56 PM on March 27, 2008
posted by iconomy at 5:56 PM on March 27, 2008
Possible clue:
I am trying to locate a B movie I once saw on late night TV. It was about a plane filled with semi-celebrities which crashed on a remote island. At first they think they are in paradise but they later realize that there is something terribly wrong and each one is in a situation which encompasesss their own private hell. The whole dilemma in the movie is whether they actually survived the plane crash or whether they are in hell, heaven or purgatory. i don't remember the name at all except that it is the name of the Island something like "Plates of Hades" or "Pillars of Eden". it was mad in the late 1960s/early 1970s and does not star anyone very famous. One scene i remember one scene where one of the men and his mistress who were on the plane say that however bad, at least they are still together and then the man's clinging wife shows up.
posted by RavinDave at 6:21 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
I am trying to locate a B movie I once saw on late night TV. It was about a plane filled with semi-celebrities which crashed on a remote island. At first they think they are in paradise but they later realize that there is something terribly wrong and each one is in a situation which encompasesss their own private hell. The whole dilemma in the movie is whether they actually survived the plane crash or whether they are in hell, heaven or purgatory. i don't remember the name at all except that it is the name of the Island something like "Plates of Hades" or "Pillars of Eden". it was mad in the late 1960s/early 1970s and does not star anyone very famous. One scene i remember one scene where one of the men and his mistress who were on the plane say that however bad, at least they are still together and then the man's clinging wife shows up.
posted by RavinDave at 6:21 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
Best answer: And ... of course, I clipped off the part of the clue that gave the name as: Haunts of the Very Rich (1972) (TV).
posted by RavinDave at 6:23 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by RavinDave at 6:23 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
Response by poster: HotVR could be the film in question. Certainly not And Then There Were None, as that's a Christie adaptation and a murder mystery, while in the film I'm thinking of, no one is actually murdered. It was an afternoon movie on a Washington DC station back in the late 70s/early 80s, and oddly creepy for afternoon fare that someone as young as I might have been watching. Ed Asner squares with one scene that I faintly remember, too. (Not that I remember him, but that I remember someone like him.) Many thanks, RavinDave.
posted by el_lupino at 6:32 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
posted by el_lupino at 6:32 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
Also sounds vaguely like the spirit of the remake season of Fantasy Island, if you liked HotVR. Old one (Ricardo Montalban in a white suit) went "here's your wish, doesn't turn out like you planned, teaches you what's really important, you get back on the plane to go lead a better life having learned your lesson", stay tuned for Love Boat.
New one (Malcolm McDowell in a Black Suit) was more like "ah, here are our arriving Faustian bargains, let's watch them become disillusioned, then unhappy, then tortured by their fantasy - too bad they made their deal without fully realizing what was important". I don't remember anyone ever getting to LEAVE Fantasy Island at the end of an episode, and the people on staff at the island were revealed to be damned/trapped pretty early on.
posted by bartleby at 7:20 PM on March 27, 2008
New one (Malcolm McDowell in a Black Suit) was more like "ah, here are our arriving Faustian bargains, let's watch them become disillusioned, then unhappy, then tortured by their fantasy - too bad they made their deal without fully realizing what was important". I don't remember anyone ever getting to LEAVE Fantasy Island at the end of an episode, and the people on staff at the island were revealed to be damned/trapped pretty early on.
posted by bartleby at 7:20 PM on March 27, 2008
Evidently it has a long pedigree. 1925 Stage Play ==> "Outward Bound (1930)" ==> "Between Two Worlds (1944)" ==> "HotVR (1972)"
Of course, the "Gosh, we're in Hell" theme is pretty ubiquitous, from "Twilight Zone: A Nice Place to Visit (1960)" to "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)" and many, many more, I'm sure.
posted by RavinDave at 7:25 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
Of course, the "Gosh, we're in Hell" theme is pretty ubiquitous, from "Twilight Zone: A Nice Place to Visit (1960)" to "Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965)" and many, many more, I'm sure.
posted by RavinDave at 7:25 PM on March 27, 2008 [1 favorite]
Almost positive it's "Haunts." I remember Cloris Leachman being in it. And, el_lupino, I think we might have watched the same broadcast or at least the same channel as I saw it as an afternoon movie in the D.C./Northern Virginia area in that time frame.
posted by mcgillicutty at 7:49 PM on March 27, 2008
posted by mcgillicutty at 7:49 PM on March 27, 2008
There was also a Twilight Zone episode in the 60s about a group of astronauts who slowly realize they are dead. Looks like they are making it into a movie.
Uhhh, wait.... I meant to say spoiler alert I think...
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 8:44 PM on March 27, 2008
Uhhh, wait.... I meant to say spoiler alert I think...
posted by Fuzzy Skinner at 8:44 PM on March 27, 2008
Isn't there an old horror movie about three guys riding on a train similar to this? They finally figured out they were on a train to hell.
posted by bleucube at 4:11 AM on March 28, 2008
posted by bleucube at 4:11 AM on March 28, 2008
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posted by ill3 at 5:11 PM on March 27, 2008