Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2016 September 18

= September 18 =

B-Movie to ID
I'm trying to track down a terrible movie; I'm almost positive that it was shown as part of Elvira's Movie Macabre during that show's original run, though I haven't been able to pick it out from the list provided there. I don't recall much of the film, but it was one of those cheapo horror/sci-fi movies with terrible colouring that got cranked out in the 60s and 70s. The main piece I recall was that the central character was obsessed with capturing a person's soul upon death. The gimmick being that the soul gets released with the last breath. The movie may also have given a nod to the soul having a specific weight, a la Duncan MacDougall's 21 grams, but I don't see anything familiar in that article either and I could just be conflating the concepts. Ring any bells? A lot of the flicks in the Elvira article are redlinked (and probably for good reason), so I could well click through every single link and still not find the one I want. Alternately, if there's a better online forum for obscure stuff like this, I'd give that a go as well. Matt Deres (talk) 00:11, 18 September 2016 (UTC)


 * You might be thinking of The Asphyx. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 05:28, 18 September 2016 (UTC)


 * There are aspects I don't remember, but that's got to be the one. Thank you! Even weirder, it doesn't show up in the Elvira list and I can't think of any other way I would have seen a film like that. Unless the list is incomplete? I blame the guy who started that article. Could I ask how you tracked it down? Or did you just happen to remember it? Matt Deres (talk) 13:54, 18 September 2016 (UTC)


 * And then I find the answer a minute later. EMM showed the film under the name The Horror of Death, which was unlinked. Link has been included now. Matt Deres (talk) 13:58, 18 September 2016 (UTC)


 * The producers might have decided that maybe the public had no clue what an "asphyx" is. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 04:56, 19 September 2016 (UTC)


 * Yea, the public might take that as a porno (as in a drug fix). StuRat (talk) 16:12, 23 September 2016 (UTC)