help identify - horror movie, animated parts

[mkiker2089]

In another forum (Roku forums) there's a horror movie discussion. One of the guys there is trying to remember a mid 70's horror movie about body parts that wouldn't die. Not House, not Evil Dead, before them. Sounds like an example of the 70s disposable gore movies to me, and so many were made it could be hard to narrow down.

here's what he remembers

Evil Dead definitely isn't the movie (I'd remember Bruce Campbell in all his B-acting glory). The film I was trying to describe was circa 1975 or 76 at the latest, but probably a few years earlier than that. I was living in Alabama at the time, probably only 5 or 6 years old, when I remember seeing it. I happened to catch it on (I think) TBS of all networks, about four years ago, and could only stomach about an hour of it before I channel surfed. Too many nightmares from way back

I'll see if I can dig it up in the next week or so. It was really a great film for what it was. Couldn't even call it a B-movie, it was so bad, but it was fun and chilling in some ways, even as an adult (probably due partly to my childhood experiences). I just remember so vividly seeing that leg crawl up the stairs and being scared by it, and my mother saying, "Shawn, I think maybe you need to go to bed." Didn't even have to argue with her on that one, as children are so wont to do. I took my scared behind to bed, immediately.

Even now, just thinking about that movie, I shudder. Insomnia claims me tonight, which is why I'm here, and I KNOW I'm going to have nightmares about it tonight lol.

C. Shawn Smith

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There's another one that I'm going to have to dig up, but I can't recall the title. Watched it when I was VERY young, but got so scared my parents sent me to bed. All I remember is a witch that was dismembered, and her body parts came back to life. I vividly remember, to this day, watching arms and legs crawl up and down stairs, or a head rolling across a hallway. Saw it one time since then, and couldn't believe how awful it was, but I still had fun with it even then. What the frak was the name of it?!?

[Burson_Fouch]

Sounds like they may be recalling the "Frozen Fear" segment of the Amicus omnibus flm Asylum, a man drives his wife nuts with his fussiness and she chops him up, wraps the bits in butcher's paper and stuffs them in the cellar freezer. The parts come back to life and chase her about the house, I.E. arms and legs crawling up stairs, head rolling down the hallway etc. etc.

It's an effectively chilling sequence given that the effects limitations of the time are somewhat alleviated by having the body parts being wrapped in paper. I can understand why people who saw it when they were younger remember it.

It's based on a Robert Bloch short story shocker, not an old Tales From The Crypt story.

[Andrew Forbes]

Sounds like they may be recalling the "Frozen Fear" segment of the Amicus omnibus flm Asylum, a man drives his wife nuts with his fussiness and she chops him up, wraps the bits in butcher's paper and stuffs them in the cellar freezer. The parts come back to life and chase her about the house, I.E. arms and legs crawling up stairs, head rolling down the hallway etc. etc.

It's an effectively chilling sequence given that the effects limitations of the time are somewhat alleviated by having the body parts being wrapped in paper. I can understand why people who saw it when they were younger remember it.

It's based on a Robert Bloch short story shocker, not an old Tales From The Crypt story.

Right segment, wonky synopsis. Richard Todd wants to do away with his wife. He does the hacking. Her parts do the ambulating.

[mkiker2089]

I seem to recall a classic short story like that now. I'm thinking it could be Poe but if it were I should recognize it.

Here's the short story. A man for some reason has super strength. He even remarks that a normal person would be dead. All that is left of him (unlike the movie) is a head. He uses his teeth to climb the stairs. I don't know if the story ended there or if we stopped reading. A few years in high school we had texts that were only the beginning of stories because someone thought it would encourage us buying the books.

[Burson_Fouch]

Sounds like they may be recalling the "Frozen Fear" segment of the Amicus omnibus flm Asylum, a man drives his wife nuts with his fussiness and she chops him up, wraps the bits in butcher's paper and stuffs them in the cellar freezer. The parts come back to life and chase her about the house, I.E. arms and legs crawling up stairs, head rolling down the hallway etc. etc.

It's an effectively chilling sequence given that the effects limitations of the time are somewhat alleviated by having the body parts being wrapped in paper. I can understand why people who saw it when they were younger remember it.

It's based on a Robert Bloch short story shocker, not an old Tales From The Crypt story.

Right segment, wonky synopsis. Richard Todd wants to do away with his wife. He does the hacking. Her parts do the ambulating.

Right....I confused the Bloch Story with the Feldstein/Gaines shocker where the harried wife chops the husband up and carefully catalogues the pieces in his workbench. I think a similar story was presented as part of another Amicus omnibus flick.