Does anyone recognize this movie?

[*Laurelindo*]

I'm searching for an animated movie that was apparently intended for children (it was used as some sort of moral movie back in the early 90s) but it was clearly a horror movie, and very dark and serious for being aimed at children - and it had a pretty unique style, almost like a calm nightmare.
Anyway, I only remember fragments but one very prominent character was an ugly-looking judge who interrogated a group of children early in the movie, and they were... imprisoned, I think, but I'm not sure... and the judge had a horrific laugh, and everytime he laughed a skull on his table would also start laughing.
I also remember that one of the children (a girl) was blindfolded in a building and forced to find his boyfriend among the other children, and if she failed they would all die, or something like that.
Then the house was set on fire, and the judge died in the flames.

What movie is this?
I have done all kinds of searches on Google on different occasions for literally years and never found anything.

[blackmage_nuke]

Disney's SAW?

I have no idea but it sounds pretty awesome

[*Laurelindo*]

It can't be SAW since that movie was made in 2004, and the movie I'm looking for was shown for me and my class back in like 1994-1995 or so.

Hell I'm not even sure if it is a movie that's even known outside of Sweden, it could very well be a Swedish movie but I'm not sure, maybe not.
I have no idea how to find it if no keywords on Google ever give me any clues in neither Swedish nor English.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Disney's SAW?

I have no idea but it sounds pretty awesome


It can't be SAW since that movie was made in 2004, and the movie I'm looking for was shown for me and my class back in like 1994-1995 or so.


http://thatsthejokestupid.com/2KNX.gif

[Shorty]

I seriously doubt that it's this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Judge_(film)) but it's worth a shot.

[*Laurelindo*]

I seriously doubt that it's this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Judge_(film)) but it's worth a shot.No, that movie was with living, real-life actors, and the movieb I'm talking about is animated.

I would also appreciate if some people here could leave out sarcasm in their replies, if this is supposed to be a mature forum on any level, thank you.
Asking for a movie title and correcting those who clearly give the wrong suggestions hardly justifies being ridiculed.
And I actually did point out that I was looking for an animated movie.

But anyway, thanks in advance to anyone who finds the movie I'm actually looking for.
It would actually be really fun to find it again since I remember it was quite original and interesting.

Oh by the way, this would also help a lot - does anyone know a site of som sort where you can specify the content of a movie as close as possible?
Like, approximately when it was made, what genre it was, what the main characters were like etc?
That could be some great help as well.

[sharkythesharkdogg]

Acting all butt-hurt after some gentle teasing hardly qualifies as mature. Neither does insinuating that the previous person gave you a false movie title to purposely try to mislead you. It was yet another lighthearted joke, and you missed it. That was the point.

This "mature forum on any level" is a community of people who enjoy laughing and joking around while discussing a topic. You posted this topic in the lounge where a more casual atmosphere of topic discussion is expected and accepted.

If you want to discuss your animated movie for children in a serious, dry, processional manner, without risk of reading some harmless, joking replies ask one of the mods to move it here. (http://home.eyesonff.com/eyes-each-other/)

[Shorty]

Okay, before this gets out of hand let's please keep the responses directed toward helping Lauralindo find his film.

LL, do you remember any other details about the movie? I didn't see your mention that it was animated, apologies.

[*Laurelindo*]

Acting all butt-hurt after some gentle teasing hardly qualifies as mature. Neither does insinuating that the previous person gave you a false movie title to purposely try to mislead you. It was yet another lighthearted joke, and you missed it. That was the point.
I didn't act "butt-hurt" at all, I just stated that it was the wrong movie and politely asked for some more serious suggestions.
And it's actually kind of ridiculous how everything now starts derailing into a debate on whether I am butt-hurt or not, instead of sticking to the original question, which really shouldn't be so hard - you can be lighthearted while answering the question, you know.
And anybody who insists on keeping this going now is the one who actively provokes the argument to go on, and would thus be the truly "butt-hurt" here.
But I don't want to "insult" anyone or "insinuate" anything, I am just kind of searching for a movie that I have been looking for a long time now, and it would be great of somebody here could help me find it.
It's fine if it's the wrong one, I don't blame anyone for that, I appreciate any attempts to help me find it. :D


Okay, before this gets out of hand let's please keep the responses directed toward helping Lauralindo find his film.

LL, do you remember any other details about the movie? I didn't see your mention that it was animated, apologies.Thank you, and no problem.

No, I have quite vague memories of this movie, but I have strong memories of that judge guy.
I believe the children had done something that he considered wrong, like being dishonest and lying or something similar, and that laughing skull on the table was supposed to symbolize their bad conscience, something like that.

[Quindiana Jones]

This quickly became hilarious.

What kind of animation style was it? How old were the kids? What type of world was it set (e.g. Victorian England, contemporary America, Nazi Germany etc.)?

[Shorty]

animated + judge + laughing skull came up with Do the Evolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Evolution) under video summary. getting closer! (or further away)

[Clo]

Ahaha. Well, I know how to answer another question the OP had in another thread now.

[*Laurelindo*]

This quickly became hilarious.No, it just became unnecessarily long-winded.
But as long as I see some sort of attempts of helping me with this then any "lighthearted manner" is fine.
Anyway...


What kind of animation style was it?I have no clear memory of that, but I believe it had a fairly "soft" look to it that was pleasant to watch.


How old were the kids?Somewhere around 12-13, I think.


What type of world was it set (e.g. Victorian England, contemporary America, Nazi Germany etc.)?No idea, I just remember that it was surprisingly dark and gloomy for being a children's movie, but it still clearly had a love theme as well, considering that a blindfolded girl was forced to find his boyfriend in the end, and recognized him only because "he felt his warmth" or something.
It was actually an extremely mature and deep children's movie.
In fact I can easily see this as a movie for adults, but appparently they thought it was alright to show it for kids back then.

[Bunny]

Reminds me of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vxqEM3oZwI).

[blackmage_nuke]

fyi i made a genuine attempt to track down this movie after i made the joke post

Did you see it on TV or in a cinema?
And i know this is a silly question but I dont want to make assumptions but were they speaking Swedish when you saw it?

[*Laurelindo*]

Reminds me of this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vxqEM3oZwI).That's not the movie either, I'm afraid.
It may have several similar aspects, but the movie I'm looking for had a more realistic animation style - nothing wrong about clay animation, but it wasn't animated that way.
I appreciate your response, though.
But actually, that movie you showed seems to have a fairly similar kind of feel - a little bit twisted and nightmarish.


fyi i made a genuine attempt to track down this movie after i made the joke post
Well that's good, I do appreciate it.


Did you see it on TV or in a cinema?
And i know this is a silly question but I dont want to make assumptions but were they speaking Swedish when you saw it?I'm not sure but I think we saw it at the cinema on a school day, and then some teacher hired the movie and showed it to us quite often.
I liked the ending part when the girl was forced to find her boyfriend under the threath of being killed, I felt that it had a very deep and dark message.
And yeah, they spoke Swedish, but I'm not sure if that was the original language or just a dubbed version.

Also, the scary aspect of this movie wasnt really in any certain scenes, it just felt scary and surrealistic, and also kind of depressive.
I have never seen anything quite like it before, but it seems like the movie "The Adventures Of Mark Twain" has a similar atmosphere.

[Agent Proto]

I don't know. I did a Wikipedia search on Swedish animated films (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Swedish_animated_films)and this one probably fits the description. One made 1989 called "Resan till Melonia" or "Journey to Melonia" Resan till Melonia 1989 - The journey to Plutonia - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJC2H5heQTQ)

Probably isn't the one you're looking for.

[blackmage_nuke]

I also did the wikisearch for sweedish films and I discounted that since it doesnt seem to have any of the plot elements

I then did a wiki search on swedish voice actors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Swedish_voice_actors) and tried to crossreference them all with imdb but the only thing that came close was Quest for camelot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_Camelot) but thats a few years too late and the only similarities is theres a blind guy instead of a blind fold and a girl

Im not sure if anyone has tried going through the list of animated movies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animated_feature_films:_1990s)in 1994-5 but you can give that a shot

[*Laurelindo*]

Thanks a lot, everyone. :)
Yeah, I'll check the links you mentioned and see if I can find it there somewhere.

I also remember a scene where a rider hurried towards a shack or something, and one could see the rider hitting his spurs at the horse so that it started bleeding, and it was in the middle of the night, I think.
It seemed to always be night or dusk throughout the whole movie, or at least that's how I remember the setting.

[Mercen-X]

A lot of this sounds eerily deja vu familiar... and yet I have no idea what you're talking about. It makes me think of something that was converted in a music video in the style of a Michael Jackson "you will take this and like it."

[*Laurelindo*]

I don't know. I did a Wikipedia search on Swedish animated films (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Swedish_animated_films)and this one probably fits the description. One made 1989 called "Resan till Melonia" or "Journey to Melonia" Resan till Melonia 1989 - The journey to Plutonia - YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJC2H5heQTQ)

Probably isn't the one you're looking for.I'm afraid that isn't the one either, but thanks a lot for trying.
Actually I might check out the movies you suggest as well, they could also be great. :)


A lot of this sounds eerily deja vu familiar... and yet I have no idea what you're talking about. It makes me think of something that was converted in a music video in the style of a Michael Jackson "you will take this and like it."I kind of have the same feeling myself - the best way I can describe the feelings I have of these movie memories is that they feel a lot like a vivid nightmare.
If you have ever had an unsettling dream before, not necessarily "scary", but uncomfortable and eerie, then you probably understand what I mean.
That's what the movie felt like more or less from beginning to end.
I also seem to remember that the movie tended to have a gloomy look to it, almost like a dark room lit by a candle.

The final scene was actually very powerful, and obviously had a love theme;
I liked when that blindfolded girl could "feel" who her boyfriend was, and even insisted that she had made the right guess.
Then that evil judge guy was totally scared and went like "are you sure...?!", and the girl would just say that she felt his warmth, or the rhythm of his heartbeat, or something like that.
Then the house started burning and the judge died in the flames, because the girl had proven her love for his boyfriend and they were freed.
Kind of touching scene actually, and surprisingly dark and mature for a children's movie.

[Mercen-X]

I imagine the judge to have had a long face and wearing one of those victorian wigs that went out of style nearly 100 years ago.