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Trying to remember a similar movie


I'm trying to remember the name of a movie I saw as a kid and in my searching 'Watcher in the Woods' came up. I don't think it's the right movie but I think there might be some similarities so somebody on here might know what I'm talking about.

The film I'm pretty sure was a ghost story but my memory of it is pretty vague. I watched in class in elementary school so I don't imagine it's anything particularly intense. This would've been somewhere between 93 and 97 that I watched it but it could've been an older film.

I believe it was a period movie set either in the late 19th century or early 20th century about a girl who is sent to a boarding school up in the mountains somewhere. The scene I recall most clearly was the girls all bathing together in a big room full of tubs or maybe showers. They all wear bathing outfits but the protagonist isn't used to this and takes all her clothes off, which freaks out the other girls. One of them yells, 'she's naked!' and all the girls scream and/or laugh at her.

I also recall a scene where the girl is looking at a mirror which mysteriously breaks on its own in her hands and I think mirrors are a recurring theme in the film and have something to do with a supernatural element.

My memories of this are pretty hazy and it's even possible that I'm wrong to think it was a supernatural film but I think it was. I'm often reminded of it by other movies and it always drives me nuts not being able to remember what that film was.

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Lust for a Vampire, possibly?

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I'm trying to find it too.I've seen it in the past year and can't think of the name of it.I'm sure it's not the vampire one.

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I think I want to say Brian De Palma's Carrie, since there is a shower scene in the opening few minutes of the film, and the main character (Carrie, of course) shatters a mirror with her telekinetic powers.

That's just my input as to what this movie may be.




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The woods?

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Hmmmm. This one is a long-shot, but it wouldn't be Picnic at the Hanging Rock by any chance?

And since we're on this theme, I have a sketchy memory of a different movie. The scene is outdoors on some kind of scaffolding in the middle of nowhere. A woman in a blue cloak is kneeling in front of a figure with a sword, with her back to him. She takes off her hood, revealing a stunning brunette with her hair up in a bun. He taps her on each shoulder with the sword as if knighting her, then suddenly swings the sword and (presumably) beheads her. Then the credits start. I believe this scene was the beginning of the movie or show. Help please?

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Sounds like it could be Courage Mountain(1990).



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I believe it was a period movie set either in the late 19th century or early 20th century about a girl who is sent to a boarding school up in the mountains somewhere. The scene I recall most clearly was the girls all bathing together in a big room full of tubs or maybe showers. They all wear bathing outfits but the protagonist isn't used to this and takes all her clothes off, which freaks out the other girls. One of them yells, 'she's naked!' and all the girls scream and/or laugh at her.


There's a scene like that in Narciso Ibáñez Serrador's La residencia (1969) aka The House That Screamed.

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I kinda remember a supernatural tv movie that came on A&E back in the mid 1980s where a blonde teenager at some mansion saw SONE ghost or whatever. The gal was wearing a tight shirt showing her nipples.



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I'm pretty sure you're thinking of Suspiria.

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