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People Thought I Was Crazy!!

posted 18 years ago by Samwebb98
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I was sitting around with friends one night and my friend was talking about someone having long hair but made the stupid comment they had "long ass hair" for some reason this triggered my memory of this movie. I asked my friends if they remembered a movie about kids wanting to grow hair and came up with a peanut butter mix and then they put it in some strange places if you know what I mean. I said the movie had other story lines but that one stuck out. They all looked at me like I was crazy. Finally after an hour of searching I found it here. I am not obviously alone. I was probably 6 or 7 when I saw this movie. I would have been 5 in 1985 so I really don't think I would have seen in when I was 5. I would love to see it again and show them I was right.

[–] mommynanda 17 years ago

They thought I was crazy too! But I got indignant and said "Ha! The Internet will prove me sane!" I am so glad to have found this discussion - I'm laughing hysterically, because just like everyone else here, people tried to convince me that I'd dreamed it all up!

[–] BigFatPileOfCheeseCake 17 years ago

I've tried to find out what this movie was for years, after seeing it when I was 5. I've described it to several people, and they all gave me some freaky looks. Thanks to the I NEED TO KNOW boards, here I am!

Click: http://www.ladycalamari.piczo.com/?cr=7&rfm=y

[–] krymzynstarr 17 years ago

I always remembered this movie from my childhood, I was 7 when I first saw it. I never forgot the name, but I did however, get the crazy looks whenever I mentioned it.

I recently introduced it to my 8 year old son, he thought the boy with the hair growing out of his pant leg was hilarious. Personally, I always found it odd that the police didn't make much of a fuss about all the kids that had gone missing and the parents were so calm about it too.

Death is never certain until you get poked in the eye with a stick.

[–] hunneybee1979 17 years ago

I too got crazy looks when ever I would mention this movie. My husband litterally said "are you sure that you didn't just dream it". LOL I'm so glad that I'm not alone in this. I too vividly remember the scene with the hair sticking out of the pants leg.

[–] Treasure-N-White 17 years ago

Whoever thought that you were crazy, they were the ones who lost all of their marbles! The first time I saw this movie, I was 12. I thought it was hilarious! I would love to find it for my 9-year old nephew. He would get a kick out of this!

[–] jmabelis 17 years ago

i also tried to desrcribe this movie to my friends to see if anyone else knew what it was.....they thought i was making it up.....seems a very shared experience of people being thought they're crazy when they try and describe this movie. Now im going back to my friends and telling them "See?" I am not crazy!!!!!!!!

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[–] chikiboni 17 years ago

yeah i think this is one of those movies everyone has seen but forgot about. lol. i remembered something about peanut butter and hair that wouldnt stop growing and getting kidnapped and making paintbrushes out of the hair that made paintings you could go into or something. LOL!

[–] Trustive 17 years ago

Wow. It's like a little community here. All sewn together by this haunting film. :)

I'm now 22. And this movie followed me for years. I saw it on German television at the age of 7 and since then remember all the eerie scenes. The burnt ghost house, fast growing hair, the "noiseless" ghosts, him being in the paintbrush factory and other little children working on the brushes. Wackos!

But after a long google search I finally found it.
Thanks for enlightening my childhood.

[–] jillenabean 17 years ago

I just remember the part about using peanut butter to grow his hair back, it growing really fast, and an evil guy using the hair to make paintbrushes. I really liked the idea of being about to paint whatever you want, and then being able to go into the painting (you could paint a vacation spot and go whenever you wanted; how cool would that be?). I can see the creepiness of it, but I don't remember being scared or having nightmares. I just wanted to find it and see if I still liked it as an adult.

[–] Pigbelly 17 years ago

I saw this film because of another movie that people thought didn't exist when I told them about it. I was searching for it and came across this film. The original film I was looking for was a Quebecois indie kid film called "The Dog Who Stopped the War"... anyone seen that? It's the same year as "The Peanut Butter Solution". Anyone?

[–] Wyldstallyon1989 17 years ago

Sorry.

However, keeping in line with the 'obscure 1980s childrens films search' theme, I have some fragmented memories of a couple films that I've been looking desperately for with too little to go on.

1) This is the main one I've been looking for. The two main things I remember are a scene were a kid secretly spies on his teacher, who he watches eating live frogs/toads. The other scene has something to do with this weird, bright/glowing thing with a cartoonish smiling face that is tunneling beneath the Earth. Uh...got it?

2) This next film had a pretty sinister feel to it, and something to do about a wicked old man or something. The only two scenes I can partially recall are a little boy dropping a key through a street grate, and losing it, and then soon after his hands are bleeding for some weird reason I can't recall...but I think it had something to do with weird old guy.

3) The last one I probably remember the best, but still not too well...something about some kids, brothers and sisters, who live somewhere rural or woodsy, and get transported to some 'magical land', or whatever. The thing that sticks out though is this weird, huge floating head they encounter there, who like swallows people or something and spits them back out...in a good way? If it helps, I for some reason remember the ball creature/whatever kind of looking like a bloated version of Chet as a alien in 'Weird Science'.

4) This is the last one. I remember that it was a children's series on HBO in the mid- to- late '80s, and was basically just a very, very dark series of live action/puppet adaptations of fairytales. Anyone remember the name of the series?

Thanks!

[–] chikiboni 17 years ago

i think the last one is jim henson's the storyteller. it was released on dvd a while back. i'd say about 2 years ago. it was awesome. the one with the old man telling stories and his dog would sit by the fire. i think that was more early 90's though? i could be wrong.

[–] chikiboni 17 years ago

lol i just looked it up. it was late 80's.

[–] frozenmoon 17 years ago

I also remember seeing the film with teacher eating frogs and about something under the ground. I almost started to believe I had imagined it but nice to see someone else knows it too. Those same scenes you mentioned are also the only things I remeber from it.

[–] CC_Bloom 17 years ago

pretty sure that 1st one is http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0091276/...not really a kids movie but I saw it when I was a kid and those were the most memorable scenes for me too.

[–] eelee6 17 years ago

Hello!

I can't recall any of the others you were describing as of yet (i will ask my older sister later) but number two is definitely "something wicked this way comes." which on that note....Hot Topic has released a ton merchandise for that movie recently.

i hope you figure out the first one, that movie sounds GREAT!

now i have one hoepfully someone can help me with.....

it is a 80's manga/jap. anime cartoon where a little brother & sister are trying to find thier parents because all the parents have been turned into drones that all look the same and have been transformed into looking like bricks in people form. the parents are under some sort of spell that makes them stack themselves into a giant castle.

the kids are on a quest to find and save their parents and along the way they ride a train and find a sparkly magic flower that somehow helps them.

they are also able to pick out their parent from the rest cause he has a flower sticking out of his nose....???

anyone? buehlar?....beuhlar?

i think we can all thank the Disney channel for subjecting us to some weird stuff when we were little.

anybody remember seeing 2 scary movies called the "electric Grandma" and "quest" when you were a kid" quest is about 2 kids who discover a monster in the lake and go down after it, the electric grandma I recently found out is an adaptation of a Ray Bradburry story! who knew.....

i recently found them again and the peanut butter solution on amazon.com and can't wait to watch them.

good luck and thanks!

ps - my fav scene i remember the best from peanut butter solution is the bully who takes the solution and puts it down his pants caus he wants...well you
know... and than runs off crying. LOL! it stuck out cause as a kid i couldnt figure out why he would want hair in his underpants!!

[–] freaknerd 13 years ago

Something Wicked This Way Comes is Ray Bradbury as well!!!

[–] freaknerd 13 years ago

Yes! I was searching for kids snowball fight movie years ago when I realized it was a Canadian (English dubbed) film... I am going to try to watch it this week with the kids... I forgot I bought it! :)

[–] poizen-ivy 17 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2Cm4Cy3rxs

Thanks to You Tube we have a trailer!!

[–] nyloose40 17 years ago

wowwww....i just found this movie. I have been trying to explain this movie to my sisters for years and they look at me like im nuts. I typed in "hair keeps growing, paintbrush factory" in yahoo and found it. I remember him trying to keep a hold of his hair while he is walking in really strong winds. Anyone remember a movie where some sort of grandma/nanny has beverages coming out of her fingertips?

[–] Lbw713 17 years ago

Yep, that's teh Electric Grandmother!

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[–] billyhtchcoc 17 years ago

Could that have been "The Great Land of Small"?

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