Mysteries. I’m adding that category to this blog. When I forget the name of something and I’m on a mission for information. It’s happened with games, not just once. All of the following games were mystery games who’s names have been found/solved:

• Strike Force
• Sentinel Worlds 1: Future Magic
• Dungeon Explorer
• Continuum (aka: Alpha Waves)
• Legacy of the Wizard

It’s bound to happen with movies. Back in the 90s, I saw some really weird movie on TV. There was a scene that for some reason stands out in my memory. I posted the question on yahoo answers:

I hate asking questions like this but I’ve asked my friends and searched the net for about a year. Here’s what I know. Movie is from the 80s. Main character is in hell (or something like it, another dimension that looks like a barrens desert). He runs into a room and finds a normal bedroom with a bed and a full length freestanding mirror.

There is a beautiful woman on the bed, she isn’t saying anything. It’s obvious as the viewer that it’s a trap. He looks in the mirror and suddenly he sees her as a demon (she looks like she’s been burned). Then the demon woman goes crazy and he’s on the run again. I don’t know the actor or what happens next.

Hope someone knows.

Someone did. And they posted the answer Highway to Hell (1991) starring Chad Lowe, Kristy Swanson. Sure enough, I pulled these images from the trailer which is the exact scene I was talking about. The amazing part is the speed that someone could be monitoring the question threads. Her username is MystMoonstruck and she nailed the answer. I sent her a thank you note since this has been haunting me whenever I thought of horror films. I thought for sure it was hellraiser, pumpkinhead or one of those “mainstream” ones.

The idea that I had about it being nearly in hell is oddly accurate. Also I do remember his motivation being of kind of linear adventure which the plot synopsis seems to back up.

Freaky movie. I don’t remember a goddamn thing but these stills really bring it back. Yeah, I’m going to watch this one somehow. They don’t even have it on DVD anywhere! Youtube seems to have it though in 10 parts.

Ben Stiller is in it. Hitler does a musical number or something like that (Gilbert Godfrey?). I didn’t watch any of those parts originally. I haven’t seen most of the movie and thusly, why I wanted to add context to this strange bedroom scene.

A similar type of mystery mission happened a long time ago. It was quickly resolved by my good bud Tom (who is a movie database himself). I remember some weird scene where some guys are pushing a wall down a hallway and a floating head is chasing them. It was an extremely odd scene and there was little hope of me remembering anything about it since I saw it when I was 7 living in Houston. I had wandered into some teenager’s room at a dinner that my folks were having at someone else’s house. If you have a “fuzziest memory”, it’s similar to that. No chance to remember what a title of a movie was when it happened in the first 10% of your life.

So what movie has people pushing a wall down a hallway with a floating head? Time Bandits.

I mentioned it to Tom and he instantly got it. The hallway scene kinda made it easy to get. Of course when I watched it, I hardly recognized it. But that is the nature of the mystery category. It’s just to find the name.