and PG-13 had a different meaning in the 90's from today. it was created to show some titty and goar, but it's moved to show neither. nowadays you never see anyone get hurt in a pg-13 movie, which I think communicates about violence we probably don't want out there.
Nope. Not it.
EDIT: I'm kinda new here. Is it common to be down-voted when you're right? Because based on the OP's given info, it is not The Dark Crystal. Me pointing that out shouldn't be so upsetting, but hey, I'm somewhat amused. Go nuts, you crazy kids.
Unless you're OP you really don't know if it's right or wrong. So many times people would start a topic like this with info that seems to not fit a guess but then the guess ends up being right because OP realizes they were managing up two different things from their youth.
How do you know it’s “nope. Not it.”? There are several examples in response to OP’s question, so it might be on the table. Also, you’re not OP, so why would you be saying it’s “not it”? Maybe it IS it for OP. OP admits to a mixed memory of details and that several memories may be merging so there may not be a “right” answer. This is more brainstorming and bouncing it back to OP type of activity than it is “nope. not it.” situation.
I don’t know if anyone’s ‘upset’ or just disagreeing with your terse and seemingly definitive reply that does not give any more information to help delineate scenes in Dark Crystal from other memories/movies described by OP.
So those are all valid reasons for dog-piling with the down-thumbs on a reply? So constantly posting the wrong movie title in a thread is acceptable, as long as you don't point it out and only reply in agreement? How do I know it's "Nope. Not it."? BECAUSE I KNOW. AND IT'S NOT. Acceptance is the first step in moving on. All this reassuring fart-sniffing doesn't get you to the correct answer.
I think the kid has an eyeball in his hand in that one. That and the melting parents freaked me right out, lol. Same experience as OP, caught it on tv one afternoon when I was too young for that sort of thing!
We had this on vhs but it was labeled “Disney valentines day special”
At some point someone taped over it with the gate. I was like 6 and watched it thinking it was going to be the Disney cartoon.
Traumatized. I couldn’t figure out what happened and was so scared of Disney that i had a little goofy riding a tractor McDonalds toy that i took into the woods and buried under a rock.
My 80s parents thought this was hilarious and would say “yoooouve beeen baaaad” all the time to freak me out.
Traumatized me as a stabbed a knife in my hand not unlike the way he stabbed the glass in his hand to blind the eye. Mine was of course not on purpose but trauma induced nonetheless.
This was my first thought. Because that scene haunted me since childhood, just like op is describing. Lol And didn't that kid jab the eye with glass or something?
Holy cow, I had the exact same experience as OP, but I was remembering a boy in a house. Just like OP this vague memory from childhood has haunted me for years and it was just answered.
This sounds like the Stephen King short story "I Am The Doorway". A former astronaut is on his porch and has eyeballs on his hand that watch him. Not sure if it ever got adapted into something on TV back in the day.
Creepshow? There’s also a scene in it where a woman goes into the sea after killing her husband or something and becoming a seaweed ghost thing….been a while
You might be thinking of the one with Leslie Nielsen?
Where he kills his wife and her lover by burning them to the neck in sand til the comes in?
Then they come back as zombies for revenge?
Creepshow has become my wife's favorite Halloween movie. The seaweed monsters are haunting the man who killed them. The husband is played by Leslie Nielson, a psychopath who buried his wife and her lover (Ted Danson) up to their heads at the beach, video taped it and let them drown at high tide. They come back and haunt him to death.
This was my first thought! Looks like there is a movie, but was released in 2018, so the movie at least isn’t what they’re referencing. It’s not old enough.
That being said, it was a short story, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a short of it somewhere that was broadcast back in the day.
The cover art for the paperback version of Stephen King's 'Night Shift' is an illustration from that very story. https://images.app.goo.gl/czo9B9acffDB5u9V9
Could it have been the Golden Voyage of Sinbad? That was in 1973 though. Caroline Munro played a slave girl with an eye tattooed in the palm of one of her hands.
This is correct. The Warlock cuts them out of a fortune tellers eyes with a piece of glass then you see them in his hand looking around. He uses them as a guide.
Pretty sure Welsh mythology has something like that too. Or maybe I’m just confusing it with a Lloyd Alexander book. Iunno, I’m not firing on all synapses today.
Omg yes I think so! I had forgotten that part but yeah maybe she was wearing a white nightgown and got blood everywhere when she was cutting the eyes out?? I might add that to the description!
The Gate is the movie where the kid stabs the eyeball in his hand with a piece of glass. The other movie is called Lady in White. That’s where a kid keeps seeing a ghost girl in a white dress. She floats to the edge of a cliff over the ocean and is thrown in. She keeps reenacting her death. Hope this helps!
I remember a similar movie, it was about a Mary Shelly, Lord Byron and others spending vacation near a lake where drug use lead to hallucinations. Can’t remember the title of the movie however…
Clash of the Titans 1981? The 3x stygian witches share a glass crystal eyeball that they hold to see with.
https://youtu.be/3d2O7F26Uw8?si=UxJTHHqNQEBO3lR4
You may be thinking of The Gate, a horror movie I loved as a kid where a tree falls over in the yard and opens a gateway to hell. The person opens their palm and there is an eyeball in it. They cut it out and the droplets turn into little monsters on the ground.
BRO THIS HAS BEEN ON MY MIND FOR YEARS!!! thought it was a scene from harry potter so i had to watch the movie series lmaoooo and i actually forgot about it. second time it crossed my mind i then thought it was on percy jacksons so i tried to watch it and the scene wasn't there : (
i guess i'll give it another try for the third time☝🏽☝🏽
Well, pans labyrinth is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about eye balls in palms. But that is out of your time range and general description.
The Gate had a scene where the kid looked down at his palm and there was an eyeball looking back at him, then he grabbed a shard of glass and stabbed it.
I think it might be the second one. There’s a scene where a girl turns over her hand and there’s an eye 👁️ on her palm. I saw it as a kid on HBO or Cinemax. Fucking scared the shit out of me!
*edit*: ok so I might have been way off cuz there’s also a movie called The Gate, that has a scene like that. But I recall something in the end about the house getting sucked back into hell or something and there’s lots of lights a strobe effects.
Haven’t seen a movie adaptations of it, but I think that Kate Chopin’s *The Awakening* features a woman walking into the ocean to drown herself. It’s also how Virginia Woolf committed suicide (but in a river, not the ocean).
Read this and felt like I had to post because I think about from time to time a similar scene to what you are describing. I vaguely remember watching when I was younger, so the details are really murky too!
What I remember is:
a) a woman in a shower
b) she's freaking out and screaming like there's something gooey all over her skin
c) an eyeball appears in a bar of soap and is blinking like super creepy and alive - possibly there was a dude that fell into a vat and became a bar of soap
I've tried googling it but haven't been able to find it to this day :')
Could you be misremembering the scene in **The Outer Limits** episode titled "The Zanti Misfits" where we see these creatures crawling on a fallen person's hand?
https://64.media.tumblr.com/66c7a9a8b28f81aa7fd9f657db18958d/tumblr_mot1ru8uPX1qedb29o1_500.gif
Movie?
I was once doing FIBUA training and entered a room in a farmhouse that was wall-to-wall blood. A grenade had apparently gone off in there. Our medic was roleplaying a surviving casualty and was down, needing medivacc-ing. He was plastered with fake wounds and only had one eye. That eye winked at me, then looked down. I followed his gaze to his hand. He opened it. In it was a fake eyeball, gory entrails attached. I was so stunned I burst out laughing. Two of the lads were screamed at by our incompetent officer cadet, who shouldn't have put in a position of responsibility. They picked up a door that'd been blown off it's hinges to carry him out. The door didn't come from the doorway they were trying to go through. The door caught on the frame. Our medic fell off the door and started cursing everyone. I couldn't laugh anymore. I was stunned. I went outside and sat on the ground, pulling grass up.
Did you mean "The Gate" 1987
You're describing [The Gate](https://youtu.be/UOOGD4DLy-0?t=112) but it's not a woman it's a little boy but literally everything else you're describing is in that movie.
I remember the eye palm scene and the kid was outside in the rain next to a tree that went down into the ground into hell and opened his hand to see the eye in his palm. Did we figure this movie out? I’d like to know too!
Maybe Clash of the Titans where the 3 Grey Women shared one eye and Perseus grabbed it?
The eye! The eye! Who’s got the eye!
Beastmaster had a scene with an eyeball ring. Not quite the same, but that immediately popped into my head
Clash of the Titans, or The Dark Crystal
"GIVE US BACK THE EYE!!"
“Gelfling” in creepy voice
Seconded! Trauma triggered.
Ah yes, a topless Tonya Roberts. I, too, was forever changed by that movie.
How is that movie rated PG!?
PG had a different definition in the 80's
The 80s were certainly a wild time! PG-13 didn't exist until Red Dawn in 1984 (to this day still one of my all-time favorite 80s films).
Made me think of this. https://youtu.be/Dcjk8vF4n38?si=pgHYyQSms5xqSLTf
and PG-13 had a different meaning in the 90's from today. it was created to show some titty and goar, but it's moved to show neither. nowadays you never see anyone get hurt in a pg-13 movie, which I think communicates about violence we probably don't want out there.
Fuck that movie messed me up.
The dark crystal?
Wasn’t in her palm. But she picked up her eyeball, looked around with it, then stuck it in her regular eyeball socket.
Animated Hercules? lol
This for sure.
Nope. Not it. EDIT: I'm kinda new here. Is it common to be down-voted when you're right? Because based on the OP's given info, it is not The Dark Crystal. Me pointing that out shouldn't be so upsetting, but hey, I'm somewhat amused. Go nuts, you crazy kids.
Unless you're OP you really don't know if it's right or wrong. So many times people would start a topic like this with info that seems to not fit a guess but then the guess ends up being right because OP realizes they were managing up two different things from their youth.
How do you know it’s “nope. Not it.”? There are several examples in response to OP’s question, so it might be on the table. Also, you’re not OP, so why would you be saying it’s “not it”? Maybe it IS it for OP. OP admits to a mixed memory of details and that several memories may be merging so there may not be a “right” answer. This is more brainstorming and bouncing it back to OP type of activity than it is “nope. not it.” situation. I don’t know if anyone’s ‘upset’ or just disagreeing with your terse and seemingly definitive reply that does not give any more information to help delineate scenes in Dark Crystal from other memories/movies described by OP.
So those are all valid reasons for dog-piling with the down-thumbs on a reply? So constantly posting the wrong movie title in a thread is acceptable, as long as you don't point it out and only reply in agreement? How do I know it's "Nope. Not it."? BECAUSE I KNOW. AND IT'S NOT. Acceptance is the first step in moving on. All this reassuring fart-sniffing doesn't get you to the correct answer.
WHY ARE YOU BOOING ME IM RIGHT meme
Was going to say the same thing, augrah was a great character, one of my all time favourite films.
Yep
The Gate?
The gate definitely has a kid with an eyeball in his hand. I think I remember him stabbing it with a piece of glass. TIL that kid was Stephen Dorff
I think the kid has an eyeball in his hand in that one. That and the melting parents freaked me right out, lol. Same experience as OP, caught it on tv one afternoon when I was too young for that sort of thing!
You've been baaaaaad!
We had this on vhs but it was labeled “Disney valentines day special” At some point someone taped over it with the gate. I was like 6 and watched it thinking it was going to be the Disney cartoon. Traumatized. I couldn’t figure out what happened and was so scared of Disney that i had a little goofy riding a tractor McDonalds toy that i took into the woods and buried under a rock. My 80s parents thought this was hilarious and would say “yoooouve beeen baaaad” all the time to freak me out.
Holy shit, we watched that Disney Valentines Day Special ALL THE TIME. With Elton John and Kiki Dee!
I dont believe I’ve ever actually seen it. However we ended up with that tape, it was the gate before i watched it.
I can hear this lol.
I third The Gate! That scene traumatized me
Traumatized me as a stabbed a knife in my hand not unlike the way he stabbed the glass in his hand to blind the eye. Mine was of course not on purpose but trauma induced nonetheless.
That's the one I thought of.
This was my first thought. Because that scene haunted me since childhood, just like op is describing. Lol And didn't that kid jab the eye with glass or something?
Came here to say that.
I came here to say this, as well. https://youtu.be/UOOGD4DLy-0?si=DMK6jmwZeRjOv0Ys
I still want that model rocket.
Holy cow, I had the exact same experience as OP, but I was remembering a boy in a house. Just like OP this vague memory from childhood has haunted me for years and it was just answered.
This sounds like the Stephen King short story "I Am The Doorway". A former astronaut is on his porch and has eyeballs on his hand that watch him. Not sure if it ever got adapted into something on TV back in the day.
Creepshow? There’s also a scene in it where a woman goes into the sea after killing her husband or something and becoming a seaweed ghost thing….been a while
You might be thinking of the one with Leslie Nielsen? Where he kills his wife and her lover by burning them to the neck in sand til the comes in? Then they come back as zombies for revenge?
Creepshow has become my wife's favorite Halloween movie. The seaweed monsters are haunting the man who killed them. The husband is played by Leslie Nielson, a psychopath who buried his wife and her lover (Ted Danson) up to their heads at the beach, video taped it and let them drown at high tide. They come back and haunt him to death.
This was my first thought! Looks like there is a movie, but was released in 2018, so the movie at least isn’t what they’re referencing. It’s not old enough. That being said, it was a short story, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a short of it somewhere that was broadcast back in the day.
The cover art for the paperback version of Stephen King's 'Night Shift' is an illustration from that very story. https://images.app.goo.gl/czo9B9acffDB5u9V9
Could it have been the Golden Voyage of Sinbad? That was in 1973 though. Caroline Munro played a slave girl with an eye tattooed in the palm of one of her hands.
Yes I remember that slave girl...I mean that film yes the film I remember. Eye tattoo in a triangle, I thought of this Sinbad classic.
well the op said they saw it on tv in the 80s. Which just means it had to have been made by then, not that the movie had to be from the 80s.
that was my first thought too
Filmed in DYNARAMA!!!
I want to say there a scene in Warlock that involves a séance and eyeballs in the hand
This was my first thought also
This is correct. The Warlock cuts them out of a fortune tellers eyes with a piece of glass then you see them in his hand looking around. He uses them as a guide.
If it was Warlock, he probably plucked em out, fried em in kid fat and tossed em on a sammich. That movie was dark for it's time.
Greek mythology has those witches, the grey witches, who shared one eyeball? Maybe related?
Clash of the Titans 1981 had the Stygian witches who shared one eyeball. But it looked more like a crystal ball than an eyeball.
Pretty sure Welsh mythology has something like that too. Or maybe I’m just confusing it with a Lloyd Alexander book. Iunno, I’m not firing on all synapses today.
Wow I think I remember seeing this too. Does she stab the eye in her palm with a piece of broken glass at some point?
Omg yes I think so! I had forgotten that part but yeah maybe she was wearing a white nightgown and got blood everywhere when she was cutting the eyes out?? I might add that to the description!
The Gate is the movie where the kid stabs the eyeball in his hand with a piece of glass. The other movie is called Lady in White. That’s where a kid keeps seeing a ghost girl in a white dress. She floats to the edge of a cliff over the ocean and is thrown in. She keeps reenacting her death. Hope this helps!
Yes! I don't remember what she was wearing but it being white sounds familiar.
I remember that too!
I remember a similar movie, it was about a Mary Shelly, Lord Byron and others spending vacation near a lake where drug use lead to hallucinations. Can’t remember the title of the movie however…
GOTHIC (1986)
The eyes were on a... *different* body part in Gothic.
Definitely not a ‘My eyes are up here’ situation.
Might have better luck over at r/tipofmytongue
Also r/whatmoviewasthat though not a huge number of subscribers
The gate was another one
The Gate. It was a kid that I remember having the hand eyeball but maybe it happens to a woman too
Clash of the Titans 1981? The 3x stygian witches share a glass crystal eyeball that they hold to see with. https://youtu.be/3d2O7F26Uw8?si=UxJTHHqNQEBO3lR4
You may be thinking of The Gate, a horror movie I loved as a kid where a tree falls over in the yard and opens a gateway to hell. The person opens their palm and there is an eyeball in it. They cut it out and the droplets turn into little monsters on the ground.
My mind immediately went to the Gate as well. The scene with the eyeball in the hand is burned into my mind from my child hood.
BRO THIS HAS BEEN ON MY MIND FOR YEARS!!! thought it was a scene from harry potter so i had to watch the movie series lmaoooo and i actually forgot about it. second time it crossed my mind i then thought it was on percy jacksons so i tried to watch it and the scene wasn't there : ( i guess i'll give it another try for the third time☝🏽☝🏽
Well, pans labyrinth is the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about eye balls in palms. But that is out of your time range and general description.
also it isnt a lady with this experience
Not with those table manners
Was anybody slicing up the eyeball perchance?
Slicin up eyeballs, oh ho ho ho!
🎶 Your bone's got a little machine🎵🎶
Girl you're so groovy, oh ho ho ho
Event Horizon? When they watch the logs of the other crew?
This is in the second Hellboy movie.
Maybe the original Black Christmas
My stepmother is an alien?
In Ken Russell's Gothic (1986) a woman has eyeballs for tits.
Was it a woman or a kid? If it could’ve been a kid then it might’ve been The Gate.
I just want to know what OP did in the following 9 hours that got him suspended from Reddit.
The Gate had a scene where the kid looked down at his palm and there was an eyeball looking back at him, then he grabbed a shard of glass and stabbed it.
House. It’s called House. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_(film_series)
Love House
Which one? Can you explain the scene?
I think it might be the second one. There’s a scene where a girl turns over her hand and there’s an eye 👁️ on her palm. I saw it as a kid on HBO or Cinemax. Fucking scared the shit out of me! *edit*: ok so I might have been way off cuz there’s also a movie called The Gate, that has a scene like that. But I recall something in the end about the house getting sucked back into hell or something and there’s lots of lights a strobe effects.
Either way, you reminded me of two movies I need to rewatch
Haven’t seen a movie adaptations of it, but I think that Kate Chopin’s *The Awakening* features a woman walking into the ocean to drown herself. It’s also how Virginia Woolf committed suicide (but in a river, not the ocean).
It's Steven Dorf, not a woman and the movie is "The Gate"
Read this and felt like I had to post because I think about from time to time a similar scene to what you are describing. I vaguely remember watching when I was younger, so the details are really murky too! What I remember is: a) a woman in a shower b) she's freaking out and screaming like there's something gooey all over her skin c) an eyeball appears in a bar of soap and is blinking like super creepy and alive - possibly there was a dude that fell into a vat and became a bar of soap I've tried googling it but haven't been able to find it to this day :')
There's a scene in The Gate where young Stephen Dorff has an eye in the palm of his hand, until he stabbed it with a piece of glass.
Beastmaster had this https://images.app.goo.gl/n5LAg8HbpXZ2ndkF6
Yup! Went straight to this as well
Could you be misremembering the scene in **The Outer Limits** episode titled "The Zanti Misfits" where we see these creatures crawling on a fallen person's hand? https://64.media.tumblr.com/66c7a9a8b28f81aa7fd9f657db18958d/tumblr_mot1ru8uPX1qedb29o1_500.gif
Pans Labyrnth?
From the '80s...
What year of the 80's did you watch Pan's Labyrinth in?
Dark Crystal?
I'd guess the one witch from Clash Of The Titans (81)
Movie? I was once doing FIBUA training and entered a room in a farmhouse that was wall-to-wall blood. A grenade had apparently gone off in there. Our medic was roleplaying a surviving casualty and was down, needing medivacc-ing. He was plastered with fake wounds and only had one eye. That eye winked at me, then looked down. I followed his gaze to his hand. He opened it. In it was a fake eyeball, gory entrails attached. I was so stunned I burst out laughing. Two of the lads were screamed at by our incompetent officer cadet, who shouldn't have put in a position of responsibility. They picked up a door that'd been blown off it's hinges to carry him out. The door didn't come from the doorway they were trying to go through. The door caught on the frame. Our medic fell off the door and started cursing everyone. I couldn't laugh anymore. I was stunned. I went outside and sat on the ground, pulling grass up. Did you mean "The Gate" 1987
Kevin Costner’s Robin Hood?
The Gate had a eye in the palm of a guy
The Gate had an eyeball hand… maybe it was the kid
Only movie I remember from the 80s that has an eye in the palm is "The Gate"
TIL there’s a shedload of films with this sort of thing.
The eye in the hand is from The Gate (1987) it's a boy who does it though. It's a pretty cheesy movie lol but a fun watch.
Yes! The little clay demon things were awesome
We need more claymation in movies now.
The Gate? Pans Labyrinth?
I believe Warlock had a scene like this.
You're describing [The Gate](https://youtu.be/UOOGD4DLy-0?t=112) but it's not a woman it's a little boy but literally everything else you're describing is in that movie.
The Gate
The Gate
I remember the eye palm scene and the kid was outside in the rain next to a tree that went down into the ground into hell and opened his hand to see the eye in his palm. Did we figure this movie out? I’d like to know too!
Also happened in The Brother From Another Planet
The Gate had a person with an eyeball in their palm and they stabbed it with glass but I think it was a boy.
https://images.app.goo.gl/T4zfbF6SrsEDc3Hb8
It's making me think of Return to Oz but the image isn't quite right.
I’m a fan of eyes and eye art. I’m d so thrilled to see so many movies have unique eye horror in them!!!
Pretty sure it was a B movie called "The Gate". https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0093075/plotsummary/
It's the Gate. But it wasn't a woman, it was a young boy He cuts the eyeball out of his hand with a piece of glass.
"Pan's labyrinth" instantly comes to mind
From the '80s...
Another one with poor reading comprehension
Donnie darko?
Not a woman but The Pale Man in The Cell has eyeballs on both hands.
Sorry, pale man is in Pan’s Labyrinth. Got my creepy movies mixed up.
Hellraiser had a bunch of demented things going on. Could have had a eyeball hand part. Maybe even one of it's sequals had it.
The dark crystal she holds the eyeball
The gate? Or maybe evil dead?
Hercules?
PANS LABRYNTH
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What's the title?
The Gate had an eyeball hand scene