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Can y'all help me figure out the name to this possibly obscure film if I describe a scene?

Posted on 4/16/18 at 6:34 pm
Posted by PrimeTime Money
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Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 6:34 pm
Okay, I remember seeing this scene as a kid in the mid 90's (so the film has to be at least that old), and I still remember it.

From what I remember of this scene, a black guy has a shotgun or a rifle inside of a house, and he shoots a black girl who is probably 12 or so in the back as she's trying to run away from him out of the house's front screen door and she dies on the porch.

It was obviously pretty harrowing seeing it as a kid, which is why I still remember it. Just wondering if anybody has any clue as to what this movie is.

Posted by Shiftyplus1
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 6:40 pm to
"Average Day in North Baton Rouge"
Posted by kingbob
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 6:44 pm to
"Donaldsonville: A Visual History"
"Opelousas Saturday Night"
Posted by Dr RC
The Money Pit
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Posted by drexyl
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 7:36 pm to
Caddyshack 2
Posted by dbeck
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 7:41 pm to
Family Matters
Posted by theunknownknight
Baton Rouge
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:10 pm to
Color Purple
Posted by cattus
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Posted on 4/16/18 at 8:22 pm to
yeah Color Purple no?
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 1:01 pm to
quote:

Color Purple
Is it? I haven't seen it, but just from doing searches I can't find anything about a shooting in The Color Purple...

But the movie I'm thinking of may fit the time period...
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 1:50 pm to
I've got one of these too. It was a movie from the 70's or so about a woman who was locked in her house but was getting calls from someone threatening to break in and kill her. It cut back and forth between that and a scene at a train station with a cop or the woman husband or something trying to hunt down the perp.
This post was edited on 4/17/18 at 2:01 pm
Posted by Cap Crunch
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 1:57 pm to
Scream
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 2:01 pm to
from the 70's jackass
Posted by lsu480
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 2:06 pm to
quote:

I've got one of these too. It was a movie from the 70's or so about a woman who was locked in her house but was getting calls from someone threatening to break in and kill her. It cut back and forth between that and a scene at a train station with a cop or the woman husband or something trying to hunt down the perp.


When a stranger calls?
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 2:16 pm to
i think that might be it unless someone has a better suggestion
Posted by lsu480
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 2:17 pm to
You should watch it again, especially if you like Scream since Wes Craven jacked the opening from When a Stranger Calls.
Posted by Draconian Sanctions
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 2:19 pm to
Posted by mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 2:51 pm to
quote:

Wes Craven jacked the opening from When a Stranger Calls.


Yeah but his was quick and different not 25 minutes long and to be fair, When A Stranger Calls just jacked that Urban legend.
Posted by Al Dante
Member since Mar 2013
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 4:07 pm to
The opening scene starts where the babysitter gets a call saying “Have you checked the children?” He keeps calling that saying it over and over. If you remember that it was “When a Stranger Calls”. You can’t forget that.
Posted by TigerMyth36
River Ridge
Member since Nov 2005
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Posted on 4/17/18 at 4:19 pm to
That isn't close to Stranger Calls which is about a babysiter receiving prank calls only to find out the deranged person is actually calling from within the house.

Have no clue about the movie you remember.
Posted by Al Dante
Member since Mar 2013
1859 posts
Posted on 4/17/18 at 4:25 pm to
Thanks for ruining it for everybody that might want to watch it.
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