Dan Mahoney ([info]gushi) wrote,
@ 2007-11-09 01:06:00
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Obscure Movie from my Childhood

I'm remembering an old movie from my childhood...

Basically, one about a kid who finds this like, pump assembly, that makes a mechanical monster rise up from a nearby lake?
I don't recall much about it, except that I also recall that in the same movie, the kid liked to ride his bike on railroad tracks -- like he rode on one rail, and had a thing on his bike that skirted the other, so he'd stay balanced.

I have NO IDEA what this movie is called, or when it was out.

UPDATE: Found some people who are just as stumped as I am (but none of these folks know either):

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Questions-Movies-1416/Movie-80-s-1.htm

http://en.allexperts.com/q/Questions-Movies-1416/Movie-80s-Revisited-1.htm

Anyone have any bells ringing?

Nevermind, found it with the help of my research-goddess boyfriend. It's Frog Dreaming, also known as The Quest. The AV Squad (which is an awesome site I must check out more of" has asked for help in making it the top link in fake-monster-in-a-lake movie. I'm more than happy to oblige.

-Dan


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[info]cc452
2007-11-09 06:27 am UTC (link)
I remember the bike thing, but only very vaguely...

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[info]preyfar
2007-11-09 07:12 am UTC (link)
Holy shit, I remember that film... but I can't remember the name either.

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[info]preyfar
2007-11-09 07:20 am UTC (link)
I think the movie's name was "the Quest". One of those films that came out around the time of The Navigator.

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[info]preyfar
2007-11-09 07:21 am UTC (link)
Err, Flight of the Navigator was the other one I was thinking of. One of the pulp kid exploration films, like the Explorers.

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[info]spunkywulf
2007-11-09 02:41 pm UTC (link)
I have two copies of that movie lying around my livingroom, oddly enough. I remember watching it in school, and being sorely disappointed that the monster (Diego or whatever they called it) was just a mechanical thingy, and not a REAL snarly beast! Also, I didn't know you had a research-goddess boyfriend.

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