I am looking for a film...Do you know its name from the description?

[Bamspeedy]

http://www.qedcat.com/moviemath/

800 movies that have at least a 'math scene' or reference. I looked over the list looking at movies in the 80s and didn't see anything. There was only a couple horror movies and neither sounded like your movie.

 

[Kyriakos]

Thank you for your help, i will also have a look there

 

[Kyriakos]

I am still looking for the name of this film... Maybe anyone can help?

OP was:

I am looking for a film but do not remember its name...I tried to google for it but had no success up to now.
It is some 80s horror movie which is about someone standing in the window of his room as if he is a statue, but things are bleaker than that. The film starts with a flashback of that person as an elementary schooler, when his father tested himself and his sister in math. The father would ask the sister to name the first ten numbers or something of that kind, and then ask the boy to name in reverse order something like the first 30 prime numbers

Naturally things did not develop that well..

 

[Borachio]

Is it Eraserhead?

9 out of 10 films which aren't Edward Scissor Hands turn out eventually to be Eraserhead.

 

[Kyriakos]

Srsly mr B, pls help

 

[gozpel]

I have watched 1000's of movies through the years, many of them multiple times. I can watch a movie today and in two years time I can enjoy it again as almost new. I have a bad memory of unimportant things.

But your description of the start of the movie is very familiar...

I only get 2 names ringing in my disoriented brain: Stephen King and Dean R Koontz, both could start a story like this. I haven't read either author in years and a look at their books didn't make any breakthrough.

So just for a start, what writers can we include or dismiss? Of course, it could be some unknown Hollywood writer, but your description feels like I should know more.

 

[bhavv]

Is it Edward Scissorhands? Or Eraserhead?

 

[Commodore]

I am still looking for the name of this film... Maybe anyone can help?

OP was:

Do you have any info about what country the movie was made in? That might help narrow it down a bit.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Most likely a US film, going by the suburban house in the first scene.

 

[bhavv]

So Gremlins?

 

[Kyriakos]

Gremlins has none of the scenes mentioned :\

 

[bhavv]

So Edward Scissorhands?

 

[Farm Boy]

Sounds more like Eraserhead bhavv.

 

[Wolfbeckett]

Can you tell us how many dogs were in the movie? We might be able to seriously narrow it down then.

But seriously, it seems like nobody knows. You're sure you didn't dream this, right?

 

[Farm Boy]

Tell me it's not something like D.A.R.Y.L. randomly.

 

[Kyriakos]

Can you tell us how many dogs were in the movie? We might be able to seriously narrow it down then.

But seriously, it seems like nobody knows. You're sure you didn't dream this, right?

OMG. Just had a flashback. It was actually all MY OWN PAST!

 

[bhavv]

Poor Kirk. I'm gonna call you Kirk from now on because its far easier to type.

 

[Kyriakos]

I found it!!!

Finally... After years

Here it is:


Link to video.

 

[timtofly]

I think that was Barachio's third guess.

I watched Scanners, and Scanners 2. I may have seen this (to me) unmemorable movie. David Hewlett went on to more famous shows, including Stargate and Stargate Atlantis. I have been watching Dark Matter, and did not realize "that is where I remember him from".

 

[Kyriakos]

^His guess was "guinea pig", so unless it was code for "replace G(ui) for N(ea) in PiG, then i don't see how he suggested it

Anyway, the movie may be bad (saw half of it and it is nothing special), but it did create expectations to me from that opening scene Btw, it is on youtube, so you can watch it if you want to.