Annie! I'm back and I'm raring to go! (see I'm even writing in limerick metre...)

In reverse order:

Roger -- Planet of the Apes
Jayne -- 39 Steps (The guessing bit is fun! But I want others to join in!)
Annie -- L'Année dernière à Marienbad
Roger -- 6th Sense/Cool Hand Luke
Annie -- The Virgin Spring and...I'm stumped on the ménage à trois

Phew...

(Now I must go. At work on a staffroom computer! ;))

Ah, the ménage à trois was Jules et Jim. Did you get No.27?

Johnny Guitar!

(had to do some sleuthing though)

A simian, fearsome and great,
Fell in love with a girl, but his fate
Wasn't happy, alas,
Since it soon came to pass
That he fell from the Empire State.

If you steal and then check in that's why
you may have to shower and die
You've made mother jealous
although she will tell us
she's harmless, and won't hurt a fly.

Kong!

Psycho!xxx

A nanny who’s awfully jolly
(but what you might call “off her trolley”)
indulges in pranks
which amuse Mr Banks.
She flies off - as she came - with her brolly.

A teenager took as his bride
A girl, but he then had to hide
The marriage because
He had rotten in-laws,
And then, to be brief, they both died.

A man on a bridge, so forlorn,
Convinced that nobody would mourn
If he jumped, was then shown
What he ought to have known:
Things were better because he'd been born.

Mary Poppins
Romeo and Juliet
It's a Wonderful Life

:)

For Billy, life's really quite grim
and made worse by a teacher of gym
Then he finds a wild hawk
and delivers a talk
but the odds it'll end well are slim.

Kes?xxxxxxx

Yep. It's grim up north.

Aye, an it were 'ardest on t'bairns.

Aye, 'appen.

It might be a baby. It's squealing
It gives you an uneasy feeling
There are slithering things
And a blonde lady sings
Though her skin complaint isn't appealing

The spaceship was slimily messed
Up when a Xenomorph guest
Making its home in
A crewman's abdomen
Quite suddenly burst from his chest.

It bursts from a man's chest, doesn't it? Specifically, John Hurt's (unless this is one of the sequels)

You may be right. But I thought I remembered it bursting from Sigourney Weaver.

Quick check says you're probably right. Weird, I could practically picture the scene with Sigourney. But it's been decades since I've seen it.

I'm fairly certain you're right, Mark.

Sigourney Weaver was "Ripley", but the alien burst out of John Hurt's character's chest.

(But I'm not sure what your film is. The blonde girl who sings is throwing me! I'm sure I'll kick myself when it's revealed...)

Jayne

Thanks. I revised accordingly.

I think there may be a dream sequence at the beginning of the sequel, Aliens, where that happens. Then Sigourney wakes up. Haven't seen it in years. But I love the first one. Watched it last month with my daughter!

Ha. Anyone got mine?

Is it maybe Rosemary's Baby? I don't think so, but it's all I could come up with.

Nope.

Nobody?

Eraserhead.

SPOILERS!


Roger, I have seen the four Alien films. The first came out when I was a University first-year student; I eagerly went to see it several times, mostly because of Sigourney Weaver, and had magazine posters of the film on my bedroom wall. I have seen the sequel twice. So, if I may..

Your memory is not at fault!

Yes - and as I see Mark already confirmed - there IS a scene, in Aliens (the second film = first sequel to Alien),
in which Ripley - attempting to recuperate, following prolonged hypersleep (suspended animation) on her journey back - is shown experiencing with horror an alien bulge moving beneath the skin of her chest - but then wakes up. It had been just a nightmare of PTSD. This experience seems to sway her to join - after all - the proposed mission back to the planet, where contact has been lost with a terraforming colony now well-established there. She has realized that such nightmares will haunt her, regardless, so better to face her fears through direct action than futilely attempt avoidance.

Once on that planet, with space marines, an alien is seen to burst from a woman found embedded - and at first thought to be dead - in alien exudate encrusting a wall. She has been preserved but dies soon.


In the third film - Alien3 - Ripley actually does suffer an alien parasite but chooses to plunge to her death, grasping it as it emerges.


All horrible stuff (and the fourth film is even more gross, in my view). But I think those two or three scenes suffice to explain what you recall seeing.

A thing generated by fear
Dies at once of you scream in its ear
But if you are dumb
And forced to stay stumm
The earwig will get you. Oh, dear.

An 'author' spent day after day
at the typewriter, typing away,
clickety-clack,
but he only wrote Jack
would be dull with all work and no play.

Is yours "The Shining", RogerBob?

The Tingler, Annie! From William Castle, master of subtlety. :) Ah, we're getting ready for Halloween at limerick corner, I see.

And The Shining, yes indeed.

Yes, The Tingler. Oh, it did make me laugh. All this recent talk about the chestbursting aliens made me look them up and they are indeed horrible. By contrast, the poor Tingler, with its little non-functioning legs is a bit of a hoot...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26fUY8gnIQc

It ends up with the poor paralytic insect "running" loose in a cinema. Apparently when it was first shown they doctored some of the seats so as to make electrical impulses tickle random bums. I fantasised about a little old lady who occupied one of those seats and instead of screaming, she wet herself - and was electrocuted.

:D

A skeptical Yank won't hear tell
of curses and demons from hell
till he meets a magician
who (as per tradition)
gets the sticky end of his own spell.

A young man who's done with scholastics
Engages in raunchy gymnastics
With mother's best friend
As folks recommend
He build a career around plastics.

No clue as to Mark's, but RogerBob's might be The Graduate.

Oh but you do know mine! Gah, I'm disappointed. I mustn't have done it justice!

"Maybe it's better not to know"

Still trying to find it in the rattlebag of my brain...

MR James? Jacques Tourneur??

Night of the Demon! You even used the word in the limerick. Thank you. Now I can sleep...

Watch out for the Tingler! Vincent Price was having a hell of a time when he was just trying to have a kip.

Nah. It doesn't scare me. The only bit of its body that actually moves is the mid-section. The worst it can do is a sort of half-hearted twerk.