Category Archives: Movie

Title: The Night of the Hunter
Year: 1955
Director: Charles Laughton
Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, James Gleason, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves
Genre: Criminal, Drama, noir, Thriller
Country: USA

Why in Database: The turtle appears in one scene, on the bank of the river which two children (around whom the plot of the film is set) cruise down. The boy tells his sister that turtles are made into soup, but he wouldn’t know how to “open” them.

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Title: Hellgate
Year: 1989
Director: William A. Levey
Actors: Ron Palillo, Abigail Wolcott, Carel Trichardt, Petrea Curran, Evan J. Klisser, Joanne Warde, Frank Notaro
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Republic of South Africa

Why in Database: The turtle is present in one scene, as a “stuffed” specimen on a plank, which. Thanks to an artifact important for the film, he comes to life (in a rather demonic version) and attacks the person who revived it. Quickly after that, he explodes.

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Title: The Nightmare Before Christmas
Year: 1993
Director: Henry Selick
Angielski dubbing: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey, Glenn Shadix, Paul Reubens, Ken Page
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA

Why in Database: The turtle appears here only in one scene, and it is quite strange, although in the atmosphere of the whole animation – he is considered as Christmas present. However, he is “too stale” – he is dead, and the tire marks on the shell suggest how he died. .

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Title: The Spy Next Door
Year: 2010
Director: Brian Levant
Actors: Jackie Chan, Amber Valletta, Madeline Carroll, Will Shadley, Alina Foley, Magnús Scheving, Billy Ray Cyrus
Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA

Why in Database: The smaller of the girls, of the three children who are the main characters in the film, has a turtle – we see him on the screen several times, including one time when he is in a turtle-shaped sandbox. Jackie Chan, who plays the spy from the title, also uses a turtle to fight his opponent. Besides, we can see the turtle in one of the scenes-after-film where unsuccessful shots are presented. There is also the quote “If a man marries you, he marries all four of you” what show that the protagonist understands, that three children are inseparable from her mother, to which she replies “Don’t forget the pig, the cat and the turtle.” In the aforementioned unsuccessful shots, at the end there is an unsuccessful version of one scene, where one of kids says turkey instead of turtle.

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Title: Assassination Games
Year: 2011
Director: Ernie Barbarash
Actors: Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Ivan Kaye, Valentin Teodosiu, Alin Panc, Kevin Chapman
Genre: Action, Criminal, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA

Why in Database: The main character has a turtle that appears in several scenes throughout the film. It is also a part of the plot to some extent, because when the main character strokes him on the shell, he hides, but when the girl met by the protagonist does it, the turtle stays outside the shell and the protagonist wants to find out why. The last scene in which the turtle is seen takes place when the protagonist returns to the dilapidated apartment and finds the turtle lying on the floor, on its back – he immediately helps him and turns him over.

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Title: El mariachi
Year: 1992
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Actors: Carlos Gallardo, Consuelo Gómez, Jaime de Hoyos, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martinez, Ramiro Gómez
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA

Why in Database: You can say that a turtle ties this movie together. We see one in the first scene, trotting down the road, later he reappearing at the very end. In addition, the protagonist thinks about turtle in the context of beauty when he sees the main female protagonist of the film for the first time.

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