Movie name mysteries

[asm198]

I was reading one of my regular blogs and the guy had posted about how he recently found out the name of a movie he had seen when he was a kid, but couldn't remember much about it. I thought that might be an interesting thread, so if there's a movie that you vaguely remember, but can't think of the title, post here.

[asm198]

Here's mine. I saw it on tv around 1990. I only remember three scenes, one at the beginning, one around the middle, and one closer to the end.

Scene 1: There's a woman who lives out in the country by a lake and she comes to the door and the guy who is there claims to be her long lost son. When he was a kid, he was kidnapped or ran away and he's now an adult. She takes him at his word and asks him to stay at her house. She's engaged/married to another guy, because something happened to her son's father.

At first, the son is totally normal and happy to be with his mom, but he starts acting strange. He doesn't like her husband at all, but doesn't do anything when she's around. When the husband tells her of some of the things he says and does, she sides with her son.

Scene 2: The husband is in the bathtub and the son walks in, not realizing he's in there. They chat for a minute, then the son 'accidentally' knocks a plugged in hairdryer off of a shelf. It would have fallen into the bathtub, but the son grabs it at the last second. Son leaves, husband later tells wife/mom that son tried to kill him. She doesn't believe him that it was on purpose, because son grabbed it before it fell in the water.

Scene 3: Husband and son are walking around the lake, which has frozen over. Husband falls through the ice and son acts like he is going to try and pull him out. He kind of does at first, then he pushes him under and slides him further under the ice. Son walks over to where the husband is under the ice and watches him drown. At the last second, the husband shoves a hand through the ice. Around this time, the wife/mom comes outside, but can't see what is happening, only that her son is kneeling on the ice. Son grabs the husband's hand and starts screaming for help. The husband ends up drowning.


I'm kind of fuzzy on the ending. Either she finds out that her son is crazy and doesn't want to share his mom with anyone or he's not actually her son, but some crazy person who found the story of her missing son and came to mess with her mind.

Anyone have any idea? I have been searching for this movie for literally years and have never found anything online that sounds kinda like this.

[Bocheezu]

I was just thinking of one earlier today. I think it was made-for-TV, though, so the difficulty level increases. It was from the 80s, kind of a sci-fi thing. All I remember is it had a robot on it, and initially it was a good robot. There was some accident and one of the main women in the movie had something wrong with her eye as a result, like it had some sort of film on it or something. Good robot takes care of it and peels mysterious eye film off her eye with its steely robotic hand. All rejoice and good robot starts to earn their trust. Good robot goes bad and starts terrorizing shit. I assume it dies in the end, but I was a young kid at the time and bad robot scared me so much I stopped watching and ran to my room.

[halfbaked07]

ASM- I remember seeing that. Wasn't it a lifetime movie or something?

[asm198]

It might have been. Although, we didn't have cable. Did they show lifetime movies on regular tv back then? It may have been a made for tv movie. Oh, and I want to say that the crazy son might have been Richard Thomas, but I'm not at all sure.

Bocheezu, I did some looking, but couldn't find that movie. I did find this amusing review of another movie, which had robots in it. http://www.rinkworks.com/badmovie/m/runaway.1984.shtml

[halfbaked07]

I'm not sure if they did or not. We went back and forth with basic cable and no cable for a long time. You may be right about it being a made for tv movie.