A hit and run game
A prank that changes a man
A blind love interest
A nerdy mop boy
The toxic waste capital
A transformation
Answer
A movie guessing game that I started in the summer of 2007 to combine my ever-expanding film knowledge with my passion for the haiku and my love of puzzles.
October 30, 2009
October 29, 2009
A Swiss scientist
A question about brain death
A dead cat risen
The hospital morgue:
a decapitated head
pleasures a woman.
Answer
A question about brain death
A dead cat risen
The hospital morgue:
a decapitated head
pleasures a woman.
Answer
October 28, 2009
A wall of cattle
A room of chicken feathers
A killer's abode
Off to grandpa's house,
five friends in need of some gas
enter the wrong home.
A crazed hitchhiker
An invalid brother and
A rip-roaring film
Answer
A room of chicken feathers
A killer's abode
Off to grandpa's house,
five friends in need of some gas
enter the wrong home.
A crazed hitchhiker
An invalid brother and
A rip-roaring film
Answer
October 27, 2009
Two bounty hunters
must retrieve eight prisoners
in rural Kansas.
A small and quaint farm
is overrun by monsters
that roll into town.
Answer
must retrieve eight prisoners
in rural Kansas.
A small and quaint farm
is overrun by monsters
that roll into town.
Answer
October 26, 2009
In the spirit of Halloween, I will be posting haikus of films that have a horror bent to them. Also, the answer is a little different for this post. Check it out. Enjoy.
An eating machine
consumes a ham, dog, and boat
but not an airtank.
A boy's yellow raft
is seen from below floating
washes ashore torn.
A late night party
Some evening skinny dipping
A buoy rings out
An arm on the beach,
not a boating accident.
She was its first meal.
Scratching a chalkboard,
a grizzled sea captain speaks
pronounces his price.
Answer
An eating machine
consumes a ham, dog, and boat
but not an airtank.
A boy's yellow raft
is seen from below floating
washes ashore torn.
A late night party
Some evening skinny dipping
A buoy rings out
An arm on the beach,
not a boating accident.
She was its first meal.
Scratching a chalkboard,
a grizzled sea captain speaks
pronounces his price.
Answer
October 25, 2009
Nine young samurai
try to do right by their clan
end up the hunted.
A sleepy ronin
is captured but has a plan:
floating camellias.
Answer
try to do right by their clan
end up the hunted.
A sleepy ronin
is captured but has a plan:
floating camellias.
Answer
October 24, 2009
Two TV writers
pursue a bleached blond intern
after her breakup.
Two trumpet players
Three different relationships
All with one woman
Answer
pursue a bleached blond intern
after her breakup.
Two trumpet players
Three different relationships
All with one woman
Answer
October 23, 2009
He's falsely accused
and must choose prison or war
leaving love behind.
A jealous young girl
frames a gardener for rape
sends him off to war.
A fractured story
A girl who sees what she wants
atones with a book.
Answer
and must choose prison or war
leaving love behind.
A jealous young girl
frames a gardener for rape
sends him off to war.
A fractured story
A girl who sees what she wants
atones with a book.
Answer
October 22, 2009
An adopted son
goes on a search for his mom
in New Mexico.
An unnamed child
Two gay FBI agents
Not B and Bers
An LSD trip
A training social worker
An armpit fetish
Answer
goes on a search for his mom
in New Mexico.
An unnamed child
Two gay FBI agents
Not B and Bers
An LSD trip
A training social worker
An armpit fetish
Answer
October 21, 2009
An old survivor
brings joy to a depressed one
turns death into life.
An old sunflower
Fun attending funerals
A hearse for a ride
Obsessed with the end,
a youth learns to love living
as his love's dying.
Answer
brings joy to a depressed one
turns death into life.
An old sunflower
Fun attending funerals
A hearse for a ride
Obsessed with the end,
a youth learns to love living
as his love's dying.
Answer
October 20, 2009
An English teacher
who's on the verge of crazy
visits her sister.
A brutish in-law
gets drunk and tears off his shirt
screaming for his wife.
Answer
who's on the verge of crazy
visits her sister.
A brutish in-law
gets drunk and tears off his shirt
screaming for his wife.
Answer
October 19, 2009
Banging on the glass
getting away with a cross
crashing a wedding.
A new college grad
An ambiguous bus ride
A boy's scuba gear
His father's friend's wife
A May-December romance
The daughter as well
Answer
getting away with a cross
crashing a wedding.
A new college grad
An ambiguous bus ride
A boy's scuba gear
His father's friend's wife
A May-December romance
The daughter as well
Answer
October 18, 2009
A filmmaker's past
is revealed through flashbacks in
stark animation.
A Beirut warzone
A director remembers
A dance amidst fire
Answer
is revealed through flashbacks in
stark animation.
A Beirut warzone
A director remembers
A dance amidst fire
Answer
October 17, 2009
A young hitchhiker
joins a couple on a boat
carrying a knife
A Polish couple
out for a sailing day-trip
take along a third.
Answer
joins a couple on a boat
carrying a knife
A Polish couple
out for a sailing day-trip
take along a third.
Answer
October 16, 2009
A lonely spinster
A student-teacher affair
A gold star journal
An aging schoolmarm
befriends the new art teacher
but wants something more.
Answer
A student-teacher affair
A gold star journal
An aging schoolmarm
befriends the new art teacher
but wants something more.
Answer
October 15, 2009
A twice-divorced man
A bespectacled TV scribe
New York relations
A black and white film
Rewriting chapter one to
George Gershwin's music
Answer
A bespectacled TV scribe
New York relations
A black and white film
Rewriting chapter one to
George Gershwin's music
Answer
October 14, 2009
A fruitless couple
An act of desperation
Five kids become four
A bounty hunter
Unpainted furniture dad
Two escaped convicts
Answer
An act of desperation
Five kids become four
A bounty hunter
Unpainted furniture dad
Two escaped convicts
Answer
October 13, 2009
An occult leader
in search of three sacred stones
uses child labor.
Alone on a bridge
armed with stone and machete
set to meet Kali.
A freight plane escape
A mine car get away chase
A crocodile pit
A night club singer
A driver who's a bit short
Join a professor
Answer
in search of three sacred stones
uses child labor.
Alone on a bridge
armed with stone and machete
set to meet Kali.
A freight plane escape
A mine car get away chase
A crocodile pit
A night club singer
A driver who's a bit short
Join a professor
Answer
October 12, 2009
In order to fuel
his dream for time travel he
steals from Libya.
Gone back thirty years
to witness a town's clock stop
from a lightning bolt.
Running late to school,
he hitches a ride set to
The Power of Love.
A mall parking lot
A now defunct sports car fueled
by plutonium.
Answer
his dream for time travel he
steals from Libya.
Gone back thirty years
to witness a town's clock stop
from a lightning bolt.
Running late to school,
he hitches a ride set to
The Power of Love.
A mall parking lot
A now defunct sports car fueled
by plutonium.
Answer
October 11, 2009
A factory girl,
a lover of musicals,
kills for her son's eyes.
A woman goes blind,
is charged with murder, and hanged
in a musical.
Answer
a lover of musicals,
kills for her son's eyes.
A woman goes blind,
is charged with murder, and hanged
in a musical.
Answer
October 8, 2009
A chance encounter
connects two musicians but
only for music.
An Irish busker
An immigrant Czech woman
A musical pair
Answer
connects two musicians but
only for music.
An Irish busker
An immigrant Czech woman
A musical pair
Answer
October 7, 2009
A newspaper chief
attempts to run for office
amidst an affair.
A young boy's taken
from his mother's boarding house
but never forgets.
A reporter's quest
to find the secret of him
and his dying word.
Answer
attempts to run for office
amidst an affair.
A young boy's taken
from his mother's boarding house
but never forgets.
A reporter's quest
to find the secret of him
and his dying word.
Answer
October 6, 2009
A photog's new wife
lost in a foreign city
searches for meaning.
Two displaced people
An actor and recent grad
A final whisper
A struggling actor
goes to Japan to film a
Whiskey commercial.
Answer
lost in a foreign city
searches for meaning.
Two displaced people
An actor and recent grad
A final whisper
A struggling actor
goes to Japan to film a
Whiskey commercial.
Answer
October 5, 2009
Johnson and Johnson
A-7 Scenario
It's a double cross!
An off-duty cop
walks across glass in order
to save his marriage.
A cop from New York
40 stories of action
All in a day's work
Answer
A-7 Scenario
It's a double cross!
An off-duty cop
walks across glass in order
to save his marriage.
A cop from New York
40 stories of action
All in a day's work
Answer
October 4, 2009
Japanese students
A governmental act passed
Only one survives
Lower-class students
find themselves on an island
fighting to their death.
Answer
A governmental act passed
Only one survives
Lower-class students
find themselves on an island
fighting to their death.
Answer
October 3, 2009
A rowdy car full
An antique propeller and
A tennis match mimed
A British photog,
taking pictures in the park,
spies a lone couple.
An enlarged photo
Evidence of one man's death
A corpse goes missing
Answer
An antique propeller and
A tennis match mimed
A British photog,
taking pictures in the park,
spies a lone couple.
An enlarged photo
Evidence of one man's death
A corpse goes missing
Answer
October 2, 2009
A man's true story
dodging some blazing barrels
on his quest for Kong.
To save a princess,
a family man toils to
achieve a high score.
Answer
dodging some blazing barrels
on his quest for Kong.
To save a princess,
a family man toils to
achieve a high score.
Answer
October 1, 2009
A playground affair
A sexual predator
"Kids" parenting kids
Two lonely parents
begin a relationship
that's stopped by skateboards.
Answer
A sexual predator
"Kids" parenting kids
Two lonely parents
begin a relationship
that's stopped by skateboards.
Answer
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