The movie that doesn’t exist and the Redditors who think it does (opens in new tab)

(newstatesman.com)

11 pointsgarymoon9y ago8 comments

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While reading the article I kept thinking, yea I remember this movie, I can picture the box art. Then it reveals the Kazaam box art and I thought, oh no it's Kazaam I'm thinking of.

wildmusings9y ago

Seems like the work of a few dedicated trolls taking advantage of people's susceptibility to false ("incepted") memories about long-ago events.

curtis9y ago

This kind of story always reminds me of the Larry Niven's "For a Foggy Night".

scrumper9y ago

This is pretty interesting stuff about false group memories, albeit inconclusive.

neaden9y ago

I mean, it seems pretty conclusive to me that the movie didn't exist. It would require a massive and bizarre conspiracy theory to be true.

DrScump9y ago

I saw this in a double-feature, paired with "Beverly Hills Gun Club".

supercoder9y ago

The movie is kazaam

DKnoll9y ago

Yeah, I distinctly remember Kazaam, and it didn't have Sinbad.

What did star Sinbad though were First Kid and Jingle All the Way, both of which were released in 1996 (same as Kazaam) and I remember seeing at around the same time as Kazaam.

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