front loader washing machine in horror movie

[virabhadrasana]

Hi!
Here below, please find a link from youtube to an italian horror movie of the 80's



Skip straight to 4:22 and 5:25: is there anyone who can tell which washer is it?
I get confused by the drum bottom (??)

PS: Happy Easter )

Marco

 

[foraloysius]

I'm not sure but I think it's a Candy.

 

[moparwash]

hmmmm...

Aren't a lot of today's front-loaders their own horror movie waiting to happen?

 

[foraloysius]

Well, it's hardly a today's frontloader, it's one from the late sixties I think.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

From the Belly  door  and boot and fact it does have the filter in the bottom left corner  looks a Candy, even if Indesit used to have the same belly style around the door, but if I remember right they did have a lid for the filter, but the fact is   this one though do have the detergent dispenser and knobs in top front... so I'd say typical Indesit, so do not know...I would not look  the drum as it looks like a photomontage, I'd think more about the body and control panel and dispenser...
It made me laugh the movie scene! It looks sooooooo fake!!!! ahahah!
One of the classical Italian trashy movie!
Regarding machines in horror movies, and   about this particular scene I recall having seen a bouncing head in an Halloween one, but was in a commercial dryer of a mental hospital,  my favoutite horror saga! They're real horrors!

Here is an indesit  with the belly frame:


 

 

Halloween full movie The resurrection of Michael Myers 2001 (in french):
Go straight at minute  8:58:


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[kenmoreguy89]

I wanted to add...even if maybe not on topic...

If someone is interested, there are scenes in the Halloween movies where you can find a nice  70s Whirlpool Belt drive set, and a bloody Kenmore...
Just thought it was nice to post as long as we talk about horrors and machines even if I already posted these in the past on another forum:
Halloween 1978, full movie (in english)  Belt drive Whirlpools at: min 45:50



 

Halloween, The Curse of Michael Myers 1995, Floody Kenmore at: 31:59   and Bloody Kenmore at: 50:45

Enjoy the movies, are great ones!

 

 

[foraloysius]

You are right about the door handle, hadn't noticed that in the short clip. But the door handle doesn't look like an Indesit one to me, but then again I could be wrong. Perhaps it's a totally different machine, perhaps even from eastern Europe. But then again sometimes appliances are changed to make them anonymous for movies.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

About the machine anyway, I believe it's a sort of photomontage....  the movie is italian but looks like is recorded in USA or Canada...
As far as I know in USA or Canada I never seen a similar machine, so I guess they did a a kind of photo job...actualy changing some things, one is the drum that looks so fake.... and even the handle looks a photomontage.
The external body looks real, untouched tough.....

Yes, you're right about it being maybe a machine from eastern europe or such.... I also thought of a model of Izola from Greece that were actually made with  similar Candy parts... who knows?

 

 

 

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[virabhadrasana]

@ Kenmoreguy

I'm pleased to see you're a horror movie fan! I am, too, and I do agree that italian horror/splatter movies of the 80's really look fake
But let's stick to the thread: I've been watching some old appliances ads and I think maybe the machine can be a Castor from the 60s/70s, for the push bottons on the top panel, but the the drum doesn't look the Castor kind and maybe it's a photomontage... some Italians collectors maybe can give the good answer... and bring home the head washed in the machine

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Yes! You're right! That looks a Castor! Didn't think about it! They were not so common to be found like other brands! You're right, also thinking about  the filter that is  differently shaped than a Candy one that didn't have that  thin ring around it, even if they are so similar! But comparing it to the old advertisement of Castors is pretty much identical!
Also the knob larger on the base, and the pushbuttons as you have said  looks like Castor one!

But the one in the movie have controls in the top front.... may be a similar one of this, or they messed  with it...
Just compare this ad with the machine in the movie, that's very similar, even the handle is similar,  so that one was not a photomontage, watching better on my other laptop (bigger screen) I could see even a shadow of it, so not fake,  but the drum surely is, looks like they did put a round paper sheet   shaped  like a drum behind, you can clearly see that there's an empty space beetween drum bottom and the boot! It's totally dark!

Anyway, yes 99% is a Castor! Maybe someone can even tell you the exact model.

 

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[kenmoreguy89]

Hey wait!

Wait!
Always watching on by bigger screen laptop now I could notice that what looked a front control panel indeed is placed in the top bottom! It's just the shot that on my other computer made it look like it was put on the front! Watching better now I realized indeed it was in the bottom! So yes that's a Castor! Mistery solved!

 

[foraloysius]

Mystery solved indeed!

 

[aquarius8000]

I think it's a Zerowatt

I think it's a Zerowatt, look at the video below and the machine looks pretty simalar.

Take a look at the video linked below.

Cheers

Chris.

http://https//www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXEbvcE6Aqs

 

[aquarius8000]

Ugh, the link isn't working.

So here is the video :



Thanks.

 

[foraloysius]

The Zerowatt is a different machine. It has the lint trap on the other side and that has a square door, not a round one. And this machine is missing the typical ring in the front panel around the door.

 

[kenmoreguy89]

Chris, can I call you Chris? I don't think it's a Zerowatt, as Louis also said.... it's true, some Zerowatt did have a similar frame around the door too, but it was way more plate and not belly like the one in the video, so  like Candy and Castor...
Also they didn't have that particular filter....and handles in Zerowatt were way more different and placed on the right side.
But I have to say I also tought about Zerowatt for a moment, that is because of the knob that resembled someway the one of a LT 487 model, also beacuse I  wrongly thought it had controls on the front....
But I immediately discarded this idea because of the reasons above....

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[kb0nes]

Yeasu FT-726R

Funny how we all see different things.

The radio at the opening is an old Yeasu FT-726R VHF/UHF radio operating on 144.03 Mhz. Interesting that as the actor turns the tuning knob the display frequency doesn't change, the VFO lock is on... Also interesting that there is a desk microphone next to the radio and a hand mic on top.

Forgive the off-topic digression, I can't help ID the washer.