the amityville horror -> “the house that god forgot”
the princess bride -> “minute of the pale death”
grosse pointe blank -> “even an assassin needs a hit from time to time” (where “hit” is slang for “date”)
hitchcock’s “rope” -> “the yell” (the swedish word for yell is “rop”, in the-form its “ropet”. very funny)
and my favourite, which i had forgotten until looking up these things:
superman 3 -> “superman has a bit of bad krypto-luck” (lit. “stålmannen går på en krypto-nit”, “superman walks into a krypto-(losing lottery ticket)”. “gå på en nit” means to fail at a task, as in you failed because of the luck of the draw. and as you may have guessed, “kryptonit” is the swedish translation of kryptonite. yes, i’m cringing just writing this out)
right? some others:
and my favourite, which i had forgotten until looking up these things: