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Post by thwhtguardian on Jul 24, 2015 19:03:08 GMT -5
Dracula's Daughter(1936) After all, who could say no to a visage like this?  Seriously, Gloria Holden is absolutely stunning in this movie, with her high cheek bones and big, dark eyes she arrests your attention every time she takes the screen. And although she projects a more tragic aura rather than a horrific one Irving Pichel easily makes up for it as Sandor, the Russian servant. With his deep voice and dark Russian garb is a seriously foreboding presence. Heck even Edward van Sloan, who is the only returning cast member as Van Helsing) seems to take things up a notch with his performance, where as his lines seemed stilted and mechanical in Dracula he seems much more natural here. Like Dracula before it there are no real scares here, though there is a fantastic mood that pervades every scene and more than a few creepy encounters to make it a horror movie in my book. Unlike the previous sequel "The Bride of Frankenstein" which managed to surpass its predecessor "Dracula's Daughter" doesn't truly improve on Dracula but it is just as good in my mind. That's one movie that I want to see - was it on TV today? Nope, I watched it on DVD. Bride of Frankenstein was probably the best so far but this may be my favorite of the month since I've seen Bride so many times in the past. That's not to take away from the Bride of Frankenstein, it's seriously the best sequel ever and one of my favorite films of all time but Dracula's Daughter was fresh and exciting. |
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Post by shaxper on Jul 31, 2015 22:12:36 GMT -5
Whoops. Forgot to do this yesterday.
It's the end of the month, so, if your total viewings aren't on the first page of this thread, post them here by tomorrow night.
As a reminder, I'm not eligible since I chose this month's theme, so thwhtguardian is the man to beat!
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 1, 2015 7:51:50 GMT -5
I'm not back until Tuesday, but if someone doesn't beat my theme is... Basically, if it involves some kind of undersea animal(or creature) terrorizing unsuspecting humans it's fair game. |
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Post by shaxper on Aug 1, 2015 7:58:14 GMT -5
Too bad Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus is too new...
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 1, 2015 8:43:34 GMT -5
Too bad Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus is too new... True, but yo can watch it for...fun? Is that the right word? I think that film was one of the films used by the CIA after water boarding became outlawed. |
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Post by shaxper on Aug 1, 2015 11:46:15 GMT -5
The finest moment in cinema history:
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Post by thwhtguardian on Aug 1, 2015 12:45:13 GMT -5
The finest moment in cinema history: Holy Shit indeed. I wonder who they get to write these things. |
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 1, 2015 16:06:04 GMT -5
I've never seen Jaws. Perhaps this would be a good opportunity. I've heard good things.
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 1, 2015 16:16:36 GMT -5
Also considering:
It came from beneath the sea
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 1, 2015 16:17:12 GMT -5
Godzilla was first found underwater, right?
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Post by coke & comics on Aug 1, 2015 16:24:19 GMT -5
July was a pretty busy month. Too much travel interferes with my foruming.
I did watch Dracula for the first time. Given that I've owned the film on DVD for about a year, it was time. I really enjoyed Bela Lugosi's performance. And the opening in Transylvania was good and moody. The rest was fine, but nothing more in it that I can say I loved.
And I watched House of Wax. I have decided I really like Vincent Price. I went most of my life not really knowing his work. Only in recent years have I seen The Fly and The Last Man on Earth and decided I really like his acting. He was also excellent in House of Wax, which I generally found a great film through and through. I got the disc from Netflix and the other side is Mystery of the Wax Museum, the earlier film. I will watch that soon.
I also watched A Fistful of Dollars, continuing my tradition of building my Netflix queue based on a theme, then not getting through it all in time. I was glad we did the western month after the samurai month, in which I watched Yojimbo. They were interesting movies to compare and contrast.
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Post by shaxper on Aug 1, 2015 23:10:49 GMT -5
I'm not back until Tuesday, but if someone doesn't beat my theme is... Basically, if it involves some kind of undersea animal(or creature) terrorizing unsuspecting humans it's fair game. Looks like it's official. Got a few b movie classics I might try out, and maybe James Cameron"s The Abyss. |
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Post by Prince Hal on Aug 2, 2015 10:40:59 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for The Giant Behemoth.
(Isn't that redundant? The giant giant creature?)
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Post by shaxper on Aug 2, 2015 21:43:50 GMT -5
Watched The Incredible Petrified World (1957) and am in utter awe if just how B the film was. It begins by discussing all the deadly creatures of the deep sea, as well as a "Phantom layer" consisting of deep sea creatures that hate the light and might even be throwbacks to ages past, but then the film never ends up having anything to do with any of this, instead focusing on a bunch of deep sea divers stuck in an undersea cave where they essentially walk around for a long time. There's a random curmudgeony shut-in who had been living down there for fourteen years and tries to rape the women, but that's ad close to a plot as we really get.
Oh, at one point, they run into a lizard that hisses at them once.
In short, there was absolutely nothing incredible about the petrified world.
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Post by gothos on Aug 4, 2015 15:49:40 GMT -5
I saw JAWS in the theater last month and it still holds up.
I semi-watched SYFY's "Sharktopus" films while doing other things. All pretty dire. At least MEGASHAWK VS. GIANT OCTOPUS had one outstandingly dopey scene. The rest of these time-wasters are dopey, but without anything to distinguish them.
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