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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2016 3:10:26 GMT -5
TCM showed a movie from 1974 tonight and I consider it a junk movie about a baby being born using experimental drugs that breeds a infant with a monster in design. I just find it one of the worst movies that I ever seen, honest.
The Movie Name is It's Alive (1974) ... Dir: Larry Cohen Cast: Guy Stockwell , Sharon Farrell , Andrew Duggan.
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Oct 30, 2016 13:03:42 GMT -5
Rewatched Universal's Dracula and The Wolfman a couple days ago.
Dracula sucked as much as it did the last time I watched it (which is quite a lot) and The Wolfman is still a masterpiece.
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 30, 2016 22:04:41 GMT -5
Rewatched Universal's Dracula and The Wolfman a couple days ago. Dracula sucked as much as it did the last time I watched it (which is quite a lot) and The Wolfman is still a masterpiece. I tried watching Dracula; it was so very weird to be watching a "talkie" with so little sound in it. Everything was played as if for the stage, very over-dramatic. i had never watched it before (I was easily prey to nightmares, as a kid, from horror stuff). Not quite what I was expecting. I had just previously watched the 1979 Dracula, with Frank Langella, with more naturalistic acting. I think I still prefer the Hammer version (though I like Curse of Frankenstein more).
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Oct 31, 2016 7:50:01 GMT -5
Rewatched Universal's Dracula and The Wolfman a couple days ago. Dracula sucked as much as it did the last time I watched it (which is quite a lot) and The Wolfman is still a masterpiece. I tried watching Dracula; it was so very weird to be watching a "talkie" with so little sound in it. Everything was played as if for the stage, very over-dramatic. i had never watched it before (I was easily prey to nightmares, as a kid, from horror stuff). Not quite what I was expecting. I had just previously watched the 1979 Dracula, with Frank Langella, with more naturalistic acting. I think I still prefer the Hammer version (though I like Curse of Frankenstein more). Well the movie was adapted from the stage version, with Lugosi and Van Sloan being in both. So it really was just a play on film. But considering Nosferatu was made nine years prior there really was no excuse for the movie to be so flaccid.
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Post by brutalis on Oct 31, 2016 8:07:46 GMT -5
Watched Vincent Price in the Haunted Palace. Price gives a wonderful performance in his "possession" as Charles Dexter Ward. Very good sets with their forced perspective providing a real Gothic feel to the surroundings. I think Barnabas Collins would have enjoyed some nice summer vacationing in the town of Arkham. The mutation/deformations were slightly over the top but in the dark shadows and alley ways they would be highly creepy and spooky. Lon Chaney did a nice turn as Price assistant being properly scary in size and demeanor. A fun if slight little movie to enjoy on a cool fall evening.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2016 8:57:29 GMT -5
Watched several movies on TCM this weekend. Blood and Black Lace: one of my all time favorites from Mario Bava. Glamorous models, fashion, drugs, and a masked killer all in swinging 60s Rome! Definitely set the tone for future slasher movies and giallo films. I love the bright colors and the plots in giallos that often make no sense, haha!
Carnival of Souls: way ahead of its time and genuinely creepy. Had an uncomfortable feeling throughout and didn't let the low budget hinder the atmosphere. The actress was perfect in the role with her ethereal looks.
The Black Cat: from 1934 with Karloff and Lugosi. The scene towards the end about the flaying of skin must've cause quite a stir back in 1934 as well as the Satanist elements.
The Baby: What a strange one. I can imagine this was one playing at 1970s drive-ins. A social worker is assigned a case where a 21 year old man has been kept as a baby his entire life. He can't walk, talk, or stand. He sleeps in a baby bed and is dressed as a baby. The ending was quite a twist.
I have to give to TCM this Halloween! I enjoyed the entire month!
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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 31, 2016 9:32:45 GMT -5
I tried watching Dracula; it was so very weird to be watching a "talkie" with so little sound in it. Everything was played as if for the stage, very over-dramatic. i had never watched it before (I was easily prey to nightmares, as a kid, from horror stuff). Not quite what I was expecting. I had just previously watched the 1979 Dracula, with Frank Langella, with more naturalistic acting. I think I still prefer the Hammer version (though I like Curse of Frankenstein more). Well the movie was adapted from the stage version, with Lugosi and Van Sloan being in both. So it really was just a play on film. But considering Nosferatu was made nine years prior there really was no excuse for the movie to be so flaccid. Yes, well, I was aware of that and kept it in my mind; but, even for the stage that would have been a bland production. Nosferatu was so vastly superior, in all respects. I never quite got the cult of Tod Browning. Murnau he wasn't. Meanwhile, I love Shadow of the Vampire, with John Malkovich, Willem Dafoe, Cary Elwes and Eddy Izzard, where Max Schreck is a real vampire. Really fun film!
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 2, 2016 16:29:55 GMT -5
I managed to fit in six movies on October 30 and 31. It helped that some of them were very short.
Freaks (1932) - One of my favorite movies! I don't know how many times I've seen it over the years. 20? 30? I hadn't seen it for a while but I DVRed it in January and I kept it so I can watch it whenever I want. Real sideshow freaks! Wallace Ford! Leila Hyams! Olga Baclanova! A trapeze artist marries a midget for his money and plots to kill him! It doesn't seem like such a good idea by the end of the movie.
House of Frankenstein (1944) - Boris Karloff, J. Carroll Naish, Sig Ruman, Anne Gwynne, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Elena Verdugo and George Zucco are all running around in Central Europe, living in circus wagons and inhabiting castle laboratories and getting released from prison by lightning bolts and being freed from ice caves and drowning in quicksand and whatever the heck else in this glorious mess of a movie. This is another one I've seen a bunch.
Dead of Night (1945) - One of the best British movies I've ever seen. I don't even want to start to describe it. This dude goes to a country cottage in Kent and it all seems so familiar. He has this recurring dream, you see, and his ramblings prompt everyone in the cottage to share their own supernatural experiences. I've probably said too much! You just need to see it. Are you a sucker for evil ventriloquist dolls? Then you really need to see this. It's awesome.
The Black Scorpion (1957) - I had never seen this before I watched it on Sunday. It's really good! They were trying to capitalize on THEM!, and it's not as good as that, but it's worth seeing if you like giant-bug movies and Willis O'Brien special effects. With Mara Corday!
Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) - There's a lot of Hammer horror films I've never seen, so I like to take a chance and watch a few every Halloween season. They're kind of hit-and-miss for me. But you never know when you're going to see something awesome like The Vampire Lovers or Vampire Circus, so I'm always hoping. Dracula A.D. 1972 is about some London mods who decide to resurrect Dracula. And one of the mods is the great-great-granddaughter of Van Helsing! Not bad. A lot of fun, actually!
Hausu (1977) - I love this one! It's filmed so strangely. It frequently looks like the director was getting most of his ideas from the designs on Japanese and Korean cookie and candy wrappers. A group of Japanese school girls make last-minute vacation plans to visit the aunt of one of the girls. She has a really big house and an evil green-eyed cat. But the house ... well, there's a reason the aunt hasn't had any visitors in 20 years.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 2, 2016 18:40:24 GMT -5
Thanks to Mark Evanier for bringing this to my attention
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 4, 2016 23:42:43 GMT -5
OK, still watching movies but too lazy to comment. Actually the last few days I've been watching mostly new releases on DVD-they come out hot and heavy at this time of the year due to the upcoming gift-giving season. There is one cliche that is annoying the crap out of me. And it has been for the last 10 years or so because it is so pervasive and at this point so stupid
I'm talking about when the movie is building to some climatic action filled scene and this loud choral singing overwhelms your ears, some foreign sounding, possibly east European choir that last for minutes that seem like forever. Why do so many films of different genres employ this over and over again. Who asked that they keep doing this. Who the hell started this and when will it end?
I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!!
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Nov 5, 2016 14:32:12 GMT -5
Watched Vincent Price in the Haunted Palace. Price gives a wonderful performance in his "possession" as Charles Dexter Ward. Very good sets with their forced perspective providing a real Gothic feel to the surroundings. I think Barnabas Collins would have enjoyed some nice summer vacationing in the town of Arkham. The mutation/deformations were slightly over the top but in the dark shadows and alley ways they would be highly creepy and spooky. Lon Chaney did a nice turn as Price assistant being properly scary in size and demeanor. A fun if slight little movie to enjoy on a cool fall evening. It's funny how that movie is presented as being inspired by Edgar Allan Poe when it's actually based on Lovecraft stories and themes. Guess Lovecraft wasn't a big enough name for Hollywood back then! I liked that movie, and really appreciated the way they made the creature at the end look otherworldly without resorting to very complicated effects. Like the more recent Dagon, it turned out to be a lot more fun than I expected.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 5, 2016 20:40:11 GMT -5
I've been making my way through the Bond series, after sitting, mostly bored, through SPECTRE. The Craig films just leave me cold, though I like him as an actor. It's just that the character he plays isn't Bond; not the literary Bond (as Dalton played) or the cinematic Bond. He lacks the style and panache that makes Bond, well, Bond. It's a fantasy and we want to revel in that fantasy; not relive endless metaphors for 9/11. I've seen too many collapsing buildings in these things. Oh, the dress Craig in tuxedos and give him the cars and women; but, he doesn't get to come alive with them. He just gets beat to hell and barely survive, usually due to someone else's intervention. The actors have been great and the movies well made; the stories just don't grab me and feed the imagination the way they once did.
So, I've been watching Dr No up through Octopussy, and have loved most minutes of it. Sure Diamonds is a clinker for Connery (but a bizarrely fun clinker) and Moore plays it too lightly, as it wears on (he's great up through Spy Who Loved Me, then gets really uneven). I'm about to put in View to a Kill, to see Moore well past his prime and his jokes fall flat, while also seeing Tanya Roberts as the most boring Bond girl, ever. Christopher Walken and Patrick Macnee deserved better. Grace Jones is Grace Jones.
I so much preferred Kingsman and The Man From UNCLE to recent Bonds. They had the style and wit (more vulgar, but still fun, in Kingsman) and Man From UNCLE captured both the show and the period beautifully. I want more of those!
I don't think we will get a return of the fub Bonds until the series leaves the hands of the Broccoli kids (Michael G Wilson, step-son, and Barbara Broccoli, daughter), and falls into those of someone like Kingsman director Mathew Vaughn, a real fan (or Guy Ritchie, another).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 20:41:25 GMT -5
I managed to fit in six movies on October 30 and 31. It helped that some of them were very short. Freaks (1932) - One of my favorite movies! I don't know how many times I've seen it over the years. 20? 30? I hadn't seen it for a while but I DVRed it in January and I kept it so I can watch it whenever I want. Real sideshow freaks! Wallace Ford! Leila Hyams! Olga Baclanova! A trapeze artist marries a midget for his money and plots to kill him! It doesn't seem like such a good idea by the end of the movie. House of Frankenstein (1944) - Boris Karloff, J. Carroll Naish, Sig Ruman, Anne Gwynne, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Elena Verdugo and George Zucco are all running around in Central Europe, living in circus wagons and inhabiting castle laboratories and getting released from prison by lightning bolts and being freed from ice caves and drowning in quicksand and whatever the heck else in this glorious mess of a movie. This is another one I've seen a bunch. Dead of Night (1945) - One of the best British movies I've ever seen. I don't even want to start to describe it. This dude goes to a country cottage in Kent and it all seems so familiar. He has this recurring dream, you see, and his ramblings prompt everyone in the cottage to share their own supernatural experiences. I've probably said too much! You just need to see it. Are you a sucker for evil ventriloquist dolls? Then you really need to see this. It's awesome. The Black Scorpion (1957) - I had never seen this before I watched it on Sunday. It's really good! They were trying to capitalize on THEM!, and it's not as good as that, but it's worth seeing if you like giant-bug movies and Willis O'Brien special effects. With Mara Corday! Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) - There's a lot of Hammer horror films I've never seen, so I like to take a chance and watch a few every Halloween season. They're kind of hit-and-miss for me. But you never know when you're going to see something awesome like The Vampire Lovers or Vampire Circus, so I'm always hoping. Dracula A.D. 1972 is about some London mods who decide to resurrect Dracula. And one of the mods is the great-great-granddaughter of Van Helsing! Not bad. A lot of fun, actually! Hausu (1977) - I love this one! It's filmed so strangely. It frequently looks like the director was getting most of his ideas from the designs on Japanese and Korean cookie and candy wrappers. A group of Japanese school girls make last-minute vacation plans to visit the aunt of one of the girls. She has a really big house and an evil green-eyed cat. But the house ... well, there's a reason the aunt hasn't had any visitors in 20 years. Absolutely love Freaks. Finally saw it for the first time a few years ago and enjoyed it immensely. A rather short film but it still packs a wallop to this day. The ending is chilling. Love A.D. 1972...favorite parts are the beginning on the carriage and the climatic battle. Caroline Munro is yummy too. Have you ever seen the sort of sequel to Dracula A.D. 1972 released in 1974? It's called The Satanic Rites of Dracula? Cushing and Lee reprise their roles respectively but Cushing's granddaughter is replaced by another actress. Not as fun as A.D. 1972 but it is well worth watching if your a Hammer film fan.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 6, 2016 11:49:15 GMT -5
I managed to fit in six movies on October 30 and 31. It helped that some of them were very short. Freaks (1932) - One of my favorite movies! I don't know how many times I've seen it over the years. 20? 30? I hadn't seen it for a while but I DVRed it in January and I kept it so I can watch it whenever I want. Real sideshow freaks! Wallace Ford! Leila Hyams! Olga Baclanova! A trapeze artist marries a midget for his money and plots to kill him! It doesn't seem like such a good idea by the end of the movie. House of Frankenstein (1944) - Boris Karloff, J. Carroll Naish, Sig Ruman, Anne Gwynne, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Elena Verdugo and George Zucco are all running around in Central Europe, living in circus wagons and inhabiting castle laboratories and getting released from prison by lightning bolts and being freed from ice caves and drowning in quicksand and whatever the heck else in this glorious mess of a movie. This is another one I've seen a bunch. Dead of Night (1945) - One of the best British movies I've ever seen. I don't even want to start to describe it. This dude goes to a country cottage in Kent and it all seems so familiar. He has this recurring dream, you see, and his ramblings prompt everyone in the cottage to share their own supernatural experiences. I've probably said too much! You just need to see it. Are you a sucker for evil ventriloquist dolls? Then you really need to see this. It's awesome. The Black Scorpion (1957) - I had never seen this before I watched it on Sunday. It's really good! They were trying to capitalize on THEM!, and it's not as good as that, but it's worth seeing if you like giant-bug movies and Willis O'Brien special effects. With Mara Corday! Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972) - There's a lot of Hammer horror films I've never seen, so I like to take a chance and watch a few every Halloween season. They're kind of hit-and-miss for me. But you never know when you're going to see something awesome like The Vampire Lovers or Vampire Circus, so I'm always hoping. Dracula A.D. 1972 is about some London mods who decide to resurrect Dracula. And one of the mods is the great-great-granddaughter of Van Helsing! Not bad. A lot of fun, actually! Hausu (1977) - I love this one! It's filmed so strangely. It frequently looks like the director was getting most of his ideas from the designs on Japanese and Korean cookie and candy wrappers. A group of Japanese school girls make last-minute vacation plans to visit the aunt of one of the girls. She has a really big house and an evil green-eyed cat. But the house ... well, there's a reason the aunt hasn't had any visitors in 20 years. Absolutely love Freaks. Finally saw it for the first time a few years ago and enjoyed it immensely. A rather short film but it still packs a wallop to this day. The ending is chilling. Love A.D. 1972...favorite parts are the beginning on the carriage and the climatic battle. Caroline Munro is yummy too. Have you ever seen the sort of sequel to Dracula A.D. 1972 released in 1974? It's called The Satanic Rites of Dracula? Cushing and Lee reprise their roles respectively but Cushing's granddaughter is replaced by another actress. Not as fun as A.D. 1972 but it is well worth watching if your a Hammer film fan. I've seen it, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, and it's my favorite Hammer Dracula movie. And it's not just"another actress," it's Joanna Lumley, most famous as Patsy Stone on "Absolutely Fabulous"!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 13:02:34 GMT -5
^Oh I didn't mean it that way I always enjoyed her especially in the New Avengers TV show where I was first exposed to her as a young lad.
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