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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 6, 2016 14:16:53 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. ^I didn't mean to make it sound that way either. I thought you didn't know her or didn't recognize her. I was just mentioning it for people who know "Absolutely Fabulous!" I think Joanna Lumley was also in one of the Bond films - On Her Majesty's Secret Service maybe? Not a very big part, if I remember right.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 6, 2016 14:46:44 GMT -5
I DVRed a bunch of genre movies in October, but I ended up being unexpectedly busy at the end of the month and though I did manage to watch quite a few movies the last weekend before Halloween, I still ended up with a bit of a backlog, about eight movies. I've watched five of them since Halloween.
The Black Cat (1934) - This is the one with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff both, not the one from a few years later with Bela, Basil Rathbone and ... Alan Ladd? Broderick Crawford? (I like the later one a lot because it's just so dang weird.) The 1934 film is amazing! Boris is a Satanist who lives in a postmodern art deco mansion that was built over a fortress in Hungary where a terrible World War I battle was fought. Bela is a psychiatrist who was among the prisoners handed over to the Russians when Boris betrayed the fort. (He was taken to Kulgaar ... where the soul is killed ... slowly.) Bela has returned to take his revenge! It ends with Boris strapped to a metal rack as Bela skins him with a pocket knife. It's awesome! David Manners and the lovely lovely Jacqueline Wells co-star.
Experiment in Terror (1962) - It's not really a horror movie. It's actually rather Hitchcockian. It's directed by Blake Edwards and it stars Lee Remick and Glenn Ford. Lee is terrorized by an anonymous guy in a mask who's threatening to kill her and her sister if she doesn't take advantage of her bank clerk job to steal $100,000 for him. It's pretty good! Some of the details of the plot don't quite work but you might be so distracted by Lee Remick that you won't notice until later. It's not just because she's so beautiful; she also acts the HELL out of her part. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Highly recommended if you've seen your favorite Hitchcock film too many times and would like something almost as good.
Black Sabbath (1963) - A horror anthology directed by Mario Bava and starring Boris Karloff. Because of the time-frame and the presence of Boris, it reminded me a little of those Roger Corman movies adapting Edgar Allan Poe stories (allegedly) but the stories tend to have a perverse twist, probably because of director Bava. The story about the wurdulak, for example, is very disturbing, when you think about it, and could very easily be the basis of a season of "American Horror Story."
Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Mario Bava again. Somebody is killing all the models at an exclusive modelling agency in Rome. I've heard that some film scholars consider this to be a film that influenced the slasher movie genre, film series like Friday the Thirteenth and Halloween. It seems highly likely to me. In any case, 1960s Italian horror movies just rock!
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) puts the brain of an innocent man executed for murder into the body of a woman who drowned. Not such a great entry in the Hammer Frankenstein series, but I DVRed it because I've never seen this one. It gets a lot of points just for being so weird. (The one I love is Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed!, which is probably the first Hammer film I ever saw. I was probably a bit too young for it but IT TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT! I've never forgotten it, and I try to see it every so often. It's been a while. Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein is Satanic.)
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 15:43:18 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. ^I didn't mean to make it sound that way either. I thought you didn't know her or didn't recognize her. I was just mentioning it for people who know "Absolutely Fabulous!" I think Joanna Lumley was also in one of the Bond films - On Her Majesty's Secret Service maybe? Not a very big part, if I remember right. No problem. Yes she had a bit part in that movie as one of the girls that were being brainwashed I believe. It also has a slew of other young ladies that were in other Hammer Films and at least one otherBond Film where some were uncredited. That remains one of my favorite Bond film of all time. Great cast, action scenes and I love the soundtrack. Especially Louis Armstrong's We Have All the Time in the World. If only Sean Connery had been cast in it I think it would have been my all time favorite Bond film.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 16:16:29 GMT -5
I DVRed a bunch of genre movies in October, but I ended up being unexpectedly busy at the end of the month and though I did manage to watch quite a few movies the last weekend before Halloween, I still ended up with a bit of a backlog, about eight movies. I've watched five of them since Halloween. The Black Cat (1934) - This is the one with Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff both, not the one from a few years later with Bela, Basil Rathbone and ... Alan Ladd? Broderick Crawford? (I like the later one a lot because it's just so dang weird.) The 1934 film is amazing! Boris is a Satanist who lives in a postmodern art deco mansion that was built over a fortress in Hungary where a terrible World War I battle was fought. Bela is a psychiatrist who was among the prisoners handed over to the Russians when Boris betrayed the fort. (He was taken to Kulgaar ... where the soul is killed ... slowly.) Bela has returned to take his revenge! It ends with Boris strapped to a metal rack as Bela skins him with a pocket knife. It's awesome! David Manners and the lovely lovely Jacqueline Wells co-star. Experiment in Terror (1962) - It's not really a horror movie. It's actually rather Hitchcockian. It's directed by Blake Edwards and it stars Lee Remick and Glenn Ford. Lee is terrorized by an anonymous guy in a mask who's threatening to kill her and her sister if she doesn't take advantage of her bank clerk job to steal $100,000 for him. It's pretty good! Some of the details of the plot don't quite work but you might be so distracted by Lee Remick that you won't notice until later. It's not just because she's so beautiful; she also acts the HELL out of her part. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Highly recommended if you've seen your favorite Hitchcock film too many times and would like something almost as good. Black Sabbath (1963) - A horror anthology directed by Mario Bava and starring Boris Karloff. Because of the time-frame and the presence of Boris, it reminded me a little of those Roger Corman movies adapting Edgar Allan Poe stories (allegedly) but the stories tend to have a perverse twist, probably because of director Bava. The story about the wurdulak, for example, is very disturbing, when you think about it, and could very easily be the basis of a season of "American Horror Story." Blood and Black Lace (1964) - Mario Bava again. Somebody is killing all the models at an exclusive modelling agency in Rome. I've heard that some film scholars consider this to be a film that influenced the slasher movie genre, film series like Friday the Thirteenth and Halloween. It seems highly likely to me. In any case, 1960s Italian horror movies just rock! Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Dr. Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) puts the brain of an innocent man executed for murder into the body of a woman who drowned. Not such a great entry in the Hammer Frankenstein series, but I DVRed it because I've never seen this one. It gets a lot of points just for being so weird. (The one I love is Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed!, which is probably the first Hammer film I ever saw. I was probably a bit too young for it but IT TOTALLY FREAKED ME OUT! I've never forgotten it, and I try to see it every so often. It's been a while. Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein is Satanic.) I've only seen Blood and Black Lace once many years ago and I don't remember anything about it. I will have to track it down one of these days. Have you ever seen Bava's The Whip and the Body from 1963? It's about a 19th century nobleman who terrorizes his family who is then found dead and his ghost continues to haunt them and the castle. It's a great little film and also stars Christopher Lee! I love Frankenstein Created Woman. I think it doesn't get the credit it deserves mainly because it doesn't have a "monster" in it. Cushing is great as always and so are Susan Denberg and Thorley Walters. Underrated. Not the best one but definitely better than Evil of Frankenstein. Aside from Freddie Francis's direction it is rather lackluster and the monster makeup in that movie is crap. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is my favorite in the series. Great direction by Terence Fisher and Cushing never fails to disappoint. It is this movie where he is the most sadistic. The only thing that ruins the movie is the forced rape scene between Cushing and Veronica Carlson. It was demanded by Michael Cararres who didn't think the movie was racy enough. Both actors were embarrassed by the scene. It was filmed last and because of that it is never even mentioned in the film after that! Still it doesn't hinder my opinion of this great film. Sorry for the rant but I adore Hammer Films and can talk about them endlessly!
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Nov 6, 2016 16:58:10 GMT -5
I love Frankenstein Created Woman. I think it doesn't get the credit it deserves mainly because it doesn't have a "monster" in it. Cushing is great as always and so are Susan Denberg and Thorley Walters. Underrated. Not the best one but definitely better than Evil of Frankenstein. Aside from Freddie Francis's direction it is rather lackluster and the monster makeup in that movie is crap. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is my favorite in the series. Great direction by Terence Fisher and Cushing never fails to disappoint. It is this movie where he is the most sadistic. The only thing that ruins the movie is the forced rape scene between Cushing and Veronica Carlson. It was demanded by Michael Cararres who didn't think the movie was racy enough. Both actors were embarrassed by the scene. It was filmed last and because of that it is never even mentioned in the film after that! Still it doesn't hinder my opinion of this great film. Sorry for the rant but I adore Hammer Films and can talk about them endlessly! What I love about the Hammer Frankenstein movies (with the exception of Evil of Frankenstein) is how there's a consistent arc of Frankenstein's steady improvement of his craft that runs parallel to his descent into evil. Hence Frankenstein Created Woman "not having a real monster." The monster in Curse was a crude prototype, the monster in Revenge was the process perfected and now in Created Woman he has moved his work to another level, dealing with the soul.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 17:05:29 GMT -5
I love Frankenstein Created Woman. I think it doesn't get the credit it deserves mainly because it doesn't have a "monster" in it. Cushing is great as always and so are Susan Denberg and Thorley Walters. Underrated. Not the best one but definitely better than Evil of Frankenstein. Aside from Freddie Francis's direction it is rather lackluster and the monster makeup in that movie is crap. Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed is my favorite in the series. Great direction by Terence Fisher and Cushing never fails to disappoint. It is this movie where he is the most sadistic. The only thing that ruins the movie is the forced rape scene between Cushing and Veronica Carlson. It was demanded by Michael Cararres who didn't think the movie was racy enough. Both actors were embarrassed by the scene. It was filmed last and because of that it is never even mentioned in the film after that! Still it doesn't hinder my opinion of this great film. Sorry for the rant but I adore Hammer Films and can talk about them endlessly! What I love about the Hammer Frankenstein movies (with the exception of Evil of Frankenstein) is how there's a consistent arc of Frankenstein's steady improvement of his craft that runs parallel to his descent into evil. Hence Frankenstein Created Woman "not having a real monster." The monster in Curse was a crude prototype, the monster in Revenge was the process perfected and now in Created Woman he has moved his work to another level, dealing with the soul. Yes...I agree with everything you just said.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 6, 2016 17:05:52 GMT -5
I watched one of the strangest films made in the 1950s. Dementia AKA Daughter Of Horror filmed in 1953 but failed to get through the film censor board and finally released in limited theaters in 1955. A combo of Noir and Nightmare with no dialogue and a 1 hour running time. Very strange
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2016 9:15:36 GMT -5
Watched Dr. Terror's House of Horrors last night. This was Amicus Productions first anthology movie from 1964. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, a very young Donald Sutherland, Michael Gough and Bernard Lee.
It's divided into five stories with Cushing telling fortunes on a train to five strangers. Had seen this many years ago on an old VHS tape and remembered enjoying it but I guess my memory was skewed because other than the parts with Cushing the stories are rather lame. It's definitely the weakest of Amicus's other half dozen anthology films which were all enjoyable.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2016 13:05:23 GMT -5
I watched Mark of the Vampire this weekend. The movie had some very eerie scenes, particularly the ones with the female vampire, Luna. And what a twist at the end! The styling for Luna reminded me of Lily Munster. Perhaps she was the inspiration for Lily? A good, fun, and short movie!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 7, 2016 15:40:33 GMT -5
I watched Mark of the Vampire this weekend. The movie had some very eerie scenes, particularly the ones with the female vampire, Luna. And what a twist at the end! The styling for Luna reminded me of Lily Munster. Perhaps she was the inspiration for Lily? A good, fun, and short movie! I watched that too and It was surprisingly good.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 7, 2016 15:51:19 GMT -5
Yesterday I finished my errands and chores by mid-afternoon and decided to try to watch the last three genre movies that I didn't get to before Halloween. It helped a lot that two of them are not much over an hour. (And it also helped that those same two movies are a couple of my favorite movies of all time and very easy to watch no matter what kind of mood I'm in.)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - TCM had such a nice restored print! With the tinted scenes! And the customized intertitles that looked like the font from the album cover for "Never Mind the Bollocks! It's the Sex Pistols!" I've seen Caligari four or five times, but I've never seen it looking this good. I love it more than ever!
Dracula (1931) - I love this one! I bet I've seen it thirty times or more in my life. Lugosi's great! But I think my favorite scene is where Dwight Frye as Renfield is telling Van Helsing and Dr. Seward about Dracula showing him the rats, thousands of them, with red eyes like his, each one a life! And I also love Helen Chandler as Mina, especially that scene on the terrace where she's talking to David Manners (as Jonathon Harker) and she starts staring at his throat and her eyes light up and she has a bit of a smile as she starts to glide in to attack! And then when the giant bat is hovering over them, and Jonathon is attacking it with a pillow ... and Mina is talking to it! "Yes ... Yes ... I will!" Not to mention the bat driving the coach, the terrible fate of the Vesta, the armadillos and possums in Castle Dracula, the scene in the opera box and Lucy's bizarre toast, Martin the snarky attendant at the asylum, Van Helsing and Dracula and their battle of wills. And so on and so on. I placed it at #3 the last time I made a top Ten List of my favorite movies.
Time After Time (1979) - It's not really a horror movie. I saw it on the TCM schedule and I remembered that I wanted to see it when it came out in 1979 (and never got the chance), so I DVRed it. Jack the Ripper (David Warner) steals a time machine and H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) chases him to San Francisco in the 1970s to stop his murder spree. I liked it a lot! I bet it was a lot of fun to see it in the theater in 1979 with a Coke and a bucket of popcorn and some Sno-Caps.
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 7, 2016 16:31:47 GMT -5
My wife came home from the library with a DVD set put out by Turner Classic Movies - four films starring Jean Harlow:
Dinner at Eight - with John and Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler and Billie Burke.
Libeled Lady with Spencer Tracy, William Powell and Myrna Loy.
China Seas with Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell.
Wife vs. Secretary with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Jimmy Stewart.
Not sure if I'll get a chance to see any of them all the way thru but the bits I've seen are fun.
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 8, 2016 11:19:19 GMT -5
My wife came home from the library with a DVD set put out by Turner Classic Movies - four films starring Jean Harlow: Dinner at Eight - with John and Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, Marie Dressler and Billie Burke. Libeled Lady with Spencer Tracy, William Powell and Myrna Loy. China Seas with Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell. Wife vs. Secretary with Clark Gable, Myrna Loy and Jimmy Stewart. Not sure if I'll get a chance to see any of them all the way thru but the bits I've seen are fun. I don't think I've seen Wife vs. Secretary, but the others are all very good to great. Dinner at Eight is MUST-SEE! One of the classics of the early 1930s. I suggest you make an effort to see the whole thing. And if you want to see Harlow's two best, check out Bombshell and Red-Headed Woman. China Seas gets a lot of points for being SO WEIRD!
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 8, 2016 13:02:17 GMT -5
Yesterday I finished my errands and chores by mid-afternoon and decided to try to watch the last three genre movies that I didn't get to before Halloween. It helped a lot that two of them are not much over an hour. (And it also helped that those same two movies are a couple of my favorite movies of all time and very easy to watch no matter what kind of mood I'm in.) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) - TCM had such a nice restored print! With the tinted scenes! And the customized intertitles that looked like the font from the album cover for "Never Mind the Bollocks! It's the Sex Pistols!" I've seen Caligari four or five times, but I've never seen it looking this good. I love it more than ever! Dracula (1931) - I love this one! I bet I've seen it thirty times or more in my life. Lugosi's great! But I think my favorite scene is where Dwight Frye as Renfield is telling Van Helsing and Dr. Seward about Dracula showing him the rats, thousands of them, with red eyes like his, each one a life! And I also love Helen Chandler as Mina, especially that scene on the terrace where she's talking to David Manners (as Jonathon Harker) and she starts staring at his throat and her eyes light up and she has a bit of a smile as she starts to glide in to attack! And then when the giant bat is hovering over them, and Jonathon is attacking it with a pillow ... and Mina is talking to it! "Yes ... Yes ... I will!" Not to mention the bat driving the coach, the terrible fate of the Vesta, the armadillos and possums in Castle Dracula, the scene in the opera box and Lucy's bizarre toast, Martin the snarky attendant at the asylum, Van Helsing and Dracula and their battle of wills. And so on and so on. I placed it at #3 the last time I made a top Ten List of my favorite movies. Time After Time (1979) - It's not really a horror movie. I saw it on the TCM schedule and I remembered that I wanted to see it when it came out in 1979 (and never got the chance), so I DVRed it. Jack the Ripper (David Warner) steals a time machine and H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) chases him to San Francisco in the 1970s to stop his murder spree. I liked it a lot! I bet it was a lot of fun to see it in the theater in 1979 with a Coke and a bucket of popcorn and some Sno-Caps. Time After Time is a great little film, and Nicholas Meyer excels at this kind of thing, with his Sherlock Holmes pastiches and mash-ups (Holmes meets Sigmund Freud, Gilbert & Sullivan, and the phantom of the Opera, in Meyer's three novels). He remarks in the film commentary that you could see Malcolm McDowell and Mary Steenburgen falling in love, just as the characters do.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2016 11:56:19 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. I think Joanna Lumley was also in one of the Bond films - On Her Majesty's Secret Service maybe? Not a very big part, if I remember right. Joanna Lumley was the English Girl in that movie - Limited Cameo Appearance. You were right.
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