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Post by codystarbuck on Oct 31, 2023 10:16:34 GMT -5
Diabolik is awesome! That is one film where I will say "@#$% MST3K!" (And I like those guys). It is pure fun...not overly silly, but able to recognize what is cool about Diabolik and what is a bit much. Plus, a Morricone score! Plus, the dude gets to make love, to Marissa Mel, on a pile of money! Let's see Batman do that! Planet of the Vampires is also pretty cool and one of the better Italian sci-fi films and actually better realized than a lot of American sci-fi, of the same period. Never watched Black Sabbath, as the trailer seemed to emphasize a lot of things I just don't really care to watch. I've seen stills of Steele, from it, though.Nothing to do with horror; but, there is a pretty good independent film, from Roman Coppola, called CQ, set in the world of Italian film production, in the 60s, where they are making a film, Dragonfly, which is a sort of mix of Barbarella and Diabolik, with John Phillip Law in a significant cameo role. The VD has an extra that allows you to watch all of the Dragonfly footage as a complete "film" (about 10 minutes time, or slightly less). I quite like the Antonio Margheretti Gamma-One series of sci-fi films (Wild, Wild Planet; War of the Planets, War Between the Planets, Snow Devils). Hardly Kubrick, but entertaining and the effects are no worse than average Hollywood. The fist two, Wild, Wild Planet and War of the Planets are pretty decent and the former has Franco Nero in a prominent role. I hadn't seen it before; but, Video Watchdog had an article on "Continental Cinema" (European films of the 60s) and those two were mentioned in it, along with things like some of the Eurospy films, the DeLaurentiss sci-fi comic adaptations, the sci-fi film The 10th Victim, and similar fare, with a heavy emphasis on style, over storytelling.
You're confusing Black Sabbath with Black Sunday.
Black Sunday is the earlier of the two, shot in glorious black & white, and features Barbara Steele.
Black Sabbath is an entirely different film, shot in color with three vignette stories (the film is also known as The Three Faces of Fear in some countries). It features Boris Karloff. The three stories are "The Telephone", "The Wurdulak" and "A Drop of Water". Good creepy stuff, but absolutely not related to the Steele film in any way.
And I agree with you about Margheretti's sci-fi films-- Wild, Wild Planet is a blast visually.
Yeah, it was Black Sunday I was thinking of. When I think Black Sabbath, I just hear Ozzy screeching and the Road Warriors hitting the ring to pummel two guys into the mat.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Oct 31, 2023 10:36:57 GMT -5
Black Sabbath was the first Mario Bava movie I ever saw. Particularly liked "The Drop of Water" segment of the movie. I have never seen Black Sunday that I can remember. Planet of the Vampires was pretty good too. And I vaguely remember watching Baron Blood from reading the plot on wikipedia. The plot to Black Sunday does sound interesting.
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Post by commond on Oct 31, 2023 17:53:05 GMT -5
Kill Baby, Kill! was great baby, great. Perfect end to my Halloween season viewing. I definitely preferred more supernatural horror stories this year. Kill Baby, Kill! was an amazing feat of low budget filmmaking. Bava didn't have anywhere near the amount of funding that he had on earlier projects and they ran out of money while filming, but the level of improvisation is impressive, especially the special effects they created. The cinematography is phenomenal. You can tell why directors such as Fellini, Scorcese and David Lynch were inspired by it.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 31, 2023 22:39:46 GMT -5
I’m watching Eyes Without a Face. I watch it almost every Halloween. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it 8 to 10 times.
I’m wondering if anybody else watches it as much as I do.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 1, 2023 10:31:02 GMT -5
I’m watching Eyes Without a Face. I watch it almost every Halloween. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it 8 to 10 times. I’m wondering if anybody else watches it as much as I do. I saw the music video quite a lot, back in the day; does that count?
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Post by berkley on Nov 1, 2023 11:36:25 GMT -5
I’m watching Eyes Without a Face. I watch it almost every Halloween. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it 8 to 10 times. I’m wondering if anybody else watches it as much as I do.
I've never seen it but hoping to get to it soon, since it came out in 1960. Maybe next Hallowe'en! Actually, I hope it won't be that long, but I keep finding more things from the 1950s I want to see (and read, etc).
Last night I saw The Black Castle (1952). Pretty good historical adventure with some horror elements, mostly in the sinister setting and a possible premature burial - this happens in the first 5 minutes so it isn't a spoilr. The rest of the movie is a flashback showing how the situation came about until it catches up to the beginning with about 5 minutes left. Karloff in a supporting role, not as important as his billing would lead you to expect..
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Post by Hoosier X on Nov 1, 2023 12:04:10 GMT -5
I’m watching Eyes Without a Face. I watch it almost every Halloween. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen it 8 to 10 times. I’m wondering if anybody else watches it as much as I do. I saw the music video quite a lot, back in the day; does that count? I remember that video. Billy Idol made a lot of good videos back then, and that was one of them. Perhaps I’m being a bit finicky, but I’m pretty sure that doesn’t count for seeing the movie.
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Post by EdoBosnar on Nov 4, 2023 13:11:33 GMT -5
Just watched (well, last night) the classic Hong Kong action film starring Bruce Lee, Fist of Fury (1972)...
...which many in the US may also better know under the title The Chinese Connection. I realized as I was watching it that I had never seen it before from start to finish, rather I had previously just watched clips of it. It's quite enjoyable if martial arts flicks are your thing - I'll admit that I only like them in small doses (i.e., only occasionally), but I'll always gladly watch a Bruce Lee film as he never disappoints.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 4, 2023 13:31:16 GMT -5
Just watched (well, last night) the classic Hong Kong action film starring Bruce Lee, Fist of Fury (1972)... ...which many in the US may also better know under the title The Chinese Connection. I realized as I watching it that I had never seen it before from start to finish, rather I had previously just watched clips of it. It's quite enjoyable if martial arts flicks are your thing - I'll admit that I only like them in small doses (i.e., only occasionally), but I'll always gladly watch a Bruce Lee film as he never disappoints. A great film. 1972 was the year that Lee became a worldwide mega-star with this film and Way of the Dragon. It ever penetrated my little world and I was only five years old.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 4, 2023 15:06:17 GMT -5
Fist of Fury is a step up from The Big Boss, with a bit of historical context to the conflict and not just a criminal gang. I'm still more partial to Enter the Dragon, Return of the Dragon/Way of the Dragon and Game of Death; but, of the earliest ones, it is the better film.
I have a love/hate thing with martial arts films. There some really good ones, especially Bruce Lee's. There are a lot of mediocre ones, from Hong Kong, in the 60s and 70s and most US-based productions, without Bruce Lee, from the 70s, are pretty bad to so-so, at best. Chuck Norris' films are pretty dull, even the octagon, with the ninja. Lone Wolf McQuade is saved by David Carridine. By contrast, if you go back to Hong Kong, you can get some excellent films from the likes of Gordon Liu, Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan, through the late 70s and into the 80s. Stuff like 36th Chamber of Shaolin, Drunken Master, Enter the Fat Dragon, Sammo and Jackie teaming up with Yuen Biao for their films (they were all performers in Peking Opera, together, as children) and Jackie's expanding into modern action films, like Police Story and Armour of God I and II (Operation Condor). By the 90s, you can add even more good martial arts oriented action films, especially when Sammo directs. Throw in Michelle Yeoh, Donnie Yen, and the young Jet Li, with Tsui Hark producing and directing and it gets really good.
The Shaw Brothers films can get pretty goofy; but the bad stuff more often came from Taiwan or lesser productions. Raymond Chow's Golden Harvest usually did good to great films and Chow produced Fist of Fury.
You definitely want to exploit the various Bruceploitation films, with the multiple fake Bruces (Li, Le, etc....everything except Bruce Leigh). I got burnt on a couple of those, as a teenager.
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Post by Rob Allen on Nov 4, 2023 15:29:51 GMT -5
I've never seen a Sammo Hung movie, but I enjoyed his TV series, Martial Law.
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Post by codystarbuck on Nov 5, 2023 11:06:13 GMT -5
I've never seen a Sammo Hung movie, but I enjoyed his TV series, Martial Law. Sammo was the first of the "three brothers" to find work in the movie industry, doing stunts then as a featured performer. Both Sammo and Jackie worked with Bruce Lee (Jackie is in Fist of Fury, and is part of the army in Enter the Dragon) and Sammo is featured at the beginning of Enter the Dragon, as the man Bruce fights, at the temple. Sammo did several comedy films, like Enter the Fat Dragon, but also several serious ones. he also started directing and was one of the better directors in Hong Kong, apart from John Woo. He directed some of Jackie's best movies, including Project A, Wheels on Meals (both with the three brothers) and Dragons Forever. He also directed several of the Lucky Stars films, which are comedies where Jackie and others did cameos. If you watch only one of his films, Enter the Fat Dragon is a good one, with Eastern Condors one of his better action-oriented, rather than martial arts films.
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Post by berkley on Nov 5, 2023 20:10:07 GMT -5
I've never seen a Sammo Hung movie, but I enjoyed his TV series, Martial Law.
I liked that one too, mainly for Sammo and Kelly Hu, another actress I always thought should have gotten more and bigger starring rôles in the movies. I saw the only X-Men movie that I have seen mainly because she was in it.
Sammo Hung, the only one of his own starring rôles I can think of right now is Pedicab Driver, which I just saw for the first time a few months ago. Classic 1980s HK action, highly recommended.
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Post by Calidore on Nov 5, 2023 20:40:14 GMT -5
Yowza. I was looking at upcoming 4K movies and found this unexpected diamond: www.arrowvideo.com/the-warriors-limited-edition-4k-uhd/14941925.htmlWe're finally getting the original theatrical cut in hi-def, and in a new 4k remaster to boot! That's now a rare pre-order for me. Still no sign of Quest for Fire, sadly. That movie hasn't even gotten a Blu-Ray in the U.S., which is criminal.
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Post by tartanphantom on Nov 5, 2023 21:33:24 GMT -5
Yowza. I was looking at upcoming 4K movies and found this unexpected diamond: www.arrowvideo.com/the-warriors-limited-edition-4k-uhd/14941925.htmlWe're finally getting the original theatrical cut in hi-def, and in a new 4k remaster to boot! That's now a rare pre-order for me. Still no sign of Quest for Fire, sadly. That movie hasn't even gotten a Blu-Ray in the U.S., which is criminal.
Thanks for putting this on the map. I just pre-ordered it thanks to your heads-up.
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