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Post by shaxper on Oct 7, 2019 7:24:51 GMT -5
I think he's showing The Mummy's Hand. According to my channel ME-TV showing the Mummy. See Link and I have it bookmarked because I watched 80% of his shows on Saturday Night. I stand corrected. That's so strange. I could have sworn it was The Mummy's Hand when I checked yesterday. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 7, 2019 8:40:35 GMT -5
Hoosier X, as a thank you for turning me on to a Lugosi film I wasn't aware of, here's a Lugosi performance you may not have seen yet:
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2019 10:20:08 GMT -5
Hoosier X, as a thank you for turning me on to a Lugosi film I wasn't aware of, here's a Lugosi performance you may not have seen yet: I really enjoyed this; and this shows how good Bela is. I do admire Bela and Christopher Lee's performance as Dracula and both of them are the Titans of their craft. Bela is more stylish, commands a great aura, and he's a complete master of his craft. While Lee is more horrific, presence is felt on screen, and more demanding than ever before I have never seen this and this is so cool to watch and entertaining too Thanks for posting this. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 7, 2019 12:49:18 GMT -5
Sick day today, so I decided to fill it with Val Lewton films, including my favorite, The Body Snatcher (1945), Isle of the Dead (1945), and Cat People (1942). To be honest, that was probably too much Lewton for one sitting, but at least (having re-watched I Walked with a Zombie just last month), I've now gotten in all the ones that I consider to be horror ahead of Halloween.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 7, 2019 19:52:44 GMT -5
Cat People is one of my all time favorites, the use of shadow instead of creature effects is just stunning.
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Post by Hoosier X on Oct 7, 2019 23:29:38 GMT -5
I try to watch a Val Lewton film every Halloween while I'm waiting for trick or treaters. The last few years, I've watched some of the Val Lewton films I've only seen once or twice instead of the films like Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie that I've seen a bunch of times. Last year I watched Bedlam and the year before that, it was Isle of the Dead.
My favorite is The Body Snatcher. I've seen it a few times, but not nearly as many times as Cat People. I'll probably watch it this year. But I'm thinking of watching The Ghost Ship on Halloween. Richard Dix is the crazy captain and he's so wonderfully crazy! Also, Lawrence Tierney has a small part, and I used to talk to him from time to time when I would see him around when I lived in Hollywood.
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Post by berkley on Oct 8, 2019 0:05:14 GMT -5
I actually watched this one last night while waiting for the floor stripping company to finish buffing out the store...but that took till one so it totally counts.  1951, RKO I'm a huge fan of the 1982 remake by John Carpenter but it had been so long since I had seen the original(maybe middle school...so nearly 20 years ago, wow I'm getting old!)that I barely remembered it and as it's on the Archive and I had time to kill I decided to cue it up.
The film starts out well with Christian Nyby’s direction creating a mood of tingling expectancy as he shows up how a small group of US airmen and scientists stationed near the North Pole investigate a strange phenomenon but as the film progresses I found it more and more lacking. Usually I'm fully in the camp of less is more when it comes to monsters on film, believing that the suggestion of a shadowy menace is much more effective than a full frontal gore fest...but here Nyby takes it to an extreme to where it's not even hinted, it all pretty much happens off screen and we're just told about it. Maybe if we never actually did see the creature that method would work, because I think the terrible creature effects(if you can even call rubbery nailed hands and a bathing cap creature effects) coupled with stoic reactions and descriptions of his menace make you notice that the creature isn't all that scary than if you never actually saw him first hand.
Still there are a few creepy bits, the infant seedling army growing in the green house was effectively creepy and I did love the concept of a plant based alien life form. In the end, while definitely not my favorite horror movie and definitely not one I'd revisit all that often I think it was worth watching if only for the tension at the start.
Grade:C
Just watched this myself tonight. If anyone had asked me, I would have sad that I'd probably seen this on tv as a small kid, but if I did, I definitely don't remember anything about it. So I think I probably was just remembering seeing still-shots of the monster in various movie books, etc and of course later on online.
Took me a few minutes to get into it - some of the comic banter in the opening scenes was a bit painful (and I usually like that kind of stuff!) - but once it got going I thought this was a lot of fun. The climactic scene where the alien is destroyed by arcs of electricity was really effective, visually, and that's the main reason I'm convinced I never saw it before, because I'm pretty sure it would have made a big impression on me as a child and stuck in my memory. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2019 4:36:45 GMT -5
Sick day today, so I decided to fill it with Val Lewton films, including my favorite, The Body Snatcher (1945), Isle of the Dead (1945), and Cat People (1942). To be honest, that was probably too much Lewton for one sitting, but at least (having re-watched I Walked with a Zombie just last month), I've now gotten in all the ones that I consider to be horror ahead of Halloween.
I took up Shaxper's offer and watched these movies on YouTube and forgot how good is The Body Snatcher is. I'm not a fan of Isls of the Dead because it's doesn't seems so right for me but it is a darn good movie for what it worth is and it's a classic movie nevertheless. The Cat People is the best of the three and I find this incredibly terrifying when you least expect it. So, he took a sick day ... I made mine a hooky day and made it a Lewton trio instead instead. I haven't seen these movies a very long time. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 8, 2019 4:57:00 GMT -5
So, he took a sick day ... Well...not to sit home and watch old movies. That was just the byproduct  |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2019 7:54:29 GMT -5
So, he took a sick day ... Well...not to sit home and watch old movies. That was just the byproduct Understood loud and clear!  |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 8, 2019 10:08:54 GMT -5
Mama 2008, Andy Muschietti Although I enjoy the 2013 feature length version, I think the original short feature is all the more thrilling. In its short run time it manages to create a very real, visceral sense of terror with absolutely zero context. Even before the sprite of their mother shows up your heart starts to race, and once she does...well, good luck sleeping without a night light tonight. Go ahead, that's the whole movie above. Just turn out your lights and don't look away until it's over...then go to bed and see how well you sleep.
When thinking about what movies to watch this month, my original thought when I included this film and another with Del Torro's involvement was, "I don't tend to like ghost movies, but these are two I love despite that." but the more I think on it the more films I've come up with(like the Woman in Black) that are ghost films so I'm not sure where my initial thought came from. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2019 15:10:21 GMT -5
Double Dose of Vincent PriceThe Tingler (1959) The House on Haunted Hill (1959) Both of them deems worthy of fright, screams, and entertains you in their own way; The Tingler is a worthy exception of where the color of red enters the movie unexpectedly and that alone adds dimensions and flair too. The House on Haunted Hill is a classic case of things goes horribly wrong and sends you to a tailspin and what bothers me is the ending and that was somewhat lame and didn't do me any justice at all. It's bothers me now; but not in my other viewings in the past. I did not like it at all and might be my last time that I see this film. Elisha Cook as Watson Pritchard is the weakest of the characters and don't ask me why and I'm still trying to figure out his contributions to the end of this movie.  Fun Part of this crazy movie! The Tingler is really an unique movie and one of William Castle's better movie and I feel that Vincent Price went all out in this one rather the Hill Movie that I talked about in great length in the previous paragraph. Anyway, I got my movies in for today and that's pretty much all I'm going to cover for now; a double dose of Vincent Price today was a treat and I felt that the Hill movie is pretty much dated and thinking about skipping a year or two before watching it again. The Tingler is a must see and I don't mind seeing this again.  This is Castle's best idea ever!
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Post by shaxper on Oct 9, 2019 13:14:26 GMT -5
Grading along with Bride of the Monster (1955) today.
For years, I couldn't stand this one. It's too awful to be a good film, but not awful enough to be all that funny once you stop laughing at the octopus (trust me -- it's hilarious). And yet, this is Bela Lugosi's final full role in a film (he plays a mute in The Black Sleep and then dies before principal filming of Plan 9 from Outer Space), so I decided to give it another try back in September. And it won me over. It really did. See, the filmmaking is terrible, the acting is terrible, and most of the writing is terrible, but somehow Lugosi got arguably the best-written role in his entire career. Amidst all the garbage, Lugosi gets to do some of his best ever acting as a misunderstood genius so obsessed with his reputation that it has driven him to madness.
This is always the scene that makes the entire journey worthwhile for me:
It's one of Bela's finest cinematic moments. And, considering Lugosi's own tragic plight, his feeling of being misused by the production company that grew wealthy from his work, I wonder if he didn't help Ed Wood write the part himself.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 9, 2019 15:49:45 GMT -5
Reliving Glen or Glenda / I Led Two Lives (1953) this afternoon. I don't care what anyone says about Plan 9; THIS is the worst film ever made -- so hilariously strange and awful that it's utterly unforgettable, and the story about how it got made and distributed is perhaps even more insane.
And the truly most outrageous part? THIS was my introduction to Bela Lugosi. Many of you started with Dracula; I started with this:
Sooooo bad. But can you really call yourself a Bela Lugosi fan if you've never seen it?
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 9, 2019 16:32:35 GMT -5
I'm stunned you saw that before Dracula!
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