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Post by geode on May 3, 2018 13:32:33 GMT
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Post by telegonus on May 8, 2018 8:40:45 GMT
I appreciate that, Geode, and I thank you. Damn good little Uni horror, nearly forgotten for decades, it's ripe for rediscovery. Fine cast, good dialogue, some neat twists and turns in the main story, and an air of foreboding throughout. I highly recommend it to all who love classic horror and the classic style. For what it is it's a perfect storm of a B movie.  |
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Post by geode on May 28, 2018 12:24:46 GMT
I appreciate that, Geode, and I thank you. Damn good little Uni horror, nearly forgotten for decades, it's ripe for rediscovery. Fine cast, good dialogue, some neat twists and turns in the main story, and an air of foreboding throughout. I highly recommend it to all who love classic horror and the classic style. For what it is it's a perfect storm of a B movie. When I was growing up as a little kid in Phoenix, Arizona this commonly ran on TV. When I was out in the evenings (such as camping out) and could hear various forms of wildlife making sounds I felt safer. When they went silent I got antsy. |
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Post by telegonus on May 28, 2018 19:01:40 GMT
It's funny how natural sounds in nature are reassuring and seldom annoying, while the sounds made by people, whether talking, laughing, howling at a television at a sports event, cleaning, moving things like furniture or gunning their engines, are so frequently irritating as hell and feel invasive, like rude interruptions. Or maybe. it's that I live in the city...  |
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Post by geode on May 29, 2018 3:27:47 GMT
It's funny how natural sounds in nature are reassuring and seldom annoying, while the sounds made by people, whether talking, laughing, howling at a television at a sports event, cleaning, moving things like furniture or gunning their engines, are so frequently irritating as hell and feel invasive, like rude interruptions. Or maybe. it's that I live in the city... For me back then it was because the sudden silence reminded me of "The Night Monster" prowling. |
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Post by geralmar on May 29, 2018 5:07:42 GMT
I saw it when Universal syndicated its old horror/thriller titles to local TV stations when I was a kid. WXYZ Detroit showed them late Friday and Saturday lights as "Shock Theater," with a Lon Chaney-type host (I never learned his official "name") who would have a skull gradually superimposed over his face as he ended his his introduction with, "Prepare to insulate yourself against SHOCK!". All business, no humor at all from this guy and he terrified me as much as any monster in the movie that followed. Anyway, Night Monster was an outlier horror: I had to will myself to get scared when an old guy got up out of a wheelchair and walked. Still it wasn't the total dud that The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) was. How that one got lumped in with Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Mummy, et al. was a puzzler-- and definitely not worth staying up until 1:00 a.m. for.
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Post by geode on May 29, 2018 16:02:18 GMT
I saw it when Universal syndicated its old horror/thriller titles to local TV stations when I was a kid. WXYZ Detroit showed them late Friday and Saturday lights as "Shock Theater," with a Lon Chaney-type host (I never learned his official "name") who would have a skull gradually superimposed over his face as he ended his his introduction with, "Prepare to insulate yourself against SHOCK!". All business, no humor at all from this guy and he terrified me as much as any monster in the movie that followed. Anyway, Night Monster was an outlier horror: I had to will myself to get scared when an old guy got up out of a wheelchair and walked. Still it wasn't the total dud that The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935) was. How that one got lumped in with Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Mummy, et al. was a puzzler-- and definitely not worth staying up until 1:00 a.m. for. "Night Monster" scared the willies out of me when I was a kid, almost solely with the use of the soundtrack which is kind of unique for horror films. |
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