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Post by mszanadu on Oct 26, 2019 14:46:46 GMT
I really don't understand what you mean here teleadm .
I wasn't trying to be unfriendly here and I agree everyone is definitely entitled to
their own personal opinions about films etc. here as well .
I just thought you would have found this statement by this actor as interesting as I thought it was - I guess I was wrong here .
I'm so sorry if you feel I have offended you here in some way
that certainly was not my intentions at all .
Don't worry! You haven't offended me one bit! I have always valued your opinions and I will always value your opinions! Sometimes I take a glass too many! not a defense, an explanation, that is not an excuse, but a curse. I'm very sorry if I ruined you day here!, I really am!!
Thanks so much teleadm for your very kind words here
this mean a whole lot coming from you
apology very much accepted !!
I'm most relieved right now actually !!
I was truly beside myself with confusion yesterday as to what I did to offend you here .
I don't wish to offend any forum folks here
because it's such a great forum
and I feel truly at home here as well .
However I am sorry about your current situation
that you mentioned above here too .
I only hope things will get better for you
take care and don't lose heart with life
because there are still a lot
of good things to enjoy here as well .
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 27, 2019 14:13:30 GMT
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Post by Honolulu on Oct 28, 2019 3:09:11 GMT
Joker. It was nearly perfect.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 28, 2019 4:18:50 GMT
The audio commentary for the Pit and the Pendulum by Corman is also enlightening. He mentions how rare it was that a leading man (Price) would weep in his sister's arms--and he does in the movie. I think Kerr had to be unemotional and appear mentally strong as a contrast to how Price was. If he had been closer to Mark Damon--I don't think it would have been good.
I watched THIRST a 1979 Australian horror film I heard much about. It was very interesting and had a higher budget look than I expected. Great score.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Oct 28, 2019 8:26:38 GMT
Housebound (2014).
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Oct 29, 2019 16:28:42 GMT
Dracula (1979) One of the first horror movies I can recall watching at an early age without covering my eyes from start to finish. It opens with a howl so creepy and horrifying, and it's just epic! Sir Laurence Olivier as Prof. Van Helsing? No one could argue with what perfect 1979 casting that is right there! Frank Langella is a suave bastard as Drac, but at the same time he's haunted my nightmares. Those scenes where he climbs up and down buildings just invoke terror. Kate Nelligan is perfect as Lucy and Donald Pleasence as Dr. Seward adds so much to his role. The sets, the fog, the darkness, it all adds to the experience in a great way. This version differs greatly from the Stoker novel and most adaptations, it was based on a Broadway production at the time. It has great moments you never saw coming for this reason. I mean, the same old story is great and all, but this movie changes it up wonderfully.
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Post by teleadm on Oct 29, 2019 18:50:29 GMT
Jaws 1975, directed by Steven Spielberg Don't know if it can be called a horror movies in the classic sense, but I put this post here since the shark in question does horrific things. A classic offcourse, that inspired a handfull of other movies with water-living dangers like Piranha 1978, Orca 1977, Tentacles 1977, Barracuda 1978 and others, if you remember them. A classic that is still great, and the John Williams Jaws theme helps a lot too.
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 1, 2019 1:51:24 GMT
For reasons unknown even to myself, I’ve watched 4 1/2 Halloween entries this October… OK, not entirely unknown, I decided to make this the year I finally caught up on the famous horror franchises, so I also saw Friday the 13th (execrable—sorry to all its fans) and Nightmare on Elm Street (decent, the dream sequences are creepier than Krueger) for the first time. I watch the original Halloween every year, but this was the first time I watched some of the sequels (aside from maybe the last third of III that I caught on TV a few years back). I joke about Halloween’s goofier points (awful acting other than Curtis and the kids, it looks like California in the summertime other than a few leaves, empty streets throughout town, Pleasance and sheriff stay in Meyers House for nearly whole movie while Mikey’s out slaughtering babysitters a few houses down) every year, but I still think it’s a classic. I especially like Carpenter’s visual style, the script’s slow burn, and the atmosphere of lurking dread. There’s a reason I watch it every year for Halloween night. I thought Halloween II stunk, unfortunately. The first half, picking right up where the original left off, was quite good, with the director imitating Carpenter’s style fairly well, but it turned into such a dull, run-of-the-mill slasher once the action went to the hospital, and the climax was so goofy and dumb. I don’t like the sister twist. Probably the worst entry I’ve seen, in large part for the squandering of the first act’s promise. Halloween III I’ve written about before in this thread, but to sum it up: good ideas, poor execution. I don’t mind making it Meyers-less at all; in fact, that was one of my favorite things about it. I don’t mind Mikey at all, but focusing on him by necessity downplays all the Halloween mythology the filmmakers could be playing with. Halloween 4 was, believe it or not, my favorite of the sequels. Yes, it’s complete hokum, but it’s fun hokum, à la Mystery Science Theater 3000, instead of tedious hokum, like Halloween II. My friend and I ended up debating the movie’s politics. (I jokingly argued it was the first fascist horror movie—government’s inept, private citizens are inept, but if they’d only listened to fearless leader Donald Pleasance, tragedy could have been avoided—while he argued it was individualistic/libertarian, against government and mob rule. We’re goofballs.) No slight on the movie, though: it’s silly enough to warrant such “arguments.” That said, I would have loved to have seen a film made from Dennis Etchinson’s original scrip for it, which is available online and which seems excellent, prefiguring the self-awareness of Wes Craven’s New Nightmare and Scream by nearly a decade. The 1/2 is the latest Halloween (2018). I’ve tried more than once and always gotten bored around the same point (where the granddaughter and her boyfriend are at the dance and have some dumb John Hughes-y teen argument). But it’s trying so hard to refer back to the original, with really obvious cross-references, that I’m not sure I’d like it even if I did see the whole thing. Well, there ya go. I don’t know if I’ll ever see any more of the sequels, though I’d like to try at least one more Friday the 13th. Despite some qualms, I really liked New Nightmare—more than the original, in fact.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Nov 1, 2019 6:33:21 GMT
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Nov 1, 2019 10:01:27 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Nov 1, 2019 18:03:31 GMT
Bride of Frankenstein 1935, directed by James Whale. I thought this movie would be a good ending to the month of horror, even I didn't participate in the Horror Challange 2019 myself, I as usual got carried away a watched some myself and watched even more than usual this year. This movie is an old favorite of mine, it mixes horror, science-fiction and black comedy into a perfect blend. With a wonderful cast of actors and wonderful sets. I could even go so long as to say it trancendes traditional genres. Not sure if the above poster was ever actually used. Director James Whale having a causal cup of tea with Doctor Pretorius Sadly the blind date didn't work out. Love Elsa's hairdo! A beautiful friendship The Screaming Lady Una O'Connor A few little things I've wondered about though, that doesn't take away any of the enjoyment of watching this movie. The hermit who lives very deep in the woods were hardly anyone walks, and hadn't had a guest in his home for ages when the monster enters, yet he have bread, wine and cigarrs, and he only have an open fire stowe, and maybe one can make bread in an open fire stowe, but wine and cigarrs... After the friendship between the monster and the hermit abrubtly ends, the monster rushes out into the forests and encounters a whole bunch of girls walking hand in hand merrily, did news never got to the village were they live that the monster is very much alive roaming freely, or if they knew what kind of parents did they have... The above little thoughts, as I wrote, doesn't take away the enjoyment of watching this movie!
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Post by Sarge on Nov 2, 2019 23:37:01 GMT
Just to ease your mind about the bread, you can make bread in a Dutch oven, also could be an outdoor earthen oven. Wine is not complicated to make but also not too expensive. He would have to buy flour for the bread so he wasn't totally cut off. I think the point though was that he was hospitable to strangers. Watched The Raven 1963, with pretty much an all star cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson. It's a ridiculously campy spectacle that overstays it's welcome but has a fun and silly ending.
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Post by lostinlimbo on Nov 4, 2019 2:33:21 GMT
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Post by gspdude on Nov 4, 2019 20:56:04 GMT
Watched John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness (1994) for the 1st time. 4 days too late for the October Challenge or this would've been my best FTV. Don't know how I missed this gem for over 20 years.
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Post by mszanadu on Nov 5, 2019 0:59:37 GMT
Just to ease your mind about the bread, you can make bread in a Dutch oven, also could be an outdoor earthen oven. Wine is not complicated to make but also not too expensive. He would have to buy flour for the bread so he wasn't totally cut off. I think the point though was that he was hospitable to strangers. Watched The Raven 1963, with pretty much an all star cast: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, Hazel Court, Jack Nicholson. It's a ridiculously campy spectacle that overstays it's welcome but has a fun and silly ending.
Most definitely another top favorite Vincent Price film of mine here also .
I totally agree here it's really a silly crazy fun popcorn flick and it certainly has a most memorable all star cast too ( also Peter Lorre playing the voice of the raven was an absolute riot ) .
Thanks so much Sarge for this excellent pic selection
and for this wonderful film reminder here as well .
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Post by Sarge on Nov 5, 2019 1:27:14 GMT
Head Count This movie has some good ideas and the acting is serviceable and there are a few creepy moments but it peaks early.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 11, 2019 17:46:25 GMT
My first actual movie after the October Halloween Challenge (that wasn't a documentary) was another horror movie, of course... Doctor Sleep (2019) The movie is a continuation, so if you want more of the same three people in a haunted hotel stuff, go watch the original. This movie builds upon that and acknowledges it's history without it overwhelming the new story. I was so happy to be in this world again, and I really loved my time there...you're gonna love this movie!
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Post by Nalkarj on Nov 12, 2019 2:07:03 GMT
^^^Keep going back and forth on whether or not to see Doctor Sleep… Glad to hear you liked it, Lebowskidoo 🦞 . ____________________ I’m sick and was holed up with a high fever yesterday, so I’ve gotten to see a bunch of movies. I just finished Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which I wanted to see since the summer because I loved the book series as a kid but never got around to. To be honest, I’m kinda very disappointed by it. Maybe if It hadn’t come out, I would have liked Stories more, but as is it comes off as a cash-in. (Yes, those pronouns can be confusing…) What’s worse, the director and writer don’t seem to have grasped that the scariest things about the series weren’t the stories, which were hackneyed, albeit fun, old legends that weren’t always that scary, but rather the illustrations, which were flat-out terrifying. The actual text of a story like “The Haunted House” wouldn’t scare a little kid—but the picture of the revenant is enough to send his older brother running for the hills. Perhaps that goes to show that the premise was flawed to begin with. The stories aren’t scary enough or mutually cohesive enough to base a whole movie on, so you’d have to rely on those scary images. But the staticity of the images is one of the elements that makes them scary, while a movie, by its very nature, has to move. It doesn’t help, of course, that what they’re replaced the original material with isn’t scary at all—and is completely predictable. As is, it feels like a PG-13 version of It, which is a disappointing adaptation for a series that is still scaring kids to this day. _______________________ A kids’ horror flick that I surprisingly liked a lot, though, was The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018). I didn’t think I’d like it because the ads made it look like a CGI fest, the critics said it was a CGI fest, and I don’t like Jack Black—and it was a CGI fest and I’m still not a fan of Jack Black. (Though he did write and produce a surprisingly funny web video series called Ghost Ghirls, so I’ve got to give him credit for that.) That said, House has a lot of heart and humor, reminding me of Henry Selick’s adaptation of Coraline, and it goes in directions I didn’t expect, for which I give the filmmakers a lot of credit, especially in a kids’ movie. (Not that kids’ movies shouldn’t go in unexpected directions—to the contrary, in fact. But storytellers seem to think they shouldn’t.) Is it some brilliant masterpiece? No, but it’s an inventive fantasy that has the courage of its fantasy convictions, instead of “ lampshading” every plot development. Even the CGI, though there is a lot of it, was gracefully used and doesn’t overshadow the actors. Also, despite being PG, it’s more grown-up than the PG-13 Scary Stories: what it lacks in cursing and gore, it makes up for in emotion and character. If that’s what a PG rating means nowadays, maybe more movies should be PG.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Nov 12, 2019 19:50:31 GMT
^^^Keep going back and forth on whether or not to see Doctor Sleep… Glad to hear you liked it, Lebowskidoo 🦞 . ____________________ I’m sick and was holed up with a high fever yesterday, so I’ve gotten to see a bunch of movies. I just finished Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, which I wanted to see since the summer because I loved the book series as a kid but never got around to. To be honest, I’m kinda very disappointed by it. Maybe if It hadn’t come out, I would have liked Stories more, but as is it comes off as a cash-in. (Yes, those pronouns can be confusing…) What’s worse, the director and writer don’t seem to have grasped that the scariest things about the series weren’t the stories, which were hackneyed, albeit fun, old legends that weren’t always that scary, but rather the illustrations, which were flat-out terrifying. The actual text of a story like “The Haunted House” wouldn’t scare a little kid—but the picture of the revenant is enough to send his older brother running for the hills. Perhaps that goes to show that the premise was flawed to begin with. The stories aren’t scary enough or mutually cohesive enough to base a whole movie on, so you’d have to rely on those scary images. But the staticity of the images is one of the elements that makes them scary, while a movie, by its very nature, has to move. It doesn’t help, of course, that what they’re replaced the original material with isn’t scary at all—and is completely predictable. As is, it feels like a PG-13 version of It, which is a disappointing adaptation for a series that is still scaring kids to this day. _______________________ A kids’ horror flick that I surprisingly liked a lot, though, was The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018). I didn’t think I’d like it because the ads made it look like a CGI fest, the critics said it was a CGI fest, and I don’t like Jack Black—and it was a CGI fest and I’m still not a fan of Jack Black. (Though he did write and produce a surprisingly funny web video series called Ghost Ghirls, so I’ve got to give him credit for that.) That said, House has a lot of heart and humor, reminding me of Henry Selick’s adaptation of Coraline, and it goes in directions I didn’t expect, for which I give the filmmakers a lot of credit, especially in a kids’ movie. (Not that kids’ movies shouldn’t go in unexpected directions—to the contrary, in fact. But storytellers seem to think they shouldn’t.) Is it some brilliant masterpiece? No, but it’s an inventive fantasy that has the courage of its fantasy convictions, instead of “ lampshading” every plot development. Even the CGI, though there is a lot of it, was gracefully used and doesn’t overshadow the actors. Also, despite being PG, it’s more grown-up than the PG-13 Scary Stories: what it lacks in cursing and gore, it makes up for in emotion and character. If that’s what a PG rating means nowadays, maybe more movies should be PG. Sorry you're not feeling well Nalkarj, hope you're feeling better by the time you read this. I haven't seen either of the two movies you mentioned, yet. The Jack Black movie looked like another Goosebumps, of which I've already seen. They were okay but I was in no rush to see another one. Sounds like I assumed all wrong.
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Post by Anonymous Andy on Nov 13, 2019 2:36:16 GMT
The Devil's Honey (1986) Lucio Fulci's stab at the erotic thriller genre comes late in his career and is both as tasteless as you would expect from the director and yet not nearly as extreme as you'd expect. The film explores sexuality in a surprisingly measured way (at least as far as '80s exploitation films go), you just have to wade through later upon layer of unpleasant sleeze to get there, if that's your sort of thing (I see you nodding your head "yes"). A young woman in a passionate yet abusive relationship with a cocky musician finds a new passion when her lover dies and she takes to stalking the surgeon she feels is responsible. The surgeon is a submissive patron of prostitutes whose marriage is in shambles because he just can't come to terms with who he is sexually. The young woman changes all of that when she chains him to the floor, beats him with a hammer, feeds him dog food and lets him sniff her crotch. She finds a new lease on life as a would-be dominatrix, he is her grateful, sniveling sex slave. Love is a battlefield, and your crotch my foxhole. 7/10
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