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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 27, 2020 6:40:03 GMT
Judging from the cast (Peter Cushing, Charles Gray, Anton Diffring, Michael Gambon), this film, on paper, should have been pretty good. But it was so bad. So very, very bad. Hammer Horror does Agatha Christie meets Blaxpoitation. Calvin Lockhart was decent enough in Cotton Comes to Harlem and Uptown Saturday Night, but in this one where he has the starring role and is in every scene, it's as if he had no professional acting experience at all. The premise was ridiculous (an eccentric multimillionaire invites 6 guests to his secluded estate for a weekend during the full moon to find out which one of them is a werewolf and kill him or her). The sound, music, lighting, camerawork were all crap. And the budget was so low that they used a dog as the werewolf—and it looked like just a dog!  2/10 |
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 27, 2020 7:28:12 GMT
What?
I love this movie.
8/10 for me.
Creepy voiceover..The Werewolf break.
Yes the dog isn't scary but it still has a cool idea.
I never recognized Calvin Lockhart in Predator 2 but clearly that was a homage to this film.
"I'm a landscape man myself."
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Post by poelzig on Oct 27, 2020 8:11:30 GMT
I haven't seen it in years but your plot comments are vaguely familiar. I think I noticed it's on tubi for free so I may give it a rewatch for the challenge and then come back and vote.
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Post by Salzmank on Oct 27, 2020 15:38:17 GMT
I saw it, thought it was bad but intermittently entertaining, and can’t remember anything else except that I thought the twist ending I’d come up with was better. Can’t remember what that twist was, though.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 27, 2020 21:28:03 GMT
I saw it, thought it was bad but intermittently entertaining, and can’t remember anything else except that I thought the twist ending I’d come up with was better. Can’t remember what that twist was, though.DAMN
Robert Shaw almost portrayed the hunter. If he had, he wouldn't have been available for Jaws.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 29, 2020 3:07:32 GMT
I saw it, thought it was bad but intermittently entertaining, and can’t remember anything else except that I thought the twist ending I’d come up with was better. Can’t remember what that twist was, though.DAMN Robert Shaw almost portrayed the hunter. If he had, he wouldn't have been available for Jaws. Haha You're off by one year. Beast premiered in April 1974. Jaws didn't start filming until May 1974.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 29, 2020 3:10:27 GMT
Haha You're off by one year. Beast premiered in April 1974. Jaws didn't start filming until May 1974. No I meant it is very unlikely he would have done Jaws. Doing two hunter character in a row? Back then actors saw typecasting as a big negative. Plus it may have tarnished him to the big studios. I.e. he played an oracle character in the Golden Voyage of Sinbad and it was kept secret for decades.
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Post by Eλευθερί on Oct 29, 2020 3:13:02 GMT
Haha You're off by one year. Beast premiered in April 1974. Jaws didn't start filming until May 1974. No I meant it is very unlikely he would have done Jaws. Doing two hunter character in a row? Back then actors saw typecasting as a big negative. Plus it may have tarnished him to the big studios. I.e. he played an oracle character in the Golden Voyage of Sinbad and it was kept secret for decades. If this trivia snippet is accurate, those considerations may not have been that much of a priority for him at the time.
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Post by Prime etc. on Oct 29, 2020 3:24:13 GMT
If this trivia snippet is accurate, those considerations may not have been that much of a priority for him at the time. That was before the Sting and Pelham 123. Once he did those, being in a cheap adventure film like that in such a small role was a negative. And being in an Amicus film would have been bad too.
Guaranteed if he had done the Beast Must Die, there would have been no Jaws offer. What's intriguing is to consider who would have had the role instead because they likely wanted a UK actor for multiculturalism reasons. All the blockbusters had a UK actor in a prominent role--Star Wars, Superman, Alien, even Halloween.
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Post by FridayOnElmStreet on Oct 30, 2020 22:05:33 GMT
5/10
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