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Post by mszanadu on Oct 31, 2018 2:34:28 GMT
has certain made a name for himself
in the horror category / genre    .
Also I remember a few years ago ( and when the former channel called FEARNET was still on the air ) KH played in a Fearnet original webseries
Unfortunately the " feature-length film "
wasn't as effective or eerie as the webisodes were  ( yet the film wasn't bad it was still watchable just the same  ) .
Thanks so much again DebLovesBeccy for all
this awesome trivia on these memorable actors and films too . 
This is all IMPO here of course
( but I also say watch both and
then decide if you like either one or both of course ) .
However I do recommend & enjoyed
the Web series the most over the actual movie version
but actually watched the web series first
before the movie was out of course
( it was the only one available at that time also ) .
I thought the movie version had lost
a lot of it's storyline appeal
as well as it's atmospheric tone I was a bit disappointed by it
and expected it to be exactly like the web series  .
The web series had way more eerie depth
and was way more effective
( especially while watching it with
the computer headphones on in the dark - very creepy indeed  ) .
I hope this has helped you here as well .
Again thanks so much DebLovesBeccy for your reply  . |
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Post by maxwellperfect on Oct 31, 2018 17:36:17 GMT
Night of the Living Dead
Dawn of the Dead
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Post by mszanadu on Nov 1, 2018 1:48:51 GMT
Watched this awesome film last night
and surprisingly haven't seen it in about 5 years
but remembered a few scenes to know I had seen it before
IMPO - This movie storyline seemed like an eerie cross between
" Invasion of the Body Snatchers " meets
the original Twilight Zone episode of " Mirror Image " .
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Post by teleadm on Nov 1, 2018 18:21:12 GMT
The Fly 1958, directed by Kurt Neumann, staring David Hedison (billed as Al Hedison), Patricia Owens, Vincent Price, Herbert Marshall, Kathleen Freeman and others. Horror Science-Fiction about a scientist who's had a horrific accident when he tried to use his newly invented teleportation device. Hadn't seen in in years, it's a rather sad love story too, it has a good storyline, and it has the iconic lines "HELP ME!!! HELP ME!!!" near the end. Teleportation of materia and creatures is actually for the good of nature and ecology, but if it was real would have got into huge trouble with Big Oil, Car manufaturers, Airline companies and what not if it was possible. In real life we have only come as close as 3-D printers. That's me overthinking again. I liked it, even if it's not as scary anymore.    
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Post by teleadm on Nov 2, 2018 17:31:33 GMT
Return of the Fly 1959, directed by Edward L. Bernds, staring Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton, Dan Seymour and others. Science Fiction horror, and this movie takes place several years after the first movie (The Fly 1958), the unfortunate scientist's son is now a young man, and after a few obstacles, begins the same experiments as his father did, but this time trying to do it right. Bad luck his partner turns out to be a black marketeer on the run from Britain who try to steal the invention and via a partner sell it. Offcourse the same thing happenes again, but this time a fly is deliberatly thrown into the glass walled transporter. A lower budget, this time in black and white, only Vincent returns in the same role as the first one. Still not a too bad sequel. The fly head the actor (or stuntman) wears is also much bigger than in the first movie.  This never happened in the movie, it's a publicity pic. The others did:   
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Post by cryptoflovecraft on Nov 2, 2018 17:44:45 GMT
This movie storyline seemed like an eerie cross between
" Invasion of the Body Snatchers " meets
the original Twilight Zone episode of " Mirror Image " .
I enjoyed that film.  Good description btw. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers influence was obvious but then you mentioned "Mirror Image"....I had forgotten all about that great TZ episode !!!... hell yeah, The Broken is A LOT like that TZ episode. |
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Post by Salzmank on Nov 2, 2018 18:18:51 GMT
teleadm, I think you’ve just solved a mystery that’s been puzzling me for a while. I always remembered The Fly in black and white, and from what I’ve read online a lot of other people do as well—and, of course, it’s in color. But what I must be remembering is Return of the Fly—I definitely remember those pictures. Have you heard of that Internet phenomenon, “the Mandela Effect”? You’ve just debunked one!  Thanks.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 2, 2018 18:39:38 GMT
teleadm , I think you’ve just solved a mystery that’s been puzzling me for a while. I always remembered The Fly in black and white, and from what I’ve read online a lot of other people do as well—and, of course, it’s in color. But what I must be remembering is Return of the Fly—I definitely remember those pictures. Have you heard of that Internet phenomenon, “the Mandela Effect”? You’ve just debunked one! Thanks. Glad to have solved a mystery! The pic with Vincent fighting the fly, is as I mentioned a publicity pic, but in some badly edited and researched horror movie books I've seen it pop up as from The Fly. Though the head of the fly in The Fly is much smaller than than the head of the fly in Return of the Fly. That nearly became a tongue wrecker. You might remember this pic too:  It's also from Return, half man and half guinea pig, part of the plot after killing a police detective, and then hiding him in the transporter. |
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Post by Salzmank on Nov 2, 2018 23:10:44 GMT
teleadm , I think you’ve just solved a mystery that’s been puzzling me for a while. I always remembered The Fly in black and white, and from what I’ve read online a lot of other people do as well—and, of course, it’s in color. But what I must be remembering is Return of the Fly—I definitely remember those pictures. Have you heard of that Internet phenomenon, “the Mandela Effect”? You’ve just debunked one! Thanks. Glad to have solved a mystery! The pic with Vincent fighting the fly, is as I mentioned a publicity pic, but in some badly edited and researched horror movie books I've seen it pop up as from The Fly. Though the head of the fly in The Fly is much smaller than than the head of the fly in Return of the Fly. That nearly became a tongue wrecker.
You might remember this pic too: … It's also from Return, half man and half guinea pig, part of the plot after killing a police detective, and then hiding him in the transporter. Aha! That’s it, I think one of the monster-movie books I read as a kid (yeah, I read stuff like that. I was a weird kid, voracious reader, who loved old Universal monster and mystery flicks even then) wrongly claimed it was from The Fly. The author also claimed that Christopher Lee’s Dracula jumped on his victims, pinned them to the floor, and drank their blood from their chests—which, when I finally watched those movies, I learned was not, um, exactly true. I don’t remember the second picture, unfortunately. I’m no “Mandela Effect” believer, of course, but remembering The Fly in black and white niggled at me—and that’s why. |
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Post by teleadm on Nov 2, 2018 23:25:59 GMT
Glad to have solved a mystery! The pic with Vincent fighting the fly, is as I mentioned a publicity pic, but in some badly edited and researched horror movie books I've seen it pop up as from The Fly. Though the head of the fly in The Fly is much smaller than than the head of the fly in Return of the Fly. That nearly became a tongue wrecker.
You might remember this pic too: … It's also from Return, half man and half guinea pig, part of the plot after killing a police detective, and then hiding him in the transporter. Aha! That’s it, I think one of the monster-movie books I read as a kid (yeah, I read stuff like that. I was a weird kid, voracious reader, who loved old Universal monster and mystery flicks even then) wrongly claimed it was from The Fly. The author also claimed that Christopher Lee’s Dracula jumped on his victims, pinned them to the floor, and drank their blood from their chests—which, when I finally watched those movies, I learned was not, um, exactly true. I don’t remember the second picture, unfortunately. I’m no “Mandela Effect” believer, of course, but remembering The Fly in black and white niggled at me—and that’s why. You might be "pleased" to know that there is a third part too, made in England 1965, I will review that at some later date Hi-Hi He-He |
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Post by forca84 on Nov 3, 2018 2:35:38 GMT
I just watched "Heat" for the first time. Good stuff.
"Stagecoach: The story of Texas Jack". Nice modern Western.
"First kill" starring Bruce Willis... I'll probably watch it tomorrow.
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Post by mszanadu on Nov 3, 2018 2:38:51 GMT
This movie storyline seemed like an eerie cross between
" Invasion of the Body Snatchers " meets
the original Twilight Zone episode of " Mirror Image " .
I enjoyed that film. Good description btw. The Invasion of the Body Snatchers influence was obvious but then you mentioned "Mirror Image"....I had forgotten all about that great TZ episode !!!... hell yeah, The Broken is A LOT like that TZ episode.
Thanks so much cryptoflovecraft for
your encouraging words and for your reply here too .
I'm so glad you enjoyed this film as much as I did and I am also pleasantly surprised to have seen it again on TV
after not seeing it for awhile either .
I actually really liked this film for that reason also
a classic set of storylines brought back in another clever form indeed .
Overall it was an effective yet eerie film on so many levels too .
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Post by mszanadu on Nov 3, 2018 3:19:13 GMT
I just watched "Heat" for the first time. Good stuff. "Stagecoach: The story of Texas Jack". Nice modern Western. "First" starring Bruce Willis... I'll probably watch it tomorrow.
I agree forca84 these films do look like good ones
thanks so much for the film recommendations here too .
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Post by HorrorMetal on Nov 4, 2018 3:01:54 GMT
It Follows (2014). I really enjoyed it, very creepy and original premise that was executed very well. Also enjoyed the dreadful tone and the fact that the time period was left ambiguous. Essentially no clichés, no jumpscares, no stupid twists, no unnecessary explanations, just a very straightforward and scary film. 8/10
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Nov 4, 2018 7:52:38 GMT
The Mummy's Tomb 1942
Well it was interesting that they brought back characters from the previous one (30 years older) and Chaney made a decent mummy (although wasn't it slumming for him?). The mummy action was good but the rest of the character stuff was kind of hokey.
Who Can Kill A Child? 1976 - well first of all, it was an asshole move to start the film with various real life death footage and a overbearing documentary narration. Pretentious and irrelevant to the exploitation story that follows.
As for the film itself--it had suspense, some creepy moments 9and stupid character actions), horrific for sure, but I think ultimately a negative because there is no point.
At least the ending in Night of the Living Dead has some irony and double meaning.
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Post by teleadm on Nov 8, 2018 18:30:33 GMT
Curse of the Fly 1965, directed by Don Sharp, staring Brian Donlevy, George Baker, Carole Gray, Yvette Rees, Burt Kwouk and others. Horror-Thriller. The final chapter in the unfortunate Delambre family saga that begun 1958 and continued in 1959. Story begins with a girl escaping an insane asylum, get's picked up by a man, and quickly falls in love and gets married. So she get's from one nuthouse to an even nuttier house, the Delombre mansion, where strange experiments are still going on after all these years. There isn't a fly in sight, only talked about during yet another police investigation. Why on earth was this movie made? Had the old movie begun turning up on TV and become popular? It has a feeling of a Hammer film even if it's not a Hammer film, with a very luxury lush soundtrack score that sounds like it belongs to a romantic movie instead. Not the horrible horror movie I've heard it should be, very low-budget though.   
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Post by forca84 on Nov 10, 2018 18:37:10 GMT
The Mummy's Tomb 1942 Well it was interesting that they brought back characters from the previous one (30 years older) and Chaney made a decent mummy (although wasn't it slumming for him?). The mummy action was good but the rest of the character stuff was kind of hokey. Who Can Kill A Child? 1976 - well first of all, it was an asshole move to start the film with various real life death footage and a overbearing documentary narration. Pretentious and irrelevant to the exploitation story that follows. As for the film itself--it had suspense, some creepy moments 9and stupid character actions), horrific for sure, but I think ultimately a negative because there is no point. At least the ending in Night of the Living Dead has some irony and double meaning. I'm a huge fan of the original "Mummy" films. Including the Hammer films.  I haven't watched "Who could kill a Child?" But I know it was remade as "Come out to play". |
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Post by forca84 on Nov 10, 2018 20:44:56 GMT
"Europa report"... Was expecting more horror. But a decent slow burn Space movie.
"Behind the Candlebra" Great performances by Damon and Douglas.
"The Longest Ride" Haven't watched yet. But another Nichols Sparks joint.
"The night Buffalo" Beyond disappointed. Starts out what I thought was a low key mystery involving the suicide of a young Schizophrenic. His Friend (who slept with his GF) turns into an unlikeable douchebag and the movie just seemingly ends. Can't believe the writer of "21 Grams" wrote it.
Also got... I enjoyed them several years ago.
"The Book of Eli"
"I am Legend"
"The Paperboy" (2012)
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Post by lostinlimbo on Nov 13, 2018 20:50:26 GMT
Return of the Fly 1959, directed by Edward L. Bernds, staring Vincent Price, Brett Halsey, David Frankham, John Sutton, Dan Seymour and others. Science Fiction horror, and this movie takes place several years after the first movie (The Fly 1958), the unfortunate scientist's son is now a young man, and after a few obstacles, begins the same experiments as his father did, but this time trying to do it right. Bad luck his partner turns out to be a black marketeer on the run from Britain who try to steal the invention and via a partner sell it. Offcourse the same thing happenes again, but this time a fly is deliberatly thrown into the glass walled transporter. A lower budget, this time in black and white, only Vincent returns in the same role as the first one. Still not a too bad sequel. The fly head the actor (or stuntman) wears is also much bigger than in the first movie. This never happened in the movie, it's a publicity pic. The others did: Fun sequel, which ups the absurdity and mayhem. I always chuckle watching the poor guy trying to hold still the massive fly head when rushing about. |
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Post by lostinlimbo on Nov 13, 2018 21:37:53 GMT
Rewatched The Ritual (2018) and it held up nicely. Slow build-up, and familiar groundwork make way for few, on-key eerie moments. Still impressed by the monster design and the use of locations in this occult horror.
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