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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 2:37:00 GMT
I love ghost stories and vampire films done classy, like Bram Stoker's Dracula and Interview with the Vampire. I love werewolves, and I'm hoping Ann Rice's Werewolf series makes it to the screen. I love The Howling, Wolf, and Blood and Chocolate. Shape-shifters in general I find fascinating. I love Cat People as well.
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Post by clusium on Apr 3, 2017 19:52:28 GMT
That about sums it up. But I'm thinking of anything from Bela Lagosi to Hammer films, right up to things like Underworld or The Crow? I know this gets into dicey territory under the definition of "cult" but I'm inquiring about particular "genres" of film. Anyone? How about The Lost Boys?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 21:23:16 GMT
That about sums it up. But I'm thinking of anything from Bela Lagosi to Hammer films, right up to things like Underworld or The Crow? I know this gets into dicey territory under the definition of "cult" but I'm inquiring about particular "genres" of film. Anyone? How about The Lost Boys? Absolutely! One of my favourite movies!
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Post by clusium on Apr 3, 2017 22:05:34 GMT
Absolutely! One of my favourite movies! I knew somebody who starred in The Lost Boys.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 3, 2017 22:54:39 GMT
Absolutely! One of my favourite movies! I knew somebody who starred in The Lost Boys. Who? How?
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Post by clusium on Apr 4, 2017 1:39:39 GMT
I knew somebody who starred in The Lost Boys. Who? How? Corey Haim. I knew him from elementary school, before he went to Hollywood to become a movie star. I just visited his grave, last month.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2017 5:59:41 GMT
I loved his scene in the tub and when Michael was floating outside the window.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 4, 2017 7:20:48 GMT
If those old classics from the studio age prove nothing else when it comes to horror themed films it isn't so easy as one might think. So much junk these days, and not much genuine talent, sad to say. Back when horror meant films like The Mummy, Island Of Lost Souls and Mystery Of The Wax Museum there was true artistry at work; in the art direction, photography, lighting, sound effects, music. Those films were really built.
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Post by geode on Oct 13, 2017 16:31:19 GMT
If those old classics from the studio age prove nothing else when it comes to horror themed films it isn't so easy as one might think. So much junk these days, and not much genuine talent, sad to say. Back when horror meant films like The Mummy, Island Of Lost Souls and Mystery Of The Wax Museum there was true artistry at work; in the art direction, photography, lighting, sound effects, music. Those films were really built. They had style and substance.
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Post by telegonus on Oct 13, 2017 17:50:24 GMT
Truly, Geode. Those old "Gothics" don't feel like knock offs of one another, not like the copycat films of today. James Whale's approach to making films was very different from Tod Browning's. Flawed as it is, and with such a labored, tiresome script, Robert Florey's Murders In The Rue Morgue is at its best a stunning visual achievement, with its Caligari-like plot and surreal aspects, its use of height and open spaces, of distance, sets it apart. Karl Freund's The Mummy has a Dracula-like plot, but its very much Freund's film; slow, deliberate, with so much sun and brightness, its characters often walking around as if in a trance, and in some cases literally in a trance.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Oct 13, 2017 18:42:33 GMT
I like vampire movies but not if they sparkle.
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Post by geode on Oct 18, 2017 6:13:35 GMT
That about sums it up. But I'm thinking of anything from Bela Lagosi to Hammer films, right up to things like Underworld or The Crow? I know this gets into dicey territory under the definition of "cult" but I'm inquiring about particular "genres" of film. Anyone? Yes, when done well. "Mark of the Vampire" (1935) is a standout I often see neglected in threads like this one.
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Post by geode on Mar 7, 2019 10:57:16 GMT
Truly, Geode. Those old "Gothics" don't feel like knock offs of one another, not like the copycat films of today. James Whale's approach to making films was very different from Tod Browning's. Flawed as it is, and with such a labored, tiresome script, Robert Florey's Murders In The Rue Morgue is at its best a stunning visual achievement, with its Caligari-like plot and surreal aspects, its use of height and open spaces, of distance, sets it apart. Karl Freund's The Mummy has a Dracula-like plot, but its very much Freund's film; slow, deliberate, with so much sun and brightness, its characters often walking around as if in a trance, and in some cases literally in a trance. I think in a way these films from the 30s pushed the technique of shooting films ahead of most productions of the time. The composition of the frame, and set deign, etc.
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Post by telegonus on Mar 7, 2019 19:38:55 GMT
That's right, Geode. Those films were "composed", like pieces of music, and can be appreciated for that alone. How many non-horrors of the Thirties-Forties studio vintage have those qualities in such abundance? I'd say Orson Welles' pictures have a lot of that, Citizen Kane especially. John Ford's films were, the best of them, boldly pictorial, wonderfully made, from the dark, Noir-like The Informer (and Prisoner Of Shark Islabd) to the stunning, expansive Stagecoach. It's no wonder that Ford was Orson Welles' favorite director. Yet there are grace notes throughout the period, however, from Howard Hawks to Leo McCarey. Then there are those great movies that seem to be, to paraphrase Andrew Sarris, produced more than directed, such as the two Technicolor blockbusters from David Selznick: Gone With The Wind and Duel In The Sun.
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Post by geode on Apr 4, 2019 21:54:53 GMT
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