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Post by Knygathin on Apr 14, 2019 0:24:29 GMT
If you are going to waste away your precious time doing something l o n g - w i n d e d , I would as well suggest reading, for example why not W. H. Hodgson's The Night Land (provided you have dawdled this project over and over).
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Post by ropardoe on Apr 14, 2019 8:50:36 GMT
I don't think people will be talking about True Blood or Supernatural at the half century mark, but I bet they'll still be talking about Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hard to believe its run ended 16 years ago. You are right. The original Buffy may have a chance. I recently re-watched the whole series. It is still strong and memorable. (And season six and seven still mostly suck )
I'm not sure that's quite fair on Supernatural - until the end of season five it was actually pretty good: often up to the standard of Buffy. But, like Buffy, it was hit with the season six curse, and has been downhill all the way since (we've given up on it - reluctantly). Angel, of course, sensibly bailed out, in a fine way, with season five. Others which wisely ended with season five, and benefitted accordingly, have been Person of Interest (my favourite) and Grimm. We watched an episode of Buffy only a few days ago (needed a laugh so we went for "Something Blue") - it is, indeed, still well worth watching.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Apr 15, 2019 12:37:22 GMT
Is no one going to ask which part? Ok, ok! Which part? Her windpipe. Not the part that you thought.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 15, 2019 14:38:51 GMT
Her windpipe. Not the part that you thought. I would have guessed the brain, but the real answer is more interesting, of course. It raises all sorts of philosophical questions.
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 25, 2019 8:26:39 GMT
BBC1 "sitcom" Ghosts is very funny - if you haven't seen it, the first two episodes are on the iPlayer.
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Post by helrunar on May 28, 2019 19:19:39 GMT
Yesterday was the Memorial Day holiday in the US and a holiday of a different sort as I celebrated the birthdays of Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee (May 26-27) by re-watching one of my favorite films in which they co-starred, Dr Terror's House of Horrors: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvpZu6UQcJU&t=4161scheers, H.
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Post by andydecker on May 29, 2019 7:58:34 GMT
Watched a couple of current horror movies on tv.
The Nun: John L. Probert really hated this, the box-office was really good. I was bored most of the time. It often didn't made sense or was downright silly, the ending was by the numbers - and also contradicted or forgot a lot of established facts - and a few genuingly creepy set-ups are not enough. The writing was as lazy as was possible. How often was the viewer hit over the head with the fact that the heroine wasn't ordained yet. Then she gets ordained - and it doesn't make any difference to the plot. So what? I thought Wan's Dead Silence which had a lot in common with this in terms of cinematography much superior. But maybe I am biased, the whole Conjuring universe leaves me cold.
Winchester: Oh boy, if The Nun was by the numbers as far as modern ghost stories go, this was even more boring. 33 years ago - I feel old - Alan Moore already did a take on the Winchester Mansion - here called Cambridge - in his Swamp Thing No. 45. And it was in every regard much superior to this movie. While one could argue his death scenes had a bit of Roadrunner quality - I will never forget the scene where a guy opens a door in the mansion and is ground to paste by a herd of dead buffalos charging out which were killed with the gun, or the two gunman shooting each other literally to pieces - there was more originality in this 22 pages than in the whole movie. The lazy story-telling was irksome in many regards, the acting was just okay and even Helen Mirren was one note. A waste of time.
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Post by ropardoe on May 29, 2019 8:35:21 GMT
BBC1 "sitcom" Ghosts is very funny - if you haven't seen it, the first two episodes are on the iPlayer. I agree. I didn't much like the sound of it to start with, but I thought it was lovely. Funny, sweet, and actually quite touching. My favourite character is Robin the prehistoric man!
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Post by Dr Strange on May 29, 2019 10:15:41 GMT
BBC1 "sitcom" Ghosts is very funny - if you haven't seen it, the first two episodes are on the iPlayer. My favourite character is Robin the prehistoric man! Mine too - and the trouserless Tory MP.
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Post by Dr Strange on May 29, 2019 10:20:55 GMT
Watched a couple of current horror movies on tv. The Nun: John L. Probert really hated this, the box-office was really good. I was bored most of the time. Winchester: Oh boy, if The Nun was by the numbers as far as modern ghost stories go, this was even more boring. Haven't seen The Nun, it's not really my sort of thing, but completely agree about Winchester - it's an awful, dull, lazy mess, despite the big names and (supposedly) big concept. I felt guilty handing my copy over to the charity shop.
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Post by ripper on Jun 17, 2019 15:09:38 GMT
I have been watching the Kolchak: The Night Stalker series. I am not sure if I saw it when it was first shown in the UK, but definitely prior to the 1980s. Darren McGavin is excellent as intrepid reporter for INS, Carl Kolchak, who much be the luckiest (or unluckiest) journalist around to bump into so many supernatural adversaries and live to tell the tale. Simon Oakland as his perpetually angry and frustrated boss, Tony Vincenzo, is also extremely good as he attempts to keep Kolchak on a tight rein, and usually fails. So far, I have viewed the first 16 episodes out of 20 that were made. My favourites are the earlier ones such as The Ripper, The Zombie, The Werewolf and The Devil's Platform, though all so far have been enjoyable. I did notice that The Zombie episode had a plot that was similar to the 1974 film Sugar Hill, which I watched not too long ago. Note that the zombie in the episode is the classic Haitian voodoo type, rather than a Romero flesh-eater. I am not sure why the show only lasted 20 episodes. Perhaps ratings were dropping off or the writers were running out of unique foes for Kolchak to meet.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jun 22, 2019 22:55:13 GMT
Watched a couple of current horror movies on tv. The Nun: John L. Probert really hated this, the box-office was really good. I was bored most of the time. Winchester: Oh boy, if The Nun was by the numbers as far as modern ghost stories go, this was even more boring. Haven't seen The Nun, it's not really my sort of thing, but completely agree about Winchester - it's an awful, dull, lazy mess, despite the big names and (supposedly) big concept. I felt guilty handing my copy over to the charity shop. The nun, awful.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Jun 24, 2019 15:49:51 GMT
I saw The Nun at the cinema (I have an unlimited Cineworld card so I go whenever anything sort of takes my fancy).
It was dull and stole, badly, from Argento and Blatty.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 29, 2019 23:29:47 GMT
Over the last couple of days (it's been a busy week, even by my standards), I viewed this 1977 TV film directed by Dan Curtis, Curse of the Black Widow: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLap9g0hLZfxnWLj-ML5q3tFMZE9lz913vI found it very reminiscent of the Kolchak films Curtis produced earlier in the decade ( Night Stalker/Strangler), but with a somewhat snarky PI character played by Tony Franciosa as the protagonist. The monster in this one (it's not much of a spoiler to relay this info, since it is established fairly early on in the movie) is a voracious female were-spider. The "special" effects were cheesy on a level of deliriousness not seen since the Seventies, alas. I thought the movie represented the possible result if the implacable Guy N. Smith had decided to write a Kolchak screenplay. You do have to suspend disbelief a few times, starting with the fact that Patty Duke and Donna Mills play twins ("fraternal," Duke has to say at one point--presumably they hoped nobody was really paying attention to such minor plot points, at this juncture). I thought it was fun, but then, I enjoy trashy old Seventies TV thrillers. H.
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Post by ripper on Jul 2, 2019 19:29:40 GMT
Over the last couple of days (it's been a busy week, even by my standards), I viewed this 1977 TV film directed by Dan Curtis, Curse of the Black Widow: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLap9g0hLZfxnWLj-ML5q3tFMZE9lz913vI found it very reminiscent of the Kolchak films Curtis produced earlier in the decade ( Night Stalker/Strangler), but with a somewhat snarky PI character played by Tony Franciosa as the protagonist. The monster in this one (it's not much of a spoiler to relay this info, since it is established fairly early on in the movie) is a voracious female were-spider. The "special" effects were cheesy on a level of deliriousness not seen since the Seventies, alas. I thought the movie represented the possible result if the implacable Guy N. Smith had decided to write a Kolchak screenplay. You do have to suspend disbelief a few times, starting with the fact that Patty Duke and Donna Mills play twins ("fraternal," Duke has to say at one point--presumably they hoped nobody was really paying attention to such minor plot points, at this juncture). I thought it was fun, but then, I enjoy trashy old Seventies TV thrillers. H. I am old enough to remember 'Curse of the Black Widow' when it was first shown on ITV in the 70s. Yes, I agree that it has a Kolchak feel to it, though imo it is nowhere as good as The Night Stalker. Tony Franciosa used to turn up in quite a few made-for-TV movies in the 70s, and it has the added bonus of Donna Mills, upon whom I had quite a crush. If you haven't already seen it, I would highly recommend 'The Norliss Tapes', another TVM that featured somebody investigating supernatural events. This time it is Roy Thinnes as an author contacted by widow Angie Dickinson, whose late husband won't stay dead. It was intended as a pilot for a TV series, but that never materialised. It is also one of the films that scared me when growing up.
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