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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 2, 2019 21:01:49 GMT
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. I can recommend The Norliss Tapes too, up there with Don't Be Afraid of the Dark and Trilogy of Terror. I can't recall Curse of the Black Widow - looking forward to watching it.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 2, 2019 23:12:53 GMT
Curse of the Black Widow isn't nearly as good as either the Kolchak or Norliss stories--I wish the latter had gone to series because I thought Thinnes was really good in it, with a strong supporting cast.
The Black Widow show is mainly fun for those of us who remember these TV movies which were such a staple back then. It's been nice to see that some younger people who weren't around at the time are now enjoying them, as well. I think of them in some ways as the 70s version of the Poverty Row thrillers of the 40s, but the 70s films had much glossier production values. The spider special effects in Curse are really... special. There were a couple of shots that did make me laugh.
cheers, H.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 4, 2019 12:45:23 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jul 4, 2019 18:04:28 GMT
Hm. I really don't know what to think of this. Can Moffat and Gatiss repeat their success of Sherlock? Or will this be the next Dracula trainwreck?
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 5, 2019 11:42:40 GMT
Hm. I really don't know what to think of this. Can Moffat and Gatiss repeat their success of Sherlock? Or will this be the next Dracula trainwreck? I hope not. At least Clae Bangs (which sounds like an anagram) doesn't have the misconceived appearance or hairstyle of most filmed Draculas since Louis Jourdan, who was in the best and most canonical version. This (apparently) is the late Dame Edith Evans as Dracula.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 5, 2019 14:32:44 GMT
This thriller is worth a watch: They Drive By Night (1938): www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOAjDP_XTs It's no secret that the real sex killer is Ernest Thesiger. Another character tells him that he "gives things a queer twist".
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Post by andydecker on Jul 5, 2019 18:52:07 GMT
If Coppola only had not been compelled to include this missconceived, idiotic and risable re-incarnation love story, this could have been such a great movie.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 5, 2019 19:33:44 GMT
I like Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU best. Both of them. They, along with Murnau's film, are also perhaps closest to Stoker's book, in that Dracula is a monster, not a handsome gentleman.
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Post by bluetomb on Jul 6, 2019 10:51:08 GMT
I like Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU best. Both of them. They, along with Murnau's film, are also perhaps closest to Stoker's book, in that Dracula is a monster, not a handsome gentleman. I feel Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire does a good job in this regard also, though the film is perhaps not to all tastes.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 6, 2019 11:19:48 GMT
I like Werner Herzog's NOSFERATU best. Both of them. They, along with Murnau's film, are also perhaps closest to Stoker's book, in that Dracula is a monster, not a handsome gentleman. I feel Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck in Shadow of the Vampire does a good job in this regard also, though the film is perhaps not to all tastes. I liked parts of it, even if I didn't think it really worked. Dafoe was very good and the movie was well-shot, but the basic idea was so relentlessly fan-fiction. But movies about movies are an acquired taste. For instance I really liked Hitchcock with Hopkins and Mirren, but I can understand everybody who thinks this as an excise in navel-gazing. It is hard to be analytical about such things. But maybe is has been done to death. I have come to loathe Hollywood stories in crime tv series.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 6, 2019 11:22:37 GMT
This thriller is worth a watch: They Drive By Night (1938): www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOAjDP_XTs It's no secret that the real sex killer is Ernest Thesiger. Another character tells him that he "gives things a queer twist". For a 1938 British film, it will surprise you how explicitly pervy an old cove Ernest is in They Drive By Night.
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Post by humgoo on Jul 6, 2019 16:49:45 GMT
I've just finished the third season of Stranger Things. I think I like it even more than I do the first two seasons. A very physical monster, zombie-like possessed humans and scheming Russian commies with teenage angst and puppy love thrown in -- what's not to love?
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 6, 2019 21:49:03 GMT
I've just finished the third season of Stranger Things. I think I like it even more than I do the first two seasons. A very physical monster, zombie-like possessed humans and scheming Russian commies with teenage angst and puppy love thrown in -- what's not to love? Just started it yesterday - watched only 1 episode so far.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 8, 2019 13:17:25 GMT
This thriller is worth a watch: They Drive By Night (1938): www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOAjDP_XTs It's no secret that the real sex killer is Ernest Thesiger. Another character tells him that he "gives things a queer twist". His performance as Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorites. As some observers have noted, his conversations with Dr. Frankenstein carry interesting undertones.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 8, 2019 14:46:29 GMT
This thriller is worth a watch: They Drive By Night (1938): www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdOAjDP_XTs It's no secret that the real sex killer is Ernest Thesiger. Another character tells him that he "gives things a queer twist". His performance as Dr. Pretorius in Bride of Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorites. As some observers have noted, his conversations with Dr. Frankenstein carry interesting undertones.
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