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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2008 9:37:31 GMT
.... Really, that should be your favourite 5 Milton Subotsky and - for the most part - Max J. Rosenberg horror films of the 'sixties and 'seventies as City Of The Dead, The Uncanny and The Monster Club ain't Amicus.
The 'Other' section box is there to cover anything because I'm sure to have made some massive boobs!
I'm not voting yet because even with a generous five choices it's not humanly possible!
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Post by sean on Sept 7, 2008 10:02:49 GMT
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Post by carolinec on Sept 7, 2008 10:26:51 GMT
Have you missed out the one I was talking about on the other thread, Dem - Tales That Witness Madness? Anyway, my votes are cast too, but it was difficult to choose just 5 - maybe we need 7 or 8 votes on this one instead?!  |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2008 10:44:40 GMT
Ah. I omitted Tales That Witness Madness because neither Subotsky or Rosenberg had anything to do with the film and it isn't an Amicus (though judging from the one clip I have to go on - Joannie and the jealous tree - it did its best to look like one).
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Post by carolinec on Sept 7, 2008 11:16:59 GMT
Ah. I omitted Tales That Witness Madness because neither Subotsky or Rosenberg had anything to do with the film and it isn't an Amicus (though judging from the one clip I have to go on - Joannie and the jealous tree - it did its best to look like one). Ooops, you've just made me blush with embarassment now, Dem, that I could make such an error. Mind you, that probably explains why I can't even remember much about the film! I'll now go away and whip myself senseless as a punishment ...   |
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Post by lukemorningstar on Sept 7, 2008 12:38:13 GMT
Doh! I only did one vote - can I do back and do four more?  Top poll, Dem! |
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Post by dem bones on Sept 7, 2008 18:12:45 GMT
I'll now go away and whip myself senseless as a punishment ... I was just reading about Tales ... in Pulphack's excellent Fragments Of Fear: An Illustrated History Of The Horror Films (Creation, 1996) and even Leslie Halliwell was taken in by this piece of mischief and credited it to Milton Subotsky! Not that this in anyway excuses your alarming, very public faux pas! You've let me down, you've let the board down and, most of all, you've let yourself down. Doh! I only did one vote - can I do back and do four more? There's always one ...  |
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Post by carolinec on Sept 7, 2008 20:22:07 GMT
I'll now go away and whip myself senseless as a punishment ... ... even Leslie Halliwell was taken in by this piece of mischief and credited it to Milton Subotsky! Not that this in anyway excuses your alarming, very public faux pas! You've let me down, you've let the board down and, most of all, you've let yourself down. I know, I know. And I deserve every smack of that whip, Dem. Keep going, keep going .... |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 7, 2008 21:17:15 GMT
My votes are in!
Out of interest has anyone else seen the supremely dull 'What Became of Jack & Jill'?
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Post by dem bones on Sept 8, 2008 1:19:15 GMT
I know, I know. And I deserve every smack of that whip, Dem. Keep going, keep going .... That's the spirit, Caroline. Onwards and upwards. No pain, no gain ... Out of interest has anyone else seen the supremely dull 'What Became of Jack & Jill'? Supremely dull? That's in the running for my final choice! Only saw it the once, so it's always possible I'd hate it today, but What Became of Jack & Jill? has stayed with me whereas I can't remember anything about I, Monster. Two lovers (Paul Nicholas and Vanessa Howard) connive to scare his granny to death so they can get their hands on all her lovely money. The nightly news footage of (the Paris ?) riots inspire them: the boyfriend lets slip that the youth are taking over the country and will be enforcing compulsory euthanasia! With the poor old dear already half terrified out of her mind, he reroutes a student demo (or maybe a rag week parade: like I say, it's been a while and until I checked I thought the scheming grandson was played by Richard Beckinsale!) to pass the house, convincing Gran that at last they've come for her ... I'm thinking this would be an excellent place for the film to stop. Maybe roll the end credits over the evil couple romping on the bed, gleefully chucking handfuls of notes in the air. Evil triumphs. That would have been pretty confrontational for 1972 although admittedly, the film would've been on the short side. But it doesn't happen that way at all. Anyone read the Lawrence Moody novel it's based on? There's a paperback tie-in version with a fetching cover shot of Jill stood over a grave (Sphere, 1972), but it was originally published as The Ruthless One (Robert Hale, 1969) |
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Post by andydecker on Sept 8, 2008 21:31:54 GMT
Nobody voted for And now the Screaming starts? Come on,  What´s not to like? |
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Post by killercrab on Sept 9, 2008 0:15:11 GMT
Howsabout the plodding pace which is slower than the disembodied hand! And Now The Yawning starts never did it for me I'm afraid.  KC |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 10, 2008 12:17:31 GMT
For anyone interested, the latest edition of Dick Klemensen's Little Shoppe of Horrors magazine is entirely devoted to Philip Nutman's history of Amicus pictures. It's better than the Dark Side thing that was written by an uncredited Jonathan Sothcott (or so I've been led to believe)
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