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Post by Swampirella on Aug 3, 2023 19:10:19 GMT
I'm going to watch Tingler right now, as it happens. 20min certainly is condensed, from 1hr20 or so. I hope it was worth watching, for your hard-earned money.
That was for a 400-foot reel, which I believe was the biggest that a home Super 8 projectar could accept. There were condensed movies on 200 foot reels which lasted 10 minutes. My prize possession was a 400 foot condensed version of Creature from the Black Lagoon with sound and in 3-D. It came with two pairs of glasses and even on a small home screen it looked wonderful, especially underwater scenes of the Gill-Man and Julie Adams swimming. You could buy the occasional full length film on multiple 400 foot reels, but they were expensive--Ā£80 for Scars of Dracula, so I made do with the 400 foot version. Hope you enjoy The Tingler, it's a good one with some creepy scenes. "Creature" must have been a lot of fund to watch! I'm 2/3 of the way through Tingler and enjoying it immensely, thank you.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 6, 2023 16:04:33 GMT
I wonder if he liked King Kong? I am pretty sure he mentions seeing KING KONG in the Arkham House SELECTED LETTERS, but I am unable to locate the passage. According to Joshi's I AM PROVIDENCE Lovecraft mentions having seen KING KONG in a letter to J Vernon Shea. |
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Post by Knygathin on Aug 6, 2023 16:26:30 GMT
I am pretty sure he mentions seeing KING KONG in the Arkham House SELECTED LETTERS, but I am unable to locate the passage. According to Joshi's I AM PROVIDENCE Lovecraft mentions having seen KING KONG in a letter to J Vernon Shea. I remember C. A. Smith mentioned in his letters that he had seen King Kong. And he was amazed, ... flabbergasted. He had no idea it was a small animated model. |
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Aug 6, 2023 17:17:58 GMT
He had no idea it was a small animated model. What an idiot! |
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Post by Knygathin on Aug 6, 2023 21:16:55 GMT
He had no idea it was a small animated model. What an idiot! KING KONG really was (or nearly) 'The 8th Wonder of the World' at that time. Few in the audience could fathom how it was made. Lovecraft did not have a high opinion of the cinema. He thought for example that FRANKENSTEIN was pathetic, without genuine supernatural horror elements. But he had a favorite film: the dreamy BERKELEY SQUARE with Leslie Howard. |
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Post by Knygathin on Aug 8, 2023 14:21:44 GMT
TORTURE GARDEN (1967). Jack Pallance, extraordinary actor. He actually outdoes Peter Cushing here, in the Poe episode. I would think, that acting with such passionate conviction, there'd be a risk of psychosis.
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Post by andydecker on Aug 8, 2023 15:18:06 GMT
TORTURE GARDEN (1967). Jack Pallance, extraordinary actor. He actually outdoes Peter Cushing here, in the Poe episode. I would think, that acting with such passionate conviction, there'd be a risk of psychosis. I remember the Poe episode being the best of the bunch. The rest is so tame and forgettable.
If you want to see another crazed performance by Pallance in a horror movie watch the British production Craze from 1972, directed by Freddie Francis. it's based on this novel by Henry Seymor. |
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Post by andydecker on Aug 8, 2023 17:01:08 GMT
I've been watching a few UK horrors from the 60s and early 70s. Corruption (1968) Seeing this again just reminded me how much I miss Peter Cushing. Even in a film that he didn't totally care for, Cushing is great. He makes his anguish over what happened to his girlfriend and what he has to do to put her face back to normal very believeable. You have to feel sorry for his character as he is manipulated and guilt-tripped by his girlfriend, who is the real villan of the story, and Sue Lloyd gives a fine performance in the role. Tony Booth as the slimy photographer is also good, and you can't blame Sir John wanting his gf away from him. It does get progressively wilder as the running time is eaten up. By the time of the home invasion, both Sir John and Lynn are bordering on madness, with the latter showing she will do anything to get the treatment she needs to heal her face. Vanessa Howard has a small but memorable part in the party scene, where Cushing's character is utterly out of place among all the groovyness I ordered it recently after our discussion about the Peter Saxon who wrote the novelization. I got the British DVD with the three different versions, one of those the version where Cushing kills the topless sex-worker. He gives all, even if he looks as he would wrestle with Frankenstein's monster again. All not very believable, he is just too old for this character.
The movie has so many good parts - except the ending which is an insult - , even if hindsight makes it more relevant as a pop culture document. The hippie home invasion on screen is one year before the Manson cult murders, and one wonders how the writers stumbled over that idea. The novelization by Saxon/McNeilly is a bit crude, but at least it doesn't feature the shitty ending on the screen.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 8, 2023 17:32:42 GMT
I love both Peter Cushing and Sue Lloyd (who had some marvelous moments in a lower-grade ITV series, The Baron, in 1966), but I've never been able to stomach the idea of watching Corruption. At one time it was hailed as a neglected classic (this was back in the 1990s), but as the film has had more of a circulation thanks to home video releases, I don't hear that opinion much these days.
Hel.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 7, 2023 20:41:28 GMT
I watched The Manster from 1959, which has the alternative and less stupid title of The Split. It's an odd one, it was filmed in Japan and has a B-movie mad scientist plot, but it's superior to a B-movie in its production values, and rises above that standard in places. There is a sexual current to it that is rare for the time too and may be an underlying theme.
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Post by lynnielynn on Sept 9, 2023 20:10:39 GMT
I have been watching a lot of the excellent horror film shorts channels on YouTube - ACM Official, Alter, Dark Recess, Deformed Lunchbox, etc. Also the fantastic sci fi channel Dust and Omeleto which seems to have a bit of everything!
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 10, 2023 7:25:24 GMT
I rewatched ALIENS (1986) for the first time since I saw it in the theater in the 80's. The movie which everyone seems to think is better than the original ALIEN (1979), which it is NOT. ALIENS has some impressive technical special effects, and is a good enough action film of forgettable entertainment, with the usual standard cheap thrills and macho rap war talk, to appeal to the brainless herd and lure them into buying tickets. But the rehash, sequence by sequence, camera angle by camera angle, movement by movement, sound effect by sound effect, music snippet by music snippet, when Ripley goes to find the girl in the exact same fashion and under the same exact circumstance as when she goes after the cat in the first film, is the low-water mark, a despicable example of commercially calculated safe betting replacing artistic creativity and integrity. James Cameron is a "funny" individual, a talented director, who bows to Mammon and has sold his soul for Hollywood shekels.
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Post by andydecker on Sept 10, 2023 12:10:48 GMT
I rewatched ALIENS (1986) for the first time since I saw it in the theater in the 80's. The movie which everyone seems to think is better than the original ALIEN (1979), which it is NOT. ALIENS has some impressive technical special effects, and is a good enough action film of forgettable entertainment, with the usual standard cheap thrills and macho rap war talk, to appeal to the brainless herd and lure them into buying tickets. But the rehash, sequence by sequence, camera angle by camera angle, movement by movement, sound effect by sound effect, music snippet by music snippet, when Ripley goes to find the girl in the exact same fashion and under the same exact circumstance as when she goes after the cat in the first film, is the low-water mark, a despicable example of commercially calculated safe betting replacing artistic creativity and integrity. James Cameron is a "funny" individual, a talented director, who bows to Mammon and has sold his soul for Hollywood shekels. Alien and Aliens is like apples and oranges. The first one is a haunted house story, the second is a war commando movie like Where Eagles Dare. One could argue that the concept of the Alien is dilluted because now you have hundreds of Aliens, but that is a requirement of ANY commercial genre media which wants to repeat its success. Ignoring horror for the moment, take sf. In early Star Trek you had one Borg ship basically destroying the federation, a few years later you had a whole armada of the things not being able to destroy one tiny starship. It diluted the idea to oblivion.
And with all due respect, Alien was a major studio movie like its sequel. It was original despite the environment it was made in, not because of it, one of those lucky coincidences like 2001 or Zardoz, to name an extreme one. Artistic creativity? Doubtless. Integrity? I don't know. And compared to the many sequels down the road like Aliens vs Predators a movie like Aliens is even after all those years like an Oscar contender. (And don't get me started on the dire prequels like Prometheus.  ) |
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Post by Knygathin on Sept 28, 2023 20:18:27 GMT
Damien: Omen II immediately starts with incredibly groovy music. Must see if I can find some more of that good stuff, whoever made it!
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Sept 28, 2023 20:30:51 GMT
Damien: Omen II immediately starts with incredibly groovy music. Must see if I can find some more of that good stuff, whoever made it! Jerry Goldsmith. And DAMIEN: OMEN II is a masterpiece. |
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