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Post by helrunar on Oct 30, 2023 20:53:14 GMT
Hi Andreas, I did read the novelization of Ghostlight back at some point in the early 1990s (?) but I recall nothing about it. I was looking at reviews of the DVD on a popular retail site just now, and it mentioned that some dialogue was drowned our by the musical score--an early instance of something I hear a lot about in more recent film and telly.
Everyone agrees that the story makes no sense. Apparently not even the actors understood what was supposed to be happening in it. The DVD extras sound potentially interesting, though.
cheers, Steve
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Post by andydecker on Oct 30, 2023 21:18:46 GMT
I have to confess that I can't remember the finer points of the story any longer; I have the DVD and the novel and I did understand Ghostlight when I watched it years ago. At least I think so. :-) I am not sure any longer. I recently did read it up on the Dr Who Ratings Guide which was interesting. Writer Marc Platt wrote an early Dr Who Virgin novel called Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible which I didn't understood either. I am beginning to sense a pattern here.
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Post by ripper on Nov 2, 2023 20:05:16 GMT
Bad Taste from 1987. Directed by Peter Jackson and he also stars. Set in New Zealand, a team is sent to a small town to discover why everyone has disappeared. They find that aliens have taken it over, aliens who enjoy the taste of humans. Jackson's first film, and it is a lot of fun imo. It's very gory and a bit gross at times, but also pretty funny. The agents are from the Astro Investigation and Defence Service--guess what their acronym is and remember the film was made in 1987. Actually it took 4 years of part-time shooting to complete. If you don't mind some gore and grossness--'Aren't I lucky, I got a chunky bit'--then it's very entertaining.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 4, 2023 15:35:27 GMT
I watched Scared to Death (1946) with Bela Lugosi and George Zucco, in which a dead woman in a morgue describes events leading to her own death, using flashbacks. it was bad but weird. I like Zucco who appeared in many B-movie and Universal horror films, particularly in the 1940s.
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Post by ripper on Nov 5, 2023 9:50:01 GMT
I watched Scared to Death (1946) with Bela Lugosi and George Zucco, in which a dead woman in a morgue describes events leading to her own death, using flashbacks. it was bad but weird. I like Zucco who appeared in many B-movie and Universal horror films, particularly in the 1940s. The same trick was used in 1950's Sunset Boulevard, except it was William Holden's character who does the talking after we meet him face down in Norma Desmond's pool.
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Post by ripper on Nov 8, 2023 11:13:44 GMT
Man Made Monster (Universal, 1941) starring Lon Chaney Jr, Lionel Atwill and Anne Nagel. Not poverty row, but definitely in the catagory of a 'B'. Chaney is in a bush crash where other passengers are killed by a high voltage cable, but he survives as he is immune to the electricity. Mad scientist Atwill experiments on him, wanting to create an army of zombies. Only an hour long, this little chiller rattles along at a fair pace, and its modest success led to Chaney getting a contract with Universal. Atwill is very good, as he always is. He and George Zucco cornered the market in playing mad scientists at the time. It's not a bad way to wile away an hour, and I had to giggle at the scene when Chaney is put into the electric chair--what did they expect would happen to someone immune to electricity?
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 8, 2023 15:08:46 GMT
Man Made Monster (Universal, 1941) starring Lon Chaney Jr, Lionel Atwill and Anne Nagel. Not poverty row, but definitely in the catagory of a 'B'. Chaney is in a bush crash where other passengers are killed by a high voltage cable, but he survives as he is immune to the electricity. Mad scientist Atwill experiments on him, wanting to create an army of zombies. Only an hour long, this little chiller rattles along at a fair pace, and its modest success led to Chaney getting a contract with Universal. Atwill is very good, as he always is. He and George Zucco cornered the market in playing mad scientists at the time. It's not a bad way to wile away an hour, and I had to giggle at the scene when Chaney is put into the electric chair--what did they expect would happen to someone immune to electricity? I noticed this and it is on my watch list. My relatives sometimes mention double bill features at the cinema. To be honest I think I'd have trouble sitting through two films. What double bills do people remember enjoying? Were there any odd double bills that didn't fit together?
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Post by sadako on Nov 8, 2023 15:36:38 GMT
Man Made Monster (Universal, 1941) starring Lon Chaney Jr, Lionel Atwill and Anne Nagel. Not poverty row, but definitely in the catagory of a 'B'. Chaney is in a bush crash where other passengers are killed by a high voltage cable, but he survives as he is immune to the electricity. Mad scientist Atwill experiments on him, wanting to create an army of zombies. Only an hour long, this little chiller rattles along at a fair pace, and its modest success led to Chaney getting a contract with Universal. Atwill is very good, as he always is. He and George Zucco cornered the market in playing mad scientists at the time. It's not a bad way to wile away an hour, and I had to giggle at the scene when Chaney is put into the electric chair--what did they expect would happen to someone immune to electricity? I noticed this and it is on my watch list. My relatives sometimes mention double bill features at the cinema. To be honest I think I'd have trouble sitting through two films. What double bills do people remember enjoying? Were there any odd double bills that didn't fit together? This is my favourite example of a double-bill crimeā¦
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Post by ripper on Nov 8, 2023 17:56:53 GMT
Man Made Monster (Universal, 1941) starring Lon Chaney Jr, Lionel Atwill and Anne Nagel. Not poverty row, but definitely in the catagory of a 'B'. Chaney is in a bush crash where other passengers are killed by a high voltage cable, but he survives as he is immune to the electricity. Mad scientist Atwill experiments on him, wanting to create an army of zombies. Only an hour long, this little chiller rattles along at a fair pace, and its modest success led to Chaney getting a contract with Universal. Atwill is very good, as he always is. He and George Zucco cornered the market in playing mad scientists at the time. It's not a bad way to wile away an hour, and I had to giggle at the scene when Chaney is put into the electric chair--what did they expect would happen to someone immune to electricity? I noticed this and it is on my watch list. My relatives sometimes mention double bill features at the cinema. To be honest I think I'd have trouble sitting through two films. What double bills do people remember enjoying? Were there any odd double bills that didn't fit together? Cinema double bills were fairly common when I was growing up in the late 60s into the early 80s. I can't remember too many exact double bills, though I don't think cinemas were too concerned about trying to match the two films. I remember seeing Mosquito Squadron with, I think, Carry on again, Doctor or Carry on Camping. Up the Chastity Belt I saw with the pilot for the TV series Bearcats. Dawn of the Dead (Zombies in the UK) was paired with The Great British Striptease (Bernard Manning introducing striptease acts and telling blue jokes with help from Sue Pollard). I saw Midnight Express on a double bill with Scum (very grim). Maybe the oddest was Airplane! paired with either Friday the 13th or F13 Part II...don't recall which. Some films were paired with short documentaries or films. Ghostbusters was supported by a short documentary which the overwhelmingly child audience roundly booed...maybe something about dray horses? I saw a few short supernatural films, maybe 25 mins, paired with feature films, but can't remember which ones. Also, back then, you were not ejected from your seat after the programme was over and could stop and watch it all over again if you wanted to, or that's how it was at my local cinema.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 8, 2023 20:08:56 GMT
I remember a quadruple bill at the Maryland Art Institute around the Fall of 1976 or '77. It consisted of Fearless Vampire Killers, the now sadly obscure Vadim classic Blood and Roses (available these days only in the European release print), Dracula has risen from the grave, and a fourth film I've forgotten; I left either before the Hammer feature started, or shortly thereafter.
The most recent double bill I attended was at a Boston comics convention around five years ago, a pairing of projected DVDs of the early 1970s Amicus classics Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror. Truly memorable.
Saluting, Hel.
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Post by ripper on Nov 8, 2023 21:20:26 GMT
I remember a quadruple bill at the Maryland Art Institute around the Fall of 1976 or '77. It consisted of Fearless Vampire Killers, the now sadly obscure Vadim classic Blood and Roses (available these days only in the European release print), Dracula has risen from the grave, and a fourth film I've forgotten; I left either before the Hammer feature started, or shortly thereafter. The most recent double bill I attended was at a Boston comics convention around five years ago, a pairing of projected DVDs of the early 1970s Amicus classics Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror. Truly memorable. Saluting, Hel. Your mention of a quadruple bill jogged my memory. Around 1981 my local cinema put on an all-night programme of horror films. There were either 4 or 5. I did think about going, but when I saw the titles realised I had either already seen them on video or had seen them on the shelves of the shop. After 40+ years the only title I can remember for sure is Human Experiments. SS Experiment Camp may have been one, but I had already seen that one on video and since I am unclear if it got a cinema release in the UK I may be off the mark about its inclusion. I was hoping there would be regular such events, but it never happened again, though they did show all 3 Star Wars films back to back one day in, I think, 1985.
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Post by helrunar on Nov 8, 2023 22:02:29 GMT
I'm very lucky to live in a town where there are at least two theaters that do regular screenings of old films (as well as occasional weeks of recent new material of interest). I'll never forget seeing a 35 mm print of The Abominable Dr Phibes there a few years ago. The print was in pretty good shape. Other 35 mm screenings included What's New Pussycat, The Dunwich Horror (mostly faded the blooming pink of the proverbial baby's bottom, thanks to a bad case of "vinegar syndrome"), and an amazing 70 mm screening of 2001 A Space Odyssey at this exceptional theater that's on my regular commute route. The perhaps crazed, highly dedicated tech guy there positioned seven speakers behind the screen which was the original sound set-up of the roadshow screenings back in 1968. It was an incredible experience. They've repeated it a couple of times, but the year I saw it, I came out to observe a total eclipse of the moon. Far-out, man!
Hel.
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Post by ripper on Nov 9, 2023 11:00:45 GMT
I'm very lucky to live in a town where there are at least two theaters that do regular screenings of old films (as well as occasional weeks of recent new material of interest). I'll never forget seeing a 35 mm print of The Abominable Dr Phibes there a few years ago. The print was in pretty good shape. Other 35 mm screenings included What's New Pussycat, The Dunwich Horror (mostly faded the blooming pink of the proverbial baby's bottom, thanks to a bad case of "vinegar syndrome"), and an amazing 70 mm screening of 2001 A Space Odyssey at this exceptional theater that's on my regular commute route. The perhaps crazed, highly dedicated tech guy there positioned seven speakers behind the screen which was the original sound set-up of the roadshow screenings back in 1968. It was an incredible experience. They've repeated it a couple of times, but the year I saw it, I came out to observe a total eclipse of the moon. Far-out, man! Hel. There's nothing like that where I live. I'm actually surprised our single cinema has managed to keep going as it faces stiff competition from several snazzy multiplexes not too far away, but all seem to just show the popular new releases. If you're into trying to see old/classic films on the big screen then there is nothing around here. In the late 1970s a fairly local leisure centre would show old movies on 16mm one evening per week. It is there that I saw a double bill of Creatures the World Forgot and Satanic Rites of Dracula, the only time I managed to see a Hammer horror on the big screen. When I was very young, maybe 7 or 8, so late 60s, I vaguely remember going with my older cousins on a Saturday morning to a council centre where they would show old films such as Abbott and Costello, a serial chapter and cartoons.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 16, 2023 14:24:11 GMT
The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1958) A Roger Corman effort. A group of Viking women set off to find there menfolk, who haven't returned from a voyage. Life of a Viking seems to be hard as apparently there is nobody even middle aged in this one. It's amazing the amount of stuff Corman has done. Apparently Corman almost sent some of the cast members to Valhalla or FĆ³lkvangr, as it seems they did many or all of their own stunts. It has the longest title of any movie I can remember watching.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Nov 16, 2023 15:02:18 GMT
This months movie marathon is action movies, something I do badly on, as they don't interest me in the least. Running around, explosions and shooting I find boring. However, not having been sure of what constitutes action movies, I just realised that I could include the more historical adventure films, I know Gainsborough did some. Therefore, as I've said on multiple occasions:
Get those suggestions coming!
Edited to say I don't mind B-movie rubbish, in fact I'm quite partial to a bit of codswallop, as you can see from this thread.
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