Thought I'd start the same topic that's in the 80's folder here. I probably watch more 70's films than any other decade, mainly because I'm obsessed with old horrors. In particular the 60's and 70's Hammer and Amicus Horrors.
Anyway the last 70's films I watched were:
Shivers, Scream And Scream Again and Suspiria.
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Posted by P.S. It's Paul.... (Member # 1022) on :
For me, it would be Carry On Matron, with my daughter, who has established a liking for these delightfully british escapades (good thing too!)
Posted by mamamiasweetpeaches (Member # 1715) on :
Okay, first up...SUSPIRIA rocks! Havent watched that one in awhile ...I canw atch that over and over again!
And secondly - did you know they have a CARRY ON box set? I got it for my husband (who was born in England) a few Christmases ago.
Now for me:
LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE SYBIL I also watched MOMMIE DEAREST this weekend....but I cantr emember if they made that one in the 70s or 80s (I thinkin' it was the 80s)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I like some of the Carry On films, my fave is Carry On Camping Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
DELIVERANCE a few days ago..... SQUEAL BOY!!!
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
Smokey and the bandit 1979... Posted by P.S. It's Paul.... (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by mamamiasweetpeaches: did you know they have a CARRY ON box set? I got it for my husband (who was born in England) a few Christmases ago.
Yup - got all of them - all 31 films, plus the 1974/5 TV Series, plus the 4 Christmas Specials...
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
You mean Smokey and the bandit 1977... Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
Unless the last time you watched a 70's movie, was when you watched Smokey and the bandit in the year 1979... Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Haha Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Phantasm
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Posted by Smayt Shatner (Member # 1500) on :
All The Presidents Men with redford and Hoffman.just about the best conspiracy movie ever.love it. Also recently pyrchased the first Death Wish movie which is Bronson's finest hour i think.Ignore the sequels though.Well maybe Death Wish 2 is ok but thats an 80's movie.
Posted by hewzy (Member # 6043) on :
I watched The Wanderers last night!! absolute Quality film with a wicked soundtrack!!
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
Watched SUPERFLY a couple of days ago, thought i'd give the audio comm. a whirl.... and maaan, what a painful experince!
What kind of college professor and serious film scholar refers to himself as a pimp, playa or mack or whatever.... how sad!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Rabid - Cronenberg is so crazy haha
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAYLEE: You mean Smokey and the bandit 1977...
Unless the last time you watched a 70's movie, was when you watched Smokey and the bandit in the year 1979... [Smile]
Hahaha... good catch... I meant 1977... Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
I watched Anthony Perkins presents The Horror Show.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Two really weird silent short films by Clive Barker, Salome and The Forbidden.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Capone - Probably the weakest of all the Capone films I've seen but it had it's moments.
Posted by boo1233 (Member # 7000) on :
has anyone seen Remo Williams lately. That's by far on of my favorites.
Posted by WolfmansGotNards (Member # 5910) on :
Last 70s film I watched?
Nothing can stop.......... THE CAR! (from 1977) Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I am big time into UFOlogy.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
The Original Texas Chainsaw Massacre........
Posted by Stitch G (Member # 2895) on :
Picnic at Hanging Rock.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh I love Picnic At Hanging Rock
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
since there's no forum for this I'll put it here, 'Bullitt' a 60's move starring Steve McQueen.
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36: since there's no forum for this I'll put it here, 'Bullitt' a 60's move starring Steve McQueen.
Great movie... Love the chase scene... Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by 80'sRocked: Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I am big time into UFOlogy.
One of the all time best movies ever! Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
quote:Originally posted by jdocster04:
quote:Originally posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36: since there's no forum for this I'll put it here, 'Bullitt' a 60's move starring Steve McQueen.
Great movie... Love the chase scene...
has to be mentioned in the same breath as
*French Connection *The Blues Brothers *Death Proof
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
Sammy,
How about:
*Bullitt *French Connection *The Blues Brothers *Death Proof *Vanishing point *The Italian Job *Ronin *Bourne Identity
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Another 70's movie with a great car chase is nearly-forgotten. It's called "The Seven-Ups", starring Roy Schieder (who was also in "The French Connection").
And no, it has nothing to do with the 7-Up soft drink!
quote:Originally posted by StevenHW: Another 70's movie with a great car chase is nearly-forgotten. It's called "The Seven-Ups", starring Roy Schieder (who was also in "The French Connection").
And no, it has nothing to do with the 7-Up soft drink!
This is one of the best car chase scenes in the history of movies (I think). It's from a 1990 movie called "Short Time". It's about a cop who thinks he is going to die soon because his medical records get mixed up with someone else. In order for his wife to collect his pension or insurance money, he must die in the line of duty so he trys to get killed but can't. You have to see this whole movie if you haven't.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Assault On Precinct 13 - I love this film, Carpenter's best imo.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
I loved the old Assault on Precinct 13. The new one was ruined with Ethan Hawke and John Singleton imo........
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I'll try my best to avoid that one hehe
Last I watched was Thirst, very unusual little Aussie vampire film.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Horror Express Posted by hewzy (Member # 6043) on :
Richard Pryor Live... I absolutly love watchin this with my mates round. best stand up of all time in my opinion.
" COME ON PECKER HEAD " Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
Speaking of Pryor.... I watched THE MACK a couple of days ago, with the audio comm on, and the stories Max Julien had about Richard Pryor were priceless!
He was one crazy mofo!
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Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
Escape to Witch Mountain
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
a couple of the most recently watched movies for me has been from the 50s the Alfred Hitch**** classic "Rear Window" what a great movie with a suspense that slowly builds up through the whole movie. Totally deserves its classic status.
Then last night I watched the 1966 classic from Sergio Leone "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. It's currently rated #4 over at IMdB of the best movies of all time. Not sure if I would rate it that high myself but it is a very incredible movie. Eli Wallach's portrayal of Tuco is truly one of the most remarkable performances I've ever seen.
Today I added to my classic movie collections by adding Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia and Once Upon a Time in the West to my collection.
With me acquiring Casablanca I own the Top 10 movies over at IMdB. Keep in mind that the list fluctuates regurlarly.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
The last movie from the 70's that I watched is "Death Weekend"....It is a scary movie...with Brenda Vaccarro...and it has Don Stroud in it...he was the priest in The Amityville Horror.
Death Weekend isn't really a "horror" movie....it's more like a thriller...but it is so creepy.
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
Believe it or not last night I finally watched The Godfather for the first time from start to finish. Thought it was a great movie. A lot of people consider it one of the best if not the best movies of all time. I wouldn't put it that high but it definitely deserves all the praise it's received.
I also own The Godfather Part II & The Godfather Part III So I have my next two nights movies all planned out. From what I hear some people actually feel that The Godfather Part II is superior to the first one.
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
Michael Corleone: I know it was you Fredo. You broke my heart. You broke my heart!!!!
Fredo Corleone: I'm your older brother, Mike, and I was stepped over!
Michael Corleone: That's the way Pop wanted it.
Fredo Corleone: It ain't the way I wanted it! I can handle things! I'm smart! Not like everybody says... like dumb... I'm smart and I want respect!
Michael Corleone: Fredo, you're nothing to me now. You're not a brother, you're not a friend. I don't want to know you or what you do. I don't want to see you at the hotels, I don't want you near my house. When you see our mother, I want to know a day in advance, so I won't be there. You understand?
Fredo sleeps with the fishes... Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
So I watched The Godfather Part II last night. Very very good movie eapecially for a sequel. But I think I prefer the first one more.
Tonight I plan on either watching The Godfather Part III, which is supposed to be good but nowhere near as good as the first two, or the 1962 Oscar winning best picture Lawrence of Arabia Leaning towards Lawrence of Arabia all three hours forty seven minutes of it.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Parts of SammyHain's post:
quote:So I watched The Godfather Part II last night. Very very good movie eapecially for a sequel. But I think I prefer the first one more...
I agree. The first one is better. The second one is overall very good, but certain sequences stand out better than the entire movie.
quote:...Tonight I plan on either watching The Godfather Part III, which is supposed to be good but nowhere near as good as the first two, or the 1962 Oscar winning best picture Lawrence of Arabia Leaning towards Lawrence of Arabia all three hours forty seven minutes of it.
The Godfather Part III was a big letdown. Sofia Coppola's performance (as Al Pacino's daughter) was laughable. But to be fair, she was brought in at the last minute after Winona Ryder was too ill just before filming started.
See Lawrence Of Arabia instead. Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
actually I ended up watching the Hitch**** classic Vertigo instead
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
Finally got to see OVER THE EDGE, and it was hands down one of the best teen/youth movies I have ever seen! I never expected it to be this good! Awesome movie!
Posted by Chris the CandyFanMan (Member # 3197) on :
The eternally underappreciated 1941 ("I'm Captain Wild Bill Kelso, United States Army Air Corps. And DON'T you forget it!")
Posted by jimpickens (Member # 5801) on :
American Tickler.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Blood On Satan's Claw Posted by cindymancini (Member # 679) on :
Satan's Cheerleaders from 1977 (this movie is wacked. My friend Greg got me into it. I thoroughly enjoy the really bad special effects. This makes the demon scene in Ammityville Horror look like CGI..lol!)
and
The Van circa '77
Sometimes it's okay to leave the land of the 80's !
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
since there's no forum in which to put these the last five movies I've watched have been
A Fistful of Dollars(1964) 7/10 For a Few Dollars More(1965) 8/10 AlFred Hitch****s: The Birds(1962) 8/10 The Maltese Falcon(1941) 9/10 12 Angry Men(1957) 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Beast Must Die - One of my favourite werewolf films Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Magnum Force
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
The Big Sleep(1946) 8/10
Bogart & Bacall. Howard Hawks director. One of the sexiest cast of actresses I've ever seen in a movie.
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
DAY OF THE JACKAL
ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
A Clockwork Orange
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: A Clockwork Orange
Don't get me started... Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: A Clockwork Orange
Great movie.
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre(1948) 10/10
Bogart & Walter Huston directed by John Huston
absolutely one of the best movies I've ever seen
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
North By Northwest(1959) 8.5/10
Cary Grant & Eva Marie Saint directed by Alfred Hitch****
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
"Life is a cabaret, old chum.." Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
MR. MAJESTYK THE VALACHI PAPERS DEATH WISH THE MECHANIC
Bought a bunch of Bronson flicks..... damn he was a badazz back in the day!
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
Network(1976) 8/10
Faye Dunaway William Holden Peter Finch Robert Duvall Ned Beatty
Directed by Sidney Lumet
satirical look at the television industry that was eerily prophetic.
I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore
Posted by SammyHain 44DDD-26-36 (Member # 3150) on :
Taxi Driver(1976) 9/10
Robert DeNiro Cybill Sheppard Albert Brooks Harvey Keitel Peter Boyle Jodie Foster
Directed by Martin Scorsese
You talkin' to me?
Interesting note these last two movies were both nominated for best picture and both lost to Rocky
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
I could never wrap my head around HOW ON EARTH... Taxi Driver could lose to Rocky.... I mean come on!!! well, one is upbeat, the other is downbeat... the Oscars are a joke in my mind, they mean absolutely nothing to me!
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
Seen a few:
Straw Dogs Legend of Hell House Suspiria The Mechanic Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry
Posted by hewzy (Member # 6043) on :
Bugsy Malone - wicked film i used to watch it every sunday when i was a kid !!
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
The taking of pelham 123
the seven up's
the sicilian clan (1969)
all awesome!!
Posted by jdocster04 (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAYLEE: The taking of pelham 123
the seven up's
the sicilian clan (1969)
all awesome!!
JAYLEE,
Was the seven up's the one where they did a bank robbery?
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
No, Roy Scheider is a tough cop, leading a small group of other tough cops, using "questionable" methods to take down criminals! Great action and car chases, one of those gritty 70's New York flicks, akin to French Connection!
watched ...Tick...Tick...Tick... (1970) last night, with Jim Brown and George Kennedy!
Jim Brown was actually a good actor, before he became the typical blaxploitation guy, spouting off one liners and kicking "whitey's" azzz! I enjoy those movies too, no doubt! But in this one, he really gave a great performance, as the newly elected black sheriff in a racist southern town!
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Rio Bravo(1959) 7/10
John Wayne Dean Martin Ricky Nelson Walter Brennan Angie ****inson
Howard Hawks Director
A little disappointed in this one. Have always heard this was one of the great westerns but I just wasn't overwhelmed.
The Duke was The Duke which is never a bad thing. I found both Martin & Nelson to be unbelievable as deputies and thought the musical interludes by them were out of place and just a way to capitalize on their fame as singers. Brennan although his part was the comic relief I thought he was overacting and it just seemed unnatural. ****inson was hot as always and what more would you expect from a North Dakota girl But her love interest with The Duke seemed forced and I didn't feel the chemistry between the two of them. Perhaps the 25+ year age difference had something to do with that.
Posted by Mike. (Member # 7179) on :
Close encounters of a third kind great movie and the effects still stand up well today the cast and acting is top notch.
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Let's Scare Jessica to Death--it wasn't quite what I was expecting, but it was still good.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Great Escape(1963) 8/10
Steve McQueen Richard Attenborough James Garner Charles Bronson James Coburn Donald Pleasence
John Sturges Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Searchers(1956) 8/10
John Wayne Natalie Wood Ward Bond Jeffrey Hunter Vera Miles
John Ford Director
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Perhaps there should be a separate thread titled: "Last 60's (and earlier decades) Film You Watched?".
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Omen - Ooh I hadn't seen this in years, better than I remembered.
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
The Omen is awesome...! forget that crap Julia Stiles remake, what a steaming pile that was! I love the old one, pure evil! Watched it with the audio comm. some time ago, and Richard Donner revealed that based solely on the good box office return of the Omen, 20th century fox had enough money to greenlight an obscure sci film by some guy named Lucas, and so Star Wars was made!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I can't wait to watch the others now, I bought the boxset. I remember liking part 2 as well but I've never seen 3, 4 or the remake.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Chinatown(1974) 9/10
Jack Nicholson Faye Dunaway John Huston
Roman Polanski Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Count Dracula (1970)
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Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Casablanca(1942) 9/10
Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul henreid Claude Rains Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre
Michael Curtiz Director
Play it Sam, Play 'As Time Goes By'
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I still haven't seen Casablanca. I do own it tho so I'll get to it soon.
Damien: Omen II: Nice, not quite as good as the first but still damn creepy Posted by Devolution (Member # 1731) on :
Devolution here,
I watched the Deer Hunter, now I think it's a very good movie, but the wedding scene in my opinion drags the movie out for a long time. It's also the first movie that I have ever watched where I thought Meryl Streep was honestly very pretty.
We are DEVO
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain: Casablanca (1942) 9/10
Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul henreid Claude Rains Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre
Michael Curtiz, Director...
Michael Curtiz: one of the most underrated Hollywood directors of all-time.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid(1969) 6.5/10
Robert Redford Paul Newman Katharine Ross
George Roy Hill Director
Seriously feel that this is a very overrated movie. Clocking in at about 10 minutes shy of two hours I was checking my watch to see how much time was left. The three music montages were long boring and drawn out. "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" does not belong in a movie about two bankrobbers it seemed very out of place.
Posted by P.S. It's Paul.... (Member # 1022) on :
Sam, a much better Newman / Redford movie is The Sting.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
That's what I hear
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by P.S. It's Paul....: Sam, a much better Newman / Redford movie is The Sting.
Great movie is The Sting. Check it out Sam, if you haven't seen it. Another good one is The Cincinatti Kid. Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962) 7/10
John Wayne James Stewart Lee Marvin
John Ford Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Shane(1953) 9/10
Alan Ladd Jean Arthur Van Heflin Walter Jack Palance Brandon de Wilde
George Stevens Director
Awesome movie
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
Sammy, you like the "old school" movies don't you? They are the classics!
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I'm trying to see a lot of the classics during my layoff from work
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
City Lights(1931) 9/10
Starring Charlie Chaplin Directed by Charlie Chaplin Written by Charlie Chaplin Produced by Charlie Chaplin Music composed by Charlie Chaplin
one of the most tear jerking endings ever.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Jules Verne's Mysterious Island (1961)
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Midnight Cowboy(1969) 8/10
Dustin Hoffman Jon Voight
John Schlesinger Director
Hey I'm walkin here, I'm walkin here
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Graduate(1967) 7.5/10
Dustin Hoffman Anne Bancroft Katharine Ross
Mike Nichols Director
Are you trying to seduce me Mrs. Robinson?
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:...Are you trying to seduce me, Mrs. Robinson?
Mrs. Robinson: one of the early MILF and "cougar" movie roles, long before the slang terms existed! Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
"Dog Day Afternoon" (1975), starring Al Pacino, John Cazale, Chris Sarandon, Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Lance Henriksen, Sully Boyar, and a pre-"Sopranos" Dominic Chianese.
Based on a real-life robbery case in a small neighborhood bank in Brooklyn, NY.
There is no background music score, but there are only two songs which are not listed in the credits: Elton John's "Amoreena" on the opening scene, and Uriah Heep's "Easy Livin'" is heard faintly later in the movie.
Directed by Sidney Lumet, one of America's most underestimated film directors. He may not have a recognizable visual style that Kubrick or Scorsese does, but Lumet gets the most out of his actors!
Some might say that Pacino should've won a 'Best Actor' Oscar award for his role. But it's hard to deny Jack Nicholson's Oscar-winning R.P. McMurphy role in "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest", which came out that same year!
"Attica! Attica! Attica!"
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958) and The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961)
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Citta Violenta / Violent City (1970)
- Bronson is the man!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Evil Of Frankenstein (1964) - The weakest of the Hammer Frankensteins but still enjoyable.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Apartment(1960) 9/10
Jack Lemmon Shirley MacLaine Fred MacMurray Ray Walston
Billy Wilder Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Man Who Knew Too Much(1956) 7/10
James Stewart Doris Day
Alfred Hitchc0ck Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Not a film but a short 70's TV series, Children of the stones, pretty good.
Posted by hewzy (Member # 6043) on :
Angels With Dirty Faces - (1938) Cagney rules!!!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Crawling Eye (1958)
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain: The Searchers(1956) 8/10
John Wayne Natalie Wood Ward Bond Jeffrey Hunter Vera Miles
John Ford Director
Watched this one again and my ranking goes up to a 9.5. A true classic and not only one of the best westerns (if not the best) of all time it's also one of the best movies of all time.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Yojimbo(1961) B/W Subtitled 8/10
Toshiro Mifune
Akira Kurosawa Director
Japanese western later remade into the 1964 Sergio Leone spaghetti western starring Clint Eastwood "Fistful of Dollars"
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Dog Day Afternoon - Super
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Smultronstallet
Wild Strawberries(1957) Swedish b/w subtitled 9/10
Victor Sjostrom Bibi Andersson Ingrid Thulin
Ingmar Bergman Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Singin' In the Rain(1952) 7.5/10
Gene Kelly Donald O'Connor Debbie Reynolds Jean Hagen Cyd Charisse Rita Moreno
Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly Directors
Not usually a fan of musicals but this one was pretty darn good and entertaining. the 17 minute Broadway dance medley thrown in the middle of the movie for no other reason than what appears to satisfy Gene Kelly's indulgence is what brought this movie down for me. Though it didn't win the Oscar for best picture it is a far superior movie compared to the previous years winner 'An American in Paris' which also happened to be a Kelly song and dance vehicle.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
For Pete's Sake and At The Earth's Core.
Posted by MotleyRulz (Member # 3598) on :
Serpico and Godfather II.........
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World(1963) 8/10
Spencer Tracy Milton Berle Sid Caesar Buddy Hackett Ethel Merman Mickey Rooney **** Shawn Phil Silvers Terry Thomas Jonathan Winters Edie Adams Dorothy Provine + a ton of cameos
Stanley Kramer Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Third Man(1949) 8/10
Joseph Cotten Valli Orson Welles Trevor Howard
Carol Reed Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Wizard Of Gore - Crazy Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Jezebel(1938) 6/10
Bette Davis Henry Fonda
William Wyler Director
all in all I was pretty disappointed in this movie. I always had figured that Davis' character would be a lot more despicable than what she was.
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
THE WANDERERS... wow, not at all what I expected! This movie was so weird and surreal, that I felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie! I haven't quite decided in my mind, whether that was a good thing or not! It was definitely different.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I've been trying to find that movie. I watched it on HBO a few times many years ago and always liked it. The Ducky Boys were one strange bunch.
Posted by JAYLEE (Member # 6345) on :
The whole damn movie was strange...! I thought I was going to watch some predictable 60's cliche ridden New York neighbourhood those were the days coming of age flick, full of ethnic New Yorker stereotypes... That was sooo not what I got! I was expecting a mix of THE OUTSIDERS and A BRONX TALE.... well, it was more like RUMBLE FISH mixed with TWIN PEAKS!
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Umberto D.(1952) Italian subtitled 8/10
Carlo Battisti Maria-Pia Casilio
Vittorio De Sica Director
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain:Umberto D. (1952) Italian subtitled... 8/10
Carlo Battisti Maria-Pia Casilio
Vittorio De Sica Director
One of my all-time favorite European films! A real heart-tugger! Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Orson Welles Director -------------------------------------- Psycho(1960) B/W 9.5/10
Anthony Perkins Janet Leigh Vera Miles Martin Balsam
Alfred Hitchc0ck Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Spellbound(1945) B/W 6.5/10
Ingrid Bergman Gregory Peck
Alfred Hitchc0ck Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Some Like It Hot(1959) 8.5/10
Tony Curtis Jack Lemmon Marilyn Monroe
Billy Wilder--Director ------------------------------------- Sweet Smell of Success(1957) 7.5/10
Tony Curtis Burt Lancaster
Alexander Mackendrick--Director -------------------------------------- The Defiant Ones(1958) 8/10
Tony Curtis Sidney Poitier
Stanley Kramer--Director
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I just watched the end of Ben Hur-I have never seen it ever...my mom loves it...the end was awesome, so I need to watch the whole thing now.
I didn't know that Charlton Heston died this year.-until just now
The way that movie was filmed was amazing, just the scenes in Rome with the amount of people. It takes place durning the time that Jesus was cruxified. The music is really outstanding. This movie was made in 1959, but set in biblical times.....so that is why I can never understand why people can't make good movies like this any more...that people watch the stuff they do...and think it is good, when you can find old movies, that were done outstandingly with brilliant acting...it just doesn't even compare.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The African Queen(1951) 6.5/10
Humphrey Bogart Katharine Hepburn
John Huston Director
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Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
Don't Torture a Duckling 6.0/10
A solid Italian Hitch**** homage from gore master Lucio Fulci. The mystery was decent, but where it really gains points is with the subtext. It's actually a viscous lament againgst irrationality and religious zealotry in the face of developing modernity. Fulci's direction seems pedestrian when it comes to the basic surface-level storytelling, but he really shines like a true auteur layering in all the deeper meanings into scenes.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Adam's Rib(1949) 7/10
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn
George Cukor--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Bad Day At Black Rock (1955) 9/10
Spencer Tracy Robert Ryan Ann Francis Walter Brennan Ernest Borgnine Lee Marvin
John Sturges--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
3:10 To Yuma (1957) B/W 7/10
Glenn Ford Van Heflin
Delmer Daves--Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I've been in a Mario Bava mood, Kill, Baby...Kill (1966), Knives Of The Avenger (1966) and The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Harvey(1950) B/W 6/10
James Stewart Josephine Hull
Henry Koster--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Trouble With Harry(1955) 7/10
Shirley MacLaine William Forsythe
Alfred Hitchc0ck--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Fury(1936) 8/10
Spencer Tracy Sylvia Sidney
Fritz Lang--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Nashville (1975) 7.5/10
Ned Beatty Lily Tomlin Jeff Goldblum Karen Black Keith Carradine Shelley Duvall
Robert Altman--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Rashomon (1950) B/W Japanese Subtitled 8.5/10
Toshiro Mifune
Akira Kurosawa--Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
A Study In Terror (1965) - Ooh, I really enjoyed this little Jack the Ripper Sherlock Holmes film.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
My friend sent me Midnight Cowboy in the mail today...I really would like to watch it tonight...but I think my mom wants to see it, and she is on vacation right now...so I might have to wait until she gets home, but I can't wait to see it.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
Isis, if you like Midnight Cowboy you should really make a point to check out Scarecrow with Gene Hackman and Al Pacino. It's a very similar film and one which seems to go largely unnoticed for some reason.
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Burnt Offerings
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Skull (1965) and Frankenstein Created Woman (1967)
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Misfits(1961) B/W 7/10
Clark Gable--died a couple weeks after filming Marilyn Monroe--her last completed film Montgomery Clift Eli Wallach Thelma Ritter
John Huston--Director
Posted by hewzy (Member # 6043) on :
Animal House (1978) 9/10
I forgot how good this film was. Belushi RIP has me in bits all the way through. After watchin it i felt like watchin Porkys.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I just finally watched Midnight Cowboy.
I always liked the song "Everybody's Talkin". I forgot that it came from this movie.
It was a watchable movie. John Voight wanted to be a male prostitute...but he actually ended up being with 1 person...the whole time...him and Dustin Hoffman..were basically homeless....and they were living in a condemed building...and it just was so sad...that people haved lived like that...and still do.
You take food for granted when you have it...I have never been that poor ever...that I didn't have food...so I can't even imagine what that would be like, and how a few dollars would feel like you were rich...when all you needed was food. That really is the 1 thing that people have to worry about....is food and shelter.
It does have a sad ending....but the fact that they became friends was kind of nice.
There was a ton of weird stuff and odd scenes in that movie that did remind me of Looking for Mr. Goodbar. They threw a bunch of drug scenes in with people completely goofed up on drugs...like LSD...there was a bunch of messed up stuff going on in the 70's too.
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Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
We just watched Carrie the other night, I'd forgotten how great the cinematography and the editing were. I love the scene where the camera is following the rope from under the stairs up to the blood filled bucket, and you see Amy Irving sneaking behind the stage in an almost split screen shot. It's very Hitch****ian, and I loved it.
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I love Carrie...I think the entire Prom scene is just amazing how they did it...I love the split screen...it looks way ahead of it's time...when they do that.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
Split screening was really popular in the late '60s. Lots of films from that period used it.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Oily Maniac (1976)
- Funny campy Hong Kong "horror" flick. Lots of skin and cheap effects Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Sjunde inseglet, Det(1957) The Seventh Seal Swedish Subtitled 8/10
Gunnar Bjornstrand Bengt Ekerot Nils Poppe Max von Sydow Bibi Andersson
Ingmar Bergman--Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Deliverance and Apocalypse Now, Redux.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Annie Hall (1977) 3/10
Woody Allen Diane Keaton
Woody Allen--Director
Woody Allen's movies and humour just doean't appeal to me at all. Just watched it to knock another movie off the IMdB top 250.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Shock (1946), The Mummy (1959) and Dracula (1931).
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain: Annie Hall (1977) 3/10
Woody Allen Diane Keaton
Woody Allen--Director
Woody Allen's movies and humour just doean't appeal to me at all. Just watched it to knock another movie off the IMdB top 250.
Annie Hall must be (and in my opinion is) better than a 3/10 - it stopped Star Wars getting the Best picture oscar in 1977......
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I think the line "better let the wookie win" showed more humour in two seconds than Annie Hall had in the entire movie. Keep in mind Annie Hall was meant to be a comedy.
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
I know it was a comedy. Woody Allen films generally are. However, the comedy is often shown in the people rather than any directly funny lines, and so it's hard to pick out why they appeal to me - they just do. Curse Of The Jade Scorpion was a great movie of his - I reckon you'd enjoy that one more than Annie Hall.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I think he's definitely an acquired taste. Don't think there's too much middle ground when it comes to his movies; either you really like them or you really dislike them.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The White Gorilla (1945) and Son Of Dracula (1943).
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Vampire Lovers, Horror Hospital, Lust For A Vampire, Dragonwyck (1946) and Condemned To Live (1935).
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
M (1931) B/W German Subtitled 8/10
Peter Lorre
Fritz Lang--Director
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
To Kill a Mockingbird...one of favorite movies.
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
Logan's Run. Michael York, Jenny Agutter. Excellent movie all round, and chillingly stark underneath all the glitz and polish of the scenery.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Arthur Penn--Director
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Great choice, Sammy! Also, Warren Beatty was the producer in the movie, and that got him more interested in being on the other side of the camera.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
why yes he was the producer. maybe I'll start listing those as well
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
White Heat (1949) B/W 7.5/10
James Cagney
Raoul Walsh--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The General (1927) Silent B/W 8/10
Buster Keaton
Clyde Bruckman--Directors Buster Keaton
Unfortunately my DVR stopped recording with about 5 minutes left in the movie. Pretty funny and entertaining overall
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Force of Evil (1948) B/W 5/10
John Garfield
Abraham Polonsky--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Hud (1963) B/W 8.5/10
Paul Newman Melvyn Douglas Patricia Neal Brandon de Wilde
Martin Ritt--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) B/W 8/10
Teresa Wright Joseph Cotten MacDonald Carey Hume Cronyn
Alfred Hitchc0ck--Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Incredible Hulk and Curse Of The Crimson Altar (1968).
Posted by Earth Angel (Member # 3301) on :
Play misty for me....(that was the film I saw...not a request)
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I watched the end of Deliverence the other night, and I have always wanted to know...at the end, when they find their friend in the water...how did his arm get over his shoulder like that? (I know he's dead in the movie)-but in real life-it either had to be fake...but I looked and looked at him, and thought it sure didn't look it...or he was double jointed...because there's no way he could do that.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Blackboard Jungle (1955) B/W 7.5/10
Glenn Ford Anne Francis Sidney Poitier Vic Morrow Jameel Farah (Jamie Farr)
Richard Brooks--Director
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
I saw this recently on Blu-ray. Great film, with tons of memorable quotes.
The transfer to Blu-ray is very good -- the PQ & SQ are far better than could be expected.
Film: 8.5/10 PQ:7 SQ:7
[From inside the haycart] Inga: Hallo. Vould you like a roll in ze hay? [Dr. Frankenstein stutters] Inga: It's fun. [She begins to roll in the hay] Inga: Roll, roll, roll in ze hay.
Igor: Dr. Frankenstein... . Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: "Fronkensteen." Igor: You're putting me on. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No, it's pronounced "Fronkensteen." Igor: Do you also say "Froaderick"? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: No... .”Frederick." Igor: Well, why isn't it "Froaderick Fronkensteen"? Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: It isn't; it's "Frederick Fronkensteen." Igor: I see. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: You must be Igor. [He pronounces it ee-gor] Igor: No, it's pronounced "eye-gor." Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: But they told me it was "ee-gor." Igor: Well, they were wrong then, weren't they?
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Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain: The Blackboard Jungle (1955) B/W 7.5/10
Glenn Ford Anne Francis Sidney Poitier Vic Morrow Jameel Farah (Jamie Farr)
Richard Brooks--Director
...and it also featured an early acting performance by a young Paul Mazursky, who became a leading writer-director in the late 1960s to today. His filmmaking credits include Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, An Unmarried Woman, Harry & Tonto, Moscow On The Hudson, and many others.
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Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Witness For The Prosecution (1957) B/W 8/10
Tyrone Power Marlene Dietrich Charles Laughton
Billy Wilder--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Village of the Damned (1960) B/W 6.5/10
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951.
Very good flick! 8/10
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
quote:Originally posted by jdocster: The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951.
Very good flick! 8/10
Very good movie that addresses the cold war in a science fiction matter
Klaatu Barada Nikto
The remake coming out this year is getting a lot of publicity
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Rebecca (1940) B/W 6.5/10
Laurence Olivier Joan Fontaine
Alfred Hitchc0ck--Director
David O Selznick--Producer
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Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
quote:Originally posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain:
quote:Originally posted by jdocster: The Day The Earth Stood Still 1951.
Very good flick! 8/10
Very good movie that addresses the cold war in a science fiction matter
Klaatu Barada Nikto
The remake coming out this year is getting a lot of publicity
I didn't know they were doing a remake of this. It's funny that you remembered the "alien" language.. Billy Gray (Father knows best) played the kid. Sam Jaffe played the professor. He's got this Dr. Emmet Brown "wild-eyed" look to him.
quote:Originally posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain: Rebecca (1940) B/W 6.5/10
Laurence Olivier Joan Fontaine
Alfred Hitchc0ck--Director
David O Selznick--Producer
Oh I adore Rebecca, my fave Hitchc0ck film
I last watched Vertigo (1958) and my fave werewolf film, Werewolf Of London (1935).
Posted by jimpickens (Member # 5801) on :
Wicked Wicked, Eaten Alive, Texas Chainsaw massacre the original, Young Frankenstein, Halloween original, Black Ceaser, and Coffy.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Citizen Kane (1941) B/W 8/10
Orson Welles Joseph Cotten
Orson Welles--Director, Producer, Writer
Posted by NowhereGirl (Member # 465) on :
sam, you only gave rebecca a 6.5 out of 10? i love that movie. Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
SPOILERS on Rebecca
I really was liking the movie too until the very end. I found the ending to be unsatisfying. I'm not complaining because it didn't end how I felt it should have I like movies that surprise me. I just didn't like how the movie ended with the mansion on fire and Mrs. Danvers burning up with it.
I also felt that it was pretty obvious early on that Laurence Olivier had something to do with Rebecca's death.
I did like how we found out that Rebecca's cousin was the father of her child; that was totally wicked for 1940. The implied lesbian affair between rebecca and Mrs. danvers was also pretty cool.
If the ending would have been better in my eyes my score would be much higher but in my eyes it was too much of a letdown.
Posted by NowhereGirl (Member # 465) on :
so true sammy...
******spoiler*******
the relationship with the cousin and the obsession with mrs. danvers sure did creep me out and surprise me for a movies made the 40's.
and i agree about the ending. it was a bit dragged on and on with the truth coming out and then the mansion just burned down.. kinda cuts you off huh?
oh well, still a good movie. i adore joan fontaine.
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Circus (1928) B/W Silent 9/10
Charlie Chaplin Merna Kennedy
Charlie Chaplin--Director, Writer and Producer
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Public Enemy (1931) B/W 8/10
James Cagney Jean Harlow
William A Wellman--Director
Posted by Sam 'The Made Man' Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Invisible Stripes (1939) B/W 6/10
George Raft William Holden Humphrey Bogart
Lloyd Bacon--Director
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) B/W 6/10
Edward G Robinson Humphrey Bogart Claire Trevor
Anatole Litvak--Director
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Sunset Boulevard (1950) B/W 9/10
William Holden Gloria Swanson
Billy Wilder--Writer, Director Charles Brackett--Writer, Producer
Mr. Demille, I'm ready for my closeup
Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
Play Misty for Me--Damn she was one psycho bitch!
Posted by ISIS (Member # 1780) on :
I just watched Rocky, and almost watched all of Rocky 2-while going back and forth and seeing what was happening with the election...then I started to fall asleep...so I gave up on TV.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Switchblade Sisters (1975)
- I liked this one a lot. It´s so out of this world. Don´t mess with these girls
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
School for Scoundrels (1960)
Starring Ian Carmichael, Alastair Sim, and the always sublime Terry-Thomas.
9.4/10. It really is so superior to that so-called 'remake' from 2006....
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Zombie Flesh Eater - Dreadful, I'd put it in the worst 10 horrors films I've ever seen
And some gooduns: Horrors Of The Black Museum (1959), The Night Stalker, She-Wolf Of London (1946) and I finally got to see a Hammer on the big screen, Dracula (1958) Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
I saw a Hammer on the big screen as well - although it was a display unit in my local hardware store.....
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Rope (1948) 6.5/10
James Stewart Farley Granger
Alfred Hitchc0ck--Director
Posted by EleanorJune (Member # 7024) on :
I am actually watching Cool Hand Luke right now. Well, the guy sitting next to me at the airport is...I am watching...no audio! I know most of the words anyway.
Posted by Mr. Jack Burton (Member # 4673) on :
Paul Newman, what a man. On and offscreen, a real hero!! Missed badly..
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Ace In The Hole(1951) B/W 9/10
Kirk Douglas Jan Sterling
Billy Wilder--Director, Producer & Writer
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Brood - I hadn't seen this since I was a kid, bloody brilliant, very creepy.
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Bang The Drum Slowly (1973) 6.5/10
Michael Moriarty Robert DeNiro
John Hanc0ck--Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
I'm a day ahead, but tomorrow's gonna be busy, so....
Carry On Matron (1972). This one in memory of my mate Dave, who chose the great character name of Dr Prodd as his on-screen persona over on the Carry On forums. Tomorrow is the funeral, so as a tribute, the board members across the globe are going to sit down and watch his favourite Carry On movie as a tribute.
Posted by 80'sRocked (Member # 6979) on :
quote:Originally posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes....: I'm a day ahead, but tomorrow's gonna be busy, so....
Carry On Matron (1972). This one in memory of my mate Dave, who chose the great character name of Dr Prodd as his on-screen persona over on the Carry On forums. Tomorrow is the funeral, so as a tribute, the board members across the globe are going to sit down and watch his favourite Carry On movie as a tribute.
That is awesome Paul....you can bet he'll be watching with all of you.
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Body and Soul (1947) B/W 7/10
John Garfield Lilli Palmer William Conrad
Robert Rossen--Director
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I watched the Warriors on Sat. afternoon. Then I watched a television show called Gossip Girl on Mon.(I'm a fanatic, but probably no one else watches it) and there's this older man character who I thought looked familiar. I had to look again, and there he was- David Patrick Kelly, who played Luther back in 1979 in The Warriors! And I didn't even have to check imdb! I'm usually pretty good with faces though.
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Strangers On A Train (1951) B/W 9/10
Farley Granger Robert Walker
Alfred Hitchc0ck--Director
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Dustin Hoffman Robert Redford Jason Robards Jack Warden Hal Holbrook Martin Balsam
Alan J Pakula--Director
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Paths Of Glory (1957) B/W 8/10
Kirk Douglas Ralph Meeker
Stanley Kubrick--Director
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Flesh And The Fiends (1960)
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Last week I watched Coming Home. Why did Hanoi Jane want to do amovie about Vietnam? I really didn't realize she was going ot be in it, or I wouldn't have watched because she is so annoying, it made it kinda unbelievable for me. Yesterday I watched Charade. I always like this movie- Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn were great.
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Les Diaboliques (1955) B/W French Subtitled 9/10
Simone Sigornet Vera Clouzot Paul Meurisse
Henri-Georges Clouzot--Director
very Hitchc0ckesque
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Fiend Without A Face (1958) - Wahey
Posted by Mr. Jack Burton (Member # 4673) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Fiend Without A Face (1958) - Wahey
I'm sensing you like your horror Helen san... Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
Looks like it's not finished boiling... Put it back in the pot!!! Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
All About Eve (1950) B/W 8/10
Bette Davis Anne Baxter George Sanders Celeste Holm
Joseph L Mankiewicz--Director
Posted by Mr. Jack Burton (Member # 4673) on :
quote:Originally posted by Toxic Sammy Hain: All About Eve (1950) B/W 8/10
Bette Davis Anne Baxter George Sanders Celeste Holm
Joseph L Mankiewicz--Director
I've it sky+d... Classic..
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
What A Carve Up - 1961
Starring Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Dennis Price, Donald Pleasance, and the beautiful Shirley Eaton.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Jack Burton:
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Fiend Without A Face (1958) - Wahey
I'm sensing you like your horror Helen san...
Just a bit
I last watched The Horror Of Frankenstein and my all time fave horror, Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966) Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by jdocster: Looks like it's not finished boiling... Put it back in the pot!!!
Haha Posted by Mr. Jack Burton (Member # 4673) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S:
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Jack Burton:
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Fiend Without A Face (1958) - Wahey
I'm sensing you like your horror Helen san...
Just a bit
I last watched The Horror Of Frankenstein and my all time fave horror, Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966)
Have you read about my tattoo??
I've got a half sleeve with Freddy Michael Myers, Jason, Leatherface and Chucky!! Methinks you might like it!! Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
The Kentucky Fried Movie. (I still like Amazon Women on the Moon better, though).
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans (1927) B/W Silent 7/10
Janet Gaynor George O'Brien
F.W. Murnau--Director
Posted by Mr. Jack Burton (Member # 4673) on :
Watched, Touch of Evil, with Charlton Heston and a huge Orson Welles. I expected more to be honest. But a good movie all the same.
Posted by Toxic Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
To Have and Have Not (1944) B/W 6.5/10
Humphrey Bogart Lauren Bacall Walter Brennan
Howard Hawks--Director
Posted by Paul Dangerously, you iceholes.... (Member # 1022) on :
The Three Musketeers (1973)
Oliver Reed Michael York Richard Chamberlain Raquel Welch
Great movie!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Jack Burton: Have you read about my tattoo??
I've got a half sleeve with Freddy Michael Myers, Jason, Leatherface and Chucky!! Methinks you might like it!!
Coolio! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
A Fistful Of Dollars (1964) and For A Few Dollars More (1965) - Building up to seeing The Good, The Bad and The Ugly on the big screen soon.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966), Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things and Family Enforcer.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
I can't believe this is STILL stuck to his head!!!
Maybe Helen_S should help the poor fellow out...
Sorry, I've had too much caffeine today... Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL, ya nutter Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The President´s Mistress (1978)
- I bought the tape because Larry Hagman has a role in this. It´s not a big part but he´s good as always.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
I watched yesterday the truely abysmal Sextette with Mae West married to Timothy Dalton (1978) and two horrors with Vincent Price, Scream And Scream Again and Madhouse both around 1971/2.
Posted by Kase79 (Member # 7609) on :
2 Gene Hackman classics & 2 of my all time favourites
The French Connection The Conversation
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Evil (1978)
This is a great classic horror flick. I remember that this really gave me the creeps when i was a kid and it still is pretty effective.
Posted by Vin (Member # 7662) on :
The Gauntlet (1977)
Lesser Clint Eastwood cop flick but still fun!
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I just bought "Gator" w' Burt Reynolds and Lauren Hutton and gonna watch it soon. Never heard of it, but it was $5 w' 25% off...so...$3.75...I figured it was worth a shot? Cool cover art regardless....
Also bought Boris Karloff's "The Goul" from 1933...haven't heard of this one either, but, same price....
Posted by NiceGuy Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Double Indemnity (1944) B/W 9/10
Fred MacMurray Barbara Stanwyck Edward G Robinson
Billy Wilder--Director
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Cooley High Cornbread, Earl and me The Education of Sonny Carson... for the umpteenth time!
There were good black movies being made in the 70's outside of blaxploitation.... wish Aaron Loves Angela would come out on dvd, and Youngblood (1978).
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Which one do you like best Sammy, that one or Postman always rings twice??
Posted by NiceGuy Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I've never seen the original Postman only the remake with Jessica Lange and Jack Nicholson.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
The first one is way better, in my humble opinion... that is if you dig film noir!
Posted by NiceGuy Sammy Hain (Member # 3150) on :
I love Noir. They kept refering to Postman during the special features for Double Indemnity since they were both written by James M Cain.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Yeah... they are kinda in the same vein!
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Escape From Alcatraz, 1979. Watched it last night for the 100th time and will watch it again at least another 100 times.
Posted by Michael Slowack (Member # 7679) on :
The Boys From Brazil (1978) on Blu-Ray. The transfer looks ter-ri-fic! Movie not bad, interesting mix sci-fi, thriller, conspiracy, WW II. Gregory Peck is great. Laurence Olivier started working on my nerves. Small role by Bruno Ganz as well.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Willie Dynamite, 1974. A pimp movie that rivals, if not supersedes The Mack, in the crazy pimpadelic outfits department. But not story or acting wise though. And the titular pimp was the black dude from Sesame street.
Rolling Thunder, 1977. I was so happy to catch this on tv, because I've never been able too get a copy, vhs or dvd! Great "coming home from nam" movie, with William Devane. Very gritty. Now my third favourite "coming home from nam" movie after, First Blood and Gordon's War. (yes, I've seen Coming Home and Deer Hunter)
Friday Foster, 1975. The last Pam Grier, blaxploi flick I didn't have. she was soooooooo hoooooot, back then. But this movie was kinda weak, compared to Coffy or Foxy Brown. And she didn't get naked either.... what a jib!
Posted by Sammy Reign In Blood Hain (Member # 3150) on :
It Happened One Night (1934) B/W 6/10
Claudette Colbert Clark Gable
Frank Capra--Director
Posted by Michael Slowack (Member # 7679) on :
Sammy? Are you 667 - The Neighbor Of The Beast? Hehe this is funny. You must be a big Maiden fan...
Posted by Sammy Reign In Blood Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Larceny, Inc (1942) B/W 5/10
Edward G Robinson Broderick Crawford Jany Wyman Anthony Quinn Jackie C. Gleason
Lloyd Bacon--Director
Posted by saturnchick (Member # 7524) on :
I recently saw "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?", starring Jane Fonda and Christopher Sarandon. Posted by imawalkingcorpse (Member # 1675) on :
Silver Streak.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Good Guys Wear Black (1978)
- This was cool Norris flick. Not much action here, but Chuck is tough when needed and Anne Archer sure is beautiful.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
80 Blocks from Tiffany's. 1979. Documentary on South Bronx street gangs. I love stuff like this... real people, real moment in time, captured on film. It's up on youtube!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Carry On Screaming (1966), Vampyres: Daughters Of Darkness, I,Monster, Countess Dracula, Nosferatu (1979) and Dracula (1931)
Posted by Sammy Reign In Blood Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Midnight Express(1978) 7.5/10
Brad Davis William Hurt Randy Quaid
Alan Parker--Director
Posted by mel1972 (Member # 7725) on :
This may not count, as I watched it scene by scene on You tube, but I did see it as a kid on t.v too - Flight of the doves. I know, it's kind of - very- cheesy, but Ron Moody scared teh hell out of me as the evil uncle when I was little, and I had a thing for jack Wild as a five year old!
Posted by mel1972 (Member # 7725) on :
Also, I think this would be a great remake for Tim Burton to do. Johnny Depp would be OUTSTANDING as the multi-disguised evil Hawk Dove, or maybe David Tennant (the current Doctor Who).
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
- This was nice thriller/mystery flick. Excellent late 70s photo shoot scenes.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
From Corleone to Brooklyn 1979.
I love Maurizio Merli, but this is not one of his best!
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Posted by saturnchick (Member # 7524) on :
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) 7/10
Posted by buffalo-girl (Member # 7498) on :
great movie loved betty davis and joan crawford they were excellent in this old movie hubby has been watching the godfather movies on amc since this morning love those movies too especially 1 and 2
Posted by Sammy Reign In Blood Hain (Member # 3150) on :
Easy Rider(1969) 7/10
Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper Jack Nicholson Toni Basil Karen Black
Dennis Hopper--Director
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
I watched the 9 Hammer Dracula films for the gazillionth time.
Dracula (1958) The Brides Of Dracula (1960) Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966) - The greatest horror Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968) Taste The Blood Of Dracula (1970) Scars Of Dracula (1970) Dracula A.D. 1972 The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973) The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974)
All pretty fab apart from Dracula A.D 1972 but I can never leave it out when I'm watching the series.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
If you like sentimental kids films I watched The Flight Of The Doves on youtube. Filmed in Ireland it reunites two of the stars of Oliver, Ron Moody & Jack Wild. Some odd continuity and a couple of songs mixed but overall 7/10. Very rarely seen on UK TV at least.
Posted by The Horned King (Member # 2691) on :
Rock & Roll High School
Posted by Let_The_Wind_Erase_Me (Member # 6519) on :
The Warriors 1979
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
One of my fave Amicus anthologies, From Beyond The Grave.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Donalds Pleasence's daughter Angela was reeeeaaaallll spooky.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Hehe, I think that's my favourite section of the film. Either that or the door story. Welcome to the boards harry
I last watched Count Dracula (1977). Maybe if I hadn't of seen a million "straight from the book" adaptations already it woulda been different. But as it is I found this a total snoozefest.
Posted by Michael Slowack (Member # 7679) on :
marathon man le mans
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Watched my fave Jekyll film, Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
- Decent flick based on the novel by Peter "Jaws" Benchley.
Beautiful Bermuda landscapes and Jacqueline Bisset (nice wet t-shirt scenes ) make this one worth watching. Nick Nolte is.. well Nick Nolte.
Includes long diving scenes, so don´t try to watch this if you´re feeling sleepy
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Been watching some Tigon horrors, The Beast In The Cellar (1970), The Haunted House Of Horror (1969) and the wonderful Witchfinder General (1968)
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by harry2: Spooky how much alike the two leads were.
Yeah, love the side by side they do at 1:28
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Another Tigon film, this time the woeful 'The Body Stealers' (1969)
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
2 pretty decent films, Tower Of Evil and Martin.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Watched my favourite musical Funny Girl (1968)
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Posted by He came and he saw that it was NOMS (Member # 2688) on :
Watched Play Misty For Me on Sky Movies the other night having never seen it before.
Really enjoyed it and you can definitely see the influence it has had on later obssession movies.
Play Noms For Me Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Play Noms For me Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
If you are watching Tigon the films do not miss Blood On Satans Claw (aka as Satans Skin in the US) Patrick Wymarks last film, but a standout performance from the younger actors, especially the gorgeous Linda Hayden. Full review here if you haven't discovered this gem of a movie. Filmed a few miles from where I live in a minute village called Bix.
Yeah, I watched Blood on satan's claw a few months back, really good
Last night I watched Shock Waves, I vaguely remembered watching it when I was little. It was great, very creepy. I have to laugh at the cover tho, it says "The best of the nazi zombie movies". Erm, like how many could there be Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
It's alive - Oh dear Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Over the Edge (1979)
- Fantastic movie! Great cast and good hard rockin´ soundtrack.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
^I've been meaning to pick that one up, sounds good.
Last watched Rabid, Young Frankenstein and my second favourite horror The Wicker Man.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Roller Boogie (1979)
- I liked this one a lot. Good funky music, nice late 70s fashion and scenery. Linda Blair and Kimberly Beck sure looked hot back then. I was surprised that this was directed by Mark L. Lester. The dvd cover art amazingly looks better than the original.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Loved the Wicker Man. Atomik, Over the edge looks pretty good- I'm going to have to check that one out.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Prophecy (1979)
- Good nature stikes back style horror movie with strong environmental message. Directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Robert Foxworth, Talia Shire and Armand Assante.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
The Born Losers starring Tom Laughlin aka "Billy Jack". This was the first of the Billy Jack movies, and if I remember correctly, after the Born Losers, he didn't carry a weapon in the other Billy Jack movies. I actually liked this one better than the other three- not so much hippie tripe.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Birds (1963) Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Last night I watched:
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Lady in Red (1979)
- Nice gangster flick set in 1930s. Directed by Lewis Teague (Alligator, Cujo, Cat´s Eye) and written by the great John Sayles (Matewan, Lone Star) Pamela Sue Martin was good in the title role.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Chinatown
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Panic In Needle Park - Superb gritty little film about a group of addicts. Pacino is as wonderful as always in this his first major film role.
Jaws 2 - This film is dire, can't believe I used to like this sh*t, ugh.
and also watched:
I was a teenage werewolf (1957)
Hee Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Fraternity Row (1977)
- Quite good college flick.
Posted by DuB1978 (Member # 7950) on :
I love this movie Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Great poster DuB1978! Never seen that Bronson movie.
Posted by DuB1978 (Member # 7950) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Great poster DuB1978! Never seen that Bronson movie.
Its a real good movie,you should give it a shot if you can find it.hard movie to find,i lucked up one late night and it was on a local channel here.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Crazies - They were really crazy Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), directed by fashion photographer Jerry Schatzberg. Faye Dunaway is a fashion model living on an island home off the New England coast after a mental collapse who attempts to put together the pieces of her sad life with the succour of photographer Barry Primus. Viveca Lindfors, Barry Morse, Roy Scheider and Barbara Carrera feature as well.
Posted by Princess Pooh (Member # 5798) on :
Tilt with Brooke Shields, remember that one?
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Gold (1974). One of Roger Moore's non-James Bond roles, with Susannah York, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland and John Gielgud. Criminals plan to take control of the price of gold on the world stock market by destroying a South African gold mine.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Corridors Of Blood (1958) - Ahh, after watching some crappy 00's horrors lately it was nice to get back to the good stuff Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Rocky (1976). Sylvester Stallone, in the film that catapulted him into the spotlight and which he scripted too, playing Rocky Balboa, the petty boxer who gets a chance at self-redemption by taking on the reigning champion, Apollo Creed, portrayed by Carl Weathers, in the championship heavyweight title. Talia Shire (as Rocky's girlfriend), Burt Young and Burgess Meredith furthermore feature.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by DuB1978:
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Great poster DuB1978! Never seen that Bronson movie.
Its a real good movie,you should give it a shot if you can find it.hard movie to find,i lucked up one late night and it was on a local channel here.
After hearing good things about it from you and others on another board I went ahead and ordered a used copy. Looking forward to it Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Onion Field (1979)
- Good movie based on true story. Great actors here including James Woods, John Savage, Franklyn Seales and Ted Danson in his film debut.
Posted by Earl Keese (Member # 7986) on :
The last 70's movie I actually sat down and watched (for the first time) was Serpico. Not bad, but not excellent either. Kind of draggy in parts. Dog Day Afternoon was far better.
What I am on a quest to find arte two classics from 79 The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh and Scavenger Hunt. Dying to find those on DVD!!!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Hands of the ripper - Fab
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Blood From The Mummy's Tomb - Not too big on Mummy films but this ones a gooodun Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Castle Of The Walking Dead (1967)
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
The Swarm(1978). Hadn't seen it in ages, Katherine Ross was cute back then.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Walk Proud, starring Robby Benson and Sara Holcomb. It's about Latino gangs in L.A. I also recorded a second gang movie, Boulevard Nights, but I won't be watching it until tonight. They were both on TCM last night. Supposedly there was a big uproar after the release of The Warriors, then Walk Proud and Blvd. Nights, from the Latino communities. Funny thing is, Robby Benson isn't even Latino- he is actually Jewish.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Everybody pans The Swarm , but think it's as godd as other films made at the time. Michael Caine was just playing his usual role.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Midnight Express (1978)
- Good movie. Do not take it as propaganda or racism, it´s just one man´s fight to get some justice although he absolutely did wrong.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo aka Bird With The Crystal Plumage (1970)
- Nice early giallo directed by the master Dario Argento.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
BOULEVARD NIGHTS-1979
About a couple of brothers and their life in East L.A.
BRING THIS OUT ON DVD NOW!!!!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I watched it a few nights ago too. I thought it was out on dvd? Did you catch Walk Proud also?
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The wonderful Devil Doll (1964)
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: I watched it a few nights ago too. I thought it was out on dvd? Did you catch Walk Proud also?
Nope.... no DVD of BN... I looked everywhere! There are only bootlegs, which are just re-packaged VHS rips!
Haven't seen Walk Proud yet! But checked it out on imdb.... hmm... Robbie Benson as a vato..... isn't he jewish Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
JAY LEE<
BOULEVARD NIGHTS is a good movie. I haven't seen this one for years.
- jdocster
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Yeah, it was better than I thought it would be! I saw that it was on Youtube, but luckily they showed it on TV.
In flicks like Mi Vida Loca, American Me and Blood In, Blood Out, I got kind of tired of that chicano gang slang after a while. But this movie got it right, and it felt more real somehow.
Posted by jdocster (Member # 5752) on :
I always thought that Blood In Blood Out was the closest thing to this movie. Gritty and very well acted.
- j Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Yeah, Blood In, Blood Out gets a bum rap sometimes! Is it overly melodramatic? sure, but I don't really mind that!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Blue Collar (1978)
- This was good crime drama directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto.
Posted by saturnchick (Member # 7524) on :
Still great, after all these years.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
^ Love that Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Phase IV (1974). Nigel Frederick as well as Michael Murphy are a pair of scientists at a remote American scientific outpost trying to work out the bizzare behaviour of ants in the area. The tragic Lynne Frederick also stars.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
I love Pumping Iron... it's too hilarious!
Arnold comes off as a total douche, and Lou Ferrigno, as slightly retarted!
Great fun...
Posted by jdocster McFly you Irish bug (Member # 5752) on :
Me too! He really was full of himself. That story he tells about telling the kid to scream during his posing, cracked me up. What a competitive/A-hole!
The funny thing is, Ferrigno "still" looks fantastic.
heheee....
- jdocster
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Watership Down (1978). The film which is based on Richard Adams' debut novel concerning a band of rabbits leaving their long-standing home to find a new one after their leader's brother senses danger coming, the perils they experience along the way and their efforts to establish a dynasty still effects after all these years. John Hurt, Richard Briers, Simon Cadell, Roy Kinnear, Richard O'Callaghan, Michael Graham-Cox, Terence Rigby, John Bennett and Zero Mostel (in what was unhappily his last film) voiced the main characters. Incidentally, I read the novel far more instances as a child than even I can remember.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
GET CHRISTY LOVE-1974... Teresa Graves was a fine a$$ woman! But no Pam Grier, and this was no COFFY or FOXY BROWN!
CRIME BOSS-1972... Italian mob flick with Antonio Sabato and Telly Savalas! Decent, but not great!
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
LE CERCLE ROUGE-1970
Melville was a genius, and Alain Delon was bada$$!
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Asylum. An Amicus portmanteau of four stories linked to a young doctor applying for work at a remote English asylum. Richard Todd, Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom and Robert Powell amongst others. 7/10.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)
The sequel to the Oscar-winning In the Heat of the Night takes a slightly different approach opting to drop most of the socially-charged racial politics and proceed as a (largely) straight-forward gritty cop drama. Unfortunately without the social relevancy of the original or the exciting action of contemporaries like Bullitt or Dirty Harry, it winds up feeling pretty lackluster. Even the murder mystery which the story revolves around feels anti-climactic. Sidney Poitier is in fine form, however, and his strong central performance is enough to salvage the film. Worth a look, but not in the same league as the original.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Cat o' Nine Tails (1971)
- The second Dario Argento movie. A good murder mystery but not quite as good as the debut The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. Starring James Franciscus, Karl Malden and Catherine Spaak. Nice theme by Ennio Morricone.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
I'm a huge fan of Dario Argento's work and love Cat o' Nine Tails. Besides that and The Bird with the Crystal Plummage which you already mentioned, he also made two other terrific Hitchockian thrillers in the '70s: Four Flies on Grey Velvet and Deep Red. And in 1977 he made arguably his best - and my personal favorite - film, Suspiria.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Alien (1979) -- The Directors Cut Edition
Posted by jdocster McFly you Irish bug (Member # 5752) on :
Loved Alien. I think aliens (part 2) was the best of the series though.
What do you think?
- jdocster
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
I can never make up my mind about that. Every time I watch either Alien or Aliens, I think that it was the best in the series.
What did you think about Alien III and Resurrection?
I actually liked III -- the setting, story and additional characters, made for a great film. It gets a lot of flak, but I don't think it deserves it.
Resurrection on the other hand, was ****e. I actually saw this at the cinema with some friends where it came out, and at the time I enjoyed it. After seeing it again recently, it was easily the worst in the series.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
Yeah, it's a tough call between Alien and Aliens. The first one gets points for originality, but the second has more action. I think I'd give the edge to Aliens.
I agree with you about Alien 3 - I think it's unfairly maligned. And actually after watching the extended edition which attempts (as best they can) to restore David Fincher's original director's cut, I gained an even greater appreciation for it.
Ressurrection is just plain bad. The story is silly and they didn't even try to maintain any continuity with the first three. Jean-Pierre Jeunet disavowed the established cinematography and Alien "look" and just made it look like one of his films instead. And Winona Ryder is embarassingly out of place. On the other hand, it's still nowhere near as bad as either of the AVP movies.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
The AVP movies are the biggest anti-climax in cinema history. {Slight Exaggeration } How could anybody screw that up :/
I preferred the first one, but, yeah it was still bad.
Did you ever play the AVP games? I use to play both of them on-line. A 3rd one is being developed at the moment -- It looks promising.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
All they had to do with the AVP movies is follow Ridley Scott's backstory on the ship from the first film. Instead they went with the Alien Olympics premise - dumb move.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Frenzy. Hitch's penultimate film. Brilliant depiction of early 70's London scene with a great cast. Jon Finch, Barry "Van Der Valk" Foster, Bernard Cribbins and a host of British talent.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Silver Streak (1976)
- I liked this a lot. Damn that lavatory scene is hilarious
ATomiK, have you seen See No Evil, Hear No Evil? If you enjoyed Silver Streak you should definitely it check out. I think it's Wilder & Pryor's best pairing. Stir Crazy is pretty good too.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Yeah, i saw See No Evil, Hear No Evil back in the day. It was a good one but Stir Crazy is the best IMO.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
HOW TO KILL A JUDGE-1974... great italian thriller with Franco Nero.
THE HEROIN BUSTERS-1977... classic italian action flick by Enzo G. Castelarri.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Yeah, i saw See No Evil, Hear No Evil back in the day. It was a good one but Stir Crazy is the best IMO.
There's also Another You, but I never really cared for it.
Posted by jdocster McFly you Irish bug (Member # 5752) on :
Meatballs 1979... Classic!
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Island Of Terror (1966) - Great Cushing film. A doctor's trials to cure cancer backfire into these horrid creatures that kill and then suck out the bones from the bodies of people and animals. They're seemingly unkillable and are multiplying every 6 hours. What to do, what to do
Demons Of The Mind (1972) - Most confusing Hammer, but bloody good all the same
The Oblong Box (1969) - Another classic Vinnie Price film based on a Poe story. Christopher Lee in this one too Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Cars That Ate Paris - Mad Aussie horror. It's about a little town of crazies killing off and scrounging from anyone who tries to enter
And then there's this:
Terrible film but good for a laugh at least.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I remember the car from an old video magazine. I doubt that i´ve ever seen the flick though...
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Freaks (1932) - About a group of sideshow performers who get a most gruesome revenge on a horrid trapeze artist muahaha. Good film.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Shivers - One of my fave Cronenberg films.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Brood - The best one of his films I think. Wonderfully creepy with a fabulous ending Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Nice to see another Cronenberg fan!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Yeah, he's great. Scanners next methinks Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
I finally watched The Warriors and enjoyed it a good deal.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by There'll be no morning for us: I finally watched The Warriors and enjoyed it a good deal.
Good girl Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
White Buffalo - Pretty good, the charging scenes are classic Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Taxi Driver Posted by harryfielder (Member # 8189) on :
Hiya guys, New (old) boy just joined. I'v been watching films for over 60 years and I've liked them so much that in 1966 I went into the biz to be part of them...see my siggy.. Time to look around the forum... People call me ..... Aitch (H)
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Seriously... you were in Star Wars, Superman, Raiders Of The Lost Ark etc. If Im not mistaken!
Posted by harryfielder (Member # 8189) on :
I got into the biz in the UK at a busy time and worked hard. It got to be just like any other job everyday but it was a job I loved.
Aitch,
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Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Cool...! Yeah, I guess everything becomes just another job after a while. But you must still have a lot of fun stories, I bet!
Posted by harryfielder (Member # 8189) on :
100s of them and I've got two threads going. I have a thread on the 70s forum so I should just stick to one. 70s.....Mean while...
AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON…Director John Landis… Central Casting must have sent 200-300 people down to Piccadilly for a night shoot on this production. None of us knew anything about the scenes we were going to be involved in so we just hung around coffee bars (Or other bars) chatting and having a night out in The West End. About 1 o'clock in the morning the production team gathered us all together and told us the scenes they were about to do. (You ain’t gonna believe this). A WEREWOLF is going to be running out of a cinema in Piccadilly Circus straight across Eros causing cars to crash and have people falling out of bus windows. (I’m thinking this will do the tourist trade the world of good) On a cue from the 1st A.D. the real police clear the roads of all late night Joe Public. The Central Casting crowd are all given places to stand and out of the woodwork comes our buses and cars and stunt people. We’ve got permission to hold up traffic for half an hour and John Landis had multi camera crews covering every angle. It was over as quickly as it began and as soon as the camera’s stopped rolling the wrecking crews were in there clearing the wrecked cars and sweeping the streets clean again. An hour later it was like we’d never been. (See the film just to see this sequence) Well done, John Landis…
Aitch,
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Hello Mr F. From a fellow TV Lounge member.
For all our US fans Mr F has worked on the most iconic television shows and films in history. Look here:
Hello Harry (good name lol) 2 I never thought that back in 1966 when I did my first day as an extra on a tv show I would still be involved in the biz in 2009. I got to work with the master......
1972
FRENZY…Director…Alfred Hitch****… I am now working with the Master of filming. Where I was born in Islington London, there was a huge warehouse type building on the corner of the Grand Union Canal in New North Road. (Very near the North Pole Pub) It was in fact a film studio. As a kid in the forties I used to swim in the canal as it cost nothing entrance fee. (You had to watch out for the large Mocking birds floating on top of the water) I think the studio was called Gainsborough and as a kid I remember strangely dressed people popping into the pub on the corner of New North Road and Elizabeth Avenue. (Supporting Artists of the past) Anyway, that’s where Alfred Hitch**** made many of his films. (I could have bumped into him while I was going swimming and he was popping in for a swift half. It’s a small world) ONTO THE FILM… I was now the not so proud owner of an old Bedford van and was booked by the 2nd A.D. on Frenzy to report to Covent Garden fruit market for the start of a weeks work... There must have been fifty supporting artists working that week as market porters. It was thirty years ago but some people still come to mind, like Big Mo Dunster who was stand/in on films for Donald Sutherland. Jimmy (the crow) Hammilton, Eddie Dillon And Bill (the body) Hemmings. I remember the day that Donald Sutherland came down to speak to Mo about a private matter and got into one of the shots.(Everyone wants to be in a Hitch**** movie) Mo has done well for himself and now lives in the U.S.A. looking after the Sutherland clan. Best wishes Mo, love Boysie. Mr. Hitch**** was not very well while he was directing this film and would line up all the shots he wanted and leave the running around to his 1st A.D. (Colin Brewer, I think) We filmed all around the market for the next week or so loading vans and unloading vans (Including my old Bedford) but I was more interested in watching the Master at work. Then near the end of the shoot in the market it happened. The Master looked at me then at the 1st A.D. and said… ‘’Tell that man to climb up on that lorry and start unloading it’’ (‘’That man’’) he said my name, I was being directed by the great man himself. We shot a lot of the inside of the film at Pinewood. Then some stuff with the Bedford Following a potato lorry up and down major roads and that was it. I was sorry to see the end of the filming but it’s one film I will never forget. If you’re looking down from that great studio in the sky Mr. Hitch**** ‘’That Man’’ will say hello when he gets there. Aitch,
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Get Carter (1970). Michael Caine gives one of his best performances as hardened thug Jack Carter, who returns from London to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne to look into on top of avenge his brother Frank's murder. Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Tony Beckley and George Sewell all moreover appear.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Get Carter is a great movie! I like the Stallone version too although it´s a completely different take.
Posted by harryfielder (Member # 8189) on :
I LIKED THE FIRST ONE,,
Aitch,
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Watched all the apes films over the last week. It'd been a good few years since I watched a couple of them, but it just felt like yesterday once they started My ratings:
Planet Of The Apes (1968) - 10/10 Beneath The Planet Of The Apes - 6/10 Escape From The Planet Of The Apes - 7/10 Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes - 8/10 Battle For The Planet Of The Apes - 9/10 Maybe I went a little crazy with my rating for this one but it's so much fun Planet Of The Apes (2001) - 3/10
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Death Race 2000 (1975)
- Funny and entertaining Roger Corman flick. Racing, blood and nudity. It´s all here
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
The Godfather: Part II - 9/10
A film worthy of it's classic status.
The only version of 'Get Carter' worth watching is the original.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by J2ME: The Godfather: Part II - 9/10
A film worthy of it's classic status.
The only version of 'Get Carter' worth watching is the original.
Yes, too right. I couldn't agree with you more there.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Mad Max (1979). Mel Gibson made his first appearance as Max Rockatansky, a policeman who unable to cope with the drivers as well as gangs out of control on the roads to say nothing of countrysides, hands in his badge and resigns but puts his uniform back on to seek revenge after his wife together with child are viciously murdered by a savage gang. Features as well Joanne Samuel, Hugh Keayns-Byrne, Steve Bisley, Tim Burns and Roger Ward.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Stepford Wives (1975)
- This is a good mystery thriller. The real reason i watched this again is that i just bought the tv-movie Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980) VHS-tape (Starring Don Johnson etc.) I´ll check out that one soon.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: The Stepford Wives (1975)
- This is a good mystery thriller. The real reason i watched this again is that i just bought the tv-movie Revenge of the Stepford Wives (1980) VHS-tape (Starring Don Johnson etc.) I´ll check out that one soon.
I have seen The Stepford Wives as well. And I also recollect the conclusion, which is as sad as it is eerie.
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
The Stepford Wives remake has to be one of the worst on record.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I watched also the short making of The Stepford Wives and the producer said that his first choice for the director was Brian De Palma. I guess that it would be a totally different flick if he would have directed it
And would there be Carrie directed by De Palma if that would have happened...
Posted by journey (Member # 7316) on :
Then we would have been treated to The Stepford Wives opening shower scene as directed by De Palma. Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by journey: The Stepford Wives remake has to be one of the worst on record.
My word it would be. If I had my way, then there would be either no or at the very least scarcely any needless remakes let alone sequels at all.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Lucky Luciano (1973). Biography picture of the notorious title gangster, portrayed here by Gian Maria Volonte. Federal Agent Charles Siragusa plays himself. Rod Steiger, Vincent Gardenia, Edmond O'Brien and Charles Cioffi all appear as well.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Walkabout - Always liked this. Such an unusual film with stunning imagery.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
The Bad News Bears. Awesome movie starring Walter Mattheau, Tatum O'Neal and Jackie Earle Haley. Great movie for the kids and adults!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Psycho
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Grease
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Welcome to the boards Chimpanshane Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Cape Fear
Posted by chimpanshane (Member # 8248) on :
quote:Originally posted by There'll be no morning for us: Welcome to the boards Chimpanshane
Thanks for the warm welcome
Just watched Serpico a while ago..brilliant movie by Al Pacino
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Pretty Baby (1978)
- Well, i think that this was a bit boring flick. I think that this dragged badly. (or was i tired ) Nice and brave roles from Susan Sarandon, Keith Carradine and especially Brooke Shields. Of course the subject is a bit taboo, but this wasn´t really made in a disturbing manner.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Starship Invasions (Project Genocide) (1977). When villainous aliens whose world is threatened by their star in the process of a supernova decide to invade and take over earth, then their good extraterrestrial counterparts abduct UFOlogist Robert Vaughn to thwart their plans. Christopher Lee, Daniel Pilon, Helen Shaver, Henry Ramer and Victoria Johnson all also appear.
Special note of interest for aTomiK: one of the actors in "Starship Invasions" is a Finn, Tiiu Leek, who has a dual role here as Phi, one of the aliens and also a family woman who is abducted while in her car with her husband on top of child.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
LoverswithCassie,
actually Tiiu is from Estonia, but that´s close enought
Ed Hunt also directed the movie Alien Warrior aka King of the Streets (1985) which is a wicked flick!!
Posted by kingcain (Member # 6644) on :
Just watched The Gumball Rally (1976)
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Garden of the Dead (1974) Thought it was decent for its age. a bit slow in parts though. Im suprised that a re-make was never done in the 80's, could have been really good.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter - Ahh I hadn't watched a Hammer in a month or so. I was beginning to suffocate Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Rituals, alias The Creeper (1978). Hal Holbrook, Lawrence Dane (who also produced), Robin Gammell, Ken James and Gary Reineke are five M.D.s as well as friends who go on a camping holiday in the northern Canadian woods, only to be stalked in addition to terrorised by a relentless, mad provincial murderer.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll (1960) - Good stuff. Not quite as great as Hammer's other Jekyll film, Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde. I love Chris Lee's sleazy character in this Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964)
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
last night i caught 2 good ones back to back on TCM..
13 ghosts (1960) - i had no idea margaret hamilton was in this.. (played the wicked witch of the west in wizard of oz). it was cool to see her in it.
the old dark house (1963) the remake of the 1932 version. i prefer the 1963 one, it's cooky and spooky at the same time. my dvd transfer version is horrible! it was nice to see it on tv again.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
One of my favourite disaster movies.
The transfer to Blu is superb. A few soft images here and there, but overall the picture quality is excellent.
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 is fantastic, and makes the whole experience that much better.
8/10
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Halloween
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The Amityville Horror Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Gorgon (1964) - Hammer starring Peter, Christopher and Barbara Shelley. The joy, the joy
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Sorcerers (1967) - Such a great, twisted little film. One of my fave Karloff films. About a weird old couple who create a machine to be able to control the minds of others.Brilliant ending.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Just recently picked up this set http://www.play.com/DVD/DVD/4-/9069972/Coffin-Joe-Collection/Product.html and last night watched At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) Crazy stuff, I loved it. Can't wait to get stuck into the others.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Scream of fear (1961) - Nicely done psychological Hammer with a few cute twists and turns Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Scum (1979)
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Somebody watch a 70's or earlier film will ya, I'm beginning to feel lonely in here Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
I watched The Omen for the umpteenth time. Still a very frightening film. Recently got the 5 dvd box set for only £7. A must see film for any horror fan. with Gregory Peck, Lee Remick and David Warner amongst others ably directed by Richard Donner (Superman and Lethal Weapon)
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
EDGE OF THE CITY 1957
Pretty good movie. Probably the earliest film I have seen, featuring something resembling an equal black and white friendship, and positive race relations. Without it being ALL about that, or the "gimmick" of the film.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
That's more like it You're making me wanna watch The Omen again Harry
Last night I watched Rear Window (1954)
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MURDER, MY SWEET 1944
Classic film noir! **** Powell does a pretty good job as Philip Marlowe, but he's no Bogey! I love Mike Mazurki's slow, lumbering character, Moose Malloy. He reminds me of Elliot Gould as Harry Greenburg in BUGSY, or maybe it's the other way around. It's no BIG SLEEP, but a great movie, one of my favourites.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Così come sei aka Stay as You Are (1978)
- Italian drama starring Nastassja Kinski and Marcello Mastroianni. Nothing much happens but this is a must see if you´re a Kinski fan.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)
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BIG BAD MAMA-1974
A great Roger Corman piece of trash violence and nudity galore! Angie ****inson does the dirty with Captain Kirk A fun movie.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAY LEE: BIG BAD MAMA-1974
A great Roger Corman piece of trash violence and nudity galore! Angie ****inson does the dirty with Captain Kirk A fun movie.
Jay Lee, have you ever seen the 1987 sequel, "Big Bad Mama 2," in which Angie ****inson as well as her two daughters, Danielle Brisebois together with Julie McCullough, go after corrupt politicians? Jim Wynorski directed this, by the way. Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Nope, never saw the sequel! But I hear it is even trashier than the first one Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Fear Over The City (Peur Sur La Ville) 1975
Daaaaamn, this movie kicked balls! Anyone interested in 70's Euro Crime, should pick this up!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Damn that Big Bad Mama sounds like a great flick And what a fantastic poster art!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Duel is on tonight, yippee Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Damn that Big Bad Mama sounds like a great flick And what a fantastic poster art!
It's a really fun Film, you should check it out! But if you're expecting to see the "captains log" I must dissapoint you
Although Angie D and her slutty daughters don't mind showin' some skin Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
already seen it
I´m really only after Angie D and her daughters Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Straw Dogs, the hell!?! Hahahahaha Posted by Kowalski (Member # 8412) on :
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 1974
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Don't Look Now - It bored me and I don't think I'll ever get over that naked Donald Sutherland Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by There'll be no morning for us: Don't Look Now - It bored me and I don't think I'll ever get over that naked Donald Sutherland
But would you get under him?? Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Sorry, I had to take it!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The City (1977)
- This was pretty good cop tv-movie. Starring Don Johnson, Robert Forster, Mark Hamill etc. Hamill gives a good psycho performance. Very nice locations (Johnson and Forster hunt down Hamill all around the L.A.)
The Don Johnson photo on the vhs cover is of course from Miami Vice
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I Don't Want To Be Born Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Return to Macon County (1975)
- Entertaining Hot Rod/Buddy/Road movie set in 1958. This is a sequel to the 1974 drive-in flick Macon County Line which i haven´t seen. Same director, different actors.
Starring Nick Nolte, Don Johnson and Robin Mattson.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
A Boy and His Dog (1975)
- Interesting post-apocalyptic story set in 2024. Based on a novella by Harlan Ellison and starring Don Johnson, Susanne Benton and Jason Robards.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
I think someone has an inapropriate mancrush on "The Don" Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Yeah, we had a little "thing" going on but it´s over now. At least for a while Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Westworld (1973). In the holiday resort of Delos, tourists can act out their fantasies of lust as well as violence with robots in MedievalWorld, RomanWorld and WestWorld. Richard Benjamin, on holidays with friend James Brolin, who has visited previously, chooses WestWorld, but starts to panic when the androids malfunction and massacre the tourists. Yul Brynner gives a chilling performance as an android gunslinger who develops a taste for the kill.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Westworld rocks! Never seen the sequel Futureworld (1976), is that a good one?
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Westworld rocks! Never seen the sequel Futureworld (1976), is that a good one?
In his review of that film, Leonard Maltin gives it three stars, so the answer to your question, aTomiK, would most certainly be yes.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith (1978). Tommy Lewis, Freddy Reynolds, Angela Punch-McGregor, Ray Barrett, Jack Thompson, Peter Carroll, Elizabeth Alexander, Ruth Cracknell and Peter Sumner. A half-white aborigine who is brought up by a Methodist pastor is caught between two cultures, unable to adapt and is exploited and consequently snaps in a violent over and above horrific manner. From the novel by Thomas Keneally, who has a cameo as a cook.
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Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
King Kong (1976) - Ugh,I just watched this version for the first time since the 80's. I wish I'd left it there.
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Z (1969). Yves Montand, Irene Papas, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Charles Denner, Georges Geret, Jacques Perrin, Francois Perier and Marcel Bozzufi. The murder of a political leader as well as its repercussions for both his supporters together with the perpetrators are the focus of this film.
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Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by There'll be no morning for us: King Kong (1976) - Ugh,I just watched this version for the first time since the 80's. I wish I'd left it there.
Really I picked it up, after not having seen it since the 80's as well. And I really enjoyed it! It's cheesy as all get out, but I actually think it was better than I remembered!
Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
quote:Originally posted by There'll be no morning for us: King Kong (1976) - Ugh,I just watched this version for the first time since the 80's. I wish I'd left it there.
Camp classic outdone by the ludicrious 'King Kong Lives'!
Jessica Lange's memorable, if critically mauled, debut.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Oh dear you 2 Posted by Kash (Member # 297) on :
Jack Prescott: There's a girl out there who might be running for her life from some gigantic turned-on ape.
Dwan: [to Kong] You Goddamn chauvinist pig ape!
Beat that 'Citizen Kane'!
I'm actually surprised that Jessica Lange won a Golden Globe for this.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
High Society (1956)
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The Graduate and Mean Streets
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Westworld rocks! Never seen the sequel Futureworld (1976), is that a good one?
Speaking truly, aTomik, I'm glad that there is no such adult tourist resort as Delos, for people would become addicted to it if existed in real life.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Wuthering Heights (1939). Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Leo G. Carroll, Cecil Kellaway, Miles Mander and Hugh Williams. Classic film adaption of the Emily Bronte novel about the poignant romance between Gypsy foundling Heathcliff and his foster father's daughter Catherine Earnshaw.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
The Friends of Eddie Coyle. If you haven't seen this gem, rent it. It was just released on dvd in May. An ex-con, snitches, bank robbers, gun runners, fast cars and a hockey game featuring the Blackhawks v. the Bruins. I think the guys here will like this one.
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Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I forgot to add- The Friends of Eddie Coyle was filmed in Boston (duh) and stars Robert Mitchum, Richard Jordan (remember him from the Equalizer?), Alex Rocco (Jo's Dad in the Facts of Life) and a slew of other character actors that you will most probably recognize.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Superman
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Return to Macon County (1975)
- Entertaining Hot Rod/Buddy/Road movie set in 1958. This is a sequel to the 1974 drive-in flick Macon County Line which i haven´t seen. Same director, different actors.
Starring Nick Nolte, Don Johnson and Robin Mattson.
aTomik, did you know that "Return to Macon County" was Nick Nolte's first credited film role?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Hey, that´s actually true my friend!
BTW, i just bought my first Cheri Caffaro flick called "Too Hot to Handle".
You remember that one?
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Hey, that´s actually true my friend!
BTW, i just bought my first Cheri Caffaro flick called "Too Hot to Handle".
You remember that one?
Yes, I definitely remember that one very well!
We discussed that on the "Malibu Beach" and "H.O.T.S" thread.
By the way, congratulations on purchasing the Cheri Caffaro film "Too Hot to Handle." I hope that you do find and then buy them all!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The super Mario Bava anthology, Black Sabbath (1963) All 3 stories are great especially the Karloff vampire tale in the middle. A nice pic from the 3rd story Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Watched 2 more anthologies I really like tonight, The Uncanny and Tales of Terror (1962)
Posted by Riptide (Member # 457) on :
I love those Bava movies, you ever seen the Blood of Satan's Claw or Curse of the Crimson altar?
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Yeah I've seen those. Wasn't so keen on Curse but loved Blood Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Torture Garden (1967) Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
House on Haunted Hill (1959)- I always kinda forget just how fabulous this is
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Mystery of the wax museum (1933) - The original and best House of Wax Although I do really like the Vincent Price one and the second half of the 2005 one too.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The end of the affair (1955)
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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
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Breaking Away (1979)
- What a classic coming of age movie! Directed by Peter Yates and written by Steve Tesich (Won Oscar). They did also together a movie called Eyewitness (1981) which i try to watch next week.
Starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley and Robyn Douglass. And let´s not forget Christopher´s funny family "Mama" Barbara Barrie and "Papa" Paul Dooley. John Ashton and P.J. Soles also appear. Highly recommended!
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
Martin
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Nice choice saturn
Mine is also from Sergio Leone The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
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Take Down (1979)
- This was a decent sports flick, could have been a little shorter though. Starring Lorenzo Lamas, Edward Herrmann (Lost Boys), Kathleen Lloyd, Maureen McCormick and Stephen Furst. This was Lorenzo´s first lead starring role and he looks a lot like Sid the Kid.
Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Cars That Ate Paris (1974). John Mellion, Terry Camilleri, Kevin Miles, Max Gillies, Max Phipps, Bruce Spence, Melissa Jaffer, Peter Armstrong, Rick Scully, Danny Ad**** and Chris Haywood. The residents of the Australian rural town of Paris in New South Wales make a living by bringing about car crashes and then putting up for sale the spare parts/scrap metal while any survivors are utilised for psychiatric experiments.
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Walkabout (1971). Jenny Agutter, Lucien John, David Gulpilil and John Meillon. Stranded in the Australian Outback when their father commits suicide by shooting himself after he douses their car in petrol and then sets it on fire, a British adolescent girl in addition to her child brother are aided by an aborigine.
Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
I love Walkabout. Cars That Ate Paris is good for a giggle.
Last watched The Omen and Carmen Jones (1954)
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Hustling starring Lee Remick and Jill Clayburgh. I noticed in the background at the beginning of the movie, The Taking of Pelham 123 (the original) was playing at a movie theater in the background. It was set in Manhattan.
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Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall (1972)
It was funny in parts, and sad in others. It swung wildly from humor to pathos. as such, it captured the spirit of Spike Milligan's book pretty well. Jim Dale was very good as the young Spike, and spike himself had a good cameo as his own father.
7/10
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Long Weekend (1978). John Hargreaves, Briony Behets. A boorish couple's weekend camping holiday in the wilderness turns into horror as a series of strange incidents cause matters to spiral out of control.
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American Graffiti
The Last American Hero
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Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
I watched American Graffiti too. Hadn't seen it since I was a kid, enjoyed it a good deal.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Three creature horros !
Frogs-Ray Milland as a patriarch who hates nature. Then nature fights back killing his house guests and extended family. Worth a look. My rating 6/10
The Swarm-Michael Caine, Richard Widmark,Henry Fonda and a host of stars. Irwin Allen directs the tale of killer bees. Much, much better than the critics think. 8/10
Empire Of The Ants-Joan Collins up against giant ants- This one is really poor. 3/10.
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The Pit and the Pendulum (1961) and Dementia 13 (1963)
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Badlands
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The Cassandra Crossing. A deadly plague infects a transcontinental train. The authorities decide to run it off an old bridge to kill the virus. Sophie Loren, Richard Harris, OJ Simpson and Martin Sheen to and stop them. Worth a watch 6 1/2 /10.
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Death Wish, Bugsy Malone and the fabulous Dog Day Afternoon Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The Big Bus. Disiaster spoof that predates Airplane by four years. 6/10
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Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, Peter Bull and James Earl Jones. When a mad American general initiates a nuclear attack against communist Russia, then the U.S. president must resolve the ensuing repercussions, including those from his military let alone political leaders.
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I watched my fave of the old Universals, The Invisible Man (1933)
And the weirdly great Circus Of Horrors (1960)
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The Parallax View, Alan Pakulas paranoia film about a third rate reporter (Warren Beatty) investigating the assassination of witnesses to a murder of a US Senator.
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Fail Safe (1964). Henry Fonda, Walter Matthau, Fritz Weaver, Dan O'Herlihy, Sorrell Booke, Larry Hagman, Frank Overton and Dom DeLuise. When a U.S. air force plane drops a nuclear bomb on Moscow, then the American and Russian governments must find a solution to the crisis before it is too late.
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Too Hot to Handle (1977)
- Wow, what a great flick! I loved it! Cheri Caffaro is fantastic as the gorgeous, smart and deadly assassin Samantha Fox. And she certainly ain´t afraid to show some skin
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Stormboy (1976). Greg Rowe, Peter Cummins, David Gulpilil, Tony Allison, Michael Moody and Judy D1ck. A young boy who lives with his father on the South Australian coast adopts a pelican after its parents are killed by hunters while befriending an aborigine who teaches him about respect for the wild.
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Alexander The Great (1956), Freaky Friday and From Beyond The Grave Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Serpico. Al Pacino's best film. Based on a true life policemans anti corruption stand in New Yawk.
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The Drowning Pool. Paul Newman reprises his role of private eye Harper, investigating a blackmail plot in the Deep South, with real life wife Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa, Coral Browne and a very young Melanie Griifith. 6/10
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Superfly, legendary Blaxploitation film about a drug dealers attempt to get out of the scene.
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quote:Originally posted by LoverswithCassie: Gold (1974). One of Roger Moore's non-James Bond roles, with Susannah York, Bradford Dillman, Ray Milland and John Gielgud. Criminals plan to take control of the price of gold on the world stock market by destroying a South African gold mine.
Just watched Gold. It was a decent if a bit overlong adventure movie. Lots of regular James Bond staff was used in this one. I kinda liked the theme tune.
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quote:Originally posted by harry2: Superfly, legendary Blaxploitation film about a drug dealers attempt to get out of the scene.
And one of the more underrated and underappreciated films of the early-70's.
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A friend of mine was digging through old tapes of stuff his dad recorded back in the 80's and we ended up watching 'Flash and the Firecat' for the first time (for me, at least) since '83! A classic in it's own right.
Yes, I too still have a VCR! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Never seen Flash and the Firecat. Looks like a cool flick!
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Where the Red Fern Grows (1974). Stewart Petersen, Jill Clark, Jeanna Wilson, Jack Ging, Beverly Garland, James Whitmore and Lonny Chapman. A rural American boy during the Depression comes into possession of two hunting dogs and through them learns about responsibility and also growing up.
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Three excellent films, The Skull (1965), Scarface (1932) and One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
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quote:Originally posted by harry2: Serpico. Al Pacino's best film. Based on a true life policemans anti corruption stand in New Yawk.
Love Serpico, but I think I sway more to Dog Day Afternoon for his best Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Cape Fear (1962). Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen, Martin Balsam, Lori Martin, Jack Kruschen, Telly Savalas, Barrie Chase and Edward Platt. A vicious felon who blames a lawyer for his eight year incarceration comes to the town where the latter lives, plotting a chilling revenge for him together with his family.
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The Valley of Gwangi (1969) Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Don's Party (1976). Ray Barrett, Claire Binney, Pat Bishop, Graeme Blundell, Graham Kennedy, Veronica Lang, John Hargreaves, Candy Raymond, Jeanie Drynan and Harold Hopkins. A group of friends get together to have a party at the house of one of them while watching the results of the 1969 Federal election.
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Another blaxploitaion film. Truck Turner starring the late Isaac Hayes.
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The Quatermass Experiment (1955),Quatermass 2 (1957)and The Robe (1953)
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Young Frankenstein 1974
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Possibly the greatest car chase ever, The French Connection with a yak track by the legendary William Friedkin.1971. Every scene is on location, They even get their pals to jam up the Brooklyn Bridge to film a traffic jam scene. Gene Hackman and Roy Schneider star with Fernando Rey and Tony Lo Bianco.
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"Point Blank" (1967) with Lee Marvin, Angie D|ckinson, and pre-Animal House John Vernon.
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Despair (1977). Dirk Bogarde, Andrea Ferreol, Volker Spengler and Klaus Lowitsch. A Russian emigre businessman who manages a chocolate factory in early 1930s Berlin slowly goes mad as the Nazis start to take power.
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The House That Dripped Blood (1970). Amicus anthology connected by a nondescript house. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, John Pertwee, Denholm Elliot and several british stalwarts of the early seventies.
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I adore that film so much. It's my fave Amicus film and my second fave anthology. Dead of Night (1945) just pips it for me.
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You got me in an Amicus mood and just watched The Vault of Horror. I love that last voodoo tale the best Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
I'm halfway through my Amicus coffin box set at present. In 'And Now The Screaming Starts' a young married couple are thrown into a web of fear when they move into an eerie house that is subject to an evil curse and inhabited by a dismembered hand. 'Doctor Terror's House Of Horror' tells how Doctor Terror catches a train and persuades five passengers to have their fortunes told using the Tarot Cards. In 'The House That Dripped Blood' an investigator looks into the strange goings-on in an empty house. 'Asylum' consists of four tales of terror which are revealed to a new doctor by four mental asylum inmates. Each tale leads to a puzzling mystery which is solved during the final tale. 'The Beast Must Die' finds a rich sportsman who invites a number of guests to his house with the knowledge that one of them is a werewolf. The film features a novel 'guess who' sequence at the end.
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Also Marathon Man starring Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier about Nazis smuggling jews out of Germany in return for diamonds with a famous dentistry scene.
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Oh man, the dentist scene is a classic Good movie!
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I have that coffin set too Harry Now you're making me wanna watch them all again.
I hardly ever hear any good comments about The Beast Must Die but I personally love it, one of my fave werewolf films.
"And now, the werewolf break"
Have you seen The Skull? One of the best Amicus films imo
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I watched Gorgo(1961) for the first time in years
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Have seen The Skull a couple of times. I just love the era 65-75 when the UK had a thriving film industry. Watching Blood On Satans Claw at present, filmed in a small village about ten miles from where I live called Bix, near Henley On Thames.
Two books that are worth looking out for
Ten Years of Terror: British Films of the 1970s by Harvey Fenton and David Flint
Encyclopaedic list of films, tv plays and even unfilmed projects. Out of print now, amazon has second hand copies at over 100 pounds.
Amicus: The Studio That Dripped Blood by Allan Bryce. Also out of print sixty five pounds used on Amazon. Worth a look for a history of the studio.
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quote:Originally posted by harry2: [QB]Watching Blood On Satans Claw at present, filmed in a small village about ten miles from where I live called Bix, near Henley On Thames.
That's pretty cool Great flick.
Yeah, that era is magic
Those books sound good. Shame they're out of print now.
Last night I watched the 1959 Michael Gough film Horrors of the black museum. Still good but I enjoyed it a lot more first time around.
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Suspiria and Equus
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From Beyond The Grave, Amicus's greatest moment.Four stories connected by a mysterious antique shop manned by Peter Cushing. Only three pounds to buy on DVD. 9/10.
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Fantastic stuff. The blue room story creeps me out to this day. I put it second to The House That Dripped Blood.
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The Children's Hour (1961)
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The Great Escape (1963)
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Vampyr (1932)
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The Hammer Karnstein Trilogy - The Vampire Lovers, Lust For A Vampire and Twins of Evil. And my second fave horror, The Wicker Man.
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Deliverance
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Absolution written by Anthony Schaffer (Frenzy/Sleuth/Wicker Man)starring Richard Burton as a priest/teacher in a Catholic school. Benjamin Stanfield is tired of being the teacher's pet and decides to play a practical joke on his form master Father Goddard (Burton). In confession, Stanfield tells Goddard that he has accidentally murdered his friend Blakey and buried him in the forest. When Goddard investigates the matter, he finds a buried scarecrow. Goddard is outraged, but, due to the seal of confession, he knows he cannot expel Stanfield. Shortly after, Stanfield once again enters the confession booth, telling Goddard that what before was a practical joke, he has now made happen. In disbelief, Goddard once again goes to the forest to investigate the matter. This time, he discovers Blakey's dead body. The plot soon thickens as Stanfield's fellow student Arthur Dyson mysteriously disappears..
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just watched the wanderers last night not bad quite funny in bits reminds me of the warriors a bit i love that film!
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I recorded that last night, will get to it soon. Welcome to the boards amaranth
Last watched Hi, Mom!
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For the umpteenth time watched Dirty Harry. No review needed on this classic movie.
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quote:Originally posted by harry2: For the umpteenth time watched Dirty Harry. No review needed on this classic movie.
"Do you feel lucky, punk?" Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
Sky West and Crooked, alias Gypsy Girl (1966). Hayley Mills, Ian McShane, Laurence Naismith and Geoffrey Bayldon. A mildly retarded adolescent girl experiences her first love with a Gypsy youth.
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Logan's Run (again). Never tire of watching this great, timeless sci-fi classic...
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The Wanderers was great Posted by LoverswithCassie (Member # 7794) on :
O Lucky Man! (1973). Malcolm McDowell, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Ralph Richardson, Alan Price, Lindsay Anderson, Helen Mirren and Mona Washbourne. A coffee salesman has various experiences as well as runs into myriad people in the course of his travels in England.
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Orca (1977) A favourite from the 70's. Great movie and wonderful score by Morricone.
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O Lucky Man! (1973). Malcolm McDowell, Rachel Roberts, Arthur Lowe, Ralph Richardson, Alan Price, Lindsay Anderson, Helen Mirren and Mona Washbourne. A coffee salesman has various experiences as well as runs into myriad people in the course of his travels in England.
Great series of Lindsay Anderson films which loosely started with If and finished with Brittania Hospital !!! All worth watching, if looking dated now, especially BH.
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Much prefer 'The Satanic Rites Of Dracula' title Posted by There'll be no morning for us (Member # 5804) on :
The Exorcist - I thought this was crap the first time I watched it and no change this time.
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"The Exorcist - I thought this was crap the first time I watched it and no change this time."
Mike Oldfield was at the same school as me !!!
Magnum Force this week. Dirty Harry is back against a group of rogue cops killing lowlife in SF. Not as good as the original, but effective nonetheless.
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Music was the best thing about it
Last watched The Manchurian Candidate (1962) and The Night Visitor.
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the italian job - great movie - your only supposed to blow the bl&%dy doors off!
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Not quite the 1970's but rewatching Man In A Suitcase, possibley ITC's second greatest series after The Prisoner !! Richard Bradford as an ex US intelligence guy who sells his services for money. Great theme tune also.
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Night of the living dead
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The golden voyage of sinbad
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Charlotte's Web (1973). With the voices of Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Rex Allen, Martha Scott, Dave Madden, Danny Bonaduce, Don Messick, Herb Vigran, Agnes Moorehead, Pamelyn Ferdin, Joan Garber, Bob Holt, John Stephenson and William B. White. A pig who is about to be killed for food is befriended by a spider who utilises her web-spinning skills to save his life.
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Doctor Jeckyll and Sister Hyde. A Hammer twist on the RLS novel. Ralph Bates takes female hormones and emerges as Martine Beswick. Spookily matched in looks, this adds in bits of Jack The Ripper and the bodysnatching duo of Burke & Hare into the plot also. Not Hammer's best , but fairly accomplished all round and a decent film for a quiet night in.
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Sunday Too Far Away (1975). Jack Thompson, Max Cullen, Robert Bruning, Jerry Thomas, Peter Cummins, John Ewart, Sean Scullen and Reg Lye. A group of shearers who work in an outback station and their episodes, including their reaction to the importation of blacklegs.
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The Enigma Of Kaspar Hauser
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
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Easy Rider
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How the west was won (1962) - I really like the first hour or so of this and then I get bored.
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Dawn of the dead
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Beauty and the beast (1962)
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971). Sean Connery, Jill St. John, Charles Gray, Lana Wood, Jimmy Dean, Bruce Cabot, Bruce Glover, Putter Smith, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Leonard Barr and Laurence Naismith. James Bond tries to stop a foe from utilising diamonds gained through a smuggling operation to construct a satellite to hold the world to ransom.
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the mechanic love a bronson movie
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Love in the hamptons
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My fave anthology film Dead of Night (1945)
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The Gauntlet 1977
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I love that Frank Frazetta poster!!
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Not seventies but sixties. Michael Caine in The Wrong Box. Black comedy about a tontine, where several people put money into an investment fund and it goes tot he last surviving member. Not a brilliant film, but co-stars the cream of British comedic talent and also established screen heavyweights such as Ralph Richardson, John Mills, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Tony Han****, Leonard Rossiter and Peter Sellers.
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Satan's Slave Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Hound Of The Baskervilles-1959
Can't go wrong with Cushing as Sherlock Holmes....
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From Russia With Love (1963). Sean Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Lotte Lenya, Pedro Armendariz, Robert Shaw, Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell. James Bond personally oversees the defection of a beautiful Russian spy to the West, little knowing that it is in fact a set-up by SPECTRE.
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Silent Running (1971). Bruce Dern, Jesse Vint, Ron Rifkin and Cliff Potts. A botanist tending to Earth's surviving flora on a space station decides to continue their preservation after orders come through that they must be abandoned.
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Two Minute Warning with Charlton Heston, Jack Klugman, Martin Balsam , John Cassavetes and Beau Bridges. A sniper with a rifle gets into the championship play off game and starts shooting at the 2two minute warning". Underrated 7/10 with Chuck not having a lot of screen time.
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The Mummy-1959
Horror Of Dracula-1958
Hammer goodness...
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Revolver-1973
One of my all time favourite movies, featuring my favourite song, Un Amico by Ennio Morricone and Daniel Beretta.
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I hate that American title to Dracula (1958) Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
I guess they didn't wanna be sued by Universal Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973). Victoria Vetri, William Smith, Anitra Ford, Cliff Osmond, Wright King and Ben Hammer. In a small American town, a strange alien force is transforming women into dangerous creatures who kill men by copulating with them to the point of total exhaustion.
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LOL
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quote:Originally posted by Lovers with Cassie: Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973). Victoria Vetri, William Smith, Anitra Ford, Cliff Osmond, Wright King and Ben Hammer. In a small American town, a strange alien force is transforming women into dangerous creatures who kill men by copulating with them to the point of total exhaustion.
That sounds like a feminist revenge fantasy! Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Across 110th Street (1972). Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Ward, Paul Benjamin, Ed Bernard, Antonio Fargas, Norma Desmond and Gilbert Lewis. After $300,000 is stolen from the Mafia by three Negroes disguised as police in New York City, then the police contest the mob to catch them first.
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The Godfather & The Godfather Part 2
Pure masterpieces
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I recently watched Across 110th Stret also. Very good Blaxploitation film. Also bought this on Amazon if you like this sort of film.
Black Girl (1972). Brock Peters, Claudia MacNeil, Leslie Uggams, Louise Stubbs, Peggy Pettit, Gloria Edwards, Rhetta Greene, Ruby Dee and Kent Martin. A young Negress who wants to become a ballet dancer is given a hard time by her three foster sisters in her adopted family.
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Rope (1948)
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Children shouldn't play with dead things hehe
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Mad Dog Morgan (1976). Dennis Hopper, Jack Thompson, David Gulpilil, Frank Thring, Michael Pate, Wallas Eaton, Bill Hunter, John Hargreaves, Martin Harris, Robin Ramsay and Graeme Blundell. The story of "Mad Dan" Morgan, an Australian bushranger who terrorised the Riverina district in southern New South Wales in the 1860s.
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Frenzy (1972). Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen, Vivien Merchant, Billie Whitelaw and Jean Marsh. In London, a psychopathic serial rapist-strangler, "the Necktie Murderer," is terrorising the city, while police close in on the wrong man.
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Gator. Follow up to White Lightning, with Burt Reynolds blackmailed into busting down his ex-boss who runs the brothels and protection rackets in the Deep South.
The Anderson Tapes. Sean Connery plans a heist straight out of jail unaware that every move is being followed by CCTV.
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Just bought White Lightning and Gator dvd´s. I´ve never seen them and just started collecting some Reynolds flicks.
Did you like them harry2?
I´ve seen The Anderson Tapes but don´t remember much.
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quote:Originally posted by Lovers with Cassie: Frenzy (1972). Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Anna Massey, Alec McCowen, Vivien Merchant, Billie Whitelaw and Jean Marsh. In London, a psychopathic serial rapist-strangler, "the Necktie Murderer," is terrorising the city, while police close in on the wrong man.
Very good choice. It was also Alfred Hitchc0ck's next-to-last film that he made.
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Find The Lady (1976)
John Candy, Peter Cook, Mickey Rooney, D1ck Emery, and a lot of effort do not, unfortunately, make for a good movie.
Plot was interesting, but the script was poor and the delivery was not good....
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Black Beauty (1971). Mark Lester, Walter Slezak, Peter Lee Lawrence and Ursula Glas. The story of the eponymous horse who passes from owner to owner, receiving differing treatment along the way. From the Anna Sewell novel.
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White Lightning just dropped through the letter box.
Also watched Goodbye Gemini. a very very obscure British film from the end of the swinging sixties. Martin Potter and Judy Geeson as twins who share everything.Unseen apparently for nearly forty years. A tale of love, incest and murder.
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The Ghoul (1933) - Crappy
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Vampire Circus - In my top 5 Hammers
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The Black Stallion (1979). Kelly Reno, Mickey Rooney, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse, Hoyt Axton and Michael Higgins. A young boy has a series of adventures with a black stallion that he comes to own and ends up participating with in a horse race.
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Love at First Bite (1979). George Hamilton, Susan Saint James, Richard Benjamin, D1ck Shawn and Arte Johnson. When Count Dracula is evicted from his Transylvanian castle, then he comes to New York City, where he takes up with a fashion model, much to the dismay of her psychiatrist.
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"Butterflies Are Free" (1972), starring Goldie Hawn, Edward Albert, Paul Michael Glaser, and Eileen Eckhart.
Hawn plays a carefree gal and aspiring actress from Southern California who moves to San Francisco, and moves next door with a blind man (Edward Albert) who has dreams of becoming a musician.
Eckhart won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in this movie, playing the Edward's domineering wealthy mother.
Very good performances by all. Also, there's a brief appearance by Mark Warren, as a clothing store employee, long before he played Officer Bobby Hill in the "Hill Street Blues" TV show.
Glaser is also in this movie, several years before he was in "Starsky & Hutch".
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Burn! (1969). Marlon Brando, Evaristo Marquez, Renato Salvatori, Tom Lyons and Norman Hill. On a Portugese-held island in the 19th century, a slave revolt is instigated by a British ambassador. He then aids the British in establishing themselves at the slaves' expense.
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The Towering Inferno (1974). Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, William Holden, Faye Dunaway, Fred Astaire, Susan Blakely, Richard Chamberlain, Jennifer Jones, O. J. Simpson, Robert Vaughn, Robert Wagner, Susan Flannery, Gregory Sierra and Dabney Coleman. A party is being held to celebrate the opening of the world's tallest building when a fire starts on the 81st floor as a result of faulty wiring, putting the guests' lives in jeopardy.
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Thunderball (1965). Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter, Martine Beswick, Bernard Lee, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn and Roland Culver. James Bond fights SPECTRE which is attempting to hold the NATO alliance to ransom by threatening to A-bomb two major cities if it is not paid a large sum in diamonds.
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The McKenzie Break (1970). Brian Keith, Helmut Griem, Ian Hendry, Jack Watson and Patrick O'Connell. During the Second World War, a group of German U-boat officers stage an escape attempt from a Scottish P.O.W. prison, while a British army captain aims to thwart them.
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Wait Until Dark (1967). Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Jack Weston and Samantha Jones. A blind woman in possession of a doll that unbeknowst to her contains heroin and whose husband is away finds herself the target of criminals after the drugs.
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971). Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, Roy Snart, Cindy O'Callaghan and Ian Weighill. In the course of the Second World War, a British amateur witch, three orphaned children taken in by her and a confidence trickster look for the missing half of a book of spells. They then endeavour to put a stop to an attempted German invasion of England.
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Get Carter (1971)
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They've just knocked down the car park in which Carter (Michael Caine) throws Brumby off of.
The First Great Train Robbery, starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley Anne Down. well worth a look.1979.
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Massacre in Rome (1973). Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner and Anthony Steel. Dramatisation of the infamous, nauseating Adreatine Caves Massacre, in which 335 Italian civilian hostages (including 75 Jews) were murdered by the SS in reprisial for the bombing deaths of 33 SS soldiers by Italian guerrillas at the Via Rasella in Rome during the Second World War.
The Cat From Outer Space (1978). Ken Berry, Sandy Duncan, McLean Stevenson, Harry Morgan, Roddy McDowall and Ronnie Schell. An alien cat who makes an emergency landing in his spaceship on earth looks for help regarding repairs only to be hindered by the military along with enemy spies.
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quote:Originally posted by harry2: The First Great Train Robbery, starring Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland and Lesley Anne Down. well worth a look.1979.
Oh I like that movie a lot.....
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My Name is Nobody (1973). Henry Fonda, Terence Hill, Jean Martin, Leo Gordon, R. G. Armstrong, Steve Kanaly and Geoffrey Lewis. An aging Wild West gunfighter who wants to retire is worshipped by a youngster. The latter lands up inventing an idea whereby he can do this.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Trerence Hill. eh ? Remember the Trinity spaghetti westerns he was in and all them knockabout comedies with Bud Spencer. Really funny watching these as a yougster, but they look really dated nowadays.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Wild Horse Hank (1979)
This was a decent family adventure movie starring Linda Blair, Richard Crenna, Al Waxman and Michael Wincott in his first feature film role. The movie is available on dvd.
Scream and Scream Again - I love the first 50 or so minutes of this utter nonsense, but then it becomes really dull.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Linda Blair in a western movie called "Wild Horse Hank"?
What a comedown from "The Exorcist", or even "Sarah T: Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic"! Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Two Way Stretch (1960). Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Lionel Jeffries, Liz Fraser, Maurice Denham, Bernard Cribbins and David Lodge. A group of prisoners with the aid of a free criminal colleague plot a diamond theft but matters go humorously wrong.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by StevenHW: Linda Blair in a western movie called "Wild Horse Hank"?
What a comedown from "The Exorcist", or even "Sarah T: Portrait Of A Teenage Alcoholic"!
Yes it is but she can shoot and fight so she´s not your ordinary country gal Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Midnight Cowboy (1969). Jon Voight, Dustin Hoffman, Sylvia Miles, John McGiver, Brenda Vaccaro, Barnard Hughes, Ruth White, Jennifer Salt and Bob Balaban. A dishwasher comes to New York City to work as a prostitute for women. Along the way, he becomes friends with a confidence trickster.
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King Frat (1979)
This was funny and gross Animal House rip-off. Starring John DiSanti, Dan Chandler, Charles Pitt and Roy Sekoff. 90 minutes of beer drinking, nude girls and practical jokes = your typical campus life. classic stuff!
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
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Not 70s but 60s James Coburn in the USA'a attempt to cash in on James Bond, Our Man Flint and In Like Flint. 7/10.
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Doctor Zhivago (1965). Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Tom Courtenay, Alec Guiness, Siobhan McKenna, Ralph Richardson, Rod Steiger and Rita Tushingham. A doctor and also poet becomes caught up in the Russian revolution while loving two women, one of them an aristocrat and the other a politicised nurse.
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Colossus, The Forbin Project 1970. A 1970's supercomputer starts to think for itself and take over the world. Very thoughtful insight into what could happen. 8/10.
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Life is rough in the coal mines of 1876 Pennsylvania. A secret group of Irish emigrant miners, known as the Molly Maguires, fights against the cruelty of the mining company with sabotage and murder. A detective, also an Irish emigrant, is hired to infiltrate the group and report on its members. But on which side do his sympathies lie? -- IMDb
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The Day of the Triffids (1962) Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
X, Y and Zee (1972). Michael Caine, Elizabeth Taylor, Susannah York, Margaret Leighton, John Standing, Mary Larkin and Michael Cashman. When a marriage between an architect and a swell starts to deteriorate, then he seeks love with a boutique owner, while his wife does her best to split them up.
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Logan's Run, a personal favourite, about a hedonistic society that kills you off at thirty.
Demon Seed. A computer impregnates a woman (honestly)
Westworld. Fantastic story (Crichton directs and writes)about robots that malfunction at a futuristic holiday camp.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Strike Force (1975)
NYPD, FBI and local police join forces in this decent made-for-tv crime flick. Starring Cliff Gorman, Don Blakely and young Richard Gere. Dirty NY city streets, drugs and egg sandwiches.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Assault on Precinct 13 (1976). Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Martin West, Tony Burton, Nancy Loomis, Kim Richards and Henry Brandon. A Los Angeles police station that is being closed down and transferred elsewhere finds itself being beseiged by a street youth gang who are after a father as he killed one of them in revenge for the murder of his daughter.
My fave Carpenter film Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Hitch****s Strangers on a train (1951) I quite enjoyed this film obviously throw mama from the train was the remake. Great B/W film reccomend this one
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Yeah, great film, one of Hitchc0ck's very best imo Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971). Gene Wilder, Peter Ostrum, Jack Albertson, Julie Dawn Cole, Paris Themmen, Denise Nickerson, Michael Bollner, Leonard Stone, Roy Kinnear, Ursula Reit, Dodo Denney and Gunter Meisner. Five children win a ticket finding contest to be given a guided tour of a sweet making factory by its eccentric owner which turns out to be a test.
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Stunts (1977). Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Joanna Cassidy, Darrell Fetty, Bruce Glover and James Luisi. After a featsman is killed under suspicious circumstances in the course of a film being made, his brother steps in to find out what really happened. Along the way, he becomes lovers with a journalist.
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Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Been watching the BBC's new version of Sherlock Holmes (2010) and 1970's TV series of Hazell (1978) and The Tomorrow People (1973-1978), both looking very dated now.
SH is very good, though. Doubtful you US based people have seen it yet, but is on a region 2 DVD for about £15.
Posted by Kowalski (Member # 8412) on :
The Spiral Staircase (1945)
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Wizards (1977). Bob Holt, Jesse Wells, Richard Romanus, David Proval and Mark Hamill. In a future world devastated by a nuclear holocaust, two wizards who are brothers vie for rule. Trouble arises when one decides to utilise technology to bring about conquest and domination.
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
Classic Carpenter.
The opening theme is one of the best ever...
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The Secret Invasion (1964). Stewart Granger, Mickey Rooney, Raf Vallone, Henry Silva, Edd Byrnes and Mia Massini. In the Second World War, five hardened criminals led by a British major are detailed to free a Italian general who is being held prisoner by the Germans in a fortress in Yugoslavia.
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Cat Ballou (1965), starring Jane Fonda, Lee Marvin, Nat King Cole, Stubby Kaye, John Marley.
Marvin won a Best Actor Oscar for his dual role as a drunken gunfighter Kid Shelleen and the main villain, Tim Shawn.
This could've been funnier, but the linking ballad between scenes helps!
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Callan 1974. A spin off film from the UK series of the same name, starring Edward Woodward (The Equaliser, Wicker Man) as a dour spy in the seedy underworld of the time in London. Fairly bland, to be honest.
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Close Encounters of The Third Kind (1977)
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WAY OF THE DRAGON- 1972
Even though im a Kung Fu nut, and asian film fanatic, I was never the biggest Bruce Lee fan. Though this was his best movie in my opinion (even if the rest of the world favours Enter The Dragon )
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
It is a cool movie and of course hairy Chuck Norris is a plus I think that The Big Boss and Fist of Fury are also very good.
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Taxi Driver (1976). Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Harvey Keitel, Peter Boyle, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks and Leonard Harris. A Vietnam War marine works as a taxicab driver late at night in New York City. Increasingly repelled by the crime that he sees, he makes a rejected advance to a campaign volunteer (on whose employer, a senator, he subsequently makes a foiled murder attempt) and then meets a child prostitute who he decides to rescue from both her milieu and also her pimp.
You talking to me? Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: It is a cool movie and of course hairy Chuck Norris is a plus I think that The Big Boss and Fist of Fury are also very good.
Chuck Norris' back hair is a welcomed addition to any movie..... Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Enter The Dragon. Bruce Lee and John Saxon with Bolo Yeung. The first blockbuster martial arts film that brought the genre to the west. Classic must see film. 9/10.
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It Happened One Night
Released in 1934, with Clark Gable and the beautiful Claudette Colbert. It's a very well made, very funny comedy. It won 5 Oscars in 1935 for Best Actor (Gable), Best Actress (Colbert), Best Picture, Best Director (Frank Capra) and best adapted screenplay, thereby becoming the first movie ever to win all of the 'top five' at the Academy Awards.
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Company of Killers, alias The Hit Team (1970). Van Johnson, Ray Milland, John Saxon, Brian Kelly, Fritz Weaver, Clu Gulager, Susan Oliver, Diana Lynn and Robert Middleton. A hired murderer working for a criminal organisation ends up being hunted by both his employers together with the police following the murder of a policeman.
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Dirty Harry (1971). Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni, John Larch, Andy Robinson and John Vernon. A police inspector is determined to put a stop to a psychopathic serial murderer who is terrorising San Francisco, even if it means breaking some rules.
Laura (1944) and Blood Feast (1963)
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American Graffiti (1973). Richard Dreyfuss, Ronny Howard, Paul LeMat, Charlie Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Wolfman Jack, Harrison Ford, Bo Hopkins, Kathy Quinlan, Suzanne Somers, Joe Spano and Debralee Scott. In an American town in 1962, four youths who are friends decide to have one last night on the town after their high school graduation.
Posted by Kowalski (Member # 8412) on :
Escape from Alcatraz (1979)
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Swap Meet (1979)
Very silly teen comedy directed by Brice Mack.
Starring hot girls: Debi Richter (Midnight Madness, Hot Moves, Winners Take All), Penthouse Pet of the Year 1980 Cheryl Rixon and Ruth Cox.
The dudes: Jon Gries (Joysticks, High School USA, Real Genius etc.), Dan Spector and Loren Lester. Danny DeVito is Max the mechanic.
Disco dancing, stupid chase scenes, drive-in action and T&A. Some groovy tunes on the soundtrack from 70´s disco group called Hemlock.
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Wasp Woman (1959)
I have that movie on DVD, which is part of the "Drive-In Discs" series. It contains two b-movies from the 50's or early-60's, and comes along with intermission ads, trailers, and countdown clocks (like "Only 3 minutes before showtime!"). It is designed to make it look like you were in a real drive-in movie theater! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cool stuff! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I got that Drive-In disc too. It's great! Did you guys know that there is this script kicking around, and folks have been trying to get this bio-pic about Susan Cabot's tragic life off the ground?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The last 70's film I saw was "Sugar Hill" (1974), a film that has eluded me all these years. Having seen pretty much seen the same two stills in books over the years and not much written about it--it never played theatrically in Pittsburgh to my knowledge--I was prepared for it to be not-so-hot. Boy, was I surprised! "Sugar Hill" is an absolute delight in almost every respect. It's a well made, very entertaining blaxploitation-horror film with great atmosphere, humor, funky music, and easy-on-the-eyes Marki Bey wearing the finest in 70's fashion. Every once and a while, you finally get to see a film that you've only heard about, and it is a hidden treasure. I hightly recommend "Sugar Hill."
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Electra glider in blue Tells the story of bike cops and some runs in with hippys
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
My fave Amicus film, The House That Dripped Blood
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The Crawling Hand (1963) Hideous
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Prey - Love Norman J Warren's weird little films.
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Rosemary's Baby (1968) Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Life Begins for Andy Hardy (1941). Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Judy Garland, Fay Holden, Ann Rutherford, Sara Haden, Patricia Dane and Ray McDonald. Andy Hardy decides to go to New York City to get a job after his high school graduation and learns a few things about dreams and reality while working as an office boy as he is flirting with the office receptionist and helping an unemployed dancer.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940). Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Judy Garland, Sara Haden, Ann Rutherford, Tom Neal and Diana Lewis. Andy Hardy experiences problems when he becomes infatuated with a debutante whom he has only seen in pictures and never met at all while his father travels into New York City to appear in court to keep the local orphange open.
Posted by Simoneer (Member # 8941) on :
Quite entertaining, but very overrated, I would say.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary (1941). Mickey Rooney, Lewis Stone, Fay Holden, Ian Hunter, Sara Haden, Kathryn Grayson, Todd Karns and Gene Reynolds. Andy Hardy, on the verge of graduating from high school, gets into trouble with his girlfriend when he becomes conceited and engages a private secretary.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Quite entertaining, but very overrated, I would say.
Blaaaaaspheeeeemer!!!!!!
To each their own.
Anyway, I watched Rear Window for the first time yesterday. I haven't enjoyed a '50s movie this much. In fact, I'm ready to say my views of old movies (pre-70s) have changed because of it; before this, the only one I really liked was The Invisible Man (basically a horror comedy...from the freakin' 30s!). I'm gonna be watching a lot of these now.
Grace Kelly was truly pretty.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Something for Joey (1977) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076738/ Starring Marc Singer, with a small role played by Steve Guttenberg. I remember watching this made-for-tv movie as a kid. It's a real tearjerker.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
"Cold Turkey" (1971), starring D|ck Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, and Jean Stapleton.
Directed by Norman Lear, who later became more famous for producing hit TV shows "All In The Family", "Maude", "Sanford & Son", and many others.
It is about a small town in Iowa, who takes up on a $25 million challenge from a tobacco company, if the entire town's population can quit smoking for 30 days.
The film is actually a nice satire on how people can try to quit an addiction, but also on the news media and what passes today for political correctness and the "nanny state."
Posted by Simoneer (Member # 8941) on :
Good as always, though not as good as the sequel. Less action, ya know.
An old favorite of mine. Been years since I watched it. Hilarious as always... and this time around I got more of the jokes.
Give him the said-a-give!
Posted by Pyromantic (Member # 7658) on :
..I can still bust a gut laughing at this movie..still easily one of my favorite comedies of all time.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Hometown USA (1979)
This was a decent teen comedy set in 1950s. Two tough guys and a geek spend a wild night on town. Cars + girls = good time.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Hills have eyes
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Vampire Circus, an excellent late-era Hammer film soon to be released on BluRay in North America. You watch True Blood on HBO and go, "Wow, sexy, gory vampires," but Hammer was there first, a long time ago with The Vapire Lovers, Lust for a Vampire, Twins of Evil, and Vampire Circus, which has one of the sexiest, action-packed first 12 minutes you'll ever see.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
My fave horror Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
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Halloween
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The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966):
After watching so many horror films during this past Halloween Weekend...I needed a break from the blood and gore with a good light-hearted spook comedy movie...and you can't really get any better than this. The Ghost and Mr. Chicken is easily my favorite Don Knotts film, he's hilarious in this. And any other Don Knotts fan should agree with me that this is a Must-have in your collection.
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Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Amityville horror love this movie
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Me too Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Black Sleep (1956)
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Tim (1979). Mel Gibson, Piper Laurie, Alwyn Kurts, Pat Evison, Peter Gwynne and Deborah Kennedy. Love blossoms between a young mentally retarded builder's laborer and a somewhat older businesswoman when he is engaged to work in her garden.
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The Andromeda Strain (1971). Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson, Kate Reid and Paula Kelly. A team of superscientists are called in to get rid of a lethal virus from outer space that has fallen to earth on a satellite, killing all but two of the inhabitants of an American town and also imperiling the world. Based on the novel by Michael Crichton, who has a cameo.
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Night Moves (1975). Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, Kenneth Mars, James Woods, Melanie Griffith, Dennis Dugan and Max Gail. A Los Angeles football player turned private detective puts aside his marital problems when he is engaged by a fading film star to track down her runaway adolescent daughter, who he turns up in the Florida Keys.
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
watched Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. one of my favorite movies ever.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
THE ENEMY BELOW-1957
SINK THE BISMARCK!-1960
Two great naval warfare classics!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Beast Must Die (1969)
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A BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI-1957
I can never tire of this masterpiece. Love this belgian poster art!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched a weird short, Un Chien Andalou (1929)
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Sad to hear Ingrid Pitt has died Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Last time i saw Paris - Elizabeth Taylor (1951)
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quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Sad to hear Ingrid Pitt has died
Me too Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Quatermass and The Pit (1967)
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Cool Hand Luke awesome What we got here is failure to communicate
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Audrey Rose prefered the book
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The Great White Hope (1970). James Earl Jones, Jane Alexander, Lou Gilbert, Joel Fluellen, Chester Morris, Robert Webber, R.G. Armstrong, Hal Holbrook, Beah Richards and Moses Gunn. In 1910s United States of America, a Negro who loves a white woman encounters racism from both fellow Negroes in addition to whites while pursuing a boxing career. Adapted by Howard Seckler from his play.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Just bough a Charles Bronson box set for £10. 10 to Midnight, Kinjite, Murphy's Law and Messenger of Death. Basically he plays the same part but well worth the money.
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Endless Night (1972). Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Britt Ekland, George Sanders and Per Oscarsson. A British chauffeur meets by chance and then marries an opulent American heiress, but matters take a sinister turn when they move into their dream home. Taken from the Agatha Christie novel.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
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Going Places (1974). Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Miou-Miou, Jeanne Moreau, Brigitte Fossey and Isabelle Huppert. A pair of thugs travel round the countryside, perpetrating petty offenses while harrassing in accompaniment with sharing women. Based on the novel by Bertrand Blier.
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975). Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse, John Jarrett, Jacki Weaver, Vivean Gray, Margaret Nelson and Anne Louise Lambert. A girls' school bush picnic on Saint Valentine's Day in 1900 becomes a horror when three girls and also their teacher climb Hanging Rock and vanish. Taken from the novel by Joan Lindsay.
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Death Wish (1974). Charles Bronson, Vincent Gardenia, Steven Keats, William Redfield, Stuart Margolin, Stephen Elliott, Kathleen Tolan, Hope Lange, Christopher Guest and Eric Laneuville. An architect is turned into a violent, relentless vigilante in New York City streets after his wife is murdered and their daughter raped by street robbers who have broken into their flat. Based on the novel by Brian Garfield.
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Posted by pettyfan (Member # 2260) on :
It's a Wonderful Life
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Our Man Flint (1966). Great Bond-style spy spoof starring James Coburn.
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In Like Flint (1967). The sequel, which was fun, but demonstrated exactly why there was only the one sequel.
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Up The Junction. Swinging sixties film set in London. With Dennis Waterman and Suzy Kendall.A rich girls moves from posh Chelsea to over the Thames to working class Battersea.With Adrienne Posta, Maureen Lipman, Michael Gothard, Liz Fraser, Alfie Bass and Michael Robbins.
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947) Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
It's a Wonderful Life (1946). James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi, Frank Faylen, Ward Bond, Gloria Grahame, H.B. Warner, Frank Albertson, Todd Karns, Samuel S. Hinds, Mary Treen, Sheldon Leonard and Ellen Crosby. A provincial loans and savings manager who is contemplating committing self-homicide as he feels that his life has been worthless and is faced with ruin from a relentless banker is saved by an angel who persuades him of his own worth by taking him on a flashback journey that illustrates to him what the town would have been like if he had never been born at all.
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Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
IMDb: This anthology tells three stories: a man buys a car that takes him back and forth through time; a tale of vampires; and a distraught mother asks for her drowned son to come back to life and gets more than she bargained for.
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Throne of Blood (1957). Toshirio Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Taksahi Shimura and Minoru Chiaki. Macbeth in a samurai Japanese setting, as a lord commits murder to attain power to carry out a foretelling.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Carrie (1976)
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Mad Max (hubby got the trilogy for xmas so prob having to watch em all lol)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Poor you, that 3rd one is painful lol
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Poor you, that 3rd one is painful lol
Lol so ive heard Tina Turner acting hmmmmm!
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Carve Her Name with Pride (1958). Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Maurice Ronet, Bill Owen, Denise Gray and Billie Whitelaw. The exploits of Violette Szabo, who became a hero through her putting her life on the line to help the French resistence while working as a British spy during the Second World War.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I watched the Enforcer with Clint Eastwood. I think that the original Dirty Harry was a cinematic masterpiece but I think that the Enforcer and pretty much all the other Dirty Harry movies were garbagy. The Enforcer is pretty bad in my opinion.
Best quote from Dirty Harry though is:
'My, that's a big one'
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Railway Children (1970) and Jesus Christ Superstar.
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The Romantic Englishwoman (1975). Michael Caine, Glenda Jackson, Helmut Berger, Beatrice Romand, Kate Nelligan, Nathalie Delon and Michel Lonsdale. The wife of a novelist takes up with a German hustler after the latter is invited by her husband to stay at their home. Taken from the novel by Thomas Wiseman.
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House on Haunted Hill (1959)
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Big Wednesday (1978). Jan-Michael Vincent, William Katt, Gary Busey, Lee Purcell and Patti D'Arbanville. Episodes in the lives of a trio of surfing enthusiast friends from 1962 until 1974.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Terror (1978) I love Norman J Warren's other films so decided to give this one another go. Still terrible, some of the deaths are fun tho, i'll give it that.
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Rear Window (1954). James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr and Judith Evelyn. A magazine photographer, who is confined to a wheelchair in his flat as he broke his leg while on assignment, spies on his courtyard neighbours with a pair of binoculars and thinks that he has seen one of them commit domestic murder.
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A Bay Of Blood
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demonseed 1977 and trilogy of terror 1975....karen black was made for these roles!!!
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The Psychic (1977)
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Blood and Black Lace (1964)
You've set me off on these now Jay Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Lisa and the Devil
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Hatchet for the Honeymoon
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Voyage of the Damned (1976). Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Max von Sydow, Orson Welles, Malcolm McDowell, Lynne Frederick, James Mason, Lee Grant, Wendy Hiller, Jose Ferrer, Luther Adler, Katherine Ross, Sam Wanamaker, Denholm Elliott, Nehemiah Persoff, Julie Harris, Maria Schell and Ben Gazzara. The story of the Hamburg America liner "St. Louis," which in 1939 set sail on a voyage from Germany to Cuba with 937 Jewish refugees who were seeking refuge from Nazi persecution.
All That Jazz (1979). Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen, Erzsebet Foldi, Sandahl Bergman, John Lithgow, Keith Gordon, Ben Masters, Nicole Fosse, Theresa Merritt and Wallace Shawn. A dancer along with choreographer pushes himself to the limit while overseeing a Broadway show together with the editing of a film.
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Rififi- 1955
A Masterpiece.... nuff said!
L'Alpageur aka Hunter Will Get You- 1976
Excellent crime flick, Belmondo is king!
Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato aka Inglorious *******s- 1977
Awesome, can never tire of this! This is where it's at, not that lame *** Brad Pitt flick with a similar name
Yes, please pull the trigger, and do the world a favour!
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The Godfather (1972)
Marlon Brando Robert Duvall Al Pacino James Caan Diane Keaton
This movie deserves all the praise its received the past 39 years.
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Nice to see you back Sammy
Demon Seed
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Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975). Brigitte Mira, Ingrid Caven, Karl-Heinz Bohm, Margit Carstensen, Irm Hermann and Gottfried John. A wife becomes the subject of public attention not to mention press/political misuse when her factory-worker husband murders one of his managers and then commits suicide in protest against the likelihood of his being sacked.
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Posted by Secret Admirer (Member # 3574) on :
The Sentinel (1977). I was catching up on Beverly D'Angelo movies.
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Wait Until Dark (1967)
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Piranah (1978) enjoyed it good story
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Wicker Man.
One classic movie. Very original. A must watch film.
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^ My second fave horror Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Is Wait Until Dark your First?
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No, Dracula: Prince of Darkness Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I have not seen that one but I will endeavour to. I like christopher Lee so I guess I will have to watch it.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cool
I've just been watching Chris Lee again in The Whip and the Body (1963)
Can't get enough of Mario Bava films lately.
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The Gauntlet )1977) Clint Eastwood good film lots of shooting scenes and i mean lots!
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Goldfinger (1964)
For most people, the very best James Bond movie.
And it's really got everything - action, car chases, beautiful girls, guns, a really bad baddie, outrageous foreign stereotypes, scenery and sets writ large, and the best of all Bonds, Sir Sean Connery....
Have to give this one the full 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Mill of the Stone Women (1963)
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This Man Must Die (1970). Michel Duchaussoy, Jean Yanne, Caroline Cellier, Lorraine Rainer, Marc DiNapoli and Guy Marly. After his son is run down and killed, the father goes after the criminal responsible with revenge in mind. Taken from the novel The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake.
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Orca (1977):
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Fun flick Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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The House With Laughing Windows
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Logan's Run
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Eraserhead
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
And you lived to tell, huh, Helen? If I had to make a list of movies that will absolutely cause brain damage if watched repeatedly, "Eraserhead" is high on the list. I've said it before, but it's worth repeating: David Lynch doesn't make movies. He makes works of art, whether you like them or not.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just about Crash I hadn't seen it in a long time, forgotten just how insane it is. I really need to see more Lynch because what I have seen, this, Twin Peaks, The Elephant Man and especially Blue Velvet I've loved. Any recommendations?
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Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Fire Walk With Me, the Twin Peaks prequel movie, in case you haven't seen it!
And Wild At Heart is pretty crazy too!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Thanks. I have Fire Walk With Me to watch soon. Got a bit of series 2 of my Twin Peaks rewatch left first. I'm gonna order Wild at heart Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Virgin Spring (1959)
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Helen, my favorite Lynch films, in order of preference (and I have no clue where Eraserhead fits into my list), are Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Dr., The Straight Story, Fire Walk with Me, The Elephant Man, and Lost Highway. About the only Lynch film that I'm not nuts about is Dune. And I confess that I have not yet seen Inland Empire.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cool, another nod for Wild at heart. I noticed a 3 pack of Mulholland Drive, Elephant Man and Inland Empire. Think I'll get that soon.
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975). Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Richard O'Brien, Jonathan Adams, Meatloaf, Little Nell (Campbell), Charles Gray and Patricia Quinn. A just engaged couple who experience car trouble on a rainy night seek help in a castle, where they run across a group of Transylvanians. Taken from the classic namesake stage musical.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Owl and the Pussycat (1970)
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All that Jazz (1979) starring Roy Sheider. I had forgotten how bizarre this movie was. I saw an abbreviated version about 20 years ago on television. I remember telling my father how I didn't like the ending then!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Love All that Jazz
Just watched Planet of the Vampires (1965)
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Torso
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Kes (1969) a young boy trains a kestrel while dealing with school and family life
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972). Barry Crocker, Barry Humphries, Paul Bertram and Peter Cook. Barry McKenzie, an uncouth Australian who swills beer, speaks Australian slang and detests the British, goes with his aunt Dame Edna Everage to England, where he has a series of comically absurd adventures. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched me fave horror series, Phantasm
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Barbarella (1968) Utter nonsense lol
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Papillon (1973) Posted by Pyromantic (Member # 7658) on :
Born Free (1966)
Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
Jaws 2 (1978). Alright, so it wasn't directed by Steven Spielberg, and there's no explanation for the disappearance of Matt Hooper, but it's still an above-average sequel. The last 40 or so minutes with Jaws pursuing the teenagers and Chief Brody's attempt to rescue them was just as suspenseful and on-the-edge-of-your-seat as the original Jaws, IMHO.
Look at the bright side: it's miles ahead of Jaws: The Revenge, which is possibly the worst sequel to a popular movie I've ever seen.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
IMO all the Jaws sequels sucked, but yeah I agree the revenge was terrible.
I have not seen 2 in a while, but did I miss something. The disappearance of Hooper?
Jaws though is one of the best movies I have ever seen. I am probably one of the few who thinks that the shark in the original JAWS still looks quite real.
I personally think that when people say the shark looks fake as they are probably remembering one of the sequels in which the sharks get progressively worse.
Which one looks more fake, the one in 3 or the one in 4. Mmmmm that's a tough one. I'll go 4 I guess.
I am just about to watch Targets (1968).
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Big Heat (1953) Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
That's a good one, Helen!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You two know it: The Big Heat is fantastic, one of my faves.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bernie_Lomax:
I am just about to watch Targets (1968).
I love Targets, just love it! I remember reading about it in one of the really early books on horror films when I was a kid, and then I had to wait for years to see it because Paramount pulled it in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. A few observations: It is one of Peter Bogdanovich's best films, it has one of Boris Karloff's best performances, it has perhaps the best use of parallel plots of any screenplay that I've ever seen, and it speaks volumes and is still on the mark about how we view violence in films and our society today. It's quiet and thoughtful and really, really well done. And to think that it came about because Bogdanovich had the presence of Karloff (I think under one of those goofy AIP contracts) for a few days and decided to make a film around him. Genius.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Been on a Melville binge lately....
LE DOULOS aka THE INFORMANT 1963
Great movie. "60's Gangster cool" a la france!
LE SAMOURAI 1967
A nouvelle vague masterpiece. It doesn't get more euro cool, than Alain Delon as hitman, Jef Costello!
L'ARMEE DES OMBRES aka ARMY OF SHADOWS 1969
Melville's extremely somber and dark WW2 thriller about the inner workings of the french resistance. Great movie, but borders on depressing.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash:
quote:Originally posted by Bernie_Lomax:
I am just about to watch Targets (1968).
I love Targets, just love it! I remember reading about it in one of the really early books on horror films when I was a kid, and then I had to wait for years to see it because Paramount pulled it in the wake of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy. A few observations: It is one of Peter Bogdanovich's best films, it has one of Boris Karloff's best performances, it has perhaps the best use of parallel plots of any screenplay that I've ever seen, and it speaks volumes and is still on the mark about how we view violence in films and our society today. It's quiet and thoughtful and really, really well done. And to think that it came about because Bogdanovich had the presence of Karloff (I think under one of those goofy AIP contracts) for a few days and decided to make a film around him. Genius.
Such insight. Thanks Crash. The only reason I even heard of this is because I watched a doco about the decline and subsequent rise of Hollywood during the late 60's and 70's. It was talking about all the new emerging directors and actors that were to have the most profound impact in films. Their classics and their flops. Their lives and deaths. It was really good. Yeah and they did mention that it was yanked from theatres because of the assassinations.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Repulsion (1965) Hmm, I dunno. I can't deny that it's a decent film but it just kinda bores me.
The Old Dark House (1932) Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
King Kong vs. Godzilla (1962). I just rented this one from Netflix and saw it with my dad (He got me hooked on kaiju eiga, thus creating a monster of sorts in the process!) This is easily one of my favorite Toho monster movies for the simple fact that two of the most iconic movie monsters squared off and didn't disappoint this kaiju eiga buff.
Fun fact: the American version by Universal features the Creature from the Black Lagoon theme on the soundtrack. It's kind of funny because it plays more than once and usually whenever King Kong or Godzilla shows up to wreak some good 'ol monster havoc.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
2 great Hammers - These Are The Damned (1963) and Never Take Sweets From A Stranger (1960)
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
King Kong - 1976. I like this one.
I watched the new one at the movies a few years back. I was forced to watch it and had to sit there for 187 minutes of torture. It sucked bad.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh no, now I'm the one who'd rather be dragged down the street than sit through the '76 Kong again. *Shudder* Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I knew I was gonna get instant karma on the comment I made Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
Jabberwocky (1977)
Fun movie, and it was great recognising so many comedy stalwarts throughout the movie, but two things kinda spoiled it for me.
Firstly, I know it was set in the Dark Ages, but they could have shot it a little lighter, so that I could actually see stuff on screen... And secondly, fun as it was, it wasn't as good as Holy Grail, to which I could not help but compare it.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Yeah, it´s nowhere near Holy Grail but it´s ok. Very dark and grim world. The final battle is fun stuff.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bernie_Lomax: I knew I was gonna get instant karma on the comment I made
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Anniversary (1968)
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Just watched a weird short, Un Chien Andalou (1929)
The eyeball-slicing scene still draws chills, even today! Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
Just saw one of the most boring and pointless movies I ever seen: "Last Year At Marienbad" (1961).
Beautifully shot in black-and-white, but completely dull and pretentious. If you like dreamy-type of movies, this might interest you. But for me, this movie is more effective than any sleeping bill I ever taken!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by StevenHW: The eyeball-slicing scene still draws chills, even today! [/qb]
Yep Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAYLEE: I could never wrap my head around HOW ON EARTH... Taxi Driver could lose to Rocky.... I mean come on!!! well, one is upbeat, the other is downbeat... the Oscars are a joke in my mind, they mean absolutely nothing to me!
I think it won because it is about the American Dream. Yeah I agree that the Oscars are ****.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Eaten Alive - I never really know what to make of this one
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
That guy kinda looks like like Steve Buscemi.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
He reminds me of Eric Roberts lol
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
That's it, Steve crossed with Eric.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
With a dash of Klaus Kinski Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
'Railway Children' (1970) - they recently released a special edition DVD.
'Ring of Bright Water' (1969).
'Jason and the Argonauts' (1963).
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I love The Railway Children. I don't mind the 2000 remake either where Jenny Agutter plays the mum this time.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Smokey and the Bandit (1977). Burt Reynolds, Jerry Reed, Sally Field, Jackie Gleason and Mike Henry. A pair of southern truck drivers undertake an offer to drive 400 cases of Coors beer from Texarkana, Texas to Atlanta, Georgia for $80,000, with one of them picking up a runaway bride along the way, prompting a high speed pursuit by a sheriff and also his son.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
I miss the days when a protagonist could have a moustache the size of a carpet, and a confederate flag license plate Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hahaha Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
My post count is in the 70's Yes, small things amuse me Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Im still stuck in the dark ages Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: My post count is in the 70's Yes, small things amuse me
That's not a small thing! That's a cool thing!
quote:Originally posted by JAY LEE: Im still stuck in the dark ages
It can only get better!
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I knew you'd understand Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Take (1974)
"Meet the brother with a badge... on the take!"
This was a decent cop flick directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Vic Morrow, Frankie Avalon and the always reliable Albert Salmi - man with a Finnish last name and roots.
Nice 70s laidback feel, good and violent action scene in the beginning and pretty cool car chase.
I got this very nice Aussie VHS tape from Lovers with Cassie. Damn i love these big original boxes!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
There's not many MOVIELAND'S left in Australia now.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
All movie stores fall one by one Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: The Take (1974)
"Meet the brother with a badge... on the take!"
This was a decent cop flick directed by Robert Hartford-Davis and starring Billy Dee Williams, Eddie Albert, Vic Morrow, Frankie Avalon and the always reliable Albert Salmi - man with a Finnish last name and roots.
Nice 70s laidback feel, good and violent action scene in the beginning and pretty cool car chase.
I got this very nice Aussie VHS tape from Lovers with Cassie. Damn i love these big original boxes!
Hey, don't mention it, aTomiK. Good to see that you liked the film. Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: All movie stores fall one by one
Yeah, I am surprised there is any video stores left.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
"Georgy Girl", from 1966.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Snorkel (1958) Great flick but shoulda left him there
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Corvette Summer -1978
with Mark Hamill and Annie Potts.
Verdict: Well, let's just say that it was as exciting as bry11g's thread on RV Covers.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Haha Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Hey! I really like Corvette Summer! Maybe that's nostalgia, though.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Teenage Zombies (1959) Awful. Made 1 hour 7 mins feel like 7 hours.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: Hey! I really like Corvette Summer! Maybe that's nostalgia, though.
Logan, yeah it wasn't really that bad. It was definitely a feel good movie, but it just got drawn out a bit long, and very different to how I would have handled getting my car back. All in all it was alright. 5/10 for me. Annie Potts looked very nice in that. Mark Hamill playing a 17 year old. Hmmm, I dunno. Mind you I guess all movies have guys in their late 20's playing teens.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Teenage Zombies (1959) Awful. Made 1 hour 7 mins feel like 7 hours.
I'm surprised Helen, by the look of the cover you would think it would be a cinematic masterpiece Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I watched Marathon Man last night. Probably only about the 3rd time I have seen it and it had been so long that I couldn't remember much about it which was good.
Obviously it had to end differently but did anyone wish that Szel got beaten to death by the Jewish people who recognised him?
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
"DER WEISSE ENGEL!!!!" I love that scene. I see what you mean, but he kinda had to face Dustin for the finale. One of my favourite 70's thrillers alongside Three Days Of The Condor.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, it is a great scene but yeah, there had to be a showdown. I am gonna check out Three Days of Condor. I love thrillers so I will have to check it out.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Three Days Of The Condor
Pollack is my god.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
See also The Conversation and The Parallax View, even better 70s thrillers.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I prefer the first half of 'Three Days' more than either 'Parallax' or 'Conversation'. But I think the others are more complete movies.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
The one problem I have with 'Three Days' is that you can kinda feel it is condensed material from a book. I've never read the book, but you still get a sense that they had to trim a lot of stuff. Which is understandable, yet still evident.
The Conversation bores me to tears, and The Parallax View is ok, but nowhere near Marathon Man or Three Days Of The Condor, in my opinion.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I really enjoyed Marathon Man. I thought Three Days was ok, but not very suspenseful. I have seen The Conversation before and yeah, it bored me to tears. Have not seen The Parallax View yet.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
I disagree that it's not suspenseful. sure, it's in a more understated and slowly paced 70's kind of way. But if you're knowledgable about the CIA, the politics behind it etc. I think it is indeed very suspenseful.
A good example of that is Max Von Sydow as Joubert, the icy hitman. He brings uneasines and tension to every scene he is in. The opening scene and the scene in the elevator, in particular. It is also an awesome performance by Sydow, considering his limited screen time.
I love his expression and line delivery when Janet says " I won't scream", and he replies " I know". He says it in a way that is almost reassuring, like he's saying "Sorry I have to do this, but it will be over quick". Instead of in a menacing and villainy way.
This guy isn't enjoying killing people. It's just a job. He fully realizes his place in the intelligence game, and is not out to get anyone. He just does what he is payed to do. And through Sydows performance, you can even detect a certain sadness or somberness to the character. Like maybe he knows he's been in this job too long. And perhaps the faces of all those people are keeping him up at night. The sheer mechanics of assassination is second nature to him, but he's not detached from it, psychologically, like a psycho or serial killer is.
I think His performance in this movie is amazing. And one of the things that makes this a favourite of mine.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Well, no I do not really know much about the CIA or politics behind it, so maybe that was it. I dunno.
I did enjoy Von Sydow's performance though. You know I didn't even realise that was him until one of the very last scenes.
You have quite an interesting insight to the film. I guess you must have watched it quite a bit.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Did not mean to imply that you were ignorant
And yeah, it is probably one of my favourite movies of the 70's. I've read tons of books on the CIA, their black ops, their cold war politics. Involvement in latin america, middle east etc. So I guess I find this stuff more intrigueing than most.
I also like the ideas of litterary analysis, game theory etc. that the movie deals with. Plus, that certain 'New York in the 70's vibe', I also really dig.
Hell, I could go on and on.... but im not gonna Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Guys, while we may differ a bit on which of the conspiracy thrillers of 70s we favor (I love Three Days and Marathon Man too), the good news is they're are a lot of good ones to choose from. I would add one that I always forget: All the President's Men, a true-life conspiracy thriller.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAY LEE: Did not mean to imply that you were ignorant
And yeah, it is probably one of my favourite movies of the 70's. I've read tons of books on the CIA, their black ops, their cold war politics. Involvement in latin america, middle east etc. So I guess I find this stuff more intrigueing than most.
I also like the ideas of litterary analysis, game theory etc. that the movie deals with. Plus, that certain 'New York in the 70's vibe', I also really dig.
Hell, I could go on and on.... but im not gonna
Ignorant. Nah, I didn't take it that way at all dude
I was being completely sincere. I really do not know much about the CIA, and I think that you do have a good insight into the film, to be able to assess it like that off the top of your head.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Guys, while we may differ a bit on which of the conspiracy thrillers of 70s we favor (I love Three Days and Marathon Man too), the good news is they're are a lot of good ones to choose from. I would add one that I always forget: All the President's Men, a true-life conspiracy thriller.
I watched that recently. I liked it although it was hard to follow at points, but I think it is one of those movies you need to watch a few times(well I do anyway) to understand all that's is going on, another one being Three Days of The Condor. I will check out both these movies again in the near future.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:I also like the ideas of litterary analysis, game theory etc. that the movie deals with. Plus, that certain 'New York in the 70's vibe', I also really dig.
What is it about New York in the 70's? The city was broke, and not much better in some parts than a toilet, and yet... it's fantastic!
quote:I would add one that I always forget: All the President's Men, a true-life conspiracy thriller
Best of the bunch IMHO.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Yeah, All The Presidents Men is another fave of mine!
As far as the "NY 70's" vibe, it's one of those things that you just can't explain. It's like a vibrant energy eminating through the city, and by that, through the movies. French Connection, Shaft, Superfly, Taxi Driver, The Warriors etc. The city is another character in those movies. And im not one for glamourizing slum, poverty and hardship. But the gritty, dirty street real feel that these movies give off, is quite unique, and specific to that decade.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
"Warriors, come out to play..ey!"
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Missouri Breaks - I'd forgotten just how good this is Brando is hilarious.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
When Brando did his accents and method-acting stuff, he was indeed hilarious.
Love Warriors, Bernie...great Walter Hill film.
You nailed it Jay Lee: All the films you mentioned completely and totally capture the City and the era.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i think missouri breaks is one of brando's best. i cant honestly say it is the best, for i havent seen that many. But that movie, him and Nicholson do a great job. i have seen this numerous times and it just keeps getting better.
on a side note, it may just be me, but i see where captain jack sparrow got some of his mannerisms from.
the only thing not in my diet, is the green top of a beet and ocra
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You know, GP, that Jack Sparrow comment got me thinking. Depp loves Brando, and they did Don Juan DeMarco together, so that would be a great question to ask Depp. I know that Depp says that Sparrow is based on Keith Richards, but I'd bet he's channeling Brando too! Great observation.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: When Brando did his accents and method-acting stuff, he was indeed hilarious.
Love Warriors, Bernie...great Walter Hill film.
You nailed it Jay Lee: All the films you mentioned completely and totally capture the City and the era.
Yeah it is indeed a favourite of mine along with The Wanderers both from '79 and both in NY. Both are fantastic movies.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
'The Wanderers' should be better known than it is.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Haunting (1963)
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
^Love it^.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: 'The Wanderers' should be better known than it is.
I agree, although I saw by complete chance when I was about ten. My brother and I tagged along to my mums friends house and they were talking or whatever in the kitchen while my bro and I closed in on the lounge and found a copy of The Wanderers sitting on the coffee table apparently belonging to the friends husband. We chucked it on and were absolutely enthralled. It starts of so well with Walk Like a Man-So cool.
I never heard of The Warriors either until about ten years ago when my brother who has chronic insomnia was telling me one day day that he watched this weird gang movie that was on TV the night before in the wee hours of the morning. He said it was great and about a week later we bought the VHS tape.
I hold both movies in very high regard and consider myself lucky to know of their existence considering the circumstances that lead me to my initial screening of them.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Wanderers and The Warriors = Great movies. Have both on dvd.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I have The Warriors on DVD.
My VHS copy of The Warriors has gone walkabout along with my DVD of The Wanderers.
Just quietly, how gorgeous is Karen Allen in The Wanderers. I wish that poker scene went for a bit longer, if you know what I mean.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I only seen both for the first time last year, loved them.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I guess we can forgive ya for not seeing them til recently Glad that you liked them. I guess you don't have any thoughts on Karen Allen Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Not the same ones as you lol
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, that would be highly unlikely. I can't even describe my thoughts on that matter Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh geez lol
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I read an article many years ago, I think in Film Comment, about film critic crushes. The guy who wrote about Karen Allen said that she was the one and had the face that would come to you when you closed your eyes in the middle of the night.
I couldn't agree more.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Me too. Big time. Oh well, off to bed.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Tell Karen that I said hi and would see her later. ROFL
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
It's too bad she knows all my 'lucid dream poker tricks' now.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Aww, just heard Michael Gough has died Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Awwwwww... "Batman," "Horrors of the Black Museum," "Horror Hospital," heck Gough was fun overracting his way through "Konga." Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Sorry to hear that Karen is on to you, Bernie. I wonder if she knows Laura Antonelli and could put the good word in for me. LOL I also wonder if that old Film Comment article is available on line somewhere. It was terrific and had love letters from critics to many of the beautiful 80s women whom we adored back in the day. Oh yeah, I remember another guy wrote this incredible gushing piece about MTV video jockey Martha Quinn. I believe that he said something like, "Oh, to be breathing the same oxygen molecules as her." ROFLMAO Helen, would you give up your love of the KK movies to have a guy write that about you? Huh, huh?
[ 17. March 2011, 11:29: Message edited by: Crash ]
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i liked micheal gough on sleepy hollow too.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Pfft, ain't nothing or nobody coming between me and my Karate Kid films Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You an Ralph and Pat are inseparable! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Forever and ever, amen
Right, time for some 70's action Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
West Side Story (1961)
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Right, time for some 70's action
Why does that sound dirty?
'West Side Story' - guaranteed to make me cry.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Don't worry Logan, you weren't the only one who picked up on the undertone Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
No, no undertones LOL
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: No, no undertones LOL
I've seen one of those before. They call them 'lies'.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
OUTRAGEOUS
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Death Line - What a fabulously dingy, grubby little film. I loved it
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
"Mind the Doors!"
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That was so sad, especially the last time it was screamed Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Terrific, little-known 70s horror. How about that long tracking shot? Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Classic Brit-horror.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Terrific, little-known 70s horror. How about that long tracking shot?
Fabulous I can see myself watching this again really soon Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Manhattan. It was okay. Not sure if I'll watch any other Woody Allen movies if they are all like this one.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yeah, I've tried a couple of his films and just, meh.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
I think you have to be a middleaged, jewish, neurotic new yorker, possibly with a hankering for young asians, to appreciate his films. And that kinda narrows down the potential audience.... Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh come on Jay, why don't you tell us how you really feel Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
Woody Allen is a genius. And Manhattan (whilst brilliant) isn't necessarily the best of his movies for an introduction to his work.
Try movies like Love And Death, or Sleeper, or even Annie Hall. Or (a more recent one) The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion. All of these give you a gentler, zanier, and above all less stylized introduction to Allen's work.
Only then will you be equipped to handle Zelig, that's for sure....
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
watched The Parent Trap (1961) with the adorable Hayley Mills who plays twins pulling the old switch-a-roo on their divorced parents. great family flick and hilarious! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Isn't it? Cheesetastic Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by P a u l: Woody Allen is a genius. And Manhattan (whilst brilliant) isn't necessarily the best of his movies for an introduction to his work.
Try movies like Love And Death, or Sleeper, or even Annie Hall. Or (a more recent one) The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion. All of these give you a gentler, zanier, and above all less stylized introduction to Allen's work.
Only then will you be equipped to handle Zelig, that's for sure....
This ^
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK:
quote:Originally posted by P a u l: Woody Allen is a genius. And Manhattan (whilst brilliant) isn't necessarily the best of his movies for an introduction to his work.
Try movies like Love And Death, or Sleeper, or even Annie Hall. Or (a more recent one) The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion. All of these give you a gentler, zanier, and above all less stylized introduction to Allen's work.
Only then will you be equipped to handle Zelig, that's for sure....
This ^
^Double this^
quote:Originally posted by Ronnie: watched The Parent Trap (1961) with the adorable Hayley Mills who plays twins pulling the old switch-a-roo on their divorced parents. great family flick and hilarious!
"Let's get together yeah yeah yeah!"
Hayley's accent was never convincingly American. She was like a walking sunbeam in films like this and Pollyanna.
Parent Trap for the 60's, Freaky Friday for the 70's. Classic Disney.
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5:
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK:
quote:Originally posted by P a u l: Woody Allen is a genius. And Manhattan (whilst brilliant) isn't necessarily the best of his movies for an introduction to his work.
Try movies like Love And Death, or Sleeper, or even Annie Hall. Or (a more recent one) The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion. All of these give you a gentler, zanier, and above all less stylized introduction to Allen's work.
Only then will you be equipped to handle Zelig, that's for sure....
This ^
^Double this^
^^^Treble this^^^
Just thought I'd join in!!! Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAY LEE: I think you have to be a middleaged, jewish, neurotic new yorker, possibly with a hankering for young asians, to appreciate his films. And that kinda narrows down the potential audience....
I'm gonna go with JAY LEE on this one.
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
Shame, Bernie, cos you're missing out on some classic movies...
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I actually did see on of his a while ago and it was quite funny but I can't remember which one it was, and can't remember much about it.
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
I can highly recommend any of those I mentioned above.
Quick synopsis.....
Love And Death : Set in the Napoleonic Wars between France and Russia, Woody plays Boris, a coward and philosopher who is forced to enlist in the Russian Army. After rising in the ranks by accidental success, he marries his sweetheart Sonja (Diane Keaton), who talks him into a plot to kill Napoleon.
Sleeper : This time set 200 years in the future, Allen plays the recently thawed Miles Munroe, desperately trying to come to terms with his new situation (he wasn't aware that he was being cryogenically frozen) and teams up with Socialite Luna (Keaton again), this time in an attempt to evade the secret police and overthrow the government by stealing the Presiden't nose (all that's left after an accident).
Annie Hall : This one basically tells the story of the on-off relationship between Alvy Singer (Allen) and Annie (Keaton) as they live in New York. After they finally split, they both somehow move to Los Angeles, where Alvy tries and ultimately fails to win her back. It's worth noting that this movie beat Star Wars to the Best Movie award at the 1977 Academy Awards.
Curse Of The Jade Scorpion : In this one, form2001, Allen plays CW Briggs, an Insurance Investigator, constantly battling both his boss and the new hot-shot female investigator (Helen Hunt) who just happens to be the bosses' mistress. At a party, both Allen and Hunt are hypnotised by a stage magician, who implants codewords and doesn't actually remove them. Later, he telephones Allen and using the codeword, gets him to break into homes using his inside knowledge, steal valuables, and then return home in complete ignorance of his actions. Allen and Hunt are both used in this way, and have to work together to try and discover the identity of the mysterious thieves...
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I will endeavour to check them out Paul and thanks heaps for the elaborate synopsis. From the descriptions the movie sounds more like Annie Hall than the rest but I can't be sure that was it, but it was definitely in New York. My mum has been trying to convince me to watch sleeper for ages, so I guess I'll check that one out first.
Again, thank you for the effort.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Bananas (1971) is one of the best comedies ever!
Posted by Kowalski (Member # 8412) on :
Got
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The Driver may be my favorite Walter Hill film--and certainly one of the most underrated films of the 70s. I love it.
LeMans isn't too shabby either!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Driver is indeed cool. I think that i´ve never seen Le Mans...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
East of Eden (1955)
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
you know i hear alot about how woody allen films are supposed to be funny, but i only find a few parts at most humerous.
but i really liked radio days
i have seen love and death, what am i missing
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: East of Eden (1955)
Helen, I am not sure if you are familiar with this song, but it's classic.
there's a mist over broadway breathing cool sheets of rain lights his last cigarette and turns his back to the wind
she says baby I don't know just how to explain and I can't see the sense and I can't play this game but he's not even listening he stares at the ground and she won't ever know what was on his mind
well now he's a rebel without a cause hey c'mon let's make a deal see your name in lights just like Jimmy Dean live and die behind the wheel
opened out on the highway leaving her far behind there's a star down on sunset he says yeah this one's mine
she says baby I don't know just how to explain and I can't see the sense and I can't play this game but he's not even listening he stares at the ground and she won't ever know what was on his mind
well now he's a rebel without a cause hey c'mon let's make a deal see your name in lights just like Jimmy Dean live and die behind the wheel well now Mr D whispered in his ear hey c'mon let's make a deal engines running hot singing Jimmy Dean any time there's time to kill
he drove like a demon and he burned up the screen but he never looked back no she just wasted my time
well now he's a rebel without a cause hey c'mon let's make a deal see your name in lights just like Jimmy Dean live and die behind the wheel gonna let those horses loose again hey c'mon let's make a deal see them running wild just like Jimmy Dean overdrive in chrome and steel hey c'mon hey c'mon let's make a deal well now he's a rebel without a cause live and die behind the wheel
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Nice! Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
Shout! Factory, which has been releasing a ton of New World/New Concorde movies out under the Roger Corman's Cult Classics line, just put out three of his black and white 1950s sci-fi/horror movies. It contains Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957), Not of This Earth (1957), and War of the Satellites (1958).
I watched AOTCM and NOTE earlier this week and enjoyed them both. I really liked Paul Birch's performance as Paul Johnson, the humanoid alien that comes to Earth to find blood for his planet. There's also a really weird looking monster that pops up in the last 10 minutes (it kinda resembles an umbrella without the handle). It was created by Paul Blaisdell, who made a ton of neat-looking monsters for different 50s sci-fi/horror movies on low budgets.
Attack of the Crab Monsters is a good giant monster movie. Even though the crabs have some goofy looking eyes, I liked the plot point of how they absorb the brains of their victims and telepathically communicate with the people. It's a very unique idea that I haven't see copied in other monster movies.
BTW, I also can't stand Woody Allen's movies. They're too talky and bore me to tears. Then again, that's how I feel about the majority of American movies made in the 1970s, despite what so-called "experts" say.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Not of this Earth is one of the best early Corman films. I think that it's a cool little sci-fi flick, and, Zach, you are right about Birch--he's great. I like AOTCM too. War of the Satellites was made quickly and cheaply after the space race began. It's not great, but it's pretty short so it's worth a look. Shout! Factory has been great about the Corman stuff. I hope that they keep it up. They just released Jackson County Jail, which I think is terrific.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I think what I did not like about Manhattan was Diane Keaton. She seemed, to me anyway, even more neurotic than Woody Allen. I don't think I can watch another one with her in it. She got on my nerves. I think the only other Woody Allen film I saw was Bullets over Broadway, and that was sooooo long ago.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
there were alot of moments in love and death where i was thinking, what is funny about this?
pitts, i have never really liked diane keaton all that much either, especially after the godfather.
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
"Please Sir!" (1971)
Based on a classic British TV Sitcom based in the fictional but strangely accurate Fenn Street School, it dollowed the fortunes of young, idealistic teacher Bernard Hedges (John Alderton) as he struggled to cope with life, love, and the trials served up daily by his pupils in class 5C.
The movie deals with the annual school trip to spend two weeks on a rural retreat (a trip that until this year, 5C had been banned from). That changes after Mr Hedges' impassioned plea, but if there's any trouble......
The cast is a real who's who of British TV comedy, with Derek Guyler, Joan Sanderson, Patsy Rowlands, Noel Howlett, Richard Davies alongside Alderton on one side as the down-trodden staff, and Peter Cleall, Carol Hawkins, Liz Gebhardt, David Barry, Peter Denyer and Malcolm McFee as the unruly students, always looking for an opening to cause mayhem and disruption.
We spoke about this one on a recent 'Please Help!" thread:
This is one of my favorite movies from the stream of tv-to-big screen adaptations that emerged around the early seventies.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Sounder (1972). Cicely Tyson, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Eric Hooks, Yvonne Jarrell, Carmen Mathews, Taj Mahal and James Best. The son of a Negro sharecropper family matures while his father is imprisoned for theft in the U.S. South in the 1930s. Based on the novel by William Armstrong.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Eyes Without A Face (1960) I feel so depressed now lol. Great flick.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Play the Billy Idol tribute song... It always cheers me up!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i watched the misouri breaks again, i dont get tired of it
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
DRACULA A.D. 1972
I really liked this, way more than I thought I would. Funny that the lead girl played Dylan's mom on Beverly Hills many years after. I kept racking my brain as to where I had seen her before, and then I remembered. She might have done a ton of other stuff too. But I, quite embarrassingly; remembered her as the mom of the Dyl
P.S. Having watched a lot of Hammer flicks lately, I have come to the conclusion that Peter Cushing is/was one of the best actors ever. He can make the most outrageous dialogue sound serious and poignant. And he really goes for it 100%, in every role. That's the mark of a true actor.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Sure is
That's the only Hammer Dracula I don't like tho, but still can never leave it out of my marathons.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
It comes second to all the first ones, that's for sure. But I had really low expectations, and was happily surprised. Haven't seen Satanic Rites Of Dracula yet, though, so maybe that's worse.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Satanic is much better I think Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree, Jay Lee, Peter Cushing was a fantastic actor. He really could take the silliest dialogue and make it sound thoroughly convincing. He was committted to every part (even in the silly "Land of the Minotaur"), and I always like the little "method-y" touches he did. My favorite is when he is testifying at the trial in "Frankenstein Created Woman," and he nonchalantly flips through the courtroom Bible. Just a wonderful actor and gentlemen...
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: Manhattan. It was okay. Not sure if I'll watch any other Woody Allen movies if they are all like this one.
It depends on what time-frame or era in Woody's career that you prefer.
1960's to early-70's: (his "silly" period) Take The Money And Run Bananas Everything You've Always Wanted To Know About Sex... What's Up, Tiger Lily? (redubbing a Japanese crime movie)
Mid-70's to early-80's: (his personal, contemplative era) Love And Death Annie Hall Manhattan Interiors (his first major drama) Stardust Memories
[Even though Woody acted in The Front (1976), he didn't write nor direct it, so I do not consider it as one of his movies.]
1983-to-late-1980's: (his 1930's-era nostalgic period) Broadway Danny Rose Radio Days Purple Rose of Cairo Zelig (the "Forrest Gump" of the 80's!)
Late-80's to 1990's: (contemporary dramas and comedies) Hannah & Her Sisters Crimes And Misdemeanors
[I missed out on most of his stuff since the 1990's, but the ones that I did see were hit-or-miss, and mostly miss. But I did like Small Time Crooks and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion.]
Woody is, to be sure, an acquired taste. You either really enjoy him or you can't stand him.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
True Grit (1969) Good film but it does make me sleepy in places.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Rocky 2 (1979). Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers and Burgess Meredith. A retired boxer is driven by circumstances to a rematch with an opponent as a result of the hate mail that the latter has been getting and also his conviction that his adversary's performance was good luck.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly - I think I'm scarred for life, too funny Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
SABATA- 1969
Excellent spaghetti western, starring Lee Van Cleef. Very gimmicky, but a lot of fun, with tons of great ideas. Campy as all hell, with a real slimy villain, but that's how I like it.
RETURN OF SABATA- 1971
Fun sequel, but falls just short of the original. Still, the same fun ideas and gimmicks are present.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Serpico
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Love Serpico...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Me too Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Me three.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Me four?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
No. 5 is alive!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Wow, lots of love here for Serpico! Any suggestions for more great 70's drama? I picked up Serpico at my local library. They seem to have a lot of classics.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: No. 5 is alive!
See... now that's what I love about this place!
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: Wow, lots of love here for Serpico! Any suggestions for more great 70's drama? I picked up Serpico at my local library. They seem to have a lot of classics.
Look at the biggest actors / actresses of the era and pick the biggest movies from their lists. These aren't all dramas, but...
'Dog Day Afternoon' 'All the Presidents Men' 'Taxi Driver' 'Klute' 'Network' 'Don't Look Now' 'Godfather 1 & 2' 'Deer Hunter' 'And Justice for All' 'Chinatown' 'One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest' 'Marathon Man' 'Lenny'
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Thanks logan! The Deer Hunter is one of my favorite movies- I watch it at least once a year. I will look for these at my library.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Great choices. Dog Day Afternoon is my fave Pacino film You feel every minute of his stress in it. Excellent.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Logan, every one of your choices is superb. Love them all.
Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
I finally just got around to watching War of the Satellites last week. While it's nowhere as good as Attack of the Crab Monsters or Not of This Earth, it is worth watching on a rainy day or just to kill 66 minutes. WOTS must have been a test run for D-i-c-k Miller by Roger Corman, as Miller gets to play the lead here, a full year before he starred in A Bucket of Blood.
One aspect of WOTS I did like was how the alien that ends up impersonating Dr. Van Ponder (Richard Devon) can astral project itself to make clones. The spaceship sets weren't too bad considering Roger Corman filmed the movie in eight weeks on a budget of $70,000. He really was the master of getting a lot out of a little. Isn't it funny how most of the low-budget black and white horror movies released by AIP, Allied Artists, and others in the 50s still look crisp today, yet a lot of bad low budget American 70s horror movies like Flesh Feast, Carnival of Blood, and Shriek of the Mutilated still look as bad as they did when they were first released?
Fun fact: War of the Satellites was released a full seven months after the launching of Sputnik 1.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Can't decide if that movie is amazingly bad, or just sweet but tacky.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I'll go with the latter Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
just seen the terror on the mgm channel a little while ago, i liked it, wasnt crazy about the angle they revealed towards the end but still good
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
You talking about the Jack Nicholson Terror? Love that Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
yep, the one with jack. what was the deal with the boris karloff character at the end?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
GP, I don't know if you have heard the stories behind Roger Corman's "The Terror," but this was the infamous two-day film that Corman did because he finished up "The Raven" early and had Karloff under contract for two more days. Always the spendthrift, Corman decided to make another movie and started filming without a script before the studio tore down "The Raven" sets. Sometime later, Monte Hellman and Francis Ford Coppola filmed some stuff by the ocean. The bizarre plot angles were explained in an interview that I read with D-i-c-k Miller. Miller--love this guy, a wonderful character actor--said that the movie didn't hang together so there's a scene, filmed much later, where Jack Nicholson slams Miller against a wall and says something like "I've been lied to ever since I got to this castle," and Miller then spouts pages of expository dialogue in an attempt to create/explain the plot. Gotta love Roger Corman's ingenuity! It's still a nice looking, entertaining movie. Jack Nicholson as a French solider...that's pretty good by itself!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
that was really good to be done in two days, i was really into the story, just that switcheroo thing.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
It's an amazing achievement when you think about it, GP--a film as only Corman could do. It has that terrific cast, who while they had no clue what the lines meant during filming, did a nice job anyway. And it looks great too, so much better than most of the direct-to-DVD stuff made today. While not one of Corman's best films, I've always thought that folks should see it as an educational curio, just to see what the low-budget master Corman could do with basically NO budget.
[ 05. April 2011, 18:53: Message edited by: Crash ]
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Last Picture Show
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
A Fool There Was (1915)
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Helen! I'm shocked! Theda Bara?!
I wouldn't normally say something like this, but... that vamp is a tramp!
I'll see your immoral vamp, and raise you a nice, moral... Mary Pickford movie:
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I'll move up a few decades. I re-watched "Murder by Decree" (1979), the Sherlock Holmes vs. Jack the Ripper tale that I saw in the theatre back in the day and was not very enthusiastic about it. I hadn't seen it since the mid-80s, but I decided to look at it again after watching a recent documentary on late director Bob Clark called "ClarkWorld." Anyway, my opinion on "Decree" hasn't changed. The cast is unbelievable and unbelievably good, and the movie looks and sounds great. Nothing else works. It's too long, the screenplay isn't good--Sherlock Holmes contacing a psychic? Conan Doyle rolls in his grave. And Holmes doesn't seem to do much deducting either--and the editing just sort of limps along from setpiece to setpiece, usually involving the one big scene for each big star. (Hey, look at Genevieve Bujod! There's Donald Sutherland! John Gielgud's here too!)
I know a lot of folks really love this film, but I have to quote a friend of mine who has the exact same feelings I do: "It's like they were having a picnic and invited all these great stars who brought great stuff, but they never told anybody where the picnic was so the stars sort of wandered around and nobody really met up to do anything good."
[ 08. April 2011, 10:14: Message edited by: Crash ]
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
speaking of sherlock holmes, ever since i seen rathbone's version i concluded that in my mind this is the definitive holmes, even when i read the stories. he did a great job on that, as did robert newton in treasure island, i heard about charlton heston version but i cant imagine anybody else as silver
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
seen bob clark's black christmas awhile back, liked it alot, as well as porkys and a christmas story, and it runs in the family aka my summer story
i wonder though if it was bob clark's doing or purely jean shepherd's or the combo, that made those movies really great.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That ending of Black Christmas is so special, love it Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I'm sorry, I disagree with both of you. I watched the entire of Black Christmas twice, and it failed to live up to my expectations of a blaxploitation movie about Christmas both times.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LMAO, you loon
Speaking of, I watched Blacula last night. Love it I'll watch the sequel tonight I think.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Too funny, Logan. I love the original "Black Christmas" very much. It's a lost classic. The phone calls are just so creepy and scary with all that crying, the multiple voices, the baby... And if you listen very carefully right before Margot Kidder hangs up on the nut, after he's just been going off the rails, you hear him say, calmly composed and quietly, "I am going to kill you." It's such a great horror film moment.
"Blacula" and "Scream, Blacula, Scream." Awww, the good old days. If you need another blaxploitation recommendation, how about "Sugar Hill" (no, not the 90s film with Wesley Snipes), but the zombie film with Marki Bey and Robert Quarry. It's great fun!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just put it in the queue Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You'll like it. The zombies are cool, and it's funny and entertaining--low rent, but well made little film. Someone called it the blaxploitation "Dr. Phibes." That's just about right. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cool, Phibes is so good. The sequel not so much.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think the original is a classic, and I like the sequel a lot too, though it's played even lighter. I wish they would have made the third one, "Brides of Dr. Phibles." Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Good Package: seen bob clark's black christmas awhile back, liked it alot, as well as porkys and a christmas story, and it runs in the family aka my summer story
i wonder though if it was bob clark's doing or purely jean shepherd's or the combo, that made those movies really great.
I would have to say that based on "A Christmas Story," "Black Christmas," "Deathdream," and "Porky's" that, Bob Clark, while not a legendary director, was quite good, sometimes. I think that his best skill was doing movies set in different periods that really put you in the mood for the period. Everyone likes "A Christmas Story," and I think that "Black Christmas" is a masterpiece. Two great films in a director's long career is nothing to sneeze at--even if that career had absolute dreck like the Superbabies movies, "Loose Cannons," and "Karate Dog." The docu, by the way, is okay. The big problem is that it focuses too much on his dreck, simply because the filmmakers got Scott Baio and Jon Voight to say really nice things about Bob.
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
hehehe good one
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i meant that about the black christmas joke logan told
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Delayed reaction!
RE: Bob Clarke; I think he was a good (not great) director. There's no doubt that Shepherd's 'warm' family material is what elevated 'A Christmas Story' to the all-time classic it now is. On another note; am I the only one who still recalls when nobody had heard of 'A Christmas Story'?
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
im a little slow, but i eventually get there
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Logan, I saw A Christmas Story on initial release in a theatre with about five other people and thought that it was great. It took many years for others to discover it.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
not a finger!
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). Eric Braeden, Susan Clark and Gordon Pinset. A U.S. supercomputer turns into a horrendous monster when put in contact with its Russian counterpart and runs amok, utilising its exceptional shrewdness to foil humans constantly. Based on the novel Colossus by Dennis Feltham Jones.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Seance on a wet afternoon (1964) Such a great, depressing, messed up film.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
THE STRANGE VICE OF MRS. WARDH- 1971
Solid giallo effort by Sergio Martino. Not really a slasherfest, more in the murder mystery vein, with a side of kink, and a nude Edwige Fenech. So you can't really go wrong there. Nice locations. good score by Nora Orlandi. Also starring George Hilton and euro-sleaze veteran, Ivan Rassimov.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Nice poster, Jay. Interesting movie.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
If.... (1968) Yawn
Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) Hooray Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
Meatballs
Are you ready for the summer
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: If.... (1968) Yawn
Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) Hooray
I am still yet to watch the '56 version....beeen meaning too for a while.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
All the versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers are strong--the '56 one is my favorite.
I haven't seen If... in many, many years, but I run hot and cold with director Lindsay Anderson. I really like O Lucky Man and This Sporting Life, absolutely despise Brittania Hospital, and don't remember a heckuva lot about If... .
I watched Meatballs again recently too, GP. It's kind of dated. (Do summer camps still exist?) But there is no denying that you can see how this movie made Bill Murray a star. He's hilarious in every scene--and I don't think that some of the stuff was all that funny on paper; Murray just makes it so. "It just doesn't matter... It just doesn't matter..." Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Destination Moon (1950)
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
FORBIDDEN PHOTOS OF A LADY ABOVE SUSPICION- 1970
Classy, and well made, yet bloodless giallo, by Luciano Ercoli. This movie foregoes sleaze and violence for suspense and tension. Beautiful cinematography, rich color scheme, great sets, locations, and some good performances by the cast. Great score by Morricone (duuuh). Feels a bit like a Colombo episode... without Colombo.
Well worth seeing. The Blue Underground version looks amazing.
STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER- 1975
If a movies opening scene is a gynecological exam, you can kinda guess that it's gonna be a somewhat sleazy affair. And this one sure delivers in the nudity department. Sadly, that is all it delivers. The muder plot, the acting, the directing and everything else, is rather uninspired. If not for several scenes of the lovely Edwige Fenech in her birthday suit, this one would have little to recommend.
DEATH WALKS AT MIDNIGHT- 1972
Decent, if somewhat poorly constructed, giallo by Luciano Ercoli. Starring his wife, Susan Scott. More of a mystery crime thriller than anything else, but that's ok. Has its share of great scenes, but too many slowspots. Medium fare.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:If.... (1968) Yawn
Helen! Stay awake! It's the 'great' Lindsay Anderson you're yawning at!
quote:Invasion of the body snatchers (1956) Hooray
"They're here already!"
quote:I watched Meatballs again recently too, GP. It's kind of dated. (Do summer camps still exist?) But there is no denying that you can see how this movie made Bill Murray a star. He's hilarious in every scene--and I don't think that some of the stuff was all that funny on paper; Murray just makes it so. "It just doesn't matter... It just doesn't matter..."
Agreed. It created a template that ran through the summer camp movies of the 80's (even the bad ones!) I can overlook the dated-ness for Murray, the music (good soundtrack) and some nice supports. Let's face it, most 80's summer camp movies are dated now. I never went to a camp... but I always wanted to.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
yeah summer camp always looked fun in the movies, even friday the 13th movies at the begining of them anyway.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Dirty Dozen (1967). Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Robert Ryan, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas, Ralph Meeker, Richard Jaeckel, Clint Walker, Trini Lopez and Robert Webber. A dozen murderers, rapists and other criminals who have been either sentenced to death or long terms of imprisonment with hard labour get a chance to redeem themselves on a suicide mission for the Allies during the Second World War. Based on the novel by E. M. Nathanson.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Mr Majestyk 1974. Charles Bronson as a ex con and Vietnam veteran who runs a farm. After the local mafia destroy his crop, he flips and goes after them.
Also, the box set of The Persuaders. Curtis and Mooore having a laugh around Europe as a couple of playboy sleuths. Fantastic escapism. On if.... , this is one of my favourite films ever, maybe you don't fully appreciate it unless you are from the UK. try it again, it grows on you.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yay Harry, where ya been? Welcome back Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Thanks, broken screen now sorted. Bit of catching up to do !
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Well just started on season one of Starsky & Hutch. Not the greatest of the seventies cops shows, but certainly very entertaining. Couldn't turn down 22 50 minute episodes and a feature length pilot for the astounding price of £3.70 on Amazon (Uk region 2). Also bought season 3 for £3.50, another 23 episodes. Works out at about 20p/hour !!!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That's quite tempting lol
The Wicker Man
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Suspiria (1977)
Not my favorite Argento flick but it´s a great easter witch movie
Grease- Its just fantastic the ultimate film that never ages, i let my 2 youngest see it for the first time and they loved it too, its amazing it just doesnt seem that old when you watch it!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
amaranth, great job!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
suspiria, had some wild carpeted walls, plus i liked that militant german woman and the soundtrack was kooky.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I've always liked Suspiria because it is an "experience," with a capital E, with all that weirdness: the decor, the oversaturated Technicolor, the crazy soundtrack, the dubbing... Even if you aren't a fan of it, you have to admit that you haven't seen anything like it.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I watched Dog Day Afternoon last week. It was really good. Now on for my search for more of the 70's movies you all recommended!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Oooo, HelenS, the original Wicker Man- wow- I don't even have words to describe how I feel about it. Let's just say I think it is a really strange weird movie. But still a good flick.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i watched the phantasm awhile back, and didnt like it. couldnt figure out what the heck was going on story wise, what was the deal with the demon midgets?
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Another great series of films. Bargain in the UK (again) about £15 for a box set of the whole series with a bumber set of extras. Amazing that Don Coscarelli was only in his mid twenties when the first film was made.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972). Joanne Woodward, Nell Potts, Roberta Wallach and Judith Lowry. A reclusive alcoholic boor of a single mother resides in a grubby home with her two daughters, to whom she is controlling as well as abusive. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel, who wrote the screenplay.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: That's quite tempting lol
The Wicker Man
Great movie Helen. It certainly left an impression on me. A true masterpiece. A very different movie. Creativity has certainly taken a landslide since then I love the usage of the masks in that movie.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Lost Horizon (1973). Peter Finch, Liv Ullmann, Sally Kellerman, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, Bobby Van, James Shigeta, Charles Boyer and John Gielgud. Survivors of a plane crash in the Himalayas are brought to the paradise of Shangri-La, where long life, immaculate health and absolute happiness are the standard. Based on the novel by James Hilton.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
The Ipcress File (1965)
In London, a counter espionage agent deals with his own bureaucracy while investigating the kidnapping and brainwashing of British scientists. -- IMDb
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Wicker Man
^ Great movie. The ending still gets me. Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
The big bird cage (1972) Pam Grier , Sid Haig- Actually not a bad movie, i thought it was going to be all nudity etc but it wasnt- Its about a womans jungle prison and Grier and Haig are revolutionaries that come to free the prisoners
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962). Tom Courtenay, Michael Redgrave, Avis Bunnage, Alec McCowen, James Bolam, Joe Robinson, Dervis Ward, Topsy Jane and Julia Foster. A refractory youth who is serving an imprisonment term at a juvenile prison for theft from a bakery comes to gain the governor's respect let alone favour and is picked to take part in a track race against the students of a local public school.
Posted by The Pyromantic (Member # 7658) on :
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977) Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Went the Day Well? (1942). Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Allen, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney, Valerie Taylor, Mervyn Johns, Edward Rigby, Marie Lehr, C.V. France, David Farrar, Muriel George, Thora Hird and Norman Pierce. In the Second World War, when German troops masked as British soldiers take possession of a British village to prepare the way for an invasion of Great Britain, then the inhabitants resist them.
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Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
National Lampoon's: Animal House (1978)
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
It's a classic. Love it.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
This Scene never fails to crack me up.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
"Is there anything in the world, you hate as much as that horse."
Great scene.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i watched a interview with landis, he said he couldnt figure out why people laugh at doug kenney when he says, so what are we suppose to do you moron
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Doug Kenney's delivery of that line is unexpected, perfectly timed, and spot on. It's brilliant. Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Children Of The Stones, 1977. British made television series about strange events that happen around a stone circle. Very menacing for a kids show. Stars Gareth Thomas ( pre Blakes 7 Blake) and Iain Cuthbertson (Budgie). Bit dated now, but scared the bejaysus out of me, as a ten year old. Sort of childrens alternative to The Wicker Man.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Where's Helen lately? Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I was going to ask the same question.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I will have to PM her if this keeps up.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yes. This isn't like her.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
FOXES.... yes, it's from '79, not '80. The movie says 1979, as does the tombstone in the end.
It was ok, nothing special.
Although good to see that Scott Baio had some skater skills Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Shooting (1967). Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Will Hutchins and Warren Oates. A woman convinces two cowboys to partake in a vengeance plot.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Ryan's Daughter (1970)
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Just hanging out. Waitin' for Helen. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hey people, so good to be back. My router broke. That was torturous being that long without the internet Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Nice to have you back!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
It's great to have you back Helen. On my birthday as well. Big three O.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Aww, thanks
Happy Birthday Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Happy birthday, Bernie. Cheers!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Thanks guys. It's highly appreciated Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Get lots of irritating joke 30 cards? My sister couldn't find one for me she liked so got a 30 sticker stuck on the front of a normal card Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Been watching nothing but goodness these last few weeks, Citizen Kane (1941), Sugar Hill, The Wicker Man again, Crucible of Terror, The Day The Earth Stood Still (1951), Dr. Crippen (1964) and The Creeping Flesh Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by harry2: Children Of The Stones, 1977. British made television series about strange events that happen around a stone circle. Very menacing for a kids show. Stars Gareth Thomas ( pre Blakes 7 Blake) and Iain Cuthbertson (Budgie). Bit dated now, but scared the bejaysus out of me, as a ten year old. Sort of childrens alternative to The Wicker Man.
Bought this the other year on a whim and really enjoyed it. It really is pretty crazy for a kids show lol
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Glad you liked it Helen. Filmed at Avebury in Wiltshire if you are passing !!!
Just watching The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer. Stars Peter Cook and plethora of British acting talent. Michael Rimmer (Cook) joins an opinion poll company in a mysterious capacity, a silent and malevolent observer of what goes on. In this he's not a million miles from Bedazzled's George Spiggott, but in 'The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer' the targets are clear - big business, local government, the parliamentary parties, democracy itself.
As Rimmer gains more and more personal power, we see a Britain decaying at the seams in a sea of corruption - from the dim humbug makers with their sexy ad campaign to the would-be PM with planted questions at party conference. Supporting roles are judged well (Denholm Elliott, John Cleese, Arthur Lowe, Ronald Fraser in particular), while Cook himself looks the part, smirking and smart-suited, interfering in a cosy world of middle-aged execs and politics in need of a shake.
There's a lot going on here in a Britain stood still - and it makes for a very entertaining film. 1970.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I was looking at The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer--it's a made-on-demand Warner Brothers Archive DVD here in the U.S--and was thinking that is a rare 70s Brit comedy with a post-Python Cleese that I haven't seen. I have to check it out.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Cleese and Chapman have bit parts. If you enjoyed the Lindsay Anderson series, ....if , O Lucky Man !and Brittania Hospital , you will definitely like this. The cast is a who's who of the cream of British actors fom 40 years ago, including Denholm Elliott, Ronald Fraser , Vanessa Howard, Arthur Lowe, James Cossins, Roland Culver, Dudley Foster, Dennis Price, John Cleese, Diana Coupland, Norman Bird, Graham Chapman, Norman Rossington, Valerie Leon, Ronnie Corbett, Graham Crowden, Frank Thornton, Julian Glover, Martin Boddey, Michael Barrington, Michael Bates.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Great cast there, Harry. I am hot and cold on Anderson's series--I like "...if," love "O Lucky Man," and hate "Brittania Hospital." It sounds like it is in the vein of "I'll Never Forget What'sisname," which I love.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Haven't seen that, will put on wish list
Just watching Fright. Babysitter menaced by lunatic ex-husband of child's mother.Susan George, Ian Bannen, Honor Blackman, George Cole and Dennis Waterman star. 1970.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Love Susan George!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
You mean Dirty Mary.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Love Susan George, gotta watch Straw Dogs.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, that's a good one.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957). William Hopper, Joan Taylor, Frank Puglia, John Zaremba, Thomas Browne Henry, Tito Vuolo, Jan Arvan, Arthur Space and Bart Bradley. When the first spaceship to Venus crashes into the sea off Sicily, leaving the pilot as the sole survivor, then it brings with it a swiftly growing monster that forces efforts to be made to deal with it.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watch me when I kill - An alright giallo, middle was a bit dull. Some nice kills.
Posted by SuperEvilCupcakes (Member # 9692) on :
"The Rocky Horror Picture Show". I don't care if I receive flack for saying it but it's still awesome!!
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Hey people, so good to be back. My router broke. That was torturous being that long without the internet
Thank god you're back! Starting to get worried! Why'd it take so long to replace your router - eh? None of your excuses!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hey you Bleeding Sky messed up getting the new one to me
Nobody should give you flack for that Super Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
just watched jaws again.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
You can't watch Jaws too many times. It's classic.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
shaw did a really great job in that one. well everyone did.
you follow.
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by harry2: Love Susan George, gotta watch Straw Dogs.
Did you know that a remake of that movie is coming out soon?
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
I watched the 1960 original, and wonderful "School For Scoundrels" last night.
This brilliant movie starred Ian Carmichael as the put-upon Henry Palfrey, second best when at work (he was the boss, but his chief Clerk basically ran the place), on the tennis court (he had been dropped from his club team) and in love (the object of his affectin had been swept away by his main rival). In desperation, he enrols in the College of Lifemanship, run by Alisair Sim's slippery-smooth Mr Potter. He learns how to become 'one-up' in all areas, instead of settling for being 'one-down'.
So Palfrey sets about winning at all costs, at all times. He belittles his clerk, gains revenge on the car salemen who had previously conned him into buying a heap of junk, and then sets his sights on his rival and his love.
The rest of the cast are excellent. His main rival is the superb Terry-Thomas, who was simply brilliant as The English Cad in everything he ever did. The eye candy and love target is April Smith, played with naiivety and charm by the beautiful Janette Scott. The car salesmen are dennis Proce and Peter Jones, and the rest of the movie is scattered with British Comedy Stalwarts such as John Le Mesurier, Hattie Jacques, and Irene Handl.
Anyone that has had the misfortune to suffer the abysmal 2006 remake with Billy Bob Thornton should seek and enjoy the original. it's more than a suitable antidote.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
anybody see the orginal dirty rotten scoundrels with marlon brando, and if so is it good.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Robbery - 1967. Based on The Great Train Robbery, stars Stanley Baker and directed by Peter "Bullitt" Yates. Solid yarn, nothing spetcacular. 7/10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Shock (1977)
That kid Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Innocents (1961) I'd forgotten how amazing this is Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Don't be afraid of the dark
Posted by Veronica Sawyer (Member # 2221) on :
The original Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time ever...Wow, now I see where Rob Zombie got all his ideas from! I liked it...gritty, scary, and to the point.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I had nightmares for a couple of days when I first saw this as a kid.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I still don't think I've ever seen anybody play pure fear quite so well as Marilyn Burns in that film.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree. Burns is fantastic. Her performance made an already scary movie absolutely terrifying. 'Tis a shame she never had the career that she deserved, one heckuva actress!
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Danger Diabolik. Semi comic book film starring John Philip Law. A criminal mastermind outwits the police, politicians and the mafia. 1967, Italian dubbed into English , produced by Dino De Larentis and directed by a young Mario Bava. Maybe another inspiration for Austin Powers.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think that Danger: Diabolik is such a fun film--and it's cool looking too. I'd like to think that the look of the film was the inspiration for a lot of films, like perhaps Buckaroo Banzai?
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Double bill of films from the late 60s, Deadlier Than The Male and Some Girls Do. British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings and a series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. 7/10 and 5/10 for the sequel. All good tongue in cheek fun.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Bloody Judge, hehe crazy.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Silver Streak (1976)
On a long-distance train trip, a man finds romance but also finds himself in danger of being killed, or at least pushed off the train. -- IMDb
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Women Unchained aka Five Angry Women aka Escape From Cell Block 3 (1974)
Very low budget prison break flick but it had the right attitude. Such a sad story. Liked the theme tune.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Enter the Dragon (1973). Bruce Lee, John Saxon, Ahna Capri, Shih Kien, Bob Wall, Angela Mao Ying, Betty Chung, Geoffrey Weeks, Yang Sze, Peter Archer and Jim Kelly. A martial arts expert takes part in an island tournament so that he can spy on a solitary crime magnate for the British.
"Man, you come right out of a comic book!"
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I love "Enter the Dragon," though I can never look at it the same way again after the "Fistful of Yen" segment of "Kentucky Fried Movie." It just cracks me up. Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
im going to watch young frankenstien again
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Superman (1978)
An alien orphan is sent from his dying planet to Earth, where he grows up to become his adoptive home's first and greatest super-hero. -- IMDb
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Crucible Of Terror 1971.
Mike Raven and James Bolam.
An obsessed sculptor kills a young women to make a perfect bronze sculpture of her. Years later at his secluded home a number of people become trapped in a web of revenge, murder and horror.
This is pretty poor, Little horror, short on suspense and average acting. 4/10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
No way, I love that one I give it a 9.
I last watched the weird Venus in Furs (1969)
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
lipstick 1976 with the late margaux hemingway,her sister mariel hemingway,a creepy chris sarandon and class of 1984's perry king.very trashy but highly entertaining rape /revenge/ drama . sarandon's musical recordings of every day noises mixed with keyboards was eerily effective! http://youtu.be/pWrZ6ns7y-o
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Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Carry on Doctor (1967)
The popular Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses' home. The patients are determined not to lose him, and so take on the might of the "cutting" Dr Tinkle and the overpowering Matron -- IMDb
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Maniac (1963)
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by J2ME:
Carry on Doctor (1967)
The popular Dr Kilmore is sacked after being discovered in a compromising position on the roof of the nurses' home. The patients are determined not to lose him, and so take on the might of the "cutting" Dr Tinkle and the overpowering Matron -- IMDb
That's my favorite Carry On - hits every single note just right.....
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The original Oceans 11. The Rat Pack turn out the lights and rob the casinos in Las Vegas. 1960. 7 1/2 /10 for me.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Burnt Offerings - I'd forgotten virtually everything about this. A little overlong but great story and weirdness.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
99 Women (1969) and Season of the Witch (1972)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Frightmare - Sooo good The last half an hour or so especially is exceptional. Mental
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Dirty Harry and Magnum Force-Clint Eastwood "Do you feel lucky punk, do you?"
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The Detective - Frank Sinatra investigates the murder of a man and the associated homophobia and corruption in a late sixties New York police department.
Posted by Leo Logan (Member # 9206) on :
"The Swarm" (1978) with Michael Caine heading an all-star cast about a group of killer bees attacking a small town in Texas. Very bad disaster film yet very entertaining.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Love The Swarm also.
Just watched the other two films in a Sinatra boxset, Tony Rome and the sequel Lady in Cement.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Going back to 1946. John Mills in David Leans version of ****ens Great Expectations. One of the greatest films ever. 9/10.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Carry On Abroad(1972)
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff. They all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations... -- IMDb
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Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Easy Rider - dont need to go into detail everyone knows this film lol
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Ooh, I bought that recently, haven't seen it in ages.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Mean Streets - Early Scorcese film starring Robert De Niro and Harvey Keitel. A young hood grows up in Little Italy in the 50s. 8/10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Brilliant film, love it more every watch Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Conflict, alias Catholics (1973). Trevor Howard, Martin Sheen, Raf Vallone, Cyril Cusack, Andrew Keir, Michael Gambon and Leon Vitale. In the future, a priest is sent by the Vatican to bring about reform in a secluded monastery led by an abbot in Ireland. Based on the novel by Brian Moore.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Sisters - I forgotten how messed up and great this is
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Did you know that there was a remake of this? It is not good,
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yep, I knew I could rely on you to tell me how it is hehe Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
A robot malfunction creates havoc and terror for unsuspecting vacationers at a futuristic, adult-themed amusement park. -- IMDb
One of the best movies of the '70s -- as long as you can ignore the numerous plot-holes and failed logic.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Westworld is one of my favourites. The sequel Futureworld, is worth a look also. Stars Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner.
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Meatballs (1979)classic Bill Murray
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Grip of the strangler (1958)
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Sunset Cove (1978) yesterday, the movie was directed by b-maestro Al Adamson. A fun T&A flick including hot girls, cool dudes, a nerd, a fat guy, stupid cop and a mayor hungry for money and fame. Lots of wtf? moments but that´s what make them more interesting.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Season one boxset of a childhood favourite, The Six Million Dollar Man was stuffed in the letterbox today. Halfway through the first of three double length pilots (ha ha) and thirteen normal length ones for £10.49. Season two is only £5.49. That'll keep me quiet for aweek or two.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Good stuff Harry
Just watched The Fury (1978)
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Good little film that. Underrated and never seen on TV any more. Similar theme to Scanners.
Just watched Trading Places (1983)
A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. Fantastic John Landis film, very much of the 80s. Eddie Murphy, Dan Ayrkoyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche and Jamie Lee Curtis star. 9/10 for me.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yeah, good strange flick and very Scanners-esque. Love that ending Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Fury is pretty good, i have the dvd.
Watched Tess (1979) yesterday.
It was a well made drama and a sad tale directed by Roman Polanski and starring Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth and Leigh Lawson. A very long movie, about three hours, so don´t even try if you feel sleepy
Posted by paulsroom (Member # 9842) on :
A film that's just about to be released on Blu-ray is "Deep End", which was made right at the start of the 1970s. Since each decade follows on a little after the previous one has ended, it still had the 1960s flavour. This is a film that's long since been out of circulation and certainly deserves a re-issue - and even better in Blu-ray.
Posted by paulsroom (Member # 9842) on :
If we're going further back here to the 1960s, I feel that "The Servant" was a brilliant film. Away from his Rank "Doctor in the House" type fo films, Dirk Bogarde gave an amazing preformance as the perfect manservant who looks after his master's ery whim - also brilliantly played by James Fox, and perfect in the role. The way the roles reverse is so subtly that you can't see it until it's obvious. A master film by Joseph Losey - Hollywood's loss.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
One of my absolute fave Hammers, Vampire Circus
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Mutations - Took me a little bit to warm up to but then really enjoyed the rest.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
"The Mutations"... What a goofy film, but pretty entertaining! I just watched "Nude for Satan." I like Italian horror films very much--and I like actress Rita Calderoni just as much--but this one was incoherently nuts. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL @ that title
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You should see the movie. If you asked me to tell you what it was about, I think that I'd just have to respond, "Rita Calderoni gets nude for Satan...a lot. In a castle. With a big spider. With some other weird people. And they roll around under colored lights with smoke pots going off...a lot. Did I mention that she gets nude for Satan?"
Nuttiest giallo or something like a giallo that I've ever seen!
Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
Amazing..this movie can STILL make me chuckle like a stoned schoolboy..lol
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: You should see the movie. If you asked me to tell you what it was about, I think that I'd just have to respond, "Rita Calderoni gets nude for Satan...a lot. In a castle. With a big spider. With some other weird people. And they roll around under colored lights with smoke pots going off...a lot. Did I mention that she gets nude for Satan?"
Nuttiest giallo or something like a giallo that I've ever seen!
Yeah, but where's John Simm? I just watched the ep where he's speeding, hot Can't he get nude for Satan in the last 3 episodes? Hahaha Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Jerk is on TV tomorrow, I haven't seen it in forever. Will watch Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Or record it. The Incredible Melting Man is on at the same time Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Such crap fun, makeup was great
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Hell in the Pacific (1968). Lee Marvin, Toshiro Mifune. A confrontation between an American marine fighter pilot and a Japanese naval officer takes place on a Pacific island in the Second World War.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: You should see the movie. If you asked me to tell you what it was about, I think that I'd just have to respond, "Rita Calderoni gets nude for Satan...a lot. In a castle. With a big spider. With some other weird people. And they roll around under colored lights with smoke pots going off...a lot. Did I mention that she gets nude for Satan?"
Nuttiest giallo or something like a giallo that I've ever seen!
Nude for Satan was released on dvd here. I need to get it!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Oh, you have to see this one, aTomik! You won't believe it. Rita Calderoni is in two other nutso Italian horror films "Delerium" with Mickey Hargitay and "The Reincarnation of Isabelle." All three films make absolutely no sense and appear to be the work of deranged folks high on something. They are all mind-boggling!
Funny story: My son (who was about 14 at the time) and I were at a horror convention a few years ago and were perusing the dealer tables. These two really funny, nice guys--who admitted that they had been drinking heavily prior to the show--had a lot of crazy stuff for sale. They had a monitor with DVD-R burns running non-stop, and when the scene of Calderoni sans clothing walking through the woods in the opening of the film came on, they shouted out, "Here she comes!" My son got an eyeful, and he asked the guys, "Hey, is there anything on this table that isn't a pirate video?" And the inebriated guys showed him some Region 2 stuff in orignal boxes. Just like dear old dad... I was so proud of him that day. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Haha, great stuff! I´m definately going to get that movie.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Daleks Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
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Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977) - Linda Blair, Richard Burton, Louise Fletcher, Max Von Sydow, James Earl Jones. Directed by John Boorman.
That movie is so-bad-its-good and belongs among the funniest bad films of the 70s alongside "The Swarm", "The Car", "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" and "The Betsy".
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That's the only Exorcist I haven't seen. The only one of the others I love is Part 3 Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Only a talented, gifted director like John Boorman can make a film as bad as "Exorcist II" or "Zardoz."
Leo, I haven't thought about "The Betsy" in years, but Lawrence Olivier's Southern accent is hilarious, one of the worst accents of any major actor in any film. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Daleks Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D. (1966)
I recently saw a good documentary on the making of the two Peter Cushing Doctor Who movies. I haven't seen either since I was very young, but I remember that I really disliked them. I think that despite Peter Cushing, I'd still dislike them for changing the Doctor Who concept for the big screen.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I really like Dr Who and the daleks, not overly keen on this one.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Just watching Armchair Thriller. A late 70s British TV series of ten 4 or six episode thrillers. Very dated now, but always worth a look.
Exorcist still frightens me. Trivia: Mike Oldfield was at the same school as me, got expelled and was told he wouldn't make much of his life, as he messed around too much !!!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Badlands - Great film. It's like so chilled out considering its subject matter lol
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: I really like Dr Who and the daleks, not overly keen on this one.
Weirdly, I feel pretty much the opposite. On my dvr I have the two Peter Cushing efforts and also the 1996 Paul McCann one.
I didn't really get Dr Who And The Daleks, it all seemed too cheaply done for me.
Invasion Earth 2150 was better for some scale, and on the whole Bernard Cribbins did better in the 'supporting male' role than Roy Castle (of course, Cribbins later rejoined the Who cast in hte David Tennant days).
I haven't yet seen the 1996 one (well, not since it first came out) so I'm looking forward to being able to compare the three.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
badlands reminds me of the nebraska album
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
How dare you disagree with me Paul I can barely remember anything about the '96 one, let me know how it is Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Night of the eagle (1962) Fabulous witchy film, oodles of atmosphere Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I've just bought the complete collection of Batfink hahaha
The Getaway (1972). Steve McQueen, Ali McGraw, Ben Johnson, Sally Struthers, Al Lettieri, Slim Pickens, Dub Taylor and Bo Hopkins. A criminal husband who has just been freed from prison on parole and also his wife wind up going on the run when the armed robbery of a bank goes wrong. Based on the novel by Jim Thompson.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Gauntlet (1977)
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
ACT OF VIOLENCE- 1948
Great Film Noir classic with good performances. One of the first movies to deal with the dark side of returning WWII vets. Brilliant writing, in switching the audiences sympathy back and forth between pro and antagonist.
MYSTERY STREET- 1950
Noirish police/forensic procedural, way ahead of it's time in many ways. Good job by Ricardo Montalban.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
One of my fave Disney's The Rescuers. I seen this in the pictures in the 80's and thought it was actually from then for the longest time lol Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Joe Kidd - Clint Eastwood,
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
The Enforcer Clint Eastwood- another Dirty Harry movie didnt find it as good as the last two, one of the woman from cagney and lacey was in it no idea which one lol
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by Amaranth: One of the women from Cagney and Lacey was in it, no idea which one, lol.
You are manifestly talking about Tyne Daly.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The Zoo Gang. One of ITC's last series. Four resistance veterans from WW2 fight crime to raise money for a hospital. John Mills, Brian Keith, Lilli Palmer and Barry Morse star in six episodes 1974.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Bugsy Malone.
Alan Parker's 1976 gangster classic, entirely cast with children. Scott Baio played the lead very well, and Jodie Foster was sultry as Talullah, the night club singer and current squeeze of small time hood Fat Sam. Sam's empire was crumbling under attacks from his rival, Dandy Dan, and the dreaded Splurge Gun. The only capable resource that Sam could call on was Bugsy - a loner, a sharp operator, whose eyes for new singer Blousey and desire to help Sam drew him in two different directions.
Considering the potential for careers after this movie, it's surprising how few of the cast actually made it. Aside from Baio and Foster, the only real name is dexter Fletcher in a very minor role. In the UK, there are a few others that we would recognise, in Bonnie Langford, Mark Curry and Kathryn Apanowicz. But internationally? Only the three. Many of the actors never made another big screen appearance....
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
THE WOMAN IN THE WINDOW- 1944
A decent film noir effort by director, Fritz Lang, starring Edward G. Robinson. Always nice to see Eddie G in a benevolent role, and the movie does have a lot tense scenes and atmosphere. But the ending killed it for me..... I hate cop out endings! Otherwise a good movie.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Jay Lee, I just watched this one recently too. That ending is controversial. Most folks absolute hate it. I liked the movie so much that I gave it some slack. Have you seen the subsequent Lang/Robinson/Bennett/Duryea film "Scarlett Street"? I like that one even more--no cop out ending either. Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Haven't seen that one yet, but it's on my 'to do' list Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Dewaere, Carole Laure, Riton, Michel Serrault and Eleonore Hirt. A husband goes to great lengths to keep his sexually frustrated wife elated.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Doomwatch
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
LAURA- 1944
I was way overdue in getting on this noir classic, and it did NOT dissapoint! A new favourite. Great performances, razor sharp dialogue, great noir vibe, great story. I would put it right up there with genre heavyweights like The Big Sleep and other such esteemed titles.
Dana Andrews is a forgotten star of the golden age, but that's a shame. The guy is cooler than a polarbear's nutsack, and a great actor. I love his comeback, when Cliffton Webb tauntingly ask "haven't you ever been in love?" to which Andrews replies "well, a dame from Washington Heights once got a fox fur outta me!" what a kickass 40's style comeback! Andrews rules! Gene Tierny is magnetic as the mysterious Laura, Vincent Price is great as the smarmy Fianceé, and Cliffton Webb is rude, crude and hilarious as Laura's old admirer.
If you like the genre (actually film noir is more a style than a genre) the you should most def check this out!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Good one Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
Oh, you just like it for Vincent Price..... Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
So cynical lol
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
WHIRLPOOL- 1949
Another very good noir effort by Otto Preminger, and once again starring the alluring Gene Tierny. Also with Richard Conte as the husband, avery good role for him, since he's usually the toughguy. And a great Jose Ferrer as the creepy hypnotist with an evil plan. Good story, good dialogue, great performances and thick, dream like noir vibe. Can't go wrong.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Jay Lee, I, too, am slowly catching up on all these cool noirs on streaming NetFlix. Man, they don't make 'em like they used to. These films are great!
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough complications in his own love life, but still produces a pamphlet called "The Wit to Woo". The strange collection of hopefuls lead to some outlandish matches, and jealousies are bound to lead to trouble. -- IMDb
One of my favourites from the series.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Paul will be in here any second Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
I know you secretly love them, Helen. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
lol, I like Screaming Camping's a laugh too.
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Jay Lee, I, too, am slowly catching up on all these cool noirs on streaming NetFlix. Man, they don't make 'em like they used to. These films are great!
Yes they are. Just bought a buttload on play.com.
Im running out of space for my flicks soon. But that's the plight of the collector!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I've had a smashing cheesetastical day watching Superman 1 and 2 Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watching the 60's Batman show from the beginning again, woohoo Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched non bloody giallo type film, Footprints. Beautifully shot and quite atmospheric. Can be a little bit of a drag at times but is worth it all for that ending, haunting.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Oh, I've been looking for this one for a while. This is the crazy one with Klaus Kinski and Florinda Balkan that I read about in Video Watchdog. I'm going to have to look harder. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Aww, they don't have it there? It's on the amazon here. You need to get that region free player Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
I just bought the Classic Ultimate Sci-Fi Collection from Universal, which contains 10 sci-fi/horror movies, mostly from the '50s but one '40s and one '60s movie thrown in. I watched the Land Unknown a few nights ago. It's one of my favorite "expedition to a land where dinosaurs are still alive" movies. This movie concerns a Naval journey to a Mesozoic Era land beneath sea level in a crater near Antarctica. The SFX are not that bad, considering the t-rex is an actor standing inside an oversized costume (at least 20-25 feet tall). It still does the trick well, though. The elasmosaurus is extremely impressive for 1950s standards (at least I thought so). Check it out for yourselves:
According to an interview with the movie's director (published in Fangoria #73, May 1988), Virgil W. Vogel, The Land Unknown was going to be a big-budget sci-fi movie from Universal. It was supposed to be filmed in color with an all-star cast and Cinemascope. Vogel recalled that Cary Grant's name was mentioned as a possibility. The SFX department went overbudget on building the elasmosaurus, so the color and the name stars had to go. Vogel, however, was able to convince the powers-that-be to let him keep the Cinemascope.
While Jock Mahoney may not be ideal leading man material, I thought he did fine as the rugged hero. It's Henry Brandon, though, who does the best job acting-wise as a member of a previous expedition who's been living in a cave and surviving on his own.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Just watched Two Minute Warning (1976)
"A psychotic sniper plans a massive killing spree in a Los Angeles football stadium during a major championship game. The police, led by Captain Peter Holly (Charlton Heston) and SWAT commander Sergeant Button (John Cassavetes), learn of the plot and rush to the scene. Still, they may be too late, as an all-star cast finds itself lined up in the sights of a gun-toting madman." (IMDb)
This was an entertaining thriller / disaster movie with a cool cast. Builds up the tension nicely and after the two minute warning all hell breaks loose. Our b-movie friend Andy Sidaris stars as "TV Director", and is essentially playing himself. Check out also b-action star Robert Ginty in his first feature film role (about 5 seconds) as sports merchandise salesman.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
slap shot
paul newman is really funny in this
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Village of the Damned (1960). George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Michael Gwynne, Laurence Naismith, John Phillips and Richard Vernon. A British village which undergoes a blackout becomes the abode of eerie, affectless youngsters with powers who pose a sober threat to humanity. Based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Coinidence. Just got this and the sequel through the door in a double pack today. The Warriors directors cut.Walter Hill's classic. Thought it was earlier but was made in 1979. A group of gang members have to return to Coney Island whilst travelling through other gang's territories, whilst being mistakenly blamed for a murder.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
When Worlds Collide (1951). Richard Derr, Barbara Rush, Peter Hanson, John Hoyt, Larry Keating, Judith Ames, Stephen Chase, Frank Cady, Hayden Rorke and Sandro Giglio. Survivorists race against time to build a spaceship to enable people to escape after it is discovered that a rogue planet is on a collision course with earth. Based on the novel by Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
House of a thousand dolls (1967) What a weird film, still deciding if I liked it or not
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yet another Harry Alan Towers film for you, that "House of a 1000 Dolls." It's the only time that I can recall Price ever worked for the shlockmeister. Peter Cushing never did!
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
quote:Originally posted by JAY LEE: LAURA- 1944
I was way overdue in getting on this noir classic, and it did NOT dissapoint! A new favourite. Great performances, razor sharp dialogue, great noir vibe, great story. I would put it right up there with genre heavyweights like The Big Sleep and other such esteemed titles.
Dana Andrews is a forgotten star of the golden age, but that's a shame. The guy is cooler than a polarbear's nutsack, and a great actor. I love his comeback, when Cliffton Webb tauntingly ask "haven't you ever been in love?" to which Andrews replies "well, a dame from Washington Heights once got a fox fur outta me!" what a kickass 40's style comeback! Andrews rules! Gene Tierny is magnetic as the mysterious Laura, Vincent Price is great as the smarmy Fianceé, and Cliffton Webb is rude, crude and hilarious as Laura's old admirer.
If you like the genre (actually film noir is more a style than a genre) the you should most def check this out!
Because of the handsome JayLee's writeup, I watched this today........and it was great! I loved every minute of it. Jay you are right about every star in your description. It was crazy for me to see Vincent Price younger and not the horror man I remember. Gene Tierney was beautiful and alluring for sure, and yes Dana Andrews was "cooler then a polarbear's nutsack!" He calls women "dames" haha
I really loved watching this classic and the great Biography extras that were on the DVD. Thanks Jay!
Posted by JAY LEE (Member # 6345) on :
You're welcome, Muffins.... glad you liked it Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Straying into another forum, but just watched FX: Murder By Illusion. Bryan Brown and Bryan Dehnnehy star in a film about a special effects artist tricked into apparently murdering a gangster, and then effecting revenge after they kill his girlfirend.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I liked the first F/X a bunch but didn't really find the sequel to be all that great.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I like both but I think cos I seen the second first I have more of a fondness for that one. I love the clown Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Freaky Friday (1976) yesterday.
It was a fun movie with a good cast. Especially Barbara Harris and Jodie Foster rocked! Haven´t seen the 2003 remake.
Harris smokes, Foster buys booze (when she´s in Harris´ body) and all those sex references... I bet Disney wont do this kind of stuff anymore. (tell me if i´m wrong) Gotta love the 70s!
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
It Came From Beneath the Sea (1955). Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Ian Keith, Dean Maddox, Jr., Chuck Griffiths, Harry Lauter and Richard W. Peterson. A gigantic octopus roused from the Pacific Ocean by a hydrogen bomb test wreaks havoc and frightens the California coast.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
"It Came From Beneath the Sea"--a Ray Harryhausen movie where the producers could only afford five tentacles on that octopus. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I know. It sounds so stupid, but I think that it's true. The octopus only has five tentacles. Harryhausen later said that it was to make the stop-motion animation easier, kind of like how Mickey Mouse only hase four fingers on each hand.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
The trailer really doesn't do this movie justice.....it's funny and well written .....the children almost have this adult quality to them yet,innocence all in one. I just love Diane Lane.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Not watched them yet but just ordered this:
I love the James coburn "Flint" movies, and these are right up there with the best of the early 60s Bond spoofs.
When they arrive, I'll let you know just how good they are.... Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Ghost Story (1974) Decent flick but not as good as I remembered
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Still fabulous
Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
The Stone Killer (1973) Another Charles Bronson film just love his stuff, once again hes a cop with a vendetta
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Crossbar (1979)
"The story of an Olympic high jumper, played by Brent Carver, who loses his leg and yet doggedly persists in his pursuit of athletic glory." (IMDb)
A decent Canadian biopic starring Brent Carver, Kim Cattrall, John Ireland and Kate Reid. The movie is available on dvd in Australia.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Still fabulous
You can't call a cat 'spider'!
Written by Hayley's mum.
quote:The Stone Killer (1973) Another Charles Bronson film just love his stuff, once again hes a cop with a vendetta
See it on Channel 5? I was in the room when they were showing it and the girl in the suite was having a meltdown. I tried to distract her by pointing out how funky the 70's was.
quote:Because of the handsome JayLee's writeup, I watched this today........and it was great! I loved every minute of it. Jay you are right about every star in your description. It was crazy for me to see Vincent Price younger and not the horror man I remember. Gene Tierney was beautiful and alluring for sure, and yes Dana Andrews was "cooler then a polarbear's nutsack!" He calls women "dames" haha I really loved watching this classic and the great Biography extras that were on the DVD. [Smile] Thanks Jay!
Friggin' love Laura!
... and Freaky Friday... and A Little Romance.
[ 18. August 2011, 07:54: Message edited by: Logan 5 ]
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: You can't call a cat 'spider'!
Where have you been for so long? Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote: Where have you been for so long?
I was hired to play young Mickey Rourke in a biopic of his life. It's a curse.
No, seriously, I went out for some pizza and you would not believe what happened...
... and then everyone started rioting! London was on fire! I thought; all this over an empty crisp packet?! This shirt really is cursed! I'd better update my twitter account right now!
Oh... it appears some of my text has been censored by the government. Never mind... who'd have believed me anyway?
I knew it! Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
quote: Friggin' love Laura!
... and Freaky Friday... and A Little Romance.
Logan I always knew you were cool!
I just watched Over the Edge for the first time ever!! It's always been on my wish list....what an awesome movie!!...Matt Dillon sure could pull off a half shirt I now want to watch My Bodyguard and Class of 1984 all over again haha....Bodyguard for Dillon as a delinquent and 84' for teen violence woooo hooo!
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Logan I always knew you were cool!
Too right! We're the cool kids!
quote:I just watched Over the Edge for the first time ever!! It's always been on my wish list....what an awesome movie!!...Matt Dillon sure could pull off a half shirt I now want to watch My Bodyguard and Class of 1984 all over again haha....Bodyguard for Dillon as a delinquent and 84' for teen violence woooo hooo!
Over the Edge is another low-budget classic. I remember watching it on late-night TV in the 80's and being scarred by the end scene. Dillon was great around that time; Over the Edge, Little Darlings, My Bodyguard - a triple whammy!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I love Over the Edge! Fantastic cast and soundtrack.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
Cool Atomik and Logan!!............I can't stop thinking about it.....I need to own it! I've told a couple friends to see it.....we'll see what they think?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Can I jump in here? "Over the Edge" is excellent. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That has been in my amazon basket for literally years lol. Time to finally get it Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
It was one of those impossible to find VHS's years ago. For what it's worth - the Over the Edge DVD has a commentary on it.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. BBC mini series from 1979 starring Alec Guiness in about his first TV role as John Le Carre's spy George Smiley. 1979 with the creme de la creme of British acting talent. 8/10.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think that the mini-series "Tinker, Tailor, Solider, Spy" is excellent. Why they needed to remake it as a film--even with Gary Oldman and company--is just beyond me. Most of the folks who go to movies today--i.e., teenagers--(a) do not want to see an intellectual plot with very little action; and (b) will have no clue about the Cold War and the issues depicted. Whle I appreciate their looking out for us film buffs, I can't figure how this thing ever got the green light. Unless you subscribe to the theory that no one is creative anymore, just remake a not-too-old, perfectly fine thing...
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Very true. It is almost impossible to have any meaningful relevance in 2011. God forbid, they remake the Harry Palmer stories. Even the last two that Michael Caine were only passable. These spy storoes are deliberately slow paced. You can imagine some bright spark getting Jerry Bruckheimer to remake one.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
House (1977) I don't know what the hell that was but kinda just enjoyed going with the flow of whatever it was LOL I think I must of seen this when I was little, for as far back as I remember I had this thing about pianos being able to eat ya LMAO I blame this
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Wild Bunch (1969)
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Love Peckinpah, love The Wild Bunch. I take it that you watched the restored cut. I've always found it interesting that with Peckinpah and Leone, their films were not really appreciated until years later. Now they are revered. It proves how worthless movie critics are at times.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I don't know, it was on TCM. Yeah me too, liked everything I've seen from Peckinpah Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Quite a c.v. Died relatively young.
1983 The Osterman Weekend
1982 Jinxed! (uncredited)
1978 Convoy
1977 Cross of Iron
1975 The Killer Elite
1974 Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia
1973 Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
1972 The Getaway
1972 Junior Bonner
1971 Straw Dogs
1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1969 The Wild Bunch
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I count arguably five or six real masterpieces in that filmography. He died relatively young because according to the stories told about him, he was a hard-drinking, hard-smoking, hard-carousing, hard-charging lunatic. One of the really great American directors, for sure...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Dr. Tarr's Torture Dungeon. Bizarre, I think I liked it haha
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Then you need to see the really weird "Alucarda" from the same Mexican director, that guy named Moctezuma... I am not really sure what to make of his goofy, surreal films. He's like a low-rent Jodorowsky. Wait...that's no surprise. He produced "El Topo" for Jodorowsky.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I've just watched Alucarda I loved it! A much better made film than Tarr's. Very atmospheric and the demonic noises were creeptacular Posted by BigBen65 (Member # 9950) on :
I just LOVE all the Carry On movies.... as long as they have Kenneth Williams in them. He was my all time faverite in them movies!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Ghost And Mrs. Muir (1947) Gorgeous film
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
oh Helen!!! Gene Tierney.....I've always known of this one but haven't seen it.....i'm on it .....especially since you gave it heart!!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Great Muffy, I'm sure you'll love it! Yeah Gene is great isn't she Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
'The Ghost and Mrs. Muir' and 'Laura' - two of my favourite movies getting some Rewind love!
Another great (but *very* different) Gene role is 'Leave Her to Heaven'. I think she was Oscar nom'd for it.
Pop trivia: Agatha Christie based 'The Mirror Crack'd' on a real event in Gene Tierney's life.
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
I watched the biography of Gene Tierney they had on the Laura dvd Logan!!!
Is it based on her battle with metal disorders? or her daughter maybe? Gene had a tough life......such a great actress and beautiful......the biography is well worth watching!
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Is it based on her battle with metal disorders? or her daughter maybe? Gene had a tough life......such a great actress and beautiful......the biography is well worth watching!
Gene contracted measles attending a fund-raising event for war bonds while pregnant. Her daughter was born severely mentally handicapped and needed care for the rest of her life. Gene wanted nothing more than to be a mom and she was devastated and blamed herself. Years later a woman approached her at a party and told her she'd been her favourite actress when she was younger, and that she'd snuck out of quarantine while infected with measles to come and see her at a signing, even managing to kiss her on the cheek.
You get the picture. Agatha Christie used that as the basis for the plot of The Mirror Crack'd.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Depressing Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
Here's a trifecta of sci-fi/horror movies that I watched recently:
Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster (1964): I have Classic Media's 2007 DVD release with the Japanese and American versions. This is one of my favorites in the Godzilla series for the mix of monsters, human subplots, special effects, and music. The Japanese version, as usually is the case with kaiju eiga, is better than the English-dubbed equivalent. The original version has a smoother flow in terms of the plot and how the events play out. The scenes where Godzilla and Rodan first make their entrances are well constructed (having Godzilla rise from the ocean to destroy an ocean liner is apropos), as is Ghidorah's emerging from the meteorite. The climactic battle with Godzilla, Mothra, and Rodan against Ghidorah is one of the most fun and exciting sequences in kaiju history.
Revenge of the Creature: A solid sequel to one of my favorite classic horror movies. I liked the plot of having the Creature brought into captivity at a marine park and escaping. I've always liked the kinds of horror/sci-fi movies where monsters from exotic, natural environments strike back at humanity in so-called modern civilization. John Agar and Lori Nelson make a good pairing as scientists. Although Nelson's character is not the same as Julie Adams's from the original movie, she does make a good substitute in the eye candy and acting departments. Look for Clint Eastwood in a brief role as a lab assistant goofing around with a lab rat. There's some gorgeous Florida scenery in Revenge of the Creature, too. It's available as part of the Creature from the Black Lagoon Legacy Collection from Universal (it's got the entire trilogy).
Horror of the Blood Monsters: Yikes, is this movie horrible! Say what you will about Ed Wood or Bert I. Gordon, but at least they put some effort into their movies. Al Adamson belongs in the same ranks as equally terrible directors like Ted V. Mikels, Nick Millard, and David L. Hewitt. How bad is Horror of the Blood Monsters? At least 40 minutes of it is taken from other movies (among them, One Million B.C., Unknown Island, and some Filipino movie called Tagani). There's a toy model used for a spaceship, Halloween-store vampire fangs, weird tinting, and John Carradine looking and acting miserable. There's absolutely no reason to watch this garbage unless you feel like punishing yourself. Image released this back in 2003, but don't even bother getting it, unless you need a coaster or want to practice skeet shooting.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Eek,I own Horror of the blood monsters. Truly horrible. Gotta love the inflatable T-Rex lol
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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Depressing
Very.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Plumber (1979). Robert Coleby, Judy Morris and Ivar Kants. A plumber is allowed to set foot in a couple's flat, where he proceeds to tear the bathroom apart. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Erm, what hahaha Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
five easy pieces, i think the only reason i like this movie is jack nicholoson, i was entertained, but then again it was a boring story. this has the same tempo as the last detail, but i really like that story. anybody else think the same?
Posted by Burnett (Member # 9924) on :
I love 'em both!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
yeah but didnt you think the five easy pieces story was kinda boring?
Posted by Burnett (Member # 9924) on :
It moved a little slow, really focused on the characters and their relationships, but I didn't find it boring, no.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
did you think it was funny when him and john ryan were fighting?
Posted by Burnett (Member # 9924) on :
It's been a kind of long time since I've seen it, I don't really remember that part.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Zach and Helen, Al Adamson makes Ed Wood look like Orson Welles. Many years ago, around 1984 or 85, I think, I went to a dusk-to-dawn show at a drive-in. Wouldn't you know it, but Blood Monsters was playing under yet another title that had been crudely spliced into the opening credits. That thing just wouldn't die! Have you seen any of Adamson's Westerns? They are like watching kids in the yard play cowboys and Indians.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Burnett: I love 'em both!
Me too! Let´s face it, Nicholson did his best movies in the 70s.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Me three! Add King of Marvin Gardens in there too. He's great in it.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Zach and Helen, Al Adamson makes Ed Wood look like Orson Welles. Many years ago, around 1984 or 85, I think, I went to a dusk-to-dawn show at a drive-in. Wouldn't you know it, but Blood Monsters was playing under yet another title that had been crudely spliced into the opening credits. That thing just wouldn't die! Have you seen any of Adamson's Westerns? They are like watching kids in the yard play cowboys and Indians.
lol poor you. No I haven't but I can imagine Out of the 5 films I've seen Satan's Sadists is the only one I'd repeat watch for bad entertainment haha
The Good Package is on 666 posts
I last watched Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
there was a few times dining out at resturants i thought of the scenes from these movies, hold the chicken, and you ordered the cheese melted, your paying for it so thats what your gonna get
and i start laughing sometimes
nicholson always does a good scene in a resturant
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lovers with Cassie: The Plumber (1979). Robert Coleby, Judy Morris and Ivar Kants. A plumber is allowed to set foot in a couple's flat, where he proceeds to tear the bathroom apart.
I just watched it, that was friggin' hysterical How stupid was the woman? He tells her this story of being in prison cos he was a cat burglar and took tools with him to say he was the plumber if caught. Then immediately after she leaves him in the house and goes out with a friend, bahaha! That ending LOL
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Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: Another great (but *very* different) Gene role is 'Leave Her to Heaven'. I think she was Oscar nom'd for it.
Gene was certainly nominated for an Oscar for her acting in "Leave Her to Heaven," Logan 5.
Helen S, it is gratifying to see that you appreciated "The Plumber."
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977). Bud Cort, Samantha Eggar, Chris Wiggins, Gary Reineke, John Friesen, Michael J. Reynolds, Dale McGowan and Kenneth Griffith. A man arrives in a provincial Canadian town to take up a job as a teacher in a one room school during the Depression. Based on the novel by Max Braithwaite.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Happy to gratify
X The Unknown (1956) Great film. Shame about the terrible audio on this new icon release
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Very interesting early Hammer Film. I like it a lot.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched one of my fave Pacino flicks ...And Justice For All. Takes you through so many emotions. First half is lighter, quite funny but the second has my stomach in knots by the time it gets to the end courtroom shenanigans. And then the final scene always has me cracking up through the credits
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
Helen I've never seen this and have been eyeing it this week because it's ondemand.......well because of you i'm going to watch it! I love Pacino!
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Baron Munchhausen (1943). Hans Albers, Wilhelm Bendow, Michael Bohnen, Hans Brausewetter, Marina von Ditmar, Andrews Engelmann, Kathe Haack, Brigitte Horney, Waldemar Leitgeb, Walter Lieck, Ferdinand Marian, Hubert von Meyerinck, Jasper von Oertzen, Werner Scharf, Armin Schweizer, Marianne Simson, Leo Slezak, Hermann Speelmans, Hilde von Stolz, Gustav Waldau, Franz Weber, Iise Werner and Eduard von Winterstein. Narrative of the adventures of Baron Hieronymous Munchhausen, whose wanderings take him to Russia, Turkey, Venice and even the moon. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cool Muffy, let us know what you think! Pacino is my no.1!
Posted by Muffy Tepperman (Member # 1551) on :
over Rourke?????! whaaaaa what??? Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
lol Pacino is my no.1 fave actor. Mickey is my no.1 fave thing to look at hahaha Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Earthquake - You'll never guess what this is about
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i havent seen justice for all yet, im going to give that one a go
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Coolio
I just watched a good, creepy film, Fright (1971) about a babysitter being terrorised by the looney tunes Dad of the kid.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The House of Whipcord. Oh my god, this film destroyed me Amazing, amazing film, can't fault a thing about it.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Peter Walker rules! See House of Mortal Sin next.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That's available to watch on my lovefilm so might do so tonight
That part in Whipcord when the Vampire Circus guy sets her up on the escape broke my heart lol. He was so convincing haha
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Posted by Kowalski (Member # 8412) on :
A Bridge Too Far (1977)
The Longest Day (1962)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I finally got to The Omega Man, I can't say I cared for it very much at all I'll stick with the fantastic Last Man On Earth.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Totally agree with you.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Hell in Pacific (1968)
It was looking good until a certain point and then it was like they couldn't be bothered anymore. Good up until 3/4's of the way through and then dies big time.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Wanderers (1979). Ken Wahl, John Friedrich, Karen Allen, Toni Kalem, Alan Rosenberg, Jim Youngs, Tony Ganios and Linda Manz. The experiences let alone times of a gang of Italian-Americans growing up in The Bronx in 1963. Based on the novel by Richard Price.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, what? Yeah, you looking at a Baldie now, faggot!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Foul Play (1978)
Beware of the dwarf!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
and...., im..., ready to take a chance again
ready to put my love on the line...
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Haha Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Becket (1964). Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, John Gielgud, Donald Wolfit, Martita Hunt, Pamela Brown and Felix Aylmer. The troubled friendship between the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket and his English king , Henry II. Based on the play Becket or the Honour of God by Jean Anouilh.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
It! (1967) Entertaining killer statue flick Roddy McDowall playing a Psycho like character with his skeleton Mum at home haha
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Good gosh, I saw It! almost 40 years ago. It is the epitome of trashy UK horror, from the same folks who did the Frozen Dead. The Golem meets Psycho!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I just watched Blood of the Vampire (1958) On paper I should have adored the hell out of this, but it was just alright.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Naw, you shouldn't have. It's a crude Hammer copy.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Devil Doll (1964) I love this film to pieces Still creeps me out to this day
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Lost gem. It scared the crap out of me as a kid. Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea. The boys suggest a camping holiday, secretly intending to take them to a nudist camp. Of course they end up in the wrong place, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and bands of hippies all add to the laughs. -- IMDb
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The fab witchy film, Horror Hotel (1960) aka The City of the Dead
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Birthday Party (1968). Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler, Dandy Nichols, Moultrie Kelsall and Helen Fraser. A tenant who resides in a boarding house is set on by two strangers. Based on the play by Harold Pinter.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Farewell My Lovely (1975). Robert Mitchum, Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland, Sylvia Miles, Anthony Zerbe, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack O'Halloran, Joe Spinell, Sylvester Stallone, Kate Murtagh, John O'Leary, Walter McGinn and Jim Thompson. In 1941 Los Angeles, private detective Philip Marlowe is engaged by a petty criminal to track down his girlfriend. Based on the novel by Raymond Chandler.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Time came around once again over the weekend for my regular view of "Star Wars Ep 4 : A New Hope".
Always will love that movie, however, it is a little annoying when, in my mind, I find myself quoting Family Guy : Blue Harvest much of the way through....
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Murder On The Orient Express (1974). Agatha Christies famous story. Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot. A murder on the eponymous train gets the little grey cells working as a mriad od suspects are stuck in the snow. Stellar cast includes Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, Martin Balsam, Sean Connery and Anthony Prkins, amongst others.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
This movie is vomit worthy IMO Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i would have liked to see ustinov play murder on the orient rather the finney, after watching his poirot, he is poirot, in my mind anyway.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Man from the Deep River (1972)
This was a good exploitation film directed by Umberto Lenzi. Starring Ivan Rassimov, very beautiful Me Me Lai and bunch of Thailand natives.
"A photographer on assignment in the rain forest is ambushed and held slave by a primitive tribe, until the chief's daughter chooses him as her groom. After being initiated by various tortures, he becomes a part of the tribe and helps them against modern dangers and a cannibal tribe they're at war with." (IMDb)
Gore, nudity, cannibals, good score, disturbing rituals and animal cruelty. I liked the heavily A Man Called Horse influenced plot and the cinematography. It was pretty hard to watch the real animal killings though. Only in the 70s...
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Southerner (1945). Zachary Scott, Betty Field, J. Caroll Naish, Beulah Bondi, Percy Kilbride, Charles Kemper, Blanche Yurka, Norman Llloyd, Estelle Taylor, Paul Harvey, Noreen Nash, Jack Norworth, Nestor Paiva, Paul Burns, Jay Gilpin and Jean Vanderwilt. A year in the life of a family of cotton farmers, who labour to make it turn out well in spite of overpowering probabilities. Based on the novel Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Two Amicus films, And Now The Screaming Starts and my fave The House That Dripped Blood
And 2 Coffin Joe films, Hellish Flesh, which had a great second half and Hallucinations Of A Deranged Mind which was a bit of a cut and paste from outtakes and whatnot from previous films with new footage to make a new story. But it all kinda worked. What a loony Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Alien Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Last time I saw Alien, Yaphet Kotto was sitting behind me in the theatre. .
One of the best horror films ever.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hehe, cool Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I got Ridley Scott's autograph at that screening too! Fantastic!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
just recorded the gorgon, going to give it a go
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Great film Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
PHANTASM (1979):
Still A great classic to watch around Halloween time after all these years.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Above and Beyond (1952). Robert Taylor, Eleanor Parker, James Whitmore, Larry Keating, Larry Gates, Marilyn Erskine, Stephen Dunne, Robert Barton and Hayden Rorke. Recounting of colonel Paul Tibbetts, who flew the plane Enola Gay which dropped the A-bomb on Hiroshima, his training and the effect that it had on his personal life.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Melody aka SWALK 1971. Story of an 11 year olds first love, re-teaming the Oliver partnership of Mark Lester and Jack Wild.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Ghoul (1975) I loved this even more than previous viewings. So horrible and heartbreaking all at once. Cushing kills me Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Lies My Father Told Me (1975). Yossi Yadin, Len Birman, Marilyn Lighthouse and Jeffrey Lynas. A boy growing up in a Jewish ghetto in 1920s Montreal idolises his grandfather, who works as a scrap collector.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
just watched the fearless vampire killers with roman polanski, i thought was funny
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Castle Of Fu Manchu/Blood Of Fu Manchu. Christopher Lees stars as the diabolical "yelloe peril" intent on taking over the world. Both lare sixties. The others in the series very hard to source with a small budget. 6/10.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You are a glutton for punishment, Harry, with the two worst Fu Manchu films. Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
All the others are unavailable in UK on region 2, except for old VHS copies for £40-£150.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Wow. I really like the first three. They look like different films-they are better made.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Look What's Happened To Rosemary's Baby - No, seriously, don't look Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Gladly pay £10 a go for the first three..............
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The wonderful From Beyond The Grave
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
the tomb of ligea, really liked it at first, but wasnt happy with the ending
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The Taking Of Pelham 123. Hijackers hold up a New York subway train. Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw star. Very good. 8/10.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i liked pellham too, especially hector elizando, joe welcome
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Good Package: the tomb of ligea, really liked it at first, but wasnt happy with the ending
I really, really like "Ligeia," my favorite Corman/Poe after "Masque of the Red Death." What didn't you like about the ending?
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i got confused with the whole cat angle, i wasnt sure what was going on with it, was it ligeia's spirit? how was it connected to rowena? i liked the part about the hypnotism from beyond the grave, i guess it was all witchcraft on ligiea's part even the dead-not dead-dead-not dead that rowena was going through, but ultimately i thought the tragic ending was forced, i havent read the story and that is probably the way it went in the book, but it felt like vernon fell should have escaped all that voodoo to a happy ending.
outside of that, price did a great job, good charisma and delivery and i like the cinematography
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Understandable, GP. For me, the cryptic nature of the last 15 minutes or so is really interesting. Roger Corman allegedly had notations in his script denoting where Elizabeth Shepherd (beautiful actress, great dual performance) was Ligeia or Rowena since it is all so complicated and confusing. I haven't read Poe's "Ligeia" in many years, but it too is very downbeat. Few happy endings with Poe!
Price is marvelous. For folks that think that he was just some hammy, over-the-top horror star, check out his performances in the 1960's--they are fantastic, and this one is very special, one of his best. (I think that you make the point well by saying that you wished for a better fate for poor Verden Fell. Nobody played pained and emotionally damaged better than Price, and his performance is so good and sympathetic that you really pull for him the whole way.) I totally agree with you on the cinematography. It is perfect, just beautiful, and in gorgeous widescreen. It was done by Arthur Grant who filmed many Hammer films.
All in all, it's one of my favorite horror films of the 1960's. I'm in good company. It's one of Martin Scorsese's favorites too. Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
yeah, price is really good in these films, i watched the house on haunted hill with him a while back and thought he did great in that as well, he always plays good characters.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
the miasma of barbarity
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The Sweeney and The Sweeney 2. Ultra violent (and realistic) for it's time of London's Flying Squad (rhyming slang of Sweeney Todd). John Thaw and Dennis Waterman star in the spin off from the great television series of the mid seventies. First is a solid 8/10, second is a bit disappointing 6.5/10.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I have season one in a box set, Harry. It was an excellent show, but a real product of its era. I just laughed when Thaw slammed a con up against a wall, and the con blubbered, "Please don't hurt me, Mr. Reagan!" Awww, the good old days of policing!
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Set Up (1949). Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Hal Fieberling, Darryl Hickman, Kenny O'Morrison, James Edward, David Clarke, Phillip Pine and Edwin Max. A washed out boxer in a dishonestly arranged match refuses to either give up or wilfully lose, despite expectations that he do so.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The Brood 1979. Starring Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. Early Cronenberg Horror.
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Well made film, few visual effects, good score competent acting. Canadians always seem to create above average films. 7 3/4 out of 10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Terrible score Cronenberg's best imo Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
And Then There Were None (1945) Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i recently seen burnt offerings and witchfinder general. i really liked witchfinder
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree. Witchfinder is a masterpiece. The story has modern relevance. Vincent Price gave one of his best performances, and the cinematography is beautiful.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Witchfinder is my Dad's fave horror hehe I love it too and Burnt Offerings.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i watched black sabbath the other night, loved the first segment, the second one was stale, and the third was all right. i really liked the visuals and that first segment really got me good, made me laugh because i didnt expect to get that spooked.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Stale?
Stale?
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
yeah after that first one, i felt like it really dropped off, actually i couldnt figure out what was going on with that one, was the guy who kept calling, a ghost?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
GP, you saw the American version. The original Italian version of the story "The Telephone" is quite different. They cut out a lot for the American version. The stories are even ordered differently with "The Drop of Water" last! Apparently the folks at AIP thought that that story would have given people heart attacks coming out of the theatre if that were the last story, so they juggled the order.
I'm still very happy that you loved the look and got spooked by, in my opinion, some of the scariest 25 minutes ever put on film. Bava does so much with so little, people who direct modern horror films should watch it and take note. A banging window, a flickering light, a buzzing fly, a dripping faucet...a dead body on the bed in the next room. He was a genius!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Ugh, I heard about the American version turning it into a ghost story.
I thought you were calling the Karloff story stale cos that's second on the Italian.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The order in the U.S. was "The Drop of Water," "The Telephone, and "The Wurdalak." "The Telephone" was heavily altered by cuts, a reshoot scene, and altered dialogue in the dubbing to make it a ghost story. Until I bought the Image DVD, that was the only way I had ever seen the film. Wow, was I in for a suprise! The original version is so different, with even different Karloff linking scenes. "The Drop of Water" would have worked without dubbing or subtitles. It's forever scary without dialogue.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I couldn't imagine it in the American order. That's so wrong haha. And why oh why did they turn it into a ghost story.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
now i want to see the orginal version, i dont know why the american versions of just about everything cheat the consumer
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I know! The American version is either dubbed (no Aussie accents in "Mad Max"), completely re-edited ("Legend"), or messed with like "Black Sabbath." And don't even get me started on shot-for-shot American remakes of perfectly fine foreign films. Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, Hume Cronyn, Leon Ames, Audrey Totter, Alan Reed and Jeff York. A young drifter along with a sexy blonde who are committing adultery find that murdering her husband who is the owner of a provincial restaurant creates more problems than it solves. Based on the novel by James M. Cain.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Jaws 1975. Spielberg's classic, based on a Peter Benchley, about a great white shark, which terrorises a small coastal town. Roy Schneider play the local police chief, who wants to clear the beaches when a shark gets hungry. Thwarted by the Mayor, who doesn't want to harm the seasonal tourist trade, the shark kills again and again. Aided by an oceanographer, Richard Dreyfuss and a grizzled old sea dog, Robert Shaw they go out in pursuit of the shark. Great score by John Williams, and direction by Spielberg. Small thing that let's the thing down, but adds to the charm, is "Bruce", the mechanical shark, which was a nightmare to get to work with and can not compare to today's CGI and animatronics. I would give this 8 1/2 / 10.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i really jaws as well, schneider, dreyfuss and shaw do a great job in this.
i have been getting in to alot of schneider films lately, a great tough guy but not making a big deal about it, actor, especially like the neo noir stuff, like 52 pick up and the film sorcerer was great
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Zulu (1964). Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobson, James Booth, Nigel Green, Ivor Emmanuel, Patrick Magee, Paul Daneman, Neil McCarthy, David Kernan, Glynn Edwards and Michael Caine. Narrated by Richard Burton. In 1879 in South Africa, British troops take on numerically superior Zulus at Rorke's Drift.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Got the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 with Denzel Washington and John Travolta 2009, as hte original is one of my favourites. Tony Scott directs, but isn't a patch on the original. It was only £3, and whilst it isn't a disaster, would have to give it about 6 1/2 / 10.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Wrecking Crew (1969).
The last of the Matt Helm movies starring Dean Martin as the secret agent / glamour photographer with a need for alcohol and an eye for bikini-clad ladies.
This one was a slightly less comfortable watch than the other three in the series (The Silencers, The Ambushers and Murderers Row) because it also starred the ill-fated Sharon Tate, who just a few months later was to fall victim to what is still viewed as one of the most horrific and shocking murders ever to hit Hollywood.
Overall, I certainly recommend the series to anyone who likes spy spoofs and the 60s vibe, and the movies are all fun, however when you get to the final installment, you'll probably have the same slightly uncomfortable feel that I did if you know what the future held for Sharon.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by harry2: Got the remake of The Taking of Pelham 123 with Denzel Washington and John Travolta 2009, as hte original is one of my favourites. Tony Scott directs, but isn't a patch on the original. It was only £3, and whilst it isn't a disaster, would have to give it about 6 1/2 / 10.
Totally agree. The remake can't hold a candle to the orginal, also one of my favorites. Instead of being a character piece--with some humor--between Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, it's a straight action piece with Travolta in another of his hammy villain roles. A friend of mine pointed out that the problem of late with Travolta's bad-guy peformances is that he always looks like he's acting. You never once get the feeling--in Pelham, for example--that he's a dangerous, scary criminal. You just look at his hairline (and waistline), and go, "Yup. It's John Travolta, having way too good of a time hamming it up as the villain." And in this one you also have Denzel Washington falling back on his routine good-guy ticks and mannerisms. (Is it me, or has watching Jay Pharoah on "Saturday Night Live" do his spot-on Denzel impression just ruined it for me? "Okay...okay... (clapping).")
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Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The original Pelham is a classic with Matthau and Shaw as sparring partners who bounce the one and two liners off of each other. The world weary Matthau and cold as ice Shaw really compliment each other and have a chemistry that is missing in the(second) remake. It is alomost as if the remake was made with the two principals doing seperate parts and spliced together in the editors suite. There is zero empathy compared to the first film and never really reaches he breakneck pace of the first. It's like a two handed stage play throughout.
Gesundheit !!!!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
hector elizando as joe welcome, was great as well, any movie that has elizando in it goes up few points on that fact alone
fuca is seal, in portugese
side fact, i tried to track down the shirt and tie combo matthau wore for my own wardrobe, i thought it looked great
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Island of Death (1977) Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Helen, did you check out the new Arrow release? Never seen the movie but i would really like to get it because i collect Nico Mastorakis flicks.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
No, it was shown on the horror channel supposedly uncut. It was really weird and disgusting. I feel dirty after that lol
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds great Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I have had that Mastorakis film on DVD for years. I don't know why. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh you 2 lol
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
It is weird and disgusting. Mastorakis is such a goofy film maker. He has some talent as a competent director, but those plots of his are either dreary or crazy. Sometimes both. Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Watched Thunderball last night.
You can't beat a good old, old Bond.....
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
whats your favorite connery bond?
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
From Russia With Love. it's the last one where they stayed pretty true to the Fleming novel. Goldfinger is very very good, as well.
I've read the novels over and again, and once you get the original of Moonraker in your mind, the Moore-fest doesn't really cut it.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
"From Russia with Love," most definitely, guys. I like "Goldfinger" and "Dr. No" next. Weakest Connery Bond is probably "Diamonds Are Forever."
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Roger Moore is better anyway Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: "From Russia with Love," most definitely, guys. I like "Goldfinger" and "Dr. No" next. Weakest Connery Bond is probably "Diamonds Are Forever."
I would have to say Never Say Never Again is the weakest Sean Connery Bond altough I guess it is not a legitimate part of the Bond franchise.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
cant decide between russia and gold finger
i would have like to seen dalton take over instead of moore in those films, i like moore but i thought dalton did the better job
all right rank the bonds
connery brosnan dalton moore lazenby
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Connery Moore Craig Lazenby Brosnan Dalton
Sorry, TGP, but IMHO Dalton was too smooth and suffered from the politically correctness of his time to make a really good Bond. and Bond never had a noustache.....
He was not the Bond of the novels (that accolade goes to Connery and possibly Craig) whilst Moore was the first Bond I knew as a child watching the movies, so I will always have a soft spot for him and his safari suits....
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Moore Connery Craig Dalton Brosnan Lazenby
It's 50/50 between Dalton and Brosnan.
I think I like Moore the best because of his cheeky sense of humour and the fact that he appeared in more Bond films than any of the others (7 in total) and all those films were pretty damn good. At least I don't think you can argue between the top two. Moore and Connery have obviously got to be the first two in the list. I'd like to see someone put someone above them.
TGP, how can you possibly put Moore near the bottom of the list?
An interesting bit of trivia that most people don't know is that Moore is actually older than Connery by 3 years.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
It'd be interesting to see where people would have placed David Niven, who of course played Bond in the original Casino Royale.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i think woody allen's bond was better than daniel craig's
paul, dalton movies politcal correctness as in?
lomax, no offense to moore, he just happened to be in the list with these guys, connery is the orginal, brosnan had the best opening scenes of them all, and dalton did the serious bit the way it should have been done as oppose to craig
i like moore's films but some of the real goofy parts hold him back
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I have not seen Casino Royale (1967) but I assume that we can't suggest that this is really part of the bond series. I do like David Niven as an actor though.
I do like all the Bonds apart from Lazenby. He just didn't seem to do it for me as Bond.
I watched Cape Fear (1962) last night. As brilliant as Scorsese is a film maker, his 1991 remake was no match for the original. Great movie. Robert Mitchum is terrific.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
An interesting coffee table discussion here...
Casino Royale shouldn't really count since it is spoof, and I hardly consider ranking David Niven--I like him a lot too, Bernie--along with the series guys. I do know for sure that Lazenby was the weakest, by far. Connery, as the first Bond whom I saw, is still probably the best, though I'm not sure how'd I'd have voted if Craig had played the part first because Craig is excellent. I think that Dalton is underrated and given less of his due because one of his two films was "Licence to Kill," one of the weakest of the series. Brosnan was good, though his films were hit or miss. And Moore was good too, though, Bernie, you are going to have to work hard to justify "A View to a Kill," my vote for worst Bond film overall, as "pretty damn good." Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I honeslty like A view to a Kill. I think it's a great movie and let's not forget it's got Chrisopher Walken as the bad guy. Fair enough if you don't like it but it is far from being the worst Bond film , but then again I like Licence to Kill also. The worst Bond films have featured Brosnan, Lazenby and Craig (Casino Royale was great BTW). I think the worst so far was Quantum of Solace
I heard a rumour on the radio the other day and I am too lazy to try and substantiate it plus my internet is running at 0.18 Mbps for some unknown and crazily annoying reason, but I heard the Javier Bardem may be playing the next Bond villain. That would be awesome. He is a great actor
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I like Walken too, but I didn't think the screenplay was up to his talents. As for "Licence to Kill," I don't really hate it, it's just that it seems to have been done on the cheap as a cut-rate production in Mexico. I don't think that it looks good or is put together particularly well. Davi makes a fine villain, though. Now that you mention it, I don't really like Brosnan's "Die Another Day" either.
The great Javier Bardem is indeed the next Bond villain. Yay!
How about "best/worst Bond movie song"? My vote for worst goes to the dreadful White Stripes song for "Quantum of Solace." What on earth were they thinking? Madonna's theme for "Die Another Day" is pretty bad too. Best song is tough because there are quite a few good ones: "Goldfinger," "Live and Let Die," "For Your Eyes Only," "Licence to Kill," "Goldeneye," etc. ...
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Walken is such a talented actor. There is one scene in "Nick of Time" when he looks at his watch in the elvator and then makes this crazy face. It is mesmorising. I actually prefer Licence to Kill over The Living Daylights too. I think I favour Licence to Kill though cos it was one of the many movies I saw as a kid in the 80's. Robert Davi is awesome. I especially loved him in Cops and Robbersons.
The song Diamonds are Forever makes me want to vomit. That's my vote for the worst. White Stripes is equally as bad. Another vomit worthy song from your favourite bond film is that garbage by Duran Duran. The A View o a Kill Duran Duran video clip makes me want to yak violently every time I see it. It's so bad.
It's funny but I would like it if Bardem played the character with the same demeanour that he used in No Country For Old Men...."Don't put it 'inchour' pocket!"
As a kid I always had to sit through that garbagy music with silhouettes of naked ladies floating around the screen cos my old man wouldn't let me fast forward it. Now I always skip through that garbage. Live and Let Die would have to be the best song.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
tom jones thunderball
i like a view to a kill as well, i thought it was one of the better moore films, great tune as well, mayday was great, i thought walken did a great job as the bad guy, interesting plot, tanya roberts as the bond girl in this one, and the fight on the golden gate, lots of good stuff.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i like david niven as well
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
the worst bond tune in my opinion is the man with the golden gun,
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I couldn't hum that one if you held the golden gun to my head... Terrible! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I haven't watched a Bond film in years! Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
This thread is for the last film you watched not the last film you haven't watched....I dunno Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Double Indemnity. An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraud scheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.Stars:Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck and Edward G. Robinson and directed by the legendary Billy Wilder. Brilliant film noir, thick in atmosphere, with some terrific performances by the leads. Got to be nearly a 10/10.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Simon, King of the Witches (1971)
Obscure counter-cultural early 70's movie starring Andrew Prine as a modern-day warlock who joins the (post-)hippie life-style.
An interesting time-capsule, but not as good as some claim it to be, mostly because of some unspectacular cinematography, which gives it a made-for-tv kind of feel to it. The great performance by Andrew Prine in the role of Simon makes this one worth watching.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Prine's always good, but I agree with you, Johnny, "Simon, King of the Witches," is just fair, defintely a time-capsule piece.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I just watched a pretty decent made for TV film, Satan's School For Girls.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Night of a Thousand Cats - Hilariously bad. This guy flies around in his helicopter picking up women, taking them back to his castle and feeding them to his cats Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Hustling aka Prostitution: A Deadly Profession (1975)
"Based on Gail Sheehy's book, this film chronicles how a reporter for a New York City magazine decided to investigate the city's prostitution industry to find out just who was making all the money. What she found out caused a firestorm of controversy--that many of the city's richest and most powerful families and corporations benefited directly and indirectly from the illegal sex business." (IMDb)
This was a nice little educational tv-movie directed by Joseph Sargent. Cool mid 70s street scenes and good job from the cast: Lee Remick, Jill Clayburgh, Alex Rocco, Monte Markham, Melanie Mayron and Burt Young. The movie is available on dvd as part of the Synergy Archive Series.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
East End Hustle (1976)
"An ex-prostitute rescues one of her pimp's potential new recruits, beginning a deadly rivalry." (IMDb)
Interesting and sleazy canuxploitation flick directed by Frank Vitale. Starring Andrée Pelletier, Anne-Marie Provencher, Miguel Fernandes and Allan Moyle who also co-wrote the movie. Moyle later directed two Rewind favorites, Pump Up the Volume and Empire Records.
Lots of nudity, violence, crazy cuts, bad acting and mid 70s Montreal scenery.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I need to track that one down, A.S.A.P. ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL @ Atomik and his pro films
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Revisited my box set of the Rathbone/Bruce Sherlock Holmes series.14 great films, based mainly on the Conan Doyle stories, all but the first updated to the current time (ie the WW11 war years) and several having the Nazis as the enemies, rather than late Victorian criminals. A few less than very good, but all very solid. Well worth £15, with a few yak tracks as extras.
1939: The Hound Of The Baskervilles 1939: The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes 1942: Sherlock Holmes And The Voice Of Terror 1942: Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon 1943: Sherlock Holmes In Washington 1943: Sherlock Holmes Faces Death 1944: Sherlock Holmes And The Spider Woman 1944: The Scarlet Claw 1944: The Pearl Of Death 1945: The House Of Fear 1945: The Woman In Green 1945: Pursuit To Algiers 1946: Terror By Night 1946: Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Code ("Dressed To Kill" In The USA)
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Night of a Thousand Cats - Hilariously bad. This guy flies around in his helicopter picking up women, taking them back to his castle and feeding them to his cats
HAHA I own this movie! I remember my hubby bought it super cheap and we watched it, laughing the entire time.. love the theme music! haha..the only song they used in the movie, everytime he was in the helicopter. Funny stuff!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
lol, yeah that music alone was worth it haha Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Harper (1966). Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris, Arthur Hill, Janet Leigh, Pamela Tiffin, Robert Wagner, Robert Webber and Shelley Winters. In Los Angeles, private detective Lew Harper is engaged by a woman to find her missing husband. Based on the novel The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Fascination (1979)
Directed by Jean Rollin and starring Jean-Marie Lemaire, Brigitte Lahaie, Franca Mai and Fanny Magier.
"This erotic horror film, set in 1906, tells the story of a thief who seeks refuge in a castle owned by two women, Eva (Brigitte Lahaie) and Elizabeth (Franca Mai). The women are seductive and teasing, but turn out to be part of a vampiric cult of blood-drinking aristocrats. (IMDb)
Well, i watched my first Rollin film earlier today and it was... interesting to say the least. Pretty low-budget, not much going on plotwise and the camera moves sloooowly...
On the other hand we have beautiful bloodthirsty women, nudity and a strange, eerie atmosphere. Somehow you just have to see what´s going to happen to the main character. Definitely not for everyone but i think that i´m hooked Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Pretty low-budget, not much going on plotwise and the camera moves sloooowly...
lol, pretty much sums up the Rollin films I've seen. I did like Requiem for a Vampire tho Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Peter Walker rules! See House of Mortal Sin next.
I finally got to it. Walker has yet to disappoint! So good and the ending had me
What a creepy pair.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Creepy and depressing with Sheila Keith, hallmarks of a Peter Walker film. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Carrie - Everytime I watch it's like the first time. So intense.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Jean Rollin and Pete Walker.. now we're talking movies !!
Seriously, their movies were the ones i started collecting some 20 years ago or so. Very hard to find in the 90s, because the golden days of the video era were over and the old rental-tapes were long gone from videostores by that time. UK video label Redemption released some of them (along with the likes of Jess Franco for example) in the 90s, but things got really interesting when the same movies started showing up on the then-new digital format of DVD. 70s euro-trash proved to be extremely popular to a new generation of movie-collectors. Even the British Film Institute joined in by releasing a very cool Pete Walker double-feature on both DVD as well as blu-ray ! (Man of Violence and The Big Switch) Many of the Jean Rollin horror titles have been released on numerous dvd-editions. (most noteworthy among those are the 3-disc collector's editions of Levres de Sang, Les Demoniaques, Requiem pour Un Vampire and La Morte Vivante, as well as 2-disc editions of La Nuit des Traquees and Le Frison des Vampires released by Encore Entertainment). Throw all known narrative structure overboard and enjoy these dreamlike, extremely atmospheric masterpieces of subversive cinema !
Currently i'm busy trying to collect as many as Rollin's movies which he made as Michel Gentil as possible. Many of these venture into adult-oriented areas and have yet to be released on any kind of digital format.
Jean Rollin sadly passed away almost exactly one year ago now, aged 72.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeleine Kahn, Dom Deluise, Leo McKern and Roy Kinnear.
The story of when Sherlock's younger and 'smarter' brother Sigerson Holmes takes on a case that his brother can't fit in, and comes up against Moriaty...
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The Sting - Newman, Redford and Shaw. Conmen in the depression get their own back on a ruthless megolamaniac. Great score.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cat People (1942) Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
Tammy Tell Me True (1961) - Sandy Dee
Cute! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Leopard Man (1943)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I Walked With A Zombie (1943) Oh my gosh, I forgot how wonderful this is
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Assault (1971) Decent little thriller. Although the music made it kinda hard to take seriously at times and bit of a dopey ending. Lesley-Anne Down doesn't get too much screentime but her performance was quite haunting.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Curse Of the Cat People (1944) What an odd sequel, but I like it Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Hellfire Club (1961) What a highly entertaining bit of crap
The Body Snatcher (1945)
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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Hellfire Club (1961) What a highly entertaining bit of crap
Language! Jesus... this place has become a den of vulgarity!
Anyway... 'The Long Goodbye'.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That's the minute you come back, rubs off on us all
Nice to see you back. Stop disappearing for months Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:That's the minute you come back, rubs off on us all
A likely story! I'm the only person around here keeping it PG! (Porno-Graphic?)
quote:Nice to see you back. Stop disappearing for months
We can't all be members of the royal family - some of have to work for a living!
Nice to be back... he says, before disappearing for another week Posted by isaacanayaortega1983 (Member # 10555) on :
70's The Empire of the Ants....I watched when I was 6 years old in 1989....3 months ago I saw again on youtube.....wow
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Boys From Brazil - I'd forgotten the sheer lunacy of this great flick Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
I love Boys From Brazil. That kid is creepy.Mason and Olivier are as superb as always.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Boys From Brazil - I'd forgotten the sheer lunacy of this great flick
I thought it was a good idea. Don't know why someone hasn't done it for real yet.
Bear Island (1979). Most expensive Canadian movie ever at the time. It tanked. Movie is a non-gripping mess with a great cast.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
You need help Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: You need help
You don't think cloning one of the most popular German leaders of the last 100 years (yes, he was only briefly popular, but still...) is a bad idea? Hitler liked dogs Helen. Do you have something against people who like dogs?
I think perhaps people who dislike animals are the ones who need help. You need to ask yourself some searching questions...
Plus any movie with Steve Guttenberg can't be all bad!
Oh no... what have I said??? Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: [QUOTE]
Bear Island (1979). Most expensive Canadian movie ever at the time. It tanked. Movie is a non-gripping mess with a great cast.
Logan 5, if it is a fair question, then have you read the novel on which it is based?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: Plus any movie with Steve Guttenberg can't be all bad!
It's worse than I thought LOL
I just watched Devils of Darkness (1965) I didn't like it as much as in the past. It just doesn't quite live up to its beginnings. Middle is kinda dull.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:It's worse than I thought LOL
I'll abide no negativity 'bout the 'berg on my watch! Snuffed Helen... it can happen!
quote:Logan 5, if it is a fair question, then have you read the novel on which it is based?
I haven't. But I read somewhere that the plot was changed for the movie version. I think I read it was supposed to be the first of a series of MacLean adaptations, an idea which was scrapped when the movie tanked.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched Watership Down for the millionth time
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Just watched Watership Down for the millionth time
Now watch 'The Plague Dogs' for maximum cartoon depression.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I think I will Never seen that one.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Sister Street Fighter (1974)
Loved it ! I always feel dangerous after watching martial-arts movies... So, my dear fellow Rewinders.. BEWARE ! Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: I think I will Never seen that one.
John Belushi, Bruce McGill, Tom Matheson, Kevin Bacon in an incredible party film with many many quotable lines that was often copied but never equaled.
"I think this situation absolutely requires, a really futile, and stupid gesture, to be done on somebody's part, and we're just the guys to do it.... lets do it. LETS DO IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITTT GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO"
In a link to the film, English Thrash Metal Band used that quote from the film as the opener to their first album, Oooh Crikey ... It's Lawnmower Deth, and here it is Lawnmower Deth - Spook Perv Happenings in the Snooker Hall Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by J2ME:
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: I think I will Never seen that one.
. . . .
Pretty much. That was awful Brilliant but awful.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Scarlet Street (1945) - Everything about this was flawless for me. Joan Bennett was a fabulous bitch. Ending was amazing.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Evel Knievel (1971). George Hamilton, Sue Lyon, Bert Freed, Rod Cameron, Dub Taylor, Ron Masak and Kal Baylor. Biography of the titular famed daredevil motorcyclist.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Obsession (1976) Wow, wonderful to see this again. I'd forgotten so much.
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i watched the brood recently, i thought it was one of thse middle of the road movies, i neither liked it nor disliked it.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That's my fave Cronenberg flick.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
A few weeks ago I watched Breaking Away, for probably the fourth time in the past 10 years. I don't know what it is about this movie, but it always leaves me with a smile on my face. I loved all of the actors and the setting. Starring a very young Dennis Quaid, Dennis Christopher, Daniel Stern and my fave, Jackie Earle Hayley.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Breaking Away is fantastic! It was released on dvd here about one year ago. I need to check out The Brood again.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i liked oliver reed in it. i think cronenberg's best is scanners and the fly.
it seems every movie i see oliver reed in, his character kicks the bucket. makes me wonder what actor in the history of movies has the most on screen deaths?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Night Train Murders. I need a bath now
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
That is some serious, stylish, high-quality sleaze ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Indeed lol
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Grand Duel (1972) The first half of this made me cringe a bit with the questionable acting by some and the dodgy camerawork. But I started to fall in love with it in the second half for the same reasons Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The wonderful A Lizard In A Woman's Skin
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Godfather Squad (1974)
Wow, what can i say about this one..
An Italian production which combines the gritty crime genre with Chinese kung-fu starring Bruce Leung (who??), who demonstrates some spectacular kung-fu action !
Hilariously dubbed audio, and a bomb-dog that explodes onscreen in the first couple of minutes !
For some reason, during the final battle the location changes from sun-drenched Rome to snowy mountain scenery literately within a second ! (i had to rewind for a moment to check whether i didn't miss some unexpected plot development.. but no, it just shifts to snowy mountains for absolutely no reason what so ever)
It all ends with some serious machine-gun mayhem, Rambo-style ! well, technically pre-Rambo-style.. after all, this is from 1974.
For those willing to ever watch this, i don't wanna give too much away.. but the obnoxious kid-brother dies, thank god !
The Godfather Squad really is a masterpiece of trash cinema.. and i love it !
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds pretty wild and fantastic, Johnny!
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Duel. One of Spielberg's first movies. Dennis Weaver stars as a sales rep terrorised by an unseen trucker trying to run him off the road. Very claustropobic. Solid 8/10.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
aTomiK,
The Godfather Squad was released on a double-feature dvd from Code Red last year. Its co-feature is Bruce's Last Battle, which i haven't seen yet, but if it's only half as much fun as The Godfater Squad was, it'll still be a blast !
The Godfather Squad alone makes it worth it though. You'll love it.. trust me !
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Bloody Pit Of Horror (1965) - Now my life is complete
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
^I have that mask^
'Murder, She Said' - Tepid Mrs. Marple movie from the 60's.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Flesh and Blood Show - The day I've dreaded has arrived when I didn't like a Pete Walker film. I'm heartbroken Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Nah, it wasn't that bad... was it ?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Unfortunately I've seen worse. But yeah, it's hard to believe that's the same guy who made House of Whipcord, House of Mortal Sin and Frightmare.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I have not seen The Flesh and Blood Show. Die Screaming Marianne isn't great either.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Around the same time as he did The Flesh and Blood Show, he also did The Four Dimensions of Greta. The dvd-sleeve of Greta says the following about it :
'Tacky British sleaze at its most glorious and dubious, featuring possibly the worst German Accent ever committed to film, enough pubic hair to stuff two sofas, and some of the worst acting and limb contortions ever seen.'
Sounds tasty, right ? Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Well now you've put me off my cheese on toast Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Blame Pete Walker.. not me ! Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Actually I'm a touch more lean, with more muscle definition - particularly on my abs. It's a curse.
I do, however, like to hit women for absolutely no reason and speak in deep out of synch voice whenever I can.
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Flesh and Blood Show - The day I've dreaded has arrived when I didn't like a Pete Walker film. I'm heartbroken
quote:Sounds tasty, right ?
Sounds good to me!
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Well now you've put me off my cheese on toast
Hand it over. I'll finish it for you.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Pete Walker managed to get Lee, Price and Cushing together for House Of The Long Shadows !!! His last foray in directing.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That one is OK. (And he had Carradine too.) It was fun to see the guys together--and Desi Arnaz, Jr. wasn't quite as bad as I'd thought--but it's a pretty creaky work, like a roadshow stage play (no real gore or typical Walker sleaze and nihilism).
According to the wonderfully informative book I have on Walker, "Making Mischief," it seemed he was pretty darned wealthy and just retired to enjoy himself.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL Deep, out of synch voices ftw
All the Cushing, Lee and Price films I own and have seen but that one has somehow escaped me. Well I think so anyway. I see the uk Amazon have it for pre order for September
I watched Pete's Dragon yesterday, love that film Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) It was only just over an hour long but felt like 5.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Chato's Land (1972)
Surprising little actual onscreen-time for Bronson. Good acting, especially from Jack Palance who does an impressive, dramatic dying scene. I had seen it several times before, but it's nice to revisit it every couple of years or so.
Remarkably this got a PG rating in the US, while it was still being rated 18 in the UK as recently as 2004.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Johnny, I own the dvd but haven´t seen the movie yet. The film is rated 15 here.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
aTomiK, you didn't hear it from me that the Jack Palance character dies.. right ? well, just pretend you didn't hear it !
I think 15 is a decent rating for Chato's Land. It's violent, but not excessively. Apparently the bbfc had some trouble with falling horses or something, and surprisingly didn't have any troubles with a nasty rape-scene.
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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: I watched Pete's Dragon yesterday, love that film
You were watching Channel 5! Went into work and saw that Pete's Dragon needed checking and was all "old Disney FTW!" Wasn't nearly as good as I remembered, and the kid needed a damn good slap, but Jim Dale was on top form.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Two obscure British Films on same DVD.(Prod Norman Warren). Spaced Out. An all female alien UFO crashes in early seventies England. Cue experiments and a bit of slap an tickle on a very low budget. Sex Clinic. A business woman runs a sex clinic and then blackmails her clients, but one exacts revenge, Surprisingly quite good.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I have that dvd just cos I love Norman Warren's other stuff, well except Terror But haven't watched them.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: Wasn't nearly as good as I remembered
The outrage Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Danger: Diabolik (1968) Awesome
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S:
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: Wasn't nearly as good as I remembered
The outrage
S'true! Not a patch on Freaky Friday or Candleshoe! (Young Jodie FTW!)
quote:Danger: Diabolik (1968) - Awesome
'Awesome' is too small a word!
There is no 'danger' that anyone would think it was a 'diabolical' movie! Hahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!
Shoot me.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh dear LOL
Ooh, I recorded Candleshoe from channel 5 recently Will get to it soon Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Blade (1973)
Gritty crime drama starring John Marley. Co-written by filmmaker Jeff Lieberman (director of Blue Sunshine, Squirm and Just Before Dawn), and a young Morgan Freeman can been seen as a black militant.
Nice, obscure early 70s flick !
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
chinatown
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Born Free (1966) I can't imagine that the networks would even be allowed to show this movie, what with the animals fighting and killing each other, lmao. "The Children might get scared"! I remember watching this when I was very young, probably around 5 years old, in the early 1970's.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Turkish Delight (1973)
Fantastic 70s classic directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring Rutger Hauer and Monique van de Ven - amazing couple! Funny and sad, crazy and wonderful - that´s life. Be warned though, some may think that there´s too much nudity and disturbing behaviour in this one.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Nah, that's just the way we behave here in Holland. Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
its the dutch touch
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched another 70s Paul Verhoeven masterpiece yesterday. Soldier of Orange (1977), what a fantastic war epic! I loved the cast: Rutger Hauer is once again amazing, his fellow students Jeroen Grabbe, Derek de Lint, Huib Rooymans, Dolf de Vries and Lex van Delden were also great. And let´s not forget the lovely ladies Susan Penhaligon and Belinda Meuldijk.
This was the most-expensive Dutch film made at the time (2,5 million $). I´m gonna check out the one hour documentary next.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
im going to give sorcerer with roy schieder another go
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Evel Knievel (1971)
This was a fun biopic of the famed motorcycle daredevil. It was directed by Marvin J. Chomsky (Tank etc.) and written by Alan Caillou and John Milius. The movie stars George Hamilton, Sue Lyon, Bert Freed and Ron Masak.
It´s fun to watch Hamilton fooling around and Lyon looks beautiful as his girlfriend/wife. I didn´t know much about Knievel´s life before this movie.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Entertainer (1960). Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Alan Bates, Daniel Massey, Albert Finney, Shirley Anne Field, Thora Hird, Miriam Karlin and Geoffrey Toone. A song and dance man contrives to keep his show going, even as his personal life is going to pieces. Based on the play by John Osborne.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Black Caesar - It was all good but those last 20 mins or so were so exciting
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Killer Nun - That was pretty funny Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Great Man (1956). Jose Ferrer, Dean Jagger, Keenan Wynn, Julie London, Joanne Gilbert and Ed Wynn. When a much beloved star is killed in a car crash, then an entertainment reporter is engaged to put together a tribute show, only to discover in the course of research that the star was in fact an utterly despicable fake. Based on the novel by Al Morgan.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Prime Cut (1972)
Offbeat gangster drama starring Lee Marvin, Sissy Spacek and Gene Hackman (who steels the show in every scene he's in).
From the dvd-sleeve : 'Michael Ritchie's breakneck direction propels the action along with the speed of bullets. Prime Cut is prime excitement ! Punctuated with ruthless performances by Marvin and Hackman, and featuring the in-the-flesh screen debut of Sissy Spacek, this gangster-movie hits hard and cuts deep !'
A personal favorite of mine ! Highly recommended !!
The region 1 dvd features a spectacular looking widescreen transfer, while the the region 2 disc is reportedly in full-screen. Sadly no extra's on either disc.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I like that one too Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Shout - What a really odd film. I will never be the same again after that horrifying shout scene Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Helen_S: [QB] Black Caesar - It was all good but those last 20 mins or so were so exciting
Helen.. next up, Hell Up in Harlem ?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I love The Shout. Odd and unforgettable.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Stepford Wives (1975). Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson, Nanette Newman, Tina Louise, Carol Rossen, William Prince and Patrick O'Neal. A photographer moves with her lawyer husband as well as their two children from New York City to the rural Connecticut town of Stepford, where she along with a new friend try to work out why the wives are so blissfully subservient to their husbands. Based on the novel by Ira Levin.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Just watched those ITC classic tv series. The Persuaders starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis as playboy detectives having a bit of fun around Europe and Jason King starring Peter Wyngarde as the ex Interpol agent and best selling writer also doing his bit to capture the baddies.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yeah, I definitely wanna check out the sequel Johnny Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Food of the Gods (1976). Marjoe Gortner, Pamela Franklin, Ralph Meeker, Jon Cypher, Ida Lupino, Belinda Balaski and Tom Stovall. People fight for their lives against savage chickens, worms, wasps and rats that have grown to monstrous sizes after consuming a strange substance on an island off the west Canadian coast. Based on a portion of the novel by H.G. Wells.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Glass House - Such a great, grubby made for TV prison flick. Vic Morrow was awesome.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Sisters of Death - Started off kinda corny, but grew into a pretty decent slasher/thriller.
Oasis of Fear - Incredibly goofy, well up until the final third, giallo of sorts. The music and Ray Lovelock were hysterical.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Fight For Your Life - Messed up revenge thriller, pretty distressing at times. The ending was sweet and the grandma was fabulous Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Goin' Down the Road (1970). Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood, Cayle Chernin and Nicole Morin. Two Nova Scotians who are friends head west in hopes of a better life only to end up experiencing bad luck instead.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Last Tango in Paris (1973). Marlon Brando, Marie Schneider, Jean-Marie Leaud, Darling Legitmus, Catherine Sola, Mauro Marchetti and Dan Diament. An expatriate American living in Paris whose wife has recently committed suicide starts a sexual relationship with a young, engaged Frenchwoman in which neither divulge anything about themselves to one another.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
The Italian Job (1969)
Comic caper movie about a plan to steal a gold shipment from the streets of Turin by creating a traffic jam. -- IMDb
Posted by Zach (Member # 9459) on :
Yikes, I got lots of catching up to do, after being away from the boards for almost four months.
Anyway, I've seen the following 1970s and pre-1970s films recently, mostly kaiju eiga and blaxploitation:
Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) Hell up in Harlem (1973) Black Belt Jones (1974) Destroy All Monsters (1968) The Mysterians (1957) Batman (1966)
I'll post my individual thoughts on each movie later on. Too tired to comment on them all together right now!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Attack of the puppet people (1958)
Posted by skatexedge (Member # 5712) on :
Skatetown USA. I have a bootleg dvd copy from a 16mm print. A silly cheesy movie but I was such a disco skating maniac in 78-80 I saw all three movies.....Skatetown USA, Roller Boogie and Xanadu!! LOL
I also posted up the dvd rip on Youtube for those interested. Check it out! =)
I've seen Xanadu and i have Rooler Boogie on dvd myself, but Skatetown USA is by far the most obscure of the three.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Poseideon Adventure - 1972
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
what did you think of the posideon remake a few years back?
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Not much. I thought Kurt Russel holding his breath under water for 30 minutes a bit hard to buy. Does not compare to the original. Wasn't that bad though.
Posted by skatexedge (Member # 5712) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: Skatexedge,
that's a really great upload you did on Youtube !
I've seen Xanadu and i have Rooler Boogie on dvd myself, but Skatetown USA is by far the most obscure of the three.
Thanks. I dont know what the deal is with Skatetown USA....never on vhs, beta, or dvd. Even after Patrick Swayze became a big star. Go figure......
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Pumping Iron (1977) yesterday.
It was a very good documentary about the world of bodybuilding, focusing on the 1975 IFBB Mr. Universe and Mr. Olympia competitions. Schwarzenegger was cool, wild and crazy. Always getting what he wants. Ferrigno, Columbu and co. never had a chance. Highly recommended!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i would also wear the t shirt
arnold is numero uno
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Lou "The Incredible Hulk" Ferrigno is pretty cool too, but Arnie is the man.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
His arm does look a bit inflatable on that cover though. Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, but I don't think he was doing a Gregg Valentino.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
For those interested in buying Polanski's Chinatown (1974) on blu-ray.
Paramount Pictures released the blu-ray version of Chinatown on april 3rd for US territories, here in Holland it was released yesterday (april 18th), and it will be released in the UK on may 28th.
I didn't have Chinatown on dvd, and after reading the review at Blu-ray.com, it looked as a must-buy disc to me. Review : www.blu-ray.com/movies/Chinatown-Blu-ray/6098/#Review I assumed Paramount would release the same disc in all territories, since the US disc is region-free and release dates are all set for april or may. So i've just received my copy of this marvelous, extremely atmospheric and incredibly well-acted masterpiece of modern cinema in the mail today.. BUT.. where the hell are my bonus-features ??!!
Apparently Paramount didn't think European audiences were interested in the commentary, the feature-length documentary, the 4 additional featurettes, or even the trailer ! Instead they found it necessary to prepare a different disc for us Europeans with exactly not a single second of bonus-features. This disc is as bare-bones as they come.
The disc as it's released here also carries UK classification logo's, so the upcoming UK release will be this same disc devoid of all additional materials. So, my UK friends, beware of this hoax by the people at Paramount, and when interested in purchasing Chinatown on blu-ray, please pick up the region-free disc as released in the US !
Damn, i always get so angry when they pull off a stunt like that ! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That really is irritating. I hate it when companies don't care or underestimate the intelligence of movie fans. For the converse of your "Chinatown" experience, a Canadian friend of mine had to pick up the Canadian DVD of David Cronenberg's "eXistenZ" for me because the U.S. DVD didn't have the commentary by Cronenberg. (And I am a Yank who can speak Canadian too, eh!)
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
just watched the quartermass expierement and the hunting party
quartermass got my attention, i remember john carpenter using the name as a alias for a writing credit, that and it was listed as a hammer film. i liked it but it felt a bit slow
the hunting party i thought was a good western, liked the change up from the regular hero cliche story, oliver reed, candice bergen and hackman were all good in it, i thought the story could have been improved some
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
It Happened One Night (1934)
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert offer up the most wonderful road movie, which deservedly became the first to scoop all of the Big Five at the Academy Awards (Movie, Actor, Actress, Director and Screenplay) and also deservedly gets a solid 10/10 for me.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Incident (1967). Ed McMahon, Diana Van De Vlis, Victor Arnold, Donna Mills, Jack Gilford, Thelma Ritter, Beau Bridges, Robert Bannard, Mike Kellin, Jan Sterling, Robert Fields, Gary Merrill, Brock Peters, Ruby Dee, Tony Musante and Martin Sheen. A pair of drunk felons terrify passengers on an underground train in New York City at night.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched a very suspenseful Hammer thriller, Cash on Demand (1962) Peter Cushing plays a bank manager who has his wife and kid held for ransom. Peter is always marvelous but this has gotta be up there with his very best performances. I was stressed the hell out watching this Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Last Cannibal World (1977)
Back to the vicious and wicked jungle. This was the first movie in the Ruggero Deodato cannibal trilogy. Excellent but highly, highly disturbing film. Massimo Foschi, Me Me Lai and Ivan Rassimov are simply awesome.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Just watched my blaxploitation box set The Big Payback TNT Jackson - picture quality - awful - Filmed in Phillipines - 3/10 The Black Six - Six black bikers avenge the death of a younger brother - 5/10 The Black Godfather - Local black gangsters get fed up with paying the mafia 4/10 The Black Gestapo - Militants start their own Nazi-lite army to cleanse the streets 4/10 Black Fist - cliched street fighting film 5/10 Get Christie Love - female undercover cop , taken from an early seventies US TV series. Good story, but very little action. 6/10.
Liberal use of the n word, cliched gangsters, violence, drug use and naked women.
Having thoroughly enjoyed watching films like Shaft, Across 109th Street and Superfly was very disappointed. The picture quality on the DVD's is like a third rate transfer from an old VHS tape. The stories are fine, but the acting and continuity are poor and disjointed. There's even a white double standing in for Jeanne Ball in TNT Jackson. The Black Six uses professional football players who can't act for toffee and the sound is dire.
For fans of the genre only.
Ps Watched another similar film again Truck Turner starring the late Isaac Hayes as a bail bondsman. Much better 7 1/2 /10.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Truck Turner is a classic.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Truck Turner is my favorite--even over Shaft--blaxploitation film. (Across 110th Street is a very close second.) It has everything: Isaac Hayes with a huge firearm, Nichelle Nichols from Star Trek playing a madam, Yaphet Kotto as the bad guy, D i c k Miller in a cheap plaid blazer, hilarious gutter-trash dialogue, and a great soundtrack.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK:
Watched another 70s Paul Verhoeven masterpiece yesterday. Soldier of Orange (1977), what a fantastic war epic! I loved the cast: Rutger Hauer is once again amazing, his fellow students Jeroen Grabbe, Derek de Lint, Huib Rooymans, Dolf de Vries and Lex van Delden were also great. And let´s not forget the lovely ladies Susan Penhaligon and Belinda Meuldijk.
This was the most-expensive Dutch film made at the time (2,5 million $). I´m gonna check out the one hour documentary next.
May 5th is our national liberation day here in Holland. Soldaat van Oranje is on tv again, same as every year. But this year it's followed by Soldaat van Oranje, the musical ! (don't ask too many questions about that) Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Oh, that´s cool Johnny! Our independence Day is 6 December and Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier, 1955) is on tv every year.
to be honest, i had never heard of that movie before, but it had some great reviews on IMDb. A quick look at Amazon showed that it's only available on a Finnish dvd though.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Hey i don´t blame ya Johnny Finnish flicks are pretty obscure stuff for others but it´s a very important movie for us finns.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Stop Me Before I Kill! (1960)
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Maltese Falcon (1941).
I dunno what the go is with these old movies that are supposed to be some of the finest movies ever made.
I watched this today and didn't see the rave about it. Perhaps it was good at the time and if I watched it 70 years ago I might have thought it was good too but watching it now I really do not see how this movie is supposed to be one of the best films ever made.
Same goes for movies like Citizen Kane. While The Maltese Falcon was not actually that bad I thought Citizen Kane was absolute rubbish.
OK film critics/defendants. I am preparing myself for a character assassination.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Longest Yard (1974)
Fun actioner starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, the always reliable Ed Lauter, James Hampton (Michael J Fox's dad in Teen Wolf), exploitation goddess Anitra Ford (The Big Bird Cage, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Messiah of Evil), and lots of familiar bad guy faces among the inmates including Richard Kiel.
In the opening scenes Anitra Ford gets slapped around by Burt.. hard ! (i hope it was a stunt double)
Burt.. i love you, man. But slapping Anitra just ain't cool and makes me mad. Are we crystal ?! Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Yes, I know it was a tv series, but there was a theatrical release of the pilot episode (which did contain pilots!) called Saga Of A Star World.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I saw the theatrical release of the pilot back in the day. The big screen made the special effects look absolutely terrible.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Arabian Adventure (1979)
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Excellent Alex Saviuk poster art there. Never seen the movie though.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
It's nothing special but a fun flick
Women In Love (1969) I liked the part when Oliver Reed and Alan Bates wrestled bollock naked But seriously, great flick.
And I watched a cheery Hammer war flick The Camp On Blood Island (1958)
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Abandon Ship (1957). Tyrone Power, Mai Zetterling, Lloyd Nolan, Stephen Boyd, Moira Lister, James Lister, Marie Lohr, John Stratton, Clive Morton, Gordon Jackson, Laurence Naismith, Eddie Byrne, Noel Willman, Victor Maddern, Ferdy Mayne and Finlay Currie. A deck officer in charge of survivors on a lifeboat after a luxury cruise liner strikes a derelict mine and sinks is faced with the hideous decision of whether the weak must be forfeited to ensure the survival of the strong.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Lady Vanishes (1938). Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty, Cecil Parker, Linden Travers and Mary Clare. A woman conducts an investigation with the help of a man when an old woman travelling on a train disappears and others claim that they don't remember her. Based on the novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Moon Of The Wolf - Insanely boring till the last 10 minutes.
And 2 ok films, Snowbeast and The Other.
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Fire Over England (1937). Laurence Olivier, Flora Robson, Leslie Banks, Vivian Leigh, Raymond Massey, Tamara Desni and Morton Selten. In 1588, the Spanish Armada is poised to invade Great Britain, and only Queen Elizabeth I's navy stands in their way. Based on the novel by A. E. W. Mason.
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Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The 39 Steps (1935). Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Teale and Peggy Ashcroft. A canadian visiting London is falsely accused of murder together with theft of national secrets and flees to Scotland, pursued by both police besides spies along the way. Based on the novel by John Buchan.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Helen,
i like Arabian Adventure. I have it on a UK dvd which sadly doesn't have any extra's, but does contain an excellent transfer.
Director Kevin Connor made several fantasy / adventure flicks in the mid-/late seventies (The Land That Time Forgot, The People That Time Forgot, At The Earth's Core and Warlords of Atlantis).
Warlords is the only one i haven't seen, but the others are all fun and highly entertaining movies.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I have 3 of them Warlords is the one I've not seen too. I love At The Earth's Core.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
It may not have Peter Cushing in it, but look at that rubber octopus thingy at the end of the trailer..
that's just priceless !
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hahaha, that looks fantastic!
I just watched The Devil's Nightmare - A group of tourists each representing the seven deadly sins have to stay overnight in a castle with a succubus. Insane and ridiculous. I loved it!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Bucktown (1975)
This was a cool blaxploitation flick with a twist directed by Arthur Marks. Starring Fred Williamson, Pam Grier, Thalmus Rasulala, Tony King, Bernie Hamilton, Art Lund and Carl Weathers in his first feature film.
Williamson is great and Grier hot as always. I also liked the funky score composed by Johnny Pate.
The Bicycle Thief (1947). Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carella, Enzo Staiola and Elena Altieri. An indigent man who has to have a bicycle for his job has it stolen from him and spends a week with his son looking for it.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Helen,
Warlords of Atlantis gets a UK dvd (re)release on july 30th..
what a coincidence !
And for those interested : At least two other Kevin Connor fantasy / adventure movies will be (re)released at the same date (At the Earth's Core and The Land that Time Forgot).
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I remember The Land that Time Forgot VHS art from old video magazine. Never got to see it though.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Those Kevin Connor Amicus/AIP lost continent things are fairly juvenile, but they are a lot of fun. I remember seeing The Land that Time Forgot at the drive-in. I can't remember what the co-feature was. I think that it was a Godzilla film or something.
The Devil's Nightmare! I haven't seen that in years, Helen. It's pretty good as I recall, starring Sara Bay, a/k/a Rosalba Neri, the hot-to-trot star of many a Euro-trash film.
Bucktown! I really like director Arthur Marks, aTomiK. Detroit 9000 is a classic, even referenced by Quentin Tarantino in Jackie Brown.
And to give my response some class here, I saw The Bicycle Thief in a college film course, LwC. It's a classic.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Umberto D (1952). Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio and Lina Gennari. A sometime bureaucrat who is on a set pittance of a pension is about to be forced into the streets of Rome with only his pet dog to comfort him.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Crash,
it wasn't Rosalba Neri who starred in The Devil's Nightmare, but Erika Blanc.
Neri starred in the similarly titled The Devil's Wedding Night. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You are good, and I stand corrected! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
About time too Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
ROFL!
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Overlanders (1946). Chips Rafferty, John Nugent Hayward, Daphne Campbell, John Fernside, Jean Blue, Peter Pagan, Helen Grieve, Frank Ransome, Stan Tolhurst and Marshall Crosby. Cattlemen drive 1,000 cattle from Western Australia to Queensland during the Second World War to prevent them falling into the hands of the Japanese.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (1973). Burt Reynolds, Sarah Miles, Lee J. Cobb, Jack Warden, George Hamilton, Bo Hopkins, Robert Donner, Sandy Kevin, Larry Littlebird, Nancy Malone and Jay Silverheels. A wife who ran out on her husband falls in with an outlaw during a train robbery. They end up becoming lovers. Based on the novel by Marilyn Durham.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Excellent cop drama, starring Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Tony King, Susan Blakely, William Devane and Richard Gere in his feature debut (as Billy the pimp, in case you see this and don't recognize him).
Stand-out performances from Kotto and King !
Tense, exciting.. and very good !
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Excellent cop drama, starring Michael Moriarty, Yaphet Kotto, Tony King, Susan Blakely, William Devane and Richard Gere in his feature debut (as Billy the pimp, in case you see this and don't recognize him).
Stand-out performances from Kotto and King !
Tense, exciting.. and very good !
I´m gonna put this on my wanted list!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Report to the Commissioner is excellent! It is finally available from the WB archive.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Portrait Of Jennie (1948)
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I love "Portrait of Jennie." Great film.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Hunting Party (1971)
Wow, this was a great and violent western. Starring Oliver Reed, Gene Hackman, Candice Bergen, Mitch Ryan, Simo Oakland, Ronald Howard and L.Q. Jones.
"The rich and ruthless rancher Brandt Ruger keeps his beautiful young wife Melissa like a part of his property, subdued to his will. But one day she's kidnapped by the famous outlaw Frank Calder - just to teach him reading, so he tells her. Calder doesn't know or care who's wife she is. He takes care of her well, and eventually Melissa falls in love with him. But Ruger feels humiliated. Full of hate, he sets out to kill him - and Melissa too, if necessary. Together with his friends and the newest technology in guns, which carry 800 yards, he initiates a battue on Calder and his gang." (IMDb)
The cast is fantastic, especially Reed shines. The guns do some serious damage in this movie, you can see all the wounds. This is 70s magic. Highly recommended!
Low-budget story of four astronauts in deep space, whose mission is to destroy unstable planets in star systems which are to be colonised. The late Commander Powell is stored in deep freeze, where he is still able to offer advice. As their mission nears completion, they must cope with a runaway alien which resembles a beach-ball, faulty computer systems, and a "smart bomb" who thinks it is God. -- IMDb
Great little film. You can't please everybody though -- my brother rates it as one of the worst films he's ever seen. Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Thunder and Lightning (1977)
'Cars-ploitation' from the Corman factory starring David Carradine and Kate Jackson (from Charlie's Angels).
Not the best of Corman's 'cars' movies, but good old action fun nonetheless, and ofcourse some great car chase scenes.
Charles Napier is in it too, and Carradine and Jackson make for a good on-screen couple.
Never seen Thunder and Lightning but i own Cannonball (1976) R1 dvd. I need to check it out during the summer holiday. Seen that one Johnny?
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Mankind finds a mysterious, obviously artificial, artifact buried on the moon and, with the intelligent computer HAL, sets off on a quest. -- IMDb
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Never seen Thunder and Lightning but i own Cannonball (1976) R1 dvd. I need to check it out during the summer holiday. Seen that one Johnny?
Yeah, i have the Blue Underground dvd of Cannonball as well. I think it's probably the best of Corman's 'cars' movies, and required viewing for fans of 70s-style exploitation.
Last year i also bought the Ron Howard Action Pack which was released in the Roger Corman Cult Classics Collection from Shout! Factory. It includes Eat My Dust and Grand Theft Auto. I have seen them both, but it was a very long time ago.. so i definitely need to watch them again sometime soon. But i doubt they'll be better than Cannonball or Death Race 2000.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I like "Cannonball," a better, less silly version of "Cannonball Run." If I had to rate the Corman car films, they'd go: 1. Death Race 2000 2. Cannonball 3. Eat My Dust 4. Grand Theft Auto
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Crash,
have you seen Thunder And Lightning ?
Since it's not in your top 4, does that mean you rate it lower than the others ? Because if it's really the worst of the bunch, then i'm really going to enjoy re-visiting the Ron Howard flicks.
Almost forgot about Moving Violation, which was also produced by Corman around the same time. Another great little exploitation flick chock-full of car chases, starring a young and very pretty Kay Lenz.
It should definitely be at the top of the list ! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I had forgotten about Thunder and Lightning! I have seen it and Moving Violation. Thunder and Lightning has David Carradine, always cool, and a rare theatrical film appearance by Kate Jackson. It's pretty routine. I might put it there with Grand Theft Auto in the "good enough" category.
You are right about Moving Violation. Like Thunder and Lightning, it was produced by Corman and his wife under their deal with 20th Century-Fox. It's more violent than all of the New World stuff--except Death Race--and it's a pretty good B-picture. I agree about Kay Lenz. She looks even better in AIP's "Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" that same year. (That's a really good, underrated film.)
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Chato's Land (1972)
Very good revenge western directed by Michael Winner. This movie includes a great cast: Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland, Ralph Waite, Richard Jordan, Victor French and William Watson.
Some nasty kills, dry wasteland (shot in Spain) and i liked the fact that while this was just a simple revenge flick, every character had their own personality and way of thinking.
richard jordan was a real weasel in that one, then again he is weasel most of the time.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Yeah Jordan was a real weasel but he also had a soft side and he actually wanted the Indian woman to be his wife.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
you'd think after what chato did to jordan that it would have deterred the others
Posted by StevenHW (Member # 509) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lovers with Cassie: Umberto D (1952). Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio and Lina Gennari. A sometime bureaucrat who is on a set pittance of a pension is about to be forced into the streets of Rome with only his pet dog to comfort him.
One of my favorite Italian movies!.
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
Black Moon 1975.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Disco Fever (1978)
This is a fun and obscure dance flick directed by Lamar Card. Starring Fabian, Casey Kasem, Phoebe Dorin and Susette Carroll.
Cool dance club, nice cars, funky dance beat, lots of beautiful ladies with sexy moves and Cybil´s disco jet!
The fantastical Grand Hotel (1932) Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Plumber (1979)
Not Peter Weir's finest work IMO and a bit of a non-dramatic ending for a psychological thriller.
I am sure this was shot on several locations but some of the university shots were definitely taken at Flinders University in Adelaide where I currently go.
It was tripped out spotting that.
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
Black Christmas 1974
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Phantom Carriage (1921) Took about 20 mins to get going but once it did it was really friggin' eerie and depressing.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zigyma7ik: Black Christmas 1974
One of my 70s favorites. It's really exceptionally creepy--phone calls with the different voices, crying baby...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The ending is one of the greatest
Just watched Gorilla at large (1954) Not as daft as the title and poster suggests
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Devil's Hand (1962) - Quite corny but enjoyable voodoo flick. But it was hard to take Commissioner Gordon as a devil worshipper haha Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash:
quote:Originally posted by Zigyma7ik: Black Christmas 1974
One of my 70s favorites. It's really exceptionally creepy--phone calls with the different voices, crying baby...
Yep the grand daddy of them 80's slashers.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Race With The Devil
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Great poster art!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Just watched The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
This was a good comedy written and directed by Gene Wilder. The movie stars Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madeline Kahn, Dom DeLuise and Leo McKern. The cast did a good job, i especially loved DeLuise as the fun italian Eduardo Gambetti.
Really nostalgic movie for me Atom! Love it. If you liked it you should check out 'The World's Greatest Lover' too. Similar kind of humour.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I´ll definitely try to find it somewhere.
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
The Devils 1971
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Couple of silent comedies for me:
The Plank, starring amongst many others the late and very great Eric Sykes. The Plank tells the simple story of a couple of builders who need to go get a plank of wood to finish laying a floor in a new house. But how they get it, and how difficult it is to get it back to the site, is what the movie is all about.
Futtock's End, starring Ronnie Barker, Michael Hordern, and again a host of other familiar faces in a story about a stately home, and a weekend visit by distant family members. Barker (as the Colonel) and his butler Hordern have to see to the guests, as well as trying to out-do each other in the affections of the pert and pretty young girl.
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i started to watch metropolis awhile back, is there a version that has giorgio moroder music playing in it?
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Yeah, it's the 1984 version which was supervised and re-scored by Moroder with additional music by Freddie Mercury, Bonnie Tyler and Pat Benatar.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
1984, thank you. i know which one to look for now, i kept getting the other versions
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Count of Monte-Cristo (1975)
Took a little break from Jason´s woods and watched this made-for-tv adaptation of Dumas´ classic.
I liked it very much. The cast is pretty awesome: Richard Chamberlain, Louis Jourdan, Donald Pleasence, Tony Curtis, Kate Nelligan etc.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Man in the Iron Mask (1977)
Another made-for-tv Dumas adaptation and this was also a very good one. The movie was directed by Mike Newell and the cast is once again excellent: Richard Chamberlain, Patrick McGoohan, Louis Jourdan, Jenny Agutter, Ian Holm and Ralph Richardson.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry - Highly enjoyable road film with a lovely ending
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Awesome movie !! Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I agree. Ending is fantastic. Always been a big fan of this movie.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Mean Dog Blues (1978)
This was excellent prison camp movie directed by Mel Stuart. The cast is awesome: Gregg Henry, James Wainwright, George Kennedy, Gregory Sierra, Geno Silva, the lovely ladies Kay Lenz and Tina Louise plus one mean dog Rattler. Recommended!
This was a fantastic comedy directed by Lou Adler (Ladies and Gentlemen, the Fabulous Stains). Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong shine in their feature film debut. It was surprising to see Tom Skerritt as the crazy Vietnam veteran - Strawberry. Stacy Keach and his police pals were hilarious.
Lots of funny jokes, great music and once again i loved the late 70s LA scenery.
Planet Of The Apes, and Beneath The Planet Of The Apes. Two great films.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972). Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Helena Rojo, Cecilia Rivera and Peter Berling. A mad, deluded conquistador leads an expedition through the Amazon in 1560 in search of the seven cities of gold.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Lady Vanishes (1938) Not one of my fave Hitchcock flicks but still a good watch.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lovers with Cassie: Aguirre: The Wrath of God (1972). Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Del Negro, Helena Rojo, Cecilia Rivera and Peter Berling. A mad, deluded conquistador leads an expedition through the Amazon in 1560 in search of the seven cities of gold.
My favorite Herzog/Kinski film. It's an amazing movie on so many levels, but, for me, that last scene is one of the most unforgettable scenes in any movie.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
atomik, you mentioned kay lenz and it reminded me of a argument i had awhile back with my dad, i said she was really attractive and he said she was dog ugly, i have known this man for years and i still havent figured him out
what do you think?
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
If i may step in here
Dog ugly ?? You've gotta be from another planet to find Kay unattractive ! Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
like i said, i still aint figured him out yet
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
He is human though ? Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
well im human and pretty sure i havent been adopted
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Haha, you funny guys. She looks great IMO!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Ditto that. She looks really nice in "The Great Scout and Cathouse Thursday" and has a nude scene in the little seen "Fast Walking." A very attractive 70s-80s starlet--and she can act too. Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: My favorite Herzog/Kinski film. It's an amazing movie on so many levels, but, for me, that last scene is one of the most unforgettable scenes in any movie.
I have this film on DVD, Crash. Have you read the entry for Don Lope de Aguirre in The Great Book of Movie Villains?
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
Destiny (1921).
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
blood on satan's claw (1970) i liked it.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Good Package: blood on satan's claw (1970) i liked it.
I saw the badly censored U.S. cut of this many, many years ago when I was a kid. I thought that it was a flawed mess but had a lot of good things in it. A couple of years ago, I was fortunate enough to see an uncut UK print with the original title "Satan's Skin." I was quite impressed. It still has a few flaws--the screenplay needed one more draft, I think--but it's a near masterpiece. Terrific film.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
what was in the uncensored version, i think that may have been the one i watched. they showed it on the mgm chanel in hd.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
There was a lot more nudity--and as I recall, a couple of longer dialogue scenes. (I'm thinking that if you saw Linda Hayden's full frontal scene, you saw an uncensored version.) From what I've read on IMDB.com, the version they showed on Turner Classic Movies about four years ago, apart from having the title card as "Blood on Satan's Claw" was an uncensored version. Since I believe that this was originally a Cannon Film in the U.S. that MGM now owns, I'll bet that the MGM Channel showed that version too. There are a bunch of different versions of this kicking around. It has never had a legit DVD release in the U.S. But I'm sure that Helen has a pristine UK DVD somewhere in her vast collection. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I remember watching Blood on Satan´s Claw in the early 90s. Very good movie.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: But I'm sure that Helen has a pristine UK DVD somewhere in her vast collection.
I have it in my Tigon coffin set which is going for silly used prices now I see I don't know just how uncut it is but unfortunately it does have the full frontal
Going to see the wonderful silent version of Ben Hur with a live orchestra in October, woot! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Actually there are two excellent dvd releases of Blood on Satan's Claw from the UK.
The first one was released by Anchor Bay's UK division, and is the same disc that is also in their Tigon Collection coffin-shaped box-set that Helen mentioned. It has a great looking widescreen transfer (though not anamorphically enhanced) plus lots of extra's which include a writer / director / star commentary plus a very good featurette with star Linda Hayden. Several galleries, notes and the trailer are on the disc as well.
The second dvd was released by UK company Odeon Entertainment. It's the same uncut version, but this time it is anamorphically enhanced. Unfortunately the extra's from the Anchor Bay disc are not carried over to this one, except for the trailer which is the only extra here.
So take your pick. Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
yep, i seen linda hayden naked (fortunatley), it must of been the uncensored.
the mgm chanel shows alot of films you dont hear much about.
seen parts of robot holocaust the other day, a pretty funny unintentional comedy
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I'm in the "fortunately" camp vis-a-vis Ms. Hayden in the buff here.
I wish, I wish that I had that Tigon coffin-box set! That never got imported into the States. Didn't that also have the Boris Karloff film "The Sorcerers" in it? That film has never had any kind of release, VHS or DVD, here. It is a film that has dropped off the face of the earth, much like another Tigon-Compton film, "Corruption," a/k/a "Laser Killer," that I'm on the prowl for. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Love The Sorcerers but no, it has Blood On Satan's Claw, Witchfinder General, The Body Stealers, The Haunted House of Horror, The Beast In The Cellar and the godawful Virgin Witch.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I may get the chance to see the uncut UK verion of "The Haunted House of Horror, known as "Horror House" in the U.S., at the drive-in Monsterama show in September. You know, some of Tigon's stuff doesn't get the credit that it deserves. Everybody talks about "Witchfinder General" because it is a masterpiece, but "The Sorcerers" really is good too. And while "The Beast in the Cellar," for the most part is too slow moving, it does have a moment or two.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I love Virgin Witch !
I recently bought it again on Redemption's US blu-ray release. Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
The Hour-Glass Sanatorium
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh Johnny haha
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Come on.. any movie about nude devil worshipping is highly entertaining !
Talking about those Redemption blu-rays..
They're truly amazing ! So far they've released a whole bunch of Jean Rollin titles (The Nude Vampire, Fascination, The Iron Rose, Lips of Blood, Shiver of The Vampires, Requiem for a Vampire, The Demoniacs, Rape of The Vampire, Two Orphan Vampires, The Living Dead Girl), some classic British horrors (Burke and Hare, The Blood Beast Terror, The Asphyx), some British (s)exploitation (Virgin Witch, Marquis De Sade's Justine with Koo Stark, Girl on a Motorcycle), and next month they start releasing their first batch of Mario Bava titles on blu-ray which include Black Sunday, Hatchet for a Honeymoon and the Lisa and The Devil / House of Exorcism double-feature. In october all of this will be followed by their first batch of Jess Franco titles which include Female Vampire, Exorcism (aka Demoniac) and the truly amazing A Virgin Among The Living Dead !
At fist i was kinda hesitant about buying these all over again, because i already own all of these titles, and many of them is several different dvd editions. But when i saw their new transfer for Jean Rollin's The Iron Rose, i was like.. WOW ! (yes, they're really THAT good)
Yay for Redemption !!
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
blacula will be on the mgm channel in the next week or so in hd. as well as the abombinable dr phibes
havent seen them yet but i am expecting good things
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
They're both fabulous Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Dr. Phibes being a little bit more fabulous than Blacula ofcourse. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Blacula is good fun. Phibes, to me, is a masterpiece and is fabulous!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hehehe Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
The Masque of the Red Death 1964.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Firepower (1979)
"A merc is hired by the FBI to track down a powerful recluse criminal. A woman is also trying to track him down for her own personal vendetta." (IMDb)
This was a decent yet highly entertaining late 70s action/caper movie directed by Michael Winner. Starring James Coburn, Sophia Loren, O.J. Simpson, Eli Wallach, Anthony Franciosa and George Grizzard.
Great locations (shot in the Caribbean), beautiful Sophia Loren, good action plus lots of explosions and nice, easy-going feel. I own the good quality scandi dvd.
Fantastic Planet.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Fantastic Planet is excellent.
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
^ Yeah is still gives me the heebie jeebies. Love it.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Suddenly (1954)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Alice Sweet Alice - Ok, not as good as I remembered. Some of the perfomances and pacing was off.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
Finally got to see this one. It has long been the missing one of the Kevin Connor fantasy / adventure films in my collection. But to be honest, i actually thought this was the weakest of the 5. It's still fun though, with all the rubbery monsters showing up once again and Doug McClure chewing up every scene he's in. Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i watched blacula, it was pretty hard to sit through.
im betting cold hard cash though that dr phibes is a killer movie
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: Warlords of Atlantis (1978)
Finally got to see this one. It has long been the missing one of the Kevin Connor fantasy / adventure films in my collection. But to be honest, i actually thought this was the weakest of the 5. It's still fun though, with all the rubbery monsters showing up once again and Doug McClure chewing up every scene he's in.
The other day I watch again The Land That Time Forgot 1975. Trippy flicks. They just make my whisky glass sweeter.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Eureka Stockade (1949). Chips Rafferty, Jane Barrett, Jack Lambert, Gordon Jackson, Peter Illing, Ralph Truman, Sydney Loder, Peter Finch, Grant Taylor, Kevin Brennan, John Fegan, Reg Wykeham, Al Thomas, John Fernside and Betty Ross. Frictions result between prospectors and authorities during the 1850s Australian gold rush when the former have their liberty restricted. The prospectors make a stand at Eureka Stockade, which leads to a confrontation with the government.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Bitter Springs (1950). Chips Rafferty, Tommy Trinder, Gordon Jackson, Jean Blue, Michael Pate, Charles Tingwell, Nonnie Piper, Nicky Yardley and Henry Murdock. A sheep farming family who take up residence on outback land come into conflict with local aborigines who resent their presence besides their attempts to drive them off.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
dr phibes, it was good.
watching taxi now,danny d is great on there
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Man Who Haunted Himself - Really great, tense psychological horror and Roger Moore was stunning here Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
Becket 1964
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
The Seventh Seal. Can't get enough of this masterpiece.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Man Who Haunted Himself - Really great, tense psychological horror and Roger Moore was stunning here
Frigging excellent. Caught it on TV late at night when I was younger. It was like a trippy extra-long episode of 'The Saint'. It's a bit tacky in that early 70's way, but it really sticks in your mind.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape, when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea. -- IMDb
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
who else likes the movie goin south?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I don't mind "Goin' South." It's not a masterpiece by any means, but it is fun. (Jack Nicholson and John Belushi seem to be having a blast.) And it did herald the arrival of a new talent--and really good actress--in Mary Steenburgen. Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
Solaris 1972
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: It was like a trippy extra-long episode of 'The Saint'.
Yes, that's a good way of putting it lol
I watched 2 wonderful Amicus films I've seen a thousand times, The House That Dripped Blood and The Beast Must Die (1974)
Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
^ Good stuff. The last one from Amicus I saw was Asylum.
Aguirre, the Wrath of God.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Aguirre is terrific. That last scene is unforgettable.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Just received this excellent edition of John Carpenter's Assault On Precinct 13 :
It's a German import 3 disc edition. Blu-ray / dvd combo plus a third disc containing the 2003 documentary Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer ?, about the real-life disappearance of actress Laurie Zimmer, star of Assault On Precinct 13.
Pretty happy with this one ! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
"Assault on Precinct 13" is probably my favorite John Carpenter film. It's small in scope but brilliantly vivid in atmosphere, technique, and suspense. And what's not to like about characters, who--for me at least--go well beyond the usual genre stereotypes? I have the old-school, big-platter laser disc with Carpenter's excellent commentary, but it doesn't have the documentary on Laurie Zimmer, who dropped out of acting to become a teacher, I think. Pity. She's really good in this film, one of only a handful that she did.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
My fave Carpenter film too, just wonderful with the greatest kid death LOL
Just watched A Candle For The Devil. It was pretty entertaining film about 2 sisters who hack and slash any female guest in their hotel that they deem immoral.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Zigyma7ik: ^ Good stuff. The last one from Amicus I saw was Asylum.
Another goodun There's only a few Amicus' I don't care for.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Vigilante Force (1976)
Around the same time when Roger Corman produced Fighting Mad and Moving Violation, his brother Gene Corman produced this suspiciously similar, old-fashioned, Americana actioner.
Jan-Michael Vincent and Kris Kristofferson star. Supporting roles come from Bernadette Peters, Victoria Principal, David Doyle (Charlie's Angels) and Paul Gleason.
Writer / director George Armitage would go on to make Miami Blues (1990) and Grosse Point Blank (1997).
Credited as 'producer's assistant' is Barbara Peeters, who would go on to direct Humanoids From The Deep for Roger Corman.
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Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
Tombs of the Blind Dead 1972
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Black Torment (1964) Marvelous
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
Flight of the Phoneix
it was a good one, i like jimmy stewart, always plays likeable characters, but in this one i think he was a stubborn pain in the neck
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Twins of Evil, Countess Dracula, Raw Meat (a/k/a Deathline), and Psychomania (a/k/a The Death Wheelers) at the Super Monsterama at the Riverside Drive-In, Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. (I'll try to find the ad and post it.) All films are favorites, and they were shown in beautiful, uncut prints. Raw Meat, a lost gem, is my absolute favorite, and it, along with Psychomania, deserves to be shown at a drive-in in the wee hours of the morning. It's just so much more effective that way. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
4 amazing films
Just watched The Bad Seed (1956) for the first time in years, brill
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
is there a bad seed tote bag in your future?
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Confession box set
Confessions of a....Driving Instructor, Pop Performer, Window Cleaner and From A Holiday Camp. Robin Askwith stars of Timmy Lea, who has a fair few "encounters" with suburban housewives in 1970's London. Fair amount of nudity with a splattering of British comedy guest stars.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Hey, i have that box-set too !
Good, old-fashioned, raunchy but harmless fun. I think Holiday Camp is my favorite of the bunch.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Good Package: is there a bad seed tote bag in your future?
Not quite but maybe a Nosferatu one I have my eye on Posted by Zigyma7ik (Member # 12351) on :
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Silencers (1966)
8/10 from me.
Review on my blog HERE Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Logan's Run. Fell asleep after half an hour. If it weren't for Jenny Agutter it would have been half that.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Jenny Agutter is a goddess! Check her out in China 9, Liberty 37. So very, very attractive!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
She is/was super super sexy. I think I am in love. She looked better in AWIL than this though even if she was 5 years older. I will check out those flicks but purely for the skin Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Loved her in The Man in the Iron Mask (1977).
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Never seen China 9, Liberty 37 but it was released on VHS here back in the day.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bernie_Lomax: Logan's Run. Fell asleep after half an hour. If it weren't for Jenny Agutter it would have been half that.
We have much to teach you of 1970s sci-fi, young Bernard..... although if you fell asleep after half an hour, there was an awful lot of Jenny you would have missed....
quote:Originally posted by P_a_u_l: The Silencers (1966)
The second Matt Helm movie, and yet another vehicle for Dean Martin. Still very good, although not quite up to the standard of The Silencers, so only 7.5/10 for this one.
I still have two more to watch (The Wrecking Crew and The Ambushers) so these will be marked just as soon as I get a chance to watch them.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yes, I do need some pointers. Does she get her kit off close to the closing credits? If so I think it is worth watching the whole way through.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
In fact, she does ! Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Bernie, it's worth watching all the way through irrespective of the chance to catch a glimpse of Jenny....
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
wasnt there a video game of logan's run?
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Yes - it was called City Of Domes. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Jenny has a couple of fantastic scenes in China 9, Liberty 37, including one where she is bathing nude in a river and another where she is wearing the shearest of shear white nighgowns, and the scene is back lit. In a current film world of actresses with heavy cosmetic surgey, collagen, and silicon, Jenny is a marvel with her beautiful, natural, unenhanced features and figure.
As for ummmm the other things in the movie, I really like China 9, Liberty 37, sort of a "thinking man's spaghetti Western." It is well directed by Monte Hellman, and Warren Oates is just great, as always, as the villain. The only real black mark against the film is Fabio Testi as the hero. He has all the charisma of a rod puppet, and I just got so angry over his love scene with Jenny. (Why would she even take a second look at that stiff loser? She should be with ME! )
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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Johnny - Prepare to fast forward! Fast forwarding sir!
Paul - Yeah I am gonna watch it all the way through in the next couple of days.
Crash - I love your use of language to make it sound like there is something going for those films apart from Jenny's nakedness.
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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Directors must have been falling over themselves back then trying to hire her for a part just to see her in the flesh..in the flesh Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
you know i would like to say that i have reached a point of maturity where i would view a film based off of its artistic value alone, but sadly no, i hear of ceartin actresses scene stealing moments and i find myself watching a film i probably wouldnt have thought to check out.
honest truth, the reason i watched valley girl was for elizabeth daily
maybe moviemakers are relying on people like me, using nudity as a marketing tool
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
So we are victims, right ? Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Good Package: maybe moviemakers are relying on people like me, using nudity as a marketing tool
Maybe??
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
ah well so i got suckered in, its better than loosing a bundle in a ponzi scheme. can you think of a better way to get duped, at least it was fun, parts of it anyway.
yeah, john were victims
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You guys are hilarious! I always justify my failure to reach that point of maturity as "If I ever stop getting excited about something like seeing Jenny Agutter in China 9, Liberty 37, then hold a mirror up to my mouth. You'll see that I've stopped breathing--and am clinically dead!" LOL
There were so many amazing looking UK actresses from the 1970s--Agutter, Caroline Munro, Veroinica Carlson, Diana Rigg... I could go on and on. Heck, depending on how she parted her hair and smiled, Rita Tushingham--who made a cottage industry out of playing ugly-duckling parts in the 60s and 70s in films like "A Taste of Honey," "Dr. Zhivago," and "Straight on Till Morning"--could be a babe to me.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
dont forget linda hayden, (fortunately)
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Oh, you are right. Never can forget young Linda Hayden from "The Blood on Satan's Claw" and "Taste the Blood of Dracula." She was another gorgeous gal of the era.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Bunch of pervs!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
She's back!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Well I never! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Classic! Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier are fantastic.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Night Moves (1975)
Amazing 70's crime thriller directed by Arthur Penn.
,L.A. detective Harry Moseby has problems. Missing persons and bedroom stake-outs are no match for his glory days as a pro-football player. His wife is having a not-so-secret affair. And while sorting things out, he takes on the case of a runaway teenager that may be a lot more than he can handle.'
Any more information about the story would spoil it for those who've never seen it before.
Starring Gene Hackman at his very best here ! (and he certainly was on the roll in that period.. Within 4 years he did French Connection 1 + 2, Prime Cut, The Poseidon Adventure, The Conversation and Night Moves)
And a terrific supporting cast, which also includes a young James Woods and an even younger Melanie Griffith, whose teenage runaway character triggers the whole story.
Night Moves was released on region 1 dvd in 2005 by Warner Brothers. Surprisingly there is no UK dvd release.
Night Moves is a masterpiece !
On a side note : A decade later, Jeff Bridges would also play an ex-football star turned private investigator (sort of) in Against All Odds, which remarkably also starred James Woods.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Will have to give that a look
Just watched Point Blank (1967) A great film but I'd rather watch the awful 1998 film of the same name
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
JRiR, Night Moves is one of the best movies from the 1970s and a personal favorite, though, for as many times as I've seen it, I'm not sure that I could pass an exam on the plot. It's such an impressive character study and mood piece that much like The Big Sleep, you just go with it. It has incredible dialogue too--remember the line about what "he would do with a woodpile"?
Helen, how could you possibly prefer watching the not-bad-but-not-classic remake of Point Blank? Oh wait...you are referring to the cruddy direct-to-video movie with the title Point Blank with Mickey Rourke! (Thought you could fool us, huh? LOL) Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Acapulco Gold (1978 end credits say 1976)
This is a fun little drug smuggling flick directed by Burt Brinckerhoff. This was one of the first VHS films i saw back in the mid 80s and now i finally bought the tape and saw it again.
The movie stars Marjoe Gortner (Mausoleum, Jungle Warriors, Hellhole), Robert Lansing (The Nest), Ed Nelson, John Harkins and cute Randi Oakes.
Nice easy-going feel, beautiful Hawaii locations and two semi-cool yacht rock tunes performed by Gregory Prestopino.
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Helen, how could you possibly prefer watching the not-bad-but-not-classic remake of Point Blank? Oh wait...you are referring to the cruddy direct-to-video movie with the title Point Blank with Mickey Rourke! (Thought you could fool us, huh? LOL)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Last night I watched my fave horror Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966)
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Lovers with Cassie:
quote:Originally posted by Crash: My favorite Herzog/Kinski film. It's an amazing movie on so many levels, but, for me, that last scene is one of the most unforgettable scenes in any movie.
I have this film on DVD, Crash. Have you read the entry for Don Lope de Aguirre in The Great Book of Movie Villains?
No, I have not. Enlighten me! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Crash, Helen..
here are some new dvd-r releases from the Warner Archives collection that i just know you will love
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cool. Love love love The Sorcerers. I don't think I've seen the Vincent Price one.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
paradise alley
i really liked this one. great look to it, great story, i remember hearing it was a dud, totally heard wrong.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Queen Of Spades (1949)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Ring of Terror (1962) I'm just grateful that it was only 64 mins long.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I have seen all three of the new WB Archives Halloween films. Love 'em, including the nutty must-see-it-to-believe-it Opium Eater, with Vincent Price as a sailor! Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
on the mgm chanel, coming up in a week or so, scream and scream again with vincent price willing be showing.
so whats the word on this one guys, is it a good one?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
It is interesting in a weird sort of way. You have the three great modern horror stars--Price, Cushing, and Lee, although Lee doesn't have much to do, and Cushing has less--in a film with something like three or four plots going on simultaneously. It is hard to follow exactly where it is all going, but it's never dull, and there is a dynamite chase scene. I remember seeing it way back when I was a kid and thinking that it was a convoluted mess, but while it is still not great, it has kind of grown on me over the years. It is just so different from the usual films of that era--part horror, part sci-fi, part police procedural, part spy film. Good looking film with screenplay by Christopher Wicking who wrote Cry of the Banshee and The Oblong Box and direction by Gordon Hessler Who directed both of those as well The Golden Voyage of Sinbad. You will either hate it or scratch your head and go, "That was nuts." It's worth a look.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
What Crash said Now I have that daft song stuck in my head.
I just watched Locusts (1974) Mostly dull and cheesy in a really bad way.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Mind Over Murder (1979)
"A beautiful model´s discovery that she has psychic powers leads her on a nightmarish search for a mass murderer, a search in which she becomes the hunted."
This was a cool made-for-tv thriller directed by Ivan Nagy. Starring Deborah Raffin ( Nightmare in Badham County, Death Wish 3), David Ackroyd, Bruce Davison, Andrew Prine (The Evil, They´re Playing with Fire) and Robert Englund.
Raffin did a very good job and i loved the overall haunting feel.
Interesting but pretty typical cannibal flick directed by Sergio Martino and starring Ursula Andress, Stacy Keach and Claudio Cassinelli.
The animal violence scenes are quite hard to watch and this film is definitely not for everyone. Ursula Andress looks gorgeous though.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I think Mountain Of The Cannibal God is probably the most adventurous of the the cannibal-movie sub-genre. And it will come as no surprise that Mountain Of The Cannibal God is right up my alley !
My own last 70's movie i've watched is Wicked Women (aka Frauen Ohne Unschuld, 1977), directed by Jess Franco and starring the late Lina Romay.
Interesting combination of a 'women-in-prison' flick and 'giallo'-esque elements. Sex and nudity aplenty (after all, this is a Jess Franco movie), though not as sleazy as several other WIP movies he did around the same time, such as Barbed Wire Dolls, Women In Cellblock 9 and Love Camp.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
At the weekend I went to see the original 1925 silent version of Ben-Hur with live orchestra conducted by Carl Davis. I've seen the film before but it was a million times more special like this
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
mountain of the cannibal god, looks like a conan the barbarian story
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
It´s just even more brutal compared to Conan. I´ve watched few cannibal flicks during the last year or so and there´s still few i want to see.
Johnny, i´ve never seen any Jess Franco films. Can you believe it?
Helen, sounds like a very nice and special evening there.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Keep it that way Atomik, they are like slow torture (apart from Count Dracula, I love that one), but the masochist in me always watches whenever I see one I've yet to watch on Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Crash will be in here any minute to rant about his zooms LOL
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
His use of zooming in (or out) isn't more obtrusive as it is in your average Hong Kong martial-arts flick.
I've been collecting Jess Franco movies since the 90's and currently i'm the proud owner of nearly 90 Franco movies.
Eugenie, The Story Of Her Journey Into Perversion.. Vampyros Lesbos.. Lorna, The Exorcist.. A Virgin Among The Living Dead.. Eugenie De Sade.. all very good !
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: I've been collecting Jess Franco movies since the 90's and currently i'm the proud owner of nearly 90 Franco movies.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Helen,
didn't you like The Bloody Judge ? Christopher Lee was pretty good in that one.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh yes, that one was good Just thought of another decent one too, Jack the ripper.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: A Virgin Among The Living Dead.
I know about A Virgin Among The Living Dead. I have watched it on SBS.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Crash will be in here any minute to rant about his zooms LOL
Naw, too obvious. I want to rant about his fake slow motion in Barb Wire Dolls. LOL
I like Vampyros Lesbos, She Killed in Ecstasy, The Awful Dr. Orloff, and parts of Count Dracula, The Bloody Judge, Venus in Furs, and Eugenie. So what's his batting average? 7 for 250 or about 3 percent... 3 percent better than old Uwe Boll.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hahaha! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Intolerable ! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
But seriously..
comparing Jess Franco to Uwe Boll ??
Didn't you see his 60's spy spoofs.. or his 60's surrealist cinema.. and did you miss all the beautiful hypnotic imagery present in many of his early 70's movies.. i wonder.
Jess Franco hardly ever made a movie that could easily be classified into a certain genre. I'll admit his body of work is an acquired taste, but you can't simply dismiss it as trash.
And Jess Franco definitely made a whole lot more than just 7 good movies.. You just need to find them. Many of them are still not easily available nowadays.
Iconic surrealist imagery from Jess Franco's The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I will admit it, if there is a Jess Franco film that shows up on Netflix or some other streaming network I will watch it. I keep telling myself, "It will be great like Vampyros Lesbos or She Killed in Ecstasy." And I always get completely crushed, usually in the first five minutes. (The last time was with Besame Monster.) I also own a bunch of his films on DVD, more than I care to admit. That said, my take is that Jess Franco is not a half-bad director (heck, Orson Welles trusted him as a second unit director; that counts a lot with me)...when he wants to be. I was just pointing out that he has a poor track record with very, very few really good films in his large filmography. (He spent his career on quantity, not necesssarily quality, that's for sure.) Boll, on the other hand, is a complete and total hack. My huge problem with Franco is that I think he's just freaking lazy and often appears not to care. I realize that he never had the budgets he needed, but that's no excuse for fake slow motion, repeated shots with lens flare, and not being able to shoot even the simplest scene in focus. (For example, I have the remastered version of The Castle of Fu Manchu as part of the Christopher Lee box set, and while it looks much, much better than I've ever seen it, that can't overcome the fact that it's an incoherent, incompetent film. Here's a guy whose filmmaking skills seemed to get worse as he went on.) I have actually seen his spy spoofs and surrealistic films, and again, while some of his stuff is quite interesting, mostly it doesn't work for me.
I will admit to a potential bias. I've been watching films for a long time, and back in the 1970s, everyone, including even my impressionable 12-year-old self, said that all Franco's films sucked. I struggled through his boring stuff that you could see at the time on free TV (long before even VHS) like Attack of the Robots and the two Fu Manchu films, while gazing at the same three fantastic stills from Vampyros Lesbos in various horror film books. Then the local late-night TV horror host in Pittsburgh somehow managed to get a print of Count Dracula, a film, which for a couple of years previous, had developed this word-of-mouth reputation as a masterpiece. Even Christopher Lee had said it was excellent. These were wild, primitive days where, without the Internet, you only heard murmurs in the darkness about when an alleged Euro masterpiece was going to get a release in the U.S. I waited for 25 years to track down Death Line a/k/a Raw Meat, for example, never having met anyone who'd actually seen it. (The few who were familiar with it always said,"Haven't seen it. Heard it was good.") So you can imagine the stakes were always very high on a grail quest for a foreign treasure. With great anticipation, I finally saw Count Dracula and was let down forever--it has good points, a lot of dull stuff, and more incompetent technique--camera shadows on the wall, anyone? (Helen now enters to flame me by claiming that Count Dracula actually is a masterpiece. ) When the re-evaluation of Franco came about 25 years ago by folks like Frank Hennenlotter, I was a lost cause, but yet, I kept watching as previously lost or unreleased films turned up, and, TA-DA, I discovered that "Gritos en La Noche" is wonderful, as are "Lesbos" and "Ecstasy."
Pretty much my argument both for and against Franco...
P.S. I also own Tim Lucas's huge hardback on the films of Jess Franco, loaded with incredibly sleazy stills showing unmentionable activity. It's long out of print, and I'm sure would command a fantastic price on ebay, but I ain't partin' with it. LOL
P.P.S. I just remembered that Sadique de Notre Dame a/k/a/ Exorcism would be on my "pretty good" list too.
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Light on story, but great acting and chemistry between Walter Matthau and George Burns, and some genuinely funny moments.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Never seen it but i noticed that it´s based on a play by Neil Simon so i´m interested. I have 8 films based on his work and all of them are interesting to say the least.
Posted by hewzy (Member # 6043) on :
Watched Alien first time in a while still love it as much as always tho!!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Alien is wonderful. One of the best experiences of my life was sitting in front of Yaphet Kotto and meeting Ridley Scott during a retrospective screening in Toronto about a decade ago. There is no doubt that Scott is a visionary, world-cinema director. Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Impasse (1969)
Burt Reynolds goes treasure-hunting in the Philippines. Television-actress Ann Francis and Vic Diaz co-star.
Back in the glory days of video-rental shops, Burt Reynolds movies from the 70's to approx 1987 could be found anywhere and were very popular. There were always these tapes laying around at the bottom-shelves with movies nobody had ever heard of, but which had a famous actor in it. Impasse could have easily been one of those, i guess. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds like a fun little flick. Burt Reynolds marathon coming later in 2013
I watched The Long Goodbye (1973) last night.
Excellent crime film directed by the great Robert Altman and based on Raymond Chandler's 1953 novel of the same name.
Starring Elliott Gould, Nina van Ballandt, Sterling Hayden, Mark Rydell and Henry Gibson. You can also see Arnold Schwarzenegger and David Carradine briefly.
Loved the easy going feel, 70s California scenery and lifestyle.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Red Headed Corpse - That was awful, what fun! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Harder They Come (1972) is another film i watched while the site was down.
It was a very good Jamaican crime film directed by Perry Henzell. A real life reggae artist Jimmy Cliff stars as Ivanhoe Martin. A wannabe reggae singer/drug smugler who takes the law into his own hands and becomes a legend.
I highly recommend this low-budget classic!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Tidbit of trivia: "The Harder They Come" was one of the first midnight movie cult hits in the U.S., introducing U.S. audiences to Jimmy Cliff and reggae music. I remember seeing it late night on a weekend in the md-70s (It seemingly played for a decade) and enjoying it very much, especially the music, despite the somewhat primitive filmmaking techniques on display. I second the high recommendation: good film, better film history.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Another smoke filled theater in the 70s, early 80s and our man Crash was there!
But yeah, the 2-disc edition i have, included great documentaries: The Making of- and The Phenomenon of The Harder They Come. Priceless stuff!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Another smoke filled theater in the 70s, early 80s and our man Crash was there!
But yeah, the 2-disc edition i have, included great documentaries: The Making of- and The Phenomenon of The Harder They Come. Priceless stuff!
I'm lucky that I'm "old." I actually got to experience the 70's and 80's firsthand from the back of scary urban grindhouses and crummy drive-ins. I'd never trade those experiences for anything. If I had a time machine, we'd go back in time to 1980 to see the triple feature of "Bloodsucking Freaks," "Invasion of the Blood Farmers," and "Savage Man, Savage Beast" at the Budco Goldman, Philadelphia's best, or worst depending on your perspective, grindhouse. It was a place so vile, I knew where the only three seats were where you wouldn't be overcome with the smell of urine and body odor. Priceless memories. Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Alice in Wonderland (1951). The voices of Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Richard Haydn, Sterling Holloway, Jerry Colonna, Verna Felton and Bill Thompson. A girl has outlandish adventures in another land after following a rabbit down a hole. Based on the novel by Lewis Carroll.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: I'm lucky that I'm "old." I actually got to experience the 70's and 80's firsthand from the back of scary urban grindhouses and crummy drive-ins. I'd never trade those experiences for anything. If I had a time machine, we'd go back in time to 1980 to see the triple feature of "Bloodsucking Freaks," "Invasion of the Blood Farmers," and "Savage Man, Savage Beast" at the Budco Goldman, Philadelphia's best, or worst depending on your perspective, grindhouse. It was a place so vile, I knew where the only three seats were where you wouldn't be overcome with the smell of urine and body odor. Priceless memories.
Crash, i don't know if you're familiar with it.. but Bill Landis' book Sleazoid Express features a very lively description of the New-York grindhouse scene in the 70's and (early) 80's. Not only the movies, but also the theaters, the people, the junks, the dope, everything is in there !
If you don't already have it, you should definitely keep your eye out for a copy. I just know you will love it ! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Crash must´ve been Landis´ assistant so he probably knows the book very well
Where do you get all those interesting books, Johnny?
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Usually they get mentioned in magazines such as Video Watchdog or Fangoria. So then i know what to look for. Here in Holland we have a big online-store which sells books and movies (and since a couple of months even toys and cosmetica products) where you can find many of these books which are originally published in America or the UK. It's something like a Dutch version of Amazon. (although not quiet THAT big) Oddly, they hardly sell any import dvd's though.
In this months Fangoria magazine there was a review of a book called Muchas Gracias Senor Lobo which they described as 'an astonishing collection of international artwork used to promote the movies of Paul Naschy'. According to the review there are hundreds of lobbycards, rare photos, and other documents.
Well, that sure sounds like something i would buy without even looking at the pricetag. Unfortunately this book hasn't been added to that Dutch online-store's website. But still, it was where i got my copies of Nightmare USA, Shock Festival, Cinema Sewer, and many others from.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
So cool. I didn´t even know that they still publish Fangoria mag Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Fame... again.
quote:The Slipper And The Rose - As if enduring a Cinderella panto 25 times in the last few weeks at work wasn't enough I then watch this really long Cinderella film lol
This might be a dumb question, but what kind of work do you do where you have to endure a Cinderella panto 25 times?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Fame, again! Ok, I´m also gonna watch Fame next!
Any Russ Meyer fans here? While the site was down, i watched 6 Russ Meyer flicks:
Faster Pussycat... Kill Kill (1965) Mondo Topless (1966) Vixen (1968) Supervixens (1975) Up! (1976) Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979)
Fan-tas-tic stuff! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
One of my least fave Amicus anthologies, Torture Garden (1967) but still a decent film and the Peter Cushing segment is wonderful.
Also watched the wonderful The Creeping Flesh, the ending always kills me Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched The Villain aka Cactus Jack (1979) during the christmas break. The movie was directed by Hal Needham and it´s just too dumb and silly but there´s one reason to watch the film: Ann-Margret. Damn she´s hot
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: One of my least fave Amicus anthologies, Torture Garden (1967) but still a decent film and the Peter Cushing segment is wonderful.
Also watched the wonderful The Creeping Flesh, the ending always kills me
I'm fairly partial, Helen, to the grandfather of all the Amicus anthology films, "Dr. Terror's House of Horror." I know that you like "The House That Dripped Blood." They are all good. I'm not sure how I'd rank them. "Tales that Witness Madness," which I only recently saw for the first time is the least interesting, but it doesn't count because like "The Creeping Flesh," it's a World Film Services (I think a nice way of saying "a class product from scuzzy Tigon") not Amicus, film.
Love "The Creeping Flesh," by the way. I have fond memories of reading about the film, which was released in February 1973 in the U.S., and then being delighted that it turned up very shortly thereafter, if memory serves me, fall 1973 on the late, great CBS Late Movie. If you loved horror films, Friday night starting at 11:30 p.m. was the time to see them, and the CBS Late Movie in the U.S. was the place to see them--the Hammer Frankenstein and Dracula films, Dr. Phibes and its sequel, most of the Corman Poe films, "The Thing with Two Heads," trashy biker films where Adam Roarke got higher billing than Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson... Those were the days!
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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote: Hello
Hiya
quote:In a theatre, front of house. Can you imagine the pain of Coleen Nolan singing I'm in the mood for dancin' that many times?
The pleasure Helen, the pleasure... I can imagine it only too well...
"DAAAAAAAAAAANCE! YEEEEAH LET'S DAAAAAAAAAAANCE! C'MON AND DAAAAAAAAAAAAAANCE!"
The Shining... again.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sparkle (1976)
"A girl group experiences turmoil after one of their members turns to drugs and another achieves their desired fame all by herself." (IMDb)
Decent little drama directed by Sam O'Steen and written by the duo Joel Schumacher/Howard Rosenman. The film stars Irene Cara, Philip Michael Thomas, stunning Lonette McKee, Dwan Smith, Mary Alice, Dorian Harewood and cool Tony King as crimelord Satin Struthers.
It was nice to see all the familar faces among the cast and i liked some of the tunes written by Curtis Mayfield. Haven´t seen the 2012 remake.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i recently seen the shining as well, on blu ray too, really good picture. i havent seen many kubrick films, so i cant honestly say its his best, but it has a high replay value for me
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I just had a discussion about Kubrick with another film buff in my office. He said, "You are not going to like this, but I don't like Kurbrick, and I know that you think that he's the greatest director of all time" I asked, "What don't you like?" He said, "I think 2001: A Space Odyssey is overrated." I didn't argue with him (even though I love 2001) and just responded, "What did you think of The Shining?" He said, "I loved it. It's great." "What about Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon?" "Oh, those are great movies. I love them." The point was that by the end of the discussion, it was clear that he really liked just about every Kubrick movie except 2001! So much for "not liking Kubrick." LOL
Kubrick was a director for the ages. If you liked The Shining--and who doesn't?--check out his other stuff. I think that you will be suitably impressed.
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i had barry lyndon recorded in hd, but upgraded the service and it got erased in the process, what i seen of it looked really sharp, i thought i had heard on a documentary that they said every shot in that film was like a painting , or something in praise of the cinematography
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i really liked full metal jacket as well, have to wonder how it would have been with anthony michael hall in it instead of modine
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
GP, you are definitely right about Barry Lyndon. Some may describe it as too slow, but no one can debate that each shot looks like something that could be hanging on the wall of a museum. There's a scene in a huge room lighted entirely by candlelight, without the use of fill lights or spots. You can make out every detail and see the actors' faces clearly. I read an article that Kubrick had to figure out the special equipment and film stock to use to get that shot--and knowing him, he probably did about 50 takes to get it just perfect. It's really something.
I really like Full Metal Jacket too. You pose an excellent question. Anthony Michael Hall and Matthew Modine are actually good, very underrated actors. I don't think that it would have made much difference. Hall would have been good in the part too.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Eyes Wide Shut is the best after The Shining for me, hypnotic Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash:
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: One of my least fave Amicus anthologies, Torture Garden (1967) but still a decent film and the Peter Cushing segment is wonderful.
Also watched the wonderful The Creeping Flesh, the ending always kills me
I'm fairly partial, Helen, to the grandfather of all the Amicus anthology films, "Dr. Terror's House of Horror." I know that you like "The House That Dripped Blood." They are all good. I'm not sure how I'd rank them. "Tales that Witness Madness," which I only recently saw for the first time is the least interesting, but it doesn't count because like "The Creeping Flesh," it's a World Film Services (I think a nice way of saying "a class product from scuzzy Tigon") not Amicus, film.
Love "The Creeping Flesh," by the way. I have fond memories of reading about the film, which was released in February 1973 in the U.S., and then being delighted that it turned up very shortly thereafter, if memory serves me, fall 1973 on the late, great CBS Late Movie. If you loved horror films, Friday night starting at 11:30 p.m. was the time to see them, and the CBS Late Movie in the U.S. was the place to see them--the Hammer Frankenstein and Dracula films, Dr. Phibes and its sequel, most of the Corman Poe films, "The Thing with Two Heads," trashy biker films where Adam Roarke got higher billing than Bruce Dern and Jack Nicholson... Those were the days!
Yeah Dr. Terror's is good too. House That Dripped Blood is perfection to me along with From Beyond The Grave I wanna see Tales That Witness Madness!
CBS Late Movie sounds fantastic Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Finnish channel MTV3 aired horror movies back in the mid 80s and that´s the first time i saw classic Universal and Hammer films like Bride of Frankenstein, Wicker Man, The Mummy etc. Great times!
Musical families rock - and don't you forget it! Only a fool and communist would think otherwise!
I find your anti-Nolanism (yes, it is a real thing) highly suspicious. I'm watching you Helen...
quote:I just had a discussion about Kubrick with another film buff in my office. He said, "You are not going to like this, but I don't like Kurbrick, and I know that you think that he's the greatest director of all time" I asked, "What don't you like?" He said, "I think 2001: A Space Odyssey is overrated." I didn't argue with him (even though I love 2001) and just responded, "What did you think of The Shining?" He said, "I loved it. It's great" "What about Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon?" "Oh, those are great movies. I love them." The point was that by the end of the discussion, it was clear that he really liked just about every Kubrick movie except 2001! So much for "not liking Kubrick." LOL
I feel the same way. Not a fan of Kubrick. Well, except for the Shining, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita... and so on.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Our Man Flint (1965) starring James Coburn as the debonair agent Derek Flint. Pretty good as spy spoofs go, it's played fairly straight and, as a result, I think I prefer the Dean Martin Matt Helm spoofs a little better, as they don't seem to take themselves as seriously as this one does.
The sequel, In Like Flint (1967), is sitting waiting for me to watch later tonight. As I recall, that's a bit more tongue-in-cheek.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
what is dr goldfoot and the bikini machine, is that like these movies?
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
how about that ending to the shining though, has to be right up there with some of the best endings in movies, very eerie without trying to be, cant figure out which is the scariest of the two this or halloween
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine and its made-in-Italy sequel, Dr. Goldfoot and Girl Bombs, were AIP's attempt to do the whole spy-spoof thing in kind of the style of the AIP beach party films. (They originally were going to do Machine as a musical, but they cut out the songs.) Machine was directed by an Oscar winner, Norman Taurog, who did a bunch of Elvis films and the Martin and Lewis films. Although it's just light fluff, and nothing to write home about, Taurog, an old pro, does a really nice job with the slapstick and pacing, and the big San Francisco chase at the end is fantastic. Everyone, especially Vincent Price, appears to be having a darned good time.
The sequel directed by maestro Mario Bava is absolutely terrible, his worst film. Lousy screenplay, lame comedy, Price goes through the motions because it's clear that he knows that it's bad. I recently saw a DVD double bill of these two for $(US)5 in a WalMart cut-out bin, and I almost bought it. I restrained myself because Girl Bombs is so terrible, I'm never going to watch it again, and I've seen Machine a couple of times and have no need to have it in my collection. I saved the five bucks for coffee...
I would note that I'm pretty sure that Austin Powers himself, Mike Myers, must be a fan of Dr. Goldfoot. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
It was the best, a veritable film school education every night of the week. It had a very memorable theme, credit sequence, and preview of the night's films with CBS's booth announcer at the time, Norman Stevens, always memorably plugging the films.
Here's another one. Note that, surprising for a really pro outfit like CBS, there is a typo: "Medusa" should have only one "s"!
Enjoy!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
speaking of bava, i think some of his films are on the netflix instant watch, lucio fulci as well.
just got the first season of night gallery awhile back, watched their tearing down tim reily's bar, good episode, night gallery has some good scary stuff in it as well
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Lots of Bava flicks on Netflix: Black Sabbath; Black Sunday; Kill, Baby...Kill; Lisa and the Devil/House of Exorcism; Knives of the Avenger; Bay of Blood; and Roy Colt and Winchester Jack, are still up for instant streaming, I think.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The original Smokey And The Bandit (1977) was on tv here early this morning.
I always thought Burt Reynolds and Sally Field made a good couple. The same goes for the Snowman (Jerry Reed) and his trusty companion Fred.
An incredible amount of highly quotable lines from sheriff Buford T. Justice (Jackie Gleason) add to the fun !
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
jason and the argonauts on blu ray
good movie. seemed to end aburptly, no closure in ceartin areas but nonetheless alot of fun
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Malibu Hot Summer aka Sizzle Beach USA (shot in the late 70s, released during the 80s)
This was a nice Troma T&A film. Simple plot, bad acting and lots of nudity. The cast includes bunch of nobodys (most of them very pretty i must say ) and a fun midget. Kevin Costner co-stars in his first movie.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
im sold, where can i get my copy
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
St. Ives (1976)
This was a very good crime film directed by J. Lee Thompson. The cast is excellent: Charles Bronson, John Houseman, Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell, Harry Guardino, Harris Yulin, D1ck O´Neill and Dana Elcar. You can also see Robert Englund, Jeff Goldblum and Daniel J. Travanti in small roles.
This movie represented the first of nine teamings of director J. Lee Thompson with Charles Bronson.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Amazing Howard Hughes (1977)
This was an excellent biopic based on the book by Hughes' business partner Noah Dietrich. Directed by William A. Graham and starring Tommy Lee Jones, Ed Flanders, James Hampton and huge supporting cast. Jones and Flanders are fantastic! Highly recommended!
Posted by The Horned King (Member # 2691) on :
Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched all sorts of wonderful stuff in the last week
My fave cannibal flick, Death Line. LOL at the American poster making it look like cannibal porn
And I watched the sensational black comedy The Anniversary (1968) I think I enjoy Bette Davis' performance in this over her others.
I also watched The Brood and The Invisible Man (1933)
And lastly When A Stranger Calls. I'd forgotten how creepy in places and miserable this film is Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Finnish channel MTV3 aired horror movies back in the mid 80s and that´s the first time i saw classic Universal and Hammer films like Bride of Frankenstein, Wicker Man, The Mummy etc. Great times!
It was the best, a veritable film school education every night of the week. It had a very memorable theme, credit sequence, and preview of the night's films with CBS's booth announcer at the time, Norman Stevens, always memorably plugging the films.
Here's another one. Note that, surprising for a really pro outfit like CBS, there is a typo: "Medusa" should have only one "s"!
Awesome, now I want to see The Medusa Touch!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I know so many folks slag "The Medusa Touch" with its nutty plot and lots of shots of Richard Burton lying in a hospital bed and saying goofy stuff like "I have a gift...for dizz-ahw-ster" and then you see a jet hit a building courtesy some dodgy special effects. But it's watchable and quite entertaining because of the really great actors, Burton, Lee Remick, and Lino Venturi. It's one of those films that most folks have never seen, and those who have, haven't thought about it in a long, long time.
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i watched Paradise Alley again, and i gotta say i think its a very good, very underated film. This one is one of those that keeps getting better everytime i see it. I thought Frank McRae did a great job in it, his character was great
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Watched all sorts of wonderful stuff in the last week
My fave cannibal flick, Death Line. LOL at the American poster making it look like cannibal porn
And I watched the sensational black comedy The Anniversary (1968) I think I enjoy Bette Davis' performance in this over her others.
I also watched The Brood and The Invisible Man (1933)
And lastly When A Stranger Calls. I'd forgotten how creepy in places and miserable this film is
Death Line is one of my favorite Brit horror pics ever. It took me years to track it down, but it really is a lost masterpiece, great in every way. I saw it this past summer at a drive-in. Man, "Mind the Doors" outside, in the darkness, at about 1:30 a.m. was never scarier.
I haven't seen The Anniversary in a long time, but as I recall, Bette Davis, in one of her most over-the-top performances, was lots of fun.
The Brood is, for many fans, Cronenberg's best film. It goes to show you how a gifted, intelligent director can make you believe in the most outrageous of plots.
The Invisible Man is in my top four or five favorite classic Universal horror films. Apart from an appalling bungle at the end (He's invisible, but instead of bare footprints, we see him leave shoeprints. How the heck could everyone on set miss that?), it's about as close to perfection as Universal got.
The start of the original When a Stranger Calls (accept no modern remake) takes an urban legend that everyone had heard a thousand times as a kid and makes it incredibly scary and suspenseful. Director Fred Walton couldn't top himself (Carole Kane and Tony Beckley were perfectly cast too) so after the brilliant opening, you can't help but be let down. Still, it's a fine early slasher film.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LMAO, in all the times that I've watched The Invisible man I never even thought of that. It's my fave Universal. It has one of my favourite horror speeches ever with the most delicious part being "We'll begin with a reign of terror, a few murders here and there. Murders of great men, murders of little men, just to show we make no distinction." Eerie as **** Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That speech is beautifully done, for sure. The whole film is such a joy and a credit to the book.
On another note about lost treasures, I was listening to satellite radio in the car on a long drive last weekend and heard a song from 1972 called "Don't Say You Don't Remember" by Beverly Bremers, a member of the original Broadway cast of Hair. Now that song is fantastic and one of the best ballads of the 70s, but what is even more memorable to me is that I had forgotten that Bremers also sang "Heaven Help Us," a very cool of-its-era pop song, written by Carole Bayer Sager and Melissa Manchester, the end-title theme to George Romero's The Crazies. Even on an incredibly low budget, Romero managed to make a film on a grand scale with a song done by heavyweight talent. So for your moment of Zen today:
Why didn't someone think to re-arrange it for the remake? Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Nice!
I stupidly just watched the When A Stranger Calls remake. So lame how they spent the whole film on just the start of the original.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The remake of When A Stranger Calls is a fail. In descending order, the best of the modern remakes of 70s and 80s horror films is, hands down, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead. While not the landmark original film, it took a similar setting and plot and did a lot of interesting variations on it. Next would be the remake of The Crazies. While Romero's version is so much better, an underrated masterpiece, I think--and original--the remake does a nice job keeping many of the same themes. It's not a paint-by-numbers remake, and it exhibits a lot of intelligence. Finally, I would offer the remake of Last House on the Left. No, it's not as groundbreaking as the original. (Actually nothing could ever be. Craven set the bar very, very high.) But as a disturbing commentary on violence with many of the same elements as the original, it's an effective film.
The rest of the barrel has dire things like the boring remakes of The Fog, whatever that Sorority House slasher film was, and Assault on Precinct 13. I am NOT looking forward to the second remake of Carrie.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hmm, Dawn of the dead and Last House remakes were just ok for me. Not too crazy about either of The Crazies. I actually enjoyed I Spit On Your Grave the most. Not as disturbing as the original but the revenge part was so damn entertaining, had me clapping and wooting Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I didn't mind the I Spit on Your Grave remake. It was actually pretty slick compared to the original.
Go watch Romero's The Crazies again. It's great. Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Did you guys already hear about the Maniac remake ?
It stars Elijah Wood (of all people) in the Joe Spinell role !
I saw one Maniac remake review and the guy said that it´s a good movie. We´ll see.
I need to check out the Dawn of the Dead remake but first i´m gonna check the original dead trilogy again.
I liked Last House on the Left remake (the original was better though) and The Crazies was ok. I also liked The Hills Have Eyes remake quite a bit.
Maybe it´s time to finally check out both I Spit on Your Grave films too...
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Bunny O'Hare (1971)
Bette Davis and Ernest Borgnine star as bankrobbers disguised as hippies.
Forgettable yet entertaining comedy. It feels a bit dated, even by 1971 standards. Hard to imagine this came out in the same year as Dirty Harry and The French Connection. Co-starring Jack Cassidy as the cop assigned to the case, Joan Delaney as the pretty young cop brought in for assistance because she understands the 'love generation', and John Astin in a funny role as Davis' smooth-talking, gambling-addicted son.
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
does dress to kill qualify as a 70's movie or would you guys count it as 80's since it was released in 1980? probably not the best of its kind, but i thought it was a good one.
they said it was a woman that looked like michael caine in drag, and not actually caine, but i thought it was him.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Been away a while !
The Medusa Touch is my favourite film of all time. great cast, Burton overacting, and bouncing rocks !
Watched A Fistful Of Dynamite recently. Rod Steiger and James Coburn star in Sergio Leones sequel to OUATIA. Epic story with a great Morricone score.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yay! Another fan of The Medusa Touch, hammy Burton, and bouncing rocks. LOL
I like Dynamite too. It is epic and very entertaining. Check out Sergio Corbucci's take on basically the same plot, A Gun for Hire a/k/a The Mercenary with Tony Musante and Franco Nero.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yay Harry, stop disappearing Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Death Line on region 1 11 dollars released as RawMeat in the states. Bit pricy, but worth it in my opinion. There has been a far few 1970s obscure uk releases in the last few years. We used to get money to make films then, most were average but well worth catching up with. Now we have a uk horror once a year if lucky.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Just rewatching The Return Of The Saint 1977/78. Ian Ogilvy reprises Roger Moores sixties answer to Bond. One of ITCs last series, with a fair helping of British stars and European damsels in distress. Not bad, but good either 6/10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Vault of Horror. Always liked this Amicus anthology but I realise now I've really underestimated its greatness in the past. Fab
And the wonderful Black Sabbath (1963)
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Blackboard Jungle (1955)
,..A new English teacher at a violent, unruly inner-city school is determined to do his job, despite resistance from both students and faculty..' (Imdb)
Grim, urban drama starring Glenn Ford, Anne Francis, Sidney Poitier, Vic Morrow, and Paul Mazursky.
In many ways, Class Of 1984 can be seen as a remake of Blackboard Jungle.
Well-acted by the whole cast. Glenn Ford is strong in the lead role. But the stand-out performance here comes from Vic Morrow (Jennifer Jason Leigh's real-life dad) in his feature debut.
Sidney Poitier would go on to play many famous roles. Paul Mazursky would go on to write and direct Moscow On The Hudson and Down And Out In Beverly Hills among others. Twenty-seven years after Blackboard Jungle, Vic Morrow died tragically in a freak accident on the set of Twilight Zone, The Movie (1982), coincidentally the same year as Class Of 1984 was released, in which Timothy Van Patten played a role suspiciously similar to Morrow's part in Blackboard Jungle.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Ooh, me wanna see
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The great Don't Torture A duckling and Wait Until Dark (1967)
Posted by Marty (Member # 8315) on :
The first Halloween from the great year 1978 :-)
Vault of Horror seems great. I really wanna watch that one
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Don't Torture A Duckling !! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I am not the biggest fan in the world of Fulci's zombie/splatter stuff, but I am a huge fan of his earlier giallo stuff. After "A Lizard in a Woman's Skin," "Don't Torture a Duckling" is my favorite. Everything about it works--the look of the film, the pacing, the very interesting plot... And Florinda Bolkan, who never seems to get the credit she deserves, is excellent, as always.
I've always liked "Wait Until Dark" too. Sure it's a little dated and a product of its time. Phonebooths anyone? LOL Also, the added exterior scenes that attempt to "open up" the stagebound nature of the production are unnecessary, but Hepburn and Arkin are just great. Exceptionally fine performances. And, of course, it has that crackerjack big scare at the end. Good stuff.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
lol Johnny
quote:Originally posted by Marty: The first Halloween from the great year 1978 :-)
Vault of Horror seems great. I really wanna watch that one
Yes, do
quote:Originally posted by Crash: I am not the biggest fan in the world of Fulci's zombie/splatter stuff, but I am a huge fan of his earlier giallo stuff. After "A Lizard in a Woman's Skin," "Don't Torture a Duckling" is my favorite. Everything about it works--the look of the film, the pacing, the very interesting plot... And Florinda Bolkan, who never seems to get the credit she deserves, is excellent, as always.
Same. But Duckling and The Psychic are my faves! That scene with Florinda Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Just watched Shaft, Richard Roundtree as the coolest dude. Possibly the greatest blaxploitation film of all time with Isaac Hayes Oscar winning score.
Followed by the Samuel L Jackson dud of a remake.
Good news for seventies fans. Perfect Friday with Stanley Baker and Ursula Andress out on DVD in May. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Horror Express
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, I faltered yet again...watched Jess Franco's "Female Vampire" with Lina Romay, a film allegedly one of his better efforts. And once again, I should've known better. It's just dreadful.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
that is a cool poster for the horror express there. reminds me of the salem's lot one.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Crash, i prefer the title Erotikill or the BBC one Never seen it though.
It was released on VHS here back in the day and even though it was cut, the tape cost a fortune during the 90s-early 00s.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Yeah, I faltered yet again...watched Jess Franco's "Female Vampire" with Lina Romay, a film allegedly one of his better efforts. And once again, I should've known better. It's just dreadful.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Female Vampire/Erotikill opens promisingly as Lina Romay, wearing nothing but a black cape, black boots, and a big black belt, walks enticingly out of mist in the forest. She walks slowly. She walks. Franco zooms in on her crotch. I thought, "Hmmmm...OK, perhaps not a bad scene transition." But then, of course, it wasn't a scene transition at all, as he zooms out as she continues walking...right into the camera. She hits the camera as she heads past it offscreen, and it jiggles. At this point, I knew instantly that it was going to be yet another 90 minutes or so of my life that I wasn't going to get back.
I couldn't make this up. Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless:
quote:Originally posted by Crash: I'm lucky that I'm "old." I actually got to experience the 70's and 80's firsthand from the back of scary urban grindhouses and crummy drive-ins. I'd never trade those experiences for anything. If I had a time machine, we'd go back in time to 1980 to see the triple feature of "Bloodsucking Freaks," "Invasion of the Blood Farmers," and "Savage Man, Savage Beast" at the Budco Goldman, Philadelphia's best, or worst depending on your perspective, grindhouse. It was a place so vile, I knew where the only three seats were where you wouldn't be overcome with the smell of urine and body odor. Priceless memories.
Crash, i don't know if you're familiar with it.. but Bill Landis' book Sleazoid Express features a very lively description of the New-York grindhouse scene in the 70's and (early) 80's. Not only the movies, but also the theaters, the people, the junks, the dope, everything is in there !
If you don't already have it, you should definitely keep your eye out for a copy. I just know you will love it !
Hey, I somehow missed your post JRiR. I have a copy of Landis's book Sleazoid Express. It is exceptional. I was an early subscriber to the actual Sleazoid Express newsletter (I still have copies around somewhere), which was a photocopied fanzine of reviews and ramblings. Even though Landis discussed some of the seediest things imaginable, he was a wonderful writer. His descriptions of urban grindhouses are priceless, and I can certainly relate. A lot of folks don't know that he was actually a 42nd Street projectionist at a lot of the theatres he wrote about. Sadly, he passed away a few years ago...a great loss to those of us who love exploitation films, especially those from the 70s.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I just knew it was right up your alley.
Apparently, Bill was also an actor in x-rated flicks. The Imdb lists 34 titles from the period '82 - '89 to his credit, mostly under the alias Bobby Spector.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
this all sounds like great stuff, i have never seen any of these movies, but the titles sound great, invasion of the blood farmers for example, its too bad there isnt a tv channel that shows grindhouse movies, you could call it the grindhouse chanel, have somebody host the show like joe bob briggs, give us a bit of history about the featured film, like i have seen done on turner classic movies.
maybe we should start a petition for such a channel, as well as a horror channel, one that is done better than chiller, no commercials, no editing, showcasing the works of the 50's through the 80's, obscure and mainstream, alot of this stuff hardly gets any exposure, i never heard any of it, until i read about it here
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That's a sensational idea that I have thought about myself. Canada used to have the Drive-In channel which showed exactly the stuff that we want: horror films, biker pics, the Corman nurse films, etc., but, alas, I believe that it is no more. A smaller-scale substitute for those of us in the U.S. is the Drive-In channel app on the Roku streaming box. While the downside is that they show a lot of commercials, I have seen some amazing stuff on there, like the 70s Abby, the blaxploitation exorcist film that was pulled by AIP becuase of a copyright violation complaint by Warner Brothers, and Jess Franco's depressingly sleazy Women in Cell Block 9. You never see stuff like that anywhere.
By the way, "Blood Farmers" was made by the same people who did "Shriek of the Mutilated." Both are hilariously cheap, seedy upstate New York regional wonders--very entertaining!
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
Hey crash! thanks man. i wonder if enough people demanded it, that the idea would come to be?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I also note that the video-on-demand services on some U.S. cable systems have the Sinister Cinema Collection, which is legendary--really trashy grindhouse stuff.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
Sinister Cinema, man thats great
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Now, when people say that the shark in Jaws looks fake, it gets me to wonder whether people think back to the original Jaws or they think of one of the inferior sequels. Not only do I think for 1975 that the shark had a realistic look but I think even to today's standards the shark looks remarkably good. OK, I can admit that it does seem slightly dodgy when the shark is wrangling at the end of the boat but I still think the sharks looks pretty damn good. Honestly. Yes, the sequels did not even make an effort to look realistic, especially 3 (still image moving towards the glass that breaks that does not even appear that the shark makes contact with it. Pathetic! What were they thinking? Seriously?) and The Revenge but the original done a bang up job in my opinion. And if the 'shark looked so fake' would the movie been as successful as it was? I don't think so! I really believe that when you talk to people and they say the shark looked fake, they are not even thinking about the original Jaws movie. They are thinking of one of the scummy sequels. In my opinion, Jaws is an absolute masterpiece of the cinema and I think that all the sequels are absolute garbage.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Rare Gorgon film called Tower of Evil
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
What's the difference? As long as we get across the river!
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Lol. My family and I were at the Saint Louis Arch a couple weeks ago and one thing I could.not help but think about was that line and looking at the hi way to see its route coming across the river.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Now you gonna go all the way down about half a block and you'll see a Torino with no wheels on it. Now inside that Torino is my cousin Jack.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Coma (1978)
"A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that looks after them. The young doctor suspects there is more to this than meets the eye." (IMDb)
This was a good thriller directed by Michael Crichton and based on a novel written by Robin Cook. The movie stars Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Richard Widmark, Rip Torn and Elizabeth Ashley. You can also see Tom Selleck in a small role as one of the patients.
Nice cast, good mystery atmosphere and eerie Boston Memorial Hospital/Jefferson Institute hallways. While the ending felt a bit too easy, i recommend this enjoyable late 70s thriller!
Coma trailer Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Sounds good!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Helen, you've never seen Coma ? Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Coma is a good 70's thriller, very solid, well acted. Genevieve Bujold is always a pleasure to watch, and Michael Crichton moves it all along pretty well. I have not seen the recent U.S. A&E TV network remake, but I can't imagine that it would be an improvement.
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Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
Coma is one of my favourites, Genevieve Bujold much underrated actress. Probably the best of Crichtons films, even Jurassic Park.
Just watched Adventures Of A Taxi Driver, mid seventies sex comedy, not bad at all for such a low budget film. 6 1/2 / 10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: Helen, you've never seen Coma ?
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I honestly thought you'd seen 'em all !
Anyway.. personally i hate hospitals, doctors, and all things related (especially syringes / needles), so a mystery-thriller set in a hospital where people never wake up from relatively simple surgery, is pure horror to me.. really gives me the creeps ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
It's definitely on my to watch list now
I last watched my fave Pacino film, Dog Day Afternoon and the nutty Bloody Pit of Horror (1965)
Mickey Hargitay! "I am the Crimson Executioner. Bwwwwaaaahhhhhaaa"
Those speeches that he gives are some of the funniest things that I've ever heard in any movie. I love when the heroine at one point responds to his ranting with "You're an egotist!"
Dog Day Afternoon is fantastic. Pacino!
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
...Tick ...Tick ...Tick (1970)
Tensions run high when a black man is elected as the new sheriff in a small southern town.
Excellent racial drama starring Jim Brown and George Kennedy who get to show off their acting skills. Both are clearly at the top of their game here, providing great performances !
...Tick ...Tick ...Tick was released on dvd-r last year as part of the Warner Archives collection.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds like a movie i would like to get!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Mad Dog Morgan - I don't know if it was supposed to be but I found this hysterical in places Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I just watched Coma.
Can I get a Yay?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yay!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I know the guy is creepy in the movie but I love Richard Widmark's voice.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Hazing (1977) aka The Curious Case Of The Campus Corpse
After a fraternity initiation goes horribly wrong and leaves one of its aspiring members dead, the others decide it's best for the reputation of the fraternity to cover things up. All is not what it seems though, and there's a nice twist in the final act !
Odd mixture of black comedy, drama and thriller elements vaguely resembles the much later Shallow Grave (1994). Surprisingly well-acted, and definitely worth a look !
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Interesting stuff to say the least, Johnny. Love these kind of oddities.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hey you Bernie, stop gegging in on my yays I watched Coma yesterday Nice! My fave part was when she threw all the dead bodies onto him haha
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I just watched a good Fritz Lang film, While The City Sleeps (1956) I wanted to throttle the main guy, smarmy, slimy git.
Now I'm going to watch the wonderful House On Haunted Hill (1959) Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
Wake in Fright (1971). Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson and John Meillon. A schoolteacher on his way to Sydney to visit his girlfriend looks in on the outback mining town of Bundanyabba, whose inhabitants pastimes range from kangaroo hunting to homosexuality and finds himself entrapped in a series of chilling events from which there are seemingly no escape. Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
La bête aka The Beast (1975)
Haha, what a fun film directed by Walerian Borowczyk and starring perhaps the most famous Finnish actress Sirpa Lane. Lots of skin and weird behavior.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
That is one of the all-time great sleaze classics (..and sleazy it is) !
I have the limited 3 disc edition from Cult Epics, which has two versions of the movie, a feature-length making of, and a 52 page booklet.
Sirpa Lane's appearance is etched in the minds of sleaze fanatics, not only because of La Bete, but also because of her.. uhm..'revealing' roles in Papaya Love Goddess Of The Cannibals and The Beast In Space.
Essential viewing for the exploitation fan, without a doubt !
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Oh, what a classy release you have! Never seen her other films but i´m interested Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Driver (1978)
Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern.
Pretty decent movie. Walter Hill knows how to make a movie that's for sure. The plot was quite predictable but all in all not bad.
Great car chase sequences (Would have taken a long time to film and edit those together). Could just imagine the nightmare it would have been in the editing room.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
The Fourth Wish (1975). John Meillon, Robert Bettles, Robyn Nevin, Michael Craig, Cul Cullen, Ron Haddrick, Brian Anderson, Julie Dawson, Anne Haddy and Vivean Gray. A single father from Adelaide learns that his son has fatal leukemia and tries to achieve the latter's last three wishes.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Two-Lane Blacktop (1971)
Not a bad 70's car flick.
It was only in the last 20 minutes that I realised the main actor was James Taylor. It's funny cos I recognised him because he was wearing the same green jumper he wears in some live performances.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Jackson County Jail (1976)
This was an excellent crime flick directed by Michael Miller (Silent Rage) The film was produced by Roger Corman and stars Yvette Mimieux and Tommy Lee Jones. You can also see lots of familiar faces as co-stars.
Mimieux and Jones give fantastic performances. If you like gritty 70s crime movies, check it out!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Caged Heat (1974)
This was an entertaining WIP flick directed by Jonathan Demme (Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs) Another future great Tak Fujimoto (Ferris etc.) handled the cinematography.
The wicked and wonderful cast includes Erica Gavin (love her also in Russ Meyers Vixen), Ella Reid, Cheryl "Rainbeaux" Smith, Roberta Collins, Juanita Brown, Warren Miller and Barbara Steele.
While not quite the classic many people say, i liked this one very much.
Posted by harry2 (Member # 7645) on :
The Internecine Project (1974). James Coburn stars as a former secret agent who is about to be promoted to an advisor for the US government. However he needs to dispose of four people who know his shady past. He developes an intricate scheme whereby each person kills another on the list, whilst he sits at home overseeing the murders. There are a few interruptions and complications along the way, but thinking he has cleaned up his shady past he receives a package which contains a notebook from one of the people that he had killed. Inside the notebook there was a message that Coburn wasn't to be trusted and the pages contained a poison. Set in early 70 s London and co-starring Lee Grant, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry, Michael Jayston. Well worth a look.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That sounds interesting!
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Sinbad and the Eye of The Tiger (1977)
Sinbad The Sailor sails to deliver a cursed prince to a dangerous island in the face of deadly opposition from a powerful witch. -- IMDb
One of my childhood favourites.
I don't remember much about 7th/Golden Voyage, so look forward to checking them out.
Witchfinder General (1968) Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I need to get the Sinbad flicks.
Witchfinder General rocks!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Finally watched Day of the Woman (1978) aka I Spit on Your Grave.
Very disturbing yes but i thought that it was pretty well made knowing that the budget was very limited.
Camille Keaton was excellent and now i want to see her other films. Anyone seen her 70s italian movies?
I´m also going to check out the sequel soon.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I have What Have You Done To Solange (1972), a good but downbeat, British set giallo, and Tragic Ceremony (1973), an atmospheric gothic horror story directed by horror great Ricardo Freda.
Both may not be the very best that Italian genre cinema has to offer, but they're both well above average and definitely worth a look !
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Zoltan, Hound Of Dracula - Erm, I liked the fun first ten minutes.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The posters great tho
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Some Hammers, Demons of the mind, Straight on till morning and To The Devil A Daughter Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
One of my top 5 Hammers Countess Dracula and the fab Freaks (1932)
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I love watching Hammer's Lust For A Vampire every couple of years or so.. It has this dream-like atmosphere which i really like.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yeah, that one gets a bit of stick but I like it and the song haha Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Embryo - Oh gee, I was enjoying this for the first half an hour or so but then was waiting for something more to happen but it never came till the very end. Snoozeville.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Raven (1963)
Highly entertaining horror farce starring horror icons Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre, Hazel Court, and a young Jack Nicholson, stylishly directed by Roger Corman. Written by Richard Matheson based on a story by Edgar Allan Poe.
The climatic showdown between Price and Karloff is hilarious ! Check it out : www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKm7NloL8bA Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yay Johnny, never leave me here alone Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I'll battle every page of spam to find my way back to either this, or the giallo thread ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Talking about Vincent Price, Shout! Factory has announced they will release a Vincent Price blu-ray collection box on october 22nd, almost exactly twenty years after he passed away. The box will include Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Haunted Palace, Masque Of The Red Death, Witchfinder General, The Pit And The Pendulum, and The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
Posted by Kowalski (Member # 8412) on :
dr. strangelove or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb
Posted by Kowalski (Member # 8412) on :
Bananas
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: Talking about Vincent Price, Shout! Factory has announced they will release a Vincent Price blu-ray collection box on october 22nd, almost exactly twenty years after he passed away. The box will include Fall Of The House Of Usher, The Haunted Palace, Masque Of The Red Death, Witchfinder General, The Pit And The Pendulum, and The Abominable Dr. Phibes.
Nice set! I haven't seen The Haunted Palace but love all the others, especially Pit Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I do wonder why Dr. Phibes Rises Again wasn't included in this box set..
I haven't seen The Haunted Palace either, but i think my personal favorite has to be Masque Of The Red Death.
Reportedly, the set will include both Witchfinder General as well as its alternate version The Conqueror Worm.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: I do wonder why Dr. Phibes Rises Again wasn't included in this box set..
Cos it's crappy Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Not a movie, but i just received this today :
Canned Heat - Live At Montreux 1973
Pretty cool, heavy blues performance from the Montreux Jazz Festival ! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Cos it's crappy
You're ruthless ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Just when i thought i'd seen it all, comes along :
The Other Side Of The Underneath (1972)
I wasn't familiar with UK filmmaking duo Jane Arden and Jack Bond, but this certainly made an impression !
Often compared to the early works of Fernando Arrabal and Alejandro Jodorowsky, this is chock-full of shocking, provocative, and surreal imagery. Not much of a linear storyline, but more performance-art caught on film, this is certainly not for everyone's taste. Only for those who like El Topo, The Holy Mountain, Viva La Muerte, I Will Walk Like A Crazy Horse, and who are willing to venture into the darkest corners of experimental filmmaking !
The British Film Institute released two more Arden / Bond dvd's and blu-rays : Separation (1968) and Anti-Clock (1980).
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Ooh, I like dark corners Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Yesterday i watched this on the MGM Movie Channel :
Harry In Your Pocket (1973)
Kinda middle-of-the-road, and doesn't really know what kind of movie it wants to be. (maybe deliberately.. who knows)
Nevertheless good performances all round, and great 70's atmosphere.
Worth a look !
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched a nice antichrist flick last night Holocaust 2000. A really slow burn in a good way.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
El Topo
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Way to go, Helen ! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Whole bunch of titles from the British Film Institute were on sale here, so i got myself these :
All are blu-ray / dvd combo-packs. Pretty cool stuff !
Helen, have you seen any of these ?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I haven't seen any of those Johnny, Let us know what they are like. Herostratus sounds really disturbing. I liked the look of the trailers, especially Privilege. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Omen 1 and 2 Posted by Nick (Member # 404) on :
Star Wars, of course Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Joe Kidd (1972) last night. Right now i´m reading the Marc Eliot book "American Rebel - The Life of Clint Eastwood" and watching every Clint film i can get. This was 11th Eastwood film i´ve watched during the last month or so and while it´s one of his lesser-known features, it´s still pretty good western.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I think Joe Kidd atomik is about the only Eastwood movie I've yet to see,tell a lie I've not seen white hunter black heart,I've caught the end of Joe Kidd on terrestrial television before but never watched it all the way though.
I just looked on IMDb it says he directed(uncredited appearance as well) a film in 73 called breezy starring Kay lenz,that's one I've never come across before.
I know it's not 70s but I purchased tightrope on blu ray the other month,I'd say that's an underatted Eastwood flick.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Tightrope is a very cool film. Never seen Breezy but i bought the dvd and will check it out after i´ve rewatched High Plains Drifter.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Bridge At Remagen (1969)
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Too bad that we lost the disaster films thread during the Spam Wars. Anyway, i watched two classic disaster films produced by Irwin Allen; The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). I loved them both. I remember seeing The Towering Inferno as a kid but that was ages ago. The f/x still looks amazing and it´s damn exciting stuff from the beginning to end. They both have a fantastic cast and i enjoyed watching the documentaries from both films. Highly recommended!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Never in my days did I think I'd see this marvelous thread again Hope you are all doing well Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Helen is alive.. she's ALIVE !
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Haha Missed you Johnny!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
i watched the ultimate directors cut of the warriors (1979) which adds nothing new to the awesome theatrical edition except some comic book inserts and a voice over from director walter hill.
i always loved the theatrical version intro where it cuts straight to the wonder wheel all lit up at night and then the music score kicks in, much prefered it to the tv version where the warriors meet up on the boardwalk pre credits
and much prefer it to this ultimate dirctors cut with the comic book intro (below)- http://youtu.be/DqmAHGPRaYU
as much as the comic book voice over intro adds nothing new i think the most annoying and jarring insert comes when the warriors come up out of the subway and are face to face with the baseball furies,it cuts straight from the action in such a way as to kill what was originally one of the most tense scenes in the movie dead.
i purchased this new ultimate director's cut of the warriors on blu ray knowing what i was getting and the picture and sound quality are a big step up (especially the pq) but i must admit i am so pleased i've kept my much superior theatrical dvd version to sit on the shelf along side it.
great to have you back helen!
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Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Did u know you can get a Furies costume for Halloween
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
That would be cool terdnthepoolggb but I wonder how the police would react to you carrying a baseball bat around Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Very good and grim western. Eastwood in top form and there´s lots of fun characters here. I second Marc Eliot´s (Eastwood book author) thoughts that Clint is indeed the dead sheriff´s ghost which comes and takes his revenge.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Earlier today in another thread we were talking about The Beguiled (1971), which i haven't seen in a very long time. So i did a quick search to see if it was still available. Turns out a couple of months ago a 8 disc blu-ray box-set was released which consists of Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules For Sister Sara, The Beguiled, Play Misty For Me, Joe Kidd, High Plains Drifter, Breezy, and The Eiger Sanction.
So far i only have Coogan's Bluff (on dvd) and High Plains Drifter (on blu-ray).. so i wonder how long i can resist buying this.. especially because it's currently in stock at Holland's most famous on-line store.
Now this is tempting... Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Go for it. I finally saw the Clint Eastwood directed Breezy a few months ago. It is excellent.
Posted by LISA LISA (Member # 1780) on :
I never saw any of those except Play Misty for Me (which I love). I love Clint Eastwood ( I have all the Dirty Harry movies on Blu Ray).
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: Turns out a couple of months ago a 8 disc blu-ray box-set was released which consists of Coogan's Bluff, Two Mules For Sister Sara, The Beguiled, Play Misty For Me, Joe Kidd, High Plains Drifter.
All very good/excellent films. The Beguiled includes many surprising elements considering it was a major studio feature.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I ordered it.
Dammit, i'm weak... Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Aww, thanks Warrior Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
oh yeah people! High Plains Drifter was my fav. Eastwood westerntill i saw Fistful of Dollars
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
oh yeah people! High Plains Drifter was my fav. Eastwood western till i saw Fistful of Dollars
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
The Way We Were, starring Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand. For me it was just "meh". She was loud and obnoxious, which I know, that is supposed to be her character. But I thought her acting wasn't that great, like she was overacting directly to the camera.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Breezy (1973) which was a pretty good film written by Jo Heims (Play Misty for Me) and directed by Clint Eastwood. William Holden is Frank Harmon, a fifty-something real-estate broker who falls in love with a teen hippie girl Breezy (Kay Lenz in her breakthrough role). It was a box-office flop back in the day, but Eastwood has said that it´s one of his favourite works. Lenz is fresh and energetic and you can see her nude many times She has a nice body so why hide it? There´s nothing too explicit on offer though. Holden does a good job as a divorced man who has to wrestle with outside pressure and his inner voice. All in all, it´s a nice little 70s romantic drama.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I'm glad that you like Breezy too. It really shows what range Eastwood has as a director. This is the kind of film that is so absolutely unlike him; it's so quiet and low-keyed. Holden and Lenz are both excellent. And Lenz really is adorable. It would be hard for any guy 18-58 not to fall for her. Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
She arrived here this morning as well !
well.. not Kay herself unfortunately, but that Clint Eastwood 8 disc blu-ray set i mean. Still good enough to make me happy though !
Speaking of Kay Lenz.. did you guys know she did an audio commentary for the Stripped To Kill dvd that came out last december ? I haven't listened to it yet, but i think she's a sport for having done a commentary on that one. Way to go, Kay ! Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
always liked Kay lenz,i've mostly seen her through her 80s pics such as the horror comedy house,stripped to kill and who can forget the scene at the end of death wish 4 when she comes a cropper at the hands of john p ryan.
john p Ryan then get's the old charlie Bronson treatment and is blown to kingdom come.
There has always been a couple of her movies I've been wanting to watch for an age now and they are fast walking from 1982 in which she stars with James woods and mean dog blues in which she appears along side a really solid cast including George Kennedy,scatman brothers and Gregg henry.
A very pretty and talented actress,you can see why rod Stewart was infatuated by her.
http://youtu.be/2VaazQfxGso - rod Stewart music video for infatuation starring Kay lenz.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
WestWorld - 1973, directed by Michael Crichton.
Stars: Yul Brynner, Richard Benjamin, James Brolin
My review can be found HERE Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Did you like his later stuff Paul like looker and runaway?
I haven't seen Westworld for a good few years,I watched coma a few years back that was cool!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
It's not 70s but what was physical evidence directed by crichton and starring Burt reynolds like,I did see it when it first hit UK vhs but can't remember next to nothing about it.
Is that trying to tell me something.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched a decent Hammer yesterday, The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964)
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: Did you like his later stuff Paul like looker and runaway?
I haven't seen Westworld for a good few years,I watched coma a few years back that was cool!
I've not seen that much of his stuff outside of Jurassic Park, so I'm not really able to judge. I really ought to watch some more of his movies, because there's a strong link between WestWorld and Jurassic Park - I wonder if this has been a theme running through many of his other movies...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Stranglers Of Bombay (1959) This was pretty good. I loved the snake and mongoose scene Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
you should check out both looker and runaway paul when you get chance,especially runaway,it's a total blast what with killer robot spiders, heat seeking bullets and gene simmons from kiss as the menacing villain.
you can definitely see the connection between jurassic and westworld and the same i would say could be said for runaway and westworld what with malfunctioning robots,etc.- artificial intelligence turning on mankind.
i reckon it would be a good one actually paul to review on your site.
i personally think it's a really fun movie,i last watched it about 2 years back and i reckon it holds up pretty well,some people say it looks pretty dated but i don't think so myself.
the only thing i think doesn't hold up so well is the heat seeking bullet effects - http://youtu.be/heMboVN12r0 - they look pretty comical.
ps i agree about rick moranis in your streets of fire review that other than streets of fire and the odd other film he can sometimes be slightly annoying.
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Stranglers Of Bombay (1959) This was pretty good. I loved the snake and mongoose scene
helen have you ever watched - any which way you can with clint eastwood,that's got a rattle snake vs mongoose battle
i remember years back when i viewed it as a youngster that scene always stuck in my head,it happens near the beginning of the movie when all these mafioso types are stood around this pen and they chuck a mongoose in and then lift up this box or what ever it was and there's this rattle snake underneath.
the mongoose and the rattle snake then battle it out and mongoose gets fatally bit.
i noticed in all later versions of this movie this scene was missing,anyhow not long back i ordered the twin pack blu ray from the states and it has the whole scene in its entirety.
got to admit when i watched it lately this scene seemed quite out of tone with the rest of the movie considering it was meant to be a family comedy.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL!
I have seen it but it must of been the cut version because I'm sure I'd of remembered that haha.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
"The film follows three former Vietnam veterans who are accustomed to violence. They decide to go on a spree of brutality by kidnapping a girl and a middle-aged man. After an orgy of rape, beatings, and humiliation, the two victims plan an escape and one plans revenge." (Wiki)
Watched this cool 1974 thriller late last year. Anyone else seen it? Open Season stars Peter Fonda, John Phillip Law, Richard Lynch, Cornelia Sharpe, Alberto de Mendoza and William Holden. 70´s movies are full of surprises and this one entertains with it´s exploitation feel. The three main actors are great, the hunting is tense and bullets really hurt.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
[QUOTE]Originally posted by aTomiK:
Going from one family film - any which way you can - to another - open season - "The film follows three former Vietnam veterans who are accustomed to violence. They decide to go on a spree of brutality by kidnapping a girl and a middle-aged man. After an orgy of rape, beatings, and humiliation, the two victims plan an escape and one plans revenge." (Wiki)
Atomik This definitely sounds a bit different to Disney's open season Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark. -- IMDb
It's been a while since I've seen this, but it's still a pretty powerful thriller.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Magnum Force (1973) and while it wasn´t as good as Dirty Harry, it´s still an entertaining sequel. John Milius did the original story for MF so it doesn´t surprise that it includes lots of guns and brutal killing. Eastwood regular Bruce Surtees wasn´t available to do cinematography in this one so we can´t enjoy his great visions, also Ted Post is not Don Siegel. Pretty cool stuff anyway.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I like Magnum Force too. Post was certainly competent, but very few directors of that era were Don Siegel, one of my favorites, a master in many diverse genres. I know that he and Clint Eastwood worked tremendously well together, and Eastwood, a fine director himself, always says that Siegel was the most influential director on his own directing career. That's about the highest praise anyone could ever give another director.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Watched The Big Bus (1976) last night. Excellent fun!
"You eat one lousy foot and suddenly, you're a cannibal!"
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
We picked up a DVD set of 1960's Oscars movies yesterday at a thrift store. Took a chance as the print on the case was in both English and Japanese, but it turned out the two movies we watched were in English with the option for Japanese subtitles. We watched The Manchurian Candidate, which we'd never seen before, starring Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury. MIt was excellent. I loved how deliciously evil Angela Lansbury was as the Mother. And who knew Frank could actually act? Then we watched Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. I had seen it a few years ago, but forgot the latter half of it. It's a good movie, just not something to be taken seriously.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
There are 7 more movies in the set we have to watch. It originally had 10 movies but it was missing one, Rope. Most of the rest are Hitchcock films.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Damn shame about Rope being absent.. although you do get to learn a little Japanese on the side ! Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: [QB] We picked up a DVD set of 1960's Oscars movies yesterday at a thrift store. Took a chance as the print on the case was in both English and Japanese, but it turned out the two movies we watched were in English with the option for Japanese subtitles. We watched The Manchurian Candidate, which we'd never seen before, starring Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury. And who knew Frank could actually act?
Frank sure can act alright,did you not see him in cannonball run 2
Saying that I have seen him in one other movie and he was pretty decent in it and that was von Ryan's express.
I enjoyed that,that was a good movie.
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Last night i watched Midnight Cowboy (1969) and Raging Bull (1980) back-to-back !
I've seen both of these at least ten or twelve times before, and each time i wonder if they still live up to their reputation as being among the very best movies ever made... DAMN RIGHT THEY DO !!
I think everyone owes it to themselves to revisit these classics time and time again.
Johnny has spoken ! Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Dial M for Murder (I Love that title for a movie), another movie from the DVD collection we bought last week. It was very good.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Kingdom Of The Spiders (1977)
Fun, ecological horror starring William Shatner, Tiffany Bolling, and Woody Strode.
It's pretty tame, PG-rated.. but there's an effective downbeat ending. (After all, this is '70s horror)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched that a few months back. Ending was fantastic! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I think we should watch The Giant Spider Invasion next ! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched The Chase (1966) which was a pretty good 60s drama with a strong cast. The story takes place in a small Texas town which still feels like wild west, all men having guns etc. Marlon Brando is the town sheriff and he´s great. Robert Redford plays a prison escapee and when the townspeople hear the news they go nuts. Lots of beautiful ladies in this one: Angie D1ckinson, Jane Fonda, Janice Rule and Martha Hyer all very easy on the eye. The movie deals with racism, sexual revolution and vigilantism. Few men beat up Brando with bloody results and the ending is pretty harsh. Overall, a good movie from Arthur Penn.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Penitentiary (1979)
"A hitchhiker named Martel Gordone gets in a fight with two bikers over a prostitute, and one of the bikers is killed. Gordone is arrested and sent to prison, where he joins the prison's boxing team in an effort to secure an early parole and to establish his dominance over the prison's toughest gang." -- IMDb
He's Too Fast, Two Fisted, "Too Sweet"!
It was something of a surprise to come across this on YouTube. I hadn't seen this, or either sequel, in about 25 years.
Leon Isaac Kennedy is a wronged man.
I'd forgotten, "Porky", was in this. Chuck Mitchell, was an underrated actor.
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Written, produced, and directed by JAMAA FANAKA. Greatest name ever for an exploitation film director!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Truck Turner (1974)
Quint-essential blaxploitation starring Isaac Hayes and Yaphet Kotto.
Supporting roles by Charles Cyphers, **** Miller, Scatman Crothers, Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols (jive-talking like she never dared to on starship Enterprise), and Annik Borel (Werewolf Woman) in a gratuitous scene in which she stabs a guy with scissors.. while being naked, of course !
Fast-paced and tons of fun, filled to the max with fistfights, bloody shoot-outs, carchases, eye-popping 70's fashion, funky soul music, and a terrific death scene by mr. Kotto.
Directed by Jonathan Kaplan who went on to do The Accused with an Oscar-winning Jodie Foster the following decade.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Vertigo, starring James Stewart and Kim Novak and directed by Alfred Hitchcock. This was the second time I'd seen it, my husband's first. I like it, but hubby seemed bored. Many consider this to be Hitchcock's best film. I'm not sure I'd say it was his best. I'd give it a 7 1/2 out of 10. Incidentally, my friend was named after Kim Novak (whose real name is not Kim!). She was her Mother's favorite actress.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The War of the Robots - That was dreadful. I loved it Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: I think we should watch The Giant Spider Invasion next !
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Truck Turner is my favorite blaxploitation flick of all time. It's fast-paced, exciting, and hilarious, pretty much a perfect example of an exploitation film.
Helen, the giant spider in The Giant Spider Invasion is a Volkswagen covered in felt with legs. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Another vote for Truck Turner, fantastic stuff!!
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Summer Camp (1979)
"The director of a failing summer camp decides to invite campers from ten years ago for a free weekend event, hoping that he can trick them into fixing up the place and also get their families to provide them some financial support. The boys and girls return to the camp and play pranks on each other and try to score with the other campers and the staff."
Panty Raids... Short Sheets... Food Fights... After 'LIGHTS OUT' It's 'GROSS OUT!'
An R-rated Meatballs. Very poor.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Clint Eastwood marathon continued with Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974) and The Eiger Sanction (1975).
While both are enjoyable films, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot has much better story. George Kennedy is in both movies and Eastwood became friends with him. Lots of cool characters, beautiful girls and gritty, 70s style action which i love. Good stuff!
Eastwood and Kennedy enjoying a beer in Arizona Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Just watched one of my fave Pacino flicks ...And Justice For All. Takes you through so many emotions. First half is lighter, quite funny but the second has my stomach in knots by the time it gets to the end courtroom shenanigans. And then the final scene always has me cracking up through the credits
i can remember watching this with my parents many years back and thinking it was a really great movie.
not seen it in years,i need to check this one out again.
pacino's such a great actor,few months back i watched donnie brasco again for the umpteenth time and everytime i watch it i'm completely mesmerized by his performance.
there's a few actors that can do this,chris walken is another one when i watched him in the dead zone for the first time and when he meets his tragic end i was completely gobsmacked. i felt so gutted!
some actors can portray there characters so well,there on different level altogether!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I need to watch few 70s Pacino movies. I own And Justice for All deluxe edition dvd but i´ve never seen the film. I also bought Bobby Deerfield few months ago, it´s about time to check those out. The Dead Zone is a magical film. No matter if you´ve only seen it once, it will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Pacino is the greatest!
Last night I watched Puppet On A Chain. Some fun fights and boat chase scenes but not all that great otherwise.
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
WHOOO-WAHHHH, Pa-CI-no is THE greatEST (accenting random syllables like the great Al Pacino). You know what's sad though, the heroes of my youth, DeNiro and Pacino, now late in life getting stuck in stuff way beneath their abilities like DeNiro's Red Lights and Pacino's cameo in Jack and Jill. If I were an established actor with a good resume who starts getting offered crap or mostly direct-to-digital stuff--are you listening John Cusack?--I think that I'd hang it up.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Marnie, 1964 Hitchcock film starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery. From the collection my hubs and I bought that I mentioned earlier. I don't think it was one of Alfred's best movies. The overacting and histrionics were laughable. Hard to believe she is the Mother of Melanie Griffith.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Btw Crash, I am in total agreement. There has got to be some better parts for two of the greatest actors, other than the latest craptastic stuff they've done!
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Making my way through the Dirty Harry Collection.
"When a mad man calling himself 'the Scorpio Killer' menaces the city, tough as nails San Francisco Police Inspector Harry Callahan is assigned to track down and ferret out the crazed psychopath."
After all these years, this is still a bona fide classic.
"Dirty Harry is on the trail of vigilante cops who are not above going beyond the law to kill the city's undesirables."
A great follow up. Almost as good as the original. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched this doc the other day, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls. Highly recommend it
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Sexual antics, numerous people acting suspiciously, implausible plot-turns, and black-gloved killers :
It's giallo time !
Love And Death In The Garden Of The Gods (1972)
Very obscure piece of Euro-sleaze finally found its way to dvd last year on a high-quality release from Germany.
Actually it's more a psycho-sexual descent into madness rather than a full-blown giallo.
Directed by Sauro Scavolini (brother of Nightmares In A Damaged Brain director Romano Scavolini), better known as the writer of several more familiar gialli such as The Case Of The Scorpion's Tail (1971) and Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972).
Watched an underrated Hammer, The Kiss Of The Vampire (1963) Has some unusual stuff in this one and a killer ending Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I have never even heard of "Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods"! I must check it out.
Helen, did you know that when "Kiss of the Vampire" was purchased for showing on US network TV back in the day, they changed the title to "Kiss of Evil" and added six minutes of newly shot footage? They did the same thing with "Hands of The Ripper," adding footage.
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Last year, there were another two previously thought-to-be-lost giallo gems restored to near-perfection :
The Killer Reserved Nine Seats (1974) directed by Giuseppe Bennati, and Nine Guests For A Crime (1977) directed by Ferdinando Baldi.
They may be hard to find and a bit expensive.. but they're soooooo worth it.. trust me !
Definitely among the 10 best dvd / blu-ray releases of 2014.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Two classics from 1971.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
This comes on the UK channel - more movies soon,this is another Bronson flick I've never seen 1970s - you can't win em all with Bronson and tony Curtis.
Any one seen this one before,any good?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Love the poster, warrior. Never seen the film but would like to.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Just finished watching the 3rd movie in the Dirty Harry series: The Enforcer (1976).
Not as good as the first two. It's still very watchable, but the drop in quality was very apparent.
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The Dirty Harry films decrease a step in quality with each film. Dirty Harry is a masterpiece, Magnum Force is excellent, and The Enforcer is good, but not great. The last two, Sudden Impact, and particularly, The Dead Pool, just burned out the series. A shame... Clint really should've stopped while he was ahead.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Aww, did we lose our wonderful Giallo thread Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: I have never even heard of "Love and Death in the Garden of the Gods"! I must check it out.
Helen, did you know that when "Kiss of the Vampire" was purchased for showing on US network TV back in the day, they changed the title to "Kiss of Evil" and added six minutes of newly shot footage? They did the same thing with "Hands of The Ripper," adding footage.
I did not know. Did the added footage add anything? Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The word 'added' might be a give-away. Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Tehehe Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Aww, did we lose our wonderful Giallo thread
We did !
I'm still mourning...
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Continued watching Eastwood films with Outlaw Josey Wales (1976) What a marvelous revisionist Western it was set during and after the American Civil War. Cool cast includes Clint, Chief Dan George, Geraldine Keams, Bill McKinney, John Vernon and Sondra Locke. Awesome characters, lots of witty dialog and excellent cinematography once again by Bruce Surtees. Highly recommended!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Star Wars, 1977. I had not seen it since I think either the 80's or early 90's. We picked up the trilogy of the first three on VHS at a thrift store. I've never seen The Empire Strikes Back or Return of the Jedi.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Just finished a marathon of classic british comedies, all on Youtube:
Make Mine Mink 1960 Too Many Crooks 1959 Sailor Beware 1956 What A Whopper 1961 Crooks Anonymous 1962 I'm All Right Jack 1959 Ladies Who Do 1963 The Rebel 1961
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Last night i watched Mr. Majestyk (1974) on tv.. again !
I can't help it.. but every time it's on tv, i stick around.. even though i have it on dvd.
Al Lettieri makes a perfect badguy, the action scenes are rock-solid, and Bronson is.. Bronson !
Good, old-fashioned action fun.. nothing more, nothing less ! Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
i just watched the 1970 boys own adventure - you can't win'em all starring charles bronson and tony curtis.
filmed entirely on location in turkey and featuring many of the countries fantastic acient ruins it's a fun adventure with some nicely shot action set pieces as well as decent performances from both its two male leads but at the end of the day it wouldn't ever get into a best of list of either actor.
saying that it is pretty decent watch overall and it certainly looked like curtis and bronson had a hell of a great time!
i'd give it about a 6.5/10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I could feel a Giallo binge coming on so started with one of my faves, Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I finally got to The Haunted Palace (1963) A Warlock/possession flick with the atmosphere and looks of a Dracula film. Soooooo good
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The Haunted Palace is one of Corman's more underrated films, along with Premature Burial and The Tower of London. Palace is more Lovecraft than Poe, but it's a darned cool film.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I have yet to see The Haunted Palace.. but i do own it on blu-ray. Last december i bought this lovely limited box-set from Arrow UK :
Now if only i could find the time... Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
What a lovely set of terrific films! But it's missing one of my favorites, The Masque of the Red Death. Anyway, if I were forced at gunpoint to rank these, it would go something like this:
1. Tomb of Ligeia, not just a great horror film, but a great film period, the best of the Corman/Price Poe films, with one of Price's best-ever performances 2. The Fall of the House of the Usher, the first one that set the high standards for the rest of the series--Richard Matheson, screenplay; Floyd Crosby, cinematography; Anthony Carras, editor; Daniel Haller, production design; and Les Baxter music. Price completely embodies Roderick Usher. He's brilliant. 3. Tales of Terror, the first funny/scary Poe film, well done and a whole lot of fun. Price and Peter Lorre will definitely make you laugh. 4. The Raven, all funny. Peter Lorre is just great once again, with the added bonus of Jack Nicholson and Boris Karloff. 5. The Haunted Palace, more H.P. Lovecraft than E.A. Poe, but still excellent 6. The Pit and the Pendulum, most folks would rank this much higher--and I do like it a lot--but these films are all so consistently great that it's a tough call. This one has Barbara Steele and sumptuously fantastic production design, but Price is a little too over-the-top for my tastes.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Your bottom 2 are my top 2
1. The Pit and the Pendulum 2. The Haunted Palace 3. Tomb of Ligeia 4. Tales of Terror 5. The Raven 6. The Fall of the House of Usher
If Masque were included that would be second.
Usher is the only one I don't have mad love for. Can't put my finger on why. Just left me a bit cold.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Interesting--and I know that I am in the minority about Pit. Just about everybody has it in the top few. Masque would be #2 for me also. I would probably stick Premature Burial in there at #4. I really like it, though it doesn't get much love.
How would you rank the "pseudo-" or "second wave" Poe series? Here's my go:
1. The Conqueror Worm a/k/a Witchfinder General, far and away, one of the best UK films of all time. 2. Murders in the Rue Morgue, again, a film that doesn't generate a lot of support, but if you see director Gordon Hessler's original cut, you'll be blown away. It's great, Hessler's best film as director. 3. The Oblong Box, a film that, despite it's flaws, is well made and directed by Hessler, not to mention, Price and Lee are great. I have a real soft spot for it. 4. Cry of the Banshee, another underrated Hessler, though not as good as the previous two. 5. War-Gods of the Deep a/k/a City in the Sea, yes, it's "based" on Poe, and despite some nice underwater photography, I didn't even find it that amusing the first time I saw it when I was about 12 years' old. And it's one of those rare times that Price seemed disengaged from his performance.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
1. Witchfinder General, my Dad's fave horror and one of my fave Vincent Price films. 2. The Oblong Box, only seen once but really enjoyed. 3. Murders In The Rue Morgue, it was ok. 4. War-Gods of the Deep, not a fan.
I don't think I've seen Cry of the Banshee.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I saw a remastered, uncut, with proper soundtrack, version of Witchfinder a couple of years ago on Turner Classic Movies in the U.S. Fantastic film. You and your Dad have great taste. For years, the only version you could get in the states on VHS and laser was one where MGM replaced the entire music track with a "sound-alike" track done on a synthesizer because they couldn't get the rights to the original music for some reason. Needless to say, those versions were dreadful! Seeing it restored to all its spur-kicking (wink) glory like the good old days was great!
Go track down Banshee. I think that you'll like it. And also track down the remastered director's cut of Murders in the Rue Morgue. I think that you will like it even more. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Two old movies, among the least-seen films of Brian DePalma in his long and storied career:
"Dionysus 69" (1970), a filmed version of a stage performance of the Greek tragedy by The Performance Group, an unorthodox NY theatre troop. If ever a film qualified as a "time capsule" piece this is it. It shows the late 60's avant garde theatre scene in all its full glory--staging in an old garage, actors warming up for performance with primal scream therapy, the play spilling out into the audience, and the shocked/bored reactions of those present... Even early in his career, DePalma was thinking outside the box: The entire film is done in grim black-and-white with split-screen, an excellent artifice to enliven the stagy proceedings. Most probably won't make it 20 minutes into this weird relic, but if you do, it is very interesting. The print I saw posted on Youtube comes from a French DVD box set of Brian DePalma: The Early Years, which is the only official version of this hard-to-see film. (A few years ago, I saw a really murky version on an on-line film archive.) Anyway, it begins with the "X-rated" card, though today, it would be a rather tame "R." (There is a fair amount of nudity.) William Finley, a DePalma regular throughout his lifetime, is excellent here in the lead. He's Dionysus, but he constantly refers to himself by his own name, relates tales from his childhood, and ultimately stages a campaign for President of the United States, which is hilarious. It's a fantastic, funny, captivating performance. He should have been a big star. For DePalma completeists, this is the Holy Grail.
Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972), DePalma's first studio film and a hugely unhappy experience for him. He had just done a couple of highly regarded counterculture comedies--"Greetings" and "Hi, Mom"--when he was hired by Warner Brothers to do this counterculture comedy intended to make TV star Tom Smothers a movie star. He fought constantly with Smothers and was ultimately fired by the studio, which re-edited the film and dumped it into a couple of theatres with no fanfare two years after it was finished. I had seen it once before, about 40 years ago, on a rare CBS Late Movie showing and thought that it was better than folks said, but it was still not great. It was impossible to see until a few years ago when the Warner Archive started manufacturing discs for those who wanted it.
Anyway, the set-up is super. Bored, burned-out corporate exec Smother ditches it all to become a tap-dancing magician--taught by Orson Welles, no less! After a sprightly opening--including one of those trademark long DePalma tracking shots--the film just slowly peters out with scenes of Smothers performing his act on the road in seedy strip joints while a crazed John Astin, as his ex-boss, tries to woo him back. The film works better in its small, Monty Pythonesque surreal set-pieces. One has Smothers accosted by a piano tuner even though Smothers has no piano. Another has Allen (Goorwitz) Garfield as a bra salesman. And a third has Bob "Super Dave Osborne" Einstein as a nervous commercial airline pilot literally up a tree before a flight.
I enjoyed Rabbit despite its flaws and shaggy-dog construction. Astin is wonderful in his insane role, beautiful Katharine Ross shows up billed only as "The Terrific-Looking Girl" (but unfortunately has little to do), John Alonzo did the ace cinematography, the film has a nice score, and it looks just great overall. Actually, the weakest thing other than the inconsistent screenplay is Smothers himself, who comes off as incredibly bland and, at times, a little too smug. DePalma's direction is excellent. You can easily see that even in the earliest part of his career, he had "it." Vincent Canby of the New York Times remarked, in one of the few reviews of the film from back in the day, that one day DePalma would direct a great comedy. (Roger Ebert had said pretty much the same thing in his review of Greetings.) It's interesting to ponder what would have happened if the film had been a hit: DePalma probably would have done a bunch of studio comedies with huge names. But since his experience was so bad, he moved on to Sisters. And the rest is film history...
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
i watched the awesome 1973 charles bronson action thriller - the stone killer.
really enjoyed this one,it's got some very well staged action sequences,the motorbike chase scene reminded me a bit of the winner bronson combo - the mechanic from around the same time.
this is one of only a couple bronson outings that i had yet to see,not sure why it's took me this long to get round to watching it but i'm pleased that i finally did.
Does anyone know if bronson's - st ives from 1976 is any good?
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I´ve never seen The Stone killer but i sure remember the finnish vhs cover art from old video store magazines. Sounds good (like any other 70s Bronson film) so i think that i´m going to get this one. I own St. Ives on dvd and i´m sure we had a thread here too but.... you know the rest. It´s another fine Bronson/Thompson collaboration so i think that you should like it also.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Cheers atomik i'll check it out,definitely pick up stone killer I think you'll definitely like it!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Have you seen Day of the Animals? That´s another good film from William Girdler. Too bad this guy died so young (30 yrs.) in 1978. I saw a making of documentary and feel that Girdler could have been a top director also in the 80s.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
i recorded - summer of fear off the uk horror channel the other night,is that where you watched it helen?
i've never seen it before,just checked out your thread atomik it sounds like a decent watch!
i'm looking forward to checking it out.
anyone ever seen craven's 1985 tv movie - chiller with michael beck,i have seen it way back but my memory of it is pretty vague.
is it anygood?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Day of the Animals sounds good. Will have to look out for it
Yes that's where I watched it Warrior. I'm not sure if I've seen Chiller.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I will be watching The Wicker Man today as I try to do every May Day Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Awwww...The Wicker Man on May Day. You are a true Brit, Helen. Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I reckon it's the 2006 version starring Nicolas cage,I remember Helen saying it was a personal favourite!
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
You better run Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The original is fantastic! I remember someone saying that the remake was like an unintentional comedy. I did not bother watching it after that review. But I guess if Helen likes it, that's all that really matters
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Last night I watched Let's Scare Jessica To Death. It took about half an hour to get going but once it did it became great and went off in a totally different place than I was expecting. Made me think of Symptoms from a few years later.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Were you sought of brought up on these movies Helen?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
From about 7 years old the most important thing in life was looking through the TV guide for horrors. Didn't matter the decade but I was beyond overjoyed when one was listed from the 60's or 70's. Apart from the fact that I can buy many of them now nothing much has changed Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S:
Last night I watched Let's Scare Jessica To Death. It took about half an hour to get going but once it did it became great and went off in a totally different place than I was expecting. Made me think of Symptoms from a few years later.
Something is after Jessica,something very cold,very wet and very dead - it's Bernie Lomax
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Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I loved the orignal Wicker Man. I've seen the Nick Cage version too, but I honestly don't remember much about it, so I can't say if it was terribly bad.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The Nic Cage version of The Wicker Man is pretty much a travesty.
Yeah, Let's Scare Jessica to Death is a slow-burn, but once it gets going, it's pretty impressive. I'm also impressed, Helen, that you've seen Symptoms, which I like even more. That's my favorite of all Jose Larraz's films, even over the very good Vampyres.
Like with my soul sister across the pond--I grew up in the 60s and 70s--the TV Guide was absolutely mandatory reading material to see what horror films were on at 4:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Saturday or if the CBS Late Movie was showing a Hammer or Roger Corman/Poe film Friday night at 11:30 p.m. It was only when I got a little older that I could physically stay awake for the Chiller Theatre double feature starting at 11:30 p.m. Saturday night and running into the wee hours of Sunday morning.
Man, those were fun times. Unlike the instant gratification of the Internet and streaming today--which is also fun, but in a different way--you had to read a lot of magazines like Famous Monsters, Castle of Frankenstein, The Monster Times, and Cinefantastique and great, groundbreaking books by David Pirie and Denis Gifford and be on the look-out for stuff to pop up on broadcast TV. There is this legendary story from back in the day about this guy who drove 100 miles with VCR in hand to a motel room to tape a rare showing of Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural in the middle of the night. LOL I knew those days were over when a film that no one had ever seen--and I had only seen the same couple of stills from it in magazines and books--showed up in a beautiful DVD edition. Yep... Jess Franco's Vampyros Lesbos. The old days of hunting down obscurities were gone forever when that thing got an official release.
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Just for fun and to give you a flavor of what it was like to be a teenage horror film fan in the 70s--PGHgirl, you will get a big kick out of this--here's the schedule of movies for the first four months or so of a random year, 1976, of The Late Show Chiller Theatre from Channel 11 in Pittsburgh. You can see the wide variety of eras--and quality--represented. Heck, some of the films weren't even horror films, and some are really rare. You had to stay awake in those pre-VCR days, but it was fun viewing.
Saturday, January 3rd 1976 "Shock Treatment" (1964) "Dimension 5" (1966)
Saturday, January 10th 1976 "Horror Hotel" (1960) "Flight To Mars" (1951)
Saturday, January 17th 1976 "The Flesh Eaters" (1964) "Them!" (1954)
Saturday, January 24th 1976 "The Torture Chamber Of Dr. Sadism" (1967) (This is the US TV title of Harald Reinl's German film with Christopher Lee "The Pit and the Pendulum." I didn't even know it existed until I saw it on Chiller Theatre.) "The Maze" (1953)
Saturday, January 31st 1976 "Inn Of The Frightened People" (1971) (This was the heavily censored version of an obscure, but worthy, Spanish horror film called "A Candle for the Devil." When I saw it here, I thought that it was boring and made no sense. I recently saw the full, uncut version. Wow! What a difference! Minor classic.) "The Thing That Couldn't Die" (1958) (The talking head classic, forever immortalized by Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep in "Heartburn." LOL)
Saturday, February 7th 1976 "Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea" (1961) "Planet On The Prowl" (1966)
Saturday, February 14th 1976 "The Creature's Revenge" (1972) "Two Lost Worlds" (1951)
Saturday, February 21st 1976 "Island Of The Living Horror" (1968) (This was the TV title of the Independent-International drive-in classic "Brides of Blood." I-I retitled all the Filipino Blood Island films to remove the word "blood" for TV!) "Scars Of Dracula" (1970) (Not a good Hammer Film. I saw it again recently. Still not good.)
Saturday, February 28th 1976 "Night Without Sleep" (1952) "Beginning Of The End" (1957)
Saturday, March 6th 1976 "The Beast In The Cellar" (1971) (Strange, stagey, obscure Tigon horror film. No one seems to remember it or talk about it. It's not particularly good, but it is different.) "The Terror Beneath The Sea" (1966) (I'm glad that I saw this one--a rare non-Toho Japanese science-fiction film starring a very young Sonny Chiba of all people!)
Saturday, March 13th 1976 "The Strange Door" (1951) "She Devil" (1957)
Saturday, March 20th 1976 "The Woman Who Came Back" (1945) "I'll Never Forget You" (1951)
Saturday, March 27th 1976 "Blood On Satan's Claw" (1971) (A heavily censored version of a Tigon classic. I kind of liked it at the time because it was still pretty violent and sexy, but thought that it had flaws. A few years ago, I saw a beautiful uncut print with the UK title "Satan's Skin." Now I think that it's a near masterpiece!) "Diary Of A Madman" (1963) (Forgotten, minor Vincent Price film that they used to show all the time. Pretty decent.)
Saturday, April 3rd 1976 "The Unknown Terror" (1957) "Tomb Of The Living Dead" (1968) (I believe that this was the retitling of "Mad Doctor of Blood Island." Great film!)
Saturday, April 10th 1976 "Women Of The Prehistoric Planet" (1966) (An incredible film: the first film of great director Peter Bogdanovich, the re-editing--with US-filmed inserts--of a Russian science-fiction film purchased by Roger Corman. Bogdanovich used a pseudonym in the credits. It's in the public domain so look on line for it. You will rub your eyes in disbelief.) "The Wizard Of Mars" (1965)
Saturday, April 17th 1976 "Hangover Square" (1945) "The Unearthly" (1957)
Saturday, April 24th 1976 "Nightmare Castle" (1965) (Badly censored US version of a really good Barbara Steele Italian gothic horror.) "The Spider Woman Strikes Back" (1946)
Saturday, May 1st 1976 "Gargoyles" (1972) (Very memorable TV movie with early Stan Winston creature make-up--and one of the coolest, sexiest actresses ever in a 70s horror film, Jennifer Salt. A movie with quite a nice cult following because it's scary and pretty neat for a TV movie.) "The Missing Guest" (1938)
Saturday, May 8th 1976 "Nightmare In Wax" (1969) "The Strange Case Of Dr. Rx" (1942)
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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: From about 7 years old the most important thing in life was looking through the TV guide for horrors. Didn't matter the decade but I was beyond overjoyed when one was listed from the 60's or 70's. Apart from the fact that I can buy many of them now nothing much has changed
I think it kinda feels more in the moment when it's actually on TV. Kinda like when a song is on the radio. You might have that song on CD but when it's on the radio it is in the moment more somehow.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: [QB] Just for fun and to give you a flavor of what it was like to be a teenage horror film fan in the 70s--PGHgirl, you will get a big kick out of this--here's the schedule of movies for the first four months or so of a random year, 1976, of The Late Show Chiller Theatre from Channel 11 in Pittsburgh. You can see the wide variety of eras--and quality--represented. Heck, some of the films weren't even horror films, and some are really rare. You had to stay awake in those pre-VCR days, but it was fun viewing.
This is my idea of what heaven looks like
Aww, Scars of Dracula is one of my favourites of the Hammer Dracula series.
I have Beast in the cellar in a 6 film Tigon set, which unfortunately includes the awful Virgin Witch. Yes, very strange. I loved the ending. Have you seen the 1976 TV series Beasts? It's similar to that in the way it feels very much like a weird play.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: There is this legendary story from back in the day about this guy who drove 100 miles with VCR in hand to a motel room to tape a rare showing of Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural in the middle of the night. LOL
Haha, that is great! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, in a perfect heaven, there is a multiplex where one of the theatres is continually playing giallo films, another the Filipino horror films, another UK horrors, and another stuff that no one has seen like Terror Beneath the Sea. Of course, Helen, you are the only person I've ever met who has seen Beast in the Cellar. I coveted that Tigon box set, but it was never released here in the U.S. Virgin Witch is dreadful, and I've never seen The Body Stealers, one of the few Tigon films that has eluded me over the years. (Yeah, I've even seen Zeta One. LOL) Blood on Satan's Claw has never had an official release on VHS or DVD in this country. That uncut 35mm print entitled Satan's Skin that they somehow found for the drive-in showing a few years ago was simply astonishing. It was beautiful. It's now one of my favorite UK horror films.
But have you seen Lemora? You don't have to drive to a motel anymore. Synapse's remastered version is wonderful. It was the only theatrical film of UCLA film school graduate Richard Blackburn. He did a Southern Gothic vampire film set in the 1930s with next to no money. (You see exactly one nice vintage car in the film.) But the weird, other worldly atmosphere he put on film is stunning. When I first saw it on TV cut up with loads of commercials in the middle of the night, circa 1976, I was completely underwhelmed. (I must've fallen asleep through some of it too.) But seeing it again a few years ago in its full restored glory was a revelation. It's one of the best "lost" horror films of the 70s.
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
This comes to blu ray in the us in July from olive films - king of the gypsies from 1978,it's got a really good cast including Shelley winters,Susan sarandon,annette o'toole,Brooke shields and what looks to be Eric Roberts feature film debut.
I've never actually seen it but would like to check it out.
Anyone ever seen this one,if so is it worth checking out?
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
This is on the more movies channel here in the UK within the next few days,I've set my hard drive to record it,it's bite the bullet starring gene Hackman,James coburn,Candice Bergman and Jan Michael vincent.
Not sure if i've actually ever seen this one,don't think I have.
Anyone ever seen this all star action adventure from 1975.
If so is it any good?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Bite the Bullet is an excellent western. Some even call it a classic. I haven't seen it since way back in the day, but I think that you will enjoy it. I know that a lot of people agree with me: great cast, magnificent scenery, and extremely well written and directed by Richard Brooks, a real pro. And even with the action-adventure plot--a long, amazing horse race through the desert--there's some serious underlying content here about the death of the Wild West, animal abuse, and feminism.
Let us know after you watch it. Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Cheers crash I look forward to checking it out,I'll let you know what I think.
It does sound good!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Crash, I'm sure I sneaked in a few of those old horror films. My mother would get ****ed off when I watched them. They really didn't scare me to death, I never had nightmares, so I don't know what the problem was with me wanting to watch them. She probably didn't want my brother watching them as I am sure the baby that he was, he would've been terrified. Btw Crash, are there any films you haven't seen?! You are so knowledgeable on every type and timeframe out there!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I was lucky pittsburghgirl my mother was the exact opposite, when she used to take me to the video shop she would ask the people behind the counter for there recommendations for me to watch and they would suggest things like - flash Gordon and my mother would say no that's a bit to babyish for him (I was about 11 at this time,plus no offence to flash Gordon fans intended either) and we'd end up going home with something like -ten to midnight,Friday the 13th part 2,the exterminator etc. instead which was pretty cool!
I can even remember when i was still about 11 or 12 my mother getting hold of a copy of the awesome Dario argento horror-tenebrae and me sitting down with her,my brother and sister to watch it one night and that was a pretty gruesome flick for the time(it still is),in fact I'm sure it hit what was known as the video nasties list here in the uk a few years later and dissapeared from the shops for a while altogether.
Looking back I can now see why I've got such a love for all things horror
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Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Young warrior, your Mother sounds like a cool lady and Mom. That is so cool that she got together with you and your siblings to watch those movies.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: Crash, I'm sure I sneaked in a few of those old horror films. My mother would get ****ed off when I watched them. They really didn't scare me to death, I never had nightmares, so I don't know what the problem was with me wanting to watch them. She probably didn't want my brother watching them as I am sure the baby that he was, he would've been terrified. Btw Crash, are there any films you haven't seen?! You are so knowledgeable on every type and timeframe out there!
Thanks for the compliment! I started as a serious movie fan at the age of 9 back in 1969. As I've said in other posts, those were fun times where you had to read magazines, TV Guide, books, and talk to other fans to find out about films. There were visionquests to see lost or obscure films. Sometimes in the pre-VCR days, that meant just staying awake until all hours. Also, over the years it's obviously gotten easier to be a movie buff because just about everything is available. While the thrill of the hunt is gone, it's amazing that I can see all kinds of things now. Another sort of compulsive thing about me is that over the years, I will go on these sprees to fill in gaps in my film knowledge. For example, in the 1990s, I watched a lot of HK stuff, John Woo, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark... I watched some Jess Franco stuff, though when I was a small boy, even I recognized that his films were pretty bad. I discovered a few very good films by Franco--She Killed in Ecstasy, Vampyros Lesbos, and Gritos en La Noche (The Awful Dr. Orloff). And then I went on a binge of spaghetti westerns--watching about 25 and not the ones everyone has seen by Leone--with just amazing stuff by Sergio Corbucci, Sergio Sollima, and Tonino Valerii. More recently, I've been trying to track down giallo films that have eluded me over the years. I recently saw Footsteps on the Moon, The Strange Case of Mrs. Wardh, and The Fifth Cord, which are all very different, but excellent. In between, I managed to see my first Turkish rip-off, the Turkish version of The Exorcist, swiping Tubular Bells and everything. It wasn't as rotten as I thought that it would be. I just saw Eurocrime, which is an exhaustive--and somewhat exhausting--documentary on poliziotesschi films, of which I've seen some good ones, but not enough. That may be my next project. But I have Eyeball and Death Laid an Egg first.
That's how it goes for me, lifelong lover of all cinema--good and bad, art film and exploitation film, masterpiece and piece of trash...
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Re-watched The Gauntlet (1977) the other night. The film has two excellent action scenes and Clint is in good form but there´s also few very silly moments. What we have here is an entertaining popcorn road movie.
"Pack your lipstick!" Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
cool flick atomik,though like you say more than a touch daft at times,do enjoy it though.
have the us region free blu ray and for its age it looks pretty solid.
last clint flick i saw i think was either tightrope or pale rider which i picked up on blu ray sometime back,both great films!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I think Pale Rider is better than the rest. Gauntlet and Tightrope are pretty average IMO. I will always succumb to watching them when they are on TV though. All those movies were on TV here recently. Pale Rider is very good and Clint is always good as the man with no name (I assume he's not really a preacher).
Cool photo aTomiK.
Clint must have lived the life. I could just imagine him being the same as in the movies as far as his humour and personality goes.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think Pale Rider is definitely the best of that bunch, guys. It's very good. Tightrope is decent enough, and apart from the big action set pieces, The Gauntlet is just mindless and silly. I never really understood the attraction of Sondra Locke. Pretty good actress, sure, but look at her in The Gauntlet. She looks pretty haggard like she's been up all week. And the scene where she flashes the bad guys beating up Clint seemed to me to be more like a Clint Eastwood fantasy than anything else. I wonder what their home life was like. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I share your thoughts about Locke. Remember the scene where she have fantasies about family life with Clint... It´s reality tv right there in the mid 70s Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
They definitely seemed to have had a very rocky relationship Eastwood and Sondra Locke,I'm sure I've read a few articles over the years where it mentions that she has tried to take him through the courts a few times suing him for millions of dollars!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
"A mysterious creature from another planet, resembling a giant blob of jelly, lands on earth. The people of a nearby small town refuse to listen to some teenagers who have witnessed the blob's destructive power. In the meantime, the blob just keeps on getting bigger."
The Blob (1958)
I liked it, but I prefer the remake. Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I remember my Dad saying how unattractive he thought Sondra Locke was. Clint sure has had quite a different collection of girlfriends and wives. Blondes, brunettes, redheads, he doesn't seem to have a preference. His latest ex-wife is Hispanic. He is now dating a much younger woman.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, IMO Sondra Locke is not very attractive at all.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Did anyone ever see this 1986 drama - ratboy that Sondra Locke directed and if so is it worth checking out?
By the way ratboy is the one on the left
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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I didn't realise that Luis Suárez was in films before he went into football Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I never thought about that Bernie it could be based on his life story or something
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Luis Suárez story: A mutant rat/human hybrid makes its way from the dumpsters of L.A. onto the international soccer scene.
I could imagine pitching this to all the major Hollywood production companies and them going to war with each other to land the movie Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: By the way ratboy is the one on the left
Oh no you didn't! LOL
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I very much doubt it but I pray to god Sondra Locke or come to that Luis Suarez never visit our site forum as I think that they would look something like this -
No actually on second thoughts it probably would be more like this
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Clint's movies from the 60s,70s,80s I can more or less remember most of them scene for scene,some of his later works though such as true crime,absolute power,blood work,space cowboys etc even though I've seen a couple of them a few times over seem nothing but a vague memory.
I think there all decent movies but for me I'd have to say definitely not as memorable.
Or maybe I just need to give them a bit more of a chance!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched a whole bunch lately!
Nosferatu The Vampyre (1979) - One of the few remakes that I can say is exceptional.
Vampyres: Daughters Of Darkness - I could do without the smut but other than that it really is grand. Terrific atmosphere, beautiful old settings and some quite disturbing attacking scenes.
Werewolves on Wheels - Where has this film been all my life. Bikers, satanists, werewolves (well one haha) equals 90 minutes of joy I recognised one of the lines straight away, it's played at the start of Rob Zombie's Sick Bubblegum lol
Also watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show and Shock Treatment. While Shock is nowhere near as good as Rocky I don't think it's anywhere near as bad as many say. It's a laugh.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Also watched The Wild One (1953) Made me think of Rumble Fish at times.
And a load of fun cheese, The Giants Of Thessaly (1960), The Bandit Of Sherwood Forest (1946), The Son Of Robin Hood (1958), Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964) and The Hand (1960)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh and the one dud, One Frightened Night (1935) - I usually like these old murder mysteries but this was just dull.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
In honor of Christopher Lee's great body of work, I finally caught up with a film that has eluded me for decades, Hannie Caulder (1971), produced by UK exploitation factory Tigon. Man, what a cool Western with a great little part for Lee as a Confederate gunsmith living in Mexico. Raquel Welch isn't much of an actress, but she's quite good here, perhaps her career-best performance. She's abetted by Robert Culp as a bespectacled, thoughtful bounty hunter. Quentin Tarantino loves this movie and says that Culp is sensational. Tarantino's right. Culp really is terrific, almost the prototype of the bounty hunter played by the Christoph Waltz in Django Unchained. And apart from Diana Dors in a cameo as a madame, how can you go wrong with Ernest Borgnine, Jack Elam, and Strother Martin as villains? As you said, Helen, "Where has this film been all my life?" LOL What would you call it? Not a spaghetti Western, but perhaps a bangers-and-mash Western?
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Bangers and mash western, LOL, love that! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I wish I could take credit for that, but I read it somewhere in a Hannie Caulder review. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
"A Greek tycoon's mistress tries to track down and find her ex-World War II lover." (IMDb)
Watched The Other Side of Midnight (1977) few days ago and found it surprisingly good. It was directed by Charles Jarrott and the story is based on Sidney Sheldon's 1973 novel of the same name.
This is a long film, almost three hours but i enjoyed watching how lovely Marie-France Pisier uses her body to get what she wants. She´s a really beautiful actress who wasn´t afraid to show some skin. This was her first English language movie. The other stars are John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone and Clu Gulager. The movie was shot in France, USA and Greece. I liked the story (the bathtub scene was shocking), only the final twist was unnecessary.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Satan's Slave - Terror aside, I really do enjoy Norman J. Warren's cheap and cheerful horror films with this one being my favourite. It's so grimy, the story and characters are totally warped and it has some really good gore scenes. Plus the ending is fab! I cheer
Something Evil - I can see why I'd forgotten I'd even seen this Spielberg film, yawn.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, Norman J. Warren always made up in enthusiasm what he lacked in money. Satan's Slave is my favorite of his stuff too. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Every Which Way But Loose (1978) couple of days ago. I think that it´s a fun film. Doesn´t have much plot but there´s lots of funny characters and a nice easygoing feel. So, what´s the worst part of the film? You guessed it: Sondra Locke. And she sings too Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
This was on TV a couple of days ago here in OZ.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
House of the Damned (1963) Like a cross between The House On Haunted Hill and Freaks. It had some nice moments but the ending was beyond blah.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I'm going to see Psycho with a live orchestra in October. Too excited! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds like a cool event, Helen.
Watched Escape from Alcatraz (1979) which i´ve always liked very much. Interesting (based on a true story) screenplay and cool cast create interesting characters you care about. Director Don Siegel and Clint Eastwood had many arguments during the production so this was their last collaboration.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: I'm going to see Psycho with a live orchestra in October. Too excited!
that sounds like a lot of fun helen as long as the conductor isn't norman bates
escape from alcatraz is a really great movie,i'm sure i had the dvd for it somewhere but can't find it at all, i'll have to pick it up on blu ray when i get chance as it's pretty cheap now,it's part of a 2 blu rays for 10 uk pounds deal at amazon.
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Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Does anyone think that The Shawshank Redemption majorly ripped of Escape Form Alcatraz? I mean there are just too many similarities to ignore.
Escape From Alcatraz is awesome!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Apartment (1960) with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine.
I cannot fault this movie - I need to reassess my top 10 after watching it.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The Apartment is a classic! Billy Wilder was a genius. His movies are dark, cynical, and hilarious.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched a bunch of great Christopher Lee flicks since his passing.
The Creeping Flesh
The Two Faces Of Dr. Jekyll (1960)
The House That Dripped Blood
The Oblong Box (1969)
Scream Of Fear (1961)
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Hills Have Eyes (1977). I had only ever seen the remake but bought this one for like 7 bucks. I thought it was pretty decent. This is how film making should be; on a budget and gritty. Thumbs up for me.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Original The Hills Have Eyes is a very good Wes Craven film.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Yeah, pretty good. I did not realise it was that old. I thought it was 86 or something for some reason and couldn't believe it when I found out it was 77.
One good thing about remakes is that it helps to bring awareness to the original for those who previously didn't know it existed. When I saw the remake I did not know that it was a remake at the time.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched three Eastwood films Bronco Billy (1980), Any Which Way You Can (1980) and Firefox (1982).
This was not the best era for Clint although Firefox did pretty well because audience liked to see him back in an action film. The first two were pretty lame efforts. The cold war thriller Firefox is a bit too slow and long but it has few nice sequences.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Firefox even though it's a bit long winded at times is my favourite of the three,all three have there merits though as I can't say I dislike any of the three mentioned.
I'm trying to think what come next with out looking at imdb,I know tightrope was 84,sudden impact I'm sure was 83 and not sure what year honkytonk man was but that was in and around then!
Atomik did you know There are a couple of alternate running times for Firefox,not sure if it's the US or European version but I know one runs for about 15 minutes or so longer.
So if it was the shorter version of it you watched and you thought to yourself boy did that drag don't bother with the extended cut Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Haha yeah, i´m not going to get that version. Honkytonk Man is next, also 1982.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Chain Gang Women - Odd title as this is about chain gang men. I loved all the daft songs.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Chain Gang Women - Odd title as this is about chain gang men. I loved all the daft songs.
You sure they weren't women helen and that they just looked like men!
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Haha! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Blood of the vampire (1958) I was a bit meh on this one first time around but I enjoyed it so much more last night.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I haven't seen Blood of the Vampire in a while, but I don't particularly like it. It's sort of a dull, poor man's Hammer film with a hammy Donald Wolfit.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That's what I thought first time but I just enjoyed the whole story this time around.
I've just watched Pick-Up (1975) and, ermm, the hell was that!?!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I just watched The Man In The Mirror (1936) It was pretty funny Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
San Babila Ore 20 : Un Delitto Inutile (1976)
,..Violence, terror, and crime are amongst the main subjects in the oevre of Carlo Lizzani. In the most diverse genres, the masterful director explored the depths of Italian society without ever shying away from hot topics. Based on true events, Lizzani paints with San Babila Ore 20 a merciless portrait of the political unrest that ruled Italy during the seventies. The result is a film which to this day hasn't lost a bit of intensity : Great, challenging, and sophisticated cinema that is both moving and shocking at the same time..'
Here's everything you need to know about this superb release from the great, German Camera Obscura label :
On a side note : Director Carlo Lizzani committed suicide in 2013, when he jumped off the balcony of his appartment building in Rome.. at the age of 91 !
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Lots recently:
Two from Woody Allen, Bananas and Love and Death
Irma La Douce with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine again on sparkling form
The Cockleshell Heroes, a brilliant 1950s movie set in Wartime Europe
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by P_a_u_l: Lots recently:
Two from Woody Allen, Bananas and Love and Death
Irma La Douce with Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine again on sparkling form
The Cockleshell Heroes, a brilliant 1950s movie set in Wartime Europe
i need to check out - the cockleshell heroes,i'm not sure but i think i might actually have seen it way way back,heard many good things about it i'll keep a look out for it!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
watched the 1979 world war 2 romance - hanover street the other night for the very first time,directed by peter hyams (timecop) and starring harrison ford,lesley-anne down,christopher plummer and a young patsy kensit (11 yrs old at the time) this was pretty routine but fairly enjoyable stuff.
it was like a film of two halves with the slightly drawn out love story aspect of the movie taking up the first hour or so and then you have the much more lively final 40 minutes where ford and christopher plummer are on a mission in nazi occupied france.
very well shot and with decent performances from all involved and a great music score from john barry this was none to bad overall and i'd definitely recommend a watch!
Interesting film this one, i´ve been wondering if i should get it. Sounds good enough.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Andromeda Strain (1971) Not as good as I thought it might be. You can tell the movie was supposed to be some type of thriller with a big scare factor but you just didn't feel it.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Interesting film this one, i´ve been wondering if i should get it. Sounds good enough.
hanover street is not to bad atomik,moves at a pretty slow pace for 2/3rds of the movie but is never uniteresting and the cast are always watchable plus the scenes of war torn london look fairly convincing.
great music score as well,i'd say if you see it going cheap enough to grab it!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
No, Bernie, noooo Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
What do you mean by that Helen? Are you a fan?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yeah, I watched it the other month for the first time in many years and found it incredibly tense!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Perhaps because you had seen it before, you were able to tap into that feeling of when you first saw it? For me, the tense factor was not there. It was a little bit but not to the thriller extent. I thought the movie was alright but I thought it would have been better.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Yeah, I watched it the other month for the first time in many years and found it incredibly tense!
That's because you knew how cruddy 1970's tech was and that the computers couldn't do squat, so you genuinely feared for their lives!
"Fake wood paneling and flares aren't helping us! What can we do?!" Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Classic! I wondered if they actually gassed those animals. The monkeys and the rats genuinely looked like they died. Otherwise the Rhesus monkey should have got an Academy award for most realistic death in a motion picture.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh my haha
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Don´s Party (1976)
"The movie Dons Party is about a wild house party in a suburban Australian neighbourhood. Don Henderson convinces his wife to have another party so that their friends can gather to watch the election, drink and carry on. Dons wife, Kath sees the party as just more work, while Don sees it as a chance to break his boring routine. The year is 1969 and some of Dons friends have jumped on the bandwagon of sexual freedom and experimentation. However, others at the party are more conservative about their politics and sex, and naturally, arguments break out over politics and fist fights erupt over the seduction of others wives." (IMDb)
Now this was a great movie! Written by David Williamson (adapted from his own play) and directed by Bruce Beresford. Great cast, superfunny dialogue plus lots of booze, politics, nudity and disturbing behavior. Loved it Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Don't think I've ever heard of don's party before atomik but I like the sound of it,I'll have to look out for it.
Never seen it but it sounds a bit like serial from 1980 with its free love anything goes ways!
Has anyone seen serial from 1980 with Christopher Lee,it's one I've always wanted to watch but have never got around to seeing,if so any good?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I have Serial vhs tape and it´s indeed another good one! I´m sure that i reviewed the film here few years ago but can´t find it anymore...
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Logan's Run
Wonderful vision of how badly broken the 1970's view of the future could become...
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
i have seen Serial but its been awhile. Im thinking it wasnt bad. Has Martin Mull in it which is a plus.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Grease. It's a sci-fi musical (flying cars, etc).
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
always quite enjoyed this one but found my us dvd to have pretty substandard picture quality so this new arrow blu ray release will be well worth the upgrade.
any eaten alive fans out there?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Don't Look In The Basement - Utterly dreadful film set in an asylum but God it was entertaining. Hilarious to see they made a sequel to this last year.
The Devil's Daughter (1973) - A decent enough occult horror. I don't know why she was so hesitant to embrace her Princess of Darkness title
Dead of Night aka Deathdream (1972) - This was about a guy who is killed in the war but then returns home that night. It was soooo good.
Castle Sinister (1948) - This looked like one of those films where they have taken parts of a silent film and added new talking scenes. It kinda worked. Was short and sweet.
The Night Caller (1965) - A nice little alien film. John Saxon was so young here, he looked like a Thunderbird!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
always quite enjoyed this one but found my us dvd to have pretty substandard picture quality so this new arrow blu ray release will be well worth the upgrade.
any eaten alive fans out there?
Oh yeah, i love this one even better than Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It's so surreal and very strong on atmosphere.
Very impressed by the improvement in video-quality. Defenitely gonna pick this up !
I already have Eaten Alive on two different dvds : The Elite Entertainment disc and the Dark Sky release. To be honest, i think the older Elite disc has better video-quality, even though it's non-anamorphic.
Talking about Elite Entertainment.. I still hang on to their Evil Dead dvd (which was released as far back as 1999). The transfer for the Elite disc was taken from the original 16mm film, while all subsequent releases (Anchor Bay's Book Of The Dead edition, Anchor Bay's Ultimate 3 disc edition, and eventually Sony's blu-ray) were all from a 35mm blow-up, which looks much, MUCH darker and fairly heavy on grain. Elite's dvd on the other hand, is full-screen and razor-sharp !
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Dead of Night aka Deathdream (1972) - This was about a guy who is killed in the war but then returns home that night. It was soooo good.
Classic stuff indeed ! Very powerful final 15 minutes or so !
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Wasn't it Johnny. So sad!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Let´s Do It Again (1975) the other night.
"Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match. Using hypnotism, they turn the scrawny underdog into a super-confident fighting machine. They bet heavily on him, he wins easily, and they return to Atlanta with their money. All is fine until the gangsters conned by these two figure out what happened show up in Atlanta with a grudge. Now Williams and Foster have to rig the fight again so the gangsters can get their money back or they'll be killed. Can they do it again...?" (IMDb)
It was a decent flick and maybe i expected a bit too much because Stir Crazy it ain´t. This was the second film pairing of Poitier and Cosby following Uptown Saturday Night (1974), and followed by A Piece of the Action (1977). Would like to see these also. Cosby and Poitier do some crazy things and the overall feel is very light. Coming to America stars Calvin Lockhart and John Amos co-star and i also liked Ossie Davis and funny Jimmie Walker too. Pretty Denise Nicholas was Cosby´s wife. Not a comedy masterpiece but not bad either.
Billy and Clyde meet Biggie Smalls Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Night Visitor (1971) - A raving nutter escapes 100 feet down an asylum wall everynight in his knickers in the snow to exact his revenge. I am so glad I forgot the ending to this, it was exhilarating!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless:
Talking about Elite Entertainment.. I still hang on to their Evil Dead dvd (which was released as far back as 1999). The transfer for the Elite disc was taken from the original 16mm film, while all subsequent releases (Anchor Bay's Book Of The Dead edition, Anchor Bay's Ultimate 3 disc edition, and eventually Sony's blu-ray) were all from a 35mm blow-up, which looks much, MUCH darker and fairly heavy on grain. Elite's dvd on the other hand, is full-screen and razor-sharp !
Yeah johnny I've got a couple of elite discs,the one for the 1984 toxic waste zombie flick - mutant aka night shadows I thought was really good as it's quite a dark film anyway and I thought it looked a vast improvement over any version I'd seen previously.
Saying that the previous versions I watched were the original vhs and then a budget release from Hollywood DVD but it did look a lot better.
I can't believe how good arrow have got the pq for - eaten alive,looks vastly improved!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Just been notified my next online rental being sent to me is the blu ray for 1959s - the hound of the baskervilles starring peter Cushing and Christopher Lee,never seen it before so looking forward to checking it out!
Any fans out there?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
YES Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Best version of Hound of the Baskervilles ever. An excellent Hammer Film.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Great news,have a feeling it would be pretty great with both Cushing and lee starring,I'll let you both know what I think of it.
I've got 2 rentals at the moment this and the bill Murray movie St. vincent ,not sure which one I will watch first but I'll probably watch them both at the weekend.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
St. Vincent is so good. Bill Murray is great in it.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) last night. 70s cinema at it´s best once again and a movie without a real plot. These two car freaks just drive along Route 66 and only stop because they have to eat and sleep. They meet few interesting characters and especially Warren Oates gives a fantastic performance as 1970 Pontiac driver G.T.O. Now that i´ve seen genre classics like this one, Vanishing Point plus Electra Glide in Blue and love all of them, maybe it´s finally time to check out Easy Rider...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yes, yes it is! Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
I like two lane blacktop. Is it on DVD yet
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: St. Vincent is so good. Bill Murray is great in it.
st. vincent was rather good helen,had to look twice to see it was bill murray when he first shows up in the bar at the beginning,i think the last thing i watched him in that at the time was newly released was way back in 2001's - the royal tenenbaums.
his performance here reminds me of why i've always liked him as he's not only a very funny guy but also a really decent actor to go with it!
the young lad was pretty decent also and never annoying like some child actors can be and the boys mum as played by melissa mcCarthy i thought was excellent.
plays with your emotions quite a bit,funny one minute and sad the next (murray's character losing his wife) i'd say this is definitely one of the best comedy dramas of this year!
not watched - the hound of the baskervilles yet but will do so shortly.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by TerdNthePoolGGB: I like two lane blacktop. Is it on DVD yet
Yep, fully loaded special editions in the US (Criterion) as well as the UK (Eureka Masters Of Cinema series).
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
don't think i've ever seen two - lane black top before but i bet it's good!
warren oates who can forget him as the sarge in stripes https://youtu.be/Fjj4a3zB1ag .
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK:
Watched Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) last night. 70s cinema at it´s best once again and a movie without a real plot. These two car freaks just drive along Route 66 and only stop because they have to eat and sleep. They meet few interesting characters and especially Warren Oates gives a fantastic performance as 1970 Pontiac driver G.T.O. Now that i´ve seen genre classics like this one, Vanishing Point plus Electra Glide in Blue and love all of them, maybe it´s finally time to check out Easy Rider...
electra glide in blue is pretty great and the ending packs a real wallop!
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Thanx WARRIOR. I think I have Electra glide in blue. Ill check it out
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I only have the bare bones finnish dvd.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: plays with your emotions quite a bit,funny one minute and sad the next
Yeah, I think that was the thing I liked most about it Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Terror At The Red Wolf Inn (1972) - So this is what happens when you fall for those scam 'you're a winner' letters. Taken to a holiday home with a family of cannibals Intentionally hilarious. The ending was brill.
The Great Gabbo (1929) - Strange drama/creepy ventriloquist guy and dummy/musical film. Odd but enjoyable.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
1929! That's pushing silent film era.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I watched the 1943 Batman. Quite a decent serial. I really enjoyed Lewis Wilson's take. I would put him as my third favourite Batman behind Keaton and West. Him and Robin (who wasn't so good) coming out through the grandfather clock never stopped being creepy haha. The racism was cringe tho.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Thought I'd put my comments from the Halloween thread in here as this poor thread has been so neglected lately!
The Lost Continent (1968) - I am like a little kid Christmas morning watching a Hammer for the first time. This was an odd one. Slow start but then descended into the madness of pirates, killer seaweed, giant crab like and tentacled things, a weird cult lol.
The House With Laughing Windows - I have no idea how I could of forgotten the amazing ending to this untypical Giallo. But I'm beyond happy that I did. Wow, was that evil
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964) - Such an outrageous, weird, messed up film dripping with atmosphere and menace. Some parts always take me aback thinking about what year it is from. Ooh, the pure evil of the Coffin Joe character and that wretched laugh!!
Blacula - So much more than a silly title.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I really need to see Hammer's The Lost Continent again. I saw it once, many, many years ago during the 70s on the much beloved CBS Late Movie and really didn't like it, much like Moon Zero Two. I do appreciate Moon Zero Two a little more of late so maybe I'll revisit Continent.
You know my love of Pupi Avati's stuff. Windows is so creepy, chilling, and amazing, just a fantastic film. Director Joe Dante's website, Trailers from Hell, features directors commenting on the trailers of their favorite films. I liked that Eli Roth pick Windows, a great choice.
Coffin Joe! After reading about the crazy world of Brazilian Jose Mojica Morins in Phil Hardy's horror film encyclopedia 25 years again, I pretty much forgot about Marins since his films were never released in the U.S. Then a few years ago, they all made it to DVD, and I saw a couple on IFC here, including At Midnight... Wow! So nutty. I wasn't prepared. I remember watching one really late at night and falling asleep. I woke up in the middle of something completely bonkers. Trivia for you, Helen: The name "Coffin Joe" was a marketing gimmick when the films were finally subtitled in English and mastered for DVD. The original Portugese is translated more like "Joe of the Grave." I understand Marins doesn't really like "Coffin Joe," but it is a cool character name. And I have to say, what makes Marins' films creepy for me is how outrageously arrogant Marins comes off. It's not like he's playing the part of Coffin Joe. I'm worried that he IS Coffin Joe. ROFL
Ahhhh, Blacula, a beautiful example of prime AIP style: a technically good-looking film, nicely directed and acted, and both scary and funny, good entertainment. They just don't make 'em like that any more. The folks putting out all the direct-to-DVD dreck today should take lessons from the AIP model.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: And I have to say, what makes Marins' films creepy for me is how outrageously arrogant Marins comes off. It's not like he's playing the part of Coffin Joe. I'm worried that he IS Coffin Joe. ROFL
Oh my God, this is exactly how I feel but I didn't like to say Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Marins is obviously crazy. Just look at the way he got actresses to do horrible things like have snakes or spiders crawl all over them. And how he speaks directly to the camera in this arrogant, superior tone. And then how in his later films, he basically says that he's better than God. Lunatic. LOL
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh my, that's made me remember his film End of Man where he's walking around performing miracles as tho he were Jesus. Fruitcake for sure haha!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967) - A good sequel to At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul. Although the repetitive rants in the first half could be a bit irritating. The Hell scene was totally weird and wonderful. And you gotta love his courage test!
Scream Blacula Scream - Not as good as the first but still good fun. I want one of those Blacula voodoo dolls!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
ROFL. Yeah, I've seen "At Midnight..." and "This Night..." They really are crazy films. Although a living legend and boogeyman to children in Brazil, Marins is a cult unto himself--and acquired taste--everywhere else.
I saw Scream Blacula Scream at the drive-in festival a couple of years ago. They showed an MGM-remastered print, and it looked just wonderful. I'll give you that it's not quite as good as Blacula, but those dolls--and Pam Grier-- are great.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
This third film was made 40 years after the second. Has there ever been a bigger gap than that between sequels, incredible!!
Embodiment Of Evil - I liked this more than I did first time around. It's not a patch on the first 2 films (At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul, This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse) and some parts are a bit too vile for vile sake. But otherwise it is quite a fun end to the trilogy with Coffin Joe still as nutty as ever!
Psycho (1960) - On the big screen with live orchestra. Wow!!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I thought Awakening Of The Beast was considered to be some sort of third entry.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Nah. It has that character in it. But it's nothing whatsoever to do with the trilogy. Plus it's crap Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
That whole first part of Psycho with Janet Leigh was so much more intense on the big screen. It was also hilarious how the guy next to me in his 40s or 50s properly jumped 3 times haha
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
To be honest, i thought the whole set-up of Awakening Of The Beast was brilliant. I think it actually can be seen as a sequel, much in the same way as Wes Craven's New Nightmare is considered (and generally accepted as) the 7th entry of the Elm Street franchise.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Whatever floats your boat Do you consider Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures a sequel too then or are you going to say that wasn't Coffin Joe when it clearly was haha Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I have that Anchor Bay UK box laying around here somewhere which includes Strange Hostel Of Naked Pleasures, but i don't recall i actually ever saw the movie.. so i can't comment on your question (yet).
For the other three movies (At Midnight / This Night / Awakening) i also have the US Fantoma discs which include fairly thick booklets plus interviews with Mojica Marins exclusive to these releases.. so maybe the man himself can help shed some light on this. I'll try to check them out some time soon.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Cool I have a boxset with 8 films of his and it has a disc with a documentary on there but I can't remember what was said now.
Have you seen Embodiment? It picks up with him being released from prison 40 years after the events of This Night. And he has some other actor playing young him to tack it together a little bit more haha. He is a hoot in that one.
Hope you're having a nice Halloween Back to my films Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
It may very well be we're talking about the same box set here. Is it this one ?
I've seen the documentary, and i vaguely remember him telling about directing some bestiality porn in the 1980s..
Tasty !
Helen, i think you should try to find this :
Your own private Coffin Joe replica toy ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yes, that's the one!
Doll is creeptacular!!
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: I've seen the documentary, and i vaguely remember him telling about directing some bestiality porn in the 1980s..
Tasty !
Err Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Let's not judge untill we've seen it.
Hey, maybe he did it with elegance ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Oh my LOL
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
watched this Fun 1975 western adventure - bite the bullet over the weekend starring an all star cast including James coburn,gene Hackman,Candice Bergen,Ben Johnson and Jan Michael Vincent about a high prized horse race across the deserts of the united states.
An Always enjoyable flick this that even at 132 minutes in length still manages to move along at a fair old pace and features some really likeable performances especially from gene hackman who once again here proves what a terrific actor he is!
A twist towards the end involving Candice Bergen was my only annoyance as it was not in the least bit convincing but that aside everything else about the movie was really solid.
One last thing i see this is cut here in the UK by 10 secs due to animal cruelty - illegal horse falls http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072705/alternateversions?ref_=tt_ql_trv_5 but I'm sure the version I recorded and watched from the UK channel - more movies was a completely uncut version as there were definitely a couple of forced horse falls throughout!
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
An Inspector Calls (1954)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Gelignite Gang (1956) - I only recorded this drab affair because it was wrongly described as a Terence Fisher film. Couple of sites say he was an uncredited co-director. I can't see it. Unless he was sleeping at the time I wish I had a pound for everytime they said Gelignite.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
And no one here in the USA would have any idea what "gelignite" is. The only reason I know is that it was mentioned in an early episode of Rumpole of the Bailey. Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I believe it's an explosive. Mind you I am not in the USA.
I only know it because of it featuring in a children's (of all places) story I read as a kid. I believe they used it to blow up a beached whale because it was the only way to get it off the beach.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
The Warriors. Watched part of it late last night, recorded it, and watched the rest today.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Excellent choice Pittsburghgirl. A classic film!
The intro music at the start is awesome.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Bernie Lomax, I still love it after all these years. Michael Beck was so handsome too!
Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Wearing a Baseball Furies T-shirt right now. Love that movie to death.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
(Quick run for cover everyone it's the gimp )
I absolute love the warriors,strange how Michael beck's movie career never really took off after this,other than the - warriors I can only remember seeing him in wes craven's TV horror flick - chiller and the excellent suspense thriller - blackout from 1985.
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Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Wasn't he the lead in Xanadu or some other failed early 80's musical?
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Yes he was,never seen it though,I wonder what it's like? I know he done a couple of low budget sci fi action flicks - battle truck and megaforce,never seen these either but they look like being pretty good fun!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Warriors is ultimate classic and i also like Xanadu but it really isn´t for everyone. Beck kind of disapperared into that tv-movie/series world and never came back, until this year. He had a leading role in a movie called The Grace of Jake. In ´96 he had a role in a Chuck Norris film called Forest Warrior, never seen that one.
I have Blackout vhs tape, maybe it´s finally time to watch that one for Beck´s sake. Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
I agree with you all. The Warriors is a classic and a piece of the Furies memorabilia would be sweet to have like Peter Lemonjello has.
I thought Megaforce was stupid.
I have many copies of Blackout Warrior. Didn't know it was a Craven flick. Sounds like its a must see.
Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
The likes of Battletruck and Megaforce are only watchable to those who enjoy the very cheapest of post apocalypse b-movie schlock.
I think Nostalgia Critic nailed it pretty good on Forest Warrior....
I do have to ask Peter Lemonjello. Hows a guy with 26 posts have a 5 star rating so fast? Interesting. Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Hadn't even noticed, nor have I any idea how that works... but I appreciate the kudos, or whatever it should be interpreted as Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I think Peter Lemenjello probably has an alias who gave him the rating. My suspicions lead me to believe that it might be Claude Henry Smoot Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: Bernie Lomax, I still love it after all these years. Michael Beck was so handsome too!
I reckon I only saw The Warriors for the first time in the late 90s. It was on TV one night and then my brother and I hunted down a VHS copy shortly after.
Michael Beck was really good in it. I thought David Patrick Kelly and James Remar were also very good. I think Ajax (Remar) could have taken Swan (Beck) in real life. I am surprised that Beck's career didn't really eventuate. James Remar went onto at least a half decent career. I also have seen David Patrick Kelly in a lot more than Beck.
Great movie! Can't get enough.
My email address has been ac.turnbull@hotmail.com for years.
We just heard from The Turnbulls. They blew it
The perfect New York gang movie. The Wanderers is also another classic.
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Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I've never seen The Wanderers, will have to look for it. I was reading something about that time period being about "gang" movies, and they included Boulevard Nights. I remember watching it a few years back on TCM. It was different. The cars are what made the movie. I am surprised, too, that Michael Beck's career seemed to fizzle out, especially after Houston Knights, and the end of the 80's. James Remar has had a long successful career as a character actor. I think more people started to recognize him after his stint on Sex and the City, and then playing Dexter's dead Father on Dexter.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
P.S. I would love to have a Warriors vest!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
The Wanderers is very good. I highly recommend it. Its totally different to The Warriors though but really good still. Both movies were made in 79 although I think The Wanderers was set in 1963.
James Remar is awesome! I just checked out his movies. I had no idea he was in so many movies. I have seen him a fair few but didn't realise his catalogue was that extensive.
In The Warriors, I would have liked to have seen Ajax make it to the end of the movie instead of being hauled off by the cops or reappearing towards the end suggesting that he somehow got away.
Hmmm, where can we get some Warriors vests from to start our own gang?
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by TerdNthePoolGGB: I agree with you all. The Warriors is a classic and a piece of the Furies memorabilia would be sweet to have like Peter Lemonjello has.
I thought Megaforce was stupid.
I have many copies of Blackout Warrior. Didn't know it was a Craven flick. Sounds like its a must see.
It's not blackout that's the wes craven's flick terdnthepoolggb its the other film I mentioned in the post called - chiller
This is probably what I look like at moment its freezing here in the UK!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Snowed all weekend here so it´s white white white everywhere!
Just added 5 stars for Mr. Lemonjello. Would have done the same for Mr. Terd but there seems to be some problems You guys keep the site alive so thanks for that!
The Wanderers rocks! I need to rewatch both of these gang classics. I still remember the first time i watched The Wanderers, my grandparents house during one of our movie weekends, around ´86-´87. Those were the days!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Nice and warm here in Australia
Mind you I would actually like to experience a snowy winter. Just once
Anyone know of any other good gang movies from around this time? Say mid 70s to mid 80s or late 70s to late 80s?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
3:15, Colors, Class of 1984, Band of the Hand, The New Kids, Outsiders and Rumble Fish come to mind but not even all of those are "true" gang films. I also own ´76 film called Cat Murkil and the Silks but haven´t watched it yet.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Out of what you mentioned aTomiK, I don't really like Colors, The Outsiders or Rumble Fish.
Thes rest I have not seen. I looked up some reviews and perhaps the most promising ones might be Band of the Hand, The New Kids (this one looks the most interesting to me) and it looks like Class of 1984 seems to be perhaps a cheesy movie but worth checking out. I remember seeing this movie on the shelves at the video store countless times back in the day but never grabbed it for whatever reason. 3:15 looks like it got slammed but I think I might check it out anyway because it sounds gritty.
Thanks for the input. I will endeavour to check these out Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Been looking for a copy of Band of the Hand since forever... and 3:15 too for that matter. No dvds, but at least a clean vhs, but nothing so far.
Thanks for the star rating Atomik. I think everyone who contributes here should get an automatic 5 star rating. The heydays of niche web forums are now, sadly, long behind us. Modern "social media" took care of that. Honestly I think the real social media was forum like this from the previous decade... but that's just me.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
This place is neat. It's not a popularity contest. Just a bunch of people chatting about the movies they like and dislike. It's certainly a unique website.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers (1956)
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Bernie_Lomax: Anyone know of any other good gang movies from around this time? Say mid 70s to mid 80s or late 70s to late 80s?
Switchblade Sisters (1975)
Classic exploitation.. Essential viewing ! Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I've got - band of the hand on what I think is a Dutch dvd,it's a really fun film,very Miami vice influenced,not sure if this disc is still available but its in wide-screen and it looks pretty decent!
The new kids I absolutely love as I do - class of 1984,savage streets is another cool one Bernie worth checking out as is 3:15,also dangerously close is not bad either.
Enemy territory is another one dealing with gang violence if you can get your hands on it and also you got - the principal which like like the - class of 1984 and - savage streets deals with gangs in high school's.
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Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Cool, yeah I just checked Ebay and apparently there are several DVD versions of BOTH out on the market now.
Two more gang films of the hispanic L.A. Cholo variety are BOULEVARD NIGHTS, a really good and moving film. And the less impressive, yet still entertaining, WALK PROUD, which is more a gangland romance tale. If you just want "youth gone wild" I can't recommend OVER THE EDGE enough. All three films from 1979.
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
And if your into really hardcore gang violence bernie there's always the sesame Street gang!
never seen boulevard nights,walk proud or on the edge johnny,i'll have a good look out for them.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Damn, they look seriously angry !
How about Roberta Findlay's Tenement (1985) a.k.a. Game Of Survival :
And Warrior, indeed you've got the Dutch Band Of The Hand dvd there. I think it's been out-of-print for quite some time now.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Never seen tenement johnny but it's another one I've heard countless things about mostly concerning the amount of violence in it!
Also there's the brilliant - bad boys starring Sean Penn which starts off with Penn's petty street gang activities and leads onto him being put in the slammer where of course you get your prison gang violence.
Really awesome movie this for anyone who's never got around to seeing it,definitely worth checking out!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Good one, Warrior !
And let's not forget this mean looking bunch of street thugs :
from Defiance (1980)
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Young warrior, I think we need to have a "gang" themed movie night at your place! I'll bring the beer,someone else bring the popcorn and chips!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Good ones there fellas, i have all of those except Boulevard Nights. Haven´t watched Tenement yet. Few more: the obvious ones Young Warriors, Streets of Fire and Assault on Precinct 13, tv-movie The Streets of L.A. (1979), Mission Hill (1982, more drama oriented), Vigilante (1983) and the first three Death Wish films.
Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Found Tenement laughably bad. I can enjoy B-movie trash, but there's a limit.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Peter Lemonjello: Found Tenement laughably bad. I can enjoy B-movie trash, but there's a limit.
Well, yeah.. It's Roberta Findlay, so what did you expect ? Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK:
Ooh.. Dutch cover !! Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Ill bring the ammo Pittsburghgirl.
Loved Bad Boys. Underrated film.
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
I'll bring the guns, the drugs and the fire trucks Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I'll invite the gang from Revenge Of The Ninja !
Seriously, these guys can't be accused of discrimination. I mean, there's a black guy. an indian, an oriental guy, and a redneck cowboy. The one thing that worries me though is that they're hanging out at a children's playground. What's up with that ?!! The south Bronx got too hardcore for these guys, or what ?? Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Remember watching Revenge of the Ninja for the first time as a kid, and really digging it.... then... enter the Village People! I stopped taking the movie seriously after that. Not that it wasn't jam packed with typical Cannon ninja cheese up until that point, but that was the breaking point.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I listened to the commentary track which was included on the blu-ray release that came out earlier this year.. Turns out that the guy playing the cowboy thug, Steven Lambert, was in fact also the stunt-coordinator on both this as well as Ninja III; The Domination and American Ninja !
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Ill bring the ammo Pittsburghgirl.
Loved Bad Boys. Underrated film.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
The village people
Vs
The sesame Street gang
Who would win this battle Of the muppets?
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Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I remember Defiance. We have it on VHS. I remember my husband was so stoked for me to watch it with him. It was the Jan Michael Vincent thing😋 Also, Tony Sirico aka Pauly Walnuts from the Sopranos had a tiny part. I remember seeing him in the one scen and yelling "hey, it's Pauly Walnuts!". My hubby had no idea what I was talking about, as he hadn't watched the Sopranos yet.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: Who would win this battle Of the muppets?
Evil Bert alone could make all four of the Village clan run home screaming for their mommies just by looking at them ! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I once read an interview with director John Flynn in which he shared some memories of filming Defiance. Apparently Jan-Michael Vincent already had an alcohol problem in those days, but he was still reliable, showing up in time, and doing what he had to, and doing it good !
Defiance is a solid B-movie with above average acting, some character development, and a good soundtrack.
Yeah, i like it ! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched 100 Rifles (1969) and Whiskey Sam (1969).
The first one was an entertaining western set in Mexico starring Jim Brown, Raquel Welch and Burt Reynolds. The plot is pretty simple but there´s lots of action, shooting and violence. Raquel looks stunning but i bet she always does. There´s a love scene between Welch and Brown. IMDb says that this movie was apparently one of the first movies to feature a sex scene between people of different races.
Whiskey Sam was mediocre heist flick also set in the wild west starring Reynolds, Angie D1ckinson, Ossie Davis and Clint Walker. Very slow moving film with some (mostly poor) humour thrown in.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
The other week i watched the excellent 1978 Walter hill thriller - the driver starring Ryan O'Neal and Bruce dern,for some reason I thought I'd never seen this one before but when I started watching it it all came flooding back to me, I've definitely watched it at some point!
Great little thriller this with a cool central performance from O'Neal as the getaway driver and also from Bruce dern as a really slimy crooked cop,tense and realistic car chases especially the finale chase which lasts a good 15-20 minutes and there's also a neat little twist in the tale.
Watched this on the UK studio canal blu ray release and for a movie that dates back to 1978 it looks and sounds terrific.
Highly recommended 8/10.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Boy Who Turned Yellow - Well, that was one of the oddest kids films I've seen lol
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Impasse (1969) starring Burt Reynolds.
Pretty average stuff but it´s set in the Philippines and i like those exotic locations. Reynolds is by the far the best actor in this action adventure. A team search for hidden WWII gold, however most of the time they just wander around Manilla. Very pretty Miko Mayama also stars, she was Reynold´s girlfriend at the time.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Fuzz (1972)
It was a good cop movie with lots of humour and lively characters. Loved the cast and the early 70s feel. Fuzz was shot in Boston and i found that refreshing. Nice little film.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: The Boy Who Turned Yellow - Well, that was one of the oddest kids films I've seen lol
what's it about helen - toxic waste?
fuzz looks like a lot of fun atomik.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Shamus (1973).
"New York private eye Shamus McCoy likes girls, drink and gambling, but by the look of his flat business can't be too hot. So an offer of $10,000 to finds some diamonds stolen in a daring raid with a flame-thrower is too good to miss. His investigations soon get pretty complicated and rather too dangerous. At least along the way he does get to meet Alexis." (IMDb)
Nice premise but not a very good movie, i´m afraid. Reynolds did what he could (he even did his own stunts and hurt his back) but the plot goes nowhere and the characters are uninteresting. Co-starring Dyan Cannon, Joe Santos, Larry Block and criminally underused John P. Ryan.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
One 70s Reynolds flick that I do like the look off is - hustle which is directed by Robert aldrich,do you own that one atomik?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I do own Hustle, need to check out White Lightning and The Longest Yard before that one.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
one quick question atomik does this burt reynolds movie marathon mean your going to torture yourself once more by sitting through city heat again?
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless:
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK:
Ooh.. Dutch cover !!
This looks pretty interesting but what's with the floating head up in the corner
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Haha no, i´m not going to watch City Heat again
Woodward is probably the only "real" star in this tv-movie so they had to put her there but yeah, it looks like a ghost. You can see that someone draw it after this (Finnish etc.) vhs cover art. Btw, i just bought the film
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Watched Psycho (1960). Anthony Perkins is in fine form in this one.
So sad that he died of AIDS. Nobody deserves to go out like that.
Bad luck ran in this family. His wife Berry Berenson was on board American Airlines Flight 11 which was one of the planes that crashed into the World Trade Centre. This happened 1 day before the 9th anniversary of Perkins' death.
I don't believe in fate but this makes you wonder.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Really great actor Bernie,yeah I'd read about his wife being a victim of the 9/11 attacks,very sad
still to this day i can't believe that some Hollywood exec green lit the psycho remake in 1998 with Vince Vaughn,that was doomed to failure from the word go.
There's only one nutty Norman in my eyes and that will always be Anthony Perkins!
Posted by Bernie_Lomax (Member # 8571) on :
Not to mention Anne Heche who you just look forward to seeing getting knifed to death. Can't stand her.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
White Lightning (1973)
This was a good and sweaty action drama set in Arkansas area. Burt Reynolds plays "Gator" McKlusky, a con who teams up with federal agents to get the evil sheriff Connors (Ned Beatty) who has murdered his brother. Enjoyable dialogue, moonshine everywhere and lots of chase scenes. Bo Hopkins, Matt Clark, R.G. Armstrong and Jennifer Billingsley also star. Reynolds is in fine form and Beatty is superslimy. They also made a sequel called Gator in ´76. Gonna check it out soon.
Burt and Bo Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Some great actors there,I really like bo Hopkins I think he's great,as is r.g. armstrong who whenever I think off I think about - lone wolf mcquade and - evilspeak,he's been in absolutely loads of great films over the years.
Never seen - white lightning or gator,there two of of Burt's I need to check out!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Girlfriends (movie, 1978) starring Melanie Mayron. It was definitely a chick flick, but I could totally relate.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Never heard of this one before Pittsburgh girl,it's got a good cast - eli wallach,Christopher guest and who I thought was a really good actor - kenneth McMillan http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0573299/?ref_=tt_cl_t8 who was awesome in the Stephen king adaption of cat's eye and also as the father in the brilliant Aidan Quinn,Daryl Hannah flick reckless from 1984.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: The Longest Yard (1974)
Fun actioner starring Burt Reynolds, Eddie Albert, the always reliable Ed Lauter, James Hampton (Michael J Fox's dad in Teen Wolf), exploitation goddess Anitra Ford (The Big Bird Cage, Invasion of the Bee Girls, Messiah of Evil), and lots of familiar bad guy faces among the inmates including Richard Kiel.
In the opening scenes Anitra Ford gets slapped around by Burt.. hard ! (i hope it was a stunt double)
Burt.. i love you, man. But slapping Anitra just ain't cool and makes me mad. Are we crystal ?!
Watched The Longest Yard and i gotta tell you that the first 15 mins of this film was five star material. I agree that Burt treats Anitra pretty bad but the documentary says that it was director Aldrich who told him to do it. So, i loved the beginning and the jail scenes are mostly good. The only propblem is that everyone knows how these sports films are going to end. The Longest Yard is a very good movie and it was one of the first of it´s kind but i just can´t call it a classic.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
What the #@?*.. When did i post that original message ? Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Digged pretty deep Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Young warrior, I had never heard of it before either. I just stumbled upon it at lunchtime last week, and finished watching it on VOD. Christopher Guest is so young looking in this movie, he reminded me of Michael Cera.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched this awesome and crazy Australian comedy The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972). "Young Australian, Barry McKenzie, travels to England with his Aunt Edna after his father dies and a request is revealed in his will." (IMdb)
The film was directed by the great Bruce Beresford and it´s based on comic strip created by Barry "Dame Edna" Humphries who also acts in this one. Barry Crocker plays the leading role and he´s fantastic. Lots and lots of superfunny scenes in this one. Loved the early 70s politically incorrect atmosphere and the crazy characters. The 2-disc set includes cool extra material, for example a fantastic 2 hour documentary of the film. Greetings to my mate down under!
Dame Edna Everage and Barry Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
"A clerical mistake results in a bumbling Indian film star being invited to an exclusive Hollywood party instead of being fired."
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: Young warrior, I had never heard of it before either. I just stumbled upon it at lunchtime last week, and finished watching it on VOD. Christopher Guest is so young looking in this movie, he reminded me of Michael Cera.
I just googled a couple of pics of the film and then of michael cera and i'd say you're spot on there pittsburghgirl,there's a definite resemblance between the two!
That Barry humphries film sounds fun atomik,I've never seen peter sellers - the party either j2me and that looks great also.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
White Lightning sequel Gator (1976) was another one i watched last weekend.
"Agents force a former con man to help them nab a corrupt politician." (IMDb)
What a disappointing sequel! This is definitely not the same character we saw in White Lighting. I know that he has a daughter now and has kind of settled down but what a boring Gator McKlusky we see here. Reynolds just wanders through the film and i suppose this is because Gator was the first film he also directed. This makes it easy for Jerry Reed to steal the whole show. Bama McCall is a fun little villain and has some great dialog. I also like the theme tune Reed sings during the opening credits. However as a whole, the film is uneven and the screenplay just can´t hold your attention.
While Burt is sleepwalking, Reed is having all the fun
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Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Jerry Reed was so funny. What was that movie he did with delouise and the lady from the tv show Hunter? They ran an undercover pawn shop. It was pretty funny.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Oh, that was Hot Stuff! I watched it while the site was down. Fun film!
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Yes! That's it aTomiK.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I watched - the Kentucky fried movie over the weekend and considering this John Landis directed comedy is now about 39 years old and is made up of mostly random sketches it surprisingly still holds up rather well,theres the odd scene that went straight over my head and it did feel slightly uneven at times but for the majority of it it still hits the target!
Loads of nudity and a complete absence of political corectness this was just out right bonkers in parts and you could tell that the zucker brothers (airplane,naked gun) were behind it,it's one of those movies I think would be more or less impossible for anyone to sit through and keep a straight face!
I really enjoyed it and you knew if one sketch left you scratching your head you could more or less guarantee the next would have you in hysterics!
John Landis seemed to really have the knack for handling comedies back in those early days - animal house,trading places etc
Kentucky needs a rewatch!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
"A NASA Mars mission won't work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret..." (IMDb)
Capricorn One (1978) is a very good conspiracy thriller written and directed by Peter Hyams. Hyams got the idea while working on broadcasts of the Apollo missions for CBS. It´s surprising that NASA co-operated because they are the bad guys here.
I like the cast. Especially Elliott Gould, who plays a journalist, is great. It was also nice to see Brenda Vaccaro and Karen Black. Many cool shots and scenes in this one and check out also the wicked runaway car sequence and the plane - helicopter chase near the end. Late stuntman Frank Tallman said that this was the most dangerous film he'd ever flown for.
I have few minor complaints here and there plus i didn´t like Telly Savalas´ and David Doyle´s humorous roles. Anyways, this is recommended watching.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think Kentucky Fried Movie is hilarious, and Capricorn One is a lot of fun if you overlook the gaping plot holes. Back in the day, Peter Hyams was a reliable, professional director who made interesting films like this one, Star Chamber, and Outland. I liked Telly Savalas, who manages to make the line "Keep your [expletive] head down" funny.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I've never seen either - Capricorn one or - outland before,I've seen - the star chamber and I think it's pretty ace,Michael Douglas was great in it.
Yeah I feel the same that hyams has always been a pretty solid director,even some of his titles that haven't been so well received like - the presidio,end of days,narrow margin etc. I've still found to be really entertaining!
Even his last screen outing with van damme - enemies closer where the muscles from Brussels plays the bad guy was probably van damme's best performance and probably his best outing for a couple of years,hyams definitely knows how to get the most out of his performers and his budget!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Hyams started out as a TV news photographer. I believe that he was the first--and only--major studio director who is also cinematographer on his films. He's had a checkered career. I think Outland is clearly his underrated masterpiece. I also like, to varying degrees, Capricorn One, Narrow Margin, Our Time, Star Chamber, Timecop, Sudden Death, The Presidio, and End of Days. He does have some stinkers in his filmography. A Sound of Thunder is dreadful, The Relic was just okay, Hanover Street was cornball, and Stayed Tuned, The Musketeer, and Beyond a Reasonable Doub are not so good. So in retrospect, he's had a pretty good career as a workmanlike director with more hits than misses Other than Outland, which really stands out as special, no really fantastic films but a lot of entertaining stuff.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Let's not forget 2010 (1984) and Running Scared (1986) !
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Running scared was really good fun,Hines and crystal made for a great buddy cop partnership and at the time I was hoping that they were going to make a sequel,2010 I've not watched since release and I'm sure I didn't dislike it,infact I couldn't have completely disliked it as the awesome roy scheider was in it!
Talking of the great roy scheider has anyone seen the - sorcerer from 1977 which is directed by William friedkin,been wanting to watch that for quite sometime now.
I'm still waiting on the roy scheider movie - the seven ups to come through on my online rental service,I've had it listed as a high priority rental for ages now but its never been sent,I'm starting to think it would be best to blind buy some of these releases otherwise I don't think I'm going to see them in much of a hurry.
I like the sound of - busting with Elliot Gould and Robert blake that looks like pretty good fun,i wonder if it is anything like - freebie and the bean? - as that rocked!
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: Talking of the great roy scheider has anyone seen the - sorcerer from 1977 which is directed by William friedkin,been wanting to watch that for quite sometime now.
I like Sorcerer a lot ! It's a very good, adventurous movie.. One of the essential blu-ray releases of 2014 !
No noteworthy extra's on the disc, but they did put some loving care into that packaging !
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I like Hyams and agree what warrior said about getting the most out of his performers and his budget.
I have 9 Peter Hyams films at the moment including Busting which i need to check out asap. I loved Freebie and the Bean, it totally rocked! Too bad it was only a tv recording on my old digibox.
Sorcerer is a masterpiece, a film you will never forget!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior:
Wow, I just giggled way too much at that!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Kentucky Fried Movie is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Almost all of the sketches and jokes hit dead on. And it ends with the brilliant "Fistful of Yen" mini-movie which is a spot-on parody of "Enter the Dragon." I love it!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Whenever I think of John Landis I not only think of all the fun movies that he made but I instantly think about the on set incident on - twilight zone the movie where the actor vic morrow and two young children tragically lost there lives - https://youtu.be/ru6I9Cc9XnE ,reading up on the incident it seems that Landis sure was acting slightly reckless on set - getting the helicopter to fly lower (over morrow and the 2 children),using live ammunition,abusing the rights of child actors (making them work late into the night) etc etc - he sure did sound like a bit of a nightmare to work under!
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Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
Landis was entirely responsible for those three deaths. Which is why I always have sort of a bitter taste in my mouth when watching his films. Honestly, he should have done time for this.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
His career never recovered though. He was an A Director prior to that, and afterwards had lost that status.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Kansas City Bomber (1972) which was pretty melancholic sports drama.
"Roller-derby skater K. C. Carr tries to balance her desire for a happy personal life and her dreams of stardom."
The drama part offered nothing special but the roller derby scenes were intense. The fights and hits felt quite real. Raquel was solid and did most of her own stunts, she even broke her wrist while rehearsing. Roller derby is an interesting sport and has it´s origins way back in 1930s which is surprising. It´s one of the eight sports under consideration for inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I've always had a soft spot for Kansas City Bomber because, as a kid in the 60s and 70s, I grew up watching roller derby on TV. In the past few years, the sport has been making a slow comeback. My son and I went to a female roller derby match in Pittsburgh a few years ago. It was pretty entertaining because they are now going more for a punk/goth vibe with colorful costumes and ridiculous names like "Snot Rocket Science" and "Mel Practice." Oh yeah, and a guy came out and played the National Anthem on the saw with a bow. I kid you not! It's still a really rough sport. The Pittsburgh Derby Demons website used to feature a gallery of x-rays of broken clavicles, shoulder dislocations, and the like.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Maybe the release of Drew Barrymore's directorial debut Whip It (2009), starring Ellen Page, had something to do with it as well.. which is an excellent movie, by the way ! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I liked Whip It too. Roller derby is cool. Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I wanted to try the roller derby thing a long time ago, but now I am too old. I did go roller skating last year, at a little rink in McKeesport, outside of Pittsburgh. It was for our niece's birthday party. I was a bit wobbly for the first 30 minutes, but did better after that. I did fall once, getting off of the rink!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Good for you, PGH-girl! A woman at my old workplace did derby for a while until she broke her collarbone. Those injuries can be brutal. I don't know where the Derby Demons have their matches now, but when we saw them, I think that it was at the rink in Harmarville. I know that the "official post-match party bar" of the Pittsburgh roller derby used to the Smiling Moose across the river. A good friend of mine described it as "a scary biker bar." ROFLMAO
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Roller derby rocks and i really hope that it will become Olympic sport!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched The End (1978).
"Wendell Lawson has only 3-12 months to live. Not wanting to live his last few months of life waiting for the end, he decides to take his own life. He enlists the help of a humorously delusional mental patient, and the movie chronicles his many unsuccessful attempts to kill himself. Will he ever succeed...?" (IMDb)
This was a bit uneven comedy/drama. Some serious issues here but also great laughs. I think that Dom DeLuise saves the film when he appears after some 50 minutes. Such a funny character. The script was originally written for Woody Allen and it would´ve been awesome to see him and DeLuise go crazy. Not bad but gives mixed feelings.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
i watched the really entertaining 1979 jonathan demme thriller - last embrace (rental) starring roy scheider,janet margolin who i only just realised passed away aged 50 way back in 93 after reading up on her imdb page,charles napier,john glover and the terrific christopher walken.
The beautiful Janet Margolin.
been years since i last caught this one,i remember enjoying it,it's a great little paranoia thriller with scheider as a goverment agent who's convinced that someone's out to get him,awesome location shooting here with its finale taking place at the niagara falls which i would absolutely love to visit and also some incredible looking buildings at i believe - princeton university in new jersey.
i watched this on the recent uk blu ray release from a new distributor called - signal one entertainment and the transfer i thought was fantastic,really clear and detailed especially for a movie pushing on for 37 years old now!
definitely worth checking out especially if you like the likes of brian de palma or hitchcock's work (who doesn't),i'm not saying it's on the same level but it reminded me of those type of films!
next i've got lined up is the cheerleader comedy - H.O.T.S which is also i've just noticed is from 1979 but unlike the - last embrace i don't think this one is going to have much in common with alfred hitchock!
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Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Last Embrace looks really good. Janet Margolin was really beautiful. I remember seeing The End while visiting at my Aunt and Uncle's house, when I was a little girl. All of the adults were hanging out in the kitchen and dining areas drinking, my annoying brother and cousins were in the game room goofing around, and I was in the tv room watching The End! I thought it was hilarious at the time. I don't think I ever saw it again. That was a big deal back then, that my Aunt had HBO!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Crash, I have never been to the Smiling Moose, but I have been to Wicked Witches quite a few times, which is in Harmerville, right before you get into Cheswick. It is a biker bar, but everyone has always been nice and friendly to me, even the bartenders. They also have awesome BBQ in the warmer months!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Margolin looks amazing in that photo. I may have to revisit Last Embrace one of thése days.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
"Alcatraz is the most secure prison of its time. It is believed that no one can ever escape from it, until three daring men make a possible successful attempt at escaping from the most infamous prisons in the world."
A great Eastwood flick. McGoohan was excellent as the Warden from hell.
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I love Escape From Alcatraz J2...recently put this on the radar to get on Blu-ray.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
"After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent." (IMDb)
Wake in Fright (1971) is recognised as a seminal film of the Australian New Wave and is regarded by some critics as the greatest Australian film ever made. Great and wicked film it was indeed. Wake in Fright was directed by Canadian director Ted Kotcheff (First Blood, Weekend at Bernie´s etc.)
Gary Bond and Donald Pleasence are awesome and the supporting cast did also good job. Lot´s a disturbing behaviour, drinking and other crazy stuff. The kangaroo hunting scene felt bad but that´s what they did in Australia back then. Highly recommended!
Bond and Pleasence among professional heads or tails gamblers Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
"Burt Reynolds is an attractive middle-aged man who suffers a crisis of confidence when ditched by his ambitious singer wife (Candice Bergen), until he begins to forge a new new relationship with an equally insecure teacher (Jill Clayburgh). But when the wife attempts a reconciliation - seduction followed by a truly excruciating song she has composed for him - he realizes where his loyalty lies." (IMDb)
Starting Over (1979) was a decent but a little bit too dry dramedy for my taste. Director Alan J. Pakula wanted Pacino or Hoffman but Reynolds lobbied hard and got the leading role.
Burt did ok but his character is a bit too average joe here. Bergen looks great but damn she can´t sing Of course her bad singing is one of the comedic elements in this one. Clayburgh has the best character in the film but otherwise she leaves me cold.
Few good lines here and there and check out for very early few second roles from Daniel Stern and Kevin Bacon.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Great write up atomik,I always wondered about this one, I've got it added to my online rental list but it's one that never seems to get sent through.
I'm trying to work out in my head what Reynolds film came next without cheating and looking on imdb Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Thanks warrior.
Watched Ilsa: The She Wolf of the SS (1975) last night.
"Ilsa is an evil Nazi warden at a death camp that conducts "medical experiments". Ilsa's goal is to prove that women can withstand more pain and suffering than men and therefore should be allowed to fight on the front lines." (IMDb)
Damn this was rude and violent film with loads of nudity but it´s also fun stuff if you don´t take it too seriously. Dyanne Thorne plays Ilsa and i have to say that this woman is something else Naziploitation classic!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Having seen all the Ilsa films, all I can say is that the 70s were great. There is no way anyone could make stuff like that today. I like the immediate sequel--Ilsa, Harem Keeper of the Oil Shieks--even better. It's funnier and better made with stunning production credits: production designer was the late great J. Michael Riva who did Buckaroo Bonzai, Iron Man, and Django Unchained, among many other great films and cinematographer was master Dean Cundey, Carpenter's favorite DP, who went on to do big studio stuff like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
70s was indeed magical. I´m going to check out Harem Keeper next. I´ve bought few titles during the recent years but have to say that i´m a novice when it comes to this genre. Only seen the excellent Salon Kitty before.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I've only seen She Wolf of the SS. I think that was enough for me They always have that Harem one on the horror channel.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Busting (1974)
Excellent 70s cop story starring Elliot Gould, and Robert Blake, with supporting roles from Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, and Michael Lerner. Stylishly directed by Peter Hyams (with lots of cool tracking shots).
Busting is actually an early example of the buddy cop genre, which Hyams revisited a decade later with Running Scared (1986).
Cool to hear that Busting rocks! I´ll try to make some time and check it out this coming weekend.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
3 great flicks!
Corridors Of Blood (1958)
The Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
The Curse Of The Werewolf (1961)
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Big Circus (1959) - I used to like this a lot more. It really dragged today.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I am beyond excited to be the proud owner of the Psychomania soundtrack! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That and Raw Meat have the best soundtracks of that era. Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
This weekend watched Bobby Deerfield w' Al Pacino...ouch...this was painful to watch! Very slow paced and dragged on and on...not sure why I didn't stop watching...
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Was there a more wooden actress in the 70s than Marthe Keller?
Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
I just think she had a hard time acting through her thick German accent.
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Yeah...I think they were trying to be artsy...just didn't pull it off. I liked the look/feel of the movie and liked seeing Al in his prime...a movie I'll never see again...$3 dollars down the tubes!!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Loads of pre-1970 movies over the past few months. Catching up will take a while, however the most recent was Two Weeks To Live from 1943, one of a Swiss starring radio comedy duo Lum & Abner. Very gentle comedy, as you'd expect from the wartime years. Available for viewing on your favourite video hosting site.....
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Runaway Bus (1954) starring Frankie Howerd, Margaret Rutherford and a very young Petula Clark
Lovely little character-driven farce, with plenty of slapstick and lots of little twists.
As southern England lies fog-bound, a handful of passengers leave Heathrow by coach bound for Blackbush Airport and a chance of getting their flight to Dublin. All is not what it seems with them, however, as the bus holds £200,000 in stolen bullion, and someone on board is the villain! Frankie Howerd plays the unwitting, unassuming driver, and as such provides most of the comedy moments as he tried to unpick the plot.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched the Ilsa sequel Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks (1976).
"Finding a new employer, and looking not a day older since the end of World War II, Ilsa works for an Arab sheik who enjoys importing females to use as sex slaves. An American millionaire's daughter, a movie star, and an attractive equestrienne are among his latest victims." (IMDb)
Haha, this was still very enjoyable trash with lots of titillating nudity. Little less blood and sex this time compared to the first film because the company wanted an R rated movie. Dyanne Thorne is still in great shape and there´s many familiar actresses from Russ Meyer flicks. The ending was very similiar to She Wolf, there´s a mutiny and Ilsa falls for american fella. Can she ever learn? I guess i´ll find out when i check out The Tigress of Siberia Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Harem Keeper is my favorite of the Ilsa trilogy. It has good production values for such trashy material and is more tongue-in-cheek than She Wolf. And, of course, you have the great Dyanne Throne in her career-defining role. Folks will be talking about her as Ilsa for as long as anyone talks about movies. She IS Ilsa.
The Tigress, as it was known most places, can best be described as Ilsa Lite. It's entertaining enough as Thorne and the Ilsa films can be, but there's a lot less of the sex, violence, and nastiness of the first two films. While some of the Canadian locations are nice, the whole thing looks a whole lot cheaper than usual. Clearly the least of the Ilsa films, it has been somewhat of a holy grail of exploitation films to see because apparently the guy who holds the rights won't license the film for anything. It never even had a VHS release in the US. I think that it had a tiny US theatrical release through Roger Corman's New World Pictures. I saw it once, many years ago, on the late, great subcription service SelecTV. Unless it is still up on Youtube, it has been almost impossible to see in this country.
For point of information, I have never considered Ilsa, the Wicked Warden to be part of the Ilsa series. The film was originally titled Greta, the Mad Butcher or Wanda, the Wicked Warden and was directed by Jess Franco in Spain. They just tagged on the Ilsa title in an attempt to squeeze some more money from the franchise. While Thorne plays her usual hard dominatrix character, in the English dub at least, "Greta" is always completely edited out so that her character doesn't even have a name.
Anyway, I'm glad that you are enjoying these films. They really don't make 'em like they used to. And there is no way they could make these films today. Only in the 70s.
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
One more note: They actually announced another Ilsa film at the time, something like Ilsa Meets Bruce Lee in the Bermuda Triangle--there was even a small poster ad in Variety--but nothing ever came of it. And final aside: A few years ago, I was on a website that reviewed lost and obscure B-movies that claimed, unbeknownst to many, that the film had almost been completed but had been held up in a lab somewhere, and a bootleg version was making the rounds. It starred George Kennedy along with Dyanne Thorne! I read the review, shook my head in disbelief, and then realized that it had been posted on April 1, April Fool's Day! Almost taken in for minute there... LOL I wonder if there ever was even a script to Ilsa/Bruce Lee/Bermuda Triangle. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
That would´ve been awesome film! So, George Lazenby/James Bond wasn´t the only one who nearly made a film with Bruce. Then again, it would have most possibly been Ilsa meets Bruce Li or something like that
I also own The Wicked Warden and i´m going to check it out after the Siberian adventure.
Funny how it goes. With all the video censorship we had during the late 80s-early 90s, they sold these Ilsa films in grocery stores here in the 00s and at the same time you can´t see them in the US Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You hit it on the head! After Bruce Lee died, Thorne and her husband were going to do the film with Bruce Li.
I remember when I was a teenager in the 70s reading about the the first two Ilsa films (and the upcoming Bruce Lee one) in Variety but not really knowing anything about them. It wasn't until the 80s when they became more above ground and accessible on VHS that I then understood what their notoriety/allure was all about. (How can gutter trash like this boast Dean Cundy from Halloween as a cinematographer and J. Michael Riva of Buckeroo Bonzai as production designer? I realize that the greats all had to start somewhere, but I still can't rap my mind around it.) There was a special edition DVD box set released later with She Wolf, Harem Keeper, and Warden (still no Tigress), but I think that the films are still fairly underground. I'm surprised that you folks had them in grocery stores, and Helen in the UK reports that Harem Keeper plays all the time on their Horror channel.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched The Night Porter, billed as a horror but it was more a really depressing Nazi drama. Dirk Bogarde and Charlotte Rampling were fantastic.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Haha, just seen the dvd cover for it. Makes it look like an Ilsa film.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, I saw The Night Porter years and years ago right after it was first released. I agree with you, great acting, depressing film.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Here's a round up of some recent highlights...
Too Many Women (1942) starring Neil Hamilton, June Lang, Joyce Compton and Barbara Read.
Nice little farce with shades of Wodehouse, starring a very young Neil Hamilton (who went on to play Commissioner Gordon in the Batman TV series) as a man suffering form too much female attention. Two girls are both convinced he's the one for them, without knowing that he's already secretly engaged to a third. When he digs himself out of a situation with a persistent estate agent by pretending he'd inherited a bunch of cash from a rich uncle, the situation quickly escalates into a world where he's being held up a gunpoint, he loses a job he 'no longer needs', and his actual fiancee dumps him when she thinks he's playing the field. With a pushy grandmother, various would-be benefactors and a bunch of ineffective but well-meaning friends, Hamilton has a very tangled web to un-weave....
UFO : Target Earth (1974) is possibly unique in being a UFO-themed movie made so cheaply that there are actually no UFOs in it. It's dull, semi-documentary style does nothing to lift the rather dreary story of a guy investigating strange sightings and turning out to be the saviour of an alien race, at the cost of his own life. Poor effects and a jarring soundtrack that makes Ladyhawke seem perfectly scored...
Atom Age Vampire (1960) was better, but not by much, seeing as it once again talks of vampires but there's no vampire in the film. A scientist creates a serum, which he uses to rejuvenate the appearance of a singer badly burned in an accident. During the process he alls in love with her, but when she needs more serum to prevent the process reversing, he needs to kill other women to provide it. By injecting a different serum, he becomes a Hyde-like character to complete the nasty business of murder.
The Naked Truth (1957) starring Terry-thomas, Dennis Price, Peggy Mount, Peter Sellers and Shirley Eaton. When his victims realise that they are not alone in being blackmailed by Price, they abandon their individual efforts to kill him and band together. All of the actors play their roles wonderfully, as, in turn, a womanising peer (Terry-thomas), a blackmailing journalist (Price), a once-promiscuous writer of crime fiction (Mount), a tv star who owns seedy tenement hovels (Sellers) and the beautiful model girlfriend of an oil heir (Eaton). The only plot hole in the excellent script is that it's never really revealed what Eaton's character was being blackmailed for. But that's a very minor gripe and never spoils what is a truly engaging and funny film.
The Yesterday Machine (1963) told the story of an escaped Nazi scientist working on a time machine, with the aim of bringing back Hitler and resurrecting the Third Reich. The premise is good, but they focus on a cheesy subplot about local girls getting kidnapped, allowing the local cops and a newspaper reporter to become heroes. A better director could have made it so much better.
Things To Come (1936) starring Raymond Massey and Ralph Richardson. Based on H G Wells' classic, this is a dark, depressing and thankfully not prophetic view of the future. War starts in 1940 and lasts for three decades, bringing disease, devastation and a return to feudalism and robber barons. Only when an independent organisation of scientists take the lead in ending the fighting and rebuilding society along clearly socialist lines do things start improving, but by the year 2036, this utopia is showing the same signs that heralded the war a century before. I can see that it's very well made, and the performances are good. However, it's just too black for my taste.
Passport To Pimlico (1949). Superb Ealing comedy starring Stanley Holloway and Margaret Rutherford. If I need to remind anyone of the plot, the unplanned detonation of a WW2 bomb uncovers a whole heap of treasure, along with documents that prove that the area around a few streets in Pimlico is actually sovereign territory of Burgundy, after it was ceded to the then Duke by King Edward IV. The locals realise they are rich, and no longer subject to rationing, licensing laws, and other restrictions. However, the area becomes a beacon for spivs and black marketeers, and to stop this, the British close the border. Solving the problem of what to do with the locals becomes harder, as the representatives of the various Government officials and the new Burgundians become intransigent. The arrival of the current Duke of Burgundy just adds to the locals' sense of freedom and privilege. Cue water and food shortages, and tube trains being stopped at the border. Something needs to be done... There's a charm and an innocence about this endearing comedy, with some very funny moments, and some sparkling dialogue, such as when the local copper declares "Blimey! I'm a foreigner!" Quite simply one of Ealing's finest.
The World of Henry Orient (1964) starring Peter Sellers, Tom Bosley, Angela Lansbury and Paula Prentiss in a strange little film. It's billed as a comedy, but there's more a feel of pathos and pain, as Val and Marian, two young teenage girls growing up in New York, work through teen crushes, first love, and the disappointment of imperfect adults.
Romance with a Double Bass (1974) is a nice comedy short starring John Cleese, Connie Booth, June Whitfield, Freddie Jones, and a host of other names, based on a novel by Anton Chekov. On his way to play at the engagement party of the Princess Costanza to the far older Count Alexei, Smychkov takes a swim in the castle lake. Unbeknownst, the Princess also takes a swim to retrieve a prized fishing float. When their clothes are stolen, they meet and need to work out how to get back to the castle, get inside, and find some clothes, without being seen. Of course, two naked people discover they have more in common than just their lack of clothing. It's a far cry from Monty Python or Fawlty Towers, but it manages to find humour by not chasing it too hard. An enjoyable 40 minutes, with some great situations and plenty of shots of the leading pair au naturelle...
Finally for this very long post, Play It Again Sam (1972) is Woody Allen's homage to the heroic figure of Bogart, and shows the clumsy, self-conscious Allan Felix coping with his wife's departure and his subsequent failure to date any woman, imagining advice from the star of Casablanca himself. Excellently supported by Diane Keen and Tony Roberts, this is a funny, poignant gem.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
I've clearly seen far too many pre-80s movies over the past few months...
Irma La Douce (1963) starring Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine.
Wonderful farce set in the seedier side of Paris, with Lemmon's honest, naive cop becoming bewitched by streetwalker MacLaine's charm and character. A delight from start to finish.
The Cockleshell Heroes (1955)
Great war film based on the real-life Operation Frankton, where Royal Marines attacked ships in Bordeaux harbour in canoes. Brilliant performances by Jose Ferrer, Trevor Howerd, Anthony Newley, and a bunch of character stalwarts in Victor Maddern and David Lodge. Also, look out for a small role for Christopher Lee as the submarine commander.
Interesting, farcical comedy surrounding a young married couple, a bunch of rival criminal gangs, and the dog that entwines the lot in a maze of mistaken identity and murder. Watching this, it's a little known movie that would be ideal for a remake, because the main plot elements would definitely transfer to the modern day. It's funny, the characters are likeable, and the plot twists just keep coming.
Princess Of The Nile (1954)
So-so yarn about a Prince (Jeffrey Hunter) falling for - and therefore committing to save - an Egyptian Princess (Debra Paget) from the clutches of the Bedouin overlord Rama Kahn (Michael Rennie) and the evil Shaman (Edgar Barrier). Help arrives in the guise of a band of thieves, who know the princess as her secret alter-ego, a tavern dancer. Yeah... It's a strange old story and the script isn't great, however that having been said, there are some fun moments, although the fight scenes are contrived and need some work.
Mars Needs Women (1967)
Martians come to Earth in order to recruit / snatch five human women, so they can attempt to correct a genetic fault which has tilted the Martian birth rate 100% in favour of male children. Very much a B-movie, with the attraction of a starring role for the lovely Yvonne Craig. It's enjoyable enough, but the two-day shooting schedule and $20,000 budget slap you right in the face all the time.
The Big Job (1965)
A Carry On in all but name. Starring Sid James, Jim Dale, Joan Sims, Lance Percival, **** Emery, Sylvia Sims, Derek Guyler and a host of recognisable faces, this product of Gerald Thomas and Peter Rogers was scripted by Talbot Rothwell and its pedigree shines through every scene. Sid, **** and Lance pull off a bank robbery, and are caught during the getaway, but not before Sid manages to stash the loot in an old tree. Fifteen years later on their release, they discover the rolling fields have given way to a new town, and their tree is now in the yard of the local police station. Taking lodgings over the road, the film charts their attempts to retrieve the money before the local police catch on to them. It's a lovely little film, with some great comedy moments.
Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) starring Paul Mantee, Victor Lundlin, and a certain Adam West...
This one was a good retelling of the classic shipwreck movie, with a spaceman forced to abandon his craft after a near miss with a meteor. His co-pilot dead, his only companion is a monkey that came along for some unspecified tests. The movie does a good job of covering the traditional story, although a lot of the science is, of course, hooky.
War Of The Worlds (1953). The George Pal version starring Gene Barry and Ann Robinson.
What is it with George Pal? He's great at making movies that are visual feasts, but he leaves gaping holes in the plot. As in The Time Machine (where the entire reason for Rod Taylor going time travelling is glossed over) The way this one ends is over in about fifteen seconds. It's really "we're all doomed, we're all doomed, we're all... oh, they are dead." Knowing the story, this could have been presented far better, and really lets the rest of the movie down for me.
Doomsday Machine (1972)
Life on board a spaceship to Venus for the astronauts after they witness the Earth being destroyed... For early seventies, the effects are shockingly simplistic.
4... 3... 2... 1... Mission Stardust (1967)
On a lunar mission to secure rights to a new element. a ship is diverted to a different landing spot on the dark side by aliens who need help. Meanwhile, a crime boss has planted a spy amongst the ship's crew in a bit to benefit from the new element's discovery.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Kubrick's opus could, and possibly should, have been no longer than an hour, once the Kubrickesque longshots and panorama elements that he was so fond of are ignored. In an IMAX this will be superb. On a tv screen, it quickly gets boring. The middle bit's OK, but the bookends are tiresome after a few minutes.
Futureworld (1976) with Peter Fonda, Blythe Danner, and - apparently - Yul Brynner as 'The Gunslinger'
Interestingly different sequel to the brilliant WestWorld, where the premise of a chase movie is replaced with that of a reporting team under attack for exposing a global conspiracy. Set once more in the robot-inhabited holiday world of Delos, Fonda and Danner are good enough as the two reporters, and the premise is a good one. The disappointing bit is the big sell of Yul Brynner's return. He was central to the story and really menacing in WestWorld, but in this it's a blink-and-you-miss-him dream-sequence. Still, laying the lack of Brynner aside, it's a good bucketful of intrigue.
The Day Mars Invaded Earth (1963)
More sci-fi b-movie fare, as energy beings from Mars travel to Earth and snatch some bodies in order to keep their identity a secret...
Meet John Doe (1941) with Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck
After a corporate takeover, a freshly fired newspaper reporter tries to gain favour with the new owners. She fakes an article about an 'ordinary Joe' who vows to commit suicide as a protest against the breakdown of American values. The article goes (the 1940s version of) viral, and now they have to produce the guy, and the media frenzy explodes nationwide. An interesting concept, played pretty straight, but never really grasping the meat of the plot with enough gusto.
Cat Women Of The Moon (1953)
A moon expedition finds a sub-lunar atmosphere which sustains a colony of young women who have developed the ability of telepathy, teleportation, telekinesis and a desire for the domination and subjugation of the Earth. D-movie dressed up as a B-movie. Nearly so bad it was good, but not quite.
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Wow Paul...you're on a roll. Any time to have a pee in there?! *Hoping someday I can vamp up my movie watching, though I am progressively getting better...slow and steady....
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
quote:Originally posted by kevdugp73: Wow Paul...you're on a roll. Any time to have a pee in there?! *Hoping someday I can vamp up my movie watching, though I am progressively getting better...slow and steady....
The majority of these are on YouTube. Best place for old movies...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by P_a_u_l: I've clearly seen far too many pre-80s movies over the past few months...
No such thing! Great stuff!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Invasion: UFO (1974) starring Ed Bishop, George Sewell, Gabrielle Drake and Wanda Ventham.
Although released in the US in 1980, this feature-length covered the plot of the first three episodes of the ITC / Gerry Anderson seventies sci-fi series UFO. It tells the story of SHADO, a secret agency charged with the protection of the Earth against an alien invasion force, who abduct humans for involuntary organ transplants. The show ran for a single 26-episode season, and a planned second season evolved into the far better known Space:1999. Plenty of evidence of Gerry Anderson here, this plays like a live action Thunderbirds or Captain Scarlet clone...
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947) starring Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer.
Two army officers, desperate to prevent the war they see as inevitable, plan to kidnap the Duke of Marlborough and hold him ransom until the threat passes. Unfortunately, whilst testing the trap they set, they manage to kill themselves in a very stupid manner. As punishment for their idiocy, they are condemned to haunt their house in Berkeley Square until such time as a British monarch crosses the threshold.
The film traces the story of the two ghosts, as they try to prevent undesirable tenants, fall out with each other (causing a rift that leads them not to talk for 66 years) and, reconciled at last, contrive to orchestrate the royal visit so that they can at last ascend to the afterlife. But tenant after tenant somehow slip through their schemes.
The story is a good one, and the leads are OK (especially Morley) but the worthiness in this film is the different segments, as we travel through nearly 200 years of history and see the way different tenants turn the old house into a bordello, a circus freak-house, and a WW1 hospital. Each age brings its own story and characters to life.
A good old-fashioned movie for a rainy sunday afternoon.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Ilsa The Tigress of Siberia (1977), the final film from the original trilogy.
I have to say that i enjoyed this one too although it´s not as good as the first two. The year is 1953 and the place prison camp (gulag) 14 in Siberia. Ilsa is working for Stalin and leads the camp with an iron fist. We can see few clever torture cadgets and the work is hard but Ilsa and the cossacks sure know how to relax when evening comes I was surprised that the story jumped to present time in the middle of the film. Ilsa has now captured the Montreal criminal underworld but once again makes one fatal mistake and loses everything.
Fun stuff with lots of nudity (much more Dyanne Thorne this time) and some nasty kill scenes. Ilsa rules! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Those Ilsa films are not only entertaining, but they make you think about how you evaluate movies. If you take the formal academic approach to film criticism, you just cast them aside as exploitation gutter trash, pandering to the lowest-common-denominator grindhouse crowd with sex, violence, and perversion, of no merit whatsoever and a blight on filmmaking and human decency in general. But I don't think that you can dismiss them that easily. If you take a realist approach to film criticism, you recognize that they are very well-made exploitation films, amazingly so in many ways, contain a good deal of wit, and are ultimately quite entertaining. They completely accomplish what they set out to achieve. Isn't that really the measure of whether a film is successful? In other words, they prove that any subject matter, no matter how tawdry or distasteful to many, can have value if it's done the right way. The Ilsa films are like that. Not that I would recommend them to anyone but adventurous film buffs.... - Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: pandering to the lowest-common-denominator grindhouse crowd with sex, violence, and perversion
Sex,violence and perversion.
Sounds good to me!
Talking of violence - Animal violence that is -
I've never seen the 1978 animated adventure Watership Down before but it caused a bit of a stir here at the weekend when it was aired on Easter Sunday afternoon on the British television network channel - Channel 5
with a lot of angry parents stating that it had left there kids traumatised!
I have seen bit and pieces of it over the years but do remember very little from it apart from the ace Simon And Garfunkel theme song - https://youtu.be/cGyQmH9NZcw - Bright Eyes.
I know My 9 year old son really enjoys it and he does have the DVD.
Anyone out there seen this or the similarly themed The Plague Dogs and if so what are your thoughts on them,do you think that they are suitable for young kids or not?
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I watched Watership Down again the other day. You must watch!! It was fine for me as a young kid but that's not really a good example I used to think it was depressing until I seen Plague Dogs which was Logan's fault. Great film too though.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Crash, you are so right about the Ilsa films. Very well made exploitation.
warrior, you made me want to rewatch Watership Down and i´ve never even heard of The Plague Dogs, i want it! Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Barbarella (1968) starring Jane Fonda, Anita Pallenberg, John Phillip Law, Milo O'Shea, Marcel Marceau.
Another film that could only have been made in the one decade, it's a delightful trip through the 41st Century, as Fonda's Barbarella (as close to a secret agent as the 41st Century seems to have) travels to Tau Ceti to locate a missing professor and prevent his newly invented weapon falling into the hands of someone who might use it.
Cue skimpy costumes that seem to fall off at a whim, the rediscovery of sex the old-fashioned way, and some spot-on imagery and music that firmly sets this in a sixties vision of the future.
It's not notable for acting, script, plot or surprises, but as an experience, it's groovy...
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Barbarella is indeed groovy and fun film, Jane Fonda is very sexy. The film was ahead of it´s time, i think that the early 80s sci-fi films still copied the scenery and the "sci-fi chicks" still looked the same
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:I used to think it was depressing until I seen Plague Dogs which was Logan's fault.
Liiiiiieeeeees!!!!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Couple of old sci fi movies:
Spacerocket X-7 from 1958 had elements of War Of The Worlds about it, when space spores collected on a NASA mission begin to grow and threaten the planet. The authorities keeping it under control are searching for an unidentified woman who came into contact with the spores before the scientist studying them was killed. However the woman, the scientists secret mistress, thinks it's a murder hunt and so goes on the run. An ok filmhandled well,but the victory over the spores was somehow missed off.
Destination Moon is a 1950 George Pal film about the first moon mission. Again it has elements of later films, both Gravity and Apollo 13. Very 50s in style, substance and wooden acting.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched the wonderfully slow burned occult film, The Legacy.
What a crappy cover
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Any UK people who haven't seen The Anniversary yet, you must! It is on the TalkingPictures channel Monday and Tuesday. Probably my fave Bette Davis performance.
Good little channel, but there doesn't seem to be any inbetween with the films they show on there. They're either fantastic or truly abysmal.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I remember hardly anything about The Legacy but bought the R1 dvd couple of years back and need to rewatch the film.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I've seen The Legacy also and thought it to be pretty decent!
Went over the in laws last night and they put on the completely bonkers but fun 1972 Vincent Price horror Dr. Phibes Rises Again!,never actually watched the original 1971 The Abominable Dr. Phibes also with Price in the lead role but I enjoyed this sequel and found it to be pretty good fun!
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I really like both Phibes films a lot. They are beautifully produced, very stylish, and funny. I used to think that the sequel was even better than the first one until a couple of years ago when I saw both of them back to back at the drive-in dusk-to-dawn show. Now I think that the original is slightly better, if only because the killings are a little more motivated and systematic, based on the plagues of Egypt. It is a real tragedy that AIP, Price, and director Fuest couldn't get things together to do the third film, The Brides of Dr. Phibes.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I definitely need to check out The Abominable Dr. Phibes,what about the following years Theatre Of Blood,never seen it but read some really favourable reviews for it!
https://youtu.be/lGcT8gFzH14 - looks loads of fun from the trailer and i'd imagine considered quite grisly on its release in 73.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Theatre of Blood is one of Vincent Price's greatest films. It's a true masterpiece that is both funny and poignant, as well as literate. (All the superstar UK actors agreed to act as victims as a tribute to Price.) In fact, if horror films had been taken more seriously back in the day--instead of being part of a shabby, disreputable genre--Price's performance should have gotten him an Oscar nomination. Theatre of Blood and the two Phibes films were extremely influential. The screenwriter of David Fincher's brilliant Seven admitted that they were a huge influence.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I found Phibes Rises Again a letdown after the amazing first film!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
A little bit of a letdown, still very well done. As I said, I used to think that the sequel was better--probably because I found it funnier and more over the top--but upon reflection, it's not quite as good. The original is amazing.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Any UK people who haven't seen The Anniversary yet, you must! It is on the TalkingPictures channel Monday and Tuesday. Probably my fave Bette Davis performance.
And I see this on Wednesday...
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, I haven't seen The Anniversary since I was a teenager, but I remember that Davis is great, and for one of those Hammer psychological thrillers, it's a lot of fun.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched this Ilsa wannabe film Greta -Haus ohne Männer (1977) aka Ilsa the Wicked Warden aka Ilsa the Mad Butcher aka Wanda...
"Ilsa, now a vicious warden, runs a mental-hospital for young women. A girl deliberately "checks" in to the hospital to find out what has happened to her sister who stayed there. Meanwhile Ilsa and one of the guards are forcing the inmates to have sex with male prisoners, filming them and selling it as pornoflicks." (IMDb)
Basically it´s pure Ilsa madness but with a smaller budget and its also less imaginative. Jess Franco directed this one and i´m a real novice when it comes to Franco films so it was a bit of a shock first. We can see women in a shower and you can hear voices but no one really talks. Next scene and you can hear a coversation but again, no one talks I know that all these films are dubbed but it just looked so fake.
It got better later on, we can see few torture scenes and lots of nudity. That usual WIP stuff. Franco´s partner in crime Lina Romay looks great and I guess it´s ok for a low budget effort but nowhere near the real Ilsa trilogy.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Jess Franco, the enfant terrible of exploitation cinema. Man, the guy directed 100's of films in his lifetime, sometimes five or six a year. Almost all of them are absolutely terrible, many don't even exhibit the most rudimentary basics of filmmaking--shots are out of focus, the camera is bumped by the actors and wobbles--and Franco uses the take, Franco simulates slow motion by having his actors move really slowly (You have to see that to believe that shot in Barb Wire Dolls.) His films actually got worse as he went on in his career. But he did have a couple of really good ones, mostly early on. Knowing all this, every time I see a new Franco streaming on line, I sit down and hope for discovery of a new "good one." And time after time, very shortly in, I hurl the remote control at the TV as Franco regales me with yet another piece of abject crap. I'm mystified there are folks who will go on and on about how Franco makes wonderful artistic choices, such as having camera and mike-boom shadows on the wall in his film Count Dracula. To those cinema smart-alecks, I call, "Shenanigans." That kind of stuff has no business being called anything other than incompetence.
As for Greta/Wanda/Ilsa, the Mad Butcher, it's actually one of the better later Franco films. (That's really faint praise.) And as you can see, aTomiK, Franco loves to go for shock value. He has all those softcore zooms into body parts, sleazy scenes of perversion, and no sense of film narrative whatsoever. I actually like The Tigress better, and that's a really watered-down, boring Ilsa film.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
All you have to do is say Franco to get you off into a rant haha
I do the same, I WILL find a third film of his that is good if it kills me Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
A third film!!! You are hilarious. I actually have three: Gritos en La Noche a/k/a The Awful Dr. Orloff, Vampyros Lesbos, and She Killed in Ecstasy. The Bloody Judge, The Sadistic Baron von Klaus, The Sadist of Notre Dame, and Count Dracula come close to being "good." I don't think that anything else is really at that level. Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
No, no, no.. and NO !
What about Necronomicon, Venus In Furs, both Eugenie's, Lorna, Sinner, and on.. and on.. and on..
The fun thing about the Franco universe is that certain characters return in many movies throughout his career, even when there's been 40 years in between. Plus numerous characters from different movies seem to be related to one another, which creates some sort of labyrinthine puzzle nearly impossible to solve.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I have not seen Lorna and Sinner, but the others you mentioned, while "professional looking" Franco films, aren't favorites.
I agree with you about his characters. How many films has Morpho been in? Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
According to the Imdb the character Al Pereira popped up in twelve different Jess Franco movies between 1964 and 2013.
In his book Murderous Passions, Stephen Thrower noticed the name Radeck turns up quite a lot as well in Franco movies. Both male and female characters carry that surname in several of his movies, possibly indicating they're related. Maybe these characters are part of a bigger picture spread out over multiple movies.. Who knows ?
And at some point in Vampyros Lesbos, the Countess Carody mentions the mystical character 'Queen Of The Night'. Fast forward two years, and actress Anne Libert plays that very character (to great effect) in A Virgin Among The Living Dead.
I actually like the loose narrative structure and melancholic, even downbeat atmosphere of his movies. They intrigue me, and i'm not bothered by any technical shortcomings along the way.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: No, no, no.. and NO !
Love ya Johnny Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched The Greed of William Hart (1948) and had an absolute ball with it. Funny stuff
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Oh yes, Al Pereira! Was that the name of a Franco relative or something that he used it so many times?
Johnny, just to show you that Franco won't come between us, I actually have a copy of Tim Lucas's definitive hardbound book about Franco's career. Man, even if you have only a passing interest in Franco, this thing--long out of print--is amazing. It's gorgeously laid out with a full analysis of every film and unbelievable, beautifully reproduced stills. It's a coffee table book that I dare not leave out on the coffee table. ROFL
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S:
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: No, no, no.. and NO !
Love ya Johnny
You better ! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
According to the Stephen Thrower book the name Al Pereira is sourced from Hal Pereira, an art-director who worked on almost all Hitchcock movies in the 1950s, and was nominated for an Oscar 23 times !
Here's another interesting connection between two Franco movies (again taken from the Murderous Passions book):
In Attack Of The Robots (1965) (which i haven't seen, by the way.. nor do i own a copy), there's a particular line of dialogue that goes : "Pereira used to be one of the best. He's the one who caught Paul Vogel.. Remember?"
Fast forward nine (!) years, and the character Paul Vogel turns up as the murderous sex maniac in Exorcism (1974).. played by Jess Franco himself !
Quite intriguing, isn't it ? Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That is fascinating! Attack of the Robots was the first Franco film I saw when I was a kid. (Even at around age 12, I thought that it wasn't good.) I own the special edition DVD of Exorcism a/k/a The Sadist of Notre Dame, and I do like parts of it. It's one of Franco's better films and probably his best acting job. What's interesting to me about Exorcism is the quesition of how much Franco is really acting and how much is he just working through his fetishes and demons. LOL
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Watched Camille 2000 (1969). Really, really good, slightly erotic drama based on the 1852 novel and play La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas, fils.
"Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation." (IMDb)
I happen to love these love story gone bad films with sad endings. Maybe it´s the finnish melancholy in me The same goes with music.
The movie has great production values, nice settings and the cast did a wonderful job. The leading lady Daniele Gaubert looks divine and was 25 years when the film was made. She was only 44 when she sadly passed away in 1987. The only negative thing here is the typical 60s "groovy" soundtrack, the main theme was good though.
I own two more Randal Metzger films, The Lickerish Quartet and Score. I need to check those out asap.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Flying Deuces (1939) is an atypical Laurel and Hardy vehicle. Rather than being set in their own locale, it relocates them first to Paris, and then, after a failed attempt to propose marriage, to the French Foreign Legion, where Olly tries to forget the girl.
There are some lovely set pieces and cross-talk arguments of the type that made the duo so loved, and it's nice to see how stumbling inadvertently from one disaster to another should be done.
The only thing with Laurel and Hardy films now is that they do seem extremely dated, and the effects are unconvincing to say the least.
I would mark this movie as no more than a seven usually, but I'm going to give it 8/10 because - as usual - you get to see a couple of great double-takes from the wonderful Jimmy Finlayson as the Jailer...
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
My Favorite Brunette from 1947 starred Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Peter Lorre, Lon Chaney Jr, and cameos from Alan ladd and the ever-present Bing Crosby.
Gentle fun as a baby photographer with a dream of being a private investigator gets his wish when he's drawn ever deeper into a kidnap/murder plot involving Ms Lamour as his beautiful client.
No real surprises in the plot, but plenty of cracking chase sequences and the kind of role Hope was famous for.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Odessa File (1974).
A film that is largely based on true events, this tense euro-thriller stars Jon Voight as Peter Miller, a young Journalist who, after reading the diary of a recently deceased German Jew who documented his trials in wartime concentration camps, determines to follow up on the leads and bring the camp commandant to justice. The deeper he gets, the more dangerous things become as he is battling ODESSA, a secret organisation of former Nazi officials who are now in positions of authority under assumed identities.
Voight is superb in this role, mixing idealism, naivety and stubbornness wonderfully. The support cast includes Mary Tamm as his girlfriend Siggi; Maximilian Schell as the target, Eduard Roschmann; Schell's sister Maria as Miller's mother, and Derek Jacobi and Garfield Morgan in smaller roles.
Overall, it's a well crafted, tense and well delivered movie. The knowledge that much of it is based on real historic events adds a level of engagement that you don't get from pure fiction thrillers.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree. The Odessa File is a really well-done film with a fine Jon Voight performance. He's been so hammy in movies lately that I tend to forget what a fine actor he can be.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Of course!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
How To Murder Your Wife (1965) starring Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi and Terry-thomas.
Stanley, a syndicated cartoonist and confirmed bachelor finds himself married after a drunken party. Whilst his new wife is beautiful and sexy, she is also Italian and speaks no English. As Stanley's life is turned upside down, he and his valet Charles start musing on a way to return life to its previous blissful state. Things take a sinister turn, and when she disappears...
Lovely comedy about the challenges men experience with - and without - the controlling hand of a wife. Lemmon shows excellent comic timing, Terry-thomas is simply his wonderful self, and Virna Lisi is gorgeous.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
The Gambler (1974) James Caan, Paul Sorvino, Lauren Hutton
James Caan is a University lecturer (apparently) who gambles like a fool. Worth it just for Caan's chest rug and the scene with Huggy Bear as a pimp.
Straight Time (1978) Dustin Hoffman, Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell, M. Emmet Walsh, Kathy Bates
Hoffman plays an ex-con not trying to go straight. Dustin gives us a glimpse of his 'little Hoff' in the movie. Now that's method.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Theresa Russell is really great in Straight Time. She's always been one of my favorite actresses, yet despite amazing performances in this film, Bad Timing, Insignificance, Black Widow, and Wh***, she never had the career of an A-list actress. That's such a shame. She's brilliant in just about everything she does.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
It's true. She always gives understated performances. She also never got a breakthrough role (in terms of commercial success). Maybe that's why she she seemed to drop off the map?
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think that you are right. Her closest flirt with mainstream success was the modest hit she had with Debra Winger, Black Widow. She then had leads in Physical Evidence and Impulse, but they flopped. I'm glad to see though that she's managed to keep working over the years.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Well, if you work closely with Nicholas Roeg, you´re pretty far from mainstream But that doesn´t mean you make bad films, quite the opposite.
Russell did lots of interesting stuff during the 80s and i also own Straight Time but haven´t watched it yet. Same with Eureka and Physical Evidence. The Razor´s Edge starring Bill Murray is fantastic, Black Widow is pretty good and i also remember liking Track 29 as weird as it is. Impulse was decent, i liked Whore and of course i love her in Wild Things because i love everyone in that film Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree with you. She was excellent in The Razor's Edge, pretty much stealing the movie out from under Bill Murray if that is possible.
I always found Russell and Roeg to be an interesting pair. They were married for a very long time. He was much older than she was. And Russell always managed to shine in the roles that Roeg cast her in. Her performance in Bad Timing is one of the great female movie performances ever, yet few have seen it. Russell was as good as Meryl Streep in her prime, but few noticed.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Has anyone seen Jean Rollins The Iron Rose? The description sounds wonderful
'A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.'
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Naw. I saw Caged Virgins many years ago, and I wasn't impressed. I should probably check out more of his films.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I liked Requiem for a Vampire
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
We basically can have the same discussion as we had about Jess Franco movies.
I absolutely love Jean Rollin as well ! (no surprise there, i assume)
The Iron Rose is among the better ones.. just don't expect much of a storyline or anything like that. What is does have is plenty of beautiful macabre imagery from start to finish.. and that typical melancholic feel.
I love this stuff !
In my book, The Iron Rose comes highly recommended !
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
By the way, check out this one as well (if you can find it) :
Alice Ou La Derniere Fugue (1977), by Claude Chabrol
A bit more of an art-house approach, but there are quite a few similarities between this and The Iron Rose.
And what a lovely poster design, right ? Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Fantastic poster! Still seen only two Rollin films Fascination and Living Dead Girl. What can you say about these: The Naked Vampire, Requiem for a Vampire (i see that Helen approves), Demoniacs, Rape of the Vampire, Lips of Blood and Shiver of the Vampires?
Man, i can't choose between those. I love 'em all !
About a decade ago several of these titles were released on deluxe triple disc sets, right here in Holland. Lovely packaging, plus hefty booklets were included. They were exceptional releases, but in the meantime they're surpassed by the Redemption blu-rays from the US, which are amazing when it comes to video quality.
I never really had a thing for Requiem For A Vampire, remarkably.. but Demoniacs and Lips Of Blood are superb examples of surreal European horror cinema.
The book is brand new.. and i'm eagerly awaiting for my copy to arrive ! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Ok, i may have to pick some of those.
Haha, i should have known that you´ve already preordered the book Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:'A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.'
That does sound good! Got me interested now...
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I'm willing to give Rollin a go, so Iron Rose goes to the top my list. (Funny how the French, outside of Franju and Rollin, never really made a mark in horror films.) Now Claude Chabrol, on the other hand, is one of my favorite directors. (Although I have not seen Alice.) Le Boucher is just about perfect. This Man Must Die and Blood Relatives are pretty impressive too. He was the modern-day French Hitchcock
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless: We basically can have the same discussion as we had about Jess Franco movies.
I absolutely love Jean Rollin as well ! (no surprise there, i assume)
The Iron Rose is among the better ones.. just don't expect much of a storyline or anything like that. What is does have is plenty of beautiful macabre imagery from start to finish.. and that typical melancholic feel.
I love this stuff !
In my book, The Iron Rose comes highly recommended !
Just bought it!
The only copy of the Alice film I can find to buy is £217.19 so I think it's fair to say I will be checking out the youtube version Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Hey, i found a Youtube video of someone who shows the Dutch Jean Rollin collector's editions i mentioned in my earlier post. It's a nice clip, and it'll give a good impression of these editions.
Eventhough i bought all of these titles again when they came out on the Redemption blu-rays, these Dutch dvd editions still retain their value for collectors.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Just bought it!
I'm proud of you, Helen ! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Nice editions without a doubt and they look like euro art films which in a way they are. But i also like the artwork on the scandi editions very much.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Franco, Rollin...anyone want to start a fight about Walerian Borowczyk? ROFL
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Barracuda - The Lucifer Project (1978)
"A top secret government experiment leads to fatal barracuda attacks on the beaches of a small coastal town formerly renowned for its lobster. A marine biologist (Wayne Crawford) and sheriff (William Kerwin) uncover a plot involving a mentally unstable former war-medic (Evers) pioneering research into hyperglycemia and the effect on human behavior." (Wiki)
Fun nature strikes back flick which is more Piranha than Jaws. The plot quickly forgets the deadly fish when the second part starts and we can see more cloak & dagger style thriller till the end. And what an ending it is, the 70s once again shows that the world is a dark and cold place.
The movie is too slow plus it includes very little blood and no nudity at all, so it´s far from a masterpiece but i still enjoyed watching it.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Crash, bring it on !
And since we're talking about French surrealist cinema..
The British Film Institute released this lovely box-set around the same time as Arrow did their Borowczyk box.
Very adventurous box sets, and among my personal favorite cult releases.. ever ! Simple as that ! Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: The movie is too slow plus it includes very little blood and no nudity at all, so it´s far from a masterpiece but i still enjoyed watching it.
Lovely artwork though !
By the way, a Wayne Crawford interview can be found on the God's Bloody Acre dvd, released by Code Red.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Franco, Rollin...anyone want to start a fight about Walerian Borowczyk? ROFL
I'm like who, but when I look him up I see I have a few of his films in my watchlist on letterboxd lol
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Beast was good, i also own Immoral Tales and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Miss Osbourne but yeah, you know the rest...
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Immoral and Jekyll were 2 of them! The other was Blanche.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
See that, Helen. You had taste and class even if you didn't initially know it. ROFLMAO
Borowczyk was a singular and bizarre talent. Obviously, he had filmmaking skills, more than Franco and Rollin, but I think that his heart's desire was to apply them to his favorite subject, pornography. Hence, he did these weird porn films that look like art films or art films with porno scenes, I'm not sure which. Like Franco and Rollin, he's pretty far off the beaten mainstream path for most folks, but his stuff is certainly interesting.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Eegah! (1962) starring Arch Hall Sr., Arch Hall Jr., Marilyn Manning and Richard Kiel.
Usual fare - dolly bird driving through the desert nearly crashes into giant caveman character. Dolly bird's boyfriend (a terrible wannabe popstar) and her father go to hunt him down, the caveman captures the dolly bird and the father, and before the conclusion, she undergoes some kind of Stockholm Syndrome and starts to care for him, to no avail.
Yeah, it sounds pretty crappy. and in truth, it IS pretty crappy. But does it deserve it's place at number 48 on IMDB's all-time worst movies? Well..... yes, probably. But it's a bit of a mix, to be honest.
Arch Hall Jr. is utterly terrible as Tom, the apparent 'hero', with his abysmal acting, his excremental singing, and his godawful hairstyle. If you needed evidence of just how far Daddy would go to try and give his son the career he so richly didn't deserve, this is it.
Arch Hall Sr. is pretty underused on screen, but seeing as he was also director, producer, story writer, financier, and provided access to many of the non-desert locations, I guess it's a mercy he didn't do much on screen.
Marilyn Manning went on to have just three roles in all, and she really couldn't have harmed her fledgling career any more terminally than to have appeared in this shocker.
And now we come to the interesting bit. Richard Kiel's performance of Eegar is actually not that bad. For someone who was cast basically for his seven-foot-plus-change frame, he showed the mark of a good actor by making the most of his role, and manages to win over the audience with some pathos and humour.
I'm still duty bound to give this a maximum of 4/10, but Kiel earns at least three of those points.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Borowczyk also did Behind Covent Walls (1978), probably the "art-iest" of the nunsploitation flicks. Currently it's available on dvd from the Cult Epics label, but i certainly do hope Arrow gets to work their magic on this title as well, at some point.
It's another Euro-cult classic, and at some point banned in the UK, i believe. Great movie though !
No one familiar with Alain Robbe-Grillet ? Besides the six films included in that BFI box-set, i also own La Belle Captive (1983) on blu-ray and Gradiva (2006) on dvd, which was released by Mondo Macabro some years ago.
Like Mondo Macabro's tagline goes : The Wild Side Of World Cinema ! Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I watched The Iron Rose. Pure filth! Interesting, if a little too artsy and self-indulgent for my liking.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
I never knew 'nunsploitation' was a thing...
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I think we can blame Ken Russell's The Devils (1971) for that.
It may not have been the first, but The Devils certainly spawned a whole breed of low-budget rip-offs, some rather restraint while others pulled out all the stops.
During a certain period in time, the idea of sinful nuns leading a life of debauchery behind convent walls, proved to be very profitable for exploitation film producers.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Alucarda is my favourite!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, I have Alucard on DVD from quite a few years ago.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched and really enjoyed The Iron Rose. Crazy cow. Although to be fair it was so beautiful I wouldn't want to leave there either! Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
Sublime comedy proving that elderly spinsters are not all sweetness and light...
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Just watched and really enjoyed The Iron Rose. Crazy cow. Although to be fair it was so beautiful I wouldn't want to leave there either!
Filth. Pure filth. Krooditee and nooditee.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Who wouldn't want to amongst a load of bones lol
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Just watched Night of the Big Heat (1967) for the first time in years. Sooo good.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, it's a pretty good little sci-if flick.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Master Of The World
Year: 1961 Director: William Witney Stars: Vincent Price, Charles Bronson, Henry Hull, Mary Webster, Richard Harrison
An idealistic pacifist and inventor Robur determines to beat nations into non-aggression, by threatening their destruction from on high if they don’t immediately disarm.
An interesting and definitely stylised film set in the 1860s, it’s pretty much 20,000 Leagues ABOVE The Sea, with Price wonderfully sinister and captivating in the role of Robur / Nemo. In his flying machine, he plans a utopian world below, where any desire or capability for war is beaten out of the nations by the fear of his awesome firepower. Things come unstuck for him when he abducts a group of Americans who discover his plans: an arms manufacturer, his daughter, her fiance (a bit of a hot-headed idealist himself) and a US Government agent. Whilst being held so that they do not reveal any of Robur’s plan, they slowly plot to prevent the emasculation or destruction of the world.
Price is the main draw here, of course, but Bronson is good as Strock, the US agent whose intent is to prevent Robur carrying out his violent plans. The rest of the cast are OK in an early sixties b-movie way, and the scenery and effects can most generously be described as ‘stock’. They certainly didn’t extend much in the way of budget, and indeed there’s a definite feel of Adam West’s Batman movie about the scenery and costumes.
It’s fun and inoffensive enough, but a definite 'rainy Sunday afternoon' movie, nothing more.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless:
Busting (1974)
Excellent 70s cop story starring Elliot Gould, and Robert Blake, with supporting roles from Antonio Fargas, Sid Haig, and Michael Lerner. Stylishly directed by Peter Hyams (with lots of cool tracking shots).
Busting is actually an early example of the buddy cop genre, which Hyams revisited a decade later with Running Scared (1986).
Well, it took awhile but i finally watched Busting and yeah, it was a good film. Gould and Blake in fine form and i liked the cynical tone. Crime pays! Nice chase scenes, good score from Billy Goldenberg and i really would like to visit the Electra club!
Another cool Busting poster:
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Watched Don't Go In The House from 1979 (though some sites have it down as being 1980,from what I gather it was made 79 released early 80) this is a pretty grim but quite well made horror about a guy named Donny who works at a large incinerator plant who one day while at work witnesses his friend getting badly burnt in an accident,latter that day he returns home to his sick but cruel and very domineering mother to find that she has suddenly passed away,in flashback we then learn as a youngster his mother as a punishment would hold Donny's arms out over the kitchen stove where he would get badly burnt!
Donny who already has a few marbles missing by now then totally loses it and decides to exact some sort of twisted revenge on the local townswomen and builds himself a fire proof room within his house where he can then barbecue his unlucky female victims!
This movie was one the infamous 80s video nasties that got pulled from the rental store shelves back in the day here in the UK and i can easily tell which scene upset the censors so much it was the first kill where he chains the female florist to a ceiling hook in his fire proof room and then dowses her with petrol and proceeds to burn her alive with his flame thrower,even to this day it's quite a disturbing scene and makes for fairly gruesome viewing!
The thing about a lot of these 70s horrors such as Last House On The Left,Don't Go In The House,etc. is that for most part there more or less played dead straight and with next to no humour (unless you find the bumbling cops in Last House On The Left funny that is) and i find that it makes for a lot more realistic and generally unpleasant movie viewing experience!
Overall then a good low budget shocker this with some fairly decent performances apart from that is the guy who played the priest as his performance was truly dire and it's no wonder that this was his only ever acting credit!
And now for something completely different as next up i'm going to watch the athletics drama Across The Track (1990) starring Brad Pitt and Rick Schroder,never seen it before.
anyone know if it's any good?
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Haven´t seen Don´t Go in the House but sure would like to. Across the Tracks in a decent sports drama.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Slumber Party ´57 (1976)
"Six schoolgirls find themselves without their parents. Moreover their basket ball team are traveling. As they are at a loss what to do, they organize a slumber party during which each of them will tell about her first experience of sex. (IMdb)
Pretty goofy t&a film from William A. Levey who made the totally bonkers Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman! This was Debra Winger´s film debut and yes, she goes topless too
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Don't Go in the House is memorable for that one scene, which is incredibly grim. Obviously it created problems in the UK, where the Board of Censorship is very concerned about "sexually sadistic violence." Several years ago, they banned a Japanese gore film called Grotesque, which is just wall-to-wall sexually sadistic violence. It's one of the few films that I've seen that I can call completely worthless. You hit the nail on the head about 70s horror, YW. Except for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which is the rarest of the rare--a film that uses humor to heighten the suspense--they played it dead straight. That coupled with the grainy cinematography and grimy locations made them more realistic. Today's product is way too slick looking. The Saw series comes to mind as a classic example. The gore set pieces show up for the fanboys and girls who get into the special effects. They stop the movie cold. The death-by-immolation scene in Don't Go in the House or the atrocities of Last House on the Left are part of the overall disturbing ambiance.
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I'd say I'm pretty hardcore when It comes to horror but watching Craven's original Last House On The Left all those years back I think it's the only movie that's ever made me feel slightly queasy, I can actually remember looking over to my wife and saying to her "this is sick" though we did continue to watch
It is a well made movie but it's so grim and grimy it's unreal,i can see why it rubbed up so many people the wrong way upon its original release back in 72.
I've got the original and the remake of Last House on my shelfs but have not revisited either since,it's a bit like Star 80 another film that I own,it's not that there not well made movies or anything it's just that there so goddamned depressing to watch!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Where Has Poor Mickey Gone? (1964) - Oh my, what a really odd film. And the ending was incredible, a mix of and Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I feel exactly the same way about Last House. It's not a movie that I revisit a lot, about once a decade really. As I've said before on here, I think that it's a historically important horror film but certainly very depressing. The remake I thought was one of the better horror remakes. It's well acted and depressing too.
Star80 has phenomenal acting by Eric Roberts and Mariel Hemmingway, but it's a terrible date night movie. LOL
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I watched the remake at the theatres,it was a Midnight showing with all of about a dozen people,came away impressed and though not carrying quite the same level of shock as the original it still packs a hefty punch and certainly makes for uncomfortable viewing!
As remakes go I agree it's a cut above and is nothing like the disaster that the remake of Craven's 80s horror classic A Nightmare On Elm Street was!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Late last night i was ready to go to bed, but turned out Mr. Majestyk was on AMC (formerly the MGM movie channel) again. I think i already mentioned Mr. Majestyk at least twice somewhere else in this thread.. and yes, i did watch it again !
I don't know exactly how many times i've seen it before, but i still enjoy watching Mr. Majestyk time and time again.
Bronson rocks, but Al Lettieri (who sadly passed away in 1975) steals the show as the narcissistic psychopathic bad guy.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I used always watch Mr Majestyk when it aired on the box,not seen it in years though and it is one of the few Bronson's that I don't own, I know it's not long been released on Blu Ray here in the UK by Signal One Entertainment.
I wouldn't mind picking it up as it's meant to be a pretty solid release!
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I was thinking about getting that Signal One release as well, even though i've seen the movie numerous times throughout the years and already own a dvd version. But it's always fun to have some decent extra's for a movie you're really familiar with.
Currently i still don't own any of Signal One's blu-rays, but i included Black Widow in my latest order, so that will be here pretty soon i hope, and i will definitely get their Seven-Ups release next month, which will be loaded with extra's : www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19012 Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
That The Seven-Ups release Johnny looks awesome,been wanting to watch that for an age,i've had it added to my on line rental list for ages the dvd that is but have never been sent it!
I'll probably pick up the Blu upon its release,love Scheider he's seriously cool!
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
1941 (1979)
Interesting little Spielberg movie with plenty of slapstick, loads of cameos and some brilliant set pieces. It's set in California less than a week after Pearl Harbour, and the skittishness of the locals and the superior pomposity and pre-battle naivety of the fresh-faced US troops is challenged when a Japanese sub surfaces offshore and plans an attack...
Feels more like a John Landis or Robert Zemekis film in style and humour, and opens wonderfully with a parody of the start of Jaws - also Spielberg of course - using the same actress swimming naked out to sea and suddenly realising that she's not alone in the water....
Nice touch.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Lots of people hammer 1941 and say that it is overblown, unfunny, and wastes a stellar cast. I saw it in a theatre on opening day. I liked it then, and I still like it. It's not perfect and very uneven--and we could sit here and dwell on its flaws--but it is really funny in spots, and it's never boring. (I dare you not to laugh when Dan Aykroyd gets hit on the head and says, "I'm a bug!" or at the demise of Ned Beatty's house.) Overall, it's not Spielberg's best, but it's certainly not his worst. A lot of huge comedies--like It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Word--are equally uneven, but they don't receive nearly the flack that 1941 does. It's a good, underrated, entertaining movie.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I'm glad there are a few of us defending 1941 on here. It deserves a critical reappraisal.
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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I'm another one that likes it. The bug scene absolutely killed me when I first saw it.
But... which version is better - Theatrical or Director's - that's the question!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Count me in as well,i really enjoy 1941 and I also find it to be really funny in parts,I picked up the 2 disc Blu Ray a while back for just 4 UK pounds which I think is a bit of a bargain!
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched The Lickerish Quartet (1970).
"A jaded, wealthy couple watch a blue movie in their castle home along with her adult son. The son is testy, so they go into town and watch a circus-like thrill ride. The daredevil woman in the show looks exactly like one of the women in the movie, so the man invites her to join them for a nightcap. Tensions among the family seem to rise. She stays overnight, and during her 24 hours in the castle, each of its three residents involves her in a fantasy. She, in turn, keeps asking, "Who has the gun?" Will there be violence before it's over?" (IMDb)
This was another interesting film directed by Radley Metzger (Camille 2000). Erotic, mystical, perhaps even groundbreaking?
The cast did a good job and Silvana Venturelli is of course very beautiful. Once again i loved the settings (old castle), the locations and the cinematogpraphy just rocks.
Recommended for David Lynch fans and open minded movie fans in general
The library scene was filmed at famous Cinecitta studios. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I am a fan of Radley Metzger a/k/a Henry Paris, one of the first directors of mainstream arty erotica. When I was in school, the late, great over-the-air pay service On-TV used to run adult stuff late at night, and I got to see most of Metzger's films like The Libertine, Camille 2000, Terese and Isabelle, and my favorite, The Image. This guy was a terrific filmmaker, all but forgotten today, as is that era of softcore arthouse porn. He actually did one straight, non-erotic film, a dullish, but professionally competent, UK remake of the ancient horror film The Cat and the Canary. I always wondered why he didn't have a career outside of porn.
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Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Not bad 1979 thriller starring the great John Saxon as a bounty hunter on the trail of an ex con who is beating up prison guards using a heavy duty lead riot glove,turns out the ex con is getting some payback as whilst inside the guards were using him as a human guinea pig to test the glove out on!
This was pretty good fun and for the the first 45 minutes seemed to move along quite nicely but i feel it did hit a bit of dead spot at about the hour mark before picking up nicely for the final showdown between the hunter (John Saxon) and the hunted as played by the giant Roosevelt Grier.
Quite amusing in parts whether intentional or not I'm not so sure but it did have the odd funny moment,the cast were good as well especially Saxon as the down on his luck bounty hunter Sam Kellogg,also a few other noticeable faces here - Keenan Wyn (Digger Barnes in US TV series Dallas),Joanna Cassidy (Blade Runner) and the giant ex American Footballer Roosevelt Grier as the on the run ex convict Victor Hale.
Good stuff and despite the odd issue with the pacing I would definitely like to revisit this one again at some point as overall I found this one to be none too bad at all!
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds good, warrior!
Haha, i should´ve known that our Crashmaster of Cinema is familiar with Metzger Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: Haha, i should´ve known that our Crashmaster of Cinema is familiar with Metzger
Too funny! Yeah, my mind is like a grindhouse, all obscure stuff and sticky floor.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
A couple of years ago, adult video company Distribpix released beautifully restored versions of Metzger's subsequent "Henry Paris" movies on fully loaded multi-disc special editions, which are an absolute must !
The titles they released are : The Private Afternoons Of Pamela Mann (1974), Naked Came The Stranger (1975), The Opening Of Misty Beethoven (1976), Barbara Broadcast (1977), and Maraschino Cherry (1978).
The Opening Of Misty Beethoven is generally regarded as his crowning achievement of this period. My own personal favorite will probably be The Private Afternoons Of Pamela Mann.
By the way, Metzger's The Image (1975) is also available on both dvd and blu-ray from Synapse Films.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I hope that someday Metzger gets rediscovered. He deserves it not just from a historical perspective but because he could teach these Hollywood hacks a thing or two about directing. Another arthouse erotica guy from that era, Joe Sarno, is on the cusp of rediscovery because of an excellent documentary about his life and career, A Life in Dirty Movies (2013).
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Oh man, don't get me started.. I have lots of Sarno stuff in my collection ! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Have you seen the documentary?
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
No, i haven't. To be honest, i didn't even know there was a documentary. I should definitely check into this.
Sarno's Abigail Leslie Is Back In Town and Laura's Toys are very good, but i have lots more.. including some early 80s hardcore stuff which he directed under various different pseudonyms.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, I haven't seen a lot of Sarno's stuff, and some folks slam the documentary as being biased because it pretty much glosses over his later, non-Bergmanesque hardcore years. I think that you'll like the documentary. It tells the story of Sarno and his wife, two very different people, who were married and committed to each other for decades until he passed away, both working in a very unusual profession: making dirty films. I found it to be pretty touching actually. And so what if the documentarians glossed over his declining years. I never got the impression that the film was supposed to be a chapter-and-verse history of every film in his entire career. What you see is really fascinating. And it also affirms what I've heard and read anectodally for years: that people making porn are some of the nicest people in the business. Mr. and Mrs. Sarno sure seemed like cool folks who would've made nice neighbors!
I think that I like offbeat, weird, fringe cinema so much because of folks like Metzger and Sarno. Sure, you want your films to make money, but you can still be artistic and commercial at the same time. I'll take something by one of the guys over Hollywood hacks like Brett Ratner and Michael Bay any day.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Rituals (1977)
This was a good Deliverance style backwoods horror film. Five doctors have their annual meeting and D.J. (Gary Reineke) has decided that they will go hiking deep in the Canadian wilderness. But like one of the taglines says: If you go down in the woods today, you're in for a big surprise
Low budget movie but quite atmospheric and Hal Holbrook gives a nice performance as Harry. He´s a Vietnam vet and soon takes control while he tries to lead the group back to civilization alive. Good stuff!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Cool !
I actually do have Rituals on dvd. It was released on the Code Red label several years ago. It's somewhere on my "still-to-watch-anytime-soon" pile of dvds.. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Rituals is a small legend. An obscure Canadian classic, fondly remembered by the few of us that saw it way back when, for years, it was only available on bootleg DVDs which looked like they had been copied from a projection of the film onto a sheet on the wall. I understand that the Code Red DVD went out-of-print almost immediately so that version is a keeper.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Hey, what happened to Young Warrior's Eskimo Nell review ? It seems to have vanished into thin air.. Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
No I went to make some alterations to it concerning the plot and made a bit of a pigs ear of it so deleted it but will do another for it at some point!
Might get the wife to watch it to see what she thinks off it but I myself thought it was really funny!
Have you ever seen it Johnny?
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I haven't, no.. but i considered getting that blu-ray when it was released last year, but somehow forgot all about it.
I know about this movie from a book i have called Keeping The British End Up ; Four Decades Of Saucy Cinema.
Well, that title pretty much says it all.. It's an excellent book about sexy British films, with lots of reviews, biographies, and original artwork. This Youtube clip gives a real good impression of what it looks like :
I do have all 'Adventures Of...' and 'Confessions Of...' movies, as well as a bunch of Mary Millington flicks, so Eskimo Nell would fit in nicely in my collection ! Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
If you've got the Confession series as well as the Adventure's Of I'd definitely get it then Johnny as it would most certainly fit in with those,i reckon chances are you would laugh at it!
It's good fun!
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
California Dreaming (1979). TT moves to California from Chicago to live the California experience. Stars Dennis Christopher, Seymour Cassell, and Glynnis O'Connor. First off, I was disappointed when Impact had this listed as a 1980's movie (1988 I believe) on VOD. Second, I don't know what decade this was supposed to take place- late 1970's, or a movie filmed in the 70's but trying to take place in the 60's and not really succeeding?! I thought the whole movie was a mess. Anyone have any thoughts?
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Bit off topic but Pittsburghgirl did you get to Ireland and if so did you have an OK time?
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Young warrior, I will message you about it later
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: California Dreaming (1979). TT moves to California from Chicago to live the California experience. Stars Dennis Christopher, Seymour Cassell, and Glynnis O'Connor. First off, I was disappointed when Impact had this listed as a 1980's movie (1988 I believe) on VOD. Second, I don't know what decade this was supposed to take place- late 1970's, or a movie filmed in the 70's but trying to take place in the 60's and not really succeeding?! I thought the whole movie was a mess. Anyone have any thoughts?
I would like to see this one. The cast looks very interesting.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Atomik, that is what drew me to this movie, but I didn't think it was very good. My first thought: how can you go wrong with Seymore Cassell and Dennis Christopher?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Talking about Glynnis O´Connor...
Just watched The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976).
"Born with no immunity against disease, he lives in a plastic prison. Inside he is protected. Outside, there is the chance of death. But the chance of love".
This was nice little made-for-television drama directed by Randal Kleiser. John Travolta plays the 16 year old Tod and he´s pretty good. Glynnis O´Connor is his love interest.
Tod lives upstairs in this cool sterile "mini house" and then they create this super ugly suit you can see below so he can leave the house Strong emotions, 70s teens having fun and cute little love story. I like the fact that they decided to leave the ending open.
I happen to like these after school special type films. I know that many people can´t stand this stuff but i think these movies have that special charm.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I agree with you Atomik - I find those TV movies charming and entertaining too. Some are better than others of course. They have low-key stories that you just don't see in larger movies.
I saw California Dreaming years ago, but I think I liked it. Might have to see it again.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
My college biology professor enjoyed pointing out all the medical inaccuracies with The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. He said that the kid should have been dead by the end of the film. LOL
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Watching Billy Jack (1971) right now. Was this a drive-in theater staple, Crash? I seem to remember a friend telling me her parents took her to the drive-in, and this was one of th pe movies shown. I do remember watching it on tv in the late 70's or early 80's
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Oh yeah, Billy Jack was a drive-in classic back in the day. It's such a silly, schizophrenic film. Here's this half-breed with some hippies advocating peace. How does he accomplish that? By kicking a bunch of guys in the throat and beating the crap out of them.
Anyway, after the first one was a hit, Tom Laughlin's ego just got out of control. (The sequel, The Trial of Billy Jack, is almost three hours long!) I find the sequels--as well as his Western, The Master Gunfighter--to be laughable jokes. Laughlin couldn't write or direct his way out of a paper bag, and his acting skills were pretty much limited to the aforementioned kicking guys in the throat. To top things off, he cast his homely wife as the female lead. She could act slightly better than he could, but every time she was on screen, all I kept thinking was "He's married to her?"
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Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Oh yeah, the acting is pitiful. I was shocked too when I found out he was married to her. She is really quite homely. I think the Billy Jack movies appealed to the hippie teens of the 60's and 70's. I've never seen anything else Tom Laughlin did.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree. The Billy Jack films are products of their era and have dated badly. They are interesting though as examples of what one fringe lunatic actor/filmmaker could accomplish outside the studio system.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Watched the 1972 Italian giallo What Have You Done To Solange which i thought was truly terrific and never realised it was shot here in the UK which came as a cool surprise!
Decent Morricone score,loads of nudity,brutal kills without being overly gory and with a great mystery plot playing out that will keep you guessing till the very end this was a seriously good watch!
This was in the Arrow Film sales a little while back and I passed on it silly me,definitely wished I picked it up now!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I have this Solange film, warrior. Sounds interesting, i need to check it out!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I really enjoyed it Atomik,it's a bit sleazy and some of the dubbed dialogue and acting comes off as being hilarious but the stories strong as is the Ennio Morricone music score.
That as well as having an at times creepy atmosphere and with loads of shots of 70s London I definitely give this one the thumbs up though it certainly won't be to all tastes!
Yeah if you get chance Atomik check it out I think chances are that you would probably enjoy it!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I have the Arrow release. Wow, 2 mins 15 secs cut from the Redemption video.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Solange is a real favorite of mine. It's excellent--good plotting, nasty killings, nice pace, cool time-capsule of the era, good Morricone score... There's a lot to like with this, one of the best gialli.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by aTomiK: I have the Arrow release. Wow, 2 mins 15 secs cut from the Redemption video.
Yeah the killers method of slaughter is pretty disturbing to say the least and being a family site I can't go into any detail but I would have loved to have sat in with the censors back in the day just to have seen a few reactions
I thought you may have seen it Crash and would have imagined that you liked it and I agree it does perfectly captures the 70s and the fact it was shot in London instead of Rome,etc makes for a nice change!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
"Solange" was like the lost, forbidden fruit in the U.S. for so long, whispered about by a few, but seen by no one. Originally released by AIP as "Terror in the Woods" and later by the folks who brought us "Last House on the Left," Hallmark Releasing, as "The School That Couldn't Scream," it was one of those elusive foreign films that supposedly had a U.S. theatrical release, but I never, ever saw any advertising material from the AIP release so who knows where it actually played as "Terror in the Woods." For years, I had a blurry grey-market censored copy on VHS of "The School That Couldn't Scream." I eventually picked up the 2002 Shriek Show/Media Blasters DVD, which is uncut.
For younger folk, the late 60s and 70s, pre-VHS, were an interesting period to grow up in with a love of things like "Solange." Without the Internet, all you had to go on was a tiny mention of it in a magazine. And if you didn't live near a grindhouse or flea-pit drive-in, you'd never see the thing or find out anything about it because no one ever reviewed these films (and gosh knows, there's no way it would ever play on late-night TV). Heck, for years, I'd heard about a film called "The People Who Own the Dark" because I'd seen it mentioned in Cinefantastique magazine and noticed that it was on the bottom of some drive-in triple bill far away. It was only years later that I learned that it was a pretty good Spanish horror film with Paul Naschy, also distributed by Hallmark. When even Franco's "Vampyros Lesbos" got an official DVD release in the U.S., I knew that that era had come to an end.
Here is an ad matte from one of the later "School" re-releases:
Cool ad Crash,never realised how many alternate titles this thing had -
USA (dubbed version) Terror in the Woods USA (reissue title) The Rah Rah Girls USA (reissue title) The School That Couldn't Scream USA The Secret of the Green Pins USA What Have You Done to Solange?
Pretty crazy really and i'd imagine for some people very confusing!
Anyone ever watched this 1973 horror The Legend Of Hell House starring the great Roddy McDowall before?
I've heard the title mentioned many times over the years but have never got around to watching it!
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Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The Legend of Hell House: Tremendously scary, well-written novel by the great Richard Matheson that was very much watered-down by the studio for the film. Poor Richard Matheson, another one of his babies tampered with! A lot of people like the film--those who haven't read the book--and it is well-made (Heck it was produced by Nicholson from AIP and Fennell who co-produced the original The Avengers TV series) and acted (love, love, love Pamela Franklin) by a great cast. There are a few somewhat tame scares, and the whole enterprise comes off as a missed opportunity. And wait until you see the big reveal with a "surprise" cameo. It's so ludicrous that I dare you not to laugh. I think that Robert Wise's The Haunting remains the best, scariest haunted house film by a wide margin.
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
To make matters even more confusing regarding the alternate titles for What Have You Done To Solange, it was released as Who's Next in the early days of the video format here in Holland.
Anyway.. Massimo Dallamano was Sergio Leone's cinematographer, and did some very good stuff as a director too, including Venus In Furs (1969, not to be confused with the Jess Franco movie by the same title), Solange's companion piece What Have They Done To Your Daughters (1974), and the ultra cool Colt 38 Special Squad (1976).
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I agree with Crash, but I always though Legend of Hell House was a so-so movie that paled when compared to the far better Haunting. It had some good ingredients, but the whole just wasn't satisfying. I haven't read the book, but whenever I hear the name Richard Matheson I always think of his Jack Finney inspired 'Bid Time Return' which was made into 'Somewhere in Time'.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Matheson's I am Legend is perhaps the finest horror novel/novella ever written, and Bid Time Return was made into an excellent movie. I just don't get what happened to Hell House other than the studio was scared of the book and wanted a PG-rated film. The book is R-rated for sure. Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
He really was a sci-fi / fantasy great wasn't he? I just looked him up on Wiki again, I'd forgotten half of the stuff he was involved in! For some reason I get his back catalogue confused with Jack Finney (which could be the 'Bid Time Return' / 'Time and Again' thing) but he has a much much more impressive body of work.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Prime Cut (1972).
"A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves." (IMDb)
Wow, this was a highly entertaining crime film directed by Michael Richie. Gene Hackman and Lee Marvin shine and look out for "revealing" first feature film performance from Sissy Spacek. Great stuff!
"Cow flesh, girl flesh, it´s all same to me" - Mary Ann Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
That's a real good one indeed, aTomiK !
Last one i saw :
Les Aventures De Rabbi Jacob (1973)
Chaos and confusion abound in typical French Louis De Funes comedy.
Good old-fashioned fun with many laugh-out-loud moments ! Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You know, that's something you don't see in American arthouses anymore--foreign comedies. Back in the 70s, something like The Adventures of Rabbi Jacob or La Cage aux Folles not only got a theatrical release, but also did pretty well with audiences. I am currently watching a Danish TV show Klovn which is an unabashed copy of the awkward/cringeworthy/politically incorrect U.S. comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm. I understand that they did two theatrical films based on the series, the latest of which is headed to a couple of theatres and simultaneous video-on-demand here this fall. I guess that's better than nothing.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Robin and Marian - I'd forgotten the ending to this film. I wish I could again. Just doesn't work at all. The rest is really enjoyable with some great performances.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I can remember exactly *nothing* about Robin and Marian. Might need to watch it again...
Speaking of which - bout time you showed up. Dirty stopout.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Never seen Robin and Marian.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
"Record executives want a highly-regarded record producer to focus on a white pop act whom they feel has the sound America wants. To keep his creative integrity, Buckmaster carefully begins to fight the system that has made him the respected producer he has become." (IMDb)
Watched That´s the Way of the World (1975) which was directed by Sig Shore who also has a cool role in the film.
I liked this movie very much. Harvey Keitel is Buckmaster, the man with "golden ears" and he´s very good here. It´s interesting to see him working as he tries to turn a mediocre demo song to a hit tune.
The band Earth, Wind and Fire are The Group, the band Buckmaster really wants to work with but the studio execs (especially Ed Nelson gives a strong performance) think that what America needs right now is the family band The Pages.
The Earth, Wind and Fire soundtrack album was a hit but the movie didn´t found it´s audience. For many years it was known as a "lost" film but nowadays it´s available again. Scorpion Releasing has released a nice blu-ray version.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: I can remember exactly *nothing* about Robin and Marian. Might need to watch it again...
Speaking of which - bout time you showed up. Dirty stopout.
Nice to see you too! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Man Who Haunted Himself - This type of story has been done lots of times but there's just something in the way it is done here that is just wow. It has a fantastic slow build that pulls you into the awful confusion of the main character's head. Roger Moore is simply divine here. Never seen him better. The music is gorgeous and heartbreaking at times. And the ending is edge of your seat stuff!
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I remember catching this on TV late at night many years ago. I couldn't tell what the hell I was watching, but I was engrossed!
When you hear the title 'The Man Who Haunted Himself', it sounds like a bad b-movie. But when you hear it stars Roger Moore... suddenly everything makes sense!
quote:Nice to see you too!
Pure cheek.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I like that cheap looking poster for The Man Who Haunted Himself, distributed in the U.S. by Levitt-Pickman, a tiny company that also released the Hammer double-bill that no one wanted: Scars of Dracula/Horror of Frankenstein. I read a scholarly book on Hammer from a purely financial angle, and the author said that the big studios like Warner Bros. that had good success with Hammer Films in the U.S. passed on those two because they looked cheap and not-professional. I was surprised to learn that Hammer wasn't so much a producer of films as more of a factory where folks gave Hammer money to use the facilities and technicians. That explains why films made very close in time could look so different and have radically different quality. For example, EMI financed Scars/Horror on the cheap, while The Vampire Lovers, made almost simultaneously, looks so much better because of the influx of AIP money. AIP only co-produced that one film with Hammer because Arkoff and Nicholson said that the Hammer execs were bad businessmen and careless with money.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Hello Helen S. Nice to see you back!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hi, thank you! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Barry Lyndon - How did I go all my life without seeing this, fantastic. I would put it just under The Shining and Eyes Wide Shut. I was glad when Leonard Rossiter was bumped off quite quickly because I just couldn't unsee Reginald Perrin and it was taking me out of it a little
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Barry Lyndon is my favorite Kubrick film with 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Barry Lyndon is one of the most beautifully shot movies in history. It looks great--and it is great. While A Clockwork Orange is my favorite Kubrick film, with 2001 in a close second, Barry Lyndon certainly ranks very high. It's a work of art. Enough said!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Helen's right as always. The Man Who Haunted Himself is an outstanding thriller. I had read a little about it over the years, but kind of like And Soon the Darkness, it had always eluded me. I have to agree with star Roger Moore. It's his best performance. And it's tightly directed with a fine score and a killer ending. This film deserves a cult. It's excellent.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Helen's right as always.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Space Probe Taurus (1965) is typical B movie fare, showing a time when all you needed to go into space was a pair of coveralls and a smile...
12 To The Moon (1960) was very similar. It took scientists from a dozen countries up in a rocket, and let them hurl nationalistic epithets at each other until those pesky aliens got in the way...
Carry On Don't Lose Your Head (1966)
By far the best of these three movies, it's a rollicking farce in a world where the word 'rollicking' doesn't get used as much as it ought. Set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, it ridicules the tale of the Scarlet Pimpernel, the English aristocracy, and the French socialists in equal measure.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Cool 1973 cop thriller starring the ever awesome Roy Scheider as the leader of an elite police squad known as The Seven-Ups who use every dirty trick in the book to bring the bad guys to justice!
Really enjoyed this one it moves at a fair old pace and had an absolute corker of a car chase that just seemed to go on and on,Scheider was excellent as usual and there's appearance's here from the always sleazy looking Joe Spinell (Maniac) and Ken Kercheval who later played Cliff Barnes in Dallas.
Also you've got the late great Richard Lynch playing the main villain (Moon) with all his usual conviction and he certainly made for a sinister looking Bad Guy.
Shot all over New York State and even though I can't recollect seeing any snow it looked seriously cold and in each outdoor shot you could literally see the actors shivering!
Really good Blu Ray release From UK distributor Signal One Entertainment which is jam packed with special features and has a decent Picture/Sound transfer.
Great stuff i'd never seen this before and I'm pleased I've added it to my collection!
Sounds good, warrior. Bro also got this one so i need to pay him a visit.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Boy, Did I Get A Wrong Number (1966) starring Bob Hope, Elke Sommer and Phyllis Diller.
Fed up with being more famous for taking bubble baths on screen than acting, beautiful actress Didi (Sommer) runs off, and whilst hiding out, a crossed line connects her with real estate salesman Tom Meade (Hope). In trying to help, he gets himself deeper and deeper into trouble, not least with his wife, and the attentions of their kooky maid (Diller) only make things worse.
Fast paced and funny in places, it's a good showcase for the three leads.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
"The Doolan family are trying to make a go in the freight hauling business in Queensland, Australia. The problem is it's the 1920's, the Doolans use horses and motorized vehicles can do it faster. The proud father Paddy has difficulty accepting change." (IMDb)
This was pretty decent period drama directed by Donald Crombie and based on award-winning novel by Australian author Elizabeth O'Conner.
The film stars Michael Craig (the sadistic camp leader from Turkey Shoot), Simon Burke, Robyn Nevin, Lou Brown and Bryan Brown.
I enjoyed the nice Queensland, Australia locations and the overall atmophere here is quite melancholic. I get the end of an era feel. The cast did a good jod, especially Craig and Nevin.
The film was a disappointment at the box office and not many people know about it. While it´s not a lost classic, i can´t find any major flaws either.
Paddy´s "team" Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Five Weeks In A Balloon (1962) starring Red Buttons, Barbara Eden, Peter Lorre.
Tame version of the Jules Verne book, following a mismatched crew of a balloon as they race across Africa to beat slave traders to claim new territory for the British crown.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Mission Mars (1968) starring Darren McGavin, Nick Adams and George De Vries.
I probably used the word 'starring' incorrectly above. They were the leads, but in no way did anyone 'star'in this decidedly b- movie.
The plot (such as it is) follows the first manned trip to Mars, where the US astronauts discover that a) they were not the first to get there, and b) when they arrive, they are not alone.....
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Lightning Bolt (1965) a.k.a. Operazione Goldman
Italian-Spanish Bond rip-off with a whole bunch of unknowns, such as Anthony Eisley, Wandisa Guida and Folco Lulli. Detailing the investigation into the sabotage of America's moon rockets, the movie suffered from poor acting, a threadbare script into which they tried to cram too much, an over-reliance on narration rather than action, and clashing with the Olympic Tennis...
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Grand Theft Auto (1977)
"A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her." (IMDb)
Watched this Corman film which is somekind of a sequel to Eat My Dust and it was ok but nothing special. The story is just an excuse to drive fast and create car crash stunts.
Ron Howard also directed the movie (his first) and it feels like the only place he wants to be is behind the camera. They did shoot his scenes quickly but at least he got to kiss cute Nancy Morgan many times
It´s a very lightweight and silly film but did very well at the boxoffice.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
You gotta love Roger Corman. When he owned New World pictures, his films fit into such neat exploitation film niches: 1. Women in prison 2. Nurses/teachers, always three girls, ethnically mixed 3. Science fiction, often with humor 4. Car chase/crash 5. Bikers 6. Horror 7. Martial arts 8. Teen sex comedies 9. Foreign art film
I think he hit all the genres there.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Love Story (1970)
"A boy and a girl from different backgrounds fall in love regardless of their upbringing - and then tragedy strikes." (IMDb)
Finally got to watch this legendary romantic drama and it´s quite touching stuff. I like O´Neal and MacGraw, they rehearsed a long time and it shows. There´s lots of dialogue here and most of it kept me entertained.
I also enjoyed the fall/winter scenery. Part of me wants to go back to 70s early 80s, i just can´t help it
The film was of course a huge success and saved Paramount. May have to purchase the sequel Oliver´s Story at some point.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
aTomiK, i bet you had a hard time trying not to cry at the end of the movie !
By the way, that Love Story theme from composer Francis Lai stays with you forever.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Yeah, it made me wet my eyes a little. I´m a sentimental fella when i care about the characters.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think Love Story is the best of the "people with terminal diseases get more beautific the closer they get to death" films. I remember when it came out. It'a a good film and was a huge hit.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I'm so fond of the people with terminal diseases get more beautific the closer they get to death films LOL
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I haven't seen Love Story in many, many years, but didn't she have some unnamed movie terminal disease that made her more beautiful? ROFL
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Yeah, i believe it was Roger Ebert who said it first.
But i have to say to movies credit that MacGraw´s character didn´t want to take the hard drugs which takes your hair away amongst other things. She just wanted to die fast because she didn´t belive she could be cured.
Thank god the modern medicine has evolved.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I actually have an entry in Roger Ebert's Little Movie Glossary, where he coined stuff like "fruit cart" and "Ali McGraw dieases." Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Metzger´s Score (1974) and it was yet another very good high class erotica picture. Nice locations, good cast, great dialogue with fun double meanings and awesome soundtrack.
I was however quite pleased that the Arrow release included the soft version (may be the first time ever) because things got pretty wild in the end Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I've watched a cool little Terence Fisher film, Home To Danger (1951)
And some weird and wonderful Werner Herzog films, Heart of Glass and Stroszek
Question, does Bruno S always act like this? His approach didn't seem much different than when he played Kaspar Hauser.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Big Doll House (1971)
"Beautiful women prisoners are abused in a Philippine prison, until 5 of them plot an escape by taking the evil female warden hostage with the reluctant help of 2 male fruit vendors." (IMDb)
This was pretty good Roger Corman women in prison movie directed by Jack Hill. This has all the usual wip film ingredients: wicked warden who likes to torture topless prisoners, shower scenes and escape plan.
That said, this is one of the most entertaining i´ve seen. The characters all have a past and some kind of personality. The film stars Judith Brown, Roberta Collins, Pam Grier, Brooke Mills and Pat Woodell as prisoners. Kathryn Loder plays the warden and Christiane Schmidtmer her superior. Sid Haig and Jerry Frank are the funny fruit vendors.
Collins is excellent and this was a first major role for Grier. She also sings the theme tune Long-time Woman. Entertaining stuff for the fans of the genre.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I, too, like the Roger Corman WIP films. The Big Doll House is a good one, as is Caged Heat. Pam Grier is really nutty in this one. Isn't her character named "Alabama"? And Tarantino in his screenplay for True Romance had Patricia Arquette as Alabama as an homage, right?
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Grier was Alabama in Women in Cages which i by the way watched last night...
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Women in Cages (1971)
"Carol Jeffries (known as 'Jeff') is a naive American woman staying in the Phillipines. She is given ten years in prison after being set up by her drug-dealer boyfriend, Rudy. She endures the harsh conditions, sadistic head matron and attempts on her life, then convinces her cell-mates to try to escape with her through the jungle, in spite of the knowledge that ruthless trackers will be sent out after them." (IMDb)
Yeah, another Corman wip flick, this time directed by filippino Gerardo de Leon who isn´t quite as talented as Jack Hill.
Pam Grier is on the other side now as the ruthless head matron. Of course she´s too young to play this kind of role but she did ok. Judith Brown and Roberta Collins are back as prisoners and we can see Jennifer Gan and filippino action star Sofia Moran with them behind bars.
Some torture, shower scene, escape plan. You know how it goes While not as good as The Big Doll house, this is also entertaining stuff. In this film we can see more outside prison action in the beginning and in the end.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Ah, yes! I stand corrected. It's hard for me to keep track of which of the Filipino/Corman WIP films is which. They all have "those" elements.
aTomK, you've seen Hollywood Boulevard, where Joe Dante and Allan Arkush did the hilarious spoof of the Filipino WIP films with Paul Bartel as the director, right?
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: And some weird and wonderful Werner Herzog films, Heart of Glass and Stroszek
Question, does Bruno S always act like this? His approach didn't seem much different than when he played Kaspar Hauser.
I can't answer that question, but i do own The Werner Herzog Collection, released by the British Film Institute. It includes no less than 18 movies, plus additional short films as well as several documentaries and commentaries. So far i've only seen Aguire, The Wrath Of God (of course), Nosferatu, Fitzcarraldo, and Cobra Verde.
So many movies.. all those bonus features.. too much information.. It's giving me a headache ! I'll probably never find the time to work my way through everything that is included in the box set. Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I´ve only seen The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Nosferatu and Woyzeck from Herzog. Should watch more.
Crash, still haven´t got Hollywood Boulevard but i remember that the sequel included filippino spoof too. This time it was the war films.
That sequel wasn't really very good. It was too slick and not nearly as inside/charming as the original.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Fab boxset Johnny! I've just watched a depressing doc of his, Land of Silence and Darkness. I haven't seen too many of his films myself but I haven't seen one that I haven't liked! Nosferatu is by far my fave. I think it is equal to the silent original. I see a new Nosferatu is being made. Surprised they took so long really.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
White Heat (1949) - For someone with a big passion for gangster films I'm ashamed to say I had never seen this one before. But what a treat! Cagney was on fire. Beginning and end parts didn't let up whilst the middle section took its time building up great suspense. Maybe just a tad too long but other than that I have nothing remotely bad to say.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Big Bird Cage (1972)
"Terry, a social-climbing young woman accidentally gets caught up in the activities of two revolutionaries, Blossom and Django, and finds herself in a concentration camp for women. In the center of the camp is a towering wooden machine ("The Big Bird Cage") in which the women risk their lives processing sugar as the evil warden looks on. The prisoners are subjected to sadistic cruelty from the guards and fellow prisoners, and all attempts at escape are dealt with...permanently. Terry's only hope for escape lies in Blossom and her revolutionary allies." (IMDb)
Third Grier/Corman wip-flick adds yet another angle. This was highly entertaining feature with lots of humour and even director Jack Hill has said that this is more a spoof than basic women in prison film.
The cast is great with many pretty prisoners including Anitra Ford as Terry. Sid Haig is in once again and it was also fun to see Vic Diaz as one of the gay guards.
We can hear lots of fun dialogue, the camp looks great and the naturally girls will smash the place in the end. Highly recommended!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
White Heat is a favorite of mine, Helen. Cagney's fantastic, and the screenplay is excellent and, for its day, pretty twisted. (How about that weird mother-complex?) "Made it, Ma, top of the world!" Classic ending.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Johnny Rourke, that Werner Herzog Collection caught my eye! I need this! Going to ask the hubby to get it for my birthday, which is September 21, along with a new pair of Dr. Martin's boots
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: White Heat is a favorite of mine, Helen. Cagney's fantastic, and the screenplay is excellent and, for its day, pretty twisted. (How about that weird mother-complex?) "Made it, Ma, top of the world!" Classic ending.
The scene where he finds out about her shouldn't of but made me giggle!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yeah, when he decompensates and freaks out. Cagney was a heckuva great actor.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pittsburghgirl: Johnny Rourke, that Werner Herzog Collection caught my eye! I need this! Going to ask the hubby to get it for my birthday, which is September 21, along with a new pair of Dr. Martin's boots
Pitts, the one i own is the UK box-set from the British Film Institute released in 2014. Around the same time though, there was also a US Herzog collection box-set released by Shout Factory. They're not the same though. Most (or probably all) of the more familiar titles are included in both sets, but there are also many notable differences between the two. I remember i did some research before deciding which box i should buy. It's not that one is better than the other. I think they're both equally impressive. Eventually i picked up the UK BFI box, simply because it was cheaper.
I have to admit the folks at Shout Factory did put a little more effort into their packaging.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) - This gets better everytime I see it! One of Vincent Price's best performances. It looks beautiful and is incredibly moody. I want to go to there!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Jaguar Lives! (1979)
"Spanish-American action film directed by Ernest Pintoff and starring Joe Lewis, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence and Barbara Bach. Its plot follows a secret agent who battles an international drugs ring." (Wiki)
This was a decent crime flick with few martial arts fights. Lewis didn´t have enough charisma to be action star but he has some nice moves though. Our hero visits at least ten countries while he tries to find out the mysterious Esteban, the leader of the drug cartel.
Lots of Bond movie veterans in this one and we can also see John Huston and Woody Strode as Jaguar´s sensei.
The Arrow dvd includes cool Joe Lewis interview made in 2006. He died two years later.
Lunch Wagon is still easily the best Pintoff film i´ve seen Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Johnny Rourke, thanks for that info! 😊
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Beware My Brethren - Strange film. Had some murders, a weird mother and son relationship and Patrick Magee as the leader of a nutty religious group.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I saw that for the first time about a year ago. It's got a sleazy kind of atmosphere, doesn't it?
I also saw a really obscure zombie romance--a rom-zom, perhaps? LOL--called Neither the Sea Nor the Sand around the same time. It was slow and weird. Kind of like a Harlequin romance paperback--with a zombie. ROFL
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Hahaha, do want Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Here's an interesting story..
There was this horror movie i watched on BBC television sometime in the late 90s, which i couldn't remember the name of. I clearly do remember what it was about, plus that it had a fair amount of nudity and psychedelic images. Didn't know which actors / actresses were in it, didn't know who the director was, only that it was made roughly between 1967 and 1974 most likely, judging from the things i did remember. Basically it was just a vague memory.
Enter Helen's Beware My Brethren post from day before yesterday..
I know this movie was released as The Fiend on dvd in the UK.. never seen it though, so i went looking on the Imdb. I noticed it was directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, whom i know of because he also did Corruption (1968), which has been released on blu-ray on the Grindhouse Releasing label back in 2013. I also found out this was the same guy who made School For Unclaimed Girls (1969), which was released on UK dvd earlier this year under its alternate title Girls Of Shame (and somehow managed to stay under my radar).
But going through his directorial film credits i noticed he also did Incense For The Damned aka Bloodsuckers (1970), which -as it turned out- is in fact the movie i vaguely remembered watching on the BBC all those years ago !
Another mystery solved.. so thank you, Helen !
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Haha, love it! I have Bloodsuckers. Didn't really like it but no doubt I'll give it another go someday Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Bloodsuckers is a half-completed mess, but it does have nudity and psychadelia. Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Bloodsuckers is a half-completed mess, but it does have nudity and psychadelia.
SOLD!
quote:Another mystery solved.. so thank you, Helen !
I no longer say 'thank heaven', I just say 'thank Helen'. People always understand.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I just watched a nice short supernatural film starring Christopher Lee, Cross-Roads (1955)
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Ghost In The Invisible Bikini (1966)
Very dated, very cheesy 'beach' movie from AIP, starring a bunch of people you've never heard of, and - strangely enough - Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone and Nancy Sinatra.
I can't quite work out if this falls into 'so bad it's good' territory. Certainly I enjoyed it more than I expected to, even with all it's very obvious flaws. The story follows the efforts of a recently deceased showman and his muse (the titular ghost in the bikini) as they attempt to deliver a good deed by ensuring the showman's estate is correctly shared amongst his benefactors and isn't stolen by his shyster lawyer. The will reading happens in an old manor house, onto which a hoard of teenage hipsters and a thieving motorcycle gang descend to add to the mayhem.
The performances varied from 'over the top' to 'wildly over the top' and the scenery had hints of Adam West's Batman about them. However, despite the hipsters' habit of bursting into song whenever they had the chance, it was fun, fast paced, and packed with sixties cheese.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I've always liked the AIP beach party films, Paul. They are just so quaint--"square" even--and time-capsule pieces of their era. They were all entertaining, though this one is the weakest of the series--and there's no beach in sight. Harvey Lembeck, who always had pretty good comic timing as Eric von Zipper, and his gang are like low-rent Three Stooges. And in addition to Nancy Sinatra, the girls, AIP regulars like Deborah Walley, Susan Hart Nicholson, and Quinn O'Hara, are simply gorgeous. The auburn-tressed Walley--RIP--was a favorite of mine. She was the quintessential "girl next door." And AIP got extra mileage out of that sawmill buzzsaw. I forget which earlier beach party movie it was also featured in.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Blob was filmed in a small town in Eastern Pennsylvania. Every year they have a festival celebrating the film.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Haha, love that!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Talking about The Blob films, i would love to get this one. November release from Umbrella Entertainment. It also includes Son of Blob. Larry Hagman rules!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I'm thinkng that this upcoming Bluray actually has the 1988 remake directed by Chuck Russell instead of Son of Blob a/k/a Beware! The Blob directed by Larry Hagman.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
They say that it includes all three but Son of Blob is only SD.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I love the Chuck Russell 1988 version,never seen the original or the Son Of Blob but that is some package there that I'm quite tempted in picking it up.
Don't dislike the art that they've used either but I must say I do love the different random artworks that were originally used for the 88 remake!
The cool artwork used for the 1988 original Uk home video release.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Oh wow! That's super cool. I remember seeing Son of Blob many, many years ago--too many to be precise--in 1974 on the late, great CBS Late Movie. It has its moments. Actually, the original The Blob is an underrated, cool little slice of 50's sci-fi with a young Steve McQueen. The sequel Beware! The Blob (as I know it) is better than people give it credit for. It has some funny moments. And while I certainly admire the craftsmanship of the 1988 remake--and I know it has a lot of fans--I think that it's just okay. The original is actually more entertaining.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Corman film The Arena (1974) which was directed by Steve Carver and Joe D´Amato.
"Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom." (IMDb)
This was a very low-budget film shot in Italy. The plot in itself is pretty interesting but they haven´t created much around it. I love the two stars Pam Grier and Margaret Markov and they do what they can here including their own stunts.
All in all, a bit disappointing feature and not nearly as good as Black Mama White Mama but if you are a fan of the two female actresses mentioned you might still enjoy it.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Joe (1970)
,..An odd friendship grows between a businessman and a blue-collar worker as they search together for the executive's runaway daughter. Thrust into the midst of the counter-culture, they react with an orgy of violence..'
Early Cannon production, starring screen legend Peter Boyle, prolific TV actor Dennis Patrick, and a young Susan Sarandon, is one of the best examples of the generation-gap between conservative parents and their free-loving hippie offspring.
Superb performance from Boyle, and one of the hippie girls is played by Francine Middleton, who also turned up as the train victim in the opening scene of George Romero's Martin (1977). Directed by John G Avildsen.
Beware of an incredibly grim and downbeat climax !
I remember seeing the trailer for this Johnny for the first time ever on the Canon Films documentary which came out a little while back and I thought it looked really great!
Definitely need to check it out and it certainly seems different to much of what came later during Avildsen's long directorial career!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sounds good, Johnny! I have the dvd so i´ll check it out one of these days (years )
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Wrong Arm Of The Law (1963) starring Peter Sellers as the leader of a crime gang whose heists are being hijacked by a new mob on the block. The 'IPO Gang' impersonate police officers and pretend to apprehend the thieves, only to make off with the loot.
It's a fast-paced, funny movie, with a supporting cast covering most of the known faces of British comedy in the 60s.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Foxy Brown (1974) and Sheba, Baby (1975)
Foxy was a rewatch and Sheba first timer (and maybe last too).
Foxy Brown is still one of the greatest blaxploitation movies. Jack Hill knew what the people wanted and gave it 100%.
Sheba is so lame i can´t find words. Not even legendary Austin Stoker (Assault on Precinct 13) can help it. I enjoy Bill Girdler´s (he died way too young) late 70s horror flicks but this was a disappointment.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Pam Grier is a 70s goddess, and it is great to see her still working today. She is a terrific actress and has lots of screen presence. My favorites of her films are Coffy, The Arena, and Black Mamma White Mamma. Foxy Brown is good, and I agree that Sheba, coming at the tail-end of the Blaxploitation era is very weak.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Terrific Elmore Leonard written thriller starring my all time favourite tough guy actor Charles Bronson as a melon farmer who is being pursued by the mob after upsetting one of there number.
Not watched this at a guess since the early 90s so it's certainly been a while but this a great,straight forward little thriller with a cool performance from the main man and features many a memorable line and moment throughout!
Looks & sounds good on Blu Ray (from UK distributor Signal One Entertainment) and includes a good selection of extras including audio commentary,interviews,trailer etc.
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Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Here's a catch up of some classics...
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957) starring William Hopper and Joan Taylor.
A fifties sci-fi flick showcasing the skills of Ray Harryhausen, it tells the tale of an unborn venusian creature brought back on mankind's first mission. When the ship crashes back on earth, the creature is born, grows at an exponential rate, and due to fear and man's tendency to attack what he does not understand, goes on a rampage.
Earth Vs The Flying Saucers (1956)
Interesting sci-fi fare starring Hugh Marlowe and Joan Taylor as a newly married scientific duo researching near-space to pave the way for manned flights. Sudden increased UFO activity and the downing of their research satellites points to an imminent invasion of Earth, and they hold the key to mankind's survival.
With effects by Ray Harryhausen, a half-decent script and some typically stoic mid-fifties acting, this one's an enjoyable watch.
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) starring Kenneth Tobey, Faith Domergue and Donald Curtis.
Another movie made far better for the inclusion of Ray Harryhausen's creatures, this movie deals with the discovery, validation, and ultimate battle with a huge octopus-like creature who emerges from his deep-sea lair and threatens America's Pacific coast. As usual, the effects win over the rather stilted Fifties B-movie style and performances.
Riders to the Stars (1954) stars Richard Carlson, Herbert Marshall, William Lundigan and Martha Hyer.
Keen to find a way to protect their early spacecraft from the effects of cosmic radiation, a group of scientists hatch a plan to catch a meteoroid, when one of their number wonders how they survive intact.The plan requires a team of men to go into space to capture one, and so a nationwide search is on to recruit the twelve most likely candidates, whittle them down to four, and then shoot them into space.
It's a bit of a kooky concept, but one that is delivered quite well. There's still the fifties style running all through the movie, but the characters are a little more believable than most of the genre.
Beauty And The Barge (1937) starring Gordon Harker, Judy Gunn, Jack Hawkins and Margaret Rutherford.
Desperate to escape her overbearing father's command that she marry against her wishes, a young woman runs away, into the company of a philandering boat captain and pursued by a smitten naval officer. This is a gentle little period piece, with some fine overacting and a lot of accents, both plummy and common.
Don't Panic Chaps (1959)
Enjoyable comedy starring George Cole, Dennis Price, Harry Fowler, Percy Herbert and Gertan Klauber. A quartet of soldiers placed on an uninhabited Greek island by their CO to monitor ship movements get forgotten when the invasion goes to Sicily and not Greece. When they find out there's also a handful of German soldiers on the island as well - who are in exactly the same state of limbo - do they fight, or do they co-exist, waiting to see which side turns up first to rescue them? as it happens, the first arrival is a beautiful girl.
Although the premise of 'friendly enemies' is taken a little too far, it helps that all eight combatants are inept in their own ways, and each finds a connection with a foe. The laughs come at a steady, gentle pace, and overall, this is a funny, inoffensive little flick.
The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975)
Gene Wilder directed and starred in this detective spoof, playing Sigerson, the younger brother of the famous sleuth. When he takes on the case of Jenny Hill and the missing document, there's murder and mayhem afoot.
Wonderful ensemble cast, including Madeline Khan, Marty Feldman, Leo McKern, Roy Kinnear and John Le Mesurier.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: The Billy Jack films are products of their era and have dated badly. They are interesting though as examples of what one fringe lunatic actor/filmmaker could accomplish outside the studio system.
Billy Jack ; The Complete Collection forthcoming from Shout Factory !
The 4 disc blu-ray set will include Born Losers (1967), Billy Jack (1971), The Trial Of Billy Jack (1974), and Billy Jack Goes To Washington (1977). Release date is set for march 28th, 2017.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
La Grande Bouffe (1973)
"Four successful middle-aged men Marcello, a pilot; Michel, a television executive; Ugo, a chef; and, Philippe, a judge go to Philippe's villa to eat themselves to death. After the first night, Marcello insists that women should join them. Three prostitutes make it through a day or two; Andrea, a local school teacher, stays to the end. The villa, the food, and a Bugati roadster are essential props." (IMDb)
Masterpiece!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Err...
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Something wrong, Helen? I´d imagine it´s right down your alley
Little more smashed potatoes Michel? Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
LOL!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
La Grande Bouffe deserves a spot on every cult collector's shelf i'd say !
For reasons unknown i still don't have Marco Ferreri's Tales Of Ordinary Madness though..
Anyway.. i re-watched Jonathan Kaplan's Over The Edge (1979) on region 1 dvd the other day. Still good, of course !
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Earth Dies Screaming (1965)
Unfeasibly chilling black and white movie telling the story of a handful of survivors, after pretty much everyone on Earth dies in what they suspect was a gas attack. Their fears are increased when alien robots start roaming the land, picking off the few remaining humans. And things don't get better when some of the dead become zombies.
Very much a precursor to - and imo a somewhat superior movie to - Night Of The Living Dead.
While I wouldn't put it in the same league as Night of the Living Dead, The Earth Dies Screaming is an efficient--clocking in at something like 66 minutes--and creepy little second feature directed by Hammer great Terence Fisher. I really liked the design of the robots. The climax was a little rushed, but it's such a well acted and well produced little film.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Born To Win (1971)
Excellent time-capsule starring George Segal leading the junkie life-style in a crumbling early 70s New York.
Grim and realistic, but not without humour. Arguably one of Segal's best performances !
Karen Black (as Segal's love interest) and Robert De Niro (as an undercover narcotics cop) co-star, and Born To Win is directed by Czech filmmaker Ivan Passer who went on to do Cutter's Way (1981).
I, however, watched a really bad one called Cocaine Cowboys (1979).
It was directed by Ulli Lommel and shot mainly at Andy Warhol´s home and he also has a role in the film, unfortunately.
It´s about a rock band and the guys finance their career with cocaine smuggling. Now they want to get out but someone steals 2 million worth of powder and the bad guys are after them.
Nothing really happens here, nothing. This has to be one of the most boring films i´ve ever seen.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Just checked out the trailer for Born To Win and have definitely not seen that one before,it looks decent and I like both Seagal and Karen Black plus you've got De Niro as well it looks cool!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Beat Girl (1960) - This was a bit of fun. Some awkward cringy dancing, interesting music. Christopher Lee in a small but fun role as a grumpy, sleazy strip club owner. Oliver Reed credited as Plaid shirt haha. 'Teens' calling everybody a square. Fighting is for squares, drinking is for squares, you're square, he's square. Main girl was so smackable.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Most Dangerous Game (1932) - Never heard of this one before. It was so good and just zips by with only around an hour running time. A really dark premise, great atmosphere and loved the main actors. Highly enjoyable!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
The Most Dangerous Game was done by much of the same team that went on to do King Kong. You got Fay Wray in it too! It's a terrific film and doesn't waste a second of its 63 minutes. I think that it's the best version of the classic short story.
Posted by Nostalgic for the '80's (Member # 37454) on :
To comment on some recently mentioned films on this thread:
"Born to Win" - very well done but extremely depressing film about drug addicts in '70's NYC. George Segal is the star, and DeNiro is barely in the film. IIRC, there was a DVD box cover I saw of this film a while back, and it made it look like DeNiro played a big role - but he didn't.
This film definitely needs a better home video release than what it's gotten so far; the only time I've ever seen this was on a cheap full-screen DVD; the picture quality seemed like it was a VHS rip - terrible. This is a film that would probably reach a wider audience if it got a much better DVD/Blu-ray transfer.
"Joe" - excellent film starring Peter Boyle as an "average Joe" who befriends a middle-aged guy who has committed an unintentional crime. The film is a great look at the counterculture in the early '70's U.S., specifically the wide gulf between conservative middle aged adults & the much younger hippie culture.
"Mr. Majestyk" - just recently watched this on the Kino Lorber Blu. Great '70's action flick, and though not my favorite Bronson (that would be The Mechanic), this was extremely well-done. I liked how the film started out one way, and then when Bronson (as a prisoner) was involved in the attempt to free that hit man, the film shifted a different way - very creative story-telling.
The picture quality on the Blu was definitely great (for the most part), but there were still some scenes where there was a lot of film grain (i.e., DNR) visible - especially at night. However, considering this is an older film, that was understandable. Plus, since Bronson films on Blu are few & far between anyway, I'm not complaining too much
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Friday Foster (1975)
"Friday Foster, a model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged into a web of conspiracy involving the murder of her childhood friend, a US senator, and a shadowy plan called "Black Widow". (IMDb)
This was a entertaining blaxploitation film with a tongue in cheek attitude. It´s an adaptation of the 1970-74 eponymous syndicated newspaper comic strip. Pam Grier gives a nice performance as Friday and the great cast also includes Yaphet Kotto, Thalmus Rasulala, Carl Weathers, Eartha Kitt, Scatman Crothers, Ted Lange, Godfrey Cambridge, Jason Bernard and Paul Benjamin.
Washington power games, action, pretty ladies, some nudity plus nice theme tune. Fun stuff!
Nothing freaky with this Friday! Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
THX 1138 (1971)
Dystopian sci fi movie with Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence and Maggie McOmie as terrorized in a world controlled by computer surveillance, forced drug use, and Android cops. Conformity is above all, and so when Duvall and McOmie try to break the monotony, the system turns against them.
It's a dark, hopeless future world view, and the reasons for this are never explored. As such, it never really asks nor answers any questions, and you're left with a vision but very little else.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I really like THX-1138, an expansion of George Lucas's student film, but it indeed has a dark, hopeless feel. This is such a difference from Lucas's feel-good science fiction Star Wars.
In looking at THX-1138 on imdb.com, I was shocked to see it reported there that the film grossed almost $(US)2.5 million. I don't believe that, unless that figure includes the box office for the post-Star Wars re-release. I was always under the impression that even though it didn't cost a lot, it was considered a huge bomb and just dumped into a few theatres by Warner Bros. back in early 1971. Without the Internet in those days, genre fans like me had only heard about it from specialty film magazines like Cinefantastique, where it got a glowing review. Then one night in 1973, it showed up on the great CBS Late Movie (or "all the film school you'd ever need," as a friend of mine so aptly puts it), home to many exploitation, cult, lost, and unreleased films in the days before VHS. (I saw DePalma's long-shelved Get to Know Your Rabbit on the CBS Late Movie too.)
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Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
David Bowie ; The Cracked Actor (1974)
Fascinating look at a very fragile looking David Bowie preparing and performing his Diamond Dogs tour in the US.
Part of the long-running BBC Omnibus documentary series, this 53 minute episode originally aired in january 1975.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Sunburn (1979)
"After a rich old man dies in a suspicious car accident in Acapulco, his widow wants his insurance company to pony up $5 million. A hotshot investigator Decker (Grodin) and a charming model (Fawcett) come in to check it out." (IMDb)
This was a pretty fun, easygoing crime comedy directed by Richard C. Sarafian (Vanishing Point, Eye of the Tiger). Fawcett looks amazing, Grodin is great as usual and Art Carney is the older guy who knows the local life. The three have a nice chemistry and supporting cast includes more interesting names like Joan Collins, John Hillerman, Keenan Wynn and Seymour Cassel.
Cool cast, nice locations, few fun one-liners and some action. I also like the Graham Gouldman (10cc) penned theme tune. Not bad.
Sunburn was hyped a lot when it came out I think, and it became something of a byword for flop / bad movie. I've never seen it but it does look interesting, and Grodin always rocks.
Watched: Logan's Run. Still fun, still hokey. A little more clunky than I remember it. Ustinov's character grated a little more too. More nudity than I remembered. Plus I still laugh at the line "I am Box - impressive am I not?" because the answer to that question has always been "No".
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Logan's Run--Jenny Agutter nude. 'Nuff said!
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Logan's Run--Jenny Agutter nude. 'Nuff said!
Jenny is a true legend. She got her kit off all the time and yet it’s almost impossible to think of her as anything other than the perfect cinematic example of a lady. Maybe it's the poise... maybe it's the "Daddy my daddy!" scene from 'The Railway Children'. Who knows. Bottle that magic and sell it!
It never occurred to me that the three leads are British. Seems odd thinking about it now. Plus it never occurred to me that Michael and Jenny were supposed to be doing US accents until Michael mentioned it in the commentary.
However, I think it has to be said... Richard Jordan probably gives the best performance in the movie – he just doesn’t have that much to do.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
What Have You Done to Solange? (1972)
This was a very good murder mystery directed by Massimo Dallamano. Basically this is a typical whodunnit giallo but it´s very well done and atmospheric plus i love the London, England locations. I also liked the cast, especially Cristina Galbo as Elizabeth was very pretty and sympathetic.
The kills are quite nasty but there´s not much blood around. I also have to mention one pretty disturbing scene near the end featuring Camille Keaton. Ouch! The film is a bit too long for it´s own good but there´s few unforgettable scenes and overall great (melancholic) vibe so i highly recommend it to the fans of macabre.
The Arrow release includes few nice documentaries. The leading star Fabio Testi talks about his career and Karin Baal hates the film deeply Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Danger: Diabolik (1968).
A fun 60s comic book feature directed by Mario Bava. I loved the wild cinematography, awesome settings and set pieces created by Bava and his friends.
John Philip Law is perfect Diabolik and Marisa Mell is his superhot girlfriend/partner in crime. The plot is simple: Diabolik robs money and jewelry but doesn´t give to the poor but to his girlfriend. Inspector Ginko (Michel Piccoli) and evil mobster Valmont (Adolfo Celi) are after him but Diabolik outsmarts them every time.
Although there´s some silly acting here, especially from Terry Thomas, i say forget the campy 60s Batman, Diabolik is the man!
The dvd also includes a cool documentary featuring comic book artist and Diabolik freak Steve Bissette.
Marisa Mell looking so fine Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I too love Danger: Diabolik. Bava was a genius for beautiful films on a budget. I think this one was the highest budgeted film of his career, but he still brought it in way under budget. Try that out for size, Michael Bay!
I think that the film looks great, is so much fun, and has Marissa Mell. Of all the Euro starlets of the late 60s and early 70s, Mell, along with Edwige Fenech, Florinda Bolkan, and Femi Benussi, was my favorite. There was an even better picture in Famous Monsters of Filmland of Marissa Mell from Danger: Diabolik that made me a man. LOL As a teenager, I used to think all European women looked that good.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Best line from 'Danger: Diabolik':
"This is the largest single shipment of dollars ever made... at six in the morning!" Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
LOL. Now that's a great line!
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
It really feels like 70s films were full of sensual, beautiful women. Gotta love ´em!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Visitors (1972)
Psychological thriller, with only 5 actors and 1 setting, about the aftermath of the events also portrayed in Casualties Of War. The rape and subsequent murder of a Vietnamese woman results in a moral clash between platoon mates, and they end up facing each other on opposite sides in a court martial. Years later, two former soldiers who were found guilty and imprisoned for two years come knocking at Bill's door, who had testified against them. Tensions rise when Bill's wife and her father are dragged into the conflict, and a night of psychological terror ensues.
Starring James Woods and Steve Railsback, and directed by veteran filmmaker Elia Kazan.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Death Rides A Horse (1967)
,..A young gunfighter plans to track down and eliminate the bandits who killed his family, and forms a tenuous alliance with an aging ex-outlaw to achieve this end..'
Excellent Italian western, for a change not directed by one of the 'Sergios' (Corbucci, Leone, Sollima), but the lesser-known Giulio Petroni. John Phillip Law (Danger Diabolik, Barbarella) and Lee Van Cleef star.
Great story, breathtaking scenery, lots of striking faces (including cult-fave Luigi Pistilli), and of course the requisite Ennio Morricone score ! John Phillip Law's character suffers a bit from stilted dialogue in the dubbed audio, but Van Cleef has tremendous screen presence here in a role with a bit more depth to his usual silent avenger type of character.
Definitely among the best of its kind, i highly recommend Death Rides A Horse !
This is an excellent spaghetti Western, a real favorite of mine.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Van Cleef is so cool. He really had the right face for it. I love Day Of Anger and The Big Gundown too.. good stuff !
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Van Cleef, one of the greatest film tough guys. Always a favorite.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I´m gonna check out Death Rides a Horse and yeah, Van Cleef rocks!
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Just watched this on YouTube. Good spaghetti western. Kind of odd pacing, but Van Cleef and John Phillip Law are good (Law seems to be doing some kind of John Wayne impersonation).
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I watched Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore this evening (1974). This was much better than the cheesy tv show that took its name from the movie. This movie had an indie flick feel to it. One of Scorsese's first full length feature films. I really enjoyed Burstyn and Kristofferson. I could not figure out who that kid was who played Tommy. He was also in The Bad News Bears a few years later.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That film is pretty much forgotten today, but it was an early--and excellent--studio film by the great Scorsese.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by Logan 5: Just watched this on YouTube. Good spaghetti western. Kind of odd pacing, but Van Cleef and John Phillip Law are good.
True. The pacing of spaghetti westerns has always been erratic, but that's part of the genre's charm, i think. They have this otherworldly feel that adds a slight touch of surrealism, which i really like.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
quote:That film is pretty much forgotten today, but it was an early--and excellent--studio film by the great Scorsese.
Sooooo many great movies made in Hollywood in the 70's. True greatness. I don't think we'll ever get an era like that again. It was the perfect storm for creativity; Hollywood moguls not knowing what to do amid a crumbling studio system, young ambitious directors raised on classic US movies and foreign cinema, and a society dropping all constraints after the sexual revolution. That was before the dark times... before the corporations...
This one tends to get forgotten because it's sandwiched between the cooler Mean Streets and Taxi Driver. But this one really put him on the map. Burstyn and Kristofferson were big stars in the 70's, but they didn't seem to retain that status beyond the decade (in terms of the mainstream). Funny how that works.
I watched:
Parallax View: Much more dated and patchy than I remember. The scene with the musical montage in the 'training centre' is very very weak now. The cast are great though. I often forget how good Beatty is.
The Europeans: Very early Merchant Ivory (before that became a dividing term). A very simple but evocative movie about some Europeans visiting some rather pious Bostonians and the culture clash (if 'clash' is the right word) that follows.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I think it's in the classic book Movie Brats where the argument is made that the 1970s were the best decade of American films. I think that I have to agree. Here is what I think is a great list (including some foreign films, but all the U.S. classics are there):
I´ve seen 60/100 so i have some work to do Luckily i own many of those on the list i´ve yet to see.
Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
Hmm... I've seen 86 of the top 100, but only 6 of the additional 20. 28 out of 120 unseen...
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Hal Ashby may be well-represented, but i do wonder why Harold And Maude (1971) didn't make the list. Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
That is a good point. Harold and Maude may be my favorite of his films.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Watched Mario Bava film Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970).
"A small group of people come to an island to relax but soon find themselves trapped on the island with a murderer in their midst." (IMDb)
What a disappointing movie with a one dollar plot. Stupid charaters killed one by one with no hint of excitement or any sense at all. The worst Bava flick i´ve seen so far and only beautiful ladies like Edwige Fenech and Helena Ronee got me trough this relatively short film.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Five Dolls For An August Moon does have this very catchy song by Italian prog-rock band Il Balletto Di Bronzo :
That's a good song, and a terrific band !
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I agree. Five Dolls is easily Bava's worst film--and I've seen 'em all. It has all the signs of a hired-gun/paycheck job with the master just phoning the direction in.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Door With Seven Locks (1940)
"I love frolicking in morgues."
Who doesn't! A pretty fun mystery comedy with some great atmosphere at times.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Crash, that list is great. I have seen a lot of the movies, I would estimate around 50/100. So many on that list that I would like to see. I might have to check the library again soon. Problem is, I haven't been doing a lot of movie viewing, as we have had exceptionally warm weather. That means we haven't been hibernating and watching movies, ha ha.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Necromancy - A 70s film with a creepy cultlike town, voodoo dolls, witchcraft, tarot, dreaminess, raising the dead. All things that should add up to a big yay for me, yet it just all feels so flat up until that fantastic ending.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Bert I. Gordon's Necronmancy has eluded me over the years, but it does have one of my favorite 70s actresses in it, Pamela Franklin. She was in three classics: The Innocents, And Soon the Darkness, and The Legend of Hell House. She's always terrific, especially in the small masterpiece And Soon the Darkness.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I would like to see And Soon the Dakness. Food of the Gods is the only Franklin film i´ve seen. So funny but cool at the same time
Pamela doesn´t look very scared confronting that giant rat Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
How a good actress like Pamela Franklin hooked up with schlockmeister Bert I. Gordon (Mr."B.I.G." who had big animals and humans and crap in his films) is just beyond me!
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
quote:Originally posted by Crash: Bert I. Gordon's Necronmancy has eluded me over the years, but it does have one of my favorite 70s actresses in it, Pamela Franklin. She was in three classics: The Innocents, And Soon the Darkness, and The Legend of Hell House. She's always terrific, especially in the small masterpiece And Soon the Darkness.
Ha, a 70s flick I've seen that you haven't! Like all 3 of those and my fave film she was in is The Nanny I also liked Satan's School For Girls. I know you say the remake of darkness is horrid but it's on the horror channel at the weekend so I may be tempted Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Yep. Pamela was in those also.
The remake of And Soon the Darkness is horrid. Instead of quiet, unnerving terror on a short stretch of French road, you have Amber Heard with an automatic weapon in a plot about human trafficking in Argentina. Right. It's closer to I Spit on Your Grave than the original masterpiece.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Watched a different type and much better witchy film tonight, The Witchmaker (1969). Really atmospheric and got more interesting as it went along.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
The Beast of Yucca Flats (1961) starring Tor Johnson, Douglas Melling, Barbara Stafford, Bing Stafford and Conrad Brooks.
Possibly worse even that Johnson's more famous Plan 9 from Outer Space, this one really needs to be seen to be disbelieved.
The main plot surrounds Soviet scientist Joseph Javorsky, in the process of defecting from the Russians with a briefcase full of secrets. when the KGB try to stop him, he flees into the Nevada desert, and (as you do) gets caught in the blast from a nuclear test. Rather than kill him, this turns Javorsky into an inhuman beast, intent on killing at all costs. After he strangles a young married couple, he retreats into the desert pursued by two local cops.
Nearby, a family have pulled over to change a blown tyre. The two boys wander off into the desert, and are soon confronted by Javorsky. Whilst they escape, their father is searching for them and comes under fire from the cops, who mistakenly believe he's the killer.
Basically that's it, but to be fair, the acting is so terribly wooden and the narration so matter-of-fact that revealing the entire plot to you really wouldn't count as a 'spoiler'.
There is one thing, though, that even now - and even after I've googled it - still doesn't make sense. At the very beginning of the movie, there's a scene where a young woman steps out of the shower, and whilst dressing, she is strangled by the 'beast' - even before any of the rest of the story happens. There's nowhere in the movie's narrative that this scene would fit, and so it really stands out as strange. According to Wikipedia, this scene was put in (in two versions, one far less revealing than the other) simply because the director Coleman Francis 'liked nude scenes'.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Sixties Sci Fi. Don't you just love the bits that go Bzzzzzzz! Or the bits that go Wheeeeeeeee! And don't forget the thing with the sparks that goes Ftzzzz!
What I love about early sixties sci fi is the cheapness of it all. As long as there's a bank of switches and knobs somewhere, everything else (plot, acting) really doesn't matter.
Which makes Monstrosity (a.k.a. The Atomic Brain), from 1963, interesting.
Yes, it's a sci fi film, but the science is used just as an enabler for a far more compelling, more sinister tale.
Mrs March (Marjorie Eaton) is old and dying. Which is something she just cannot accept. So she uses her vast wealth to recruit the brilliant but morally suspect scientist, Dr Frank (Frank Gerstle) whose work promises the ability to transplant her brain into a young body. When the technique seems to work, the old woman hires three foreign girls (Erika Peters, Lisa Lang and Judy Bamber) as servants, who are all beautiful, and who all have no family to notice their disappearance.
The three girls are interesting, but not always convincing. Of the three, Peters gives the best performance as the girl who most quickly realises that escape is the only way. Lang has little to do, and Bamber's fake cockney accent is even worse than that of that Van Dyke chappie in Mary Poppins! Eaton is sinister as the creepy Mrs March, whilst Gerstle gives a not-untypical wooden performance as your standard bad scientist type.
As the girls are inspected and the target is chosen, they suspect that all may well not be as it seems. Escape is impossible, however, so how will they manage to get away from the mad old lady, the obsessed scientist, and the murderous monster prowling the grounds?
And where on earth does Xerxes the cat come into play?
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
I love The Beast Of Yucca Flats!!
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Joseph Javorsky, once a respected scientist... Coleman Francis's films have a kind of hallucinogenic fugue logic all their own. Francis was clearly a man who drank a lot and liked light aircraft, as the MST3K boys used to say. He's absolutely much worse than Ed Wood as a filmmaker, but the Medveds in their bad films book anchored Wood to that dubious honor forever.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Bone (1972)
"A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared." (IMDb)
Larry Cohen´s first and a good one. They even filmed it in his own house (which looks nice btw)! I loved how the truth about the rich and the restless is revealed and Kotto has some juicy lines concerning black mysticism Add lovely Jeannie Berlin and more 70s un-PC behaviour and we a cool little film, just the way i like ´em.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
Love, love, love Larry Cohen's stuff. I have Bone in the Larry Cohen box set from many years ago.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Flood! (1976)
"After several weeks of heavy rainfall, the dam above Brownsville is short from running over. However the mayor refuses to open it's gates, because he fears for the fishes in the lake... and paves the way for disaster." (IMDb)
Disaster lite from Irwin Allen. Flood is a tv-movie so Towering Inferno it´s not. I like the genre though and it´s always fun to watch these and witness the cause and effect. The film stars Robert Culp (cool), Martin Milner (very uncool), Cameron Mitchell plus pretty ladies Barbara Hershey and Francine york.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Obsession (1976)
"New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland's life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who bears a striking resemblance to his wife." (IMDb)
De Palma and Schrader doing Vertigo.
So, we have a script from those fellas, Vilmos Zsigmond camera work and Bernard Herrmann score. But damn this movie is dry and slow I liked Genevieve Bujold and John Lithgow was fun but Cliff Robertson is made of wood.
There´s hints of incest, some nice camera ideas and a big twist in the end but overall i think that this was boring. And there´s just too much coincidences and oddball behavior here, i usually don´t mind things like that too much if the film is otherwise entertaining, this wasn´t.
Obsession was originally called Deja vu which is a perfect name but they thought it sounded too french. Come on!
The Arrow blu included short film Woton´s Wake and documentary The Responsive Eye. Woton was wild and crazy, Responsive Eye interesting time capsule.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
DePalma hated working with Robertson, who thought Bujold was upstaging him so he tried to sabotage her performance, and he tells a great story in the documentary DePalma about Zsigmond's telling Robertson that his tanned faced looked like mahogany paneling!
I like Obsession. It's early DePalma, but his skill set is already established, and sure, it's Vertigo in a way, but I think that it goes off on its own variation. And it is so beautifully put together--gorgeous locations, cinematography, and music. You have the first excellent performance by John Lithgow as a bad guy in a DePalma film. And Bujold is terrific, despite having to act against a piece of paneling. I remembering seeing it over 40 years ago. It got some fantastic reviews, the best of DePalma's career to that point. Carrie was released in the U.S. a couple of months later, and the rest is history.
The two shorts are very interesting!
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Fire! (1977)
"A convict starts a fire in a forest to cover his escape, but the fire goes out of control and threatens to destroy a small mountain community." (IMDb)
Another Irwin Allen tv-movie directed by Earl Bellamy. I have to give the filmmakers some respect for the effort but overall it´s just too lame and predictable. Two main characters do die so at least there´s somekind of excitement.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Escapement (a.k.a The Electronic Monster) from 1958.
When an insurance investigator flies to the South of France to look into the mysterious death of a movie star, he finds a far more tangled web of death, torture and evil intent.
This has a very fifties 'mad scientist / megalomaniac' theme running through it, and the possibility of world domination through brainwashing key people is played (and revealed) in quite a subtle manner.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
I´ve been watching old Universal monster films with my son. I´ve been neglecting these for some reason but now it´s time to shape up. So far we´ve watched Dracula (1931), Frankenstein (1931) and the Mummy (1932). Frankenstein was the best of this bunch.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Mystery science theater. Horrors of spider island.1960. Pretty funny and lots of bikini s
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Right, I'm going to spam you all with my Hammer Frankenstein reviews
The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) Ahhh sweet satisfaction. One of the greatest horror films of all time! Although they're so, so different in their approach, look and feel this and Frankenstein (1931) are the most impeccable versions of the story put to film in my eyes.
I haven't watched this series through since 2013. And whenever it's been that long with films I love I doubt my own self on just how brilliant they really are going in. But what a dafty, Hammer very rarely fail me. And they have bloody everything in this, Peter Cushing, ahhhh, Christopher Lee, my fave director Terence Fisher, writer Jimmy Sangster, cinematographer Jack Asher, 3 incredible producers, music by James Bernard, gross make up, amazing costumes and sets. Atmosphere, dread, Peter Cushing in that rare ruthless sinister role, tension that just gets bigger and bigger and bigger, bam!
I owe so much to all of these people and many more who have produced some of the greatest horror films and feels for me since the late 80s. 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958) - Fan-bloody-tastic! While this one still has much of the same crew from the first film it feels quite a bit different. Mainly in the writing of Frankenstein, or 'Victor Stein' in this one, and the way that Peter Cushing plays him. While he is still ever the arrogant swine who commits the most heinous acts, you actually see that other side to him that doesn't come out as much in Curse where he really just does believe that he is here to help people. I absolutely share the same glee with him when he thinks he has successfully given the man with paralysis a healthy body.
I loved how they started straight from the end of the first film and the fact he had that plan in case he was recognised was just wickedly genius. A damn fine first sequel! 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Evil Of Frankenstein (1964) - I hate speaking poorly of Hammer, I really do. But needs must. This dumbed down mess is an abomination. To Hammer and especially to this series as a whole. It just starts anew ignoring the first 2 films. Gone is the sinister, ruthless, lunatic genius Baron. Instead we get a Frankenstein who is merely a bit of a grump. There is nothing to this one. Nothing to the characters or story. Nothing. I do wonder if this had been the only one of the series that I had seen would I just be able to enjoy it for the basic, copycat, torch wielding crap that it is. Then I think nahhhh.
2 points for Peter Cushing, 1 point for the beautiful matte drawings and 1 point for the explosion. Otherwise screw this film. 4/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - Back on track after the appalling Evil Of Frankenstein. I've never given this a perfect score before but I can't fault it and enjoyed every moment. Well the one thing I've never been a fan of was how they had to turn her blonde. Just seemed every media outlet as a kid screamed blonde equals beautiful and this was just another of those moments. No biggie, just a little bugbear
Anyway Frankenstein here is like a softer extended version of how he was in Revenge. Now experimenting on himself (killing himself for an hour) and upping the ante with soul transference. After the burns from the previous film he can no longer operate but has Dr. Hertz to do that for him, who is a great addition.
But this is the film that is least about the Baron himself and more on all of the other characters. I get vibes of other films watching this one. Like a twisted Romeo and Juliet. I also get Carrie vibes particularly in that really distressing pub scene where those 3 turds (straight out of A Clockwork Orange with their sticks, hats and mannerisms) bully Christina. And sitting through them listening to that awful song they sing up at the window is heartbreaking.
The feel of this film is so different to the others. Very melancholic and dreamlike. Even during the revenge. Love the sombre ending and the score is dramatic and amazing. Fantastic stuff! 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) - Woah!! Although I knew this was the darkest entry to the series I had forgotten just how utterly frightening this whole picture is. My God. This one seems to ignore the previous 2 entries and go more along the look and feel of Curse and Revenge. Only while in those films you can feel something for the Baron and the method to his madness. Here there is not one redeeming feature whatsoever. It is the most terrifying portrayal put to film. My heart was going like the clappers. There are no limits to what this man might do here. And he does it all in the most dapper outfits haha. Saying all of this I was still left feeling shook and sickened at the end. Wow!! Amazing. Dark, dark, daaaaaaaaark. 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Horror Of Frankenstein (1970) - I wasn't quite in the right mood for this one. Usually like it a little more. As much as I love Ralph Bates especially in Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (if you haven't seen it stop everything and do it now!) I just wasn't ready for a Cushing less one. Glad he's back for the last one.
This one feels more black comedy than horror which hits and misses at times. Cool to see writer of the first 2 Jimmy Sangster getting to direct. And nice to see Veronica Carlson again. Although quite why her character dotes after this arrogant sleazy incompetent Frankenstein I do not know. It's a credit to Ralph that you just want to slap him around the face all film. 6/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) - Wowzer!! This one is miles better than I remembered. I loved the whole wacky story, the beautiful asylum setting complete with miniature. But most of all Peter Cushing's return where he went from the most vile portrayal of the character in Must Be Destroyed to the most loveable here. He even cracks up at one point. Him and the fabulous Shane Briant made a fine, fine double act. I can only imagine what went through the young guys head during that face off between them. Must've thought all his Christmas' had come at once. A strange one in how the first 3rd of this film and other parts was almost like watching a 60s Corman-Poe film rather than a 70s Hammer. The atmosphere is ripe for a candlelight October viewing. 9/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Rank:
The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957) - 10 Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969) - 10 Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) - 10 The Revenge Of Frankenstein (1958) - 10 Frankenstein And The Monster From Hell (1974) - 9 The Horror Of Frankenstein (1970) - 6 The Evil Of Frankenstein (1964) - 4
I'm done Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Night Strangler - I used to prefer The Night Stalker years ago. But I think that was just because it is the spookier of the 2 because this improves upon that film in every other way. Darren McGavin had perfected the role of Kolchak here and the chemistry between him and Simon Oakland is phenomenal. Jo Ann Pflug was a good addition. I was howling at that ending between the three of them. Can't wait to get stuck into the TV series for the first time now. 9/10
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Magnum force. Clint Eastwood. 1973. I liked it although the ending wasn't as good as the rest of the movie. Also had Alot of commercials.😁
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Last few weeks:
The Land That Time Forgot (1974) 6/10
The Last Valley (1971) 7/10
X, Y & Zee aka Zee & Co. (1972) 8/10
I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978) 7/10
The Mummy´s Hand (1940) 7/10
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942) 5/10
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Mummy´s Tomb (1942) 4/10
The People That Time Forgot (1977) 7/10
Jason and the Argonauts (1963) 6/10
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
"Ted Kramer's wife leaves him, allowing for a lost bond to be rediscovered between Ted and his son, Billy. But a heated custody battle ensues over the divorced couple's son, deepening the wounds left by the separation."
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
I can remember seeing the trailer for this on so many movies I ever rented. I heard about this so much, but it just never interested me.
Well, I finally gave it a chance and I gotta say it's a great movie.
It's a tough watch, with so many touching moments, but it's worth it.
The entire cast were fantastic, but the little kid (Justin Henry) was amazing.
Posted by P_a_u_l (Member # 1022) on :
Watched a few over Christmas and New Year, including the utterly brilliant Arsenic and Old Lace, Scars of Dracula, and a long overdue revisit to It Happened One Night .
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Devil´s Playground (1976) 6/10
Frankenstein Meets The Wolf Man (1943) 6/10
The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971) 5/10
The Hired Hand (1971) 9/10
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972) 6/10
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
Rabid (1977)
"A young woman develops a taste for human blood after experimental plastic surgery, and her victims turn into blood-thirsty zombies, leading into a city-wide epidemic." Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
We were going to watch an 80’s movie on Saturday, but decided on Charade (1963) starring Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. If you’ve never seen it, you should. It’s a great film. It’s also been coined “the greatest Hitchcock film Hitchcock never made.” It was directed by Stanley Donen.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
Watch out we're mad with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer which I originally saw at a family matinee back in the early 80s and had not watched since and it's such a fun movie had me in stitches nearly all the way through but it might not be to everyone tastes depends a lot on how much you enjoy slapstick!
Love the catchy theme song Dune Buggy by Oliver Onions which they play throughout plus a really nutty performance from Donald Pleasance.
Awesome fun movie!
https://youtu.be/2YrEbmhFezI - Dune Buggy and the opening of Watch out we're mad.
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: Watch out we're mad with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer which I originally saw at a family matinee back in the early 80s and had not watched since and it's such a fun movie had me in stitches nearly all the way through but it might not be to everyone tastes depends a lot on how much you enjoy slapstick!
Love the catchy theme song Dune Buggy by Oliver Onions which they play throughout plus a really nutty performance from Donald Pleasance.
Awesome fun movie!
I love the Spencer / Hill movies.. saw most of them on video as a kid.
Watch Out We're Mad is a good example of where they were going with the formula a bit later on in the 70s and early 80s :
Childish, yes.. but funny indeed, occasionally hilarious even.
The best showcase for their comical talents (outside of the Trinita films) is still Crime Busters (1977), in my opinion.
It's good to see some love for the Spencer / Hill movies on the Rewind forums ! Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I need to check out Crime Busters Johnny I have watched Odds And Evens and Go For It and both were thoroughly enjoyable and often had me in stitches!
Watch Out Were Mad I first watched when I was probably about 7 or 8 and could remember parts of it well even all these years later so it definitely made an impression on me back then at a young age!
Other Matinee showings I caught in the early 80s at the same movie theatre were Popeye,The Empire Strikes Back, Herbie Goes Banana's and Condorman and I can actually still recollect some of the movie trailers that preeceded these films - Stir Crazy, Midnight Express etc.
Next one I'm going to check out is Who Finds a Treasure finds a friend from 1981.
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Posted by TheHoff (Member # 37515) on :
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, I know the special effects aren't great and some of the acting is a bit ropey but it was on TV and I couldn't turn it off
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Mag Wheels (a.k.a. Summer School, 1978)
Summertime shenanigans aplenty in this rather obscure pre-Porky's teen sex comedy with a dark edge to it.
It's guys versus girls, vans versus pick-up trucks, summertime partying, pranks, a nerdy guy (who resembles a young Harold Ramis) who desperately wants to hang out with the cool crowd, and of course a bit of T&A.
Presumably inspired by the succes of The Pom Pom Girls (1976) in the drive-in theatres around that time, Mag Wheels stars John Laughlin (who would go on to do Footloose and Crimes Of Passion a few years later) amongst a cast of mostly unknowns.
George Barris, creator of many famous vehicles in movie history (including the original Batmobile) is credited as executive producer, which explains the abundance of customized vans and pick-up trucks, and can be seen in a cameo appearance as well (as a garage owner, what else?).
Mag Wheels was directed by Bethel Buckalew, who did a bunch of sexploitation films for Harry Novak's company Boxoffice International, in the early 1970s. For unknown reasons he quit making movies before the 70s came to a close, with Mag Wheels and a film called My Boys Are Good Boys as his last directorial efforts in 1978.
For those interested, Mag Wheels was released on dvd in 2013 under its alternate Summer School title through VCI Entertainment. It's a bare-bones disc, with the sleeve incorrectly claiming it to be a fullframe presentation, while in fact it is anamorphic widescreen (albeit interlaced).
Looks like a stupid and fun film, just how i like them Never heard of this one before. I own one film directed by Bethel Buckalew, the sexploitation romp The Pig Keeper´s Daughter (1972) which i enjoyed surprisingly much Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
The Pig Keeper's Daughter is one of those Harry Novak Boxoffice International productions, and indeed it's rather entertaining for what it is. Buckalew was actually quite good at doing these sexploitation quickies, most of which were released on dvd through the Something Weird label in the earlier days of the format.. not sure if they're still available though, but they're certainly worth a look, especially the so called "hillbilly" series :
On a side note, The Imdb claims Buckalew was born on January 11th 1929, but there's no mentioning a date of death, so i assume he's still with us, and that would make him 91 years old.. Cheers Bethel ! Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Yeah, would love to see more of those.
The Pigkeeper´s Daughter was released here on dvd during the wild Another World Entertainment days. Every major chain had these in shelves and how can you not pick it up with a teasing cover art like this?
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I vaguely remember they released The Dirty Mind Of Young Sally (1973), another Novak/ Buckalew sexploitaion effort, on dvd here in Holland. I highly doubt they sold more than 50 copies of it though. There's just no market for these type of films here. The people that are actually familiar with these titles most likely preferred to pick up one of the import discs instead, as the Dutch disc wasn't really that good anyway.
Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
Let´s put something here. Last two weeks or so:
Pretty Poison (1968) 8/10
Anthony Perkins was awesome!
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933) 7/10
Walking Tall (1973) 8/10
Walking Tall Part II (1975) 5/10
Final Chapter: Walking Tall (1977) 6/10
Seven (1979) 7/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Town That Dreaded Sundown - That empty feeling when you've waited decades to see a film and then are counting down the minutes for it to end 5/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
A Night To Remember (1958) - I've seen some adequate Titanic films/miniseries in the past but this one here directed by one of my faves, Roy Ward Baker, was on another level. Slayed me. There were definitely some people I had preference over on getting a boat. I might watch that little '97 film one day. 9/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Burnt Offerings - I love this really moody horror. It's just under 2 hours and every minute of it is needed I feel as it just builds and builds until you can't take anymore of that haunted house under your skin feeling. The beautiful house used here was later the Phantasm funeral home, so everytime the creepy undertaker guy showed up it was very surreal. I am so grateful that I had forgotten the ending cos it was a beaut! I love the seriously lacking in subtlety music as well. There is one part that shouldn't but does make me laugh hard, that pool scene ahaha! Good stuff. 8/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Bat (1926) - Well what a brilliant good humoured thriller. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I would definitely recommend this to a Silent film virgin or somebody who just hasn't been able to gel with any as it just doesn't let up from the off. Probably the plain old funnest one I've seen so far. The story is great, it looks great. That house and the miniatures beautiful. I loved the music through the whole thing with one part in particular making me think of the music in Eyes Wide Shut. The characters, especially knitting Auntie were super. A Batman film with this mask please! 8/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Creatues The World Forgot - Typical fun prehistoric romp from Hammer with tanned 6 packed fitties. The doll babies were the stuff of nightmares and my favourite part was when a guy broke a bears neck with his bare hands. 7/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Yoy Can't Cheat An Honest Man (1939) - This was utterly bonkers!! Majority of the film is set in a circus with a manager who gets a shower off an elephant, a croc who has a doll it swallowed pulled out of its mouth, a lying little cow crying that her dog was stood on and killed by an elephant to swindle money out of the owner and a ventriloquist who interacts with his dummies all of the time even when up in a hot air balloon and in jail. A great laugh. 7/10
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Dracula (1958) - Crazily I haven't watched this mostly fantastic Hammer series through since 2014!! This one has never quite broke into my top 3 of the set and for a bit there I was worried that it wasn't quite as good as I remembered but as soon as King Peter Cushing arrives it flows beautifully from then on. As with most Hammers it looks delicious and has atmosphere for days. I loved the small humourous moments thrown in a couple of places too. I like Michael Gough but I just have no idea what he was thinking here. His poses and voice is so OTT, it really stands out as not in fitting with the rest of the cast and film in general. He does tone it down in the last third and is much better. Just wished he'd been like that for the rest. The score is simply sensational whether that's in its big booming moments or the quieter times. Can't wait to see Brides again tomorrow! 9/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Brides Of Dracula (1960) - This one just takes my breath away from start to finish and easily surpasses the first for me. What a feast for the eyes, I worship every inch of those sets. If I lived in that chateau I would just spend all the minutes walking around admiring. The music is beautiful and that balcony matte painting, just, wow, be still my heart!! Used to really annoy me how this one seemed to get dismissed a lot as there is no actual Dracula character or Christopher Lee, but we still have Peter Cushing and David Peel is really great as Vampire Baron Meinster. My other fave in the film is Martita Hunt who plays his Mother who chains him up and feeds him. Nice to see lots of much deserved appreciation for it these days though. The ending is so exciting and bats, we have bats!! It only gets better as the next one tomorrow is my all time favourite horror!! 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966) - So this is it!! My all time favourite horror film. It's hard for me to put into words just how much I love this film. Every single thing about it. There are bits and pieces of all of my favourite things that I love about a horror in lots of other films but they are all combined in this. I have chills through this whole picture to this day. And the section from when the two brothers and their wives are taken to the castle, on one of a few glorious horse and carriage rides, till when they leave has my heart racing and I find it truly frightening as our moaning but sensible Helen who nobody listens to says in this. Much of those parts are like a ghost/murder mystery film with the wind howling a gale outside, curtains blowing, Klove arriving from the shadows cue fantastic shriek. Barbara Shelley is fantastic in this. Her "There'll be no morning for us" line is one of my favourites, really chilling right up there with Bela Lugosi's 'We understand each other better now" from White Zombie and The Invisible Man's reign of terror speech.
Dracula is my favourite horror character and for me this is the most menacing portrayal. I am glad that Christopher Lee didn't like the lines he was given and refused to speak as it made him downright scary in this animalistic, hissing viper way. This also has my favourite resurrection scene ever. It is so disturbing, so dramatical and just wow, it really blows me away everytime.
I think the music is used better here than in any of the others. Perfect placement. Andrew Keir is brilliant as the Father. As much as I like Van Helsing and adore Peter Cushing this was not the type of film for Helsing. I'm glad they went this route. I loved his entrance as the hysterical villagers are about to stake a girl who hasn't even been bitten and then to the inn warming his backside at the fire haha. I also like the Renfield type character. And of course I can not leave this without mentioning the beautiful castle and my dream, four poster beds with red velvet curtains <3 Aww, I am tingling all over after this watch. 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968) - While this 4th film has a bit of a dip in quality it's still a hell of a great time. The way Dracula is brought back is a bit crap but then anything woulda looked inferior after the glorious resurrection in Prince Of Darkness. This one predominantly takes place in the village. Mostly in the priests house and the inn, cellars, dingy corridors and much of the travelling between buildings takes place uniquely via the rooftops. It's stunning, as is the lighting in this one, so Bavaesque. Dracula's death is ten times better than his resurrection and the final shot of castle, cross and cape is divine! 8/10
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Suspiria. I couldn’t find a separate thread for this movie (I could’ve sworn it had its own thread). It was okay. I think it’s a bit dated. It didn’t really scare me like I thought it would. I did enjoy the costumes, hairstyles and background music.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Love that one. I think it gets better each time Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I think I need to watch it at night for the full effect lol. I’m at home sick, so I decided to watch a movie in the afternoon. I forgot to add, I really loved the sets too. The entire atmosphere was great. I think if I watch it at night, it will be scarier.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Aww feel better. Yeah not an afternoon film lol
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Taste The Blood Of Dracula (1970) - I think this 5th entry is probably just the plain old funnest one of them. The plot is pretty threadbare, just Dracula getting revenge on a few guys basically. I love the twisted way in which he does it though, using their own kids to end them for him. That spade to the head was pretty great I have to applaud the opening, how it continues on from the last film. Simple but clever. As much as I enjoyed mingling in the village in the last film and the beautiful derelict church and graveyard in this one, I cannot wait to get back into that castle with one of my faves of the series next! 8/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Scars Of Dracula (1970) - Oh, I gave this top marks last time. Afraid I didn't love it quite as much tonight. Just some minor issues. I kinda couldn't get over the sets, especially the castle and its effects. They looked more like shops own brand than the glory that we're used to. Also I still am unsure if Klove is just another servant with the same name or if he is the guy from Prince Of Darkness. If the latter, as much as I like Patrick Troughton, why make him so different in looks and character. Also I just thought it lacked a bit of oomph to begin with.
Anyway enough of those minor grievances and to all the good stuff. Dracula was brought back by the most adorable bat who goes on to do a lot of carnage. There's one scene in particular that stands out with a prolonged quite disturbing attack. I think this one on the whole is the most savage. Dracula manically stabbing somebody to death and slicing Klove's back up with a red hot knife as punishment, eyeballs protruding. It's pretty gross! I absolutely love how he has his little sleeping room that people can only get to by crawling down the castle via rope through the window or for him just scale the wall, brill. The painting looking down to the bottom of the castle was excellent. I also think this was Christopher's best look as the Count, looked very dashing and he spoke quite a bit but it was all very charming not the silliness of "The first', "The second' "The third" of the prior film. The end is a bit daft and the mask on the stunt guy is quite bad but I just still like it. The noises he makes are ugh. So yeah, it's gone down a little bit in my estimation but I still had a great time with it. I'm not looking forward to the next one. 8/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Dracula A.D. 1972 - I know this one has its oddball fans But it's always been the dud of the series for me. I don't despise it in the way that I do the dud of the Frankenstein series (Evil Of Frankenstein) but yeah, there's not much I like. Today I enjoyed the opening couple of minutes and the last 25 minutes but that is basically because Peter Cushing, who is strikingly handsome here, is so good and all over it. It's that hour in between that's the problem. It bores me rigid. I couldn't stop yawning through that hour even though there are people I like in it like obviously Lee, and Caroline Munro and Stephanie Beacham. The music is so godawful, really embarrassing, makes me cringe. And that party after the opening credits, geez. If this had been a silly 70s comedy I probably woulda liked that scene but in a Hammer Dracula, it sucks. And it's not a case of me just not liking it in a modern setting cos I love the next film. Ugh, I just wish I had it in me to skip this one but I cannot. Anyway to end positively, the end is fabulously gruesome. 5/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973) - I love this much maligned entry to the series. This is how you do modern day Dracula right! The cellar chained vampires terrified me when I was a kid and I love the kills down there. This is like Hammer Dracula/dingy 70s crime TV film/show all mixed up. Love Dracula having fun in this one just wanting to f everybody up with a bit of plague, you know, passes the time. Love the music. The meeting between Van Helsing and Dracula in the office is my favourite scene with Dracula and his disguised accent and Helsing with his tiny gun. Love the brilliant looong effects at the end. Great stuff. Sad that I only have one more to go now 8/10
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Passport to Pimlico (1949) starring Stanley Holloway, Margaret Rutherford, Hermione Baddeley, Paul Dupuis, Charles Hawtrey, Raymond Huntley, and a raft of other staunch thespians.
The plot – as if I need to remind anyone – begins with the unplanned detonation of a WW2 bomb. The explosion uncovers a whole heap of treasure, along with documents that prove that the area around a few streets in Pimlico is actually sovereign territory of Burgundy, after it was ceded to the then Duke by King Edward IV.
The locals realise they are rich, and also no longer subject to rationing, licensing laws, and other restrictions. However, the area quickly becomes a beacon for spivs and black marketeers, and to stop this, the British close the border.
Solving the problem of what to do with the locals becomes harder, as the representatives of the various Government officials and the new Burgundians become intransigent. The arrival of the current Duke of Burgundy just adds to the locals’ sense of freedom and privilege.
Cue water and food shortages, and tube trains being stopped at the border. Something needs to be done…
There’s such a charm and an innocence about this endearing comedy, with some very funny moments, and some sparkling dialogue, such as when the local copper declares “Blimey! I’m a foreigner!”, and possibly the best quote ever:
" We always were English, and we'll always be English, and it's just because we are English that we're sticking up for our rights to be Burgundians! "
Literally strewn with images of post-war London in the process of rebuilding, there is a timeless value as a history piece here. It’s a reminder of the boundless (and sometimes mindless) optimism that carried Britons through the early post-war years and through some very hard times. Most of all, though, it’s hilarious.
One of Ealing’s finest.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - The Hammer Dracula series ending in a martial arts extravaganza in Hong Kong, and a Shaw brothers collaboration is both off its head and utter genius. I think this is the most polished looking of the series which is both good and bad. I love the story and think this is my favourite Cushing Van Helsing. Lots of fun fights, bodies rising from under the ground, great disintegrating bodies, fab broken hearted sucide and the final showdown between Van Helsing and Dracula, even though it's not Lee, is a grand and fitting end. Really enjoyed watching these again. I will try not to leave it 6 years next time! 8/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
So my new rank. 1, 2 and 9 are the same but everything else has moved around. Poor Scars dropped from 3rd to 8th!
Dracula: Prince Of Darkness (1966) - 10 The Brides Of Dracula (1960) - 10 Dracula (1958) - 9 Dracula Has Risen From The Grave (1968) - 8 The Legend Of The 7 Golden Vampires (1974) - 8 The Satanic Rites Of Dracula (1973) - 8 Taste The Blood Of Dracula (1970) - 8 Scars Of Dracula (1970) - 8 Dracula A.D. 1972 - 5
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors (1965) - This is one of the weaker Amicus anthologies for me but still gets this score so says it all really. They are ok but I always feel like the first 2 stories lets it down a bit, but each one after gets stronger and stronger. This is one where I think I like the cast of characters and wraparound more than the actual tales. 8/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The House That Dripped Blood (1970) - This is my favourite Amicus film. Just by a hair though, as they have others that are exceptional also, especially From Beyond The Grave. A rare feat with an anthology film in that I love every tale here equally. From the creepy opening one, to the solemn, beautifully lit second with Peter Cushing, to evil kid section with my favourite part from Christopher Lee "Educational toys, not this!" and finally the humourous one with Jon Pertwee in his element as an egotistical horror film star making a really fun double act with Ingrid Pitt. With there just being 4 stories over 100 mins it doesn't have the rushed feel some can have, all are fleshed out wonderfully and could see how a couple of them coulda been feature length. The cast is great all round and a nice fun ending. Perfect candlelit October film. 10/10
Posted by Jakey V (Member # 37348) on :
Frech Postcards. Loved it. A coming of age film from '79.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Asylum (1972) - The first story is a little daft but fun. The next 3 are really great though. Particularly love the Peter Cushing tailor segment. If it had just ended after the 4th story it woulda been fine but the long ending to the wraparound just takes it to another level. It's fantastic and those little robots are highly disturbing haha. I've seen this one too often to have forgotten the twist but I never did call it in the past. The music used is boomtastic and as always with these Amicus films the cast is a delight. 8/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Beast Must Die (1974) - This crazy whodunnit is my second favourite werewolf film. I love everything about it. Calvin Lockhart here is a fine specimen and his whole manner and voice is so dramatic, love!! The music whether it be the eerie tense times or the funky is all great to me. I am jiggling away on the couch everytime. The plot itself from that mad opening to harassing all of his guests to find out who the werewolf is, Calvin's outfits, Peter Cushing's mad accent that he forgets sometimes, his employee operating all the cameras in the trees and whatnot. It's all ludicrous in the best possible way and I lap every second of it up. The country mansion and gardens settings is wonderful. I love the werewolf break. I just wish I could forget who it was. But I did forget the very ending part which was something And I don't care that the werewolf is a big fluffy dog. I take dog over CGI werewolf any day of the week!! I love this film! 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
And Now The Screaming Starts! - I've never seen that much love for this one but I've always adored it. One of my favourite haunted house films. As much as I love Amicus' modern day horrors I do wish they'd done a few more period ones like this. The score is beautiful, the cast is fantastic as is and then just to top it all off Peter Cushing arrives midway through. The house is the stuff of dreams in all its gothic glory. Stephanie Beacham is marvelous, her final shot in this is incredible. It's creepy, atmospheric and the backstory is heartbreaking. But it's hard to have too much sympathy for Silas as his revenge sucks! Best scene in the graveyard with Charles bashing his relatives bones up, ha! 10/10
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
I watched The Godfather part II (1974) for the second time this year alone when it aired on Belgian TV last weekend.
I love Michael V. Gazzo in this one, he really steals the show in every scene he's in, even when he's sharing the screen with Al Pacino.
Hightlights (among many) are the chaotic, but wonderfully orchestrated Senate hearings when Willie Cicci (Joe Spinell), Michael Corleone, and Frankie Pentangeli (Michael Gazzo) are publically interrogated by the Senate committee (in which Roger Corman makes an uncredited cameo appearance).
I do have mixed feelings about the flashback scene at the end. It's not that i dislike the scene, but i think it would have been better still if it ended right after Fredo was killed. But this, of course, is just nitpicking on one of the greatest American motion pictures in history !
Robert De Niro, Michael Gazzo, and Lee Strasberg were all nominated for best supporting actor in 1975, with De Niro beating his co-stars, and winning his first Oscar.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Vault Of Horror (1973) - This one feels much more of a black comedy than Amicus' usual creepy horror anthology fare. It's not top tier for them but just a whole heap of fun from start to finish. That street shot in the first story is just divine. Wish I could blow that up and put it on my wall. 8/10
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Vampire Hookers 1978. An obscure find. Goofy comical low budget sexploitation flick. Had some spots that made me laugh and Karen Stride, Lenka Novak and Katie Dolan supplied the excellent eye-candy.
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It was the movie "California Gold Rush" An incredible 1946 film directed by R. G. Springsteen and written by Robert Creighton Wiliams. If you are interested in finding more info about this film, then I recommend reading about it on the site, because there you will find interesting information about it and be able to understand whether it will be interesting for you. But personally I really liked it and my friends have already reviewed it on my recommendations.
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Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
King Kong (1933) - I hadn't seen this in over 20 years and at first I was thinking it wasn't as good as I remembered. But once it got to the island, bam, non stop thrills. I adore the 2005 version, mostly for the relationship between Kong and Ann. I ball my eyes out at the end of that one. There is none of that feeling in this one for me mainly because Fay Wray is just a screaming bore in it. But I just loved how savage Kong is LOL. Great fun. 9/10
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Helen, did you see this announcement from Severin Films ? :
It's pretty expensive, but this lovely box-set has your name written all over it ! Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Wow Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
Starting Over with Burt Reynolds, Jill Clayburgh and Candace Bergin. It was ok. Felt like a Neil Simon wannabe movie.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Konga (1961) - That was one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Not only does it have the obvious rip off but it's so blatantly ripping Little Shop Of Horrors too. Just when I thought I couldn't see a more OTT performance from Michael Gough than in Dracula, my God!! And his aggressive lunges at the girls face like she was just gonna be like "Take me now". The writing is just wow. The line that had me howling the most "There's a huge monster gorilla that's constantly growing to outlandish proportions loose in the streets!" I loved how his potion turned a baby chimp into a massive gorilla and the only silly part of the effects in King Kong with the eyes going from side to side was overdone to the extreme here! I hugely enjoyed the sets when he became his biggest at the end and loved how the effects made it look like only one of the shots aimed at him actually hit him lol Fun times! 6/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Spider Baby (1967) - Murderous inbred bizarro horror comedy with a fab cast. Genuinely freaky stuff one minute and super funny the next. Had a great time. 8/10
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Picnic At Hanging Rock - This has always been one of my fave Aussie films but it's never quite gotten to me as much as this viewing. The whole section where they are going higher and higher up the rocks with the music that I only realised now reminds me so much of Candyman and the camera spinning around gave me the absolute ****s! The chilling wind sounds and the wonderful Gheorghe Zamfir panpipes and the rocks that look like they have faces in them only adds to the whole mystique and haunting feelings. And even when it stems away from the more eerie elements it is still completely intriguing and I was hoping I had forgotten something and there would be answers but I do think it is best as is, without any. 9/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Meatballs - I vaguely remember seeing this as a kid. I thoroughly enjoyed it. A weird mix of un-pc comedy/coming of age corn central. I loved the Meatballs song and a young Bill Murray was great. Loved his little rant which reminded me of the end of Scrooged and his crappy campfire horror tale. The lake looked straight out of Friday the 13th! 8/10
Posted by TheHoff (Member # 37515) on :
quote:Originally posted by Helen_S: Meatballs - I vaguely remember seeing this as a kid. I thoroughly enjoyed it. A weird mix of un-pc comedy/coming of age corn central. I loved the Meatballs song and a young Bill Murray was great. Loved his little rant which reminded me of the end of Scrooged and his crappy campfire horror tale. The lake looked straight out of Friday the 13th! 8/10
I haven't seen this Helen so thanks for the recommendation, I'm a fan of Bill Murray so I don't know how I've missed this. I've ordered a copy Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
"Are you ready for the summer, are you ready for the sunshine!" I love meatballs! A memorable movie from childhood. Not far from the 80s either 1979. Cover art on the box is pretty cool also with Murray and company on the fence.
For anyone unaware. There are 4!! Meatballs movies with the fourth starring corey Feldman.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Didn't know that Terd
Fantastic TheHoff, I hope you enjoy! Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I love Meatballs but I hate that song, lol!!! I need to do a rewatch! And I wish Chris Makepeace would come out of hiding or whatever. I had a crush on him after I saw this movie.
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Lol pittsburghgirl. I read that Meatballs was actually filmed at a camp with real summer camper kids. After contacting many camps to film the movie and being shot down, White Pine camp said yes. The kids that were at the camp were used as extras.
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Traumnovelle (1969) - While I prefer the beautiful, haunting sights and sounds and extra creepy aspects of Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut, this German TV version is also really good. Very dreamy and tense at times. Woulda got a higher score only it died a death the last ten minutes. 7/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Schizo (1976) - This is brilliant, one of my favourite Pete Walker films. Even though I thought I remembered the outcome it's written and directed so well that I was still questioning everything all the way through. It also has a few savage kills and one of the oddest seance scenes I've ever seen. 9/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
White Zombie (1932) - "We understand each other better now."
One of the most bone chilling moments of any horror ever! *Shudder* This is my favourite zombie film. I hadn't watched it for a number of years though and I found the time away made that second half in the castle genuinely much more terrifying. I'm so immune that it's rare to have me all shaken during and after a horror film like that. I'm right there with the characters friggin' helpless with the actions of this voodoo lunatic, yikes! And now I keep hearing those horrible sounds of the zombie workers pushing the machinery around and around in the mill! Utterly fabulous film. 10/10
Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
The Devil's Men (1976) - This Peter Cushing/Donald Pleasence flick has always escaped me. It's not what I would call a great film, but it was a super comfortable curled up on the couch with Halloween decorations and candles lit mood. Beautiful greek locations, hooded Satanic mayhem, exploding people and ends with this funky little number www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICSxjEALmYc What's not to like?! 7/10
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) - Wowzer, it had been a long time. I remembered it being amazing but was still floored by it all over again. It's a beautiful piece of art. How inventive, grotesque and cheerworthy the kills were in this. I especially loved the locusts one. I wasn't expecting her face to be quite that cleanly gnawed off when it got back to her, I threw my arms in the air haha. Fun how they twisted the Renfield/Klove type servant character in this to that odd woman who played the violin while he was draining the blood out of Terry-Thomas. Bloomin' brilliant!! This guy was truly diabolical. And what in all hell was with the Frank Sidebottom band?! Absolutely fantastic film. And oh my, those adorable real bats, my heart. 10/10
The Bloody Judge (1970) - This is one of a small number of Jess Franco films that I think is genuinely good. Much of that is down to Christopher Lee, locations, costumes and music. It does lose me a bit with the boring sleaze towards the end but turns it around for a dramatically great ending scene. Just don't have a shot everytime wench is uttered or you will be flat on your **** within the first 30 minutes 7/10
The Mole People (1956) - I loved and was frustrated by this film in equal measure. It was a delicious slice of sci fi fantasy horror. I was living for those scenes when the mole people would pull people down through their holes and livid for them being whipped and given scraps. I loved the underground world and the booming music and the matte paintings and allsorts. But gosh it was just way too short and if this had just been a little later down the line this coulda been on the scale of epic spectacles like Jason and the Argonauts and Clash Of The Titans. So yeah I enjoyed it a lot for what it was but weep for what I imagine it being. 7/10
The Raven (1963) - This was one of only 2 Corman Poe films I had yet to see. With it being a comedy I was never really in a rush to rectify that. I was really loving it at first, belly laughing at Peter Lorre as the Raven and when he was turned back human, but after a bit the jokes wore thin and like what happens with many comedy horrors I began to tune out. It's a difficult one to rate as it's always lovely being with such wonderful actors with all of the beautiful sets with too many red candles to count, but apart from the opening and a few bits and pieces it really didn't do it for me 5/10
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Theatre Of Blood (1973) - If this film had ended around the 50 minute mark I woulda been telling you how I didn't remember it being this great, this twisted and creative in its kills and that I loved it. Alas after that it just became way too comical for my tastes. If it had been like that all the way through fair enough, but for the first half to be so wonderfully dark and disturbing and then to turn so far left field I just didn't fully appreciate it. Reminds me a little of how I feel with From Dusk Till Dawn. 7/10
The Return Of Dracula (1958) - I went into this not really expecting much at all but I bloomin' well loved it!! The less creepy version of The Shining music, Dracula with a curly quiff that I never knew that I needed, charming characters and stunning to look at. It was a strange one as it was part like the older Dracula films but yet so on the cusp of the greatness that was to begin that very year with the Hammer films. That sudden splash of colour during a staking was unexpected and wonderful. But my most favourite part of all was the house Halloween party with the pensioners dressed as skeletons and witches and having a dashing great time. I need to be that level of coolio at their age And that ending, swoon. All around a very pleasant surprise. 8/10
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The Premature Burial (1962) - The last of the Corman Poe films I had to see and it was delicious. Gorgeous foggy graveyards, beautiful castle with my dream 4 poster bed with red velvet curtains. And enough red candles to rival Voodoo Academy. Parts of the film reminded me of the wonderful giallo Short Night Of Glass Dolls. It's just a horrifying concept to even think about. The story was going a familar route but then fooled me into thinking it wasn't. It was well played all around. 8/10
Carnival Of Souls (1962) - I've seen this a few times, always on one of my Mill Creek sets which has really bad sound. So when I saw it on TV I thought I'd finally watch it without that issue. And d'you know what, I just wasn't into it as much like this. Turns out the up and down, in and out, wibbly wobbly sounds on the disc only adds to everything great about this film. The ambience, the birds, the waves, the wind, the footsteps, the organ music, the eeriness, everything is enhanced with this 'fault'. I wouldn't have it any other way! 8/10
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Somebody else give the 70s and earlier some love haha Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
The last 70s films i watched were Wim Wenders road movie Alice in the Cities (1974) and Enter the Dragon (1973) rewatch. I would give them 6/10 and 8/10.
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Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
Never seen Enter the Dragon. Something tells me I'm missing out.
Ok Helen, i caught some of The Warriors awhile back and a lot of episodes of Threes Company. I love that show.
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Jeremiah Johnson excellent flick .
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Indeed!
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The local movie parlor had retro night and I watched the great Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 1975. I recommend this one. There were 4 people in the theater.
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I love it, also the meaning of life, Life of Brian and all the Monty Python stuff is great.
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WE WANT .....................
.,..............A SHRUBBERY!!!
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NI........NI........NI......NI
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Hahahaha!!
Posted by Johnny Roarke is reckless (Member # 9826) on :
Rewatched Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), which happened to air on Belgian TV last week.
Winner of 5 Academy Awards : Best film of '79, best lead actor (Dustin Hoffman), best supporting actress (Meryl Streep), best director (Robert Benton), and best addapted screenplay, as well as a very honorable best supporting actor nomination for young Justin Henry, who played Hoffman and Streep's 7yo son.
Hoffman and Streep were at the top of their game, and rightfully won their Academy awards, but Kramer vs. Kramer winning Best Picture and Best Director in spite of Apocalypse Now / Francis Ford Coppola being nominated in the same categories is somewhat questionable in my opinion.
Funniest scene happens when a buck-naked JoBeth Williams on her way to the bathroom accidentally runs into the 7yo kid, who casually asks her if she likes fried chicken, while she's desperately trying to cover her body :
I can’t play that clip, but that is hilarious. I do agree with you.
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"here's to swimmin with bowlegged women" Yeah, Jaws Pretty good flick. Woulda been better if dreyfuss got ate instead of the captain 😁 he did have his good moments though
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The Food Of The Gods - I gotta admire how this film knows exactly what it is. No beating around the bush, just straight to the giant chickens, rats and wasps. I also love how for its premise it's played completely straight and the film looks lush as ****. Never got tired of rats crawling all over miniatures. 7/10
Dr. Phibes Rises Again - While not a patch on the first film it's still bloody good fun with some tasty kills. It's one that is so absurd that you don't even wanna blink and miss something. Unfortunately Peter Cushing's part is so small that that could happen. Noticeable drop down in budget, for one the Frank Sidebottom band is reduced Bonkers film tho, with an ending that made me grin like a Cheshire cat 8/10
The Night Visitor - I didn't remember much about this other than the ending and how he gets in and out of the asylum. The whole thing is so simple, but so effective. Really atmospheric too although admittedly I am easily won over by icy wind howling and rooftop mayhem. It's just gripping from start to finish. 9/10
Corruption (1968) - Yeah, yeah, YEAH!! I've been wanting to see this for years and so happy to say it did not disappoint! It essentially starts off as an Eyes Without A Face rip but then just becomes its own beast getting more nuts as it goes. You could be mistaken for thinking it's a Hammer or Amicus film as it looks just as delicious with those colours popping off the screen. Holy Cushing Creepolo, he scared the living crap out of me with just a look in the train carriage scene!! He was excellent as always and looks so handsome. I loved that he had a Tom Cruise running scene, he really went for it. I was shouting "Come On Peter, kill the overreacting cow." I mean, she only seen a severed head for goodness sake, no need to flip out That last half an hour when they are home invasioned by a bunch of freaks was insane, the music driving the drama of it all. Fantastic ending, fantastic film. 9/10
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Looking for Mr. Goodbar This was a very strange film. At times I thought the main character played by Diane Keaton, Theresa, , was either in a mental asylum and imagining this, or she was dead and recollecting everything. But that was not the case. I do think Theresa was mentally unstable. The ending is a shocker. I knew there was a shock ending but fortunately I didn’t know exactly what, so it was not spoiled for me. I watched it on YouTube. If you want to watch it, hurry up, because it’s never on any streamers and it gets taken down from YouTube because of the violence.
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I last watched Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory (1971) on VHS Posted by Helen_S (Member # 5804) on :
Welcome Dude, I watched that beauty again recently too
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A fun movie.
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I picked it up, after not having seen it since the 80's as well. And I really enjoyed it! It's cheesy as all get out, but I actually think it was better than I remembered!
Glad that you liked them. I guess you don't have any thoughts on Karen Allen 
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Never seen that one.
Pretty much. That was awful 
Not quite but maybe a Nosferatu one I have my eye on 
I've really underestimated its greatness in the past. Fab 
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They always have that Harem one on the horror channel.
