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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 26, 2019 13:39:16 GMT -5
28 Days Later (2002)
28 Weeks Later (2007)
World War Z (2013)
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
The House on Skull Mountain (1974)
Madman (1982)
Flesh Eater (1988)
Flesh Eating Mothers (1988)
Mutant (1984)
Nightmare Castle (1965)
Dog Soldiers (2002)
Howl (2015)
Late Phases (2014)
The Wolf Man (1941 and 2010)
Lifeforce (1985)
City of the Living Dead (1980)
The Beyond (1981)
House by the Cemetery (1981)
All Hallow's Eve (2013)
Blacula (1972)
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)
No Escape (2015)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1974 and 2014)
Train to Busan (2016)
Don't Breathe (2016)
Lust for A Vampire (1971)
The Omen (1976 and 2006)
Deliver Us from Evil (2014)
The Void (2016)
Horror Hotel (1960)
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 26, 2019 15:26:26 GMT -5
I am thinking about viewing some old time B+W classics this Halloween season, like the Karloff/Frankenstein trilogy, Dracula, The Wolf Man etc. These are where it all came from and their influence never went away. I once read (where?) comments on that idea that ran something like this.
"Ask a ten year old to talk like a vampire and he will give you Lugosi. Ask him to draw Frankenstein and he will show you Karloff."
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 26, 2019 15:58:55 GMT -5
Must be nice. It's going crazy at work. We'll be on lock-down and doing overtime until probably the end of November. No Halloween for me this year.  |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 26, 2019 16:07:59 GMT -5
Must be nice. It's going crazy at work. We'll be on lock-down and doing overtime until probably the end of November. No Halloween for me this year. Bummer. 😟 |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 26, 2019 16:10:13 GMT -5
I am thinking about viewing some old time B+W classics this Halloween season, like the Karloff/Frankenstein trilogy, Dracula, The Wolf Man etc. These are where it all came from and their influence never went away. I once read (where?) comments on that idea that ran something like this. "Ask a ten year old to talk like a vampire and he will give you Lugosi. Ask him to draw Frankenstein and he will show you Karloff." I'll probably watch Branaugh's Frankenstein this month. |
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 26, 2019 16:28:37 GMT -5
Must be nice. It's going crazy at work. We'll be on lock-down and doing overtime until probably the end of November. No Halloween for me this year. Bummer. 😟 I am at least running HALLOWEEN (and probably HALLOWEEN II) in the background while doing laundry and cooking for the upcoming week and whatever else I'm going to try and get done on my one day off... |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 26, 2019 16:47:15 GMT -5
I'll probably watch Branaugh's Frankenstein this month. Have you seen it before? |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 26, 2019 18:03:52 GMT -5
I'll probably watch Branaugh's Frankenstein this month. Have you seen it before? Several times, it's a guilty pleasure for me. |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 26, 2019 18:46:27 GMT -5
Several times, it's a guilty pleasure for me. There are some good ideas in Branagh's Frankenstein, including some references to other Frankenstein films. But it is not Mary Shelley's Frankenstein although much of it follows the novel closely. It is exactly the differences that I find to be a problem, changing the character of Victor substantially to the point where I do not find him sympathetic. It is not that there are differences - as if that would be something new  - but that those are the parts that do not seem to work IMO. Also the movie strikes me as too shrill and rapid fire, for lack of better terms, interfering with the flow of the story. The brightest light in all of this is De Niro, who is always on form. All IMO of course. I will resist castigating Branagh for his Hamlet, not just for really bad portrayals by some of his guest stars (not counting Heston who was great) but other problems. One very notable problem was in a total misunderstanding of what Fortinbras was all about and how him being in the background of the story partly influenced Hamlet's inaction. But this is not a Shakespeare site.  |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 26, 2019 19:21:54 GMT -5
Branaugh's Hamlet is quite a lavish spectacle.
That is likely a one and done for me.
Jack Lemmon, whew boy! 😖
Branaugh's performance as Victor is so OTT and unintentionally hilarious
at times. For me that adaption is the first cousin to Coppola's Dracula.
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 26, 2019 21:10:17 GMT -5
Branaugh's Hamlet is quite a lavish spectacle. That is likely a one and done for me. Jack Lemmon, whew boy! 😖 Branaugh's performance as Victor is so OTT and unintentionally hilarious at times. For me that adaption is the first cousin to Coppola's Dracula. I was thinking specifically of Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. But no more Hamlet I think. Coppola's Dracula was, like Frankenstein, also based on the novel of that name. But IMO it did not distort the story as Branagh did. Not that this was a crime, of course. My reservations about the movie are not related to its inventiveness. Coppola expanded on the Dracula story using hints in the novel about the real relationship between the Count and Mina. The reincarnation of Elizebeta aspect was not in the novel of course. As we have previously discussed, the basic idea goes back to The Mummy 1932 and was introduced into the Dracula story in the 1973 Jack Palance vehicle. (The theme of Vlad Tepes and his wife also appeared in the Saberhagen Dracula novels beginning 1975, although not the reincarnation aspect. Sadly Saberhagen suffered from sequelitis and just kept writing about the subject long after there was anything fresh to say, an all too common if deplorable condition among successful writers.) |
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 26, 2019 21:16:47 GMT -5
Netflix sent me HAUNT, this year's incarnation of the 'group of twenty-somethings stalked in a carnival attraction' film (yes, I still get actual DVDs from them). I didn't think it was awful but it wasn't particularly special, either. Last year's entry in the field, HELL FEST, was more fun.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 26, 2019 21:51:45 GMT -5
Netflix sent me HAUNT, this year's incarnation of the 'group of twenty-somethings stalked in a carnival attraction' film (yes, I still get actual DVDs from them). I didn't think it was awful but it wasn't particularly special, either. Last year's entry in the field, HELL FEST, was more fun. Hell Fest is another one I plan to watch for the first time this month. Didn't know Netflix still sent out DVDs |
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 26, 2019 22:01:13 GMT -5
Hell Fest is another one I plan to watch for the first time this month. Didn't know Netflix still sent out DVDs
Yep. They split discs up from the streaming service awhile back so you have to pay for a subscription for each (they have one for Blu-rays, too) but they still do it.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 26, 2019 22:09:01 GMT -5
I was thinking specifically of Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. But no more Hamlet I think. Branaugh had previously worked with Robin in Dead Again. My guess, he probably suggested Billy Crystal for Hamlet. |
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- but that those are the parts that do not seem to work IMO. Also the movie strikes me as too shrill and rapid fire, for lack of better terms, interfering with the flow of the story. The brightest light in all of this is De Niro, who is always on form. All IMO of course.