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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 3, 2020 1:59:37 GMT -5
The Unborn (2009)
When A Stranger Calls (2006)
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 3, 2020 7:21:06 GMT -5
Recently I had re-watched NCIS Seasons 1 and 2 plus Season 3 episodes 1 and 2. These are the 'Kate' (Sasha Alexander) episodes, which I like best of all and had not seen in years and years. Although I knew it was coming the last two episodes of Season 2 are about foreshadowing Kate's death and her actually getting killed at the very end of the last episode. Then the first two episodes of Season 3 are about 'ghost Kate' which are actually rather spooky, pun intended. Works as an October thing for me. The reason they killed off Kate was that Alexander had it up to her eyebrows with Donald Bellisario. They would be close to wrapping an episode when he would come in with changes for the current scene that turned out to have implications for the previous six scenes which all had to be redone. Then when they got near the end of it all he would come in again... Sasha quit and as a side effect, the powers that be decided that although his name would continue to be in the credits, Bellisario was banned from having anything to do with the scripts. Occasionally watched NCIS, I remember when Sasha left the show. Why did Cote, Pauley and Lauren Holly leave the show? As much as I like NCIS, it is kind-of hard to ignore all of the lead actresses deciding to quit or getting fired. De Pablo eventually said she just didn't feel Ziva was being treated right. She certainly seemed to be 'depowered' by the end of her run. She did find her way back to the show, eventually. Perrette had a pretty public blow-out about Mark Harmon, claiming she was terrified of him. Holly was originally signed for just a few episodes. She had to move her family to CA when they decided to keep her around but ended up getting tired of it. I hated it when Alexander left, but we ended up getting Rizzoli & Isles so that was cool. Apparently she wanted out because the show had a ridiculous schedule and it wasn't uncommon for them to have 17 hour days. I can't imagine doing something I *like* for 17 hours. |
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 3, 2020 7:22:45 GMT -5
CarousHell (2016) .... Do not even try to take this movie seriously. Added to my watchlist  |
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 3, 2020 7:24:43 GMT -5
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) One of the movies my home room/algebra teacher showed us in class in junior high. Good times. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 3, 2020 8:47:59 GMT -5
Occasionally watched NCIS, I remember when Sasha left the show. Why did Cote, Pauley and Lauren Holly leave the show? As much as I like NCIS, it is kind-of hard to ignore all of the lead actresses deciding to quit or getting fired. De Pablo eventually said she just didn't feel Ziva was being treated right. She certainly seemed to be 'depowered' by the end of her run. She did find her way back to the show, eventually. Perrette had a pretty public blow-out about Mark Harmon, claiming she was terrified of him. Holly was originally signed for just a few episodes. She had to move her family to CA when they decided to keep her around but ended up getting tired of it. I hated it when Alexander left, but we ended up getting Rizzoli & Isles so that was cool. Apparently she wanted out because the show had a ridiculous schedule and it wasn't uncommon for them to have 17 hour days. I can't imagine doing something I *like* for 17 hours. Similar issues happened bts on NCIS:Nola and Criminal Minds. The latter fired most of the regular actesses, then bought them back because backlash from the fans. That was well deserved. Eliza Dushku had problems with creepy ass Michael Weatherly. Got fired from Bull after reporting several incidents. CBS settled with her, for nearly 10 million. She has since returned to her home state Massachusettes, currently in College there. Then Shalita Grant left NCIS: Nola, because of a Procducer or Showrunner's inapproprite behavior. I recall reading about problems bts of MacGyver and All Rise. |
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 3, 2020 14:08:20 GMT -5
Similar issues happened bts on NCIS:Nola and Criminal Minds. The latter fired most of the regular actesses, then bought them back because backlash from the fans. That was well deserved. I and the family members that I know of who watched Criminal Minds all skipped the season AJ Cook was off the show. Castle ended up just shelving the show after word got out of the intent to let Stana Katic and Tamala Jones go. Personally, I'd like to have seen it come back only with Castle's daughter as the main character, getting involved in stuff along with her ex-MI6 friend that came onboard for the last season. Then Katic and Nathan Fillion could've popped in for guest shots but wouldn't have to be in the episodes together. And to get somewhere back to the topic at hand, it appears most (if not all - haven't gone thru it extensively yet) of the classic Universal Monster movies are up for free on NBC's Peacock app and site: www.peacocktv.com/watch/home |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 3, 2020 17:00:28 GMT -5
Similar issues happened bts on NCIS:Nola and Criminal Minds. The latter fired most of the regular actesses, then bought them back because backlash from the fans. That was well deserved. I and the family members that I know of who watched Criminal Minds all skipped the season AJ Cook was off the show. Castle ended up just shelving the show after word got out of the intent to let Stana Katic and Tamala Jones go. Personally, I'd like to have seen it come back only with Castle's daughter as the main character, getting involved in stuff along with her ex-MI6 friend that came onboard for the last season. Then Katic and Nathan Fillion could've popped in for guest shots but wouldn't have to be in the episodes together. And to get somewhere back to the topic at hand, it appears most (if not all - haven't gone thru it extensively yet) of the classic Universal Monster movies are up for free on NBC's Peacock app and site: www.peacocktv.com/watch/home Surprised Castle lasted as long as it did, since the leads couldn't stand each other. That situation exposed Fillion, as the asshole he truly is. Still LOL at how Mandy signed up for CM knowing the subject matter, then quits. Luckily the show continued w/o him and lasted a few more seasons when Gibson was fired. |
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 3, 2020 20:13:37 GMT -5
Primal Rage (2018)
After a car accident, a young couple gets lost in the Pacific Northwest. They come across a group of local 'good ol' boys' poachers who don't exactly make them feel like they're safe. And they're not, but it's not the poachers they have to worry about because there's something else in the woods and it doesn't like visitors.
This aint your standard bigfoot movie. This beast is the creature of Native American legend known as Oh-Mah that the Sasquatch stories were based on.
Directed and co-written by Patrick Magee, who also gets some special effects credits. He also has sfx credits in little movies like Spider-Man, Alien vs. Predator, and a few other big-budget films as working on Sandy Collara's excellent fan films Batman: Dead End and World's Finest. As such, the movie looks *really* good. Effective gore and a great looking creature they don't need to hide in the dark. And, of course, some absolutely beautiful scenery. You can have your beaches, I'll take deep, dense forests any day. Tho maybe ones without homicidal hominids.
It does get a little hung up on itself and slows down a bit in the middle, and even thru the final conflict never really seems to pick up the pace. And I saw the ending coming.
Still, worth a watch, I think.
Available thru Amazon Prime.
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 3, 2020 22:31:00 GMT -5
Island of Terror (1966) On Svengoolie. I watched it because it was a Peter Cushing movie I had not seen. Scientists looking for cancer cure instead invent new life form that eats your bones, leaving boneless bodies. (Cheap FX) I think they have some kind of enzyme that dissolves bones and they drink it. Not sure of the details. Low budget with stupid looking, slow moving creatures. But they multiply, by dividing, every six hours if they can find food. BTW they are all stuck on an island populated by maybe a hundred people.The creatures are impervious to just about everything up to and including fire and explosives. They actually experiment on a 'herd' of the creatures. An axe had previously not worked so they tried shotguns, then Molotov cocktails, then sticks of dynamite. Just then somebody arrives with 'the clue'. BTW the shotguns seem to have no recoil. Come on guys. A little acting would not hurt. Acting and dialog are not the greatest. Even Cushing is not his usual dominant self. The most interesting character IMO is the jet setter girlfriend. (No, not Cushing's) This part is played by Carole Grey, an early scream queen. She succeeds in putting some life into her character. There is some ooky stuff and even a bit of blood. The electronic music soundtrack and creature sounds FX ranged from uninspired to downright annoying. And of course the inevitable it ain't over ending. Sven had a field day with this one. Lots of opportunities for goofing on it and endless bone puns. What he did with the ooky divide in half FX was truly inspired madness and really hilarious. What comes out of the dividing creature really does look like chicken noodle soup. So Sven does a commercial for packages of Petri's Dishes. Bottom line: Only for the Cushing completionist. |
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 4, 2020 0:04:34 GMT -5
When A Stranger Calls (1979)
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 4, 2020 15:42:42 GMT -5
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973)
Polish, English subtitles
This is one weird movie. Man goes to see his father in a sanatorium. Train ride is eerie and so is conductor. Everyone else is asleep. Place is run down and seems abandoned. But it is not, a doctor and nurse - both rather strange - are there. So is his father, asleep. Or dead? No, time there is behind the rest of the world. Maybe he will die. Maybe he will recover. Things get weirder still. Time and place keep changing as he sees pieces of his father's life, or is it fantasy? Also his own life, or at least people act that way. Very surreal and totally odd. ending is inexplicable, sort of wrapping around to the beginning but with the man now the train conductor. I kept trying to figure out the point of the movie, but I do not think there was one, just auteur avant-garde surrealism 1970s style.
Seems there are only two places online to see this. One will interrupt the movie to demand a rather outrageous subscription price. The other tries to connect you with porn sites intermittently. For these reasons and the fact that the movie is just too wacky, I am not giving links and do not recommend it.
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Post by silverbullet63 on Oct 4, 2020 16:35:22 GMT -5
Ganja and Hess (1073)
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 4, 2020 17:46:17 GMT -5
What We Do In The Shadows (2014)
The Crow (1993)
Revisited a couple of favorites. They were on, I watched them. Good October stuff.
Although I still get a bit of a creepy feeling watching The Crow.
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Post by ArcLight on Oct 4, 2020 20:03:49 GMT -5
What We Do In The Shadows (2014) The Crow (1993) Revisited a couple of favorites. They were on, I watched them. Good October stuff. Although I still get a bit of a creepy feeling watching The Crow. Love What We Do In The Shadows. Wish I'd watched it sooner. Since it was vampires, I didn't pay it any attention but if I'd watched it a few months earlier I could've gotten a photo with a couple of the cast members in costume (not Taika I'm pretty sure but the gent who played Petyr and one or two of the others, I think). I saw The Crow opening night, and I own it on LaserDisc and DVD but I can't watch it. Too much baggage. |
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Post by someoldguy on Oct 4, 2020 22:14:27 GMT -5
The Alien Dead (1980) Meteorite kills pot smoking young people on a boat. They become zombies for some reason. Low budget, poor acting and dialog, terrible imitation southern accents, low quality picture and sound, cheap and cheesy FX, predictable plot, clumsy editing. But somehow a fun watch. Some of the dumb dialog is clearly supposed to be funny. "Now we have to figure out how to kill them" "They're dead already" "Oh shut up!" Buster Crabbe (the original Flash Gordon), the only name actor in the movie, does just fine, plainly having fun with his role as sheriff. The zombies look like they are wearing Halloween masks and/or store bought Halloween black and white makeup. (Men get masks. Women get makeup.) On the plus side there is a lot of gore, including eating dead or not quite dead yet people. Sometimes humorous. When the zombies leave the half eaten corpse - and I do mean half eaten - to chase fresh meat, a dog comes along and starts snacking. Why Alien Dead? One of the bluegrass songs that enliven the soundtrack is apparently from the alien point of view. It says they take over your body and are going to infect everyone and nobody will be unhappy anymore, sort of like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. But it does not seem to be the case. The zombies just want to kill and eat people. And there is no other reference to aliens in the movie. |
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