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Post by charleshelm on Jan 31, 2019 21:49:57 GMT -5
I bought a Hammer Glamour book a while back...review of the style and women of the movies.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2019 1:48:55 GMT -5
Is it this one?  |
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Post by charleshelm on Feb 1, 2019 7:03:57 GMT -5
Why yes, that's the one....
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Post by zarono on Feb 1, 2019 8:40:04 GMT -5
Is it this one? That is truly spectacular  I picked up this one for a $1 a while back, lots of good pics from all the movies plus a section of color posters features a couple of movies that never got made like "Zeppelins vs Petrodctyls"   |
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Post by Char-Vell on Feb 1, 2019 8:43:54 GMT -5
Zeppelins vs Petrodctyls needs to happen.
Wasn't there plans for a Vikings riding giant eagles movie by Harryhausen? War Eagles or something like that?
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Post by johnnypt on Feb 1, 2019 8:53:33 GMT -5
Zeppelins vs Petrodctyls needs to happen. Wasn't there plans for a Vikings riding giant eagles movie by Harryhausen? War Eagles or something like that? Yep, that was it. I remember when I was around 10 asking my parents at one point after watching a bunch of the Hammer Dracula movies on WNEW on Saturday afternoons: Do all the women have big boobs in these movies? |
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Post by johnnypt on Feb 1, 2019 14:28:13 GMT -5
I remember when I was around 10 asking my parents at one point after watching a bunch of the Hammer Dracula movies on WNEW on Saturday afternoons: Do all the women have big boobs in these movies? Not to mention the Carry On films. ......  Believe it or not, they never really got much play in the NYC area from the 70s thru to today. I only saw my first one about 5 years ago on TCM. ...but yes, they would qualify too. |
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Post by almuric on Oct 1, 2019 11:16:27 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Oct 1, 2019 19:33:27 GMT -5
It's that time of year, eh? The Godzilla and King Kong flicks seem out of place to me, though. I love King Kong and enjoy the occasional Godzilla, but I don't think of them as horror. Monsters, sure, but horror, no.
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Post by charleshelm on Oct 3, 2019 21:04:59 GMT -5
I pre-orderd the Bluray Toho Kaiju set...
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Post by zarono on Oct 3, 2019 21:51:11 GMT -5
It's that time of year, eh? The Godzilla and King Kong flicks seem out of place to me, though. I love King Kong and enjoy the occasional Godzilla, but I don't think of them as horror. Monsters, sure, but horror, no. I'm pretty much the same, I lean more toward traditional monsters like vampires, werewolves, and zombies for Halloween movie material but I will blur the line to include The Blob or Kaltiki the Immortal Monster just because I find those types of creatures especially horrifying. |
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Post by keith on Oct 3, 2019 22:41:02 GMT -5
It's that time of year, eh? The Godzilla and King Kong flicks seem out of place to me, though. I love King Kong and enjoy the occasional Godzilla, but I don't think of them as horror. Monsters, sure, but horror, no. I'm pretty much the same, I lean more toward traditional monsters like vampires, werewolves, and zombies for Halloween movie material but I will blur the line to include The Blob or Kaltiki the Immortal Monster just because I find those types of creatures especially horrifying. With you there. Does anybody remember (they'd have to be as old as I am) that ROUTE 66 episode in which the boys encounter Karloff, Price and Lorre out to do a field test on which monsters are more effective, the good old ghosts, ghouls and vampires, or the more modern types? Peter Lorre is adamant that the audiences don't want " … creeps from outer space … they want down to earth monsters they can identify with." The others aren't so sure. They agree, though, that it's imperative to find out, and they set about trying. It was a fun light-relief show. |
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Post by keith on Oct 3, 2019 22:46:31 GMT -5
Whoa. My mistake! The episode was called "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing" and it featured Lon Chaney Jr., not Vincent Price.
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Post by zarono on Oct 4, 2019 8:05:52 GMT -5
Whoa. My mistake! The episode was called "Lizard's Leg and Owlet's Wing" and it featured Lon Chaney Jr., not Vincent Price. I need to see that one! |
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Post by almuric on Oct 4, 2019 16:10:36 GMT -5
House of Usher (1960) - Hard as it may be to believe now, but Edgar Allan Poe was big box office in the 1960s. And here is where it began, with Roger Corman's thrifty shocker, filmed in 14 days from a script by Horror legend Richard Matheson. Matheson does a good job of expanding Poe's very short tale into a nearly 90-minute B-movie that rarely feels too long or padded. Corman was obviously influenced by Hammer in the use of color, bosoms and blood and he had a secret weapon: Vincent Price. Price is excellent as always as the tormented Roderick Usher, unable to bear loud noises, morbidly convinced of the impending doom of the House of Usher and nursing an unhealthy, possessive love for his sister Madeline (Myrna Fahey).
Apart from a few extras with no dialogue in a dream sequence, the cast consists of only four actors, adding to the feeling of claustrophobia. The heavy use of red in the furnishings of the house and in Roderick's grotesque paintings makes it seem like the house itself is bleeding. Much like the later Pit And The Pendulum, it starts out a bit slow, but builds to an apocalyptic climax.
Seven more AIP/Poe adaptations would follow, some of which I have already reviewed.
Next: Fear Has Three Faces
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