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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 30, 2024 16:27:24 GMT -5
Saw "Extra Terrestrial Visitors" (1983) last Friday night. Apparently, the director was shooting a horror flick, the execs/producers wanted to cash-in on the success of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), and this absolute mess was the result. Incidentally, has anyone ever picked up on the utter idiocy of the name for Spielberg's movie? Also, in an odd coincidink: A Simple Simon game has a choice moment in "Extra Terrestrial Visitors". I have probably not seen one of those in decades until I saw it in that stupid movie. A couple of days later, I run by a friend's house...and he's got a goddamn mini Simple Simon* sitting around.
*Also, I just noticed they've changed the name to simply "Simon" now. Darn political correctness!
Also watched a dumb horror/comedy called "The Dead Hate the Living!" (2000). That is all the notes it deserves.
And also, last night I saw "Satan Wants You" (2023) which goes into detail about the furor around the book Michelle Remembers and makes a solid case for it really pushing the whole Satanic Panic of the 80's-early 90's into full gear while also debunking the claims. Michelle herself is still alive and refused to take part in the production.
Did they mention that Michelle eventually married her psychoanalyst, Lawrence Pazder? That ain't right...
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 30, 2024 20:03:09 GMT -5
Saw "Extra Terrestrial Visitors" (1983) last Friday night. Apparently, the director was shooting a horror flick, the execs/producers wanted to cash-in on the success of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982), and this absolute mess was the result. Incidentally, has anyone ever picked up on the utter idiocy of the name for Spielberg's movie? Also, in an odd coincidink: A Simple Simon game has a choice moment in "Extra Terrestrial Visitors". I have probably not seen one of those in decades until I saw it in that stupid movie. A couple of days later, I run by a friend's house...and he's got a goddamn mini Simple Simon* sitting around.
*Also, I just noticed they've changed the name to simply "Simon" now. Darn political correctness!
Also watched a dumb horror/comedy called "The Dead Hate the Living!" (2000). That is all the notes it deserves.
And also, last night I saw "Satan Wants You" (2023) which goes into detail about the furor around the book Michelle Remembers and makes a solid case for it really pushing the whole Satanic Panic of the 80's-early 90's into full gear while also debunking the claims. Michelle herself is still alive and refused to take part in the production.
Did they mention that Michelle eventually married her psychoanalyst, Lawrence Pazder? That ain't right... Oh yeah. They went into that in great depth.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on May 30, 2024 21:02:43 GMT -5
Did they mention that Michelle eventually married her psychoanalyst, Lawrence Pazder? That ain't right... Oh yeah. They went into that in great depth. Good to know. That fact in his life essentially makes Pazder into a fictional shrink like the ones in THE PRINCE OF TIDES and MR. JONES.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on May 31, 2024 14:31:03 GMT -5
I watched one from 2013 called "Dark Touch". Spoilers ahoy!*
* From what they gave me story-wise, I could not determine what was real and what wasn't. I never could figure out if all the kids in the town were being abused, or if Niamh was some awful demon child leaving death in her wake. Maybe there was once a coherent plot to all this, but it didn't make it past the final edit. Shame, because I was locked-in for the first 30-40 minutes, trying to unravel how this mystery was going to unfold. The melting baby dolls at the birthday party scene was glorious, though.
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Post by Deeky on May 31, 2024 21:45:44 GMT -5
Naked Lunch The straightest gay film I've ever seen.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 3, 2024 13:55:47 GMT -5
The Fly Wow, that was really something.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 3, 2024 16:14:36 GMT -5
The Fly Wow, that was really something. Original or remake?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 3, 2024 16:17:27 GMT -5
"Flight of the Living Dead" (2007) - Was it any good? is a silly question. But it was exactly what I was expecting and I enjoyed it within those narrow parameters.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 3, 2024 16:57:01 GMT -5
The Fly Wow, that was really something. Original or remake? 1986 remake by Cronenberg.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 4, 2024 11:12:47 GMT -5
1986 remake by Cronenberg. Does a half-man half-fly wind up in a web at any time during the proceedings? Because if not, I want nothing to do with it.*
*Actually, I want nothing to do with it due to my inherent Jeff Goldblum resistance. Also, the tagline for it was really "BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID."? Come on now.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 4, 2024 11:14:04 GMT -5
Finally got around to "Mimic" (1997). Cool-ass creature effects by Rob Bottin, but we have bugs that big down here, so not terribly scary from a Florida standpoint.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 4, 2024 18:24:07 GMT -5
1986 remake by Cronenberg. Does a half-man half-fly wind up in a web at any time during the proceedings? Because if not, I want nothing to do with it.* *Actually, I want nothing to do with it due to my inherent Jeff Goldblum resistance. Also, the tagline for it was really "BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID."? Come on now. No webs at all! And the "Be Afraid" thing is actually a line of dialog from the film.
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Jun 5, 2024 17:54:42 GMT -5
Does a half-man half-fly wind up in a web at any time during the proceedings? Because if not, I want nothing to do with it.* *Actually, I want nothing to do with it due to my inherent Jeff Goldblum resistance. Also, the tagline for it was really "BE AFRAID. BE VERY AFRAID."? Come on now. No webs at all! And the "Be Afraid" thing is actually a line of dialog from the film. And you do get a "help me."
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 5, 2024 19:27:04 GMT -5
No webs at all! And the "Be Afraid" thing is actually a line of dialog from the film. And you do get a "help me." Is it a Goldblum line, though? There is literally bile in my throat right now imagining him saying that.
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Post by Deeky on Jun 5, 2024 19:35:28 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 5, 2024 21:24:51 GMT -5
Curse you and your quirky charisma Jeff Goldblum!
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Post by Portrait in Flesh on Jun 5, 2024 22:00:09 GMT -5
And you do get a "help me." Is it a Goldblum line, though? There is literally bile in my throat right now imagining him saying that. Oh yes indeed it is.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 6, 2024 11:52:18 GMT -5
Last night's random view was "Island of Blood" (1982). It's a bad movie about people getting murdered while filming a bad movie.
Here's the theme tune:
And ahead are some stellar lines from the show:
"It's weird being on an island"
"I'm not going to mess with a bunch of food picky drug freaks"
"It isn't every day I find someone boiled to death"
"I can see myself in this plate"
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Post by Deeky on Jun 7, 2024 19:18:56 GMT -5
Night of the Demons Halloween party at the haunted morgue!
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Jun 8, 2024 10:27:15 GMT -5
Night of the Demons Halloween party at the haunted morgue! Ah! A man of taste and distinction I see.
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