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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Feb 12, 2018 23:55:49 GMT -5
Dr. Kobb did you click on Deeky's last post with the credits for Wham Bam Thank You Spaceman, to enarge them and see if any of them look familiar from the film that you recently watched?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 13, 2018 3:31:43 GMT -5
Dr. Kobb did you click on Deeky's last post with the credits for Wham Bam Thank You Spaceman, to enarge them and see if any of them look familiar from the film that you recently watched? I did indeed. And no, different flick. |
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Post by Kodos on Feb 13, 2018 17:06:41 GMT -5
Billy and Kobb, I also have Sinister Cinema DVDs, but I've never experienced any difficulty with playback. Perhaps you just got bad copies? IIRC, all of their movies are burned onto DVD-Rs, which in my experience occasionally results in an iffy copy.
I had that very compilation of Fantasy trailers on VHS, and I think it had the same harsh color issue, so perhaps it's just the quality of prints they had available. I really do miss their trailer comps; they were fantastic. I had one of sci-fi trailers that was a favorite of mine on VHS, but for some reason they never made that particular one available on DVD. I have the DVDs of the trailer comps that they do offer, but none are as great of a collection as that one I bought at Borders when dinosaurs roamed the earth.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 14, 2018 2:02:05 GMT -5
Billy and Kobb, I also have Sinister Cinema DVDs, but I've never experienced any difficulty with playback. Perhaps you just got bad copies? IIRC, all of their movies are burned onto DVD-Rs, which in my experience occasionally results in an iffy copy. I had that very compilation of Fantasy trailers on VHS, and I think it had the same harsh color issue, so perhaps it's just the quality of prints they had available. I really do miss their trailer comps; they were fantastic. I had one of sci-fi trailers that was a favorite of mine on VHS, but for some reason they never made that particular one available on DVD. I have the DVDs of the trailer comps that they do offer, but none are as great of a collection as that one I bought at Borders when dinosaurs roamed the earth. I've heard about that one ( WDRtE)! I definitely need to have a look! Yeah, I suspect that was the issue with that fantasy trailer tape. Damn shame, though. I could still sit down to something like that in a onesie and a bowl of Capt. Crunch. Well, okay, these days I could probably polish off the whole box. I generally had better luck with the Something Weird series of trailer comps, although even there I ran into issues. Their Mexican Monsters on the March is fantastic, but the print is so jumpy, it quickly becomes tiresome. There are some old Good Times Video comps that I'd love to find, but I wouldn't know where to begin. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Feb 14, 2018 2:36:00 GMT -5
I watched the end of Dark Intruder, on utube. The picture was fuzzy compared to that of the Sinister Cinema DVD, when it was working, but the weather is colder today, and i just got the draggy freezing picture, which I've run out of patience with, so I settled for the fuzzy utube print.
It was a good film, and I did like the short running time.
Next, will be Run For the Hills, and if it is on utube for free, i'll watch it there rather than put up with the difficulties of whatever defect there is in Sinister's DVD.
I did on the old ZAQB, post some posters from Run for the hills.
Barbara Payton, leading lady of the film, is quite good looking in it,
I had read that in her final years she had become an alcholoic hooker, giving blow jobs in parked cars and so drunk she often forgot to collect her fees.
In the opening scenes of Run For the Hills, I certainly would never have imagined the sad end that her life came to.
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Feb 14, 2018 5:48:18 GMT -5
Billy and Kobb, I also have Sinister Cinema DVDs, but I've never experienced any difficulty with playback. Perhaps you just got bad copies? IIRC, all of their movies are burned onto DVD-Rs, which in my experience occasionally results in an iffy copy. That sounds about right. Back in the VHS days, we ordered a fair number of films for the store from Sinister over time and, as I recall, they were not averse to using cheaper brands of tape. They were one of those companies that was justifiably renowned for its catalog despite the occasional crapshoot nature of their operation. |
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 14, 2018 13:20:26 GMT -5
Overdose of Degradation (1970) here last night. I'll probably go into anaphylactic shock whenever I see a genuinely good movie again.
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Post by Deeky on Feb 14, 2018 13:48:28 GMT -5
CHiPs What in good christ was that?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 15, 2018 23:58:23 GMT -5
A twofer with the upcoming convention guests in mind.
First up was Barbara Hershey in Boxcar Bertha (`72) followed by Chris Sarandon in The Sentinel (`77)*. John Carradine shows up in both, and there's a bevy of fun character actors from the era in both films. And, I just find movies from that era more my "speed" than previous or post-decade films. I can't really explain it better than that. There's a lot of other qualities about 70's movies I find endearing, but it's the pacing I like perhaps best.
*I know The Sentinel caught a lot of flack (and rightly so) for parading around a bunch of folks with actual deformities as lost souls in the last minutes, but apart from that final curtain snafu, the rest was pretty great.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Feb 18, 2018 14:51:53 GMT -5
Well, I couldn't find Run For the Hills free on u-tube, so I am watching it on the Sinister Cinema DVD, and it plays OK for awhile, but eventually freezes up. This is not as bad as with the other 2 SC DVDs, and the weather has warmed up recently and I am still wondering if that might be the reason.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 21, 2018 14:42:35 GMT -5
Shin Godzilla (2016) was an interesting take on the legend. In this one Gojira is this highly irradiated, rapidly mutating amphibiod that starts out flopping around destroying a small town and later makes its way to Tokyo as the now gargantuan monster we've all come to know and fear. The human characters are rather bland stereotypes of various officials, military, and scientists all trying to find a way to stop the beast. Incredible special effects really steal the show.
Black Mountain Side (2014) was intriguing with some solid moments, but broke down logically towards the end. It's about some researchers who've spent the past three years in a remote area of Canada where it reaches 50-below at night. They've uncovered relics that appear to be from ancient South America, though centuries prior to even the advent of those glorious empires. An archeologist arrives to help determine the origins of the relics, and strange shit starts happening. I mean seriously strange shit. But they didn't explain/wrap up some of the plot points, which I found kind of aggravating.
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Post by Choconado on Feb 21, 2018 17:56:43 GMT -5
Shin Godzilla is so very good. It's probably the most critical of current Japanese culture since the original. Like a major message the director (the dude who made the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime) is trying to get across is that Japan needs to move past its manchild phase it's been in since Hiroshima where the country has never moved past the phase of needing its hands held by everyone else despite WW2 being 3-4 generations ago now, and instead they seem to be regressing. Japan has a real problem lately of population DECREASE, with childish hobbies (which are okay on their own) superseding interest in even meeting others and procreating. Japan needs to grow up, and fast if they want to survive to see the next century.
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Post by Count Zero on Feb 22, 2018 12:32:42 GMT -5
Shin Godzilla is so very good. It's probably the most critical of current Japanese culture since the original. Like a major message the director (the dude who made the Neon Genesis Evangelion anime) is trying to get across is that Japan needs to move past its manchild phase it's been in since Hiroshima where the country has never moved past the phase of needing its hands held by everyone else despite WW2 being 3-4 generations ago now, and instead they seem to be regressing. Japan has a real problem lately of population DECREASE, with childish hobbies (which are okay on their own) superseding interest in even meeting others and procreating. Japan needs to grow up, and fast if they want to survive to see the next century. It's also a brutal satire of the Japanese government's handling of the Fukushima disaster, which is sort of the perfect thing to make a modern Godzilla movie about. ("There is absolutely no way the creature can come on land.... It what?!") Yeah, I loved Shin Godzilla, too. |
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Post by Choconado on Feb 22, 2018 20:16:31 GMT -5
I loved the climax, which is not only showing parallels with how Fukushima was handled, but also makes for a magnificent table turning on the whole 60ish years of the series.
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Post by Deeky on Feb 22, 2018 20:25:52 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Feb 22, 2018 21:03:53 GMT -5
Ah, the little deaths we live for...
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Feb 23, 2018 9:57:37 GMT -5
Of those 4 $1.00 DVDs I bought from the City Library, I've watched the 3 Sinister Cinema films, watching the last of Run For the Hills two nights ago.
Now all that is left is Of Mice and Men, which is distributed by Image Entertainment, and I am interested in because it has what is considered to be Lon Chaney Jr's best performance. At 106 mins it is much longer than those first 3 from the library.
Before playing the character Lennie in the film, Mr. Chaney had played it on the stage.
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Feb 25, 2018 0:31:23 GMT -5
I just watched the 47 minute version of Six Shes and a He, on u-tube.
Previously all I had seen was a 28 minute version on a Something Weird Twisted Sex Trailers VHS.
This film was released in the Carolinas in January of 1965, by Dominant Pictures of the Carolinas, which also included Virginia drive-in movie circuits.
In some areas the film reportedly stayed in release until as late as 1972, although I don't know of any Carolina showings after about 1967 or so, those under an alternate title of Kiss Me Bloody.
Since the earlier 28 minute version I saw was missing the opening scene and opening titles, I was glad to get to see those parts of the films, although the 28 min. version did include an outrageous horror scene, the film's main claim to being a horror movie equal to that of the Friedman and Lewis films.
The rest of the film was just some well endowed, but not overly large breasted girls in revealing bikinis, dancing for the most part. The six shes were good looking, although
I don't know if I'd call them "beautiful," as one reviewer did.
This longer version also included the theme song, "Love Goddess," another title being Love Goddesses of Blood Island.
I think the AFI catalog gives 60 mins as the running time, although I think there might be claims that there was even a 72 minute version.
Actually a full hour version would be too long for me to sit thru. The 47 minute version became pretty boring.
From reading the thread on CHFB, I get the impression the film might have been a box office looser, although it had repeated showings, probably the reason for the title change to Kiss Me Bloody, where it also played with the Friedman-Lewis Blood Trilogy as 4th feature.
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Post by Deeky on Feb 25, 2018 0:59:48 GMT -5
This longer version also included the theme song, "Love Goddess," another title being Love Goddesses of Blood Island. There's a good candidate for a new rank. |
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Post by Billy A. Anderson on Feb 25, 2018 1:41:36 GMT -5
Deeky, you are the webmaster, so you can Do What Thou Wilt as far as member rankings go.
Since we have both ladies and gents here on the board, I have wondered if the rankings should be sex specific.
For example, monster cock would not be right for a lady member, similary love goddess would not be right for a gentleman member.
I think we should have some gender distinction in the rankings, for example, Love Goddess for the ladies and Love God for the gents.
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