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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 29, 2022 20:52:37 GMT -5
The Horror Show The ghost of a serial killer torments the cop who sent him to the chair. I just watched that one for the first time a couple months ago. Bonkers. I'm a sucker for those dream-within-a-dream (within-a-dream) sorts of horror movies.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 29, 2022 21:08:05 GMT -5
So, I wasn't kidding the other night. I did indeed sit down to "Terrifier 2" and it was indeed pretty sadistic and gory at times. But, it does have that Halloween vibe throughout. There's a cool old-timey funhouse sequence; a fantastic costume shop part; there are decorations on houses and trick-r-treaters about. It also had several scenes with footage from old B-horrors like "Night of the Living Dead", "Plan 9 from Outer Space", and "13 Ghosts" (and others). That trope of people sitting at home (or babysitting) on Halloween and half-watching bad movies seems to go back to at least the 70's or 80's, and I love that it continues all the way up to current movies.
So, I tell you all this as some justification for watching two of the worst that I somehow avoided for all these years - until tonight. That's right, I just watched "Bride of the Monster" and Robot Monster". Back-to-back. It felt like the movie equivalent of self-trepantation. I actually feel lighter without all that excess brain weight. It's not like I was using it anyway.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Oct 29, 2022 22:16:04 GMT -5
It was decommissioned, so it wasn't broadcasting. Also, I had no idea that was a thing. Yeah. It's something they teach you about in amateur radio school. Also was a topic of discussion among some BASE jumpers I once knew.
ETA: We're basically talking radiation burns here. Usually with an amateur radio setup, you're going to get them if you fuck up and handle a live transmitter improperly. Big towers, apparently, can literally cost you a limb or two.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Oct 30, 2022 17:16:16 GMT -5
So, for reasons I'm not sure I understand myself, I want to chase down this one and watch it.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 30, 2022 19:27:26 GMT -5
So, for reasons I'm not sure I understand myself, I want to chase down this one and watch it.
I thus far haven't made it through either of the Dr. Goldfoot films, and I'll usually sit through anything with Price in it. One day I'll make it.
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Post by Deeky on Oct 31, 2022 20:11:27 GMT -5
Fright Night Part 2 Oof.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Oct 31, 2022 20:45:37 GMT -5
That's the most succinct review I've ever seen of that particular film.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Oct 31, 2022 21:33:04 GMT -5
I went with "Night of the Ghouls" (1959) as my background movie while I handed out candy. It was perfect actually, because it turns out it's the sequel to "Bride of the Monster", which I watched just a night ago. Plus, it doesn't require a lot of attention investment to follow along. And much like "Bride of the Monster", "Night of the Ghouls" has a dramatic score and oodles of sound and visual f/x like wind, rain, lightning and swamp sounds and footage. It was just right for Halloween night.
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Post by Lemmy Caution on Oct 31, 2022 22:55:54 GMT -5
So, for reasons I'm not sure I understand myself, I want to chase down this one and watch it. I thus far haven't made it through either of the Dr. Goldfoot films, and I'll usually sit through anything with Price in it. One day I'll make it.
We'd prefer, of course, to go to the Loft. But this fall, for a number of reason, we need to improvise at home. We have a whole box full of Bruce Campbell movies in our storage space. May swing by and grab a couple of those for next week.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 2, 2022 10:42:39 GMT -5
"The Return of Dracula" (1958) - Dracula sneaks his way out of the Balkans and all the way to California, USA, where he pretends to be the eccentric European uncle of a whitebread American family. It was pretty slow going and easy to guess where things were heading if you've ever seen a single vampire movie. But, it's set around Halloween time and there are some cozy af scenes of 1950's decorations and costumes. That literally made up for things with me. They also point up how Drac won't appear in photographs, and I'm wondering if this was the first film to add that charming tidbit to the lore.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 2, 2022 12:11:46 GMT -5
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 2, 2022 23:14:23 GMT -5
It's been a while since I saw NoES1. I don't recall this face from the poster in the movie. Does it indeed refer to a scene from the film, or is it just a vague representation of a "nightmare" for the poster art alone? That is definitely Freddy's trademark bladed glove below the face. Help me out here...
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Post by Marxo Grouch on Nov 3, 2022 4:44:27 GMT -5
It's been a while since I saw NoES1. I don't recall this face from the poster in the movie. Does it indeed refer to a scene from the film, or is it just a vague representation of a "nightmare" for the poster art alone? That is definitely Freddy's trademark bladed glove below the face. Help me out here...
I was actually just thinking about that myself. My guess would be that, because this was before Freddy became an instantly recognizable figure, it was probably an artist's somewhat abstract idea of what he might look like. Remember, posters used to be artier back then.
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Post by Killer Goldfish on Nov 3, 2022 10:03:06 GMT -5
It's been a while since I saw NoES1. I don't recall this face from the poster in the movie. Does it indeed refer to a scene from the film, or is it just a vague representation of a "nightmare" for the poster art alone? That is definitely Freddy's trademark bladed glove below the face. Help me out here...
This is the poster they showed at the theater where I first saw it! It seems to be a mashup of images from the bathtub scene, the "Glen, you have to watch me while I sleep" scene and probably some ideas that never got used in the movie itself...
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Post by Deeky on Nov 4, 2022 20:58:18 GMT -5
Hellraiser (2022) Lady Hellraiser takes her toll.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 5, 2022 23:09:40 GMT -5
It's been a while since I saw NoES1. I don't recall this face from the poster in the movie. Does it indeed refer to a scene from the film, or is it just a vague representation of a "nightmare" for the poster art alone? That is definitely Freddy's trademark bladed glove below the face. Help me out here...
I was actually just thinking about that myself. My guess would be that, because this was before Freddy became an instantly recognizable figure, it was probably an artist's somewhat abstract idea of what he might look like. Remember, posters used to be artier back then. Yeah, and I recognize that particular artist for a number of posters for movies in that era, even though I didn't know their name, that style is inimitable. Like they were wildly popular and then...poof. I don't know? It's a longshot, but that "might" be the same artist who did the "Raiders of the Lost Ark" poster art(?).
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 5, 2022 23:12:21 GMT -5
Hellraiser (2022) Lady Hellraiser takes her toll. Is that the newish show on one of the streaming services? Have you watched all of the first season already? Am I mixed-up here?
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Post by Deeky on Nov 6, 2022 8:38:11 GMT -5
It's on Hulu, but it is just a movie, not a show.
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 7, 2022 0:09:34 GMT -5
It's on Hulu, but it is just a movie, not a show. Ah, thank you. Is it worth a look? I think I've only ever seen the first three Hellraisers, and they were all a long time and many brain cells ago. How many Hellraiser films are there now? Eight? Nine?
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Post by Dr. Kobb on Nov 7, 2022 0:23:31 GMT -5
It's been a while since I saw NoES1. I don't recall this face from the poster in the movie. Does it indeed refer to a scene from the film, or is it just a vague representation of a "nightmare" for the poster art alone? That is definitely Freddy's trademark bladed glove below the face. Help me out here...
This is the poster they showed at the theater where I first saw it! It seems to be a mashup of images from the bathtub scene, the "Glen, you have to watch me while I sleep" scene and probably some ideas that never got used in the movie itself... Yeah. They might not have even had a solid pinned-down "look" for Freddy when they commissioned the poster art. Probably just told the illustrator to "Draw us a murderous burn victim" and ta-da! Poster art! It does have a similarly gleeful, malicious, vengeful look to it that I associate with Robert Englund's "Freddy".
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