Halloween Movies 🎃

[Deimos]

That would be appreciated -- I could see the replies, and avoid repeating something I might have said.

Oookaaaay 🙄 ....
2022 Hallowe'en post

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

So, I've asked other people who like House on Haunted Hill this question, and now I'm asking you...
Did you ever get the impression that Vincent Price was hamming it up, just a bit?
He loved to ham and was very good at it, keeping it subtle, never letting it degenerate into slapstick (except when he played Egghead on the old Batman series w/ Adam West in the 60s... and then he was given free rein)

He also "hammed" it up on his cooking show.

The show led to a cookbook.

Which led to food endorsements.

Nothing says "gourmet" like a big dish of macaroni and Spam.

 

[ZehnWaters]

He also "hammed" it up on his cooking show.
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The show led to a cookbook.
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Which led to food endorsements.
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Nothing says "gourmet" like a big dish of macaroni and Spam.

Mmm. Macaroni and Spam sounds delicious.

 

[Deimos]

He also "hammed" it up on his cooking show.
forgot that he was a gourmet iforgot that he was
The show led to a cookbook.
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Which led to food endorsements.

Nothing says "gourmet" like a big dish of macaroni and Spam.

I forgot that he was a gourmet cook.
I'll bet it would have been sidesplitting to have him and Julia Child do a show together. Can you imagine?.....😂😂😂

 

[Fingon_Findekáno]

Nothing says "gourmet" like a big dish of macaroni and Spam.

I gotta try this sometime! 😃

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

 

[Eljorahir]

When I was a youngster, this scene from "Gargoyles" made me afraid to go to bed.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Currently watching the one starring Christopher Lee. Hammer made some of the best movies for this time of year 😍

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Apologies if I posted this previously. Younger members will find it hard to believe, but once upon a time, this classic was almost impossible to see; now it's free on YouTube for anyone to enjoy:

One of those rare movies about which it can be said "the more times you watch it, the better it gets!". Best seen with friends, though.

Or strangers, for that matter.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Also watched this one last night, very good movie

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Tonight’s feature

 

[Deimos]

Also watched this one last night, very good movie

The Wicker Man isn't just good...it's terrifying.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

The Wicker Man isn't just good...it's terrifying.

Agreed, it was very much so.

 

[Deimos]

Agreed, it was very much so.

It's that terror begot by quiet, creeping menace that becomes increasingly palpable. 😬😬😬

Just a slightly related FYI: The Inspector is played by Edward Woodword.
I first saw him in the movie Breaker Morant, which I thought quite good.

 

[Olorgando]

It's that terror begot by quiet, creeping menace that becomes increasingly palpable. 😬😬😬

Meaning the current viewership of the genre (at least as far as the perpetrators of it believe in their troll-like silica brains) would fall into a boredom coma after about five seconds, as they need to be sledgehammered about the cranium with a thrill-a-second (as a guess).

 

[Deimos]

Meaning the current viewership of the genre (at least as far as the perpetrators of it believe in their troll-like silica brains) would fall into a boredom coma after about five seconds, as they need to be sledgehammered about the cranium with a thrill-a-second (as a guess).

Yep, squared and cubed.

I'm on a woodworking forum and we were discussing Hitchcock movies.
The OP said he and wife (they are in their 60s) wanted to show a younger friend (woman, 45) a Hitchcock movie because she had never seen one,.
So the discussion was about which one would be a good intro to "Hitch" ...until we found out:
1) It has to be in color (she won't watch B/W movies)
2) It can't have Jimmy Stewart in it (she doesn't like him)
3) There has to be a lot of action (she's "mostly likes" and almost exclusively watches the MCU/ super hero genre of movies.)

*sigh* OK...what does that leave us to recommend? Not much.
I don't know which movie was decided on as the OP has not gotten back to us about that, or the result.
But I am not hopeful...probably an "epic failure", i.e., no Hitchcock convert , even if she managed to sit through the whole movie....which she probably didn't.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Movies I also watched tonight:

House of Usher - I’ve seen this one before but was in a Poe mood
Curse of the Crimson Altar - this one was kind of meh but I liked it for Boris Karloff and Christopher Lee (two of my favorite actors) being in the movie together

 

[ZehnWaters]

Mr. Boogedy and Bride of Boogedy, Disney Channel TV movies from my youth.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Still waiting for this one . . .

 

[LaurelinBearsFruit]

Movies I either have watched or plan to watch this month:

• Tucker and Dale vs Evil (one of my fav comedy-spooky movies)
• Return of the Living Dead
• 1408
• Hocus Pocus
• Halloweentown (on of Sarah's favs - I am not that huge a fan but I watched it in her honor)
• Christine (first watching this and it was awesome)
• Casper
• The Exorcist (2000s remake)
• Zombieland

There may be more yet to come, but October is almost over.

EDIT: I also watched Return of the Living Dead II (not nearly as good of a movie, but entertaining)