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[Erestor Arcamen]

Yep... I've seen him in at least one non horror movie, a noir, where he played it (a secondary role, not the lead) absolutely straight.
A very polished actor.

I actually was at a conference a few years ago and his daughter Victoria was there. She was extremely interesting to hear stories a our him and his home life. Just made me appreciate him even more.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Bram Stoker's Dracula (the one with Gary Oldman and, w/o checking, I think Coppola directed. It is also the one imo most faithful to the book )

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[Ealdwyn]

Bram Stoker's Dracula (the one with Gary Oldman and, w/o checking, I think Coppola directed. It is also the one imo most faithful to the book )

I agree it's the closest to the book. But the film is a joke due to the leads' appalling accents.

I quite like the BBC mini-series from a couple of years ago, an interesting take on the story from Gatiss & Moffatt. Claes Bang was perfect in the title role: the epitome of the suave, urbane vampire.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Night of the Demon (which made it into Martin Scorsese's list of the top 10 scariest movies), The Studio forced the writer and director to actually include and show a monster, and it's cheesy (the monster). But it doesn't happen until the very end

Doesn't it also appear in one of the early scenes of the first death? I see I need to watch it again. 🙂

Val Lewton was much more in sync with Jacques Tourneur, when making the great low-key RKO horrors in the 40s; I mentioned them on Page 1 of this thread -- and probably in the previous Halloween thread.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Did you ever get the impression that Vincent Price was hamming it up, just a bit?

He did the horror movies mostly to fund his art collection. He was certainly aware of the campy nature of William Castle's, and to an extent, Roger Cornan's films, so was usually winking at the audience. When he respected the material, as in Corman's last Poe film, "The Tomb of Ligeia", he could play it straight. As a matter of fact, I recently watched "The Tingler", and he didn't seem to be hamming it up so much there, which is surprising. Of course, he may not have been aware that Castle was going to be going around putting electric shockers in the theater seats. 😄

"Ligeia" and "Troll Hunter" were up for free on YouTube, but I see both have been taken down, unfortunately. But there's still a lot of good stuff available; last night I watched this atmospheric psychological Hammer thriller from 1964:

 

[Ealdwyn]

"Ligeia" and "Troll Hunter" were up for free on YouTube, but I see both have been taken down, unfortunately. But there's still a lot of good stuff available; last night I watched this atmospheric psychological Hammer thriller from 1964:

I've never seen that one. I like a Hammer movie

 

[Áramandë Amaniel]

Quite surprisingly, I am watching none.

I have none. I need none.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

He did the horror movies mostly to fund his art collection. He was certainly aware of the campy nature of William Castle's, and to an extent, Roger Cornan's films, so was usually winking at the audience. When he respected the material, as in Corman's last Poe film, "The Tomb of Ligeia", he could play it straight. As a matter of fact, I recently watched "The Tingler", and he didn't seem to be hamming it up so much there, which is surprising. Of course, he may not have been aware that Castle was going to be going around putting electric shockers in the theater seats. 😄

"Ligeia" and "Troll Hunter" were up for free on YouTube, but I see both have been taken down, unfortunately. But there's still a lot of good stuff available; last night I watched this atmospheric psychological Hammer thriller from 1964:

If it's Hammer, why does it have that Universal logo at the beginning? because I see the Hammer logo after that too. Or is that a different Universal than the one I know?

I love Hammer movies as well

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Probably distributed by Universal. I'd have to check my Hammer books -- or the internet 😄 -- but Hammer's non-"monster" movies may have been bought by them.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Thanks, that's what I figured.

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

On a related subject, the familiar prints of several of the earliest Universal horror films were taken from re-release prints of the late 30s or 40s, and appear to have been clipped. "The Mummy" ends abruptly, and I always had the impression the original ending had been clipped off. I've never seen a reference to it, though, so I could be wrong there.

 

[Deimos]

Doesn't it also appear in one of the early scenes of the first death? I see I need to watch it again. 🙂

Val Lewton was much more in sync with Jacques Tourneur, when making the great low-key RKO horrors in the 40s; I mentioned them on Page 1 of this thread -- and probably in the previous Halloween thread.

I think you're right... and it was at the death of Cyril Cusack's character.
Still, (now recalling it) it somehow didn't bother me when I saw it, and that was before I knew it was forced inclusion.
I was so taken up with the suspense and mood of the film (thus far) that the presence of demon was just an unnecessary and easily ignored sideshow.
Remember the windstorm at the party? That was so well done, almost terrifying .... just a windstorm, and yet , and yet....

 

[Squint-eyed Southerner]

Love it! I definitely haven't seen them all but I've watched a lot of the original episodes

MeTV is running a Twilight Zone marathon tomorrow from Noon to 6PM EDT, if you're interested.

Plus, tonight's Svengoolie features a movie I mentioned above, The Tingler.

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[Deimos]

MeTV is running a Twilight Zone marathon tomorrow from Noon to 6PM EDT, if you're interested.
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Plus, tonight's Svengoolie features a movie I mentioned above, The Tingler.

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I have the entire set of TZ episodes, that Ginormous thing with 5 "volumes" and each volume has 5 or 6 DVDs.
But to be brutally honest, not all of the episodes were very good, much less great. I'd say maybe a quarter of them were really, really good.
Some of the great ones were written by Serling himself, others were written by established SF/ fantasy writers.

 

[Erzuu]

I will recommend Hereditary the best horror movie 👍

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Tonight's feature presentation in the EA household

 

[Deimos]

Tonight's feature presentation in the EA household

omg....swiss, cheddar, jack, brie, gouda ...pick a cheese, any cheese....😄

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

I've seen it a million times but anything with Peter Cushing and/or Christopher Lee is a hit to me . One of the next ones I want to watch is The Devil Rides Out, it's another really good Hammer.

 

[ZehnWaters]

I've heard good things about House and House II: The Second Story. Can't personally vouch for either, though.

 

[Erestor Arcamen]

Pretty sure I've posted them before but these are two of my favorite Vincent Price movies. Goofy, fun movies that I try to watch for Halloween each year