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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Yes! They're very talented!

I'm also watching!

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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Everyone knows "Raiders of the Lost Ark" -- but how many remember the original?
Or for thar matter, the original version of this popular 80's TV show?
What have He-man and Skeletor been up to lately? Let's see. . .

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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Great film! Scared the heck out of me, when I saw it on a small TV screen as a kid. I finally saw it again much later, at a Baltimore Science Fiction Convention (the Balticon). Larger screen. Still scary!

Jacques Tourneur, the director, fought against actually showing the demon; he much preferred the unseen evil, as being more disturbing. He lost out to the studio on that one, but Val Lewton had been had been in synch with his thinking, when he had him direct some the first of his classic 1940's horrors for RKO. Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie are the most famous, but here's a short clip from the third, lesser known, The Leopard Man, which demonstrates his approach:

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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Jacques Tourneur, the director, fought against actually showing the demon; he much preferred the unseen evil, as being more disturbing. He lost out to the studio on that one, but Val Lewton had been had been in synch with his thinking, when he had him direct some the first of his classic 1940's horrors for RKO. Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie are the most famous, but here's a short clip from the third, lesser known, The Leopard Man, which demonstrates his approach:

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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Hey, you're right -- that time of year, isn't it? Pressed for movie time, but I'll have to try to squeeze one in. Most likely one of the classics -- early Universal or Val Lewton; the original Mummy or Cat People. I like the cerebral horror films of the classic era. Speaking of which, ever see the original "Black Cat", with Karloff and Lugosi? I always got the impression of a titanic struggle going on, just outside the range of perception.
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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

Hey, you're right -- that time of year, isn't it? Pressed for movie time, but I'll have to try to squeeze one in. Most likely one of the classics -- early Universal or Val Lewton; the original Mummy or Cat People. I like the cerebral horror films of the classic era. Speaking of which, ever see the original "Black Cat", with Karloff and Lugosi? I always got the impression of a titanic struggle going on, just outside the range of perception.
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Squint-eyed Southerner said:

active heroines.

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