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Post by shaxper on Oct 3, 2019 20:33:42 GMT -5
Sneaking in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) before bed tonight. I've watched this one so many times, but I happened to watch Cinemamassacre's commentary on the history of the film's many prints, and it whet my appetite all over again. Not a perfect film in many respects, and I will never be able to tolerate Mary Philbin as Christine, but I LOVE the sets and the murky gothic atmosphere of the whole thing. Hard to imagine a Halloween viewing season without Phantom in the rotation. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2019 21:03:55 GMT -5
shaxper ... that Phantom film of 1925 wasn't my cup of tea and most of those were neither. I'm really an anti-Phantom of the Opera filmgoer and these films were pretty much out of my own territory. Sorry. Append: I'm not a fan of these films and none of them really clicked with me and I did watch pretty much all of them and none of them hold water for me. I just wanted to add that too.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2019 0:33:33 GMT -5
Watched the Invisible Man tonight a classic thriller from 1933 that starred Claude Rains as the Invisible Man. Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, and Una O'Conner as Jenny Hall was superb. It was done amazingly well and the special effects handling the invisibility like the time when he was running with only his pants and scaring the wits of a helpless woman was classic. Everything was done top-notch and the train scene was horrible beyond belief. Man, I have seen this movie countless time and it's never fails to entertains me.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 4, 2019 6:36:47 GMT -5
Watched the Invisible Man tonight a classic thriller from 1933 that starred Claude Rains as the Invisible Man. Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, and Una O'Conner as Jenny Hall was superb. It was done amazingly well and the special effects handling the invisibility like the time when he was running with only his pants and scaring the wits of a helpless woman was classic. Everything was done top-notch and the train scene was horrible beyond belief. Man, I have seen this movie countless time and it's never fails to entertains me. I love Claud Rains, and I love James Whale, but I always struggle with this one because, of all the core Universal horror classics, this one is weakest on sets and atmosphere. That always matters most to me in these old films. If you enjoy the odd dark humor in this one, you might like Whale's The Old Dark House, Mech. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 4, 2019 7:32:55 GMT -5
Watched the Invisible Man tonight a classic thriller from 1933 that starred Claude Rains as the Invisible Man. Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers, and Una O'Conner as Jenny Hall was superb. It was done amazingly well and the special effects handling the invisibility like the time when he was running with only his pants and scaring the wits of a helpless woman was classic. Everything was done top-notch and the train scene was horrible beyond belief. Man, I have seen this movie countless time and it's never fails to entertains me. If you enjoy the odd dark humor in this one, you might like Whale's The Old Dark House, Mech. I do dearly and that's another great film done by Whale. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 4, 2019 16:54:21 GMT -5
Sneaking in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) before bed tonight. I've watched this one so many times, but I happened to watch Cinemamassacre's commentary on the history of the film's many prints, and it whet my appetite all over again. Not a perfect film in many respects, and I will never be able to tolerate Mary Philbin as Christine, but I LOVE the sets and the murky gothic atmosphere of the whole thing. Hard to imagine a Halloween viewing season without Phantom in the rotation. I love this version of the Phantom...but I don't think I've seen this tinted version before and I have to say it looks amazing. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 6:33:09 GMT -5
Countess Dracula
Starring Ingrid Pitt and this is Docudrama/Cult film with a touch of horror and this film has great sets, photography, visual elements, and done in style, fashion, and downright horrifying that some viewers will be shocked by it. I missed the first 15 minutes of this film and Elizabeth Bathory (The Countess) kidnapped her daughter played by Lesley-Anne Down and takes over her identity of Ilona and the mayhem begins. Well made and it's has its moments and all that of where the Countess needs to be bathed (blood of young virgins) regularly to maintain her beauty of which had some frightening moments to keep it going. Nigel Green did a wonderful job acting as Captain Dobi and rightly so.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2019 6:35:47 GMT -5
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Post by shaxper on Oct 5, 2019 14:30:05 GMT -5
Sneaking in The Phantom of the Opera (1925) before bed tonight. I've watched this one so many times, but I happened to watch Cinemamassacre's commentary on the history of the film's many prints, and it whet my appetite all over again. Not a perfect film in many respects, and I will never be able to tolerate Mary Philbin as Christine, but I LOVE the sets and the murky gothic atmosphere of the whole thing. Hard to imagine a Halloween viewing season without Phantom in the rotation. I love this version of the Phantom...but I don't think I've seen this tinted version before and I have to say it looks amazing. There's some confusion as to which versions had the colorized masquerade scene, but Cinemamassacre seems to suggest the original 1925 version had this, and it was later lost in re-releases. Wherever it came from, it is so worth seeing! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 5, 2019 19:25:28 GMT -5
I love this version of the Phantom...but I don't think I've seen this tinted version before and I have to say it looks amazing. There's some confusion as to which versions had the colorized masquerade scene, but Cinemamassacre seems to suggest the original 1925 version had this, and it was later lost in re-releases. Wherever it came from, it is so worth seeing! It definitely looks awesome, I love those early coloring techniques. |
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Post by shaxper on Oct 5, 2019 22:45:33 GMT -5
There's some confusion as to which versions had the colorized masquerade scene, but Cinemamassacre seems to suggest the original 1925 version had this, and it was later lost in re-releases. Wherever it came from, it is so worth seeing! It definitely looks awesome, I love those early coloring techniques. In that case, you may want to check out Doctor X (1931) and Mystery at the Wax Museum (1933) this month, both filmed in Technicolor Phase II for that eerie, unnatural colorized look. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2019 1:38:27 GMT -5
Continuing in the Hammer vein, I watched 1958's The Horror of Dracula tonight after work. Every year in October I mean to finally dive in to the Hammer oeuvre more deeply, and every year I seem to not get around to it, so I am hitting a few of these right off the bat this time around.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 6, 2019 8:47:36 GMT -5
While I was browsing netflix this morning looking to see if there was anything decent there I saw that the VVitch(which I reviewed earlier) is streaming there. I resisted the temptation to watch it again(it's seriously that good) but thought I'd post about it here for anyone looking for a good flick.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Oct 6, 2019 10:34:26 GMT -5
Woman in Black II: Angel of Death  2015, Hammer The Bride of Frankenstein aside most sequels to horror films tend to be garbage so despite loving the original I skipped out on seeing the Woman in Black II when it came out a few years back and after catching it this morning on netflix I'm sad I did. While it never gets you to invest in school teacher Eve Parkins and her love interest Harry like the original did with Arthur Kipps and Sam Daily which does lessen the sense of danger, the mood and atmosphere make up for that in spades. Creepy toys, creaking wood floors, doors that close and lock on their own abound and with the tense score they seem legitimately scary. The mystery of why the children are killing themselves isn't as well developed as the first and so the catharsis of beating it doesn't feel earned at the the end but still and all it's well worth watching and definitely much better than most horror sequels tend to be.
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Post by shaxper on Oct 6, 2019 14:28:35 GMT -5
Got in a double feature of The Raven (1935) and The Murders in Rue Morgue (1932), both featuring my main man, Bela Lugosi. Neither absolute favorites of mine, but they are still well-loved by me and get watched often.
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