This movie is the reason why the theremin is mostly used in creepy soundtracks. It's notoriously difficult to play and compose for, but it was used to great effect back in the days to make your skin crawl in these old movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
Oh it is very effective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
SAW ANOTHER LOW BUDGET FLICK,SOMETHING ABOUT A HOTEL WITH THE DEVIL[not trump,the other devil]AND A COUPLE WHO THOUGHT THAT THEY HAD KILLED HIM,PRETTY BAD!
JAI can you find the name of it?Quote:
Originally Posted by arr&bee
I think it may have been from the eighties or early nineties,it was on cable as i was flipping stations.
Hey saw another one the other night[phychotic ii]something about evil spirits in and old farm house,haaaaaaaa thing was pretty bad.
Haaaaaaaaaaa,these things are all over cable,another one about demons in a cabin with very cheesy effects and cheesy acting too,i mean i was on the floor laughing at this thing,i'm sorry i don't have the title cause i turned it on in the middle and after about ten minutes i turned it off,who's the guy from[briscoll county jr.]he was the[star????hehehe]of this mess.
That was either "Evil Dead I" or "Evil Dead 2" with Bruce Campbell. They were cheesy as heck but the first one is considered to be one of the most influential horror films since "Night of the Living Dead". I never finished watching them, either. I love even bad sci-fi, but I can't watch horror flicks because they tend to be formulaic and boring. Usually, the ones that people say are "scary" are only because they turn up the volume on sound effects and music to try to get you to jump out of your seat.
My latest entry:
Monster A Go Go :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYQK5jRQpUk
Yep,bruce campbell,he'll act in anything!!
Has anyone seen the flick called[house on scull mountain]with victor french,about voodoo in the early seventies,not too awful but not great either.
Do you remember an episode of the Dick Van Dyke Show where Rob has this dream that everyone around was an alien [[Laura, Mel, Sally, Buddy etc) and they had eyes in the backs of their heads? LOL!
Yes, I think I remember that one..Quote:
Originally Posted by arr&bee
yep,very funny.Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
Does anybody remember "The Giant Behemoth" about the radioactive dinosaur that attacked London? I'm not talking about "Gorgo".
Oh yeah,i think someone posted it earlier,not bad either.
HAAAAAA,I FOUND ANOTHER TERRIBLE CLASSIC,JUST CHANNEL SURFING AND BOOM...UP POPS[THE THING THAT CHANGED THE WORLD]THE ONLY THING THAT SHOULD'VE CHANGED WAS THE CHANNEL HEHE,BUT I HAD TO CHECK IT OUT..GIANT SLUG-SLIME MONSTER THINGY FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA,BUT OUR HERO[TIM HOLT-YES THAT TIM HOLT]WHOSE COWBOY DAYS WERE LONG GONE BY THE TIME HE MADE THIS CLUNKER,IS THE NAVY HERO WHO SAVES THE WORLD...[not to mention beach front property]FROM THIS MENACE...THEY COULDN'T EVEN GET A GOLDEN TURKEY FOR THIS TURKEY,HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Yah, I think I already added a film clip of that one. It had a great animatronic monster in it, though. What about "Reptilicus", a Danish monster that spit green cartoon puke on everybody?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khRHxXtKuNo
Or this one. What in the world is better for a boy to watch than boobies and dinosaurs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSYmJur0Npw
This one scared the bejeebus out of me when I was little.
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THIS MUST BE[TERRIBLE MONSTER MOVIES MONTH,HEHE]CHANNEL SURFING AGAIN AND DANG IF I DIDN'T FIND ANOTHER ONE,AND MAYBE THE WORST ONE YET[YIPPEEEEEE!!!]THIS THING FROM THE FIFTIES[GREATEST DECADE FOR TERRIBLE MONSTER MOVIES EVER-YIPPEEEEEEE!!!]THIS THING MUST HAVE BEEN SHOT ON A BUDGET OF $2.00..see Moe even I spend more than that on my polaroid classics,hehe]NOW THIS CLASSIC HAD FORREST TUCKER AS A GUY TRYING TO STOP A MAD SCIENTIST[IS THERE ANY OTHER KIND?]FROM MESSING WITH BUGS-WORMS-SPIDERS,OR WELL YOU GET THE IDEA,THESE TERRIFIYING GIANTS WERE PROJECTED ON A SCREEN WHILE THE ACTORS STOOD IN FRONT OF IT AND TRIED TO LOOK SCARED,I MEAN TALK ABOUT THE WORST OF THE WORST THIS ONE TAKES THE PRIZE..NO I DON'T KNOW THE TITLE AS I CAME IN TOWARDS THE END WHEN THE ALIEN CALLED HIS SHIP[A TIN MADE SOMETHING ON A STRING]TO KILL THE BAD SCIENTIST AND SAVE US ALL...THEY SHOULD'VE JUST KILLED THIS MOVIE,HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Look what I just found! One of the scariest movies I've ever seen [[at least it was when I first saw it at age 19):
https://archive.org/details/Salems.Lot.1979
I remember watching that in high school. It's interesting that that and the '90s version of "It" might well be Stephen King's best adaptations and both were made for TV. Oh, and "The Stand" was good, too.
But "Salem's Lot" scared the crap out of everybody when it came out. I need to watch it again.
"The Stand" was excellent! I watched the TV version of "IT" when it came on in the early 90s, taped it too. I went to see the new version for my birthday last September and it was pretty good. But "Salem Lot" was the ONE that got me. It scared me good when was 19, home alone and kept hearing things I thought downstairs in the house. I watched half of it this afternoon at the link I posted. It still does it. Excellent writing and acting in this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
Jerry, watch "Salems Lot"! The video and audio quality is excellent at that link.
I plan to. Haven't seen it in 30 years. When I worked in a group home for young men in the '90s, one of them begged me to rent "It" one day for movie night. I asked him why and he recalled how scary it was when Pennywise told him that "Down here, everything floats!" For some reason, I paid attention to that when I saw both versions of "It" and it is a creepy line. And the little boy vampire in "Salem's Lot" still gives me chills.
"Danny Glick"! LOL! I thought it was ingenious that they used "Nosferatu" the vampire from the famed 1922 film as "Mr. Barlow" with some probably not knowing the significance.Quote:
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They made a movie about him. In the movie, the guy playing Count Orlok [[Max Schreck in real life) was actually a vampire. Willem Dafoe played him.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAn5uLNMmjk
That's right1 I remember that now. I did not get to see the movie, but I remember reading articles and seeing reports that they were making that movie. He was the scariest looking vampire, followed by Bela Lugosi in my opinion. Peter Cushing was bad either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
hey jerry,this guy works in[greasy grady's]kitchen!!Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
Or the dogs playing poker.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Oz
I read all things Stephen King then! Scared the "gooney-goo goo" out of me!! Too much of a scaried-y cat to sit in a dark theater and watch!!��Quote:
Originally Posted by marv2
If you get a chance, NY63, watch NOS4A2. It's based on a book written by Stephen King's son and it's got some genuine creeps in it. Regarding Stephen King, I gave up watching movies based on his books because the movies all fail to understand what keeps me jumping in the printed word. His books are great. Have you read the Dark Tower books? One of the greatest writing projects in history IMO.
I hope his [dark tower]book is better than that lame movie.
That movie was awful. Like most of them. The new It was scary like the book though.
The first books in the "Dark Tower" series were excellent but the final one was disappointing. Stephen King confessed to not finding them easy to write.
I enjoyed them all because he put every one of his other books in the same universe. How could you easily write eight books that were full of Easter eggs from literally every novel you wrote in a long and prolific career? I know a guy who has read every one of his books and he probably ran back and reread them after the Dark Tower. And if I didn't make my opinion clear, that trash movie was a trashy trash dumpster fire of movie trash. But I expected it to be, so I'm only upset that they blew the chance to do something good.Quote:
Originally Posted by 144man
Does anyone remember the great 60s Horror Films produced by Hammer Films from the UK? Peter Cushing starred in a number of them.
Yeah, those Christopher Lee/Peter Cushing Dracula and Frankenstein movies were great. A local low-powered TV station recently started airing old episodes of Hammer House of Horror.
Speaking of which, one of the best double features I saw with my big brother was an old Christopher Lee movie [[Island of the Burning Damned) alongside Dinosaurus. A pretty solid horror flick and a dinosaur movie was little boy heaven. I was probably about 10 at the time. This is the first one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VB-kct9xL4