Film What did you watch last night???

[Christopher]

I just did a birthday double feature in Richmond, Kentucky. Venom and Saints of Newark. Hard for me to judge enjoyable movies right after because I love being in the theater so much. Both had bad parts but both had good or great parts as well. Here’s me on a ferry crossing the Kentucky river on my bike for good measure.

[Veum]

Spoiler

3 hours ago, Veum said:

Watched 🎃

 

TCM

 



I liked the atmosphere & sets & the story of a possible vampire 🧛 bat but kinda slow for me

 

 

 

 

Always enjoy this for obvious reasons … but I also enjoy the beautiful cinematography & that gothic old mansion & knowing it was shot in the England autumn just makes it my perfect vampire film 

 

 

[psychoscot]

All the Craig movies in readyness for the new one!

[Veum]

Watched 🎃

 

TCM

 

 

(1931) 

 

Another very fine early adaptation of the classic in which there is a good and an evil side of men, along with some good actors in Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins.

 

 

[Veum]

Watched 🎃

 

TCM

 

 

1/2

 

Enjoyed the period piece for sure, however a little slow with very few “horror” elements but still had a few creepy moments.

 

 

Edited October 4, 2021 by Veum

[cgbaxia]

24 minutes ago, Veum said:

 

Watched 🎃

 

TCM

 

 

Enjoyed the period piece for sure, however a little slow with very few “horror” elements but still had a few creepy moments.

 

 

I had seen the house on wax 🤣 with Paris Hilton 😂

[Veum]

8 minutes ago, cgbaxia said:

I had seen the house on wax 🤣 with Paris Hilton 😂

 

@cgbaxia 

 

 

 

[cgbaxia]

13 minutes ago, Veum said:

 

@cgbaxia 

 

 

 

[Veum]

2 minutes ago, cgbaxia said:

 

[Veum]

 

Watched 🎃

 

TCM

 

 

Good atmosphere, kinda gothic classy but very slow and the subject matter was there, however needed a lot more scary moments for a zombie movie for me!

 

 

Edited October 7, 2021 by Veum

[Casiusco]

7 hours ago, Veum said:

 

Watched 🎃

 

TCM

 

 

1/2

Good atmosphere, kinda gothic classy but very slow and the subject matter was there, however needed a lot more scary moments for a zombie movie for me!

 

 

 

A great movie. 

 

I'm not a specialist in horror movies, but this one seems really good to me. It has something ... floating in the air ... that makes me like it very much.

 

Edited October 5, 2021 by Casiusco

[Veum]

Watched 🎃

 

TCM

 

 

A continual fav of mine… enjoy the backstory of those old depraved men … Christoper Lee as Dracula is great but the little bit that is shown of him (should have been more onscreen Dracula for me! )! 

 

 

TCM

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1st time watch… a nice period piece, the great Boris Karloff really pulls off this off-beat film by being a grave robber/murderer… too bad the other great Bela Lugosi was not used as much as could have been! 

 

 

Edited October 6, 2021 by Veum

[cgbaxia]

 

Start in watching the movies from the criterion boxset that  got months ago..1 down 24 to go.. 😂 .. Any fans of this movies..?

 

 

[Veum]

 Watched 🎃 👻 

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A really different start for me & I thought “will I enjoy this enough” with the preposterous soul exchange but when Hans became Christina & was brought back to life and started…

 

Edited October 7, 2021 by Veum

[Veum]

Watched 🎃👻 

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1st time watch… An excellent Hammer film for me with so much going for it. The magnificent Dr. Frankenstein aka Dr. Victor (Peter Cushing) and his new “prisoner” assistant Simon (Shane Briant) with the beautiful mute “Angel” (Madeline Smith) assisting them. It is placed in the asylum for the criminally insane. The monster is a concoction of body parts and is quite an interesting “monster species”. Great classic Hammer ambiance is a must for us Hammer aficionados…

 

 

[Veum]

Watched 🎃 👻 

 

 

 

Baron Victor (Peter Cushing) has created the Monster (Christopher Lee) from different body parts who eventually escapes the laboratory and is shot dead by Victor’s mentor Paul and they bury him. However the good Dr. has unburied him to give life once agin to the Monster…

 

 

[cgbaxia]

 

Good movie, a bit of slow, but it it shows the evolution of becoming a kid to something more dangerous.

[Veum]

Watched 🎃👻 

A very enjoyable adaptation of the Bram Stoker's novel that comes as close to his story as any. I love the foreboding music when Jonathan was in the coach traveling to meet the Count’s (Louis Jourdan) coach to travel to Transylvania. Also enjoy the use of film for exteriors and video for the interiors…

 

 

[Grendel]

^^ One of the lesser known releases of the iconic work but a very enjoyable one.

Jourdan is as charismatic as any iteration of the notorious Count and I'm actually quite fond of his portrayal.

Good watch @Veum!

 

As a side note, not long ago I purchased the Severin release of "Nosferatu In Venice" with the indomitable Klaus Kinski portraying the toothy nemesis.

It's as bat-scat crazy as you've heard but totally charming on the absurd level.

Sometimes hard to believe that the ravishing Nastassja was his daughter but well, there we have it, heh.

I'd also warrant, the film gives a lovely exhibition of the beauty that Venice offers.

Should any have interest...

Link;

https://severin-films.com/shop/nosferatu-in-venice-le-blu/

 

🙂

[Grendel]

As for "The Boy" @cgbaxia, I've heard of this film but never pursued it. Thanks much for shedding light on it once more. 👍

I think I'll purchase a copy, as films about disturbed children have intrigued me since the 'best' I've seen, from LeRoy in 1956 titled "The Bad Seed".

That film creeped the hell outta me as a young lad.

Ta! 😀

Edited October 10, 2021 by Grendel

[Grendel]

Last, I wanted to mention my sincere love for Jacques Tourneur's  "I Walked With A Zombie".

We should consider that "zombies" were not in fact, (historically at least), flesh craving maniacs that hunted the living. That is more an apt description of "ghouls" and even Romero himself, whom gave us "Night Of The Living Dead" the progenitor of the 'Zombie' fad, recognizes that fact in conversation but they are mindless automatons that served at the behest of their creators and masters, in slow methodical processes.

Haiti served as the Western world's principal source for understanding of such creations, though they were inherent to Africa far longer.

One of the best films I've seen on the topic of true Zombies, is "The Serpent And The Rainbow".

A 1988 film also directed by the iconic Craven and based on a book by one of the most intelligent people on the planet (imho) Wade Davis ( of whom I proudly own 4 books).

 

Anyway back to the subject film, I truly enjoy the eerie and methodical process Tourneur uses in all his films and this one is an excellent example.

Others include "Cat People" and "Night Of The Demon" which usually get higher praise.

Though I understand why some may be a bit disgruntled with the slow pace, if we are to keep in mind that is purposefully done, it helps understand the motive a bit more.

I love it. 🙂

Edited October 11, 2021 by Grendel

[Veum]

Spoiler

16 minutes ago, Grendel said:

Last, I wanted to mention my sincere love for Jacques Tourneur's  "I Walked With A Zombie".

We should consider that "zombies" were not in fact, (historically at least), flesh craving maniacs that hunted the living. That is more an apt description of "ghouls" and even Craven himself, whom gave us "Night Of The Living Dead" the progenitor of the 'Zombie' fad, recognizes that fact in conversation but they are mindless automatons that served at the behest of their creators and masters, in slow methodical processes.

Haiti served as the Western world's principal understanding of such creations, though they were inherent to Africa far longer.

One of the best films I've seen on the topic of true Zombies, is "The Serpent And The Rainbow".

A 1988 film also directed by the iconic Craven and based on a book by one of the most intelligent people on the planet (imho) Wade Davis ( of whom I proudly own 4 books).

 

Anyway back to the subject film, I truly enjoy the eerie and methodical process Tourneur uses in all his films and this one is an excellent example.

Other include "Cat People" and "Night Of The Demon" which usually get higher praise.

Though I understand why some may be a bit disgruntled with the slow pace, if we are to keep in mind that is purposefully done, it helps understand the motive a bit more.

I love it. 🙂

 

 

My good friend @Grendel if we are talking about reality (how can I express myself w/o… well you know 🙏)… I believe there are truly wicked spirits in our world & they are demons, not anything in-between! 

 

I really know how to compartmentalize between what is real and what is JUST a film 🎥 

 

These “horror” films are just “fun/interesting” to me…

 

I know peeps should know by now which side I am on between “good/evil”!! 😇

 

If I was allowed I’d be all over the “love of my life” on our forum for sure!!! 🤠

Edited October 11, 2021 by Veum

[Grendel]

^^ Heh, no argument from me my Buddy @Veum.

I know of what you allude though.

I think in some aspects, it takes a person of faith to truly become engaged with a film that depicts the nastier sides of existence (no doubt fuels my affection for "The Exorcist") and I by no means meant to infer otherwise.

edit: also wanted to add, I by no means suggest any person can't enjoy such a film, of course they can but if ya actually think ya have skin in the game, it can hit a touch more personal, is all).

Films are of course, meant to 'entertain us' and we can be entertained in a variety of ways... shocked, discussed, repulsed and yet still intrigued. This is certainly a sign of a mature mind-set I'd warrant and as long as one doesn't take a film's provision of attitude into their daily life, they can have a helluva good time from the bizarre.

I inferred nothing more.  😉

Edited October 11, 2021 by Grendel

[Veum]

Spoiler

5 minutes ago, Grendel said:

^^ Heh, no argument from me my Buddy @Veum.

I know of what you allude though.

I think in some aspects, it takes a person of faith to truly become engaged with a film that depicts the nastier sides of existence (no doubt fuels my affection for "The Exorcist") and I by no means meant to infer otherwise.

Films are of course, meant to 'entertain us' and we can be entertained in a variety of ways... shocked, discussed, repulsed and yet still intrigued. This is certainly a sign of a mature mind-set I'd warrant and as long as one doesn't take a film's provision of attitude into their daily life, they can have a helluva good time from the bizarre.

I inferred nothing more.  😉

 

 

No @Grendel I never meant for you to think you were inferring anything more, I just felt compelled, since I do watch a lot of “scary” films, (ever since my mom introduced me way back when, bless her soul, I love her so much, to my all-time favs Universal Classic Monsters) that peeps would never get the wrong idea of me! 😆 

 

We good my friend on the same playin’ field I think! 

[Grendel]

^^ I think love for the fantastical is bred in our bones as humans and it allows us an opportunity to relish things that otherwise, we know to be impossible.

As of late, the 'Super-hero' genre has made great strides in this regard but in previous generations, overcoming mystical baddies was just as prevalent.

Be they defeating the 'slasher', out-foxing the dastardly evil scientist's plans or... overcoming the notorious monsters of the night that plagued our dreams.

The ability to vanquish "evil" either vicariously through our more than normal heroes or projecting ourselves into the shoes of the 'normal guy/girl' given the opportunity, it what helps us find confidence, support and yes, even meaning to our existence.

Don't wanna go too deep down this bunny-hole so suffice it to say I think we NEED to be provided examples of what evils lurk in the minds of man and monsters and just as importantly, how we can overcome them.

Most of us, wanna be the "good guy" in life and the hero of the story.

When we are provided a glimpse of how that can be accomplished, we come away well satisfied.

Okay, well I DO at least, heh.

For others... as they say;

YMMV 😉