I donât think I agree that Dead of Night is one of the greatest horror movies ever made, the stories are too uneven. Iâm not even certain that âThe Ventriloquistâs Dummyâ is the best story in the film, as âThe Haunted Mirrorâ is also a very strong, if less flashy, contender. Regardless, Michael Redgrave gives an outstanding performance and this particular story is, for all practical purposes, the originator of the evil ventriloquist dummy trope. A must see.
Oddly enough, this clip is being hosted on progressive political website Crooks and Liars.
I missed this one last year⊠nice Obama deepfake, though itâs kind of scary what the tech is capable of.
Toby Dammit (1968) Dir: Federico Fellini
With Terence Stamp
Yet another anthology film segment, this one snipped from Spirits of the Dead aka Histoires extraordinaires which featured three directors, Roger Vadim, Louis Malle, and Fellini, directing three Poe stories. Reportedly, the Vadim and Malle segments are fairly negligible, but the Fellini is a lot of fun. Itâs a fairly loose adaptation of âNever Bet the Devil Your Headâ set in a modern day Rome where drunk and dissolute Brit actor Terence Stamp arrives to star in a spaghetti western film of the life of Christ, but first has to go through the ordeals of producer meetings, interviews, and an award ceremony, before he can receive his payment of a brand new Ferrari. (Useless trivia note: Orson Welles, one of the originally proposed directors of Spirits, claimed to have planned to film his own Western Jesus film.) Fellini doesnât necessarily capture the horror of Poe (we believe Stamp is in hell, but it doesnât feel like we are), but then again, the original story was really a satire rather than horror, and Fellini does quite a good job of capturing Poeâs humor, which was always much more funny-strange than funny-haha.
Hereâs the pumpkin I carved this year, and it took entirely too long in planning.
I figure it might scare a few people in the neighborhoodâŠ
amazing. iâm more worried that some trumper will take it and smash it in the street!
Beautiful!
The Werewolf (1956) Dir: Fred F. Sears Prod: Sam Katzman
A moody little number about a poor schmuck who gets turned into a werewolf by a couple of mad scientists who inject him with âirradiated wolf serumâ in an attempt to create a vaccine against the coming nuclear holocaust. He runs amuck in a small mountain town pursued by the law, the mad scientists (who want to make certain heâs not taken alive), and his wife and son. Rather than the traditional âis he or isnât he?â itâs made clear to both the audience and the authorities that theyâve got a wolfman on their hands early in the picture and by movieâs end weâve got a torch wielding mob in hot pursuit. Attractively photographed in authentic snowy settings and with a nicely tormented performance from Steven Ritch as our loopy loup-garou, itâs not a bad way to spend an hour and change.
â14% real potatoesâ
Needs to be made with more real monsters. Typical false advertising, just like girl scout cookies.
Is that a picture of them before or after you eat them?
Both. Definitely both.
Yanked from the other place. Remastered/restored version of Disneyâs âThe Skeleton Dance.â Astoundingly great quality. To avoid copyright detection, theyâve left/right reversed it and slowed it to half speed. The reversal doesnât really matter and you can simply play it back at 2x speed and itâs fine. Although, the half speed version is interesting, too.
Boy, this thread has been comparatively dead this year. Was it Dio that did it?
I was planning to write a four-part essay on the subject of shadow people. But frankly Iâm too disturbed by the up-coming election to focus on it. Things are scary enough.
i blame the virus for killing halloween zeal this year, at least around my place.
Yeah, I donât have much verve when it comes to Halloween, apart from making a few things. I crocheted a dissent collar for my sister, who will be RGB today. And, for my nieces, I got some sugar skulls fabric and mermaid-witch/kitty-witch fabrics to make masks. But, I mailed them off before taking photos, because I am apparently a soooper-genius, LOL.
Iâll console myself with candy, but thatâs not really a holiday themed thing, itâs mostly just 2020.
This is from three years ago, but still cool!