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The reason people seem to be enjoying Sister Rose now is along the same lines why people enjoy Ed Wood films. We are waiting to see what the mistakes are.
Well, I hate to be so hard on Sister Rose but she did seemingly set herself up as a "media expert" so I would expect someone hosting a series like this, particularly on a site which abounds with film aesthetes, to be less nescient on certain things about the movies she is discussing.
I think she thought that by occasionally taking umbrage at the LOD's views, that this would make her appear to be more fair-minded about the films, but she seems like someone who has no background knowledge of said films and is just taking them at face value.
She seems like a very nice woman, and well spoken, just not about movies of any vintage age.
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Re: BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE (1959). Several years ago I endeavoured to find the 1st homevideo release of this movie. From COLUMBIA, circa 1979/80. It's in a large, white clamshell case with James Stewart prominently pictured on the front. I bought 2 of them.
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Re: PSYCHOMANIA (1972-UK) This is positively deranged! Dig it.
There's movies that take place in medieval times that have themes of sorcery which pervade throughout. Some of these movies are categorized as 'Fantasy' films, but I've seen a number of them and there IS sorcery.
BLOOD ON SATAN'S CLAW (1970-UK) Patrick Wymark, Linda Hayden, Barry Andrews, Michelle Dotrice, Anthony Ainley. Takes place in the 1600's. Linda Hayden is the sinister 'Angel Blake'.
EXCALIBUR (1981)
BEASTMASTER, The (1982)
CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982) along with the various inferior sequels
THE SWORD AND THE SORCERER (1982) with Lee Horsley
SORCERESS (1982/the film directed by Jack Hill) Low-budget fun with topless twins.
LADYHAWKE (1985)
I'm sure there's plenty more, but I can't think of any more offhand.
A mad mix of more contemporary films . . .
CROWHAVEN FARM (1970-Tvm) has been mentioned, but there's also the Western horror film BLACK NOON (1971-Tvm). Neither have ever been released on video; I reckon there's a few copies out there of people that taped them from television.
DEVILS OF DARKNESS (1965-UK) Directed by Lance Comfort (1908-1966).
WITCHES, The (1966-UK)
SORCERERS, The (1967-UK) May or may not qualify . . .
WITCHERY (1989) Linda Blair, David Hasselhoff, Annie Ross. I've seen this movie and thought it was an all right view. Better than the 'BOMB' write-up from Leonard Maltin's bunch.
You say you want deviltry and/or cult movies and other weird sh!t? OK!
WITCHMAKER, The (1969) Filmed in the Louisiana swamp. Stars John Lodge as 'Luther the Berserk', Anthony Eisley, Alvy Moore (from 'GREEN ACRES'), SHELBY GRANT, many others.
SHADOW OF ILLUSION (1970-Italian) Directed by Mario Caiano. Starring Daniela Giordano, William Berger, Krista Nell. Luv this flick!
BROTHERHOOD OF SATAN (1971) Made by the same folks who did "The Witchmaker".
MEPHISTO WALTZ, The (1971) Curt Jurgens, Jacqueline Bisset, Alan Alda, Barbara Parkins, Bradford Dillman.
ENTER THE DEVIL (1972) Directed by Frank Q. Dobbs and filmed in Terlingua, Texas.
LEGEND OF HELL HOUSE, The (1973-UK)
HOUSE ON SKULL MOUNTAIN, The (1974)
SUGAR HILL (1974)
RACE WITH THE DEVIL (1975) More fun than you can shake a motorized stick at!
CRYPT OF DARK SECRETS (1976) Low-budget Louisiana swamp mayhem
EVILSPEAK (1982) Clint Howard is a harassed military cadet who discovers black magic in the Church basement. There's a hoard of killer boars, too! This is like 'CARRIE', but with pigs. Best part: The ending is not in slow-motion like when Carrie wastes the prom. That 'slo-mo' stuff really dates badly to me.
DARK SECRET OF HARVEST HOME (1978-Tvm) Full-length version only! Watch out for chopped-up versions!
SATAN'S BLOOD (1978-Spanish) (aka: "Escalofrio"). This one's fun! And bloody! And chock full of nudity and assorted devilish mayhem. Highly recommended for lovers of sleaze.
SATAN'S SLAVE (1976-UK) with Michael Gough. Directed by Norman J. Warren. Try and see the un-cut version. All sorts of weird and evil things going on . . .
CRAFT, The (1996)
LITTLE WITCHES (1997) Made for video. With Sheeri Rappaport, Zelda Rubinstein, Jennifer Rubin.
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AS A SIDENOTE: Here's an absolutely one-of-a-kind movie you ought to see at least one time.
GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS (1973). You say you want a movie with a completely incomprehensible plot that involves an 8-foot mutant sheep among other things? Well, you've struck gold! This movie accomplishes something unique: You will actually feel sorry for the poor, mutant sheep. I know I did.
Fab list, Mr. Gorman and thanks!
"GODMONSTER OF INDIAN FLATS", eh? I have not seen it but your review reminds me of the incomprehensibility of "Equinox" which I love so I'll look for GOIF.
Sounds like it should be on a double bill with "The Saragossa Manuscript".
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Much as I like Rosemary's Baby, I actually like City of the Dead/Horror Hotel even more!
A movie that hasn't been mentioned is The Undead, an early Roger Corman which I like a lot. It was probably inspired by the Bridey Murphy craze of the 1950s.
In any case, you didn't ask for books, but as I had a great Demonology class in college, I recommend Margaret Murray's The Witch Cult in Western Europe; Keith Thomas's Religion and the Decline of Magic; and of course the Malleas Maleficarum.
Lucky you, Swithin for getting to take a demonology course. I only got to take a science fiction theology class at my university.
I do like things about the Malleas Maleficarum days. Have you read Huxley's book, "The Devils of Loudon" which the Ken Russell film "The Devils" was based upon? Redgrave and Reed really brought that book to life!
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CaveGirl--if you haven't already seen these:
"Maid of Salem" (1937)--Claudette Colbert as one of the accused.
"The Seventh Victim" (1943)--Val Lewton gem about a coven.
"The Wicker Man" (1973)--if you find this, let me know, Please.
"Black Sunday" (1960)--Mario Bava's take on witchcraft.
"The Conqueror Worm" (1968)--One of Vincent Price's best performances as the Witchfinder General in Cromwell's England. Film is a major Downer.
"I Married a Witch" (1942)-- A Rene Clair comedy to see after TCW.
"Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)---Comedy where supporting cast (Jack Lemmon, Elsa Lanchester) outshines leads (Kim Novak, James Stewart)
"Conqueror Worm" is one of my faves and thanks for mentioning it, FL.
The one movie where Vincent Price plays it straight thanks I've read to the direction of Michael Reeves. I love when Price hams it up, but in that movie he is frighteningly sadistic.
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Um, I don't suppose Sorcerer counts? You know, the re-make of The Wages of Fear.
Sure, you can count "Sorcerer", Miss W!
It would take a witch or a warlock and their interventions to get that truck out of that mess in my opinion.
Very nervewracking flick to be sure.
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Did the LOD actually condemn Those Lips, Those Eyes??? WHY???
Supposedly they did, acccording to lists online, Hibi.
They were in the list of condemned films of the LOD in 1980. Why? I have no idea. I'm wondering why they condemned that wussy flick, "Ice Castles"?:
1980 FILMS CONDEMNED BY LEGION OF DECENCY
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I remember watching the John Wayne film, "Tall in the Saddle" once and thinking, "This movie has more western cliches than any film I've ever seen."
I actually started writing them down as they occurred since I started thinking it was so funny. Things like "Head them off at the pass", "They went thataway", "He's a varmint". "Where's the victuals?" and so on and so on.
Now don't hold me to the veracity of the above being in the film, since I could not find my original notes about it and haven't seen the film for quite a while, but it did seem all the dialogue was in cliches and it just made the film so much fun to watch. Some I wondered if they were first used in this film, though it did come out in 1944 I think so probably not.
Course the film also starred Ella Raines which might have also made it enjoyable but still.
What film do you hate or love due to its many cliches?
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He has a new movie which is supposed to ideally come out in 2017, called "Big Finish".
Here's the synopsis:
"A showbiz retirement facility is threatened by a real estate mogul to build a casino resort in its place. A group of hilarious residents rally taking over the facility and put on the show of their lives to save the place they call home."
It stars: Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Debbie Reynolds, Don Rickles, Tim Conway, Garrett Morris and oh yeah, Joe Levitch.Or as he is more usually called, Jerry Lewis.
It sounds like so much fun, I hope it really gets made!
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I just caught the outro to Blow Up to test a theory.
It ain't the clothes, it's the person.
Tonight that "person" will be chatting about "The Carey Treatment", "The Competition", "Those Lips, Those Eyes", and a couple others. I am salivating to see what is said tonight. I'm surprised there have been no references to Adolph Zukor or Will Hays and Famous Players/Lasky and their own campaign to ostensibly clean up the movies after the murder of William Desmond Taylor in the early 1920's. That was an earlier footnote to the LOD programs for sure, even though it was mostly a whitewash just to appear to be more sanctimonious for patrons that were church leaders and civic moralists, which they solved by banning Fatty Arbuckle films and dropping Mary's contract and pushing Mabel Normand into semi-retirement.
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irwin allen hadda better idea.
Nip, do you think Irwin would have cast Shelley Winters in a Ballard role?
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I saw High Rise on Sunday, at the Curzon Chelsea here in London. I think it will open in the U.S. soon. It's directed by Ben Wheatley, based on a novel by J.G. Ballard, who wrote Empire of the Sun and Crash. The star is Tom Hiddleston, with Jeremy Irons and Sienna Miller in major supporting roles.
The film reminded me of Savages, an early Merchant-Ivory film; They Came from Within (Shivers), an early Cronenberg film; and even The Exterminating Angel. Basically, it deals with a huge, new building, designed by odd architect Jeremy Irons, who lives on the top floor with his even odder wife, who sometimes dresses like Marie Antoinette and keeps large animals, including a horse, on her spacious terrace. (Middle and lower class people live on middle and lower floors). Tom Hiddleston plays a doctor who dispassionately peels away a face from a skull, by way of instructing his medical students. The film deals with what happens to human beings when things break down, and the veneer of civilization is peeled away. It's sort of drawing room comedy meets sci-fi/horror.
You should avoid this film if dog barbecue makes you uneasy.
The film attracted mostly mixed reviews. I liked it. Here a good one:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/mar/20/high-rise-review-ben-wheatley-jg-ballard-tom-hiddleston
Yikes! I'm a bit afraid since after reading theJ.G. Ballard symphony to symphorophilia, "Crash" and then seeing the movie, who knows what path this book could take. Hiddleston is terrific though, so thanks for the heads up!
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I really can't think of anything to blame movies for in the sense you intend. However, TV is a different matter.....
There's TWO TV channels on my cable service that play old TV shows, and one of the shows is "Have Gun Will Travel".
You recall Palladin used to have that cool looking holster with the silver looking copy of the knight chess piece on it. And JUST inside the buckle, was a little hidden holster that held a small DERRINGER pistol, like for emergencies or what---I wanted one of those SO bad!!
There was one available in the Sears&Roebuck "wish book" we had around the house, and NO amount of clever, and even NOT so cleverly subtle hinting resulted in my getting one for Christmas or a birthday! I've never seen one in any flea market or swap meet I ever attended, and short of eBay, never went on that rabid a search for one. But MY advice to you would have been to BUY the damned ray gun! If you didn't have to dip into the bill money, or if it wouldn't have left you financially strapped, why NOT? I mean fair is fair. If YOU never tell Missy how to spend HER money, she should have been told to "B U G G E R OFF!"
Really! "I'm not going to allow you to buy that." Cripes, if ANY so-called friend of MINE tried saying that, I'd have told him to get down on his knees, open wide and say, AH!"
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You're right, Sepia I shoulda bought it. What I love about rayguns is the sound too! That beep-beep-beep type noise was so great. Actually I portrayed Missy rather badly as it really is just kind of a joke between us. She has seen me buy so many strange things that now she just laughs it off when I spot a treasure I can't live without. One I did pass by on the same day as the raygun debacle was a roll of Tuck Tape endorsed by Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin. I think there was a famous radio interview or commercial wherein they advertised Tuck Tape which got rather risque and is now a collector's item. I do have the boxed set of I think Season One of Palladin in "HGWT" so I hope you eventually get your holster derringer. I had one once since my dad would also buy me anything he was buying my brother as a toy, if I wanted it. Mine was tiny, silver with a fake ivory handle made of white plastic. Many people died when I would use that gun outside our yard!
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I had a poster once a long time ago that I got rid of. Every inch of the poster was covered in old time movie stars. I really wish TCM was around then so I would get to know more about the stars. Back then I didn't think much of it.
I bet James Dean was on that poster, right, Pier?
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I read Baseball is a Funny Game when I was a teenager and couldn't stop laughing. Joe also loved animals and was a longtime Westminster Dog Show host. I hope Yogi met him at the pearly gates with a cold Bud; what else would 2 St. Louis boys drink? One thing I know; it's a lot funnier up there now.
I own an autographed copy of that book. I wonder what it is worth now.
Sorry for being mercenary, as I did always enjoy Garagiola and of course his stories about Yogi too!
RIP, Joe.
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Speaking of serials, I wish TCM would show original "Perils of Pauline", also "The Woman in Grey" and anything with Mary Miles Minter in it, and also Wallace Reid.
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Geez, it was so great to see Charles Middleton as Ming last nite in the Flash Gordon episodes. I have a book which details all his experience on stage in carnivals and such, and he made such a great villain.
I really enjoyed all the serials shown, even though I'd seen most before and own a few of them.
Thanks, TCM!
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I'm still relishing the remembrance of that tribute show Spielberg did for Kurosawa, in which Akira basically dissed people who only thought of making sequels for money.
Still funny!
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I love hearing old radio shows, like those with Lamont Cranston and even Fibber McGee and Molly.
Too bad one can't go back in time and experience that period of entertainment in situ.
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So, you were a "Tomboy" back in the day, eh CG?! Cool. I would have at least voted to allow you to join in with all us guys when we played our little war games as a kid, and when I carried around this little number here...
And to answer your question...
My tastes NOW days would make me inclined toward buying a 1968 BULLITT Mustang, or maybe an Aston Martin DB5 similar to the one Connery would drive around in while chasing or being chased by the sinister forces of SPECTRE.
(...yeah yeah, I know...those go for a hell of lot more than some 18 buck toy raygun, huh)
I lived in a neighborhood with more boys than girls so had to hang with the boys, Dargo.
Great choice in that Mustang!
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This is wonderful! I've alway been partial to John, since he was the looker and got that from the Blythe family, and his father Maurice Blythe, as I recall who later changed his name to Barrymore.
Ethel and Lionel got the Drew family looks, which were not as appealing but they all got talent. Which skipped a generation with Diana and John Drew Barrymore but returned with Drew herself.
Glad you requested this and I only wish John's dada had been on film.
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Hookshot, I'll bet you're familiar with the movie THE ROCKETEER (1991) then, aren't you. Seems a film that never found much of an audience but which I always thought was great fun, and which re-created the whole Commander Cody series in a lighthearted but still amusingly reverential manner...
Dargo, just watched my dvd of this the other day, as I wanted to see the Rondo Hatton imitator again. I agree, that is one fun movie!
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All the fully loaded automatic weapons laying around don't offend my sensibilities near as much as that couch and chair set.
Six figures worth of weapons in your armory, but your furniture comes from a retired orthodontist's waiting room...and purple, no less.
Oh, geez! This definitely looks like a room those really unattractive guys from the show "Pawn Stars" would have on their premises.
What is amazing is that this Rick guy and his relatives are all creepy, so he hires more people that are creepy like Chumley, when he could have hired someone who looks like Grant Williams or maybe Lee Phillips which would make even I want to go to Vegas. You have called it so right on those grotesque chairs, Lorna which would have to be condemned before they were even burnt and destroyed!
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Okay, so like I'm at this antique mall shopping with one of my old classmate friends, and I've already bought a leopard hat [not pillbox though!], a Benny Goodman cd with Gene Krupa on board, a pink rhinestone necklace and a magazine with Jayne Mansfield on it, and then I see it.
What I have wanted my whole life but never got. Never got as a birthday gift, or a Christmas gift or even as a Valentine gift. Now my mother would say, I never asked for it which is why I never got it, just like she got off the hook that year when I wrote Santa a note and asked for doll furniture and then on Christmas day got a note back from Santa saying they were out of doll furniture that year. Yeah, nice right? My mother says I only wrote to Santa at 8:00pm on Christmas Eve and the stores were already closed as her excuse but I digress.
So I guess I didn't ever beg for this, but I sure always wanted one.
A RAYGUN!!!!
I always wanted a raygun, after watching all those sci-fi movies with the neighborhood boys, and I never got one.
So, I realized it might be a little late in the game but I still want one.
The bad part was, that in this antique mall you have to call out your area on the speaker and get someone to come get the thing out of a glass case so you can see it. I could see the tag and it was a genuine, early 1950's gold ray gun and it was only 18 bucks! What a steal. I was salivating and thought of all the fun I could have getting it out of my purse at the grocery or when someone annoyed me. Well, to make a long story short, or shorter I started to ring the bell for the speaker to work and my friend, Missy makes this statement:
"I am not going to allow you to buy that. That is a child's toy and you are losing it and you will thank me in the morning. Really now, you should have gotten over not having a raygun a long time ago and you need to collect your senses and stop before you go over the edge."Well, her guilt tripping me, made me not buy the raygun, since I could see she might be right. But deep down I still want and crave that raygun. I may go back to the mall by myself and buy it, but look at all the gas I'll waste and time and it is really bugging me, and my point is, who do I have to blame for this debacle?
THE MOVIES!
If I hadn't seen stuff like "Plan 9 from Outer Space" and "I Married a Monster from Outer Space" and "Buck Rogers Meets Ming the Merciless" I would never have even known about rayguns or how cool they were.
Now it's your turn. What horrid addiction or compulsion do you blame on the movies that you have seen and which have corrupted you? Try to keep it tasteful if your blame is on an Anita Ekberg or Mamie Van Doren film.
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Attention: Joe Levitch Fans!
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OMG, that would be so fabulous, Down!
The movie sounds great as it is but with Rickles and Trump and Lewis, it would be a real winner, just like "Grumpy Old Men" or that "Mother" movie with Debbie Reynolds and Albert Brooks.
Maybe Jerry could show The Donald how to wear his hair, like when Dean Martin cut Jer's into that famous crew cut look.
The Donald would look years younger with a shorter do.
Thanks for your always sage comments!