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SERIOUSLY THOUGH, BILLY WAS ADORABLE. (I could TOTALLY forgive all the random axe murdering with a face like that)

Full disclosure, I posted the following review in my TCM UNdERGROUND THREAD, but this was a unique film and I thought I'd crosspost it here in case any of you regulars rarely stray from this particular thread... you know, I was going to deem last night's UNDERGROUND DOUBLE FEATURE as "SNOOZEVILLE: POPULATION 2" but I checked out SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984) on a lark. It seemed like I'd maybe seen it before, but if I had, I'd somehow forgotten about it. What a VILE, prurient , DEGENERATE piece of TRASH. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I also could not help but GEEK OUT at several of THE TOYS ON DISPLAY in the 1984 TOYSTORE- they had THE JABBA THE HUT PLAYSET (I'm not even a STARWARS fanboy and I Gasped! on seeing it) and a ****ING KRULL BOARDGAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also a MISS PIGGY PUPPET, which a lot of us gay kids recall quite fondly. there was a lot of gratuitous nudity in this movie, I will take the time to tell you all that THE KILLER in SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT has the cutest butt in all horror slayerdom- although to be fair, he doesn't have a lot of competition. as far as I'm concerned, two leitmotifs that are hard to fail in a horror movie are: 1. Santa with an axe and 2. Nuns And this movie has both of 'em, although I kinda wish they had caught NIGHT OF THE HUNTER beforehand and tried to do a sort of LILLIAN GISH thing with THE MOTHER SUPERIOR CHARACTER.

you know, I was going to deem last night's UNDERGROUND DOUBLE FEATURE as "SNOOZEVILLE: POPULATION 2" but I checked out SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT on a lark. It seemed like I'd maybe seen it before, but if I had, I'd somehow forgotten about it. What a VILE, prurient , DEGENERATE piece of TRASH. I enjoyed it quite a bit. I also could not help but GEEK OUT at several of THE TOYS ON DISPLAY in the 1984 TOYSTORE- they had THE JABBA THE HUT PLAYSET (I'm not even a STARWARS fanboy and I Gasped on seeing it) and a ****ING KRULL BOARDGAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Also a MISS PIGGY PUPPET, which a lot of us gay kids recall quite fondly. there was a lot of gratuitous nudity in this movie, I will take the time to tell you all that THE KILLER in SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT has the cutest butt in all horror slayerdom- although to be fair, he doesn't have a lot of competition. as far as I'm concerned, two leitmotifs that are hard to fail in a horror movie are: 1. Santa with an axe and 2. Nuns And this movie has both of 'em, although I kinda wish they had maybe rented NIGHT OF THE HUNTER and tried to do a sort of LILLIAN GISH thing with THE MOTHER SUPERIOR CHARACTER.

Thank you for steering me to this part of the video, I watched the exchange and it was so delightful and passive aggressive and highly professional, I absolutely love the way they worked it out in the aside the very next day. To be fair, as much as I like the musical, I’m not a huge fan of the Perelli parts, so I think paring it down was a good idea. Thank God they let The Beggar Woman keep her “SPLIT ME M UFF” number, …Although I would love to bear witness to the impassioned defense from the actress in that role upon finding that that was in danger of being cut.

I can't remember how it is specifically worded, but the book NIGHTMARE ALLEY is dedicated to JOY GRESHAM.

YES! That's where I saw it first! And I remember at the time, people here complained "why is TCM showing a filmed stage play?' and I was firmly in the "what you would rather see GASLIGHT for the 977th time instead?" camp. I dunno if you got amazon prime, but it can be rented for $2.99 (i think) and purchased outright for $13.99. (I really thought i'd be able to find it on youtube, but no)

it is neat though the way each chapter starts with a TAROT CARD- if the edition of NIGHTMARE ALLEY you are reading doesn't have those, read a different edition.

i bought a copy of NIGHTMARE ALLEY sometime in 1995 around the age of 17 and kept it for 20some years before finally reading it. it starts strong, but honestly, it needed a more rigorous editor, the last 30 pages ramble on like a fever dream and they needed to be condensed (in my opinion)

you know his ex wife, JOY GRESHAM, with whom he had two sons (i think it was two) later married CS LEWIS before dying of cancer (and was the inspiration for the DEBRA WINGER role in SHADOWLANDS (1993))

I rented the filmed version of the 1982 traveling production of SWEENEY TODD that starred ANGELA LANSBURY and GEORGE HEARN on AMAZON PRIME LAST NIGHT. It was directed expertly by TERRY HUGHES- who directed many of the most beloved episodes of THE GOLDEN GIRLS- it's one of the best filmed versions of a stage play I've seen (often there is a tendency to just shoot with one camera at a distance, but HUGHES incorporates ALL SORTS of close-ups and reaction shots from multiple cameras and angles, in many ways this is the first real film version of SWEENEY TODD. it's just wonderful...and dazzling. Sondheim was one of those artists who were just stirred by the finger of GOD whilst in the womb or something, because it's not just his music that is superb- but the words, the lyrics, the themes, the puns, the clever crafting- watching it, you know you're watching the work of someone who is a genuine genius, not crowing about it, not forcing it on you, not showboating it the way it so often is nowadays, just someone pouring their raw, unfettered talent into something because they are compelled by some higher force that the rest of us have no acquaintance with.

Yes! Thank you! I started watching this the other day too..... (is this the wrong time/place to mention the fact that SONDHEIM was actually quite a handsome man?)

this is fascinating:

Wait…hang on a second. Laverne and Shirley hated each other? (I’m really behind on my classic television trivia)

I just watched THE CURSE (1987), a horror film based on THE COLOUR OUT OF SPACE BY HP LOVECRAFT starring Claude Akins (Who I bet *really* wished he had been nicer to Angela Lansbury on first season of MURDER SHE WROTE *numerous* times whilst filming this thing) and a young Wesley crusher himself, Wil Wheaton. LOVECRAFT meets HEE HAW, if you will, This movie reminds me in a lot of ways of THE FOOD OF THE GODS In that it’s about a strange mysterious pollutant affecting life on a farm and also in that it is not particularly good. (Although I readily admit “the curse” is an effing masterpiece compared to “food of the gods”- Which I still say is the worst movie I’ve ever seen, and I’ve seen a lot of absolutely awful films.) The special effects aren’t too bad, and there’s a couple of interesting gross out moments if you’re into that sort of thing.

You found a heterosexual composer/musical theory teacher?! Are you taking a class through one of those online Bible Universities?

Please tell me I'm not the only one here who has been walking around for the past week singing A LITTLE PRIEST to myself everywhere I go... "That's the sound of the world, my pet...🎶 🎶What, Mr. Todd? What Mr. Todd? What is that sound....?"

also, those TWIN BUNS ON LANSBURY'S HEAD JUST GET ME EVERY TIME.

Almost like a BRITISH OLIVE OYL, yes....(her voice has a lilting brassy, yet off-key quality that reminds me a little of LANSBURY too)

ANGELA LANSBURY will allows be my MRS. LOVETT (sp?), but I have to say, the two performances above by IMELDA STAUNTON- who is giving GREAT LINE READS between singing- and EMMA THOMPSON- who makes up for her slight vocal shortcomings with A RISIBLE passion and DELIGHTFUL PHYSICALITY are both really great. (And I liked HELENA BONHAM CARTER too.)

(the part at 1:02 is great)

there is also this: [edit- i apologize, youtube won't let me post THE VIDEO, which you can watch there, but here are the lyrics)

no, i do not!