Det Jim McLeod

After someone calls you drunk: "And you're crazy! But I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy the rest of your life!" -W.C. Fields in It's A Gift

So, what happened? What did Tarantino say?

Two of my favorites have not been mentioned- The Boys In The Band-excellent film version of the Mart Crowley play, directed by William Friedkin. The entire original Broadway cast recreate their roles. This is a hilarious and sometimes brutally honest look at gay life in the late 60s, early 70s. The dialogue is some of the best I have heard in a play or movie. The Mind Of Mr Soames-Terence Stamp is a 30 year old man who has been in a coma since birth, Robert Vaughn is the surgeon who awakens him. A great look at parenting, Vaughn tries a more compassionate way while fellow doctor Nigel Davenport believes in a cold clinical approach.

Dr Goldfoot And The Bikini Machine (1965) Vincent Price plays Dr Goldfoot, a mad scientist who uses female robots to trap millionaires. Frankie Avalon plays a goofy secret agent and Dwayne Hickman an even goofier millionaire victim. This is just a silly, but fun James Bond spoof with some Beach Party elements thrown in. The most surprising thing is this is the performance of Susan Hart as the lead robot. She has great comic timing and has some of the funniest moments. There are plenty of other sexy girls in bikinis and The Supremes sing the title song, adding to the fun.

I agree. That photo looks like it's from The Cowboys (1972), one of his best roles.

The Hills Have Eyes (1977) Next- Last House On The Left (1972) 2 Wes Craven 70s horrors

The Connection (1961) 8/10 NY revival theater A documentary film maker films a room full of heroin junkies waiting for their stash to arrive from their connection. This was recently shown in NY's Film Forum for the centennial of director Shirley Clarke. It was based on a play which is obvious since it all takes place in one room. It is raw,compelling and totally engrossing. The characters speak directly to the camera which makes it an intimate experience. There are only two actors that I recognized, William Redfield (One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest) as the director and Roscoe Lee Browne (he appeared in many TV shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including All In The Family and Maude) as the cameraman. The dialogue is has some shocking profanity with numerous mentions of s**t, I did not realize it could be used in a 1961 film, even in an underground independent feature. There is also a pretty graphic "shooting up" scene.

The Invisible Man (1933) is probably the funniest Universal horror classic, one of the most hilarious scenes is the Invisible One skipping down the road in trousers stolen from a policeman and singing "Gathering Nuts In May". Claude Rains has a great maniacal laugh, I never heard such an wild, exuberant performance from him in anything else.

A Countess From Hong Kong Next-Charles Laughton

in chronological order 1. Bride Of Frankenstein(1935) -Boris Karloff is frightening and also touching as the Monster here. Favorite scenes are the ones with the blind man. 2. The Raven (1935)- Psycho mad doctor Bela Lugosi disfigures gangster Karloff so he will help in a twisted revenge plot. 3. Son Of Frankenstein (1939) Lugosi is the crafty body snatcher Ygor and Karloff gives his last performance as the Monster. Climax is a stunner. 4. House Of Wax (1953) My favorite Vincent Price film, he uses real humans for his wax figures. 5. Horror Of Dracula (1958) Peter Cushing is the greatest vampire killer of all time and Christopher Lee is vicious and scary as the Count. 6. Horror Hotel (1960) Witchcraft thriller with great atmosphere and really shocking scene half way through it. 7. Psycho (1960) Seminal mad killer film, Anthony Perkins is excellent as Norman Bates. 8. Carnival Of Souls (1962) Creepy tale of a woman with a near death experience stalked by a weird ghostly figure. 9. What Ever Happened To Baby Jane (1962) Nothing is scarier than Bette Davis in grotesque makeup torturing crippled Joan Crawford. 10. Rosemary's Baby (1968) Original Satanic thriller, everything looks perfectly normal at first, but the strange plot unfolds in terrifying fashion.

Joan Weldon was in Them! with Sandy Descher

Miss Marple Next- Julie Harris, Dana Hill, Anna Paquin

David Hemmings was in Barbarella with Jane Fonda

The Left Handed Gun Next-The Rack - 2 early Paul Newman films

This is a great Halloween movie. Especially the Autumn tinged names of the two boys, Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade. Jason Robards has one of his best roles of the 1980s. There is also an interesting supporting cast: Royal Dano as the town eccentric. The still gorgeous Pam Grier as a witch. Mary Grace Canfield (she was tomboyish "Ralph" on Green Acres) as a strict school teacher A good role for James Stacey years after his horrific motorcycle accident.

Yes, I recall seeing it there once or twice. It's been a few years though

Glen Or Glenda (1953) 4/10 Youtube After re watching Ed Wood (1994) I thought I would take a look at this one, not having seen it all the way through in years. It is pretty bad, though not quite as bad as I remember it. Bela Lugosi is the best thing in it, he performs the ridiculous lines with great gusto. It never seems like a real movie, just some exploitation like Reefer Madness. What makes it interesting today is it's sympathetic portrayal of the title transvestite, it appears to want to make the viewer accept him more as a human being. It has all the stiff acting and ponderous dialogue you would expect from an Ed Wood movie. There is also a scary looking devil character in the nightmare sequence, along with some tame strip tease and bondage moments.

I agree with this. The score has some bongo music suggesting the 1950s beatnik craze, along with sci fi feel of the theremin.

I don't believe it has been on TCM, it would fit nicely on it though, but because of the foul language would have to be on at late night.

I was looking forward to seeing this since it would put Eddie Murphy back in "R" rated movies after all those awful kiddie friendly films he made. Now that I see it is by Ed Wood writers I really want to see it. I don't have Netflix so I hope it will be released to theaters.

This is a Tim Burton directed biopic with Johnny Depp as the legendary bad movie director. I never thought that a movie about the worst director of all time would be IMO one of the best movies I ever saw. The best part is the Oscar winning portrayal of Bela Lugosi by Martin Landau. Lugosi at this time was in the throes of morphine addiction and could not get a job in Hollywood. There was some controversy from Lugosi's family and friends who objected to scenes where Bela would go into a profanity laced tirade against his horror movie rival Boris Karloff. Luckily, Burton had enough clout to make this great film in 1994 and do it in black and white. He said he offered the Lugosi role to Landau and told him if you don't accept, I won't do the movie. We see the making of the 3 films Wood made with Bela- Glen Or Glenda ( where Wood himself played the title role of the transvestite, based on his own life), Bride Of The Monster and Plan 9 From Outer Space. Tor Johnson the wrestler is played by lookalike wrestler George "The Animal" Steele. Another great scene has Wood meeting his idol Orson Welles. Vincent Donofrio plays Welles and he looks uncannily like him, the voice is dubbed by an impressionist who is also very good. What are your opinions of this one?

The Raven (1935) only 61 minutes A mad surgeon (Bela Lugosi) is jilted by a woman and he blackmails an escaped convict (Boris Karloff) to help with a twisted plan of revenge against her and her family and fiancee. Probably the shortest film on my top twenty all time list. Lugosi gets more raving mad as the film goes on and Karloff gets more sympathetic.

OJ Simpson was in the The Klansman with Richard Burton

Originally she was supposed to be bald underneath the wig, which would if made it more humiliating and mean spirited.

Teenage Caveman (1958) Roger Corman directed this prehistoric drama with a twist. Robert Vaughn stars and he called it the worst movie ever made. I enjoyed though, especially the ending which I did not see coming but should have.