Bethluvsfilms

THE BOBO

IN THE DOGHOUSE

CURSE OF THE DEMON (1957)

THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

YOUNG MAN WITH A HORN

Tom Petty's REFUGEE tune had a kind of noir-ish tone to it. Animotion's OBSESSION always makes me think of THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE.

So happy to see Sylvia finally get the recognition she deserves. A lot of viewers would only recognize her as the old afterlife social worker in BEETLEJUICE (she was hilarious in that), but she had a far more lengthy career before that. In, THIRTY DAY PRINCESS she does a wonderful double turn, and she turns in heartfelt performance as the young woman trying to look out for her younger brother in DEAD END. And of course, in FURY, she's the love interest of wronged-upon Spencer Tracy, and she's brilliant in that as well.

BLOOD ALLEY

PAINT YOUR WAGON

Likewise, I appreciate yours as well.

I know it left out a lot from the book (having just recently read it), but the 1935 version with Fredric March as Jean Valjean and Charles Laughton as Inspector Javert is still tops with me. The 1998 version with Liam Neeson as Valjean and Geoffrey Rush as Javert is probably my 2nd favorite. The 1952 film is certainly watchable, if not a truly good film. The cast helps you keep watching it. The 1978 TV version with Richard Jordan and Anthony Perkins certainly benefits from the performances of the two leads. The 2012 musical is not my cup of tea, if only because I feel the story works better as a straight drama rather than a musical. Maybe I've just been spoiled by all the previous versions.

I don't know about Vince Vaughn, but I think Anne Heche had admitted at the time of the release of the remake that she never even saw the original. Whether she's seen it or not since then, I wouldn't know. Sorry but for me there is only one Norman Bates and that is Anthony Perkins. Likewise only one Marion Crane....Janet Leigh. Sorry Vince and Anne (and you too TB!). And likewise there will be only one PSYCHO that I will acknowledge as a true classic and that is Hitchcock's film, not Van Sant's version.

I've seen all except for 1521, at least it doesn't look familiar to me. 1522, 1525, and 1527 are my top favorites in here. 1529 is understandably not to everyone's taste but I found it hilarious myself. 1530 was not my kind of film.

Bill Irwin

As nakano mentioned, the European distributors wanted to added some what they believed to be some needed sex appeal into the film (though I would hardly call a rape scene 'sex appeal'). And Cushing was NOT very happy about it, and not surprising considering he was such a gentleman in real life. HORROR OF DRACULA is my absolute favorite, but I also adore THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES, THE MUMMY, THE BRIDES OF DRACULA. I enjoy THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF and THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA quite well, as well as the first two FRANKENSTEIN entries in the series (CURSE and REVENGE). FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN is probably my least favorite in the series as well. Been a long while since I saw FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM HELL though.

Rick Moranis

Maybe studio heads learned the lesson from the really awful 1998 PSYCHO remake. Of course that was an almost shot-to-shot duplicate from the original and it still failed. I honestly hope nobody ever tries to remake CASABLANCA. But then I didn't think anyone would be brave enough (or stupid enough) to remake PSYCHO. Bogart and Bergman are a tough act to follow, I daresay even impossible to compete with IMO.

LEAVING LAS VEGAS

William Atherton

Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein always believed that with his experiments, the ends justified the means (no matter how unscrupulous his means turned out to be). In some of the films he almost wins you to his side. I think, particularly, in REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN and EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN he even comes off as somewhat sympathetic. On the other hand, in THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN, he is totally self-absorbed, cold blooded (SPOILER ALERT)….as his murder of a visiting professor for his brain proved. Also in FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (again, SPOILERS here) his rape of the young lady Anna (whom he blackmails into allowing him to perform his experiments in her boarding house) is even more deplorable, as his attack on her has nothing to do with his mad desire to create and recreate life into the bodies he infuses with. One can say that Cushing's version of Dr. Frankenstein had more of a Jekyll/Hyde personality than even Dr. Jekyll did.

Jerry Houser

Strother Martin

Actually, I like the Hammer version of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA. Nothing beats Lon Chaney's version of course, but Herbert Lom did a fine job as the title character. I love all the Hammer FRANKENSTEIN films. Most viewers dislike EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN since it breaks away from the continuity of THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN and THE REVENGE OF FRANKENSTEIN (my personal favorites of the series), but I actually enjoy EVIL OF FRANKENSTEIN, I just pretends it's a different branch of the Frankenstein family that is out there making monsters.

Kim Darby

Glenn Ford