FlyBackTransformer Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 Watched it last nite and was not impressed. Seemed better to me the first time. Throughout the film starting at the open you have this ominous sounding long 2-syllable music....*"uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh"* which lends a suggestion of death. I think I also prefer the rustic sets in the hammer films as well. Klaus Kinski is good if not a trifle too lethargic. He manages to scare Jonathan Harker a bit who already looks like a vegetarian and Isabelle Adjani already looks anemic. The ship blows in and it's rat time. Dramatically it is a weak film. Kinski's best scene is when he enters Adjani's bedroom and introduces himself but she seems to have already been expecting him. She sacrifices herself but to what avail as Harker the vegetarian winds up becoming our new nosferatu. He then states 'I have much work to do". He has to get back to Castle Dracula before somebody grabs up the property. All in all a rather somber film but it's no replacement for the Murnau silent classic. Shreck is unforgettable but even he is no match for Reggie Nalder as filmdom's definitive nosferatu Barlow in the 1979 CBS-TV miniseries Salem's Lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 We've been talking about the St. Louis Cardinals. At first glance, I thought your post said, "Whitey Herzog". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 flyback wrote: >She sacrifices herself but to what avail as Harker the vegetarian winds up becoming our new nosferatu. Off topic...but not really--my favorite vampire movie is probably The Lost Boys. A cornucopia of 80's hair, fashion and music and some very funny lines and surprisingly good performances by the 2 Cories and a pre-24 Kiefer Sutherland. The sequel, made years later was terrible, but there was one line that made me laugh. A girl becomes a vampire and she's appalled, becasue she's a vegan. LOL Nicole: "I tried to eat that guy. Do you realize that? Do you know what it's like for me to want to drink blood? Do you know how disgusting that is? I'm a vegetarian!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted October 24, 2013 Share Posted October 24, 2013 'Lost Boys' is a chick flick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 >'Lost Boys' is a chick flick. Um, ok. What does that mean exactly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkblue Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Means it's the kind of vampire movie chicks like. Pre-teens also seem to have been quite fond of it. Adult males not so much. Where do I get this from? My experience in the message boards of other movie sites, particularly those devoted to horror. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
traceyk65 Posted October 29, 2013 Share Posted October 29, 2013 Well Im female, so I suppose Im a chick, so yeah...but I also like the Hammer vampire films, Nosferatu (1922), Fright Night and Shadow of the Vampire. I just think The Lost Boys was very funny, not particularly scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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