Nasnandos wrote: Mon Sep 19, 2022 2:40 am
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ST: TMP was the last movie I watched before going into Halloween mode. This year I am going through My David Croneneberg "horror" film collection, in the order they were made. Shivers, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners, and Videodrome, so far. I still have The Dead Zone, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Existenz, and Crimes of the Future to go!
Oh my , I'm Shocked! Shocked to find gambling in this.... Oh, wait, wrong genre...
OK I'm shocked to find nary a mention of the
Hammer movies (for fun), and
Rosemary's Baby (not so fun, and the book is scarier),
The Haunting (1963... and book by Shirley Jackson is far scarier),
The Creature from the Black Lagoon (was that a Hammer film?...can't recall),
Night of the Demon (which made it into Martin Scorsese's list of the top 10 scariest movies),
House on Haunted Hill (Vincent Price hamming it a bit, which he not only enjoys doing, but does it well),
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (First one ...1956?),
The Thing from Another Planet (first one, not Carpenter's)
Fright Night (first one with Chris Sarandon and Roddy McDowell)
Bram Stoker's Dracula (the one with Gary Oldman and, w/o checking, I think Coppola directed. It is also the one imo most faithful to the book )
Freaks (1932)
The Invisible Man (1933 w/ Claude Raines*** in the title role)
Oh, and two silent ones:
Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920)
Nosferatu (1922)
***
Science Fiction Double Feature
Michael Rennie was ill
The day the Earth stood still
But he told us where we stand
And Flash Gordon was there
In silver underwear
Claude Rains was The Invisible Man.
Then something went wrong
For Fay Wray and King Kong
They got caught in a celluloid jam.
Then at a deadly pace
It came from outer Space
And this is how the message ran:
Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
At the late night, double feature, picture show.
I knew Leo G. Carroll
Was over a barrel
When Tarantula took to the hills
And I really got hot
When I saw Janette Scott
Fight a Triffid that spits poison and kills.
Dana Andrews said prunes
Gave him the runes
And passing them used lots of skills
But when worlds collide
Said George Pal to his bride
I'm gonna give you some terrible thrills.
Like a Science fiction double feature
Doctor X will build a creature
See androids fighting Brad and Janet
Anne Francis stars in Forbidden Planet
At the late night, double feature, picture show.
I wanna go,
To the late night, double feature, picture show
By R.K.O.,
To the late night, double feature, picture show
In the back row,
To the late night, double feature, picture show