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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 13, 2012 0:49:50 GMT -5
The Curse of Frankenstein. Okay, Hammer made better horror, more creepy and evil horror, than Universal. I've realized this. Universal owned Hammer on the special effects department and the number of marquis horror stars that they employed. Hammer really only had the team of Cushing and Lee. And what a dynamic pair of actors! I love Boris Karloff's monster, but this is the superior movie to me. Bride is still my favorite for the record.
One other thing, two men create ghoulish monsters in this film. Victor Frankenstein creates an abomination, Paul, the tutor, educates a young Victor. By far, Victor is a greater ghoul and villain than "the monster". I would go as far as to say that Peter Cushing's Victor Frankenstein is one of THE great villains of film history. He is a real rat bastard through and through.
Drinking Sierra Nevada's Ruthless Rye. Cheers!
LOB-21
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 13, 2012 0:52:11 GMT -5
Brother Jake, regardless of who might win June, what do you say to making July "American Movie Month"?
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 13, 2012 16:41:15 GMT -5
Adam Green's pal, Joe Lynch, made a great, gory, and true old-school horror film in Wrong Turn 2.
Half the cast was American, the hillbillies were mostly Canadian, and it was all filmed in Canada. I was going to count this movie when I started watching it, but read up on it on IMDB and decided this should count as an American movie since unlike An American Werewolf in London, the setting is supposed to be inside the U.S., not "Wrong Turn 2 Canada Road Trip Massacre".
So zero points earned, but I loved the movie. My first watch.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 14, 2012 4:50:08 GMT -5
A low budget movie that became possibly the greatest cult film of all time. I just watched the Blu-ray version of A Clockwork Orange with the commentary going. Malcolm McDowell is freaking mind blowing talking behind the scenes. I have watched this movie literally twenty plus times and this time with Mr. McDowell explaining the scenes was the first time I winced watching this. Holy shit, that was nearly as great a watch as the first time I saw that movie.
Drinking a Victory Hop Wallop, and it definitely is. Cheers!
LOB-22
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 14, 2012 15:10:43 GMT -5
Watched Dead Snow a Norwegian horror movie about Nazi zombies coming back for their stolen goods. After hearing good things for years about it I finally watched it and have to agree that it was good.
Then I watched Ridley Scott's first film the duelist which was based on true story about two french officers who kept fighting each other in a series of duels over a few decades. I really liked this movie Scott spent time studying and gathering experts on military history and actual combat styles to make sure it was realistic and it payed off.
JAS-27
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 14, 2012 15:12:07 GMT -5
American sounds good to me ,but what'd be the criteria just any American movie?
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 14, 2012 19:42:30 GMT -5
Watched Rubber a French horror comedy film about a killer psyhic tire. It's weird and over the top ,but pretty funny.
JAS-29
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 15, 2012 2:02:32 GMT -5
Watched the Canadian horror film The Dead Zone by Cronenberg for the first time. Really good movie especially the evil senator.
JAS-31
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 16, 2012 0:23:52 GMT -5
Another low-budget bucket of golden gore. Rural Australia meets The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Wolf Creek, a horrific, creepy, nasty number. Good freaking stuff.
LOB-24
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 16, 2012 14:46:15 GMT -5
I liked Wolf Creek the end seemed kind of sudden though.
Also watched The Krays a movie about the extremely succesful british gangsters during the sixties. Really realistic stuff and it focused alot on how important family was too them particuarly their link as twins and the females of their family.
JAS-32
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 17, 2012 0:25:11 GMT -5
Bruce Lee's first movie, The Big Boss. Bruce Lee was a bad ass even though he has the skinny-fat version of Ricky Steamboat's pre-Wrestlemania II physique. Just kidding. Just kidding.
Well, a good movie in terms of action and acting excepting two concubines. The writer made all the good guys look like total maroons. But Bruce Lee figures things out and goes ape-shit by the end. And ends the movie arrested. Worth a look-see.
LOB-25
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 17, 2012 0:26:53 GMT -5
Maybe July can be tamped down to two decades of American cinema as the theme?
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Apr 17, 2012 2:22:54 GMT -5
Watched To the Devil a Daughter a British horror film from the 70s with Christopher Lee as the villain. The child of satan wasn't scary and the effect used at the end to show the demons influence was pretty lame.
The best part was Lee just acting with nothing else going on.
JAS-34
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 18, 2012 19:34:23 GMT -5
I kinda liked To the Devil a Daughter, but you're right overall. I liked Lee's vocation in this film.
Just watched for the second and for the last time, Tokyo Zombie. Liked it the first time, but this time I didn't enjoy the last thirty minutes of the film. It brcame long and sillier. I still liked the dentures bit.
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Post by loverofbeers on Apr 19, 2012 8:52:57 GMT -5
Shaun of the Dead. I really like this movie but not as much as most fans. I prefer zomcoms like Dance of the Dead, Zombieland, and Fido, but Shaun is fun.
LOB-29
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