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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 30, 2011 19:56:18 GMT -5
"There's roadkill all over Texas".
Damn, I love this movie. Next month after taking a few weeks off of watching horror, I'm going to write a spoiler heavy review of this movie under the "Underated" thread. Watch this movie, it is incredibly good.
Gotta get ready to go out to watch a movie on the silver screen. Hint.... there will be a live music accompaniment to the classic.
Time to shift into Maximum Overdrive.
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This reminds me of Steamboat vs. Savage at Wrestlemania III. Epic competition, though in this case not beautiful, just somewhat insane.
JAS, before I forget. It is time for the final rule to the competition. My only request is that it be right after midnight Pacific time zone.
So, King of October, when does this competition end?
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 30, 2011 22:22:15 GMT -5
Watched Color Me Blood Red by Herschel Gordin Lewis. It's about a painter who discovers blood is his perfect color and starts killing people to get it. The artist is the only good actor the rest are pretty bad. Who can't forget the great line "Holy bananas that's a dead body"
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Post by madmanmaple on Oct 30, 2011 23:44:19 GMT -5
Watched In The Mouth of Madness last night. One of my favorites. I don't why nobody considers San Neil as a great horror actor, he's truly great. Loved it when he called the old bag at the hotel a bitch. Highly underrated film. On Netflix instant.
My God, this contest is heating up. I say the contest ends on 6:00 AM Nov. 1st. LOB and Jake will battle through out the night to declare the winner. And I, yes I! Will vow to take distant 3rd place in the next coming days!
6:00 AM on one's respected time-zone. I live in Cali, so my time zone is pacific time.
MMM: 8
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 30, 2011 23:45:48 GMT -5
So I went to the Alamo Drafthouse Theater South Lamar. I had a really good wild mushroom pizza. I also had two pints of 'Black Sunshine'. I drank Guinness with a shot of espresso in it for a decade before somebody asked me, "What do you call that drink"? A week later I named it, and the handle fits. Delicious and it wakes you up at night like a werewolf on speed. Good stuff.
So, I've watched Nosferatu for twenty years now. I have bought three copies of it, but every few years my copy becomes obsolete as more seconds of the film are discovered across the globe and restored. Well, time to replace my copy AGAIN.
This is about the fifth or sixth time I have seen Nosferatu on the silver screen with a live musical score. This time one drummer, one stand-up bass, and an organ.
After twenty years and over a dozen viewings, this one nailed it. A home-run. My highlight of this competition. I think another six to eight minutes have been restored to this film in the last five years. That honestly makes the film geek in me very, very happy. I had goosebumps watching this print, and new expanded translations to the narrative were added that rounded out and expanded the story even more. And the print is so sharp, when the building Orlok bought is viewed at a distance from the heroine's window, for the first time you can see someone at the window, Orlok, staring back! I was blown away!
Sorry to gush, but that was awesome!
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The witching hour approaches, 15 minutes until midnight. Halloween is minutes away. So my next movie, starting at the stroke of midnight, will be the classic of all slasher movies. I waited all month for this. John Carpenter's Halloween.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 30, 2011 23:52:18 GMT -5
I'm cool with 6 a.m. California time, November 1st as the endpoint for everybody. What says the King of October?
Oh to catch up slightly, I loved In the Mouth of Madness, Santa Sangre, and so many more movies listed so far by ya'll. Good work my fellow freaks! Cheers, Full Moon Pale Rye is my constant Texas-brewed beer. My session beer. Nine minutes till Halloween in Central Texas!
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 31, 2011 2:09:38 GMT -5
So I just want to take a minute to say thanks.
Thank you Nasty Neal and thank you Jittery John, The Flea, and Astrocreep for all the great shows you have under your belts.
After watching Halloween, I want to specify my thanks. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to ask P.J. Soles a question live. Just so you know, as she answred my question, I stared at a clock like a puppy dog in love. She spent four and a half minutes answering my question and the cherry on the sundae was when she then asked me what my three all-time favorite musicals were (for the answer, go to the show archive, January 20, 2011).
I also want to thank the guys for the chance to ask the man who played Michael Myers when MM was unmasked, Tony Moran, a question too, and that show date was October 23, 2009.
Cheers to Neal and the boys!
John Carpenter's Halloween. One of my favorite scenes is when Michael stabs the boyfriend, and like a dog, cocks his head left, then right, contemplating his handiwork. Reminds me of VINTAGE Big Red Machine. And talking about Kane, and his older brother, my fellow Central Texan, Mean Mark Callous, I love at the end when Michael sits up.
By the way, that is my favorite ending to any horror film. I watched the last scene a total of three times and had cold shivers run up my legs!
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And talking about Issac Yankem, D.D.S., my next movie is See No Evil.
Rob and Amy own Independence Brewering Company in South Austin, two awesome people, and Amy is a real sweet-heart. Cheers to them, and I'm drinking an Independence Stash IPA!
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 31, 2011 2:10:48 GMT -5
Can you all do me a favor, and smite my karma to a nice prime number, say 13?
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 31, 2011 3:28:12 GMT -5
Watched The House on Haunted Hill with Vincent Price and despite watching it so much when I was younger I never noticed how good the gore was until now.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 31, 2011 4:43:40 GMT -5
Let's see. I am delirious and I think by this ime tomorrow my eyeballs, fingernails, and hair follicles will be bleeding. God I'm tired. Time to drink more Guarana tea.
See No Evil is better on the second viewing. Highlights: Almost every scene with Kane, the asshole dogs especially the urinator, and the blonde bitch with too much attitude. She was so mean, it made my heart smile.
The worst parts: Every scene that did not have Kane or the blonde, and the Kane masturbation scenes. Wow. Anyway, I have felt that Kane has been grossly misused since 1998. He is a really good "entertainer".
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 31, 2011 7:19:08 GMT -5
John Carpenter's The Thing.
So..... Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians begat "Who Goes There?", a short story in a sci-fi mag. That begat the fifties version of The Thing. That begat, arguably, one of the top ten horror films ever, John Carpenter's The Thing.
Hey Madman, if you havn't watched it yet, I gots a movie for ya. Trust me. John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness. The third leg in the three-legged table of Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy. You already are a fan of two thirds of his trilogy, The Thing and In the Mouth of Madness.
Boy, I'm drunk. Good thing beer to me is like spinache to Popeye.
Anyway, if the apocalypse comes, whether zombie, alien, biblical, weather, or gremlin, I want to be on MacReady's team. He is the man!
Back to drinking Real Ale's Full Moon Pale Rye. Cheers!
Next up, Jack Brooks Monster Slayer.
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EDIT. Dog WILL hunt!
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 31, 2011 14:15:59 GMT -5
Jack Brooks Monster Slayer. This movie rocks! One of my favorites from the double aughts.
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I'll let Bill Moseley say it for me.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 31, 2011 14:40:49 GMT -5
So that got me thinking, right now it's time for Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, which was filmed in Austin, Bastrop (the town that caught on fire), and Belton.
Tom Savini was the effects guy and Kinky Friedman had a role in the movie too. And the soundtrack has an Oingo Boingo song and a Rocky Erickson song. Lastly, the film thanks Shiner Beer (a crap local beer) and Big Red, the overly-sweet soda most BBQ worshipping Texans think of first when contemplating a plate of slow-cooked brisket.
This movie was banned in Australia for twenty years and is still banned in Germany and Singapore.
After I view this, I'm gonna get me a brisket sandwich! Cheers, Full Moon Pale Rye is a great hair-of-the-dog beer!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 31, 2011 19:54:11 GMT -5
Watched Werewolf of London which I found boring and didn't like. I'm not a fan of more man-like wolves I prefer my wolves giant and wild.
Then I watched Child's Play for the first time though I've seen some of the sequels and thought it was really good. The doll still looks scary, the jokes are funny, and the action scenes are intense. That being said some things are very 80's like the kid taking the line to come up with some smartass one liner instead of just burning the damn doll.
Third I watched Sheitan which is French for Satan. This movie is very funny, but also contains some really graphic messed up stuff. It has Vincent Cassel who's starting to become one of my favorite actors he could play the gay in denial Krill in Eastern Promises, the badass French ganster Mesrine in both of the Mesrine films, and the crazy French hillbilly in this one all masterfully.
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Post by loverofbeers on Oct 31, 2011 20:39:36 GMT -5
God bless Dennis Hopper.
And I guess its horndog comment time. Stretch has the sexiest legs ever in horror. Those things do "stretch" to the heavens. For fans of the series, Stretch has a cameo as the reporter nervously smoking a cigarette at the crime scene in the beginning of Leatherface The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III. I loves her mucho!
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2.
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Next up, my second favorite "RomZomCom", Dance of the Dead. I like this and Fido more than everybody's favorite RomZomCom, Shaun of the Dead. Here's the trailer. Cheers!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Oct 31, 2011 20:47:49 GMT -5
Watched Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer my god the realism of this movie was astounding.
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