Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.

Lilah ,'Destiny'


Buffista Movies 3: Panned and Scanned  

A place to talk about movies--Old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.


Consuela - Aug 17, 2004 8:00:25 am PDT #2842 of 10001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, bwah. That could be hysterical.

Gimme some sugar, baby!


Tom Scola - Aug 17, 2004 8:03:41 am PDT #2843 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Cinematic Supervillain Showdown.


SuziQ - Aug 17, 2004 8:17:18 am PDT #2844 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

OK - all you movie-geniuses - I need to find the name of an old movie. I want to say it came out in the late 70's, early 80's. It was a horror-satire. The main thing I remember is that it kept an on-screen body count. I know, not much to go on, but hopefully it will ring a bell for someone.


Kathy A - Aug 17, 2004 8:31:53 am PDT #2845 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I was having fun last night listening to my new Amazon delivery--the re-recording of the soundtrack from To Kill a Mockingbird, done by the Royal Scottish Orchestra and directed by Elmer Bernstein.

Glorious.

Oh, and while I was listening, I was reading the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly, the Fall Movie Preview issue. Damn, Jamie Foxx looks just like the young Ray Charles! I am really looking forward to seeing that movie.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2004 8:47:38 am PDT #2846 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

OK - all you movie-geniuses - I need to find the name of an old movie. I want to say it came out in the late 70's, early 80's. It was a horror-satire. The main thing I remember is that it kept an on-screen body count. I know, not much to go on, but hopefully it will ring a bell for someone.

lexine, that oddly sounds like Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth, which coincidentally starred Buffy's Julie Benz and Danny Strong. But that was released in 2000.

Did the movie you're looking for have a plot point about lawnmower-themed murders?


SuziQ - Aug 17, 2004 8:49:43 am PDT #2847 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Nope - this pre-dates all those movies. I have tried searching for it, but am not coming up with specific enough information.


Frankenbuddha - Aug 17, 2004 9:11:52 am PDT #2848 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"

Horror parodies from after the first (American - the Italians beat us there at least twice) rash of slasher movies:

Student Bodies

Saturday the 14th

Pandemonium

I also think there might have been one called Thursday the 12th but that might have just been the original title of one of the other two.


SuziQ - Aug 17, 2004 9:23:24 am PDT #2849 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Hah - Student Bodies sounds right. I'll have to google and check it out.


Matt the Bruins fan - Aug 17, 2004 10:33:18 am PDT #2850 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Sounds like that's the one, with the onscreen body count.

Now you've got me trying to remember which cheesy horror movie had the hero escape over a chasm or pit by swinging on the boom mike that had dropped into frame from above.


Gris - Aug 17, 2004 3:46:50 pm PDT #2851 of 10001
Hey. New board.

Watching Aliens.

Then watching Predator.

As I've never seen either, and both have good reviews, it seems like a better plan than the questionable AvP..

Hey, was Shriek if You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth even remotely as good as its awesome title implied it should have been?