Speaking of Bram Stoker's Dracula, did anyone else think in Wallace and Gromit the priest was a reference to Oldman's "old" Dracula?
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
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bon bon - Oct 12, 2005 11:48:58 am PDT #7929 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
Dana - Oct 12, 2005 11:50:47 am PDT #7930 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Yeah, The Devil's Backbone. T'was great fun.
Curse you for beating me too it. Not that I could remember the full name, so I was going "The Devil's...something with The Devil's..."
I really liked it. Creepy and poignant.
Jessica - Oct 12, 2005 12:23:48 pm PDT #7931 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Really? I didn't like Shadow of the Vampire that much.
Oh good, I thought I was the only one. I thought Defoe's performance was very...comitted. The movie itself was bland and repetitive.
Actually, I just remembered this terrific, fairly recent vampire movie from Mexico called Cronos. I saw it during the Midnight Madness screening in Toronto Film Festival about a decade ago and it left an impression. It went counter to a lot of tired convention of the genre by having the vampirism transmitted through a device, and the main victim be an old man. Good acting, too, if I recall.
Oh, I saw that for some reason! Probably because of Hellboy. It was good.
Night Watch is another recent good one, but it's only kind of about vampires.
Hayden - Oct 12, 2005 12:39:25 pm PDT #7932 of 10002
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
The Devil's Backbone is the only del Toro I've really liked.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 12, 2005 12:55:38 pm PDT #7933 of 10002
"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
My local cinemas have been taunting me with Night watch posters that move from theater to theater but never in a "NOW PLAYING" capacity.
evil jimi - Oct 12, 2005 3:45:40 pm PDT #7934 of 10002
Lurching from one disaster to the next.
::pulls Aimee up higher:: No need to be embarrassed about Dusk Til Dawn, it was a lot of fun. Forever Knight was a movie before it was a TV show.
Calli ... Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires is available on DVD now. At least, it is in R2/4. I've got an old issue of the House of Hammer magazine that does a comic version of the movie. Very cool.
Did I miss it, or has there been no mention of John Carpenter's Vampires ?
sarameg - Oct 12, 2005 4:46:23 pm PDT #7935 of 10002
You just reminded me of a strange movie I saw in my teens: The Comfort of Strangers, set in Venice. I keep thinking it was a vamp movie, but since I can't recall how it ended, which was the big reveal, I have NO IDEA. I think Walken was the creepy dude.
tommyrot - Oct 12, 2005 4:59:29 pm PDT #7936 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think Walken was the creepy dude.
I think Elvis might have recorded a few songs.
Volans - Oct 12, 2005 9:31:28 pm PDT #7937 of 10002
move out and draw fire
I think I liked the potential of Shadow of the Vampire better than the execution, but I'll stick with liking it. Doubt I will ever buy it though.
ION, there's another shot at a really bad Lovecraft movie...and it looks like Tori Spelling getting eaten by Cthulhu will move from my idle musings to actuality. [link]
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 12, 2005 11:36:34 pm PDT #7938 of 10002
"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
Hmmm, I don't recall any gay college professors from "The Shadow over Innsmouth." But you gotta love a movie that features, as Lovecraft put it, "Earth's supreme horror."
And it has Cthulhu as well!