Rated R. Nice.
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Saw The Informant! last night, and liked it a LOT.
Good to hear. It looked like it could be really good or really bad.
So I've got this great idea for a movie. An alien crashes in the desert behind this kid's house and they befriend each other, maybe even start to share some kind of physical bond. The kid tries to help the alien get back to his home planet (we could have some corporate tie ins here. Say Verizon and the alien could be all "Can you hear me now?" maybe even with a candy company like Skittles or something). It'll be brilliant-make a million, billion dollars.
Imma call it A.B.-Alien Being.
Whatta ya think?
Who are the bad guys?
Say Verizon and the alien could be all "Can you hear me now?"
Bwahaha!
Who are the bad guys?
I'ma guess Steven Spielberg's lawyers.
Wait, in this version would Spielberg's lawyers have guns or walkie-talkies?
Neither - they'll carry copies of NCLB.
Anybody seen the movie The Haunted Palace with Vincent Price?
It's in the series of Poe movies he made with Roger Corman but is actually based on the Lovecraft story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."
I think I have to track this down. It's got an elder horror in the basement and everything.
The plot is weirdly similar to the Barbara Steele classic Black Sunday. Price is a warlock who's burned alive in the 1700s and puts a curse on the village (causing many deformed mutations) and when his ancestor comes back to take over the property in the 20th century the ancient evil spirit tries to take over his soul. (There should be a short hand name for this recurring trope.)
There don't seem to be a lot of Lovecraftian movies: Haunted Palace, Call of Cthulu (the recent silent one); Re-animator, The Dunwich Horror...
Does In the Mouth of Madness count?