Mal ,'Shindig'
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From the movie-was-better-than-the-book discussion upthread:
I'm catching up on this, and the examples that immediately jumped to mind for me aren't movies. The musical of Wicked is (IMO) far more entertaining than the book, and the TV show of Vampire Diaries is so much better than the books that I'm kind of astonished. It's not great TV, but still. Vastly better than the books.
The blogs which comprise the B-Masters Cabal have done a round-up of movies based on H.P. Lovecraft stories.
Teleport City collects a bunch of them.
So if you've been wondering if Beyond Re-Animator or Necronomicon or Beyond the Wall of Sleep is worth it, check it out.
It suddenly occurs to me that Brad Dourif would've been perfect for a Lovecraft movie. You need somebody wound tight and neurotic. Like...Anthony Perkins, or Veronica Cartwright.
The only HPL movie worth watching is the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's silent movie of The Call of Cthulhu.
The only HPL movie worth watching is the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society's silent movie of The Call of Cthulhu.
I'd argue that Corman's The Haunted Palace (which, despite the Poe title, is an adaption of ...Charles Dexter Ward) is pretty good too.
And Re-Animator and From Beyond are both hilarious, in an Evil Dead sort of way.
just finished Crank 2, absolutely hilarious and so WTF?!
Isn't it great? Every movie should end that way.
Especially, since it keeps coming up here, Jaws!
Jaws should end on fire, giving us the bird?
Absolutely.
I guesss it'd work better in the sequel, since the shark is already biting into an electric cable. Someone needs to just put in little CGI shark fingers and we're done.
Today's featured review at one of my favorite b-movie blogs, Die Danger Die Die Kill is the Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) 1968 spy flick The Brain Stealers!
Essential reading for such evil overlord types as MM, Gud and Clovis.
I just came back from watching Au Hasard Balthazar at a screening room at the art college with a film professor, a couple of film students and a handful of philosophers. A logn discussion about Bresson and grace followed, which was almost over my head.
I don't know if I liked the film so much--The passivity of the actors was making me craaaaaazy, and I think I empathized far too much with the donkey. But I do love watching films with people who know the history and background a film. The best thing is that this may be an in more to these informal screenings. I so miss having a rep cinema in town.
