I was watching this film the other day, and couldn't stop laughing. The only scary parts were near the end. the acting wasnt gret. the only highlight was jack nicholson.
The years kid's shows were good:
1992-1999
That doesn't sound good at all! Please tell, when did this uncontrollable laughter start? Was it right at the beginning, at the scene where a rider silently rides through a forest, or only after the actual dialogue began?
When you say, "The only scary parts were near the end," are you implying that you got scared by your own unceasing laughter? Mind you, at this point it must have been going on for at least an hour!
I'm a little confused by your mention of Jack Nicholson: did you try to stop your aching body from laughing by looking at a serene picture of him, or did you at some point also suffer from hallucinations?
What a horrible experience! Were there drugs or excessive alcohol abuse involved? I would strongly recommend seeing a doctor about this.
(I take it that the end of your message, where you say that the kid's shows of the 90ies were good because they showed smoking people, is your signature, so I won't consider it a part of your cry for help.)
don't you think you're taking this a little too seriously? i don't even know from your rambling and incoherent response if you liked the show or not. or do you just hate life in general?
The years kid's shows were good:
1992-1999
Don't forget he writes: "The acting wasn't gret".
I think he meant "Gret wasn't acting". But who is this "Gret"? And why wasn't she acting? Does he mean the German ballet dancer Gret Palucca?
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CEFD8163BF936A2575BC 0A965958260
Was she in the movie? That would have been difficuilt, since she was behind the Iron Curtain and had already abandoned dancing in 1951.
But maybe Corman persuaded her to do a (obviously badly acted) comeback in 1960. Maybe she was smuggled out of East Germany in the middle of the night, which, combined with her jet-lag, may account for her unusual bad acting. It must have been so bad Corman decided to cut the whole ballet sequence.
But, luckily, a stray print has survived, and fallen into the hands of this young fellow, who, while in the midst of a serious attack of spongiform encephalopathy (laughing sickness) still could summon the strength to write a learned assessment (despite some word jumbling) of Ms Paluccas acting abilities. So, we can be considered now lucky to know that the Great Gret wasn't acting.
Maybe Jack Nicholson scared here.
What remains an enigma is the Truman Capote-inspired coded massage, I mean message at the end:
The years - kid's shows were good: 1992-1999 smoking yellow apparition.
What years? What about them? Whose shows? Kid Rock's? Billy the Kid's? Smoking from 1992 until 1999 turns you yellow?
If you can solve that, you'll be holding the key to the rest of the post. And the universe.
Now that post is like good Scooby Doo!!!
shareThis is the best Scooby Doo thread ever!
Ending:
Madeline enters RoderickΒ΄s room and attacks him.
Philips presses a button and a net falls on her.
Roderick - Oh no, please donΒ΄t harm her.
Phillip - DonΒ΄t worry Mr. Usher, sheΒ΄s not Madeline.
Bristol enters the scene.
Bristol - ThatΒ΄s right sir. SheΒ΄s not Miss Madeline.
Roderick - But then, whoΒ΄s her.
Phillip - Not her, he is...
Phillip gets close and pulls the wig from the "woman".
All - ItΒ΄s Jack Nicholson!!!
Phillip - ThatΒ΄s right, he tried to scare us to leave the house and keep the Usher mansion for himself.
Jack - I would have gotten away with it, if it weren't for those meddling punks...
Roderick - Well Jack if you like the mansion so much I think you wonΒ΄t mind being emtombed... alive!!!
Ooops! ThatΒ΄s a different movie.
Now I'd like to see you tie in BOTH "The Raven" movies (1935 and 1963) (which BOTH feature Boris Karloff and ONE actually with Jack Nicholson...)
Err... megAnhalt, I got bad news for you... as much as I love Bela, Boris and Vincent movies... I havenΒ΄t seen yet those 2 movies you just mentioned in your post.
*** rises flame shields ***
Sorry.
<channels Bela Lugosi>
AAAAAHHHH!!! SHAAAAAAAAME ON YOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!!!
HOW DO YOU DAARE NOT TO HAVE SEEEEN MY BEAUTIFULLL FIIILMMMMMS!!!!!
KAAARLOFF (spits) WAS AN ACTOR, BUT I... I WAS AN ARTIST!!!
On a lighter note...
The older Raven is enjoyably creepy and showcases Lugosi and Karloff at their (extravagant) best, while not having anything to do with the Poe poem (but with a bit of Pit and Pendulum thrown in for good measure).
The later Raven was shot by Corman because he had three days and the sets (and actors) left from another project, so he threw together a script and basically everybody just had fun with it, making it more of a spoof than anything else. How can you go wrong with Price, Karloff, Lorre, and Nicholson goofing off on screen?
Both movies sound deliciously sweet, I gotta see them as soon as I found them.
Thanks megAnhalt... and keep watching the skies, or looking for a dog, or killing zombies or whatever this thread was about.
Just watched THE BLACK CAT and I must say it's the best Karloff/Lugosi pairing I've seen so far. Lugosi as the (almost) good guy and Karloff evil and smug as never before...
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igmartinez, your Scooby Doo parody is probably the funniest post I've ever read on IMDB.
OP, thank you for your stupidity and the laughs, but remember there is no such thing as bad Scooby Doo!
Plotholes are like Bigfoot, people who claim to see them are just trying to stir things up.
You want to see bad acting, watch a terrible film called Trick 'r Treat, a direct to Wal-Mart film if there ever was one.
shareThe only scary parts were near the end.
My guess is that the OP got this mixed up with THE RAVEN, which was SUPPOSED to be funny in the first place, or THE TERROR, a Corman rip off of his own series where the jollies are all unintentional...especially a badly miscast Nicholson.πππ
shareJack Nicholson did not appear in this film.
shareWATCHED THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL....I DID NOT PARTICULARLY LIKE IT...BUT I HAVE ALWAYS REMEMBERED IT.
shareRuh-roh!
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