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I’ve seen many movies where the audience clapped at the end, but the one that brings the most vivid memories is JAWS. I saw it in 1975 and the audience erupted with cheers when the shark was blown up, and then everyone applauded again at the end.
Howdy davemoore3! Hope you're still here after 10 years. Regarding your comment about the dialogue needing more spontaneity, have you seen the second film in the series, Revelation? The dialogue in that one, particularly the humorous stuff, seemed very grounded and flowed naturally. This movie backtracked a bit in the dialogue department.
I found it last weekend at a Movie Trading Company store in Plano, Texas. It was in a slim dvd case and only 99 cents. It's on the Digiview label and had good video and audio quality. I love 1970s made-for-TV movies.
I’ll go you one better: I think Horror of Dracula is the best VAMPIRE movie ever made, with or without Dracula. It was leagues ahead of anyone else, and it really gets everything right. There’s the right mix of drama, suspense, sex and horror, plus Cushing and Lee dominate in their respective roles. Imagine a 1958 audience reacting when Dracula bursts through the library door, fangs bared and face covered in blood! What a stunner that must’ve been.
Horror of Dracula deserves every bit of its legendary status. And, like a fine wine, it gets better with age.
My daughter and I just watched the Blu-ray and it looks amazing. I was so used to the old gray market dub, so this was a real eye-opener. It was particularly spooky to get a better look at the titular character. Brrrr.
Look out, we have another triggered atheist!
I agree that Hammer’s Frankenstein series is probably the better series overall, but the Dracula series has more scares/creepy moments. I think the Dracula series is hurt by the need to keep bringing him back from the dead. The Frankenstein series simply moved the Baron from one good story to the next.
Oh yes, this episode terrified me! I was seven and it really got to me. Over the years I always remembered the hands coming up from the graves in the shed, but over time I forgot what show it was. (I have several of those mystery movie memories.) About 5 years ago I bought this series hoping it might solve one of those memories. Lo and behold, there it was! It still holds up today.
<i>And that guy they kept interviewing who was like 12 rows back from him was such a dbag. He seemed so proud of himself for being the bullying ass that he was.</i>
That fool seemed like the kind of guy who was full of himself in high school, then comes to the 20th reunion and is still living in high school. I almost felt sorry for him as he told his story. He thought he was so cool, but didn’t realize how he was coming off. As they said in 1941’s BUCK PRIVATES, “Some people just can’t get wise to themselves”.
RockyJones,
People see it because they want to see it. The “love that dare not speak its name” has become the love that won’t shut the hell up. In the six years since you posted it’s only gotten worse.
I like it as a comedy, and am sad to see so little of it in the past few episodes. The first three or four episodes had several laugh-out-loud scenes in each. Bring back the comedy!
Ha, great story! On a similar note, when I was 11 (1976) the song Afternoon Delight was a big hit on the radio. I was riding in the car with my mom and I asked her what it meant. She got a horrified look on her face, then said, “It’s when you take a nap in the afternoon. It’s delightful.”
Fast forward about seven years, I’m now 18 and have a smokin’ girlfriend. She mentioned one day about having some afternoon delight, and genius me replied, “Well, I’m not really tired but, if you want to lie down for a bit and get a snooze, I’ll just hang out.” She got a funny look on her face, and all of a sudden it hit me, what “afternoon delight” really meant. I faked a laugh and told her I was kidding, and then...well, you know. I never let on and I think she believed me.
I like Melanie Griffith, and I think she’s a really good actress - in the right role. I just couldn’t buy her as a detective in this one.
Agreed. I liked it, too.
Saying this is the worst Halloween movie, and one of the worst films in general, makes your post null and void. Any other comments from you will have to be considered suspect.
Not quite right. The Bible says all scripture is God breathed, and Jesus is God. A=B=C. All books of the Bible, while physically written by the hands of men, are still from God (the Holy Spirit). So yes, Jesus did condemn homosexual behavior. Just to be clear, same-sex attraction is not a sin, it’s temptation. Acting upon that temptation, however, is very grievous to God.
I’m in four years after your initial post, and you probably won’t like my answer, but - as a straight male - I’m always a tad repulsed by homosexual sex. The story was well acted, and the cinematography was fantastic, but the core of the movie is about two men trying to find love, where it isn’t truly possible. Two men can have a relationship, or two women, but a certain dynamic will always be missing. That’s what the movie left me feeling. I’m sure some will scream, “They couldn’t find that true love because of such a homophobic society!”, but I stick with my original point.
I think what got the “Is it real?” stories going about The Blair Witch Project was the reeeeally creepy website. This was still in the early days of the internet, so people may have been a tad bit more gullible.
Several of the times I’ve stopped there I’ve gotten some water from the creek, then filled a few little bottles. The time my wife and I stopped there at night, I also got water. We stopped first at the Monster Mart to see what goodies they had. While we were there I began talking to the clerk about going down to the creek. Some local heard me talking and mentioned all the rain they’d had lately. He told me to be careful walking down there and to “watch out for gators”. I’d never heard of any gators in that area, and I thought he was just having some fun with me. Anyway, both my wife and I were going to walk down to the creek, but you have to go down a little hill and she only had sandals on. She went back up and I continued down. This presented a dilemma, because I still wanted to get some water, but I also wanted to film getting it. (I was working on a little homemade Bigfoot film at the time.) When I got to the bottom and to the edge of the creek, I had a little flashlight in my mouth, my phone in one hand, and a styrofoam cup in the other. It was muddy, and I had to lean out to get the water. Now I was not only thinking about Bigfoot, but a gator coming up out of the water - in the dark - and grabbing my arm. Brrrr. (I used a little bit of that footage in my homemade movie.) I’m so glad I didn’t slip and fall in!
One more thing, and this has spooked me, too. After I got the water, I stood up and began walking back up toward our car. At least I thought I did. It was dark, and instead of walking back the way I’d come, I instead began walking to my right, sort of parallel to the creek. I’d taken 8 or 10 steps when my wife called out from the top of the little hill: “This way, up here.” I’m glad she could see me down there, or I’d have ended up even farther from the car, walking through near waist high weeds.
Oh, I forgot to mention, the chiggers got me, too. I had some big welts on my legs and they itched like crazy.
The “Santa Claus” character, as you called him, is actually pretty interesting. He understands the Bible and end times prophecy, but he’s wracked with guilt about not truly accepting that truth, and that he led others astray. (He had been a pastor.) We’re told in the fourth movie that he’s not a Christian, because his immense sense of guilt won’t allow him to accept Jesus. That’s an intriguing dichotomy. I wish more had been done with his character.