Movie Thread

[Old Black Man]

Did you ever hear the bit that Lee turned down the role of Dr. Loomis and regretted it? I love Donald Pleasance and would never replace him but love to imagine the alternate universe where we got Lee in that role.

My favourite part of this is imagining Lee ranting about the Halloween sequels like he did with Dracula.

"I told them, this is NOT Michael Myers, it is NOT John Carpenter's character, you're writing these scripts first and then figuring out how to work him in."

Yeah he did it for Dracula but I don’t think he’d be quite the trooper Pleasance was.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I assume you mean anyone else instead of Keanu "can't act for shit" Reaves.

My bad. I keep confusing them for each other. The're basically clones except that one of them is in Scientology.

Interview with the Vampire's greatest sin was using a Guns 'n' Roses cover of Sympathy for the Devil instead of the Rolling Stones version. The Roses version is okay, but you can't replace the Stones.

The greatest sin was killing the loli vampire before she could score.

[Lindsay's Liver]

Oh why not? Here's my top 10 old black-and-white horror movies. I kept it to the 1920s-40s just because I felt like it.

This list is rough and the ranking isn't serious. I just browsed my shelves and threw this together.

1. "Island of Lost Souls" (1933). Maybe the most violent American horror film of its era and my favorite "Island of Dr. Moreau" adaptation. Actor Charles Laughton kept his homosexuality a secret from the public (but it was known in Hollywood, despite his marriage to Elsa Lanchester of "Bride of Frankenstein" fame). He's a fat, mean-looking guy who never played effeminate characters EXCEPT for this movie in which he fags it up as the villain, which only makes him seem more evil and like someone who doesn't care about normal people.

2. "Vampyr" (1932). Arthouse horror and German Expressionism's last gasp. A slow, moody good time.

3. "Mad Love" (1935). That said, German Expressionism didn't really die. It just moved to Hollywood (along with much of the German film industry before war broke out) and mutated into film noir and weird shit like this. Director Karl Freund had a fascinating career.

4. "The Seventh Victim" (1943). Satanic cults in a shadowy New York City. Great eerie atmosphere.

5. "The Black Cat" (1934). More Satanic cults. The best and weirdest film to pair Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff.

6. "Cat People" (1942). More cats. More shadows, too. Lots of them. Every movie on this list is pretty short, including this one (just over seventy minutes). Horror should be short.

7. "Werewolf of London" (1935). Werewolf dude massacres Cockneys in the moonlight. Fun!

8. "Dead of Night" (1945). Fun British anthology. It also belongs in that odd mini-genre of ventriloquist dummy horror.

9. "The Uninvited" (1944). Does anyone make haunted house movies anymore? That used to be one of the coolest horror genres and this is among the best.

10. "The Lodger" (1927). I'll throw in a silent one. This is Alfred Hitchock's first great movie and his take on the Jack the Ripper story (though the movie never calls it that).

[Gendo's Ocular Dickhole]

6. "Cat People" (1942). More cats. More shadows, too. Lots of them. Every movie on this list is pretty short, including this one (just over seventy minutes). Horror should be short.

Remade in 1982 starring Nastassja Kinski, full frontal + unshaven.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

Does anyone make haunted house movies anymore?

Near as I can tell the genre ended with the 1999 remake of The Haunting.
Nowadays it's mostly Saw-esque torture porn trap houses, or those found footage movies that just so happen to be set in a house because Heaven forbid we pay more than one grand on sets.

[rabidtictac]

The best black-and-white horror movie is The Seventh Seal.

[ebin namefag]

Actor Charles Laughton kept his homosexuality a secret from the public

But you couldn't manage that.

[rabidtictac]

Very few today can.

[Rushy]

I haven't read the original novel, but the new three-hour French version of The Count of Monte Cristo is excellent. The time just flew by.

[Kugelfisch]

Three hours seems a bit short.