I've done a ridiculous amount of watching stuff this weekend, so I'm sticking it all in one post.
The Giant Spider Invasion
If you're a fan of the 70s B-Movie Creature Feature, You'll love this. An archetype of the genre, featuring massive spiders from outer space, laying huge eggs everywhere, and nobody realising what's going on until it's (nearly) too late. Little plot, but let's face it, that's not what such films are here for, and not what you expect when you pay £1.97. But as long as you don't expect tense drama or thrilling suspense, and crave only big spiders and webs everywhere, you'll be delighted.
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Epic Movie
The Hollywood spoof gets worse and worse. In times past, genres were spoofed rather than specific scenes from specific films. Blazing Saddles and Airplane are such examples - but in this day and age, even the titles caanot be regarded original. This one is both unoriginal and a misnomer - most of the spoofed films are not epics - at least not in the classic sense - another sign of the deterioration of Hollywood's output. There's the odd laugh here and there, and the continuity management is about the most consistently comical aspect.
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Don't Look In The Basement!(AKA "The Forgotten")
Another 70s B-Movie. This one is set in a lunatic asylum. A new doctor begins working there shortly after the murder of an an old Doctor - but the fact that there's no security anywhere in the whole place is basically a recipe for disaster. This is a pretty bad film, really, bit of a video nasty, but not with anything too gory. Again, little plot, but not as enjoyable as big spiders.
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The Original Adventures of Superman
This is a collection of Superman cartoons made by Max Flesicher in the 40s, before either George Reeves or Christopher Reeve took up the Mantle of the Man of Steel. They're not very long, about 8 minutes each, but they were enough to keep me entertained as a kid and ostensibly are enough even now - I watched 16 of these today. Aside from the usual Superman fun, it's also interesting to see the political aspects - given the time period, the baddies are often Japanese or German. This collection also contains a cartoon called "Snafuperman" - a Black & White parody cartoon made for soldiers in the war, with a very Looney Tunes look and feel - it sounds a lot like it's voiced by Mel Blanc.
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House on Haunted Hill
Not the instantly forgettable Geoffrey Rush film of 1999, but the original and best, starring Vincent Price in a role perfect for him. Price plays an eccentric millionaire, who offers five people the chance to stay in an apparently haunted mansion for a night, $10,000 being their prize if they manage it. Not as easy as one might think, with hauntings and conspiracies taking place at every turn. Vincent Price, with his distinctively evil voice, exudes both altruism and sinisterness in his role, and the film is generally well acted and written, despite its age.
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The Wolf-Man
Before Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and Vincent Price staked their claim as the godfathers of Horror with their Hammer films, there were Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff and Lon Chaney Jr, doing the same for Universal Pictures. This film see Chaney in one of his most famous roles, as the tragic eponymous lycanthrope. Chaney is Larry Talbot, heir to an estate owned by his father (Claude Raines), who is bitten by a wolf one night whilst walking in the woods. It becomes apparent that the wolf was a man by day (played by Bela Lugosi) - and slowly, Chaney begins to realise that he has become a werewolf himself. It's a little different from a regular good versus evil tale, in that the goodie is also the baddie. Quite a dilemma for the fellow when he finds out. Fans of the works of Marriott Edgar and Stanley Holloway will enjoy the inclusion of the line, "It's a stick with a 'orse's 'ead-'andle." The effects are not great in modern terms, but ejoyable enough.
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For those of you who think I should get out more, I assure you - I am.
Carl B Harrison
Some times you just gota sit down and loose yourself in movies I try to at least watch one movie a day, for me it extends time and you can go somewhere else for a couple of hours.
I watched the Constant Gardener today must admit I found it hard going (But) thats no reflection on what I think is a very important movie for informing us what pharmaceutical companys and the Government get up to in third world countries.
Where did you buy The Giant Spider Invasion for £1.97 oddbodd
oddbodd
Carl B Harrison wrote:
Where did you buy The Giant Spider Invasion for £1.97 oddbodd
Music Zone in Sunderland. The company's in administration at the mo, so everythings cheap as chips there. Only thing to remember is they aren't taking Credit Cards.
Carl B Harrison
oddbodd wrote:
Only thing to remember is they aren't taking Credit Cards.
Some times you just gota sit down and loose yourself in movies 