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Old 16th October 2018, 10:44 AM
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no skip the remake and go for the tv show of the same name


That’s The Haunting of Hill House which is a different story, The Haunting is the original film rather than The House on Haunted Hill!
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Old 16th October 2018, 10:50 AM
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That’s The Haunting of Hill House which is a different story, The Haunting is the original film rather than The House on Haunted Hill!
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That’s The Haunting of Hill House which is a different story, The Haunting is the original film rather than The House on Haunted Hill!
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Old 16th October 2018, 12:43 PM
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The Curse of Frankenstein.

Victor Frankenstein(Peter Cushing) is awaiting execution by the guillotine for murder and recounts his life story to a priest. Then it goes back with Frankenstein as a boy after just losing his parents and inheriting the family fortune. afterwards he hires a chap called Paul kremp(Richard Urquhart) as his tutor but soon surpasses his teacher with his knowlege. but they remain friends and he helps Frankenstein with his experiments, but reluctantly later on when Cushing wants to build his own human beings.

One of the true Hammer classics. Peter cushing gives a outstanding performance as the crazed scientist who is so dedicated to his work that he will stop at absolutely nothing even murder if he requires it. and he's so dedicated that he even spends his wedding night working in his laboratory than spending it with his gorgeous wife Elizabeth(Hazel Court). now that is dedication.
Christopher Lee as Frankenstein's monster is very effective too and suitably creepy with hideous deformaties, and violently insane due to a damaged brain. and is particulary nasty to a poor old blind chap when he escapes from the laboratory.

Very good indeed. with great direction from Hammer great Terence Fisher. Photography, acting and the period design are all top notch too 90 out of 100.
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Old 16th October 2018, 02:08 PM
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As a child watching this on BBC2 in the 70's, the creature reveal (from 1:19 in the clip) was one of the scariest things I had ever seen, and I couldn't get out of bed fast enough to turn the telly off!

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The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

I too watched this again on Sunday night. Paul Zombie has written about it above so i won't repeat anything.

I also watched a couple of the extra features on the Icon dual format release. It's a hell of a package if you don't have it.

There's a ten minute doc called Life with Peter where a lady who was his friend during his last days reminisces about him. I found it incredibly touching and very sad. There was no way i could go to bed following that so i opted to watch the pilot for Tales of Frankenstein instead.

Tales of Frankenstein was a television series commissioned by Columbia Pictures in America from Hammer. However it never got beyond a pilot. It was overall quite interesting if not exactly essential viewing.

Anton Diffring played Frankenstein and his performance is very similar to the one in The Man Who Could Cheat Death. The sets look quite impressive and Gothic but the actual story is slight and the monster appeared to be a cross between Hammer and Universal.

The disc also features an extra film in 1953's Four Sided Triangle and a World of Hammer episode titled The Curse of Frankenstein which bizarrely features Four Sided Triangle which is not a Frankenstein film yet completely omits Evil of Frankenstein.

A great film and a fantastic package.
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As a child watching this on BBC2 in the 70's, the creature reveal (from 1:19 in the clip) was one of the scariest things I had ever seen, and I couldn't get out of bed fast enough to turn the telly off!

For me it's the monster with the bloodied face and Valerie Gaunt's reaction that is the film's scare highlight.

1.57 in the clip.
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Manhattan Baby – a film which manages to blend the indescribable, hilarious, and surprisingly atmospheric into something which is very watchable.

Panic in the Streets – I'm sure I mentioned this before, but thought I'd put it on here anyway. Elia Kazan used a pseudo-documentary style here approach to great effect, creating something which (as I said somewhere) thanks both The Naked City and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Popcorn – I watched this with the commentary, which is an enjoyable and informative listen thanks to the contributions from a number of cast and crew members, all of whom speak very eloquently about the filmmaking process and the people they worked with – if you have the 88 Films release, it's worth your time.

Resident Evil – Paul W.S. Anderson adapts the hugely popular video game to create something which is probably best described as 'dumb but fun' and nowhere near as much fun as playing the game!

Resident Evil: Apocalypse – this is notable because it has the great Licker monsters from the video game which I can't recall being in the first film and the fantastic Nemesis super-soldier, the latter necessitating a really well executed action sequence, something which is undoubtedly the highlight of the film, arguably the worst in the series.

Resident Evil: Extinction – nicely queued up by the ending of the previous film and benefiting from Ali Larter's screen presence, but it's astonishing how quickly some of the CGI has dated over the 11 years since it was released, with the crow attack looking particularly ropey and convincing. I did like the short scene with the 'domesticated' infected human using a phone as a homage to Day of the Dead and Iain Glen (playing the experimental scientist) is almost always worth watching.

Resident Evil: Afterlife – with the action largely shifting away from Raccoon City and firstly to Tokyo and then Alaska and because Alice no longer has her superpowers. Even by the 'press play and turn your brain off' standards of the previous films, this is boring and overuses slow motion.

Fallen – the opening sequence really drew me in, with a serial killer speaking to the detective who arrested him prior to being executed. The presence of Elias Koteas and Denzel Washington are two definite plus points and it's interesting that Koteas would appear in a film where his role ends midway through the first act. The rest of the film follows Washington because there appears to be a copycat killer that it transpires there is perhaps another explanation, one involving a fallen Angel (hence the title) and demonic possession. I think I picked this up as a blind buy from Music Magpie rather than because it was recommended to me and it really impressed me. It was fun to see James Gandolfini and Aida Turturro, who are less playing brother and sister on The Sopranos in a police station together. This is a smart and engaging film, with great performances from Washington, John Goodman, Donald Sutherland, James Gandolfini, and Embeth Davidtz, and assured direction from Gregory Hoblit.

Ravenous – a film which regularly pops up on one of Demdike's Top Ten Tuesday lists, and it's no surprise why. It's a movie with a great story, some superb performances, and one of those thought-provoking 'what I do' moments, asking what lengths you would go to keep yourself alive.

Addams Family Values – I decided to watch this on its own rather than a double bill with the first film because it hadn't been that long since I saw them both and this was an unwatched disc on my 'to watch' list. It's a film with a great blend of black humour and family-friendly horror, a film which is playfully macabre and very watchable.

Harlequin – this Australian take on the Rasputin story stars Robert Powell as a strange healer, one first introduced as a clown at a sick boy's birthday party, who ingratiates himself into the life of a powerful politician, seemingly curing his son's leukaemia. It's a really interesting film and one I watched again the following day with the commentary, picking up little visual things I'd missed and making me want to sit again. The A/V quality on the 88 Films release is very good and I recommend it to anyone who likes Ozploitation movies and cinematic curiosities in general.

Two Evil Eyes – a stellar restoration of this double bill of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations by George Romero and Dario Argento. I'm much more of than of Romero's 'The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar' than Argento's take on 'The Black Cat', but the way different names and locations are integrated, plus the fine direction and acting on show makes this a film I will repeatedly turn to when I'm looking for something to watch for two hours. I watched it with the English track and may watch it again tonight with the Italian stereo option.

Frightmare – this may not count as a film because I watched with the audio interview with Norman Thaddeus Vane, something which is a bit odd because of how, whether it's because of his speech patterns of a New York accent, similar he sounds to Donald Trump, but provides a great overview of his life and career.

The Last House on the Left – an extremely tough watch and remarkably assured piece of filmmaking, one which has so many different applications to different sorts of film theory and even as a commentary on the Vietnam war. I watched it again within the new commentary Bill Ackerman and Amanda Reyes, a really well researched and delivered commentary track which all fans of this film and Craven's career should enjoy.

City of the Living Dead – I had planned to watch this as a triple bill with The House by the Cemetery and The Beyond, but that will have to be another night. On its own, it's a film with some fantastic moments, from the drill to the flying maggots and the great score by Fabio Frizzi. I really enjoyed it and am looking forward to watching it again with the other two films in the 'Gates of Hell' trilogy.

Bad Times at the El Royale – not really a horror film, but one that has some really interesting visuals, subtext, and historical influences. Set in 1969 in a hotel on the border between California and Nevada, a prologue shows someone burying a large bag in one of the rooms before being killed and then, several years later against the backdrop of the Vietnam war and a murderous 'family' cult (the name 'Manson' is never mentioned), a vacuum cleaner salesman, a Priest, a singer and a young hippie, a woman of few words, meet up in the titular hotel looking for a room for the night. Told in the hyperlink style popularised by Quentin Tarantino, this is stylish, clever, and very engaging, and while checking out if you are going to the cinema this week.
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Old 16th October 2018, 04:43 PM
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House on Haunted Hill (1959)



Another classic which I had not seen before. I started watching it on Shudder but it looked a bit weird and then I realised it was never filmed in colour it's been colourised! So I quickly had a look around and it was on Amazon Prime, in black and white and far better quality too.

Hmm, so this is not one of my favourite Vincent Price films. It has it's moments and some effective jump scares but it sags a little in the middle due to the melodrama. It gets it back for the final act though with a double twist that I didn't entirely see coming

I've never seen the millenial remake either, do you think I should give it a go?
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