Last Monster/Horror/Sci-Fi Movie/Show You Watched

[Monsters For Sale]

Halloween night I watched:

      Halloween, 1978
      The Fog, 1980

Watched both twice - plain and then with commentary.


Again, if you have the Halloween 25th Anniversary disc,  hang onto it if you ever "upgrade" to Blu-Ray.  It has the best commentary. 

By the time the 35th Anniversary disc came out Producer Debra Hill's comments about the making of the movie were no longer being used.  (She had died 8 years before it came out.  Must have been some rights squabble from the family.) 

Instead you are treated with extended comments from Jamie Lee Curtis about how young she was, how odd her hairstyle choice was and how she bought her own costume from a 2nd hand store, etc.  I'm sure she is a sweet lady, but I'd rather hear about the making fo the film.

[geezer butler]

Halloween III (1982)
The Fog (1980)

Great idea for a combo!

[Memphremagog]

Tarantula(1955)
Gojira(1954)

[marsattacks666]

Great idea for a combo!

Totally!!!

[horrorhunter]

Again, if you have the Halloween 25th Anniversary disc,  hang onto it if you ever "upgrade" to Blu-Ray.  It has the best commentary. 

I make it a point to keep older versions of movies, especially on disc. I consider them collectibles and well worth keeping even if they're just boxed up and stored away until later when you might want to check them out. It isn't like there's much of a market for most used physical media now anyway. In a few years I believe the market for older DVDs and BDs will pick up as nostalgia kicks in and people remember enjoying those early DVDs and BDs. Even bargain product like Alpha, Diamond, and Mill Creek, will be sought after by collectors at some point. DVDs and BDs take up very little space stored away in a box in a closet or other storage area. I don't understand why people would dump discs these days with such a soft market for used physical media. Even if they think they're upgrading to the best version it oftentimes doesn't work out that way and sometimes by the time they realize that they've already gotten rid of the older version. I'm very resistant to getting rid of collectibles anymore except for duplicates. I've sold things in the past that I've grown to regret getting rid of. Once it's gone you can seldom replace it without a substantial loss of money.

[marsattacks666]

Funny Games-2007
The Birds-1963

[Mike...In 3-D!]

The Witch in the Window (2018)

[horrorhunter]

The Swamp Of The Ravens (1974)  8/10

Any fan of Spanish Horror, Eurohorror in general, or just really dark, creepy, films should check this out. Ramiro Oliveros (Americanized as Raymond Oliver in the credits) is great as Dr. Frosta, the totally ruthless amoral scientist seeking to reanimate the dead. Fernando Sancho is good as the sheriff who eventually catches Frosta at the conclusion, but I expect Frosta escapes at some point in a what if sequel to carry on his murderous experiments. IMDb gives this film a 3.5/10, and I rate it as an 8/10, so sometimes my tastes are on a completely different page than the masses. This movie has a gritty, eerie, trashy, ambience that really appeals to me. Frosta's shack at the edge of a swamp on the outskirts of town, the vultures (not "ravens") that flock around the swamp constantly, the corpses and bits of corpses that have been given undeath by Frosta's reanimation serum, the gritty autopsy footage, nudity, and necrophilia, and just the grainy grindhouse look of this thing make it a Spanish Horror gem in my eyes.

Stuart Gordon must have been heavily influenced by this movie for his Re-Animator 11 years later. There's even a mention of a "Doctor Gruber" when the medical officials are grilling Frosta which results in him being stripped of his legal ability to research his theories. There's the reanimation serum, or course. And, the undead which result from experiments gone awry, though they're much more subtle (and frightening) in The Swamp Of The Ravens than the over-the-top carnage of Re-Animator. Re-Animator sites the Lovecraft story as influence, and Swamp probably drew inspiration from the HPL story as well, but I believe Stuart Gordon saw Swamp at some point in the '70s in a grindhouse or drive-in and it made an impression resulting in the similarity of the two films. Even the "two possibilities" line from Swamp was later used by Gordon as sort of a catch phrase by the main character in his later film Dagon.

The Swamp Of The Ravens is available on DVD from Something Weird Video as a double feature with The Thirsty Dead. That DVD is loaded with cool extras including a slideshow of Eerie Pubs covers with music by the Dead Elvi. High on my wish list is a Blu-ray of a remastered The Swamp Of The Ravens loaded with special features and a commentary by Tim Lucas or maybe Troy Howarth. Who knows...maybe we'll get one some day. I just hope the original film elements are still around.

[Monsters For Sale]

The Swamp Of The Ravens (1974)  8/10 

I have that disc - very different, indeed.

[zombiehorror]

Daredevil Season 3~Best one yet for me.

A Quiet Place~It wasn't for me for multiple reasons.

[marsattacks666]

The Swamp Of The Ravens (1974)  8/10

Any fan of Spanish Horror, Eurohorror in general, or just really dark, creepy, films should check this out. Ramiro Oliveros (Americanized as Raymond Oliver in the credits) is great as Dr. Frosta, the totally ruthless amoral scientist seeking to reanimate the dead. Fernando Sancho is good as the sheriff who eventually catches Frosta at the conclusion, but I expect Frosta escapes at some point in a what if sequel to carry on his murderous experiments. IMDb gives this film a 3.5/10, and I rate it as an 8/10, so sometimes my tastes are on a completely different page than the masses. This movie has a gritty, eerie, trashy, ambience that really appeals to me. Frosta's shack at the edge of a swamp on the outskirts of town, the vultures (not "ravens") that flock around the swamp constantly, the corpses and bits of corpses that have been given undeath by Frosta's reanimation serum, the gritty autopsy footage, nudity, and necrophilia, and just the grainy grindhouse look of this thing make it a Spanish Horror gem in my eyes.

Stuart Gordon must have been heavily influenced by this movie for his Re-Animator 11 years later. There's even a mention of a "Doctor Gruber" when the medical officials are grilling Frosta which results in him being stripped of his legal ability to research his theories. There's the reanimation serum, or course. And, the undead which result from experiments gone awry, though they're much more subtle (and frightening) in The Swamp Of The Ravens than the over-the-top carnage of Re-Animator. Re-Animator sites the Lovecraft story as influence, and Swamp probably drew inspiration from the HPL story as well, but I believe Stuart Gordon saw Swamp at some point in the '70s in a grindhouse or drive-in and it made an impression resulting in the similarity of the two films. Even the "two possibilities" line from Swamp was later used by Gordon as sort of a catch phrase by the main character in his later film Dagon.

The Swamp Of The Ravens is available on DVD from Something Weird Video as a double feature with The Thirsty Dead. That DVD is loaded with cool extras including a slideshow of Eerie Pubs covers with music by the Dead Elvi. High on my wish list is a Blu-ray of a remastered The Swamp Of The Ravens loaded with special features and a commentary by Tim Lucas or maybe Troy Howarth. Who knows...maybe we'll get one some day. I just hope the original film elements are still around.

I dig The Swamp of the Ravens. The SWV disc is pretty awesome.

[Mord]

 My Bloody Valentine 3D -Solid, enjoyable remake.

[marsattacks666]

My Bloody Valentine 3D -Solid, enjoyable remake.

Definitely. I kind of favor the remake more than the original. Wow! I cannot believe I just wrote and admitted that, shame on me.However....I do still love the original. The remake, I do watch a lot more than the original.

[Mord]

Definitely. I kind of favor the remake more than the original. Wow! I cannot believe I just wrote and admitted that, shame on me.However....I do still love the original. The remake, I do watch a lot more than the original.

I completely agree. The remake has a lot more going for it (like a full frontal n.ude scene that goes on for a bit)

[marsattacks666]

I completely agree. The remake has a lot more going for it (like a full frontal n.ude scene that goes on for a bit)

In glorious 3-DD