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10.31.07 by Widge @ 12:00 pm  Miss some of our little film festival? Here you go, then. A full list of the feature films we've posted for your dancing and dining pleasure. Update: Thanks to Yes But No But Yes for the link love. Greetings, folks. If you like what you found when you kicked over our particular rock, subscribe to our feed. Or if you hate it, tell your enemies to subscribe to our feed. We're good either way. 3. The Thing From Another World (1951) 6. House on Haunted Hill (1959) Categorized as: Movies
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10.27.07 by Widge @ 7:00 pm For tonight's pick, we go back...waaay back to 1919 and the silent film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Arguably the first horror film, you'll see bits in here that have been used as an inspiration for a crapload of other films. And yes, that's Conrad Veidt, who played The Man Who Laughs, which served as inspiration for The Joker. The version I have here is the longer version, clocking in at around 71 minutes. A lot of versions of this online are only 51 minutes long, which the IMDB lists as the U.S. video version. But the version on the Kino restored edition is 75 minutes. No idea. But enjoy. Categorized as: Movies
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10.18.07 by Widge @ 2:18 am Remake? What remake? How could you possibly remake this? Rutger Hauer is a sacred national treasure and the sooner someone rescues him from B-Movie Hell then the sooner the world will know peace at last. Categorized as: Movies
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10.13.07 by Widge @ 6:48 am If I could embed this one without commentary, it would make a great trailer bit for 32 Days of Halloween. But even though it seems it must play with commentary, that's still worthy: Joe Dante's take on this killer anthropomorphic tree flick is well worth hearing. Sadly, this terrible gem does not appear to be available on DVD. Alas. Update: Thomas below points out that Monsters in Motion has it for sale in a Region 0 NTSC version. Thanks for the headsup! Categorized as: Movies
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10.09.07 by Widge @ 11:09 pm  Okay, I can believe that Army of Darkness is known in Japan as Captain Supermarket. That I can buy. But check out the full poster up on The Manchester Morgue. Are you serious? Massive cans of Bruce Campbell soup being menaced by a skeleton arm? Is that a giant neon twizzler in the background? What's up with the dolphins? And the army of multi-colored toothbrushes and (what seem to be, anyway) bits of plasticware? No, really. Are you serious? This might just be the gaudiest poster I have ever wanted in my life. And yes, that includes my stint during the 80s where I actually enjoyed colors. Categorized as: Movies
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10.02.07 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  Day 3 of our 32 Days of Halloween celebration. Hard to believe we're three days down as we move towards the big day. Here we offer up a killer intellectual carrot trying to feed on the blood of humans trapped in a frozen wasteland. What more can you ask for from a classic sci-fi horror flick? And, of course, John Carpenter remade the hell out of this before he was kidnapped by space aliens. Categorized as: Movies
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10.01.07 by Widge @ 3:50 am Commentary on a Roger Corman film starring Dick Miller as a guy who kills people and covers them with clay like a low-rent beatnik House of Wax? Sold. Categorized as: Movies
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09.11.07 by Widge @ 1:53 am Stephen King's novella, "The Mist" (which appeared in Skeleton Crew), is finally hitting the big screen thanks to Frank Darabont. The good news is that the cast looks great. The bad news is that the trailer isn't going to do jack crap as far as getting butts in seats. And it gives way too much about the movie away. Take a look, then I'll give you my version of a teaser trailer after the jump. Categorized as: Movies
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08.18.07 by Widge @ 2:02 am Mary Lambert, director of things such as Pet Sematary, delivers commentary on today's Trailer From Hell, for Village of the Damned. This is especially worth listening to because it gives you insight into how Mary turned out the way she did, what with her choice of childhood role model and all...  Categorized as: Movies
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08.16.07 by Widge @ 4:06 am Mark Evanier points out something we hadn't known previously: Laurel and Hardy would reshoot films in different languages, reading the words phonetically. And sometimes foreign versions of the films had scenes which weren't in the domestic American releases. Case in point, this little ditty from Blotto, which was released in Spain as La Vida Nocturna: Direct link for the feedreaders. Spanish version of their trip to the dentist after the break... Categorized as: Movies
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