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10.24.09 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  We've been to 1920's The Golem and the original 1925 Phantom of the Opera--that means Day 25 is silent film horror night! And since we've visited the Peter Lorre remake, Mad Love, we'll go to Conrad Veidt with the original 1924 Hands of Orlac (although it apparently never made it stateside until 1928). And if you were thinking we've seen Veidt before in the original Dr. Caligari, full marks. Categorized as: Movies
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10.24.09 by Widge @ 4:52 am  So with the advent of Jaws, you had to have copycats...and here was the biggest one. We see your great white and we raise you a freaking killer whale. Plus, you know, Richard Harris. It's Orca. And I really need to re-watch this, frankly, and see if it's as bleah as I remember. Categorized as: Movies
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10.23.09 by Widge @ 11:31 pm  It's sort of a free-form night tonight, as there's no real theme to Day 24's feature length film. So we'll mosey on to 1948, and a noir/thriller about a fake spiritualist (the film is known also as The Spiritualist), a widow and the widow's sister. And hijinks ensue. Categorized as: Movies
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10.23.09 by Widge @ 2:40 am  It occurred to me that we apparently have never posted the original filmed version of Frankenstein, produced by Edison Studios back in 1910. It's a short twelve minute silent film that is an interesting piece of cinema history. Sure, Patrick Ogle's version of the monster looks like his fashion sense came from an 80s hair band and the cutting edge in FX from almost...Jebus, almost a century ago...is interesting to have for posterity. But. At four minutes in, when the "creation" sequence really kicks into gear, bear this in mind: if you had been watching this in 1910, you would have probably been crapping your pants. Categorized as: Movies
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10.22.09 by Widge @ 7:00 pm  So after looking at our track record for 32 Days of Halloween Movie Night #23 and seeing last year's Oasis of the Zombies (aka Dead Snow without the snow) and then 2007's howler King of the Zombies, I figured we needed another ...of the Zombies. And we're in luck because here's Horror of the Zombies, the third in the Blind Dead series. It goes by a number of other names, most notably The Ghost Galleon. Don't panic that this is a sequel and we're jumping in on Movie #3...the gist is that the long-dead Knights Templar get up and kill you. And they're dead because their eyes got eaten. That's...yeah, you're up to speed now. Categorized as: Movies
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