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Post by Buck on Feb 14, 2021 2:31:50 GMT
Is there any "reboot" that's worthy? I liked the Benedict Cumberbatch/Martin Freeman "Sherlock." Haven't yet seen that I heard the late 80's series was terrific.In addition to the Rathbone films I also like Hammers Hound Of The Baskervilles reboot.Hammer did great basically rebooting the earlier Universal series IMO Horror Of Dracula is still the best of all time. The Horror of Dracula could be the best vampire film ever made. It just floored me as a teenager, on so many levels. |
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 14, 2021 3:16:18 GMT
Haven't yet seen that I heard the late 80's series was terrific.In addition to the Rathbone films I also like Hammers Hound Of The Baskervilles reboot.Hammer did great basically rebooting the earlier Universal series IMO Horror Of Dracula is still the best of all time. The Horror of Dracula could be the best vampire film ever made. It just floored me as a teenager, on so many levels. It had to be much better than that recent Dracula miniseries which was.... certainly a miniseries. The vampires on that SyFy series Van Helsing are terrifying to me. I also really loved 30 Days of Night. Not classics, but fantastic nevertheless. For my money, the best vampire anything at the moment is the TV version of What We Do in the Shadows on FX/Hulu. The first episode is pretty low key but it finds its footing very quickly! |
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Post by Buck on Feb 14, 2021 5:18:03 GMT
The Horror of Dracula could be the best vampire film ever made. It just floored me as a teenager, on so many levels. It had to be much better than that recent Dracula miniseries which was.... certainly a miniseries. The vampires on that SyFy series Van Helsing are terrifying to me. I also really loved 30 Days of Night. Not classics, but fantastic nevertheless. For my money, the best vampire anything at the moment is the TV version of What We Do in the Shadows on FX/Hulu. The first episode is pretty low key but it finds its footing very quickly! >30 Days Of Night. YEAH! That rocked pretty hard from a horror POV. I suppose you need horror flix like that. Not sexy tho.. Happy Valentines' Day Everybody! |
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Post by sirrastus on Feb 14, 2021 5:52:24 GMT
It had to be much better than that recent Dracula miniseries which was.... certainly a miniseries. The vampires on that SyFy series Van Helsing are terrifying to me. I also really loved 30 Days of Night. Not classics, but fantastic nevertheless. For my money, the best vampire anything at the moment is the TV version of What We Do in the Shadows on FX/Hulu. The first episode is pretty low key but it finds its footing very quickly! >30 Days Of Night. YEAH! That rocked pretty hard from a horror POV. I suppose you need horror flix that that. Not sexy tho.. Happy Valentines' Day Everybody! 30 Days Of Night was a great film totally unsexy.Some of the Neo-Vampire films like Near Dark were a welcome revamping(no pun intended...maybe)of the mythos(as opposed to the Paul Naschy Werewolf/Vampire weirdness) and I loved Fright Night too.That was good fun with excellent performances.As for literature I loved Robert McCammon's They Thirst and the film version of Midnight Mass was pretty good. |
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Post by frog on Feb 14, 2021 9:15:36 GMT
Near Dark and Fright Night. Ohhh, those were good movies...
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 15, 2021 3:01:11 GMT
It had to be much better than that recent Dracula miniseries which was.... certainly a miniseries. The vampires on that SyFy series Van Helsing are terrifying to me. I also really loved 30 Days of Night. Not classics, but fantastic nevertheless. For my money, the best vampire anything at the moment is the TV version of What We Do in the Shadows on FX/Hulu. The first episode is pretty low key but it finds its footing very quickly! >30 Days Of Night. YEAH! That rocked pretty hard from a horror POV. I suppose you need horror flix like that. Not sexy tho.. Happy Valentines' Day Everybody! For me, I grew up with really terrible examples of the romantic vampire archetype (Interview with the Vampire was the big one, and it's only gotten worse with crap like Twilight), so I guess that aspect never caught on with me. I respond more to it as a horror concept. To that end my wife thinks 30 Days of Night is the best horror movie ever. |
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Post by luxexterior on Feb 17, 2021 14:26:43 GMT
+1 For 30 Days of Night. Stakeland was pretty good too. The recent Dracula miniseries was good until the last episode. True Blood had it's moments too but probably went on far too long.
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 17, 2021 15:03:41 GMT
+1 For 30 Days of Night. Stakeland was pretty good too. The recent Dracula miniseries was good until the last episode. True Blood had it's moments too but probably went on far too long. Agreed. That Dracula miniseries just squandered every last bit of potential it had. I thought the first episode was good but ended poorly. The second episode was well done for the most part but again ended poorly, and then the third episode was just bad and the ending somehow WORSE. I'm much more partial to the SyFy series Van Helsing. It tends to lean into the absurdity when it knows it's just ridiculous, but it's also got some great villains. Love their casting of Dracula as Tricia Helfer, but then again, I love every role she's ever played from her roles in Battlestar Galactica to Lucifer. |
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Post by zenman on Feb 17, 2021 17:23:40 GMT
I'm not a big horror fan, but I do remember Black Christmas (the original 1974 version, entitled Silent Night Evil Night in the USA). Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin and Olivia Hussey starred. Apparently it was a big influence on John Carpenter's work.
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Post by zillagodreturns on Feb 17, 2021 18:30:45 GMT
I'm not a big horror fan, but I do remember Black Christmas (the original 1974 version, entitled Silent Night Evil Night in the USA). Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin and Olivia Hussey starred. Apparently it was a big influence on John Carpenter's work. Then there was "Silent Night, Deadly Night" which was accompanied by a Tipper Gore level public outcry and which influenced...no one. |
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Post by The Ocean on Feb 17, 2021 18:52:45 GMT
I'm not a big horror fan, but I do remember Black Christmas (the original 1974 version, entitled Silent Night Evil Night in the USA). Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin and Olivia Hussey starred. Apparently it was a big influence on John Carpenter's work. Directed by Bob "A Christmas Story" Clark |
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Post by Buck on Feb 21, 2021 5:05:39 GMT
I Need A Lover was a good tune. Two things about him-he loved oldies and made his band learn about a thousand songs.I think he did Rama Lama Ding Dong in his shows late 80's. When he sang Ring Of Fire with Johnny Cash he tried unsuccessfully to do a Johnny Cash for 2/3rds of the song and it really sounded weird then reverted back to his own voice and that sounded fine.LOL. I liked Jack and Diane and even tho ROCK IN The USA was a good tune he basically was doing Neil Diamonds Cherry Cherry. I laughed out loud at this cover |
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Post by duckbarman on Feb 21, 2021 15:22:31 GMT
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Post by pacnw on Feb 21, 2021 15:23:41 GMT
I think that John Cougar spoof must have something to do with him repeating the line "small town" eighteen times in the song of the same title.
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Post by zenman on Feb 21, 2021 15:38:21 GMT
Good find! Academia Rocks! |
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