Feels s like a feminist update on TO THE DEVIL A DAUGHTER (1976)
Seems to have influenced THE FIRST OMEN (2024)
Shares plot points with Murder By Invitation (1941).
Shares plot points with Scooby-Doo, Where Are You, s01e16, "A Night Of Fright Is No Delight."
Lugosi delivers an outstanding performance, but there's not much else to recommend the film.
Jeez, the witches were trying to warn us about AI 40+ years ago.
The vaguely anti-STEM message certainly hasn't aged well, but it's still a cute stroll down memory lane.
What the Hell is wrong with Paramount?
This self-congratulatory last chapter really diminishes the whole series.
The self-congratulatory last chapter really diminishes an otherwise fine series.
The self-congratulatory last chapter really diminishes the whole series.
It's pretty damn' queer as-is, but can you imagine how gloriously queer it might have been if James Whale had directed it as planned?
Pandemic repackage of Secrets (https://trakt.tv/shows/secrets-2013-107564) aka Ancient Mystries (https://trakt.tv/shows/ancient-mysteries-uk)
Stylish, even beautiful, but tedious. It's like The Bad Seed crossed with Shadow Of a Doubt , and it's just dull.
Between ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE OMEN, we got this. James Mason, the actor's actor, elevates the material, Robert Preston proves that if you can do comedy you can do drama, and Beau Bridges doesn't fail.
The most engaging thing about the narrative, though, is waiting to figure-out if there would be an actually supernatural element.
So, maybe it's more like DOUBT before there was DOUBT?
Emotionally satisfying not for any internal reasons but only because I'm familiar with the actual history.
Yep, it's The Magnificent Seven Samurai in #TeenyTinyTunics.
AKA Crypt Of the Living Dead, originally La tumba de la isla maldita
I've played this through twice, now, in its entirety--almost three times, actually--and paid attention at least once, and I still have questions: Why is there a caveman on the island, and why doesn't he get title billing? That seems like the sort of thing you'd want to advertise.
Bat-guano crazy torture porn ostensibly based on the writings of Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade, sums it up, but I'm still not sure what the hell I watched.
Les Mains d'Orlac by any other name....
When I first half-watched it, I thought films like Alien were in its debt. When I watched and actually paid it more attention, I was struck by how much it ows to Forbidden Planet.
Then, I found Journey To the Seventh Planet and realized that American International made a whole string of these.
I'm much less impressed with Vampires than I was when I thought it was a novel attempt to cash-in on the Forbidden Planet model and much more impressed with Forbidden Planet than I already was.
How in the name of Hell can you have an exterior visual in Quad L-14?
The Anoat system? There's not much there.
I swear to Hell, EXECUTOR is the hottest ship in the universe.
"There's no gender in battle, Chief." Patty Ellington, Rugger-V
Uninspired, more graphic update on NIGHT MUST FALL (1937) (https://trakt.tv/movies/night-must-fall-1937). Patricia Neal does a nice job with her material, which was well-tailored by her then husband, Roald Dahl.
Generally uninspired--& uninspiring--EXORCIST knock-off with not-unentertaining Poe-esque touches.
The Tin Man & Dracula goof-off with the Jean who's not Arthur.
Thurman's lovely, Fiennes and his wardrobe(!) are divine, Connery is all camp, and Izzard proves that he really is an action transvestite.
The last twenty minutes just killed it for me.
