Yeah, Hitch was my favorite anthology host. His intros sticking it to the sponsors were always fun. I also like how he always delivered the droll, tongue in cheek "crime doesn't pay" closing speeches to appease the censors.
I posted this in the Halloween thread but I'm posing it here because I want to talk about it.
I think Halloween III got a bad wrap because it didn't follow with Michael Myers story but I think it's a great Halloween movie. It's been a long time sense I've seen it but I remember it kinda well and I think it was freaky to think about with the masks being sold that were mind control. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Mennonite:
I think you may be disappointed if you save those two for a special occasion. "Sabotage" is ok and it's fun to see how cute the old lady from Beetlejuice used to be...
... but Jamaica Inn is really bad. On paper it should be amazing: the source book by Daphne Du Maurier is a pretty good potboiler with a lot of atmosphere, Charles Laughton was at his peak, and Maureen O'Hara was beautiful, but none of it comes together. It's terrible. What makes it even more surprising is that Hichcock was able to make the somewhat similar movie "Rebecca" into a classic just a year or two later.
There is a made for tv version of "Jamaica Inn" from 1983 that is much better, imo. It stars Jane Seymour and Patrick McGoohan.
Have you watched any episodes of "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" of "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour"? Those may make some good Halloween viewing.
A few good episodes off the top of my head:
Alfred Hitchcock Presents:
Revenge
Where Beauty Lies
Specialty of the House
Man from the South
No Pain
Apex
Poison
A Man with a Problem
The Right Kind of House
None are So Blind
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour:
The Jar
An Unlocked Window
A few more non classic movies for the less discriminating:
Deathdream (1972)
The Entity (1981)
Martin (1977)
Dead & Buried (1981)
Razorback (1984)
Rituals (1977)
Society (1989)
Slither (2006)
Dead Heat (1988)
Long Weekend (1978)
Suspense:
No Place to Hide (1981)
Murder by Natural Causes (1979)
I posted this in the Halloween thread but I'm posing it here because I want to talk about it.
I think Halloween III got a bad wrap because it didn't follow with Michael Myers story but I think it's a great Halloween movie. It's been a long time sense I've seen it but I remember it kinda well and I think it was freaky to think about with the masks being sold that were mind control.
It's been discussed already (earlier in the thread) - I loved it! [Reply]
Oh, I had forgotten about this one: The Manitou. It's an odd ball.
Plot
A woman named Karen (Susan Strasberg), who is suffering from a growing tumor on her neck, enters a hospital in San Francisco. After a series of X-rays, the doctors begin to think it is a living creature: a fetus being born inside the tumor. Eerie and grisly occurrences begin; the tumorous growth perceives itself – himself – to be under attack as a result of the X-rays used to ascertain its nature, which are starting to stunt and deform its development. The growth is the old Native American shaman, Misquamacus; he is reincarnating himself through the young woman to exact his revenge on white men who invaded North America and exterminated its native peoples. Karen's boyfriend, psychic fortune-teller Harry Erskine (Tony Curtis) contacts a second Native American shaman (Michael Ansara) to help fight the reincarnating medicine man, but the kind of spirits he can summon and control appear to be too weak to match his opponent's abilities.
Originally Posted by Miles:
Saw this list on rottentomatoes and seemed to have some potentially good suggestions for lesser known stuff you can find on netflix.
The Sandman (1991)
Sunday's Game (1999)
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
Daughter (2002)
China Lake (1983)
12:01 PM (1990)
La Cabina (1972)
The Cat with Hands (2001) [Reply]
