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Bogey

#20
June 03, 2009, 11:52:43 AM
I know one can scream sci-fi here, but I will add the first two (especially the first) Alien movie.

Trivia: Who is credited with coining the phrase "sci-fi"?  (Googling permitted and hint below. ;D)




















Hint: He was also credited with discovering Ray Bradburry.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Dr. Dread

#21
June 03, 2009, 11:55:44 AM
Quote from: Bogey on June 03, 2009, 11:52:43 AM
I know one can scream sci-fi here, but I will add the first two (especially the first) Alien movie.

Trivia: Who is credited with coining the phrase "sci-fi"?  (Googling permitted and hint below. ;D)



















Hint: He was also credited with discovering Ray Bradburry.

Dunno. Gernsback? "Sf" is preferred by the real nerds, y'know.

Bogey

#22
June 03, 2009, 12:04:12 PM
Ah.  Well, I prefer geek to nerd, but either fits me like a glove. 


Answer: Forrest J. Ackerman  :)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7769184.stm
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

Dr. Dread

#23
June 03, 2009, 12:07:22 PM

vandermolen

#24
June 03, 2009, 12:33:41 PM
Quote from: pjme on June 03, 2009, 10:58:17 AM


Christopher Lee , the best Dracula! Some of these Hammer productions were ..."atmospheric"....

P.

I met Christopher Lee when, as a child, I went to a charity event he was attending. I was a devotee of Horror Films. He signed an autograph for me, spoke to me for a long time, allowed me to take a photo of him and sent me a charming letter back when I sent him a print of it. He couldn't have been kinder.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Dr. Dread

#25
June 03, 2009, 12:35:34 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 03, 2009, 12:33:41 PM
I met Christopher Lee when, as a child, I went to a charity event he was attending. I was a devotee of Horror Films. He signed an autograph for me, spoke to me for a long time, allowed me to take a photo of him and sent me a charming letter back when I sent him a print of it. He couldn't have been kinder.

Thanks for sharing that story.

Bogey

#26
June 03, 2009, 12:37:55 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on June 03, 2009, 12:33:41 PM
I met Christopher Lee when, as a child, I went to a charity event he was attending. I was a devotee of Horror Films. He signed an autograph for me, spoke to me for a long time, allowed me to take a photo of him and sent me a charming letter back when I sent him a print of it. He couldn't have been kinder.

Very nice.
There will never be another era like the Golden Age of Hollywood.  We didn't know how to blow up buildings then so we had no choice but to tell great stories with great characters.-Ben Mankiewicz

ChamberNut

#27
June 03, 2009, 02:01:25 PM
Quote from: bwv 1080 on June 03, 2009, 11:07:19 AM
Calvaire

Never seen the movie, although that is my favorite swear word.  ;D

ChamberNut

#28
June 03, 2009, 02:05:44 PM
Has anyone ever seen the Hammer's House of Horror series on TV?  I remember as a kid in the 80s these were on at midnight on Saturdays (or something like that).  I guess they were similar in a way to the Hitchcock TV series of shorts.  I think the HHH was circa 1960/70/80.

Some were great, but some were stinkers too.

snyprrr

#29
June 03, 2009, 06:40:15 PM
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

The Satanic Rites of Dracula

Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter

Demons of the Mind

Dracula A.D. 1972

Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell

...oh, the titles... ::)...love it!!!

snyprrr

#30
June 03, 2009, 06:42:07 PM
...2 more in the Hitchcock/Argento vein...

Don't Look Now (Roeg)

Communion

snyprrr

#31
June 03, 2009, 06:44:23 PM
Anyone have Phil Hardy's Encyclopedia of Horror Films? Any other books that equal his in scope? Mine only goes up to @'84.

eyeresist

#32
June 03, 2009, 06:44:55 PM
I recently explored the monster mash movies of the 1940s (most with "Frankenstein" in the title) and really enjoyed them - except "Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man", which is a real stinker: wooden acting from the leads, cringe-inducing song-and-dance number, and they cut all Lugosi's lines! (He was playing the monster.)

Since this is a music forum, I'll take the opportunity of recommending the "House of Frankenstein" reconstructed soundtrack on Naxos (prev. Marco Polo). It's actually really excellent stuff, and bears repeated listening.


Also, fans of Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing should seek out the Hammer-alike "Horror Express", but try to avoid the headache-inducingly fuzzy print doing the rounds.

snyprrr

#33
June 03, 2009, 06:47:41 PM
youtube has some cool trailers...I happened upon some Paul Naschy... and saw "Bloody Pit of Horror"... ah, the 60s...

...ah, I feel sentimental...

snyprrr

#34
June 03, 2009, 06:58:01 PM
btw- Fantasy and Science Fiction movies allowed, of course!!!

...from Legend to Godzilla, Melies to Oz...

My fav Universal flick at the moment would be "The Black Cat." But Frank. meets the WM I like for the very same damning reasons... House of Dracula was on the other week...aaahhhhh...

the old Cat People... I remember the one...oh no, something else:

Day of the Triffids!!!

Curse of the Demon about a Crowley figure

How about Mike Raven?

oh, here's one...Nightmare in Wax with Cameron Mitchell.

and this one has a special place in my heart Twisted Brain/Horror High (mid 70s)... well, Curse of Bigfoot, too...

O-VER-LOAD!!!

david johnson

#35
June 12, 2009, 12:28:46 PM Last Edit: June 22, 2009, 02:14:02 AM by david johnson
Quote from: Bogey on June 03, 2009, 11:23:52 AM
A friend on a classical horror movie board just sent me a bunch of Lovecraft novels.  Are they worth the effort?

i prefer some of lovecraft's fellow writers to him.

clark ashton smith is my favorite of that group.

dj

Dr. Dread

#36
June 12, 2009, 12:31:49 PM
Quote from: david johnson on June 12, 2009, 12:28:46 PM
i prefer some of lovecrart's fellow writers to him.

clark ashton smith is my favorite of that roup.

dj

Yeah, Smith is good. Howard is my favorite.

david johnson

#37
June 12, 2009, 12:32:04 PM
Quote from: pjme on June 03, 2009, 11:09:14 AM
Barbara Steele cannot be forgotten:





nor Kaneto Shindo's Onibaba!



Peter


ah...barbara steele in 'castle of blood'? hehehehe!

david johnson

#38
June 12, 2009, 12:32:59 PM
Quote from: MN Dave on June 12, 2009, 12:31:49 PM
Yeah, Smith is good. Howard is my favorite.

oh, my...i forgot about howard!

dj

vandermolen

#39
June 13, 2009, 07:50:41 AM
Congratulations to Sir Christopher Lee, knighted in Queen's Birthday Honours list today:

"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).
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