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To: Artemis Webb

How about some of the old black and white movies. They have a quality that is quite different than the high tech of today. Godzilla is good for some laughs.


8 posted on 10/03/2010 2:26:54 PM PDT by mountainlion (concerned conservative.)
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To: mountainlion

The Blob...lol


21 posted on 10/03/2010 2:32:53 PM PDT by Krodg
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To: mountainlion; sueuprising
Godzilla is good for some laughs.

For all of $5 at WalMart you get:
Screaming Skull
Frozen Alive
Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter (Haven't had the guts to watch that one yet.)

Carnival of Souls. Weird, out there film, way ahead of its time. I am certain most modern horror film makers have seen it.
One of my favorites - that old Saltair, UT resort looked absolutely foreboding in the evening.

The director said he was driving to Hollywood when he saw that complex, realized its scary potential, and had a script written in days to take advantage of the abandoned atmosphere (Salt Lake receded and made it obsolete).

I visited Saltair a few years ago and spotted a building vaguely similar. Alas, a sad echo, as some transients burned the original down and it was rebuilt on a smaller scale for rock concerts. The attendees trashed that place as well.

Herk Harvey, the director, played "The Man" (dead guy at the complex). I read where it was claimed that George Romero got the idea of "Night of the Living Dead" from that movie.

101 posted on 10/03/2010 3:18:24 PM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: mountainlion
Godzilla is good for some laughs.

I saw Godzilla as a child. I did not laugh.

148 posted on 10/03/2010 4:44:37 PM PDT by DejaJude
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