I do not observe "halloween" . . . BUT-- (nostalgia)

Self | 10/30/'16 | Zionist Conspirator

[Donglalinger]

The Fly 1958 version freaked me out

[Zionist Conspirator]

I don’t know for me the thirties version of Dracula with Bela was really scary and still is. Nosteraufu is also

I actually don't care too much for vampire stories, both because of the occult elements involved and because I am a chiropterophile. Thanks to vampire stories the world is actually full of people who actually believe that real bats all "suck blood," don't have reflections, and explode in the sunlight.

I have seen the original 1931 Dracula a couple of times and I don't think it's very good. Most of the action takes place in stuffy London drawing rooms (it's adapted from a stage play after all) and it ends rather abruptly. Originally Edward Van Sloan ("Van Helsing") turned to the audience and spoke to them as he did at the beginning of Frankenstein but this has been lost for decades. It leaves the ending sort of unsatisfying.

[Daffynition]

BTTT

The Net Nanny Wet Blanket has arrived.

[Zionist Conspirator]

It was Palance both in the 1973 version of Dracula and the 1968 Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. That version of Dracula is a very well done movie (particularly Palance’s performance) but seemingly very underrated as well.

The 1977 version of Dracula with Louis Jourdan in the title role was pretty good too . . . and actually scary.

[Donglalinger]

Anybody from central NY remember this?

[Zionist Conspirator]

The Fly 1958 version freaked me out

That was a great movie.

[Donglalinger]

[Daffynition]

I love the kids. Their excitement.

Too bad so few kids don’t *make* their own costumes...like in days of yore.

Live for the CANDY! WHOOP!

[Zionist Conspirator]

Now that's what I'm talkin' about!

[Zionist Conspirator]

I love the kids. Their excitement.

Too bad so few kids don’t *make* their own costumes...like in days of yore.

Live for the CANDY! WHOOP!

This is actually a 60s pop culture monster nostalgia thread rather than a "halloween" thread, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[rockrr]

I prefer SciFi (even b-grade!) to “monster movies” and LOVE the old stuff. The 1950’s seems to have been the zenith for “classic Sci-Fi” and everything since has been derivative.

[Donglalinger]

[RandallFlagg]

Forrest J. Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland

I loved those magazines. I remember one with Godzilla (1954) on the cover chewing on a Japanese train.

My last days off -to get into the season- I watched all of the Romero, "Living Dead," movies. I had most of them on DVD, but haven't yet seen, "Diary," or, "Survival." So, I rented those two on iTunes.

Yeah. They sucked. Stick with the original trilogy.

[Daffynition]

[PLMerite]

“I still have all my old copies of Famous Monsters of Filmland.”

I had to blink a couple times, I thought it said ‘Famous Monsters of Finland.’

[OttawaFreeper]

My grandparents back in the 1970s and 1980s lived in an area where we could watch WSTM Syracuse NBC and I believe that was on but I also remember Joe Flaherty as Count Floyd doing a similar thing on Saturday afternoons as well on that station.

[Zionist Conspirator]

I prefer SciFi (even b-grade!) to “monster movies” and LOVE the old stuff. The 1950’s seems to have been the zenith for “classic Sci-Fi” and everything since has been derivative.

Yep, that stuff is great (and no occultism). I'm crazy about Ray Harryhausen's stuff.

[Daffynition]

Good times. Good memories. I'm all for that.

[real saxophonist]

I was agreeing with you in a way. The Young Ones

Only time I've ever done Halloween.

Seems these days Halloween is only to get as drunk as possible and dress as slutty as possible.

[rockrr]

We had our own hokey “scarey guy” spook movie presenter. Discerning listeners recognized the voice of “The Count” as one of the actors from that station’s morning kids TV show “JP Patches”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euwNTwYQ-rE