Posted on 10/20/2009 5:58:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
If your a Strong Christian, watching a scary movie won’t change your opinions of Christ. If watching any kind of movie challenges your faith, I suggest throwing out your tv.
LOL.....it just adds to the spookiness.
Strange. No mention of the 1988 movie PUMPKINHEAD.
Scientists doing scientific stuff...
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Yeah, that’s it! But I thought it was A. Hitchcock who directed it. Maybe he produced it, and Laughton directed it? Anyway, that was it! They had a much newer one in the 90s with Richard Chamberlin in the role of the evil preacher, but I didn’t like that one as much.
It wasn’t bad, but it didn’t have the ‘feel’ of the original to me! I think it’s because it didn’t have the Lillian Gish-character in it at all! This strong female character, to me, was a crucial character. They left it off at the part where the children were going down the river, and Harry Powell was chasing them! The Gish-played character was more extensive in the original, and she was like a she-bear!
She sensed, like those two children knew, that he wasn’t what he said he was. Then she confronted him, stalking across her porch with a shotgun to protect her ‘children’! The towns people the children came from and the congregation began to suspect him, then turn on him. Apparently, he had a habit of courting women, marrying them, then killing them.
He would act as if they were ‘fallen women’ he had to save by marrying them! They took a lot of these crucial parts out of the new one! They also took the character of the lady who rescued and nutured the children after they came out of the river.
I loved what she said at the end while she was cooking their Christmas dinner! She looked up from her pot and smiled, saying something about children and how they prevailed, and overcame things! The new movie wasn’t the same to me, for the above reasons!
Another very good conservative movie, if you’d ever heard of it was the old version of “The Devil and Daniel Webster”, or “All That Money Can Buy” (another title of the same). That one is on You Tube under the second title. It’s posted in 10 minute parts, so if you haven’t seen it, by all means do! Hopefully, it’s still there! An actor by the name of Edward Arnold, I think, plays D. Webster. Walter Huston played Mr. Scratch, the devil.
Like NOTH above, it was an old black and white flick, with the atmospheric feel many of those shows had! But it was highly patriotic, and very conservative! A lot of those shows had the morality play aspect to them, the sense of the battle between wrong and right, and right winning out! It was written in the book form by Stephen Benet, and he was a known anti-communist writer in the first part of the 20th century!
I looked him up on the internet, and much of the issues in the story, concerned people in D. Webster’s time, then later in Benet’s time, are still there now! Read the comments section of the “You Tube” showing, and some of these people actually pointed that out! They said they could see a strong correlation to what is happening now!
I have been watching old suspense movies from the late 30s, 40s, and 50s...the good old ones will really ramp up the adrenaline!! I miss the days when movies were about suspense with plots that left you disturbed because your mind filled in the images. Now all we have (for the most part) instead is the idea that what shocks the sensibilities is horror...it's not. It's just cheap crap.
Rowr.
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Harumphh!!!
Didn’t see the more recent version with Chamberlin. It’s been a while since I’ve seen the “old” version; Gish and Mitchum would be a hard act to follow, in any case!
Haven’t seen _The Devil and Daniel Webster_ since I was a kid. There’s an old B&W version that’s supposed to be a classic. Your post has inspired me to go seek it out. Thanks!
A lot of the old horror/suspense movies had an obvious moral component. Too bad nowadays it’s mostly nihilistic and voueristic violence, for the most part. Relative was playing the new version of _Texas Chainsaw Massacre_ on his TV recently, and I had to just walk out of the room.
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