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  1. 35 minutes ago, Dolfan in NYC said:

    Am I just crazy or did they actually use Blurry to promote a match?

    When they changed names in 2002, there  was a popular tribute video going around called WWF As We Know It that used Blurry. WWE managed to nearly copyright strike it out of existence, but it left an impression during early torrenting and YouTube. 
     

    https://archive.org/details/rip-wwf-first-and-original-version-

    Edit: @Elsalvajeloco beat me to it, by like a lot. 

  2. I remember Milos Forman popping up as Jack Nicholson’s friend in Heartburn and being confused. Honestly, if Polanski had stayed out of trouble he would have probably been in a lot of movies. 

    M. Night was definitely filled with false confidence because of Tarantino and Kevin Smith’s 90s runs as directors who cast themselves. 

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  3. One of the other things I love about it is how realistic the dialogue is for a ghost story. Every line is someone pointing out something strange or eerie, but for most of the runtime no one actually can bring themselves to say anything about the supernatural out loud. When someone even broaches it the other person ignores it and talks past them. 

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  4. 20 minutes ago, Curt McGirt said:

    I never thought about that! Interesting idea. Is Tom Atkins the same character in The Fog and Halloween III, then?

    That’s tricky. He definitely loves booze and women the same way, but Halloween is a movie in the world of Season of the Witch.

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  5. It’s the closest answer to the question, “What if Val Lewton made a Scooby Doo movie?”

    Also

    Spoiler

    I’m glad I’m not the only psycho online that considered that Jamie Lee Curtis’s hitchhiker character is Laurie Strode dealing with her trauma by thumbing across the country on a journey of self discovery and sexual liberation. I know it’s stupid, but there are so many different Laurie outcomes already, who could give a shit if there’s another one? 

     

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  6. I watched The Fog for the first time in forever, and it was like seeing it for the first time.

    I could go on about it forever, but I’m preaching to the converted on here. The one observation I can’t let go of is that the relationship between Janet Leigh as the mayor and Nancy Loomis as her aide is 100% the prototype for Leslie Knope and April in Parks and Rec. 

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  7. Until our trip to Spirit Halloween yesterday for the kids’ costumes I hadn’t realized there was a Killer Klowns from Outer Space merchandising bonanza going on this year. Very weird to see those silly scamps now being represented as much as Freddy, Jason, Michael, and Chucky. There was also quite a bit of Mars Attacks merch.

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  8. From a cursory read on Wikipedia, I got the sense that the production of Manhattan Baby broke Fulci’s spirit and he became disillusioned with filmmaking. The budget was halved during shooting and he never worked with the producer, whom he’d often collaborated with, again.

    I tried to watch New York Ripper again last year, and it was too grotesque and miserable for me. I definitely don’t have the same tolerance for that level of sleaze and violence that I did in my early 20s when I first saw it. It’s remarkable that the same person who made that directed Don’t Torture a Duckling, which is the most empathetic and earnest giallo I’ve seen.

    Whenever New York Ripper comes up I must mention the season 6 giallo episode of Smallville where Lana is being stalked. At this point the show was routinely doing filler episodes based loosely on movies (there’s a zombie episode around then too) and the stalker is doing the Donald Duck voice when he calls her. It’s unreal. 

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  9. I watched Manhattan Baby today because it’s one of Fulci’s I haven’t seen. It’s a neat curio because he leaves the corn syrup at home for the bulk of the picture and focuses on making a mostly bloodless occult suspense thriller, but it’s incomprehensible and narratively unmoored  even for a Fulci movie. At the same time, he’s doing some great stuff with the camera and it’s cut together well, plus there’s some nifty location shooting in Egypt and New York. It’s a bad movie, but watching him build atmosphere out of such a rickety screenplay is fun.

    It also has the little boy from House by the Cemetery, and that little creep can make anything eerie. 

  10. TCM: The Next Generation introducing the concept that the family is acting as low-level agents for some kind of Elitist Satanic Cult was certainly a choice. It was too late for the 80s satanic panic and way too early for Pizzagate, so I’m not sure what they were even doing. I guess Halloween had gotten into that around the same time too with the Cult of Thorn. 

    Debra McMichael is also inexplicably in it as a police officer for thirty seconds. 

  11. I think the best thing they did with The Crow property after the first movie was the tv show, Stairway to Heaven. I’m a sucker for 90s syndicated garbage, and I liked that his powers and appearance kind of worked like The Incredible Hulk. Plus, Mark Dacascos was the ideal discount Eric Draven. 

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