Kirstie Alley Dies. She Goes To Limbo Where She Is Forced To Become The Tooth Fairy & Learn How To Dance Real Funky By Her Black Limbo Attendant Before She Can Go To Heaven. I Don't Know What Comes N

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I'm assuming she finally made it to heaven and taught that little kid's father how to love, but maybe I'm wrong.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, i DID turn away from it, but an hour was enough.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha I was watching Gaslight, too on TCM

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I *know* Scott's back! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyway, to answer the question -- that would be this insanely bad horror film that I caught last year late at night one evening during my Venezuelan vacation. Whatever it was, it was set in Seattle in the early 1900s and was this horrific hodgepodge of nearly every Gothic-horror-haunted house story ever, but with references to bondage and homosexuality and all that to be more up to date or something. Truly a nightmare.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:30 (twenty-one years ago)

ned, i really have to know the title.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Trust me, if I could remember it...hold on, IMDB might help.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaslight is so over-the-top. Kirstie Allie would be great in a remake.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Found it!

The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer

It appears to be a prequel to the adaptation of Rose Red by Stephen King, except King had nothing to do with this particular story or film. It is spectacularly awful.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I wanna see it!

Clash Of The Titans is on TCM at ten tonight! I think I'm there.

I got a copy of Vanishing Point at hollywood video for three bucks. I've never seen it. And no, i am not a primal scream fan.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Clash Of The Titans is on TCM at ten tonight! I think I'm there.

Ah man, what a film. My introduction to Harryhausen! Great way to bow out for him.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The beset scene EVAH is on TCM rite now!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ridley pearson wrote the screenplay for that ellen rimbauer thing. he is famous. kinda.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, on Jason & The Argonauts. the skeleton battle is as classic as it gets.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i liked how they ripped it off in spy kids 3.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the way the skellies plop into the ocean like tiny dry turds, after all that drama.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

it's a cool scene.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:48 (twenty-one years ago)

there is a pretty cool essay/article on Saving Private Ryan in the latest issue of The Believer. One thing I learned was that they used amputee stuntmen for some shots in the first scene. i hadn't known that. sorry, i thought i'd throw that out there.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This one's courtesy of the local Christian station:
Adolescent tough kids in Chicago embark upon a crime spree, beginning with heckling a hotel guard and sneaking into the hotel to swim in the pool, ending with somebody getting shot. The kids are sent to a Christian camp to get straightened out, but instead spend most of their time pulling out knives and flirting with skanky Christian girls with foot-and-a-half bangs and University of Wisconsin midriff shirts. The camp counselor assigned to the Chicago toughs' cabin is struggling with his own faith, because his sister has just died and he has just been diagnosed with HIV. (Although I was not able to catch any details about how the counselor had contracted HIV, it was abundantly clear that sex had not been a factor.)
The counselor is repeatedly caught drinking beer, reading philosophy books, and letting his campers sniff glue and smoke, and is finally asked, in so many words, to take his campers and leave. This makes the counselor feel awful, because it's his fault that the campers in his cabin haven't been progressing in their faith, because he's just been goofing around. In fact, in one scene, one of the street toughs shows the counselor a soapstone Jesus he's carved, complete with two nuts in his outstretched hands (to symbolize the carver and his brother), and the counselor's reaction can best be described as flustered with a twist of envious.
So the counselor takes these five or six gang kids into the wilderness to camp out, and one of them pushes him down and another presses a knife to his throat, but in the next shot, everyone's sitting around a campfire and acting civil again. Then there's a roughly eight-minute monologue by one of the kids about how horrible his father was, and how he wants to give his life to Jesus now, and it got boring so I switched over to watch Antiques Roadshow for a while, and when I switched back, camp had ended and the counselor was visiting the kids, playing a mean game of basketball on the mean streets of Chicago. And everyone hugged.

― kirsten (kirsten), Monday, 23 May 2005 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

wow, that sounds good too.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 01:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I got that great 80's horror anthology Nightmares for three bucks too. the one where emilio estevez fights the evil demon in the video game. it's a great segment. mega-1983 videogame mania.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I remember that film. I remember watching it with friends in 1986. On Beta. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Gaslight is a terrific film. I saw it on TCM, but unfortunately, not from the very beginning.

― youn, Monday, 23 May 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope you don't banish me to ILF for saying this, but I prefer the original Gaslight, the one with Anton Walbrook.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 23 May 2005 09:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, didn't the original have that Murder She Wrote gal playing a tarty maid? Plus Anton W was beautifully over the top.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 23 May 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

no, the later, more famous, cukor version had angela lansbery as nancy the maid. i have never seen the earlier version. according to imdb, the studio tried to have all copies of the earlier version destroyed when the boyer/bergman version came out. buncha weirdos.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 23 May 2005 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Anton Walbrook was also good in the same directors' Queen of Spades.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 23 May 2005 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

PBS bless their heart ran both versions back to back on their
on-again off-again Saturday movie night.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 23 May 2005 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Dead Babies Garish Britflick Martin Amis adaptation. Bunch of toffs spend their weekend getting wasted in a country-house, before being wasted by their "conceptualist" host. Hideous yet compulsive viewing

― Ben Dot (1977), Monday, 23 May 2005 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I heart Scott Seward threads.

― Leon Federline (Ex Leon), Monday, 23 May 2005 23:22 (twenty-one years ago)

speaking of Saving Pvt. Ryan...

In the throes of insomnia about 5:00 AM recently I caught the second half of DUEL, one of Steven Speilberg's early efforts (made for TV movie 1971) and probably my favorite film by him (no irony). Starring teh great Dennis Weaver, a demon-possesed tractor-trailer and winding California mountain roads. After five minutes I was stuck in old McCloud's fever dream, nervously sweating as the truck BEARS DOWN and the stalking Hitchcock camerawork never relents.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Commando was on FX last night!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Duel is great. It is the summer of Jaws here on MVI cuz they filmed it here and they are celebrating the anniversary. there will be a shark parade.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

It was Hugh Grant (very young edition) and Her Who Used To Be In LA Law running around a large stately home with some kind of dragon/ greart worm after them. They kept stopping to shag too.

― Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:14 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost:
Maybe this thread can help you guys with your costume/float design for the parade.

― Ken L (Ken L), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Anna: Lair of the White Worm, a Ken Russell film

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was in school I used to have a bout of insomnia about once a semester and invariably American Gigolo would be the late late movie.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a time on HBO where they showed Protocol & Ladybugs CONSTANTLY. maybe they still do. I actually saw Protocol in the movie theatre. I loved Lair Of The White Worm, but i haven't seen it since the 80's.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

We used to joke in junior high that HBO stood for "Hey, Beastmaster's on!!!"

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 25 May 2005 20:20 (twenty-one years ago)

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