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Oct. 30th, 2009 08:40 amHappy Day Before Halloween, everybody!
Halloweenish things:
- Last night, Mom and I watched The Oblong Box. (Last year was going to be Vincent Price Poe films but it actually turned out to be Vincent Price in crack-addled things (Tingler, Dr Phibes), so I'm doing Poe this year. I also have Masque of the Red Death, which may be for tonight.) It was pretty nifty. The plot is a bit silly (there are two separate sets of grave robbers, for one thing) but it hangs together all right. And there is Vincent Price. And Christopher Lee. The reveal of the villain's (?) facial mutilation is a bit of a let down, as it mostly looks like a bad allergic reaction and not his face being turned inside out, as we were previously led to believe by dialogue. What I am always most impressed by when I watch any of the 60's Poe films from AIP is the brightness of the color palette. They're just gorgeous to look at, even if it does mean the blood looks a bit like poster paint. Does anyone do brightly colored horror films anymore, or are we all stuck in the grey-scale filmed through a blue filter thing?
- I am rereading Hollywood Gothic by David Skal. As usual, I am torn between thinking that Florence Stoker was a crazy woman and thinking that she was hard-core awesome. She's always portrayed as being a little hysterical and okay, I'm really really glad that Nosferatu didn't get destroyed but still, she was pretty badass.
- Lovecraft radio plays! (Oh, like you were getting out of here without at least a little Lovecraft.) The Atlanta Radio Theater Company puts them up for free as podcasts and they are pretty darn nifty. Here is Shadow Over Innsmouth (first of five parts), Colour Out of Space and the beginning of Call of Cthulhu. (They do Dunwich and Rats in the Walls and Mountains of Madness as well, but those aren't up for free.)
What are you all doing for Halloween?
Halloweenish things:
- Last night, Mom and I watched The Oblong Box. (Last year was going to be Vincent Price Poe films but it actually turned out to be Vincent Price in crack-addled things (Tingler, Dr Phibes), so I'm doing Poe this year. I also have Masque of the Red Death, which may be for tonight.) It was pretty nifty. The plot is a bit silly (there are two separate sets of grave robbers, for one thing) but it hangs together all right. And there is Vincent Price. And Christopher Lee. The reveal of the villain's (?) facial mutilation is a bit of a let down, as it mostly looks like a bad allergic reaction and not his face being turned inside out, as we were previously led to believe by dialogue. What I am always most impressed by when I watch any of the 60's Poe films from AIP is the brightness of the color palette. They're just gorgeous to look at, even if it does mean the blood looks a bit like poster paint. Does anyone do brightly colored horror films anymore, or are we all stuck in the grey-scale filmed through a blue filter thing?
- I am rereading Hollywood Gothic by David Skal. As usual, I am torn between thinking that Florence Stoker was a crazy woman and thinking that she was hard-core awesome. She's always portrayed as being a little hysterical and okay, I'm really really glad that Nosferatu didn't get destroyed but still, she was pretty badass.
- Lovecraft radio plays! (Oh, like you were getting out of here without at least a little Lovecraft.) The Atlanta Radio Theater Company puts them up for free as podcasts and they are pretty darn nifty. Here is Shadow Over Innsmouth (first of five parts), Colour Out of Space and the beginning of Call of Cthulhu. (They do Dunwich and Rats in the Walls and Mountains of Madness as well, but those aren't up for free.)
What are you all doing for Halloween?
