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Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:42:15 PMNEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1960):
Hammer Studios produced this in Canada (presumably - at least it's set there and many of the actors are convincingly Canadian) and while it superficially appears like more of a social issue melodrama, it eventually reveals its Horror heritage. Two 9/10 year old girls play blithely while an elderly Canadian bald man leers ghoulishly at them from the window. Cut to the home of a British married couple and the wife's mum. One of the little girls - the couple's daughter - returns home and reveals that Creepy Canuck lured her and her little friend into his house w/ the promise of candy
then made them strip nekkid 
and dance for him. 
Mom immediately wants to call the police while Dad and Granny urge caution... they're new to "the neighborhood"/the country, after all, and don't want to make waves in the community. 
WTF, right? Well, the bald man happens to be Dad's boss' father...
Unfortunately, Dad and Granny have the right [sic] idea, 'cause as soon as the family presses charges, they are instantly ostracized by their neighbors and the poor little girl is subjected to a brutal, infuriating (though realistic) grilling in a long mid-film courtroom sequence. Of course, the British family was right to press charges... as is eventually clarified in the film's final act. Wait, is this film suggesting that the U.K. is more enlightened than North America when it comes to prosecuting sex crimes against children??? (Quickly does the Epstein/Mountbatten-Windsor/POTUS math...) ...Okay, checks out! 
NTSFAS is well-made if a bit slow and obvious for its duration. Maybe Hammer intended it as its all-white answer to TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (which is very similar in structure) or something. What makes it worthwhile is the final 20 or so minutes, which take a nerve-wracking turn into NIGHT OF THE HUNTER terrain. It helps that the creepy old bald man looks like an undead Donald Pleasance and staggers bug-eyed after the little girls like Christopher Lee's FrankMon or Mummy. Honestly this loathesome kid-toucher might be the scariest of all Hammer monsters.
3/5 There is one thing that is more unnerving to me about this film than its antagonist. The two prepubescent girls have long hair and dress feminine; every other woman in the movie looks like sexless elderly mannequins. The British mother is clearly supposed to be 35ish but presents as 60+ and her senior citizen mom looks only a decade or less older. There appear to be no vital, sex-positive adult women in this version of Canada. So intentionally or otherwise (hopefully "otherwise"), the film projects a queasy binary for femininity: look like a museum exhibit and live, look like a pretty girl and be monster-bait. Actually that's a pretty common horror movie message but it's unusually stark here.
Hammer Studios produced this in Canada (presumably - at least it's set there and many of the actors are convincingly Canadian) and while it superficially appears like more of a social issue melodrama, it eventually reveals its Horror heritage. Two 9/10 year old girls play blithely while an elderly Canadian bald man leers ghoulishly at them from the window. Cut to the home of a British married couple and the wife's mum. One of the little girls - the couple's daughter - returns home and reveals that Creepy Canuck lured her and her little friend into his house w/ the promise of candy
then made them strip nekkid and dance for him. Mom immediately wants to call the police while Dad and Granny urge caution... they're new to "the neighborhood"/the country, after all, and don't want to make waves in the community. WTF, right? Well, the bald man happens to be Dad's boss' father...Unfortunately, Dad and Granny have the right [sic] idea, 'cause as soon as the family presses charges, they are instantly ostracized by their neighbors and the poor little girl is subjected to a brutal, infuriating (though realistic) grilling in a long mid-film courtroom sequence. Of course, the British family was right to press charges... as is eventually clarified in the film's final act. Wait, is this film suggesting that the U.K. is more enlightened than North America when it comes to prosecuting sex crimes against children???
(Quickly does the Epstein/Mountbatten-Windsor/POTUS math...) ...Okay, checks out! NTSFAS is well-made if a bit slow and obvious for its duration. Maybe Hammer intended it as its all-white answer to TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (which is very similar in structure) or something. What makes it worthwhile is the final 20 or so minutes, which take a nerve-wracking turn into NIGHT OF THE HUNTER terrain. It helps that the creepy old bald man looks like an undead Donald Pleasance and staggers bug-eyed after the little girls like Christopher Lee's FrankMon or Mummy. Honestly this loathesome kid-toucher might be the scariest of all Hammer monsters.
3/5 There is one thing that is more unnerving to me about this film than its antagonist. The two prepubescent girls have long hair and dress feminine; every other woman in the movie looks like sexless elderly mannequins. The British mother is clearly supposed to be 35ish but presents as 60+ and her senior citizen mom looks only a decade or less older. There appear to be no vital, sex-positive adult women in this version of Canada. So intentionally or otherwise (hopefully "otherwise"), the film projects a queasy binary for femininity: look like a museum exhibit and live, look like a pretty girl and be monster-bait. Actually that's a pretty common horror movie message but it's unusually stark here.
#2
Bad Movies / Re: How many of these Dracula'...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 05:44:57 PMI've let this thing go for a while. Let's get back at it.
B9 is Castlevania cartoon Dracula
D4, D7, D10, E3, F2, and F10 are all Dracula from different Castlevania games. I thinka few others might be Castlevania Draculas as well, but I'm not sure.
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5 Count Duckula
A6
A7
A8
A9 Count Chockula
A10
B1
B2
B3 Nicolas Cage
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
B9 Cartoon Castlevania Dracula
B10
C1
C2
C3 Dracula Hotel Transylvania
C4 Luke Evans Dracula Untold
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
D1
D2
D3
D4 Castlevania Dracula
D5
D6
D7 Castlevania Dracula
D8
D9
D10 Castlevania Dracula
E1
E2
E3 Castlevania Dracula
E4 The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy
E5
E6
E7
E8
E9
E10 Dominic Purcell Blade 3
F1
F2 Castlevania Dracula
F3
F4
F5 Zhang Wei-Qiang from "Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary" (OK, not an easy one)
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10 Castlevania Dracula
G1 Leslie Nielsen
G2
G3
G4
G5 Gary Oldman
G6
G7
G8
G9 Dracula from Scooby Doo and he Reluctant Werewold
G10
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
H7 George Hamilton
H8 Klaus Kisnki
H9
H10
I1
I2
I3
I4
I5
I6
I7
I8 Zandor Vorkov
I9
I10
J1 Mad Mad Monster Prty
J2
J3 Christopher Lee
J4
J5
J6
J7
J8
J9 Bela Lugosi
J10 Max Schreck
B9 is Castlevania cartoon Dracula
D4, D7, D10, E3, F2, and F10 are all Dracula from different Castlevania games. I thinka few others might be Castlevania Draculas as well, but I'm not sure.
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5 Count Duckula
A6
A7
A8
A9 Count Chockula
A10
B1
B2
B3 Nicolas Cage
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
B9 Cartoon Castlevania Dracula
B10
C1
C2
C3 Dracula Hotel Transylvania
C4 Luke Evans Dracula Untold
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
D1
D2
D3
D4 Castlevania Dracula
D5
D6
D7 Castlevania Dracula
D8
D9
D10 Castlevania Dracula
E1
E2
E3 Castlevania Dracula
E4 The Grimm Adventures of Billy and Mandy
E5
E6
E7
E8
E9
E10 Dominic Purcell Blade 3
F1
F2 Castlevania Dracula
F3
F4
F5 Zhang Wei-Qiang from "Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary" (OK, not an easy one)
F6
F7
F8
F9
F10 Castlevania Dracula
G1 Leslie Nielsen
G2
G3
G4
G5 Gary Oldman
G6
G7
G8
G9 Dracula from Scooby Doo and he Reluctant Werewold
G10
H1
H2
H3
H4
H5
H6
H7 George Hamilton
H8 Klaus Kisnki
H9
H10
I1
I2
I3
I4
I5
I6
I7
I8 Zandor Vorkov
I9
I10
J1 Mad Mad Monster Prty
J2
J3 Christopher Lee
J4
J5
J6
J7
J8
J9 Bela Lugosi
J10 Max Schreck
#4
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by LilCerberus - Today at 05:25:43 PMFrom what I've been hearing, Venezuela & Iran were China's biggest oil providers...
In addition China (who gets most of their hardware from Russia) has been providing Iran with surplus hardware...
As such, the lack of oil & public failure of military hardware has lead to a steep decline in airspace violations over Taiwan.....
In addition China (who gets most of their hardware from Russia) has been providing Iran with surplus hardware...
As such, the lack of oil & public failure of military hardware has lead to a steep decline in airspace violations over Taiwan.....
#5
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by bob - Today at 04:55:48 PM[img[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/43/Love_%26_Other_Drugs_Poster.jpg[/img]
Who stole the White House?
Who stole the White House?
#6
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Random Statements About So...
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 04:45:42 PMI don't think it will happen because there's no overt causus belli. How are you gonna convince people to send their kids to die for a gambit?
#7
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Pizza browning
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 04:43:52 PMHow hot you cook it can be a factor, too. There's a Frank Pepe's location at a mall near where I live. The pies are crispy AND gooey.
#8
Bad Movies / Re: Invent A Bad Movie Title P...
Last post by lester1/2jr - Today at 04:41:20 PMStrait of Hormuz Sea Monster
#9
Off Topic Discussion / Re: Pizza browning
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 03:26:14 PMyes, had pizza tonight. got to have it brown. packaging suggested 10 mins, kept it in for 15
not a fan of the floppy underdone pizza. if you pick up a slice and it droops that's not good
Goodfellas deep pan ones tend to be to my liking
not a fan of the floppy underdone pizza. if you pick up a slice and it droops that's not good
Goodfellas deep pan ones tend to be to my liking
#10
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
Last post by chainsaw midget - Today at 11:45:38 AM
I didn't ask for this cast, but I love it.