http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94vleE35S60&feature=related
Another in the long list of bad TV - this short-lived Tales from the Darkside ripoff is based around an antique store selling items cursed by the devil. It has nothing to do with the Friday the 13th movies nor does it seem to have much to do with the date itself, but I guess it was a good marketing ploy. It was rumored that the final episode was going to center around Jason's hockey mask to show "some" type of connection to the films but the show was canceled before that could take place.
I enjoyed the first season or so of this show; there were some very interesting story ideas, and the basic premise is okay. The problem is that it was really only good for a few episodes, then it became incredibly redundant.
The key reason to watch this one early on was, of course, Roby.
I used to enjoy that show. The three main characters were quite likable and interesting. It usually managed to achieve a somewhat "creepy" atmosphere. Al in all, a fairly good time. And Roby was pretty hot :teddyr:
Man, it has been so long since I've seen this show. They used to run it on sunday afternoons on a local station and I always watched it backed up with the War of the Worlds series. I loved it but I'm not sure how I would feel about it today if I saw it.
Apparently, David Cronenberg directed an episode. I need to track it down.
i had the whole series for awhile,but after rewatching ALL of it,i sold it...i don't think i regret it,lol!
Did someone say Robey?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqiVxB315Cw
Mortal Envelope,
Since when does three full seasons with 72 episodes qualify as "short-lived"?
Sorry - guess it ran longer than I thought. Well, I guess it wasn't so short-lived after all.
What, no love for that Robey video? Are you not AMUSED?
Ok, then, here's the official Robey website: http://www.louiserobey.com/ (http://www.louiserobey.com/)
I linked it here one time before, it's great. It tells all about how she was countess for awhile and there are a bunch more videos like that (rm). Also, a great example of what can happen to a MB without someone like Andrew watching over it.
Not so attractive anymore:
(http://www.louiserobey.com/pictures/newrobeypic05.jpg)
oowwwooohhhh!!! dang,even as a woman,i thought she was cute in the series!my hubby may have a coronary....maybe i won't show him that dreadful pic...
I meant to ask, "Are you not ENTERTAINED?", sorry. I can't see her knees in that picture, but I can tell they're too sharp (I'm pretty sure that's a running gag over a large swath of the internet, but I'm not sure I'm doing it right). Seriously though, I cannot recomend that link enough.
I really miss those fluffy haired women with the big pouty red mouths.
It should have ran longer. It was a great show. It did some of the best shows I have ever seen on the subject of child abuse. Unfortunately, it fell prey to the "bluenoses," who thought there was too much violence on the air at that time.
I love this show. The whole "friday the 13th" thing was a last minute addition by Frank Mancuso in order to try and secure ratings; many hardcore fans perfer the original title, "The 13th Hour". The cursed objects were really cool, and to this day I still find myself thinking of new antiques and how they could have been cursed.
Quote from: Fausto on January 06, 2008, 12:53:02 PM
I love this show. The whole "friday the 13th" thing was a last minute addition by Frank Mancuso in order to try and secure ratings; many hardcore fans perfer the original title, "The 13th Hour". The cursed objects were really cool, and to this day I still find myself thinking of new antiques and how they could have been cursed.
Yup. Nothing better than to watch
Antiques Roadshow and try to come up with plot. (Heavy geekery!)
Not a bad show, but it kind of got stuck in no man's land with that title. The Friday the 13th movie fans hated it because they were expecting Jason, while folks on the other side of the fence condemned the show as some kind of violent slasher gorefest based on similar expectations (and not having actually watched it). Really an ill-conceived marketing ploy all around.
One interesting thing. A photographer I worked with years ago was actually in an episode. Civil War reenactment was a hobby of his, and he belonged to a group who occasionally got used as extras in movies and such. He's in the slide of Civil War soldiers in the Eye of Death episode. I saw the episode when it aired, and noted that the guy with the mustache looked a lot like Brian. Later on, I found out it was him. Here's a clip from YouTube. The slide appears about halfway through. Brian is the first clearly visible guy on the right side of the aisle. The guy in front of him is cut off, and he's standing more or less in the middle of the picture holding a rifle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfOdqP5VRkk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1C67vU5U_w&feature=related
It's funny, I enjoyed this show well enough but it really should have been right up my alley and I barely remember it. I caught an episode on SciFi (I refuse to call that channel by its stupid new name) the other day and I was surprised by how much gore they got away with showing on tv back in the day. I hadn't even remembered that aspect of it.
I'd like to see someone take another crack at this type of show though, some intense, anthology/Twilight Zone styled stuff. I'm getting a little bored with long story arcs and "reality" tv.
I remember watching this back when it aired around the same time as Freddy's Nightmares. Also, that hokey War of the Worlds show. Fox, I believe aired it first. They were a bit more willing to try things out of nowhere when they started. I'll have to give it a look sometime. Haven't seen it recently.
Quote from: ChaosTheory on July 10, 2010, 03:44:21 PM
I'd like to see someone take another crack at this type of show though, some intense, anthology/Twilight Zone styled stuff. I'm getting a little bored with long story arcs and "reality" tv.
Unfortunately, it looks as though the 'hook' of retrieving cursed objects has been 'taken' by
Warehouse Thirteen. I'm all for a revival of some sort of "intense, anthology/Twilight Zone styled" shows, though!