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Press Releases and Film News / Re: Twilight of the Dead.
Last post by Alex - October 05, 2026, 02:05:40 PMQuote from: Rev. Powell on October 05, 2026, 10:02:56 AMQuote from: Alex on October 05, 2026, 06:46:01 AMQuoteFilming has officially wrapped on Twilight of the Dead, the long-awaited final chapter of George A. Romero's legendary zombie saga. Kate Beckinsale leads the cast alongside Betty Gabriel, Abigail London, Kurt Deimer, Phil Burke, Cooper Barnes, Tait Fletcher and John D. Hickman. The movie is based on a treatment Romero developed before his death in 2017, envisioning the story as the conclusion to the zombie saga he began with Night of the Living Dead. Set on a devastated Earth, the film follows the last remnants of humanity caught between warring factions and an evolving undead threat. Filming took place in Kentucky, with The Walking Dead legend Greg Nicotero handling the special effects. Nicotero previously worked with Romero on Day of the Dead, creating a direct connection to the filmmaker's original zombie legacy. Doron and Yoav Paz direct, with the project developed in partnership with the Romero estate and Suzanne Romero. The film is expected to receive a theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada, although an official release date has not yet been announced.
I am Facebook friends with Paolo Zelati, one of the 3 screenwriters, and almost met up with him when he was in Kentucky, but we couldn't work out a time. I wondered why he came from Italy to Kentucky (of all places to visit in the US!) and didn't realize this is what he was here to work on. If I had, I would have tried to get an invitation to the set!
I am sorry you missed out on that. I'm sure it would have been a great experience and maybe you'd have ended up as a zombie.
#12
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by FatFreddysCat - October 05, 2026, 12:59:46 PM"Kill. Bury. Print." (2026)
A small, family owned newspaper in rural Oklahoma gets on the bad side of a newly elected and quite incompetent, possibly corrupt,county sheriff. When the paper releases recordings of the sheriff making racist remarks and threatening to murder the journalist covering their department, the small town story quickly turns into national news.
I may not be part of the newspaper biz anymore, but I still love a good documentary about them, and this Peacock original is a good one.
A small, family owned newspaper in rural Oklahoma gets on the bad side of a newly elected and quite incompetent, possibly corrupt,county sheriff. When the paper releases recordings of the sheriff making racist remarks and threatening to murder the journalist covering their department, the small town story quickly turns into national news.
I may not be part of the newspaper biz anymore, but I still love a good documentary about them, and this Peacock original is a good one.
#13
Bad Movies / Re: RECENT VIEWINGS (Bad Movie...
Last post by M.10rda - October 05, 2026, 10:46:49 AMAlex, I can admit when I am wrong and you are in fact correct. THE GENERAL is in fact based on the book The Great Locomotive Chase, which is written as an account of Union bravery and heroism (particularly as most of the Union soldiers were captured and killed in the attempt. I still take personal issue w/ Buster's judgment in deciding to tell the story from the Confederate perspective, but of course as I am reminded too often while driving around rural parts of Western New York State, history is not always written by the victors! 
#14
Bad Movies / Re: Completely ruin a movie ti...
Last post by Trevor - October 05, 2026, 10:32:30 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on June 27, 2026, 02:17:44 PM9½ Weaklings
Ten Massive Indians
Quote from: zombie no.one on June 27, 2026, 02:17:44 PM9½ Weaklings
Ten Massive Indians
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#15
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - October 05, 2026, 10:28:24 AMI needed sorbet for my palate following THE GENERAL, so I watched...
THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED: A STORY OF THE KU KLUX KLAN aka THE WILDERNESS TRAIL (1920):
This is a near-feature from Oscar Micheaux, the black American film pioneer who laid the groundwork for Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee, and Ryan Coogler (among others). His previous feature, WITHIN OUR GATES, is an exceptional achievement. SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED seems like it could be pretty great, too - but only about 2/3rds of the completed film survives. I watched a print that replaces all of Micheaux's (lost) original title cards w/ rough English translations of French title-cards
, which often sounds pretty tinny... and w/ additional cards describing scenes which no longer exist, including 
the climax of the film!!!
About half of SOTU focuses on the provenance of the land that belonged to a deceased black prospector. That land is mighty valuable, because it's got a poopton of oil beneath it. The guy that somehow currently owns it is clueless about this fact, but the prospector's granddaughter knows and so does an evil local businessman and his retinue of henchmen.
The most interesting thing about SOTU is that all of the main characters are (ostensibly) black or mixed race. The bad guy is a self-loathing light skinned black man, his sinister right-hand man is supposedly East Indian but is played by a black man (fortunately not a white guy), the very fair-complexioned granddaughter (who we're told is an "Octoroon") is played by an actress from Barbados, and the clueless current landowner is supposed to be mulatto. (That actor looks to me like a white guy in blackface, but I can't find any confirmation or denial of this online - the actor did only one other (black) movie and died 2 years after this one - so I guess we have to trust that Micheaux cast a very white-looking mixed race dude.) So, all the major players/plotmovers in this drama are black, and a great deal of the film (including the expansive and rather underwhelming romantic plot) is committed to depicting the main characters' uneasy attitudes towards each other, i.e. who is too black, who is less black, who is white enough, and (in the case of the landowner) am I too black to date this beautiful (seemingly white) woman? As in WITHIN OUR GATES, Micheaux was very cognizant that his own community had a ton of issues to work out before even addressing relations w/ white folks.
But!!! As the subtitle indicates, the Klan does play a significant role in Micheaux's original cut - as the black bad guy cynically employs them to terrorize the mulatto landowner into giving up the oil-rich property. There are two sequences in the surviving cut where the Klan appear - and although a lot of SOTU appears just competent/okay, the Klan footage is terrifying. It amuses me to think that Micheaux had the nuts to title this film SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED: A STORY OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, presumably luring in unwary audiences who were big fans of BIRTH OF A NATION....... and then at the climax, having a lone black man defeat an entire Klan lynching party w/ a bunch of well-flung bricks!
Alas....... that climax (described in a title card) no longer seems to exist. I hope a black projectionist spliced it out for their own collection at some point and played it for appreciative private audiences for the rest of their career. 3.5/5
THE SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED: A STORY OF THE KU KLUX KLAN aka THE WILDERNESS TRAIL (1920):
This is a near-feature from Oscar Micheaux, the black American film pioneer who laid the groundwork for Melvin Van Peebles, Spike Lee, and Ryan Coogler (among others). His previous feature, WITHIN OUR GATES, is an exceptional achievement. SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED seems like it could be pretty great, too - but only about 2/3rds of the completed film survives. I watched a print that replaces all of Micheaux's (lost) original title cards w/ rough English translations of French title-cards
, which often sounds pretty tinny... and w/ additional cards describing scenes which no longer exist, including the climax of the film!!! About half of SOTU focuses on the provenance of the land that belonged to a deceased black prospector. That land is mighty valuable, because it's got a poopton of oil beneath it. The guy that somehow currently owns it is clueless about this fact, but the prospector's granddaughter knows and so does an evil local businessman and his retinue of henchmen.
The most interesting thing about SOTU is that all of the main characters are (ostensibly) black or mixed race. The bad guy is a self-loathing light skinned black man, his sinister right-hand man is supposedly East Indian but is played by a black man (fortunately not a white guy), the very fair-complexioned granddaughter (who we're told is an "Octoroon") is played by an actress from Barbados, and the clueless current landowner is supposed to be mulatto. (That actor looks to me like a white guy in blackface, but I can't find any confirmation or denial of this online - the actor did only one other (black) movie and died 2 years after this one - so I guess we have to trust that Micheaux cast a very white-looking mixed race dude.) So, all the major players/plotmovers in this drama are black, and a great deal of the film (including the expansive and rather underwhelming romantic plot) is committed to depicting the main characters' uneasy attitudes towards each other, i.e. who is too black, who is less black, who is white enough, and (in the case of the landowner) am I too black to date this beautiful (seemingly white) woman? As in WITHIN OUR GATES, Micheaux was very cognizant that his own community had a ton of issues to work out before even addressing relations w/ white folks.
But!!! As the subtitle indicates, the Klan does play a significant role in Micheaux's original cut - as the black bad guy cynically employs them to terrorize the mulatto landowner into giving up the oil-rich property. There are two sequences in the surviving cut where the Klan appear - and although a lot of SOTU appears just competent/okay, the Klan footage is terrifying. It amuses me to think that Micheaux had the nuts to title this film SYMBOL OF THE UNCONQUERED: A STORY OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, presumably luring in unwary audiences who were big fans of BIRTH OF A NATION....... and then at the climax, having a lone black man defeat an entire Klan lynching party w/ a bunch of well-flung bricks!
Alas....... that climax (described in a title card) no longer seems to exist. I hope a black projectionist spliced it out for their own collection at some point and played it for appreciative private audiences for the rest of their career. 3.5/5
#16
Press Releases and Film News / Re: Twilight of the Dead.
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 05, 2026, 10:02:56 AMQuote from: Alex on October 05, 2026, 06:46:01 AMQuoteFilming has officially wrapped on Twilight of the Dead, the long-awaited final chapter of George A. Romero's legendary zombie saga. Kate Beckinsale leads the cast alongside Betty Gabriel, Abigail London, Kurt Deimer, Phil Burke, Cooper Barnes, Tait Fletcher and John D. Hickman. The movie is based on a treatment Romero developed before his death in 2017, envisioning the story as the conclusion to the zombie saga he began with Night of the Living Dead. Set on a devastated Earth, the film follows the last remnants of humanity caught between warring factions and an evolving undead threat. Filming took place in Kentucky, with The Walking Dead legend Greg Nicotero handling the special effects. Nicotero previously worked with Romero on Day of the Dead, creating a direct connection to the filmmaker's original zombie legacy. Doron and Yoav Paz direct, with the project developed in partnership with the Romero estate and Suzanne Romero. The film is expected to receive a theatrical release in the U.S. and Canada, although an official release date has not yet been announced.
I am Facebook friends with Paolo Zelati, one of the 3 screenwriters, and almost met up with him when he was in Kentucky, but we couldn't work out a time. I wondered why he came from Italy to Kentucky (of all places to visit in the US!) and didn't realize this is what he was here to work on. If I had, I would have tried to get an invitation to the set!
#17
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 05, 2026, 09:41:47 AM
Includes rehearsal recordings that are fun because the Beatles are so playful, and also feature alternate versions of some songs. Not my favorite Beatles album, but interesting and important because it's here they start transitioning from teen idols into full-time serious songwriters.
#18
Games / Re: Movie Title Chains
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 05, 2026, 09:31:09 AMAnd I knew you were going to connect Killing of a Sacred Deer with The Deer Hunter. We are becoming predictable!
Ten Violent Women
Ten Violent Women
#19
Games / Re: Answer the question with a...
Last post by Rev. Powell - October 05, 2026, 09:03:01 AM
What's your fondest memory?
