Movie night...suggestions please?

[peter johnson]

. . . and you'll be glad you shook my hand too, once you've seen it --
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peter johnson
Seriously:  A Frkrningin Great Movie --

[Yaddo 42]

Acidburn,

Birmingham? Alabama? Or elsewhere? If so what small town?

And I'd say seeking out "Night of the Hunter" is well worth it, one of Robert Mitchum's best roles. So much oily charm but so much evil and malice lurking just below the surface.

Not that your likely to run across it, and it wouldn't work for your marathon anyway, but avoid the TV movie remake with Richard Chamberlain from the late 80s or early 90s. Just takes a great and unique film and turns it into a drab, dull, unspectacular waste of time. The remake is like a prototype for all those idiotic Lifetime "Woman in Peril" but featuring the kids instead.

[Acidburn]

Yaddo I am from a tiny litte town called bluntsville. About an hour north of Birmingham Al.
I am starting my search today for this film. With any luck I will have a copy in my hands by the end of the day :)

[Ash]

Bluntsville!
LOL!
Sounds like the place where all the brothas & white trash stoners go to get high!

[Acidburn]

Ahhh so you have heard of us huh?  Yep yep, I live in Blountsville...in Blount county. Yeah we alabamians are so imaginative when it comes to naming places. There is a town down the road called remlap...now what is funny about this is they got p**sed off because another town near by named themselves palmer and that is what they wanted...so they decided to still use the name and just spell it backwards. And we wonder why people see southerners as idiots. :p

[ulthar]

LOL

There is a town in Colorado called NoName.  And South Carolina must have thought they ran out of names and started using numbers: we have a town called Ninety-Six.

Sorry to be OT from the thread, but this sort of thing cracks me up.  As I've gotten older, I actually think about the name of the town when considering moving - spelling it on the phone, etc.  There are some doozies out there.

[Yaddo 42]

Acidburn, I'm in Florence, in the northwest corner near the MS state line, about two and half hours away from B'ham.

Don't forget Alabama also has the town of Opp. The most notable thing I've ever heard about Opp is they used to have a rattlesnake festival, no idea if they still do.

And the once notorious Phenix City, near the Georgia state line. Have always wondered about that spelling.

[Acidburn]

I have actually been through florence before :) Small world eh?  We have a covered bridge festival here during the spring. Leave it to us to get together and celebrate being able to cross over a river. lol

[Scott]

Well......I don't know. Here are a few

Return of the Living Dead
Motel Hell
The Legend of Boggy Creek (Lilcerberus's Pick)
Blood Sucking Freaks

[Scott]

These might not be at your local blockbuster. RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD might be there.