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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 16 2012, 06:25 PM Post #1 |
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We watched this right after The Astounding She-Monster, so it is difficult not to consider it the greatest horror film ever made (in comparison). But, I'd seen it several times before, so I'm fairly aware that's a good movie, not just "it looks like a good one" after watching a crappy one. Steven Ritch is Duncan March, turned into a werewolf by a pair of mad scientists. He escapes and heads up to a mountain resort town, which is where the film opens. After that, whenever he gets angry, he gets all hairy and snarly and drooly. Nice-guy sheriff Don McGowan, his pretty nurse girlfriend, a sourpuss doctor who speaks every line as if he's diagnosing terminal cancer, and a drunken townsman who opines that there's an ART to setting leg-hold traps all conspire to capture the werewolf 'cause they kinda feel sorry for him. The two mad scientists want to kill him before he can talk. Mrs. Marsh and Duncan, Jr. lurk around town crying and whining. It all ends badly for everybody. I like this movie. Saw it in theatres when I was a kid, and like most good werewolf pictures, it oozes pathos. The makeup is swell (seems to be the same makeup the werewolf wore in Return of the Vampire 14 years earlier). The FNF gang enjoyed it a lot, particularly all the nice plaid coats on the townspeople. We enjoy strange things in our movies. |
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| AndyFish | Jun 18 2012, 08:29 AM Post #2 |
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I thought this one was a nice surprise-- tying in the whole science element as so many other 50s horror films did but still holding its own. Along with HOW TO MAKE A MONSTER I think this is a good example of "golden age" style classic horror finding its way into the 50s. |
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| Laughing Gravy | Jun 18 2012, 08:54 AM Post #3 |
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One doesn't necessarily look for good performances in cheap 1950s sci-fi/horror films, but one will find them in this film, The Amazing Colossal Man, and the Incredible Shrinking Man, if one looks, won't one? This film originally played in 1956 as a twinbill with Earth vs. the Flying Saucers. Nice night at the drive-in, no? |
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| AndyFish | Jun 19 2012, 09:33 AM Post #4 |
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Great drive in night line up. You should take FNF outside during the good weather-- oh that's right, you're in Southern CA where the weather is ALWAYS good.
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| panzer the great & terrible | Jun 19 2012, 11:08 AM Post #5 |
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Sacramento is in Northern California, Andy. The weather's not always good. It's cold and rainy in the winter and hot as heck in the summer. That's one of many reasons why I moved away.
Edited by panzer the great & terrible, Jun 19 2012, 11:09 AM.
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| AndyFish | Jun 22 2012, 06:18 AM Post #6 |
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And here I thought ol' Gravy was in San Diego. That explains why my letter bombs have done no good.
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| Chandu | Jun 22 2012, 01:37 PM Post #7 |
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Champeen of Justice and Seeker of Knowledge, but rascal at heart!
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You must've really hated it! You couldn't get much further away!
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| panzer the great & terrible | Sep 15 2012, 06:32 AM Post #8 |
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Put it this way -- I love where I am now. |
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