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The Maze (1953)
Topic Started: May 28 2016, 09:41 AM (596 Views)
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The Maze (1953) Dir. William Cameron Menzies
ITB Shock Theatre #167

Richard Carlson is called away from his upcoming nuptials 'cause he's inherited the family's Scottish castle; when he doesn't come back, fiance Veronica Hurst and her aunt investigate and discover that Carlson and two creepy servants are now covering up for some sort of beastie that lives in the attic and frolics in the garden maze on the estate grounds.

Extremely weird movie (look who the designer and director was) that's fascinating until the last 10 minutes, and then it remains fascinating yet becomes laughable at the same time. You sort of have to see it to believe it, and far be it from me to reveal what it is you're going to see.

Still, it's atmospheric and eerie, and the 3D effects are pretty good, including bats flying into the audience and a nightclub act that consists of swinging a lady through the air and towards the crowd (don't ask). Sometimes, though, they're a little silly - got a letter? The postman's gonna post it right up in your face. Carlson doesn't have a lot to do, mostly, and Miss Hurst has one of those mannered English voices that makes me think she should go fall down a white rabbit's hole.

Million-dollar Dialog:
Shapely Miss Hurst, checking out her new evening dress in a hand mirror: "I have no idea how I look! I can only see a few square inches of myself at a time."
Aunt: "None of your inches is square."

Gregarious party guest: "I have the most wonderful new stories to tell you. Well, they'll sound better over a couple of drinks."

Currently not available on DVD, and that's too bad. It's no The Haunting or The Innocents, but it's in the same vein, and that's a good, good thing.
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I, of course, need to see this. How did you come by it, oh hallowed webmaster?


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This is the one with the giant frog, right?

Definitely a hoot, but also a fantastic waste of 80 minutes of your time. WCBS understandably ran it only on the Late, Late, Late, Late Show.

It might be interesting to see it in 3-D, but then again, I doubt it.
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Mr Hale, I live for fantastic wastes of my time. It's what gets me up in the morning.





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YouTube?

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Probably. I googled it and found it. You know me.
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Me? Non-specific?
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You know. Post a review. Don't mention how you saw it. Make me make a post asking you how you saw it. You answering with the relevant info.

Do you see where I'm going?

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family curse that that the person never goes beyond embryo stage and develops into a frog-like creature but not in the class of the haunting, the innocents or the fine ray milland move
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