MONSTER ON THE CAMPUS
Ok. I know most fans don't consider this film a classic, but it actually sent me in several career direction which have kept me alive. It's not perfect, but I love this movie. I won't apologize for...
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Minor cuts and bruises, huh? That neck wound doesn't look minor to me.
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I did it last night fast on a whim. Just fooling around. One of my all time favorite horror shock scenes. It was accompanied by a chilling blast of the Universal Studios orchestra brass section that...
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Edkkakumon wrote:It's a silly plot, but Jack Arnold makes it watchable. He give the film a certain tensity, and doesn't waste the moments of shock.couple of silly moments, when Arthur Franz tells the...
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Babetician wrote:bipolarber wrote:Has anyone else had the thought that this movie, and the Paddy Chyefsky novel, "Altered States" explore a lot of common ground? (A scientist, experimenting with new...
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Babetician wrote:I did it last night fast on a whim. Just fooling around. One of my all time favorite horror shock scenes. It was accompanied by a chilling blast of the Universal Studios orchestra...
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I believe you meant to write 1980 right unless there is a 1958 film I need to see. You are right! Death by world processor! A stupid typo or editing mistake. I hate that, and know better. Arg!
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Watching this right now. What impresses me the most is that the cops aren't complete idiots, and are actually fairly competent and quick on the uptake. They're coming to the wrong conclusions, but in...
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Would you suspect him? Prof. Blake seems like such a nice and intelligent guy.
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<< Watching this right now. What impresses me the most is that the cops aren't complete idiots, and are actually fairly competent and quick on the uptake. << I once read a modern fanboy*...
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TomWeaver999 wrote: The reviewer had obviously been immersed in the world of junky movies so long that he actually forgot there ARE no such things as movie monsters running around in real life.Which...
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I actually like that the cops DON'T suspect Blake. There's no reason to. It'd have been stupid if they'd suspected him for longer than a minute. Basically, they come to the wrong conclusions without...
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Well, we're shown what they find: Footprints and handprints that are not only totally unlike Dr. Blake's, but unlike any human being they've ever come across. But once they're gone, and Dr. Don Blake...
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If I remember correctly, the police immediately discard the idea that Blake framed a monster, because the fingerprints could not have been faked. There's a underrated shock moment in the picture that...
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Rakshasa wrote:Which is funny because, in the old Universals, it's kind of the opposite. Someone says "There's a werewolf on the loose!" and everybody says "Oh my god!!! Everybody get inside!!!". That...
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<< "Walks Among Us" ... it's hard to top John Sherwood's direction in that scene- great eye for sound and action << According to David Schecter, composer Irving Gertz wrote "powerful...
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TomWeaver999 wrote:I like the fact that all we hear throughout this scene is the Creature's heavy breathing, the sound of stuff being smashed, and the woman's screams -- it makes things pretty...
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