Well…I was hoping to have some Resurrected Reviews to post about by now, but Real Life is being…uncooperative…so in the interests of getting something done, I have continued to transfer existing reviews over to the blog.
Of course, the choice of what to move is almost paralysing, so I have fallen back on a system of word association, as is probably evident from the latest selections.
At the very least, I will get a couple of reviews moved over each week, hopefully more; when I have a reasonable crop, I will pop in here and give you all an update.
Most recently I have transferred and tweaked:
The Haunting (1999)
King Of The Zombies (1941)
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
Revenge Of The Zombies (1943)
Murders In The Zoo (1933)
Night Of The Bloody Apes (1972)Β Β (NB: NSFW)
Hell Of The Living Dead (1980) (NB: NSFW)
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Liz Kingsley is the insane genius behind And You Call Yourself a Scientist!
#1 by Ken on March 26, 2016 - 9:30 pm
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Might be my browser, but “Murders in the Zoo” links to the b-masters.com page for Keith’s review of “Linda Lovelace for President”.
#2 by lyzard on March 26, 2016 - 9:57 pm
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No idea how that happened but you’re quite right – thanks for the heads-up!
#3 by ronald on March 27, 2016 - 3:01 am
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“Iβve always considered that the mark of an unsuccessful horror film is that, as the credits roll, you find yourself wondering what on earth the survivors were going to tell the police?”
But isn’t that inherent in a horror film that involves anything that the police, for the most part, don’t believe exists/happens in the first place? Damage done by demons has been traced to your home, where the portal to Hell is no longer in evidence. What are you gonna tell the police? Your car is full of dead aliens. What are you gonna tell the police? You’re the sole survivor of an attack by a superhuman serial killer who is now dead himself, leaving you with his corpse and about a dozen others. What are you gonna tell the police? What? And so on.
Besides, plenty of people in real life never know what to tell the police. π
BTW, when someone posted a review of “Fatal Attraction” on Facebook to make some point that I’ve already forgotten, I posted your Misty/Fatal review as a contribution to whatever discussion ensues. That may or may not result in new visitors to your site. So, you know, there’s that, anyway.
#4 by lyzard on April 9, 2016 - 11:09 pm
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I’m just suggesting that if your thoughts are running along those lines, the film hasn’t done its job.
Thanks for that—though that’s another for the “in need of a makeover” list!
#5 by ronald on April 11, 2016 - 11:52 am
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Shrug. A film that makes me wonder what they’re going to tell the police is a film whose premise I consider worthy of serious thought. Usually more than the filmmakers did. π
#6 by ronald on March 27, 2016 - 12:01 pm
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re The Haunting:
Is it just me or does the portrait of (I presume) Hugh Crain look a lot like Hugh Jackman as Wolverine?
The fact that Hugh Crain was rich and insane explains EVERYTHING about his house. What construction company argues with money? Consider the Winchester Mystery House (which has nothing to do with the TV series “Supernatural”).
#7 by lyzard on April 9, 2016 - 11:13 pm
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And that may have served as something of a model for the film-makers—but it’s completely inappropriate for the date, the region, and what we know of Hill House’s owner / builder.
Which I’d like to think isn’t completely irrelevant, but…
#8 by Cullen Waters on March 27, 2016 - 1:28 pm
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That is one gorgeous snake. A lot of character in that face.
#9 by lyzard on April 9, 2016 - 11:14 pm
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Thanks, Cullen – I think so too!
#10 by ronald on March 27, 2016 - 8:22 pm
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Off-Topic:
You may not be familiar with this very obscure mad scientist who, like so many others, works in the field of gorillamology. If you are, well, my bad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Bird_in_the_Head
#11 by ronald on March 29, 2016 - 1:14 pm
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Another bit of gorillamology lore from “Dark Carnival: The Secret World of Tod Browning,” by David Skal and Elias Savada: As briefly discussed on pages 101-102, circa 1926, Browning had in mind a film project about a surgeon (ideally to be played by Lon Chaney) transplanting women’s heads onto apes, and vice versa. The problem was, Browning couldn’t think of why Chaney’s character would want to do that.
Take it, Dr. Forrester…
“WHY?! Because it’s SCIENCE, THAT’S WHY!”
Alas, we don’t even know Browning had a working title for the unrealized project.
#12 by lyzard on April 9, 2016 - 11:16 pm
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“The Woman Who Changed Her Mind”—later co-opted by Robert Stevenson and Boris Karloff. π
Ah, SCIENCE!!—the cause of, and the answer to, all of life’s problems…
#13 by ronald on April 3, 2016 - 8:52 am
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Is everyone dead?
#14 by lyzard on April 9, 2016 - 11:16 pm
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Just my eyeballs: I can only do this on weekends, alas.
#15 by ronald on April 5, 2016 - 3:25 pm
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“despite the fact that its cage was presumably found unlocked β or locked but empty β it never occurs to anyone that the gorilla might have been stolen”
Well, after all, what kind of a nut would someone have to be to steal a gorilla…?
#16 by lyzard on April 9, 2016 - 11:17 pm
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Oh, the usual kind…
#17 by Jason Farrell on April 7, 2016 - 1:25 pm
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I am not sure this a proper venue here, I was wondering if the Cabal had ever considered doing a Roundtable Sequel for Four Color Features, which may have been my favorite roundtable
#18 by lyzard on April 9, 2016 - 11:18 pm
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We will take that under advisement, anyway – thanks.
#19 by ronald on April 11, 2016 - 11:58 am
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I thought that I’d made comments about your “pre-Resurrected” review of Night of the Bloody Apes but I can’t find any such comments so I guess not. Oh well. I’ll just have to think of some new ones…