Name That Movie!

[dales]

Horror genre?

Anything to do with the current GOP nominee for POTUS?

[Scooter]

Plan 9 from Outer Space?

[Lord Jim]

Not Plan 9...

Another quote:

I believe a man lost in the mazes of his own mind may imagine that he's anything.

And another non-quote clue:

This is a genuine classic horror movie; pre-60s...

[Crackpot]

I'm barred from guessing in this one else I would say I have no fucking clue.

[Lord Jim]

If nobody gets it by later today, I'll try a longer quote...

I am absolutely certain that everyone here has heard of it and I'd be very surprised if there's anyone here who hasn't see it...

[Crackpot]

I haven't but I was/am aware of it. Oddly it was one of the "Classics" that wouldn't come immediately to mind but I knew I was missing.

[datsunaholic]

If nobody gets it by later today, I'll try a longer quote...

I am absolutely certain that everyone here has heard of it and I'd be very surprised if there's anyone here who hasn't see it...

Well, you can put me down as one who hasn't seen it. I've seen maybe 3 "horror" movies ever. And I put "horror" on quotes because 2 were made-for-TV Stephen King movies that were more fantasy than horror, and the 3rd was actually a comedy (Army of Darkness). A horror movie older than my parents? Yeah, never seen it.

[Big RR]

Jim--I think it is The Wolfman

[Lord Jim]

The Lon Chaney Jr. original:



Lon Chaney, Claude Rains, Bela Lugosi...

Horror movies don't get any classicer than that...

[RayThom]

The Wolfman? No wonder I get them wrong so often. This was way before my time. Like the Wizard of OZ I have never seen it in its entirety -- start to finish.

[datsunaholic]

The Wolfman? No wonder I get them wrong so often. This was way before my time. Like the Wizard of OZ I have never seen it in its entirety -- start to finish.

I'm sort of with you there. I have seen The Wizard of Oz in its entirety- but it's the ONLY movie made before 1961 (other than animated movies I saw as a child) that I can name that I've seen start to end. I'm sure there are some, I just can't name them. I couldn't tell you what year almost any movie made before 1977 was released in. A few.

If you'd asked me what year The Wolf Man came out, I wouldn't even have gotten the correct decade. I figured it was a late 50s/early 60s low budget horror cheesefest of a movie. Never seen it, never seen a clip of it. Couldn't name a single actor in it. After I looked it up, only one member of the cast even looked familiar- Béla Lugosi. And while the name looked familiar, I have never seen any movies he was in.

[Guinevere]

I probably watched it as a kid, when the old UHF stations used to run old horror films late on Friday (or maybe Saturday) nights. My BFF and I used to stay up and watch them into the wee hours of the morning.

But I barely remember it, and I've never willingly watched it as an adult.

[Lord Jim]

only one member of the cast even looked familiar- Béla Lugosi. And while the name looked familiar, I have never seen any movies he was in.

You've never heard of Lon Chaney (Junior or Senior) or Claude Raines?

You've never seen Bela Lugosi's Dracula?

[dales]

Plan 9 From Outer Space - - - - - Lugosi's last hurrah.

[datsunaholic]

You've never heard of Lon Chaney (Junior or Senior) or Claude Raines?

You've never seen Bela Lugosi's Dracula?

Correct. On all 3 (4?) counts.

I looked up Lon Chaney Jr and Claude Rains. I don't think I've ever seen any movie they were in. I've heard of many of the shows Lon Chaney Jr was in, but I cannot remember ever watching any episodes of them.

I've never seen Frankenstein either. Really. I've read the book, but have never seen the movie.

Remember, I don't watch a lot of movies. If you were to take any top 10 movie list- I don't care which, unless it's specifically a sci-fi or comedy list- it would be rare that I'd seen any more than 3 of them on the list.

IMDB's top 10 (as ranked by IMDB users)? 3.
Roger Ebert's 10 most influential movies? 3.
Rotten Tomatoes' top 10? ONE.

I can tell you that my personal top 10 is very strange, but I would suspect that the vast majority of folks here would have seen most of them. But they're mostly sci fi or dark action (historical context) films. Or comedy, there's a few in there.

[oldr_n_wsr]

We used to have "Chiller Theater" on friday or saturday nights on channel 11 (it's WPIX now) that showed all the old horror movies. And on sunday morning they had abbott and costello "horror" movies. They don't have TV/movies like that anymore.

[Big RR]

That's where I first saw the classic horror films oldr--and I have been an aficionado every since.

A new one (and more recent)--same horror genre:

Her blood coursed through my veins, sweeter than life itself. And as it did, xxxxx's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be

[Lord Jim]

We used to have "Chiller Theater" on friday or saturday nights on channel 11 (it's WPIX now) that showed all the old horror movies. And on sunday morning they had abbott and costello "horror" movies.

That's where I first saw the classic horror films oldr--and I have been an aficionado every since.

That's where I got my first exposure to them too...



The locals are mostly history, but hosted horror/sci fi shows aren't completely gone...

On Saturday nights at 10, the retro cable channel MeTV runs Svengoolie...Econo may be familiar with this one; before going national on cable it was a local Chicago show...(I let the lad stay up late and we watch it together... He is not going to reach middle age without having seen classics like the original Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein, The Mummy, or The Invisible Man...he's already seen them... )

http://svengoolie.com/

The host does a pretty corny schtick, but he runs a lot of the great old Universal Pictures horror classics, and does an interesting segment each week about the actors appearing in that week's movie...

If you have a streaming service like Roku, there are some of these shows available there as well:

One channel, OSI 74, (you can get it for free) has several of them, including my favorite, Cinema Insomnia with Mr. Lobo (he intersperses sci-fi/horror movie segments with old TV commercials and PSAs and skits with other characters on his show)

http://osi74.com/



http://www.cinemainsomnia.com/

And Hulu has nearly 200 episodes of Elvira's Movie Macabre

[MajGenl.Meade]

A new one (and more recent)--same horror genre:

Her blood coursed through my veins, sweeter than life itself. And as it did, xxxxx's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be

Charles and Diana?

[Lord Jim]

Her blood coursed through my veins,

Uh, I believe that's a dead giveaway, (no pun intended) that this is a vampire movie...

Charles and Diana?

No, that couldn't be it...

I've seen Chuck out in the day time...