As I've said before, I need to upload my college "fan edit" of I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE where my friends and I added TV themes to the soundtrack (since it's unscored). We rented the movie and thought it was crap (and sick) -- but at least it became unintentionally funny with the Andy Griffith Show theme running under it!

I Spit On Your Grave (2010): 0/10

Repugnant. Repellant. Revolting. Take your adjective.

Eden Lake (2008): 7/10

Basically The Descent with human monsters...and hey, Michael Fassbender before he was cast in every third movie released in the last year.

The Exorcist (1973): 10/10

It'S a WoNdErFuL dAy FoR aN eXoRcIsM.

The Frighteners director's cut (1996): 7.5/10

Boy, few things have dated as badly as mid-90's CGI...

Quarantine (2008): 7.5/10

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): 10/10

And another October comes to a close. Happy Horrorween, everybody!

Hope everyone had a happy one. Without power and with a lot of other things going on, I've had scant time to really "celebrate the season" -- as always MJ your thread is hugely appreciated! I can live vicariously through you this time!

AndyDursin wrote:Hope everyone had a happy one. Without power and with a lot of other things going on, I've had scant time to really "celebrate the season" -- as always MJ your thread is hugely appreciated! I can live vicariously through you this time!

Hopefully next year you'll be able to join in on the fun more. Illness, hurricanes...I feel bad for you and yours.

Monterey Jack wrote:

AndyDursin wrote:Hope everyone had a happy one. Without power and with a lot of other things going on, I've had scant time to really "celebrate the season" -- as always MJ your thread is hugely appreciated! I can live vicariously through you this time!

Hopefully next year you'll be able to join in on the fun more. Illness, hurricanes...I feel bad for you and yours.

It was a long month. Even with my birthday in it, just seemed to be a LONG, lengthy journey to get to November 1st. lol.

I will say this: I did watch ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER and did enjoy it for what it was. The 3-D actually helped the film for a change, which was surprising, and Mary Elizabeth was terrific (what little there was of her)

Speaking of that, I got a copy of the WOLF LAKE complete series, which stars...incredibly...a young M.E.W.!

WOW, Winstead was a stunner even back then. It's always amusing to watch movies and TV shows from not-that-long ago and spotting future celebs, like Amy Adams (in a fat suit) in the second episode of Smallville!

Dracula, with Frank Langella

Overall a very good picture, though not as great as one would hope. It's a handsomely-mounted production, but it sometimes feels almost perfunctory, as in the way it sidesteps much of any explanation of who Dracula actually is. Perhaps the filmmakers assumed the character was so famous no explanation was needed. But without the whole Transylvania sequence, which set-ups the story and character, it feels incomplete. I would also have liked to have seen more hints of Dracula's evil influence stretching over the land (as in the way Werner Herzog showed the increasing number of funerals and fears of plague in Nosferatu).

But the film boasts a winning cast -- Langella in particular. Also interesting to see pre-Doctor Who Sylvester McCoy in a small role. There are moments of genuinely creepy gothic horror (particularly the scenes of the undead Lucy and Mina). Fabulous art direction and photography too, and the use of real English locations adds a nice verisimilitude (in stark contrast to Coppola's Hollywood studio-bound Dracula).

I do think draining the color for video release seemed kind of pointless, and took away some of the allure of Gil Taylor's work. Would be nice if they offered both versions of this film on a future release.

John Williams' score is the best thing about the film, and adds an epic dimension which is otherwise not there. It is certainly among his finest work -- macabre, gothic and rapturously seductive (WHERE is the expanded reissue of this???)