It has John “I needed the money” Carradine as the vampire… how could it be anything but awful?
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Can’t speak for the quality of them but the review for one reads “Ed Wood’s Mexican Brother” so I am so in for that. 
Thing is, the elements that make a good werewolf flick are almost the same as those that make a good western I’m surprised no-ones made a decent go at it yet.
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Well, the story behind Jason isn’t too bad either; it has serious legs.
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That’s true, but you gotta spend money to do justice to it, and the instinct of too many of the major studios would be to go all Gods of Egypt on it. I still blame Stephen Sommers for that mindset.
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Guess you haven’t been watching Penny Dreadful.
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Guess you didn’t read on.
True, I just looked at the replies to that post. If I read on I’ll never go back and post a reply.
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Heh. I do that, too. 
It’s that Penny Dreadful storyline that really got me thinking.
I mean, isolation, wilderness, small communities surrounded by the unknown, not knowing the past of every stranger that rolls into town, roving packs of predators/bandits…
It’s perfect.
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Plus limited ammunition and resources, and no electric light or technological advantages make for added tension. It writes itself!
Guess I gotta see this Penny Dreadful arc. When did it start?
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It covered most of Season 3. There’s a couple towards the end which are set back in London, and E04 is a stand-alone (and totally worth a watch), so maybe 6 or 7 eps. If you’re into gothic/supernatural horror its a solid series for the most part. And Eva Green is tremendous in it.
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I’m not, but I like it because it’s solidly written and acted. It keeps tight reigns on it’s supernatural assumptions making suspension of disbelief easier. One of my only problems with it is a common one, where a character in the pilot does something inconsistent with how the character is later developed.
Frankenstein’s Monster John Clare horrifically murders his successor, then is developed as a sensitive soul. It reminded me of how on The Shield Vic murders a fellow cop in the pilot, then is developed as a corrupt but moral and clever guy who would have figured out another way.
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Damn you, Captain Kronos! See how you have cheated us!
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Finally saw CITIZENFOUR today. I’ve always thought of Snowden as a hero and this film just further solidified this for me.
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stop waiting!!!
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That was the best thing I’ve seen in a long time…except for the spliced-in pterodactyl parts.
Danger 5 has both zeppelins and pterodactyls, though they’re usually fighting on the same side.
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You had me at “Hammer” although I really prefer the anthology films of Amicus like the too-often overlooked Dr Terror’s House of Horrors.
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From the Dead Celebrity thread the death of director Herschell Gordon Lewis piqued my interest because of this from the article about him:
Yes, while many of his exploitation contemporaries resorted to public domain or sound libraries to use and re-use music in their sexploitation or hyper-violent drive-in endeavors, Lewis’ background in music gave his filmography its own distinct flair.
This got my attention because both John Carpenter and Dario Argento are also musically inclined and, I believe, also composed music for some of their films.
Maybe that’s not enough to be considered a pattern but could there be something about horror film directors and music?
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