''There he lay looking as if youth had been half-renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark iron-grey, the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck. Even the deep, burning eyes seemed set amongst the swollen flesh, for the lids and pouches underneath were...
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This is the kind of film that Disney simply can’t make anymore. Truthfully, Hollywood can barely put it together at this point and I’m not sure how much longer they can keep doing it. Chris Sanders is the product of Old School Disney. He fell in love with the animated features. Started scribbling pictures all the time. Then got into CalArts at about the same time as Jon Lassetter and Brad Bird. Sadly, he didn’t appear to have made the cut. He...
REPOST: It’s Halloween season so a few things are getting bumped for the next few days. ******************** Countess Elizabeth Bathory; the infamous Blood Countess. Her story is that of a beautiful woman utterly obsessed with maintaining her beauty, no matter what crimes she committed in the process. Yes, she was even worse than Madonna. She tried just about every beauty aid available when her looks began to fade. Arsenic powders and tinctures laced liberally with gold and mercury were tried and of course, failed. One night, in...
The dominant period piece movie company of the 80s and 90s was Merchant Ivory Productions. Truthfully you can’t really discuss period dramas from that era without bringing them up. What made their style unique was a little difficult to pin down. Something about the color palettes and use of shadows. It created the impression of something kind of if not quite familiar. It turned out their cinematographer Tony Pierce-Roberts openly admitted to basing their cinematography on the films of Jack...
My suffering (courtesy of the Rings of Power) has inspired one of the Darklings to create true greatness. THIS. IS. AWESOME! https://suno.com/song/45a865fc-8f34-4c12-8aac-f30edf33432f
The incompetence of the people that put this show together shines forth like the Silmarils. Normal humans keep wondering how did something this hilariously awful got made. Truthfully it’s the end result of a fifteen-year toboggan ride down an icy cliff face. It all goes back to the home video revolution in the 1980s. Disney as a perfect example was very leery about the possibility of killing the goose that lays golden eggs. Roy Disney and Jeffery Katzenberg were dead set...
It’s the last week of August which means that Halloween season is well underway. Spirit Halloween stores have now risen from the dead, once more inhabiting the husks of long-deceased Toys R’Us and Bed Bath & Beyond box stores everywhere. It also means it's time to visit films from the despised lesser genre of horror. This movie frankly had worse luck than it deserves. “Dream Works is going to be seriously gouged by this one. At a budget of $45...
This is from my Kolchak post. "Horror, began appropriately enough during the Reign of Terror. Religion was officially outlawed in France. The Catholic Church had been forced out of the country and if you were going to worship anything at all, it had to be the Goddess of Reason. Graveyards were filled with dead people who were, according to the First Republic, gone forever. They were in an eternal sleep from which there would be no waking. Into this government mandated...
REPOST: It’s Halloween season so a few things are getting bumped for the next few days. ******************** A man in a cheap suit that would be the envy of every Millenial Hipster on the planet, walks into an office setting that they would envy even more. He is whistling a happy and carefree little tune while he pours himself a cup of coffee that no hipster would touch with a thousand-foot pole. The man throws his cheap straw, trilby at a hat rack, and...
