Moviedrome

Back in the late eighties here in Britain we only had four TV channels & if you didn't own a VCR, like the majority of my village, this meant movie consumption was limited & mainstream. We'd get the odd late night Universal or Hammer flick, and if you could get watchable reception for the new 'edgy' Channel 4 there was some action or comedy films on every now n then, but basically anything genre or cult was rare.

One of my mate's family had a video player, i remember very well a gang of us gathering to watch ANOES 3 Dream Warriors which one of the boys had procured from underneath his older brother's bed. The nurse scene was great, but the Jennifer Rubin gaping hole arms is the image i always recall first.

Anyway, all this changed in 1988 when BBC2 showed a series called Moviedrome, where a cult (what is cult?) movie would be introduced before being shown. Alex Cox (Repo Man 1984) was the original host up until 1994. The show returned for a couple of seasons in the late 90s when it was hosted by Mark Cousins.



Below is a list of all the films shown on Moviedrome - how many have you seen? which is your fave? why bother?

The brackets will explain the reason those movies were presented as a double bill. If there are no brackets explaining the double bill that means the BBC just showed them one after the other (or the person who's site i lifted this list from didn't figure out the link & i can't be bothered trying).

1988


The Wicker Man
Electra Glide in Blue
Diva
Razorback
Big Wednesday
Fat City
The Last Picture Show
Barbarella
The Hired Hand
Johnny Guitar
The Parallax View
The Long Hair of Death
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
The Fly (1958)
One From The Heart
The Man Who Fell To Earth
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
One-Eyed Jacks

1989

The Man With The X-Ray Eyes
Jabberwocky
D.O.A.
The Thing From Another World
The Incredible Shrinking Man
California Dolls
THX 1138
Stardust Memories
Night of the Comet
The Grissom Gang
The Big Carnival (Ace in the Hole)
Alphaville
Two-Lane Blacktop
Trancers
The Buddy Holly Story
Five Easy Pieces
Sweet Smell of Success
Sunset Boulevard

1990


Assault on Precinct 13
Brazil
Get Carter
Goin' South
Dead of Night
The Terminator
The Honeymoon Killers
Ulzana's Raid
The Loved One
An American Werewolf in London
Yojimbo
A Wedding
The Phenix City Story
Walk on the Wild Side
Il Grande Silenzio
Quien sabe?

1991

The Beguiled
Vamp
Knightriders
Something Wild
Carnival of Souls
Badlands / The Prowler
Performance
At Close Range
The Duellists / Cape Fear (duels)
The Music Lovers
Manhunter
Hells Angels on Wheels / Rumble Fish (gangs)
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?
Solaris
Mishima

1992

Mad Max II / F for Fake
Dead Ringers / Rabid (Cronenberg)
Inserts
The Serpent and the Rainbow
Les Diaboliques
La Strategia del Ragno
Escape from New York
Alligator / Q - The Winged Serpent
Wise Blood / The Witchfinder General
Lolita
Play Misty For Me
Walker
Tracks
The Day of the Locust / The Big Knife (Hollywood satires)

1993


Darkman
House of Games
Escape from Alcatraz / Un condamné à mort s'est échappé (prison)
The Hill
Cry-Baby / Lenny
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) / Romance of a Horsethief
Gothic/ The Navigator
The Terminator
Get Carter / Week-end
Rebel Without A Cause / 200 Motels
Django / Grim Prairie Tales
Run of the Arrow / Verboten! (Fuller)
The Long Riders
The Big Combo
Face to Face
Requiescant
Qué he heche yo para merecer esto?
Carrie

1994

The Andromeda Strain / Fiend Without A Face
Talk Radio
Carnal Knowledge
Coogan's Bluff / The Narrow Margin
The Harder They Come
Salvador
The People Under the Stairs
Halloween / The Baby
Carny
Girl on a Motorcycle / Psychomania (motorcycles)
Race with the Devil / Detour (keep death on the road)
Rope / 84 Charlie Mopic (experimental filming)
To Sleep with Anger / Le Mépris
Excalibur / Nothing Lasts Forever
Naked Tango / Apartment Zero (Buenos Aires)
Major Dundee / Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Kiss Me Deadly

1997-1998

Scarface
Westworld / Demon Seed (futuristic)
The Fly / Society
Exotica
Blue Collar / American Gigolo (Paul Schrader)
Dazed and Confused / La Vie Sexuelle des Belges (growing up)
The Girl Can't Help it / Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana (music)
The Warriors / La Haine (gangs)
Spanking the Monkey
Logan's Run / Fahrenheit 451 (future)
The Fog / Darkness in Tallinn
Storyville / Ruthless
Vanishing Point / The Devil Thumbs a Ride (road movies)
Targets
Liebestraum
Bad Timing
The Conversation
All That Heaven Allows / The Reckless Moment



1998

Trespass
Shaft / Force of Evil
Funny Bones
Cat People
The Killers (1946)
Caged Heat
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Carrie
Léon / Le Samourai
El Patrullero

1999

Clockers
Ed Wood / The Body Snatcher (B-film)
Prêt-à-porter
Videodrome / Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
Carlito's Way
The Osterman Weekend
Mommie Dearest
Johnny Guitar
Branded to Kill
The List of Adrian Messenger
One-Eyed Jacks

2000

Blood and Wine / Plein Soleil (nouvelle vague directors)
Rumble in the Bronx / Clubbed to Death ("guilty pleasures")
The Killers (1964) / On Dangerous Ground
The Underneath / The Hitch-Hiker (film noir)
Walkabout / Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
White of the Eye
The Last American Hero

"Marjorine" episode of South Park

That is a pretty good episode for horror fans. Just casually watching it, I noticed some references to Pet Sematary, and also to that old short story "The Monkey's Paw." There are references to other horror movies in it too, as other people have noticed. Anyway, it's pretty funny. Butters's parents crack me up.... If you scroll down here, to "cultural references," there is a little discussion of what movies and stories it draws upon.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Marjorine

There are some more here, down at the bottom.
https://southpark.wikia.com/wiki/Marjorine/Trivia

RIP Grandpa

My grandfather died today, age 88. I wasn't close with him, so I'm not terribly affected by it. He served in the military for a long time, so he paid his dues, but he was also a bad alcoholic, so we didn't really like him. Still, there are good memories here and there, so I felt like I should say something about the man.

One of my few fond memories of him was when I spent the night at his place, and he put a mark on his forearm and told me it was the curse of the werewolf, and stuck out his bottom teeth and acted like the wolf man.

As long as I've known him, he always seemed "old" to me, as in limited in comprehension and mobility. I'm surprised he lasted as long as he did. He'd been off the liquor for a few years now, but otherwise, he didn't do much, and lived in an old folks' home.

Sometimes when he'd been drinking, he'd sit at the table, morose, and tell me, "I coulda been somebody." I suppose he had a lot of regrets, because he wasn't well off, gambled a lot of his money away, and smoked like a fiend. Somehow, he lasted a while though.

I will give him an acting credit though: He played an extra in "Road to Perdition" in 2002, and got to meet Jude Law, and would always say how cool that guy was.

RIP Stanley James Stattner (1929-2017)

looking for version of Hound of the Baskervilles

I just watched the 1939 version and it's not the one I'm looking for. Could be the Hammer one, one of the 70s films, or the 1983 film, but no later than that.
The only visual I can recall fom the one I saw as a kid was a shot of the hound walking in slow motion over the moors and his eyes might have been glowing. It was a side or 3/4 shot and the hound looked really manacing. My memory could be way off though.

Anyone?

Planet of Dinosaurs (1978)

Every kid loves old fashioned dinosaur B-Movies. I know I watched them taped off late night TV when I was young. If One Million Years B.C. has higher end production values afforded to it by Hammer Studios then Planet of Dinosaurs is on the other end of the spectrum in terms of budget.

It's pretty clear whatever minimal budget they had went towards the stop motion effects for the dinosaurs. There's actually plenty of them throughout the movies runtime so that's all good.

Everything else is shot on location in a wild area. Captures the idea of being stranded on a primitive planet I suppose.

Virtually no other set or location is used except for the movie opening with a starship crash and whatever resource they had to pull that if so minimal that it shows.

At least they managed to come up with something with plenty of dinosaur action.

That theme music as well though.

Official 2017 Trash Challenge Progress Thread

This is where you make your spot, and edit in your progress throughout March. Good luck, everybody!


All questions, comments and discussions go right here ------> https://trashepics.com/post/9/104/

The Fifth Annual Black & White Challenge

It's almost that time of year again. And I'll be continuing the Black and White tradition right here, starting April 1st.


Black and white movies only.


Even on the good 'ol HB, this challenge allowed all genres, and I see no reason to change that, now.


POINTS

Films from the 60's - present: 1 point

Films from the 50's: 2 points

Films from the 40's: 3 points

Films from the 30's: 4 points

Films from the 20's or earlier: 5 points

FTV's: 1 point


Films with color segments count as long as the color does not outway the Black and the white.

Films that are tinted count.

Films must be atleast 40 minutes to qualify.

Questions/comments/suggestions?

I'll start the progress thread in a few days.

The Three Stooges

Any fans? I think these guys were hilarious. Really physical slapstick comedy, and there's a definite influence in the works of Sam Raimi, particularly in Evil Dead/Army of Darkness. Mel Gibson likes them too, as seen in Lethal Weapon. Those guys are bad-ass, and they know good comedy!
**
MOE Howard**, with his chili-bowl haircut... What an asshole! But still, you like him, because he drives the plot.

LARRY Fine, a mediocre tool, but that's why you like him! He's got clown hair!

then CURLY Howard! The flamboyant special ed kid with retard strength who can defeat anyone if he's feeling dumb enough. Woop woop woop!



Then... we have the neglected Stooge... SHEMP Howard! I actually like Shemp. He's kinda regular, but he's also kinda ugly, and that makes him kind of amusing.

FUCK JOE BESSER.

Curly Joe is alright.


That's SIX stooges! In the end, there is no replacement for regular Curly! He was also a ladies man.

Song Lyrics that Speak to You

As in, "Wow, that is profound! A new life philosophy for me!"

A couple off the top of my head
1) The Eagles - Already Gone: "So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains.
And we never even know we have the key."

2) The Grateful Dead - Truckin': "Sometimes your cards ain't worth a dime, if you don't lay'em down."

Anyone ever eat Hummus?

I eat Hummus all the time. One time for my birthday, someone got me Hummus and chips and shit and then someone else made me organic chocolate chip cookies. So of course I thought the chips out and used the Choco Chip Cookies as the hummus shoveller.

#kittens