I just scanned the schedule for this year's Monsterfest. There's very little of interest to me there. It's a lot of slasher flicks and cheap horror from the sixties and on. HELLRAISER movies, SCREAM 3, THE BEAST MUST DIE, POLTERGEIST II.
Nothing that interests me.
They used to show the classic Universal horror films of the thirties. In fact, a couple years going they showed the old versions of DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY, and THE WOLF MAN back to back. I've called in sick for that, once upon a time.
This year they're showing WES CRAVEN'S DRACULA 2000, though. Pfft.
I'm sure they get better ratings with the newer stuff, but would it hurt to air the old classics? Just once?
Nothing that interests me.
They used to show the classic Universal horror films of the thirties. In fact, a couple years going they showed the old versions of DRACULA, FRANKENSTEIN, THE MUMMY, and THE WOLF MAN back to back. I've called in sick for that, once upon a time.
This year they're showing WES CRAVEN'S DRACULA 2000, though. Pfft.
I'm sure they get better ratings with the newer stuff, but would it hurt to air the old classics? Just once?
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- 14 Jan 2019, 21:47Oh, yeah, excellent point.
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...and most importantly- they're almost all kid friendly.
I was sorry to see AMC move to more modern movies in recent years, but I do understand that it's helped their ratings.
Last year I borrowed DRACULA: THE LEGACY COLLECTION from the library and watched the English version and the Spanish version back to back. I hope I'm not telling you things you already know, but they were both shot at the same time, the English version during the day and the Spanish version on the same sets at night.
It's pretty interesting to watch the same movie, being made at the same time, by two different teams. Apparently, the Spanish-language team sat in on the dailies and tried to come up with better ways to shoot what the day team had done. They also edited the film differently, so some of the stuff that doesn't make sense in the Legosi version is explained.
I'm not going to get it before the holiday, I don't think. I should just buy myself a copy.