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Nikki
Oct 25, 2009 18:32:26 GMT -5
Post by Eddie Love on Oct 25, 2009 18:32:26 GMT -5
Nikki was the name of Burt Bacharach's daughter and there's an instrumental track he wrote for her that's on his great box-set that came out a few years ago. The second it started playing I was awash in Proustian recollections because that was the theme song to the ABC Movie of the Week! I loved you guys running some of those names down. Haunts of the Very Rich? Oh yes. Bad Ronald? Freaked. Me. Out. Remember Do Not Fold Spindle or Mutilate? Or the one where Arther Hill is left to die by his wife in the desert? Satan's School for Girls? The Norliss Tapes -- which was either a precurser to Night Stalker or a cash-in, but terrifying nonetheless. And there was a werewolf one (I think by Dan Curtis) with Peter Graves. All of those now lost to time it seems. You must do a whole show on those.
It was Leonard Whiting (of Zefferelli's Romeo & Juliet) who played Frankenstein in F:TTS and Michael Sarazin played the monster. That also was another mindf---K when I was a kid. Remember when the monster throws himself off the White Cliffs of Dover and just seems to fall for ten minutes? That was written by Christopher Isherwood and had a great all-star cast. Sarrazin was a big deal around then and he just vanished.
Also, one of the reasons Duel holds up so well is how great Dennis Weaver was. He's really unheralded. He was terrific in McCloud and Gunsmoke and gave a great dramatic performance in Duel at Diablo.
Great show! (Even if the tasty digressions leave a listener hungry for so much more!)
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Nikki
Oct 25, 2009 19:43:20 GMT -5
Post by Derrick on Oct 25, 2009 19:43:20 GMT -5
Remember THE LOVE WAR? That was another ABC Movie Of The Week that freaked me out as a kid. So many of them were really good. Didn't the werewolf one co-star Clint Walker as a rival hunter after the ame werewolf Peter Graves was hunting?
I love Dennis Weaver in DUEL AT DIABLO. It's the only movie where you can find professional good guys Dennis Weaver, Sidney Poitier and James Garner all playing hard-as-concrete badasses who spend just as much time in the movie trying to kill each other as they do the bloodthirsty Apache warriors trying to kill them.
And thank you for saying you enjoy the digressions. I wish you'd tell Tom you like them as I feel he worries way too much about them.
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Nikki
Oct 26, 2009 6:47:52 GMT -5
Post by james on Oct 26, 2009 6:47:52 GMT -5
Bad Ronald and Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (the made-for-television movie about tiny creatures living in the walls of a house - Tom mentioned this one but couldn't remember the title) are now available from Warner Brothers' Archive program, if you're willing to pay $19.95 for an on-demand DVD with no bonuses or chapter stops. Hell, I've considered buying both.
Derrick, Tom - this episode was right in my wheelhouse! I only caught up with Burnt Offerings from the DVD a couple of years ago, but I watched The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane sometime in high school, on ABC-NY's Friday late night movie show. They used to run unusual movies there, like this one and Deadly Eyes, the killer rat movie. I liked it so much that I even read the novel it was adapted from (the local library had a copy), but I don't remember much about it.
The current MGM DVD for Burnt Offerings is very inconsistent. At some points the print is very sharp, but in other scenes it's so soft looking that Oliver Reed looks almost orange. I'm going to assume that this is due to a faded print and not how the film was supposed to look. I doubt MGM is planning on restoring the DVD print anytime soon. Derrick - good call on the final shot of the movie being reminiscent of the final shot of The Shining. They are very similar.
Minor correction - Ernie "Ghoulardi" Anderson's son is Paul Thomas Anderson (of There Will Be Blood and Magnolia) not Wes Anderson. His production company is named Ghoulari Productions
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Nikki
Oct 26, 2009 10:56:43 GMT -5
Post by Derrick on Oct 26, 2009 10:56:43 GMT -5
I should have pointed out that BURNT OFFERINGS shares more with the movie version of THE SHINING rather than the novel its based on. Especially that final shot in BURNT OFFERINGS which is so close in tone to Kubrick's ending of THE SHINING that there's no way you can't tell me Kubrick didn't see BURNT OFFERINGS. Glad you enjoyed the show, james!
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Nikki
Oct 26, 2009 11:35:13 GMT -5
Post by james on Oct 26, 2009 11:35:13 GMT -5
I never had any interest in watching Hello, Mary Lou: Prom Night II until I listened to this episode, so, yep, I enjoyed it. One for the Netflix queue... ;D
In his non-fiction book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre, King included Robert Marasco's novel and Dan Curtis' film on lists of his 100 favorite horror books, and 100 favorite horror movies. So they might have been an influence on The Shining, although the basic premise King created from a real experience (he and his wife stayed at a Colorado resort on the last day of the summer season before it closed). I don't know about Kubrick, but he rarely spoke publicly about his work, to say the least.
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Nikki
Oct 26, 2009 11:43:54 GMT -5
Post by james on Oct 26, 2009 11:43:54 GMT -5
The Norliss Tapes -- which was either a precurser to Night Stalker or a cash-in, but terrifying nonetheless. The Norliss Tapes was directed by Dan Curtis (after the Kolchak movies). You know, I thought Curtis had directed The Night Stalker because he's so often associated with it. Stephen King repeatedly describes the movie as Curtis' work in Danse Macabre. Well, he produced it, and he did direct the sequel ( The Night Strangler), but I was suprised to find out he didn't direct it; John Llewellyn Moxey did. King doesn't mention him in the book. Curtis has nothing at all to do with the Kolchak series, oddly enough.
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