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by nightwalker
August 13th, 2010, 12:37 pm
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: Frankenstein
Replies: 66
Views: 57454

Re: Frankenstein

The ability to evoke a sympathetic response in the viewer is a characteristic of many of the great monsters and the actors who portray them. One need only call to mind Lon Chaney Sr.'s portrayals of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA and THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME . Even Bela Lugosi's DRACULA , as evil and u...
by nightwalker
May 19th, 2009, 11:03 am
Forum: Site Talk
Topic: Difficulty Accessing Site
Replies: 35
Views: 40225

Re: Difficulty Accessing Site

As most of you are undoubtedly aware, I don't post here (or anywhere) often, but I do visit frequently, so you can imagine my feelings when I kept being directed to a site offering "silver screens" for sale. What a relief to be able to get back to the Oasis (and what an appropriate name). ...
by nightwalker
May 19th, 2009, 10:59 am
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: Harper's Island
Replies: 2
Views: 2043

Re: Harper's Island

Well, I've been watching this. It's not bad, but it lacks the quirkiness of "Twin Peaks." The only real similarity between the two IMHO is that they both take place in small, rather isolated communities.

Some of the deaths are imaginatively staged but rather grisly.
by nightwalker
August 29th, 2008, 2:08 pm
Forum: Archived Guest Stars
Topic: Welcome, Lisa Ryan
Replies: 71
Views: 37341

Hello, Ms. Ryan. I've been enjoying your answers to our questions all week. I think your dad is one of the most underrated actors of our time. I think possibly his best quality as an actor is his ability to invest his characters with a sort of world-weary nobility, as in THE SET UP and even THE WILD...
by nightwalker
July 3rd, 2008, 9:09 am
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: Top 10 Scream Queen Beauties
Replies: 16
Views: 9234

Re: Top 10 Scream Queen Beauties

MichiganJ wrote: Barbara Steele-- Black Sunday/Pit and the Pendulum (The eyes say it all. Anyone know which movie had her hair covering half her face throughout? Scared me quite a bit as a kid.) I believe it's THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH , aka I LUNGHI CAPELLI DELLA MORTE , from 1964, and yes, it is avai...
by nightwalker
July 3rd, 2008, 8:59 am
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: Do You Know Me?
Replies: 1022
Views: 282277

True. In fact, just to give one example, he singlehandedly saves the otherwise quite pedestrian FORSAKING ALL OTHERS, 1934, which was on not long ago, as Gable's buddy.
by nightwalker
July 2nd, 2008, 3:36 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: Do You Know Me?
Replies: 1022
Views: 282277

Charles Butterworth.
by nightwalker
April 4th, 2008, 3:33 pm
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: The New Battlestar Galactica
Replies: 5
Views: 3481

You might want to watch the Sci-Fi Channel listings for this one, Anne.

They occasionally have marathons of their series and, in fact, had one for this show, 8 hours a day, all five weekdays this week. All you would need would be a few tapes or disks.
by nightwalker
April 4th, 2008, 2:47 pm
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: Curse/Night of the Demon
Replies: 14
Views: 6955

Hey, Ollie. I'll take a crack at answering your questions for you. Andrews' character (John Holden) is a psychologist who was invited to participate in a symposium debunking the supernatural, particularly devil worship and witchcraft. His "area of expertise" lies in what we might today cal...
by nightwalker
February 25th, 2008, 1:42 pm
Forum: Film Noir and Crime
Topic: Women in peril / husband or brother disappears films
Replies: 11
Views: 5808

Another good film along these lines is 1965's BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING , directed by Otto Preminger. In the film, Carol Lynley's young daughter disappears from a day school, managing it so completely that Mom is unable to prove she ever existed when the police, led by Laurence Olivier, come to investig...
by nightwalker
January 9th, 2008, 2:40 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: Do You Know Me?
Replies: 1022
Views: 282277

Larry Storch.
by nightwalker
January 9th, 2008, 2:35 pm
Forum: Westerns
Topic: an observation and a question regarding westerns
Replies: 20
Views: 7857

Bogart was also in VIRGINIA CITY (1940), an Errol Flynn Western in which he played the bad guy with a truly hilarious faux-Mexican accent!
by nightwalker
December 28th, 2007, 1:43 pm
Forum: Games and Trivia
Topic: Do You Know Me?
Replies: 1022
Views: 282277

Nigel "Willie" Bruce.
by nightwalker
December 27th, 2007, 11:43 am
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: Mario Bava, Master of Smoke and Rich Color Palettes
Replies: 23
Views: 12122

I Wouldn't be at all surprised, Mike, if FRIDAY THE 13TH did "borrow" from A BAY OF BLOOD/TWITCH OF THE DEATH NERVE.

But BAY/TWITCH was done with much more style.
by nightwalker
December 21st, 2007, 10:59 am
Forum: Sci-fi and Horror
Topic: Mario Bava, Master of Smoke and Rich Color Palettes
Replies: 23
Views: 12122

I also saw THE WHIP AND THE BODY under the title of WHAT? As you might imagine, there was some difficulty whenever someone would ask me the most recent film I had watched. Them: So, seen any interesting movies lately? Me: WHAT? Them: I said, what's the last movie you watched, dude? Me: That's right....