CPF Reviews #4-1000 Sleepless Nights: My Life with "Ghost Story" (remastered)
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- Опубліковано 24 лис 2019
- I revisit the film that terrorized me in my youth, in what is the primary impetus behind this remastered series, as I used the recent Blu-ray to drastically improve the quality of the film footage (the video of me is regrettably stuck in SD mushland).
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You are so typically brilliant... the way you weave your personal experience into evolution of the film, seemingly effortlessly (but we know better, don't we?). I haven't seen this film, will watch tonight hopefully. Didn't matter I hadn't seen it, your presentation/production so engaging I imagine you could do a video on peeling an orange that would enthrall. Early on in vid I thought of "The Blob" as film I had to leave at age 7, that goop going up the stick sent me scampering for the exit.
People often suggest I should review this film or that film, but aside from not being interested in doing requests, I only want to do videos where I can tell some kind of story about the film...I don't typically do "reviews," as such. Really, this piece had little to do with my opinion of the film as a piece of art.
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I saw it in the theater when I was a kid with my mom too. Scared the shit out of me. Very underrated.
This film has power. Once you see it you ponder it for days.. Alice is stunning.
Never even heard of this film. This channel deserves a hidden gems of youtube award, should such an award exist.
They'd have to find me first...this channel is even more well-hidden, it seems.
Alas poor Yorick, I knew him a kid too young to see this movie.
Fantastic job! Love your presentation and seeing the deep time into your personal nostalgia. Fantastic stuff! Keep up the great work!
I found the book first but this film IS creepy. Another outstanding video!
Wow your videos are amazing the details and personal experiences just tie it all together.
I'm a big fan of Peter Straub's novel 'Ghost Story'. Having read it prior to seeing the movie, I was somewhat disappointed with the film. Ah, well. So it goes.
The movie that haunted my childhood was the anthology film, 'Black Sabbath' - released in 1963 (Italy), director Mario Bava, (you can guess where the band found the inspiration for their name).
I saw this film on t.v., at home, alone, at the tender age of around eleven. In particular, the last story, 'A Drop of Water', scared me so badly I had to sleep with the lights on for a very long time.
A few years later, I saw it again. Once more, I needed the lights on to sleep.
This went on for a while - seeing the movie on t.v., freaking out, poor sleep. Man oh man, I don't know why I did this to myself. But, it did form a twisted yet appreciative respect for disturbing and psychologically trying horror films.
Then, in my teens, it was 'The Exorcist' that took the baton of messing with my sleep cycles. This film still scares the bejeebers out of me - and yet I adore it for how masterfully it carries out its body slamming effect.
Thank you for reminding me how certain films can stick with us, and yet inspire us to perhaps create great films...or just create a blueprint to a baseline to what terrifies us, and knowing when we see something extra special.
And don't get me started on 'Hereditary' - a new film to cause trauma, and also respect to supah-fine horror film-making.
I first watched Hereditary starting at 1:00 AM, all by myself. That might have been a mistake, yet I couldn't get it out of my head afterwards. My mom asked me recently why I like horror movies after that experience, but I expect that was, in a twisted way, a large part of the reason why. The director of the newest Halloween film talked about how Michael Myers terrified him as a kid. A script I've written for a low-budget film I hope to shoot someday has a huge Ghost Story homage in it. These things never really leave us, but that doesn't have to be a bad thing.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks I absolutely agree that it doesn't have to be a bad thing. These early experiences shaped my tastes in many ways that I rather treasure.
And, oof! 'Hereditary'! I seriously never saw those shin-kicks coming when I saw the film. When 'that scene' happened, I think I had my hand gripped over my mouth for a full half-hour - either to hold in a choking sob...or to suppress a scream. A very impressive and startling work.
That film actually made me rethink my opinion of hit-and-run drivers to some extent. Maybe, in the moment, their brains just crash from the horror of it all.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Good point about hit-and-runners. 'That Scene' in 'Hereditary' felt so honest regarding his reactions. I kept thinking that perhaps I could also just want to hide in my room, in bed, forever. Situations like that can be too horrible to accept.
The brain will do anything to protect itself. This film put a spotlight on all sorts of uncomfortable truths, and the consequences of never facing them.
This is the video that first got me into your work, when I randomly stumbled upon it (while in search of the Ghost Story audiobook); it's great to see it here, remastered, reposted. Keep up the exemplary work!
It's still one my favorites in structural terms, though the picture and sound quality leave much to be desired. I wish I'd had my current camera when I made this one.
Thank you for this! Another great video!
Like you, I have a skeleton in my closet, i.e. a film that impressed me in my childhood and which still gives me the creeps.
It is, however, much more embarassing: It's a TV-two-parter about alien abductions from the 90s with the guy who played Colonel Trautman in Rambo as a psychologist. (Richard Crenna?)
Funnily enough, this never stopped me from enjoying Alien or The X-Files.
But that thing is deeply lodged inside my reptile brain as the epitome of nameless horror.
I had a co-worker who, even as an adult, couldn't watch The Dark Crystal after seeing it as a kid, even though she was a fan of horror films. The way young brains work is just kind of messed up.
Corn Pone Flicks I guess it's just something fundamental that hits you in the darkest corner of your self, an unconcious "arch-fear", which is different and individual to everyone. No reason or rationality of the adult mind can get rid of it, only deal with it.
Keep up the good work!
It's interesting how long some childhood memories linger on during adulthood. I've waded knee-deep through the blood of the enemy, but, no wait, that was that Umbra guy from Morrowind. I remember my 10th or so birthday, where my friends and I were looking forward to watching The Wrath of Khan on VHS at my home. But the first five minutes, including that terrifying Mickey Mouse logo with the deep droning sound, were so dark and serious not only compared to the original Star Trek series, but in itself that I couldn't help but turn that movie off. My friends weren't happy with my action, but they would soon quiet down, for they were little interested in me wading knee-deep but anyway. I have skipped watching The Wrath of Khan until recently, 30+ years later. Another one is ET. ET gave me nightmarish feelings. Watched it about two years ago for the first time. To be honest, I have skipped most horror films until some years ago, when I started watching Red Letter Media. And then there is one movie I remember from childhood, something from the late 50s/early 60s I believe, probably an American production, and one of the character, possibly the evil character somehow gets into a pool where he turns green, and his green hand reaches over the edge of that pool, and I need to watch this again, to face my fear. I need to know the name of that movie.
I'm not sure what you mean about the Mickey Mouse logo, but I saw Wrath of Khan shortly after Ghost Story, and I remember actually being nervous as hell when Khan was unwrapping his face in his first scene, worried it would turn out to be something horrifying under there, which was fully absurd as I knew damn well it would be Khan, whom I'd seen in the trailers and who didn't look like a rotting zombie. Kids' brains do their best to terrify their owners in such unnecessary ways.
@@Corn_Pone_Flicks Hm, I must have misremembered the logo. I have skimmed through some of the "logo histories" on UA-cam and found that the "Neon Mickey" logo comes closest to what I remember. And I found out that Wrath of Khan was distributed on VHS in the 80s in Germany by Paramount. It is possible that my parents had rented more than one video on my birthday and I have mixed the memory of the logo with the memory of the beginning of Wrath of Khan.
That happens sometimes. There's a very specific shot I remembered from Ghost Story that, on review, doesn't actually exist and I obviously just invented in my imagination. Memory is a weird and wacky thing.
That movie swamp thing scared the shit outa me as kid lol I had nightmares for so long from it now as an adult it seems dumb and not scary.
Decent spooky movie. Very atmospheric. I highly recommend the UK's A Ghost Story for Christmas tv movies. The Signalman starring Denholm Elliott.... whew boy. It's top notch.
Great book.
For me it was The Ring, which I saw WAY too young, and that damn ghost child was my personal boogeyman for years.
I'm actually considering The Ring for a future video. That's one of my favorites.
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Oh sick! I'm looking forward to that! It's actually one of my favorite franchises in horror now (though mostly out of interest in seeing what weird new angle they shoot for, instead of any actual good horror stuff). I'll watch that soggy child duke it out with whatever opponent is put in front of her.
I'll doubtlessly confine my observations to just the first one...I never even saw the latest one after hearing not one good thing about it.
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Oh they're all a hot mess. They're just fun messes.