Peck and Gardner were good friends. When Ava Gardner died, Peck and his wife hired Gardner's maid (a close friend of Gardner's who Gardner wanted to ensure had a decent job) and adopted her dogs. Peck was known to be a decent guy.
@@terrytalksmovies He was great in somethings that needed subtle, dramatic acting , 12 O'clock High, Gentlemen's Agreement, The Outlaw or To Kill a Mocking Bird, come to mind. He was good in light comedies, The Million Pound Note, Roman Holiday or Arabesque. . . . and sometimes he would look WAAAAAYYYYY to deep into the part and really screw up the part and the movie: Moby Dick, MacArthur (usually signaled by a long, complex, well-thought-out memo to the director). It kind of reminds me of Charlton Heston making the artistic decision in Touch of Evil to play Mike Vargas, a Mexican Federale and Hildago , with a US accent on the grounds that Vargas was US educated, upper class guy . . . .. but when Vargas has to speak Spanish, he also speaks Spanish with a US Midwestern accent.
I'm more than happy to acknowledge Adelaide as the new home of Australian horror. Great video Terry. I have both the Dr Phibes movies - they are definitely up for a re-watch this month, as is The Curse of the Faceless Man (an old favourite of mine since I first saw it in the 70s on our old Thorn B&W tv on Deadly Earnest.) I'm also watching The Wicker Man this week along with The Vampire Lovers. Cheers and have an awesome week.
'Brit Eckland....memorably' yep as a young boy at the time, I see what you did there. Lots of great horror there Terry. Surprised and delighted with your inclusion of 'These Final Hours' which should get more recognition than I think it gets. Thanks for the review mate. 😊
I watched These Final Hours, (based on one of your earlier recommendations) and really liked it 👍. Definitely deserves more attention. I need to get to On The Beach.
Thanks Terry, love your talks on film, I've seen a helluva lot of flicks but you leave me in the dust, big time! Always learn a few things, your knowledge is astounding , always taking notes, the list is already extensive , I know I'll never get around to them all, cheers !
Great choices as usual Terry and thanks for another winner of a video. Your suggestion of These Final Hours made both of us think of On The Beach. Do you know another nuclear fear movie " Ladybug Ladybug " ??? All the best.
The best thing about Schlock is that it is Rick Baker the makeup artists' first feature film. Saw a brief film discussion with Landis and he interviewed a very young Baker living at his parent's home. When Landis walked into Baker's small art room he thought this is the guy, he's a genuis. Anyone else Landis found to make the gorilla costume wanted 20k plus, the total budget of the movie was 60k. This got Baker work as a makeup assistant in The Exorcist and making the mutant baby for It's Alive.
Great choices and they are all worth rewatching if you have already seen them. Warning, make sure you get this version of the Dunwich Horror and not the remake made a few years ago - that one treats itself too seriously - easy to slip up as Dean stockwell is in both
Schlock! Man that list is sweetness! I really should chase those Yokai's!✌️💚 These final hours sound deep as hell in it's story, sounds great. You really know your movies man!✌️💚
That’s a wonderfully ecclectic horror movie collection, Terry. The Great Yokai War, The Wicker Man and The Dunwich Horror are all part of our annual Halloween week film viewing which also includes John Carpenter’s apocalypse trilogy and George Romero’s original living dead trilogy.
On the Beach is such a great movie. I know it’s based on a novel, but I think the title makes people think is some romantic movie like Roman Holiday or something. Absolutely chilling with a great sense of hopelessness and melancholy. Peck would go on to hit a movie streak soon after. Mockingbird, Cape Fear and Navarone is a hell of a run
Babbadook! A lesson on how to make an excellent movie on a low budget. Can't rave too much about how good it is. The ending I did not like the first time around, and then I got it second time. Brilliant ending. Truly a great horror film.
Some nice physical media editions there Terry. Like the Corman/Poe set and The Wicker Man edition looks cool. Mmmm The Dunwich Horror and The Babadook were ... ok. 'The Cabin In The Woods' I think I wanna see. 'Dead of Night' is just a fantastic horror movie. Creepy as hell, and has easily the best framing story of any horror portmanteau flick.
Great collection, Terry! I've got a few I haven't seen yet marked on my "Buy them when you can afford it" list, and I've seen many of the rest. Absolutely to the original THE WICKER MAN (and never in Hell to the Neil LaButte remake!), and I really like how unlike anything else AIP was doing at the time THE DUNWICH HORROR was. That was the work on Daniel Haller, who was Corman's production designer on the first two Poe movies, and whose first film as a director was the Lovecraft adaptation DIE, MONSTER, DIE! starring Boris Karloff and Nick Adams in a movie team-up I'm sure nobody, including Karloff himself, was clamoring for. DUNWICH is a much better film and Lovecraft adaptation overall, even if Dean Stockwell channels the Stygian Power of the Elder Gods by putting his fists to his temples with his thumbs out, as if he's trying to cure a headache by tuning onto cosmic zonk rays! CABIN IN THE WOODS is surprisingly divisive for a film that's a mainly satiric version of "Why DO all these dumb high school and college students always go to deserted cabins or mansions to get picked off by monsters, anyway? And why are all those college students horny, drunk, and dumb as a box of rocks when faced with a threat to life and limb?" THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER PODCAST's Paul Chapman hated the movie and felt the surviving characters were incredibly selfish(!) for not just letting themselves be killed, and his guest host hated the movie as glib and smug! I don't expect to agree with movie critics, or other fans, all the time by any means, but that take was decidedly...bizarre. Since you like the Dr. Phibes movies so much (and they're great fun-I have both on Blu-Ray), what do you think of Robert Fuest's THE FINAL PROGRAMME? I *think* I like it, but I also feel like I need to read up a lot more on Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius to know what the movie's going on about. Finally, if DIE HARD is a Christmas movie? Then ON THE BEACH is a horror film-a very depressingly realistic one that I don't go back to because the movie, like the book, leaves me feeling *really* depressed....
A great selection of movies, some I have yet to watch. I remember seeing _On the Beach_ on television as a pre-teen kid. It bored me, but I was interested enough to watch the whole thing. I just lacked the emotional maturity to really comprehend it. As an adult, it hits much harder.⬅ Yesterday, the GoodBadFlicks channel released a video you may be interested in, "5 Overlooked Films Ep.21 -- Ozploitation Horror". I don't remember you reacting to any of the films he mentions. You may be interested in taking a look; he seemed to like most of them, and he intentionally chose lesser-known movies. You might also consider doing a reaction to his reaction, allowing us to compare an Australian's take to someone from North America.⬅ This last is sort of off-topic for your channel. It is something I suspect you will like though, one of the most transgressive anime's I have ever seen, yet in the USA it can be watched on Netflix, Hulu, and Crunchyroll. There is a possibility that Disney/Hulu could have censored parts of it, but Crunchyroll, and I assume Netflix, just throw it all out there. *All.* It's wonderful and uniquely unique, given the odd name "Dan Da Dan". I can see you doing a season review once this batch is complete. (Netflix is actually airing the episodes as they come out, instead of their usual thing of waiting until the season is over and airing it all at once.)
New camera output looks flat and grainy .... ? Wait, no, I had down-tuned YT to 240p on this device, because this device has been throwing fits. Back to 1080p, looks great. Oh man, that edition of Wicker Man looks AMAZING! Best horror musical ever-chop! chop! Always love to see a godsniffing arsehole get what 's comin' to 'em! Hopefully he's in hell with Carrie's mom ... or would be if hell ... or these characters ... existed. "... a rabbit hole you'll never emerge from ..." considering the subject this came across very ominous indeed! :D On the Beach ... excellent inclusion. I'm always down for some Cold War apocalyptica, and have quite a collection. We (in California) acquired a color television in 1982, and parents used that 19" set for 25yrs. Only grandma had a color set in the '70s, and it was a two-ton console beast that had to be craned around. I might exaggerate a bit, but not much. Thanks for another fun run down!
The picture is great Terry you really notice the difference with your new camera. I must admit Horror is one of the genres I struggle with. I'm a big sook, but these "Comfort Horror Movies" suit me down to the ground. p.s thank you sincerely for your kind comment on my Channel 🙏
I love the Dr. Phibes films! They are so much fun, for all the reasons you mentioned, but also the wonderful performance (in the first film) of Peter Jeffrey as Detective Inspector Trout! He is the perfect combination of bumbling but just smart enough to be one step behind Phibes. Plus his boss always referring to him as another fish! The part gets dumbed down in the second film, which disappoints me. But they are still great fun films. Cheers Terry!
I regret not picking up that Dead of Night DVD when it was available. Like you, I first saw it on TV, albeit probably long after you first did. Wicker Man took me a long time to appreciate. First time I saw it on VHS I just didn't get the fuss, but I understood it a lot better on a DVD rewatch, it clicked for me in a way that it didn't before. I have that very Hammer Horror Collection DVD too. That's where my ongoing Hammer collection began. Cabin in the Woods... beautiful. I particularly enjoyed the ending and how it made sure there wouldn't be a sequel... but at the same time I'd kind of like to see one get made if only to see how they rationalise it. I remember seeing Dunwich Horror on TV back in the early 90s when I was discovering Lovecraft. Don't think I cared for it, but I'd be interested in a rewatch now. There was a radio version, oddly enough, back in 1945 on a program called Suspense, and it was really good. Much more faithful to the original, too.
Dead of Night! Yes, a must-have. Cabin in the Woods may be worth a revisit, as may early Roger Corman, and the Phibes phlicks are sheer fun. As you mention These Final Hours, I wonder: have you ever seen Seeking a Friend for the End of the World? Strong selection -- thanks, Ter.
Halloween is simply the best holiday! Lots of candy and cake, loads of monster movies, a fuckton of costume parties/drunken revelries, no cards to send or presents to buy and NO UNCOMFORTABLE FAMILY DINNERS! I say we nix Valentines and Mothers/Fathers day and add an extra Halloween. Are you with me?
I just watched The Addiction (1995). It took me back to my college days. I didn't take anything seriously, since I had my whole life ahead of me. I just studied, worked and partied! It was the 70's after all, and I was young. It was comforting for me in that the main character, a philosophy student, thinks her way into acceptance of her vampirism. The philosophers however give her no solace. That's how I would have done it in my 20's - always over thinking and analyzing. The philosophy is there, but I had trouble understanding Existentialism in my early 20's - too abstract for me. I had never heard of this movie. It popped up in a search of one of the movies you talked about. I do love finding an old movie that I had not seen, let alone heard of. I did like the artistry of this movie!!!
I recently discovered The Great Yokai War. Great, gentle horror with a lot of Japanese folklore. I saw On the Beach when it came out. It is definitely horror. The apocalyptic world that it created was a very real possibility at that time. Chilling.
Great list. I concur with the idea that nuclear apocalypse films are in essence horror films. Other standouts in that category are "Threads" (1984 UK) and "The Day After 1983 USA.)
Lots of good horror films there Terry. When it comes to Yokai my favourite movie is A Letter to Momo, an anime film. Not scary at all but good. I'm surprised that I have so many of the films you talked about today cos I'm not really into horror, so I'll drag one or two out for a watch soon.
I have a question for you was there ever a movie that rod Taylor spoke in an aussie a accent all the movies over here I never heard him use that accent
@@terrytalksmovies thank you Terry sorry did not know that from canadian tv all I remember is time machine and the birds once again thank you Terry grant from canada
For me, Fatal Attraction is horror, and also the Clint Eastwood western The High Plains Drifter. Kind of like they get a drama script, then make it using horror movie techniques. Jump scares, creepy off camera noises, a soft focus tracking shot up a corridor to the boiled bunny.
Some excellent choices. The live action series "My Undead Yokai Girlfriend " is excellent. Also "The Moor" has been released onto UA-cam and Google Play... creepiest film I've seen in years.
My comfort horror films for October are the 1930's ones especially the Universal James Whale ones, but Warner Brothers has some gems too that have a completely different vibe. Ed Wood as well. Cheers
TTM -- will try to watch this tomorrow when I can take my eye bandage off. On Sunday I got into an argument with a spotted-lantern fly (invasive bug around here) and it smacked me with a norwegian spruce tree -- gouging out a chunk of my left cornea. Well, maybe it didn't happen quite that way, but a spotted-lantern fly and norwegian spruce were involved and the damage to my eye is true. I shipped out your CCBB surprise Monday -- so keep an eye open in a week or two for a box from Maryland, USA -- and unpack the entire box (check the bottom for a note). Cheers!
Watched "Dead of Night" yesterday. Have you heard the story of how the ending came to be? I still have all of those Vincent Price movies in my "Midnite Movies" collection. I like the look of that box set of the Poe pics! Might look for that one when I upgrade to BD.
@@terrytalksmovies I was referring to the ending that repletes the film's opening. They were originally going to end it with the scene before that, but when viewing the film, the projectionist thought the film wasn't over and accidently put on the first reel, again. Every thought that this was a better ending.
Great choices. My comfort horror would be the Universal and Hammer horror films that I grew up watching on TV. We had a color TV by the early 70s. Also fond memories of John Carpenter's films, some of the Stephen King adaptations like the 1978 Tv version of Salem's Lot which scared me as a kid, Jaws if that counts, the original version of The Omen, Romero's zombie films, Fright Night, Creepshow, Rosemary's Baby, Wait Until Dark-if that counts. You going to see Joker 2? I hear it's not so good.
Hey Terry. I recently checked out Apartment 7A the Rosemarys Baby prequel. Did the world need a prequel to RB a whopping 56 years after the original, a devilish No. I enjoyed it, had some good performances and cinematography etc. slick, good looking film but doesn’t hold a black candle to the original.
Terry: Yup, "On the Beach" was confrontational (not unlike Stanely Kramer's "Look Who's Coming to Dinner"?) Thought provoking on many different levels. The TV movie remake with Armand Assante was trash. My personal favorite comfort (horror) move would be both versions of "The Thing". An exercise in paranoia mixed in with a little gore (Carpenter's later version). Any hints on what's on deck for Science Fiction Saturday?
@@terrytalksmovies Yes, there are plenty of topics for movies past & present. #1 Smoking #2 Drinking #3 Product placement #4 Attitudes about vices #5 Censorship both self & studio enforced I have a photo of my parents taken sometime in the 1950's at a popular place in New York City called the Stork Club. There are drinks and a Stork Club ashtray on the table in the photo. My Dad kept that ashtray and some ashtrays with liquor brands on the bar in our house for many years. I'm guessing that those ashtrays and/or their branding have some personal meaning to you. Yes/No? Thanks.
by the gods how have i not herd of Schlock, Yokia monstes and Body Melt going in serece of all 3, love the babadock but at this time of year i like to watch the cthulhu based The Unnamable and the sequal The Unnamable Returns whuch has a belting cast including Julie Strain, David Warner and John Rhys-Davies all it was missing was Jeffrey Combs and Bruse Campbel as the leads
Mike here, not Anne. We are not huge movie people as far as dramas and such goes and watch mostly Film Noir, monster and some science fiction movies. But if I had to name my favorite movie of all time it would be the "Navigator" a 1988 time travel movie from New Zealand. Do you know it and if not could you please check it out and do a review of it. Thanks
Great selection of comfort horror!! Love the "Yokai Monsters" collection, especially the first three done in the 1960's. They make for a good double feature (one for one) with the Daimajin trilogy (stone idols of gods who get wrathful cos of evil disrespectful land developer's- kinda like if the Statue of Liberty bitch slapped *Rump!). "Dead of Night" to this day gives me chills (despite the comic episode done to lighten things up midway)-like you, saw it first on tv and often missing parts (coming in late and finding it already on) so was really glad to get it on DVD then Blu-ray. Philippine Horror/Vampire films?! Count me in!! as for Joss Whedon i want to believe people are redeemable and hope he's doing what he can to make amends. Like JK Rowling i still appreciate the books and the films but i can't support her recent attitudes to trans folks etc. nor Morrisey's racism. but i don't want to dismiss their previous work. sometimes assholes make good art, but it does make revisiting it painful.
There isn't an evidence that Whedon is doing anything to apologise and make amends. You also have to be careful about disgraced celebrities using crisis management companies to finesse their reputations.
Lee is superb in this rare non-villainous role. Interestingly, both Lee and the lead antagonist, played by Charles Gray, were both one time Bond villains.
"Quatermass and the Pit" is one for me
That works!
QUATERMASS AND THE PIT and THE DEVIL RIDES OUT are peak Hammer, IMO. Both great movies, and two I think I'll rewatch this Halloween season.... 😀
Peck and Gardner were good friends. When Ava Gardner died, Peck and his wife hired Gardner's maid (a close friend of Gardner's who Gardner wanted to ensure had
a decent job) and adopted her dogs.
Peck was known to be a decent guy.
I heard that. Not a fantastic actor but a solid human being.
@@terrytalksmovies He was great in somethings that needed subtle, dramatic acting , 12 O'clock High, Gentlemen's Agreement, The Outlaw or To Kill a Mocking Bird, come to mind.
He was good in light comedies, The Million Pound Note, Roman Holiday or Arabesque.
. . . and sometimes he would look WAAAAAYYYYY to deep into the part and really screw up the part and the movie: Moby Dick, MacArthur (usually signaled by a long, complex, well-thought-out memo to the director).
It kind of reminds me of Charlton Heston making the artistic decision in Touch of Evil to play Mike Vargas, a Mexican Federale and Hildago , with a US accent on the grounds that Vargas was US educated, upper class guy . . . .. but when Vargas has to speak Spanish, he also speaks Spanish with a US Midwestern accent.
@@terrytalksmovies Yeah, perhaps not the finest actor, but boy was he in a lot of terrific movies.
I'm more than happy to acknowledge Adelaide as the new home of Australian horror. Great video Terry. I have both the Dr Phibes movies - they are definitely up for a re-watch this month, as is The Curse of the Faceless Man (an old favourite of mine since I first saw it in the 70s on our old Thorn B&W tv on Deadly Earnest.) I'm also watching The Wicker Man this week along with The Vampire Lovers. Cheers and have an awesome week.
The Vampire Lovers is one of my vulgar pleasures. Thanks, Peter. You have a great week, too.
'Brit Eckland....memorably' yep as a young boy at the time, I see what you did there. Lots of great horror there Terry. Surprised and delighted with your inclusion of 'These Final Hours' which should get more recognition than I think it gets. Thanks for the review mate. 😊
It's always a pleasure. Glad you liked it.
Last time I watched Wicker Man I suddenly realized it is actually a musical 😮
The folk music really makes it work. All the clues are there.
I watched These Final Hours, (based on one of your earlier recommendations) and really liked it 👍. Definitely deserves more attention. I need to get to On The Beach.
On The Beach I have to be in the right mood for. That tragic plotline gets to me.
Thanks Terry, love your talks on film, I've seen a helluva lot of flicks but you leave me in the dust, big time! Always learn a few things, your knowledge is astounding , always taking notes, the list is already extensive , I know I'll never get around to them all, cheers !
I won't get around to all the movies I want to see, either. But I'll give it a bloody good go. Thanks for watching!
Great choices as usual Terry and thanks for another winner of a video. Your suggestion of These Final Hours made both of us think of On The Beach. Do you know another nuclear fear movie " Ladybug Ladybug " ??? All the best.
Ladybug Ladybug shows how much you can do with a fantastic script on a low budget.
The best thing about Schlock is that it is Rick Baker the makeup artists' first feature film. Saw a brief film discussion with Landis and he interviewed a very young Baker living at his parent's home. When Landis walked into Baker's small art room he thought this is the guy, he's a genuis. Anyone else Landis found to make the gorilla costume wanted 20k plus, the total budget of the movie was 60k. This got Baker work as a makeup assistant in The Exorcist and making the mutant baby for It's Alive.
The It's Alive baby is creepy and effective. I should do those movies on the channel.
@terrytalksmovies John P Ryan, as the father, really sells it too.
Great choices and they are all worth rewatching if you have already seen them.
Warning, make sure you get this version of the Dunwich Horror and not the remake made a few years ago - that one treats itself too seriously - easy to slip up as Dean stockwell is in both
I heard truly shitty things about the remake.
Schlock! Man that list is sweetness! I really should chase those Yokai's!✌️💚 These final hours sound deep as hell in it's story, sounds great. You really know your movies man!✌️💚
Thanks! I blame it on my misspent youth. 😀
That’s a wonderfully ecclectic horror movie collection, Terry. The Great Yokai War, The Wicker Man and The Dunwich Horror are all part of our annual Halloween week film viewing which also includes John Carpenter’s apocalypse trilogy and George Romero’s original living dead trilogy.
Good choices, Joshua. I broke discipline and watch La Dolce Vita tonight. Hell of a movie.
Great list ❤️🐸The Ghost and Mr Chicken is always a go to for me.
I haven't seen that since the 1970s!
I did just upgrade my Phibes film, since the blu-ray has some interesting commentary tracks.
Nice! Unfortunately if I did that for all the movies I want to, I'd have to sell the house to pay for them. 😀
On the Beach is such a great movie. I know it’s based on a novel, but I think the title makes people think is some romantic movie like Roman Holiday or something. Absolutely chilling with a great sense of hopelessness and melancholy.
Peck would go on to hit a movie streak soon after. Mockingbird, Cape Fear and Navarone is a hell of a run
Elegiac is the best word for On The Beach.
@@terrytalksmovies had to look that one up.
Babbadook! A lesson on how to make an excellent movie on a low budget. Can't rave too much about how good it is. The ending I did not like the first time around, and then I got it second time.
Brilliant ending. Truly a great horror film.
Some nice physical media editions there Terry. Like the Corman/Poe set and The Wicker Man edition looks cool. Mmmm The Dunwich Horror and The Babadook were ... ok. 'The Cabin In The Woods' I think I wanna see.
'Dead of Night' is just a fantastic horror movie. Creepy as hell, and has easily the best framing story of any horror portmanteau flick.
The Cabin in the Woods is worth a look. Try not to see any spoilers first, Keith.
Great collection, Terry! I've got a few I haven't seen yet marked on my "Buy them when you can afford it" list, and I've seen many of the rest.
Absolutely to the original THE WICKER MAN (and never in Hell to the Neil LaButte remake!), and I really like how unlike anything else AIP was doing at the time THE DUNWICH HORROR was. That was the work on Daniel Haller, who was Corman's production designer on the first two Poe movies, and whose first film as a director was the Lovecraft adaptation DIE, MONSTER, DIE! starring Boris Karloff and Nick Adams in a movie team-up I'm sure nobody, including Karloff himself, was clamoring for. DUNWICH is a much better film and Lovecraft adaptation overall, even if Dean Stockwell channels the Stygian Power of the Elder Gods by putting his fists to his temples with his thumbs out, as if he's trying to cure a headache by tuning onto cosmic zonk rays!
CABIN IN THE WOODS is surprisingly divisive for a film that's a mainly satiric version of "Why DO all these dumb high school and college students always go to deserted cabins or mansions to get picked off by monsters, anyway? And why are all those college students horny, drunk, and dumb as a box of rocks when faced with a threat to life and limb?" THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER PODCAST's Paul Chapman hated the movie and felt the surviving characters were incredibly selfish(!) for not just letting themselves be killed, and his guest host hated the movie as glib and smug! I don't expect to agree with movie critics, or other fans, all the time by any means, but that take was decidedly...bizarre.
Since you like the Dr. Phibes movies so much (and they're great fun-I have both on Blu-Ray), what do you think of Robert Fuest's THE FINAL PROGRAMME? I *think* I like it, but I also feel like I need to read up a lot more on Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius to know what the movie's going on about.
Finally, if DIE HARD is a Christmas movie? Then ON THE BEACH is a horror film-a very depressingly realistic one that I don't go back to because the movie, like the book, leaves me feeling *really* depressed....
I like The Final Programme but I acknowledge it's a weak adaptation of Moorcock's novel.
A great selection of movies, some I have yet to watch. I remember seeing _On the Beach_ on television as a pre-teen kid. It bored me, but I was interested enough to watch the whole thing. I just lacked the emotional maturity to really comprehend it. As an adult, it hits much harder.⬅
Yesterday, the GoodBadFlicks channel released a video you may be interested in, "5 Overlooked Films Ep.21 -- Ozploitation Horror". I don't remember you reacting to any of the films he mentions. You may be interested in taking a look; he seemed to like most of them, and he intentionally chose lesser-known movies. You might also consider doing a reaction to his reaction, allowing us to compare an Australian's take to someone from North America.⬅
This last is sort of off-topic for your channel. It is something I suspect you will like though, one of the most transgressive anime's I have ever seen, yet in the USA it can be watched on Netflix, Hulu, and Crunchyroll. There is a possibility that Disney/Hulu could have censored parts of it, but Crunchyroll, and I assume Netflix, just throw it all out there. *All.* It's wonderful and uniquely unique, given the odd name "Dan Da Dan". I can see you doing a season review once this batch is complete. (Netflix is actually airing the episodes as they come out, instead of their usual thing of waiting until the season is over and airing it all at once.)
Thanks for the anime tip. 😀
New camera output looks flat and grainy .... ? Wait, no, I had down-tuned YT to 240p on this device, because this device has been throwing fits. Back to 1080p, looks great.
Oh man, that edition of Wicker Man looks AMAZING! Best horror musical ever-chop! chop! Always love to see a godsniffing arsehole get what 's comin' to 'em! Hopefully he's in hell with Carrie's mom ... or would be if hell ... or these characters ... existed.
"... a rabbit hole you'll never emerge from ..." considering the subject this came across very ominous indeed! :D
On the Beach ... excellent inclusion. I'm always down for some Cold War apocalyptica, and have quite a collection.
We (in California) acquired a color television in 1982, and parents used that 19" set for 25yrs. Only grandma had a color set in the '70s, and it was a two-ton console beast that had to be craned around. I might exaggerate a bit, but not much.
Thanks for another fun run down!
My pleasure! The Wicker Man is arguably the best folk horror movie ever.
I love Babadook and These Final Hours !
They're excellent films. These Final Hours is underrated.
Need that Hammer Horror to get comfy…
So many good choices with Hammer, too.
The picture is great Terry you really notice the difference with your new camera. I must admit Horror is one of the genres I struggle with. I'm a big sook, but these "Comfort Horror Movies" suit me down to the ground.
p.s thank you sincerely for your kind comment on my Channel 🙏
Thanks, Doug. Horror is a genre which everyone drinks from at a different strength. Take care.
I love the Dr. Phibes films! They are so much fun, for all the reasons you mentioned, but also the wonderful performance (in the first film) of Peter Jeffrey as Detective Inspector Trout! He is the perfect combination of bumbling but just smart enough to be one step behind Phibes. Plus his boss always referring to him as another fish! The part gets dumbed down in the second film, which disappoints me. But they are still great fun films. Cheers Terry!
Valli Kemp, who's in the second one is a FB friend of mine. She's an artist and art teacher in Sydney.
I regret not picking up that Dead of Night DVD when it was available. Like you, I first saw it on TV, albeit probably long after you first did.
Wicker Man took me a long time to appreciate. First time I saw it on VHS I just didn't get the fuss, but I understood it a lot better on a DVD rewatch, it clicked for me in a way that it didn't before.
I have that very Hammer Horror Collection DVD too. That's where my ongoing Hammer collection began.
Cabin in the Woods... beautiful. I particularly enjoyed the ending and how it made sure there wouldn't be a sequel... but at the same time I'd kind of like to see one get made if only to see how they rationalise it.
I remember seeing Dunwich Horror on TV back in the early 90s when I was discovering Lovecraft. Don't think I cared for it, but I'd be interested in a rewatch now. There was a radio version, oddly enough, back in 1945 on a program called Suspense, and it was really good. Much more faithful to the original, too.
Dead of Night is such an influential movie. The Wicker Man basically kicked folk horror into orbit.
Dead of Night! Yes, a must-have. Cabin in the Woods may be worth a revisit, as may early Roger Corman, and the Phibes phlicks are sheer fun. As you mention These Final Hours, I wonder: have you ever seen Seeking a Friend for the End of the World? Strong selection -- thanks, Ter.
Seeking A Friend is a nice little film but These Final Hours, for me, is a much better one.
Halloween is simply the best holiday! Lots of candy and cake, loads of monster movies, a fuckton of costume parties/drunken revelries, no cards to send or presents to buy and NO UNCOMFORTABLE FAMILY DINNERS! I say we nix Valentines and Mothers/Fathers day and add an extra Halloween. Are you with me?
I prefer Halloween to Xmas. NYE I also love.
Cabin in the Woods is the jam.
It has a great sense of escalation.
I just watched The Addiction (1995). It took me back to my college days. I didn't take anything seriously, since I had my whole life ahead of me. I just studied, worked and partied! It was the 70's after all, and I was young. It was comforting for me in that the main character, a philosophy student, thinks her way into acceptance of her vampirism. The philosophers however give her no solace. That's how I would have done it in my 20's - always over thinking and analyzing. The philosophy is there, but I had trouble understanding Existentialism in my early 20's - too abstract for me. I had never heard of this movie. It popped up in a search of one of the movies you talked about. I do love finding an old movie that I had not seen, let alone heard of. I did like the artistry of this movie!!!
I saw it a long time ago. Might be time for a revisit.
I recently discovered The Great Yokai War. Great, gentle horror with a lot of Japanese folklore.
I saw On the Beach when it came out. It is definitely horror. The apocalyptic world that it created was a very real possibility at that time. Chilling.
On The Beach also has that resigned bitterness about how badly humanity screwed up.
Great list. I concur with the idea that nuclear apocalypse films are in essence horror films. Other standouts in that category are "Threads" (1984 UK) and "The Day After 1983 USA.)
And also Testament" (USA 1983).
Those two movies and Testament depress me. They're great, but depressing.
Lots of good horror films there Terry. When it comes to Yokai my favourite movie is A Letter to Momo, an anime film. Not scary at all but good. I'm surprised that I have so many of the films you talked about today cos I'm not really into horror, so I'll drag one or two out for a watch soon.
Good choice.
I have a question for you was there ever a movie that rod Taylor spoke in an aussie a accent all the movies over here I never heard him use that accent
King of the Coral Sea, The VIPs, Welcome To Woop Woop... there were a number of them.
@@terrytalksmovies thank you Terry sorry did not know that from canadian tv all I remember is time machine and the birds once again thank you Terry grant from canada
For me, Fatal Attraction is horror, and also the Clint Eastwood western The High Plains Drifter.
Kind of like they get a drama script, then make it using horror movie techniques. Jump scares, creepy off camera noises, a soft focus tracking shot up a corridor to the boiled bunny.
Yep. Horror is a broader genre than most people realise.
Friday The 13th 1, 2, 3 are comfort movies for me. And the first 3 Halloweens. And Psycho 3.
I like the third Halloween movie. Most people hate it.
15:25 Phibes was wonderful in large part because (spoiler!) Dr Phibes perfectly succeeds even after the police discover his MO.
Yep. He's always three steps ahead of the cops.
Some excellent choices. The live action series "My Undead Yokai Girlfriend " is excellent. Also "The Moor" has been released onto UA-cam and Google Play... creepiest film I've seen in years.
I watched a few eps of My Undead Yokai Girlfriend. It was sweet fun.
My comfort horror films for October are the 1930's ones especially the Universal James Whale ones, but Warner Brothers has some gems too that have a completely different vibe. Ed Wood as well. Cheers
They're all great choices.
Yeah,it's hard not to class ON THE BEACH as a horror movie -- just imagine if Roger Corman had made it !
It has real horror all the way through it.
Dead of Night is brilliant. I have it in an Ealing collection.
It's iconic. A must-have.
TTM -- will try to watch this tomorrow when I can take my eye bandage off. On Sunday I got into an argument with a spotted-lantern fly (invasive bug around here) and it smacked me with a norwegian spruce tree -- gouging out a chunk of my left cornea. Well, maybe it didn't happen quite that way, but a spotted-lantern fly and norwegian spruce were involved and the damage to my eye is true. I shipped out your CCBB surprise Monday -- so keep an eye open in a week or two for a box from Maryland, USA -- and unpack the entire box (check the bottom for a note). Cheers!
Shit! Take care, Aengus. I hope the healing is quick. Thanks for the gift, too!
Hi, is that Body Melt movie the one with two of the cops from Blue Heelers, if so, that's definitely an odd one
I've never watched Blue Heelers, so dunno.
Watched "Dead of Night" yesterday. Have you heard the story of how the ending came to be? I still have all of those Vincent Price movies in my "Midnite Movies" collection. I like the look of that box set of the Poe pics! Might look for that one when I upgrade to BD.
You could do worse. I know Dead of Night inspired the Steady State cosmological theory Fred Hoyle put out in the 1950s.
@@terrytalksmovies I was referring to the ending that repletes the film's opening. They were originally going to end it with the scene before that, but when viewing the film, the projectionist thought the film wasn't over and accidently put on the first reel, again. Every thought that this was a better ending.
Great choices. My comfort horror would be the Universal and Hammer horror films that I grew up watching on TV. We had a color TV by the early 70s. Also fond memories of John Carpenter's films, some of the Stephen King adaptations like the 1978 Tv version of Salem's Lot which scared me as a kid, Jaws if that counts, the original version of The Omen, Romero's zombie films, Fright Night, Creepshow, Rosemary's Baby, Wait Until Dark-if that counts. You going to see Joker 2? I hear it's not so good.
I'm seeing Joker 2 today along with The Appentice.
Great horror movies.
Hey Terry. I recently checked out Apartment 7A the Rosemarys Baby prequel. Did the world need a prequel to RB a whopping 56 years after the original, a devilish No. I enjoyed it, had some good performances and cinematography etc. slick, good looking film but doesn’t hold a black candle to the original.
Sounds like a cash cow milking to me. I might see it on streaming.
Terry: Yup, "On the Beach" was confrontational (not unlike Stanely Kramer's "Look Who's Coming to Dinner"?) Thought provoking on many different levels. The TV movie remake with Armand Assante was trash.
My personal favorite comfort (horror) move would be both versions of "The Thing". An exercise in paranoia mixed in with a little gore (Carpenter's later version).
Any hints on what's on deck for Science Fiction Saturday?
Groovy 60s SF.
Are those ashtrays from various liquor brands behind you? I can't read the ones directly behind your noggin. 🚬
Should I do a video about them?
@@terrytalksmovies Yes, there are plenty of topics for movies past & present. #1 Smoking #2 Drinking #3 Product placement #4 Attitudes about vices #5 Censorship both self & studio enforced
I have a photo of my parents taken sometime in the 1950's at a popular place in New York City called the Stork Club. There are drinks and a Stork Club ashtray on the table in the photo. My Dad kept that ashtray and some ashtrays with liquor brands on the bar in our house for many years.
I'm guessing that those ashtrays and/or their branding have some personal meaning to you. Yes/No? Thanks.
I think dead of night inspired magic with anthony hopkins
It did. The writer William Goldman said so.
by the gods how have i not herd of Schlock, Yokia monstes and Body Melt going in serece of all 3, love the babadock but at this time of year i like to watch the cthulhu based The Unnamable and the sequal The Unnamable Returns whuch has a belting cast including Julie Strain, David Warner and John Rhys-Davies all it was missing was Jeffrey Combs and Bruse Campbel as the leads
Hope you can find the ones you're looking for. 😀
color-tv in belgium around '75...
It was a BIG thing here. Lots of celebrations and new product came out locally.
Mike here, not Anne. We are not huge movie people as far as dramas and such goes and watch mostly Film Noir, monster and some science fiction movies. But if I had to name my favorite movie of all time it would be the "Navigator" a 1988 time travel movie from New Zealand. Do you know it and if not could you please check it out and do a review of it. Thanks
Hi Mike. I've seen it. I'll look around for a copy of it.
Great selection of comfort horror!! Love the "Yokai Monsters" collection, especially the first three done in the 1960's. They make for a good double feature (one for one) with the Daimajin trilogy (stone idols of gods who get wrathful cos of evil disrespectful land developer's- kinda like if the Statue of Liberty bitch slapped *Rump!). "Dead of Night" to this day gives me chills (despite the comic episode done to lighten things up midway)-like you, saw it first on tv and often missing parts (coming in late and finding it already on) so was really glad to get it on DVD then Blu-ray. Philippine Horror/Vampire films?! Count me in!! as for Joss Whedon i want to believe people are redeemable and hope he's doing what he can to make amends. Like JK Rowling i still appreciate the books and the films but i can't support her recent attitudes to trans folks etc. nor Morrisey's racism. but i don't want to dismiss their previous work. sometimes assholes make good art, but it does make revisiting it painful.
There isn't an evidence that Whedon is doing anything to apologise and make amends. You also have to be careful about disgraced celebrities using crisis management companies to finesse their reputations.
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Spook warfare is my fav of the yokia monsters
Good choice there!
Every one says the Devil rides out is Lee’s best roll. I’m still trying to blunder into a copy
Try eBay. There are a few there.
Lee is superb in this rare non-villainous role. Interestingly, both Lee and the lead antagonist, played by Charles Gray, were both one time Bond villains.
The thirsty Dead is. The Filipino vampire movie I always run into
Good choice!