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Savonarola

October 01, 2021, 01:31:13 PM
It's that time of year.  What movies do you have planned and what else are you planning to do for Halloween?

This year we're planning on seeing Universal Horror's Mummy movies:
The Mummy (1932)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

As well as Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Duque de Bragança

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October 01, 2021, 01:52:08 PM Last Edit: October 01, 2021, 02:05:45 PM by Duque de Bragança
Recently got John Carpenter's the Thing in 4K so around la fête des morts should be a good time to watch it again.  :P

Could start with la Nuit des masques (Carpenter's Halloween). Back then, late '70s, Halloween as a holiday was virtually unknown in France and other European countries.

Syt

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October 01, 2021, 01:57:26 PM
Mubi has upbeat movies like Funny Games and The Girl Next Door (which is based on a really messed up real life case of mental and physical abuse leading slow, excruciating death and most people involved getting just a slap on the wrist).
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
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Eddie Teach

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October 01, 2021, 02:30:34 PM
Presumably not the one where Elisha Cuthbert plays a porn star?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

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October 01, 2021, 02:31:34 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on October 01, 2021, 02:30:34 PM
Presumably not the one where Elisha Cuthbert plays a porn star?

No this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Girl_Next_Door_(2007_film)

It's based on a novel inspired by this case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Sylvia_Likens
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Barrister

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October 01, 2021, 02:34:33 PM
Ghostbusters
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Darth Wagtaros

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October 02, 2021, 06:30:43 AM
The Worst Witch
The Halloween that ALmost Wasn't
The Halloween Tree
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Ghostbusters
Disney Halloween Treat
PDH!

Darth Wagtaros

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October 02, 2021, 12:37:50 PM
I forgot Beatlejuice!
PDH!

Savonarola

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October 04, 2021, 12:34:24 PM
THE PUMPKIN SPICE MUST FLOW!

At the grocery store yesterday they had pumpkins (jack o' lantern, mini and sweet varieties), pumpkin spice coffee creamer, pumpkin beer, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cinnamon granola, pumpkin spice cinnamon toast, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin spice cream cheese, pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin loaf cake, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin roll, and pumpkin pie.  Does anywhere else go pumpkin/pumpkin spice crazy this time of year or is this only the United States?
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Sheilbh

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October 04, 2021, 12:41:26 PM
The UK does :lol:

Starbucks was the initial entry but it's now spreading everywhere. I've never actually tried it myself but do generally think everything I eat in October should taste of cinnamon.

I also think every drink should be mulled in December.
Let's bomb Russia!

Duque de Bragança

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October 04, 2021, 12:58:49 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 04, 2021, 12:34:24 PM
THE PUMPKIN SPICE MUST FLOW!

At the grocery store yesterday they had pumpkins (jack o' lantern, mini and sweet varieties), pumpkin spice coffee creamer, pumpkin beer, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cinnamon granola, pumpkin spice cinnamon toast, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin spice cream cheese, pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin loaf cake, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin roll, and pumpkin pie.  Does anywhere else go pumpkin/pumpkin spice crazy this time of year or is this only the United States?

No. And no William Shatner masks to be found, as well.

Darth Wagtaros

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October 04, 2021, 02:30:25 PM
PDH!

Savonarola

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October 13, 2021, 01:00:29 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 01, 2021, 01:31:13 PM
It's that time of year.  What movies do you have planned and what else are you planning to do for Halloween?

This year we're planning on seeing Universal Horror's Mummy movies:
The Mummy (1932)
The Mummy's Hand (1940)
The Mummy's Tomb (1942)
The Mummy's Ghost (1944)
The Mummy's Curse (1944)
Abbot and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955)

As well as Practical Magic, Hocus Pocus and It's the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.

I've made it through the first three Mummy movies (as well as Hocus Pocus and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.)  The original Universal Horror Movies (Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy and The Invisible Man) were all A pictures which were played completely straight.  By the late 30s they had moved more into the B picture realm; but they still had high production values.  By the 40s it had become more hit or miss and some of the movies started to adopt a jokey tone. 

The Mummy is essentially Dracula with a better sound era director and Boris Karloff in the Bela Lugosi role.  The Mummy's Hand was made on a shoestring budget (and reused sets from, of all things, the jungle picture Green Hell - creating a mighty lush looking Egypt.)  That one is much more jokey as our intrepid archeologist and his wisecracking assistant journey to the dig site with a stage magician and his nubile daughter.  The mummy has vanished, bodies and bodies are starting to pile up - as any scriptwriter will tell you that's an ideal time for a magic show. 

The Mummy's Tomb has a somewhat larger budget; but the story is much weaker as the mummy has come to Massachusetts and seeks revenge on the men who violated his tomb, their descendants and/or close relatives.  So mostly people just hang around waiting for the mummy to kill them until the end where the mob of concerned citizens gathers torches and clubs and hunts down the mummy.

In both The Mummy's Hand and The Mummy's Tomb the mummy is controlled by the high priest.  In both films the high priest falls in love with the lead actress who has the mummy kidnap her in order that he may mummify her and they will be together FOREVER!  While I won't criticize the wooing techniques of either high priest (you know you could just ask her out, many chicks are into all that new age stuff) it's hard to imagine that working out well since she's going to get all leathery after a while :yucky: or, if you keep pumping her full of fluids, she's going to rot from the inside :yucky:.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Savonarola

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October 13, 2021, 01:02:37 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 04, 2021, 12:34:24 PM
THE PUMPKIN SPICE MUST FLOW!

At the grocery store yesterday they had pumpkins (jack o' lantern, mini and sweet varieties), pumpkin spice coffee creamer, pumpkin beer, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin cookies, pumpkin cinnamon granola, pumpkin spice cinnamon toast, pumpkin cheesecake, pumpkin spice cream cheese, pumpkin doughnuts, pumpkin coffee, pumpkin loaf cake, pumpkin waffles, pumpkin roll, and pumpkin pie.  Does anywhere else go pumpkin/pumpkin spice crazy this time of year or is this only the United States?

This week it was pumpkin spice yogurt covered pretzels in addition to all the things I listed before.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock
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