MACABRE(1958)

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Jay Maggio) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 23:11:48 PST

Alias the Scarecrow wrote: After all the hype I've heard on it over the years, I prefer HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL or THE TINGLER, hell, even 13 GHOSTS had a more coherant plot.hay 13ghosts had pretty good storyline I thought. Yes, Macabre, is pretty m...
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Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (CucamongaDan) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:21:00 PST

Thanks for the background info on this one, fellow CHFB members. How did you know that ClassicFlix just mailed it to me? It should be here Monday or Tuesday.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Robert Laughlin) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 14:32:17 PST

Actually, WalesGuy, I thought Jonathan Kidd was pretty amusing as the sniveling undertaker, Ed Quigley.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Saturday8pm) — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 10:54:29 PST

What was the press for this like back in the day? A story about a child buried alive?!? Holy Christ, I can see theatres clearing to empty once the plot is revealed ... Of course today, it would be considered a brilliant idea for a flick. Look what wa...
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Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (WalesGuy) — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:06:25 PST

It's not a brilliant film. Would have helped for some better casting. Backus and Ellen Corby are acceptable, but the rest are pretty lousy.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (MacXoftheMounted) — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 15:04:51 PST

Count me as one who was really disappointed with this one. It probably didn't help that I watched it in an exhausted state and was constantly fighting to stay awake. I think I actually nodded off at the end. I'll try it again at some point, but I'll need ...
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Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:39:01 PST

<< Wow the end credits are almost identical to COMEDY OF TERRORS in style and music << Les Baxter composed the scores for both.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (WalesGuy) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:27:49 PST

Nice to see the Italian DVD also has the 80min William Castle documentary

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feeds@yuku.com (Monsterpal) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 21:03:29 PST

Jim Backus's nasty turn was fun.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (WalesGuy) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:16:43 PST

Wow the end credits are almost identical to COMEDY OF TERRORS in style and music

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (WalesGuy) — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 13:00:55 PST

Watching the Italian DVD, so-so print. Image seems squashed though. Leading man William Prince is dreadful. Vincent Price would have made it so much better.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 04:37:57 PST

Having gone through childhood thinking HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL was one of the best and scariest movies ever made*, I just ached to see MACABRE, I'd have given my right arm. When it finally came around on (where else?) NY's Channel 9 when I was in my late...
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Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Zombie Dad) — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 03:00:46 PST

Really wanted to see this when it first played, but nobody took me. Had to wait until I was in my forties to finally see it on tv.ZD

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Monsterpal) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:05:14 PST

Yes, the promotion really worked. Everyone wanted to see MACABRE. I remember seeing it in a packed house on a Saturday afternoon.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (opticalguy) — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:20:41 PST

John Waters was right to idolize William Castle as "MISTER Showmanship!" Those old-fashioned ballyhoo techniques really must've made seeing these flicks a ton O' fun on initial release. I did catch Macabre in a theater (the Coley Theater in Norfolk, Virgi...
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Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Robert Laughlin) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:41:16 PST

I went to the trouble of obtaining THE MARBLE FOREST, the round robin novel on which MACABRE was based. It wasn't worth it. Some of the chapters were well-written, but the denouement was even more contrived and ridiculous than the one in MACABRE. I guess ...
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Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (TomWeaver999) — Mon, 01 Nov 2010 19:12:39 PST

The great Greenbriar site tackles HYPNOTIC EYE and MACABRE: http://greenbriarpictures...for-2010-part-two-i.html

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (DonM435) — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:48:48 PST

Some critics said that the closing credits were the best part of the film. Funny how stations would cut these off to save time! I think the film exploits morbid sensationalism to good effect, for what that's worth.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Alias the Scarecrow) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:00:59 PST

After all the hype I've heard on it over the years, I prefer HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL or THE TINGLER, hell, even 13 GHOSTS had a more coherant plot.

Re: MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Red Gargon) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:52:33 PST

Jacqueline Scott is vastly and deeply annoying in this, her hammy histrionics seem right out of a very bad INNER SANCTUM radio episode, but otherwise it's a really fun movie. It's not as baroque as HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL or THE TINGLER, but a litt...
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MACABRE(1958)

feeds@yuku.com (Alias the Scarecrow) — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:54:42 PST

Although there are many references to this on other threads, I coudnt find one that discussed this film specifically. After hearing things about this film for years, I was finally able to watch it last night on DVD. I have to say that I was rather disappo...
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