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DonM435		#21	[-]
Jun 10 10 9:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I find Dead of Night to be darn near perfect. Even the comic piece serves its function, lightening the mood enough to make the dénouement all the more crashing.
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Wich2		#22	[-]
Jun 11 10 11:21 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I like movies from ANY other country for their specific qualities (or defects)." Got you, TM - a balanced diet IS best! -Craig
WaverBoy		#23	[-]
Jun 11 10 1:54 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Joe Karlosi wrote: unclepj wrote: To me, the only thing more horrifying than DEAD OF NIGHT is to read this thread and discover that some Johnny-come-latelies are calling it "over-rated." So's your old man! Well, I'll accept that. Because practically anything is more effective than DEAD OF NIGHT. He said the ONLY thing more horrifying that DEAD OF NIGHT is that some Johnny- (and Joe-) come-latelies are calling it over-rated...so if you accept that, then nothing else is more horrifying. I can understand why some may feel it's overrated, but I'll never understand how any classic horror film fan can think it's completely ineffective.
Saturday8pm		#24	[-]
Nov 26 10 11:53 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, I just finished seeing this gem. I think it's terrific. Terrifying? Not to me, no. But the tight story-within-a-story is very well-done here. I like how the various tales had their core elements reprised at the end. Another great surprise was to realize that Mr Craig also played Bob Cratchit in my favorite version of, "A Christmas Carol"! Good fun. "Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?"
TomWeaver999		#25	[-]
Nov 26 10 12:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Are my ears starting to fail me, or is the sound quality on the Anchor Bay DVD not-so-hot? Maybe it's the Englishter accents, but I have a hard time making out the dialogue.
Ted Newsom		#26	[-]
Nov 26 10 4:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Watch & listen to GENIUS AT WORK instead. Consider it a palate-cleanser.
Saturday8pm		#27	[-]
Nov 26 10 4:37 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Nah, your ears are fine, Tom. It was hard making out the dialogue from time to time. Perhaps a digital audio cleanup is due. Ted, thanks for the heads up! Noted was the thread on that one. "Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?"
Mora		#28	[-]
Nov 26 10 4:48 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I, too, enjoyed "Dead of Night" when I saw a rare showing of it on CBC television some years back - in the afternoon yet! But I was a little disappointed because all the hype I'd read was so positive that the film ultimately couldn't help to be a bit of a letdown. Not uncommon, as I've sometimes - and to my annoyance - have discovered. It was the same for me with the original "Alien". Just couldn't get into it. As for creepiness, I maintain that the "In the Picture" segment of "Three Cases of Murder" far outweighed anything in "Dead of Night". Disagree if you will, but I found that to be a true chiller.
Saturday8pm		#29	[-]
Nov 26 10 5:04 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Ahhh, thankee, Mora! one of the big reasons I ( we? ) start such threads is to find other quality films of similar theme! "Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?"
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Mora		#30	[-]
Nov 26 10 5:13 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Don't want to veer off topic, Saturday8pm (love that moniker - nostalgically reminds me of another local channel that used to occasionally play 1950s Columbia chillers that day and time!), but I've never forgotten that "In the Picture" segment - particularly its macabre ending. The other two stories are poor and so-so, but for "In the Picture" alone (which happens to be the first story), I recommend "Three Cases of Murder". Doubt you'll be disappointed.
TomWeaver999		#31	[-]
Nov 26 10 10:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	A CHFB lurker e-mails me: << DEAD OF NIGHT has never sounded "good" -- kind of tubby and round. The 35mm prints that were circulating here theatrically in the 1980s -- assumedly from camera negative as they looked razor sharp and had the (now missing) GFD (General Film Distributors) original logo -- had reasonable sound, but I suspect the audio was never good on it. The Anchor Bay DVD has been processed to a fare-thee-well by an audio engineer with no taste, no ears, no sensibility -- no idea WHAT the hell he was trying to achieve. The master that now runs on TCM from time to time is far better. This is the modern plague -- these sound and video engineers who have to constantly play with old moveis and make look/sound not BETTER-- but different, and usually WORSE. Think of the ghastly THRILLER snafu, and the old FRANKENSTEIN dvd that was noise-gated. <
Saturday8pm		#32	[-]
Nov 26 10 11:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks, Mora ... I bore people silly here gushing about those old shows ... they scared me TO DEATH ... I doubt CF will ever come back to NYC, but at least we have "Chiller" once a year again! Victory be ours! Tom: Not a surprise, and I got mine off TCM! You'd THINK audio engineers would be employed to give these a broom, but I suppose it boils down to ol' fashion demand ... dunno how grants work, but I hope someday people who love these films will be given the resources to preserve lots more works. "Lord I love Spring! The birds, the fair weather, the new flowers. It doesn't get any better than this. HOLY CRAP! what's THAT?!?"
Babetician		#33	[-]
Mar 4 11 2:50 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	My first exposure to Dead of Night was the the mirror story on a big screen in 35 mm when I was 20. It was an evening of famous horror clips at a San Francisco revival house called The Avenue or something. I was very impressed. I think TV kills old horror. I Walked With a Zombie is dynamite on a big screen.
professor liebstrum		#34	[-]
Mar 11 11 4:19 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	"Three Cases of Murder" is out on R2 now. Mora is right. "In the Picture" is well worth seeing and "Lord Mountdrago" [with Andre Morell and Orson Welles] is pretty damn good too. Russ
gatester		#35	[-]
Mar 28 11 6:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Who is Walter Craig? Most likely Louis B. Mayer.
skelton knaggs		#36	[-]
Mar 11 12 2:09 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Who can argue with this? "You can't smell any reefer, can you"?
skull island escapee		#37	[-]
Mar 11 12 3:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The stuff of [delicious] nightmares, skelly! 'the horror..............THE HORROR!' Cartoon-strip blog here [updated regularly]: http://zoomertoonsrabsmith.blogspot.com/
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