Post by abraxas on Apr 9, 2010 5:14:13 GMT -5
There has been some recent discussion concerning the film "The Omen" which has inspired me to do a marathon that would feature it, and so I came up with the idea of doing a marathon dedicated to all the films that became cultural phenomenons in the 1970's. And so here is the list.
The Spooky List:
1. The Fog
2. The Exorcist (the version you've never seen)
3. The Omen
4. Carrie
5. Halloween
6. Amityville Horror
7. Phantasm
THE FOG
I'm a sucker for a good ghost story, love anything ghost related in fact and The Fog is one of the best ghost flicks that have been made. Its a fairly simply made movie, originally it was even more so, but after the initial filming was completed John Carpenter went back and added a few more obvious scare and gore scenes. The beginning where everything in the town is going crazy is a great scene, and that damn chair that suddenly moves on it own, never fails to scare me. For those who have been living in a cave and have not seen the film, it stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Atkins, and centers around a curse set upon a quit sea-side town called Antonio Bay. Every night at the stroke of midnight dead sailors from an ill-fated voyage haunt the town, in search of revenge for being betrayed 100 years prior.
Interesting facts: Tom Atkins mentions Bodega Bay which is a reference to the small seas-side town in Alfred Hitchock's The Birds. Tom Atkins character name is Nick Castle, who played the shape in Halloween. Also another character is named after Dan O'Bannon (writer of Alien & Director of Return of the Living Dead) who worked on Carpenter's first film "Dark Star". There is another reference to "Devil's Reef" which is from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shadow over Innsmouth".
Question: What th hell is a stomach pounder
THE EXORCIST
Well the first thing that needs to be made clear about the plot to this movie is that the little girl is not possessed by the Devil. She is in fact possessed by a Sumerian demon called Pazazu, the statue that Merrin the priest sees in the ruins at the beginning of th film is the actual statue depicting this demon. The small figurine head that he digs up is from a smaller version of this statue, known as a demon of disease small representations of the demon would be placed in the home to ward off disease, hence the monks comment at the beginning "Evil against Evil"
Like most movies based on books a lot is left out of the story when transferred into a screenplay, the book suggests that the little girl isn't possessed, that its all in her mind. Her parents have gone through a brutal divorce, one day she discovers a Ouija board in a closet and starts to read books on possession, apparently given to get by a relative. She then become sick and soon all of this culminates in her loosing touch with reality.
The Spooky List:
1. The Fog
2. The Exorcist (the version you've never seen)
3. The Omen
4. Carrie
5. Halloween
6. Amityville Horror
7. Phantasm
THE FOG
I'm a sucker for a good ghost story, love anything ghost related in fact and The Fog is one of the best ghost flicks that have been made. Its a fairly simply made movie, originally it was even more so, but after the initial filming was completed John Carpenter went back and added a few more obvious scare and gore scenes. The beginning where everything in the town is going crazy is a great scene, and that damn chair that suddenly moves on it own, never fails to scare me. For those who have been living in a cave and have not seen the film, it stars Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Atkins, and centers around a curse set upon a quit sea-side town called Antonio Bay. Every night at the stroke of midnight dead sailors from an ill-fated voyage haunt the town, in search of revenge for being betrayed 100 years prior.
Interesting facts: Tom Atkins mentions Bodega Bay which is a reference to the small seas-side town in Alfred Hitchock's The Birds. Tom Atkins character name is Nick Castle, who played the shape in Halloween. Also another character is named after Dan O'Bannon (writer of Alien & Director of Return of the Living Dead) who worked on Carpenter's first film "Dark Star". There is another reference to "Devil's Reef" which is from H.P. Lovecraft's story "The Shadow over Innsmouth".
Question: What th hell is a stomach pounder
THE EXORCIST
Well the first thing that needs to be made clear about the plot to this movie is that the little girl is not possessed by the Devil. She is in fact possessed by a Sumerian demon called Pazazu, the statue that Merrin the priest sees in the ruins at the beginning of th film is the actual statue depicting this demon. The small figurine head that he digs up is from a smaller version of this statue, known as a demon of disease small representations of the demon would be placed in the home to ward off disease, hence the monks comment at the beginning "Evil against Evil"
Like most movies based on books a lot is left out of the story when transferred into a screenplay, the book suggests that the little girl isn't possessed, that its all in her mind. Her parents have gone through a brutal divorce, one day she discovers a Ouija board in a closet and starts to read books on possession, apparently given to get by a relative. She then become sick and soon all of this culminates in her loosing touch with reality.
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