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Post by GL on Sept 29, 2010 10:38:11 GMT -5
 Gathering together in a large mansion, a group of Satanists use the niece of a Duke to finish their ritual, unaware that the Duke has powers of the occult as well and uses them in a war with the Satanists to save his niece and stop their plan to bring Hell on Earth. What did everyone think of this one? |
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Post by GL on Sept 29, 2010 10:38:38 GMT -5
On TV in October on the 8th at 6:45 on Turner Classic Movies.
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Post by Jen on Sept 29, 2010 12:36:03 GMT -5
Thanks for letting us know GL, I have wanted to see this for awhile. Its not available at Netflix.
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Post by GL on Sept 30, 2010 9:33:09 GMT -5
Well, that's kinda the point of why I wanted to do this, partly to build up the new section but also because next month is Halloween, I knew there would be a ton of these films showing on TV, and everyone is always complaining about where I see these films I figured you should all just sit down and turn on the TV to watch these. No excuse for you guys who want to see these for missing them: I'm giving you air-dates and everything.  |
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Post by Jen on Oct 13, 2010 14:53:28 GMT -5
I loved Christopher Lee in the hero role and thought Charles Gray was good as the villain. There were a lot of problems for me with this one though. Mostly in that the villains were way too easily defeated. The Satanic coven just didn't seem all that powerful, really. Or even particularly smart. The characters were a bit underdeveloped. And I definitely would have preferred a darker ending. But I was entertained. I give it a solid 3.
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Post by GL on Oct 14, 2010 9:48:53 GMT -5
Saw it last night, and I think I was a little bit more forgiving towards it. I will concede the weakness of the coven area you covered (seemed to me that all he could do was hypnotically control people as long as they were looking in his eyes, so if you look away, he really has no power over you) and it has a tendency to employ one of my most hated traits in a film, the one character who knows what's going on never explaining anything to the outsiders when performing rituals/actions of great importance that are going to save someone, so when they do something logical in a situation (that seance where the dead girl inhabits the wife's body for instance) you get a feeling he'll kill them right then and there for messing up the situation when it all could've been done away with had he simply shared his knowledge so they know what's going on and what's happening as they have no experience in the subject matter, but I can't say it was a bad film at all. Some enjoyable scenes, a rather fun black mass ceremony and a hugely enjoyable car chase all make up for the few flaws. I'd personally go 3.5 but I'll round up to a weak 4 for the ratings.
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Post by abraxas on Oct 14, 2010 10:31:29 GMT -5
Gotta love those films about Satanists  Did Charles Gray character do the Time warp  |
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Post by GL on Oct 15, 2010 9:38:05 GMT -5
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Post by Jen on Oct 15, 2010 12:00:51 GMT -5
Charles Gray was the narrator in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. |
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Post by abraxas on Oct 15, 2010 12:11:07 GMT -5
Damn Jen beat me to it  but yeah |
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Post by GL on Oct 18, 2010 9:45:47 GMT -5
Oh, well I've had no real interest in it so I've never seen it. All I know is Tim Curry and Susan Sarrandon, but beyond that I don't know much about it.
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Post by HNT on Oct 18, 2010 9:51:15 GMT -5
Come on, man. Of course you weren't interested. Its a good movie  |
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Post by GL on Oct 18, 2010 9:55:18 GMT -5
No, that's not it: everyone's always recommended it to me based on those two actors and the fact that it was funny, but I still don't know anything about the plot or anything. I don't even know what it's about, because all anyone seems to do is say who's in it or that I'll laugh a lot during it.
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