"The Frighteners" also has that amazing song by Blue Oyster Cult at the end. Marvel should learn from this because with the song like that you don't leave the cinema before it stops playing.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang got several re-releases in the 70's and it certainly is fondly recalled. The car reveal was magical. Had the Corgi car, too. On the flip side, Doctor Doolittle (1967) I also remembered being bored AF, it was almost 2 hrs long! Torture for a kid. Rex Harrison, I hated for years growing up. The movie bombed, and the Doctor Doolittle toys sat on shelves. Doctor Doolittle killed licensed movie toys for years after. Really interesting picks! Love The Frighteners. Bitter Springs and Fantomas have not seen but now on my watched list. Thanks Terry!
Ned from Spain here saying I totally agree. We were visiting my maternal Granny in the UK and saw Doolittle when it was released there. The criminally awful music and acting by human hambone Rex and dopey Newley. The dull script and slow pacing put me to sleep too. I dropped off at Push me Pull you and woke up at the end with the giant butterfly. My father who usually loved musicals and theater hated it so much that after many many years if I mentioned it he would just go off but hilariously so. Harrison was such a POS
@@captlazer5509 Amazon has the CCBB Corgi die-cast car with movable wings in stock for $40. I had so many of the Corgi die-cast models back in the late 1960s including James Bond, Thunderbirds, Green Hornet, Batman, Captain Scarlet, Monkees, etc.
Good list. Of all the movies I have seen before I really should have, it's the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that freaked me out the most.
I found Brotherhood of the Wolf hypnotically facinating. Whoever rated it as having a ‘medium level of violence’ must have a very high tolerance for blood and gore
Ned and Janet from Spain, enjoying your suggestions once again. I saw Chitty Chitty at Radio City Music Hall on 6th ave and 50th st. and it was fabulous. A fun movie for young kids but comes close to twee and bit dark too. Fantomas is pretty cool, Big Combo is clas-sick and love The Beast Must Die. I will follow your suggestion for Brotherhood of the Wolf, which I think you mentioned before. Great that you're promoting those early Oz classics, Chips was always a force of nature. I think another rainy day noir is the original cut of " Big Sleep" as the film is drenched in water and humidity whether in a hothouse or the boudoir. Thanks and all the best Terry, Magg, Luna and Sally.
I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when it first came out in theaters, and I was one of those kids who was bored by how long it was! Even at 11 or 12 years old, which I was at the time, the special effects work irritated me by how obvious and un-special it was-I saw it with my kid brother, who was like six or seven at the time, and he asked me if there was some sort of magic that caused the blue line around Chitty Chitty Bang Bang whenever it flew! 😂 it should come as no surprise that his dream job was and remains being an Imagineer at Disney....
@@terrytalksmovies - I'd HEARD that, but was it some kind of a trade secret? I mean, blue screen had been around since the late 1930s (THIEF OF BAGDAD was what it was developed for, by expatriate special effects artist Lawrence W. Butler). EDITED AFTER LOOKING IT UP: Well, doggie! It turns out Disney licensed Pedro Vlahos's "sodium vapor process" (shining a sodium vapor light against a white backdrop to create a "yellow screen" that permitted the use of all three primary colors). While it was superior to blue screen at the time in that both foreground and matte were first generation, it was expensive, complicated, required large studios to set up in, and used a LOT of light-the yellow screen was created on a second roll of film by use of a beam-splitter prism like was used in three-strip Technicolor cameras, which was in fact what Disney modified for their sodium-vapor camera. As blue screen got better and green screen started being used more, sodium vapor was slowly abandoned even by Disney (the last feature they used it on was DICK TRACY in 1990, though they appear to have not used it regularly since THE BLACK HOLE in 1979)....
I love Brotherhood of the Wolf. I've never upgraded to Blu-ray, I have the DVD version(2 or 3 discs) that I picked up years ago in Canada with tons of extras. The other thing I love about Brotherhood of the Wolf is that it is kind of based on a true story. There was a mysterious creature roaming France back then, they never discovered what it was.
I have late night films where I only watch unchallenging films after say 9PM. The artsy, deep films are for earlier. I took out the 60s Fantomas from my library for my daughter who showed it in her French class at the end of the school year. Her teacher who is from France knew of the series. Seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Black Sunday, The Beast Must Die, Brotherhood of the Wolf. I have the 1913 Fantomas set but haven't finished it. One can see that they often hold on a master shot for a long time as cameras were so big and clunky then.
I watched “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (1968) as a kid and remember enjoying it quite a bit. I don’t know how well it holds up now. I even had a Corgi die-cast model of the car whereby at a push of a button the wings would come out. The movie is based on Ian Fleming’s novel “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car” novel from 1964. Dick Van Dyke is still alive and will be 99 in December (hopefully)!
Me too - saw the movie, had the car, and played three soundtrack to death on my cassette recorder. The songs were great. Especially Lionel Jeffries singing "Port Out, Starboard Home." Good times! Later on, I showed the movie to my kids, got them the car, and even went to see the stage show on e in London - spectacular!
A lot of my favourite movies on your list there, Terry. 'The Frighteners' is that odd thing - a modern horror movie that is actually frightening. When you have some... thing, that can kill ghosts, as well as the living, you have to worry. Michael J Fox playing a disreputable and slightly unlikeable character, is a nice touch too. John Astin's completely shagged out ghost, who has to keep retrieving his jawbone from a spectral dog, is a blast. 'Black Sunday' was banned in the UK for several years, solely because of the novel and brutal execution scene at the start. The censor did not like the idea of people having masks nailed to their faces, but that could not be cut, as that mask, and it's removal, were integral to the plot. And yes, the whole thing is flesh-crawlingly creepy. That's how you make a horror movie. Nasty little bits of business, and tons and tons of atmosphere.
Crimson Pirate is a timeless family movie. I watched it multiple times, when I was a kid. When I read Black Sunday, I thought it is the 1977 Frankenheimer movie.
The Fantomas movies are fun. I also enjoy the OSS 117 series as well. One night I watched OSS 117: Terror in Tokyo and paired it with the Italian Euro-Spy flick, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die.
absolutely YES to "comfort horror" films!!! it may seem a strange combination to some, and it definitely requires familiarity for it to work. thanks for the heads up on "The Crimson Pirate"-- on the cover, "I'll eat the smoke of their cannon!" (hehe!) and "The Big Combo"-- both went directly into my shopping cart!
I have not see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang since I was very small. Might be time for a revisit. Brotherhood Of The Wolf is great! Plus it opens a rabbit hole for those inclined to research the actual scary events by which it was inspired. When I was in junior high school (which is now called middle school over here), we had an hour for lunch. 1/2 hour was for eating your lunch, then you had a 1/2 hour to do other things. One of the options was to go to the school auditorium and watch a movie over the course of two days. That is where I first saw The Beast Must Die! I love this movie! Calvin Lockhart is set to 11 the entire time and it is a joy to watch! Cheers from rainy Cleveland, Ohio, USA!
@@terrytalksmovies Apparently my school system had a deal with a distributor for access to movies that were a couple years old. The people in charge of making sure the films were edited sometimes messed up. There were a couple of incidences of brief nudity showing up. Can't remember all the films I saw, but I do remember several Marx Bothers movies, a few Abbot & Costello films, The Beast Must Die, and the 1977 version of Island Of Dr. Moreau with Burt Lancaster and Michael York.
Great video for a rainy day. I agree with those choices, we have chitty on blu ray also one of early purchases in early 2000 dvd box set chitty that came with model of the car, soundtrack of the musical play with different songs and part of extra on the disc was behind the scenes of musical play with Brian Blessed as the Baron. Only copy of the Burt Lancaster film as Pirate set, along had film version New Adventures of Long John Silver that in Australia and 10 eps of the Buccaneers with Robert Shaw. I got blu ray of Bitter Springs from Network, the because Umbrella copy is out of stock. Brotherhood of the Wolf was recommended by Grant, its film would like, and of course he was right. Good choices all round.
The Brotherhood of the Wolf: it always raises the stakes when you set horror films before the time of the revolving pistols and repeating rifles (not to mention, metallic cartridges). An example would be Oliver Reed's Curse of the Werewolf (1961) with Reed's stepfather having to kill a very credible human wolf with one-shot from flintlock pistol.
Some real gems in there 👍. I've added Brotherhood Of The Wolf to my to see list. I always thought (from the title and cover) this was some throw-away straight-to-streaming trash. I really need to get round to tracking down The Frighteners too. I've been curious about that one for years. Thanks Terry. I always trust your judgement.
@@warrenbottomley3284 The Roger Moore JB movies were mostly weak except for “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977). It wasn’t Moore’s fault but the producers went with more tongue in cheek stuff. Personally, the best JB movies are three of the early ones with the incomparable Sean Connery: - From Russia with Love (1963) - Goldfinger (1964) - Thunderball (1965)
"Do ya like crazy drums Johnny?" Lovely video Terry, as always. And considering it's wetter than an otter's pocket here in the uk at the moment, some delightful rainy day choices. Cheers!
@@terrytalksmovies Wildo Terry. Already started by inflicting my choice on Lady Hedgehog 🦔 with 'Godzilla: Final Wars' (2004). She really enjoyed it, to the extent that during Big G's final battle with King Ghidorah she bellowed in her delicate Derbyshire tones, "GERROFF HIM YOU THREE HEADED C*NT!!!" I may have a convert there...
_The Frigjhteners_ is great, as is all of Jackson's pre LOTR work. Agree with you that _Brotherhood of the Wolf_ is unique, it's definitely more action/mystery than horror but certainly worth a watch.
Used to love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and especially the Child Catcher. One of Bob Helpman's best roles apart from Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman. Love Brotherhood of the Wolf, and yes it's very bloody. I'm about to order Bitter Springs (which I've not seen) and Eureka Stockade (which I have) from Umbrella. I believe Chips Rafferty was very pro-Aboriginal in his day. I've got The Frighteners and Big Combo but not yet seen them, something I'm soon to rectify. As for a Burt Lancaster rainy-day film, my favourite is probably Local Hero.
11:25 ‘Black Sunday’ was on UK teevy when I lived in That London in the 90s - it was shown as ‘Mask Of Satan’. The bestest part is in the opening credits where the production company is announced as … ahem … Titanus Productions ….
Hi Terry. Great list. I love The Crimson Pirate. I wish it was on Blu-ray. Love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. My dad had the Corgi car. You pulled the brake and wings popped out from the bottom. I watched The beast must die a long time ago. I think I was disappointed in the version of werewolf. There was a comic book called Monster Hunters that had the entire book about people on an island and you had to find clues in the story that helped you figure out who was the werewolf. The Big Combo is amazing. My favorite noire of all time is the Big Sleep. My favorite line is "Why is everyone always giving me guns". I love Brotherhood of the wolf. The sub title version. Dubbed doesn't translate to well.
Not to forget that "Brotherhood of the Wolf" was (loosely) based on a bloody mystery in real life that actually happened, very early in the reign of King Louis XVI, so about 20-25 odd years before 1789. I loved the movie and still have the DVD. Might look for the BluRay, now. Another really good French Movie set in the 1830s is "Horseman on the Roof", about an Italian Patriot on the run from the Austrian Secret Police in Post Napoleonic France... during a spreading Cholera epidemic. It is directed by Jean Paul Rappeneau. Stars Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche and a great little cameo by Gerard Depardieu. And I saw Chitty Shitty Bang bang when I was 9 or 10... hated it then. Rewatched it 25 years later... hated it then as well. (Which is a bit odd, considering I actually did enjoy quite a few "kids Movies" when I was a rugrat.
Just ordered the Brotherhood of the Wolf bluray - you had me at "Monica Bellucci." The old Fantomas films deserve to be better known. I read a translation of the original novel back in the 90s - excellent stuff and what a way to recapture the era of Georges Melies. btw Are you familiar with Martin Scorsese's film Hugo from 2011? Cheers Terry.
I would be hard-pressed to come up with a list of 10 rainy-day films, but they would include "Shock Waves" (1977), "The Head" (1959), "Near Dark" (1987), and 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1966). (!) Also any film about Doctor Mabuse.
Regarding Fantomas: Eureka in the UK are putting out a big Louis Feuillade box set with Fantomas, Les Vampires, Judex and Tih Minh. Just got word from them today that my pre-order of it is finally on the way.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my sons favorite film when he was 5, I watched that movie so many times with him , I know of all the continuity errors in the film. Also the song Hush Abye Mountion was written by Neil Young.
Burt Lancaster was in a few duds, but he was never bad in a movie. Crimson Pirate was a fun parody on Fairbanks and Flynn films. But, my favourites are probably Run Silent, Run Deep, and Elmer Gantry! Cheers
@@terrytalksmovies Can't argue with that. I missed out TRAPEZE. As an ex-circus acrobat, Burt was great in the flying scenes. So were everybody else, including Sid James, continuously trying to sell the snake which killed his brother to anyone looking for can't miss circus act. Cheers
Terry: What an international bag of films! Italian horror movies (Mario Bava in particular) is an acquired taste. It's so strange and in a low-budget way. I think along with the stale popcorn, I would also have to have a strong cocktail available. BTW: When are you going to have your next live chat?
I haven’t watched “Brotherhood of the Wolf” (2001) in a good 20 years. It’s currently available on Amazon Prime so I’ll rewatch. Anything with the goddess Monica Bellucci. At the time she was married to Vincent Cassel who is also in this movie. They also starred in one of the most unwatchable movies of all time: Irreversible (2002).
@@terrytalksmovies It’s truly disturbing. I watched it in a movie theater when it came out. I have it on DVD from back then but never rewatched it and probably won’t.
Yet another reminder from you that I never got around to watching a movie I've known about forever, despite being quite a Mark Dacascos fan. I should make a list. A bit ranty about the English today though, did they just beat your lot at cricket or something?
Ps. I'm not sure when you can get to see it in Australia, but we got a Belgian little gem of a thriller in french cinemas at the moment "La nuit se traîne". I also so Iranian "Tatami" and can recommend it wholeheartedly, both keap ypu on the edge of your sit the whole time.
Is "The Beast Must Die" the first film with the plot of 'which one is the werewolf'? I think Howling 2 (1985) did this along with "Werewolf Within" (2021).
Yo Terry -- I'm getting you something from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (doesn't that sound like a violent Quentin Tarantino movie from the late 1990s???) -- but not the car. I have to get it shipped to me (in the US) and then I'll ship it out to you....
@@terrytalksmovies -- Well, I was just thinking that the title had a similar 'rhythm' to it. Have not seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. As a teen I was in the UK, Europe and the middle east for a year -- and I got to see Neuschwanstein -- the castle of Baron Bomburst -- and even though I knew that it was a movie location, I did ask (jokingly) if they still kept children in the dungeon!
Looking at the poster for The Crimson Pirate I have to wonder when it became permissible for shirtless men to show their navels? Those high pants always look uncomfortable...
Once again, you've intrigued me with some wonderful choices which I will now investigate! :: I saw CCBB when it first came out in 68, and had the cheap little toy that came in a box of cereal (don't remember which one). The plastic body was in the box; the spread-out wing section had to be cut out from the back of the cereal box but Mom wouldn't let me do that until we'd finished off the cereal. Silly Mom!! The scenes where Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) totes random parts into his garage (including the rowboat!) and then brings out the fantastic car was the inspiration for my insatiable hobby of restoring old cars. :: Love me some Burt Lancaster!!! :: Did you know the Wikipedia entry for The Big Combo has a link to the .webm version of the movie?? (I'm watching it now) :: I saw Black Sunday on one of those cheesy late night horror shows back in the day. Loved it!! :: I saw Brotherhood of the Wolf years ago but had always meant to watch it again. I'll queue it up for my upcoming Halloween Movie Marathon ... along with The Frighteners. That's a classic! :: thanks for another great set!
OMG. Years ago I got a copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And it’s a Mad Mad Mad world . With fond memories in mind I watched both of them back to back. Not bothering to look at the length of the movies. And was shocked at how long Chitty Bang bang felt. I had to take several breaks to finish it. I mainly look forward to it because I couldn’t wait to see your child catcher.
I had a theory about the best must die as it seems to be a werewolf adaptation who goes there. Ironically it has the most iconic scene from John carpenters the thing before John carpenters thing was made. The silver bullet scene plays almost like the blood Electric current try to find out who the monster is. I’ve had a few fans of the thing out right attack me for pointing this out.
Crimson pirate is the old-school version of high testosterones. But the same time it looked like every one was having a ball and on top of that. Everyone in the movie category report. Almost like a family who grew up putting on shows and plays together. The only other movie that has that feel is boys in the band.
This may be a irrelevant point. I always found that Johnny dep was the accessorizing actor. He never worked out for his shirtless rolls. Not that he had many of those. But always seem to be overly groomed. In life I always found overly groomed people repulsive. It always seemed to over stimulate me. Although I do have if the sensory issues lol
Throwing your ex-wife under a bus in court by getting a crisis managment company to post outrageous things about her on the internet is a low act. Depp is a bad person.
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"The Frighteners" also has that amazing song by Blue Oyster Cult at the end. Marvel should learn from this because with the song like that you don't leave the cinema before it stops playing.
Music choice is so variable in movies. If I hear All Along The Watchtower again in a movie, I may hit the screen with my nerf gun darts.
If Wonder Woman starts to sing "The Impossible Dream" or if Batman sings "Stars", I'm going to laugh as every DC fan leaves the cinema! 🤣
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang got several re-releases in the 70's and it certainly is fondly recalled. The car reveal was magical. Had the Corgi car, too. On the flip side, Doctor Doolittle (1967) I also remembered being bored AF, it was almost 2 hrs long! Torture for a kid. Rex Harrison, I hated for years growing up. The movie bombed, and the Doctor Doolittle toys sat on shelves. Doctor Doolittle killed licensed movie toys for years after. Really interesting picks! Love The Frighteners. Bitter Springs and Fantomas have not seen but now on my watched list. Thanks Terry!
Doctor Dolittle only comes alive when Anthony Newley is singing.
Ned from Spain here saying I totally agree. We were visiting my maternal Granny in the UK and saw Doolittle when it was released there. The criminally awful music and acting by human hambone Rex and dopey Newley. The dull script and slow pacing put me to sleep too. I dropped off at Push me Pull you and woke up at the end with the giant butterfly. My father who usually loved musicals and theater hated it so much that after many many years if I mentioned it he would just go off but hilariously so. Harrison was such a POS
@@captlazer5509 Amazon has the CCBB Corgi die-cast car with movable wings in stock for $40. I had so many of the Corgi die-cast models back in the late 1960s including James Bond, Thunderbirds, Green Hornet, Batman, Captain Scarlet, Monkees, etc.
Good list. Of all the movies I have seen before I really should have, it's the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that freaked me out the most.
Bobby Helpmann did a great job with the character.
@@DansTravels5823 and Dr. Strangelove .
I love "Crimson Pirat" too.
Sometimes you just need some swashbuckling.
Benny Hill was the Toy Maker in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!!!😄😄😄🥰🥰🥰
He also grabbed an ample woman's bum in The Italian Job.
And he was a Fireman in Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines.
@@brettcoster4781 , Yup Yup Yup, I just rewatched that flick this weekend!!!🤣🤣🤣
@@terrytalksmovies , Oooo, I'll add that to my Watch List, THX!!!😄😄😄
I found Brotherhood of the Wolf hypnotically facinating. Whoever rated it as having a ‘medium level of violence’ must have a very high tolerance for blood and gore
IKR? A full-on gorefest at times.
I can read Morse code.
Terry's hoodies says, "Help! I'm having too much fun watching movies!"
You can have too much fun? Who knew! 😯
Ned and Janet from Spain, enjoying your suggestions once again. I saw Chitty Chitty at Radio City Music Hall on 6th ave and 50th st. and it was fabulous. A fun movie for young kids but comes close to twee and bit dark too. Fantomas is pretty cool, Big Combo is clas-sick and love The Beast Must Die. I will follow your suggestion for Brotherhood of the Wolf, which I think you mentioned before. Great that you're promoting those early Oz classics, Chips was always a force of nature. I think another rainy day noir is the original cut of " Big Sleep" as the film is drenched in water and humidity whether in a hothouse or the boudoir. Thanks and all the best Terry, Magg, Luna and Sally.
Thanks, Ned and Janet. You're gonna like Brotherhood of the Wolf. 😀
I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when it first came out in theaters, and I was one of those kids who was bored by how long it was! Even at 11 or 12 years old, which I was at the time, the special effects work irritated me by how obvious and un-special it was-I saw it with my kid brother, who was like six or seven at the time, and he asked me if there was some sort of magic that caused the blue line around Chitty Chitty Bang Bang whenever it flew! 😂 it should come as no surprise that his dream job was and remains being an Imagineer at Disney....
The Mouse Factory had the best matte technology at the time and they refused to share it with anyone else.
@@terrytalksmovies - I'd HEARD that, but was it some kind of a trade secret? I mean, blue screen had been around since the late 1930s (THIEF OF BAGDAD was what it was developed for, by expatriate special effects artist Lawrence W. Butler).
EDITED AFTER LOOKING IT UP: Well, doggie! It turns out Disney licensed Pedro Vlahos's "sodium vapor process" (shining a sodium vapor light against a white backdrop to create a "yellow screen" that permitted the use of all three primary colors). While it was superior to blue screen at the time in that both foreground and matte were first generation, it was expensive, complicated, required large studios to set up in, and used a LOT of light-the yellow screen was created on a second roll of film by use of a beam-splitter prism like was used in three-strip Technicolor cameras, which was in fact what Disney modified for their sodium-vapor camera. As blue screen got better and green screen started being used more, sodium vapor was slowly abandoned even by Disney (the last feature they used it on was DICK TRACY in 1990, though they appear to have not used it regularly since THE BLACK HOLE in 1979)....
I love Brotherhood of the Wolf. I've never upgraded to Blu-ray, I have the DVD version(2 or 3 discs) that I picked up years ago in Canada with tons of extras. The other thing I love about Brotherhood of the Wolf is that it is kind of based on a true story. There was a mysterious creature roaming France back then, they never discovered what it was.
It's an underrated action flick.
I have late night films where I only watch unchallenging films after say 9PM. The artsy, deep films are for earlier. I took out the 60s Fantomas from my library for my daughter who showed it in her French class at the end of the school year. Her teacher who is from France knew of the series. Seen Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Black Sunday, The Beast Must Die, Brotherhood of the Wolf. I have the 1913 Fantomas set but haven't finished it. One can see that they often hold on a master shot for a long time as cameras were so big and clunky then.
Yeah, the early Fantomas films are very static but they're historically fascinating for me.
I watched “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” (1968) as a kid and remember enjoying it quite a bit. I don’t know how well it holds up now. I even had a Corgi die-cast model of the car whereby at a push of a button the wings would come out. The movie is based on Ian Fleming’s novel “Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang: The Magical Car” novel from 1964. Dick Van Dyke is still alive and will be 99 in December (hopefully)!
CCBB still holds up. It's mad fun.
Me too - saw the movie, had the car, and played three soundtrack to death on my cassette recorder. The songs were great. Especially Lionel Jeffries singing "Port Out, Starboard Home."
Good times!
Later on, I showed the movie to my kids, got them the car, and even went to see the stage show on e in London - spectacular!
I loved CCBB. I remember watching it as a kid. The Child Catcher was kind of scary. Watched again in my 50's and it still holds up.
@@BrianRPaterson , "P O S H, Posh!!!" 🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰🥰
A lot of my favourite movies on your list there, Terry.
'The Frighteners' is that odd thing - a modern horror movie that is actually frightening. When you have some... thing, that can kill ghosts, as well as the living, you have to worry.
Michael J Fox playing a disreputable and slightly unlikeable character, is a nice touch too. John Astin's completely shagged out ghost, who has to keep retrieving his jawbone from a spectral dog, is a blast.
'Black Sunday' was banned in the UK for several years, solely because of the novel and brutal execution scene at the start. The censor did not like the idea of people having masks nailed to their faces, but that could not be cut, as that mask, and it's removal, were integral to the plot.
And yes, the whole thing is flesh-crawlingly creepy. That's how you make a horror movie. Nasty little bits of business, and tons and tons of atmosphere.
Black Sunday really works. I'm going to have to rewatch my Bava flicks soon.
Crimson Pirate is a timeless family movie. I watched it multiple times, when I was a kid.
When I read Black Sunday, I thought it is the 1977 Frankenheimer movie.
I have both. The 1977 one I have is the Imprint Blu-ray.
Ditto.
The Fantomas movies are fun. I also enjoy the OSS 117 series as well. One night I watched OSS 117: Terror in Tokyo and paired it with the Italian Euro-Spy flick, Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die.
I've covered the OSS117 flicks. I want someone to do a blu-ray release of Kiss The Girls And Make Them Die.
Chitty Chitty Bang bang is a solid one, i still have the vhs somewhere
I like the way Bobby Helpmann and Lionel Jeffries steal the movie.
absolutely YES to "comfort horror" films!!! it may seem a strange combination to some, and it definitely requires familiarity for it to work. thanks for the heads up on "The Crimson Pirate"-- on the cover, "I'll eat the smoke of their cannon!" (hehe!) and "The Big Combo"-- both went directly into my shopping cart!
Good idea. Can't go wrong with those two.
Thank you. I was not familiar with a lot of these and always enjoy increasing my education.
Glad it was helpful! They're all great watches, so have fun!
I have not see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang since I was very small. Might be time for a revisit. Brotherhood Of The Wolf is great! Plus it opens a rabbit hole for those inclined to research the actual scary events by which it was inspired. When I was in junior high school (which is now called middle school over here), we had an hour for lunch. 1/2 hour was for eating your lunch, then you had a 1/2 hour to do other things. One of the options was to go to the school auditorium and watch a movie over the course of two days. That is where I first saw The Beast Must Die! I love this movie! Calvin Lockhart is set to 11 the entire time and it is a joy to watch! Cheers from rainy Cleveland, Ohio, USA!
I wish I went to a school that showed me Amicus movies. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies Apparently my school system had a deal with a distributor for access to movies that were a couple years old. The people in charge of making sure the films were edited sometimes messed up. There were a couple of incidences of brief nudity showing up. Can't remember all the films I saw, but I do remember several Marx Bothers movies, a few Abbot & Costello films, The Beast Must Die, and the 1977 version of Island Of Dr. Moreau with Burt Lancaster and Michael York.
Great video for a rainy day. I agree with those choices, we have chitty on blu ray also one of early purchases in early 2000 dvd box set chitty that came with model of the car, soundtrack of the musical play with different songs and part of extra on the disc was behind the scenes of musical play with Brian Blessed as the Baron. Only copy of the Burt Lancaster film as Pirate set, along had film version New Adventures of Long John Silver that in Australia and 10 eps of the Buccaneers with Robert Shaw. I got blu ray of Bitter Springs from Network, the because Umbrella copy is out of stock. Brotherhood of the Wolf was recommended by Grant, its film would like, and of course he was right. Good choices all round.
Thanks, Damian. There's also that rule that good pirate movies don't have Johnny Depp in them.
Thanks for those Australian early films!!
My pleasure, James. They're both worthwhile checking out.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Benny Hill as The Toymaker !!! (Also Bert Frobe ("Goldfinger"), and Desmond Llewellen ("Q") from the Bond movies.
Benny was always fun.
The Brotherhood of the Wolf: it always raises the stakes when you set horror films before the time of the revolving pistols and repeating rifles (not to mention, metallic cartridges). An example would be Oliver Reed's Curse of the Werewolf (1961) with Reed's stepfather having to kill a very credible human wolf with one-shot from flintlock pistol.
Fast pieces of metal always work. 😀
@@terrytalksmovies In my experience, although mine came AFTER muzzle loaders . . . .
Some real gems in there 👍. I've added Brotherhood Of The Wolf to my to see list. I always thought (from the title and cover) this was some throw-away straight-to-streaming trash. I really need to get round to tracking down The Frighteners too. I've been curious about that one for years. Thanks Terry. I always trust your judgement.
I hope the trust is justified this time, Steve.
a Roger Moore bond movie is always a good rainy day movie for me
I'd watch that but the Roger Moore Bond movies give me gastric reflux. 😉😀
@@warrenbottomley3284 The Roger Moore JB movies were mostly weak except for “The Spy Who Loved Me” (1977). It wasn’t Moore’s fault but the producers went with more tongue in cheek stuff. Personally, the best JB movies are three of the early ones with the incomparable Sean Connery:
- From Russia with Love (1963)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Thunderball (1965)
"Do ya like crazy drums Johnny?"
Lovely video Terry, as always.
And considering it's wetter than an otter's pocket here in the uk at the moment, some delightful rainy day choices.
Cheers!
Enjoy, Phil. Stay dry, stay warm.
@@terrytalksmovies Wildo Terry.
Already started by inflicting my choice on Lady Hedgehog 🦔 with 'Godzilla: Final Wars' (2004).
She really enjoyed it, to the extent that during Big G's final battle with King Ghidorah she bellowed in her delicate Derbyshire tones, "GERROFF HIM YOU THREE HEADED C*NT!!!"
I may have a convert there...
_The Frigjhteners_ is great, as is all of Jackson's pre LOTR work. Agree with you that _Brotherhood of the Wolf_ is unique, it's definitely more action/mystery than horror but certainly worth a watch.
They both entertain, which is the goal. Genres are very fluid anyway, so I think we should just enjoy the movies.
Used to love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and especially the Child Catcher. One of Bob Helpman's best roles apart from Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffman. Love Brotherhood of the Wolf, and yes it's very bloody. I'm about to order Bitter Springs (which I've not seen) and Eureka Stockade (which I have) from Umbrella. I believe Chips Rafferty was very pro-Aboriginal in his day. I've got The Frighteners and Big Combo but not yet seen them, something I'm soon to rectify. As for a Burt Lancaster rainy-day film, my favourite is probably Local Hero.
Bobbie Helpmann's best work was this. ruclips.net/video/mdfsLglal0o/видео.htmlsi=DjHivHMEdvpFTNVl
11:25 ‘Black Sunday’ was on UK teevy when I lived in That London in the 90s - it was shown as ‘Mask Of Satan’.
The bestest part is in the opening credits where the production company is announced as … ahem … Titanus Productions ….
The best part is hammering on the masks. Ouch!
Hi Terry. Great list. I love The Crimson Pirate. I wish it was on Blu-ray. Love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. My dad had the Corgi car. You pulled the brake and wings popped out from the bottom. I watched The beast must die a long time ago. I think I was disappointed in the version of werewolf. There was a comic book called Monster Hunters that had the entire book about people on an island and you had to find clues in the story that helped you figure out who was the werewolf. The Big Combo is amazing. My favorite noire of all time is the Big Sleep. My favorite line is "Why is everyone always giving me guns". I love Brotherhood of the wolf. The sub title version. Dubbed doesn't translate to well.
Always go the subtitles. You can't go wrong. 😉
Not to forget that "Brotherhood of the Wolf" was (loosely) based on a bloody mystery in real life that actually happened, very early in the reign of King Louis XVI, so about 20-25 odd years before 1789. I loved the movie and still have the DVD. Might look for the BluRay, now. Another really good French Movie set in the 1830s is "Horseman on the Roof", about an Italian Patriot on the run from the Austrian Secret Police in Post Napoleonic France... during a spreading Cholera epidemic. It is directed by Jean Paul Rappeneau. Stars Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche and a great little cameo by Gerard Depardieu.
And I saw Chitty Shitty Bang bang when I was 9 or 10... hated it then. Rewatched it 25 years later... hated it then as well. (Which is a bit odd, considering I actually did enjoy quite a few "kids Movies" when I was a rugrat.
Thanks for the tip!
Just ordered the Brotherhood of the Wolf bluray - you had me at "Monica Bellucci." The old Fantomas films deserve to be better known. I read a translation of the original novel back in the 90s - excellent stuff and what a way to recapture the era of Georges Melies. btw Are you familiar with Martin Scorsese's film Hugo from 2011? Cheers Terry.
I have Hugo. It's Scorsese's love letter to cinema.
I would be hard-pressed to come up with a list of 10 rainy-day films, but they would include "Shock Waves" (1977), "The Head" (1959), "Near Dark" (1987), and 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" (1966). (!) Also any film about Doctor Mabuse.
I've been looking for a decent copy of The Head for a while now.
13:49 Another worthy non-Tolkien Jackson film was The Lovely Bones from 2009. If you haven't seen it, recommended!
I think it was a failure. Underplayed the horror.
Regarding Fantomas: Eureka in the UK are putting out a big Louis Feuillade box set with Fantomas, Les Vampires, Judex and Tih Minh. Just got word from them today that my pre-order of it is finally on the way.
Nice! Might have to save up my pennies for a while.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was my sons favorite film when he was 5, I watched that movie so many times with him , I know of all the continuity errors in the film. Also the song Hush Abye Mountion was written by Neil Young.
"Hushabye Mountain" was written by Robert and Richard Sherman.
Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman wrote Hushabye Mountain.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is also eminently rewatchable.
Burt Lancaster was in a few duds, but he was never bad in a movie. Crimson Pirate was a fun parody on Fairbanks and Flynn films. But, my favourites are probably Run Silent, Run Deep, and Elmer Gantry!
Cheers
Both of those are good choices. I like him in Gunfight At The OK Corral. He does a great diving roll during the gunfight.
@@terrytalksmovies Can't argue with that.
I missed out TRAPEZE. As an ex-circus acrobat, Burt was great in the flying scenes.
So were everybody else, including Sid James, continuously trying to sell the snake which killed his brother to anyone looking for can't miss circus act.
Cheers
We called them 'snapper cases'
Thanks!
Terry: What an international bag of films!
Italian horror movies (Mario Bava in particular) is an acquired taste. It's so strange and in a low-budget way.
I think along with the stale popcorn, I would also have to have a strong cocktail available.
BTW: When are you going to have your next live chat?
The next livestream will be next Sunday/Monday. I usually do them early in the montj. 😀
I haven’t watched “Brotherhood of the Wolf” (2001) in a good 20 years. It’s currently available on Amazon Prime so I’ll rewatch. Anything with the goddess Monica Bellucci. At the time she was married to Vincent Cassel who is also in this movie. They also starred in one of the most unwatchable movies of all time: Irreversible (2002).
I have Irreversible but haven't been in the mood to watch it yet
@@terrytalksmovies It’s truly disturbing. I watched it in a movie theater when it came out. I have it on DVD from back then but never rewatched it and probably won’t.
Yet another reminder from you that I never got around to watching a movie I've known about forever, despite being quite a Mark Dacascos fan. I should make a list.
A bit ranty about the English today though, did they just beat your lot at cricket or something?
I don't do sportsball. I just dislike the fact that Charles is King of Australia and we've yet to become a republic.
The beast Must Die: Agatha Christe meets The Howling?
Kinda sorta yeah.
Sir Ken Adam did sets and art direction for CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG.
he also did did many sets for the James Bond films as well.
He did. Ken Adam was a brilliant designer.
Ps. I'm not sure when you can get to see it in Australia, but we got a Belgian little gem of a thriller in french cinemas at the moment "La nuit se traîne". I also so Iranian "Tatami" and can recommend it wholeheartedly, both keap ypu on the edge of your sit the whole time.
Thanks for the tips. Added them to the list. 😉😀
Is "The Beast Must Die" the first film with the plot of 'which one is the werewolf'? I think Howling 2 (1985) did this along with "Werewolf Within" (2021).
It has to be.
Yo Terry -- I'm getting you something from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (doesn't that sound like a violent Quentin Tarantino movie from the late 1990s???) -- but not the car. I have to get it shipped to me (in the US) and then I'll ship it out to you....
Wow. Thank you! The movie you're thinking of is Kiss Kiss Bang Bang which is a great Shane Black movie.
@@terrytalksmovies -- Well, I was just thinking that the title had a similar 'rhythm' to it. Have not seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. As a teen I was in the UK, Europe and the middle east for a year -- and I got to see Neuschwanstein -- the castle of Baron Bomburst -- and even though I knew that it was a movie location, I did ask (jokingly) if they still kept children in the dungeon!
Looking at the poster for The Crimson Pirate I have to wonder when it became permissible for shirtless men to show their navels? Those high pants always look uncomfortable...
Everyone wore high pants in the 1950s.
Once again, you've intrigued me with some wonderful choices which I will now investigate! :: I saw CCBB when it first came out in 68, and had the cheap little toy that came in a box of cereal (don't remember which one). The plastic body was in the box; the spread-out wing section had to be cut out from the back of the cereal box but Mom wouldn't let me do that until we'd finished off the cereal. Silly Mom!! The scenes where Caractacus Potts (Dick Van Dyke) totes random parts into his garage (including the rowboat!) and then brings out the fantastic car was the inspiration for my insatiable hobby of restoring old cars. :: Love me some Burt Lancaster!!! :: Did you know the Wikipedia entry for The Big Combo has a link to the .webm version of the movie?? (I'm watching it now) :: I saw Black Sunday on one of those cheesy late night horror shows back in the day. Loved it!! :: I saw Brotherhood of the Wolf years ago but had always meant to watch it again. I'll queue it up for my upcoming Halloween Movie Marathon ... along with The Frighteners. That's a classic! :: thanks for another great set!
My pleasure! Glad you liked the selection.
OMG. Years ago I got a copy of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And it’s a Mad Mad Mad world . With fond memories in mind I watched both of them back to back. Not bothering to look at the length of the movies. And was shocked at how long Chitty Bang bang felt. I had to take several breaks to finish it. I mainly look forward to it because I couldn’t wait to see your child catcher.
Those long tentpole movies were such a strange experience for those reasons.
I had a theory about the best must die as it seems to be a werewolf adaptation who goes there. Ironically it has the most iconic scene from John carpenters the thing before John carpenters thing was made. The silver bullet scene plays almost like the blood Electric current try to find out who the monster is. I’ve had a few fans of the thing out right attack me for pointing this out.
All theories are valid.
Crimson pirate is the old-school version of high testosterones. But the same time it looked like every one was having a ball and on top of that. Everyone in the movie category report. Almost like a family who grew up putting on shows and plays together. The only other movie that has that feel is boys in the band.
Lancaster and Cravat had great chemistry, having been acrobats together in a circus.
This may be a irrelevant point. I always found that Johnny dep was the accessorizing actor. He never worked out for his shirtless rolls. Not that he had many of those. But always seem to be overly groomed. In life I always found overly groomed people repulsive. It always seemed to over stimulate me. Although I do have if the sensory issues lol
Throwing your ex-wife under a bus in court by getting a crisis managment company to post outrageous things about her on the internet is a low act. Depp is a bad person.
Have you seen in bad taste? I think it’s Peter Jackson’s first film
Yep. I used to have it on VHS.