Unless my eyes deceive me, the vacuum cleaner salesman in both versions was played by a Corman regular named Dick Miller. He was also in "Gremlins" and (appropriately) in "Matinee".
No, the one in the remake shown here just had a very "Dick Miller-ish" actor playing the salesman. There is yet ANOTHER remake starring Michael York as the alien. Maybe that version had Dick Miller in it? Miller was still appearing in seemingly every monster flick at the time.
@@varanid9 Michael York must have felt like Daryl Hannah when she agreed to do 'Last Days of Planet Earth's TV series....then Tarantino threw her a rope!! Holy shit!! She did last days 3 years after the kill Bill movies.....oh well🤑 you take work when you can get it!
Robin trying to contain his laughter when saying "It's a Chinese man he bumped into on the street", plus the hilarity of the situation, has me cry laughing here.
I think the first NotE is pretty good, and far from standard; it was the first movie to suggest an extraterrestrial explanation for a classic movie monster (in this case, the vampire). John Carpenter has named it one of his favorite science fiction films, so his fans should enjoy it.
KRhetor, Yes, the original was much better. It was written by the underrated Charles Griffith and directed by Corman. Just goes to show what a talented director he was, and also read what Bill Warren said about this movie in his wonderful book "Keep Watching the Skies".
Bill was a true treasure; he also conducted some great interviews in Starlog. I never met him but interacted with him frequently on the KWTS Facebook page.
I like the original film as an example of effective story telling with the restraints of low budget. Ms. Garland and Paul Birch were much better actors than their replacements in the Corman version.
Traci Lords version of Nadine is what everyone was thinking about doing with nurse Beverly Garland back in the 50s when she showed-up in her one-piece by bug-eyes pool!!
When I was 9 or 10 this was on the Saturday afternoon monster movie show. This was like 1974 or 1975. I was excited, it wasn’t some lame giant rubber monster flick. The kid who was with me said he wasn’t allowed to watch movies like that. I couldn’t believe it! Too bad. Watch it or split. That night his mom called mine. Little Lord Fauntleroy was too afraid to go to sleep. Bastard. 3 or 4 years later me & a friend saw the Saturday matinee then hid in the bathroom to stay & see Squirm. You guessed it. This time this kid didn’t snitch. It just didn’t take much detective work to figure out who he saw it with.
I couldn't stand those mothers that thought horror movies were too much for their little princes. Fortunately, my parents let me watch anything on TV, even if it had nudity, as syndicated stations back in the '70s sometimes showed foreign movies that were often racier than their U.S. counterparts. I remember my mom watching "Man-Eater of Hydra" with me when I was around 12 years old and, later, a Frankie Avalon movie, "The Haunted House of Horror", that had a VERY bloody slasher scene in it; she expressed shock, but, never did the thought of forbidding me from seeing such things enter her mind, God bless her! Kudos to the TV station for showing them in their entirety, although these films were aired around midnight on.
I always liked the original film, dialogue notwithstanding. The killing of the likeable (if pushy) vacuum salesman was a shock, to me as a kid and the "umbrella" dropping on the scientist's head, his struggles, and then blood pooling on the table, seemed gruesome for its time. I also loved that ending, with the figure approaching, unseen, in the background. On the whole I thought it was pretty damned effective within its budgetary constraints. That remake, however....
I'd like to see a remake of Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine. It's not a horror movie but it's sci-fi. Don't know if that fits into your review genre.
HAH, that reminds me...waaaay back when the Exorcist was in theaters, my dad and mom got shanghaied into driving my sister and her buds to see the movie; when they got home, Mole People was on 'Creature Features, which my family then proceeded to sit thru'; my Father simply declared that 'Mole People' was scarier and more effective than Exorcist..
It would probably have a less stupid ending without 50s-era racism declaring the hero and heroine can't get together because the heroine isn't white, despite being played by the whitest actress they could find.
What movie would benefit from a sexed-up remake? Nearly any movie from the 50s that banked entirely on an alluring title and poster and then failed entirely in delivering on the goods. I'm looking at you, The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent.
Even with the beautiful Traci Lords and the added nudity, I think the original did it waaay better. This just shows you can't mess with perfection, I mean look at the "Psycho" remake! It was also remade shot for shot and still turned out terrible.
The remake was an improvement, but I don't really think removing the flying alien umbrella from the original was in its favor - actually, that's the kind of umbrella I wish I could carry around in the rain, at least it would have a real "Fuck You" personality in the face of the storm!
If it was up to me I would probably cut the spiders out altogether. It would be the story of a farmer finding geodes in his backyard. The sex would come from his drunk wife having a relationship with the bartender, her sister's boyfriend hitting on her, her husband having a affair with the Swedish waitress, the husband hitting on the sister-in-law, and the husband's cousin hitting on the sister-in-law. That's a lot of hook-ups.
An Otherworldly, Delightfully Zaftig review from Dark Corners! Thank You For All You Do. What horror classic could do with a sexed-up remake? "Dracula's Daughter" (1936)
Comparing old vs new is a good theme. How many we got? How many have you already done? King Kong (you've done that) The Fly (I think you did this?) War of the Worlds (horror? IDK) Tod Browning Drac vs Coppola Drac. That should be good. Invisible Man vs Hollow Man... I'd like that one. Old vs New has been done before (sometimes by you) but your style is unique. I just want to suggest anything that keeps you guys going!
Bret R Boulter "The Thing from Another World" vs "The Thing"? The TV versions of the Quatermass stories vs the film versions? "The Stepford Wives"? Although that's maybe too recent for this channel. Weren't there two film versions of "Children of the Damned"? Which now that I think of it, doesn't entirely make sense as a title (even though I can see why they changed it from the original).
How about Todd Browning's Dracula vs George Melford's Spanish language version of the same film made on the same sets after Browning's crew packed up for the night.
I watched the '57 version back in the early 70's and was among those films that really stuck in my head for decades afterwards. Say what you will about the cheapness of tour average Roger Corman film but they were a whole lot of fun, and when they worked could be quite creepy. What I like about the film is that it makes the most mundane settings just as creepy as one of his Poe films. It does give away a little too much inside of its opening five minutes and should have left the reveal to about the midway point. It's interesting that the villain of the story is the central character and everyone else is secondary. Usually it's the other way round. We get to know more than the other characters. It's a film of its time. Flaws aside it is still fun. I watched not long along and felt that it still held up. I have a fondness for these films and a Roger Corman film usually delivers so long as you go in with tongue firmly tucked in cheek.
I remember renting the Wynorski remake when i was still at school. Oh, Ms Lords, the profound effect you had... As to what other old b-flicks could do with a sexed-up redo: Hmmm... Robot Monster done in the style of Fred Olen Ray could be a laugh.
I would say that Queen of Blood could benefit from a sexed-up remake. Lifeforce and Species already borrowed from the concept of a sexy alien preying on humans, but those films where set on Earth, a remake could keep the isolated enviroment of a spaceship, it just need to be more explicit and less dull
Great video comparing the two films. It was like getting two laughs for the price of one. So the remake was made because of a bet. That seems to be the story behind a couple other Dark Corners favorites like "Manos: The Hands Of Fate" and the original "Little Shop Of Horrors". As for a low budget film that needs a bigger boob, I mean bigger budget, I would suggest Roger Corman's first horror film "Monster From The Ocean Floor". Already set on a beach in Mexico, all it needs is more scantly dressed women and a monster that actually comes ashore to attack people. As Roger Corman once said, "More blood & boobs".
@@andrewgwilliam4831 I read somewhere that Roger Corman made a bet with a producer that he could completely shoot a film in two-and-a-half days. I recently found out that that rumor has been debunked, but Corman did film "The Little Shop Of Horrors" in about three days using leftover sets from "A Bucket Of Blood". Sorry about the false bet information.
My guess , like all Corman's movies , this movie made a profit. And why not, it has tits in it. But you do have hand it to Corman that his Poe films were pretty good.
Corman's Poe films are extraordinary, but does the lion's share of credit belong to him or to Vincent Price? I believe Price could have been that good without Corman, but I'm not sure it goes the other way.
Corman was the master of low budget film making. How about a special on the movies of American International Picture ( AIP ). From ultra low budget flicks ( LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS ) to their large budget movies ( MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH ).
Bill Rebane,s Giant Spider Invasion would benefit from a sexy remake. Their is a bunch of hook-ups in it. If you watch it, you see a lot of times you could put a sex scene in it.
How about Detour with Tom Neal and Detour with Tom Neal Jr. Almost shot for shot the same exact film except the latter is in color and Tom Neal Sr. can act. Like, if you've been a Traci Lords fan for over 35 years.
All this time and you haven't reviewed "Transylvania Twist", yet? It's sort of a Spiritual successor to this film. I think it has better acting, and features many of the same cast. With Gabby getting a more starring role then just the homeless crazy lady. TT is more in the style of Mel Brooks, and Leslie Nielsen films. But its still my favorite movie, because all the in movie references to everything else. You always see something in the background, or a pun that only movie people would get.
Wait, wasn't there a second remake in the 90's? It had a cheap CG floating... jellyfish thing instead of the prescient vampire squid umbrella thing. Maybe it had a different title? But it was still the same plot and characters, still had the dumb pool scene... I think I rented it at Blockbuster. It had Michael York in it, I think.
Have you ever reviewed “Kill Squad” by Patrick Donoghue? Lame 80’s action movie. I saw it in a cinema as the first of a double “feature” lol. It was hilarious. Everyone in the audience was cracking up and taking the piss out of it. When all the Vietnam platoon is assembled (because Joseph needs you”) they are lined up and demonstrate their specific skill directly into the camera. After each display, the audience erupted into a raucous sarcastic cheering and applauding. My funniest cinema experience ever.
Oh yes, the Crawling Eye. I know we looked at it way back then. Not sure why we did do it. May have been similar to other ones we were doing at the time.
I can’t think of the name of the movie but it’s an old B/W about a man that is made into a robot and in one part he walks under the Hudson river to attack the UN building and his Son stops him by pushing big button on his chest. Really Bad.
Fiend Without a Face seemed to want to go the sexed up route, may as well go all the way. Devil Girl From Mars sounds like the premise of a porno, so there's probably already a sexed up version of that movie. I think Racket Girls was the one about corruption in ladies' wrestling, could have benefited from being sexed up.
The first version is Corman's best pre House of Usher film. I like the dialog between Mr. Johnson and his fellow E.T.s particularly when his girlfriend arrives. Paul Birch is great. A disagree with much of this review.
The '88 re-do isn't half-bad, just half-baked. Just the very notion of a mostly verbatim remake---scene for scene, line for line---shows a definite paucity of re-invention, effectively eliminating even an obligatory stab at anything resembling originality or something akin to it. As confirmation of such, just hazard a look-see at Gus van Sant's utterly pointless by-the-numbers PSYCHO copy. (Though on the other hand....it's got TRACI LORDS, fer Chrissake!). The "95 version is a marked improvement, though not by much. Here the approach is strictly tongue-planted-very-firmly-in cheek, playing out---or over-playing---the comedy latent in the original '57 script. As the inscrutable "Mr. Johnson" (couldn't they at least have come up with a different name this time?), Michael York gives an oddly mannered performance that makes his character come across as more benign than sinister. It's the style of acting perhaps best suited to a mood of over-arching levity. Neither of these game attempts comes even remotely close to emulating the surreal weirdness and camp creepiness of Corman's 1957 original..Paul Birch---whose character claims to come "from somewhere else"---became an instant icon of sub-zero cool ghoul aplomb just by donning a pair of '67 Lou Reedish wraparound shades; all the better, one figures, to hide those blanked-out death ray peepers. Birch is surely one of the coolest cats to ever script-speak horror flick dialogue. Whenever he snaps, his laconic space alien monotone gives way to grunts,, barks, burps, and ranting commands not unlike Kevin McCarthy in the first INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. This on-again/off-again style of deadpan delivery nicely counterpoints the frequent lapses (intentional or not) into black humor, such as the casual siphoning of human blood into milk bottles(!) and the telepathic brain-frying of Dick Miller's churlish door-to-door vacuum dude. One particularly darkly mirthful scene ensues when the visiting female alien gets accidentally infused with rabies-infected dog blood. (So how was "Mr. Johnson" supposed to know the bad blood in question came from a veterinarian's office?) But there's this one scene that I've always found a bit of a noggin scratcher. It's when Birch's alien shanghais a stray Asian guy for teleportation back to home planet Dyslexia---or whatever it's called. But why some Chinese cat? Why couldn't he go out and pick up a working girl instead? They're not that hard to find and, besides, it would've made for a far more interesting scene. (OOPS! I'd forgotten that this particular oversight was corrected in the '88 version.) I mean, HeL.L.A. is positively rife with hookers and hos of every persuasion. Just ask Hugh Grant. The fully funkadelicized floating umbrella monster is a classic hoot. It was reportedly cobbled together on the fly by AIP's resident effects whiz Paul Blaisdell; I think it looks a whole lot like a vampire squid (A real animal. Look it up). I also suspect that it might have served as partial inspiration for ALIEN's "Face Hugger"; the similarity is subtle but it's there. And yeah, it looks typically 1950s cheesy as it clunkily floats along on its merry course. I would counter: yeah O.K. it's cheesy , but it's cheesy in a distinctively cool kind of way---much like the movie itself. LUUUKE....LUUUKE INTO MY EEEYYES. MY EEEYYESS ARE AAAA-LIEN.
This reminds me of the shot for shot, totally useless remake of Hitchcock's Psycho by Gus Van Sant. There are homages that go several million dollars too far....
Unless my eyes deceive me, the vacuum cleaner salesman in both versions was played by a Corman regular named Dick Miller. He was also in "Gremlins" and (appropriately) in "Matinee".
No, the one in the remake shown here just had a very "Dick Miller-ish" actor playing the salesman. There is yet ANOTHER remake starring Michael York as the alien. Maybe that version had Dick Miller in it? Miller was still appearing in seemingly every monster flick at the time.
@@varanid9 Michael York must have felt like Daryl Hannah when she agreed to do 'Last Days of Planet Earth's TV series....then Tarantino threw her a rope!! Holy shit!! She did last days 3 years after the kill Bill movies.....oh well🤑 you take work when you can get it!
@@Cracktaculus Thing is, I really liked Michael York's take on the alien; he did a great job. A true professional, as was Joan Collins in "Trog".
@@varanid9 Joan Collins was never in 'Trog' - you must be thinking of Broderick Crawford.
@@RP-ve7bl And you are thinking of Joan Crawford. Well, at least one of you got the first name right, and the other remembered the last name.
Robin trying to contain his laughter when saying "It's a Chinese man he bumped into on the street", plus the hilarity of the situation, has me cry laughing here.
To be fair, that "umbrella" was very reminiscent of a vampire squid...so good on them for making that connection.
I think the first NotE is pretty good, and far from standard; it was the first movie to suggest an extraterrestrial explanation for a classic movie monster (in this case, the vampire). John Carpenter has named it one of his favorite science fiction films, so his fans should enjoy it.
I agree.
KRhetor, Yes, the original was much better. It was written by the underrated Charles Griffith and directed by Corman. Just goes to show what a talented director he was, and also read what Bill Warren said about this movie in his wonderful book "Keep Watching the Skies".
Bill was a true treasure; he also conducted some great interviews in Starlog. I never met him but interacted with him frequently on the KWTS Facebook page.
There are actually three versions of this movie. It was remade again in 1995.
I like the original film as an example of effective story telling with the restraints of low budget. Ms. Garland and Paul Birch were much better actors than their replacements in the Corman version.
I thought Corman did the original, too.
@@varanid9 he did
The new alien looks like a third member of The Blues Brothers. 1987.
@@seymourskinner2533 he did them both but he didn't really do either of them. Just like he's tall , but in reality he is short
In the Wynorski version. Corman did the original
Traci Lords version of Nadine is what everyone was thinking about doing with nurse Beverly Garland back in the 50s when she showed-up in her one-piece by bug-eyes pool!!
A sexed-up Robot Monster or Plan 69 From Outer Space perhaps?
It's nice to be able to watch a Traci Lords film without breaking the law.
Outside the US, you can watch ANY Traci Lords film and not break the law.
Where's the fun in that??? Just like it being pointless to get a hooker in Nevada.
Blade for example
Also no mention of Dick Miller who plays the vacuum cleaner salesman in both versions.
When I was 9 or 10 this was on the Saturday afternoon monster movie show. This was like 1974 or 1975. I was excited, it wasn’t some lame giant rubber monster flick. The kid who was with me said he wasn’t allowed to watch movies like that. I couldn’t believe it! Too bad. Watch it or split. That night his mom called mine. Little Lord Fauntleroy was too afraid to go to sleep. Bastard. 3 or 4 years later me & a friend saw the Saturday matinee then hid in the bathroom to stay & see Squirm. You guessed it. This time this kid didn’t snitch. It just didn’t take much detective work to figure out who he saw it with.
I couldn't stand those mothers that thought horror movies were too much for their little princes. Fortunately, my parents let me watch anything on TV, even if it had nudity, as syndicated stations back in the '70s sometimes showed foreign movies that were often racier than their U.S. counterparts. I remember my mom watching "Man-Eater of Hydra" with me when I was around 12 years old and, later, a Frankie Avalon movie, "The Haunted House of Horror", that had a VERY bloody slasher scene in it; she expressed shock, but, never did the thought of forbidding me from seeing such things enter her mind, God bless her! Kudos to the TV station for showing them in their entirety, although these films were aired around midnight on.
I always liked the original film, dialogue notwithstanding. The killing of the likeable (if pushy) vacuum salesman was a shock, to me as a kid and the "umbrella" dropping on the scientist's head, his struggles, and then blood pooling on the table, seemed gruesome for its time. I also loved that ending, with the figure approaching, unseen, in the background. On the whole I thought it was pretty damned effective within its budgetary constraints.
That remake, however....
Mr. Kimmel, I agree completely! I saw this when I was around 10 years old. I loved it! Dick Miller. Beverly Garland. What's not to love?
I'd like to see a remake of Dr. Goldfoot & The Bikini Machine. It's not a horror movie but it's sci-fi. Don't know if that fits into your review genre.
Who could take the Vincent Price role, though?
@@annnichols3091 They could gender-swap him with Judi Dench,
well it's a direct remake of a '50s movie, so it makes sense that it would feature so much stock footage like an actual '50s movie
'Mole People' might turn out a bit better with a sexier remake, I'm just answering the question at the end.
i now know my purpose... ellen page, kristen stewart chloe moretz... because... i got connections
HAH, that reminds me...waaaay back when the Exorcist was in theaters, my dad and mom got shanghaied into driving my sister and her buds to see the movie; when they got home, Mole People was on 'Creature Features, which my family then proceeded to sit thru'; my Father simply declared that 'Mole People' was scarier and more effective than Exorcist..
It would probably have a less stupid ending without 50s-era racism declaring the hero and heroine can't get together because the heroine isn't white, despite being played by the whitest actress they could find.
What movie would benefit from a sexed-up remake? Nearly any movie from the 50s that banked entirely on an alluring title and poster and then failed entirely in delivering on the goods. I'm looking at you, The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent.
Even with the beautiful Traci Lords and the added nudity, I think the original did it waaay better. This just shows you can't mess with perfection, I mean look at the "Psycho" remake! It was also remade shot for shot and still turned out terrible.
Wonder if the makers of Lifeforce were inspired by the look of the 'umbrella'.
In '57 my parents took me and my sister to the drive-in movie to see this. The monsters filled me with lingering fear, I was five.
And it was remade yet again in 1995 starring Michael York.
it seems the backstory to the production of these films is more memorable than the films themselves. haha
The remake was sleazy (of course!) but entertaining!!! And Traci Lord's was cute!!!
The remake was an improvement, but I don't really think removing the flying alien umbrella from the original was in its favor - actually, that's the kind of umbrella I wish I could carry around in the rain, at least it would have a real "Fuck You" personality in the face of the storm!
If it was up to me I would probably cut the spiders out altogether. It would be the story of a farmer finding geodes in his backyard. The sex would come from his drunk wife having a relationship with the bartender, her sister's boyfriend hitting on her, her husband having a affair with the Swedish waitress, the husband hitting on the sister-in-law, and the husband's cousin hitting on the sister-in-law. That's a lot of hook-ups.
An Otherworldly, Delightfully Zaftig review from Dark Corners! Thank You For All You Do.
What horror classic could do with a sexed-up remake? "Dracula's Daughter" (1936)
We will be looking at that film next years as part of Universal Dracula retrospective.
OK so she's not the daughter of Dracula, but would one of the Carmilla movies do?
Comparing old vs new is a good theme. How many we got? How many have you already done?
King Kong (you've done that)
The Fly (I think you did this?)
War of the Worlds (horror? IDK)
Tod Browning Drac vs Coppola Drac. That should be good.
Invisible Man vs Hollow Man... I'd like that one.
Old vs New has been done before (sometimes by you) but your style is unique.
I just want to suggest anything that keeps you guys going!
Bret R Boulter "The Thing from Another World" vs "The Thing"?
The TV versions of the Quatermass stories vs the film versions?
"The Stepford Wives"? Although that's maybe too recent for this channel.
Weren't there two film versions of "Children of the Damned"? Which now that I think of it, doesn't entirely make sense as a title (even though I can see why they changed it from the original).
How about Todd Browning's Dracula vs George Melford's Spanish language version of the same film made on the same sets after Browning's crew packed up for the night.
I watched the '57 version back in the early 70's and was among those films that really stuck in my head for decades afterwards. Say what you will about the cheapness of tour average Roger Corman film but they were a whole lot of fun, and when they worked could be quite creepy. What I like about the film is that it makes the most mundane settings just as creepy as one of his Poe films. It does give away a little too much inside of its opening five minutes and should have left the reveal to about the midway point. It's interesting that the villain of the story is the central character and everyone else is secondary. Usually it's the other way round. We get to know more than the other characters. It's a film of its time. Flaws aside it is still fun. I watched not long along and felt that it still held up. I have a fondness for these films and a Roger Corman film usually delivers so long as you go in with tongue firmly tucked in cheek.
3:02 prolly because Alien's Facehugger has become a Thing by that point.
Dick Miller Eternal!
1957 had the great Beverly Garland.
And Corman bit player Dick Miller; did he also get into the remake?
I remember renting the Wynorski remake when i was still at school. Oh, Ms Lords, the profound effect you had... As to what other old b-flicks could do with a sexed-up redo: Hmmm... Robot Monster done in the style of Fred Olen Ray could be a laugh.
Is that the one with "Ro-Man"? Yeah, a gratuitous "Humanoids from the Deep" style remake of that one would be great.
There was also a THIRD version starring Michael York as the alien.
How about a remake of The Navy versus The Night Monsters? This time with a Mamie van Doren half naked
Looking forward to watching and critiquing the movie
Any of them!
Please add the 1995 version to your to-do list.
I would say that Queen of Blood could benefit from a sexed-up remake. Lifeforce and Species already borrowed from the concept of a sexy alien preying on humans, but those films where set on Earth, a remake could keep the isolated enviroment of a spaceship, it just need to be more explicit and less dull
Perhaps Corman should do a remake of Orgy of the Dead.
But the new one has Tracy Lourds.
Great video comparing the two films. It was like getting two laughs for the price of one. So the remake was made because of a bet. That seems to be the story behind a couple other Dark Corners favorites like "Manos: The Hands Of Fate" and the original "Little Shop Of Horrors".
As for a low budget film that needs a bigger boob, I mean bigger budget, I would suggest Roger Corman's first horror film "Monster From The Ocean Floor". Already set on a beach in Mexico, all it needs is more scantly dressed women and a monster that actually comes ashore to attack people. As Roger Corman once said, "More blood & boobs".
Raven House Mystery Wait, what? What was the bet involving the Little Shop of Horrors?
@@andrewgwilliam4831 I read somewhere that Roger Corman made a bet with a producer that he could completely shoot a film in two-and-a-half days. I recently found out that that rumor has been debunked, but Corman did film "The Little Shop Of Horrors" in about three days using leftover sets from "A Bucket Of Blood". Sorry about the false bet information.
They did the same shot for shot routine with the Psycho remake.
My guess , like all Corman's movies , this movie made a profit. And why not, it has tits in it.
But you do have hand it to Corman that his Poe films were pretty good.
Corman's Poe films are extraordinary, but does the lion's share of credit belong to him or to Vincent Price? I believe Price could have been that good without Corman, but I'm not sure it goes the other way.
Didn't they make a third one with Michael York??
They did
Corman was the master of low budget film making.
How about a special on the movies of American International Picture ( AIP ). From ultra low budget flicks ( LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS ) to their large budget movies ( MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH ).
You need to review, from hell it came, a killer tree - enough said.
A movie most noted for a movie critic's classic one-line burn: "And to hell it can go."
I'm basically a thief
Bill Rebane,s Giant Spider Invasion would benefit from a sexy remake. Their is a bunch of hook-ups in it. If you watch it, you see a lot of times you could put a sex scene in it.
Man-"Oh!"-s: the Smooth Hands of Fate
there's still a third version and one or two based ons with different titles...
How about Detour with Tom Neal and Detour with Tom Neal Jr. Almost shot for shot the same exact film except the latter is in color and Tom Neal Sr. can act.
Like, if you've been a Traci Lords fan for over 35 years.
creeping terror...... do it hollywood.. with kristen stewart because.. i have issues
All this time and you haven't reviewed "Transylvania Twist", yet? It's sort of a Spiritual successor to this film. I think it has better acting, and features many of the same cast. With Gabby getting a more starring role then just the homeless crazy lady. TT is more in the style of Mel Brooks, and Leslie Nielsen films. But its still my favorite movie, because all the in movie references to everything else. You always see something in the background, or a pun that only movie people would get.
You know, Traci Lord was kinda cute back in the day.
Wait, wasn't there a second remake in the 90's? It had a cheap CG floating... jellyfish thing instead of the prescient vampire squid umbrella thing.
Maybe it had a different title? But it was still the same plot and characters, still had the dumb pool scene... I think I rented it at Blockbuster.
It had Michael York in it, I think.
Yeah, a third version with Michael York as the alien; it was even cheaper, it seemed.
They actually have a 3rd remake. I just watched it, pretty sure its from the 90s. Every version is hilarious!
I saw the 88 version many years ago but never seen the 50s version as of yet. but I did like the 80s version.
1954 Original version is way better acted and also much better in the style it's presented. I recommend you watch . Was at least a 7 out of 10 for me.
WE GOT ROBBED OF A CHINESE MAN IN A BIKINI!!!
Both of these are entertaining. The acting is better in Corman version. The great Beverly Garland surpassed Lords.
Have you ever reviewed “Kill Squad” by Patrick Donoghue? Lame 80’s action movie. I saw it in a cinema as the first of a double “feature” lol. It was hilarious. Everyone in the audience was cracking up and taking the piss out of it. When all the Vietnam platoon is assembled (because Joseph needs you”) they are lined up and demonstrate their specific skill directly into the camera. After each display, the audience erupted into a raucous sarcastic cheering and applauding. My funniest cinema experience ever.
Dick Miller Forever!
(Just don't visit his Waterpark. Bad things happen there.
Roger was a prophet
Have you reviewed The Trollenberg Terror yet, that's a good one for cigarette and alcohol abuse :)
Oh yes, the Crawling Eye. I know we looked at it way back then. Not sure why we did do it. May have been similar to other ones we were doing at the time.
Traci Lords got me through puberty!
The Giant Spider Invasion has a ton of implied sex
Well that was confusing as fuck but awesome too
Don't worry I have subscribed.
I can’t think of the name of the movie but it’s an old B/W
about a man that is made into a robot and in one part he walks under the Hudson
river to attack the UN building and his Son stops him by pushing big button on his
chest. Really Bad.
Colossus of New York.
Ross Martin did the voice of the Robot. I liked how did it with static , made him sound so distant when he spoke.
Yes that's it Thank You, I remember watching it on the Horror Late Night in Buffalo back in the 60s.
I Love the 1988 remake version with Traci Lords much better than the 50s b&w Roger Corman
Wish there had been a Sequel to 1988s "NOT OF THIS EARTH" starring Traci Lords again as sassy, sarcastic Nurse in alien peril fighting the good fight
"This whole thing has the sound of something very unethical."...😂
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DAMN IT- NO ALIEN UMBRELLA????
Fiend Without a Face seemed to want to go the sexed up route, may as well go all the way. Devil Girl From Mars sounds like the premise of a porno, so there's probably already a sexed up version of that movie. I think Racket Girls was the one about corruption in ladies' wrestling, could have benefited from being sexed up.
The first version is Corman's best pre House of Usher film. I like the dialog between Mr. Johnson and his fellow E.T.s particularly when his girlfriend arrives. Paul Birch is great. A disagree with much of this review.
I am not a thief.
I always hate it when they add sex.....
(NOT!!)
AND, for a cult remake, how about Carnival of Souls
I love carnival of souls . It definitely deserves a good remake.
Sexed up remake: "Forbidden Planet"....the world needs Robbie The Robot with sex toy attachments.
not going to lie.. corman you a money saver and a sneaky fucker
Tracy Lords is hot NOW!! LOL!!
Ducking funny stuff 😆
Forbidden Planet could be easily sexed up. Title lends itself to the idea.
How about a sex'ed up remake of Zombies of Mora Tau?
WTF is that.
The '88 re-do isn't half-bad, just half-baked. Just the very notion of a mostly verbatim remake---scene for scene, line for line---shows a definite paucity of re-invention, effectively eliminating even an obligatory stab at anything resembling originality or something akin to it. As confirmation of such, just hazard a look-see at Gus van Sant's utterly pointless by-the-numbers PSYCHO copy. (Though on the other hand....it's got TRACI LORDS, fer Chrissake!). The "95 version is a marked improvement, though not by much. Here the approach is strictly tongue-planted-very-firmly-in cheek, playing out---or over-playing---the comedy latent in the original '57 script. As the inscrutable "Mr. Johnson" (couldn't they at least have come up with a different name this time?), Michael York gives an oddly mannered performance that makes his character come across as more benign than sinister. It's the style of acting perhaps best suited to a mood of over-arching levity.
Neither of these game attempts comes even remotely close to emulating the surreal weirdness and camp creepiness of Corman's 1957 original..Paul Birch---whose character claims to come "from somewhere else"---became an instant icon of sub-zero cool ghoul aplomb just by donning a pair of '67 Lou Reedish wraparound shades; all the better, one figures, to hide those blanked-out death ray peepers. Birch is surely one of the coolest cats to ever script-speak horror flick dialogue. Whenever he snaps, his laconic space alien monotone gives way to grunts,, barks, burps, and ranting commands not unlike Kevin McCarthy in the first INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS. This on-again/off-again style of deadpan delivery nicely counterpoints the frequent lapses (intentional or not) into black humor, such as the casual siphoning of human blood into milk bottles(!) and the telepathic brain-frying of Dick Miller's churlish door-to-door vacuum dude. One particularly darkly mirthful scene ensues when the visiting female alien gets accidentally infused with rabies-infected dog blood. (So how was "Mr. Johnson" supposed to know the bad blood in question came from a veterinarian's office?)
But there's this one scene that I've always found a bit of a noggin scratcher. It's when Birch's alien shanghais a stray Asian guy for teleportation back to home planet Dyslexia---or whatever it's called. But why some Chinese cat? Why couldn't he go out and pick up a working girl instead? They're not that hard to find and, besides, it would've made for a far more interesting scene. (OOPS! I'd forgotten that this particular oversight was corrected in the '88 version.) I mean, HeL.L.A. is positively rife with hookers and hos of every persuasion. Just ask Hugh Grant.
The fully funkadelicized floating umbrella monster is a classic hoot. It was reportedly cobbled together on the fly by AIP's resident effects whiz Paul Blaisdell; I think it looks a whole lot like a vampire squid (A real animal. Look it up). I also suspect that it might have served as partial inspiration for ALIEN's "Face Hugger"; the similarity is subtle but it's there. And yeah, it looks typically 1950s cheesy as it clunkily floats along on its merry course. I would counter: yeah O.K. it's cheesy , but it's cheesy in a distinctively cool kind of way---much like the movie itself.
LUUUKE....LUUUKE INTO MY EEEYYES. MY EEEYYESS ARE AAAA-LIEN.
Mars needs women. Deserves a remake . Yvonne Craig was in the original but it would've been nice if she had sexed it up a little more.
The sexed up remake of 1980 FRIDAY THE 13TH from 2009
Comparative bad cinema, it could be a college major.
A sexed up Glen or Glenda .... maybe not.
This reminds me of the shot for shot, totally useless remake of Hitchcock's Psycho by Gus Van Sant. There are homages that go several million dollars too far....
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