list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around I Walked with a Zombie on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie/16538/default.aspx Title: I Walked with a Zombie
Year: 1943
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Plot: RKO producer Val Lewton seemed to thrive upon taking the most lurid film titles and coming up with pocket-edition works of art. Saddled with the studio-dictated title I Walked With a Zombie, Lewton, together with scripters Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray, concocted a West Indies variation on Jane Eyre. Trained nurse (Frances Dee) travels to the tropics to care for Christine Gordon, the wife of seemingly abusive Tom Conway. At first, Dee merely believes her patient to be comatose. But as the drums throb and the natives behave restlessly, Dee tries to bring her patient back to life by jungle magic. Conway is racked with guilt, believing himself responsible for his wife's condition; his guilt is stoked by Conway's drunken brother James Ellison, who has always loved Gordon. Utilizing very limited sets and only a handful of extras, director Jacques Tourneur manages to evoke an impression of an expansive tropical island populated at every turn by voodoo worshippers. Many of the sequences, notably Frances Dee's first languid stroll into the midst of the native ceremonies, have an eerie dream-like quality that pervades even the most worn-out, badly processed TV prints of I Walked With Zombie. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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]]>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:02:19 GMTI Walked with a Zombie1943Jacques TourneurRKO producer <a href="/players/P____99671/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Val Lewton</a> seemed to thrive upon taking the most lurid film titles and coming up with pocket-edition works of art. Saddled with the studio-dictated title I Walked With a Zombie, Lewton, together with scripters <a href="/players/P___111676/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Curt Siodmak</a> and Ardel Wray, concocted a West Indies variation on <a href=/films/17738/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Jane Eyre</a>. Trained nurse (<a href="/players/P____18236/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Frances Dee</a>) travels to the tropics to care for Christine Gordon, the wife of seemingly abusive <a href="/players/P____14669/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Tom Conway</a>. At first, Dee merely believes her patient to be comatose. But as the drums throb and the natives behave restlessly, Dee tries to bring her patient back to life by jungle magic. Conway is racked with guilt, believing himself responsible for his wife's condition; his guilt is stoked by Conway's drunken brother <a href="/players/P____21701/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>James Ellison</a>, who has always loved Gordon. Utilizing very limited sets and only a handful of extras, director <a href="/players/P___114444/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Jacques Tourneur</a> manages to evoke an impression of an expansive tropical island populated at every turn by voodoo worshippers. Many of the sequences, notably <a href="/players/P____18236/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Frances Dee</a>'s first languid stroll into the midst of the native ceremonies, have an eerie dream-like quality that pervades even the most worn-out, badly processed TV prints of I Walked With Zombie. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide3Slightly Tagged (1-5)10743http://www.spout.com/ProductImages/v09265sarni.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/I_Walked_with_a_Zombie/16538/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/11/7/37063.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 11/7/2008 2:01:06 PM
Body: A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:01:06 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog11/7/2008 2:01:06 PMA number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/11/7/37062.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 11/7/2008 2:00:55 PM
Body: A number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:00:55 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com11/7/2008 2:00:55 PMA number of our blogging friends have picked up the Alphabetical Favorites meme. The idea is that you list 26 favorite movies, one for each letter of the alphabet. Some people are adding comments, but I think it’s more interesting to just toss the titles out there, to see how they fit together within a single list and how they match up to other lists. Also, it’s been a hell of a week and I’m exhausted. I will say this: after not being able to think of a single movie beginning with the letter “J” that I enjoy more than Joe Versus the Volcano, I noticed that several commenters at the House Next Door had slotted the same film in the same face. So much for Todd McCarthy’s contention in his Doubt review that John Patrick Shanley’s first directorial effort was “misguided.” So! My list is after the jump. Ali: Fear Eats The Soul Barry Lyndon Charade Deconstructing Harry Eyes Wide Shut Forty Second Street Ghostbusters Happy Together I Walked With a Zombie Joe vs. the Volcano Killers, The (1946) Long Goodbye, The Morocco North By Northwest On The Town Purple Rain Querelle Rules of the Game, The Star is Born, A (1954) They All Laughed Une Femme est une Femme Vivre Sa Vie When A Woman Ascends the Stairs Xanadu Yolanda and the Thief Zabriskie Point Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/10/30/36807.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 10/30/2008 2:00:45 PM
Body: If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth
]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:45 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog10/30/2008 2:00:45 PM If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » Karina Longworth http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/10/30/36806.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 10/30/2008 2:00:36 PM
Body: If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:00:36 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com10/30/2008 2:00:36 PM If you want to stay home and watch movies on Halloween but actually getting your hands on the full slate of films on our Six Degrees of Frankenstein marathon seems like too much trouble, consider Turner Classic Movies your back-up. The channel began its 48 Hours of Horror this morning at 6:15 with a showing of Mad Love, the Peter Lorre-starring tale of fatal attraction for which I am a total nerd. Highlights coming up over the next two days include: William Castle’s Mr. Sardonicus (about a Baron who digs up the decomposing corpse of his dead dad to retrieve a lottery ticket, goes into shock and emerges with his face fixed in a grotesque grin), and his more famous but more gimmicky The Tingler. I Walked With a Zombie already played this morning, but there are two more to come from producer Val Lewton: Cat People (7:30 AM Friday) and The Body Snatcher (3:30 pm Friday). The latter features both Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and was directed by Robert Wise. A clear precurson to Lewton’s work is White Zombie, starring Lugosi, which plays at 2:15 tomorrow. Kevin Buist wrote about the film in his piece on the science behind zombie fiction. Halloween night is devoted to four films based on the work of H.P. Lovecraft. The only one I’ve seen is Die, Monster, Die, an AIP pic from 1965 starring my classic horror boyfriend, Boris Karloff. The TCM page for this drive-in classic sums up the bizarro plot better than I ever could: “Karloff assumes the role of Nahum Witley, a paraplegic scientist whose remote estate (with an enormous crater nearby) is visited by milquetoast American Stephen Rinehart (TV’s former “Johnny Yuma” and Japanese monster stalwart Nick Adams), an old college paramour of Witley’s daughter, Susan (Suzan Farmer). The locals don’t take kindly to the Witley family, and weird vegetation seems to be growing everywhere. As it turns out, Stephen was summed by the scientist’s ailing wife (Freda Jackson), who wants her daughter to escape. A mysterious glowing greenhouse, eerie howling within the house, and malevolent vines all figure in the horrific goings-on, linked to a radioactive meteorite which threatens to consume them all.” Also, it features some of the creepiest shitty hologram effects I’ve ever seen. Check out the trailer above. Check out the full line-up at TCM.com. Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Zombie_Obsession/Old_Zombie_Movies/329/26465/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
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Post Date: 3/21/2008 1:57:58 AM
Body: I had been watching a few really old zombie movies. In most of these movies a zombie was just considered a person who was under a powerful spell and would basically just become a slave and when that Voo-doo priest lost his/her power the zombies would become people again and revolt and kill the person who had controlled them. What are some of your FAVORITE old, old zombie movies, let's say before the Romero movies that changed the WHOLE dynamic of the zombie...Here are a couple of mine:Bela Lugosi plays a very evil character named Murder in White Zombie - this really is a fun, corny movie and pretty good actually (of course all most ALL old, old movies are pretty corny). This one was made in the early 1930s.I Walked with a Zombie - this movie is pretty good filled with Voo-doo and a few twists here and there.There are a few more that I like but I won't list them all in case someone else would like to mention them, what are some of your favorites, any old foreign zombie movies that anyone knows about? Any obscure little films that have been overlooked? What about silent movies, are there any silent movies about zombies?
]]>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:57:58 GMTdivinemsjunebugZombie Obsession3/21/2008 1:57:58 AMI had been watching a few really old zombie movies. In most of these movies a zombie was just considered a person who was under a powerful spell and would basically just become a slave and when that Voo-doo priest lost his/her power the zombies would become people again and revolt and kill the person who had controlled them. What are some of your FAVORITE old, old zombie movies, let&#39;s say before the Romero movies that changed the WHOLE dynamic of the zombie...Here are a couple of mine:Bela Lugosi plays a very evil character named Murder in White Zombie - this really is a fun, corny movie and pretty good actually (of course all most ALL old, old movies are pretty corny). This one was made in the early 1930s.I Walked with a Zombie - this movie is pretty good filled with Voo-doo and a few twists here and there.There are a few more that I like but I won&#39;t list them all in case someone else would like to mention them, what are some of your favorites, any old foreign zombie movies that anyone knows about? Any obscure little films that have been overlooked? What about silent movies, are there any silent movies about zombies? http://www.spout.com/blogs/karina/archive/2008/2/1/24611.aspx Post By: Karina
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Post Date: 2/1/2008 12:02:13 PM
Body: RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina
]]>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:02:13 GMTKarinaKarina on SpoutBlog2/1/2008 12:02:13 PM RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog » karina http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2008/2/1/24610.aspx Post By: SpoutBlog
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Post Date: 2/1/2008 12:00:50 PM
Body: RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog
]]>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:00:50 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com2/1/2008 12:00:50 PM RKO has announced that they’re setting up a production company to remake eight classic, Val Lewton-produced thriller/horror films over the course of the next two years. The movies to be remade include I Walked With a Zombie (a mystical-racist spin on Jane Eyre, one of Lewton’s many collaborations with director Jacques Tourneur), While the City Sleeps (star-studded late Fritz Lang), Lady Scarface (the one starring Judith Anderson and Eric Blore, not the porno of the same title), The Body Snatcher (most notable for a single scene showdown between Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff), Bedlam, The Leopard Man, The Monkey’s Paw, and The Seventh Victim. I’m a huge fan of the Lewton films, but they’re not the kind of thing you can really be precious about??????remaking Lewton’s library isn’t exactly like remaking Citizen Kane (which RKO coincidentally also holds the remake rights for). For the most part, Lewton was tasked with making micro-budget schlock that could be cranked out quickly and turn an even quicker profit, and it’s almost an accident that the films hold up as well as they do today. But it is a bit troubling that Twisted Pictures??????the people who brought us the Saw franchise??????are co-financing four of the remakes, including I Walked With a Zombie. Even leaving aside the fact that Zombie is the one Lewton film I’ve seen that could never be made in its original form today??????check out the “weird Black magic” double entendre in the original trailer above??????the thing that makes the Lewton films great is that most of the scares are psychological, rooted in the implication of things that we can’t actually know and don’t actually see. Can you a imagine a more unnatural bedfellow than the see-everything style of Saw? No one’s expecting a batch of B-horror to be reformulated into grade-A masterpieces, but I don’t want to see RKO bastardize these titles as mere cover for the churning of more generic torture porn, either. [Via Bloody-Disgusting] Originally posted on:SpoutBlog http://www.spout.com/groups/Philosophy_of_Film/Re_How_we_talk_about_film/281/12426/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: lukasblu
Post To: Philosophy of Film
Post Date: 6/28/2007 4:10:06 AM
Body: i like your view on two ways to talk about film and your view on watching a movie for the first timeOn watching a movie for the first time,especially a suspenseful one or one in which there was a twist in plot ,ending that was not expected, i can see how the initial reaction would be fresh and more real because you were unaware of what might happen in the film;That is so long as nobody told you(or you did not read it somewhere) the spoiler of the movie;Ah, you still get suprised-a bit, even if you heard the spoiler beforehand; But the suprise is not so intenseFor example when i first saw apocalypto,i did not know some other tribe of indians were going to invade the other tribes;i also did not know that it was about indians in central america until i saw the jungle/forest in the movie;i though it was someting like pocahantas movie taking place in north america;I thought the bad guys would be the europeans( i assumed).Well the europeans did come at the end of the movie but the movie was not about the europeans,for the main part;It is about a stronger indian tribe(mayans)more progressive and yet superstitiously more barbaric taking over other tribes;mayans trading other captured tribes,selling them,using them as slaves, and offering them as sacrifices;the story was quite suprising and i liked it;I also like the way it ended; Foreign vessels with foreign people arriving at the shore; They seem like aliens for them from a different world.They have no clue if they are friend or foe, or who they are and where they are from
]]>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 08:10:06 GMTlukasbluPhilosophy of Film6/28/2007 4:10:06 AMi like your view on two ways to talk about film and your view on watching a movie for the first timeOn watching a movie for the first time,especially a suspenseful one or one in which there was a twist in plot ,ending that was not expected, i can see how the initial reaction would be fresh and more real because you were unaware of what might happen in the film;That is so long as nobody told you(or you did not read it somewhere) the spoiler of the movie;Ah, you still get suprised-a bit, even if you heard the spoiler beforehand; But the suprise is not so intenseFor example when i first saw apocalypto,i did not know some other tribe of indians were going to invade the other tribes;i also did not know that it was about indians in central america until i saw the jungle/forest in the movie;i though it was someting like pocahantas movie taking place in north america;I thought the bad guys would be the europeans( i assumed).Well the europeans did come at the end of the movie but the movie was not about the europeans,for the main part;It is about a stronger indian tribe(mayans)more progressive and yet superstitiously more barbaric taking over other tribes;mayans trading other captured tribes,selling them,using them as slaves, and offering them as sacrifices;the story was quite suprising and i liked it;I also like the way it ended; Foreign vessels with foreign people arriving at the shore; They seem like aliens for them from a different world.They have no clue if they are friend or foe, or who they are and where they are from http://www.spout.com/groups/Zombie_Obsession/Re_Hollywood_Zombie_Debate_What_is_YOUR_opinion/329/10903/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: divinemsjunebug
Post To: Zombie Obsession
Post Date: 6/12/2007 11:40:02 AM
Body: Thanks Doc, I wasn't paying attention either, I forgot about that thread. That was very interesting. I just watched I Walked with a Zombie a few weeks ago...
]]>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:40:02 GMTdivinemsjunebugZombie Obsession6/12/2007 11:40:02 AMThanks Doc, I wasn&#39;t paying attention either, I forgot about that thread. That was very interesting. I just watched I Walked with a Zombie a few weeks ago... http://www.spout.com/groups/HORROR_MOVIES_101/Re_the_evolution_or_should_I_say_devolution_of_th/222/6594/1/ShowPost.aspx Post By: Dr_Gor
Post To: HORROR MOVIES 101
Post Date: 3/31/2007 6:31:05 PM
Body: The 'Zombie' phenomenon, huh? Well, we could be here all day on this subject but here goes... Let's start at the beginning... To my knowledge, the earliest 'Zombie' movies appeared in the early 1930's through the 40's with movies such as "White Zombie" and "I Walked With A Zombie"... In these early examples, the 'Zombie' is portrayed in the traditional 'Haitian Zombie' sense of the word... meaning a 'corpse' is 'brought back to life to serve it's 'master' as 'slave labor'... usually in the sugar mills of Haiti! These are relatively 'harmless' creatures who only exist to serve their 'master'... they have no desire to kill or eat anybody and the biggest threat from these creatures is that they can scare the Hell out of you or, worse yet, capture you and bring you back to their 'master' so that he might make YOU into a Zombie... Please see Wes Craven's excellent "The Serpent And The Rainbow" for more on this angle on the Zombie lore... Some early European Zombie films took this mythology one step further with such movies as "Plague Of The Zombies" and Paul Naschy's "Vengeance Of The Zombies"... Then came "The Last Man On Earth" , featuring everyones favorite actor, Vincent Price, in one of his rare 'serious' performances as 'Robert Morgan'... the last known survivor of a deadly plague that either kills you or kills you and then turns you into a 'vampire'... here is my take on this ; The creatures in this movie are NOT 'Vampires' but are more like the reanimated corpses in "Night Of The Living Dead" ... Their aversion to garlic and mirrors and sunlight are purely coincedental ! And pounding a wooden stake through the heart would kill most anybody... Also, you will note that some of these creatures were 'staked' by iron stakes and NOT through the heart (!) but through the stomach area... also, at the end, some of the 'vampires' are actually killed by machine gun fire (!)... Although he has never said so publicly, I believe that "The Last Man On Earth" was a HUGE inspiration for George Romero's "Night Of The Living Dead"... the similarities are just too many... and also the inspiration for "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston... George Romero decided to up the ante by making the 'Zombies' have a craving for human flesh... several other directors took this idea and 'ran with it', including Lucio Fulci, and a 'genre' was born... I have more thoughts on this subject but I do not wish to write a 'book' here... let's see what Robert has to say...
]]>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:31:05 GMTDr_GorHORROR MOVIES 1013/31/2007 6:31:05 PM The &#39;Zombie&#39; phenomenon, huh? Well, we could be here all day on this subject but here goes... Let&#39;s start at the beginning... To my knowledge, the earliest &#39;Zombie&#39; movies appeared in the early 1930&#39;s through the 40&#39;s with movies such as "White Zombie" and "I Walked With A Zombie"... In these early examples, the &#39;Zombie&#39; is portrayed in the traditional &#39;Haitian Zombie&#39; sense of the word... meaning a &#39;corpse&#39; is &#39;brought back to life to serve it&#39;s &#39;master&#39; as &#39;slave labor&#39;... usually in the sugar mills of Haiti! These are relatively &#39;harmless&#39; creatures who only exist to serve their &#39;master&#39;... they have no desire to kill or eat anybody and the biggest threat from these creatures is that they can scare the Hell out of you or, worse yet, capture you and bring you back to their &#39;master&#39; so that he might make YOU into a Zombie... Please see Wes Craven&#39;s excellent "The Serpent And The Rainbow" for more on this angle on the Zombie lore... Some early European Zombie films took this mythology one step further with such movies as "Plague Of The Zombies" and Paul Naschy&#39;s "Vengeance Of The Zombies"... Then came "The Last Man On Earth" , featuring everyones favorite actor, Vincent Price, in one of his rare &#39;serious&#39; performances as &#39;Robert Morgan&#39;... the last known survivor of a deadly plague that either kills you or kills you and then turns you into a &#39;vampire&#39;... here is my take on this ; The creatures in this movie are NOT &#39;Vampires&#39; but are more like the reanimated corpses in "Night Of The Living Dead" ... Their aversion to garlic and mirrors and sunlight are purely coincedental ! And pounding a wooden stake through the heart would kill most anybody... Also, you will note that some of these creatures were &#39;staked&#39; by iron stakes and NOT through the heart (!) but through the stomach area... also, at the end, some of the &#39;vampires&#39; are actually killed by machine gun fire (!)... Although he has never said so publicly, I believe that "The Last Man On Earth" was a HUGE inspiration for George Romero&#39;s "Night Of The Living Dead"... the similarities are just too many... and also the inspiration for "The Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston... George Romero decided to up the ante by making the &#39;Zombies&#39; have a craving for human flesh... several other directors took this idea and &#39;ran with it&#39;, including Lucio Fulci, and a &#39;genre&#39; was born... I have more thoughts on this subject but I do not wish to write a &#39;book&#39; here... let&#39;s see what Robert has to say... http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/zombie/MemberTagFilms.aspxzombie
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