LOL. interesting, on my mom's side of the family, six or eight revenuers were sent from Little Rock to investigate all the moonshine being produced where I'm originally from. The area where I lived is about 45 miles from Hot Springs, AR a very well known gangster hang out back during prohibition and the overland supply trade of liquor to Hot Springs was quite prosperous from what my great grandfather told me. The revenuers went up into the mountains during the late afternoon hours one hot summer day to investigate some stills. Later on that night, a large gun battle was heard by just about everyone in the valley. The next morning before sunrise, when the postmaster got to the post office to sort the mail in Caddo Gap, AR, where I'm from, there was a team of mules tied up at the post office with all the revenuers dead bodies lined up in the cart. A note was included stating something to the effect of "You got three of ours, we got all of yours, stay out of the mountains." Apparently no other revenuers were sent and no follow up was done by local law enforcement or state officials as far as the killing of the Part of the story was verified by an old magazine that used to run down there but my great grandfather seemed to have an awful lot of details...lol True story? Who knows?Oh, my hillbilly roots are deep. NorthCarolina, Tennesse, Virginia, Kentucky and Arkansas. In doing ancestry, I found an article on an ancestor running from the revenue men. May he and his still rest in peace(s).
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fascinating! And I bet it was true. Hillbilly justice.
Okay, I just started this. Just tell me,
Which brother or brothers die? I can see this ending badly. I'm going to love these outlaws and then ratta tat tat! gunned down.
Finally got around to watching The Irishman
It was pretty good. Not sure if I buy the ending but it is as plausible as any other theory.
It was pretty good. Not sure if I buy the ending but it is as plausible as any other theory.
Midnight Special (2016) Michael Shannon, Adam Driver Jaeden Martell (from It)
I like this one. This is my 2nd time seeing this one. A father and son are on the run from the government. The son (Jaeden Martell) has mysterious special powers. Has a Close Encounters of the Third Kind vibe to it.
I like this one. This is my 2nd time seeing this one. A father and son are on the run from the government. The son (Jaeden Martell) has mysterious special powers. Has a Close Encounters of the Third Kind vibe to it.
Good flick. Michael Shannon is an actor I admire a lot. He makes interesting films. If you haven't seen it yet, rent Shotgun Stories. Bug was criminally underrated, too.
I agree, Ghost. I saw it in the theater when it was released. Shia was excellent in his role, too. Quite convincing, the both of them.
For those who love Hammer, this book is really great:
It doesn't have ALL the films in it, but it has loads of them. And the films that it doesn't have are not the real interesting ones. It's not just about the horrorfilms, but also their other genres: thrillers inspired by Psycho/Les Diaboliques, sci-fi like their Quatermass films or The Damned, prehistoric films (where Raquel Welch got her fame), crime thrillers. swashbucklers, period adventure. Some films are mixes of several genres, like horror and adventure.
They even had cautionary drama, like Never take Sweets from a Stranger, which is about sexual abuse of children.
The book is filled with pictures of all sorts of promomaterials, like posters, pressbooks and the glamour shoots they used to do with their leading actresses. And it has correspondence from the Hammer office, like all sorts of notes and letters, about the censorship of the films for example. There's also the films that were proposed, but never made. And certain props that have survived. Also, lots of articles and reviews from the newspapers at the time.
Plus there are publicity manuals with ideas for theatres how to dress their foyer in the style of the film and other advertising tips.
The book is quite oversized, so most of the time you can read the smaller letters on all of these.
The book even includes the films that were made after the studio was resurrected in 2007 (it was bought by Dutch mediatycoon John de Mol), like Let Me In, The Woman in Black (and its sequel), The Resident , Wake Wood and The Quiet Ones.
It doesn't have ALL the films in it, but it has loads of them. And the films that it doesn't have are not the real interesting ones. It's not just about the horrorfilms, but also their other genres: thrillers inspired by Psycho/Les Diaboliques, sci-fi like their Quatermass films or The Damned, prehistoric films (where Raquel Welch got her fame), crime thrillers. swashbucklers, period adventure. Some films are mixes of several genres, like horror and adventure.
They even had cautionary drama, like Never take Sweets from a Stranger, which is about sexual abuse of children.
The book is filled with pictures of all sorts of promomaterials, like posters, pressbooks and the glamour shoots they used to do with their leading actresses. And it has correspondence from the Hammer office, like all sorts of notes and letters, about the censorship of the films for example. There's also the films that were proposed, but never made. And certain props that have survived. Also, lots of articles and reviews from the newspapers at the time.
Plus there are publicity manuals with ideas for theatres how to dress their foyer in the style of the film and other advertising tips.
The book is quite oversized, so most of the time you can read the smaller letters on all of these.
The book even includes the films that were made after the studio was resurrected in 2007 (it was bought by Dutch mediatycoon John de Mol), like Let Me In, The Woman in Black (and its sequel), The Resident , Wake Wood and The Quiet Ones.
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I like Michael Shannon too. I haven't seen Shotgun Stories but I did see Bug (awesome). Take Shelter is a good one and there is another one I liked but am not sure of the name. I think it's called Young Ones.
Sometimes I wonder why I care about old horrorfilms so much. Essentially I like them better than modern ones in a way. When I grew up though these were regularly on tv. BBC would have them often in the weekend, nowadays they don't do that anymore. I wonder if I grew up now and wouldn't see them if I would care to find out about them.
But I do have the same with literature too. I tend to like something like Lovecraft or M.R. James better in a way - the language is more beautiful and they're more subtle. It seems these films and stories have a kind of class that's lost today.
Compare a Hitchcock thriller to a modern thriller and you'll see what I mean. They're more glamorous and romantic in a way. The same with these Hammer films, they have a look and feel that's lost today, apart from films that pay homage to them.
There are films that come close to their feeling though, like Coppola's Dracula (1992). I think it's mainly that they're chivalrous, that's completely gone today - Coppola's film does have that.
But I do have the same with literature too. I tend to like something like Lovecraft or M.R. James better in a way - the language is more beautiful and they're more subtle. It seems these films and stories have a kind of class that's lost today.
Compare a Hitchcock thriller to a modern thriller and you'll see what I mean. They're more glamorous and romantic in a way. The same with these Hammer films, they have a look and feel that's lost today, apart from films that pay homage to them.
There are films that come close to their feeling though, like Coppola's Dracula (1992). I think it's mainly that they're chivalrous, that's completely gone today - Coppola's film does have that.
I had to shower after I watched Bug. It made me feel so unclean....
Did a re-watch of It Chapter 2. I still like Chapter 1 better.
I had to shower after I watched Bug. It made me feel so unclean....
.I had to flea bomb my bed.
I really can't think of any other movie that made me feel like this one did. Se7en comes close but not quite.
I had to flea bomb my bed.
Yeah, for me, nothing comes close. Se7en didn't really bother me in that way. Maybe a couple parts from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Bug achieves on so many levels, especially psychologically. The intensity level just keeps rising. (I'm somewhat of a germophobe, and don't like hotel rooms, for starters.) LOL
The scene in the first Saw where they do the trap montage of previous victims and the guy
has to walk over the glass shards covered in oil with a candle made my skin crawl
Here's a book for you to read.
....no thanks.....we lived that nightmare once and that's more than enough.....gawd amighty that was gross......Here's a book for you to read.
I couldn't watch the second Saw movie because of the woman having to put her hand/arm into that trap with the razors in order to get the antidote to the poison she was injected with. Can't watch anything with someone getting cuts. Would never be able to be a surgeon, that's for sure! Nope! Anytime someone gets cut I have to look away.