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Helen_Bach
I think out of all the monsters, dracula (vampires) have evolved the most. Though none of them really ever scared me, I guess the Invisible Man was the one whom intrigued me most.
posted by
Joe_Love
on February 25, 2007 at 4:14 PM
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Pat B
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers - Brrrrr! Quite a disturbing movie! There were 2 versions weren't there (if not more)? Who was it in that second one? Oh yeah, Donald Sutherland, I think! That scene at the end where he points at the last survivor of the group and shrieks really flipped my wig (I don't
really have one - a wig - by the way
)!
And Lon... The perfect face for the roll: tragic!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on February 20, 2007 at 4:56 AM
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Bhaskar
Yes, that's the very book I was thinking of! I was so surprised by the opening setting (and end)! I'd never heard anything of an Arctic expedition before, much less of the monster's big chase. I quite liked it.
posted by
Helen_Bach
on February 20, 2007 at 4:50 AM
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Helen
That was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley who wrote Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus She was the wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley. I'm sure you know that story....Captain Wolton sailing on his ship to the Arctic Circle and in a near-parayltic state in his isolation, spots Victor Frankenstein at a distance.
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Bhaskar.ing
on February 20, 2007 at 12:01 AM
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I remember when mother wouldn't let me see King Kong (the original)
because it was too frightening for children. I liked "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" -- the alien pod thing. But what scared me was the old Lon Cheney movie where he turned from an ordinary gentle man into a hairy, frightening werewolf. It was black and white and by today's standard, really cheesy special effects -- but it shivered my timbers...
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Pat_B
on February 19, 2007 at 1:48 PM
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CPklapper
Yeah! War of the Worlds! Haven't heard that one for ages, but I was so completely fascinated by the fact that it had everyone in an uproar! They thought it was real. That Orson Welles! Thanks for the reminder!
posted by
Helen_Bach
on February 19, 2007 at 11:23 AM
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Interesting read .
posted by
afzal50
on February 18, 2007 at 8:10 PM
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Remember the Orson Welles sign off for "War of the Worlds"?
- This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character to assure you that "The War of The Worlds" has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theatre's own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying Boo!
- Starting now, we couldn't soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night... so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears, and utterly destroyed the C. B. S. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn't mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business.
- So goodbye everybody, and remember please, for the next day or so, the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody's there, that was no Martian... it's Halloween.
posted by
cpklapper
on February 18, 2007 at 6:50 PM
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Hello Helen,
You read one of my posts long ago, and I just wanted to apologise for not having returned the kindness sooner. I enjoyed your post.
Nice to meet you again...
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on February 18, 2007 at 4:35 PM
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Mindless beasts, ugly, smelly murderous......
Yes luv I think I know a few of them....they're still around today. A good blog to read.
posted by
Kabu
on February 18, 2007 at 4:28 PM
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