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From: guest@dhhalden.no (.GJEST)
Subject: Re: Movie by makers of Re-Animator?
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 12:32:52 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.012051.13901@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@manowar.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:

>In article <1992Aug26.142239.3882@bmerh85.bnr.ca> shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally) writes:
>>_From Beyond_ was done by the makers of Reanimator and
>>even had some of the same cast. Fabulous stuff ! Anyone know
>>if there are plans to release the original theatrical cut of 
>>Reanimator ? Reanimator was made less raunchy in the video release
>>(usually a video release is the European or Director's cut and
>>is more raunchy). 

>There are two VHS releases of Reanimiator. One is the "R'-rated cut, and is
>missing the coolest scenes. The other is Unrated, and contains most of them.
>The TV cut contains all sorts of additional character footage, including a 
>scene of Herbert shooting up Ra-animating fluid. I would love to see
>a "Special Edition" that combined all three.

>                                       --Judex--
>  


If you think Re-Animator was good; get a hold of Re-AnimatorII.
It features a really awesome scene where the bodyless doctor 
replaces his ears with a pair of bat-wings. And what do you know;
he_can_ fly!

----G.H.----
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From: reinstat@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Reinstatler)
Subject: Re: Another Dune question
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:20:28 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.112846.9223@bsu-ucs.uucp> 00njhavert@bsu-ucs.uucp writes:
>
>	Okay, I saw a bit of "Dune" last night, and I have two questions.
>
>	1. What is with this Pug dog Patrick Stewart is carrying around
>while fighting off the bad guys?
  
  Don't know about the dog.

>	2. How does that force field thing work. Because Duncan turns
>it on, tackles about ten guys, and then another shoots this drill-like
>thing at him. It goes right through the field and into his head. Huh?
>
  The force field is designed (according to the book "Dune") to
prohibit entry of fast moving objects and allow entry of slow
moving objects.  So, when he moves fast, tackling etc. he uses
the shield like a club.  The drill thing is a weapon that fires
a slow moving projectile.

Bob
From: kachun@astro.as.arizona.edu (Ka Chun Yu)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: wit and wisdom of Lord John Whorfin
Date: 27 Aug 92 01:08:41 GMT
Organization: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

In article <1992Aug26.132148.24844@samba.oit.unc.edu> Hall.Moore@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Hall Moore) writes:
>In article <BtEHB1.61y@well.sf.ca.us> dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
>>"Character is who you are in the dark."
>Immediately before the quoted line, Whorfin also said `History is made
>at night'.  No one I know can figure this one out, but a friend and
>I were watching a show on the Disney(tm) channel and, in the background,
>was an unidentified movie poster which said just that.  If anyone can
>comment on this, please do.
>
>The only other good Whorfin quote I remember is `Home is where you wear
>your hat.  I feel so break up: I want to go home'.
>--

Does "Laugh-a while you can, a monkey boy!" count?


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From: byron@athena.mit.edu (Jack Miller)
Subject: Re: Brazil, Director's Cut (*SPOILERS*)
Organization: SKaters At Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 22:53:53 GMT

In article <la56rkINNplc@news.bbn.com> ingria@BBN.COM writes:
>In article <iroderic.715222495@cunews> iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Roderick) writes:
>   In <67PBqB1w165w@unkaphaed.UUCP> phaedrus@unkaphaed.UUCP (James Hartman, Sysop) writes:
>
>  >I finally saw the director's cut of _Brazil_.  Loved it!  The assembly line
>   >sequence was absolutely brilliant.
>   really disappointed when I took friends to see it in Canada.
>
>Which cut is the Director's Cut?  The version I saw in the USA during
>the theatrical release ended with the protagonist back in the chair,
>but omitted any reference to Jill being killed twice.
>
>There was another, horrible cut, which was used when _Brazil_ was
>shown on TV in the USA, which ended with the fantasy scenes of him
>driving off with Jill and no return to the torture room.  (This was
>even worse then it sounds, since even the fantasy scenes were editted
>so they made no sense: one minute he was in a store, the next, he was
>in Jill's truck.)
>

	The horrible cut, I'm sure you know,was what the producers
WANTED to release into THEATRES in the US.  _Battle of Brazil_ goes
into detail.

	The ``director's'' cut is probably just the European version
with the extra twelve minutes of film.  It's popping up recently, I
hear, and the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square is showing it soon.  I
can't wait...

				--Halloween Jack.
From: JPIERCE@MIAMIU.BITNET (Jeff Pierce)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: JODIE FOSTER NAKED
Date: 22 Aug 92 21:28:28 GMT
Organization: Miami University - Academic Computer Service

Followup to my previous comment about the Mapplethorpe trial.  After four
months, the Contemporary Arts Center and its director were found innocent
of all charges after a jury trial.  Dennis Barrie resigned his directorship
in June because of budgetary differences with the CAC board.  He had hoped
to use the Mapplethorpe exhibit controversy to get more people committed to
the Center, and the board wanted to shrink the Center's operating budget
and do less programming.
                                          Jeff
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From: k206027@smog.DKRZ-Hamburg.DE (ce)
Subject: MOVIE INFO REQUESTED
Keywords: Godzilla Barkley Japanese Monster
Organization: Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum GmbH, Hamburg
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 08:27:24 GMT

O Gods of Useless Trivia Hear My Plea!!!!!!!!!!

I am trying to remember the title of a movie from my childhood (approx. 2
months ago :)). It involved little furry animal puppets (or marionettes)
who lived in a magic forest. I remember a scene of an animal playing 
an organ in a clearing and as it played a jewelled scepter rose
up from inside the organ. Sorry, that's all I remember. Ring anybody's 
bells?


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From: "davidr turner" <davidr.turner@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: russian : the zone
Date: 2 Sep 92 14:47:16 EST
Reply-To: "davidr turner" <davidr.turner@canrem.com>
Distribution: alt
Organization: Canada Remote Systems

             In A Message Written on the Subject of RUSSIAN MOVIE "THE ZONE"
                    TARA MCFARLANE Observed:
       

TM>  Newsgroup: alt.cult-movies
TM> Message-ID: <tmcfarla.714901811@sfu.ca>
TM>    Subject: Russian movie "The Zone" anyone seen it ?

TM>>       Maybe you are talking of 'Stalker' by Andrei Tarkowski. The three
TM>>guys, the forbidden 'zone', russian film... Great film!

TM>yes, it definately sounds like 'stalker' to me. visually it was brilliant

The movie described is not "The Zone" (full name "Swan Lake : The
Zone").  I don't know "Stalker", but The Zone dealt with one man
escaping from prison & spending a few days in an aluminum sickle
symbol on the edge of a rail yard.
There is very little speaking, and only a handful of actors with
meaningful roles.
Later...

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From: vonzelow@adobe.com (Jon von Zelowitz)
Subject: Petey Wheatstraw
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:30:48 GMT


This talk about The Devil's Daughter reminded me to post my latest Rudy Ray
Moore discovery: "Petey Wheatstraw: The Devil's Son-In-Law." Like his other
movies, it's downright amazing. I rank it just below The Human Tornado.

   Jon von Zelowitz   vonzelow@adobe.com   ...sun!adobe!vonzelow
"He's the kind of [person] who'd fart in a bathtub, turn around, and bite
the bubbles." -RRM (in THT)
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From: singley@helix.nih.gov (Erick D. Singley)
Subject: Re: Various stuff RE Aliens, Terminator, etc.
Organization: (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD)
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 17:44:34 GMT

>    I counted around 20 or so cops (out of 30, I think) killed in the police
>station massacre.  Do they mention anywhere else how many cops are supposed to
>be in the place?  Or in T2, how many Arnie killed in the first movie?  They say
>something about it, but I can't remember how specific it was.

Yeah, at a con they showed T1 and T2 back-to-back and you really start to get
a lot of in jokes between the two (ripping apart the dash to start car)
Kinda like Rocky Horror call backs, we started counting gunshots and screams
in the police station and it was pretty close. :)

Erick
From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: JODIE FOSTER NAKED
Date: 24 Aug 92 13:38:58 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <malcolm.714329315@wrs.com>, malcolm@wrs.com (Malcolm Humes) writes:
> donnell@shark.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous) writes:
> 
>>As I recall, Roman Polanski had to flee the country to avoid prosecution
>>for Contributing to the delinquency of Minors <or whatever the crime would
>>be, having sex with a succession of underage girls>. This was right around
>>the time that "Tess" was released, and I thought that Kinski was one of the    
>>females that he was in trouble for. I'll have to look it up to be sure.
>>They have both admitted to their illicit romance in various interviews...
> 
> Polanski's scandal in the US was with a 13 or 14 year old girl, who he claims
> got tipsy on champagne and quaaludes of her own accord and then "seduced"
> him, then when she got home she and her mother got upset over it and they
> pressed charges of statuatory rape. He left the US and I don't think he's 
> come back since. He talks about this in his autobiography, _ROMAN_. Polanski's
> latest wife is 20-30 years younger than him... in his latest film she stars
> in it an plays a woman who gets raped beaten and abused. Anyway, Polanski's
> problems were not with a string of underage girls and it had nothing to
> due with Tess, which I think came a few years later. I don't think Kinski
> was underage at the time.  
> 
> Woody Allen's going through some weird charges of molesting one of his 7 year
> old adoptive daughters, and meanwhile he has professed his love for a 21
> year old adopted daughter of his.  
> 
> BTW, I want to apologize for my personally directed remarks earlier on this
> thread - I didn't mean to direct it so specifically as an acustation that 
> the poster I was replying to was "wristing off", I meant to question the more
> general motives behind why people are interested or even obsessed by looking
> at naked little girls.   
> 
> - malcolm 

Apology accepted, Malcolm.
As for Kinski/Polanski, I believe their romance preceded the filming of "Tess".
An interesting account of the Polanski affair is to be found in the family
biography of the Huston family, which is called simply "The Hustons" (sorry I
can't remember the author or publication details).  It occured at Jack
Nicholson's house, and Anjelica Huston was interviewed about the goings on
by the police.  Polanski fled the States while awaiting trial, and has I
believe never denied his "guilt", merely questioned the whole concept of
statutory rape.  Rather sad in that his distance from Hollywood has certainly
not helped his career (although I think "Frantic" was very under-rated).

Richard.

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From: georged@meaddata.com (George Dibos)
Subject: Re: Diana Rigg - bondage episode
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 12:47:20 GMT
Distribution: usa

In article <1992Aug26.104915.28878@engage.pko.dec.com>, boyajian@ruby.enet.dec.com (Two days and a wake-up...) writes:
|> In article <Aug.24.10.01.13.1992.1331@gandalf.rutgers.edu>, rgonzal@gandalf.rutgers.edu (Ralph Gonzalez) writes...
|> 
|> } I know this is the wrong newsgroup, but since I started a thread on
|> } Diana Rigg recently I thought someone might be interested...
|> 
|> } Did anyone see "The Avengers" Thursday Aug. 20? Diana Rigg wears a
|> } leather bodice and a black collar with 2" steel spikes. Ouch!
|> 
|> Interesting bit of trivia: This episode ("A Touch of Brimstone") was one
|> of two AVENGERS episodes that were not shown on network television in
|> the US back in the 60s because they were deemed too racy for American
|> audiences. They weren't seen in the US until the show was syndicated.
|> The other episode should be on (A&E) this week, titled "Honey for the
|> Prince", and *its* reason for being too racy was that Rigg, dressed
|> in a harem outfit, had her navel showing (gasp! horrors!). No, I'm not
|> kidding. Keep in mind that the comtemporary I DREAM OF JEANNIE never
|> showed Barbara Eden's navel, either.


An even stranger follow-on is that even though women's navels have lost
their "shock value" (gasp! horrors! indeed) in principle, for some reason
that only applies to "innies".  I dated a girl who modelled her way through
college who told me that the model request forms from prospective clients
almost always specified no "outies" if what was being modelled would show
it, and when they neglected to do so, a retoucher was hired after the
prints were made.  She was painfully aware of this "closet prejudice"
because it cost her quite a lot of work--she had a completely inside-out
bellybutton that was impossible to hide or argue about.

This was all years ago, but my awareness was raised, and sure enough, not a 
single famous (TV, movies, posters, etc.) female that I've seen in that
entire time has had one.  

Pretty strange, no?
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From: bandwen@eagle.larc (bando)
Subject: Caddyshack trivia 
Reply-To: bandwen@eagle.larc (bando)
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA USA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:38:56 GMT

Who's up for some CS trivia?

Ill start-- Al Chervick (R. Dangerfield) was a guest of whom at Bushwood 
country club?


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From: donnell@squid.micro.umn.edu (Your Heinous)
Subject: Re: Movie by makers of Re-Animator?
Organization: none
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 18:52:09 GMT

In article <BtpE0y.KMo@acsu.buffalo.edu> cri@acsu.buffalo.edu (Whoopee Buttlord) writes:
>while random lovecraft and poe films are the topic at hand, i've been told
>by friends that at some point a film of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by
>HPL was made.  Does anyone have ANY info on this film?  how good it was, 
>how faithfully it stuck to the story, were i could get a copy, etc?
>mucho thanks.
>Criss
>"Mr. PlEaSanT"
>
>"Wednesday night police said Innes seemes to be in a deeply depressed state 
>and so impervious to pain that he did not scream when he pulled out his eyes."
>					H.S.T.
>cri@acsu.buffalo.edu

"The Haunted Palace", directed by Roger Corman and starring the ever-present
Vincent Price, is an adaptation of "The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward" by HPL.
They print 3 lines of Poe's "The Haunted Palace" over the opening screens,
and only mention HPL in a passing credit. Poe was so much more bankable 
then.

					--Judex--

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Subject: Writing to Actors and Directors
From: mnor1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Mark Hiro           Norman         )
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:36:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Dept. University of Auckland

Does anyone know how you go about writing to actors and directors, or
other people involved with movies?

Has anyone here successfully done this and gotten a reply?

I suppose you start by writing to the major movie studios in USA and
the UK, but living in New Zealand I don't even have the addresses for
these places.
If I get a good response I'll post a summary to the net.
Thanks in advance.


-- 
Mark Norman           | My university doesn't let me send email.
mnor1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz | "We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful..."
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From: gckchin@ntuix.ntu.ac.sg (Kelvyn Chin)
Subject: Re: Other Incredible Asian Films
Organization: Nanyang Technological University - Singapore
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:26:05 GMT


I don't know whether it is available there in the States or in
Europe, but I want to recommend two great sword fighting epics;

The Swordsman (English title) parts 1 and 2.

Part 1 is considerable better than the second- was initially
directed by King Hu but was finished by Tsui Hark and Chen Siu
Tung.

Great cinematography and brilliant fight sequences, especially
the first. The second is kinda cheesy, especially the special FX.

kelvyn
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From: jly33321@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (John L.Yoon )
Subject: Re: Rutger Hauer's quote at the end of Bladerunner
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:08:05 GMT

brehonyt@ul.ie writes:


>Also what is the Tanhauser Gate ?. Is it real or is poetic license being
>used ?.

Tis "voodoo physics", me thinks.
Something about two adjacent black holes causing a disturbance in the field
between them which can be exploited to achieve faster than light travel....
....or something like that....

so says SD Noriko.



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Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:51:35 -0400 
From: Todd Keenan Bowman <tb0o+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: DARIO ARGENTO


>> I thought that I read somewhere that a sequel to THE CHURCH
>> was being made.  Vaguely, I recall Lamberto Bava was to
>> direct it.  Have you read anything?  Have you seen any of Lamberto
>> Bava's films ... likeFROZEN TERROR (aka MACABRO), a very strange
>> psycho tale about a deranged woman who freezes her lover's
>> decapitated head, and A BLADE IN THE DARK (also known by
>> several other titles) which reminded of some of Argento's work?

I haven't seeen any of Bava's post-Demons film. Supposedly from what I recall,
Bava and Argento had a big fight during the filming of Demons 2 and pretty much
vowed never to work with each other again. Bava made a sequel to the Demons
series called something like DEMONS 3: THE OGRE which from all I've heard is
total crap. He also started doing a lot of bloodless and talentless Italian
Horror TV movies of which GRAVEYARD DISTURBANCE is one. I've never seen
anything positive about these either (except in the Mondo Video catalog - he
seems to praise anything).

I highly doubt if Bava were doing a sequel to the CHURCH that Argento would be
involved at all. I've always thought of THE CHURCH as Argento and Soavi's
"unofficial" sequel to the Demons series anyway.

I thought THE CHURCH was a lot better than THE DEVILS DAUGHTER, but it did have
it problems. I especially liked Goblin doing Philip Glass's Koyanisquatsi
soundtrack for a good port of the film.

Soavi's first film, STAGEFRIGHT / BLOODY BIRD remains my favorite. It is a
well-done Argento-style slasher flick set in a theater. It was produced by
Italian horror/soft-core director Joe D'Amato. Soavi was also Terry Gilliam's
Assistant director during the filmming of the Adventure of Baron Munchaussen.
I wonder why he went back to Italian horror films after getting a taste of the
big-time. (Actually, I guess that should be a point in his favor)

t
From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: JODIE FOSTER NAKED
Date: 30 Aug 92 13:12:07 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <iroderic.714880939@cunews>, iroderic@alfred.carleton.ca (Ian Roderick) writes:
> In <1992Aug27.011735.15571@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> bchurch@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Robert Church) writes:
> 
>>In article <1992Aug24.133858.10319@waikato.ac.nz> hist1261@waikato.ac.nz writes:
> 
>>>by the police.  Polanski fled the States while awaiting trial, and has I
>>>believe never denied his "guilt", merely questioned the whole concept of
>>>statutory rape.
> 
>>Probably not as much 'distance' as a prison term though. I think he made a
>>wise choice.
> 
> Did anyone see Entertainment Tonight's coverage of Hollywood sex
> scandals following the 'Woody and Mia' show.  You guessed it Polanski
> came up.  It was brief but it recounted the case as it has come to
> established in the news group.  However... no mention of Nastassia
> Kinski being the young woman envolved.  It seems to me that had it
> been Kinski, ET would definately have mentioned it.  Or is there some
> law which prevents their naming the woman?
> 
> I can't believe I've been drawn into this...
> 
> Ian

Kinski wasn't named because she was NOT the woman/girl at the centre of the
Polanski court case.  As earlier established, Kinski had a brief affair with
Roman after he had left the States, but before they began "Tess".

Richard.

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From: lozanoj@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Jones)
Subject: Most Embarrassing Movie
Keywords: Bill Cosby SUCKS!!!!!
Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:36:07 GMT

What about Ghost Dad, starring Bill Cosby? Did anyone shell out good 
money to see this insipid piece of crap? I took my little sister to
see it (she was five at the time) and even she thought it was stupid.
We wound up leaving about 25 minutes into the, for lack of a better
word, movie. Fortunately, I only shelled out $5 for the both of us,
and I even got that back from the theatre manager who seemed as 
embarrassed as we were for showing that garbage.

Let's see, Ghost Dad  _and_ Leonard, Part 6: Does Bill Cosby have
massive brain damage or what. Why would he involve himself in these
idiotic movie projects?  My guess is that he'll allow any movie to
capitalize off his name, if the price is right. I heard he was paid
MILLIONS to star in each of these movies, money that might well have
been better spent by flushing it down the toilet. But Hell, Cosby is
laughing all the way to the bank.

I know others have already mentioned it, but _Moontrap_ bears
repeating for most embarrassing movie. When my friends and I saw it
at a school showing (it was videotaped, but on a projection TV), the
audience (about 30 or 40 of us) was doubled over with laughter.
Monumentally, TRANSCENDENTALLY _bad_.

Shining Through sucked big time, too.
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