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From: 01fortec@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Philadephia Experiment
Date: 16 Nov 92 08:41:30 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1e6kpeINN7cu@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU>, cm@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Charles Meo) writes:
> 01fortec@ac.dal.ca writes:
> 
>>According to the story (not the movie, quite), the ship appeared in
>>her home port, then dissappeared again. When it reappeared, the crew was taken
>>off. There were supposed to be some lingering side effects. Apparently, some
> []
>>This story was covered in some detail by Argosy magazine back in the 60s,
>>along with other stories of the Bermuda Triangle and other curiosities. It 
> 
> I have always been quite curious about this tale. Is there any basis for it
> whatsoever in fact, or just another urban legend? Anybody got a concrete,
> available reference on the subject?

Usually you'll find it researching the Bermuda Triangle, or such things. To
my knowledge, the story is a legend. However, someone who did research did 
find out the ship existed (no big surprise there) and that it was sold to
Greece after the war (I think, memory is a bit fuzzy here). A TV program
back in the 70s found that the log books covering the period in question were
missing from the archives. 
This doesn't mean it actually happened though. The missing log books might
have been something as simple as damaged beyond recovery, or they covered
something else highly sensitive, having to do with political affairs. 

> 
> On the subject of lots of mothballed ships, I recall seeing in a doco in my
> very early youth a picture of some harbour on the US West Coast where about
> half of the WW2 USN is laid up (I think this is where Iowa and New Jersey
> were parked until reactivated). Anyone know where it is? Is this where
> one of the Dirty Harry films was shot--you know, the one with David Soul
> which ends with a shootout in and around what appear to be hulked CVLs?
> 

Seems to me that's San Diego. There's another one over on the east coast, I
think in Charlestown, or in New England somewheres.

> Chuck
> -- 
> Chuck Meo
> Solbourne Computer Australia
> cm@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au
> 'SYS5R4: I am Your Density'

Joe
01fortec@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: HELP!!!!
From: stover@ab.wvnet.edu
Date: 17 Nov 92 23:03:35 -0500
Organization: Alderson-Broaddus College

  DO ANY OF YOU NETTERS HAVE ANY IDEA WHERE IA VCAN GET A COPY OF HAL HARTLEY'S
 "TRUST" IT WAS A VERY GOOD FILM. MR.HARTLEY ALSO WROTE AND DIRECTED "PUMP
UP THE VOLUME" I THINK.  ANY HELP?

Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: st902173@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Subject: Re: Naked lunch again
Reply-To: st902173@pip.cc.brandeis.edu
Organization: Brandeis University
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:44:27 GMT

yes, all of burrough's book are like that.
well, almost all of them.
supposedly, the naked lunch script incorporated
elements from 'junkie' and 'exterminator' as well.

btw, this has probalbly already been said, but...
if you like naked lunch, check out cronenberg's   
movie 'videodrome' as well. lots of the same themes
as naked lunch, and the same semi-hallucinatory
narrative. very good.
russ fischer
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From: gerry@pizzabox.dialogic.com (Gerry Lachac)
Subject: Re: Bram Stoker's Dracula
Keywords: Dracula
Organization: Dialogic Corporation
Distribution: world, local
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 15:58:08 GMT

In article <1992Nov14.032929.4110@news.nd.edu> dlangril@austen.helios.nd.edu (daniel langrill) writes:
>
>What do you all think about the movie??

I thought it was a triumph of form over function, much like
"Prospero's Books" though not as in-your-face.  The use of the
multi-layered techniques of someones face over a background over a
foreground scene was interesting, the first 2 or 3 times.  After that,
the clever effects grew really tiresome and added nothing to the drawn
out plot.  

The movie moved really slowly.  The characters were a bit hollow,
Keanu Reeves especially, and Winona's transformation from loving
fiance' to the re-incarnated lover was completely unbelievable.  The
Kama Sutra/Arabian Nights scene was completely pointless.  Anthony
Hopkins did a funny, and smartass Von Helsing, which came across quite
nicely, though.

Was it supposed to be a horror or a love story?  In my opinion it
accomplished neither.

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From: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Subject: Mail Order Video
Reply-To: shiv@bnr.ca (Shiv Naimpally)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 20:59:58 GMT

***********************************************************************
DISCLAIMER: I have not used any of these places, I am just sharing info.
I have not listed all the places mentioned in the article, but all
those that I thought would be of interest to acm readers are included.
If anybody has any experience with any of them (good or bad) please
post. Some places have been mentioned here already.
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The Oct 1992 issue of _Video Magazine_ lists several mail order
video places. These are taken from M. Faust's article "Video's
Best Kept Secret":

Movie's Unlimited 1-800-523-0823
   Yearly 700 page catalog has 25,000 videos. $10.95 for catalog
   includes quarterly updates and $5 credit toward first purchase.
   Take credit cards. Handle VHS and laserdisc.

Critic's Choice 1-800-367-7765
   Catalog only lists 2,200 titles, but they can get anything on
   video, laser, or 8mm. Their video search line is 900-370-6500
   and $1.95 for the 1st minute, 95 cents per additional minute.

Video Connection 1-800-365-0449
   No catalog but can get any video currently available, and at a
   discount. Buy 12, get one free.

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Hard to find videos
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Blood Times Video 718-972-8082
   Rare European and Asian horror, fantasy, and action films.
   Priced from $12-$18. Catalog is $1.

Discount Video Tapes 818-843-3366
   Many hard to find foreign titles. Mexican horror movies,
   black cinema of the 30's and 40's, etc.. Will also rent.

Foothill 818-353-8591
   Large selection of serials and westerns. 3,000 titles.

Hollywood's Attic 800-3-OLDIES
   Vintage westerns, serials, and silent films. Buy 2 get 1 free.
   $3 for catalog.

JARS Video Collectibles 718-456-0663
   Catalog is $4 and features a stupendous assortment of Asian
   movies, martial arts, Japanimation, and spaghetti Westerns.
   Will also rent movies. Very high prices for movies and for 
   rent-by-mail.

Sinister Cinema 503-773-6860
   Nearly 1000 very obscure titles.

Something Weird 206-361-3759
   Catalog is $3. Specializing in horror & mysteries from the
   30s to the 60s and 50s & 60s exploitation films. All titles $20.

Video Dimensions 212-929-6135
   Classic TV shows, mondo, Westerns, and foreign films. $13-$20 per tape.

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Laser Discs
===========

The following four offer a discount of 10% on most domestic titles
and often better deals on new and forthcoming releases.

Laserdisc Fan Club 800-322-2285

Ken Crane's 800-624-3078 (In CA 800-626-1768)

Sight & Sound 617-894-8633

Laser Craze 617-338-9820

SEM Video Products 800-247-6644 718-645-1663

Tewksbury Audio & Video 908-832-9064

CEBA Video 301-292=6670

Laser Video West 310-479-4069

Then of course there is Columbia House:

Columbia House Laserdisc Club 800-538-2233
From: maxc1104@ucselx.sdsu.edu (Avoid normal situations.)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Need to solve a mystery...
Summary: Highlander
Keywords: alt.fan.lethal-weapon.boom.boom.boom
Date: 15 Nov 92 22:27:17 GMT
Organization: The Special Corps

In article <1992Nov12.075955.618040@zeus.calpoly.edu> delliott@zeus.calpoly.edu (/dev/on) writes:
>Does anyone know what movie the character "Russel Nash" appears in?

  That's one of Connor MacLeod's aliases in the movie _Highlander_.

							Love & kisses,

						The Stainless Steel Moviegoer

						"(incredulously) An actor as
						president???"
						-- Derek Flint (James Coburn),
						_In Like Flint_
From: 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Zentropa
Date: 23 Nov 1992 05:15:17 GMT
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
Reply-To: 2609cowend@vms.csd.mu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: vmsa.csd.mu.edu

I just caught this film in Milwaukee, and thought it was spectaular...
does anyone have any information on it or its director, Lars Von Trier?
 
Thanks!
 
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----------------------------------------------| it must be good to
 D O N 'T  B E  F O O L E D.  NO ONE IS SAFE! | know the worst."
* "Good luck, bad luck, waiting in a line." * |  - the Art Of Noise
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        "Opinions expressed are that of my oppressors."
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From: pierres@microsoft.com (Pierre Stromberg)
Subject: Any Good Vincent Price Movies ?
Date: 20 Nov 92 00:26:27 GMT
Organization: Sausage, SPAM, Baked Beans, and SPAM Incorporated.

     I just watched Roger Corman's "The Pit And The Pendulum" again
starring Vincent Price. This guy is great ! Does anyone know of other
good Vincent Price movies out there ? I heard a rumor about a movie
called "Conqueror Worm" that was supposedly well received. 



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From: scarrobi@shearson.com (Steve Carrobis)
Subject: Re: ?? about poltergeist
Reply-To: scarrobi@shearson.com
Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:37:40 GMT

the only scene that could have possibly given it that rating was the bathroom scene where the guy picks is face off.
otherwise i think u r mistaken.
---
Steve C. 

 ==> A wise man once told me - There ARE NO Wise Men !
                             - Just fools who think they are.
---------------------------------------------------------------		
 I understand you need someone to do work.
 I don't do work, but, I know this guy who does.
    -Vladimir Taltos
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Organization: Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 16:21:31 -0500 
From: Daniel Read <dr3u+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Woo's "The Killer" out on US video
	<1992Nov15.172029.18198@news2.cis.umn.edu>

"JUDEX" says:

Although I would rather see Woo work with Dolph Lundgren than Van Damme,
I too, am eagarly awaiting "Hard Target". And "The Killer" made the rounds
on Cinemax about 1 month back, in a very nicely dubbed version.

SO I SAY:

In his HK films Woo has usually worked with first-rate ACTORS and not
action-film pieces of meat.  Chow Yun Fat is not the HK version of Van
Damme, but of Cary Grant.  Leslie Cheung, Sally Yeh, Ti Lung, Cherie
Chung and Jackie Cheung are all top notch actors.  (Look at the trilogy
of fine performances that form the center of BULLET IN THE HEAD -- who
would remember it if Dolph Lundgren, Van Damme and Steven Seagal had
played the three friends).  So even when the screen is exploding with
bullets the people holding the guns are believably motivated human
beings.

Working with Van Damme will be like a return to the early days of films
like THE YOUNG DRAGONS.  Artistically, its clearly a big step down for
Woo -- although I suspect he feels that a trashy American martial arts
picture will be a good career move.  

Personally, I think that RESERVOIR DOGS will be the best John Woo film
this year.  (Why couldn't he have made a film with Harvey Keitel or
Christopher Walken?).  

Good luck, John -- you'll need it.

daniel
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Most SHOCKING film in my childhood
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 10:36:33 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

Felipe_Soto@qms1.life.uiuc.edu writes:

> horrible nightmares. After I saw the movie I slept like a baby. I think that
> horror out of context is worse than than in context because your mind doesn't
> know how to defend itself. It has no background, doesn't know the weakneses o
> and therfore doesn't know how, to destroy the monster. 
> 
> Any comments on this Idea?
> 
I can relate to that. I was watching a TV documentary about horror 
movies - most I had seen, but they showed an extract from The Fly (1957 
I think), where the scientist steps out of the teleport booth after his 
wife gets him to try to reverse the process one more time.

She then sees him for the very first time, and we see HER through the 
multi-faceted view of a flys eye [which ISN'T how a fly sees thw world, 
but perhaps the bit that puts together a whole image was still in the 
fly, which would make it very confusing for the fly ;-)].

I found this very disturbing, until I finally saw the movie and had the 
conflict resolved. [using conflict in a more psychological sense, OF 
COURSE].

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
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From: upham@cs.ubc.ca (Derek Upham)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Brigitte Lin filmography (Re: Tsui Hark filmography?)
Date: 22 Nov 1992 13:49:05 -0800
Organization: Raven's Auto Body Repair Shop, Mega-Tokyo.
NNTP-Posting-Host: pacific.cs.ubc.ca

upham@cs.ubc.ca (Derek Upham) writes:
>She's also in a modern-romance/period-drama combo film (if the cover
>is any indication) with Chow Yun Fat, but the title escapes me now...

Aha.  It's called "Dream Lovers".  Plus there's "True Colors" with Ti
Lung (?  He's the older brother in "A Better Tomorrow 1&2"), and a new
film, "Web of Deception" (also starring Wang Tsu Hsien).

Derek

-- 
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upham@cs.ubc.ca                                   Computer Science Department
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From: otto@jybox.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: BR-Replicants and Pain
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 22:50:03 EET
Organization: Jyvaskyla Electronic Mailbox

mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:

> Do replicants feel pain? In several scenes (the eye shop, Priss's egg), the
> replicants intentionally demonstrate their absence of pain, and when
> Deckard wastes the first replicant, she keeps running with several bullet
> holes in her. Yet near the end, Priss is flailing around in GREAT pain, and
> when Roy is attempting to ward off the tissue necrosis, he pushes a nail
> through his hand to, I guess, "stimulate" it into functioning. Can you
> say...Inconsistant?

I'd say they do feel pain (which would be necessary for any organism that can
be damaged), but are much tougher than humans: they can take more temperature
extremes (from -195C of boiling N2 to +100C of boiling H2O) and don't go into
shock as easily as humans (as with multiple gun wounds).  I've always thought
that Pris went into some kind of a short circuit condition instead of feeling
"real" pain and that Roy's nail-in-hand was to stop some kind of a cramp.

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From: 6500cws@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu (Christopher Wade Skinner)
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: "Oversensitivity" (was: Film Comment and Film Threat)
Date: 18 Nov 92 04:14:19 GMT

In article <1992Nov14.153024.9034@news2.cis.umn.edu> donnell@tuna.micro.umn.edu (BogusMan) writes:
>>Yes, and it seems utterly fasinating to me that *champions* of FT
>>would utilize this pointless and low-brow form of reverse snobbery.
>>Look, for example, at FT's interview with Clive Barker back in 1989,
>>or at some of their stuff on Raimi.  I'd call that pretentious bull-
>>shit sooner than I'd call films I Hadn't Understood  "meaningless."

>First off, please get your messages straight. I said some of this, and
>the Stainless Steel Moviegoer said some of it, but I don't believe he
>was "championing" FT.

O.K.  I was responding to the post I saw.  Enough said.  Others I
have encountered do use the argument to champion the most
arrent nonsense in the name of "pretension-busting."

>The Barker interview was pretentious Bullshit? Oh sorry, I thought it was a 
>good article with a hell of a lot more actual information on the man
>Clive Barker, than any other I have seen. But, the more recent interview
><on the set of Hellraiser 3> was totally a waste. 

Well, if you read what I wrote, including the "pace" that I have
deleted, you would realize that I didn't say the Barker interview was
pretentious bullshit--only that I would sooner label it pretentious
bullshit than I would the Seventh Seal.  As it happens, I am of the
opinion that while Clive came off well, his interviewer did come off
as an ass of the first water.

>Also, who else has used Barker's artwork to illustrate an article? 
>Who among us knew that he did artwork?

Well, I *own* some of his art, so can I play?

>And I never claimed that it was the best, or hell, even that good anymore.
>I just said I liked it better than "Film Comment". 
>I'm not the one who has gotten on a soapbox and felt the need to make
>large defenses of someone's work...

And where have I done that?  I merely wish to draw attention to the 
fact that the emperor's new clothes argument often fails to satisfy.


>As for Mad vs. Spy, I'll still take Mad, but Spy is wonderful!

Hmm.
>					--Judex--

cws
From: 01fortec@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
Subject: Re: Any Good Vincent Price Movies ?
Date: 22 Nov 92 19:21:41 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

In article <1992Nov20.002627.5298@microsoft.com>, pierres@microsoft.com (Pierre Stromberg) writes:
>      I just watched Roger Corman's "The Pit And The Pendulum" again
> starring Vincent Price. This guy is great ! Does anyone know of other
> good Vincent Price movies out there ? I heard a rumor about a movie
> called "Conqueror Worm" that was supposedly well received. 
> 
> 
> 
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>      "The road to Hell is paved with good intentions" - Samuel Johnson
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The Raven, absolutely! It's funny, with good plot, sets and characters. It
also stars Boris Karloff, Peter Lorre and Jack Nicholson. It's directed by
Roger Corman, and is about a contest between two sorcerers. Don't get it 
confused with the one starring Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. It's good too, 
but has to do with revenge against a doctor in post-war Europe.

Other Vincent Price movies (source Leonard Maltin's 1992 book):

	TOWER OF LONDON (1939)
	THE INVISIBLE MAN RETURNS (1940)
	ABBOT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (1949, voice only)
	THE HOUSE OF WAX (1951)
	THE MAD MAGICIAN (1954)
	SON OF SINDBAD (aka NIGHTS IN A HAREM) (1955)
	THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956)
	THE FLY (1958)
	THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL (1958)
	RETURN OF THE FLY (1959)
	FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (1960)
	TALES OF TERROR (1962)
	THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964)
	DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE BIKINI MACHINE (1965)
	DR. GOLDFOOT AND THE GIRL BOMBS (1966)
	THE OBLONG BOX (1969)
	THEATRE OF BLOOD (1973)
	THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971)
	DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN (1972)
	THEATRE OF BLOOD (1973)
	HOUSE OF THE LONG SHADOWS (1983)
	THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE (1986, voice of professor Ratigan)
	EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990)

This constitutes about a third of his works. Of all of them, the one
I don't reccommend is SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN. It's bad, in all the 
wrong ways. It's disjointed, the plot jumps from place to place without
reason, and it's not really sure whether it's a vampire movie or a mad
scientist movie or a robots taking over the world movie. Very confused,
even for a cheapie.

Enjoy

Joe
01fortec@ac.dal.ca

Newsgroups: alt.cult-movies
From: vonzelow@adobe.com (Jon von Zelowitz)
Subject: The Exotic Ones (spoilers)
Organization: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 05:14:23 GMT


I rented The Exotic Ones (aka The Monster and the Stripper). This was
one of many movies made in the 50's and 60's by Ron Ormond, apparently
starring most of his family. It's real low-budget, and comparable in
mad genius to Ray Dennis Steckler.

A crooked strip-bar owner in New Orleans (1968) needs a new attraction
to bring in business, so his assistants go out in the swamps to
retrieve a swamp monster, played by huge rockabilly singer Sleepy
LaBeef. (One of the other actors is Luther Perkins. Could this be
Johnny Cash's Guitar player?) Meanwhile, we are treated to some
exciting performances by real Bourbon Street strippers (as well as a
great harmonica act). Of course, the monster gets loose at the end.
Meanwhile, scenes include a catfight, the monster tearing off a man's
arm and beating him to death with it, the monster as a geek (real?),
and a swindling racketeer treated to a spitoon drink.

If you like this kind of trash, don't miss this one. Any ideas on
where to buy a good copy? I am writing to Tim Ormond to see if he's
selling...

   Jon von Zelowitz   vonzelow@mv.us.adobe.com   ...uunet!adobe!vonzelow

"Filmmakers like George Romero and John Carpenter have to show some restraint."
                              -- alien TV commentator in They Live
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From: shf@access.digex.com (Stephen Foy)
Subject: Re: Wim Wenders
Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, Maryland USA
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 15:20:23 GMT

oddekalv@vxcrna.cern.ch (Oyvind H.Oddekalv, bld.16 1-021, phone 3708) writes:


>Does anybody know what Wim Wenders is up to these days? I'm really exited of 
>what he's coming up with after the rather disappointing "Until the End of the 
>World'.

The sequel to _Wings of Desire_ should be Wenders next release. I hear
that Mikale Gorbachav sp? portrays himself in the film and improvises
his own dialog in a scene at the Berlin wall.
 
Steve 
shf@access.digex.com
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