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Gearing up for Halloween, here's my favorite Dracula death:
The music, the sprint across the table and leaping for the drapes...I'll never forget the first time I saw it and I've been dying to see it again. And such a nice, fully restored clip, YAY!
And if you were ever wondering how to make a chimp look like a gorilla, this may or may not hold the answer:
That seems to be either a kid or little person in the place of Chaney there, filmed on miniature sets. This is from The Unholy Three, a movie that I had only read about until recently, made by Tod Browning of Freaks and Dracula fame.
So it seems Dario Argento has a new movie out. It currently has an 8% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and The A.V. Club gave it a D. Is it good bad or bad bad? Hard to say. It's in 3D but the reviews make it sound like it's not used well. (If you're doing a bad 3D movie, you should really go the Count Floyd route with it, in my opinion.) I really like some of his earlier stuff but consensus seems to be that he hasn't really made anything worth seeing in a while, and his penchant for shooting nude scenes of his daughter (!) in most of them is weird and confounding.
On the coincidence front, I had a dream this morning, one of many while drifting in and out of sleep contemplating an early rise for Wups practice. Bill Corbett of MST3K fame gave me a piggyback ride across a footbridge in Madison while we were chased by a couple of kangaroos. Today I see one of his Tweets is: "Too much coffee, need to box a kangaroo. Internet: deliver me a kangaroo, gloves laced, preferably wearing hilarious boxing trunks!" This is the second time recently I'd wished I was on Twitter so I could respond, but what with the blogging and the Vimeo and all, I really don't need to add another venue where I do next to nothing.
The earlier instance of my Tweetlessness was when Joel Hodgson, creator of MST3K, tweeted a line from Adventure Time. No one has since responded, so I will bring it up when I see him at the Cinematic Titanic shows later this month. It's always fun when worlds you love collide!
