tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441882467431112276.post2016000271056932833..comments2023-04-26T07:34:42.821-07:00Comments on The Story of Millie: In which we Do Do that Voo Doo that We Do so WellThe Doctorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04322048779156560794noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441882467431112276.post-87089413242951955352011-05-25T18:23:21.121-07:002011-05-25T18:23:21.121-07:00hmm ... gonna cut and paste that one into babelfis...hmm ... gonna cut and paste that one into babelfish one of these daysThe Doctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04322048779156560794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441882467431112276.post-52627581878490309552009-07-18T01:16:36.632-07:002009-07-18T01:16:36.632-07:00I think Theatre of Blood stays in my favourites li...I think Theatre of Blood stays in my favourites list because it isn't afraid to admit to itself how silly some of those horror movies can be... yet it didn't let that really hinder the story.<br /><br />The first Dr. Phibes movie was what gave me my radio DJ name, actually, and that's really my favorite Vincent Price movie. I did get to meet him once, at Morehead... he was there with something about cooking, which perplexed me because I didn't know he was an accomplished gourmet chef at all... but I was only able to shake his hand quickly as the staff hurried him off to another engagement.Hillbillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08994538216606990771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441882467431112276.post-40414639483260905302009-07-17T18:50:25.673-07:002009-07-17T18:50:25.673-07:00Theatre of Blood -- very good. Not as good as The...Theatre of Blood -- very good. Not as good as The Abominable Dr. Phibes. Better than Dr. Phibes Rises Again.<br /><br />I had the pleasure of seeing Vincent Price in person shortly before he died. We had taken the kinder on a fambly cultchur outing to the National Gallery West Wing, and as we turned the corner in one of the galleries -- there was Vincent Price. He was dressed in a pale blue poplin suit, had a corsage, well-worn white shoes, yellow shirt, bow tie -- very natty, very debonair. He was raptly studying a painting. I was very tempted to go up and thank him for being Vincent Price, and for the gift of his movies, but he was so deeply enjoying the painting, it would not have been appropriate. I am quite certain that he would have been gracious and all, because this sort of thing comes with the territory; but sometimes this kind of interaction is more for the gratification of the thanker than the thankee. So we tiptoed on our way to enjoy us our art, and left Mr. Price to enjoy him his art.<br /><br />And that's my Vincent Price story. He had a chain of photography studios across St. Louis that did high-school yearbook photos, but that doesn't count.The Doctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04322048779156560794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441882467431112276.post-38942426299240579572009-07-17T08:28:54.610-07:002009-07-17T08:28:54.610-07:00I do kind of remember that skit. That was pretty ...I do kind of remember that skit. That was pretty funny. <br /><br />You kind of have to be an afficianado of these bad movies to really be able to remember stuff like this. I'm currently in the process of moving back home and am transferring all of my (considerable amount of) DVD's to keep them in a book, because the thought of moving all of them again across country just makes me want to grate my teeth down to nubs. I've gathered some zingers... from <b>Abby</b>, the blaxploitation rip-off of <b>The Exorcist</b>, to possibly my favorite Vincent Price film, <b>Theatre of Blood</b>. So the fact that I'm goofy enough to remember stuff like this twenty-plus years later doesn't surprise me.<br /><br />Children indeed was a bit too long... they should have lopped off the first part of the movie and just gotten to the zombies ASAP. Cor, makes me wanna watch it again, but alas, it is now packed in a box in another DVD book...Hillbillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08994538216606990771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441882467431112276.post-16887151457001482472009-07-16T12:09:12.727-07:002009-07-16T12:09:12.727-07:00Ah. That's right. We did both movies. After...Ah. That's right. We did both movies. After a while all movie dead people begin to look alike.<br /><br />Which goes to show, by this point, how much attention we were paying to the movies that were the platform for the show in the first place. <br /><br />Other than Barb's ooga-booga voiceovers for Children, I'm drawing a blank on the movie and the accompanying show. I remember vague irritation with the movie itself, because it seemed padded to about an hour longer than the premise could have sustained (kinda like Night Gallery), which made it hard to even pretend linkage between our show and the film segments. With the moderate drama going on around the show and at the station at the time, Children could also have been collateral damage: studio capability was week-to-week, and there were some other issues. <br /><br />But I fondly remember Dougie bursting through the studio door, waving like a loon and shouting "Hello, Millie! I'm back from the dead!" It seems to me that everybody's energy picked up during that show, just in time for the final stretch of MTs.The Doctorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04322048779156560794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3441882467431112276.post-30584679063223055462009-07-15T20:33:18.274-07:002009-07-15T20:33:18.274-07:00Hola... I think you're getting movies confused...Hola... I think you're getting movies confused here. <b>Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things</b> was indeed also directed by the late Bob Clark, but that was the movie where a theatre troupe spends a night on a local island or something, and the flamboyant director Alan (played by co-writer of the movie, Alan Ormsby) puts on a little show of attempting to raise a corpse from the dead. Little does he realize that his faux-Voodoo ritual actually works! CUE THE ZOMBIES.<br /><br />I think the movie you're remembering here was called <b>Deathdream</b> at the time, where a young soldier who was killed in Vietnam returns... <i>and something returns with him! DUH DUH DUHHHHHH!</i><br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Deathdream-Arthur-Anderson-II/dp/B00026PA70/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1247714837&sr=8-1<br /><br />The only reason I even remember that was because of something I read somewhere about it being one of Tom Savini's first duties doing make-up. I also remember it because it was one of the few movies you guys showed that actually creeped me out a little. <br /><br />Now while I liked <b>Deathdream</b> a LOT... an honestly creepy movie with funny host segments to break up the tension... I totally fell in love with <b>CSPWDT</b>. In fact, it's one of those so-bad-it's-good movies that I still love to watch on my own once in a while.<br /><br />Yes I'm a nerd. Now excuse me, I have to go play <i>Magic: The Gathering</i> on my X-Box.Hillbillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08994538216606990771noreply@blogger.com