Saw a Takashi Miike picture called The Great Yokai War. "Yokai" is a Japanese term for monsters from folklore, as opposed to the more familiar kaiju. It's a kids' picture, about a young boy from Tokyo sent out to live in the countryside with his older sister and his intermittently senile grandfather. When a vengeful spirit appears, the boy gets caught up in a war between warring groups of yokai and must find his courage to become the "Kirin Rider", the hero who will set everything to rights. It's not a bad picture - nothing deep, but an amusing story. Some of the yokai are really trippy, Japanese folklore can get pretty "out there", apparently.
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Richard Willis > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 11, 2023 at 11:50pm
The YouTube version I linked to is the one I watched. It has the original audio and has subtitles. I'm kinda glad I didn't have to suffer through the bad dubbing, but the subtitles, annoyingly, were in white lettering. I don;t know why they don't use the color yellow. Whenever there is a white background it's pretty tough. I thought it was far being a terrible movie.
Jeff of Earth-J > Richard WillisSeptember 12, 2023 at 6:51am
Oh, you did watch the whole thing, then? Did you catch all the Hitchcock swipes? Tracy and I are still talking about this one. We call it the "Taiwanese Hitchcock."
"Far from being a terrible movie," did you mean? Maybe the dubbing made it bad (or worse).
Richard Willis > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 12, 2023 at 6:11pm
Yeah, "from" dropped out somehow. I did watch the whole thing. It was flawed but enjoyable. The way she was beaten in prison should have caused her more serious damage, yet she's practically a runway model when she gets out. I think Michael Myers fell to a lawn, not concrete. She shouldn't have been able to continue the attack, even if she didn't die. The shower scene had me expecting something that didn't happen. The feet on the staircase SHOULD have happened earlier, to add the razor blade to the soap. Since I didn't see the dubbed version, I can't compare them.
Last night's movie/s wasn't/weren't very enjoyable. We started with ALL THE KIND STRANGERS which we realized, about a minute in, we had seen before. It's the one about a family of orphaned kids living in an isolated house who decide they need parents and decide to hold a man and a woman, stangers to the kids and to each other, hostage and force them to play that role. Neither one of us was in the mood to watch that movie again so soon (or ever again, really).
Instead we moved on to the next one in the set, THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED. This is an unmemorable (proven by the fact that neither one of us remembered it at first) Italian science fiction flick from 1958. We ended up watching the whole thing, but if we were ever to see it again I doubt we'd remember it then, either.
Tracy of Moon-T > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 12, 2023 at 8:41am
I was bored silly, lots of scenes with men at radios, rockets on platforms, rockets being fired, but no interesting anything.
Next up in queue was Snowbeast, but it sounded familiar to me. After verifying that we had seen it on the "100 Movie Pack" and reading the summary, we mutually decided not to watch it again although neither one of us could remember any of it. Instead we wacthed...
HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES (1974): "A yachtsman and his group are searching for some missing women when they come across a fog-enshrouded Spanish galleon drifting at sea. Boarding the ancient vessel to look for the missing women, the group stumbles upon a hottifyinh discovery. Aboard the ship are the undead leagions of the Knights Templar, who are cursed to roam the Earth to plague the living and consume the flesh of their victims."
This movie takes on an extra dimension if one thinks of it as "Gilligan's Zombies." Two models (let's call them Ginger and Mary Ann) have taken a small boat out onto the ocean to the shipping lanes to publicize a new line of clothing. It's a super-secret assignment, and Mary Ann's roommate (let's call her Gilligan) goes to the photography studio to find her. The photographer (let's call her Lovey) is working with the designer (let's call him Thurston). When the girls go missing, they hire a "yachtsman" (let's call him Horace) to take them out to search, and for some reason they take a professor with them (let's call him Roy).
Mary Ann and Ginger have drifted into another dimension, their boat is disabled and is slowly sinking. The other four set out in search of them, and Roy has an explanation for everything. He comes up with everything from the other dimension theory to the history of the Knights Templar. I was going to go into more detail, but it's more interesting to watch and see who lives, who dies, and who is betrayed by whom. Oh, and it's a Spanish film (a.k.a. The Ghost Galleon a.k.a. The Ghost Ship of The Blind Dead) dubbed into English. Apparently this is the third of four "Blind Dead" movies. The zombies are (mostly) papier mache dummies, and are the slowest-moving ghouls I have ever seen and they chant like Benedictine monks.
"That's one fine piece of cinema!" - Tracy of Moon-T
TRAUMA (1978): "The mutilated body of a teenage girl is found and a police inspector is assigned to the case. While investigating the circumstances surrounding the girl's death, the inspector begins to uncover some strange clues and bizarre incident involving the girl and her friends. Appearances may be deceiving concerning these innocent schoolgirls and their secret activities."
Five minutes into the movie I made a prediction as to who the murder would be and it turns out I was right. I was mostly joking, and the culprit is by no means obvious due to reasons I will point out in the "spoiler" section below. The inspector uses some rather unorthodox police techniques, including (but not limited to) breaking into the girls' dorm in the middle of the night to question them, and interrogating a suspect on a roller coaster. (I wish I were making that up.) He is also selective about which crimes he chooses to enforce because the woman he hooks up with for the duration of the film he meets while she's shoplifting. There are multiple murders, all among a group of four friends, and the reason it's so hard for the viewer to figure who the culprit is is because [SPOILER] there are two muderers with different motives. When he does solve the crime, he chooses not to turn the murderer in. [END SPOILER] This is an Italian movie alternately titled "Red Rings of Fear."
I can't find a proper trailer (except for one that makes you sign in to verify your age), but I found three clips.
Richard Willis > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 16, 2023 at 10:48pm
The title "It's the Police" attached to Clip #1 reminds me fondly of one of my favorite movies, Fuzz (1972). The misunderstanding of that phrase leads to a hilarious and grotesque ending.
I did watch The Ghost Galleon today. Lots of pretty girls, but the plot moved as slow as the zombies. They made a throwaway reference to the not-zombiefied Captain having been called The Hollander, hinting at The Flying Dutchman. The scientist sure knew a heckuva lot about evil legends and even exorcisms. His hand-held burning cross wasn't likely to evoke the KKK because only to center of it burned.
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The YouTube version I linked to is the one I watched. It has the original audio and has subtitles. I'm kinda glad I didn't have to suffer through the bad dubbing, but the subtitles, annoyingly, were in white lettering. I don;t know why they don't use the color yellow. Whenever there is a white background it's pretty tough. I thought it was far being a terrible movie.
Oh, you did watch the whole thing, then? Did you catch all the Hitchcock swipes? Tracy and I are still talking about this one. We call it the "Taiwanese Hitchcock."
"Far from being a terrible movie," did you mean? Maybe the dubbing made it bad (or worse).
Yeah, "from" dropped out somehow. I did watch the whole thing. It was flawed but enjoyable. The way she was beaten in prison should have caused her more serious damage, yet she's practically a runway model when she gets out. I think Michael Myers fell to a lawn, not concrete. She shouldn't have been able to continue the attack, even if she didn't die. The shower scene had me expecting something that didn't happen. The feet on the staircase SHOULD have happened earlier, to add the razor blade to the soap. Since I didn't see the dubbed version, I can't compare them.
Last night's movie/s wasn't/weren't very enjoyable. We started with ALL THE KIND STRANGERS which we realized, about a minute in, we had seen before. It's the one about a family of orphaned kids living in an isolated house who decide they need parents and decide to hold a man and a woman, stangers to the kids and to each other, hostage and force them to play that role. Neither one of us was in the mood to watch that movie again so soon (or ever again, really).
Instead we moved on to the next one in the set, THE DAY THE SKY EXPLODED. This is an unmemorable (proven by the fact that neither one of us remembered it at first) Italian science fiction flick from 1958. We ended up watching the whole thing, but if we were ever to see it again I doubt we'd remember it then, either.
I was bored silly, lots of scenes with men at radios, rockets on platforms, rockets being fired, but no interesting anything.
Next up in queue was Snowbeast, but it sounded familiar to me. After verifying that we had seen it on the "100 Movie Pack" and reading the summary, we mutually decided not to watch it again although neither one of us could remember any of it. Instead we wacthed...
HORROR OF THE ZOMBIES (1974): "A yachtsman and his group are searching for some missing women when they come across a fog-enshrouded Spanish galleon drifting at sea. Boarding the ancient vessel to look for the missing women, the group stumbles upon a hottifyinh discovery. Aboard the ship are the undead leagions of the Knights Templar, who are cursed to roam the Earth to plague the living and consume the flesh of their victims."
This movie takes on an extra dimension if one thinks of it as "Gilligan's Zombies." Two models (let's call them Ginger and Mary Ann) have taken a small boat out onto the ocean to the shipping lanes to publicize a new line of clothing. It's a super-secret assignment, and Mary Ann's roommate (let's call her Gilligan) goes to the photography studio to find her. The photographer (let's call her Lovey) is working with the designer (let's call him Thurston). When the girls go missing, they hire a "yachtsman" (let's call him Horace) to take them out to search, and for some reason they take a professor with them (let's call him Roy).
Mary Ann and Ginger have drifted into another dimension, their boat is disabled and is slowly sinking. The other four set out in search of them, and Roy has an explanation for everything. He comes up with everything from the other dimension theory to the history of the Knights Templar. I was going to go into more detail, but it's more interesting to watch and see who lives, who dies, and who is betrayed by whom. Oh, and it's a Spanish film (a.k.a. The Ghost Galleon a.k.a. The Ghost Ship of The Blind Dead) dubbed into English. Apparently this is the third of four "Blind Dead" movies. The zombies are (mostly) papier mache dummies, and are the slowest-moving ghouls I have ever seen and they chant like Benedictine monks.
"That's one fine piece of cinema!" - Tracy of Moon-T
TRAILER.
After seeing the trailer (and laughing out loud at the coffin zombie) I found it as The Ghost Galleon on Tubi. I'll probably watch it tomorrow.
TRAUMA (1978): "The mutilated body of a teenage girl is found and a police inspector is assigned to the case. While investigating the circumstances surrounding the girl's death, the inspector begins to uncover some strange clues and bizarre incident involving the girl and her friends. Appearances may be deceiving concerning these innocent schoolgirls and their secret activities."
Five minutes into the movie I made a prediction as to who the murder would be and it turns out I was right. I was mostly joking, and the culprit is by no means obvious due to reasons I will point out in the "spoiler" section below. The inspector uses some rather unorthodox police techniques, including (but not limited to) breaking into the girls' dorm in the middle of the night to question them, and interrogating a suspect on a roller coaster. (I wish I were making that up.) He is also selective about which crimes he chooses to enforce because the woman he hooks up with for the duration of the film he meets while she's shoplifting. There are multiple murders, all among a group of four friends, and the reason it's so hard for the viewer to figure who the culprit is is because [SPOILER] there are two muderers with different motives. When he does solve the crime, he chooses not to turn the murderer in. [END SPOILER] This is an Italian movie alternately titled "Red Rings of Fear."
I can't find a proper trailer (except for one that makes you sign in to verify your age), but I found three clips.
CLIP 1. CLIP 2. CLIP 3.
The title "It's the Police" attached to Clip #1 reminds me fondly of one of my favorite movies, Fuzz (1972). The misunderstanding of that phrase leads to a hilarious and grotesque ending.
I did watch The Ghost Galleon today. Lots of pretty girls, but the plot moved as slow as the zombies. They made a throwaway reference to the not-zombiefied Captain having been called The Hollander, hinting at The Flying Dutchman. The scientist sure knew a heckuva lot about evil legends and even exorcisms. His hand-held burning cross wasn't likely to evoke the KKK because only to center of it burned.
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