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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You must be watching the same Hammer collection I was wading through some months ago, Jeff, because you're hitting all the same movies!
Speaking of which, it was Nightmare that knocked me off the Hammer train. We watched it on a Sunday afternoon, and were a little bored. After it was over, my wife said "Can we watch something from this century?" And that was that, because it meant I was going to have to watch any further Hammer movies solo and there are rare opportunities for that.
I'm glad y'all enjoyed it, though. Now I'm wondering if I can talk her into Kiss of the Vampire. (We already watched Brides of Dracula, and I think she was OK with that one.)
You must be watching the same Hammer collection I was wading through some months ago...
I was looking for your comments, but I can't find them. I thought they were on this thread, but could they be somewhere else?
Jeff of Earth-J > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 28, 2025 at 9:58pm
Found 'em.
I, too, thought you waded through them "some months ago," but actually they are spread across pages 641 through 658 from July through November of lastyear.
(When I looked for them earlier I only went back as far as Janury 2025.)
Jeff of Earth-J > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 29, 2025 at 7:50am
I just went back and read all of Cap's previous Hammer discussions I could find from last year, and I cross-referenced them in my recent posts. (I have two left to watch, and I will cross-reference those when I get to them.) Here's the list of all the ones I have seen so far (or don't plan to this go-'round):
The Curse of Frankenstein - p.641
The Horror of Dracula - p.641
The Mummy - p.642
Brides of Dracula - p.642
Curse of the Werewolf - .p.644
Abominable Snowman - p.645
Night Creatures/Captain Clegg - p.645
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter - p.652 (one of mine)
Nightmare - p.653
Evil of Frankenstein - p.653
That leaves Phantom of the Opera and Paranoiac which I shall get to anon.
Also, Cap, you mentioned Kiss of the Vampire twice (pp.653/658), although I can't find your post about it. Did you watch it?
Captain Comics > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 29, 2025 at 12:37pm
I don't think I have. I'll try to find it.
EDIT: Oh, look! It's right there in the same collection! I'll see if I can Joan into watching it. And this reminds me that I watched Evil of Frankenstein out of order, as I skipped over Revenge of Frankenstein by accident. I'll watch that next and hope that seeing then out of order doesn't make a difference.
Captain Comics > Jeff of Earth-JSeptember 29, 2025 at 12:38pm
Last ... year? I did a cursory serach and didn't find them, and that's why. I didn't go back far enough. My God, it's true what they say: Time flies when you don't know what you're doing.
NIGHT CREATURES (1962): Another Hammer movie. (British title: Captain Clegg.) [SPOILERS] Peter Cushing plays an 18th century former pirate who has reformed (more or less) and taken on the identity of an English parson. Oliver Reed plays the squires son, and both are deeply involved with liquor smuggling, which pits tyhem against the King's men. The squire's son is in love with the local barmaid, who is secretly the pirate/parson's daughter (not even she knows). The tavern owner, her guardian, lusts after her. He is also the weak link in the smuggling chain. Assisting the King's men is a sailor Captain Clegg had mutilated and left for dead 16 years earlier. Clegg was supposedly hanged, but actually he "became" the parson. [END SPOILER] Entertaining with multiple twists.
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Thanks for the recommendation. I watched it on YouTube. Janet’s hairdo called to mind the horrible hairdos in our mid-sixties yearbooks.
I'm glad that it was in black-and-white. Good cinemaphotographers know how to do it right.
Those are some dedicated domestic employees, and Janet didn’t even sign their checks!
Glad you liked it!
You must be watching the same Hammer collection I was wading through some months ago, Jeff, because you're hitting all the same movies!
Speaking of which, it was Nightmare that knocked me off the Hammer train. We watched it on a Sunday afternoon, and were a little bored. After it was over, my wife said "Can we watch something from this century?" And that was that, because it meant I was going to have to watch any further Hammer movies solo and there are rare opportunities for that.
I'm glad y'all enjoyed it, though. Now I'm wondering if I can talk her into Kiss of the Vampire. (We already watched Brides of Dracula, and I think she was OK with that one.)
You must be watching the same Hammer collection I was wading through some months ago...
I was looking for your comments, but I can't find them. I thought they were on this thread, but could they be somewhere else?
Found 'em.
I, too, thought you waded through them "some months ago," but actually they are spread across pages 641 through 658 from July through November of last year.
(When I looked for them earlier I only went back as far as Janury 2025.)
I just went back and read all of Cap's previous Hammer discussions I could find from last year, and I cross-referenced them in my recent posts. (I have two left to watch, and I will cross-reference those when I get to them.) Here's the list of all the ones I have seen so far (or don't plan to this go-'round):
That leaves Phantom of the Opera and Paranoiac which I shall get to anon.
Also, Cap, you mentioned Kiss of the Vampire twice (pp.653/658), although I can't find your post about it. Did you watch it?
I don't think I have. I'll try to find it.
EDIT: Oh, look! It's right there in the same collection! I'll see if I can Joan into watching it. And this reminds me that I watched Evil of Frankenstein out of order, as I skipped over Revenge of Frankenstein by accident. I'll watch that next and hope that seeing then out of order doesn't make a difference.
Last ... year? I did a cursory serach and didn't find them, and that's why. I didn't go back far enough. My God, it's true what they say: Time flies when you don't know what you're doing.
NIGHT CREATURES (1962): Another Hammer movie. (British title: Captain Clegg.) [SPOILERS] Peter Cushing plays an 18th century former pirate who has reformed (more or less) and taken on the identity of an English parson. Oliver Reed plays the squires son, and both are deeply involved with liquor smuggling, which pits tyhem against the King's men. The squire's son is in love with the local barmaid, who is secretly the pirate/parson's daughter (not even she knows). The tavern owner, her guardian, lusts after her. He is also the weak link in the smuggling chain. Assisting the King's men is a sailor Captain Clegg had mutilated and left for dead 16 years earlier. Clegg was supposedly hanged, but actually he "became" the parson. [END SPOILER] Entertaining with multiple twists.
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EDIT: For further discussion, see p.645.
I saw this a year of so ago. Well worth watching.
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