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Post by Wild Rebel on Apr 10, 2006 9:27:35 GMT -5
Just wondering what movie you'd like if you had your pick for the next Legend release with Mike Nelson commentary after The Little Shop of Horrors. To the best of my knowledge, all of the choices above are in the public domain. If you're going to make you're own suggestion, try to keep it to PD titles, please.  |
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Post by Chuck on Apr 10, 2006 13:21:03 GMT -5
I voted for Attack of the 50 Foot Bad Special Effect.
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Post by lstcaz on Apr 10, 2006 13:28:31 GMT -5
Bride Of The Gorilla I assume it's PD. Don't know who would pay for it.
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Post by mightyjack on Apr 10, 2006 16:15:51 GMT -5
Bride Of The Gorilla I assume it's PD. Don't know who would pay for it. That would be a great one. It would be a great one for the Film Crew to do as well. I think Legend is going for more high profile B movies - So 50 Ft Woman or another Ed Wood would probably fit that bill. Some of the others on that list I've never even heard of. |
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Post by lstcaz on Apr 10, 2006 16:33:10 GMT -5
Yeah when I watched Bride Of The Gorilla all thru it I kept thinking it was meant to be MSTed
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Post by Wild Rebel on Apr 10, 2006 16:35:33 GMT -5
Some of the others on that list I've never even heard of. - All "little person" western made in the 1930's Dementia 13 - Graphic axe murderer movie with William Campbell (Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos"), produced by Roger Corman, Francis Ford Coppola's first directing job. White Zombie - Bela Lugosi's second starring role. Very good zombie movie set in Haiti. Night Tide - One of Dennis Hopper's first movie roles. Sailor becomes enamored of a "mermaid" at a sideshow. He begins to suspect that she may be a real mermaid. Not a Splash type movie but a creepy mystery. The Last Man on Earth - Stars Vincent Price. Post-nuclear holocaust movie. Remade with Charlton Heston as The Omega Man. |
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Apr 10, 2006 17:10:55 GMT -5
Terror of Tiny Town - All "little person" western made in the 1930's. Are you kiddin' me, Pyle? But, no, the short jokes would get awfully tiresome. Urgh, I tried watching that as an admittedly young impressionable teenager. No thanks. Really not a bad movie, if slow by today's standards. There are better Bela movies to riff on. Dennis Hopper is certainly riff-worthy in many roles. So, another version of the Richard Matheson story I Am Legion? I voted for Glen or Glenda because it's just so gosh darn bizarre. And Ed Woods' movies at least have that fun energy about them. |
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Post by Bart Fargo on Apr 10, 2006 18:14:08 GMT -5
Any of these choices is good.
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Post by mightyjack on Apr 11, 2006 5:53:34 GMT -5
Night Tide sounds interesting, that was one I hadn't heard of before.
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Post by Wild Rebel on Apr 11, 2006 7:26:45 GMT -5
Terror of Tiny Town - All "little person" western made in the 1930's. Are you kiddin' me, Pyle? But, no, the short jokes would get awfully tiresome. I can't seen Mike making short jokes....rather he'd probably riff on the stupidity and insensitivity of the film makers. Beats the hell out of Nightmare in Wax  We had a "Creature Feature" show here in Miami back in the 70's that broadcast on a UHF channel after midnight...they'd show all of that stuff uncut....blood, nudity, the whole thing....with a host named M.T. Graves. But see, that's the thing about Legend. They seem to want to go for "well known" weird movies....and Mike riffs but not all the time. By contrast, who'd ever heard of Manos before MST3K? And some of these films need to be ripped a new one. Night Tide sounds interesting, that was one I hadn't heard of before. There's several DVD's out there with this one. Including an AMC collection that has (IIRC) The Screaming Skull and some other B-movies. |
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Post by Donna SadCat Lady on Apr 11, 2006 12:36:59 GMT -5
Are you kiddin' me, Pyle? But, no, the short jokes would get awfully tiresome. I can't seen Mike making short jokes....rather he'd probably riff on the stupidity and insensitivity of the film makers. I hope you're right. Urgh, nasty. But in northeast Ohio in the 70s we had a UHF station that broadcast these things in the middle of Saturday afternoon! With a guy calling himself SuperHost. Mostly they were harmless shlock-fest B-movies, but every once in a while they'd show something really nasty, like a proto-slasher like Dementia 13 or those Italian movies that folks were discussing in Mitchell's Movies. Brrrrr. I'm sorry, but I don't quite follow what you're saying here? |
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Post by Wild Rebel on Apr 11, 2006 14:00:24 GMT -5
I can't seen Mike making short jokes....rather he'd probably riff on the stupidity and insensitivity of the film makers. I hope you're right. Short jokes were where the Bots came in. During the Joel years, especially. The Bots would say something non-PC and Joel would chid them. Joel would say something semi-sexual (the "Oh yeah" comment in "Mr B Natural") and the Bots would call him on it. That Legend seems to go for b&w stuff that's well known. In Lugosi's case those movies are all under copywrite to studios and been put out in DVD collections. The PD stuff has either been done by MST3K already or is so obscure that they'd be tough sells. I mean, for instance how many people who are casually familiar with Lugosi know about The Mysterious Mr Wong? And as much as I wish they would do more obscure movies, their past releases (and the kind of commentary/riffing Mike has done) suggests to me that they aren't really trying re-create our favorite cow-town puppet show. As much as we wish it were otherwise. |
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Post by Isaac on May 20, 2006 2:22:11 GMT -5
(Is Attack of the 50ft Woman public domain?
EDIT: Nope, I just checked Amazon...if the movie was public domain, there would be about a zillion DVD releases of it. It hasn't been released on DVD at all.)
I voted for The Terror of Tiny Town - I like to see some variety in Legend's cult movies series, and a western would be just the trick (they've already done an anti-reefer exploitation flick, a horror classic, a William Castle flick, a sci-fi movie, and a comedy. How about another genre release?)
Glen or Glenda? would make a fine release, too. Hell, any Ed Wood movie would be great. How about Jail Bait? Legend hasn't done a "noir" work (technically, Jail Bait is very bad film noir).
I've never seen Dementia 13, but I'm very interested in seeing it, although, I don't think Legend would go for it, as there's already a colorized version out on DVD (put out by Goodtimes Home Video, who shamefully forgot to include the original black and white version as well, a mistake repeated on their release of Laurel & Hardy's March of the Wooden Soldiers).
I also think that Legend should do a Dwain Esper flick - every Esper movie I've seen on DVD looks like total crap. Maniac is my favorite.
(NOTE: Since Abbott & Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk is supposed to be one of the non-Mike Nelson discs being released by Legend, maybe they could do a color film in their cult series as well?)
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2006 11:25:33 GMT -5
I'd like to see Creature From The Haunted Sea. That's a funny enough film on it's own, and Mike could have a field day with it.
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Post by Isaac on May 28, 2006 20:49:30 GMT -5
I'd like to see Creature From The Haunted Sea. That's a funny enough film on it's own, and Mike could have a field day with it. I agree. That was an intentional comedy film, but there's so many great things to make fun of. For instance, the creature looks like a giant turd with eyes and teeth (I'm guessing that Corman and co. intended the special effects to look that bad). I'd definitely love to hear Mike's comments on that. |
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We had a "Creature Feature" show here in Miami back in the 70's that broadcast on a UHF channel after midnight...they'd show all of that stuff uncut....blood, nudity, the whole thing....with a host named M.T. Graves.