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365filmsbyauroranocte · 10 months

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Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

#Videodrome #David Cronenberg #Cronenberg #1983 #quote #Jack Creley #reality #TV #television

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weirdlookindog · 7 months

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The Reincarnate (1971)

#the reincarnate #jack creley #jay reynolds #trudy young #1971 #1970s movies #don haldane #horror #pressbook

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onenakedfarmer · 6 months

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VIDEODROME David Cronenberg Canada, 1983

#watching #David Cronenberg #Canadian films #horror films #Debbie Harry #Peter Dvorsky #Sonja Smits #Jack Creley #Les Carlson #Lynn Gorman #body horror #1983

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cultfaction · 2 years

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The Unforeseen

The Unforeseen was a anthology mystery series which aired from 1958 to 1960 and was seen in the UK on Granada television. Each episode was a short play covering the inexplicable, the supernatural, the occult or science fiction. Each episode had it’s own writer, director, and actors. It ran for two seasons (58 episodes). Across its run the likes of Barry Morse, Gillie Fenwick, Ivor Barry, George…

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danbenzvi · 6 months

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Our Feature Presentation: "Videodrome"

Starring James Woods, Deborah Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Les Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, Reiner Schwarz, David Bolt and Lally Cadeau.

[Had to do at least one movie for spooky season. I went physical with this one and watched the new 4K remaster from the Criterion Collection. It's also available in HD via The Criterion Channel (along with the full extras package from the physical release) until at least the end of November 2023 or you can stream the film in HD on its own on Peacock.]

#videodrome #james woods #deborah harry #sonja smits #peter dvorsky #les carlson #jack creley #lynne gorman #julie khaner #reiner schwarz #david bolt #lally cadeau

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adamwatchesmovies · 9 months

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Videodrome (1983)

No piece of art - whether it be a book, film, or dance number - could drive a person to commit violent acts unless they were already pre-dispositioned to do so. But what if that wasn’t the case? What if there was a television program so disturbing it could change the way you think? What if this made it so fascinating you couldn't look away? This is the idea David Cronenberg explores in Videodrome. Its fantastical scenario will cover your skin in goosebumps even before the body horror sets in.

President of CIVIC-TV Max Rent (James Woods) stumbles upon 'Videodrome', a television show which depicts the torture and murder of nameless victims. There’s no plot. The production costs must be minimal (though the product is surprisingly convincing). It’s vulgar, distasteful and fascinating. Believing it’s exactly the kind of program his audience will eat up, Max begins searching for the origin of 'Videodrome'.

As you can probably guess, 'Videodrome' is a sinister program and Max's pursuit only leads to bad things. The kind of horror our protagonist is stepping into is what you won’t be able to predict. Often, the film is just plain weird. As its protagonist gets increasingly consumed by 'Videodrome', he (and you) lose track of whether what he sees is true, or a hallucination. The further in we get, the more “reality” seems fake. There’s just no explaining what happens unless the grotesque visions are genuine and if that’s the case, we’ve just opened up a new kind of horror you’ve never seen before (except perhaps in other Cronenberg films).

The program is disturbing, the effect they have on Max’s psyche is too but most frightening of all is how other people react to 'Videodrome'. Nicki Brand (Debbie Harry) has an extreme reaction but you get the feeling Max’s initial hunch that audiences would gobble up the wanton display of violence is spot-on. That’s a scary thought in itself and when combined with the madness it seems to unleash, it’s not necessarily that you'll need to keep a light on when going to bed, but you will toss and turn mentally wondering “what if?”

This is an extremely stylish film. There’s no way you can forget (or un-see?) it. The special effects by Rick Baker are impressive for the <$6 million budget. Even if you can tell it’s latex and puppetry, the concepts will have you curling up in a ball and checking yourself for unwanted mutations. It’s perverted and gory - a nightmare made flesh. While watching, you’ll have no idea where it’s headed. The film is made in a way that it could end at any point and would leave you with chills.

Writer/director David Cronenberg entices the audience with all of these ideas about what the media means to those who watch it, how television (or any screen) distorts reality, what reality is and more. They make you want to watch Videodrome again so you can further analyze it. Wait. Isn’t that what Max was doing? Isn’t this what got him into this mess in the first place? Good thing Videodrome is all makeup and actors. Good thing it's not real. (On Blu-ray, July 3, 2020)

#Videodrome #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #David Cronenberg #James Woods #Sonja Smits #Deborah Harry #Peter Dvorsky #Les Carlson #Jack Creley #Lynne Gorman #1983 movies #1983 films

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byneddiedingo · 6 months

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James Woods and Debbie Harry in Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983)

Cast: James Woods, Debbie Harry, Sonja Smits, Peter Dvorsky, Leslie Carlson, Jack Creley, Lynne Gorman, Julie Khaner, Reiner Schwarz, David Bolt, Rena King. Screenplay: David Cronenberg. Cinematography: Mark Irwin. Art direction: Carol Spear. Film editing: Ronald Sanders. Music: Howard Shore.

The menacing technology in Videodrome -- cathode ray tube TV sets, video cassettes (Betamax!), broadcast television -- looks antique and even quaint 40 years later. We worry today about the internet, smart phones, social media. But the root fear remains the same: extreme self-absorption, alienation, anomie. In that respect, David Cronenberg's fable has dated not at all. Partly that's because as a specialist in "body horror," Cronenberg, with the significant help of makeup artist Rick Baker, is able to translate psychological, even spiritual concerns into physical ones. The grotesque invasions of the body in Videodrome are treated as invasions of the soul. If I have reservations about the movie, it's that it too quickly pins the blame on television instead of exploring the root causes of the hunger for violence and violent sex that the medium exploits. It's like deploring consumerism while ignoring capitalism's encouragement of it. But that's another film entirely, or rather a whole bunch of films.

#Videodrome #David Cronenberg #James Woods #Debbie Harry

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fridaythe13ththeseries · 2 years

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Eye of Death

Episode Recap #39: Eye of Death Original Airdate: February 4, 1989

Starring: John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Louise Robey as Micki Foster Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Tom McCamus as Atticus Rook Brooke Johnson as Abigail Bodine Jack Creley as Edward Easton Patrushka Sarakula as Lydia David Bolt as Colonel Danny Pawlick as Wounded Soldier Bernard Behrens as General Robert E. Lee Al Koslik (as Al Kozlik) as Murphy Richard Waugh as Zack Bodine Reg Dreger as Detective Howard Michael Beattie as Photographer MacLeod

Written by Peter Jobin & Timothy Bond and Roy Sallows Directed by Timothy Bond

Open with a man writing a letter to Jefferson Davis about the casualties his troops are suffering, and the further trouble ahead for them with advancing Union troops. Turns out the man is Robert E. Lee and this is the Civil War.

We see shots of people around this camp, many dead, dying or severely wounded. In a house used as a make-shift hospital, it is more the same, the horrors of war. A man is trying to convince Lee that they need to retreat, but Lee won't hear of it. Then a strange man approaches and tells them they will be safe if they stay. Lee seems to know this man, and while he is apprehensive, he listens. The man, Mr. Rook, asks if has ever been wrong before?

More shots of wounded and dying, then Rook stealing from a dead soldier. We meet a wounded soldier, Zack, is being tended to by his wife Abigail. Rook arrives saying he is the doctor and sends Abby for supplies. He takes the flask that stopped the bullet from killing Zack, then twists his neck and runs off. He is shot at and chased but vanishes into a square of light.

Rook then appears and runs out of a Civil War slide photo projected on a wall. He dumps out his bag of all the items he stole from the past and calls Edward, telling him he got a shipment of pristine antiques.

Cut to the auction, and Jack is admiring the flask with the bullet hole, while Micki and Ryan scan the crowd for Rook. Jack calls Rook a picker, like himself, who find items to sell. Jack thinks Rook would have sold the magic lantern from Curious Goods.

Rook is admiring an antique slide, but the owner says its not for sale. The man says Rook should make $100,000 at least, tonight. Micki spots him and wonders if Rook is aware of the curse. The auction begins, the flask the first item. Ryan chats up Rook's date. The flask sells for $15,000.

Rook asks Edward, the auctioneer, what Lee's broken sword would get. Edward says about a half million. Jack appears and Rook recognizes him. Jack compliments his good fortune and tells him he took over Louis' store, mentioning that he knows Rook was a customer. Rook and his date leave, Ryan relates that the woman said Rook has been in town for weeks, but Micki is confused. He never answers his phone. Ryan goes to follow Rook.

Rook and his date, Lydia, head to his place. Ryan watches. Having a drink, she is surprised by Rook in his old-time outfit. He says it is for a history lesson. He shows her the lantern, lights it, and tells her it lasts three hours and lets him go anywhere. The slide he puts in is from 1862, and says 22,000 men died, leaving a fortune in antiques. He creeps Lydia out, then snaps her neck so the cursed item will work. Outside, Ryan sees Rook dump her body in the trash. Back in the apartment, Rook prepares to enter the slide when Ryan jumps him, and they are both transported to 1862. They struggle, Ryan falls and Rook takes off. Ryan is shocked by the sound of gunfire, then knocked out by Rook.

At the store, Micki and Jack are frustrated reading on the lantern and worried about Ryan. Micki speculates on how Rook specializes in one specific year and battle. Jack guesses how the curse works and they rush off.

Ryan wakes in a bed, bandaged. Abby and her father saved him, but when Ryan says he is from Chicago, the old man grabs his rifle. Abby stops him, and they question Ryan, who says he's looking for Rook and they think Ryan is a bounty hunter. They wonder if he can help them find the man who killed Zack, unaware Rook is that man. Ryan clues them in. Ryan says he has to see Lee.

Abby gives Ryan some appropriate clothes that were her late husband's. Abby also gives Ryan Zack's gun, hoping he can kill Rook with it.

At Rook's apartment, the cops are swarming because of Lydia's found body, and one stops Jack and Micki, asking if they live in the building, Jack says yes, calling himself Rook, and Micki his daughter. The cop asks if they recognize Lydia, they say no. They enter the apartment and find the lantern in use. Jack stops Micki from interrupting the lantern, and they look at the picture on the wall. Jack finds blood on the floor, then tries to figure out the lantern.

In 1862, Abby's dad catches Rook with his rifle and leads him off.

Micki finds a book Rook was reading to learn about the past. Jack says the lantern will burn for awhile, and tells Micki it might be Ryan's only way back if he did end up in the past.

Rook tells the old man he has plans for Lee, then tricks him and kills him. Ryan watches and shoots but Rook escapes back to the present and blows out the lantern, trapping Ryan. Ryan tries to rouse the old man, but soldiers spot him and chase and shoot after him. Ryan hides in a tree.

At Curious Goods, Jack and Micki do research on that specific date. Micki wonders if Rook kills to go forward in time, too. Jack thinks so. Then Micki finds Ryan in photo from 1862 with Lee. Jack tries to explain how Ryan could have died in the past to a confused Micki.

Ryan listens as Lee continues to disregard his aide in favor of waiting on Rook and the promised plans from the Union side.

The cop knocks on Rook's door and wants a statement about Lydia's body. The cop doesn't seem to remember Jack pretending to be Rook, but asks for ID. Rook overpowers him, strangles him and kills him. But the slide is broken in the struggle.

A soldier show's Abby her father's body and the description of his supposed killer shocks Abby. She rushes off to find Ryan first.

Rook calls Edward, saying he can still get the sword if the man can get the money.

Ryan startles Abigail, and says Rook killed her father. She grabs the rifle, unsure. Ryan tries to come clean and explain that he is from the future. He shows her items from his wallet. She is confused.

Jack and Micki drive back to Rook's and see him leaving. They follow.

Abby is having a hard time believing Ryan, who tries to convince her that her family didn't die in vain. He says he needs to stop Rook from getting Lee's sword. His plan is for her to turn him in to Lee.

Edward can't get the money at night, but Rook says he can take antiques instead, and tells the man to get the other slide from 1862. When Edward does, Rook puts it in the projector, then kills the old man. Before he can step into the past, Micki tackles him and they both vanish. Jack is too late and remains in the present.

Rook punches Micki and takes off. A photographer wants a photo of Lee and his aides. He takes one and wants another as Abby leads Ryan at gunpoint to Lee, who asks why she think he's a spy. As Lee, his men and Ryan enter the building, the photographer snaps a photo. The one Micki saw in the book.

Micki wanders, looking for Ryan and finds a stray horse. Jack checks on the flame, which is still burning.

Lee questions Ryan about Union plans, but Ryan has a hard time remembering his history. Rook appears and gives Lee the plans he promised. Ryan tries to dissuade Lee, but he has Ryan taken away. Abigail sees Ryan hauled off and Rook leave with Lee's sword. She follows.

Micki races to camp on horseback and rushes up and rescues Ryan.

Abby shoots toward Rook, who tries to stop her, then grabs the gun that goes off and shoots Abigail. Ryan hits Rook, then rushes to Abby who dies. Ryan wants to kill him, but Micki stops him. She tells him they have to run to the square of light to get back, which appeared when Abby died. They rush off with Rook chasing them. Ryan and Micki leap through into the present, with Rook following and shooting. Jack does the only thing he can and blows out the lantern. Rook is caught in the wall, dead.

Later, Ryan is amazed to see his photo in the Civil War history book. Ryan wonders if anything Rook or he did in the past changed things. Jack says maybe the past happened as it was supposed to. Micki thinks Lee's sword should be worth something. Jack says maybe a couple of bucks, cause everyone knows Lee broke his sword. This one would be seen as a fake.

My thoughts:

I've always like this episode. I think they handled the scenes in 1862 very well, doing their best in their budget to make you feel like you've gone back in time.

Also like the cursed item. Quite a potential with this one, imagine going anywhere in time as long as you had a slide for the projector?

Rook could have been a little more subtle in his actions. He kills Zack in the midst of people, kills Lydia and dumps her right outside his building. Playing with fire, this guy.

Ryan wonders if they affected the past. Well, who knows what was changed with Zack, Abby and her father being killed. Maybe they would have changed history, or one of their descendants could have? But as Jack speculates, maybe history played out just as it was supposed to.

Loved Micki riding in on horseback to save Ryan. She has come a long way from the beginning. Also loved Jack not just grabbing the latern, realizing they needed to proceed cautiously to make sure Ryan could get back.

The cop investigating Lydia's death was not great, and in fact reminded me of the cop from Badge of Honor.

Also, what the heck did the landlord and cops think when they found Rook stuck INSIDE the wall? Good thing Jack didn't give them his real name.

And very cool to have a photo of Ryan from 1862!

Next week: Face of Evil

#episode recap #friday the 13th: the series #80s tv #micki foster #ryan dallion #louise robey #john d. lemay #jack marshak #robey #chris wiggins #curious goods #season two #projector #time travel #civil war

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twittercomfrnklin2001-blog · 11 months

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Rituals

Peter Carter’s RITUALS (1977, Shudder, Amazon Prime), aka THE CREEPER, is trying hard to be Eugene O’Neill’s DELIVERANCE. It’s certainly got his tin ear for dialogue, but O’Neill brought the past up as a tactic where people might logically do so. Here, it comes out whenever writer Ian Sutherland feels like it — “I’m not following your plan to save our lives because you deserted your father.” — that sort of thing. A quintet of doctors is dropped off in the Canadian wilderness, where a wild man with a mad on against the medical profession torments and kills them. Hal Holbrook and the Canadian actors cast as his colleagues try hard, but there’s not much they can do with material that has them shouting recriminations at each other while they’re trying to escape the madman. There are a few interesting things about the film. Some of the deaths are only caused indirectly by the killer, and Holbrook accumulates a higher body count than the mostly unseen monster (played by the assistant director). One doctor’s injury renders him delirious, and his rantings about how to train a chimpanzee to salute are a surprising ostinato accompanying the other doctors’ attempts to get to safety. At one point, the survivors hit a stretch of land devastated by a forest fire. The rocky landscape seems like something out of Beckett. It’s visually powerful, as is the physical degradation of the doctors. It’s also interesting that one of the doctors is gay, and everybody knows it going in. And a bit of trivia: a small role is played by Jack Creley, an out Canadian actor who also was the voice of Thor in Marvel’s first superhero cartoons. Does that make Thor gay? That certainly would explain his Breck Girl golden tresses.

#horror films #canadian films #hal holbrook

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