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Post by Horsie on Mar 26, 2019 5:46:48 GMT
I'll have to watch this on Friday, I don't have time to do a fucking thing during the week.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 26, 2019 13:24:27 GMT
Found a better quality version:
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Post by Harkovast on Mar 26, 2019 23:35:43 GMT
God yes, I wish there were more Dr Phebes movies, they are so wonderfully insane. It's campy British horror nonsense at its finest, full of deranged creativity.
I absolutely love these films.
The bat shit ways he murders people are the best.
My favourite might be the huge mechanical frog mask that strangles you.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Mar 27, 2019 0:41:44 GMT
I remember these movies fondly, having found them along a similar vein as I did John Carpenter's The Thing (2 am TV). I'm pretty sure it was on Turner Classic and I caught The Abominable Dr. Phibes very near the beginning and immediately fell in love with it. To my delight Dr. Phibes Rises Again played right after.
Rises probably isn't as clever as Abominable, but it does have one of my favorite Phibes kills right up front. A mechanical snake that is a decoy for a real snake with clockworks crudely taped to it that all turns out to be a distraction so he didn't notice that the phone headset had been replaced to shoot a silver snake spike through his head.
You'd think that a man who had lived for centuries would be able to match wits with Phibes, but the good Doctor is simply too brutally cunning.
I read somewhere that there was talk of resurrecting Phibes in the 80s, giving him sort of a Friday the 13th/Nightmare on Elm St. treatment. Though eventually we did get Jigsaw, who had very clearly stolen some elements from Abominable.
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Post by wordweaver3 on Apr 29, 2019 23:41:36 GMT
Anyone up for some classic animation?
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Post by Horsie on May 1, 2019 14:29:10 GMT
I know I've never watched that show, but it seems familiar.
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Post by wordweaver3 on May 1, 2019 17:40:57 GMT
This was a show I didn't manage to catch very often but I was aware of it. I remember liking it but it had a very short run so it didn't exactly become nostalgic.
This pilot movie shows a lot of promise in terms of world building. A lot of the character designs are much more elaborate than Filmation was typically known for, so I'm guessing this was more a labor of love than most of their work was. Though there are a lot of Filmation hallmarks here with reused animation and difficult to follow action scenes (where the characters are in relation to each other during the fight).
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