#John Harron

[hannahwatcheshorror]

WHITE ZOMBIE (1932)

This film has a lot of heart and good special effects, especially given the time in which it was made. I would say it is certainly worth a watch, a fun classic horror perfect for Halloween and for those who aren’t into very scary films.

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We open on a burial taking place in the middle of a road, apparently they do this so that grave robbers are less likely to rob graves. Before we hit the five minute mark the driver of our horse drawn carriage spots and immediately recognizes zombies (who were politely walking down the hill in a single file line). This is just about as quickly as we see a Zoombini in NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD but never has a Z-boy been identified so quickly or correctly.

Our doe eyed and unwitting femme fatale reminds me of Joan of Arc from THE HOUSE OF WAX (but that doesn’t mean I’m going to murder her for ill-gotten means, someone else will). Madeline and Neil are our two lovers who have come to Haiti to get married for some inexplicable reason and they met a strange man who is going to pay for their wedding and give Neil a big job back home or something so they trust him completely (wack). Once the couple arrive at Mr. Beaumont's place things start to get a little strange (well, more strange than the buggy driver telling them about Zambonis).

Beaumont has fallen wildly in love with Mads (calm down dude, you just met) and wants to take her from Neil so he talks to Wacky Eyebrows who is a witch doctor and the guy in control of the Zombo-mombos. Wacky Brows kinda also has the hots for her… I can’t believe these men are so wild that they fall in love with this woman after just meeting her and then decide that killing her is the only way to win her. WACK. So they kill her with some special poison and Wacky Brows whittles a candle to look like her and then burns it and WHAM she is out like, well, a candle.

Neil is beside himself, he just barely married her and she passed away in his arms! The special effects of him seeing her in the shadows around him were pretty top notch, especially for the time, I was very impressed.

The two baddies get to work on reviving Madeline but she is still just a stone cold Zomb with no feelings, no life in those big doe eyes, and Beaumont is forlorn. He goes to Wacky Brows to undo what has been done, but Beaumont has been double crossed, there is dangerous thinking behind those twisted eyebrows! Beaumont is slowly turning into the living dead while Neil storms in, very sick, trying to find Maddie.

Mads is not herself, she is pulled forward by an invisible string and controlled by Mr. Eyebrows himself, she is almost made to stab her beloved before a mysterious hand makes her drop the knife and she runs off. The army of undead come for Neil as he tries to remind Madeline of who he is just as Beaumont, in his last and perhaps only moment of grace, pushes Wacky Brows off the ledge to his death. They both fall, and the spell is broken so once again Maddie can sense her beloved, even after being undead! A wild tale but fun and charming all the same.

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Birthday remembrance - John Harron #botd

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[esonetwork]

White Zombie | Episode 387

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White Zombie | Episode 387

Jim looks at a 1932 Bela Lugosi Horror Classic from Halperin Productions – “White Zombie,” Starring Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorne, Robert W. Frazier, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, George Burr Macannan and Clarence Muse. A Haitian plantation owner sets hi sights on a young woman and has her turned into zombie to have her to himself. Find out more about this first zombie film on MONSTER ATTACK!, The Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

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The Murder in the Museum (1934)

My rating: 4/10

Dull and unremarkable, and for a movie set at a sideshow bizarrely devoid of any kind of music (seriously, there's actual dance scenes set entirely to crowd noises), but ultimately, I suppose, inoffensive.

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Robert Harron: Was It Just... "Coincidence"?

April 12 was the natal day of silent screen star Robert Harron (1893-1920). Harron’s was an unusual trajectory. He was a local New York Irish kid who was hired to sweep up an do odd-jobs at Biograph in 1907. Since he was around, he began to work as an extra and bit player, and then, because D.W. Griffith liked his fresh-faced look, he began to get real roles. He was only 14 at the time. It was…

[moviemosaics]

The Notorious Bettie Page

directed by Mary Harron, 2005

[theunderestimator-2]

Punk Magazine staff: photograher Roberta Bayley, journalist Mary Harron & co-founding editor John Holstrom as captured outside CBGB by Godlis in 1977.

Mary Harron, a filmmaker in later years best known as the director of American Psycho, had actually lived in England and had attended Oxford University before moving to NYC and becoming part of its '70s punk scene. In 1976 she was sent to London to interview the Sex Pistols for Legs McNeil's legendary Punk Magazine:

"You could really feel the world moving and shaking that autumn of 1976 in London. I felt that what we had done as a joke in New York had been taken for real in England by a younger and more violent audience. And that somehow in the translation, it had changed, it had sparked something different. What to me had been a much more adult and intellectual bohemian rock culture in New York, had become this crazy teenage thing in England. I remember going to see the Damned play that summer, who I thought were really terrible. I was wearing my Punk magazine T-shirt and I got mobbed. I mean I can't tell you the reception I got. Everyone was so excited that I was wearing this T-shirt that said "Punk". I was just speechless. There I was backstage, and there were hundreds of little kids, like nightmares, you know, like little ghouls with bright red dyed hair with white faces. They were alll wearing chains and swastikas and things stuck in their head, and I was like, 'Oh my god, what have we done? What have we created?' I felt like we had been doing this thing--and now that we had created something else that we never intended, or expected. I think English punk was much more volatile and edgy and more dangerous." Mary Harron from "Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk"

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Titanosaurus taking his lead from the goofy French knight.

Diorama by Steve Harron via his Pinterest page.

[oldshowbiz]

The Big Revue (1953-1954) was a CBC variety series featuring Don Harron, John Aylesworth and Frank Peppiatt. It was produced and directed by Norman Jewison.

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John Harron and Laura La Plante in SILK STOCKINGS (1927)

[newyorkthegoldenage]

These Brooklynites use a motor scooter for their transportation to work as a strike of subway employees continued into the second day, December 10, 1957. From left: Ronnie Harron, George Nicholson, Peter Garland, and John Avildsen (yes, the future film director). Instead of pushing into whatever subway trains were still running, the quartet squeezed onto the scooter for their above-ground ride.

Photo: Associated Press via News19

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a reimagining of a piece from a few years ago that's still near & dear to my heart

inspired by the green knight (2021), dir. david lowery pieces the beheading of saint john the baptist (1869), pierre-cécile puvis de chavannes american psycho (2000), dir. mary harron [horsemen and hounds chasing fox across english countryside] (1796), anon halo from an icon cover (10/11th cent), anon forest interior with a painter, civita castellana (1825-1830), andré giroux [sir gawain and the green knight], cotton nero a.x. manuscript (14/15th cent), anon (known as the "gawain poet") kjv1611 typeface

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sure ok

was tagged by @deepseametro to do the movie thing!

rules: list your top 5 all time favorite movies and let people vote on their fav/matches their vibe

tagging 5 people as per the rules @admiralexclipse @sadomarxist @telltaletypist @txttletale @gandalfsbignaturals

what can i say, i like body horror and thriller movies

[vordenburg]

Alternate Universe (Anno Dracula)

Anno Dracula, 1992, Kim Newman

Vampire Romance, 1995, Kim Newman

Alternate Universe (The Legend of Dracula)

Dracula: His Women, 2021, Perry Lake

Dracula: Plots and Schemes, 2021, Perry Lake

Dracula: Into the Mouth of Death, 2022, Perry Lake

Baron Vordenburg Stories

The Coventry Street Terror, 2020, Josh Reynolds

A Test of Fortitude, 2020, Josh Reynolds

Hearts of Ice, 2021, Josh Reynolds

On Dark Wings, 2022, Josh Reynolds

Devil's Bridge, 2022, Josh Reynolds

Sharp as Bristles, 2022, Josh Reynolds

The Deep Woods, 2022, Josh Reynolds

The Toymaker of Szentendre, 2022, Josh Reynolds

They Are Always Hungry, 2022, Josh Reynolds

The Vordenburg Papers, coming soon, Josh Reynolds

Comics

Carmilla, 1991, John Ross

Films

Blood and Roses, 1960, Roger Vadim

The Blood Spattered Bride, 1972, Vicente Aranda

Carmilla, 1980, Janusz Kondratiuk

Carmilla, 2019, Emily Harris

Crypt of the Vampire, 1964, Camillo Mastrocinque

The Curse of Styria, 2014, Mauricio Chernovetzky

Le Fanu's Carmilla, 2025, Ivan Zuccon

The Moth Diaries, 2011, Mary Harron

The Unwanted, 2014, Bret Wood

The Vampire Lovers, 1970, Roy Ward Baker

Vampyr, 1932, Carl Theodor Dreyer

Original Novella

Carmilla, 1872, Sheridan Le Fanu

Reimagining (The Adventures of Sam Hain)

Blood/Lust, 2021, Robin Schadel

Carmilla's Ghost, 2021, Robin Schadel

Reimagining

An Education in Malice, 2024, S.T. Gibson

Carmilla anad Laura, 2018, S.D. Simper

Carmilla: Revamped, undated, Alex X. Kaine

My Carmilla, 2024, Anita Zara

The Wolves of Styria, 2012, David Brian

Unofficial Prequel

Carmilla: A Dark Fugue, 2014, David Brian

For the Love of Mircalla, 2021, Perry Lake

Unofficial Sequel

Carmilla: The Return, 1998, Kyle Marffin

To Love a Vampire, 2018, Robert Statzer

Carmilla's Revenge, 2022, Mark Williams Le Fanu

Vertigo Peaks, 2024, Dion Anja

Web Series

Carmilla, 2014-2016, Spencer Maybee

The Carmilla Movie, 2019, Spencer Maybee

[confusedbyinterface]

Wait wait wait - Umineko AU sounds very cool… how would it work?? Who’s who?

By AU I mostly mean like all the AUs running through Harrow's head at the end of Harrow the Ninth, so it works about as well as a fever dreams brought on by brain surgery undoing itself, but:

Battler: Gideon (duh) Shannon and Kanon: Harrow, with the servant name Harron George and Jessica: Ianthe. Though unlike George she isn't going to propose secretly, she's doing it in front of everyone because she's a messy bitch who loves the drama. Beatrice: Alecto Kinzo: John Natsuhi: Pelleamena (which I guess makes Priamhark Krauss by default?)

The Cousins/Uncles/Aunts: All the Canaan House postulants, instead of a "Family Meeting" it's a Nine Houses Meeting.

G1deon, Mercymorn and Augustine would play similar roles Genji, Kumasawa and Nanjo, in the sense of being John's "inner circle" more than anything. Crux and Aiglamene are there too (or, Crux might be off sick and fuming about not being there). Pyrrha might be alive, and off the island.

So: Harrow is an orphan, the miraculous survivor of a deadly gas leak at Fukuin House (as far as she knows). Because she was the only child at the orphanage, she was brought into The Ninth House as a servant at a very young age, where she showed a startling necromantic aptitude. At some point a young Ianthe and Coronabeth are orphaned and adopted or fostered to the "childless" Ninth House. Coronabeth runs off to join BoE, or is kidnapped by them in an attack that kills Naberius, I'm not sure. Gideon is G1deon and Pyrrha's kid (as far as she knows) and after she ran off as a teenager to join the cohort (without bringing Harrow with her, as they'd agreed) Harrow kind of, lost her necromancy. It came back a few years ago, when the Body started appearing to her, but she's kept quiet about it.

I do have a vague outline of an actual full "game" with serial murders, where a whole bunch of stuff with Jod's revenant and embryo swapping and secret conspiracies comes out, but more likely it would just end up a Harrow the Ninth style AU in which, after Harrow tips over the wheelbarrow and Gideon helps her meetcute style, she sees Alecto the Golden Witch standing atop the rose arch asking "Is this how it happens?"