#norman snider

[randomrichards]

BODY PARTS (1991):

Post car accident

Man’s arm replaced with killer’s

Evil in the flesh?

[80smovies]

[wlwanakin]

CONJOINED.

the symposium by plato / attack of the clones (2002) dir. george lucas / “da selby pt 2” by hozier / interview with the vampire (2022) s1e7 “the thing lay still” / revenge of the sith (2005) dir. george lucas / revenge of the sith by matthew stover / wuthering heights by emily brontë / “claw machine” by sloppy jane and phoebe bridgers / wild space by karen miller / hannibal (2013) s3e6 “dolce” / dead ringers screenplay by norman snider and david cronenberg / dead ringers (1988) dir. david cronenberg / children’s hospital of philadelphia

[oedipuscomplexes]

Dead Ringers, dir. David Cronenberg / script by David Cronenberg and Norman Snider

[measuringbliss]

Spider-Man Read-Through 079 Search For The Green Goblin Formula (ASM 244-245)

MASTERPOST

You know me, when there's a Green Goblin, I'm in!

Who is it, who is it?

Also featuring: manboobs.

Soooo Peter applies for a "formal leave of absence" and essentially reiterates that he has ADHD. I know the signs! No wonder I like him so much.

Oof.

This whole beginning is about how Peter has ADHD. He's on the wrong floor for the line, he has a hard time dealing with the wait, etc.

Dean Krenshaw is a pain, so after getting his paper signed, Peter webs up his door so he can't leave hahaha

He's very proud of himself.

Meanwhile, MJ's having a lunch with Harry and Liz! She's happy they're so in love, but she says she's not ready for marriage herself. It's also clear that Peter's a complicated subject for her.

Unfortunately, I found what follows pretty boring. Osborn things get attacked again, Spidey goes there, fights, gets the name of the Hobgoblin, Lefty Donovan...

But it turns out it's not the true Hobgoblin! Lefty's in cahoots with the real Hobby and his manboobs.

I'm not complaining but I'm certainly surprised.

On a date, MJ learns about Osborn's break-in and hopes Harry and Liz are alright.

Oh I love it. Depth! And her snazzy pantsuit!

She really is!

In the readers' letters, the Hobgoblin is beloved, and Aunt May is now appreciated as well. To think that a decade before then, the readers were begging for her to die...!

In #245, Spidey recaps everything to the D.A., but the latter doesn't want to help Spidey find Lefty Donovan. Of course, he would help the Avengers, but...

Hm intriguing character.

Spidey doesn't want the link between the GG and Norman to come out, since it would ruin Harry's life. He's also worried about the HG knowing his secret identity... Somehow, I doubt it, though. But I hope he does, for the drama.

At the Hobgoblin's gay little holiday house, Lefty mixes chemicals and might have gotten the result he expected, but more importantly, it exploded to his face.

Those gay ass bitches. With that hair color, I *think* I know who it is, but we'll see. Soon, the entire house explodes to not leave any trace and evidence, since the police/firefighters are sure to come quickly.

In a morgue room, Peter tries to investigate Lefty and is surprised by Betty. Hello, you! I appreciate seeing the cast again.

Cheating arc! Cheating arc! We're so back!

Throuple, throuple...!

Hmm... is there money in that bag, Jameson?

Anyway, when they get to the place...

Hahaha. Silly Betty.

It isn't long before Peter gets lost in MJ's pretty eyes... then remembers he's got a lady already. Poly, poly!!!!

You're polyamorous, Peter! It's simple!

Then we get a three weeks time skip. Three weeks is enough for Lefty to come back to his senses, leave the hospital and put on the Hobgoblin costume.

In this house, we appreciate manboobs.

Unbeknownst to him, someone's watching him and his future performance.

Spidey goes to see Snider, who does that thing I love where he unsubtly gives the file to Spidey. And that's how Spidey figures Lefty isn't the HG, at least, not the one he's looking for. However, one HG specifically asks for Peter to fight him in midtown.

The fight is short, but very well done. Of course, the one under the mask is Lefty, and when Spidey asks him who's his boss...

Lefty's soon propelled into a wall and dies.

Hmm!

[byneddiedingo]

Lindsay Duncan, Jeff Fahey, and Kim Delaney in Body Parts (Eric Red, 1991)

Cast: Jeff Fahey, Lindsay Duncan, Kim Delaney, Zakes Mokae, Brad Dourif, John Walsh, Paul Ben-Victor, Peter Murnik. Screenplay: Patricia Herskovic, Joyce Taylor, Eric Red, Norman Snider, based on a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Cinematography: Theo van de Sande. Production design: Bill Brodie. Editing: Anthony Redman. Music: Loek Dikker. 

How can a movie with a car chase, a fight in a barroom, and an abundance of gore turn out so dull? Body Parts is based on an old trope, that of severed members taking on a life of their own. Adaptations of W.W. Jacobs's 1902 story "The Monkey's Paw" are so numerous they have a Wikipedia page of their own and Maurice Renard's 1920 novel Les Mains d'Orlac, about a concert pianist who receives the transplanted hands of a murderer, has been filmed several times, including Robert Wiene's 1924 silent The Hands of Orlac and Karl Freund's 1935 Mad Love, starring Peter Lorre. The many adaptations of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein also play on the notion of reanimated body parts. But it's not that the idea behind Eric Red's movie has been done to death, so to speak, it's that Red and the various screenwriters who worked on the movie find so little new and interesting to do with it. It's adapted from a 1965 novel, Choice Cuts, by the writing team known as Boileau-Narcejac, who provided the source material for some much better movies: Diabolique (aka Les Diaboliques, Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955) and Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958). The acting isn't bad. As Bill Chrushank, a psychiatrist who receives the arm of a murderer after losing his own in an auto accident, Jeff Fahey does a solid job of suggesting the ways the transplant brings out the worst in what may have been his own latent tendencies to violence. Lindsay Duncan plays the surgeon who does the transplant as a cold-blooded scientist with just a touch of hauteur that turns malevolent when her breakthrough technique is threatened. Brad Dourif overacts a little as the artist who receives the other arm and finds that it actually feeds his imagination and produces darkly disturbing paintings that sell. And Kim Delaney does what she can with the role of Chrushank's wife, who bears the brunt of his emotional transformation. But Red's direction never builds suspense, giving us time to anticipate the shocks we expect the material to provide. There's also a completely unearned "happy ending" that saps any lingering tension from what has gone before. 

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"Alais Lavoie Fined $100 Or 3 Months," Kingston Whig-Standard. June 25, 1943. Page 3. ---- Alais Lavole, Ottawa, was fined $100 and costs or three months in jail, when convicted in city police court this morning of being in possession of stolen goods, the property of Peters' Feed Store. He was in company with Ivanhoe Lambert, Ottawa, and Adelaid Goodreaux, Hull, when they were arrested for theft of money from the Peters' Store. Lambert was sentenced to two years in Kingston Penitentiary and Goodreaux was given one year in reformatory. Both swore that Lavoie was not with them when the store was robbed and knew nothing of their actions.

Magistrate J. B. Garvin said he would be considerate in his sentence as Lavoie's wife had recently given birth to a child and that Lavole had a position in Ottawa.

Remanded Reginald Bell, 9 Redan Street, will get a chance to catch up on lost sleep during the weekend while waiting in custody for trial on a charge of failing to attend regular parades of the 2nd Reserve Battalion P.W.O.R. He arrived late in city police court this morning when he was up for trial and explained to the magistrate that he had slept in. He was remanded in custody until Monday.

Alice North, 29 York Street, and Jeanette Veneotte, no fixed address, were remanded sine die on vagrancy charges.

Charges Dismissed On the advice of Acting Crown Attorney, H. A. McNeill, charges against Henry Pople, 56 Concession Street, for failing to make his child attend school were dismissed. The acting crown council said there was not sufficient evidence to warrant conviction. Kenneth Snider, 491 Rideau Street, was fined $1 and costs for failing to make his son attend school.

Norman Sudds, 27 Hickson Avenue, was fined $5 and costs for stealing a bicycle, the property of James Farrely.

Clifford Smith, 27 Charles St., was fined $8 for speeding and Alvin McNamee, 56 Bay Street, was fined $18 for speeding over the war measures limit. Thomas Jenman, Ordnance Street, was fined $10 and costs for being intoxicated.

[cinesludge]

Movie #32 of 2021: Dead Ringers

Claire Niveau: “I've been around a bit. I've seen some creepy things in the movie business. This is the most disgusting thing that's ever happened to me.”

Elliot Mantle: “I doubt that.”

[davidosu87]

This is another film that was selected for Movie Club Challenge over on The Podcast Under the Stairs. It was a blindspot for me in David Cronenberg's filmography and I'm glad I knocked this one off. It is an amazing performance from Jeremy Irons and just a great look at depressing look at these two characters descending into madness. What are your thoughts on this movie?

[brokehorrorfan]

Scream Factory has revealed the specs for its Body Parts Blu-ray, which releases on January 28. The 1991 horror-thriller is available for pre-order for $22.99 on Amazon.

Produced by Frank Mancuso Jr. (Friday the 13th franchise), the film is directed by Eric Red (Bad Moon) from a script he co-wrote with Norman Snider (Dead Ringers), based on the novel Choice Cuts by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Jeff Fahey, Kim Delaney, Brad Dourif, and Zakes Mokae star.

Read on for the special features.

Special features:

Audio commentary with director/co-writer Eric Red (new)

Interview with director Eric Red (new)

Interview with actor Paul Ben-Victor (new)

Interview with actor Peter Murnik (new)

Interview with editor Anthony Redman (new)

Deleted gore footage with optional commentary by director Eric Red

Theatrical trailer

TV spots

Still gallery

Bill Chrushank is a criminal psychologist who loses his arm and nearly his life in a grisly car accident. A daring medical operation follows, in which a donor's arm is successfully grafted onto Bill's body. But after the operation, the arm starts to take on a violent life of its own, striking out against Bill's wife and children. Consumed by fears about his dangerous behavior, Bill is driven to learn the donor's identity – and makes a horrifying discovery that delivers him into a world of unimaginable terror. 

[mrgordo82]

The Cronenberg Chronicles continues with this crucial slice of sci-fi Dystopia, the short film "Secret Weapons," courtesy of the Canadian anthology series, "Programme X"...

https://mrgordo82.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-cronenberg-chronicles-pt-4.html

[80smovies]

[wlwanakin]

SEPARATION CAN BE A TERRIFYING THING.

sabédala + dead ringers

queen’s peril by ek johnston / cronenberg on cronenberg by david cronenberg and chris rodley / the phantom menace (1999) dir. george lucas / dead ringers (1988) dir. david cronenberg / queen’s shadow by ek johnston / dead ringers screenplay by norman snider and david cronenberg / queen’s hope by ek johnston

[orpheuslament]

Dead Ringers, David Cronenberg & Norman Snider

[givemearmstopraywith]

David Cronenberg and Norman Snider, Dead Ringers

[2amwakeupcall]

Last month my sister and I drove all the way from California, where I was finishing college, to my home in Kentucky. On the way, we stopped at many landmarks and national parks, and each day we selected a few songs that we felt represented that day. This is the resulting playlist.

Day 1: California/Joshua Tree

1 Los Barrachos (I Don't Have Any Hope Left, But the Weather is Nice) - Car Seat Headrest 2 Speedway at Nazareth - Mark Knopfler 3 Where The Streets Have No Name - Remastered - U2 4 Highwomen - The Highwomen 5 I-94 W (832 Mi) - Car Seat Headrest 6 Shenandoah - Paul Robeson

Day 2: Arizona/Grand Canyon

7 Route 66 - Chuck Berry 8 Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival 9 Big Country - Instrumental - Béla Fleck 10 Parking Lot Pirouette - Amanda Shires 11 Next Go 'Round - Old Crow Medicine Show

Day 3: Arizona/Painted Desert

12 Take It Easy - 2013 Remaster - Eagles 13 Hope the High Road - Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit 14 455 Rocket (Revival Outtake) - Gillian Welch 15 Moving - John Fullbright 16 America - Simon & Garfunkel 17 Kentucky, 1988 - Kelsey Waldon

Day 4: Colorado/Mesa Verde

18 Illegal Smile - John Prine 19 You're Running Wild - The Louvin Brothers 20 Going Down the Road Carrying a Load of Heartaches - Rusty Kershaw 21 Shades - The Devil Makes Three 22 Unwed Fathers (feat. Margo Price) - John Prine

Day 5: New Mexico/Santa Fe

23 Dissect the Bird (Live) - John Craigie 24 Snowin' On Raton - Townes Van Zandt 25 Homeward Bound - Simon & Garfunkel 26 D.B. Cooper - Todd Snider

Day 6: Texas/Oklahoma

27 Sweet Amarillo - Old Crow Medicine Show 28 Tennessee Bound - Old Crow Medicine Show 29 Cotton Fields - Creedence Clearwater Revival 30 My Oklahoma Home - Bruce Springsteen 31 All the Time In the World - John Fullbright 32 So Long, It's Been Good to Know Yuh (Dusty Old Dust) - Woody Guthrie

Day 7: Arkansas/Memphis

33 Arkansas Traveller - Square Peg Rounders 34 Tom Ames' Prayer - Steve Earle 35 Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again - Bob Dylan 36 Child of the Mississippi - Old Crow Medicine Show 37 Ginseng Sullivan - Norman Blake

Day 8: Nashville/Home

38 East Nashville Skyline - Todd Snider 39 Darkness - Pinegrove 40 Eight More Miles To Louisville - Grandpa Jones 41 My Old Kentucky Home, Goodnight - John Prine