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Okay, at some point I’m going to write a more thorough review, but I have to post about this while it’s still spooky season. 

Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a truly fantastic movie. I was reluctant to give it a shot because Leslie Nielsen was central to the kind of comedy that I found uncomfortably awkward as a kid, but he’s so great in this! He does one of the best Lugosi-esque Dracula accents I’ve ever heard, and he has the confidence and sincerity necessary to pull off portraying a comedic Dracula. There are a few jokes in the movie that fall flat for me (and of course ymmv), but overall there’s a blend of silliness and wit that I found to be fun as hell. 

The whole cast gives superb performances (special shout-out to Peter MacNicol as my favorite Renfield since Dwight Frye in 1931), the sets have a charmingly theatrical feeling, and the stunt work (for the over-the-top physical gags and dance scenes) is brilliant. Is the movie perfect? Of course not. But it’s an earnest love letter to the decades of Dracula media that precede it, and everyone making it clearly appreciates that source material. (When setting your expectations: it’s more akin to Young Frankenstein than it is to Robin Hood: Men in Tights.)

I can’t oversell the spirit of this movie. It’s campy, it’s fun, and it’s sincere. There’s no contempt for the genre, no modern referential jokes to pull you out of the period, and no one in the cast is acting like they’re too cool to be in a Dracula comedy. I can rattle off a lot of potential reasons that this movie didn’t find an audience when it came out, but I think that anyone who generally enjoys Dracula adaptations and wants to watch a comedy should give Dracula: Dead and Loving It a chance.

[brokehorrorfan]

The Universal Classic Monsters Collection will be released on 4K Ultra HD (with Digital) in digibook packaging on October 3 via Universal. Designed by Tristan Eaton, the eight-disc set is limited to 5,500.

It includes 1931's Dracula, 1931’s Frankenstein, 1932’s The Mummy, 1933’s The Invisible Man, 1935’s The Bride of Frankenstein, 1941’s The Wolf Man, 1943’s Phantom of the Opera, and 1954’s Creature from the Black Lagoon.

All eight films are presented in 4K with HDR10. The Spanish version of Dracula is also included. Special features are listed below, where you can also see more of the packaging.

Dracula is directed by Tod Browning (Freaks) and written by Garrett Fort (Frankenstein), based on Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. Bela Lugosi, David Manners, Helen Chandler, Dwight Frye, and Edward Van Sloan star.

Dracula special features:

Alternate score version by Philip Glass

Dracula (1931) Spanish version directed by George Melford

The Road to Dracula

Lugosi: The Dark Prince

Dracula: The Restoration

Dracula Archives

Monster Tracks

Trailer gallery

Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.

Frankenstein is directed by James Whale (The Indivisible Man) and written by Garrett Fort (Dracula) and Francis Edward Faragoh (Little Caesar), based on Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel. Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, John Boles, and Boris Karloff star.

Frankenstein special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer

Audio commentary by historian Sir Christopher Frayling

The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made A Monster

Karloff: The Gentle Monster

Universal Horror

Frankenstein Archives

Boo!: A Short Film

100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics

Monster Tracks

Trailer gallery

Dr. Frankenstein dares to tamper with life and death by creating a human monster out of lifeless body parts.

The Mummy is directed by Karl Freund (Dracula) and written by John L. Balderston (Dracula). Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Edward Van Sloan, and Arthur Byron star.

The Mummy special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Paul M. Jensen

Audio commentary by Rick Baker, Scott Essman, Steve Haberman, Bob Burns, and Brent Armstrong

Mummy Dearest: A Horror Tradition Unearthed

He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce

Unraveling the Legacy of The Mummy

The Mummy Archives

100 Years of Universal: The Carl Laemmle Era

Trailer gallery

An Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes is his long-lost princess.

The Invisible Man is directed by James Whale (Frankenstein) and written by R.C. Sherriff (Goodbye, Mr. Chips), based on H.G. Wells’ 1897 novel. Gloria Stuart, Claude Rains, William Harrigan, Dudley Digges, and Una O'Connor star.

The Invisible Man special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Rudy Behlmer

Now You See Him: The Invisible Man Revealed

Production Photographs

100 Years of Universal: Unforgettable Characters

Trailer gallery

A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.

The Bride of Frankenstein is directed by James Whale (Frankenstein) and written by William Hurlbut. Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, and Elsa Lanchester star.

The Bride of Frankenstein special features: 

Audio commentary by film historian Scott MacQueen

She’s Alive! Creating The Bride of Frankenstein

The Bride Of Frankenstein Archive

100 Years of Universal: Restoring the Classics

Trailer gallery

Dr. Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.

The Wolf Man is directed by George Waggner (Operation Pacific) and written by Curt Siodmak (I Walked with a Zombie). Claude Rains, Warren William, Ralph Bellamy, Patric Knowles, Bela Lugosi, and Lon Chaney Jr. star.

The Wolf Man special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Tom Weaver

Monster by Moonlight

The Wolf Man: From Ancient Curse to Modern Myth

Pure in Heart: The Life and Legacy of Lon Chaney Jr.

He Who Made Monsters: The Life and Art of Jack Pierce

The Wolf Man Archives

100 Years of Universal: The Lot

Trailer gallery

Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.

Phantom of the Opera is directed by Arthur Lubin and written by Eric Taylor (The Ghost of Frankenstein) and Samuel Hoffenstein (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). Claude Rains, Nelson Eddy, Susanna Foster, and Edgar Barrier star.

Phantom of the Opera special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Scott MacQueen

The Opera Ghost: A Phantom Unmasked

Production Photographs

100 Years of Universal: The Lot

Theatrical trailer

An acid-scarred composer rises from the Paris sewers to boost his favorite opera understudy’s career.

Creature from the Black Lagoon is directed by Jack Arnold (The Incredible Shrinking Man) and written by Harry Essex and Arthur A. Ross. Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Richard Denning, Antonio Moreno, Nestor Paiva, and Whit Bissell star.

Creature from the Black Lagoon special features:

Audio commentary by film historian Tom Weaver

Back to the Black Lagoon

Production Photographs

100 Years of Universal: The Lot

Trailer gallery

A group of scientists try to capture a prehistoric creature luring in the depths of the Amazonian jungle and bring it back to civilization for study.

Pre-order Universal Classic Monsters Collection.

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

November 13, 2023

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 13, 2023

In a speech Saturday in Claremont, New Hampshire, and then in his Veterans Day greeting yesterday on social media, former president Trump echoed German Nazis.

“In honor of our great Veterans on Veteran’s Day [sic] we pledge to you that we will root out the Communists, Marxists, Racists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our Country, lie, steal, and cheat on Elections, and will do anything possible, whether legally or illegally, to destroy America, and the American Dream…. Despite the hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our country, we will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”    

The use of language referring to enemies as bugs or rodents has a long history in genocide because it dehumanizes opponents, making it easier to kill them. In the U.S. this concept is most commonly associated with Hitler and the Nazis, who often spoke of Jews as “vermin” and vowed to exterminate them.  

The parallel between MAGA Republicans’ plans and the Nazis had other echoes this weekend, as Trump’s speech came the same day that Charlie Savage, Maggie Haberman, and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times reported that Trump and his people are planning to revive his travel ban, more popularly known as the “Muslim ban,” which refused entry to the U.S. by people from some majority-Muslim nations, and to reimpose the pandemic-era restrictions he used during the coronavirus pandemic to refuse asylum claims—it is not only legal to apply for asylum in the United States, but it is a guaranteed right under the Refugee Act of 1980—by claiming that immigrants bring infectious diseases like tuberculosis.

They plan mass deportations of unauthorized people in the U.S., rounding them up with specially deputized law enforcement officers and National Guard soldiers contributed by Republican-dominated states. Because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) doesn’t have the space for such numbers of people, Trump’s people plan to put them in “sprawling camps” while they wait to be expelled. Trump refers to this as “the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.” 

Trump’s people would screen visa applicants to eliminate those with ideas they consider undesirable, and would kick out those here temporarily for humanitarian reasons, including Afghans who came here after the 2021 Taliban takeover. Trump ally Steve Bannon and his likely attorney general, Mike Davis, expect to deport 10 million people. 

Trump’s advisors also intend to challenge birthright citizenship, the principle that anyone born in the U.S. is a citizen. This principle was established by the Fourteenth Amendment and acknowledged in the 1898 United States v. Wong Kim Ark Supreme Court decision during a period when native-born Americans were persecuting immigrants from Asia. That hatred resulted in Wong Kim Ark, an American-born child of Chinese immigrants, being denied reentry to the U.S. after a visit to China. Wong sued, arguing that the Fourteenth Amendment established birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court agreed. The children of immigrants to the U.S.—no matter how unpopular immigration was at the time—were U.S. citizens, entitled to all the rights and immunities of citizenship, and no act of Congress could overrule a constitutional amendment.

“Any activists who doubt President Trump’s resolve in the slightest are making a drastic error: Trump will unleash the vast arsenal of federal powers to implement the most spectacular migration crackdown,” Trump immigration hardliner Stephen Miller told the New York Times reporters. “The immigration legal activists won’t know what’s happening.”

In addition to being illegal and unconstitutional, such plans to strip the nation of millions of workers would shatter the economy, sparking sky-high prices, especially of food.

For a long time, Trump’s increasingly fascist language hasn’t drawn much attention from the press, perhaps because the frequency of his outrageous statements has normalized them. When Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in 2016 referred to many Trump supporters as “deplorables,” a New York Times headline read: “Hillary Clinton Calls Many Trump Backers ‘Deplorables,’ and G.O.P.* Pounces.” Yet Trump’s threat to root out “vermin” at first drew a New York Times headline saying, “Trump Takes Veterans Day Speech in a Very Different Direction.” (This prompted Mark Jacobs of Stop the Presses to write his own headlines about disasters, including my favorite: “John Wilkes Booth Takes Visit to the Theater in a Very Different Direction.”)  

Finally, it seems, Trump’s explicit use of Nazi language, especially when coupled with his threats to establish camps, has woken up at least some headline writers. Forbes accurately headlined yesterday’s story: “Trump Compares Political Foes to ‘Vermin’ On Veterans Day—Echoing Nazi Propaganda.” 

Republicans have refused to disavow Trump’s language. When Kristen Welker of Meet the Press asked Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel: “Are you comfortable with this language coming from the [Republican] frontrunner,” McDaniel answered: “I am not going to comment on candidates and their campaign messaging.” Others have remained silent.

Trump’s Veterans Day “vermin” statement set up his opponents as enemies of the country by blurring them together as “Communists, Marxists, Racists, and Radical Left Thugs.” Conflating liberals with the “Left” has been a common tactic in the U.S. right-wing movement since 1954, when L. Brent Bozell and William F. Buckley Jr. tried to demonize liberals—those Americans of all parties who wanted the government to regulate business, provide Social Security and basic welfare programs, fund roads and hospitals, and protect civil rights—as wannabe socialists.

In the United States there is a big difference between liberals and the political “Left.” Liberals believe in a society based in laws designed to protect the individual, arrived at by a government elected by the people. Political parties disagree about policy and work to change the laws, but they support the system itself. Most Americans, including Democrats and traditional Republicans, are liberals. 

Both “the Left,” and the “Right” want to get rid of the system. Those on the Left believe that its creation was so warped either by wealth or by racism that it must be torn down and rebuilt. Those on the Right believe that most people don’t know what’s good for them, making democracy dangerous. They think the majority of people must be ruled by their betters, who will steer them toward productivity and religion. The political Left has never been powerful in the U.S.; the political Right has taken over the Republican Party.

The radical right pushes the idea that their opponents are “Radical Left Thugs” trying to tear down the system because they know liberal policies like Social Security, Medicare, environmental protection, reproductive rights, gun safety legislation, and so on, are actually quite popular. This weekend, for example, Trump once again took credit for signing into law the Veterans Choice health care act, which was actually sponsored by Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and signed by President Barack Obama in 2014. 

The Right’s draconian immigration policies ignore the reality that presidents since Ronald Reagan have repeatedly asked Congress to rewrite the nation’s immigration laws, only to have Republicans tank such measures to keep the hot button issue alive, knowing it turns out their voters. Both President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas have begged Congress to fund more immigration courts and border security and to provide a path to citizenship for those brought to the U.S. as children. They, along with Vice President Kamala Harris, have tried to slow the influx of undocumented migrants by working to stabilize the countries from which such migrants primarily come. 

Such a plan does not reflect “hatred and anger of the Radical Left Lunatics who want to destroy our country.” It reflects support for a system in which Congress, not a dictator, writes the laws. 

A video ABC News published tonight from Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis’s plea deal makes the distinction between liberal democracy and a far-right dictatorship clear. In it, Ellis told prosecutors that former White House deputy chief of staff and social media coordinator Dan Scavino told her in December 2020 that Trump was simply not going to leave the White House, despite losing the presidential election. 

When Ellis lamented that their election challenges had lost, Scavino allegedly answered: “‘Well, we don’t care, and we’re not going to leave.” Ellis replied: “‘What do you mean?” Scavino answered: “The boss is not going to leave under any circumstances. We are just going to stay in power.” When Ellis responded “Well, it doesn’t quite work that way, you realize?” he allegedly answered: “We don’t care.”

*The GOP, or Grand Old Party, is an old nickname for the Republican Party. 

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Maggie Haberman on Trump 2024: Rhetoric is 'much more apocalyptic'

COMMENTARY:

It is a sign from God that all things Trump and January6 are evil  by the destruction of the Key Bridge within the week that Trump began saluting the January 6 traitors singing the National Anthem at his campaign  rallies. and selling God Bless the USA Bibles. Take Heed  Visualize Whirled Peas There is a triangulation between Steve Bannon, Pat Buchanan and George Lincoln Rockwell you need to include in  the scpanse of your net, And then there is a useful triangulation to make with  Steve Bannon, George Lincoln Rockwell and the US Navy, And then therre is the interesting triangulation of Steve Bannon, Bob Woodward and Deep Throat. Bannon and Woodward are drawing from a common source of intelligence coming out of the US Navy,  Deep Throat was another triangulation of Mark Feld, a White House staffer at the level of Pat Buchanan and the Navy Mess, which was operating as a listening post for a rouge Naval intelligence cabal with an unhealthy compliance with certain ideological ambitions of the Weather Underground,, PBS is coming up with a bioptic about William >F. Buckley who was the master mind of the John Birch Society’s strategy for overthrowing the US Government in the manner of  the War of Rebellion and January 6,  Buckley launched a withe supremacist insurgency to defeat and destroy neo-liberalism, By neo-liberalism , I men, specifically, the New Deal and Eisenhower’s 1956 Presidential Platoform and elect a clone of Senator Joe McCarthy President and make him Dictator. Trump the fulfillment of that cloning, Trump is like Howdy Dooty with  Steve Bannon pulling the strings, The Nazification Putin is talking about was imported from the Nazification of Wall Street by Donald T. Regan from the Oval Office. I though Deep Throat went away with Nixon and the transformation of Yippies into Yuppies and been cycled out of the Navy, Well, Deep Throat reappeared in 1998 with Woodward’s book about Clinton during impeachment,  and was active all the way through successive administratins until COVID 19 closed down the Navy Mess, This may have pushed Humpty off the wall, because Woodward hasn’t been able to put him back together again and had to team up with Bob Costa to actually do  journalism, Understanding Trump through Hitler is appealing, but a mistake, Undersanding Trump through Bannon and Henry Cabot Lodge and John Bolton, as an element of William F. Buckley’s Nazification insurgency, Now, the issue I began with  the sign from God, I am absolutely serious about, The psychological agitation arising from the deliberate social and political polarization generated by Newt Gingrich’s GOPAC political strategy is driving the extreme weather around the Bible Belt, The Spirit of God from Genesis 1:2 still hovers over the water and it is a planetary force right out of Forbidden Plangent and the Tempest. One of Jesus’s ambitions for Jerusalem was for people to employ the Holy Spirit aas a house hold appliance to exploit the benefits of a tame Spirit of God in the house. Literally, The power to which Jesus refers in Mark 5:25 - 34 is the Spirit of God, Without the Holy Spirit, the Spirt of God can become like the brooms in The sorcery’s   Apprentice,.. When the Spirit of God is evoked without the agency of the Holy Spirit to keep  it on the bit, a spiritual vacuum can develop that allows Murphy’s Law total expression, Elohim the verb can intervene in history without violating Free Will by nudging the insignificant into a deliberate communication for those who have eyes to see and ears to ehar, The spiritual toxins associated with William F. Buckley’s Nazification is doing to the  weather ecology in the Bible Belt what saluting the January 6 prisioners singing the Star Panged Banner did to the Key Bridge, And what the Key Bridge as a sign from God illustrates wi what was going on in Judea in the spiritual realm as recorded in Revelation, William F. Buckley, Steve Bannon, Nazification, It’s that simple.

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Antonio Velardo shares: Trump Shakes Up His Georgia Legal Team Ahead of Atlanta Booking by Richard Fausset, Maggie Haberman and Danny Hakim

By Richard Fausset, Maggie Haberman and Danny Hakim Mr. Trump is hiring Steve Sadow, a veteran criminal defense lawyer in Atlanta who has taken on a number of high-profile cases. Published: August 24, 2023 at 07:53AM from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/3uBy2tn via IFTTT

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Fox News host suggests Trump may have leaked audio in classified documents case 

Fox News host Steve Doocy suggested former President Trump may have been behind the leak of an audio recording showing Trump talking about his handling of classified documents.

“You know what? If Trump thinks it’s an exoneration of him, perhaps somebody on his side actually did the leaking to CNN and Maggie Haberman,” Doocy said Tuesday morning.

“That makes sense,” co-host Brian Kilmeade chimed in.

“It does, actually,” Doocy said. “He’s admitting he’s got classified documents.”

On the audio, published first by CNN, Trump is heard discussing classified documents and his disagreements on military policy toward Iran with America’s top general during his time in the White House.

“He said that I wanted to attack Iran, isn’t it amazing?” Trump says on the recording, referring to Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley.

“I have a big pile of papers; this thing just came up. Look. This was him. They presented me this — this is off-the-record, but they presented me this. This was him. This was the Defense Department and him.”

Trump was federally indicted earlier this month in connection to his handling of classified documents. He said Monday night the audio is “actually an exoneration” and accused the Department of Justice of leaking the recording.

“The Deranged Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, working in conjunction with the DOJ & FBI, illegally leaked and ‘spun’ a tape and transcript of me which is actually an exoneration, rather than what they would have you believe,” he said in a post on Truth Social. 

FULL STORY & AUDIO

***Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade, You spineless TV Hosts...

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CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original:   Life Stinks

Año:  1991

Duración: 91 min

País:   Estados Unidos  

Dirección: Mel Brooks

Guion: Mel Brooks, Rudy De Luca, Steve Haberman

Música:  John Morris

Fotografía: Steven Poster

Reparto: Mel Brooks, Lesley Ann Warren, Jeffrey Tambor, Stuart Pankin, Howard Morris, Rudy De Luca, Teddy Wilson, Billy Barty, Carmine Caridi

Productora: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Género: Comedy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102303/

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Dracula Dead and Loving It

+Fun parody/homage. Dazzlingly coloured, mock-grand score.

+Typical oral-anal-sadistic fantasies from hee haw trash like Mel Brooks, Rudy DeLuca and Steve Haberman.

[vintage1981]

Hammer Films Ultimate Collection Blu-ray Review | Cereal At Midnight

In the largest Hammer Films Blu-ray set released to date, Mill Creek Entertainment shines a spotlight on Hammer's collaborations with Columbia Pictures and the wide array of horror, thrillers, crime films, war movies, exploitation films, and swashbuckling adventure movies that the partnership created! Join us we discuss all twenty films and the special features of this ULTIMATE COLLECTION!

Order your Blu-ray box set of 20 Hammer Films HERE: https://amzn.to/3oUhqia

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So long, asshole.

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'Dracula' 90th Anniversary 4K Bluray Steelbook.

Bonus features include:

Dracula (1931) Spanish Version with introduction by Lupita Tovar Kohner

The Road To Dracula

Lugosi: The Dark Prince

Dracula: The Restoration

Monster Tracks

Dracula Archives

Alternate Score by Philip Glass, performed by The Kronos Quartet

Feature Commentary by Film Historian David J Skal

Feature Commentary by Steve Haberman, Screenwriter Of Dracula: Dead And Loving It

Trailer Gallery

On sale for pre-order Thursday September 2 at 12pm UK through Zavvi.

[brokehorrorfan]

I Walked with a Zombie and The Seventh Victim will be released on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD together on October 8 via The Criterion Collection. Katherine Lam designed the cover art for Val Lewton productions.

1943's I Walked with a Zombie is directed by Jacques Tourneur (Cat People) and written by Curt Siodmak (The Wolf Man) and Ardel Wray. James Ellison, Frances Dee, and Tom Conway star.

1943's The Seventh Victim is directed by Mark Robson (Earthquake) and written by DeWitt Bodeen (Cat People) and Charles O'Neal. Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell, and Kim Hunter star.

Both films have been newly restored in 4K with uncompressed monaural soundtracks. Special features are listed below.

Special features:

I Walked with a Zombie audio commentary by film historians Kim Newman and Stephen Jones

The Seventh Victim audio commentary by film historian Steve Haberman

Interview with film historian Imogen Sara Smith

Audio essays from Adam Roche's podcast The Secret History of Hollywood

Shadows in the Dark: The Val Lewton Legacy - 2005 documentary on producer Val Lewton featuring William Friedkin, Guillermo del Toro, George A. Romero, John Landis, Robert Wise, Neil Gaiman, and more

Trailers

Booklet with essays by critics Chris Fujiwara and Lucy Sante

Terror lives in the shadows in a pair of mesmerizingly moody horror milestones conjured from the imagination of Val Lewton, the visionary producer-auteur who turned our fears of the unseen and the unknown into haunting excursions into existential dread. As head of RKO’s B-horror-movie unit during the 1940s, Lewton, working with directors such as Jacques Tourneur and Mark Robson, brought a new sophistication to the genre by wringing chills not from conventional movie monsters but from brooding atmosphere, suggestion, and psychosexual unease. Suffused with ritual, mysticism, and the occult, the poetically hypnotic I Walked with a Zombie and the shockingly subversive The Seventh Victim are still-tantalizing dreams of death that dare to embrace the darkness.

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NEW 2021 1080p HD Masters! THUNDARR THE BARBARIAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES

Run Time             462:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs    MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio       1.33:1, 4 X 3 Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50, BD 25 Special Feature: "Lords of Light: The Story of Thundarr the Barbarian" featurette.

Civilization is cast into ruin when a runaway planet speeds between the Earth and the Moon, unleashing cosmic destruction. Two thousand years later, Earth is reborn from the ashes with a savage landscape, strange creatures and a primitive sense of justice. But, one man fights to spread peace throughout the land: He is Thundarr the Barbarian, and you can own all 21 exciting adventures starring Thundarr and his companions Ookla the Mok and sorceress Princess Ariel. Using their strength, courage and wits, plus Thundarr’s magical Sunsword, they journey from village to village, liberating slaves and battling all kinds of beasts, mutants, wizards, thieves and robots. The future of Earth may be shrouded in darkness, but Thundarr the Barbarian bursts into action as a shining symbol of hope for humanity.

NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4K scan of Original Nitrate Camera Negative! ISLE OF THE DEAD (1945)

Run Time             72:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs    DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1, 4 X 3 Product Color    BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration           BD 25 Special Features: Commentary by Screenwriter/Film Historian Dr. Steve Haberman; Original Theatrical Trailer with Spanish Subtitles

Once you visit the Isle of the Dead, there’s no hope of returning to the land of the living. A small island off the coast of Greece holds a secret so dreadful that once you step onto its soil you must remain there forever. General Pherides (master of horror Boris Karloff) is one such a visitor. Going to the island to honor the grave of his late wife, Pherides discovers that it’s held in the grip of a terrifying plague – a sickness that enters the victim’s mind and drives them insane! Pherides leads the fight against the plague, but then falls prey to it himself. In his delirium, he believes that a woman named Thea (Ellen Drew) is a vorvolaka – a vampire responsible for the deaths. Insanity runs rampant, and grave robbery, premature burial and ghastly vampires are the unspeakable horrors that await on the Isle of the Dead.

NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4K scan of original nitrate Technicolor negatives! THE GREAT CARUSO (1951) Run Time             109:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1, 4 X 3 Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50 Special Features: Documentary "Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods"; Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Bravo, Enrico! Bravo, Mario! Renowned tenor Mario Lanza portrays his longtime singing idol Enrico Caruso in the crowd-pleasing musical that was 1951’s #4 box-office hit. Suggested by Dorothy Caruso’s biography of her husband, The Great Caruso rings out with aural pleasures (27 musical selections) and shines with the grandeur of a life lovingly refracted through the Hollywood biopic lens. The music (by Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi and more) emphasizes works most closely associated with Caruso. The story, spanning Caruso’s Naples boyhood to worldwide acclaim and tragedy-stricken final performance, touches on the down-to-earth character traits that spread the singer’s fame beyond the black-tie society of Metropolitan Opera connoisseurs. Nominated for three 1951 Academy Awards®, the movie won for Best Sound Recording.

NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4k Scan of Original Camera Negative! CROSSFIRE (1947)

Run Time             85:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs    MONO - English, DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English Aspect Ratio       1.37:1, 4 X 3 Product Color    BLACK & WHITE Disc Configuration           BD 50 Special Features: Commentary by Film Historians Alain Silver and James Ursini, with Audio Interview Excerpts of Director Edward Dmytryk; Featurette "Crossfire: Hate Is Like A Gun"

Years of police work have taught Detective Finlay that where there’s crime, there’s motive. But he finds no usual motive when investigating a man’s death by beating. The man was killed because he was a Jew. “Hate,” Finlay says, “is like a gun.” Robert Young portrays Finlay, Robert Mitchum is a laconic army sergeant assisting in the investigation of G.I. suspects, and Robert Ryan plays a vicious bigot in a landmark film noir nominated for five Academy Awards®, including Best Picture. Edward Dmytryk (Murder, My Sweet) directs, draping the genre’s stylistic backdrops and flourishes around a topic rarely before explored in films: anti-Semitism in the U.S. Here, Hollywood takes aim at injustice...and catches bigotry in a Crossfire.

NEW 2021 1080p HD Master Sourced from 4K scan of preservation separation masters! DAMN YANKEES (1958) Run Time             111:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs        DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.85:1, 16 X 9 WIDESCREEN Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50 Special Feature: Theatrical Trailer (HD), International Theatrical Trailer (HD)

Step up to the plate for Damn Yankees, the rousing movie of the 1,019-performance Broadway grand slam that imports nearly all the original New York lineup, including Tony® Award-winning stars Gwen Verdon as luscious vamp Lola and Ray Walston as her slyly Satanic boss Applegate. Hollywood’s Tab Hunter suits up as potential lost soul and Washington Senators slugger Joe Hardy, revealing a freewheeling fun side unseen in previous roles. The Pajama Game duo of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross serve up an out-of-the-park home-run score, including “Whatever Lola Wants” and “Heart.

NEW 2021 1080p Masters Sourced from 4K scan of Original Camera Negative! THE BERMUDA DEPTHS (1978)

Run Time             97:00 Subtitles               English SDH Audio Specs    DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 - English, MONO - English Aspect Ratio       1.85:1, 16 X 9 Widescreen (International Theatrical presentation),  1.33:1, 4 X 3 (U.S. Television presentation) Product Color    COLOR Disc Configuration           BD 50 Special Features: Includes Both the 1.33:1 US Broadcast Television Version and the 1.85:1 International Theatrical Version; New Audio Commentary by Author/ Film Historian Amanda Reyes (Are You in the House Alone? A TV Movie Compendium: 1964-1999) and Kindertrauma co-founder Lance Vaughan.

What secret lurks 20,000 feet below the waves in the paranormal realm called the Bermuda Triangle? That’s the question a scientist (Burl Ives), his student (Carl Weathers) and a young man (Leigh McCloskey) haunted by nightmarish memories of his Bermuda childhood ask themselves. The answer involves a beauty (Connie Sellecca) who has sold her soul for eternal youth and a giant sea turtle that leaves death in its wake. Eerie and hypnotic, The Bermuda Depths was produced by Arthur Rankin, Jr. and Jules Bass (The Year Without a Santa Claus), who meld their imaginative fantasy style with the live-action horror genre.

[campaignoutsider]

Campaign Outsider Presidential Bakeoff 2020™ (Part 2)

Campaign Outsider Presidential Bakeoff 2020™ (Part 2)

Itemizing a few deductions now that Joe Biden has concluded his to-be-or-not-to-be-a-candidate interior monologue.

Item: The hardworking staff will be president before Bill de Blasio is

This is just idiotic.

Bad enough that the 2020 Democratic presidential field includes the likes of Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Nowhere), Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Meshuggeneh), and the Bay State’s own Rep. Seth Moulton…

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Winston Churchill's Renegade Spy

by Steve Haberman 

https://www.humanmade.net/books/winston-churchills-renegade-spy

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MBTI Typing Index: INTJ

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP

Damon ALBARN

Penn BADGLEY

Yoshua BENGIO

Kathryn BIGELOW

Pierre BOURDIEU

Sergey BRIN

Vera BRITTAIN

Derren BROWN

Marques BROWNLEE

Albert CAMUS

Ryder CARROLL

Fabiano CARUANA

David CHASE

Brady CORBET

John DEWEY

Stephen DILLANE

Jack DORSEY

Francis DUPUIS-DÉRI

Anthony FAUCI

David FINCHER

Nils FRAHM

Lex FRIDMAN

Alex GARLAND

Masha GESSEN

Michael GOLDMAN

Maggie HABERMAN

Yuval Noah HARARI

Annaka HARRIS

Sam HARRIS

Christopher HITCHENS

Coleman HUGUES

Aldous HUXLEY

William JAMES

Thomas JEFFERSON

Peter JOSEPH

Sarah KENDZIOR

Étienne KLEIN

Stanley KUBRICK

Vladimir Ilyitch LENIN

Ben MCKENZIE

Karl MARX

Angela MERKEL

John Stuart MILL

Siddhartha MUKHERJEE

Angela NAGLE

Steve NASH

Christopher NOLAN

George ORWELL

Ellen PAO

Nic PIZZOLATTO

Gregg POPOVICH

Jesse PRINZ

Evan PUSCHAK

Naval RAVIKANT

Raphaëlle RICCI

Jon RICHARDSON

Alan RICKMAN

Jonas SALK

Roy SCRANTON

Roger SCRUTON

Edward SNOWDEN

Timothy SNYDER

Stephen SONDHEIM

Susan SONTAG

Rory STEWART

Giulio TONONI

Yanis VAROUFAKIS

Jimmy WALES

Ev WILLIAMS

Other types: INFP INFJ ENFP ENFJ INTP INTJ ENTP ENTJ ISTJ ISFJ ESTJ ESFJ ISTP ISFP ESTP ESFP