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"Gooble gobble!" Or, if you're one of the Ramones, "Gabba gabba we accept you, we accept you, one of us!"

Yeah, as if their ironic facial hair wasn't bad enough, now this. That's one of the reasons why I always say that time is the only real judge.

It's my favorite of Hitch's England movies. Your post makes me wonder when I first saw it. I might have caught it on AMC (way back when) or TCM but if not there, it must have been on DVD. That is a weird reaction. I would think that people going to see Vertigo aren't really part of the average...

Notorious is my favorite of those movies. I'd put Rebecca and Spellbound at about the same level. They're fine movies but there not at the top of Hitch's filmography.

Oddly, I just watched Rebecca today and while I like the movie, it still like it's five hours long. I think it's Hitchcock's longest movie (North By Northwest might be longer but that movie moves like a rocket) and it feels like it. Out of that old Criterion box, I prefer Rebecca to The 39 Steps...

I realize time has blunted their impact but those are pretty sick movies to show to kids. Sounds like a cool teacher. :laugh:

Where do you live, 1985? :)

It's like they wanted a classier horror movie so they spent more money. For me, the increased production values took away what I like about the usual Universal horror movies so I'll take the B movie any day of the week. As Matt points out though, it is a good looking movie with excellent sets &...

Yeah, I'd expect a bigger discount on Amazon eventually but that sucker will still run in the neighborhood of $50 or $60. Although it must have alot of info per movie if the book runs 500 page and only focuses on 8 movies. I just noticed that Tom Weaver also wrote a book called "The Creature...

I only have the revised edition. The first one was released in 1990 and the revised edition was released in 2007. In the 17 years between editions, my guess is that they managed to gather some new interviews & information, made corrections, etc. That being said, I doubt it's anything that major...

Forgive the pun but yeah, it's a monster. I would read it in chunks between other books (since it goes movie by movie, it can be broken up) but it probably took me at least 6 months to get through it all. During last year's HTF horror movie challenge, I watched a ton of Universal horror movies...

I haven't read Of Gods And Monsters but based on the preview, they look pretty similar in terms of approach except that it covers basically just the 1930's. Personally, I have a soft spot for all the Universal movies made during the war years (even the awful ones :) ) but I guess it all depends...

Since the topic is Universal monsters, I have to recommend a book called "Universal Horrors: The Studio's Classic Films 1931 - 1946" by Tom Weaver, Michael Brunas & John Brunas. It's from a small company so the book is on the pricier side (though it's currently discounted to about $37 on Amazon)...

I always like to say that any movie that has Richard Deacon wearing a pith helmet is worth watching.

It's charming that the swamp in The Mummy's Ghost was in Massachusetts but it's now somehow down on the bayou.

You're probably right that it's somehow more plausible (probably because a mummy's natural surrounding is a sand dune) but I love seeing the Chaney Mummy walking the streets of the Universal backlot. No doubt it was all due to the budget dictating that they wouldn't be going to a desert but I...

Yeah, there were parts that I loved and parts that I wished were better.

I don't have The Force Awakens memorized like I do other Star Wars movies but I think Finn claims to have inside knowledge which will help them disable the base (though he's just going to rescue Rey) rather than knowing the location of the planet. That being said, my logic problem with that part...

I didn't take it that way either.

Only Alfred Hitchcock could have made a movie as good as Foreign Correspondent and, in my opinion, still have it not be one of his absolute best movies. He's a victim of his own greatness. :) The plane crash and sinking is a great sequence that still works well today. Considering what was going...

I saw Citizen Kane multiple times on TV around the time of its 50th anniversary and I remember liking it. I was a horror movie loving little kid and so I watched Psycho and Hitchcock movies & his TV show and they were a gateway to a lifelong enjoyment of older movies. Fortunately, that coincided...

I remember that my 10th or 11th grade English teacher showed the Polanski version of MacBeth to my class. She must have given some warning about the content but I imagine that she'd be thrown in jail if she showed that movie to kids today. :) To her credit, it was a good move to show it because...

I found her relatable which, considering I'm twice the character's age and how much of a mess she is, is probably not good but I'm just going to ignore that. :laugh: That relatability did make me like the character and sympathize with her though. The Breakfast Club may work for you as an adult...

I've never done alot of blind buys but when I do, I actually watch them pretty quickly if only to see if I like the movie. My backlog of unwatched discs almost entirely consists of movies I've seen before. I'm getting real close to finally getting through them all though... of course, it's been...