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The Elephant Man (1980)
scary, or is it just me
i am so glad i read lots of comments on this movie particularly the ones that hit the nail with me...i read reviews on this film,beautiful,heart wrenching, moving,is it just me i thought,the best review i read on here was "its not black and white", "its black and grey" I'm haunted by this film, yes it got me interested,but it also put me off living, sleeping and eating for about a month, till the vision went away.........so i guess you could say job well done...don't get me wrong its a brilliant movie,but to me its horror,but it also got me interested in the subject,apparently he was a famous icon in 1900 england and yet before the film no one was really any the wiser,i also read that the mentioned Joseph Merrick wasn't as dumb as it seemed stories of him renting out a shop to show himself off to make money from his own appearance,so a keen business brain too,i too have seen the allegedly real cap of his,they had an ELEPHANT MAN exhibition in Madame Tussuad's in Blackpool,why i went i don't know cause i knew it would throw me for a while but all the same i went...recreating the dark streets of old London town, very romantic, and there he was in the corner in all his waxed glory, bloody terrifying,the one thing that sticks with me on a lighter note is English comedian frank skinner had done routine talking about the elephant man and was saying how while watching the movie he noticed that he didn't look like an elephant but his head looked more like fresh ginger,but obviously it would be bad business to be paraded around various cities as the "AMAZING GINGER MAN"
Devils of Darkness (1965)
awful
this movie was shown on the b.b.c.last night immediately after clint eastwoods brilliant ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, it was late ,eyes were drooping,thought a bit of horror would go down well,
what a shocker (in the worse sense), with it being filmed in 1965 you automatically expect A HAMMER PRODUCTION
*****THIS IS NOT A HAMMER PRODUCTION******* and boy can you tell, the acting is wooden,the women are not bad but certainly not the seductive,voluptuous type were are use to in HAMMER FILMS and the plot basically just silly and to be frank nothing really happens, needless to say it was the longest hour and a half of my life, well,
tiredness got the better of me, if it was a good film i would have stuck it out, but, the awfulness took its toll and the off button swiftly was pressed.
did this film give me nightmares ? YES but once i fell asleep i was o.k.
watch this at your peril.............. as my mum would say "wouldn,t frighten the cat"
The Shawshank Redemption (1994)
this is it
this has been said so many times before i may be mad watching this at alow ebb this film works for heart and soul of the individual watching this film is utter perfection and yet immediately after watching this i watched EDUCATING RITA now call me mad but i found these films quite similar in a way that RITA is also a prisoner trapped by her life surroundings wanting to become educated her motto as well is GET BUSY LIVING OR GET BUSY DYING back to shawshank this film is as i said pure perfection if you havent seen it WHY ?