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« Reply #165 on: October 30, 2009, 10:00:17 AM » |
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# 8 - Dawn of The Dead 6 lists, 114 points, highest ranking # 6 gojikranz, RelaxingDragon
The weapons store featured in the film was never a part of the Monroeville Mall. George A. Romero shot those scenes in a gun shop in downtown Pittsburgh and edited the footage in to make it look like it was a shop in the mall.
Tom Savini chose a friend to play the helicopter zombie because he was notorious for having a low forehead.
In the scene where Roger hits the zombie (played by Tom Savini) with the truck and it leaves a bloody smear on his windshield, the effect was created by Savini throwing himself on the non-moving truck and spitting a mouthful of blood on the windshield.
The skating rink shown in the film was part of the Monroeville Mall. It has since been replaced by a food court.
Many effects were thought of on the spot. Tom Savini created many effects (such as the arm in the blood pressure tester) with no preparations whatsoever.
Tom Savini used the same dummy throughout the course of filming. During that time it was blown up, burnt, shot, and beaten, among other things.
The MPAA had threatened to impose the X rating if George A. Romero didn't make cuts. Romero did not want to cut the film, and he was adamant against an X rating, due to its stigma of hard-core pornography. In the end, Romero was able to persuade his distributors to release the film with no rating, although on all advertising and trailers, there was a disclaimer that in effect read that while there was no explicit sex in the film, the movie was of such a violent nature that no one under 17 would be admitted.
Filming at the Monroeville Mall took place during the winter of 1976-77, with a three week reprieve during December (during which other footage, e.g. the TV studio, was shot). Filming at the mall began around 10 p.m., shortly after the mall closed, and finished at 6 a.m. The mall didn't open until 9, but at 6 the Muzak came on and no one knew how to turn it off.
Zombie actors took photographs of themselves dressed up in full zombie makeup inside a photo booth on the second floor. They then replaced the sample pictures on the front of the booth with the ghoulish ones.
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« Reply #166 on: October 30, 2009, 10:01:47 AM » |
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# 7 - Beetlejuice 7 lists, 116 points, highest ranking # 1 Smoky
After the success of Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Burton was sent several scripts and became disheartened by their lack of imagination and originality. When he was sent Michael McDowell's original script for Beetlejuice, Burton agreed to direct, although Larry Wilson and Warren Skaaren were hired to rewrite it. Beetlejuice was both a financial and critical success, grossing $73.33 million from a budget of $13 million.
Tim Burton originally wanted Sammy Davis Jr., a favorite star of his since childhood, to play the role of Betelgeuse but studio executives didn't like that idea at all.
In the wedding scene, the bride-to-be's dress is a bright red. According to the old rhyme about wedding dress colors, it's "Married in red, better off dead."
During a sequence in Juno's office, a movie theater full of ghosts can be seen through the window. When the film was first released in theaters, the scene created the illusion that the audience were themselves being watched by the ghosts. Among the ghosts in the audience are a red skeleton and a green skeleton (identical to the ones seen in Tim Burton's later movie, Mars Attacks! (1996)), a woman with red hair, and two men in suits and Ray-Ban style sunglasses.
The studio disliked the title Beetle Juice (1988) and wanted to call the film "House Ghosts". As a joke, Tim Burton suggested the name "Scared Sheetless" and was horrified when the studio actually considered using it.
Over the door in the waiting room, the sign reads "No Exit" in the same lettering as the standard "Exit" signs over most doorways, a reference to a play with that title by Jean-Paul Sartre. The play deals with three people who find themselves trapped with one another in a room shortly after they die.
The original script was a horror film, and featured Beetlejuice as a winged, reptilian demon who transformed into a small Middle Eastern man to interact with the Maitlands and the Deetzes. Lydia was a minor character, with her six year old sister Cathy being the Deetz child able to see the Maitlands. Beetlejuice's goal was to kill the Maitlands, rather than frighten them away, and included sequences where he mauled Cathy in the form of a rabid squirrel and tried to rape Lydia. Subsequent script rewrites turned the film into a comedy and toned down Beetlejuice's character into the ghost of an Ebonics-speaking con-artist rather than a demon.
This is Michael Keaton's favorite film of his own.
The title character Beetle Juice is named for a bright red star in the constellation of Orion, Betelgeuse.
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« Reply #167 on: October 30, 2009, 10:03:23 AM » |
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# 6 (Tie) - Shaun of The Dead 7 lists, 117 points, highest ranking # 3 kete
Frequent references are made to Big Al's claim that dogs can't look up. This is a reference to the commentary to the second series of "Spaced" (1999) in which Simon Pegg (Shaun) and Edgar Wright talk about Nick Frost (Ed)'s claim that the difficulty in shooting a scene with a dog was due to the fact that dogs can't look up.
The zombie that Shaun (Simon Pegg) and Ed (Nick Frost) find in their garden is Mary, the checkout girl from the film's credit montage. A short story detailing her transformation into one of the undead was featured in issue 1384 of the classic British sci-fi comic 2000AD. The issue went on sale 7 April 2004. The strip was called "There's Something About Mary" and was written by Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright (the film's co-writers) with art by Frazer Irving.
Shaun works at Foree Electronics, named after Ken Foree, who was was one of the stars of Dawn of the Dead (1978).
When Shaun and Liz are flipping through channels and they come across the "Fun Dead" program, the shopping mall music from Dawn of the Dead (1978) can be heard in the background.
The TV news reports Shaun and Ed watch feature an anchorman who utters exactly the same phrases as the TV reporter in Night of the Living Dead (1968).
When Shaun and the group are running out of Liz's flat they are all carrying weapons of some kind, but only Shaun actually hits any zombies. This was because only the cricket bat that Shaun was carrying was a padded fake, all the other items were real and would have hurt the extras playing zombies if they had been hit with them.
On the DVD (at least the region-two and region-one versions), there is a feature that plays an edited version of the scene where Pete yells at Shaun and Ed for playing the music too loud ("I've got to go to f***ing work in four f***ing !") that has been dubbed over for television airings, thus replacing all obscenities. "F***" is replaced with "funk," "prick" becomes "prink." The feature has the fitting title "Funky Pete" and is found in the alternate bits section.
When Shaun and his friends are trying to get inside the pub, horror writer and Frightfest organizer Alan Jones can be seen as a zombie walking past the phone box. He's the bald one in a checkered shirt.
All of the newsreaders and television presenters are real people portraying themselves.
Ed exclaims, "what's up with her eyes?!" when he faces the checkout girl zombie in the garden. This is a prominent quote from The Evil Dead (1981).
Just when Shaun is exiting the Indian-run deli, which is tuned to a radio station playing songs from Indian movies, the song stops and a newscaster begins speaking in Hindi. The content of the news, when translated in English, is, "People are waking up from their graves."
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« Reply #168 on: October 30, 2009, 10:04:32 AM » |
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# 6 (Tie) - Halloween 7 lists, 117 points, highest ranking # 3 dignan, Courtney
Halloween was shot in 21 days in April of 1978. Made on a budget of $320,000, it became the highest-grossing independent movie ever made at that time
As the movie was actually shot in early spring in southern California (as opposed to Illinois in late October), the crew had to buy paper leaves from a decorator and paint them in the desired autumn colors, then scatter them in the filming locations. To save money, after a scene was filmed, the leaves were collected and reused. However, as Jamie Lee Curtis and John Carpenter note on the DVD audio commentary, the trees are quite full and green and even some palm trees can be seen, despite that in Illinois in October, the leaves would probably be mostly gone and there would be no palm trees.
The kids watch the opening of The Thing from Another World (1951) on TV. Carpenter would later re-make this film himself in 1982 as The Thing (1982).
The cinematography for the Halloween sequence in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) was the inspiration for the look of Carpenter's color scheme.
Carpenter approached Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee to play the Sam Loomis role (that was eventually played by Donald Pleasence) but both turned him down. Lee later said it was it was the biggest mistake he ever made in his career.
John Carpenter provides the voice of Annie's boyfriend, Paul, whom we hear on the phone talking to Annie.
The film takes place primarily in Haddonfield, Illinois. Haddonfield, NJ is the home town of screenwriter Debra Hill.
Aside from dialogue, the script cites Michael Myers by name only twice. For most of the script on out he is referred to as a "shape". "The Shape", as credited in the film, refers to when his face is masked or obscured.
According to an additional scene in the extended television version, Michael Myers' middle name is Audrey.
Carpenter considered the hiring of Jamie Lee Curtis as the ultimate tribute to Alfred Hitchcock who had given her mother, Janet Leigh, legendary status in Psycho (1960).
As the film was shot out of sequence, Carpenter created a fear meter so that Jamie Lee Curtis would know what level of terror she should be exhibiting.
The Halloween theme is written in the rare 5/4 time signature. John Carpenter learned this rhythm from his father.
Due to its shoestring budget, the prop department had to use the cheapest mask that they could find in the costume store: a Captain Kirk (William Shatner) mask. They later spray-painted the face white, teased out the hair, and reshaped the eye holes.
The original script, titled "The Babysitter Murders", had the events take place over the space of several days. It was a budgetary decision to change the script to have everything happen on the same day (doing this reduced the number of costume changes and locations required) and it was decided that Halloween, the scariest night of the year, was the perfect night for this to happen.
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« Reply #169 on: October 30, 2009, 10:06:47 AM » |
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# 5 - Young Frankenstein 8 lists, 121 points, highest ranking # 1 kete00
The film is an affectionate parody of the classical horror film genre, in particular the various film adaptations of Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein produced by Universal in the 1930s. To further reflect the atmosphere of the earlier films, Brooks shot the picture entirely in black-and-white, a rare choice at the time, and employed 1930s-style opening credits and period scene transitions such as iris outs, wipes, and fades to black. The film also features a notable period score by Brooks' longtime composer John Morris.
The film was shot with many of the same props and lab equipment as the original Frankenstein (1931). When Mel Brooks was preparing "Young Frankenstein," he found that Ken Strickfaden, who had made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive in the Los Angeles area. He visited Strickfaden and found that Strickfaden had saved all the equipment and had it stored in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment for his film and gave Strickfaden the screen credit he'd deserved, but hadn't gotten, for the original films.
The assistant property master's name, Charles Sertin, is on the third brain on the shelf.
Gene Wilder's performance as Dr. Frederick Frankenstein is ranked #9 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
The cast and especially Mel Brooks had so much fun and were so upset when principal photography was almost completed, that Mel added scenes to continue shooting.
The idea of Frederick's dart hitting a cat was ad-libbed on set. When Gene Wilder threw his dart off camera, director Mel Brooks quickly screamed like a cat to create the illusion.
Gene Wilder conceived the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene, while Mel Brooks was resistant to it, feeling it detracted from the fidelity to Universal horror films in the rest of the film. It was only when he saw it with a howling audience that Brooks was confident about the sequence.
Just like in the original Frankenstein (1931), greenish face makeup was used on the monster to make his features more prominent in the BandW film.
The shifting hump on Igor's back was an ad-libbed gag of Marty Feldman's. He had surreptitiously been shifting the hump back and forth for several days when cast members finally noticed. It was then added to the script.
Movie was adapted as a Broadway musical in 2007.
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« Reply #170 on: October 30, 2009, 10:08:01 AM » |
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And the top four tomorrow!
Heh, I only included that bit of trivia about Haddonfield, NJ for "Halloween" because I live near there.
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« Reply #171 on: October 30, 2009, 10:16:51 AM » |
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At last, Dawn shows up (only deserving half my name, but shows up nonetheless). And with a Shaun chaser, very nice. Shaun is one of the ultimate replay-value movies, in my opinion. Every time I watch it I see something new (just reading the trivia here I found two things I didn't realize before). Love it so very much  |
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« Reply #172 on: October 30, 2009, 10:27:07 AM » |
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3 more for me. I'm guessing I will have two in tomorrow's broadcast.
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« Reply #173 on: October 30, 2009, 11:02:30 AM » |
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Here's a summary of the list so far:
# 50 - The Birds - 3 lists, 31 points, highest ranking # 11 Tyrant
# 49 - The Sixth Sense - 4 lists, 31 points, highest ranking # 13 Kete00
# 48 – Hellboy - 3 lists, 32 points, highest ranking # 10 Relaxing Dragon
# 47 - Silent Hill - 2 lists, 33 points, highest ranking # 4 Tyrant
# 46 - Dead Alive / Braindead - 2 list, 33 points, highest ranking # 3 Edgewriter
# 45 – Aliens - 3 lists, 33 points, highest ranking # 5 Rattrap
# 44 – Demons - 2 list, 34 points, highest ranking # 4 Monty
# 43 - Disney's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow - 2 lists, 34 points, highest ranking # 3 THEQUEEN!!!
# 42 – Nosferatu - 4 lists, 34 pints, highest ranking # 11 stansimpson
# 41 - Fright Night - 2 list, 35 points, highest ranking # 8 Smoky
# 40 – Scream - 3 lists, 35 points, highest ranking # 7 Smoky
# 39 – Suspiria - 2 list, 36 points, highest ranking # 6 Johnny Unusual
# 38 - A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors - 3 lists, 36 points, highest ranking # 14 Digmon
# 37 - The Worst Witch - 2 lists, 39 points, highest ranking # 1 TripeHoundRedux
# 36 - Friday The 13th - 3 lists, 41 points, highest ranking # 10 Monty
# 35 – Thriller - 3 lists, 42 points, highest ranking # 7 stansimpson
# 34 - The Blair Witch Project - 3 lists, 43 points, highest ranking # 3 Tyrant
# 33 - Disney's Halloween Treat / A Disney Halloween - 3 lists, 44 points, highest rankiung # 11, Edgewater, Imrahil
# 32 - The Addams Family - 3 list, 44 points, highest ranking # 6 stansimpson
# 31 – Frankenstein - 4 lists, 45 points, highest ranking # 1 LucasM
# 30 - Hocus Pocus - 3 lists, 46 points, highest ranking # 7 TheQueen, Courtney
# 29 – Clue - 3 lists, 46 points, highest ranking # 1 Courtney
# 28 - The Texas Chainsaw Massacre - 5 lists, 46 points, highest ranking # 5 Monty
# 27 – Psycho - 5 lists, 47 points, highest ranking # 7 kete00
# 26 - Wallace and Gromit: Curse of The Wererabbit - 3 lists, 48 points, highest ranking # 6 Queen
# 25 – Phantasm - 2 lists, 49 points, highest ranking # 1 Johnny Unusual
# 24 - The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 3 list, 49 points, highest ranking # 2 Courtney
# 23 - The Frighteners - 4 lists, 50 points, highest ranking # 10 Edgewriter, TripeHoundRedux
# 22 - An American Werewolf in London - 6 lists, 52 points, highest ranking # 12 Johnny Unusual
# 21 - Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstien - 3 lists, 54 points, highest ranking # 1 Edgewriter
# 20 - Day of The Dead - 3 lists, 55 points, highest ranking # 5 gojikranz
# 19 - The Haunting - 3 lists, 55 points, highest ranking # 2 Johnny Unusual
# 18 - Sleepy Hollow - 3 lists, 56 points, highest ranking # 2 stansimpson
# 17- Army of Darkness - 4 lists, 56 points, highest ranking #4 Kete00
# 16 – Alien - 4 lists, 59 points, highest ranking # 1 Tyrant
# 15 - The Lost Boys - 5 lists, 66 points, highest ranking # 3 Smoky
# 14 - The Thing - 7 lists, 75 points, highest ranking # 2 dignan
# 13 - Evil Dead - 4 lists, 77 points, highest ranking # 3 Monty
# 12 - Evil Dead 2 - 5 lists, 79 points, highest ranking # 2 Edgewriter and kete00
# 11 - Night of The Living Dead - 6 lists, 81 points, highest ranking # 2 Tyrant
# 10 - A Nightmare on Elm Street - 5 lists, 92 points, highest ranking # 1 Monty
# 9 - The Shining - 5 lists, 93 points, highest ranking # 5 Courtney
# 8 - Dawn of The Dead - 6 lists, 114 points, highest ranking # 6 goji, Relaxing
# 7 – Beetlejuice - 7 lists, 116 points, highest ranking # 1 Smoky
# 6 (Tie) - Shaun of The Dead - 7 lists, 117 points, highest ranking # 3 kete00
# 6 (Tie) – Halloween - 7 lists, 117 points, highest ranking # 3 dignan, Courtney
# 5 - Young Frankenstein - 8 lists, 121 points, highest ranking # 1 kete00
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« Reply #174 on: October 30, 2009, 11:03:41 AM » |
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So are there 4 left or 3 left? 4 left would make it the top 51 because of the #6 tie.
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« Reply #175 on: October 30, 2009, 11:16:30 AM » |
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« Reply #176 on: October 30, 2009, 11:30:29 AM » |
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So are there 4 left or 3 left? 4 left would make it the top 51 because of the #6 tie.
Yeah, when I have a tie I don't allow the number behind it to register. Since there are two at #6 the next should be #4. Moreover, I'd say that since there were two people who ranked a movie at #3, that should give it the nod to be the winner (so Halloween should really be #5). |
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« Reply #177 on: October 30, 2009, 12:54:07 PM » |
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Yep, there are 4 left, Halloween and Shaun are sharing the # 6 spot. Relaxing, I gave you the rest of your name back (along with goji). Plastic Self Cleaning Duck, are you SURE that's not from the original Halloween? Isn't it from |
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« Reply #178 on: October 30, 2009, 01:00:07 PM » |
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Yep, there are 4 left, Halloween and Shaun are sharing the # 6 spot. Relaxing, I gave you the rest of your name back (along with goji). Plastic Self Cleaning Duck, are you SURE that's not from the original Halloween? Isn't it from I haven't seen the other's but having watched the rifftrax recently, I'm very sure, since that seen is much darker and that's clearly a garbage house (presumably the old Myers place) behind him. |
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« Reply #179 on: October 30, 2009, 01:04:26 PM » |
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Yep, there are 4 left, Halloween and Shaun are sharing the # 6 spot. Relaxing, I gave you the rest of your name back (along with goji). Plastic Self Cleaning Duck, are you SURE that's not from the original Halloween? Isn't it from I haven't seen the other's but having watched the rifftrax recently, I'm very sure, since that seen is much darker and that's clearly a garbage house (presumably the old Myers place) behind him. Very certain.. - There was no convertible out front on the lawn - Annie's car was in back and the Van was parked at the curb.
- This house is way too trashy to be the house Annie was in
- There was a pumpkin on the front porch of that house
(Well, you can't see the pumpkin here but it's there when Laurie walks up to the house) Can't find a pic online - give me a minute or two.... EDIT: This is from Halloween That other one I'm thinking is from #6 or Resurrection because I never saw those.... |
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