1000 Misspent Hours and Counting, update #148
Yes, as a matter of fact, I do keep records about that sort of thing. Here’s what’s new:
The Drums of Jeopardy (1931), in which Warner Oland isn’t playing Fu Manchu, but he might as well be…
Eraserhead (1977), in which marriage sucks, families suck, one-night stands suck, Philadelphia sucks, and parenthood sucks worse than the whole lot combined…
976-EVIL (1989), in which Rhet Topham and Brian Helgeland apparently never do finish writing the script…
Planet of Storms (1962), in which Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet and Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women turn out to be a whole lot more sensible than you thought…
Skull & Bones (2007), in which El Santo wonders why he ever agrees to accept screeners…
and…
The Student of Prague (1926), in which many of the potential complaints with the earlier version are addressed quite satisfactorily.
El Santo is the obssessed lunatic behind 1000 Misspent Hours and Counting.Comments
Comment from Nathan Shumate
Time: November 27, 2007, 3:06 pm
And as the person who engineered that Skull & Bones screener to be sent to you, I say:
Thank you for taking that grenade.
Comment from KeithA
Time: November 27, 2007, 5:24 pm
Did any of us who were around in the 80s actually call the 976-EVIL number? I assume they must have had some sort of marketing thing with it, but I never cared enough to find out.
Comment from John Doe
Time: November 27, 2007, 6:40 pm
Thanks El Santo. I always enjoy your slate of reviews, even if I do stay up all night reading them.
Comment from Matthew Fudge
Time: November 28, 2007, 7:25 am
Re; Planet of Storms.
Now I finally understand what the hell was going on with the “Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet/Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women” double sided dvd from the Mill Creek 50 sci-fi classics box set. I had no idea they originated from a russian movie, it would certainly explain the random surreal quality.
Comment from Matthew Fudge
Time: November 28, 2007, 7:46 am
… and ‘Marsha’
Comment from John Doe
Time: November 28, 2007, 7:35 pm
They’re on the same side of one of the discs right? The other side has “Wasp Woman” and spider island something. I haven’t watched that one yet, but can you tell they’re cut from the same movie?
Comment from Matthew Fudge
Time: November 29, 2007, 6:29 am
You can. I can’t remember them that clearly as I don’t think I made it all the way through. I just remember them being disorienting and (personally) pretty boring. You can tell they’re not standard roger corman fare because the special effects sequences (which are presumably the main bits lifted) are so unlike the usual stuff. As usual with the Mill Creek stuff the quality is rubbish, which just adds to the feeling that you’ve accidentally tuned into a broadcast in a finnish hotel room at four in the morning after being up for 24 hours and drinking too much.
Comment from supersonic
Time: November 25, 2007, 10:50 pm
I’m afraid the movie made all too much sense to me…
The unifying theme, as I see it now, is not just horror of fatherhood but of all aspects of sexuality.