Comments on: Le serpent mamba…

By: lyzard

lyzard — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:23:59 +0000

I think that's less a rights issue than it is a preconception about what a Carole Lombard film *should* be. Of the six films in her box set, four or five of them are from her days at Paramount, so Supernatural could easily have been included. Instead they went for equally obscure early films like True Confession and Love Before Breakfast, which are both love-comedies (allegedly; they're both pretty bad).

By: El Santo

El Santo — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:20:06 +0000

“There are bootleg DVDs of Supernatural around, but no official release.”

And while that’s nowhere near as obviously unjust as the unavailability of Island of Lost Souls, it’s still a crying shame. Supernatural gets my vote for “most inexplicably underrated horror film of the 1930′s.”

By: lyzard

lyzard — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:07:36 +0000

The Mask Of Fu Manchu has Lewis Stone being dangled over an alligator pit. It also has a scene where venom is extracted from a boa constrictor. Netflix is not to blame for this one: none of the Paramount pre-Code horrors, which I believe are now owned by Universal (?), are on DVD; Island Of Lost Souls has been at the top of my Where The Hell Is It!? list since...well, since the Lewton box set got released, I suppose. There are bootleg DVDs of Supernatural around, but no official release.

By: The Mud Puppy

The Mud Puppy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:54:37 +0000

One of these days I'm really gonna have to see Eaten Alive. Especially since I once wrote a screenplay called "Dragonkeeper" that was basically and intentionally a total rip-off of its basic concept. (Psycho killer owns a hotel in the Louisian bayou, keeps a killer crocodile in a pen out back) Except, instead of just one crocodilian in a pit, the killer also had a large reticulated python that eventually ate one person. I'm not saying it was actually any good, but from most accounts I've heard it was slightly better than Eaten Alive...

By: El Santo

El Santo — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:47:33 +0000

As does I Was a Teenage Frankenstein, believe it or not. And Tobe Hooper's Eaten Alive, as I recall, is a whole movie about murder by alligator pit.

By: Blake

Blake — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 19:29:54 +0000

“Live and Let Die” features an attempted murder by alligator pit.

By: The Mud Puppy

The Mud Puppy — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:20:38 +0000

Having now read the review, I am furious that this is not avilable from Netflix, nor can I seem to find it on DVD at Amazon. I mean, it has a couple who are herpetologists as its heroes (how often does that happen), the villain being eaten by a reticulated python, and a murder by alligator pit! Given my obsession with crocodilians, it really is astonishing that I have seen so few films that feature murder by alligator pit. Probably the closest I can think of is when I caught the end of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom on HBO. But I was too distracted by my incredulous anger over the fact that there were "ALLIGATORS--IN INDIA?!" to really enjoy it. (Seriously, Spielberg, they have crocodiles in India. They're called Muggers, for cripe's sake!) Although I really ought to know better when it comes to Indiana Jones, huh? I still get tickled over the fact that Raiders of the Lost Ark not only tries to pass off boa constrictors as asps, but legless lizards!

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:49:01 +0000

I feel like I’m bucking to be pinned to a specimen board…

By: lyzard

lyzard — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 22:17:26 +0000

Just the entirety of your thought processes, m’dear, laid out so publically. And it’s…a thing.

By: The Rev. D.D.

The Rev. D.D. — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:29:08 +0000

“You’re a sick, sick man, Rev.”

Not that I disagree, but what caused this reaction? (I’m guessing either my interest in seeing people taking ridiculous, real risks in movies, or the joke, with a leaning toward the latter.)

And more importantly, is it a good thing or a bad thing?