a Pool table... I was just thinking how important they are. The comonly best passtime in even the most hellish of places, even Hell itself. I think every establishment, home, retiirement or otherwise should be required(by the government's expense) to have a pool table complete with all impliments of the game.
Hey, Monster4Josh: I never expected to see a "3:30 Movie" tag here. By any chance, please, from what city and ABC affiliate was this recorded? Thanks, bro'.
What makes it so creepy IS the isolation. I would be so on edge with all that solitude. You can't escape it, almost a prisoner to your mind and physically as well. Your sense are heightened almost to the point of supra-cognitive explosion. The adrenaline is constantly pumping and flowing. The anxiety just builds and builds. Next comes the paranoia. Your fears take the embodiment of the few others trapped with you. And then reality slips away along with objective perception. No thank you.
As the lead characters are settling into their new environment, sipping coffee & shooting pool -- neither of them have a clue as to just how hostile their surrounds truly are. When I first saw this in 1973, I couldn't help but be reminded of another highly suspenseful Arctic tale: Howard Hawks' "The Thing From Another World". Both concern the interactions & turmoils of personel occupying close quarters, while mysterious goings-on persist in pushing everybody to their most extreme limits.
a Pool table... I was just thinking how important they are. The comonly best passtime in even the most hellish of places, even Hell itself. I think every establishment, home, retiirement or otherwise should be required(by the government's expense) to have a pool table complete with all impliments of the game.
fucheduck 5 months ago in playlist A Cold Night's Death (1973)
Hey, Monster4Josh: I never expected to see a "3:30 Movie" tag here. By any chance, please, from what city and ABC affiliate was this recorded? Thanks, bro'.
StukInBuf 8 months ago
What makes it so creepy IS the isolation. I would be so on edge with all that solitude. You can't escape it, almost a prisoner to your mind and physically as well. Your sense are heightened almost to the point of supra-cognitive explosion. The adrenaline is constantly pumping and flowing. The anxiety just builds and builds. Next comes the paranoia. Your fears take the embodiment of the few others trapped with you. And then reality slips away along with objective perception. No thank you.
StoyOfDeath 1 year ago 3
Why were they studying primates in the arctic, again? Something to do with outer space?
bribabytt 1 year ago
Such a good thriller.Seems like every scene is spooky.
antitum 1 year ago
RIP Robert Culp
baddmanaz 1 year ago 5
Notice the acting here
-minimilistic and realistic,
as is the dialogue.
And notice the actors
-middle aged, fairly ordinairy looking men.
wheelinthesky300 2 years ago 5
@wheelinthesky300 Yes - that was the great thing about older TV and movies - believable actors, before Hollywood became obsesses with boy-men.
rabates123 9 months ago
I LIKE COFFEE.
fandetulunar 2 years ago
As the lead characters are settling into their new environment, sipping coffee & shooting pool -- neither of them have a clue as to just how hostile their surrounds truly are. When I first saw this in 1973, I couldn't help but be reminded of another highly suspenseful Arctic tale: Howard Hawks' "The Thing From Another World". Both concern the interactions & turmoils of personel occupying close quarters, while mysterious goings-on persist in pushing everybody to their most extreme limits.
gothling1955 2 years ago 3
There is definitley similarities in
setting, atmoshpere and execution to both versions of "The Thing".
Isolated places are far scarier those brimming with human beings.
We don't see that kind of set-up in films these days.
wheelinthesky300 2 years ago