Shooting Down Pictures #918 (59): Night of the Demon
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Too intellectual for me but interesting regardless.
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@Jcolinsol You need look no further than The Thing. The original was ground-breaking but James Arness was an anti climax. Carpenter's film was a tour-de-force. Why make a prequel? The Exorcist's prequel sank without trace.
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@Jcolinsol I'm old enough to say there were many films back then that were bad in effects AND storyline (albeit many good actors who did their best with the material on hand.) At least, with CGI one out of two is only half bad. CGI on NOTD would have been the icing on an excellent cake. Some films are dumbing down but the ones that aren't are mind-blowing nowadays. Another film that needed CGI was Trollenberg Terror (Crawling Eye) - big eyed octopus? -pleeez !
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@karlydoc Yes he will. He only watched it last week. I'm scared and I'm a navy seal.
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some things are more easily started than stopped.....
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Just gotta love Peggy Cummins's performance and looks ...BOY ! would I have married her !!!
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@tazzarman no you won't, don't be a cissy.
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Chris Fujiwara in an extremely perceptive writer. I highly reciommend his book on Otto Preminger, THE WORLD AND IT'S DOUBLE
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I see what you are saying, but I have disagreements.
There are a lot of extremely skilled and talented artists out there doing artwork for films, and yes cg art. Not just talented but even important, take Bay Raitt for instance.
I don't think that films are being dumbed down at all, on the contrary, I think that media is getting miles smarter than it was in the past. We may have fewer gems like curse of the demon, maybe, but over all the intelligence of media in general is rising.
totally agree - such a shame this type of film is lost to the absolute idiots churning out CGI rubbish nowadays but we are after all living in tragically dumbed downed times
23BOT 2 years ago 9
One of the most atmospheric films ever. A cracking yarn too. Music, cast, all spot on.
gtrfinger 2 years ago 5