Movie night

Tonight is an Italian giallo classic:

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Part of the fun of these (for me, anyway) is the way the original title translates into a wordy, sometimes nonsensical, title. With a title like that, you have to watch it!
 
Friday night, we watched Troll, a 2019 movie set in Norway, about a troll mistakenly released from his mountain confinement. Followed the usual motif of misunderstood monster versus trigger-happy humans.

Last night was the animated feature Pinocchio, the one by Guillermo del Toro. Both MrsT and I didn’t like that one at all, mainly because the voice actor for Pinocchio had such an annoying, precocious manner - and I get that Pinocchio is supposed to be annoying, but the characterization was so OTT, I wanted to climb through the screen and throw him in the fire.
 
Last night, MrsT’s choice, we watched “School of Good and Evil” - basically a very Disneylike movie, not made by Disney.

One thing I like to do, if I can, is avoid any press or reviews before I see a film (hard to do with something like Star Wars or Barbie), then after watching it, seeing how near or far I am from the critics.

I and the critics were in complete agreement on this one - A for effort, D- for execution, praising the performances, but tearing apart the slipshod story (which really felt like they were making it up the night before, then shooting the next day).

Even as a bit of fluff, it was just too insubstantial to enjoy, though the two leads were very good in their roles.
 
Last night was the first film of Hammer’s “Karnstein Trilogy” - “The Vampire Lovers:”

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Tonight, the second installment:
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Very controversial at the time of release (1970/71), but now seem laughably tame.
 
Tonight, generally accepted as the first horror film:

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I love the sets in this, they’re wonderfully kooky:

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caseydog said:
Have you watched this movie, based on Bram Stoker's Dracula? We actually watched this in "The Art of Oil" class in college..,

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Yes, more than once. I’ve also seen it screened in a movie theater with a live bands performing to it, which was fantastic.

I don’t care that much for silent films, but there are a few I do like, and that’s one.
 
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