#Robert Easton

[80smovies]

#The NeverEnding Story #Noah Hathaway #Wolfgang Petersen #Michael Ende #Herman Weigel #Robert Easton #80s

[adamwatchesmovies]

The Giant Spider Invasion (1975)

Someone needs to make a documentary about the making of The Giant Spider Invasion. This laughable picture about space arachnids terrorizing a small town should’ve been a fun but ultimately forgettable “big bug” movie. Instead, it’s a delightfully memorable one-of-a-kinder. The special effects are so bad it makes you wonder what was going through people’s heads as they were shooting.

In rural Wisconsin, a meteorite impact leaves behind strange geodes filled with diamonds and alien spiders that grow to enormous size. While the unsuspecting yokels go about their lives, Drs. J.R. Vance (Steve Brodie) and Jenny Langer (Barbara Hale) look for a way to close the intergalactic gateway from which the spiders are drawing their terrible strength.

At a skinny 84 minutes, The Giant Spider Invasion goes by quickly unless its attention is centered on a group of characters that really have no place in this movie. Dan Kester (Robert Easton) is cheating on his wife, Ev (Leslie Parrish). She doesn’t know but might suspect something because the man is always unhappy at home. That is, until he discovers diamonds in their field. Who cares if the cattle have been reduced to skeletons and there’s a dead body nearby? They're going to be rich! Meanwhile, Ev’s younger sister, Terry (Diane Lee Hart) witnesses the initial meteor impact while out with her boyfriend late at night. These people are only in the movie so they can be attacked later, which I guess makes them ‘important’ because the scenes of “terror” are the movie’s best.

There are quite a few spiders throughout the movie. These range from pet store tarantulas to unconvincing puppets, to what is pretty obviously a van dressed up as a gargantuan arachnid. We get a pretty good look at that last one and if it were a parade float, it would be impressive. As a beast that’s supposed to have people screaming and running for their lives, it’s hilarious. The legs move randomly and whenever it "eats", the actors have to heave themselves into its gaping maw so the technician inside will know when to dump buckets of fake blood everywhere. Whenever the beast appears, every trick in the book is used to obscure it. Either it’s shot from far away, or crowds of people are placed in front of it so that all we can see are the top of its body and the legs high above. This leads me to believe even in person it didn't look convincing. Compared to the puppets we see during the middle of the film, however, it's Jurassic Park. When Terry is attacked inside her home, it looks an awful lot like she’s wrestling with some furry pool noodles. It’s always funny and never gets old.

Also amusing is the grammatical garbage that’s being sold as “science” to explain what's happening. Unfortunately, the version of the film I watched didn’t have any subtitle options available but you still get the gist of it. Something about a black hole in the middle of the teeny crater where the spiders landed, and it feeding them waves from another dimension or something. It makes no sense.

The Giant Spider Invasion is so incompetent it's kind of cute. The special effects are a riot and when the spiders aren’t on-screen waving their furry arms, the plot is so inconsequential and lame you can effortlessly come up with sarcastic quips to throw at the screen. The beginning can be a bit slow but it makes it up during the conclusion, which pulls some camera tricks even someone who had never seen a movie before would point to and say “How dare you?!” Slightly slow introduction aside, this is what people think of they hear “so bad it’s good”. (March 4, 2022)

#The Giant Spider Invasion #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #Bill Rebane #Robert Easton #Richard L. Huff #Steve Brodie #Barbara Hale #Alan Hale Jr. #Leslie Parrish #Bill WIlliams #1975 movies #1975 films

[of-fear-and-love]

Undertow (1949)

#that's indeed what that is #undertow 1949 #undertow #1949 #1940s film #40s movies #video #robert easton #scott brady #b&w #b&w film

[raynbowclown]

Irresistible Andy

In Irresistible Andy, Andy is tickled after Ellie accepts his invitation to the church picnic and dance. But soon comes to think that it is a scheme by Ellie and Fred, who talked Andy into asking his niece, to get her a husband. To put the “desperate, determined hunter” onto other “quarry”, Andy tells several other men that Ellie finds them attractive. Opie spills the beans and Ellie breaks the…

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#1960 #Andy Griffith #Don Knotts #Elinor Donahue #Frances Bavier #Robert Easton #Ron Howard

[spryfilm]

DVD review: “Stingray” (1964-1965) 

“Stingray” (1964-1965)  Television Thirty nine Episodes Created by: Gerry and Sylvia Anderson Featuring: Ray Barrett, Robert Easton, David Graham, Don Mason and Lois Maxwell Opening Theme: “Stand by for action, we’re about to launch Stingray Stingray StingrayStingray Stingray Marineville i am calling all battle stations, Anything can happen in the next half hour Stingray…

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#David Graham #Don Mason #dvd #dvd new zealand #dvd review #DVD reviews #dvd television #DVDReviews #gerry Anderson #Lois Maxwell #Ray Barrett #Robert Easton #stingray #stingray dvd #stingray dvd review #Sylvia Anderson

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Drums in the Deep South (1951) William Cameron Menzies

July 30th 2022

#drums in the deep south #1951 #william cameron menzies #barbara payton #james craig #guy madison #barton maclane #robert easton #robert osterloh #taylor holmes #the confederate story

[esonetwork]

The Neanderthal Man | Episode 327

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The Neanderthal Man | Episode 327

Jim dedicates this episode to the memory of his Mom on this Mother’s Day with remembrances of 1953’s “The Neanderthal Man, ” starring Robert Shayne, Joyce Terry, Richard Crane, Doris Merrick, Beverly Garland, Robert Long, Tandra Quinn, Lee Morgan and William Faucette. An obsessed scientist tries to prove Neanderthal Man was more intelligent than modern day man by creating a prehistoric man. Find out more on this episode of MONSTER ATTACK!, the Podcast Dedicated To Old Monster Movies.

#ESO Network #Jim Adams #Joyce Terry #Monster Attack! #Phyllis Adams #Richard Crane #Robert Easton #Robert Long #Robert Shayne #The Neanderthal Man

[bonojour]

When I did King Lear with Richard, I didn’t know anything. I knew how to be kind of real on stage. We’ve rehearsed for about a week, and I’m in Richard’s house at a 4th of July barbecue, and I’m going on and on as young men do, just painfully about myself. Kenneth Branagh cast me in Much Ado, I had done Dead Poet Society, I had done The Age of Innocence with Martin Scorsese directing and some play on Broadway I’d done and how great it was. There’s an addiction to being approved of by many, many, many people you don’t know and never will. I was telling Richard about all this and the other people at the party, and he said: “Robert, I don’t know you very well, but I just want you to know something and you may not absorb it right now, but all these things you’re talking about. It’s all shit.” He said: “We sat in a room today and we talked about King Lear for 7 hours, that was your day today. I’m older than you and I’m here to tell you it doesn’t get better than that. You can be on Broadway, and you can know all the famous people you want, but ultimately, you’re going to be dead pretty soon and none of these things are going to matter. The only thing that’s going to matter is how you spent your day.” Obviously, it was quite a bit for a young man in his twenties to hear, but I didn’t need time for that to affect me or to absorb it. It happened at the moment, and I was never the same, ever. If I had never met Richard Easton, it’s possible that I’d be an insufferable, drug addicted, very wealthy, not very good actor in the Hollywood hills right now.

Robert Sean Leonard in "A Life Well-Lived: Wisdom and Memories with Richard Easton on The Lucky Ones"

#robert sean leonard #rslgifs #rsledit #richard easton #gilles gifs #this might not get a lot of notes but this is purely self-indulgent so it doesn't matter #i always use my faves as mentor figures #and i'm always inspired by how they figured things out and achieved things and learned to put things into perspective #and rsl talking about HIS experience with one of his mentors really tickled my brain :)

[jimmyspades]

"To figure out a character, I try to look for something that's not in the screenplay—a little secret they carry around with them. Sometimes it's allowed to show itself, sometimes it isn't, yet it's always there.

"Robert Downey Jr. and I both decided that our two guys had been lovers at one point. It wasn't referred to at all, but that was the one choice made in that film that I ended up being pleased with, because it informed everything that happened. There's a certain understanding between two people who've been lovers that's not there in two people who haven't." James Spader on LESS THAN ZERO (1987), Interview Magazine, 1993

#wow... #james spader #less than zero #robert downey jr #* #1980s #words #bret easton ellis #need him to write a book about all his characters and their little secrets thanks #or at least give me a call about it

[lovefrenchisbetter]

American Psycho

By Bret Easton Ellis

#american psycho #bret easton ellis #books #patrick bateman #robert erdmann #novel #good reads #books to read #book recommendations #recommended #horror

[goryhorroor]

horror book covers remade

#horror #horror movies #horror books #stephen king #carrie #bram stoker #dracula #peter benchley #jaws #american psycho #bret easton ellis #william peter blatty #the exorcist #gaston leroux #the phantom of the opera #mary shelley #frankenstein #oscar wilde #the picture of dorian gray #robert louis stevenson #dr. jekyll and mr. hyde #robert bloch #psycho #literature #horroredit #booksedit

[theshad0wsmadamme]

Destino Final 3 Cast 2005

#destino final 3 #final destination #final destination 3 #horror movies #mary elizabeth winstead #wendy christensen #ryan merriman #kevin fischer #amanda crew #julie christensen #jesse moss #jason robert wise #jason wise #texas battle #lewis romero #sam easton #frankie cheeks #ashley freud #chelan simmons #crystal lowe #ashlyn halperin #james wrong

[back2themax]

Less than zero is a absolutely devistating movie so I finally got the book and… they left out that? Practically all of the characters are bisexual. I’m not that far in but I know clay and a few others are at least. He also gives me the “I’m bisexual and homophobic we exist” vibes but idk

I get the movie was made in the 80s but I feel like it’s a pretty important detail to leave out?

#less than zero #less than zero 1987 #80s movies #80s drama #80s teen flicks #brat pack #drama film #teen drama #andrew mccarthy #robert downey jr #jami gertz #brett easton ellis

[bandpicfolder]

The Cars by Ebet Roberts around 1978. Credit the photographer if reposting.

#ric ocasek #benjamin orr #greg hawkes #elliot easton #david robinson #the cars #the cars band #bw #upload #ebet roberts #NOT FOR COMMERCIAL USE

[churchofsatannews]

The Metro #669

This week on The Metro, Warlock Jeff Ivins celebrates his and Dr. LaVey‘s Birthdays by bringing you the following bands for your weekly timewarp: Bill Nelson, Mental As Anything, Sheena Easton, Robert Hazard, Nu Shooz, Jellybean, Gary Numan, Belle Stars, Kings, Stacey Q, The Fixx, Scritti Politti, Pet Shop Boys, Olivia Newton-John, and finishing up with Altered Images. Stream The Metro…

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#Altered Images #Belle Stars #Bill Nelson #Gary Numan #Jellybean #Kings #Mental As Anything #Nu Shooz #Olivia Newton-John #Pet Shop Boys #radio free satan #Robert Hazard #Scritti Politti #Sheena Easton #Stacey Q #The Fixx #the metro #warlock jeff ivins

[blogmollylane]

Newly acquired: American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

Currently reading: Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson

#fiction #reading #books #currently reading #mystery #thriller #american psycho #bret easton ellis #transgressive #postmodern #satirical #black comedy #horror #classics #crime #literature #american #dr jekyll and mr hyde #robert louis stevenson #fantastique #fantasy #novella #psychological #science fiction #sensation #gothic #19th century