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cressida-jayoungr · 7 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: White Redux

The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge / Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter

Rewatching this movie to make screencaps reminded me that it and its predecessor, the 1973 Three Musketeers, are just about perfect examples of their genre. The cast, cinematography, score, and yes, costumes are just top-notch. Yvonne Blake was responsible for the costumes for both films.

Milady wears this extravagant white gown while on a diplomatic-slash-assassination mission to England and then later, after being captured, manages to seduce her Puritan jailer into helping her escape. And she even climbs ladders in it! Now, that's what I call a versatile wardrobe.

Note the monogram "W" (for de Winter) on the muff. Also, that hooded cloak is quite something.

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talkaboutmovies · 2 years

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A young Robert Englund in his feature debut, a 1974 film with Jan Michael Vincent called “Buster and Billie”

#Buster and Billie #movie debut #robert englund #freddy krueger #1974 films

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year

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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

I know these words get tossed around often but I mean it when I say The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of the scariest films ever made. Even if you don’t agree, its influence on the horror genre is undeniable.

Sally Hardesty (Marilyn Burns), her paraplegic brother Franklin (Paul A. Partain) and their friends Jerry (Allen Danziger), Kirk (William Vail), and Pam (Teri McMinn) are travelling by van through the countryside to visit an old family home. After encountering a disturbed hitchhicker (Edwin Neal), they cross paths with a family of cannibals.

Immediately striking is the picture’s knack for feeling more documentary than fiction. The conversations between the young adults are innane and they speak over each other like normal friends do. Aside from the news-like voice over (by John Larroquette) at the beginning, little about what you see foreshadows what’s coming. When characters die, the violence is brief, almost as if the cameraman is eager to leave the scene of a real-life crime. When the film’s most memorable character, Leatherface (Gunnar Hansen), appears, it’s out of nowhere and shocking. At any point, you’re never quite sure who the main character is and therefore, you never know quite when the picture will end. Similarly, there are no character arcs or typical “film-y” conventions. Many of the most frightening and shocking scenes happen during the day, adding extra credibility to this tale of horror.

These elements combined make this a living nightmare. The violence is often left to your imagination. You see just enough to know you don't want to see more. It’s a nearly overwhelmingly bleak film, particularly when the cannibals overwhelm the heroes and laugh about the fact that they’ve done this before and plan on doing this again. While many horror films play up the morbid humor inherent to a killer picking people off one by one in increasingly gruesome ways, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre piles on the dread relentlessly. A prolonged scene has Sally running from the chainsaw-wielding maniac, screaming at the top of her lungs. It just keeps going and going. You wonder when it’s going to stop because it makes you uncomfortable. But that’s the thing. You’re uncomfortable because you can’t do anything about it and you know, deep down, that no one is coming to save her from those dark woods. It’s traumatizing and gives a double-meaning to the picture’s tagline “Who will survive, and what will be left of them”?

By the time your mind comes to grips with what’s just happened, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has already moved on. You’re never given the footing necessary to recover from what you see. Just thinking about the film's final scene gives me chills. The use of music, the camera work, the lightning, the simple but effective scares and the realistic presentation make this 1974 film still terrifying today. (On Blu-ray, October 26, 2018)

#The Texas Chain Saw Massacre #movies #films #movie reviews #film reviews #horror movies #horror films #tobe jooper #kim henkel #marilyn burns #paul a. partain #edwin neal #jim siedow #gunnar hansen #1974 movies #1974 films

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jacquesdemys · 11 months

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Elle - March 25, 1974. Anny Duperey photographed by Peter Knapp, costumes designed by Yves Saint Laurent for the film Stavisky (1974, dir. Alain Resnais)

#elle #anny duperey #peter knapp #yves saint laurent #vintage fashion #vintage #fashion #1970s fashion #1970s #1974 #seventies #stavisky #alain resnais #costume #film costume #retro #costume design #vintage editorial #editorial

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atomic-chronoscaph · 11 months

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Zardoz (1974)

#zardoz gif #john boorman #70s sci-fi #post-apocalyptic #dystopian films #niall buggy #brutal exterminators #70s movies #seventies #1974 #gif #chronoscaph gif

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pinemangoart · 7 months

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Also I think there should be a slasher comedy w/ this art style make them silly make them goofy

#might do the other ones later #i like da limited palette #my art #doodle #fanart #sketch #digital art #jason vorhees #billy lenz #harry warden #my bloody valentine #friday the 13th #black christmas 1974 #slasher art #slasher fandom #slasher film #character design

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gameraboy2 · 23 days

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Pam Grier in The Arena (1974)

#my gif #pam grier #the arena #gif #gifs #gifset #vintage #film #movie #cheesecake #1974 #1970s

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videodrme · 4 months

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A high school girl's been murdered. Mr. Harrison's daughter is missing. And now at the house where she lives, the other girls are getting obscene phone calls. Don't you think we ought to look into it, Nash?

BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) dir. Bob Clark

#film #black christmas #black christmas 1974 #filmedit #blackchristmasedit #blackchristmas1974edit #horroredit #70sedit #filmgifs #junkfooddaily #cinemapix #classichorrorblog #userstream #dailyflicks #fyeahmovies #userbrittany #gifs*#mine*

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cosmicisbored · 6 months

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he’s my little silly

#black christmas #black christmas 1974 #billy lenz #black christmas fanart #black christmas art #billy lenz fanart #billy lenz art #black christmas billy #black christmas billy lenz #slasher #slashers #slasher fanart #slasher film #art #fanart #drawing

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sarwah · 6 months

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Teresa Graves in Vampira (1974)

#teresa graves #vampira #1974 #70s #1970s #70s film #horror #vampire #halloween #70s aesthetic #60s #1960s #70s makeup #aesthetic #coquette #mine

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sacredwhores · 3 months

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Ken Russell - Mahler (1974)

#film #ken russell #mahler #gustav mahler #alma mahler #1974

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cressida-jayoungr · 6 months

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One Dress a Day Challenge

October: Black Redux

Chinatown / Faye Dunaway as Evelyn Mulwray

This is quite an attractive dress, but between the dim lighting and the fact that Evelyn is mostly in close-up shots in the scenes where it appears, we only really get a glimpse of it onscreen. Luckily, it has been auctioned, so we have some very good display photos. Here's the description from the auction site: "Black silk jersey day dress, fitted bodice, short sleeves, panels with hand fagoting; ankle-length skirt ornamented with self covered buttons; self covered belt with black and grey enameled buckle."

Evelyn wears the dress with a pearl necklace, a pair of gold bracelets, and a watch. I've included a close-up of the belt buckle. You can also see how the white trim is attached with a spiraling stitch in gold.

#chinatown 1974 #black dresses #faye dunaway #one dress a day challenge #one dress a week challenge #movie costumes #period film #1974 movies #1974 films #1930s fashion #1930s style #anthea sylbert #evelyn mulwray #30s fashion #30s style #black dress #black redux

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adamwatchesmovies · 1 year

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Zardoz (1974)

Anyone with a passing interest in bad movies has heard of Zardoz. At the very least, they’ve seen screenshots of Sean Connery in his… iconic wardrobe. The sad truth is this film is neither good nor so-bad-it’s-good. It’s got plenty of jaw-dropping moments and some iconic lines but for the most part, this is some pretentious, dull nonsense.

By 2293, civilization has broken down. Mankind is separated into two clans: the Brutals, who rape and murder anyone in their path as part of their worship of their god, Zardoz… and their victims. Or so Zardoz's disciples have been taught. When Zed (Sean Connery) stows away inside Zardoz’s giant stone head, he learns his deity is fake; part of an experiment by a more advanced, hidden civilization of humans called the Eternals.

The film begins with the Zardoz’s pilot (sporting the fakest goatee and moustache I’ve ever seen) breaking the fourth wall and talking to the audience directly, basically giving away chunks of the plot in the process. There’s nothing else like it anywhere, leading me to believe it was hastily written and added late in the production - perhaps to lead audiences into believing this is a comedy. It strongly resembles the narration of Plan 9 from Outer Space but this film wishes it was entertaining as Ed Wood’s best-known film.

There are small nuggets of inspiration in this film produced, written and directed by John Boorman - whose second-best known work is probably The Exorcist II: The Heretic (yikes!) . The Eternals live forever. Incarceration would be meaningless so how do you punish those who misbehave? You force them to age. They won’t die no matter how many months or years they’re given but living forever as an old man sure would suck. Other concepts like the whole “fake deity” thing have been done before but hold much potential. Otherwise… anything “good” about this movie is simply amusing because of how awful it is.

Chants of “The gun is good, the penis is bad”. Pompous immortals blithering on and on about the nature of things. Sean Connery in an embarassing outfit being dragged around sets as we explore the would-be fascinating world that spawned two diametrically opposed civilizations. Immortals becoming confused about sex and reproduction. That’s what you have to look forward to if you pop Zardoz into your player. Granted, some of these I’ll treasure for a long time and will mentally revisit for a laugh. The film as a whole? I'd never want revisit again. This sci-fi… drama? Adventure? Is boring. You sit there, waiting for the story to play out the way you expect it to - and it does - up until the ending, which throws a curveball at you by making absolutely no sense. It’s infuriating because you know if you sat down with the director’s commentary and listened to what he had to say, you wouldn’t even get an explanation - comically loopy or not - he’d just say nothing up until the credits begin rolling and then blurt out “yeah I think that pretty much speaks for itself”.

If you’re morbidly curious, you could sit own with Zardoz the one time. Even then, it’d be mostly for bragging rights. Nothing about this movie is endearing and even when I found a redeeming aspect, none of this story is salvageable. Trust me. I gave you a summary and picked out the choice bits to discuss. Surrounding them is a whole lot of nothing. (On DVD, September 20, 2019)