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letterboxd-loggd · 4 months

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Scrooged (1988) Richard Donner

December 20th 2023

#scrooged #1988 #richard donner #bill murray #karen allen #alfre woodard #bobcat goldthwait #robert mitchum #david johansen #nicholas phillips #john glover #john forsythe #carol kane #michael j. pollard #john murray #miles davis #scrooge: a christmas carol

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anhed-nia · 5 months

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BLOGTOBER 10/27/2023: NIGHT VISITOR (1989)

Definitely not to be confused with the 1971 Swedish film starring Max Von Sydow and Liv Ulman, 1989's NIGHT VISITOR is a bizarre horror-comedy that's half-pilfered from FRIGHT NIGHT, and the other half is just...something that is not under control. A hunky teen with a "boy who cried wolf" problem witnesses a horrific murder while spying on his neighbor Shannon Tweed, and then he and his goofy friend and their "cool" gal pal endeavor to out their mean teacher as a devil worshiper. The appearance of Mme Tweed and a variety of streetwalkers from central casting seem to suggest that this is going to be really sexy, but it is not, unless you get off super hard to women tossing their hair and winking at the camera. And on that note, I must point out that the teen's mom, played by Brooke Bundy, looks so much like the neighbor he's obsessed with, that like...well if I had a friend in high school who was sexually fixated on someone who looked just like his own mother, I would never, ever let him live it down. I would be calling that poor jerk on Christmas to remind him of it every year for the rest of his life.

The circulation of the above exciting image suggests a much gnarlier horror movie than what this actually is, part of which is partly a domestic comedy between Allen Garfield as the teacher and his live-in uh companion Michael J. Pollard, who plays a deranged moron as per usual. Hardboiled cop Richard Roundtree is along for the ride for some reason; at the end he asks the kid where he got his shotgun, and upon hearing that it was his father's, Roundtree goes, "One-man vigilante, huh?", which makes no sense whatsoever. Elliot Gould plays the grizzled detective who the plucky teens convince to come out of retirement to help them, and like, they go to his house which is pretty decent-looking except there's a couple of loose shirts out that he performatively removes from a chair so they can sit down, which seems like is supposed to indicate that his life is a wreck--but if you come to my house unannounced at some random hour, I can pretty much promise that there will be a couple of loose shirts out. There are plenty of legitimate signs that I'm deteriorating into reclusivity, but I don't think that's a very good one.

Anyway I really want to spoil the end of the movie, which might help if you're short on time: After all the drama is resolved, the teen takes his friend-turned-girlfriend on an extremely long date. There is no dialog, because this was obviously never in any version of a script, and drives her around to various fun couplesy activities that you might see in a chewing gum commercial, and then finally they kiss in an astonishingly long freeze-frame. This is sort of fascinating because the movie is over an hour and a half long and it doesn't seem like they should have been so desperate for extra minutes, but you're going to get them anyway! The End.

PS My favorite part of the movie is when the satanic teacher sits on a stink bomb, or something, and all this yellow smoke comes billowing out of his ass and he starts screaming at the mischievous teen "YOU ARE TERMINATED! YOU ARE TERMINATED!", which is such a funny and meaningless thing for a teacher to yell at a student, I would never recover if this happened in my class. All I could think of is:

#mcvicker #blogtober #2023 #horror #comedy #cult #satanism #michael j. pollard #shannon tweed #brooke bundy #night visitor #1989 #teen horror #slasher

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oldshowbiz · 8 months

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#Michael J. Pollard #merch #hippie design

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tparadox · 6 months

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Bonnie and Clyde Hold Up Yesterday's Movies

Bonnie And Clyde. Warner Bros. Pictures 1967.

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#60s #1967 #Warren Beatty #Gene Hackman #Faye Dunaway #Estelle Parsons #Michael J. Pollard

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ladythatsmyskull · 2 years

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For all the veering into camp and away from a harder science fiction theme the 1960s Lost in Space could get really dark and chilling sometimes.

The Magic Mirror (February 16, 1966).

#magic mirror #lost in space #1966 #Angela Cartwright #michael j. pollard

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maturemenoftvandfilms · 6 months

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How does mature Michael J. Pollard rub ya?

All right I guess.

#Michael J. Pollard

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misterkeema · 2 years

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#michael j. pollard #lost in space

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machetelanding · 1 year

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#bonnie and clyde #drama #movies #1967 #1960s #warren beatty #faye dunaway #gene hackman #estelle parsons #michael j. pollard #publicity stills #black and white

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abs0luteb4stard · 10 months

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W a t c h e d

This is first time I've watched this in adulthood, this movie is fucking beautiful. Colorful neon streets, the villains are in incredible Technicolor, but also had that 1940-50s mob movie noir style.

It's a goddamn art piece. The matte painting backgrounds, the lighting, the insanely beautifully made character makeups for the mobsters.

There are so many old school character actors mixed with contemporary guys like Pacino etc. And then you have brilliant Dick Van Dyke as a crooked character!

I'll even go out on a limb and say even Madonna was excellent!

It's a cleverly built movie, beautiful visuals, unbelievably beautiful makeup.

It's a treasure!

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badmovieihave · 9 months

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Bad movie I have Along for the Ride 2000 aka Forever Lulu

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badflicks · 1 year

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Bonnie and Clyde (1967) 🍕🍕

How do you judge an old movie by modern standards? You can't but one measure could be to see if it does stand the test of time as in: is it still entertaining to watch today? Not particularly in this case 🤣 but there's enough weird shit that they put in it considering it was the 60s you can appreciate they were trying to do something unique for the time. Also, it appears to be the first movie where they tried to make more realistic shooting scenes, including the sound and blood splatter, and those are pretty fun.