Comments on: The Chills: Alive, Alive-O! http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/ David Cairns' wilfully eccentric film blog Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:03:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2486 dcairns Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:24:27 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2486 When Corman introduced Beverly Garland to the monster (a squat creature from a high-gravity world) she looked at it with scorn, said "So you've come to conquer the world, have you? Well take THAT," and then just KICKED IT IN THE HEAD. She's interviewed in his book. When Corman introduced Beverly Garland to the monster (a squat creature from a high-gravity world) she looked at it with scorn, said “So you’ve come to conquer the world, have you? Well take THAT,” and then just KICKED IT IN THE HEAD.

She’s interviewed in his book.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2484 dcairns Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:08:16 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2484 Haven't seen X for a while, but loved it. Really nice mix of camp and genuine dread. The Intruder, one of Corman's few flops, is terrific stuff. Gas! is my favourite of the "youth" pictures, and A Bucket of Blood is hufely enjoyable, more so than Little Shop of Horrors, I think. Has anybody seen any of his crime films, westerns, etc? Haven’t seen X for a while, but loved it. Really nice mix of camp and genuine dread.
The Intruder, one of Corman’s few flops, is terrific stuff. Gas! is my favourite of the “youth” pictures, and A Bucket of Blood is hufely enjoyable, more so than Little Shop of Horrors, I think. Has anybody seen any of his crime films, westerns, etc?

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2482 David Ehrenstein Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:12:51 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2482 Indeed. Monsters from Outer Space knew there was no way they could mess with Beverly Garland. As for Lee Van Cleef, he and Earl Holliman are still my all-time fave gay movie couple in <i>The Big Combo</i>. Indeed.

Monsters from Outer Space knew there was no way they could mess with Beverly Garland.

As for Lee Van Cleef, he and Earl Holliman are still my all-time fave gay movie couple in The Big Combo.

]]> By: chris schneider http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2481 chris schneider Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:41:28 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2481 I'll also say good things about Corman's "It Conquered The World" -- unfortunate monster notwithstanding -- and "X The Man With X-Ray Eyes." One of my favorite Beverly Garland moments is in the former, when she grabs a microphone and tells the alien "You may be an all-powerful monster in a cave, but he's my man -- AND YOU CAN'T HAVE HIM!" (Or words to that effect.) Beverly Garland and Lee Van Cleef -- one of cinema's great married couples. I’ll also say good things about Corman’s “It Conquered The World” — unfortunate monster notwithstanding — and “X The Man With X-Ray Eyes.”

One of my favorite Beverly Garland moments is in the former, when she grabs a microphone and tells the alien “You may be an all-powerful monster in a cave, but he’s my man — AND YOU CAN’T HAVE HIM!” (Or words to that effect.)

Beverly Garland and Lee Van Cleef — one of cinema’s great married couples.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2480 dcairns Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:17:24 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2480 I always enjoy Corman as an actor. Wasn't crazy about Philadelphia but loved him in it. Not so keen on Frankenstein Unbound but it does have the best ever mad scientists line: "Pull all remaining levers!" I always enjoy Corman as an actor. Wasn’t crazy about Philadelphia but loved him in it.

Not so keen on Frankenstein Unbound but it does have the best ever mad scientists line: “Pull all remaining levers!”

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2479 David Ehrenstein Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:58:36 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2479 Corman began as a film director but became a mini-mogul of note, his New World Pictures producting such classics as <i>Caged Heat, Pirhanna</i> and <i>Hollywood Boulevard</i> He briefly returned to the director's chair to make <i>Roger Corman's Frankenstein Unbound</i> -- which poroved he hadn't lost his touch. (Great as a double feature with Fuest's <i>The Final Programme) More recently he popped up as himself in Joe Dante's sublime <i>Looney Tunes: Back in Action</i>. Corman began as a film director but became a mini-mogul of note, his New World Pictures producting such classics as Caged Heat, Pirhanna and Hollywood Boulevard

He briefly returned to the director’s chair to make Roger Corman’s Frankenstein Unbound — which poroved he hadn’t lost his touch. (Great as a double feature with Fuest’s The Final Programme)

More recently he popped up as himself in Joe Dante’s sublime Looney Tunes: Back in Action.

]]> By: dcairns http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2477 dcairns Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:20:35 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2477 And he don't know it. But yes, the Poe films are where he found his finest expression as a filmmaker. Somehow it rarely carried over into his other work. His book, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, is one I regularly recommend to students. Although even the title is several kinds of lie! And he don’t know it. But yes, the Poe films are where he found his finest expression as a filmmaker. Somehow it rarely carried over into his other work.

His book, How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime, is one I regularly recommend to students. Although even the title is several kinds of lie!

]]> By: David Ehrenstein http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/the-chills-alive-alive-o/#comment-2475 David Ehrenstein Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:34:49 +0000 http://dcairns.wordpress.com/?p=556#comment-2475 Corman is a poet. Corman is a poet.

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