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Mar 23, 2014 - 11:13 AM
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dan the man
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In the 70's after the success of AIRPORT-70-The film industry through the next decade would go on to make family oriented disaster films in which the cast were made up of many well known stars of the past and the then present. The formula worked for a while with the thinking, at that time, most of the cinemagoer's were young, so maybe with these films we will not only get the young but ma and pa and maybe even grandma and grandpa with these stars in the cast.For a while it worked[THE POSIDEN ADVENTURE, THE TOWERING INFERNO, EARTHQUAKE ETC, by the end of the decade it didn't work[METEOR, BEYOND THE POSIDEN ADVENTURE, WHEN TIME RAN OUT ETC].A decade or 2 before, large cast with well known stars were often in biblical films[50's 60's] However there was another set of films in it's history that on a smaller scale did the same procedure. the wonderful MILT SUBOTSKY and his AMICUS FILM COMPANY. From 1965 till 1973 Milt and amicus made 7 anthology films and his intentions must have been similar because going to the movies over 40 years of my life now that I think about it. I never saw such a high ratio of old people going to horror films in the theatres then with these films. 7 FILMS DIG THIS GREAT CAST-PETER CUSHING, CHRISTOPHER LEE,DONALD SUTHERLAND,BURGESS MEREDITH,JACK PALANCE,JOAN COLLINS,RALPH RICHARDSON,RICHARD GREENE,DONALD PLEASENCE,TERRY THOMAS,CURD JURGENS, MARGERET LEIGHTON,BARBARA PERKINS,HERBERT LOM,RICHARD TODD,GLYNIS JOHNS,INGRID PITT, DIANA DORS,PATRICK MAGEE, ROBERT POWELL,CHARLOTTE RAMPLING,BRITT EKLAND,TOM BAKER,EDWARD JUDD,IAN HENDRY,IAN BANNON,DAVID WARNER,LESLEY ANN DOWNE,DENHOLM ELLIOTT, ROY CASTLE,MICHAEL RIPPER ETC ETC.A nice contrast of popular vets of the day , stars big at that time and upcoming stars who would be very popular.Milt also for a while knew what he was doing but like those big disaster films the trend of success would falter. R,I,P MILT you were a great guy.
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Mar 23, 2014 - 7:54 PM
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Richard-W
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I don't know if Milton Subotsky was a great guy, but I always enjoyed the latest Amicus film when it came out. I got to see THE MIND OF MR. SOAMES (1970), THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (1970), TALES FROM THE CRYPT (1971), THE VAULT OF HORROR, ASYLUM (1972), AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS (1973), I MONSTER, FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE (1974), THE BEAST MUST DIE (1974), THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT (1975), AT THE EARTH'S CORE (1976) and THE PEOPLE THAT TIME FORGOT (1977) when they opened. Each film loaded with a great cast of names and familiar faces. Each film a low-budget exercise in style and genre fun. Being a repeat customer, I saw each film a few times, but HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD was my favorite, and still is.
At Halloween festivals during the 1970s I got to see scrappy prints of some of the older Amicus films projected on the big screen, including DR. TERRORS HOUSE OF HORRORS (1965), THE SKULL (1965) and TORTURE GARDEN (1967). The rest I saw on TV -- including DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS, DALEKS INVASION EARTH 2150 A.D., THE TERRORNAUTS, THE PSYCHOPATH, THE DEADLY BEES and THEY CAME FROM BEYOND SPACE -- all 1960s films. I didn't see DANGER ROUTE (1969) until the 1990s. I've never seen WHAT BECAME OF JACK AND JILL?
The one Amicus Film I've always wanted to see projected and never did is THE CITY OF THE DEAD (1960). I saw it many times on television in a truncated version under the title HORROR HOTEL. It aired at least twice a year in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, and it always aired on Halloween. The DVD released by VCI, with missing footage reinstated and photochemical restoration, was a revelation. I consider it one of the best horror films ever made.
I uploaded posters on previous threads about Amicus.
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