Comments for The Crop Duster http://roberthorton.wordpress.com Robert Horton, Writing About Film Wed, 29 May 2013 15:45:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Movie Diary 5/28/2013 by Robert C. Cumbow http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/movie-diary-5282013/#comment-3905 Wed, 29 May 2013 15:45:55 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=7074#comment-3905 Reap the Wild Wind : Was this the first giant squid? It predates Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, and It Came from Beneath the Sea (OK, that one was an octopus) …

]]> Comment on Movie Diary 4/30/2013 by SeanAx http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/movie-diary-4302013/#comment-3850 Thu, 02 May 2013 16:42:51 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=7030#comment-3850 PS: The entire silent serial “Judex” by Louis Feuillaude plays over the next three Sunday nights on TCM

]]> Comment on Movie Diary 4/30/2013 by SeanAx http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2013/04/30/movie-diary-4302013/#comment-3849 Thu, 02 May 2013 16:41:52 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=7030#comment-3849 TCM is the best. I have no time to watch anything right now, mind you, but I just recorded “The Undercover Man” and the original version of “Black Lizard” (yes, there were TWO versions of that bizarre Japanese thriller about a drag queen criminal mastermind). Maybe when SIFF is over…=

]]> Comment on Beyond No Host (Weekly Links) by roberthorton http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/beyond-no-host-weekly-links/#comment-3791 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 04:57:44 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=6985#comment-3791 Hey yourself, thanks on behalf of KUOW. But I’m on the Facebook, and the Twitter too (@citizenhorton). Be there.

]]> Comment on Beyond No Host (Weekly Links) by abesheet http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2013/03/29/beyond-no-host-weekly-links/#comment-3790 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:54:47 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=6985#comment-3790 Hey Man,

I pledged 50 bucks in your honor on kuow this morning. Love your movie reviews every Wednesday. You should connect to facebook. That’s where the kiddies go nowadays :-) .

]]> Comment on The Four Feathers by ladylavinia1932 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2009/05/31/the-four-feathers/#comment-3660 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:04:40 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=2351#comment-3660 The “deeply regrettable” version with Heath Ledger is my favorite.

]]> Comment on About Wayne by Tess Millay http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/about-wayne/#comment-3517 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:23:04 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=6826#comment-3517 Lovely.

]]> Comment on Looper Perks Down (Weekly Links) by Annie Archer http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/looper-perks-down-weekly-links/#comment-3264 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 04:35:24 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=6628#comment-3264 Robert, I saw “The Master” at Tiff and was thoroughly underwhelmed.

]]> Comment on In the Year 2889 (The Cornfield #22) by James Brice http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/in-the-year-2889-the-cornfield-22/#comment-3169 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:51:18 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=5201#comment-3169 Sorry your childhood remembrance of 2889 was damaged! I first saw this film in ’68 just after it was released straight to television, on our Chiller creature feature which came on Saturday nights at around 11, or whenever the local news decided it had bored its citizens long enough. It terrified me, and to this day I cannot watch this film at night without getting chills…why? It is obviously not the story line. Nothing happens! Couldn’t Buchanan figure out that if he simply added a couple of bloody monster attacks he would have doubled the value of this talky movie? Apparently not! Except for Paul Peterson, the acting is atrocious, so there is no character I really cared about (except the poor alcoholic stripper)…no, in the end it was three things. The mutant, whose paper mache mask I still find unnerving today, the creepy setting in the woods, where deadly mist separates the protagonists from a monstrous new world which they can only imagine, and last but not least, that never-mentioned-by-critics completely horrifying music. If I run that music through my head it creeps me out on even the most sunny of days! For such an awful movie to have such a powerful effect on me, I have to say, “Bravo!”.

]]> Comment on Freaks by Monster, Freaks und Kuriositäten – historische Figuren http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/halloween-countdown-freaks/#comment-3133 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 13:03:57 +0000 http://roberthorton.wordpress.com/?p=520#comment-3133 [...] Freaks und Kuriositäten – historische Figuren Aus dem Film „Freaks“ von [...]

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