Posted on 05/30/2014 3:43:54 PM PDT by Perdogg
How would you spend your 92nd birthday? Would you record a heavy metal album? Well, that’s what Christopher Lee did. This year, he’s created an album of covers of various songs in a heavy metal style as a tribute to Miguel de Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote. It’s called “Metal Knight.”
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“...Best “Dracula” ever!”
Better than Lugosi? Ehhh... I might have to disagree...”
Well... Lugosi had that whole “suave European Count” thing going for him, true enough, but he wasn’t terrifying.
Lee, on the other hand... Hammer Studios did the whole Blood Red Eyes thing, the fangs, the icy stare... It was awesome stuff to a 12 year old (me) in 1972... “Dracula Has Risen From the Grave”.... “Taste The Blood of Dracula”... excellent flicks.
There was also another Hammer Vampire film with Peter Cushing called “The Brides of Dracula”. That is one of my favorite flicks as well.
Some of the Hammer “Frankenstein” remakes were good too.
Saturday Afternoon “Creature Double Feature” at it’s best!!!
Also, we had a guy called “Doctor Shock” who did “Horror Theater” and “Chiller Theater” back to back on one of the UHF stations. He was great. Showed all of those flicks, as well as the 50s Sci-Fi’s - “The Monster That Challenged the Word”; “The Monster of Piedras Blancas”.... “The Hideous Sun Demon”... “Creature from the Black Lagoon”... “20 Million Miles to Earth”... “The Valley of Gwangi”... “Jason and the Argonauts”... “The Thing From Another World”...
God, how I loved all that stuff as a kid... still do, although with modern CGI it looks so ... cheesy... now.
I try to watch it with a kid’s eyes now, but “The Thing” (1982) and “Aliens” spoiled every monster movie for me, haha!
“...His role as Dracula in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 was probably the peak of his career, most people saw him as Dracula in it....”
VERY funny movie... I bought an Abbott and Costello anthology set and that is in it. My kids loved it when they were little.
Glenn Strange played the monster. There’s outtake/bloopers of Lou Costello making him crack up so badly they couldn’t film the scenes until he calmed down. There’s something REALLY funny about seeing the Frankenstein monster busting up laughing... Sorta Herman Munster-like.
“...I submit Gary Oldman, in Coppola’s version of Dracula, was the best “one-off” actor performance of Dracula....”
Spot-on - that was a frigging excellent movie.
Louis Jordan played “The Count” in a late 70s version too, and that one was pretty good.
I’ve never seen that one, believe it or not.
Cheney will always be “The Wolfman” to me, although Oliver Reed did a good job of it too.
Do you remember “The Time Machine” with Rod Taylor?
Another great flick. Eloi were sheep for the Morlock wolves... until Rod showed them how to be Sheepdogs.
I never would have guessed that he was still alive. Well, good for him.
I admit that I haven’t seen many of those (mostly 50s) flicks. Or if I did see them on “Creature Double Feature” was was very, very young and don’t really remember.
I think there was a “Werewolf” flick with Michael Landon I sorta remember. A few grade Z Japanese monster flicks too. A flick with a head in a bowl with electrodes hooked up to it.
I do like the old Lugosi and Chaney movies. Those I watch when I catch them. I might have to pick some up from the DVD bargain bins.
Thanks!
Louis Jourdan. He must be ~100 by now.
Jourdan will be 93 this month.
I was close. Wonder if he’s in good shape.
Here
The Time Machine (1960 film)
Rod Taylor also starred in the sci-fi flick I watched Saturday on TCM.
World Without End (1956 film))
with those poor neglected future babes looking for real men from the 1950s to take care of them.
I should mention that Christopher Lee has had a great career.
His evil role in all three Rings movies at his age was a real plus.
He just keeps on going.
I watched that one Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948 at least 100X in my life. Lugosi and Cheney both got known as those characters in that popular movie more than the others,
We got a new retro channel called ‘getTV’ with only old movies and I DVRed off it Costellos only movie without Bud Abbott: ‘The 30 foot Bride of Candy Rock’ 1959. He died soon after.
I am watching it now.
OH_OH, you got Clear TV free
That is really roughing it in this day and age.
No, I have Comcast. I just don’t have the package with TCM.
I never heard of a package without TCM.
MeTV is broadcast TV as you know.
I was stuck with Comcast for many years and fortunately by the time FIOS came around I was doing well enough that the $100 per month for all three services wasn't even noticeable, its ~ $120 now. My phone is ~ $60
But that was after many decades of a career.
I HATE Comcast.
I hate Comcast too. But Fios isn’t available in my town, so I’m stuck.
Here they bundle TCM into the “Premier Sports Package” or whatever they call it. I don’t have that package. My Mom did, just for TCM. I can’t justify the extra ~$20 for one channel.
MeTV is OTA, yes.
Yes, Comcast sucks...
Ugh, I saw that once. Unlike the show it had no laughtrack and I found it unwatchable because of that. It's like it took that lack of the laughtrack to make me realize that the comedy was painful.
“...His evil role in all three Rings movies...”
He OWNED the part of Saruman. It was exactly as I pictured in my mind the first time I read the trilogy, way back in the 70s.
Peter Jackson seriously got the casting down to a science for those flix.
Lee can look back and say “Yeah, It’s been good”, no doubt.
“...We got a new retro channel called ‘getTV’ ...”
I wonder if Verizon carries that station. Will have to look. I would enjoy that very much.
“...Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 1948...”
Lon Cheney Jr.: “You don’t understand... when the moon is full, I turn into a Wolf!”
Lou Costello: “Yeah, You and twenty million other guys!”
Classic line...!!!
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