Ralph Bakshi

[HandBehind]

JKS, I think I love you... your choice of artist/directors is dead-on.
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[Movie-Man]

JKS you just gave me an idea; how about Quentin Tarantino for a remake of Cool World since the dude is a huge fan of Ralph Bakshi's works and references them in Kill Bill Vol. 2.

[Isaac]

[Movie-Man]

I hope so too Issac if The Last Days of Coney Island will be a success and I don't think a Cool World would rival Roger Rabbit since the original idea of Cool World was supposed to be a Horror movie while Roger Rabbit is a Comedy movie and yes, I also believe that Ralph Bakshi deserves the recognition and respect.

[Isaac]

Well, I meant, in terms of overall quality, not in material.

I know that the original screenplay was nothing like Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

But, I do have something to add: if your idea of a horror movie is an idiot running around with a chainsaw in a dumb Halloween mask, I think that you'd be quite disappointed by the Cool World remake, if it ever does get made.

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[Movie-Man]

[Isaac]

[Movie-Man]

[Isaac]

Okay, so except for Stephen King's IT, the original Tales from the Crypt movie from 1971, the Demon Knight spin-off from HBO's Crypt TV series (BTW: Where's Bordello of Blood?), and Tales from the Hood, your list is pretty much all "idiot running around with a chainsaw in a dumb Halloween mask" type-of horror movies.

Where are the classics, like Night of the Living Dead? Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho? Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (I KNOW you've seen that movie, Movie-Man)?

Dracula, with Bela Lugosi? Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens, with Max Schreck? Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, with Werner Krauss? (Damn, some hack named David Lee Fisher is trying to do a remake of that movie as we speak...must avoid)

[Movie-Man]

[Isaac]

Beetlejuice doesn't count as a horror film.

If you're interested in seeing Land of the Dead, PLEASE view Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, and Day of the Dead beforehand.

One final note: AVOID the 30th Anniversary Edition of Night of the Living Dead...it's interesting for fans of the film to watch, but it may put people off if they haven't seen Romero's intended cut beforehand {the 30th Anniversary Edition was re-cut by John A. Russo, who co-wrote the original screenplay; for the 30th Anniversary of the film, Russo added in new, inferior scenes. However, the new cut did have a nice new score}.

Romero's intended cut of Night of the Living Dead is pretty easy to find, since his version is in the Public Domain, and non-copyrighted.

You might be able to find a cheap copy of Night of the Living Dead in your local bargain bin.

Or, if you have a lot of time on your hands, you can download it from here:

http://www.archive.org/details/night_of_the_living_dead

Either way, you'll get to see the film the way George A. Romero had originally intended it to be seen, and not some shoddy re-cut anniversary edition.

[Isaac]

Well, I said "pretty much." I didn't mean that everything on your list was run-of-the-mill slasher flicks.

I liked the first Alien movie. I've never seen the sequels and I don't plan to.

I've never seen Predator or its sequel.

I don't plan to view the Puppet Master horror movies -- the concept of "living puppets who kill people for their master" doesn't work for me. Sorry.

Plus to add to the fact that the first film in that series was inspired by another film which was a rip-off of Child's Play, which I have seen, and like because it works great as a dark comedy (it looks bad as a horror film, as I didn't find it to be scary in the least bit).

My opinion of Bordello of Blood is that it's a pretty good movie if you look at it as a comedy, and not as a horror film.

[Isaac]

Since I didn't like Cool World, I'm obviously not going to agree with you on everything.

If I get a chance, I'll see Predator.

Be sure to check out Romero's first three "Living Dead" films--they're classics.

[JKS]