How was it??
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GroovyDoom — 10 years ago(July 25, 2015 08:37 PM)
By the way, I'm amused by your pat generalization about what constitutes a horror movie style, and how if it doesn't fit that template it can't be a horror movie. I have seen hundreds of horror movies, all filmed in different ways. Some of them are filmed the way you describe. Many are not. It doesn't mean they're not horror movies.
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LetThemEatCake01 — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 12:08 AM)
I doubt that. There are very very few horror movies made that don't follow the hitchcockian style of horror, very few, in fact there is no other style, the only one exception to that would be The Exorcist, which had an entirely new style. Movies like Antichrist people like to call horror, I guess that's the type of movies you mean, either way Mommie Dearest couldn't possibly be that style of film.
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GroovyDoom — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 08:11 AM)
Wow! If James Whale were alive today, he'd be thrilled to know he held onto that horror standard that Hitchcock set for him. Then "The Exorcist" came along and brought that entirely new style with it. OK, I think I got it. Thanks for schooling me!
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PrometheusTree64 — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 05:38 AM)
I saw it when it came out in Sept 1981. The suburban theater was packed, and people howled with laughter throughout the picture.
The picture was camp, while the book was not. Yes, many of the scenes in the movie were also in the book, but it's the
tone
which varied so much.
I'm sorry but you are mistaken. I haven't read the book but in Christina's interview with Donahue she specifically states that she went ballistic on one of her night rades when she found a wire hanger and she even stated that she started screaming and she specifically said that the only light that was on was the bathroom light. So if that is so then it wasn't shot like a horror movie but how she wrote it actually happened.
But Christina has also said Joan wasn't made up with cold creme like the movie.
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GroovyDoom — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 08:40 AM)
I'm so jealous you got to see it during its initial run! I was 11 when it came out, and too young to care about Joan Crawford or understand any of the controversy surrounding the book or the movie. But I did see it on HBO the following year, and after that it was love.
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GroovyDoom — 10 years ago(July 26, 2015 09:36 AM)
HBO used to have a preview show hosted by Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara. I distinctly remember the clip they showed from "MD" was part of the wire hanger rant, ending with her going "Christinagetouttathatbed!" Meara sort of gave this look afterwards like she was stifling a giggle orsomething.
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stevenackerman69 — 9 years ago(June 06, 2016 01:16 AM)
So you and I were the same age at the time. But I didn't know about the film for years. Eventually I saw Roger Ebert's review and found out more about it as I got older and was more interested in films.
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Noir-It-All — 9 years ago(June 16, 2016 06:38 PM)
I saw it for the first time on HBO a year after it opened. I was on the road for my job. But, I had a colleague in Chicago who saw it in the theater. He thought it was a joke and claimed that other members of the audience did, too.