Most Oscar nominations ever for a horror film…
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PrometheusTree64 — 10 years ago(May 04, 2015 06:19 AM)
As much as I like Baby Jane I can only watch that every now and then where I can watch Hush Hush over and over again, I just find so much going on in Hush Hush and all the 4 women are superb
My feelings as well.
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PrometheusTree64 — 10 years ago(May 09, 2015 04:55 AM)
Are your comments stupid?
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PrometheusTree64 — 10 years ago(May 10, 2015 07:33 AM)
Nyahhh. That sounds like Crawford's queens.
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john kenrick — 6 days ago(March 28, 2026 07:14 AM)
1964 wasn't so much a weak year for Hollywood as a dark one. It was largely, however by no means exclusively, an American thing: the dark clouds hanging over our country were visible on television and in the movies. It was apocalyptic vibe, and it didn't so much vanish as get transferred, to the war in Vietnam and prime time TV, where it was often channeled into just plain comedy (
Bewitched, The Addams Family, The Munsters
); and then the post-JFK assassination conspiracy business; then the creeping feeling so many people had about what really happened in that dark day in Dallas.
This has all been written about so much I don't care to expand much more on it. Yet there's too much easy glibness when talking and writing about this troubled period of the early to middle Sixties. We blasted out of it, the massive despair, with the space program, prime time television turning all-color; and for me, the nonsectarian creep of a kind of libertarian liberalism, and anyone, anyone could play that game, from teenaged boys to middle aged Republicans.
We've been talkin' about horror movies on this thread, with much backward looking. Horror is still with us, and shamefully dumbed down. There were some grand one. Two of my favorites being
Psycho
and
Silence Of The Lambs
. From the late Sixties came
Night Of The Living Dead
, and then, thirty years later,
The Blair Witch Project
. Lots of good stuff in-between, too much of it of journeyman quality. Horror has become gory and ghastly, with CGI bringing it, depending on the point of view, down to a new level, or up to a higher one. My tastes tend toward the more black and white than in color decades of the Thirties and Forties, and the films from that era.
Okay, more OT, and then I'll quit: The spirit of classic horror is there even in many so-called
Noir
films, most of which are really crime pictures, dealing with kidnapping, prison breaks, blackmail and other sordid matters. I caught a good one earlier this week on-line:
Crashout
, with William Bendix in the lead, from 1955, and featuring a second feature dream cast, including William Talman, Gene Evans, Arthur Kennedy and Beverly Michaels. The ambiance of this one is near to Gothic; its outdoors settings,–freight trains and rainstorms, are highly effective. It's not a great film, but it's highly watchable, featuring coarse, down to earth, thick-ear dialogue galore, and unrelentingly. -
PrometheusTree64 — 9 years ago(November 14, 2016 05:35 PM)
It was also nominated for B&W costume design and score/song. The music was very effective and deserved the nomination(s). I'm not sure that the wardrobe warranted a nomination (which is the one BABY JANE won) but the clothes suit the piece, I suppose.
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mcdaniels-84888 — 9 years ago(November 17, 2016 05:38 PM)
With all the production woes, the publicity it garnered, personal appearances by Bette/Olivia, a hit song and Oscar nominations I'm surprised the film didn't make more of a profit. Mind you it was still successful but fell short of Baby Jane.
