Did you know Anthony Hopkins was playing Alfred Hitchcock in picture about the making of Psycho? No? Well now you do, and this is what he looks like.
Personally I think he looks great, it isn't buried three feet thick in make-up but has enough on to change his look enough to be recognizable, excellent.
During World War 2, a small plane off the south coast of America is low
on fuel and blown off course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal,
they crash land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the
pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The easily-spooked
manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and
ghosts.
In this series of videos I will be talking about the films that I love, across all genres and ages. You might see some films on here that you hate or love as well, feel free to let me know either way!
The new Japanese trailer for The Amazing Spider-Man adds just enough new footage to make it worth while watching.
It adds a few cool new shots and expands on a few more elements which I've always wondered about, like, how Aunt May reacts to Peter turning up with bruises and cuts all the time.
I'm really loving the look of this, I hope they don't drop the ball.
I still remember seeing this for the first time and what a jaw dropping moment that first dino scene was. Every time I get a Spielberg film on DVD (or Blu-ray) as much as I love all the interviews or making -of's, I really wish the mighty beard would sit down and do a commentary track.
That is never going to happen, so here is the next best thing, a few minutes of watching the master at work, very cool.
Why did I never hear of this? Apparently it didn't even air, and watching it, its no wonder. Terrible acting and a terrible script are made all the more worse by cheap production values and terrible effects.
As cool as a weekly Darkman TV show would have been, this needed major work, which clearly they did.t want to do. What a shame.
I find this sort of stuff fascinating, here is 15 minutes of the un-aired pilot for The Munsters. Apart from it being in colour you will notice that apart from Grandpa and Herman, it has a completely different cast.
The feel of the show seems a touch darker, and the addition of colour adds so much more to the production, I'm not sure if it was a budget decision to change to B&W, but its strange to change the look of the show so dramatically for the second pilot.
And you have to wonder why they got as far as shooting a pilot before they realised that half the cast wouldn't work, even going so far as to change the name to Herman's wife to the now more familiar 'Lilly'.
Whatever the reasons for the changes, what we ended up getting turned into an iconic show which is about to get a new and more serious reboot very soon, but it's always fun to think about what could have been.
Yes, you read correctly, as I get back into the Filmmason blogging frame of mind I plan to start interviewing people again, if you skip back a bit in the blog history, you will find a nice selection of interviews from people such as scream queen Brinke Stevens to SPX wizz Howard Berger.
I have put out the word and so far two has responded, one is an editor of a current magazine I'm sure most of you have read at some stage of your lives, the other is a FX legend on the large and small screen. Keep your eyes peeled! Post your guesses below.....
*UPDATE* Three more people have agreed to interviews, one is an actor with a ton of genre work under his belt.
One is a world class SFX artist and the third is a director and I can guarantee at least one of his films will be in your top ten films ever. Hohoho, it feels like Christmas.
