[Wildfire916]

Originally Posted by Bullitt68

Just Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy

I've never really seen the other Mummy films anywhere, either. I don't recall them airing on Turner Classic Movies, they're not at my library, and they're certainly not at Blockbuster.

I'm open to seeing them, but it's going to have to happen under the right circumstances (i.e. TCM broadcasting them).

Abbott and Costello were in a few monster movies weren't they? I remember seeing one the reviews and they were in a scene with Frankenstein.

[PureBreed]

thank you again

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by Wildfire916

Abbott and Costello were in a few monster movies weren't they? I remember seeing one the reviews and they were in a scene with Frankenstein.

They had a series of films from the late 1940's to the late 1950's where they "met" classic characters from past horror films, among them Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Mummy, etc.

They were big influences on Tarantino, believe it or not, because of the way the films combined genres so deftly.

From an interview with Tarantino, Roger Avery, and Lawrence Bender:

Hollywood's new hit men - writer-directors Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary and producer Lawrence Bender - Interview | Interview | Find Articles at BNET

QUENTIN TARANTINO: I remember the first movie I saw on television when I was, like, "Oh wow, you can do this in a movie?" was Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein [1948]. That was my favorite movie when I was five years old. The Abbott and Costello stuff was funny, but when they were out of the room and the monsters would come on, they'd kill people! And the big brain operation when they take out Costello's brain and put in Frankenstein's Monster's brain was scary. Then this nurse gets thrown through a window! She's dead! When's the last time you saw anybody in a comedy-horror film actually kill somebody? You don't see that. I took it in, seeing that movie. Then I saw Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy [1955] and I remember thinking, These are the greatest movies ever made. You get a great comedy and a great horror movie--all together.

GODFREY CHESHIRE: Your films obviously do something similar. How do you look at combining laughter and terror? Is it a balancing act where at times you can get too funny?

QUENTIN TARANTINO: I don't think there's any such thing as "too funny," or that there's any such thing as "too hard." But I don't do it like Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, where you're at the funny part, then you're at the scary part, then you're at the funny part again. To me, all my stuff is the funny part. If you were to tape an audience watching Reservoir Dogs and play it back, you'd swear you were listening to people watching a comedy. But oddly enough, it's not a situation where I'm being strategic about how I put this and that together. Part of the way I think is having you laugh, laugh, laugh, laugh until I stop you from laughing. That's what I did on Dogs. Pulp is different; in a way you never stop laughing, right? You have the same [morbid gasp] from time to time, and particularly in the needle scene with Uma Thurman. That's actually my favorite sequence as far as the reaction I've had so far, because you have half the theater giggling like hell and the other half diving under their seats. That's really cool.

Originally Posted by PureBreed

thank you again

My pleasure.

[Wildfire916]

^^^^^^^^^Sweet. Thanks for the interview.

It's amazing how a lot of these classic films inspired many of the directors and actors of today. Looking at some of theses old clips I can see the influence in modern film making.

[Bullitt68]

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[cheese7668]

Thanks for posting the reviews, they bring back memories. I saw pretty much every old "monster movies" when I was a kid. I would always stay up with my mom on Friday nights and they would come on AMC or TCM at like 10pm or so. They are very underrated.

[Bullitt68]

Originally Posted by cheese7668

Thanks for posting the reviews, they bring back memories. I saw pretty much every old "monster movies" when I was a kid. I would always stay up with my mom on Friday nights and they would come on AMC or TCM at like 10pm or so. They are very underrated.

I have a VHS in my collection called "The Monster Tape." One Halloween a few years ago, TCM aired Dracula, The Wolf Man, Frankenstein, and Bride of Frankenstein all back-to-back.

Sadly, I can't recall seeing those films broadcast since. They really need to air those more often along with the Lugosi/Karloff collaborations (which I'll be getting to within the next couple of weeks).