Funny horror films for Halloween (I)


	Funny horror films for Halloween (I)

readforpleasure

10-25-2007 2:48 PM

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horror, comedy, halloween, monster, video, film, movie

readforpleasure says:

Creature from the Haunted Sea! (The soundtrack is fabulous too.)

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<P></P><DIV class="firstpic"><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006FFR8Y?ie=UTF8&tag=readforplea-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006FFR8Y"><IMG src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_j59npxAenFo/Rxlj68ySPlI/AAAAAAAAAfE/3WjCJAb829Q/s400/CreatureFromTheHauntedSea.jpg" /></A></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind.html"><H4>Creature from the Haunted Sea</H4><DIV><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006FFR8Y?ie=UTF8&tag=readforplea-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0006FFR8Y"><I>Creature from the Haunted Sea</I></A> is a half-serious, half-slapstick crime-castaway-monster movie with rampant Bogart parody and a pathetically homemade monster.</DIV><BR /><DIV>The setting is the Caribbean, just after the <A href="http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/mirrordance/revolution.html">Cuban Revolution</A>.  Several former Cuban military officers abscond with a strongbox from the Cuban treasury, and hire a Sicilian-American mafioso's boat for their getaway.  The mobster and his moll decide to scuttle the boat, blame the Cubans' deaths on a sea monster, and keep the money.  All goes well until the <I>real</I> sea monster gets in on the scheme.</DIV><BR /><IMG src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Creature_from_the_Haunted_Sea.JPG/180px-Creature_from_the_Haunted_Sea.JPG" />Roger Corman (<A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004RF8J?ie=UTF8&tag=readforplea-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B00004RF8J"><I>Little Shop of Horrors</I></A>) filmed <I>Creature</I> <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_from_the_Haunted_Sea">in five days</A>, augmenting it with spare footage and dialogue from a different film.  Boy, does it show.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind.html">And the Creature itself looks like Cookie Monster's senile great-uncle, <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_from_the_Haunted_Sea">made from</A>:<BLOCKQUOTE cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creature_from_the_Haunted_Sea">a wetsuit, some moss, lots of Brillo pads.... Tennis balls for the eyes, Ping-Pong balls for the pupils and pipecleaners for the claws.</BLOCKQUOTE></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/irVmjFkpsXA&rel=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/42559329-5A90-4B4C-99C8-3B8BB9F677AE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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