Joe Bob Radio

You talking about Once Upon A Time In The West makes me appreciate that big screen tvs are now affordable and offer beautiful picture.

I bought one used that was supposed to play without flipping, but I couldn't find anyone who would fix it reasonably. There were some titles like concerts that were only available on laser disk. Because those players were made for old tvs, I wonder if the disks would still look nice today? My TVs have RCA ports on the back. Fortunately my friends knew not to bitch if we watched something letterbox.

Hey Jimmy! I was the proud owner of a Pioneer laserdisc player that DID NOT NEED FLIPPING. So yeah, I was purty fancy. Bought a big ol' 35" TV that weighed a ton and then when you watched ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST, it was just a narrow band of gorgeous picture with giant hunks of black at the top and bottom of the screen. Most of my friends were philistines and bitched about the letterboxing, so out onto the lawn they went.

I'm ready for a night with skulls sliced in half lengthwise and excessive frightening gore.

This edition of Joe Bob Radio is hilarious. Who had a laser disk player? Awesome sound. Hard to say if the picture was awesome because my old TV with it's huge 28" picture tube was worse than the cheapest TVs you can buy today. But I digress. That's a hilarious episode of Joe Bob Radio. It reminds me of when FM rock stations would occasionally play comedy bits. I'd love to have all of these so I can just let them all play nonstop while I'm doing housework. Friday night's episode of The Last Drive In was great. I couldn't believe it when Joe Bob said you were showing the original and the Herzog Nosferatu. I suggested that combination a long while back, while knowing there was no way it would happen. I was very excited. I can understand why some fans weren't thrilled to have an artsy-fartsy horror night but after sitting through Cannibal Holocaust and Bloodsucking Freaks, I felt like I'd earned the artsy-fartsy night. Joe Bob's outfit looked like a birthday cake. Hilarious!

🥰🥰🥰 thanks so much! I’m glad you had fun! ❤️

Yay!! I’m so happy you dug it!

And, lastly, in defense of Florence Stoker: Bram's fortunes fell hard with the death of Henry Irving, and so she had probably a decade of struggling when they ripped off "Dracula". It may be that the lawsuit is why we remember Stoker today, actually. (You can't tell me Universal didn't cross their Ts and dot their Is in 1931.) How much of that "destroy the movie" ruling was post-War anti-German sentiment? (OK, it's on her that she was so aggressive about it but...)

Moviegique

As for his obituary mentioning "Jewel of the Seven Stars", it was probably because it was the more recent of his books. And I think his worst (excepting Lair, because that was written when his "ataxia" was in its final stages).

Moviegique

As for Stoker generally, yes, he was a Victorian writer because he wrote at that time, but we're not talking Henry James here. He rarely did those long, convoluted sentences you have to read six times to understand. Having read all of his books and short stories (recently, as part of my effort to re-write Lair of the White Worm), I found them eminently readable, moreso than H.G. Wells and maybe even moreso than A. C. Doyle.

Moviegique

I was a little surprised JB didn't mention that Henry Irving, the man Stoker was most famous-by-his-association-with, was the template for Dracula. That'd be a classic digression.

Moviegique

OK, now, I gotta stan a bit for Dracula and Stoker. The book grabs you from page 1, and the first 20% is some of the most gripping horror I've ever read. After that it goes into Stoker's Romance/Adventure mode (which most of his books were) but it's still highly readable. Only the ending was something of a letdown. (It would not be until Stoker's 9th novel/la, "The Man", that he nailed the ending. He was almost always too abrupt.)

Moviegique

Tonight's episode is one of the best. The movies were cool, the discussion was fascinating and the skits were up there with Ernetsuo

Chris Morgan

Great episode. It was nice to see the '79 Nosferatu with a decent print and proper aspect ratio, after a lifetime of seeing crappy VHS pan-and-scan transfers. I'd say it's a great movie, but not a great Dracula movie. (Who wants a morose Dracula?) It's not even my favorite Dracula movie of 1979. Heh.

Moviegique

So Happy right now. To hear a rant that quiets the "TV Cowboy? Hmmm.. Beer... Me too JBB, I was in awe for a few minutes there. There is no shame in this state of bliss. Looking good my Horror Heroes.

Tony (asmoody)

Absolutely love double Nosferatu! Thanks!

Just tuned in and holy Hell yesssssssssss! Btw a Geisterhaus is literally a spirit-house. And also a damn fine song by die Ärzte.

Dr. Acula