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Dean Cundey adds so much to these early Carpenter films...shots are goergously creepy

there's one shot of an empty room at the end there as the light/fog erupts after blake gets cross that really reminds me of the keep

Cundey is a magic word to me

gary kibbe did fine work for JC later on, but man... cundey was something else

You are right i never put the keep together. .
I see it now

2nd appearance of theme? End credits.
Wild.

Best abrupt ending

A young Bottin on his way to history.

What a perfect little spook story that is. Never gets even remotely dull to me, after a hundred viewings.

Great hanging with you, happy birthday Antonio Bay!

Wonder what happened to the town after that night?

"Our thanks to the people of Inverness CA"

Yeah, right!!

EvanCampbell wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:23 am A young Bottin on his way to history.

Is he retired now? Teaching?

Yeah this flew bye.

Had not seen it for awhile...holds up for certain. Thanks Scott this was fun to share some time.
Now pasta dinner :)

I see he contributed something to a Game of Thrones ep in 2014

Last i heard he retired. ...after the thing nothing else to prove.

Yeah he does little favor things once in awhile

EvanCampbell wrote: ↑Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:30 am Last i heard he retired. ...after the thing nothing else to prove.

Fucking mic drop and a half

Lol pretty much

Take care Scott!

You too!

Loved reading your comments ScoJo and Evan.
And I remember loving Wishmaster back in the day. Need to revisit that one.

Bez I saw wishmaster a couple of times when it was first released and remember it being kind of fun. It was directed by my boss and friend at the time who was an fx guy, so naturally he put a ton of fx stuff in it. There is a dinner party scene at the end that a lot of the effects crew are in playing victims ..I was asked but like always decline to have any fun. My biggest memory of that film was the first time I saw it . I went home to staten island to visit family and I took my girlfriend and mom to see it in the theater. About ten minutes of the opening film, there was some kind of error with the image and the screen was smashed half the size and really long. All the actors looked like compacted midgets. All of us in the audience (about 10 people ) were laughing our asses off. I was hoping that they wouldn't catch the error for awhile cause it was so funny.

EvanCampbell wrote: ↑Fri Apr 24, 2020 6:20 am Bez I saw wishmaster a couple of times when it was first released and remember it being kind of fun. It was directed by my boss and friend at the time who was an fx guy, so naturally he put a ton of fx stuff in it. There is a dinner party scene at the end that a lot of the effects crew are in playing victims ..I was asked but like always decline to have any fun. My biggest memory of that film was the first time I saw it . I went home to staten island to visit family and I took my girlfriend and mom to see it in the theater. About ten minutes of the opening film, there was some kind of error with the image and the screen was smashed half the size and really long. All the actors looked like compacted midgets. All of us in the audience (about 10 people ) were laughing our asses off. I was hoping that they wouldn't catch the error for awhile cause it was so funny.

Haha, amazing - I can tell you from experience, being a projectionist, that the doofus in the box was mistakenly showing the print with a Cinemascope lens, and if you do this you get that weird stretched/midget-vision effect ;-)

The best example I ever saw of this in a theatre was at the film festival premiere of Lynch's Mulholland Drive - For the first ten minutes of the movie everything was as you described - Laura Haring was running around like a Phantasm dwarf! But because it was Lynch, basically nobody in the audience complained, we all were collectively thinking 'ahh, that Lynch!' haha. Very memorable screening! (as an aside, I was projecting the film myself a little later and received a 'personal' fax from Lynch on the opening day, with instructions of how much headroom to give the print as well as audio level settings. I still have the fax somewhere I think! Thanks fuck he wasn't at that premiere, if he was that anal/detail concerened...

That is a cool Lynch story and thanks for clearing up how that error could happen. I was sure you would know what the deal was with that.