Watch Party tonight!

Updated on March 17, 2023 By Ken Begg 13 Comments

9:00 Eastern time. Hope to see you there.

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  • kgb_san_diego

    In tonight. Yay!

  • Gamera977

    I’m going to have to get some ‘medication’ ready but I’ll be there.

  • Megalon turned fifty today. The mind boggles.

  • 🐻 bgbear_rnh

    I’ll try to tear away from “The Quiet Man”.

  • St. Patrick’s Day fun!

  • Dorothy Cobb

    I had to miss this. What was the movie?

  • The Howling 2: Your Sister is a Werewolf

    Fun stupid movie, Christopher Lee tries to class up the joint, but he’s got the whole rest of the movie stacked against him.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I saw that one years ago but I’ve mostly forgotten it. I remember hoping that Lee did it for his amusement, and not because he was that desperate for a paycheck.

  • Beckoning Chasm

    That was fun. But I want to repeat my question–has there ever been an actor more ill-used than Christopher Lee? People in the chat mentioned John Carradine and Vincent Price. Which are both good examples, but, Carradine was in “The Grapes of Wrath” and Price was in “Laura,” before they became horror icons. Those are movies that your matronly Aunt Rosemary would choose to see.

    And yes, after Carradine and Price had established their horror creds, they were featured in some A films as a kind of “wink” to the audience. Christopher Lee, though, was (so far as I know) only in horror stuff until late in his career (with the Lord of the Rings films).

    Was he ever in a move that Aunt Rosemary would have picked? And let me say, I’ve enjoyed every horror movie Lee has been in and consider them classics.

  • As I heard it, he realized he had never done a werewolf movie, so this was it. He later apologized to Joe Dante for appearing in it.

  • He did those Three Musketeers movies (as a villain, natch) and popped up in some Sherlock Holmes flicks (occasionally as Holmes, once as Holmes’ brother). He was also The Man With the Golden Gun. There’s also the classic The Last Unicorn, which is one of the better fantasy adaptations.

    His Horror output dropped dramatically after the Seventies; I don’t think he had the fondness for it as Price and Karloff seemed to. Got burned once too often.

  • Ken_Begg

    He’s mostly remembered for his horror stuff, which was a high percentage of what he did. However, he did crime movies, swashbucklers, fantasy, Fu Manchu flicks, mainstream stuff like Airport ’77 and Return from Witch Mountain, superhero films (at least two of those)…

    Honestly, I think latter day Hollywood just forgot he was alive until Tim Burton put him in Sleepy Hollow.

  • Eric Hinkle

    I think Lee was the one who deserved an apology from someone.