COB's Creepers #8 & #9 DOUBLE FEATURE, Wednesday 12/10/22 - The Abominable Dr Phibes (8pm), Queen Kong (10pm)

[VoR]

Still trying to get my head around the appeal of Robin Askwith. Was his body particularly impressive for back then?

He really is quite uniquely charmless, isn't he?

 

[ButterTart]

The Nun's song is proper tickling me

 

[COB]

So much for them!

 

[ButterTart]

OMG the crash effects

 

[VoR]

Seriously Rula, you can do better!

 

[COB]

Mrs Doubtfire?!

 

[COB]

"So THAT'S gorilla warfare!"

 

[VoR]

ACHING for this to end at this point

 

[COB]

Doesn't time fly when you're having fun?

CAN'T RELATE!

 

[COB]

ACHING for this to end at this point

Nearly there now!

 

[ButterTart]

The inconsistent size of Kong all the way through this

 

[ButterTart]

OMG Andy Capp!

 

[COB]

Queen Kong to incite a feminist revolution

 

[VoR]

What a MANSPLAINING CUNT

 

[ButterTart]

Oh holy bloody shit

 

[COB]

That sign saying "it's a lot of cock" - they're not wrong!

 

[COB]

Can't believe this was actually the birth of the TERF movement.

 

[COB]

ADULT FEMALE GORILLA

 

[COB]

Kathy Staff has HAD IT

 

[COB]

I do love that they clearly didn't know how to end it so just chucked in another song

 

[ButterTart]

Did they even HAVE threesomes back in those days?

 

[VoR]

All these lovely emancipated women in skimpy swimsuits

 

[COB]

Did they even HAVE threesomes back in those days?

Invented in 1983 according to Wiki!

 

[VoR]

Well @COB that was truly the pits

 

[COB]

Well there we are! A dreadful film, but I had a lovely time watching it so thank you

 

[VoR]

FUN FACT from the Wikipedia page

The film has a cult following in Japan. In 1998, a troupe of Japanese comedians produced their own Japanese dialogue for the film, in a similar spirit to Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily?; this version with the new Japanese dialogue was released on DVD in 2001.

 

[ButterTart]

I can't pretend I didn't enjoy it. There's something about 'anything goes' seventies filmmaking that I love.

 

[COB]

So next week we're back to just one film - we're going sci-fi with 1985's Lifeforce, in which a group of space vampires launch an assault on Earth (their secret weapon being a woman with smashing norks). Join me if you dare!

 

[ButterTart]

I’ve not seen Lifeforce in YEARS. I think I have it on DVD somewhere so I’ll try to lay hands to it before next week.

 

[Christian]

So next week we're back to just one film - we're going sci-fi with 1985's Lifeforce, in which a group of space vampires launch an assault on Earth (their secret weapon being a woman with smashing norks). Join me if you dare!

Another classic! The jury's still out (and probably always will be) on Tobe Hooper, but the UK setting and John Dykstra special effects are fabulous.

 

[Raining on Me]

Right I'm going in on Dr Phibes

 

[Raining on Me]

Already sold on this camp opening sequence

 

[Raining on Me]

Oh good, beyond ridiculous within seconds. How comforting. Is it a Strictly special?

 

[Raining on Me]

That bedroom scene was actually super creepy UNTIL the extremely cute and entirely non threatening bats arrived

 

[Raining on Me]

Oh god please tell me it's not full of these musical numbers

 

[Raining on Me]

The PAPER PLANE bat

 

[Raining on Me]

The way nobody helps and just stands aside to let the frog man collapse ensuring he has enough room to roll down the stairs

 

[Raining on Me]

Such an inconvenience at these parties!

 

[Raining on Me]

Does anyone ever have a desk that isn't with one of those green lamp things. I quite like them but they seem to be more common than Pot Noodles

 

[Raining on Me]

I do love a sinister leather bag with a CLASP. Enya found seething