horror movies on cable
 

I am glad that Comcast Cable in New Haven shows a lot of vintage horror movies in prime time. Last night the listings showed Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. They even gave Frankenstein four stars. Recognition at last.

This is a true story. I was talking to a co-worker, a 25 year old woman. When I mentioned Boris Karloff, she asked me who that was. I said, meaning to be sarcastic, "I suppose you never heard of Bela Lugosi either!"
She hadn't.
Sheesh! People who don't recognize the name Bela Lugosi are still making fun of his Hungarian accent. "I vant to drink your blood!"

When my high school teacher saw that I was reading Dracula, by Bram Stoker, she told me I was reading cheap popular trash. (This was back in the 1970s). There is a new edition out of the novel, a Signet Classic, and it has "Signet Classic" right on the front cover. I wish I could get in a time machine and go back and show it to that teacher. "See? I told you it was a classic."

Funny how when I was reading Dracula back in High School my teacher admired me for reading a classic piece of writing. Of course this was back in the early 2000's.

I never actually watched the movie starring Boris Karloff, but I have seen Nosferatu many times which is one of my top favorite black and white horror movies. In some ways I feel like Nosferatu was better than the book because it left out the unnecessary stuff like vampire hunting. It was actually Harker's wife Nina who put an end to Dracula's horror by offering herself to save her husband and destroy the vampire with sunlight.

That is scary... a 25-year-old not knowing Boris Karloff or Bela Lugosi. They aren't from our era either, it's not like we grew up in the 30s and the 25-year-old didn't. But it gets worse.

A buddy of mine and I were checking out at a regular store, and our cashier was a cool looking 20-something heavy set chic. We were joking around with her and talking about films, and it got a around to my buddy saying, "it's like someone not knowing who Alfred Hitchcock is..." and cashier had never heard of him... ::EEK!:: Again, it's not like Hitchcock was releasing films when I was alive, but I still knew who he was when I was her age.

Unfortunately, there are more important things than Hitchcock, Karloff and Lugosi that Americans don't know... I watched this vid on youtube where 90% of the Virginia Tech college students, that a fellow student interviewed, didn't know who won the American Civil War. ::roll eyes::

I know plenty of Americans who don't realize that the Nazis were not actually communists. ::big grin::

Also I once had a teacher who refused to believe that dinosaurs ever existed because they weren't mentioned in the Bible.

Like I have said before American education sucks.

She so silly! Actually, there is a dinosaur mentioned in the bible at Job 40:15, but most consider the book allegorical.

Germany's National Socialist party (Nazi) and the concurrent Soviet Union's party were actually very similar. But that's probably not were their confusion comes in. ::big grin::

I think that the (mostly older) Americans thought that anybody who was their enemy or dared to disagree with how they were doing things was a communist. ::stick out tongue::

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Not recognizing the names Lugosi, Karloff, or Hitchcock...
Try the name William Shakespeare on the next kid you meet. I am afraid of what the response might be.

One time in a bar my sister told a boy she didn't like sports. He said she was a Communist.

I think nowadays Americans use the term "terrorist" to describe anybody that they feel threaten by. ::stick out tongue::

What's more important?
 

What? Somebody thinks that the Civil War is more important than Karloff and Lugosi? They should be kicked off this forum.

I know this is getting off topic but I don't understand why Americans take such pride in fighting that war. They were killing their own people over a disagreement in one of the bloodiest wars in American history so I'd think that they should be more ashamed of that. Also I just don't get why people from the South go around waving a Confederate flag in one hand and an American flag in the other. What an oxymoron...

Ok I'm done with being off topic now I promise. ::stick out tongue::

back on topic soon, I promise
 

Americans also tend to forget that 50,000 Americans died in that war, but 600,000 Vietnamese did.

Now I'll really, really get back on topic...What were we talking about? Oh, yeah, people who have never heard of Karloff or Lugosi. Well, I have heard that there are high school kids in America who can't find America on a map, and who can't answer the question "Name a country in Asia." Not knowing Karloff is not as bad as that (slightly.)
Now, I can forgive someone who doesn't recognize the name George Zucco, in spite of his long list of films. I saw his vampire film "Dead Men Walk"again a while ago, and it was better than I remembered. Non-horror fans might remember him from his playing Professor Moriarty in "The adventures of Sherlock Holmes."

I don't think anyone is proud a civil war happened. They may be proud to have family members who 'preserved the union' or 'defended their homeland'. The other options were 'stay with my family', 'desertion' and 'conscientious objector'. I think it's more honoring sacrifices made, and remembering history, which is helpful in preventing history from repeating itself.

I see it very differently. I see one side that wants to believe they were doing the right thing (The North), and I see another side that refuses to accept the fact that they lost miserably (The South).

I agree that it is important to study history so that we don't repeat it, but I also feel like obsessing over history and refusing to let go of the past can be very bad too. In fact that sort of thinking can probably cause history to repeat itself too when you think about it...

Anyways this really is getting way off topic and I apologize for that.::embarrassment::

Back to movies on cable. The thing I hate the most about watching any kind of movie on cable is the amount of content they cut out. They don't just censor movies anymore, they cut out as many scenes as they possibly can just so that they have room to put in all those commercials that nobody cares about. Sometimes there will be huge chunks of important scenes missing out of movies so basically that makes the movie not even worth watching.

Can we keep this thread on the topic of Horror movies on Cable please?

I'm trying too lol

question
 

does horror movies on cable mean channels you can only get on cable, or all the stations the cable company carries?

To combine cable horror movies with Vietnam: I think Deathdream is definitely worth seeing. In the horror movie book I had before cable tv, the author called that movie one of the little-known late-night classics.

Deathdream? Never heard of it. It's a Vietnam horror movie? ::shocked::