Hi, everyone! Tonight, on twitter, I will be hosting one of my favorite films for #MondayMania! Join us for 2019’s Seduced By A Killer (a.k.a. Dating To Kill)!
You can find the movie on Prime and then you can join us on twitter at 9 pm central time! (That’s 10 pm for you folks on the East Coast.) See you then!
Here is a scene that should be familiar to anyone who has ever watched anything from Something Weird, the infamous “you’re damaged goods and this is a fire sale!” monologue from Herschell Gordon Lewis’s 1963 expose of the Hollywood smut trade, Scum of the Earth.
4 Shots From 4 Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films is all about letting the visuals do the talking.
Today, on what would have been his birthday, the Shattered Lens remembers director Herschell Gordon Lewis. It’s time for…..
4 Shots From 4 Herschell Gordon Lewis Films
Blood Feast (1963, dir by Herschell Gordon Lewis, DP: Herschell Gordon Lewis)
Color Me Blood Red (1965, dir by Herschell Gordon Lewis, DP: Herschell Gordon Lewis)
Something Weird (1967, dir by Herschell Gordon Lewis, DP: Andy Romanoff)
The Wizard of Gore (1970, dir by Herschell Gordon Lewis, DP: Alex Ameri and Daniel Krogh)
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in hosting a few weekly live tweets on twitter and occasionally Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of Mastodon’s #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We snark our way through it.
Tonight, for #MondayActionMovie, the film will be 1984’s Runaway!
It should make for a night of fun viewing and I invite all of you to join in. If you want to join the live tweets, just hop onto Mastodon, find the movie on YouTube and hit play at 8 pm et, and use the #MondayActionMovie hashtag! The watch party community is a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
See you soon!
Happy Flag Day!
Today’s song of the day comes from the score of 1970’s Patton.
Today’s scene that I love comes from 1970’s Patton.
This scene, which occurs at the start of the film, won George C. Scott an Oscar …. which he refused to accept. Scott announced, even before he was nominated, that he wouldn’t accept the Oscar. One gets the feeling that probably made it all the more likely that he would win. To Scott’s credit, he did not send someone else to refuse the Oscar (and take the boos) in his place.
Would George Patton have refused the Oscar? Probably not.
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Happy Flag Day! It’s time for….
4 Shots From 4 Films For Flag Day
Patton (1970, dir by Franklin J. Schaffner)
Rocky IV (1985, dir by Sylvester Stallone)
The Patriot (2000, dir by Roland Emmerich)
Marty Supreme (2025, dir by Josh Safdie)
As some of our regular readers undoubtedly know, I am involved in a few weekly live tweets on Twitter and Mastodon. I host #FridayNightFlix every Friday, I co-host #ScarySocial on Saturday, and I am one of the five hosts of #MondayActionMovie! Every week, we get together. We watch a movie. We tweet our way through it.
Tonight, at 10 pm et, #ScarySocial presents 2017’s Truth or Dare!
If you want to join us this Saturday, just hop onto twitter, start the movie at 10 pm et, and use the #ScarySocial hashtag! It’s a friendly group and welcoming of newcomers so don’t be shy.
Truth or Dare is available on Prime! See you there!
In this scene from 1973’s O Lucky Man, Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell) comes to the end of his very long journey and finds himself auditioning for a role in a Lindsay Anderson film.
Anderson, of course, was also the director of O Lucky Man! and it’s obvious that the film that Mick is auditioning for is meant to be Anderson’s previous film, If.
McDowell, of course, actually did star in If. In fact, he played a character named Mick Travis.
After all of his surreal adventures, can Mick still smile enough to get the part?
4 Or More Shots From 4 Or More Films is just what it says it is, 4 shots from 4 of our favorite films. As opposed to the reviews and recaps that we usually post, 4 Shots From 4 Films lets the visuals do the talking!
Today, the Shattered Lens wishes a happy birthday to Malcolm McDowell! It’s time for….
4 Shots From 4 Malcolm McDowell Films
If (1968, dir by Lindsay Anderson)
A Clockwork Orange (1971, dir by Stanley Kubrick)
O Lucky Man (1973, dir by Lindsay Anderson)
Time After Time (1979, dir by Nicholas Meyer)
