#sam irvin

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Have you seen Magic Island (1995)?

Yes

No

Haven’t even heard of this movie

Voting ended onApr 19

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Elvira’s Haunted Hills dir. by Sam Irvin (2001)

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Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)

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SAMANTHA IRVIN

EXCUSE ME!?!

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On July 14, 2001, Elvira's Haunted Hills was screened at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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Isaac Hayes-Lauren Hutton "Guilty as charged" 1991, de Sam Irvin.

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Elvira's Haunted Hills (2001)

My rating: 5/10

I was honestly shocked to find out this was released in 2001, it looks and feels exactly like one of those mediocre-yet-beloved horror spoofs from the 80s. And mediocre is, unfortunately, what this is - there are some moments, but the whole thing drags on a bit, and a lot of the jokes just don't land.

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Frankenstein The True Story (1973)

This is where my love for the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists intersects with my love of gothic literature, mad scientists, and monsters. This out-of-print paperback in today’s mail is the screenplay of FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY, a 1973 two-part TV movie written by Christopher Isherwood (friend of E. M. Forster, W. B. Yeats, Virginia Woolf, and others) and his partner, the artist Don Bachardy. The original title, “Dr. Frankenstein,” got changed at the last minute by NBC TV. The movie is really very good, although I understand there are some significant differences from the screenplay as Isherwood and Bachardy wrote it. The actors Leonard Whiting and Michael Sarrazin (shown in the second pic) are both beautiful as Dr. Frankenstein and the Creature, respectively (well, the Creature starts out beautiful but then decays). The ever-bewitching Agnes Moorehead, post-Endora, is both campy and dignified, as always, as the landlady who finds herself hypnotized by the mad scientist, Dr. Polidori, played by James Mason. (This version of the Frankenstein story has three mad scientists, not just one!) I’m looking forward to reading the screenplay, then rewatching the movie on blu-ray with commentary track by Sam Irvin — who, as co-executive producer of the magnificent movie “Gods and Monsters,” is no stranger to Frankenstein lore. Sam Irvin has also written the award-winning book, “The Epic Saga Behind FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY,” which is in my TBR stack.