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      That scenario sounds an awful lot like something I saw with Abbott
    and Costello, or was it Don Knotts.  Well one of those anyways.  I hope
    this helps....
    
     Carl S.
    
    

    Naw this one was supposed to be serious, scare stuff...
    
    I think its title was something like "The Haunted House" or something
    pretty simple.  I have been looking for it for a long time and can't
    get close...
    
    (It has sentimental value, if I could get my hands on it)
    
    Anyway, it was from 30s to 50s vintage, and I'm fairly sure the actors
    were all Brits...
    
    Thanx,
    
    Chip

	Doesn't this topic belong in topic 83 (ie. the "Official"
	"What's the name/title of this movie" topic)? :-)

Here's what a quick search for Haunt and House in the same title came up with:

Francis in the Haunted House|1956|
Haunted House, The|1928|
Henry Aldrich Haunts a House|1943|
Hillbillys in a Haunted House|1967|
House on Haunted Hill|1958|

    Sounds like the 1928 title may be it!!
    
    Do you have any info regarding where I can get a copy?  
    
    Thanks.
    
    Chip

No, the only other information I have on it is that Thelma Todd was in
the cast.

    Thanks Jon.  It's been a real challenge, at least I have an actress
    and a date of issue!

    Chip

    
    There may be some info on the movie in the biography of Thelma Todd
    that came out last year -- I think the title was "Hot Toddy".
    
    Good luck,
    Ron

I looked it up in a comprehensive movie guide last night, and that
doesn't sound like it.  More details off line...

    Ron,  

    Thanks!  I found "Hot Toddy" for sale at Barnes & Noble.  Being a 
    conspiracy nut, I picked it up.  Looks like Thelma lived an interesting
    (albeit short) life!
         
    Seems she was rubbed out by lucky Lucciano when she was 30 years old.

    I'm trying to recreate a first "meeting" between myself and my Fiance
    several years ago, and we happened to watch this movie that night on
    some obscure horror movie series...
                               
    Anyway, I found "Haunted House" (1928) First National (Warner Bros)
    Directed by Benjamin Christensen

    Co-starring:  Edmund Breese, Chester Conklin, Montague Love, Larry
    Kent.

    I guess I contact Warner Bros next and see if its possible to get it
    on tape.

    Thanks noters!

    Regards,

    Chip Bach

    
    Hey, that's great, Chip!  Good luck on getting a tape of the movie.
    I guess it can pay to hang around libraries!
    
    Ron

    Called Warner Bros.

    They said Turner Broadcasting bought out all titles prior to 1956.

    Called Turner.

    Turner only have information (on-line) for films +1932.  They told me
    to call SWANK Movies, Inc.

    SWANK didn't have the film on record.  They told me to call The Academy
    of Motion Pictures Archives and Museum.

    I haven't been able to get through to them yet.

    Geez.  I hope this is the movie I watched...

    ;-)

    Chip

    
        I was wondering if anyone could help me with this one, I'm looking
    for as take I believe is called "Mommy Dearest". I believe from what
    I've been told it's about a doll, can anyone confirm this? if you've 
    seen the movie was it worth renting? and last but not least when was 
    it released in the theatre's? I can't even find the novel. 
    
    
    Thanks 
    
    Rose..
    

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>        I was wondering if anyone could help me with this one, I'm looking
>    for as take I believe is called "Mommy Dearest". I believe from what
>    I've been told it's about a doll, can anyone confirm this? if you've 
>    seen the movie was it worth renting? and last but not least when was 
>    it released in the theatre's? I can't even find the novel. 
    
  As I remember, "Mommy Dearest" was a movie about the family life of Joan
Crawford (sp?) as seen through her kids eyes. If it's the one I'm thinking
about, the movie was one of those very unflattering stories where the kids
waited until the parent died to trash their reputation. I believe that Fay
Dunaway (sp?) played the lead. The movie was generally panned by the critics. 

  George

	Hi 

	I think the movie your looking for is called " DOLLY DEAREST".

	It's a ripoff on the Chuckie (Childs Play) movies only not done 
	nearly as well story and FX wise.

	I'm not sure this ever did make it to the theaters if it did it wasen't
        for more than a week or so.

	I saw it on video it may be OK for a $1.00 rental.

	Don't think there is a novel.


						Steve Bo.

    
    
        Thats it, thats the one I'm talking about "DOLLY DEAREST", to bad
    though I had heard it was pretty good, Oh well.  
    
    Thanks for the reply's
    
    Rose..
    

    Anyone else hear about the upcoming (moans please....) 
    JASON IN HELL : THE FINAL FRIDAY (Friday the 13th Part IX)?
    
    I've always been a big fan of Friday the 13th and Halloween movies,
    (I started not caring much for Freddy around part 4 or 5...liked 6
    though...) 
    
    I believe this one is put out by New Line, and has Erin Gray (I think)
    in it.... I only found out when I went to see Rookie Of The Year in
    Bremerton Washington, and a movie poster was advertising it. If any of
    my facts are screwed up it's because I had a 7 second glance at the
    credits underneath due to a little brother yanking on my arm...
    
    Anyone know when this is coming out?
    
    MBH

    I saw in the theater that it wiuld be out in august I don't remember
    what day.
                         Jeff Peters

    
    	Finally!!  It's been too long [4 years?] since the last one!!
    
    	And from what I've heard of Erin Gray, she'd make a convincing
    	Jason.
    
    	8^)
    
    							GTI

    
    Friday the 13th:  Jason Goes To Hell
    
    This the 9th in the series.  Sean Cunningham, who directed the first
    (and wasn't really involved for the sequels) is back, this time
    producing.
    
    Opening....  (when else) Friday, August 13th.
    
    - Sean

    
    	That's this week!!
    
    	This came out of nowhere, didn't it?
    
    							GTI

    I heard the possibility that they might make a 9th movie a couple of
    months after the 8th one flopped, but only heard rumors until a few
    weeks ago in Bremerton Washington I went with my kid brother to see
    "Rookie Of The Year" and saw a poster for it. I've since seen ads on
    TV, but have yet to see a preview for it before any movie I've seen,
    and I've seen probably 5 or 6 since then.
    
    MBH

    BTW, I have heard absolutly NOTHING about the possibility of anyone
    making "HALLOWEEN 6".... and #5 simply 'screamed' (hehehe) of a sequel.
    
    Anyone know anything regarding a 6th movie coming out?
    What it'll be called?
    
    		The Death Of Michael Myers  (?)
    		Halloween : 666      (?)
    		The Return Of Loomis (?) 
    		The Legend Of Michael Myers (?)
    		
    :) Just guesses.....
    
    MBH
    

    I haven't seen any previews and haven't heard anything but the title:
    Jason in Hell. Wouldn't it be great if they turned it around, and it
    was a chance for Jason's victims to exact their vengence on him? That
    is, if he is in Hell for punishment; it might be his idea of a vacation
    spot, or he might be on the staff there. Anyway, it might be a way to
    breathe life (so to speak) into a genre which pretty much exhausted its
    limited charms after "Halloween 1".

  That wouldn't really be all that new. Jason is always getting beat up,
stabbed, shot, hacked, poisoned, bit, torn, and having his credit cards taken
away. It never stops him for long, he's always up and at them again. 

  I seriously doubt it will be the last episode, that's just hype. After this
we'll see Friday the 13th Part gizzilion, Jason leaves Hell. After all, if
Dante found a way out, why shouldn't Jason? 

  George 

    For true FRIDAY THE 13th buffs, this one is a hard call. It has some
    actual semblance of plot, but only a little blood and almost no gore.
    Though they could easily bring Jason back for a 10th one, it seems like
    they were trying to compile 9 through 13 and hoping that the audience
    would forgive them and follow along anyway. Kane Hodder once again
    played Jason Voorhees, the only actor to have played Jason more than
    once (3 times now). 
    
    SEMI-SPOILER and SPOILER
    
    In the beginning of the movie, a girl drives to a house, walks in, does
    a few tasks with spooky chi-chi-chi-aauh-aauh-aauh's in the background, 
    gets undressed, in the shower, lights go off, she goes to examine, and
    JASON jumps out! (Last I knew he was just a little boy at the end of
    part 8! What's happening?) He chases her out into the woods and walks
    right into a Special Forces ambush, and they shoot the snot out of him,
    finally taking him out with explosives. They take Jason's body to a
    classified area in some hospital, and an autopsy is performed, during
    which Jason's heart starts beating (unconnected from his body no
    less!). A couple of special effect lights and glows later it is
    apparent that Jason's essence has transfered to the Coroner.
    
    Jumping through the story a bit, the basic premise is that Jason can
    jump from body to body, but can only retain HIS body if he transfers
    into someone who is actually a BLOOD RELATIVE. Enter Erin Gray, Jason's
    SISTER.........
    
    Doesn't really feel like a Friday the 13th movie except at the very
    beginning and somewhere around 3/4 through, but an interesting
    variation.
    
    MBH

    
         Is George Romero still alive?  I love his trilogy of
    walking zombie movies, "Dawn of the Dead" being my favorite.
    
    Kev --
    

    
    I think he's alive (his remake of 'Night of......' is quite recent), I
    saw 'dawn...' a while back (the one in the shopping mall....Or is that
    'day...' I can never remember) and laughed at the cheesy special
    effects so hard I nearly choked on my beer.  
    
    Speaking of so-bad-it's-good zombie flicks, I also saw 'zombie flesh
    eaters' a while ago.  God it was terrible.

    Well, I keep hearing news about this, but also keep forgetting to put a
    post here....
    
    There is going to be both another Nightmare on Elm Street, and another
    Halloween movie.
    
    Wes Craven is back at the helm for a really unusual version of the
    Nightmare movies... called "Wes Craven's New Nightmare"... Freddy has a
    new look, and it's a sort-of cross between a biography & fiction...
    
    I don't recall what Halloween 6 is going to be called, but as I
    understand the director was just fired... so it's on hold temporarily.
    They were also trying to get Donald Pleasant again... I believe this
    movie has something to do with Michael Myer's origin...
    
    No indication that there will EVER be another Friday the 13th movie.
    (How many times have we heard THAT one?)
    
    Michael
    

    >     I don't recall what Halloween 6 is going to be called, but as I
    > understand the director was just fired... so it's on hold temporarily.
    > They were also trying to get Donald Pleasant again...
    
    Maybe Jamie Lee Curtis will reprise her old role ....? ;-)
    				Jim

    
    > Wes Craven is back at the helm for a really unusual version of the
    > Nightmare movies... called "Wes Craven's New Nightmare"... Freddy has a
    > new look, and it's a sort-of cross between a biography & fiction...
    
    Yeah, I'm psyched for this!  The plot is going to be.... <spoiler>
    
    
    Wes and Heather starring as themselves with Wes trying to convince
    Heather to do *one* more NoES movie.  While all that's going on,
    it seems the spirit of Freddy has invaded their world behind the 
    cameras.  Cool.

    
    	I started reading the spoiler and thought you were kidding at
    	first.
    
    	8^)
    
    							GTI

    re .31, .32
    
    	Wot??  He was *serious*????   Oh God . . .  ( I know, they made a
    sequel of *that* one too :-) )
    
    					- Jim

    
         Anyone ever see the original "Tales From The Crypt" movie?
    It's from the early 70's, I believe.  HBO has been showing it
    from time to time lately.  A truly bizzare movie, I liked it.
    
    Kev --