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Jul 20, 2011 - 4:19 PM
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dan the man
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Not only has it not been on DVD, Cable TV has ignored it since the 90's TBS days, it originally was shown on the CBS Friday night Movie way back in the 70's, didn't get alot of Syndication exposure afterward, and then on cable with TBS, but in limbo it's been, i too got a VHS copy at a flea market, while we are on the topic What About Ben-72,? also allergic to cable TV as well. i liked the remake, but i agree with some MR Crispin was too off for me to gain the pathos one might feel for Bruce Davidson, mix up he was indeed, the biggest rat in the film was Ernest, but that was clear to see, Let me also mention Willard change genre film history as i stated once before Hitch The birds got the engine moving, Willard ignited the flame and Jaws send it flying sky high, The animal VS Human subgenre of the horror film which didn't really take off till Willard became the big hit it did, MR William Grefe, low budget filmmaker out of florida, read how big Willard was doing good in Variety, pick up the phone, called a producer and said , Ok let's make a film about snakes, it became Stanley-72- which in many markets double bill with the giant rabbit film from MGM called night of the lepus-72 with Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and Stuart Whitman, everyone started to get into the act, and the 70's, animals on the rampage was everywhere, theatres, TV Movies, still a constant stable of the horror SCIFI genre, look at the Science Fiction channel.
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Jul 20, 2011 - 5:16 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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The animal VS Human subgenre of the horror film which didn't really take off till Willard became the big hit it did, MR William Grefe, low budget filmmaker out of florida, read how big Willard was doing good in Variety, pick up the phone, called a producer and said , Ok let's make a film about snakes, it became Stanley-72- which in many markets double bill with the giant rabbit film from MGM called night of the lepus-72 with Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and Stuart Whitman, everyone started to get into the act, and the 70's, animals on the rampage was everywhere, theatres, TV Movies, still a constant stable of the horror SCIFI genre, look at the Science Fiction channel.
After "Willard" and before "Stanley" (May, 1972), "Ben" (June, 1972), and "Night of the Lepus" (July, 1972), American International was next up with "Frogs" (March, 1972).
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Jul 20, 2011 - 5:31 PM
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quiller007
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The animal VS Human subgenre of the horror film which didn't really take off till Willard became the big hit it did, MR William Grefe, low budget filmmaker out of florida, read how big Willard was doing good in Variety, pick up the phone, called a producer and said , Ok let's make a film about snakes, it became Stanley-72- which in many markets double bill with the giant rabbit film from MGM called night of the lepus-72 with Janet Leigh, Rory Calhoun and Stuart Whitman, everyone started to get into the act, and the 70's, animals on the rampage was everywhere, theatres, TV Movies, still a constant stable of the horror SCIFI genre, look at the Science Fiction channel.
After "Willard" and before "Stanley" (May, 1972), "Ben" (June, 1972), and "Night of the Lepus" (July, 1972), American International was next up with "Frogs" (March, 1972).
Let's not forget SSSSSSS (1973), GRIZZLY (1976) and DAY OF THE ANIMALS (1977)
Den
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Jul 20, 2011 - 5:49 PM
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Bob DiMucci
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yes indeed, well you know how quick Cigar Chomping Sam, worked at AIP, but you know, with regional bookings some people can get a bit mix up when they think about which film came first, in cities in the east coast Frogs open in July-72 with Godzilla VS the Smog Monster, Night of the lepus and Stanley around October 72- but them we know the story about west to east when it comes to regional distrubution years ago.
In the "old days," exploitation movies often opened in New York late in their run. As for "Frogs," it had its world premiere in Panama City, FL (near where it was filmed) on 23 March 1972 and opened the next week in Los Angeles.
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Jul 21, 2011 - 12:00 AM
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Bob DiMucci
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i remember how years ago, so often as you say, a film say would open in Phildelphia weeks before it would get booked in the Big apple, some films never got to The big apple. It was often the last stop for smaller films.
Back in the day, the producers of exploitation films (such as horror films, motorcycle flicks, beach party movies, B-westerns, and the like) knew that their money was going to come from rural and small-town America, not major cities. When such films did come to large and medium-sized cities, they often opened only in the suburbs, in "area" or "showcase" theaters. The exceptions were blaxploitation films, which catered to an urban inner-city audience, or those cities that had some self-designated "grindhouse" theaters, which would play the exploitation films downtown. Foreign films, on the other hand, even today make most of their money in the larger cities, usually at downtown "art" cinemas.
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Jul 21, 2011 - 4:02 PM
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dan the man
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My cousin used to collect snakes and keep them in glass, in his bedroom, when i told him about Frogs, i was a kid then , he was a young adult, i think he saw the film and really liked it, because there was alot of good footage of the snakes and other creatures and this was before, cable where you can find a dime a dozen shows on wildlife, life was so different back then and there were many little reasons why people would go to certain movies that today may seem corny, i remember how effective some of those scenes were with the animals attacking people, because those scenorios were new ones in a film, The end of Willard when Bruce Davidson yells tear him up to the rats, the audience went wild, like nothing you will see today,so loud for so long, it took a few showings till i heard Willard, quietly say, goodbye ben, after the attack, which of course lead to the demise of Willard at the end.It was a good movie then and still is, but the world was different then, there was not much, back then, so you apreciated whatever you got and really enjoyed it, it is very hard today for the young to really understand that, meanwhile the old have the knack to forget that truth too.It is funny though, the end of the film Summer of 42, there is a line that says[referring to the 40's] it was different then, we felt things more, now watching summer of 42, 40 years since it was made, a person today in his middle age, would chuckle and say to himself back in the 70's the audience were told it was different back then, well now a middle age person will say well, it was also different back in 71 compared to today and both Willard and Summer of 42, might not be so special to a typical young kid or adult today, such is our lives and the way of the world.
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