Posted by Gunther Gloop on 09/23/25 11:42

Gunther Gloop wrote:
> Owen wrote:
>> shite in a good way, that is.
>>
>> last year i endulged myself and purchased Friday 13th, all the
>> individual discs and watch them in order - it was an absolute blast!
>> made me yearn for teh good ol' days when films didn't have to be
>> squillion-dollar affairs to be fun and entertaining.
>>
>> also did the entire Halloween series in the same way, and enjoyed the
>> hell out of it, even the crappy ones.
>>
>> now i have dared to plumb new depths buy getting Children Of The Corn
>> (parts 1..6) as cheapies, bought off Play.com for around �4-7 a
>> piece. can't wait...!
>>
>> there is something of a guilty pleasure in watching crappy old horror
>> movies with tons of sequels in them, don't ya think?
>>
>
> No.
>
> But to each their own. ;)
>

Replying to my own post... but however...


My brother recently asked me to get "And Then There Were None" (the black &
white one) for him online and I ended up buying a couple of silly-but-funny
movies that I was reminded of as I searched...

Murder By Death -very funny, totally stoopid one-liners from back when an
ensemble cast meant genuine talent on the screen. And the stoopid one-liners
aren't quite Leslie Nielson-bad. Most of them are very funny in fact... even
though you don't want to admit it most of the time.
And its "sequel" of sorts... The Cheap Detective. I'm not sure I even saw
this, but it's Peter Falk and Eileen Brennan reprising their roles from MBD.
Again it's written by Neil Simon and from the quotes on imdb it seems to be
more of the same, so that's good enough for me. :)

Then I also bought
Witness For The Prosecution (Billy Wilder) and Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock)

....and I never did buy And Then There Were None because of the three
releases available, two are cheap-and-nasty qualitywise and the other costs
over a tenner -even though it's not much of an improvement by all accounts.


....Hmmm I'm sure I had a clearer view of how any of this related to this
thread before I started... :^./

-Kevin.

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