tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post88104742154467216..comments2024-03-25T21:59:05.113-07:00Comments on 13: THE CRAWLING HAND / Joseph F. Robertson Productions - 1963Eegah!! and Tabonga!http://www.blogger.com/profile/05260131201716267229noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-12281370756295728732011-09-18T19:03:03.189-07:002011-09-18T19:03:03.189-07:00I saw Larry Vincent at Magic Mountain back in the ...I saw Larry Vincent at Magic Mountain back in the day. It was kinda sad. Looking back on it, he knew that he was dying of stomach cancer and just didn't care anymore ......Greg Goodsellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05343214060829373283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-17739192707700920172011-09-13T17:53:04.435-07:002011-09-13T17:53:04.435-07:00On Friday, June 14, 1974, we ran The Crawling Hand...On Friday, June 14, 1974, we ran <i>The Crawling Hand</i> on the <i>Fright Night With Seymour</i> TV show on KHJ-TV in Los Angeles. I know the exact date because the tape date and the air date are on the script for the Seymour broadcast. And why do I have the script for the <i>FRIGHT NIGHT</i> broadcast of <i>The Crawling Hand</i>? Because I wrote it. (The Seymour show around it, not <i>The Crawling Hand</i> itself.) Therefore, I had to sit through it twice: once to write the script, and once when it was broadcast. Not again since.<br /><br />This was two months before Nixon resigned, when new revelations were coming each day as the Nixon White House tapes were transcribed and released to the public, slowly revealing the massive extent of Nixon's obstruction of justice and rampant corruption. I had Seymour say: "Did you see the clip of the president working on his tape transcripts?" and then ran the clip from the opening of the movie of two men in an office, with the Capitol building visible through the window, so they were clearly in Washington DC, listening to the astronaut scream "Push the button!" on a tape recorder. One guy pushes the "Stop" button and says: "We certainly don't want them to transcribe <i>THAT!</i>"<br /><br />At the first break I had Seymour say: "Well, The Crawlng Hand is off to a crawling start. Our space program is failing. We've sent a man into outer space, his mascara runs, and he gets so depressed that he wants them to blow up the capsule."<br /><br />I had Seymour note that the "highlight" of the movie was Marta changing into her bikini on camera, as she does repeatedly throughout the movie, adding "Who wants to watch a nude hand running around?"<br /><br />In another segment I had Seymour notice he had a severed hand sitting on his shoulder, and picking it up, said: "Why, it's the star of the movie, The Crawling Hand itself. Hey, you've got a hangnail." And he bit off the severed hand's hangnail.<br /><br />At the end, Seymour summed up the movie thusly: "Well, they caught the crawling hand, Paul is exonerated, the sheriff's gone back to Gilligan's Island, and Marta's been deported. The only thing I don't understand is during the big climax in the garbage dump, which is where this whole film belongs, what was that cat food commercial doing there? [Show clip of the cat eating the crawling hand] But never mind. This movie is over, so let's give it a big hand." at which point, the severed hand from earlier in the show was tossed to him from off-camera.<br /><br />Long time ago that was.Douglas McEwannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-65237972885607009942011-09-13T14:09:54.894-07:002011-09-13T14:09:54.894-07:00Ha! I had to check out this post, because I just ...Ha! I had to check out this post, because I just started reading "Four Fingers of Death" by Rick Moody.<br /><br />Ever heard of it?<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"Montese Crandall is a downtrodden writer whose collection of rare baseball cards won't sustain him, financially or emotionally, through the grave illness of his wife. Luckily, he swindles himself a job churning out a novelization of the 2025 remake of a 1963 horror film, THE CRAWLING HAND. Crandall tells therein of the United States, in a bid to regain global eminence, launching a manned mission to Mars. Nine Americans aboard three space pods travel three months, expecting to spend three years as the planet's first colonists. When a secret mission to retrieve a flesh-eating bacterium for use in biowarfare is uncovered, mayhem ensues...Only a lonely human arm (missing its middle finger) returns to earth, crash-landing in the Arizona desert. The arm may hold the secret to reanimation or it may simply be an infectious killing machine. Its crawl through the heartbroken wasteland of civilization is recorded in this stunningly inventive, superbly entertaining novel."<br /><br />Should be pretty good!<br />--J/MetroAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-44335950894863049562011-09-12T18:51:16.519-07:002011-09-12T18:51:16.519-07:00Classic horrors still give me the chills!Classic horrors still give me the chills!hypnotism techniqueshttp://instantselfhypnosissecrets.com/instant-self-hypnotism-techniques/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-25565097391742595602011-09-12T18:10:17.277-07:002011-09-12T18:10:17.277-07:00Ex, appreciated - wait til you see what we have pl...Ex, appreciated - wait til you see what we have planned for October! You'll have a heart attack, for real!!TABONGA!noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-59782413217116100342011-09-12T17:02:23.182-07:002011-09-12T17:02:23.182-07:00WoW!
You guys have me hooked!
I just can't wai...WoW!<br />You guys have me hooked!<br />I just can't wait until the next episode!Exeterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10168125671000323974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5825429179234380868.post-59071079246333622082011-09-12T13:11:26.284-07:002011-09-12T13:11:26.284-07:00one thing that startled me about this flick- when ...one thing that startled me about this flick- when you hear the dead astronaut's voice again AFTER he's been destructed. one thing that annoyes me about this movie- Allison Hayes disappears after the first reel!Prof. Grewbeardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16132543249418576650noreply@blogger.com