That’s how I interpreted it.
True. The media is incredibly unrealistic when it portrays killing hobos and prostitute as an easy thing anyone can do. Some of them actually fight back.
There’s a whole genre/section of porn devoted to this kind of plot line.
Errr… so I’ve heard.
“Pizza delivery, ma’am.”
“I’m in the shower.”
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The swamp was a neat plot device-deep enough to conceal a car, yet handy to the house. I always thought it was quicksand-but I guess deep enough water would work. The most scarey part of the flick was not the shower killing…it was a view of the mummified mother in the fruit cellar-with the bare lightbulb swinging back and forth. Oh-and that detective got it good-yep, it was a pretty gorey movie.
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Humor. It is a difficult concept.
Carry on. No spoiler tags necessary.
How old does a film have to be before you don’t need spoilers?
Ilsa gets on the plane without Rick; it was all an hallucination after Dorothy got knocked out during the tornado; Rhett leaves Scarlett; the star breaks her ankle, and a chorus girl gets her big chance at stardom; Lionel Atwill is covering corpses with wax to make new statues; Count Dracula is a vampire; the workers rebel and destroy the underground city.
My 70+ year-old mother has to this day never forgiven my father for pulling a Psycho shower gag on her, the day or night after seeing the film. They’ve been divorced for decades ( unrelated…mostly, I presume ), but that’s one grudge she hasn’t given up.
I dunno, does efficiency matter in cinematic shower-murders?
Damn! Now I know how ***House of Wax ***ends! :mad:
It turns out the house wasn’t really made of wax.
I’ve heard this said, but is there any cite for it? I can’t imagine being in some dumpy movie theater in the middle of nowhere and the minimum wage usher saying, “Sorry, pal. Alfred’s rules. You’ll have to wait for the next show!”
Also, I don’t understand the point of viewing a movie ending first…
Things were quite different 55 years ago.
I’ve seen plenty of references in movies and sitcoms where people just paid for their ticket, entered the movie and sat down regardless of the time.
And apparently you could just stay in there and watch the movie 10 times if you wanted. Didn’t Lee Harvey Oswald do exactly that after killing the cop?
ETA: Anecdotally my dad told me that theatres were instructed to not seat people after Psycho had started. It’s just one piece of data, I know.
Have you seen any movies from back then? They were so predictable that there wasn’t any point in seeing them except for the popcorn and the air conditioning!
And for more spoilers: The train robbers are all shot and the loot is recovered, the scientists return from the Moon in triumph, and the workers go home from the factory.
He tried to hide in a cinema, but was captured almost immediately (he had attracted attention on the street before buying his ticket).
Yeah, those were the days when you weren’t shooed out after a single showing. I think the last time I saw a first-run movie twice on a single ticket was Star Wars in the summer of 1977 (and then a rerelease of The Lion in Winter a couple of years later).
No, now you know how The Mystery of the Wax Museum ends. That’s the one with Atwill. Vincent Price stars in the remake House of Wax, which BTW, I saw in a theater in 3D once. Totally gratuitous 3D. Both are unrelated to the movie House of Wax a few years ago, with gratuitous Paris Hilton, the less about which is said, the better.
Incidentally, both the Atwill and Price movies are on TCM next week. They are both good, but the original is better. It’s also unusual in that it’s a color film done in a pre-Technicolor 2-color process, and it’s fascinating to look at. It’s not really a horror movie, because that genre was still in development-- it’s a “newspaper” film, which was a genre in the 30s. It’s got a lot of fast talk and wise-cracks, just like His Girl Friday.
If you don’t want to see the spoiler, don’t click.
Oh, in all three versions of the Titanic, the ship sinks.
Spoilers! Spoilers!
That’s supposedly where the phrase “this is where I came in” got started. You’d sit down in a theatre and watch until the movie caught up with the part you’d picked up from.