31 FIRST TIME TREATS 13: day 4 The Lamp

 

31 FIRST TIME TREATS 13: day 4 The Lamp

 welcome to Transmissionz from Marz 31 first time treats! I can’t spell I have no concept of grammar so naturally I decided to start a blog ..

Everyday of Halloween I’m going to try and SHARE A a brand new thing I Checked out! Today

The format: 

Blood and guts:  what it is and who made it

first cut: My opening salvo what I thought coming into this media

The Good… The Bad …and the Spooky. Self explanatory 

Sinister superlatives. Also self explanatory  

The Death Rattle: my final thoughts and rating 

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The Blood and guts:

The lamp, a.k.a. the outing

1987

Running time: 87 minutes (one minute longer than perfect pop movie time)

Sub genre: supernatural slasher

I watched it on: Shudder

What’s it about:

“At a secluded house Dumb crooks do dumb things just in time for dumb high school kids to show up And do all sorts of dumb high school kid things. There is a genie there that goes completely nutszoid”

Who made it:

Directed by: Tom Dale

Written and produced by: Warren Chane

Cinematography: Herbert Raditschnig

Edited by: Claudio M. Cutry

Music by: Bruce Miller Joel Rosenbau

whose in it:  

James Huston

Andra St. Ivanyi

Scott Bankston

Red Mitchell

Deborah Winters

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first cut

The VHS box for this flick was in every horror section of every video store. I ever went in as a kid. I was reminded of it when vinegar syndrome recently put out a nice looking jacked up version of it. And now it’s on Shudder I feel like this movie is haunting me, so I better watch it.

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

The Good… The Bad …and the Spooky 

The good

I feel like the POV of the lamp was later plagiarized for Wishmaster. I like it in That flick and I like it here. I’ve gotta admit, I am super into the mechanics of the lamp as a whole. I really like the turning hand with a ruby in it, Uncorks itself by spinning, open by itself.

This film takes place in a world where delta 88’s full of rogue, new wavers, try to commit road warrior style Vehicular homicide in rush-hour traffic… And then commit assault in a busy school hallway And I’m totally here for it.

There is a scene where the English teacher shows up with a stick to beat up the new wave, mail, contempts, and then cut to her teaching her class about Dracula! This is the coolest school ever!

There is a mummy attack and everything about it is ducking rad 

Ok animatronic genie puppet is also awesome Very Harryhausen

Andra St. Ivanyi Who plays the genies avatar Alex is quite good. (at least comparatively speaking). I’m surprised she hadn’t done more on the business end of a camera. She’s also a lot easier on the eyes than Bob Englund or Andy Divoff

The gore is quiet good

The bad 

The acting… If I may be so misleading to call it that… Well kids it’s really bad really really bad.

The kids stay overnight in a museum and have sexy time. Roughly translated; they deserve everything that happens to them.

There are a bunch of visual effects that would look more at home in the Disney Sunday night movie then at a slasher flick

One thing that really bothers me is there is a rape scene that is immediately followed by the perpetrators being murdered the different server under a minute makes me feel like this wasn’t here to show how for exploitation alone. Not that attempted rape is a cinematic treat but the way it played out just seemed extra mean and twice as sleazy.   

The spooky 

Have I ever told you about my fundamental fear of weird young people in old people make up. The uncanny valley of A human face that is not an actual human face, scares the crap out of me. While this wasn’t necessarily an intentional scare, it definitely stuck with me.

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Sinister superlatives

Best kill: face to face ax 

Best Scare: the ol The cobra up the pant leg 

Best actor : Andra St. Ivanyi

Best character: the new wave malcontents 

Best quote:  “ Son, do you wanna know the meaning of the term blacks power? If so, I’ll wipe the floor with your ugly face. l”

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

The Death Rattle

This is a nightmare in elm street knock off That cribs from all the titles on either side of it at the video store. 

Evil dead

Phantasm 

Class of 1999

The gate

Just to name a few

For better or worse, it’s lacking all of the wisecracking Bad guy stuff that was all the rage around now in fact, this thing isn’t just humorless it’s downright grim. This wasn’t necessarily a bad time, but it also wasn’t a great time. It wasn’t mean enough or brutal enough Or sleazy enough to be Grind house Exploitation end it wasn’t fun or clever enough to be a bubble gum slasher. There just wasn’t anything cohesive to link the really good parts together. It just sort of existed.

This film’s biggest sin is not capitalizing on the mythology of it’s Monster. It really dropped the ball that would not too awful long after be picked up by Wishmaster.

I wouldn’t skip this one it delivers the goods were a lot of its contemporaries Just tease. It’s not bad it’s just incredibly indecisive. 

That said, I will probably try to track down the vinegar syndrome, desk to learn a little more about this wish – E – washy VHS era oddball

What doodle thought: She was pretty indifferent. Sometimes a noisy flick will get her attention. Some of the flashing lights caught her eye

My Dave Meltzer style star rating***

Would I buy it: I regret not picking up the vinegar syndrome. Copy I’m toying with the idea of getting all slashers. I can get my hands on and I have a pretty nice collection of those. Hopefully I can pick this up down the line on the cheap!

 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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 welcome to Transmissionz from Marz 31 first time treats! I can’t spell I have no concept of grammar so naturally I decided to start a blog ..

Everyday of Halloween I’m going to try and SHARE A a brand new thing I Checked out! Today

The format: 

Blood and guts:  what it is and who made it

first cut: My opening salvo what I thought coming into this media

The Good… The Bad …and the Spooky. Self explanatory 

Sinister superlatives. Also self explanatory  

The Death Rattle: my final thoughts and rating 

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

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The Blood and guts:

The lamp, a.k.a. the outing

1987

Running time: 87 minutes (one minute longer than perfect pop movie time)

Sub genre: supernatural slasher

I watched it on: Shudder

What’s it about:

“At a secluded house Dumb crooks do dumb things just in time for dumb high school kids to show up And do all sorts of dumb high school kid things. There is a genie there that goes completely nutszoid”

Who made it:

Directed by: Tom Dale

Written and produced by: Warren Chane

Cinematography: Herbert Raditschnig

Edited by: Claudio M. Cutry

Music by: Bruce Miller Joel Rosenbau

whose in it:  

James Huston

Andra St. Ivanyi

Scott Bankston

Red Mitchell

Deborah Winters

💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀 💀

first cut

The VHS box for this flick was in every horror section of every video store. I ever went in as a kid. I was reminded of it when vinegar syndrome recently put out a nice looking jacked up version of it. And now it’s on Shudder I feel like this movie is haunting me, so I better watch it.

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

The Good… The Bad …and the Spooky 

The good

I feel like the POV of the lamp was later plagiarized for Wishmaster. I like it in That flick and I like it here. I’ve gotta admit, I am super into the mechanics of the lamp as a whole. I really like the turning hand with a ruby in it, Uncorks itself by spinning, open by itself.

This film takes place in a world where delta 88’s full of rogue, new wavers, try to commit road warrior style Vehicular homicide in rush-hour traffic… And then commit assault in a busy school hallway And I’m totally here for it.

There is a scene where the English teacher shows up with a stick to beat up the new wave, mail, contempts, and then cut to her teaching her class about Dracula! This is the coolest school ever!

There is a mummy attack and everything about it is ducking rad 

Ok animatronic genie puppet is also awesome Very Harryhausen

Andra St. Ivanyi Who plays the genies avatar Alex is quite good. (at least comparatively speaking). I’m surprised she hadn’t done more on the business end of a camera. She’s also a lot easier on the eyes than Bob Englund or Andy Divoff

The gore is quiet good

The bad 

The acting… If I may be so misleading to call it that… Well kids it’s really bad really really bad.

The kids stay overnight in a museum and have sexy time. Roughly translated; they deserve everything that happens to them.

There are a bunch of visual effects that would look more at home in the Disney Sunday night movie then at a slasher flick

One thing that really bothers me is there is a rape scene that is immediately followed by the perpetrators being murdered the different server under a minute makes me feel like this wasn’t here to show how for exploitation alone. Not that attempted rape is a cinematic treat but the way it played out just seemed extra mean and twice as sleazy.   

The spooky 

Have I ever told you about my fundamental fear of weird young people in old people make up. The uncanny valley of A human face that is not an actual human face, scares the crap out of me. While this wasn’t necessarily an intentional scare, it definitely stuck with me.

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Sinister superlatives

Best kill: face to face ax 

Best Scare: the ol The cobra up the pant leg 

Best actor : Andra St. Ivanyi

Best character: the new wave malcontents 

Best quote:  “ Son, do you wanna know the meaning of the term blacks power? If so, I’ll wipe the floor with your ugly face. l”

💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

The Death Rattle

This is a nightmare in elm street knock off That cribs from all the titles on either side of it at the video store. 

Evil dead

Phantasm 

Class of 1999

The gate

Just to name a few

For better or worse, it’s lacking all of the wisecracking Bad guy stuff that was all the rage around now in fact, this thing isn’t just humorless it’s downright grim. This wasn’t necessarily a bad time, but it also wasn’t a great time. It wasn’t mean enough or brutal enough Or sleazy enough to be Grind house Exploitation end it wasn’t fun or clever enough to be a bubble gum slasher. There just wasn’t anything cohesive to link the really good parts together. It just sort of existed.

This film’s biggest sin is not capitalizing on the mythology of it’s Monster. It really dropped the ball that would not too awful long after be picked up by Wishmaster.

I wouldn’t skip this one it delivers the goods were a lot of its contemporaries Just tease. It’s not bad it’s just incredibly indecisive. 

That said, I will probably try to track down the vinegar syndrome, desk to learn a little more about this wish – E – washy VHS era oddball

What doodle thought: She was pretty indifferent. Sometimes a noisy flick will get her attention. Some of the flashing lights caught her eye

My Dave Meltzer style star rating***

Would I buy it: I regret not picking up the vinegar syndrome. Copy I’m toying with the idea of getting all slashers. I can get my hands on and I have a pretty nice collection of those. Hopefully I can pick this up down the line on the cheap!

 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

FAIR USE ACT DISCLAIMER

This site is for critique and educational purposes only.

Fair Use Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act of 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and

research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise

be infringing.

Fair Use Definition Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows lim- ited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as commentary, 

#311TimeTreats

#Halloween #spooky #season #spookyseason #31daysofhalloweenn #31DaysOfHalloween #FilmReviews #horrorfims #thelamp #shudder #filmreviews #slashers #vinegarsyndrome #dynamomarz #thedeadites #munchkindoodles