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Summary: The QUEEN of Camp!
Review: Another clinker from the 1960's vault of Joan Crawford films. & of course, Joan being a true star really gives it her all in this truly bad low-budget film about 2 silly teenagers who make a prank call to the wrong guy (John Ireland). Her brief appearance steals the show & as usual is a riot. The subplot involes Joan playing the desperate, manipulating, man-hungry middle aged next door neighbor who is obsessed w/ snagging John Ireland even after she finds out he's a killer! The scenes w/ her & John Ireland together where she can barely surpress her jealous rage over his dead ex-girlfriend had me chuckling to myself. Dressed in what looks like a cocktail dress & a mini-chandellier around her neck, she looks & sounds as if perhaps there really was alcohol in those drinks she was making. The climax comes when she confronts one of the teen-aged girls grabbing her by the hair, calling her a "tramp" & ripping her to shreds screaming "GET OUTTA HERE!..." over & over again. I laughed my head off. The rest of the film has some suspenseful moments thanks to the menacing John Ireland, but the corny soundtrack music takes what little scariness this film had going for it away. At times it sounded like background music on an episode of "The Flintstones". I'm sure this may have been scary stuff for pre-teens in the 60's but today its just another hilariously campy Joan Crawford movie. & i'm giving this film ***** simply because it completely fulfilled my need for camp--Joan Crawford style.
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Summary: Great Story With an All Star Cast!
Review: Great flick. Well worth adding to your collection. It has been out of print for a long time. If you love shower scenes, you'll love this one. One of the best shower/kill scenes ever. Enjoy.
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Summary: Castle (kinda) Does It Again!
Review: Having seen most of William Castle's films, the only few problems i had with "I Saw What You Did" mainly go to a few technicals. By 1965, you would think that Castle would have filmed this in color. That was one problem. Another, the soundtrack. I can understand that the beginning of some horror films can be rather up-beat with the premise of setting the audience up for a twist that ultimately takes us for a ride. The soundtrack for this film doesn't let up, and actually sounds like music for a "Beach Party" film. With that aside, everyone knows that Castle did his best with what he knew. The acting is at times corny, but it was intended that way for the sake of getting the best reaction from the audience when some scenes were 'off the cuff'. The shower scene at the beginning is where i have the most praise. Castle's ability to give us a small bloodbath (remember "Homicidal"?) MADE me buy the dvd for that one scene. Other than that, Joan Crawford's role was good, and Castle's re-use of some of the actor's from his previous films was ok. The extra's were a nice bonus, tho a doccumentary with some of the actor's would have been interesting to watch.
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Summary: Castle (kinda) Does It Again!
Review: Having seen most of William Castle's films, the only few problems i had with "I Saw What You Did" mainly go to a few technicals. By 1965, you would think that Castle would have filmed this in color. That was one problem. Another, the soundtrack. I can understand that the beginning of some horror films can be rather up-beat with the premise of setting the audience up for a twist that ultimately takes us for a ride. The soundtrack for this film doesn't let up, and actually sounds like music for a "Beach Party" film. With that aside, everyone knows that Castle did his best with what he knew. The acting is at times corny, but it was intended that way for the sake of getting the best reaction from the audience when some scenes were 'off the cuff'. The shower scene at the beginning is where i have the most praise. Castle's ability to give us a small bloodbath (remember "Homicidal"?) MADE me buy the dvd for that one scene. Other than that, Joan Crawford's role was good, and Castle's re-use of some of the actor's from his previous films was ok. The extra's were a nice bonus, tho a doccumentary with some of the actor's would have been interesting to watch.
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Summary: fun movie....
Review: I bought this movie because the plot appealed to me...two teen girls make prank phone calls to handsome stranger who has just murdered his wife! Sounds great...and although I enjoyed this film very much...the comedy and humor just did not seem to fit in, although by the film's climax, I found myself engrossed...this film was fun to watch, a little tacky and dated, especially the music...but it was a good time...
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Summary: BORING!
Review: I couldn't find this movie for rent so I took a chance and bought it, and boy do I hate wasting money. The whole movie was about Libby chasing her stupid younger sister around: "Tess, come here!", "Tess, where are you?", "TEESSSS!", "Tess, do this!". I HATE TESS! Stupid little girl running off into the night, LET HER! The background music was very distracting too. Throw a swear word in the dialogue and make it believable! Completely bad.
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Summary: Excellent Mix of Fright and Camp
Review: I gave this movie five stars not because it is an Oscar-quality classic - far from it - but because it succeeds on its own terms. It is scary - very, very scary. (If you watch it at night, I dare you to go to sleep without double-checking that the doors are locked!) The over-the-top performances, particularly Joan Crawford's, are also unintentionally funny. It works because the camp does not diminish the fright and the scares do not get in the way of the hilarity. Why is this movie so scary? Others have mentioned the isolated farmhouse, the hazy atmosphere, the feeling of being alone, and the naiveté of the girls. Although some have criticized the teen-age actors, I think the story holds together because Libby and Kit's silly behavior (trying to appear sophisticated while really looking childish) is believable of 15-year-old girls then and now. Crawford, as a domineering neighbor, adds the camp. The slam-the-car-door scene is priceless! And have you ever seen a made-for-horror-movies necklace like the one Joan wears here? This is not a movie which could be made effectively now (a poor remake was made in 1988) because the plot devices demand a 1960s-type telephone system. Today, a parent calling up to check on a child could almost always ring through on "call waiting"; ripping a telephone out of a wall is meaningless in the age of cell phones; and "Caller ID" and "Call Return" should make phony phone calls a thing of the past. Even at the time, it required viewers to suspend logic to believe that Mrs. Mannering, hearing non-stop busy signals, would not demand an "emergency cut in," which did exist at the time, or that this middle-class family lacked an extension phone. But these are minor nits. The letterbox version now being sold is excellent. Make sure you see the trailers before and, especially, after the film. If you like this film, you will also like Strait Jacket, another Castle-Crawford pairing.
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Summary: Don't buy that
Review: I have no idea why others give 4 or 5 stars to this lemon. This is absolutely boring, there is more suspens in watching any Disney cartoon than in this. I had never heard of this movie and bought it because of the good reviews. I should have keep my money.
Don't make the same mistake, if you are looking for a good suspens movie or just for a good story, stay away from this. I have to give it 1 star because ths is the way the review's works. This big flop deserves a minus 30 stars. No wonder why I had never heard of it.
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Summary: Little-Seen Camp Classic
Review: I haven't seen this movie in 30 years. It is never on television. When I watched it recently I was thoroughly entertained. Back in the 1960s making prank phone calls was a harmless spectator sport for kids. This movie takes that premise to the hilt. John Ireland has very little dialog and that's unfortunate. And the first murder scene could have been edited better.
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Summary: very slick and witty script, almost as eerie as blair witch
Review: i really enjoyed this old movie because you can see how an innocent joke can turn into a serious scare.
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