I really love this film. I relish seeing the three masters of horror work alongside each other, but the lighting in the film was terrible. People were hard to define against the murky backdrops, and it just got in the way of the incredible story.
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Watching it now on THIS channel and it is indeed dark when they are in the old dark house -- pun intended of course.
A bad copy but some films do seem to be darker than others on purpose.
I saw it on THIS as well, and it is so dark you can't tell who or what is going on in some scenes. Not atmospherically dark, just plain not lit well.
Am I anywhere near the imaginary cliff?share
YES! I just watched it on THIS and since my note is two years after the last one it can only be assumed it wasn't the print and that there are many scenes where you couldn't see a thing. It occurred to me that I don't even remember if we ever got a good look at the house from the outside. The above poster is correct - it wasn't atmospherically dark, it was ineptly lit by the crew. Why the director didn't re-shoot those scenes is beyond me. He was probably tied to a particular budget and shooting schedule but then the blame falls on the studio for releasing it that way.
shareI too was looking forward to having these guys in one film. Not to mention that type of film. I was getting real frustrated when the characters would go and wander about the house with NO FREAKING CANDLES! As if there was some national shortage on candles or flashlights (it was 1983 btw), and I'm sure there had to be some hurricane lamps with oil. There are lots of options for lighting. I just don't understand why a producer would release a film like this where over half the film is basically shot in the dark and without the use of night vision or the special film that would probably be needed (guessing on the film thing here), or maybe it needs a special process to develop.
It was extremely dark, lighting wise (less so in terms of story). I thought it was my friend's TV, which is too dark already, but I'm surprised the film would be made that way. Maybe the DVD-R is just a very bad copy with not quality control?
shareI really love this film. I relish seeing the three masters of horror work alongside each other, but the lighting in the film was terrible. People were hard to define against the murky backdrops, and it just got in the way of the incredible story.
I liked to see a film for once that used real darkness instead of blue tinted "hollywood darkness."
Plus i thought it looked very dynamic and dramatic.
Yes, the cinematography was really bad here. What's the point if you can't see what is going on? One scene in particular was when Peter Cushing's character meets his end, I couldn't even see it. I had to rely on dialogue later to know for sure what had happened. A lot of dynamic entrance scenes could have been so much better had there been enough clever lighting so that we could see what was happening. Instead, it was a cluster of dark blobs until a character's face came into the light.
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I am not a fan. I just happen to enjoy movies. Fans are embarrassing.
that is something so common, i remember being bugged by that with so many movies, and while on it, today it often looks so dreadful how they shoot movies in that blue damp grey kind of a way, and many movies from the 1990s looks sort of yellow. this moves unexpectedly slow for a cannon produced flick, it's almost kind of a tv episode of the house of hammer series, and it's close to half an hour in before any of the iconic horror actors makes an entrance, and that's even without commercial breaks, that's a long while in a movie... the usual so action blasted cannon flick taking place in damp weather location england and starts rather stiff, while using british accent containing words clearly not made for that sort of role, i was surprised the picture contained spots as i expected it to be in re mastered quality, what had me discover this was the documentary about cannon films, "electric boogaloo", and the interesting story behind it, how the movie producers originally wanted to have all the famous monster movie stars from when they were kids, lugosi, karloff and so on, but had to be told they were all dead, and also how this movie had horror stars (of a later generation), a horror title, but rated pg, so someone in the documentary remarked "so you got a family horror movie", the dvd of this includes a documentary of its own where the same tale is told, with even further outrageous stories about how cannon production movies were being made and also it tells how the people involved had a lot of fun making this.
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lost in fog feared youd gone,
at usual time sunshine didnt clear up,
in night i was beginning to feel dull,
gloomy hanging my head silent hall,
in the dark heard a roar,
struck by light as came home,
you dived in my soul scaring me with your charm,
while eyes surfed on your new hairstyle found you fed on heart.