Night 3 of "The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway"

It’s that time again! So hurry in all you Kool Kats, grab a seat and enjoy "The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway". The Lounge has invited a few of the hippest shops to the party and we have come up with two great goodie bags for two lucky winners.

The giveaway will showcase some of The Lounge’s favorite romance theme movies. A new movie will be posted each night between February 1st and 14th. All past movie will be listed on the sidebar. You are welcome to leave a comment on each movie. There will also be clues for the next nights movie tweeted on Twitter. All of which will get you entries in the giveaway.

Please click here to visit the giveaway’s main page. You can see all the great shops participating, the two fabulous goodie bags, lots and lots of extra ways to enter and all the fine print details.

There will also be music selections from that night's movie to listen too. You'll find them on The Lounge's little red jukebox over on the sidebar. That night's songs will always be at the top of the playlist followed by a wide variety of love songs. The night's seclections will also be listed below with the movie review.

So enjoy the movies, enjoy the shops, enjoy the music and most of all have fun and enjoy....

"The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway"
Night 3... "An Affair To Remember"

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Music selections from the movie on the jukebox
1. An Affair To Remember
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Tagline - On the Riviera...across the ocean...and all over New York!
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Directed by Leo McCarey (Duck Soup and The Bells of Saint Mary's) and released on July 11, 1957 by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Playboy Nicky Ferrante (Carry Grant) and night club singer Terry McKay ( Deborah Kerr) have a romance while on a cruise from Europe to New York. Problem is they are both engaged to other people. They decide to make plans to meet six months later on the top floor of The Empire State Building to see if they still feel the same way about each other. Will they keep their date or will fate try to keep them apart?
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This is classic movie making at it's best. Whirlwind romance, beautiful locations, unforeseen tragedy and big sappy endings. The time period is one of my favorites. The men look dapper and the women so beautiful. It's a great big slice of 50's movie magic. If you like love stories and haven't seen this one yet, go give it a try.
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 A little trivia...
1. References to this movie in Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle (1993), revitalized interest in the film, and led to 2 million additional sales of the 1957 classic on VHS. 
2. Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant improvised many of their scenes throughout filming, and a number of lines that made it to the final cut of the film came from the actors' improvisation.
3. Ingrid Bergman was the first choice to play Terry McKay.
4. Nickie and Terry make their conditional promise to meet in six months at exactly the halfway point of the film (59-1/2 minutes into the 119-minute movie).
5. Deborah Kerr plays Terry McKay, previously played by Irene Dunne in Love Affair (1939), of which this film is a remake - both were directed by Leo McCarey. The year before this film was made, Kerr played Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1956), also a role that had previously been played by Irene Dunne in the black-and-white classic Anna and the King of Siam (1946).
6. After the confrontation with the photographer on the ship's deck, Deborah Kerr turns to Cary Grant and says, "So, I go my way [traces a straight path by her hand] and you go yours [traces a twisty path with the waive of her hand]." The same exchange takes place between Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in The Awful Truth (1937), where she says: "As we go down the life's highway, you go in your way [traces a twisty path with the waive of her hand] and I go in my way [traces a straight path]."
7. Second of three movies that paired Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant.
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Visit the giveaway's main page here for all details on how to enter.

Night 2 of "The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway"

It’s that time again! So hurry in all you Kool Kats, grab a seat and enjoy "The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway". The Lounge has invited a few of the hippest shops to the party and we have come up with two great goodie bags for two lucky winners.

The giveaway will showcase some of The Lounge’s favorite romance theme movies. A new movie will be posted each night between February 1st and 14th. All past movie will be listed on the sidebar. You are welcome to leave a comment on each movie. There will also be clues for the next nights movie tweeted on Twitter. All of which will get you entries in the giveaway.

Please click here to visit the giveaway’s main page. You can see all the great shops participating, the two fabulous goodie bags, lots and lots of extra ways to enter and all the fine print details.

There will also be music selections from that night's movie to listen too. You'll find them on The Lounge's little red jukebox over on the sidebar. That night's songs will always be at the top of the playlist followed by a wide variety of love songs. The night's seclections will also be listed below with the movie review.

So enjoy the movies, enjoy the shops, enjoy the music and most of all have fun and enjoy....

"The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway"

Night 2... "The Lake House"

I just love that Keanu Reeves!

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Music selections from the movie on the jukebox

1. Time Has Told Me

2. I Can't Seem To Make You Mine

3. This Never Happened Before

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Tagline - "How do you hold on to someone you've never met?"

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Directed by Alejandro Agresti and released on June 16, 2006 by Warner Brothers Pictures. Kate (Sandra Bullock) is moving out of her beautiful glass house on the lake. She leaves a note in the mailbox for the next tenant to forward her mail to her new address. Alex (Keaun Reeves) opens the mailbox and finds her note. Only thing is, Alex lives in the lake house two years prior to Kate. Wooooo...spooky. The two fall in love as they exchange many letters. Can their love survive the "long distance" relationship and will they be able to find each other in time?

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I like the concept of this movie. It's all about destiny and a little magic. If the whole time difference starts to get too confusing just don't think about it that much and go with it. It's sweet, a little sad in spots and leaves you with that wonderful feeling that anything can happen. It's a nice decadent treat.

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A little trivia...

1. John Cusack was the first choice for the role of Alex Wyler, but he declined.

2.  The name of the exclusive restaurant in the film is "Il Mare". "Il Mare" is also the name of the house and the International title of the Korean film upon which "The Lake House" is based, Siworae (2000).

3. Sandra Bullock states that she felt compelled to name the dog "Jack" after the character of Keanu Reeves in Speed (1994) the first movie the two of them made together.

4. Director Cameo: [Alejandro Agresti] man using breath spray on the bus, beside Sandra Bullock.

5.  The film clip featuring Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant is from the Alfred Hitchcock film Notorious (1946).

6. The lake house measured 2000 square feet and sat on top of steel beams ten feet above the waterline. It used 35 tons of steel and required nearly 100 carpenters, welders and painters to build it.

7. The actual house did not exist and was built for the movie, then dismantled. The coordinates are 41° 42' 49.92" N, 87° 53' 10.56" W. (Google Earth can be used to view this location now, and using the History feature, the house can still be viewed.)

8. The Lake House used was located on Maple Lake, a small and well known haunted fishing lake located in Willow Springs, IL. Read more about the haunted lake here.

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Visit the giveaway's main page here for all details on how to enter.

Night 1 of "The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway"

It’s that time again! So hurry in all you Kool Kats, grab a seat and enjoy "The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway". The Lounge has invited a few of the hippest shops to the party and we have come up with two great goodie bags for two lucky winners.

The giveaway will showcase some of The Lounge’s favorite romance theme movies. A new movie will be posted each night between February 1st and 14th. All past movie will be listed on the sidebar. You are welcome to leave a comment on each movie. There will also be clues for the next nights movie tweeted on Twitter. All of which will get you entries in the giveaway.

Please click here to visit the giveaway’s main page. You can see all the great shops participating, the two fabulous goodie bags, lots and lots of extra ways to enter and all the fine print details.

There will also be music selections from that night's movie to listen too. You'll find them on The Lounge's little red jukebox over on the sidebar. That night's songs will always be at the top of the playlist followed by a wide variety of love songs. The night's seclections will also be listed below with the movie review.

So enjoy the movies, enjoy the shops, enjoy the music and most of all have fun and enjoy....

"The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway"

Night 1... "Moulin Rouge"　 Ewan McGregor and he sings! What more do you need?

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Music selections from the movie on the jukebox 

1. Lady Marmalade
2. Your Song
3. One Day I'll Fly Away
4. Elephant Love Melody
5. Come What May
6. El Tango de Roxanne
7. Complainte de la Butte
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Tagline — "This story is about truth. This story is about beauty. This story is about freedom. Above all this story is about love.
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Directed by Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet and Australia) and released on June 1, 2001 by Twentieth Century Fox. Paris 1899. Christian (Ewan McGregor) has come to Paris a penniless poet. There he meets Satine (Nicole Kidman) a beautiful courtesan working at The Moulin Rouge. The two fall in love against all odds but can it survive?
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This movie is beautiful! It’s full of vivid colors and gorgeous outfits. At first I was not sure I would care for the mix of modern music since the movie is set back in time but it was quickly clear that it would work brilliantly. I already knew Ewan McGregor could sing but was surprised at how well Nicole Kidman did. Musicals have never been my favorite genre but every now and then a really good one comes along and this is one of them.

And, for all of us hopeless romantics out there, this one has all the classic elements and enough tears to put a dent in the Kleenex box. So curl up on the couch and enjoy the beauty of tragic love.
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A little trivia...

1. The necklace worn by Nicole Kidman was made of real diamonds and platinum and was the most expensive piece of jewelry ever made for a film. The Stefano Canturi necklace was made with 1,308 diamonds and weighed a total of 134 carats. It’s worth is an estimated $1 million dollars.
2. "Come What May" is the only completely original song in the movie. It was originally written for "Romeo + Juliet".

3. Originally, the green fairy was going to be a long-haired muscle man with a giant sitar and Ozzy Osbourne was hired to provide the vocals. Eventually it was changed to the current "Tinker Bell" incarnation, played by Kylie Minogue, but Osbourne still gives voice to the fairy's guttural scream when it turns evil.

4. Cat Stevens would not license his song "Father and Son", which was the first musical number in the original script, because of his current religious beliefs. He objected to the sexual content in the film. The scene featuring "Father and Son" was to have been between Christian and his father in his father's office, with all his father's employees joining in for the chorus. This was to be the segue into his leaving home for Paris. The scene is included in the complete script on the Special Edition DVD

5. The word "love" and its variations (loved, loves, loving, lover and lovers) appears in this film 143 times.

6. Moulin Rouge (Red Mill) dancers really wore split knickers under their dresses, a technical point that the film-makers chose not to follow in order to obtain a PG-13 rating. An enormous elephant statue in the garden, bought from a theme park, housed an Arabic nightclub and an opium den. Several images (i.e. clowns, men in tuxedos with tutus) are taken from Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of the Moulin Rouge and nearby clubs. Some of Lautrec's lines in the scene after Satine rejects Christian are taken from his letters.
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Visit the giveaway's main page here for all details on how to enter.

The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway

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Gather ‘round all you Lounge Vixens and enjoy this month’s treat... “The 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway”

We are pairing up some romance with this giveaway. A different romance theme movie will be reviewed for you each night. You’ll find the links to all the movies so far listed below and on the sidebar. You’ll get some extra entries for taking the time to show the posts a little love.
Night 1 "Moulin Rouge"
Night 2 "The Lake House"
Night 3 "An Affair To Remember"
Night 4 "Grease"
Night 5 "50 First Dates"
Night 6 "Pillow Talk"
Night 7 "The Notebook"
Night 8 "True Romance"
Night 9 "Wuthering Heights"
Night 10 "Indian Summer"
Night 11 "P.S. I Love You"
Night 12 "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Night 13 "A Life Less Ordinary"
Night 14 "Say Anything"

This time around we have two fabulous goodie bags up for grabs. The Lounge called on a few of our “partners in crime” to donate some of their incredible goods to the cause. So, thanks to their generosity, two lucky winners will walk away with some stylish loot.
 
Goodie Bag #1...
 

Laughing Vixen Lounge – Your choice of any glass pendant necklace from the shop.

The Family Jewels – In bloom ring “pink rose” edition.

 

Dirty Dishes – Your choice of any coffee mug from the shop including custom designs.

 

Groupie Glam – Your choice of any one item from the shop.

 

Boutique Julie – Set of two Greeting Cards.

 

Hell in a Handbag – A pair of Dead Eye Bows.

 

Glama Ray – Your choice of a 2oz Bubble Bath, a 2oz Massage Oil, a Roll~On Girl Perfume or a Home Fragrance Oil in any scent from The Valentine Collection.

 

Snips ‘n Snails – James Dean postage stamp necklace. Plus a "Toto By The Ear" cross stitch pattern.

 

Soft and Shiny – A pair of Moonstone and Garnet earrings.

 

 

 

Goodie Bag # 2...

 

Laughing Vixen Lounge – Your choice of any glass pendant necklace from the shop.

 

The Family Jewels – In bloom ring “pink rose” edition.

 

Carioca Witch – Your choice of any one item from the shop.

 

Groupie Glam – Your choice of any one item from the shop.

 

Boutique Julie – A Valentine Gift Box.

 

Hell in a Handbag – A pair of Creepy Fly Hairpins.

 

Glama Ray – Your choice of a 2oz Bubble Bath, a 2oz Massage Oil, a Roll~On Girl Perfume or a Home Fragrance Oil in any scent from The Valentine Collection.

 

Snips ‘n Snails – Your choice of any style Cameo Earrings from the shop. Plus a "Toto By The Ear" cross stitch pattern.

 

Soft and Shiny – A pair of Freshwater Pearl and Red Crystal Bicone Antique Bronze Earrings.

 

 

So sit back, watch a few movies, do a little window shopping and have fun!

 

Ways to enter the giveaway

 

**Make sure to post each entry as a separate comment. If you do not then you will not get all of your entries. Example...if something is worth 2 entries you must leave 2 separate comments. If you follow 3 people on Twitter each one needs to be a separate comment. If you put multiple entries in 1 comment you will only get the 1 entry!**

 

If you already follow a shop go ahead and take the entry.

 

Visit the shops – 3 entries

Check out the shops and comment on your favorite item.
 
Visit Laughing Vixen Lounge
Visit The Family Jewels
Visit Dirty Dishes
Visit Glama Ray
Visit Groupie Glam
Visit Boutique Julie
Visit Hell In A Handbag
Visit Snips and Snails
Visit Carioca Witch
Visit Soft n’ Shiny
 
Twitter – 1 entry
Follow the shops on Twitter.
 
Follow Laughing Vixen Lounge
Follow The Family Jewels
Follow Dirty Dishes
Follow Glama Ray
Follow Groupie Glam
Follow Boutique Julie
Follow Hell In A Handbag
Follow Snips and Snails
Follow Soft n’ Shiny
 
Blogs – 2 Entries
Follow the shops on their blogs.
 
Follow Laughing Vixen Lounge
Follow The Family Jewels
Follow Glama Ray
Follow Hell In A Handbag
Follow Snips and Snails
Follow Carioca Witch
Follow Soft n’ Shiny
 
Facebook – 2 Entries
Follow the shops on Facebook

Follow Laughing Vixen Lounge
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MySpace – 2 Entries
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Follow Glama Ray
Follow Groupie Glam
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Add a Laughing Vixen Lounge Button to your site – 4 Entries
Grab one of The Lounge’s buttons from the sidebar and add it to your site/blog. Just copy the code and paste in a widget (blogspot). If you need any help just ask. Make sure to add the link to your site in the comment.

Blog about this giveaway – 2 Entries
Post a write up on this giveaway on your blog and leave a comment that includes the link to your post.

Tweet about this giveaway –1 Entry
Tweet this message – 14 Nights of Valentine's Day Movie Marathon Giveaway. Fabulous prizes from 10 shops! Enter at http://bit.ly/cRxCrU
You may tweet 3 times per day. 1 tweet an hour max! Leave a separate comment for each tweet with the link to that tweet.

Comment on any movie – 1 Entry
One comment per movie. Links to all past movies are listed on the sidebar.

Guess the next day’s movie – 1 Entry
Clues to the title of the next night’s movie will be tweeted each day. Post your guess as a comment on that night’s movie post. One guess per day.
 
If you have a shop and would like to join in on a future giveaway contact me through my Etsy shop or send me a tweet on Twitter.
 
Make sure there is a way to contact you from your post.

Winners of previous giveaways are more than welcome to enter again.

Giveaway is open worldwide.

The Fine Print...Giveaway run from 12:00 Midnight February 1st '10 to 11:59 pm February 14th '10 (PST). Winner(s) will be picked randomly from all entries. The winner(s) name and choices will be posted on this blog as soon as the winner(s) has been contacted. If selected winner(s) does not respond back within 2 days a new winner(s) will be chosen. All decisions made final by Laughing Vixen Lounge.

It's Godzilla!

I had a custom order for a Japanese Monster Movie charm bracelet and I just finished it. It was most fun putting together and I wanted to share the pictures with everyone. I'll be adding a similar design to the shop very soon so you can grab one for yourself.

And The Winner Is...

Thanks to everyone for all the RTing. This was the biggest and best response I've had yet to a Twitter giveaway. Of course only one lucky kat can win and this time that winner is.....

@ThatTweetThing She picked "Cherries in Pink".
Lets all give her a big "congrats"!!!

Make sure to stay tuned as there will be another pendant giveaway starting this Friday sponsored by @MissingLynxx

Black Cat Giveaway

I just adore a black cat and this little guy is too cute to pass up. Try your luck at winning him (though you'll have to battle me for him) or purchase one straight from "PhenomeGnome.com". This giveaway is brought to us by the lovely dolls over at "The Soccer Moms' Guide to Wicca".
Ends 1/11 at 9:00 EST.

Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale!

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Sale.

November 27 - 30.

It's that time of year when all you kool kats are looking for a killer deal. Well, The Lounge is here to help. The shop will be running a couple of deals.

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Pick from...

15% off your purchase(before shipping)

Free shipping

Free glass pendant with any bracelet (any $10.50 glass pendant)

You can pick any one of these deals with your order. See full details on the shop's front page here

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And of course there is always the Buy 2 get 1 FREE deal on all glass and charmed pendants.
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So stop on by and take a look around. Find something for a gift or just treat yourself. Custom orders are always welcomed so let me know if there is something special I can make for you.

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Now go forth and eat too much, shop 'til you drop and have a rockin' good holiday!

And The Winner Is...

Thanks to everyone who played along with our latest Titter contest. The Lounge has the best Followers, Minions and all around Kool Kats! Kisses out to all of you.
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And the winner of the Friday The 13th RT Contest is...

Andrea (@Lunachique)
She chose the "Jack in Green" pendant.

And the winners are......

It's time to announce the winners of the "Twitter 613RT" and "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest" giveaways.

The Twitter giveaway winner is...
@BurqueSara

She chose "The Lion and the Lamb".

And let me thank everyone for joining in on all the Halloween fun with the Film Fest. I had so many wonderful people playing along that it made it all the more fun to do. It was great reading all you posts and seeing how many could guess the next movie. Hope it added to your Halloween. There was such a good turnout, and lots that followed along for most of the month, that I decided to pick two winners.

The winners of "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest" are...

DG (@DeeGee13)

She chose "Click Your Heels Three Times".

Bridgett

She chose "Eiffel Tower in Brown".

Thanks again to everyone and there will be a new giveaway later this month. I just have to make up my mind what I want to do for it. Aaaaah, decisions! 8)

Night 31 of "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest"

Well, my lovely ghouls, we have made it to the end of the Film Fest. Hope you had fun reminiscing about some favorites and maybe found a few new ones. While watching these movies I couldn't help but think about...

What have we learned from watching horror films?

1. Only the skinny survive! If you can't fit through small openings you will never escape.

2. If you leave your window/doors unlocked or open then you should not be surprised when the killer appears in your house.

3. If you hear something outside at night don't go out and offer yourself up to it.

4. Never trust the local sheriff, gas attendants, doctor, etc. They are part of it!

5. Hit him again.

6. Don't sit with your back to the killer with your eyes shut thinking "It all OK now". It's not. You only hit him once and now he's standing up.

7. After the third time #6 happens...learn from it!

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This is the last night to get your comments posted for the pendant giveaway. You can go back and leave a comment on any of the past movies. Since I've had so many wonderful people playing along I've decided to pick 2 winners! Winners will be posted later on Sunday. Good luck and have fun.

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Night 31...."Young Frankenstein"

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Directed by Mel Brooks (The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Dracula: Dead and Loving It) and released on December 15, 1974 by Twentieth Century Fox. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein inherits his grandfathers castle and all it's possessions. Despite his resistance to his grandfather's ideas he quickly changes his mind when he stumbles upon some hidden journals in his grandfather's secret library. With the help of his assistants Igor (Marty Feldman) and Inga (Terri Garr) Dr. Frankenstein will attempt to bring his grandfather's dream to life.

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This is the best of the best. The comedy is so silly it's stupid but at the same time it's really rather brilliant. Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder are at their finest here and it's a treat to watch them. The sets and atmosphere are beautiful and Peter Boyle is such fun as the monster. This is a yearly Halloween staple at my house and I can't wait to watch it tonight!

Madeline Kahn is great as Elizabeth/The Bride of Frankenstein. The best quote of hers...

"Oh. Where you going?... Oh, you men are all alike. Seven or eight quick ones and then you're out with the boys to boast and brag. You better keep your mouth shut. Oh... I think I love him."

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Some trivia about the movie...

1. The film was shot with many of the same props and lab equipment as the original Frankenstein (1931).

2. The howling wolf sound on the ride to the castle was made by director Mel Brooks.

3. The idea of Frederick's dart hitting a cat was ad-libbed on set. When Gene Wilder threw his dart off camera, director Mel Brooks quickly screamed like a cat to create the illusion.

4. The scene in which the creature contemplates throwing the little girl into the lake ("No more flowers. What shall we throw in now?"), is a homage to a scene in Frankenstein (1931). That scene was cut and not restored to the original until its video release 50 years later.

5. Gene Wilder conceived the "Puttin' on the Ritz" scene, while Mel Brooks was resistant to it, feeling it detracted from the fidelity to Universal horror films in the rest of the film. It was only when he saw it with a howling audience that Brooks was confident about the sequence.

6. Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle and Marty Feldman appear together in this film by virtue of the fact that their mutual agent had a deal with the movie studio.

7. The shifting hump on Igor's back was an ad-libbed gag of Marty Feldman's. He had surreptitiously been shifting the hump back and forth for several days when cast members finally noticed. It was then added to the script.

8. Rock band Aerosmith took a break from a long night of recording to see "Young Frankenstein" in 1974. Steven Tyler wrote the band's hit "Walk This Way" the morning after seeing the movie, inspired by Marty Feldman's first scene, the "walk this way... this way" scene.

9. When Mel Brooks was preparing "Young Frankenstein," he found that Ken Strickfaden, who had made the elaborate electrical machinery for the lab sequences in the Universal Frankenstein films, was still alive in the Los Angeles area. He visited Strickfaden and found that Strickfaden had saved all the equipment and had it stored in his garage. Brooks made a deal to rent the equipment for his film and gave Strickfaden the screen credit he'd deserved, but hadn't gotten, for the original films.

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Rules for pendant giveaway...

(1) comment about a movie per movie.

(1) extra entry by following this Blog and (1) extra for following on Twitter (You can only take the blog and twitter entries once for the whole contest).

(1) extra entry for Tweeting about this. Please use this message -Check out the "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest" to win your choice of pendant from @LaughingVixen http://bit.ly/1wOVZb -- 3 Tweets a day max and no more than 1 an hour.

(1) extra entry for guessing the next film. I will tweet hints on Twitter about the next days movie and you can post your guess as a comment. Doesn't have to be right just your best guess.

Make sure to post each entry as an individual comment on any of the movies comment pages. You can comment on past movies. Make sure you can be contacted from your post.

Night 30 of "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest"

I've joined in the fun over at Domestic Witch's October Blog Party. You can find a list of participating blogs that are having fun celebrating the season of Halloween. When you're done here take a broom ride over to her site and you'll see the list of blogs on the right side bar.
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Here at The Lounge we will have a "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest". Check back each day to see which movie is featured and some days you may get more than one. They will be a random selection of my favorites. You can see all past selections on the sidebar.
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Make sure to leave a comment for each movie as one lucky person will win their choice of pendant from Laughing Vixen Lounge at the end of the film fest. Please see rules at end of post.
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Night 30..."An American Werewolf in London"

It just doesn't get much better than this!
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Written and directed by John Landis (Animal House, The Blues Brothers and Thriller) and released on August 21, 1981 by Universal Pictures. David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are on a backpacking trip around Europe. While hiking through rural England they stop at a little pub called "The Slaughtered Lamb". After pissing off the locals they are sent out into the cold wet night with one caution..."Beware the moon and stick to the roads." Yah, our boys aren't too bright and are strolling across the moors in no time flat. They soon find out what the locals were warning them about. Werewolves!!!
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This is darn close if not my favorite horror film ever. The blend of humor and horror is spot on here. The effects were cutting edge and won an Oscar. I still prefer them to many overdone CGI effects. And the use of moon related songs is fun and effective. This is one of my yearly "must see" on Halloween.
I mean, can you really hear "Bad Moon Rising" by Credence and not think of this movie. Maybe I saw it young enough that it branded my brain.
Creepiest scene is the man being stalked in the subway terminal. I still find it scary.
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Some trivia about the movie...
1. John Landis originally wanted three other songs to add to the soundtrack: Cat Stevens wouldn't allow "Moonshadow" to be used because he had stopped allowing his secular music to be licensed for films following his conversion to Islam; Bob Dylan wouldn't allow his version of "Blue Moon" to be used in an R-rated film, as he had just begun his brief conversion to Christianity; and Elvis Presley's version of "Blue Moon" proved unavailable due to the ongoing lawsuits involving his estate.
2. The legal disclaimer in the closing credits reads, "Any resemblance to any persons living, dead, or undead is coincidental". This was also placed at the end of another John Landis project: Thriller (1983) (TV), which was reportedly inspired by (and held several allusions to) this film.
3. David Naughton was reportedly cast because John Landis had seen him in a television commercial for Dr. Pepper. I remember this commercial! He also had a top 40 hit song!! He was on a TV show in '79 called "Makin' It" and he sang the theme song. 8)
4. In 1997, the movie was re-recorded as a Radio drama by Audio Movies Limited for BBC Radio 1 in England. It was broadcast during Halloween that year, in short snippets throughout the day. Brian Glover, John Woodvine and Jenny Agutter reprised their roles from the movie.
5. Studio executives hoped John Landis would cast Dan Aykroyd in the role of David and John Belushi as Jack. John Landis refused.
6. John Landis came up with a film following an incident while shooting Kelly's Heroes (1970) in the countryside of Yugoslavia. While driving along a country road with a colleague, Landis encountered a gypsy funeral. The body was being buried in a massively deep grave, feet first, while wrapped in garlic, so as he would not rise from the dead.
7. Director Cameo: [John Landis] appears briefly near the end of the film. He is the bearded man who gets hit by a car and thrown through the plate glass window in Piccadilly Circus.
8. When trying to call home, the telephone number that David Kessler gives the operator (516-472-3402) contains a Long Island, New York area code. It is also an unusual case where an actual phone number is used.
9. At the very end of the film, an advertisement for Universal Studios is shown along with a suggestion to "Ask for Babs". This is a reference to a "Where are they Now" item featured towards the end of Animal House (1978), another film by John Landis.
10. This is the first film to earn the Academy Award for Best Makeup. That category was created in 1981.
11. The final look of the werewolf beast was based on make-up creator Rick Baker's dog Bosko.
12. The Werewolf Howl that was used for the film, was a combination of a actual wolf and an elephant, it was also said it was played backwards by the producer 'George Folsey Jr'. in the "Beware The Moon" documentary. Director John Landis also stated on the "Beware The Moon" Documentary that the Howl was a combination of 7 or 8 different animals.
13. Miss Piggy/Yoda-Creator/Voice Talent Frank Oz plays Mr. Collins of the American embassy, who attempts in vain to console David. His voice is also heard later, during the Muppet Show.
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Rules for pendant giveaway...
(1) comment about a movie per movie.
(1) extra entry by following this Blog and (1) extra for following on Twitter (You can only take the blog and twitter entries once for the whole contest).
(1) extra entry for Tweeting about this. Please use this message -Check out the "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest" to win your choice of pendant from @LaughingVixen http://bit.ly/2v5w28 -- 3 Tweets a day max and no more than 1 an hour.
(1) extra entry for guessing the next film. I will tweet hints on Twitter about the next days movie and you can post your guess as a comment. Doesn't have to be right just your best guess.
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Night 29 of "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest"

I've joined in the fun over at Domestic Witch's October Blog Party. You can find a list of participating blogs that are having fun celebrating the season of Halloween. When you're done here take a broom ride over to her site and you'll see the list of blogs on the right side bar.
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Here at The Lounge we will have a "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest". Check back each day to see which movie is featured and some days you may get more than one. They will be a random selection of my favorites. You can see all past selections on the sidebar.

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Make sure to leave a comment for each movie as one lucky person will win their choice of pendant from Laughing Vixen Lounge at the end of the film fest. Please see rules at end of post.

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Night 29..."Classic Monster Movies"

I love old black and white monster movies. Any and all of them. Atomic bugs, Woman that change into insects, The Universal Monsters, Critters from Outer space, Ghost, Zombies, Killer Bugs and just about anything that happens to grow really big! I'm a huge Mystery Science Theater 3000 lover so all the better if they're MST'd. Anyway and every way they are wonderful and make me laugh. If you visit my shop you will see many of them lurking around.

The trailers were great too. "It leaps! It Crawls! It takes over the world! Run!" I love this style and it show in the posters too. I couldn't think of anything better than to let their great artwork speak for them. This is just a sampling of the heaps of them out there.

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Rules for pendant giveaway...

(1) comment about a movie per movie.

(1) extra entry by following this Blog and (1) extra for following on Twitter (You can only take the blog and twitter entries once for the whole contest).

(1) extra entry for Tweeting about this. Please use this message -Check out the "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest" to win your choice of pendant from @LaughingVixen http://bit.ly/10eYvS -- 3 Tweets a day max and no more than 1 an hour.

(1) extra entry for guessing the next film. I will tweet hints on Twitter about the next days movie and you can post your guess as a comment. Doesn't have to be right just your best guess.

Make sure to post each entry as an individual comment on any of the movies comment pages. You can comment on past movies. Make sure you can be contacted from your post.

Night 28 of "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest"

I've joined in the fun over at Domestic Witch's October Blog Party. You can find a list of participating blogs that are having fun celebrating the season of Halloween. When you're done here take a broom ride over to her site and you'll see the list of blogs on the right side bar.
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Here at The Lounge we will have a "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest". Check back each day to see which movie is featured and some days you may get more than one. They will be a random selection of my favorites. You can see all past selections on the sidebar.
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Make sure to leave a comment for each movie as one lucky person will win their choice of pendant from Laughing Vixen Lounge at the end of the film fest. Please see rules at end of post.
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Night 28...."Dead and Breakfast"

You will either love it or hate it!
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Directed by Matthew Leutwyler (This Space Between Us, Road Kill and Unearthed) and released on August 19, 2005 by Anchor Bay Entertainment. A group of young people, on their way to a wedding, stop for the night at a bed and breakfast in the little town of Lovelock, Texas. Upon waking they find some dead bodies and an evil spirit possessing the townsfolk, turning them into Zombies. Can they stop the madness before it takes over forever? And wow, can those Zombies dance. That's right, dance!
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The tagline for this movie was "It's like a bad horror film, only worse". That pretty much sums it up. This is a grade A hunk of cheesiness. Lots of squirting blood, jokes and Zombies. And yes, there is a roaming band (kinda like "Something About Mary") so you have singing Zombies that even do a little dance. It's silly, funny and bad in all the best ways.
And as an extra treat it has two of my favorites in it, Jeffery Dean Morgan (The Sheriff) and Jeremy Sisto (Ahhh, let's just say The Head). Also stars David and Ever Carradine.
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Some trivia about the movie...
1. When the group first gets to the bed and breakfast, they hear the song "The Freshmen" on the radio and sing to it. "The Freshmen" was written and performed by Brian Vander Ark, who appears as a zombie and wrote the original score to the film.
2. When the Sheriff is pulling the chainsaw out of the closet, an Evil Dead poster can be seen.
3. When Melody (Gina Philips) kills one of the zombies, the Sheriff (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) says, "Nice move, Buffy." Bianca Lawson, who plays Kate in the film, played Kendra on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series.
4. 34 gallons of "blood" were used over the course of the shoot. 4.5 gallons of "blood" were used just to cut off Erik Palladino's head.
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Rules for pendant giveaway...
(1) comment about a movie per movie.
(1) extra entry by following this Blog and (1) extra for following on Twitter (You can only take the blog and twitter entries once for the whole contest).
(1) extra entry for Tweeting about this. Please use this message -Check out the "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest" to win your choice of pendant from @LaughingVixen http://bit.ly/VlAB4 -- 3 Tweets a day max and no more than 1 an hour.
(1) extra entry for guessing the next film. I will tweet hints on Twitter about the next days movie and you can post your guess as a comment. Doesn't have to be right just your best guess.
Make sure to post each entry as an individual comment on any of the movies comment pages. You can comment on past movies. Make sure you can be contacted from your post.

Night 27 of "The 31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest"

I've joined in the fun over at Domestic Witch's October Blog Party. You can find a list of participating blogs that are having fun celebrating the season of Halloween. When you're done here take a broom ride over to her site and you'll see the list of blogs on the right side bar.
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Here at The Lounge we will have a "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest". Check back each day to see which movie is featured and some days you may get more than one. They will be a random selection of my favorites. You can see all past selections on the sidebar.
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Make sure to leave a comment for each movie as one lucky person will win their choice of pendant from Laughing Vixen Lounge at the end of the film fest. Please see rules at end of post.
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Night 27...."The Texas Chainsaw Massacre"

Ick...Yuck...Eeew...Blaaaah.
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Directed by Tobe Hooper (Salem's Lot, Venom and Invaders from Mars) and released on October 1, 1974 by Bryanston Distributing. A group of teens are traveling the back roads of Texas wanting to visit the old home two of them grew up in. Running low on gas they try the local gas station but they are out. When they reach the house they decide to visit the neighbors to see if they have any gas they can borrow. Bad idea! The neighbors happen to be sadistic cannibals that are looking for some fresh meat.
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I saw this movie for the first time about 9 years ago. It was horrible and disturbing! Pretty sure I'd be OK never seeing it again. But I couldn't leave it off the list because it is a truly horrifying picture. The gritty look of the film makes it seem more like a documentary and therefore feels real. It's the dinner scenes towards the end that really leaves you with a disgusting and dirty feeling. It's just wrong on so many levels!!! But it does archive what many horror films don't. It scares you.
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Some trivia about the movie....
1. The movie wasn't released in Australia until the early 1980s.
2. When it was first released, the film was so horrifying that people actually walked out on sneak previews for it.
3. The film was rejected by the British film censors in 1975, but it did get a limited cinema release in the London area thanks to the GLC (Greater London Council). It was banned again in 1977, when the censors' attempts to cut it were unsuccessful, (for the purposes of a wider release), then it was banned again in 1984, due to the growing controversy involving 'video nasties'. In 1999, after the censors finally changed their policy, they took the plunge, and passed it uncut, for the cinema and video, after 25 years, since they first banned it.
4. The film was originally entitled "Headcheese", but was filmed as "Leatherface", then changed again at the last minute to "Texas Chain Saw Massacre".
5. Due to the low budget, Gunnar Hansen had only one shirt to wear as Leatherface. The shirt had been dyed, so it could not be washed; Hansen had to wear it for four straight weeks of filming in the Texas summer. By the end of the shoot no one wanted to eat lunch with Hansen because his clothing smelled so bad.
6. Tobe Hooper intended to make the movie for a "PG" rating, by keeping violence moderate and language mild, but despite cutting and repeated submissions, the Ratings Board insisted on the "R" rating for the effectiveness of what is onscreen and what is implied offscreen. Hooper had a similar ratings problem with the sequel.
7. According to John Larroquette, his payment for doing the opening narration was a marijuana joint.
8. Some urban legends say that the the "real" Texas Chainsaw Massacre took place near Poth, (a small town about 50 miles south of San Antonio). This is false. The film is fictional and based loosely on the life of Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein (as is the classic Psycho (1960).
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Rules for pendant giveaway...
(1) comment about a movie per movie.
(1) extra entry by following this Blog and (1) extra for following on Twitter (You can only take the blog and twitter entries once for the whole contest).
(1) extra entry for Tweeting about this. Please use this message -Check out the "31 Nights of Halloween Film Fest" to win your choice of pendant from @LaughingVixen http://bit.ly/41kQm -- 3 Tweets a day max and no more than 1 an hour.
1) extra entry for guessing the next film. I will tweet hints on Twitter about the next days movie and you can post your guess as a comment. Doesn't have to be right just your best guess.
Make sure to post each entry as an individual comment on any of the movies comment pages. You can comment on past movies. Make sure you can be contacted from your post.