A lot of people have asked me why I don't list movies. Fine. I'm now
listing movies. Now it's your job to send me movies to list...
- ...Starring William Hurt and Blair Brown. Directed by Ken Russell, script by Paddy
Chayefsky (from a novel by him, evidently under the pseudonym Sydney Aaron). Hurt plays a
researcher performing experiments in altered states of consciousness, using mind-altering
drugs and a sensory deprivation tank... It's a very grim, nihilistic, depressing movie,
but hey, it's a transformation story for sure. [See Spoiler Section for more info.] -115
[Video: Veaches; 1986; $14.99] [Amazon]
[Video: Avid; 1997; $9.99] [Amazon]
[DVD: IVE; 1997; $24.98] [Amazon]
- ...with it's fantastic man to wolf scene where David Naughton gets hairy. Incredible! -120
[Not yet released on video]
- I hope that An American Werewolf in Paris lives up to it's predocessor when it
is released this December in theaters. -161 (98/02/14)
- A rather scary movie... with Oliver Reed, Karen Black, and Bette Davis. [See Spoiler Section for more info.] -115
- The Natassia Kinsky version... the transformations are linked to sex in
fascinating,potentially metaphorical ways... -121
- ...okay, especially the campfire scene with Christopher Stone. -120
[Video: Warner; 1994; $19.99] [Amazon]
- 1964. Starred Don Knotts, Jack Weston, Carole Cook, Andrew Duggan, Larry Keating.
Director: Arthur Lubin.
Don Knotts as a milquetoast who dreams of becoming a fish, and miraculously gets his wish
(turning into an animated cartoon figure). 4-F as a human, he helps the Navy in WWII as a
fish. Only the 1 transformation, done in animated silhouette. -135 (98/02/07)
- Is being remade with Jim Carrey in the Don Knotts role! -173 (98/04/11)
- ...Micheal York's journey into animalhood in the Island of Dr. Moreau remake of the
'70s... he never quite made it. -120
[Video: Warner; 1986; $14.99] [Amazon]
- (1985?). Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Leo McKern. Pseudo-medieval fantasy, in which
a young thief (Broderick) befriends a couple under a curse: He (Hauer) is a man by day and
a wolf by night, she is a hawk by day and a woman by night. One dawn transition scene
on-screen. -135 (98/02/09)
- There's also a novelization of this, by
Joan Vinge. -Ph
[Video: Disney; 1997; $19.99] [Amazon]
- Disney, 1976. [Sequel to The Shaggy Dog.]Starred
Dean Jones, Suzanne Pleshette, Tim Conway, Keenan Wynn, Jo Anne Worley, Dick Van Patten,
Director: Robert Stevenson.
Dean Jones as the Tommy Kirk character all grown up, but the spell still crops up, often
at inopportune moments. Also silly and lightweight. -135
(98/02/07)
[Video: Disney; 1997; $19.99] [Amazon]
- Disney, 1959. Starred Fred MacMurray, Jean Hagen, Tommy Kirk, Annette Funicello, Tim
Considine, Kevin Corcoran, Cecil Kellaway, Alexander Scourby. Director: Charles Barton.
[Cause: MC Result: BX/AN.] [Tommy Kirk] finds a magical
spell that turns him into a sheepdog. He turns back and forth several times, often at
inopportune moments. Pretty silly, lightweight. Remade by Disney 1994. Sequels: The Shaggy D.A. and TV-movie The Return of
the Shaggy Dog (1987). -135 (98/02/07)
- The original movie was remade as a Disney TV movie 2-3 years ago, this time with
morphing transformations instead of lap dissolves & cutaways. (Also, the cold-war spy
villains were replaced by a jewel thief) -173 (98/04/11)
[Video: Pennsylvania Amer. Assn.; 1986; $14.99] [Amazon]
- I see that you have listed two known werewolf movies, but there is one that was made for
television originally adapted from Stephen King's "Cycle of the Werewolf" which
was changed to "Silver Bullet". I felt that the role of Reverand Lowe (Everett
McGill of Twin Peaks) did a good job of showing the internal struggle of lycanthropy
although how the character became as such was never convered. -161 (98/02/14)
[Video: MCA; 1997; $14.99] [Amazon]
- Dirk Benedict is slowly turned into a king cobra throughout the film. -120
- 1973. Strother Martin, Heather Menzies, Dirk Benedict. Melodrama about a mad
venom-researcher (Martin) with a penchant for turning his lab assistants into king cobras.
(TV Guide synopsis, 2 stars, not seen) -135 (98/02/09)
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