SCROOGED Your Halloween movie for December/Christmas time
Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 10:42 am
Bill Murray plays a cold hearted TV exec who learns the lessons of Christmas, Charles Dickens style in this 1988 update.
Great make up and special effects, with decaying great ghosts, frozen to death corpses, walking dead corpses that loose arms, and a dynamite scene at the end with Bill trapped in a coffin whimpering;"Don't let me burn" as the flames cut inside the box and he has no where to run.
The message, if anything, comes out even better on this one then in some 'legit' adapations, and you realize how far we still have to go to help people, how little in some cases we have done since Dickens day to make things better for everyone. But at the same time, you WANT to try...
At the end, Bill turns to the camera and says;'FEED ME Seymour...FEED ME.." thats form LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS that he was also in...a remake of the Corman classic.
Keep your eyes open when he is telling his brother how he likes Christmas and how everyone is going to be home watching t.v. There is a band playing on the streets. One of the guys is Paul, from Letterman...the black guy on the horn is MILES DAVIS...one of the giants of Jazz...you could a lot worse then buy yourself a copy of KIND OF BLUE to explore his sound further...
Great make up and special effects, with decaying great ghosts, frozen to death corpses, walking dead corpses that loose arms, and a dynamite scene at the end with Bill trapped in a coffin whimpering;"Don't let me burn" as the flames cut inside the box and he has no where to run.
The message, if anything, comes out even better on this one then in some 'legit' adapations, and you realize how far we still have to go to help people, how little in some cases we have done since Dickens day to make things better for everyone. But at the same time, you WANT to try...
At the end, Bill turns to the camera and says;'FEED ME Seymour...FEED ME.." thats form LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS that he was also in...a remake of the Corman classic.
Keep your eyes open when he is telling his brother how he likes Christmas and how everyone is going to be home watching t.v. There is a band playing on the streets. One of the guys is Paul, from Letterman...the black guy on the horn is MILES DAVIS...one of the giants of Jazz...you could a lot worse then buy yourself a copy of KIND OF BLUE to explore his sound further...
