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From Wiki: The much-played piano piece is a transcription for left hand by Warner Bros. pianist Victor Aller of the chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach's Violin Partita in D minor. If you like classic horror and classical piano, this is the movie to see.
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Oh yes! Love it.
Another piano horror classic is The Mephisto Waltz (Alan Alda). In that one it's not a posessed hand, it's a whole pianist.
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In that one it's not a posessed hand, it's a whole pianist. I can relate to that!
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Oh yes! Love it.
Another piano horror classic is The Mephisto Waltz (Alan Alda). In that one it's not a posessed hand, it's a whole pianist. Another good one was the original 1962 "Carnival of Souls" (the remake was terrible), about a church organist repeatedly drawn to a long closed "the Shining"-like beach pavillion. IMO, Carnival of Souls was inspired by the 1890s novel, later made into a Twilight Zone episode, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", and later inspiring "Jacob's Ladder" with Tim Robbins. from Wiki: "Set to an organ score by Gene Moore, Carnival of Souls relies more on atmosphere than on special effects to create its mood of horror. The film has a large cult following and occasionally has screenings at local film and Halloween festivals."
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Another piano horror classic is The Mephisto Waltz (Alan Alda).
I love that movie! Jakob Gimpel, rip, playing the most difficult piano work ever. (according to the pianist in the movie)
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Despite having a title better suited to the B-movie horror/sci-fi genre of the following decade, The Beast with Five Fingers (from 1946) is a good film! I love Carnival of Souls, and think Candace Hilligoss was striking and memorable in the lead role of Mary, the ill-fated organist. I was never able to warm to The Mephisto Waltz, though it's fun to see both Robert and Alan Alda mentioned in the same piano thread. Steven
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posted by BJones: Another good one was the original 1962 "Carnival of Souls" (the remake was terrible), about a church organist repeatedly drawn to a long closed "the Shining"-like beach pavillion. IMO, Carnival of Souls was inspired by the 1890s novel, later made into a Twilight Zone episode, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", and later inspiring "Jacob's Ladder" with Tim Robbins.
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a story by Ambrose Bierce, about a man being hanged in a military execution during the Civil War. It has nothing to do with music as far as I can recall. Did Twilight Zone use the title for a different story?
Has anyone seen The Hands of Orlac?
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An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a story by Ambrose Bierce, about a man being hanged in a military execution during the Civil War. It has nothing to do with music as far as I can recall. Did Twilight Zone use the title for a different story?
I didn't read the book, but I've seen the Twilight Zone version. It's the same idea as Carnival of Souls, and Jacob's Ladder.. Warning: Spoiler.. don't read on if you plan to see these.. Somone who's dead and doesn't know it. The Confederate war criminal in Occurrence died the exact same way. Drowned. He's hung off of a bridge in the beginning, but the rope snaps, he hits the water alive, and manages to untie his bonds and avoid being shot while swimming away. Throughout the episode, he's trying to get home, being chased as a fugitive and when he finally sees his woman they run towards each other and just before they touch, everything slows down and he's pulled back to the point where he's standing on the rail of the bridge about to be hanged. he's hanged and this time the rope doesn't break. In Carnival, it starts with her driving her car into the water near that eerie, closed pavillion (in the background). She walks out of the water and experiences the same kind of things that Tim Robbins did in "Jacob's Ladder", demons after her. When she finally gives in and dances with the demons in the pavillion at the end of the movie, the scene shifts to the police pulling her car out of the water and she's in it (dead). She never walked out of the water, justlike the Confederate never swam away in the water, and just like Tim Robbins never walked off that helicopter that he was being medivaced on. Very similar ideas.
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Has anyone seen The Hands of Orlac?
Conrad Veidt. Great pre-1930 movie. Great actor! Conrad, in "the Man Who Laughs", was definitely Bob Kane's inspiration for creating "the Joker"
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Conrad Veidt is one of my pet unappreciated actors. He was the main Nazi in Casablanca. He also played Chopin in a lost silent, probably looking much like this:
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Conrad Veidt is one of my pet unappreciated actors. He was the main Nazi in Casablanca. He also played Chopin in a lost silent, probably looking much like this: The film with images was lost, but I happen to have a copy of the soundtrack.
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Conrad Veidt is one of my pet unappreciated actors. He was the main Nazi in Casablanca. He also played Chopin in a lost silent, probably looking much like this: The film with images was lost, but I happen to have a copy of the soundtrack. Veidt was very appreciated in his day, he was in many many flics, most of which have been remade and respun into new flics, some given rise to new ideas. He's underappreciated today because of he advent of special effects, today's actors not having to "create" all the effects that actors of years ago had to create themselves, and becaue most film buffs scope of knowledge is of films starting from 1930 (talkies). I agree. Veidt is one of my favorite actors of all time. He blew away the next wave of actors who followed in his footsteps, Chaney Jr., Lugosi, Karloff.
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Supposedly Johnny Depp's makeup in Edward Scissorhands was based on Veidt's makeup as Cesare in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari.
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Veidt was very appreciated in his day, he was in many many flics, most of which have been remade and respun into new flics, some given rise to new ideas. He's underappreciated today because of he advent of special effects, today's actors not having to "create" all the effects that actors of years ago had to create themselves, and becaue most film buffs scope of knowledge is of films starting from 1930 (talkies). And yet one of Veidt's last roles was in a film that won an Oscar for special effects, The Thief of Bagdad. Of course, special effects were different back in 1940. Because he played bad guys so well in that film and subsequently in Casablanca, it's hard for me to imagine him as Chopin. Steven
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Supposedly Johnny Depp's makeup in Edward Scissorhands was based on Veidt's makeup as Cesare in The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Definitely!
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it's hard for me to imagine him as Chopin.
Steven Me too. I could see him as being perfect to portray me, but Chopin? That's a different story.
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Well, he definitely had The Nose for it.
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