What movies have you seen recently?

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House of Wax (1953)
Watched on Svengooli on Me TV.

Svengooli had plenty of movie trivia about the film and actors. One piece regarded a scene where there are three small fires. They were carefully set up around the room with wax figures, and their star, Vincent Price. The fires got out of hand, and the fire department had to be called. However, the director kept filming because the wax figures were expensive to recreate and he photographed their destruction.

Also, aside from being filmed in 3D, the film was projected in Warnerphonic sound.

On Horror Hotel
Treaters (2017)

Horror Hotel Lamia Queen of the Dark Trivia: In 2019, approximately 8.5 Billion was spent on Halloween (costumes, candy, decorations)

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It was a film that kept my attention. Overall I liked it. I laughed at a few spots I'm certain where not meant to be funny, but that may be just me.

Harem (1986)


A TV movie, also described as a 'mini-series', set in the last years of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th Century. An American woman who goes to Constantinople to marry her diplomat fiance is kidnapped by revolutionaries and later finds herself in the Sultan's harem. In the end she has to choose between a life of guaranteed social and material stability with the diplomat or an uncertain life of adventure with the revolutionary leader. What does she choose? That would be telling.....

Perfectly watchable, but difficult not to laugh at the clichés and stereotypes. I couldn't help thinking of Monty Python's Life of Brian at times. Stars Omar Sharif, Ava Gardner, Art Malik, Sarah Miles and Cherie Lunghi, so you can't complain on that score.