Dinner and a Movie with Moxie

  Forrest Gump (1994) I haven't seen this film in about 20 years I don't think, I chose it for Maine Movie Mondays, after visiting the lighthouse here in Maine that was used in the filming of this movie.  Most people don't think of Maine when they think of Forrest Gump, usually it conjures thoughts of south, where the bulk of the film was set, however there was a part where Forrest decides to run, and he runs from coast to coast until one day he decides that he is done running.  There is one shot in the film that took place in Maine, and that shot was where he ran on a footbridge to a small lighthouse tower on the coast of Maine.  The lighthouse where that was filmed was the Marshall Point Lighthouse near Port Clyde Maine, in the township of Saint George.  Marshall Point Lighthouse has become a popular tourist location where tourists will take pictures of themselves reenacting the scene from the film.  Being that the location of this lighthouse is on the mi...

  Haunted Ranch (1943) Horror film fans are mostly likely familiar with Glenn Strange because of the horror films that he has done, for example playing Frankenstein's Monster in the later films in the Frankenstein franchise. However non horror fans most likely know him from his work in westerns, for example his work in the television series Gunsmoke.   In 1943 he starred as the main villain in the twentieth installment of the Monogram Pictures' The Range Busters series entitled Haunted Ranch.   This film attempts to play itself as a light horror/mystery/western film.  Though any attempt at being a horror film was dispelled rather quickly when the film immediately gives away that the ranch is not haunted by a ghost by by villainous cowboys that are seeking the treasure hidden in the ranch, also any real mystery is quickly dispelled as well, as the film seems to love to just lay out exactly what is going on without much actual mystery involved.  Though t...

  Creature Of The Walking Dead (1965) Creature Of The Walking Dead, is really just an English language adaptation of the 1961 film La Marca Del Muerto (or Mark Of The Dead Man), but rather than remaking the film with an English language cast, as was once the practice, or even just re-releasing the film with English dubs or subs as was also a common practice, director Jerry Warren used mostly the original Mexican film, but then shot some scenes with an American cast, and the results were a jumbled up mess of a film.  I think that there is actually a decent film somewhere in this mess, and honestly I would love to find the original 1961 film, and watch that instead.   My first impression of the film was that it was much older than it actually was, I was expecting it to be from the 1930s or 1940s based on the tone and feel of the film, but then to find out that it is actually from 1965, makes the film feel like it was a weak film for its time period.  I also though...