Monday, March 11, 2013
Late Night Blogging: Ark Movies
award-winning creator of Enter The House Between and author of 32 books including Horror Films FAQ (2013), Horror Films of the 1990s (2011), Horror Films of the 1980s (2007), TV Year (2007), The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (2007), Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair (2006),, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (2004), The Unseen Force: The Films of Sam Raimi (2004), An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith (2002), The Encyclopedia of Superheroes on Film & Television (2004), Exploring Space:1999 (1997), An Analytical Guide to TV's Battlestar Galactica (1998), Terror Television (2001), Space:1999 - The Forsaken (2003) and Horror Films of the 1970s (2002).
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When I noticed that you had posted "Ark Movies", I had a sneaking suspicion that you would have, as part of this "collection" this "psudo" classic from 1976. Sunn Classic Picures!! It deserves a blog "in" and "of" itself (which I am going to do at some point and how it made growing up in the 70's fun and helped to shape my interest in Cryptozoology along with the "unknown"). This film was (along with The Adventures of Frontier Freemont and The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams) one of the first films I viewed (as a lad of 3)from this little company out of Park City, Utah.
ReplyDeleteWho can forget the deep-baratoned voice of one of America's first "shock jocks" (who was also a huge infulence on Howard Stern by the way) , Brad Crandall guiding through this and the many other "speculative" films that Schick Sunn Classic released throughout the "psudo" 70's.
It's ironic that I found this. For today, I was talking (while driving... get the joke? LOL) with my son about Scripture and asked him what he thought the two most important pieces of Biblicial Archaeology were? His response was: "The Holy Grail, and The Ark of the Convenant." I told him that he was correct; but that there were two other pieces (both having to do with wood) that would be considered "important" as well. After a couple of minutes, his response was "The Ark of Noah, and the Cross of Christ." Which was (I informed him), correct.
What would happen, if we did find a "piece" (if you will) of this mammoth boat that held the "new" (if you will, once again) "family of man?" How would we (as a collective world body) react? For even though, The Book of Genesis is "truth", what would happen if it became "fact?" The implications and ramifications would be mindboggling (if I am using the word correctly) to say the least. It would call into question "The Theory of Evolution"; and bring "Creationism" into a more "acceptable circle" in the "scientific world" than it is now. But I digress. I am not a "scholar" in either field, just a "blogger" who stumbled on a friend's post about "Ark Films".
With that said, thanks John (as always) for doing this; thanks for reading and thanks for your time.