She and her father watched "Chiller Theater," a TV series that specialized in the campier side of horror films.
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The series sounds like it will be even campier than Murphy's other anthologies, American Crime Story and American Horror Story.
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To be fair, though, what's campier than a big-budget fantasy series that's actually mostly about clandestine sex and wigs?
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Seahorses frolic on his campier-than-thou, so-bad-it's-good canopy bed with a carousel motif in the Circus Bedroom at Ashcombe.
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This film has a cult following helmed by John Waters, which made me think it would either be campier or scarier than it was.
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The only thing Katy Perry could have come as that was campier than a chandelier would be if she came as a plastic bag.
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In the campier "Vampire Circus" (showing on Monday and July 261), a roving gaggle of undead circus performers avenge the killing of a count.
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Speaking of other movies Demon resembles, there are elements reminiscent of campier fare like The Craft or Jawbreaker, but without any of the fun or personality.
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Even though "Drain The Swamp" ended the season on an even campier note than usual, it was still an enjoyable close to a relatively slow-paced season.
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Hyman has made less pointed attempts to associate herself with the public perception of her, but she comes across as even campier in her telecasts because she's not trying.
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One suspects Stahelski recognizes this: Chapter 2 is a lot campier than its predecessor, as if he hopes that owning up to the preposterousness will make it go down more smoothly.
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While comedy isn't a primary aim of The Lion King (in contrast to campier films like The Little Mermaid or even Aladdin), it's even less prevalent here for most of the main scenes.
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In hindsight, Jennifer's Body feels more like a precursor to Riverdale, a show that has managed to effectively merge the campier elements of of horror with teen high school drama to great success.
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The series will feature an impressive range of films: classics like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Blade Runner, campier movies like RoboCop and The Terminator, and art house features like Wong Kar-Wai's 2046 and Lynn Hershman-Leeson's Teknolust.
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While the fragility is necessary — even campier, more exaggerated music would retain the humor but not the terror — some songs could be sprightlier, as "8" and "I Love You" rely too obviously on the conventional association between acoustic plucking and stark sadness.
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"Eastern Standard" was also one of the first plays to treat gayness with a kind of benign, straight-adjacent regularity that we take for granted today but that had, at the time, evaded the pioneering, altogether campier queer works that preceded it in New York, including Mart Crowley's "The Boys in the Band" (1968) and Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song Trilogy" (1982).
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The show starts off not quite sure what its tone should be — it could stand to be either 10 percent more serious or 10 percent campier — but its Floridian noir aesthetic is immediately and undeniably different enough to help it stand out in the oncoming glut of summer TV. Still: the best thing Claws has going for it is its cast, headed up by the ferociously good Nash.
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Nos Miran was released to favorable reviews, with critics praising the cinematography, visuals and art direction. But over the years the opinion has gone from favorable to mixed, criticising that it was campier and more bombastic than previous installments.Kyrios, "Nos Miran" (2002), Wordpress.com, 4 October 2013"Nos Miran", FilmAffinity James Berardinelli enjoyed the film.
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Zombie claimed the film was not initially meant to feature elements of black humor, saying it "turned out a little wackier and campier than I originally intended. But as we were shooting, that's the tone that it was turning out to be. Movies sometimes dictate their own course, so I just sort of went with it." The film was shot on a 25-day shooting schedule.
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Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse is a 1960 children's cartoon television show that was produced by Trans-Artists Productions and syndicated by Tele Features Inc. The characters were created by Bob Kane as a spoof of his earlier creations, Batman and Robin. In many ways, Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse presages the "campier" aspects of the later Batman live action series, which William Dozier and Howie Horwitz produced as a villain-driven action-comedy lampoon.
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The Pirates, however, marked a break with traditional presentations, with the setting a giant toy-box and a collapsible toy boat.Kenyon, Nicholas. "Pulsating pirate version", The Observer, 16 April 1989, p. 43 In 1990 the company presented campier versions of Pinafore and Trial (including a heavily pregnant Angelina) that were much criticised by the old company's fans, who complained that it was a betrayal of the legacy left by Bridget D'Oyly Carte.
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For example, heavy metal musician King Diamond delights in telling stories full of horror, theatricality, Satanism and anti-Catholicism in his compositions.Baddeley (2002) p265 Various video games feature Gothic horror themes and plots. For example, the Castlevania series typically involves a hero of the Belmont lineage exploring a dark, old castle, fighting vampires, werewolves, Frankenstein's monster, and other Gothic monster staples, culminating in a battle against Dracula himself. Others, such as Ghosts'n Goblins feature a campier parody of Gothic fiction.
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Cinematographer Ted Voightlander was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on one of these episodes, "The Night of the Howling Light." Subsequent seasons were filmed in color, and the show became noticeably campier. The Wild Wild West was filmed at CBS Studio Center on Radford Avenue in Studio City in the San Fernando Valley. The 70-acre lot was formerly the home of Republic Studios, which specialized in low-budget films including Westerns starring Roy Rogers and Gene Autry and Saturday morning serials (which The Wild Wild West appropriately echoed).
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When Stromberg approached Nurmi about doing the character for television, Nurmi then re- imagined the character and costume as a buxom and glamorous single vampire instead of the mother of a family, and she named her creation Vampira. Nurmi told Boxoffice that her intention was to invent a unique creation of her own that was "campier and sexier" than the mute and flat-chested Addams character, in part to avoid plagiarizing Addams' intellectual property. Vampira was known to appear in broad daylight in full costume.Life, June 14, 1954 p.
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Wertham's criticisms raised a public outcry during the 1950s, eventually leading to the establishment of the Comics Code Authority, a code that is no longer in use by the comic book industry. The tendency towards a "sunnier Batman" in the postwar years intensified after the introduction of the Comics Code.Boichel, p. 13. Scholars have suggested that the characters of Batwoman (in 1956) and the pre-Barbara Gordon Bat-Girl (in 1961) were introduced in part to refute the allegation that Batman and Robin were gay, and the stories took on a campier, lighter feel.
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In early 1990, NBC sporadically ran a Saturday morning edition of FNV for viewers who missed the show hours earlier because of its late night timeslot. These episodes, however, were usually not repeats of the new episode that just aired earlier in the AM but instead tended to be a compilation of past guest hosts. That fall, the network premiered a clone show on the Saturday morning line up named Saturday Morning Videos, which followed Saved by the Bell and was basically a campier version of FNV that targeted the lead-in teenage audience. It was cancelled in 1992.
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24 More Wild Wild West was initially conceived as a rematch between the agents and Miguelito Jr., but Williams was on tour and unavailable for the film; his character was changed to Albert Paradine II and played by Jonathan Winters. This explains why the story begins with various clones of Paradine being murdered; the first film ends with word that Loveless had cloned himself five times. Paradine planned world conquest using a formula for invisibility, recalling the first-season episode "The Night of the Burning Diamond". Both TV films were campier than the TV series, although Conrad and Martin played their roles straight.
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In his 1999 book of memoirs, Elevating Deception, Konchalovsky said that the reason he was fired was because he and Stallone wanted to give the film a more serious tone and make it more realistic than the producers wanted, especially Jon Peters, who kept pushing for the film to be goofier and campier, and as such, his relationship with Peters became untenable. Another reason why Konchalovsky was fired was his refusal to agree to what he referred to as the "increasingly insane" demands that Peters had. Konchalovsky said that he was initially hired to make a buddy cop movie with plenty of humor, but Peters basically wanted to turn it into a spoof, without any semblance of seriousness, and Konchalovsky refused. Essentially, Konchalovsky argued that they were simply trying to make two different movies, and when Peters realized his inability to bend Konchalovsky to his will, he fired him.
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Sadko was first shown in the USA in 1953 with English subtitles, distributed by Artkino Pictures Inc.. The film was re-released in the United States in 1962 in an English-dubbed and modified form by Roger Corman's Filmgroup under the title The Magic Voyage of Sinbad. It retains the plot structure of Sadko but includes several changes: the total running time is reduced from approximately 85 to 79 minutes (most of the deleted footage consists of scenes in which songs are performed, though one song is retained and sung in English), voice-over narration is added, the protagonist "Sadko" is renamed "Sinbad," and other characters and places are renamed to disguise the film's Russian origin and transform the film into a story about Sinbad the Sailor (perhaps most significantly, the city of Novgorod is renamed "Copasand"). The English dubbing in this version arguably gives the film a slightly "campier" tone than the original version, in which the dialogue has a more polished and literate tone. Cast and credits were also altered to made-up "American-sounding" names.
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