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And at the time I was very superstitious.
For example, baseball players are notoriously superstitious when they're batting, but not so much when they're fielding.
So from this small, superstitious, middle-class neighborhood of my grandmother, I was zoomed into this posh, international school [in Madrid], where I was the only Turk.
Extra disappointing due to the great beginning, Solo Dios Sabe degenerates into a mess of superstitious bull after the halfway point and ends on a note so ludicrous, soppy and melodramatic I couldn't believe I was watching the same movie I started with.
Despite warnings by the local sheriff, Murphy(John Phillip Law), Old Man Prichard(Richard Lynch)a bedraggled hick who swindles tourists with supposed collectible Wanted posters, and kooky superstitious Aunt Nelly(Karen Black)to stay out of the mine due to it's notorious legend(..that an evil coal miner who sold his soul to devil and murdered a priest's(Jeff Conaway)daughter will return from the dead to kill those who remove the gold from his shaft), these people only see the green, not the blood red which could potentially ooze from their slain bodies.
The sound acting by the sturdy cast qualifies as another substantial plus: Cassinelli makes for a likable hero, Johnson essays his juicy villain part with supremely lip-smacking aplomb, Bach rates as a quite fetching damsel in distress, plus there are neat supporting contributions by Beryl Cunningham as sinister voodoo priestess Shakira, Franco Iavarone as the superstitious Jose, and Roberto Posse as surly troublemaker Peter.
When a group of escaped convicts manage to flee to a remote island,they soon find that their new home is inhabited by a strangely menacing doctor(Richard Johnson of "Zombi 2" fame),a mad scientist(Joseph Cotten),his beautiful daughter(Barbara Bach)and a horde of superstitious natives.The tribesmen say that the doctor has created grotesque half-human,half-fish creatures for evil,secretive purposes.And though at first the prisoners do not believe this,as they disappear,one by one,they begin to change their minds."Screamers" is a very entertaining mix of "Mysterious Island" and "Humanoids from the Deep".There is plenty of gore with really cool decapitation scene and throat tearing to boost.The acting is so-so,but the film is fast-paced and entertaining.Give it a look.8
When Cartman is superstitious of Kyle that he'll be stealing his gold(which of course is fake!), and he comes within inches of his face.
I first saw this film in the mid 60's when I was a teenager, and it moved me so much, in fact the end scene where Han Suyin hears of Mark's death, and then rushes to the hill in disbelief, where you then hear Mark's voice saying "Give Me Your Hand", and then the image of him disappears, the butterfly with it's superstitious meaning, the music, the shattered emotions of Love of Han Suyin, just left me sobbing my heart out.
In Hell House (sorry, I don't remember the actual name of the residence), a bunch of mysterious, unexplained deaths took place long ago; some, like arthritic Lurch stand-in John Carradine (whose small role provides the film's only worthwhile moments), attribute it to the supernatural; bellowing film director John Ireland dismisses it as superstitious hokum.
Brettschneider doesn't have a single clue but the superstitious elders of the village believe the deaths to be the work of a Vampire.
You know, the realm of the ignorant and superstitious, the sort of thing that the art-house cinephiles are supposed to be above.
Living at the large country home are four psychologically troubled young women who are rumored to be ageless vampires by the superstitious townspeople.
Drossos (Ernst Deutsch), a married couple (Alan Napier and Katherine Emery), a superstitious woman named Madame Kyra (Helene Thimig), and a beautiful young woman named Thea (Ellen Drew) who takes care of the invalid named Mary St. Aubyn played by Ms. Emery.
Kyra (Helene Thimig), superstitious old crone, believes Thea (Ellen Drew), an attractive Greek girl, is a vampire and responsible for the deaths.
The mole people are initially the scarier race, with their ugliness and their big claws, but the superstitious, ultra-religious ways of the albinos prove more threatening in the long run.
It's about the whole myth/urban legend behind his persona and how it scares superstitious people that believe in it.
I get a feeling that he is somewhat superstitious in his way of looking at the world and this environment in particular.
Barely recovered from personal problems in the big city, Jane Hardy moves to an inherited mansion in a small and very superstitious village.
He also shows himself to be very superstitious, believing in some old Greek werewolf stories.
I don't like superstitious themes in any kind of film genre except horror; any other kind of genre seems totally out of place.
An anthropological expedition in Tibet led by John Agar discovers both an ancient primitive race of pasty, light sensitive, superstitious albinos and the browbeaten, grotesquely unsightly burrowing mutants called the Mole People whom the albinos cruelly exploit as slave labor deep within the bowels of the earth.
This movie is designed for an illiterate, superstitious audience.
After the army doctor dies, he becomes superstitious along the lines of an old woman who is also on the island.
The cast do a decent job with their roles, with acceptable turns by Tisa Farrow as the appealing Julie, Severio Vallone as nice guy Andy, Serena Grandi as the pregnant Maggie, Margaret Mazzantini as the blind Henriette, Mark Bodin as the amorous Daniel, and Zora Kerova as the jealous and superstitious carol.
Europe’s central bankers had been nervous, even superstitious, about the late summer long before 1931.
She noted with gravity today’s migrations from poor to prosperous countries, the globalization of evil, the contradictions and conflicts of modernity, the angry terrorist response to it, and the contrast between a rational, pragmatic West and a more idealistic and superstitious East, prone to religious fanaticism and political extremism.
On both the scientific and the Catholic view, whoever believed in vampires was regarded as superstitious and condemned as uneducated.
Virtually no expert foresaw the events of 1989; no expert whom I know imagined that China’s next wave of destabilizing protest might come from a mass movement of superstitious middle-aged, middle-class citizens dedicated to recycled notions of Buddhist and Taoist clean living, health through meditation, breathing exercises and mysticism spread via the Internet.
Indians do: We may be superstitious, but we are not hypocritical.
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