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Post by sean on Aug 11, 2008 11:56:48 GMT
For the last week or so I've been watching a horror film a day, which is a bit unusual because I can go months and months without wanting to watch anything at all.
So far I've seen:
Dead People (the Messiah of Evil)
The Last House on the Left
The Driller Killer
American Psycho
Ju-on 2
Battle Royale
Battle Royale 2
Most of them I've seen before, but anyway...
Anyone else seen anything cool recently?
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Post by killercrab on Aug 11, 2008 15:39:13 GMT
Struggled through Incense For the Damned on friday night. If Nel had published this - Jim Moffat would of been the culprit.
Sapphire And Steel being my other guilty watch pleasure right now. Well I don't feel that guilty actually as the series was excellent . Perhaps slow by modern standards - but then Bone Kickers are modern standards ! LOL ( Actually I preversely like that show).
Been reading Sapphire And Steel's adventures in Look-In to compliment my viewing experience. Luckily when I was collecting Look-In - I got most of their stories.
ade
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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2008 16:35:40 GMT
Struggled through Incense For the Damned on friday night. If Nel had published this - Jim Moffat would of been the culprit. ade Well here's the book Incense Of The Damned is supposed to be based upon. Not quite up to Moffat's standards, perhaps, and nowhere near as scary as the Black Magic ritual in Boot Boys, but not bad for all that. Simon Raven - Doctor's Wear Scarlet (Berkley Medallion edition, 1967: originally 1960) Blurb: BEWARE: This is a novel of horror — about a man's passion for a dazzlingly beautiful Greek girl—a passion which begins innocently, but slowly turns into a fiendish nightmare.
All who knew of her shuddered at the mere mention of her name. Priestess of an ancient cult, she preyed upon the souls and bodies of her victims, so that little by little they were destroyed in order to satisfy her grotesquely loathsome lust.
Here is a chilling novel of modern day vampirism, that is horrifyingly vivid.
"This is story-telling as it ought to be, the bright shaft of dream piercing the everyday. It is not, however, for the squeamish." - BOOKS AND BOOKMAN |
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Post by sean on Aug 11, 2008 16:56:21 GMT
S Sapphire And Steel being my other guilty watch pleasure right now. Well I don't feel that guilty actually as the series was excellent . It was indeed. The one with 'Shape' (that faceless guy) really freaks me out, and the air of paranoia in the last story is superb. In fact all six stories are great, although the third one (which features the stuffed swan) is probably somewhat weaker than the rest! |
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Post by killercrab on Aug 11, 2008 17:34:00 GMT
Ha ha the stuffed swan !
Un-real .
I think the faceless man one is pretty darn creepy - especially the pasty faced victorian children from the past. I love the idea that *time* itself is the villian with Sapphire And Steel being the time plumbers if you like. I believe originally it was to be called The Time Menders.
Am halfway through the railway station story - oh boy is the music haunting. It's hard to believe this was a kids show - it's so damned mature. There is a rumour that P.J.Hammond is in talks about a new series.
ade
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Post by killercrab on Aug 11, 2008 17:39:00 GMT
Well here's the book Incense Of The Damned is supposed to be based upon. Not quite up to Moffat's standards, perhaps, and nowhere near as scary as the Black Magic ritual in Boot Boys, but not bad for all that. >>
The Beeb print includes the druggy orgy sequence - lots of naked breasts with Pat Mower looking on zonked out of his gourd. Good 5 minutes or more. This isn't always included in most prints and does tend to interupt the plot - what there is of it. I like Pat Macnee's cravat too - more than the orgy actually - sad really.
ade ( currently reading GNS' Sabat and struggling)
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Post by Calenture on Aug 11, 2008 19:38:10 GMT
For the last week or so I've been watching a horror film a day, which is a bit unusual because I can go months and months without wanting to watch anything at all. Most of them I've seen before, but anyway... Anyone else seen anything cool recently? I've definitely been overindulging in films recently. Since I unwittingly started my Summer holiday in the monsoon season, I decided to try again to transfer all my video recordings to DVD. I'll just mention a few...  Barbara Steele in The Long Hair of DeathIn this sixties Spaghetti Horror, Babs is burned as a witch while her daughter is raped by the local lord. In the middle of a storm she returns from the dead for her revenge, which involves trapping the said lord's son inside a wicker man type structure for a scorching death. I got this recording from the BBC Moviedrome show hosted by Alex (Repo Man) Cox. Here's his blog  Jodie Foster and Martin Sheen in The Little Girl Who Lives Down the LaneI wonder how many remember this one? Not long after Bugsy Malone, Jodie Foster was knowingly cast as the paedophile-threatened daughter of an English author, who keeps his death secret so that she can continue to live undisturbed in her rented house. Predictably she attracts the attention of local creep Martin Sheen...   Onibaba - murder in the marshesOnibaba is a story of medieval Japan, where - in a dreamlike world of tall grasses and rivers - two women murder the exhausted men running from the civil war, selling their armour for food.  Onibaba - in the pitOnibaba means 'pit', and that's where the murdered soldiers' bodies are dumped.  A state of sexual tension and jealousy between mother and daughter is created when a young man appears on the scene. The mother terrifies the girl by wearing a murdered samuria's mask. But it all goes pear-shaped when she gets caught in a downpour and finds the mask is stuck to her face. The daughter's attempts to free her are... less than gentle, involving much use of a large hammer. This film was one of the long-ago memories which prompted my story in The Second Black Book, The Pit.  Onibaba - family ties |
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Post by bushwick on Aug 11, 2008 20:19:19 GMT
I used to watch tons of horror/exploitation movies but have slowed down recently (more books). I still have a heap of stuff to watch, a good couple of hundred films - torrents, old VHS, cheapo DVDs and a couple of those 50 film horror packs you can get off amazon for a few quid. Saw Brain Damage the other day, had never seen that before. Not as good as Basket Case and slightly cut but was alright.
The film that's really kicked my arse recently though is a French film called Inside. It's got Beatrice Dalle in it (playing a not very nice lady) and it's insane, a real unrelenting nightmare. Very well acted, fast-paced and absolutely brutal. If you've seen Irreversible, it's not a million miles from that in feel, but not QUITE as disturbing. Highly recommended. The French seem to be the new blood in horror cinema, some great stuff coming out of there recently.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Aug 11, 2008 20:38:28 GMT
Curse the BHF Cup!
This weekend I endured
Creep
Ravenous
The Asphyx
Hot Fuzz
Corruption
28 Days Later
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Post by Calenture on Aug 11, 2008 20:41:59 GMT
The film that's really kicked my arse recently though is a French film called Inside. It's got Beatrice Dalle in it (playing a not very nice lady) and it's insane, a real unrelenting nightmare. Very well acted, fast-paced and absolutely brutal. If you've seen Irreversible, it's not a million miles from that in feel, but not QUITE as disturbing. Highly recommended. The French seem to be the new blood in horror cinema, some great stuff coming out of there recently. You prompted some Googling. Found these. The reviews all seem in agreement with yours. It looks terrific. Nicked from: www.bloodygoodhorror.com |
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Post by Calenture on Aug 11, 2008 20:46:13 GMT
Curse the BHF Cup! This weekend I endured Creep Ravenous The Asphyx Hot Fuzz Corruption 28 Days Later I still haven't seen Creep, though they showed it often enough on Film4. I wouldn't mind seeing Corruption again. The Asphyx is a bit of an endurance test, I admit (though not as gruelling as 28 Days, I think).  By the way, I liked Simon Raven's Doctors Wear Scarlet. Who's this Moffatt character, anyway? |
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Post by pulphack on Aug 12, 2008 11:39:33 GMT
The Asphyx is a really odd film - more like period drama than horror, with a very theatrical cast. i like it, but it is unbearably slow at times, and is like The Duchess Of Duke Street with the undead thrown in...
Doctors Wear Scarlet - great book, also recommend his Brother Cain is you ever see it. The films... is it me, or does the voice over betray a cock-up project from the beginning? lots to love about it, but the 55 minute tv print (which is Incense For The Damned, i think) is awful and incomprehensible, whearas at least the longer print makes more sense. now that's always Booodsuckers, isn't it? i remember seeing it on tv with the orgy scene, but then picked it up on dvd without the orgy scene - but with it included as an extra!
simon raven also did the last new sexton blake story - sexton blak and the demon god, on tv in 1978. bloody awful, set in the 30's and can't make up it's mind whether to be straight or parody. the novelisation was by john garforth, also a familiar name on here, and isn't much better (published by the Daily Mirror, of all people - but then they owned fleetway at the time, being part of IPC back then).
the long hair of death!!!! haven't seen it for ages, picked it up at camden a while back and haven't got round to it yet - you've made me push it to the top of the pile, rog (ho,ho). better than Mask Of Sata, for me.
sapphire & steel - the face is THE s&s story, though the one with the couple from the future trying to live like a 70's couple and the composite animalthing powering their base running amok is quite good (though of course they blow it by showing a crappy model rtaher than leaving it to the imagination) as well. hell, they're all good... pj hammond's novelisation is pretty good, too, as was discussed on the old board, i think. was it really a kids show, though? according to Robert Sellars' Cult TV, it was only half-hour and cheap because it was an ATV project rather than ITC, having been submitted with ITC in view. however, it suffered from Lew Grade switching ITC to features, so it got made on the cheap - atleast it got made the second season of Return Of The Saint got scrapped (good or bad, discuss...)
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 12, 2008 11:55:32 GMT
INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED was a bit of a notorious mess, running out of money and then being recut by its distributor to suggest that some of the characters were actually real vampires, rather than it being the sexual kink of the novel. The opening montage is a bit of a giveaway that they ran out of time, the absence of Robert Hartford-Davis' director's credit is because he had his name taken off it (even though, according to David Pirie in The Vampire Cinema it was RHD's best film - even better than GONKS GO BEAT), and the yellow credits simply bely an appalling lack of taste. And it's STILL worth watching. Patrick Mower's speech at the end amongst the scarlet-gowned academics is a cracking scene, as is his semi-parodic pursuit across the college rooftops.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 12, 2008 11:59:44 GMT
And here's my horror film list for the last week:
CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD
THE UNDYING MONSTER
THE LODGER
HANGOVER SQUARE
THE LIVING DEAD AT THE MANCHESTER MORGUE
Like some on here I have nearly as many unwatched DVDs as I have unread books. I've also been watching a set of 4 DVDs of Lovecraft short films (about two hours worth per DVD).
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Post by pulphack on Aug 12, 2008 12:09:11 GMT
what a fool that man is - as i'm sure you and i will agree, john, there is little to cinematically best Gonks Go Beat. no, dem, stop laughing, i'm serious - it's a great movie! anything that has terry scott, kenneth connor, lulu, gonks, the graham bond organisation and that bloke who plays charlie in casualty singing sappy songs with his sister when he was a kid HAS to be a great film.
my personal best bit of Incense has to be Edward Woodward explaining about vampires while wandering about in a bit of the natural history museum. he doesn't look like a man about to get burned alive by mad scots islanders...
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