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Post by franklinmarsh on Nov 27, 2007 16:54:17 GMT
More about this when I've actually read it...
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Post by redbrain on Nov 27, 2007 17:41:28 GMT
Kenny Everett and Pamela Stephenson!! Has anyone seen this film?
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Post by redbrain on Nov 27, 2007 17:51:10 GMT
Just checked the flick in the Radio Times film guide. It gets 1 star.
"Lampoons of everything from Carrie and ET to Star Wars and Friday the 13th are dragged screaming through this painfully thin comedy starring Kenny Everett and Pamela Stephenson as paranormal researchers investigating Vincent Price's devil-worshipping cult at Headstone Manor. Nothing more than an excuse for Everett and his chums to indulge in low grade lavatorial humour."
Sounds worth watching.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 27, 2007 18:18:52 GMT
Don't know about the film , but I'm ashamed to admit that I've been after the book ever since I read the encouragingly dreadful extracts on the Martin Noble site. FM, that is a far better cover scan than the one on the author's home page! |
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Post by franklinmarsh on Nov 27, 2007 18:49:44 GMT
Was lucky enough to rewatch the film not that long ago. The Carrie parody was brilliant. Decapitation by tin-opener? Vincent Price's last British horror film proves he was a good comedian. I've skpped through page 1 Dem and it does indeed look toe-curlingly awful.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Nov 27, 2007 19:37:08 GMT
I used to read that book quite regularly, despite it being fairly dreadful. I picked it up for about 20p about 20 years ago and managed to lose it during one of my all too frequent house moves. One thing the book does, which doesn't happen in the film, is bring in some of Everett's TV sketch characters - I recall Brother Lee love, he of the giant hands, cropping up, and I'm sure there were more.
The film has its funny scenes. I particularly like the bit in the village pub when the locals try to remember the methods of murder during the original bloodbath and it becomes "The Twelve Days of Christmas" with gore.
Price is very funny in it, sending up his Doctor Phibes role by taking a blowtorch to effigies of his victims. And there are even the odd lines of dialogue that suggest the script initially had a proper plot - Price mentioning that he had once been a humble butcher must surely have been intended to tie in with an incident involving a cursed meat pie later on in the film.
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Post by franklinmarsh on Dec 1, 2007 10:06:09 GMT
I take it all back! 50 odd pages in and it's good! I've even laughed out loud once. Close to the film for the most part. SPOILER - Marcel Wave has appeared - but he's been blown up along with his accordian.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 29, 2014 9:45:54 GMT
Martin Noble - Bloodbath At The House Of Death (Star, 1984) Blurb There is a curse on Headstone Manor - and a team of top scientists have arrived to investigate the phenomenon. But they will shortly be engulfed in a deluge of terror. For tonight is the Night of Blood ‑ ringed in rhesus negative on the calendar of fear. The night when the Sinister Man will lead the locals in a ceremony to herald the return of THE MASTER. Can you take the Bloodbath? Or will you too die laughing?
THORN EMI FILMS presents WILDWOOD PRODUCTIONS
"BLOODBATH AT THE HOUSE OF DEATH"
starring
KENNY EVERETT - PAMELA STEPHENSON - VINCENT PRICE as the Sinister Man
Written by RAY CAMERON and BARRY CRYER
Executive Producers LAURENCE MYERS and STUART D. DONALDSON
Produced and Directed by RAY CAMERONIt's taken four misspent lifetimes, much blood, sweat, etc., plus regular eyeball transplants, but finally that Grail of Grails - a novel(isation) so desperately, monstrously unfunny I can't think of one kind thing to write about it. "Will you too die laughing?" Shouldn't think so. Also contains instantly forgettable 8-page photo-inset. Money well spent. Highly recommended. & so on.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Sept 30, 2014 6:25:16 GMT
Saw the film on it's original release and then again a couple of years later (late 80's) in an allnighter with four other horror films at my local fleapit.
I had decent memories of it and remember enjoying it at the time. Got to re-watch it again 6 months ago.
I'll be polite. It hasn't aged well.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 30, 2014 9:46:52 GMT
Mr. Noble was also responsible for, among several others, the Bullshot! novelization (Star, 1983). Never seen the flick, the book looks none too promising, but must admit, i'm tempted. And at least there's a giant squid in it. You can read extracts from Bullshot! at Aesop Publications (which is where I found the cover scan. Thank you, Aesop!) |
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