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Post by allthingshorror on Mar 2, 2009 17:20:40 GMT
Type in Mar Vista into google - whaddya get? www.imdb.com/title/tt0074419/David bloody MaCallum!!! So I retract my previous statement about not being able to find it as a film - cheers for the nugget that opened up the door Steve!
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Post by bushwick on Mar 2, 2009 17:48:09 GMT
The Pike is good - Devour is better by Paul Adams - Futura 1981. I can't think of any redeeming comments to say about the book. 'Snapping jaws , tearing flesh and quiet rivers become a nightmare bloodbath'Like I said - nothing redeemable. KC I've got 'The Beast Of Kane' by Cliff Twemlow (Hamlyn) and really enjoyed it. About a big nasty dog. Twemlow is a very interesting feller - he was behind the early pre-cert Brit crime shocker 'GBH' which I've still yet to see. There's an interview and some good stuff on him on the web somewhere.
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Post by killercrab on Mar 2, 2009 18:04:02 GMT
Well there you go - nice work.
KC
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Apr 9, 2009 22:41:10 GMT
I know this one is from 1982, but can I sneak it in? Lee Jordan - Cat's Eyes (1982): I have to say, it looks like the cat on the cover has just been threatened with a visit to the vet
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Post by dem bones on Apr 9, 2009 23:09:47 GMT
Cats make for lousy horror cover pin-ups, don't they? As to Coronet, as if we could forget, they had a neat line in biographies of some of the centuries most chilling 'personalities' including: Albert Pierrepoint - Executioner: Pierrepoint (Coronet, 1977, 1980) For the first fifty-six years of this century the name of Pierrepoint appeared on the short Home Office List of qualified executioners for Great Britain and Ireland. Following in the steps of his father and uncle, Albert Pierrepoint became an executioner in 1931 and held the office of Official Executioner for many years until his resignation in 1956. In those years he carried out over four hundred executions, more than any other executioner, and travelled extensively abroad teaching his methods to his colleagues of other nations. Now, after years of silence, in this autobiography, Albert Pierrepoint describes his astonishing career, reveals the secrets of the death-cell and the last moments of some of its famous occupants, and tells how, amazingly, he has changed his mind about capital punishment.Cliff Richard - Which Ones Cliff (Coronet, 1981) What is it like to be so popular that you are voted THE WORLD'S NUMBER ONE MALE SINGER? To be catapulted in a single year from teenage obscurity to top-of-the-bill celebrity? What is it like to combine a passionate Christian faith with all the glamour and glitter of the showbiz circuit? Once called the 'bad boy of pop' and 'too sexy for television', Cliff Richard is today acclaimed the world over as a top entertainer – yet he still finds time to visit refugee camps in Bangladesh and missionary outposts in the Sudan.
From the gossip-columns to the dirt-tracks of Africa, from his public image to his private dreams, WHICH ONE'S CLIFF brings you Cliff's astonishing and engaging story in his own words.
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Post by allthingshorror on May 10, 2009 21:21:45 GMT
Coronet (1980)
One summer in the mountains of Nevada, a young doctor savours the first hours of a quiet fishing holiday. By nightfall he is screaming to be delivered from a horror he will carry to his grave!
On the plains it is carnival time. But up by Eros Ranch even the trees hang still. Already there are 29 dead - their bodies grotesquely mangled, their raw flesh oozing, their faces twisted with terror. Beneath the dry earth of the hidden valley, the ancient enemy is multiplying. Within hours it will pour out again in a boiling black wave - in search of blood. Six survivors have until dark before the seething nest engulfs them...
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Post by allthingshorror on Jun 21, 2009 13:39:04 GMT
Coronet (1975)
Ned and Beth Constantine came across the hamlet of Cornwall Coombe almost by mistake - and thought it the place they had been looking for all the time. Quiet and sedate, it appeared to offer everything they wanted. But what followed after their adoption of Cornwall Coombe turned their dream into the most horrific nightmare...
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Post by allthingshorror on Jun 21, 2009 13:44:42 GMT
Coronet (1979)In an empty stairwell, or on a deserted street, they stalk their helpless human prey...
THE WOLFEN
They are 'The Wolfen,' and they have existed for thousands of years in the midst of man. But they made on mistake; they savagely killed two New York cops. And so they are hunted: by two detectives, a hard-bitten man and a vulnerable woman, who hate and love one another with a strange, tough passion. But when the pack realises that its existence is known by these two 'dangerous ones' then the Wolfen begin to hunt them in return...
IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU ARE NOT ALONE
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Post by carolinec on Jun 21, 2009 15:18:57 GMT
Ah, Tom Tryon's "Harvest Home" - one of my favourite reads from my youth. One of the best, most grisly endings I've ever read. Love it! ;D
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Post by allthingshorror on Aug 16, 2009 15:02:57 GMT
Sneak this one in?
Coronet (1981)
THE IMAGE
The gift of sight came to Karen Thorndyke as the bequest of an unknown donor. His cornea, willed to the eye bank, miraculously enabled the beautiful young artist to see and paint again. But then the horrifying image of a hypodermic needle inches from her eye came to haunt her - and returned again and again. With Karen's new view of life came terror and a stalking vision...of death.
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Post by vaughan on Sept 23, 2009 18:19:21 GMT
It's none other than the wonderful Bela Lugosi. Got to love him!
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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 26, 2009 14:25:56 GMT
Here is the Dracula tie-in to that lame adaption.
Coronet (1979)
THROUGHOUT HISTORY HE HAS FILLED THE HEARTS OF MEN WITH TERROR, AND THE HEARTS OF WOMEN WITH DESIRE.
From the misty forests of Transylvania...astride the dark seas in a ship of death...to the shores of England he came. A tall, elegant count, cursed to walk the endless years in search of a hungry, restless passion.
He woos when the shadows fall and the chill moon rises...when a beautiful young girl is alone and dreaming of desires forbidden to the day...when the night is hot and quick with the scent of blood...and a vampire's immortal kkiss.
A TALE OF MOONLIGHT AND UNEARTLY LOVE
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Post by allthingshorror on Sept 27, 2009 16:59:14 GMT
and another...
Coronet (1980)
GAD'S HALL
Gad's Hall was for sale - and at a price so ridiculously low that even Jill and Bob Spender, to whom life had recently been unkind, could afford it.
But when Jill and others sense something wrong emanating form the attic it takes a switch back to 1841 to explain fully how a happy, ordinary family is infiltrated by positive Evil. Evil so well distinguished that it is not fully understood until the dreadful climax...
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