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Post by Dr Strange on Dec 20, 2018 16:50:19 GMT
I've been compelled to unearth some of the original, classic radio episodes to listen to You realise those cassettes will probably be haunted?
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Dec 20, 2018 17:36:19 GMT
I've been compelled to unearth some of the original, classic radio episodes to listen to You realise those cassettes will probably be haunted? Yes, I do suspect they're not all they seem. However that nice Mr Gatiss was kind enough to offer an opinion when I approached him about them on social media, declaring, 'Haha. Wonderful!'
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Post by Michael Connolly on Dec 21, 2018 13:43:15 GMT
In fact, I'm so keenly anticipating The Dead Room on BBC Four that I've been compelled to unearth some of the original, classic radio episodes to listen to in the build up to Christmas Eve...
You're seeing things again. Or maybe not. I saw that man once in a cellar in London! I must make it clear. I saw that man in the basement of an ordinary London bookshop for ordinary (or local) people.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jan 10, 2019 13:20:31 GMT
Christ, that M.R. James gets about. Did no one else see this? Father Brown: The Whistle in the Dark, BBC1, 14.15, 09/01/2018: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0by3599 It starts with a character reading from "Oh Whistle and I'll come to you my Lad" from THE COLLECTED GHOST STORIES OF M.R. JAMES. Then the character blows his own whistle! Then it looks like it's going to be another AND THEN THERE WERE NONE. It ends as it began, with M.R. James, which makes no sense in the context.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jan 10, 2019 17:35:21 GMT
It almost turned into 'Cluedo', I thought. We had a military man for Colonel Mustard, a cleric for Reverend Green, a professor for Professor Plum, a flamboyant older woman for Mrs Peacock and a fashionable younger woman for Miss Scarlet. No Mrs White, alas, and a statue of Baphomet isn't in the roster of weapons in a standard game of 'Cluedo'... and I'm probably stretching it on the Miss Scarlet comparison, though she did have a fetching red beret.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jan 11, 2019 13:07:18 GMT
It almost turned into 'Cluedo', I thought. We had a military man for Colonel Mustard, a cleric for Reverend Green, a professor for Professor Plum, a flamboyant older woman for Mrs Peacock and a fashionable younger woman for Miss Scarlet. No Mrs White, alas, and a statue of Baphomet isn't in the roster of weapons in a standard game of 'Cluedo'... and I'm probably stretching it on the Miss Scarlet comparison, though she did have a fetching red beret. You're probably right about the Cluedo connection, which didn't occur to me. About the last scene, a story has to be supernatural or faked supernatural. It was senseless to make it both.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 11, 2019 20:26:18 GMT
I hope The Dead Room does well. From Digital Spy: If the BBC does come knocking next Christmas, Gatiss is enthused by the possibilities of what type of ghost story he might tackle next, naming "James's hero" J Sheridan Le Fanu and EF Benson as two more authors he's eager to adapt. I watched it last night and enjoyed it, without being wowed.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jan 12, 2019 16:45:22 GMT
I hope The Dead Room does well. From Digital Spy: If the BBC does come knocking next Christmas, Gatiss is enthused by the possibilities of what type of ghost story he might tackle next, naming "James's hero" J Sheridan Le Fanu and EF Benson as two more authors he's eager to adapt. I watched it last night and enjoyed it, without being wowed. I enjoyed it too. And I enjoyed it even more with a second viewing. I particularly liked hearing Aubrey rather pompously claim M.R. James's suggestions for writing a successful ghost story as his own - then getting Archdeacon Pulteney's rank wrong when lecturing his producer about The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral, suggesting he wasn't the expert he claimed to be - and I liked the set up and the hints of the radio series' long history, and even having Aubrey repeating Tom Baker's favoured whippet-based epithet for dodgy radio voice-over scripts. Despite some surface similarities to the 1979 short film A Child's Voice (a film I first saw thanks to the kindness of former Vault-dweller, Calenture), which some reviewers elsewhere seem to make a big thing of, it's only really a radio studio and a programme inspired by Appointment With Fear / The Man in Black that the two have in common - the earlier film is about the haunting of a writer far more than the haunting of a narrator, and the source and nature of the hauntings are different. I did find the earlier manifestations in The Dead Room more effective than the final scene, though I appreciated that this didn't come totally out of the blue given what we hear at the opening of the play. But it worked for me, and I'll no doubt return to it in the future. A Child's Voice... www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW4aoDw1aSU
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 12, 2019 21:28:20 GMT
I enjoyed it too. And I enjoyed it even more with a second viewing. I'll certainly give it another viewing - I missed some of those allusions. I found the final scene a bit underwhelming, though it did hark back the 70s adaptations, eg the Treasure of Abbot Thomas.
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jan 13, 2019 17:48:10 GMT
I watched Hereditary last night. It's harrowing in some parts, freaky and over-the-top in others. ... sort of as if someone had mixed The Babadook and Rosemary's Baby in a blender.
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Post by ripper on Jan 28, 2019 11:06:02 GMT
As part of my Amazon Prime subscription I have been looking through the film selection now open to me. I was delighted to find that quite a few 'Rifftrax' films were included. Rifftrax are continuations of the Mystery Science Theatre 3000 series of the 80s and 90s, but with the sketches etc left out, just leaving the films to be riffed. Mike Nelson is chief riffer, aided by a couple of others, not sure if they were also in MST3K like Nelson was. Anyway, I watched the Rifftrax version of Plan Nine from Outer Space and Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny. Plan Nine is, of course, Ed Wood's classic of bad film-making, but oh boy is it entertaining either with or without the riffing. Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny is a truly awful children's film from the early 70s in which Santa gets his sleigh stuck in the sands of a Florida beach, but is only a wraparound for showing another film the same guys had previously made, a terrible version of Thumberlina. Being from the late 60s/early 70s I am sure you can imagine how trippy it would have been to a kid dosed up with far too much sugar sweets at the time. It is very funny and the riffing made it even more so. Both recommended. Just skimming through, I can't see any occasions when the Rifftrax selections have coincided with films covered in MST3K.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jan 30, 2019 18:31:00 GMT
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Post by ripper on Jan 31, 2019 15:02:00 GMT
I can remember the series being broadcast, though not the individual episodes. There were 26 episodes, so maybe Network will also release the final 13 at some time. Welles' image with wide-brimmed hat an cloak from the series was very popular with impressionists at the time.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 31, 2019 16:26:12 GMT
Welles' image with wide-brimmed hat an cloak from the series was very popular with impressionists at the time. Possibly more familiar from those sherry ads he did on TV though?
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Post by helrunar on Jan 31, 2019 18:48:40 GMT
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