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Post by jamesdoig on Apr 12, 2017 20:59:23 GMT
Crikey! A favourite band as a kid (and still is) - then came that disgraceful Blue Monday garbage.
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Post by andydecker on Apr 12, 2017 21:56:20 GMT
I am into european 70s genre movies right now, as I didn't see most of these films back then. I wasn't a cinema nut, and of course they were age-restricted. So I am glad for all those new editions. Even if I have to say that I wouldn't have liked most of those movies back then.
My life-long fascination with horror fiction and science fiction started early, though. I devoured Jeff Hawke – back at the start of the 70s there still were translated newspaper strips; with all of todays reprints it is a shame that Hawke still hasn't been reprinted in a decent complete edition – and envied those of my classmates who were allowed to watch programs like The Avengers. Which was a huge hit in Germany.
Later, at about 13 or 14 I think, I read of course the translations of british horror in the Heftroman and the according paperback series, stuff like Saxon and Lory, which I loved as I am a Dracula fanatic. Of course never spend a thought about the who and how they were done. The interest for the unabridged originals only started later in my job as a bookseller, when originals became avaiable. The real joys of NEL, Hamlyn and the rest I only stumbled upon decades later. But back then in school those novels didn't left a lasting impression.
At least I experienced the video age first-hand. I got my first VCR in 83 or so. Didn't even had a remote control and was frightingly expensive. Unbelievable today. Even if they were often cut beyond reason to protect impressionable juvenile minds, movies like Nightmare on Elm Street or any Argento were in hot demand in the video stores. Often hole-in-the-wall shops, a bit seedy, when I think about it, with extra rooms for the x-rated stuff, banned of course for underage customers. I think I rented videos every week. Especially tv-series on video which never got on tv before the advent of independent tv in the 90s was very popular. Stuff like V – The Visitors or Salem's Lot was often hard to get. Back then it was a nuisance, but nowadays I think it was good times.
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Post by rawlinson on Apr 12, 2017 22:39:47 GMT
V absolutely traumatised me. As did The Singing Detective.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Apr 13, 2017 12:10:53 GMT
The main 80s horror I'd love to revisit is a short film shown on Channel 4 titled 'The Gourmet', written by Kazuo Ishiguro and starring Charles Gray as a jaded, wealthy gastronome who has sampled every delicacy on earth and now seeks something not quite so earthly. And Charles Gray brushed off his Mocatta moves for What Dreams May Come (1985), a fab Black Magic episode of Bergerac. Ah, yes, the Bergerac equivalent of Casting the Runes. I see that this episode and the other well-regarded supernatural episode, Fires in the Fall, are both on the same Series 4 DVD set, so I may have to add that to the DVD pile.
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Post by scarred on Apr 13, 2017 15:26:42 GMT
V absolutely traumatised me. As did The Singing Detective. Both are in. The Singing Detective alongside the showing (finally) of Brimstone and Treacle.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 13, 2017 17:19:21 GMT
The Animals Film, as screened by the fledgling Channel 4 in late 1982, left entire generations "scarred for life."
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Post by franklinmarsh on Apr 13, 2017 21:34:59 GMT
V absolutely traumatised me. As did The Singing Detective. Both are in. The Singing Detective alongside the showing (finally) of Brimstone and Treacle. Yipes. Nowt about t'fillum version with The Police's singer? (See also Scum)
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Post by scarred on Apr 13, 2017 22:19:07 GMT
Yipes. Nowt about t'fillum version with The Police's singer? (See also Scum) I think that Scum didn't air until the early 90s (making it even more banned than Brimstone) although it does get a mention in the Play for Today section of volume one alongside a brief mention of Brimstone (TV version which is way better, Michael Kitchen is superb). The 80s first showing of Brimstone allows me to use all the stuff I wrote for the first book before the decision was taken to cut it.
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Post by rawlinson on Apr 13, 2017 22:29:40 GMT
To go along with the sections in the first volume talking about individual episodes or moments, will the endings of the various series of Blackadder make the cut for vol 2? Was very shocking as a kid to see the characters slaughtered time and time again.
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Post by rawlinson on Apr 13, 2017 22:37:07 GMT
Oh, and the credits for Red Dwarf. Something so bleak and crushing about them. Loved the show but the credits always seemed to just scream loneliness at me. Also, so much of The Comic Strip deserves a mention.
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Post by scarred on Apr 14, 2017 1:04:33 GMT
To go along with the sections in the first volume talking about individual episodes or moments, will the endings of the various series of Blackadder make the cut for vol 2? Was very shocking as a kid to see the characters slaughtered time and time again. Again, a great idea which hadn't occurred to us. Possibly deserves a short sharp shock mention. Thanks for the thought . As for The Comic Strip, as far as I'm aware at this time, that may well be covered alongside the Friday/Saturday Night Live alternative comedy which comes under the Scarred for Life remit in terms of being shockingly sweary and daring to our younger selves. The fact that Ben Elton's "Mrs Thatch" shtick is now horribly dated and unfunny has not gone unnoticed in our discussions. One section we are discussing is the 'dead Victorian children' genre - Ghost in the Water, Echoes of Louisa, Moon Dial etc.
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Post by Dr Strange on Apr 14, 2017 13:18:10 GMT
If any of you have particular suggestions for the 80s book let me know! The final episode of Blakes 7.
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Post by scarred on Apr 14, 2017 14:41:54 GMT
The final episode of Blake's 7 is definitely in. I have very vivid memories of the night this was on, I was out so I recorded the episode and a film that was on later that same evening - Sweeney 2. That was a very traumatic tape to watch.
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Post by rawlinson on Apr 14, 2017 20:06:04 GMT
Ghost in the Water and Echoes of Louisa are going to be added to my to buy list then. The first book is costing me a fortune. You should strike up a promo deal with Network, I've given them so much money because of vol 1.
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Post by scarred on Apr 14, 2017 21:09:22 GMT
Ghost in the Water and Echoes of Louisa are going to be added to my to buy list then. The first book is costing me a fortune. You should strike up a promo deal with Network, I've given them so much money because of vol 1. Ha ha, believe me, we've tried. Now we have the success of the first book behind us (with it seems good word of mouth) we will perhaps approach them again and not just look like chancers who want free stuff. Are you enjoying the book btw?
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