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Post by Knygathin on May 30, 2018 4:22:49 GMT
When my grand-mother was baby-sitting me as a small kid around 1970, and she had gone to bed, I switched on the television, and it showed a very scary film. I only remember there was a guy and a painting, and the surrealistic little figures in the painting came alive and stepped out of the painting ... everything turned into a nightmare; I may have turned the TV off then, because my little brother refused to join me. He was hiding his eyes behind the door to the next room. Does anyone know the name of the movie/TV-film?
Another film (or TV-series) I saw around the same time, was probably made in the 1930s or 40s. Similar in cinematic era and style to The Invisible Man (1933). I remember only very vaguely, but it seemed almost to be like an early version of A Man Called Sloane or James Bond, with technology bordering on the supernatural. There were high (government?) level secret doings, drama, fighting organized crime?, and they had little weapons and apparatus of fantastic invention at their disposal that could bend and twist the known scientific limitations of reality (shooting invisible rays?). It was imaginative, mystical, and awe-inspiring.
Any ideas what this might have been?
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Post by Michael Connolly on May 30, 2018 13:41:09 GMT
When my grand-mother was baby-sitting me as a small kid around 1970, and she had gone to bed, I switched on the television, and it showed a very scary film. I only remember there was a guy and a painting, and the surrealistic little figures in the painting came alive and stepped out of the painting ... everything turned into a nightmare; I may have turned the TV off then, because my little brother refused to join me. He was hiding his eyes behind the door to the next room. Does anyone know the name of the movie/TV-film? Another film (or TV-series) I saw around the same time, was probably made in the 1930s or 40s. Similar in cinematic era and style to The Invisible Man (1933). I remember only very vaguely, but it seemed almost to be like an early version of A Man Called Sloane or James Bond, with technology bordering on the supernatural. There were high (government?) level secret doings, drama, fighting organized crime?, and they had little weapons and apparatus of fantastic invention at their disposal that could bend and twist the known scientific limitations of reality (shooting invisible rays?). It was imaginative, mystical, and awe-inspiring. Any ideas what this might have been? This is Alan Badel after he smashed the glass and stepped out of the painting behind him in Three Cases of Murder (1955), which was shown on Talking Pictures TV a few weeks ago.  Of the three cases of murder cited, the first about the painting and the third about an MP (Orson Welles) suffering from premonitions caused by another MP (played by Alan Badel, who plays a different character in each case) are supernatural stories. The middle story is a mundane murder story. The two supernatural cases are very well done. All three cases are introduced by Eamonn Andrews (really!). |
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Post by Knygathin on May 30, 2018 18:55:35 GMT
Very interesting, ... albeit not the film that I saw, which had a modern setting.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on May 30, 2018 19:02:46 GMT
Could it have been the pilot of The Night Gallery, made in 1969; specifically the segment titled The Cemetery, which featured Roddy McDowall and a haunted painting?
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Post by Knygathin on May 30, 2018 22:00:52 GMT
Could it have been the pilot of The Night Gallery, made in 1969; specifically the segment titled The Cemetery, which featured Roddy McDowall and a haunted painting? This one looks closer in setting, but I remember it as much darker and serious in tone, and murkier. I suppose it could have been this one, but in that case my memory is way off. I was so small and emotionally swept away by what I saw, that my memory can not be fully trusted. It is possible that my memory of it a few years later was mixed with a black and white graphic story of similar nature in an issue of Creepy horror magazine, difficult to recreate on film except by an artistic director working in hard shadows. There were half abstract "goblin" creatures coming out of the painting; and possibly they pulled the man into it, or else the surrealistic world of the painting consumed the reality of the room. |
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Post by Knygathin on Jun 12, 2018 16:06:54 GMT
... It is possible that my memory of it ... was mixed with a black and white graphic story of similar nature in an issue of Creepy horror magazine, difficult to recreate on film except by an artistic director working in hard shadows. There were half abstract "goblin" creatures coming out of the painting; and possibly they pulled the man into it, or else the surrealistic world of the painting consumed the reality of the room. That graphic story was called "The Picture of Death" and was illustrated by Spanish artist Jose Bea. It was quite evocative and strongly influenced by Hieronimus Bosch's famous painting "The Garden of Delights". It can be found in Creepy #45 archive.org/details/warrencreepy-045 Somehow I remember the TV film as being very similar in content. I suppose it might perhaps have been a foreign language film, perhaps Spanish. |
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