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Post by Calenture on Apr 30, 2008 21:51:33 GMT
I'll tell you what, John. Send me a recording and I'll watch it and put it on disk to send to Craig, and I'll send those FCs free. What? Your recorder didn't work?
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 30, 2008 21:58:45 GMT
Well oddly enough I usually delete stuff as soon as I've seen it but this is still on the SkyPlus hard drive.
If you can tell me how I can transfer it to a DVD I'd be happy to send you a copy.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 30, 2008 22:09:14 GMT
Rog, that's a great offer. Even if it doesn't come off thanks for the thought. I love those Spanish and Italian films
I have a possible explanation for what sounds like genius and chips from the Spanish.
My mum was about seventy when she and her hubby decided to go to the local Spanish carnival. They saw a ghost train thingy and she was persuaded to go inside. Now normally she's not too keen, likes peace and quiet, bit of a ghost story will keep her up at night...
Suffice to say it was endless terror, increasing as the show went on.
About half way through, when one teenage girl had fainted and was being helped through by her friend, a man carrying a cleaver, screaming maniacally, dressed in black rags dripping with blood began to chase them all. (included the half dead girl who was thankfully only semi conscious. Her friend was whimpering and weeping between piteous screams).
They escaped into one of a series of horrific chambers with grotesque beheadings, electric chairs and monstrosities lining the walls.
This all culminated in a room chill as ice with rows of dead people hanging by hooks covered in dripping blood.
When they managed to push their way through the bodies they emerged out into the open.
Apparently, a la the House of Usher, my mum's husband just kept running. He managed to support her as they continued to flee just in case the guy with the cleaver wasn't supposed to be part of the show.
To this day she doesn't know if the bodies in the morgue were real. She often speculates.
Good old Spaniards. None of your fire and safety crap over there.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 30, 2008 22:09:56 GMT
Oh and thanks John. Just read the message. That would be brilliant.
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Post by Calenture on Apr 30, 2008 22:19:35 GMT
Well oddly enough I usually delete stuff as soon as I've seen it but this is still on the SkyPlus hard drive. If you can tell me how I can transfer it to a DVD I'd be happy to send you a copy. Hmm, and there was I thinking you used either a video recorder or a DVD recorder. Well, never mind, it was a nice thought. It was worth it anyway for Craig's "genius and chips" tale.
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Post by bradstevens on May 1, 2008 16:57:02 GMT
Didn't like THE CHRISTMAS GIFT as much as last week's SPECTRE (the two films couldn't possibly be more different in tone), but this was still enormous fun: the fake scratches added to the zombie horror film at the beginning kind of anticipate GRINDHOUSE, and the RESERVOIR DOGS parody was hilarious.
Maru Valdivielso's role recalls her character in Monte Hellman's IGUANA (in which she is also held prisoner in an isolated location); when she becomes an axe-wielding killer santa, it's almost as if IGUANA has merged with Hellman's next film, SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT III: BETTER WATCH OUT! (which also involved a killer santa).
Jaume Balaguero's TO LET is next Tuesday. Balaguero is the director of DARKNESS, which played on BBC1 a few weeks ago.
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 1, 2008 19:11:36 GMT
Yes I'm very sorry I missed SPECTRE, but I see there's a Region 2 box set coming out in Spain which wil be subtitled, so perhaps not all is lost.
The synopsis for TO LET sounds excellent, too. I've already set the recorder.
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 1, 2008 22:32:18 GMT
Just seen Balaguero's FRAGILE, which I can recommend as long as you don't mind Calista Flockhart being in a horror movie
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Post by Johnlprobert on May 6, 2008 12:02:09 GMT
OK gang - don't forget Balaguero's 'To Let' is on tonight (Tuesday). Apparently it's not bad at all
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Post by Calenture on May 6, 2008 19:59:15 GMT
OK gang - don't forget Balaguero's 'To Let' is on tonight (Tuesday). Apparently it's not bad at all Thanks, John. I would definitely have forgotten but for your reminder. This film's only 65 minutes long, but it looks like fun. I love rooms full of creepy mannequins! That's at 10:30 on BBC4. Here's a synopsis from Twitch. "Carolina and Tony are driving through the torrential rain that has been falling all day. They are going to see a flat... yet another flat. They have seen dozens already. Ever since they have been expecting a baby, they have been looking for something a little bigger, but the agent has told them that this flat is something a little special. First impressions are not exactly good. Like all of the properties in the area, the flat seems to have been abandoned and is totally empty... and what about all the random limbs of old shop mannequins scattered across the floor, the stairs and the landings.... The estate agent re-assures them. The council is apparently refurbishing the whole area. In just a few months they are going to be sitting on a gold mine. And what's more, two new families have also just moved in. On the mezzanine and the second floor. They go up to the third floor and enter the flat. Which is something they should never have done.... Their flat, the whole building in fact, is a trap. Watched over by a diabolical landlady...."
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Post by weirdmonger on May 7, 2008 12:20:31 GMT
TO LET
That was blood-boggling!
I liked the atmosphere of the dark urban setting and the Ligottian mannequins and dolls.
The small child actor did not seem as if he was acting extreme distress in the lift!
We should start a TO LET MYTHOS! ;D
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Post by bradstevens on May 7, 2008 14:53:04 GMT
Very impressive. As in Balaguero's DARKNESS, the source of the horror is shown to be the family: in DARKNESS, the ghosts arise from tensions generated within the family (something that's especially clear in the longer version screened by the BBC), whereas in TO LET, the attempt to perpetuate the 'normal' family unit is depicted as a form of insanity.
Next week's PELICULAS PARA NO DORMIR is ADIVINA QUIEN SOY ('A Real Friend') by Enrique Urbizu, whose work I'm not familiar with.
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Post by bradstevens on May 7, 2008 14:53:55 GMT
I liked the atmosphere of the dark urban setting and the Ligottian mannequins and dolls. The mannequins made me think of Mario Bava's BLOOD AND BLACK LACE.
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Post by weirdmonger on May 7, 2008 15:13:19 GMT
the attempt to perpetuate the 'normal' family unit is depicted as a form of insanity. A very interesting observation. The mannequins made me think of Mario Bava's BLOOD AND BLACK LACE. I hardly ever watch films, so I can't comment.
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Post by Calenture on May 13, 2008 20:02:29 GMT
Tonight, 10:30 on BBC4 A Real Friend (Adivina quién soy): directed by Enrique Urbizu; screenplay by Jorge Arenillas; starring Goya Toledo as Angela, Nerea Inchausti as Estrella, Eduard Farelo as the vampire, Josep Maria Pou as the fat man, Aitor Mazo as Bubba, Roelkis Bueno as the young official, and Andrés Marí as the forensic doctor. Synopsis: "Estrella, a girl of ten, has lived alone with her mother Angela since her father died when she was very small. She is a lively and sociable child, but she spends a lot of time alone at home. Too much. ¶ Estrella enjoys fantasy and horror stories and, in order to exorcise the fear that the 'big monsters' cause her, she makes friends with them: she gives them a body, talks to them, they go to school with her, they protect her.... ¶ One day, Estrella makes friends with a new companion, a vampire. But could it be that this 'friend' is not merely a product of the girl's imagination?" Films to Keep You Awake
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