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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 8, 2008 10:33:07 GMT
Famously remembered by me as the one I watched when I had appendicitis (no honestly mum I don't need to go to hospital - ignore the GP - Corruption's on tonight - I'll just stay up & watch that & I'm sure I'll be all better in the morning oh shit I seem to have developed peritonitis. Mind you I got a lot of reading done during my prolonged hospital stay) I FINALLY got to see Robert Hartford-Davis' notoriously wild & sleazy take on Les Yeux Sans Visage again last night.
Actually a lot better than I remember it, Peter Cushing is sadly miscast and they would have been a lot better off going with almost anyone else. Sue Lloyd is appropriately catty and the murders are genuinely horrible (the prostitute bit in my copy was cut but the train murder and the head in the freezer compartment bits all work horribly well.) The ending is so hilariously bonkers it has to be seen to be believed (the Ford brothers must have sat down for all of two seconds and thought - no idea how to end this - let's have the laser kill everyone). The only really awful things about the picture are the drab photography and the terrible music which could quite seriously be the worst horror film score of all time.
Nice to be able to see it without some life-theatening intra-abdominal catastophe getting in the way as well
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Post by carolinec on Sept 8, 2008 12:50:18 GMT
Famously remembered by me as the one I watched when I had appendicitis .. That's strange - I remember the first time I saw this I had a nasty case of gastro-enteritis! I wonder if there's any connection between this film and unpleasant medical conditions?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 8, 2008 13:07:35 GMT
Originally saw this on a b&w portable telly, with headphone as I was banned from watching horror fillums at the time. Recently saw a very dodgy copy with prostitute scene and French subtitles under the title Laser Killer. Outrageously nuts, PC scenes killing the pros and Valerie Van Ost on the train are horrendous for their time. Tony Blair's father in law as a Blow Up style photographer is cheese personified, and the gang of beatniks at the end (featuring The Man From The Bill/EastEnders and David Lodge as Groper, complete with Cosmo Smallpiece glasses and drool) have to be seen to be believed. Like the wonderful Circus Of Horrors, they couldn't get away with it nowadays.
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Post by lukemorningstar on Sept 8, 2008 13:34:41 GMT
Famously remembered by me as the one I watched when I had appendicitis .. That's strange - I remember the first time I saw this I had a nasty case of gastro-enteritis! I wonder if there's any connection between this film and unpleasant medical conditions? How strange - I saw this just after I was decapitated at the guillotine. A television was placed in front of my still blinking head, which lived on, not only long enough to watch the entire film, but also to still have time to discuss it at some length with one or two of my fellow decapitees afterwards. This of course is not true, and is merely taking the 'connection between this film and unpleasant medical conditions' suggestion way way too far.... Sorry
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Post by carolinec on Sept 8, 2008 14:33:47 GMT
[ How strange - I saw this just after I was decapitated at the guillotine. A television was placed in front of my still blinking head, which lived on, not only long enough to watch the entire film, but also to still have time to discuss it at some length with one or two of my fellow decapitees afterwards. That's probably the best way to watch it, Colin!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 8, 2008 15:51:56 GMT
Well I didn't think there'd be any response to this at all, muchg less that anyone else wuld have seen it!
Good old vault - I'm going to dig out my copy of the Sphere novelisation now (by Peter Saxon with a picture of the Cush holding a bloody knife on the cover) and do a review of that.
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Post by killercrab on Sept 8, 2008 17:08:37 GMT
This is one of those films that makes Cushing raping in Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed pale in comparison - neither scenes Cushing fans like to discuss. I've seen the Laser Killer version.I remember that Hammer Horror magazine special featured the film in depth as they did the excellent The Creeping Flesh.
KC
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