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Post by lukemorningstar on Sept 11, 2008 9:10:39 GMT
I'm sure there is plenty of info about this film on the 'information superhighway' but I have resisted the temptation to look it up, and will go purely on memory.
I have only seen this film once, and it was back in the late 1970s when I was a mere youth.
There are a couple of things I remember about it;
1. Cushing, Lee and Price in the same film.
2. Being quite shocked and spooked when the chap at the beginning wakes up in hospital to find he is legless (boom boom)
3. 60's pop group 'Amen Corner' appearing as themselves for the inevitable token 'psychedelic party scene'
4. Quite a violent and nasty killing by the 'superbeing' chap in a railway tunnel......
Question is - is it any good?
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Post by franklinmarsh on Sept 11, 2008 16:21:36 GMT
The first time I started to watch it, I gave up as I couldn't understand what was going on. The second time, I loved every minute and became quite obsessed with it. Its a mess but its based on a Peter Saxon novel, stars the big three (plus Alfred Marks, Yutte Stensgaard, Major Shorthouse, Peter Cook's ex-Mrs and the bloke from The Devils.) And there's a version where the Amen Corner just play instrumentals! It's mad, bad and dangerous to know!
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Post by Johnlprobert on Sept 11, 2008 16:46:52 GMT
I think it's great - Gordon Hessler's best film (not hard I know). Even though Christopher Wicking could be a very annoying screenwriter at times his fragmentary approach here serves the subject matter well. And taking out the aliens from the book was a good idea. The police procedural side of things is handled a lot better than many films of this era and I agree - the chap losing his arms and legs seriously disturbed me as a lad.
Obscure factipoo corner - the version where the Amen Corner are just doing instrumentals is in fact the version where all the original soundtrack music was wiped and replaced with a score by one 'Kendall Schmidt'. Fortunately the region 1 DVD has replaced the original David Whitaker score and the Amen Corner songs. Something similar happened to quite a few AIP movies when they first came out on VHS
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Post by dem bones on Sept 11, 2008 18:05:23 GMT
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