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Post by lukemorningstar on Sept 15, 2008 21:44:19 GMT
OK - it's Monday night. I don't feel too well. It's cold outside. Spurs have just lost to Aston Villa and are therefore still bottom of the league. I'm skint. Moan Moan Moan.
So
What better way to cheer the evening up than with a completely pointless and trivial post in the Pan Horror section. Please do read on, if you have come thus far.........
The challenge is, consider you are single handedly reviving the great British movie genre that is 'The Portmanteau' and you aim to actually make horror movies scary again. Your source material for your movie(s) are all 30 volumes of Pan - just by way of a bit of 'fantasy film making' which story or stories would you pick, and who would you cast in the key roles?
The reason for this bit of fun is that I have a very clear image in my mind of a film version of 'Something In The Cellar' from Pan 10, in which Steve (League Of Gentlemen) Pemberton would play Charlie, and Patsy Kensit would play Stella. So vivid is my vision, that there is even a particular piece of music, a jazzy piano thing called 'Amalgam' by Dudley Moore, used as incidental music throughout.............
Has this made any sense?
Oh well - it would be nice to hear your ideas for Pan stories into movies!
My next post will be far more sensible and relevant - I hope....
Colin
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Post by dem on Sept 15, 2008 22:35:56 GMT
That is one blinding idea for a thread!
I'm still auditioning cast, soundtrack and crew but this is the rough outline for Dr. Morgue-drawer's Cemetery Of Death.
Framing device. Gent's Club, with Warwick (noted thespian Mr. J. L. Probert) first narrating Oscar Cook's gloriously ghoulish Piece-meal before working through Alex White's The Clinic, Vernon Routh's The Black Creator and Guy Preston's The Inn and rounding things off with Eddy C. Bertin's The Whispering Horror. Oscar Cook (introducing Mr. M. Samuels) slopes off home thinking dreadful things of Warwick and passes by a pub called The Lifeless Lass, the setting for the first story in sequel!
As mentioned, details of other name participants are being kept strictly hush-hush for the time being, but I can exclusively reveal that all surviving demon plants from The Day Of The Triffids and the Creeping Vine sequence of Dr. Terror's House of Horrors have been approached to play the The Black Creator's mutant orchid as a means of boosting their pensions.
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