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Post by Johnlprobert on Mar 17, 2011 13:20:06 GMT
After School and the Waiting Room were my favourites on the dvd. Enjoy! KC I've written some reviews of Shadows episodes around here somewhere... We recently watched the first series at Probert Towers and by far the best was After School, which was as good as I remember it being when I first saw it at age seven. The Waiting Room is a classic as well |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 17, 2011 17:58:12 GMT
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Post by ripper on Jan 25, 2013 13:53:50 GMT
There was a short TV programme which I saw on one of the terrestrial channels about 25 or so years ago called Out of Town. I am not sure if it was part of a series or just a one-off. A man walking along a dirt track at the side of a rural road gets his foot stuck in a hole and cannot free himself. Cars go by and ignore his pleas for help, as do several passer-bys. Gradually his leg is drawn into the hole as if something is pulling him down. Eventually, after being trapped for quite a while...perhaps days...something underground drags him fully into the hole. I only saw this screened once, so I am unsure if it has been shown since or is available on DVD.
In the early 1980s I saw a short film in the cinema that was shown in support of the main feature. I don't know if it was specifically made for cinema showing or was a TV programme that was being used for support. Anyway, it was about a couple who move into a creepy rural cottage and I think there was also a well that was part of the plot, but of the title I have no idea.
In 1976 there was a series shown on BBC TV called The Mind Beyond. The only one I can clearly remember is an episode titled Neriel the Ghost Girl, which starred Donald Pleasence as a psychic investigator looking into the appearance of the ghost of a child at a seance.
I recently watched a few episodes of Nigel Kneale's series Beasts. I remember seeing Special Offer, During Barty's Party and Baby when they were originally transmitted in 1976. I think my favourite episode is During Barty's Party. Very tense and atmospheric, and well acted, with just two main players plus the voice of Barty. Although I had not seen the episode for 36 years, as soon as the story began it all came back to me, particularly the abandoned car seen from the house and the woman's increasingly frantic calls to the radio show...just superb television.
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Post by valdemar on Jan 26, 2013 12:26:40 GMT
I was just perusing this thread, when I recalled a show that gave me many a sleepless night [it did it's job], and that was the BBC dramatisation of Sheridan Le Fanu's tale 'Schalken The Painter'. The whole of it seemed to be suffused in a nasty, oppressive, darkness. The Seventeenth Century always seems sinister to me, somehow, but this took the biscuit. I remember being quite disturbed at the end, when, I seem to recall, a rather fit 'wench', entered into what can only have been sexual congress with a corpse. I have read the original, but Le Fanu is rather hazy about details of this sort! Is it available on DVD? If it is, I think I'll give it a swerve, if it's all the same to you.  |
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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 26, 2013 13:29:25 GMT
I was just perusing this thread, when I recalled a show that gave me many a sleepless night [it did it's job], and that was the BBC dramatisation of Sheridan Le Fanu's tale 'Schalken The Painter'. The whole of it seemed to be suffused in a nasty, oppressive, darkness. The Seventeenth Century always seems sinister to me. somehow, but this took the biscuit. I remember being quite disturbed at the end, when, I seem to recall, a rather fit 'wench', entered into what can only have been sexual congress with a corpse. I have read the original, but Le Fanu is rather hazy about details of this sort! Is it available on DVD? If it is, I think I'll give it a swerve, if it's all the same to you. I think I would have to agree with you completely. I remember watching this when it was first shown and being horrified by that climax. The corpse was particularly hideous - and the scene with his bride in bed strong enough to shock me at the time. Probably still would! This production has been mentioned a few times recently on various forums but I don't think anyone has been able to find a copy on DVD, though I think there might have been a VHS version at one time. Probably all but impossible to get hold of, unfortunately. If it ever became available on DVD I would snap it up. |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jan 26, 2013 22:22:21 GMT
I was just perusing this thread, when I recalled a show that gave me many a sleepless night [it did it's job], and that was the BBC dramatisation of Sheridan Le Fanu's tale 'Schalken The Painter'. The whole of it seemed to be suffused in a nasty, oppressive, darkness. The Seventeenth Century always seems sinister to me. somehow, but this took the biscuit. I remember being quite disturbed at the end, when, I seem to recall, a rather fit 'wench', entered into what can only have been sexual congress with a corpse. I have read the original, but Le Fanu is rather hazy about details of this sort! Is it available on DVD? If it is, I think I'll give it a swerve, if it's all the same to you. I think I would have to agree with you completely. I remember watching this when it was first shown and being horrified by that climax. The corpse was particularly hideous - and the scene with his bride in bed strong enough to shock me at the time. Probably still would! This production has been mentioned a few times recently on various forums but I don't think anyone has been able to find a copy on DVD, though I think there might have been a VHS version at one time. Probably all but impossible to get hold of, unfortunately. If it ever became available on DVD I would snap it up. Let's encourage the BFI! |
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Post by David A. Riley on Jan 27, 2013 0:49:01 GMT
Good idea, Ramsey.
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Post by valdemar on Jan 27, 2013 9:03:10 GMT
I've had a bit of a poke about on the net, and found that 'Schalken The Painter' was shown in late 1979. It starred Jeremy Clyde as Schalken, Maurice Denham as Gerard Dou, and Cheryl Kennedy [she was very fit; I was 16 at the time, which is how I remembered her], as Rose Velderkaust. The programme was an episode of the BBC arts programme 'Arena', which was about the real Dutch artist, Godfried Schalcken. More interesting than that, however, was that the show can be obtained in five segments from Youtube [other multi-media platforms are etc. etc.]. That's my Sunday buggered then. |
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Post by valdemar on Mar 6, 2013 8:45:33 GMT
Got round to watching it, 'borrowed' from Thou Cylinder. Still oppressive; still mercilessly creepy; and yes, still 'Bloody Hell!' unpleasant at the finish. Watching it on a big screen did not help at all. A great bit of VERY well-made but nasty television. It'd probably never get made even today - you can just see the makers being shown the door, nano-seconds after pitching the show to the Commisioning Editors of the BBC, and saying: "Then Schalken sees Rose jump onto the bed, in which is her dead husband, who sits up; Rose then strips off her nightdress, so she's now naked, and she jumps onto the bed and straddles the corpse..." "Thank you." "We'd only use good actors..." "Thank you." "It'd have integrity..." "Thank you." "It's bloody Art, mate!" "Security!..." The picture quality isn't great, but if those lovely people at either the BBC or BFI felt like producing a nice, crisply remastered DVD, possibly with some extras by someone like Sir Christopher Frayling or the like, then I'd have one. It's still got that 'BRRRR!' factor, even now. |
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 6, 2013 9:29:17 GMT
Got round to watching it, 'borrowed' from Thou Cylinder. Still oppressive; still mercilessly creepy; and yes, still 'Bloody Hell!' unpleasant at the finish. Watching it on a big screen did not help at all. A great bit of VERY well-made but nasty television. It'd probably never get made even today - you can just see the makers being shown the door, nano-seconds after pitching the show to the Commisioning Editors of the BBC, and saying: "Then Schalken sees Rose jump onto the bed, in which is her dead husband, who sits up; Rose then strips off her nightdress, so she's now naked, and she jumps onto the bed and straddles the corpse..." "Thank you." "We'd only use good actors..." "Thank you." "It'd have integrity..." "Thank you." "It's bloody Art, mate!" "Security!..." The picture quality isn't great, but if those lovely people at either the BBC or BFI felt like producing a nice, crisply remastered DVD, possibly with some extras by someone like Sir Christopher Frayling or the like, then I'd have one. It's still got that 'BRRRR!' factor, even now. It's years since I saw it on TV but I can still remember the shudder of revulsion at the climax. Truly horrifying! Yes, I would certainly buy a copy if a good quality DVD became available, especially if it had any extras such as you suggest. It would be a nice addition to sit alongside the BBC's M. R. James collection, though what James would have made of it... |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 7, 2013 21:11:54 GMT
I've had a bit of a poke about on the net, and found that 'Schalken The Painter' was shown in late 1979. It starred Jeremy Clyde as Schalken, Maurice Denham as Gerard Dou, and Cheryl Kennedy [she was very fit; I was 16 at the time, which is how I remembered her], as Rose Velderkaust. The programme was an episode of the BBC arts programme 'Arena', which was about the real Dutch artist, Godfried Schalcken. More interesting than that, however, was that the show can be obtained in five segments from Youtube [other multi-media platforms are etc. etc.]. That's my Sunday buggered then. Thanks for the tip. They really don't make them like this anymore - brooding, disturbing, filled with uneasy silence, strangely erotic yet thoroughly sickening. It's a damned shame its not a higher quality definition as the show is very dependent on the paintings. nevertheless something of a classic. Should add that you know the production has hit the mark when you're slightly dubious about going up the dark stairs. Will be haunted by that last revolting image. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Mar 25, 2019 13:10:30 GMT
I saw a clip of The Singing Ringing Tree on BBC4 last night. This wee bugger scared me at the time.  |
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Post by weirdmonger on Dec 26, 2022 17:00:24 GMT
Just watched Schalcken the Painter on BBC iPlayer.
It seems even greater than I remember it from watching it in 1979.
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