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Post by andydecker on Jun 6, 2011 17:42:47 GMT
This is common practise in publishing. I am currently working on a novel which will be out in January 12.
Owen wrote a lot of western in his day.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jun 14, 2011 11:48:33 GMT
We watched the movie over the weekend, and while none of the sexual shenanigans described by Mr Owen occur (the sexiest the film gets is rocket bras and milkmaid outfits) the glove puppet monster with hopeless little legs and wings that don't work is a bit of a gem, plus you get to see it a LOT. The quality of the special effects overall is on a par with the Jon Pertwee Dr Who story Invasion of the Dinosaurs, but the script, acting and everything else are rather worse.
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 14, 2011 12:27:30 GMT
I must have been only 11 or 12 when I saw this at the cinema - the only time I have ever seen it in fact. I loved it then. Definitely not a film to revisit, I think.  |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jun 14, 2011 13:23:09 GMT
I must have been only 11 or 12 when I saw this at the cinema - the only time I have ever seen it in fact. I loved it then. Definitely not a film to revisit, I think. Funnily enough we both thought it was the kind of film we would have loved as kids - Reptilicus itself actually reminded me of the Drashigs from Dr Who's Carnival of Monsters, and those scared the crap out of me when I was 5! |
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Post by David A. Riley on Jun 14, 2011 14:08:05 GMT
Not the age to read the book, though. It was possibly the first novelisation of a film I ever bought and only got as far as the first sex scenes, then stopped. Might be what put me off movie novelisations for life!  |
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Post by severance on Jun 15, 2011 21:54:04 GMT
i intend to have a closer look at Monarch when time permits as they were the kind of unashamed purveyors of ropey, often plain damn sleazy old tosh that we don't see enough of (at all?) these days. Sounds like you've got Monarch pretty much right - I'd say they were a second-rate Gold Medal with great cover art - in fact a few Gold Medal writers, like Robert Colby and Gil Brewer, went over to them when in-coming GM editor, Knox Burger, axed some of the old guard. Funnily enough, I've got a fair bit of their output, suspense thrillers largely, and these horror novelizations are unlike most of it. I'll start a thread once I've finished a current project. |
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Post by dem on Jun 16, 2011 7:09:13 GMT
Will look forward to that, sev - I like when we do the checklist thing and Monarch are a most suitable case for treatment.
Finished Reptilicus AGES ago. Fortunately, it clashed with lousy real-life encroachments, so you were spared usual anti-literate synopsis masquerading as a "review", though I suspect its a mere stay of execution. Reptilicus, like Arabella Randolph's The Vampire Tapes and Robert Leslie Bellem's Labyrinth Of Monsters, is the proverbial gift that keeps giving and I'll surely revisit it sooner rather than later.
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