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Post by lemming13 on Jul 24, 2010 13:59:44 GMT
I was rooting through the Vault earlier, when I remembered I hadn't yet cleaned out the canary cage. So I logged out and did my chore to the mellow strains of Cradle of Filth's Midian album (don't worry, it isn't animal cruelty, the fluffy little dears sing along). At which point it suddenly occurred to me that I've become a horror movie stereotype; I'm the nice little lady with the canaries and the crochet and the sinister secret in the cellar/ attic. In an Amicus film I'd be played by Beryl Reid. My daughter kindly pins me as Madame Foster of Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, but I know the truth. So I was wondering, is it a result of too much pulp horror? Am I the only one, or are there board members who have turned into the wicked vicar, the peculiar shopkeeper, or the blousy sexpot?
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Post by dem bones on Jul 24, 2010 15:27:41 GMT
And there was me expecting a nice quiet afternoon posting my smutty What Rugby Jokes Did Next gallery.
anyhow, after giving it much thought.
you know when Vincent Price throws himself from the window in Theatre Of Blood? you know the bunch of festering meths drinkers who save him?
I'll be among that bunch.
So who will admit to being our resident kinky vicar or "blousy sexpot"? Come on. don't be shy ....
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 24, 2010 15:30:11 GMT
I go for Sid James myself...
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 24, 2010 16:16:41 GMT
you know when Vincent Price throws himself from the window in Theatre Of Blood? Don't allow me to get too carried away with this, but I'm probably Peter Cushing from Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, with some Edward Lionheart thrown in, and a bit of Dr Phibes for good measure on a good / bad day. |
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Post by andydecker on Jul 24, 2010 17:34:53 GMT
Heh, I would like to be Christopher Lee from The Devil Rides out.  But Ralph Bates in Lust for a Vampire is much more realistic and fitting  I think |
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Post by dem bones on Jul 24, 2010 18:00:39 GMT
Blimey, now Craig's trying to subvert it into "which Carry On character are you?" Don't allow me to get too carried away with this, but I'm probably Peter Cushing from Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, with some Edward Lionheart thrown in, and a bit of Dr Phibes for good measure on a good / bad day. mmm. and do i detect some residue of the Ralph Bates Frankenstein from Horror Of ... in there too, Lord P. Just asked the Bride if she wanted to be our token Victorian cockney bonnet & bosom gal, but she kind of looked at me with a pained expression, sighed "no dear, that's you". So that's it settled. i'm Dr. Jekyll & Sister Hyde! |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 24, 2010 18:09:01 GMT
Don't allow me to get too carried away with this, but I'm probably Peter Cushing from Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, with some Edward Lionheart thrown in, and a bit of Dr Phibes for good measure on a good / bad day. mmm. and do i detect some residue of the Ralph Bates Frankenstein from Horror Of ... in there too, Lord P. I asked Lady P and she hasn't seen that one (  ) but you could have something there Mr D!  |
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Post by Thana Niveau on Jul 24, 2010 20:14:02 GMT
Ever since I was far too young to be having such thoughts, I fantasised about being Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill. Thanks to that dream sequence at the end she gets to be both Final Girl AND murder victim! As well as - er, naughty sex kitten. "Do you mind if I take off my coat? And the rest too?" I'd also happily vomit sheep entrails and cry blood if Lord P were my Lucio Fulci.  |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 24, 2010 23:15:23 GMT
Just my natural predilection for Carry On Dem... I'd settle for Bela Lugosi's stunt cape in his last film
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Post by andydecker on Jul 25, 2010 12:18:18 GMT
Nancy Allen in Dressed to Kill. Far too long that I saw this movie. It used to be one of my favorites in the 80s. The nerd got the friendship of the beautiful blonde And Nancy Allen was so good in this *sigh |
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Post by fullbreakfast on Aug 5, 2010 21:59:46 GMT
I have long modelled myself on Inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasance) from Death Line.
The resemblance is now almost perfect.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 5, 2010 22:10:12 GMT
I have long modelled myself on Inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasance) from Death Line. The resemblance is now almost perfect. One of our favourites! Do you use teabags? |
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Post by fullbreakfast on Aug 5, 2010 22:31:15 GMT
One of our favourites! Do you use teabags? I should bleeding cocoa! Though a moist cool teabag is most relieving to the old John Giles... |
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Post by H_P_Saucecraft on Aug 5, 2010 22:34:40 GMT
" A grocer from Kilburn is automatically a missing person" One of Pleasance's best performances I think. |
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Post by dem bones on Aug 11, 2010 8:24:23 GMT
I have long modelled myself on Inspector Calhoun (Donald Pleasance) from Death Line. The resemblance is now almost perfect. i can think of far worse role models from Death Line. i've always had a soft spot for James Manfred, OBE, the bowler hatted, Soho-trawling perve (now there's a proper 'seventies stereotype) who gets offed pretty early on. i've long fancied doing a photo re-enactment of his seminal MP-leaving-Sex-Shop moment when i visit Lovejoys for some Wordsworths, though the wardrobe is a major stumbling block. There's also the little matter of me looking more and more like the cannibal with each passing day.  |
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I think
) but you could have something there Mr D! 
