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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 11, 2010 9:20:31 GMT
That's not the one where he slings it round his neck and its ends up strangling him is it? Or have I just made that up?  Don't know, but that puts me in mind of a truly awful, low budget, black comedy horror film that I've seen - can't remember much about it now, but I think it involved a guy injecting his ahem with some 'serum' that made it grow to ridiculous proportions. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Aug 11, 2010 9:29:00 GMT
That's not the one where he slings it round his neck and its ends up strangling him is it? Or have I just made that up? Don't know, but that puts me in mind of a truly awful, low budget, black comedy horror film that I've seen - can't remember much about it now, but I think it involved a guy injecting his ahem with some 'serum' that made it grow to ridiculous proportions. Thta's probably Frank Henenlotter's Bad Biology Dr S! Lady P has yet to be exposed to that one. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 11, 2010 9:38:24 GMT
That's it! That stop motion claymation sequence... |
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Post by ramseycampbell on Aug 11, 2010 11:29:22 GMT
But I see from your previous link that Pumilia also wrote a story called "Toad" (is the answer to the question anything to do with the way that certain cold-blooded animals catch their prey?). Got it in one. As a horror story it lacks horror. As erotica it lacks erotica. As a sex comedy it's about as funny as .... not one of his more successful efforts is what i'm trying to say. I was more impressed with his Forever Stand The Stones in Jack The Knife though it's a blur to me now. He has another one, The Myth Of The Ape God in The Rivals Of Kong, and Ramsey Campbell used The Case Of James Elmo Freebish in Superhorror aka The Far Reaches Of Fear. I think it was Michel who told me Joe Pumilia wrote an M. R. Jamesian tale in which two rival occultists kept sending ever more hideous familiars out to dispose of their adversary. Black comedy, it sounded like, but I don't know if it appeared anywhere. |
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 11, 2010 11:41:21 GMT
I think it was Michel who told me Joe Pumilia wrote an M. R. Jamesian tale in which two rival occultists kept sending ever more hideous familiars out to dispose of their adversary. Black comedy, it sounded like, but I don't know if it appeared anywhere. I think I'd like to read that. As far as I can remember, I don't think I've read anything else by him other than Instrument of Darkness. A quick google suggested he wrote more SF than horror, and that a lot of his stuff was humourous. Which makes Instrument of Darkness seem to stick out like a sore thumb. Or something. (Sorry, mind's in the gutter what with being reminded of Bad Biology and all.) |
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Post by helrunar on Apr 18, 2017 0:56:58 GMT
Well, this thread certainly gave good value for money! Excellent work chaps!
cheers, H.
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