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Post by dem bones on Mar 6, 2011 13:41:53 GMT
Frank N. Stein (ed.) - Shriek (issue # 4, Winter 1966/ 1967) Grim Editorial - It's No Scream
The Grisly Horror of THE PROJECTED MAN Fear Reigns Supreme when FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE EARTH They Live In Nightmare Who Wear THE MASK The Blood-curdling Secret of THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU Morgan Asks Gently ARE YOU A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT SHRIEK'S MONSTER GALLERY The Gruesome Riddle of THE DEADLY BEES Britain Counterattacks The Munsters in CARRY ON SCREAMING! The Inside Story Of Clandestine Evil 13 A Frightening Tale From Sweden in MORIANNA Look Into The Future And See DALEKS INVADE EARTH 2150 AD MUNSTER GO HOME FROM DRACULA TO THE GILLMAN A Few Ways To GoAnother Acme/ Health Knowledge Inc. publication (see Magazine Of Horror, Startling Mystery Stories, Weird Terror Tales) though this time sadly, no Robert A. W. Lowndes in evidence and editorial duties are performed by something called 'Frank N. Stein' (the only other contributor identified by name is 'Edgar Allan' who cops a credit for brief essay, From Dracula To The Gillman. Rather than review the films, Frank takes the brief synopsis set off by plenty of stills route and you've belted through entire magazine almost before you've began. You can download a cdr of the fourth and final issue for free from what has fast become a favourite haunt of mine, Gilligan's Retrospace. Franklin, if you get to read this, The Gregory Pendennis Occult Library cops a link in his Occult section!
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Post by andydecker on Mar 6, 2011 16:50:28 GMT
most of the Carry On movies were running on tv, but I never saw Carry On Screaming. Maybe the rights lapsed.
Is it a worthwhile movie? I read good things about, how they managed to do some good Hammer jokes.
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 6, 2011 21:11:31 GMT
Not only, in my view, is Carry On Screaming one of the best Carry Ons, it's also one of the best comedy horror films ever. The cast are superb and perfectly fit their roles, and the films looks like it was made with a far bigger budget than it almost certainly had - like so many hammer Films in fact!
Well worth watching.
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Post by killercrab on Mar 6, 2011 22:32:34 GMT
Agreed.
btw The cover art is a pre production painting for Hammer's Plague of The zombies. This was used to help secure finance.
KC
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Post by dem bones on Mar 7, 2011 12:51:20 GMT
I envy you your first watch of Carry On Screaming, Andy. One of Talbot Rothwell's better scripts and, as mentioned, the acting is top. First caught it on tv as a kid and even then i was wondering why none of the girls at school dressed like Virula. Were they insane or something? we haven't anything like enough Carry On stuff on here - just the one i'm gonna shift below and a dead rubber for Carry On Stuffing as far as i can see, though we dispensed a good kicking to Convenience on Vault Mk I. Richard Webber - The Complete A-Z Of Everything Carry On (HarperCollins, 2005) This book contains everything fans of the classic Carry On films will want to know, including: cast lists, film synopses, dialogue gems, little-known facts, location details, actor, character and crew profiles, details of every character appearing or mentioned in the films, information on the TV series and various theatre productions, and much, much more... Unique features of this book include scenes that were cut from the final edits, first-hand accounts from people involved in the making of the films and – for the first time – scripts of two `unmade' Carry On movies. Fully illustrated throughout, including rare behind-the-scenes shots from the 31 films, this is a book every fan will treasure.Blimey, what a big one! Over 350 pages of door-stopper with tons of top photo's and posters plus neat little entries on everyone and everything that showed up in the saucy series. Apart from the A-Z, there's a step-by-step history of the films, a juicy pair of scripts for two Carry On's that didn't get off the ground (John Antrobus's Carry On Sergeant and Talbot Rothwell's exciting POW adventure, Carry On Escaping) and a useful round up of Carry On spin-offs and merchandise. Did you know, for example, that Carry On Emmannuelle was based on Lance Peters' paperback of the same name (Arrow, 1977) or that someone called Boz released the theme song from Carry On Screaming as a single for Capitol in 1966? (Much later, enduring Brit Goth legends Nosferatu used a still from the film for the cover of their unusually bouncy Someone Put Something In My Drink single. Needless to say, it was released in June 2005, the very same month this book was published, so as not to damage their impeccable twenty-plus year history of unfortunate timing and near misses). Sticking with top pop smash hits for a moment, the mighty Music For Pleasure label issued an album Oh, What A Carry On including such unknown pleasures as Bernard Bresslaw's You Need Feet, Kenneth Williams' Green Grow My Nadgers Oh - you what? - and Joan Sims' Spring Song. What else? As you'd expect, there's a section on the sporadically funny TV stuff, and the later films receive their justly deserved ritual bashing. The general consensus seems to be that you don't need to bother with much after Abroad, and try as I might, I can't even pretend to like Carry On England, Emmanuelle or Columbus even out of perversity.
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 7, 2011 14:00:13 GMT
Oh dear, dem, I remember going to watch Carry on Screaming when it first came out at the cinema. In those days I must admit I used to go and watch all the Carry Ons when they came out. Of course, they were still worth watching then. I've never seen any of the later ones at all. Probably as well to keep the image pure.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 7, 2011 18:47:38 GMT
half a year ago or so they had a few Carry On on one of our pay-tv channels. Carry On Doctor - Up the Khyber - Camping - Up the Jungle - on Henry and Abroad. I found the contemporary ones interesting - movies like these are often a window into a forgotten past. Seing Valerie Leon isn´t bad either And some of the jokes are still funny. A little search revealed that all of the movie were shown in Germany, which was new to me. Maybe they will be screened again, pay-tv is hungry beast
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Post by dem bones on Mar 7, 2011 20:43:07 GMT
Andy, seeing as you're going to buy a copy of the DVD, click on the photo of Virula and her brother Dr. Orlando Watt while you're waiting for it to be delivered. Different strokes and that David, but i prefer the earlier ones - though there are exceptions: Loving, Behind and Abroad have their moments - mostly because Rothwell put some effort into a storyline. Screaming is my favourite for obvious reasons, but i like Spying - especially Dr Crow of STENCH - Teacher (despite its mawkish ending), Camping, Cleo and Doctor. I detest Convenience and England, so if i were you, i'd go look 'em both up.
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Post by andydecker on Mar 18, 2011 9:34:26 GMT
So ... I got Carry On Screaming at an affordable price.
It was a lot of fun. Compared to the later ones it relied more on good writing than on the next tit-joke - as tame as they always were, I imagine that Carry On Emmanuelle can only be a sad trainwreck; this surely can´t work.
There was genuinely funny dialogue and even a decent story. It even looked a lot of the time like a Hammer movie. More entertaining than a lot of contemporary movies.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 21, 2021 11:54:16 GMT
This is a cool thread. I used to own a copy of Shriek!, but gave it to a friend years ago. As Dem indicated in his review, the stills were cool but there wasn't much other content.
Thanks too, Dem, for that Retrospace link. Extraordinarily, that site still exists--there are so many dead links thick upon the ground in the graveyard of the interwebs.
I never knew that that cover sketch was a preliminary piece of promotional art for Plague of the Zombies, which is a very good movie.
I've seen some clips from Carry on Screaming but never the complete film. I don't think it ever ran on TV over here. Fenella Fielding's "do you mind if I smoke?" routine was repeated on a popular TV show of the period, The Addams Family--or maybe the Carry On film repeated it from Morticia on that show.
H.
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