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Post by ripper on Dec 26, 2021 17:38:26 GMT
I switched on television last night only to behold Fanny Cradock lubricating a turkey. I did have nightmares. Now there's a name from the past. Was dear old Johnnie with her? Fanny effectively ended her career in television when she ripped into an amateur cook on a programme called The Big Time, who had been chosen to prepare a three-course meal for ex-PM Edward Heath, Lord Mountbatten and others. Fanny's perceived rudeness incensed the public and the BBC cancelled her contract.
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Post by helrunar on Dec 26, 2021 18:14:49 GMT
As a Yank, I only found out about Fanny Cradock a few years ago thanks to a social media group I'm a member of called "Psychobiddies and other visionary women." I found this TV movie about Fanny's persona and life fascinating. I'm sure she had some serious psychological stuff going on (there's a hell of a lot of narcissistic rage on parade here) but as theatre, the film makes brilliant viewing. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19FACE0163FBAB55H.
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Post by ripper on Dec 27, 2021 10:53:28 GMT
As a Yank, I only found out about Fanny Cradock a few years ago thanks to a social media group I'm a member of called "Psychobiddies and other visionary women." I found this TV movie about Fanny's persona and life fascinating. I'm sure she had some serious psychological stuff going on (there's a hell of a lot of narcissistic rage on parade here) but as theatre, the film makes brilliant viewing. www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL19FACE0163FBAB55H. Thanks for the link. She certainly had a forceful personality. My mum would watch Fanny's cookery programmes and I as a young lad watched alongside. The Galloping Gourmet--Graham Kerr?--was another 70s cookery show that was popular in our house, also Farmhouse Kitchen.
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Dec 30, 2021 22:38:36 GMT
I found this. 13th March 1967
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Post by andydecker on Jan 9, 2022 17:04:05 GMT
No One Gets Out Alive (2021) directed by Santiago Menghini, as seen on Netflix.
This is after The Ritual the second movie adaption of an Adam Nevill horror novel. As far as I gathered at least some of elements were changed for the movie as is usual today. So the poor young woman from Birmingham one step before homelessness working low-paying exploitative jobs transforms into a young Mexican illegal alien living in Cleveland one step before homelessness working low-paying exploitative jobs. It doesn't improve the plot, just catering to PC crowd, but it also doesn't distract from it, so, whatever.
Basically the movie tells her story as she moves into a dilapidated and creepy boarding house which is full of the ghosts of the victims, mostly female illegal immigrant tenants, the owners, two brothers, feed their to some Aztec goddess living in a box in the cellar.
As a horror movie it was well shot with thankfully not too many jump-cuts. While it dragged its feet a bit too long, I liked the screenplay. It was smart in places and characterization was quite good. For once the heroine had enough sense to flee the house when things got too spooky for comfort, even if it didn't help her in the long run, and the usual cliches were thankfully kept to a minimum.
The creature design at the end was well done. I didn't mind that a lot of things were left unexplained, unfortunately the surprisingly gory ending didn't work for me. This is one of those endings where you have to browse the net afterwards to get it "explained", which is never a good thing (also I thought most of these explanations ignored the difficult points to work). The movie is full of more or less effective daydream/nightmare sequences, but IMHO at the end there was one too much which made the action too confusing for its own good. I get the desire to make things ambiguous, especially in horror movies, but here it was too much.
Regardless I would call this one of the better Neflix horror movies overall. Nicely shot and directed with good acting and a clever variation of a surprisingly pulpish plot at its heart. I didn't read the novel so I can't say how faithful ā or not - it is, but even with the deep-sixed ending it is a better horror movie as a lot of other at the moment.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 9, 2022 17:29:29 GMT
Hopefully this will eventually get a DVD release, as that's likely the only way I will ever get to see it. The book is definitely worth a read, though its bleakness put some people off - vaultofevil.proboards.com/post/45591/thread. I suspect the changes you mention are more about appealing to a US audience than anything to do with "PC".
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Post by Swampirella on Jan 9, 2022 17:31:19 GMT
Hopefully this will eventually get a DVD release, as that's likely the only way I will ever get to see it. The book is definitely worth a read, though its bleakness put some people off - vaultofevil.proboards.com/post/45591/thread. I suspect the changes you mention are more about appealing to a US audience than anything to do with "PC". I enjoyed the book & would have watched the movie, if they'd kept the original UK setting.
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Post by helrunar on Jan 12, 2022 20:21:49 GMT
After listening to around five hours of recordings of Terence McKenna lecturing about the history of alchemy and the Hermetic tradition, I found this old Mystic Fire film based on McKenna's lectures. The material in this film owes a great deal to the books of Dame Frances Yates, whose work on Dr Dee, Giordano Bruno and others is a must read for those of us fixated on occult history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzj0QrJIYvYH.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 12, 2022 20:39:56 GMT
After listening to around five hours of recordings of Terence McKenna lecturing about the history of alchemy and the Hermetic tradition, I found this old Mystic Fire film based on McKenna's lectures. The material in this film owes a great deal to the books of Dame Frances Yates, whose work on Dr Dee, Giordano Bruno and others is a must read for those of us fixated on occult history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzj0QrJIYvYH. Yates's works are actually about the origins of science in Europe.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jan 12, 2022 20:49:44 GMT
After listening to around five hours of recordings of Terence McKenna lecturing about the history of alchemy and the Hermetic tradition, I found this old Mystic Fire film based on McKenna's lectures. The material in this film owes a great deal to the books of Dame Frances Yates, whose work on Dr Dee, Giordano Bruno and others is a must read for those of us fixated on occult history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzj0QrJIYvYH. Yates's works are actually about the origins of science in Europe. Same thing really. I tried to read her book on The Art of Memory many years ago, but gave up.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 12, 2022 20:59:50 GMT
Yates's works are actually about the origins of science in Europe. Same thing really. I tried to read her book on The Art of Memory many years ago, but gave up. Why? It even teaches you a useful mnemonic technique.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Jan 13, 2022 18:44:48 GMT
Over two sittings, I thoroughly enjoyed Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched, Kier-La Janisse's fascinating 192 minute exploration of the history and development of Folk Horror in films, television, and literature. A host of experts, including some familiar faces (I was particularly delighted to see Lawrence Gordon Clark in there discussing M.R. James), evocative animation, music and poetry (recited by Blood on Satan's Claw star Linda Hayden and Ian Ogilvy from Witchfinder General), and scores of intriguing clips from dozens of films and shows from around the world. I watched it, followed by the deleted scenes, on blu-ray as part of Severin's All The Haunts Be Ours folk horror box-set, but the documentary is also available as an individual blu-ray, and is now streaming on Shudder. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSYBpdDSh9A
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Post by helrunar on Jan 13, 2022 21:09:56 GMT
That's an awesome trailer, Daniel. According to the interwebs, "Shudder" is available for a free 7 day trial. But I do not know if that offer includes the US.
cheers, H.
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Post by jamesdoig on Jan 14, 2022 19:55:47 GMT
That's an awesome trailer, Daniel. According to the interwebs, "Shudder" is available for a free 7 day trial. But I do not know if that offer includes the US. It does include Australia - I signed up yesterday and watched 2/3 of the doco and it's excellent. The coverage is so wide it could almost be a history of horror. Quite a few films I need to chase up including I Start Counting and Lemora, and evidently there's some film based on the John the Balladeer stories also from the 70s. Lots of interview snippets with people I haven't heard of before (I never realised so many people have written about folk horror) - but it was good to see Gail-Nina Anderson, Bernice Murphy and the guy behind Strange Attractor Press.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jan 14, 2022 20:02:58 GMT
I START COUNTING is wonderful, but how is it "folk horror"? It is a psychological thriller.
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