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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 26, 2023 9:40:43 GMT
I heard one that he did with Peter Cushing that had a kind of dystopian telepathy theme--they had some delightful dialogue together. It was supposed to be based on "an idea" of Robert Holmes. Hel. , which was adapted by Rene Basilico from an unused Robert Holmes Doctor Who script/storyline called Aliens in the Blood. Price played writer Curtis Lark and Cushing was scientist John Cornelius. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 26, 2023 10:22:24 GMT
I thought Peter Cushing made a good Sherlock Holmes.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 26, 2023 10:30:50 GMT
I thought Peter Cushing made a good Sherlock Holmes. Yes, an excellent Holmes, and with three top notch Watsons in Andre Morell, Nigel Stock, and John Mills. Much as I love Nigel Bruce, Morell was the first actor on screen to get Watson right. I wish Hammer had made more Holmes films. And it's a pity so few of Cushing's BBC Holmes episodes survive. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 26, 2023 11:04:42 GMT
I thought Peter Cushing made a good Sherlock Holmes. Yes, an excellent Holmes, and with three top notch Watsons in Andre Morell, Nigel Stock, and John Mills. Much as I love Nigel Bruce, Morell was the first actor on screen to get Watson right. I wish Hammer had made more Holmes films. And it's a pity so few of Cushing's BBC Holmes episodes survive. I remember seeing a clip of a Soviet Sherlock Holmes (I think it was The Hound of the Baskervilles), I looked it up and it must have been from one of these:
 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes_and_Dr._WatsonQuote: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Russian: Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона) is a series of Soviet television films portraying Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional English detective, starting in 1979. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov. They seem to get positive reviews. |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 26, 2023 11:42:40 GMT
I remember seeing a clip of a Soviet Sherlock Holmes (I think it was The Hound of the Baskervilles), I looked it up and it must have been from one of these:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes_and_Dr._WatsonQuote: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Russian: Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона) is a series of Soviet television films portraying Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional English detective, starting in 1979. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov. They seem to get positive reviews. I love those Russian Holmes series. The only one to have a DVD release in the UK is The Hound of the Baskervilles, which is a pity, as the whole series works so beautifully, tracing Holmes and Watson's partnership from the early days through to their last cases. Livanov and Solomin are a terrific Holmes and Watson, the episodes are very atmospheric, and the scripts very cleverly weave different Conan Doyle stories together in interesting ways. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 26, 2023 19:45:19 GMT
Despite mentioning film noir on another thread tonight's offering is Cellar Dweller. I'm sure many denizens here will have seen it as it has a plot that will interest them. Decades ago a comic book artist's drawing of a monster comes to life after he dabbles with a mysterious book. Years later in the same house it is inadvertently unleashed again...in the cellar.
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Post by jamesdoig on Oct 26, 2023 20:31:13 GMT
Last night's viewing: Vincent Price reveals four grisly tales of Southern Gothic from the haunted history of Oldfield, Tennessee in the late Jeff Burr's feature debut, From A Whisper To A Scream. I hadn't seen this since renting it on VHS in the late 80s, but Turbine Films in Germany released a fantastic deluxe blu-ray set a couple of years ago. I discovered yesterday I had a DVD of this - a double bill with Theatre of Blood - and had a good time watching it last night. Also watched The Man in the Hat, a rather light French comedy. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 26, 2023 23:07:27 GMT
Despite mentioning film noir on another thread tonight's offering is Cellar Dweller. I'm sure many denizens here will have seen it as it has a plot that will interest them. Decades ago a comic book artist's drawing of a monster comes to life after he dabbles with a mysterious book. Years later in the same house it is inadvertently unleashed again...in the cellar. Well at least it had artwork by Frank Brunner. Now looking at Howard the Duck. The comic book, not the film. |
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Post by ripper on Oct 27, 2023 10:06:22 GMT
Yes, an excellent Holmes, and with three top notch Watsons in Andre Morell, Nigel Stock, and John Mills. Much as I love Nigel Bruce, Morell was the first actor on screen to get Watson right. I wish Hammer had made more Holmes films. And it's a pity so few of Cushing's BBC Holmes episodes survive. I remember seeing a clip of a Soviet Sherlock Holmes (I think it was The Hound of the Baskervilles), I looked it up and it must have been from one of these:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Sherlock_Holmes_and_Dr._WatsonQuote: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson (Russian: Приключения Шерлока Холмса и доктора Ватсона) is a series of Soviet television films portraying Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional English detective, starting in 1979. They were directed by Igor Maslennikov. They seem to get positive reviews. I can just about remember the 1968 Sherlock Holmes TV series, though I would only have been 7 at the time. It has budget limitations, of course, but with Cushing then it automatically gets a 'must watch', and Nigel Stock is very good as well. Executive producer of Masks of Death, Kevin Francis, had wanted to make a new version of Hound of the Baskervilles in the 70s with Cushing as Holmes and the hound created by Ray Harryhausen. Sadly, funding couldn't be secured. |
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Oct 27, 2023 10:57:54 GMT
Following my 50th anniversary viewing of Vault of Horror the other night, I'm rewatching all the Amicus anthologies in no particular order. Last night it was time to let fearful funfairs, a malign feline, Hollywood horrors, possessive pianos, and lethal literature all take root in the Torture Garden...
Probably the weakest of the Amicus anthologies, though still a lot of fun, particularly in the weird opening tale with Michael Bryant and the head-eating cat (with a nice appearance from Night of the Demon's Karswell himself, Niall MacGinnis), and the closing tale with Jack Palance and Peter Cushing as rival Poe fanatics.
All of the individual stories are adapted by Robert Bloch from his own short stories, and he would do the same for The House That Dripped Blood and Asylum. Add the Amicus adaptation of The Skull of the Marquis de Sade to the equation, and I can't help thinking there could be a nice themed collection of Bloch's original 13 tales that inspired the Amicus anthologies.
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Post by andydecker on Oct 27, 2023 11:24:57 GMT
Following my 50th anniversary viewing of Vault of Horror the other night, I'm rewatching all the Amicus anthologies in no particular order. Last night it was time to let fearful funfairs, a malign feline, Hollywood horrors, possessive pianos, and lethal literature all take root in the Torture Garden... Probably the weakest of the Amicus anthologies, though still a lot of fun, particularly in the weird opening tale with Michael Bryant and the head-eating cat (with a nice appearance from Night of the Demon's Karswell himself, Niall MacGinnis), and the closing tale with Jack Palance and Peter Cushing as rival Poe fanatics. All of the individual stories are adapted by Robert Bloch from his own short stories, and he would do the same for The House That Dripped Blood and Asylum. Add the Amicus adaptation of The Skull of the Marquis de Sade to the equation, and I can't help thinking there could be a nice themed collection of Bloch's original 13 tales that inspired the Amicus anthologies. It's a long time ago I have seen Torture Garden. The only one which I can remember is The Man who Collected Poe. The end is a real groaner, but you can't help smile, and Bloch did it first. Also bought The Skull of the Marquis de Sade a few years ago. It was better than expected, considering this is also a short-story. Bloch had a knack to take ideas which in hindsight seem so obvious and write a good story with it. |
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Post by 𝘗rincess 𝘵uvstarr on Oct 27, 2023 13:56:53 GMT
I watched a couple of horror films from the 1980s recently, they were nothing stunning, but I thought it would be interesting to now move on to the 1990s. Please leave suggestions below for this decade. Thank you.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 27, 2023 17:38:36 GMT
I recommend Nadja from 1994. This indie film riffs on various motifs including the archetype of Dracula's daughter, and it might have been the first film to portray van Helsing as simply deranged and evil. A trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SB2FI3kqVgYAlso in a vampire vein, The Lost Boys which is nineteen-eighty-something is supposed to be good and offbeat, but I've never seen it. A lot of 1980s horror films remind me implacably of a dreadful American food product called Velveeta cheese food. It had to be described as "cheese food" because it was too loaded with additives and chemicals to be proper cheese. It was bland and somehow, bloated. In the 1990s, some kind of creativity reappears in the horror genre. Hel. |
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Post by helrunar on Oct 27, 2023 17:42:21 GMT
I thought Douglas Wilmer's BBC Sherlock Holmes series was also quite good, and more of those have survived than Peter Cushing's. As I'm sure most here are aware, Cushing had a ghastly experience filming the Holmes stories under Auntie's auspices. Rehearsal times were severely constricted and there were other issues that made it a very unhappy experience for him. He said in an often-quoted interview that he'd rather sweep out Tube stations after hours than film Sherlock Holmes at the Beeb again. It's strange because when you watch the shows now, they're quite extraordinarily good (provided you can somehow remember that this is telly from over half a century ago when most of the work was done by the actors, not chaps in a walk-in cupboard twiddling knobs for weeks of postproduction glitz).
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Post by helrunar on Oct 27, 2023 18:04:26 GMT
Here's another one that may be of interest-- Three Dangerous Ladies, from 1977. I think this one is an instance of television material being edited together for a theatrical issue. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ym8eoETlAcheers, Hel. |
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