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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Apr 19, 2012 18:51:27 GMT
Ramsey Campbell, the Ramsey Campbell, Britain's answer to HP Lovecraft, a genuine legend, you're a huge inspiration to me. I'm sixteen. I want to be a WRITER. Is dat REally you? I LOVE FINDING OLD NOVELS LIKE YOURS IN BOOKSHOPS. I'm old to most! But you can find new novels of mine as well! I am not exactly young either, but I think I know enough about the language of "smileys" that I would have some serious questions if I were you.
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Post by madeleymade on Apr 19, 2012 19:10:09 GMT
I picked the wrong emoticon. I didn't ssee thearse. I tohught it was the embarrased face. Ramsey Campbell, you're the best, Better than Clive Barker, he's a pest, at least you're not a tw*t or a knob, not overtly posh, but a proud Scouse hob. At least you support your local station, on radio, tv, not flee the nation.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 20, 2012 6:49:21 GMT
Ramsey Campbell, the Ramsey Campbell, Britain's answer to HP Lovecraft, a genuine legend, you're a huge inspiration to me. I'm sixteen. I want to be a WRITER. Is dat REally you? I LOVE FINDING OLD NOVELS LIKE YOURS IN BOOKSHOPS. I'm old to most! But you can find new novels of mine as well! Old to most, immortal to others. But I've probably said too much already... And I'm sure Ramsey didn't mind the bottom.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Apr 20, 2012 11:19:24 GMT
Hee hee!
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Post by ramseycampbell on Apr 20, 2012 11:23:43 GMT
You sound like a local, Madeleymade, yes? Come and see me at Waterstones in Liverpool One on Monday if you're free!
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Post by madeleymade on Apr 20, 2012 11:43:44 GMT
Actually, I live in Ireland. I holiday regularly oop North, though. I live in Bray, Wicklow, where they filmed Christopher Lee's Fu Manchu movies. I have cousins in Rainford, St. Helens.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Apr 21, 2012 9:33:20 GMT
Well, perhaps you are. "Once you have read a few of Campbell's stories, you can easily write your own."
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Post by madeleymade on Apr 21, 2012 20:37:48 GMT
Let's go back to what this was about originally, not Ramsey Campbell. sorry. This is about bad representations of britain seen thru foreign eyes.
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Post by redbrain on Apr 23, 2012 15:34:25 GMT
A classic of bad Britain is Laughter in the Night by August Derleth and Mark Schorer. It's set in Blackpool. I think that the location was probably chosen because it sounded sinister to the authors (black pool). But they obviously had no inkling that it's a town offering seaside fun. Amongst the errors is driving out of Blackpool and quickly reaching the moors. In reality, Blackpool is on the Fylde Peninsula, which is as flat as a pancake. Reaching moorland would involve a fairly substantial drive -- into Preston (if I recall correctly) and a fair distance beyond.
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Post by nosferatu on Apr 23, 2012 21:16:56 GMT
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue actually was shot on locations in Manchester and the Peak District (standing in for the Lake District), despite its bizarre notion of how close the two places are. Can't believe anyone remembered this. I was 11 when they filmed a scene at one of our local pubs.
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Post by ramseycampbell on Apr 24, 2012 7:45:41 GMT
The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue actually was shot on locations in Manchester and the Peak District (standing in for the Lake District), despite its bizarre notion of how close the two places are. Can't believe anyone remembered this. I was 11 when they filmed a scene at one of our local pubs. You should have engineered yourself a walk-on! The film stands up pretty well, I think, and has been well served on DVD. We had the director as a guest at the Festival of Fantastic Films years ago.
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Post by madeleymade on Apr 24, 2012 17:17:42 GMT
Blackpool gloomy? Reminds me of a videogame with the gloomy, misty Doolin, in reality a notirous party town?
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Post by junkmonkey on Apr 27, 2012 8:18:43 GMT
A couple of my favourites in this respect Jess Franco's Jack the Ripper (1976) - very odd little Swiss/German take on the Jack the Ripper story which, apart from a couple of library establishing shots (one, anachronistically, putting Queen Elizabeth the Second on the throne), was shot entirely in Germany and looks it. Everything was just wrong. The architecture in particular and the furniture It all looked very un English. I suppose Germans get the same feeling of wrongness about Epping Forest standing in for Frankenstein country in all those Hammer films. Klaus Kinski did his usual going bonkers stuff - which is always fun - as the mad doctor / Jack the Ripper and got caught in the end - which added to the wrongness levels. Another Jess Franco film under my belt. Only another 148 or so to go.
and Eyes Behind the Stars ( Occhi dalle stelle 1978 ) - a painfully awful Italian UFO conspiracy film supposedly set in England. We know it was supposedly set in England because all the Italian left-hand drive cars had approximations of British number plates glued to the front (though they got the colour wrong), the set decorators had helpfully stuck tourist 'Map of Britain' tea towels and 'Welcome to Britain' calendars on the wall of the trendy fashion photographer's flat, the Daily Mail reporter hero had a Union Flag on his press card and, in a truly inspired touch, the nominal American B-lister flown in for a few scenes (Martin Balsam) was dubbed with a Lancashire accent.
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Post by madeleymade on Apr 27, 2012 11:22:06 GMT
Wasn't the Devil came to Akasava by Franco also set in Britain, based on EDgar Wallace but filmed in West Germany? Don't they know it is Vicotiran england not Neo-Elizabethan? Jack the Ripper by Franco does get it wrong. It's hard to believe this is the same time Kinski was working with Herzog, and yet everything is wrong and sleazy. Violinists are playing in a cafe in front of the stage facing the audience where a woman with an open bottom costume dances and sings an oddly Germanic music hall song.
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Post by junkmonkey on Apr 27, 2012 19:46:27 GMT
Don't they know it is Vicotiran england not Neo-Elizabethan? Jack the Ripper by Franco does get it wrong. It's hard to believe this is the same time Kinski was working with Herzog, and yet everything is wrong and sleazy. Violinists are playing in a cafe in front of the stage facing the audience where a woman with an open bottom costume dances and sings an oddly Germanic music hall song. As movie eye candy goes she wasn't bad though. (She was bonking the director too.) Named. by rattlingdjs, on Flickr
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