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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 31, 2021 22:24:20 GMT
He had a good innings though. I guess he's best known for Logan's Run, but he wrote some good horror tales. Scream Press collected a lot of them in this:  |
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Post by ripper on Aug 1, 2021 13:34:02 GMT
Very sad news about the passing of William F. Nolan. As well as writing Logan's Run, he also wrote the screenplay for the pilot of the TV series.
Satan's School for Girls has such a good cast. Pamela Franklin (one of my favourite 60s/70s actresses), Roy Thinnes, and no less than two future Charlie's Angels, Kate Jackson and Cheryl Ladd.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 2, 2021 11:35:51 GMT
Trilogy of Terror paradoxically manages to be tame and nasty or prurient at the same time. However, as a vehicle for Karen Black, who plays four different roles very well, it's excellent. Unfortunately, she's undeservedly forgotten now.  Karen Black is on the right. Her homunculus co-star on the left is uncredited.
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Post by jamesdoig on Aug 2, 2021 11:55:18 GMT
Trilogy of Terror paradoxically manages to be tame and nasty or prurient at the same time. However, as a vehicle for Karen Black, who plays four different roles very well, it's excellent. It scared the crap out of me as a kid - the last scene was the scariest thing I'd seen. |
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 22, 2021 11:29:48 GMT
All I know about Dracula (1974) is that Dan Curtis directed it, Richard Matheson scripted it, and Jack Palance plays Dracula.  I nearly forgot. Talking Pictures TV is showing it at 21.00 tonight. |
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 22, 2021 14:23:06 GMT
Was it filmed in England? There's quite a few Brit Thesps in it, including Nigel Davenport as Van Helsing, Simon Ward and Murray Brown. Jack Palance is OK, a bit of a bruiser to play the count. I saw it at the local cinema in the late 1970s on a double bill with Madhouse (1974), a Sunday For One Day Only presentation. Weird thing was two whole rows (it was a very small cinema) were taken up with OAPs. Wonder if it was a coach outing? They had a great time.
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Post by helrunar on Oct 22, 2021 17:55:10 GMT
Hi Fritz, Bram Stoker's Dracula, directed by Dark Shadows creator and producer Dan Curtis, was shot in Yugoslavia and England.
cheers, Hel
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 22, 2021 18:59:08 GMT
Was it filmed in England? There's quite a few Brit Thesps in it, including Nigel Davenport as Van Helsing, Simon Ward and Murray Brown. Jack Palance is OK, a bit of a bruiser to play the count. I saw it at the local cinema in the late 1970s on a double bill with Madhouse (1974), a Sunday For One Day Only presentation. Weird thing was two whole rows (it was a very small cinema) were taken up with OAPs. Wonder if it was a coach outing? They had a great time. That was the Vault of Evil church group. |
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Post by helrunar on Oct 22, 2021 21:21:48 GMT
For any other Americans following along at home, I looked up "OAP." It stands for old age pensioner.
cheers, Hel
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 25, 2021 11:57:37 GMT
Hel, the normal denizens of this fleapit for Sunday X certificate double bills were local yobs and bikers, so the site of a score of elderly horror film fans was strangely reassuring
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Post by dem on Oct 26, 2021 8:30:13 GMT
Hel, the normal denizens of this fleapit for Sunday X certificate double bills were local yobs and bikers, so the site of a score of elderly horror film fans was strangely reassuring Did you ever visit the Scala in Kings Cross? Pretty crazy. All human lowlife. Bring your own booze & Co., and if you ran out, cans of Special Brew available in the foyer. Saw Nick Cave there, appropriately enough, hosting two of his favourite movies, the Aus horror Outback, and the Brazilian street kid drug/ prison drama, Pixote. Also a Cave/ B. Party/ Bad Seeds all-dayer culminating in the Brit premier of Dandy, from the Berlin period. Met the director afterward, too. Peter Sempel. He was very jolly. Bought some ace postcards from him. Think we saw Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer there as well. |
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Post by samdawson on Oct 26, 2021 9:18:27 GMT
Hel, the normal denizens of this fleapit for Sunday X certificate double bills were local yobs and bikers, so the site of a score of elderly horror film fans was strangely reassuring Did you ever visit the Scala in Kings Cross? What I particularly remember of the Scala 'all-nighters' was that the ones I attended (the only ones that stick in my memory are the two Evil Dead films back to back, and The Harder They Come teamed with Countryman (which must have impressed me enough to buy both albums) was that they chucked you out at around 04:30, so you had to walk home to West or South London, which didn't feel a huge deal at that age. By that time of the morning the red light trade and the muggers would have given up for the night, presumably calculating that punters at the Scala weren't worth robbing |
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Post by samdawson on Oct 26, 2021 9:20:30 GMT
I was wondering if anyone remembers the US made-for-TV films that used to turn up regularly on ITV during the 1970s and 1980s. Very much so. For some reason they burn surprisingly bright in memory. Partly this might be because of the way they were trailed in the Radio and TV Times and in the TV pages of the nationals, making them something of a family must-see |
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Post by fritzmaitland on Oct 26, 2021 12:38:27 GMT
Did you ever visit the Scala in Kings Cross? Pretty crazy. All human lowlife. Bring your own booze & Co., and if you ran out, cans of Special Brew available in the foyer. Saw Nick Cave there, appropriately enough, hosting two of his favourite movies, the Aus horror Outback, and the Brazilian street kid drug/ prison drama, Pixote. Also a Cave/ B. Party/ Bad Seeds all-dayer culminating in the Brit premier of Dandy, from the Berlin period. Met the director afterward, too. Peter Sempel. He was very jolly. Bought some ace postcards from him. Think we saw Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer there as well. When I worked in London the first time, I visited a few of the repertory cinemas. Went to the Scala twice, for Apocalypse Now (strangely empty but I did see the Scala cat) and The Devils/Lair Of The White Worm 2/3 of a Ken Russell triple (missed Salome's Last Dance). Went to the Everyman in Hampstead a couple of times Circus Of Horrors/Peeping Tom/Horrors Of The Black Museum - travelling opposite Kim Newman on the tube, although I didn't know it was him at the time - liked his (and Anne Billson's) reviews in City Limits, then lo and behold he cropped up on Saturday morning telly doing some film review thing - the mutton chops and white jacket were a bit of a giveaway - and The Devil Rides Out/Quatermass & The Pit/Scream & Scream Again. I did go to an all-nighter at the Windsor ABC - Black Christmas (1974)/Flesh For Frankenstein/Suspiria (1977)/Blood For Dracula/It's Alive. I'd seen the first three and was looking forward to the latter two, but was fast asleep by the time they were screened. There was a cinema down near Leicester Square that used to show all-nighters. We ended up there a couple of times after staying to the end at gigs. I dozed through the end of The Bridge At Remagen and the beginning of Play Dirty before waking up to seen the very end of Electra Glide in Blue. My brother got stuck there once, and was surprised to find the place pretty full. One of the films showing was Blow Up and apparently hordes of intellectuals had turned up for it. Unfortunately the film snapped and there was a near boffin riot. By the time the manager had stormed down the aisle, thrown the fire doors open and screamed at everyone to get out, the film had restarted so he was ignored. After a short while, he shut the doors and went back to his office. After *spoiler* David Hemmings had disappeared the eggheads all left just leaving bro and some tramps to enjoy Shaft's Big Score. |
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Post by ripper on Oct 28, 2021 16:34:51 GMT
I've read on various US sites about the 24-hour marathons that are held. It has been in the context of bad B-movies being shown to fans, but no idea if anything like that happens or has ever happened on this side of the pond.
Going back to US TV movies, has anyone ever seen one from 1972 called 'A Man for Hanging'? It was a western, very low budget, and was screened on ITV during that channel's 'Savage West' season in the Summer of 1976. For me, it stands out due to its surprising amount of gore and sexual violence when compared to the usual TV movie fare of the time. I remember sitting down to watch it in its post News at Ten slot and being shocked at just how brutal it was in relation to the other films in the series.
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