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Post by helrunar on Jul 29, 2022 19:55:06 GMT
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Post by andydecker on Jul 29, 2022 21:02:44 GMT
As far fatched as this sounds, The Resurrected is actually one of best Lovecraft movies out there. Yes, it is cheesy in parts, and the transformation to modern times with it's private detective angle right down to voice-over is a matter of taste. (It borders on self-parody because the PI genre descended into self-parody at the time). But it is the movie which is the most faithful of the original story The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. It even used the end of the story. Also as it was done before CGI took over which made the otherworldly monsters pretty convincing.
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enoch
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Post by enoch on Jul 29, 2022 23:59:36 GMT
Yes, The Resurrected is actually a good movie. A few dated special effects, a little corny in places, but well worth watching.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 30, 2022 2:36:18 GMT
Thanks for the recommendations for The Resurrected! Looks like a lot of fun. I do love the Vincent Price film The Haunted Palace which was very thinly based on the same book, but not much of Lovecraft's narrative was left in that version.
Hel.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 30, 2022 8:38:04 GMT
Wapping Old Stairs, 7.15 am this morning (Saturday) Andreas, there's a commemorative blue plaque on wall of St John's Churchyard directly opposite The Town of Ramsgate: Will try drag Bride of Dem along at later date to attempt a decent shot of it.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 30, 2022 11:11:26 GMT
Wapping Old Stairs, 7.15 am this morning (Saturday)Photo's: Marion Bondage Andreas, there's a commemorative blue plaque on wall of St John's Churchyard directly opposite The Town of Ramsgate: Will try drag Bride of Dem along at later date to attempt a decent shot of it. Extraordinary. Thank you.
Is this open to public? Looks really dangerous. I like the idea of the plaque. Seems like Rainsborough was quite a personality. Like someone who could be useful today.
These stairs reminds me of a scene in Broken Boy by Blackburn. Can't remember which one these was, but I think they were like that.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 30, 2022 11:33:22 GMT
From the w*k*p*d*a entry for Bloody Judge Jeffreys - During the Glorious Revolution, when James II fled the country, Jeffreys stayed in London until the last moment, being the only high legal authority in James's abandoned kingdom to perform political duties. When William III's troops approached London, Jeffreys tried to flee and follow the King abroad. He was captured in a public house in Wapping, now named The Town of Ramsgate. Reputedly he was disguised as a sailor, and was recognised by a surviving judicial victim, who claimed he could never forget Jeffreys' countenance, although his ferocious eyebrows had been shaven. Jeffreys was terrified of the public when dragged to the Lord Mayor and then to prison "for his own safety". He begged his captors for protection from the mob, who intended "to show him that same mercy he had ever shown to others". He died of kidney disease (probably pyelonephritis) while in custody in the Tower of London on 18 April 1689.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 30, 2022 12:12:06 GMT
Fabulous photos! Thanks Dem! When I was looking up Wapping Old Stairs a few days ago, it kept mentioning that pub, and I kept thinking that Wapping was technically part of a municipality called Ramsgate. Silly old Yank. The Putney Debates make fascinating reading for those interested in the Levellers. It's like watching film footage of a key moment in British history. Both major players and your regular old bloke say what's on their mind--no ladies, of course and alas. Text here; Rainsborough speaks fairly early on: oll.libertyfund.org/page/1647-the-putney-debatesHel.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 30, 2022 12:51:37 GMT
Died aged 43. Still think it was too good a death for him but at least he experienced some of the terror and misery he had inflicted upon so many before the end.
The malevolent spectre of Judge Jeffreys shows up in Peter S. Beagle's beautiful novel Tamsin, which I loved--have no idea what Vault regulars would think of it, however.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 30, 2022 13:27:48 GMT
The malevolent spectre of Judge Jeffreys shows up in Peter S. Beagle's beautiful novel Tamsin, which I loved--have no idea what Vault regulars would think of it, however. H. I have read a bit of Beagle years ago, but never that one. He is a great writer, but nowadays this kind of Urban Fanatsy has lost a of it appeal for me.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 30, 2022 13:30:53 GMT
Tamsin isn't urban fantasy; it's an example of what is now called folk horror. It really is a remarkable feat, on several levels.
H.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 30, 2022 13:46:04 GMT
Extraordinary. Thank you. Is this open to public? Looks really dangerous. Oddly enough, it is. The River Police have their launch maybe a hundred yards away — think it's them who put a gate up when there's a particularly terrible storm on, but otherwise, open access. Have to mind your footing on the staircase, though, it's treacherous slippy. I mistimed visit this morning, got there too early — when the tides out, you get to walk along the gravel beach toward the Tower. That view is awe-inspiring in mist, or I find it so, anyhow. Little Free Library, Urban Fox Box, Wapping High Street, October 2015. ... and this morning. Like a metaphor for Vault, or life, or something, ain't it?
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Post by helrunar on Jul 30, 2022 14:10:18 GMT
Blimey, Dem. Battered and bruised but we carry on.
I'll have to plan an early morning walk to the Wapping Old Stairs next time I visit London Town.
H.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 30, 2022 16:18:22 GMT
Extraordinary. Thank you. Is this open to public? Looks really dangerous. Oddly enough, it is. The River Police have their launch maybe a hundred yards away — think it's them who put a gate up when there's a particularly terrible storm on, but otherwise, open access. Have to mind your footing on the staircase, though, it's treacherous slippy. I mistimed visit this morning, got there too early — when the tides out, you get to walk along the gravel beach toward the Tower. That view is awe-inspiring in mist, or I find it so, anyhow. Little Free Library, Urban Fox Box, Wapping High Street, October 2015. ... and this morning. Like a metaphor for Vault, or life, or something, ain't it? Indeed. Seems to be a wonder that they didn't go up in flames.
We have the same bookcases nowadays in the city. It is called bookcabinets, an initiative of the state. I have donated some books now and then. About 521 in the whole regional state. They are alas much bigger in size than those. I have to remember to make some fotos when I am next near them.
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Post by andydecker on Jul 30, 2022 16:27:12 GMT
I have to remember to make some fotos when I am next near them Or I take the ones on Wikipedia I didn't knew anything about. One of the better initiatives of the community.
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