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Post by helrunar on Jun 2, 2016 22:18:48 GMT
Salutations all,
Delighted to take a pew in this august cathedral of cacchinating cacodaemoniacal casuistry.
In what is absurdly known as real life, I am a university librarian soon to turn 58. My interest in supernatural horror fiction began sometime in the late Sixties. The American gothic horror serial Dark Shadows was a major formative influence (I began watching it shortly before my 10th birthday), as was the publication of the works of Lovecraft and other Weird Tales authors in cheap paperback editions.
Interests include Paganism/Witchcraft/the occult, Sax Rohmer, the ancient world (believe it or not, I was an Egyptology major in college), pre-1980 supernatural horror films and television series, Simon Raven, and far too many other oddments to list here.
I live in a suburb of Boston, Massachusetts, US, and have been a near-lifelong vegetarian.
Curious about the whole "crabs on the rampage" thing. Is there forum lore about that?
cheers, Helrunar
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Post by dem bones on Jun 3, 2016 11:46:15 GMT
No great lore. If I remember, the tagline was adopted to give the innocent fair warning that Vault is primarily a pulp-orientated forum, and ... well, between them, Guy's novel and the Christine Campbell Thomson quote below sum it up rather well. I'm really not a good one for explanations. Anyway, many thanks for registering and, most of all, for your wonderful posts. Enjoy yourself! |
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Post by helrunar on Jun 3, 2016 14:05:10 GMT
Holy Hell! Is that a for real book cover (he asked naively, fluttering his eyelashes skittishly as he always did when seized by a fit of nervous apostrophisation)  Happy Friday all!!! H. |
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Post by helrunar on Jun 3, 2016 14:58:39 GMT
Wow, you really can't make stuff like this up:
Guy N. Smith's work mixes sex, violence, gore and self-conscious humour. Despite his reputation in some quarters as being a hack writer, Smith's novels enjoyed considerable popularity in Poland in the early 1990s, having been cheaply translated and published as pocket editions by the Phantom Press publishing house....
A lifelong pipe smoker, he won the British pipe smoking championship in 2003.[5] He collects pipes and smoking ephemera and has also written a book on tobacco - Tobacco Culture: A DIY Guide .[6] He is also an active pro-smoking campaigner. He is married to Jean and they have four adult children.
Night of the Crabs (1976)
Killer Crabs (1978)
The Origin of the Crabs (1979)
Crabs on the Rampage (1981)
Crabs' Moon (1984)
Crabs: The Human Sacrifice (1988)
Killer Crabs: The Return (2012)
I'm sure there's something wrong with me because half the titles sound like jokes in poor taste made by patrons of a gay bathhouse in the late 70s: "Did you see that horse-hung chap in the booth at the end of the hall?" "Oh yeah but Joe gave me the word--Mary, she's crabs on the rampage. Caveat emptor!"
cheers, H.
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Post by helrunar on Jun 3, 2016 19:29:41 GMT
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droogie
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Post by droogie on Jun 3, 2016 20:59:01 GMT
For many years I thought that Crabs on the Rampage was a non-fiction novel about the time "we all" had intercourse with that cheap tart.
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Post by dem bones on Jun 4, 2016 11:32:58 GMT
Apparently one of these was filmed in the 1980s, pre-CGI so the "effects" were presumably ludicrous. H. Had a message from Mr. Mains suggesting it might be this: Island Claws (1980) |
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Post by helrunar on Jun 4, 2016 14:10:48 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Jun 4, 2016 15:08:13 GMT
There are some amusing reviews of ISLAND CRAB on IMDB. The giant crab critter (only seen in the final 10 minutes) was built by the same guy who worked on the 1977 KING KONG (I think that was the Jeff Bridges one?). One viewer expresses sympathy for the way Guy N. Smith's artistic vision of crabs on the rampage was violated by the cheap look and poor composition of the movie.
Another wit gives this thing a rating of "six crabs out of ten." Maybe we should adopt the same rating system on the Vault.
Yours in the sacrament of Cracked Crab,
H.
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