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Post by ropardoe on May 19, 2017 9:38:22 GMT
Have you looked at The Red Lady in the past? It's basically a riff on The Mezzotint, with the M.R. James influence clearly acknowledged with a certain line of dialogue. No, I didn't know about The Red Lady. You've intrigued me with the mention of "a certain line of dialogue". Tell me more.
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Post by rawlinson on May 19, 2017 13:02:22 GMT
It's just a direct namecheck for A Warning to the Curious in relation to an aspect of the plot which I won't spoil, just as a little homage to ensure the reader gets the influence was deliberate. The writer, John Dorney, who I think is one of their best writers and who also did a lovely 30 minute story with the Fifth Doctor acting as a technical consultant on a dvd commentary track for a Hammer/Amicus-esque horror film, said this about the influences on the story.
“In particular, with this one, I felt with McGann, we haven’t really had a scary one since The Chimes of Midnight. As a Rob Shearman story, it starts off scary and then goes into black humour. My brief to myself was to do something that was more of a Gothic horror – a scary story. “I wanted to hear something that was a ghost story and looked around for inspiration, which I got from a couple of Stephen King short stories, and some M R James, mixed with some Japanese cinema horror.”
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on May 19, 2017 13:31:33 GMT
“In particular, with this one, I felt with McGann, we haven’t really had a scary one since The Chimes of Midnight... The Chimes of Midnight is a treat, playing like Doctor Who meets Sapphire and Steel meets Upstairs, Downstairs... three of my favourite things. If there isn't one already, it might be worth having a Big Finish thread in the Horror Films, My TV Hell, Ghastly Radio, etc sub-forum, as between Doctor Who, Dark Shadows, The Omega Factor, Jago & Litefoot, the old Sapphire & Steel releases, Dorian Gray, Survivors, and many other ranges, there's a lot of stuff going on there that is Vault material.
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Post by rawlinson on May 19, 2017 14:03:30 GMT
Yeah, Chimes is spectacular, and rightly voted as their greatest ever DW release a year or two back. I'd disagree with Dorney slightly in that I think a McGann story called Natural History of Fear is terrifying. It's Who filtered through Orwell and Kafka but it's also simultaneously both outside of continuity and completely dependent on continuity, it's a strange beast and one that can only be listened to as part of the episodes that surround it. I also got very freaked out by Eyes of the Master because I hate anything related to eye trauma (Although oddly I did write a story around that very idea) and the sound of The Master drilling into and extracting eyeballs left me squirming.
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Aug 23, 2017 8:53:15 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 23, 2017 12:02:30 GMT
Of course the sound effects and music were added later. That's how most documentaries were made at the time! Note that the ghost makes an early appearance just about two minutes in. Note that the professor's hat, which falls off when he's chased, appears back on his head without his having gone back for it. Note that the ghost's face is "intensely horrible" indeed. "Ahh! It's that ghostly hat!"
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Post by The Lurker In The Shadows on Aug 23, 2017 12:16:58 GMT
Of course the sound effects and music were added later. That's how most documentaries were made at the time! It's a documentary? Good grief! (Yes, I know sound effects and music are typically added after filming, I was merely attempting to indicate that it was a film without dialogue and calling it a silent film would have been inaccurate.)
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Post by helrunar on Aug 23, 2017 18:37:15 GMT
The BFI link says content not available for US... I presume you all already know about the 1963 radio adaptation with Michael Hordern. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEGE6-oVUsoThe new issue sounds great! H.
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Post by helrunar on Aug 24, 2017 19:21:53 GMT
Here's an adaptation of "Casting the Runes." This radio play, "The Hex," by Gregory Evans, was originally broadcast in January 1981. I am not sure why Evans chose to adapt the story in this way. The story is set in 1980. The lead character is dubbed Professor James Montague (played by Conrad Philips); his friend is Dr. John Rhodes (Peter Copley), and John's wife is Laura (Carole Boyer, whose voice kept making me think this was an early radio role for Frances de la Tour). The main difference from the original story comes in the role played by Laura's old friend Elspeth (Kim Hartman). The Karswell character, now one Gardini, played by Edward Atienza, is only a cameo, as is the case in the tale--talked of a great deal but only seldom appearing. I was initially doubtful about this project, but within about ten minutes, I got into quite a groove with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cagv-D9qwXMH.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Aug 26, 2017 12:51:11 GMT
Here's an adaptation of "Casting the Runes." This radio play, "The Hex," by Gregory Evans, was originally broadcast in January 1981. I am not sure why Evans chose to adapt the story in this way. The story is set in 1980. The lead character is dubbed Professor James Montague (played by Conrad Philips); his friend is Dr. John Rhodes (Peter Copley), and John's wife is Laura (Carole Boyer, whose voice kept making me think this was an early radio role for Frances de la Tour). The main difference from the original story comes in the role played by Laura's old friend Elspeth (Kim Hartman). The Karswell character, now one Gardini, played by Edward Atienza, is only a cameo, as is the case in the tale--talked of a great deal but only seldom appearing. I was initially doubtful about this project, but within about ten minutes, I got into quite a groove with it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cagv-D9qwXMH. I heard "The Hex" on Radio 4 Extra. Some of the acting was so stilted that it sounded like it was from a very bad 1940s' radio play.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Oct 23, 2017 13:41:33 GMT
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Post by Michael Connolly on Nov 8, 2017 15:32:49 GMT
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Post by elricc on Nov 8, 2017 23:02:32 GMT
The new Detectorists has hints of M R James, finding whistles in the Suffolk countryside
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Post by ropardoe on Nov 9, 2017 10:49:48 GMT
The new Detectorists has hints of M R James, finding whistles in the Suffolk countryside This is SO aggravating. I was enjoying watching it, and especially looking forward to the promised Unthanks sequence. Then I got a phonemail to do with an ongoing family crisis, and missed the second part.
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Post by dem bones on Nov 13, 2017 13:14:06 GMT
Haunted By True Crime: Nicola Upson on how M R James and the Cambridge Rapist inspired her new novel. Metro, Monday 13th November 2017.
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