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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 15:14:23 GMT
There is a very recent horror film based on Fantasy Island - I just got "recommended" it by Am*zsh*t yesterday. This film, does it have a name? I could be wrong, but I think it may have been called Fantasy Island.
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Post by Jojo Lapin X on Jul 1, 2020 15:34:11 GMT
This film, does it have a name? I could be wrong, but I think it may have been called Fantasy Island. Indeed, there is such a thing. It has not been well received.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 15:36:13 GMT
On the Mark Twain thing - are you telling me this isn't Sam Elliott? See also here - james-hugh-keeley
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Post by cromagnonman on Jul 1, 2020 15:59:10 GMT
Why wasn't Montague Summers sporting this ubiquitous look? He really had no excuse.
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Post by helrunar on Jul 1, 2020 16:49:39 GMT
There's also a recent slasher film in which the cuddly animal suit-wearing heroes of the late Sixties US children's show The Banana Splits turning about to be vicious mass murderers on a spree.
You really can't make shit like this up... pop culture is officially crazy in the 21st century.
H.
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 17:04:39 GMT
There's also a recent slasher film in which the cuddly animal suit-wearing heroes of the late Sixties US children's show The Banana Splits turning about to be vicious mass murderers on a spree. Yes, the algorithms have marked me out for that one too. I do remember the TV series though, it was shown in the UK too. I liked the cartoons - there was an Arabian Nights sort of group of superheroes, and possibly a Three Musketeers based one? And I think maybe another one I can't remember?
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jul 1, 2020 17:10:36 GMT
Wildly off topic. But it can be quite amusing trawling through the cast lists of long running episodic tv series and making the genre connections. The cast list for Fantasy Island on imdb is enormous, and the show's casting directors must have gone through central casting like a dose of typhoid. There are significant Bond and Batman compliments with Walter Gotell, Robert Brown, David Hedison, Jill St John, Martine Beswick and Yaphet Kotto appearing in it for the former and Adam West, Yvonne Craig, Julie Newmar and Lee Meriwether for the latter. Star Trek chips in with James Doohan, Levar Burton, Diana Muldaur and Jonathan Frakes. Battlestar Galactica with Richard Hatch and Maren Jensen and Buck Rogers with Pam Hensley, Wilfred Hyde White and Erin Gray. I was a big fan of Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers back in the day. Erin Gray was great. There's also a recent slasher film in which the cuddly animal suit-wearing heroes of the late Sixties US children's show The Banana Splits turning about to be vicious mass murderers on a spree. Yes, the algorithms have marked me out for that one too. I do remember the TV series though, it was shown in the UK too. I liked the cartoons - there was a Arabian nights sort of group of ancient superheroes, and possibly a sort of musketeer based one? And I think maybe another I can't remember? I can actually see this sort of working, given how trippy the original show was (another regular feature was the live-action Danger Island, which has aged poorly). I love the Banana Splits theme song. Liz Phair did a cover of it sometime in the 90s: We've strayed quite a ways from Dunwich by now...
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 17:22:43 GMT
And the Dickies, 1979 -
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Post by Dr Strange on Jul 1, 2020 17:41:06 GMT
I could be wrong, but I think it may have been called Fantasy Island. Indeed, there is such a thing. It has not been well received. Apparently the only reference in the film to "Tattoo" from the TV series is a character with a tattoo... of the word "tattoo". Meta or what?
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Post by andydecker on Jul 1, 2020 18:48:03 GMT
There's a new TV show my friends have told me about, based on a book I think, called Lovecraft Country. I played a trailer for it but couldn't figure out much about it. I read the book a couple of years back, but wasn't impressed. A lot of people were though. Oh, the TV show that makes Lovecraft finally to the posterboy for racism.Of course it was easier to take him because of his visibility. Some research in Weird Tales would have made this much more difficult, because a) you wouldn't know who to pick and b) who gives a damn about writers who have sunk into oblivion.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 2, 2020 8:45:06 GMT
Actually he does not exist anymore. Yes, alas, Wilum Pugmire died from heart failure in March last year aged 67. He had a troubled life, being a gay Mormon who was volunatrily excommunicated from his church for 25 years. I'd forgotten he was dead. Can you get Amazon from beyond the grave?
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Post by ramseycampbell on Jul 3, 2020 11:42:54 GMT
True. Being unbiased I look forward to giving it my own objective review. The second reviewer is a friend of Joshi. Yes, such creatures exist. We do indeed.
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Post by Michael Connolly on Jul 5, 2020 7:21:08 GMT
The second reviewer is a friend of Joshi. Yes, such creatures exist. We do indeed. I know you do.
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