Studio Of Screams (2020)

[The Lurker In The Shadows]

Jun 13, 2022 9:45:23 GMT andydecker said:

I would like to know how they produced this. Did Bissette wrote the plots for the movies and gave them to the writers, or did he write his parts after the novellas were in? (This would make Golden's story even more impressive.) This all is remarkable seamless.

The novellas were written first, each of the authors originating their own plots. Bissette then wrote the connecting narrative. There's a great group interview with the authors that's worth reading when you've finished the book here.

[dem]

Thanks, Lurkio. It was your initial post got me interested in this one. Can only agree it's best enjoyed taken slow — there's so much going on.

Stephen Volk - The Squeamish: A riotous, pitch black comedy, set in Soho and London's West End during the swinging sixties/ Beatles-Stones "permissive society," etc. Geraldine Cooper, prim, seemingly frigid film censor, suffers a breakdown following the fatal overdose of charismatic, confrontational director, Marcus Rand. Geraldine's insistence on several cuts to his provocative Mortal Sins of Dracula - featuring Rand's girlfriend, Natasha Selkirk as Sister Ingrid, nympho nun - only incited Rand to amp up the blood and filth quota until he was fired from the project. Geraldine's guilt manifests in a waking nightmare wherein she is haunted by Rand and his phantom sex nuns of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Stephen R. Bissette - Interview the Fourth, and Epilogue: Black Sunday: The Squeamish was the Blythwoods' most personal project, an act of revenge on those sat in judgement at the British Board of film Classification, and, ultimately, as per their master plan, on Britain itself. There is a reason why Lawrence Blythewood chose 23 June 2016 of all days to grant an interview..... Ending gleefully contrived to alienate those who voted a certain way in the EU referendum.

[andydecker]

Jun 22, 2022 16:17:18 GMT The Lurker In The Shadows said:

Jun 13, 2022 9:45:23 GMT andydecker said:

I would like to know how they produced this. Did Bissette wrote the plots for the movies and gave them to the writers, or did he write his parts after the novellas were in? (This would make Golden's story even more impressive.) This all is remarkable seamless.

The novellas were written first, each of the authors originating their own plots. Bissette then wrote the connecting narrative. There's a great group interview with the authors that's worth reading when you've finished the book here.

Ah, thanks. This is interesting. Respect.

[andydecker]

Jun 21, 2022 7:09:19 GMT dem said:

Tim Lebbon - Castle of the Lost: Darkest and, for me, strongest of the 'novelisations' to date. Blythewood saw in the 'seventies with censor-baiting nudity, gore and perversion.

 Nearest comparison I can think of is a Basil Copper Black Magic gothic with plenty of bad sex thrown in. Far the most powerful ending, too.

Stephen R. Bissette - Interview the Third: Blythewood would also hire hack authors to adapt Richard Allen's Skinhead titles for same purpose.
It was brother Louis provided the studio's celebrated prop — a golden casket, predating the perhaps not entirely mythical King Arthur of the Britons — excavated on Glastonbury Tor. The casket originally contained seven gemstones - "the spirit of England" according to our suddenly garrulous interviewee. So why did they remove a stone with each film it appeared in?

Indeed the best ending so far. Absolutely love it how this progresses- From lets put the Mummy into the swamp and have a whiskey in the club to put them in the woodchipper and have a orgy of the dead.

What I read of Lebbon so far left me cold, but this is really good enough to reconsider.

Bissette is pure genius. NEL. Skinhead novels, Charles Birkin and an so true but sad description of the business. Let's produce some scripts and novelization for the drawer and pay them a few quid, who cares how good or bad they are.