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Post by samdawson on Aug 8, 2021 13:11:12 GMT
Conversely the 1980 Martian Chronicles TV series, which I remember at the time finding dull and taking liberties with the source material, actually looked OKish when viewed 30 years on (my children enjoyed it)
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Aug 16, 2021 17:45:42 GMT
What's that noise outside my window. There is something in the bushes...
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Aug 18, 2021 19:42:20 GMT
Please recommend the following:
Interesting biographies of horror stars, such as Bela Lugosi.
Fiction with a lonely house/mansion setting. With maybe a cast of eccentric characters.
Thank you.
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Post by ripper on Aug 18, 2021 20:45:19 GMT
There's Benighted by J. B. Priestley, known in the US as The Old Dark House, adapted twice for the cinema using the American title.
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Post by Middoth on Aug 18, 2021 21:01:58 GMT
Fiction with a lonely house/mansion setting. With maybe a cast of eccentric characters. The Feast of Bacchus by Ernest George Henham Well by Jack Cady The Search for Joseph Tully by William H. Hallahan The Maze by Maurice Sandoz
Lon Chaney: The Man Behind The Thousand Faces by Michael F. Blake
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Post by dem bones on Aug 18, 2021 22:10:35 GMT
Lonely house/ inns, etc.
Henry Kuttner - Masquerade (Weird Tales, May 1942) Hugh B. Cave - Murgunstrumm (Strange Tales,Jan 1933)
(I'm sure kind Swampi will point you in right Archive org direction)
Also:
John Coyne - The Legacy (novelisation of movie). Phil Caveney - Bad to the Bone (rock band/ recording studio version of Agatha Christie And Then There Were None Michael Slade - Ripper. Murder weekend party, isolated house. Bizarre deaths. The team behind 'Michael Slade' achieved that rarity of rarities - an entertaining extreme horror gore fest.
Interesting bios.
Rudolph Gray - Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D. Wood, jnr. Tod Slaughter, 'Mr. Murder' by Dennis Miekle Louise Brooks: Lulu in Hollywood
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Post by Dr Strange on Aug 18, 2021 22:12:26 GMT
Please recommend the following: Fiction with a lonely house/mansion setting. With maybe a cast of eccentric characters. Shirley Jackson - The Sundial (1958), The Haunting of Hill House (1959), and We Have Always Lived in the Castle (1962) would all fit. See - www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/ShirleyJackson.html
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Post by Swampirella on Aug 18, 2021 22:55:14 GMT
Stories of Haunted Inns (1983) & Ghosts In Country Houses (1981)
both - Denys Val Baker
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Post by drauch on Aug 19, 2021 14:09:36 GMT
The Turn of the Screw - Henry James since I didn't see that mentioned. I just read it myself last year, so maybe I'm not the only one.
Some movies, if you're interested:
House (1986) series - Comedic horror, but eccentric characters and strange happenings in a giant manor House (1977) - Very eccentric group of girls and wackiness ensues along with a cat that plays piano (kinda) Nude for Satan (1974) - Castle setting, but bizarre and sexually graphic cultish behavior (available in a hardcore version as well, but all inserts and not recommended) I feel like a handful of Jean Rollin's films meet this criteria, but all his movies carry a unique loneliness (Requiem for a Vampire, Fascination, etc) The House by the Cemetery (1981) and Ghosthouse (1988), notable for both being shot in the same house. Both dreamlike, gory, and odd. Mansion of the Living Dead (1982) - Jesus Franco's take on the Blind Dead kind of, but in an isolated location. Stealing this synopsis because it's perfect: "Four strippers take a vacation and wind up at a Spanish resort complex that, despite the hotel receptionistās claims of it being fully booked, appears to be completely empty." Beyond the Darkness (1979) - I'm not sure much is lonelier than house isolation and necrophilia. The Imp (1981) - Strange going-ons as a security guard in a large building Guzoo: The Thing Forsaken by God - Part I (1986) - A group of girls encounter a tentacled elder thing in a basement (there is no part II)
Tried to spread those out and make a variety, so maybe there's something there for ya.
And for bios, Ed Wood (1994) because it's so good, and features Lugosi.
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Post by drauch on Aug 19, 2021 14:19:01 GMT
And perhaps low-hanging fruit, but seems criminal not to mention Howard's Pigeons from Hell and Ashton-Smith's The Return of the Sorcerer.
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Post by ripper on Aug 19, 2021 14:31:01 GMT
Good calls over House (1986) and Ghost House. There's also House 2, but I don't think it is as good as House.
Hell House by Richard Matheson and the film adaptation Legend of Hell House.
The Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2.
Cheating slightly, but the Dr Who serial Horror of Fang Rock, not exactly a house, but you can't get much more isolated.
One of the 40s Rathbone-Bruce Sherlock Holmes movies was set in a creepy old house...think it was House of Fear?
Psycho (1960) has an isolated setting an one rather eccentric character.
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Post by drauch on Aug 19, 2021 14:37:45 GMT
Still need to watch House 3 and 4, but I adore 2 primarily for the caterpillar puppy.
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Post by ripper on Aug 19, 2021 15:03:43 GMT
I've not seen House 3 and House 4 either. George Wendt of Cheers fame is in House, which definitely is a plus in my book. Also has Kay Lenz, who would be Charles Bronson's love interest the next year in Death Wish 4 (she kicks the bucket, of course), and was the co-star in Clint Eastwood directed Breezy in 1973 (highly recommended).
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Post by šrincess šµuvstarr on Sept 16, 2021 22:58:21 GMT
Please suggest stories where mist/fog/smog plays an important part. London used to get terrible smog problems, apparently you would get a horrible taste in your mouth and it was yellowish in colour. Is there any with maybe a 1930s or 1940s setting? There was a very terrible smog in 1952 that may have killed 10,000 people.
Also is there any stories where people or a person is snowed in at a remote house and something is outside, trying to get in?
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Post by peedeel on Sept 17, 2021 6:45:10 GMT
Please suggest stories where mist/fog/smog plays an important part. London used to get terrible smog problems, apparently you would get a horrible taste in your mouth and it was yellowish in colour. Is there any with maybe a 1930s or 1940s setting? There was a very terrible smog in 1952 that may have killed 10,000 people. Also is there any stories where people or a person is snowed in at a remote house and something is outside, trying to get in? Fog - there are so many. But one of my favorites is Confession by Algernon Blackwood. As a kid I saw this story on TV in the series "Algernon Blackwood and Tales of Mystery". Creepy, dour, John Laurie (as Algernon Blackwood) introduced the show each week. The shrill shriek of an owl, then Laurie half in shadow, speaking softly, confidentially to each and every one of us. Wednesday nightās āTales of Mysteryā materialised on our TV screen. Laurie would roll the whites of his eyes, glancing to right then to left, and you would feel yourself isolated and strangely at risk as this sinister show began.
In the tale āConfessionā ā A wounded man returns from the front during the Great War, slightly shell shocked, alone, walks through a thick London fog (It is late and heās missed the last train). All looks strange and unusual. He hears a sound. Beside him appears a dead comrade who accompanies him. One minute heās there, then heās gone, only to return seconds later. Silent, expressionless, unsettling. Ultimate the man, Paul Maxwell, meets a young woman, Petra Davies and offers to escort her safely home (foolish, foolish man, thinks the viewer). At the time of viewing this episode, it was particularly relevant as weād recently had some dreadful fogs, real pea-soupers where you became lost at the drop of a hat, where sound was muffled to an almost unnatural silence, and where people became simply shapes that shifted in the grey fog, insubstantial as ghosts.
I tracked down and read the story shortly after - "When O'Reilly came up the stairs at South Kensington Station, he emerged into such murky darkness that he thought he was still underground. An impenetrable world lay round him. Only a raw bite in the damp atmosphere told him he stood beneath an open sky." And poor O'Reilly's ordeal is only just beginning!
In The Woman In Black, Susan Hill's atmospheric ghost story, sea frets or cold sea fog has a part to play. These are just a couple of my favorites...
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