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Post by bradstevens on Apr 22, 2008 12:48:51 GMT
BBC4 are about to start screening FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE ('Películas para no dormir'), a series of 6 Spanish made-for-television horror films. The first one, Mateo Gil's SPECTRE ('Regreso a Moira', 2006), is showing tonight at 10.30, while Paco Plaza's THE CHRISTMAS TALE ('Cuento de Navidad', 2005) is next Tuesday at the same time.
No idea if these are any good, but several talented directors are involved, including Jaume Balaguero, Alex de la Iglesia, and Narciso Ibanez Serrador.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 22, 2008 12:53:59 GMT
No one can say a word against Danny La Rue since he signed an autograph for my old granny when he stopped to buy a sandwich at the bakery across from the theatre. She thought he was an awfully nice man. Never even mentioned his legs....
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Post by Calenture on Apr 22, 2008 13:10:50 GMT
BBC4 are about to start screening FILMS TO KEEP YOU AWAKE ('Películas para no dormir'), a series of 6 Spanish made-for-television horror films. The first one, Mateo Gil's SPECTRE ('Regreso a Moira', 2006), is showing tonight at 10.30, while Paco Plaza's THE CHRISTMAS TALE ('Cuento de Navidad', 2005) is next Tuesday at the same time. No idea if these are any good, but several talented directors are involved, including Jaume Balaguero, Alex de la Iglesia, and Narciso Ibanez Serrador. Obviously Total TV has got it wrong again, Brad. According to my copy: " Spectre: Robert Culp and Gig Young fly to London to prove that supernatural powers are responsible for James Villiers' business success. (1977)" If anyone remembers, a while back they gave the summary for The Beast Must Die, naming Peter Cushing as star, when the film that showed was a recent war film called The Beast. Thanks for the information, Brad. I think your source is probably more reliable. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 22, 2008 13:50:03 GMT
Do you know - I was looking forward to seeing the Roddenberry pic  |
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Post by bradstevens on Apr 23, 2008 10:43:49 GMT
SPECTRE (the Spanish title, 'Regreso a Moira', more accurately translates as 'Moira's Return') turned out to be an absolute gem. It reminded me of the great horror films directed by Jacques Tourneur in the way it created an unsettling atmosphere simply through skillful filmmaking (rather than bombastic special effects); also like Tourneur's work, it provided both a natural and a supernatural explanation without ultimately committing itself to either one. Although superficially straightforward, the film is thematically extremely rich: the source of the protagonist's haunting is eventually traced not to the 'witch', but rather to those forces of repression, conformity and intolerance which oppose her.
I'm certainly looking forward to next week's film, THE CHRISTMAS GIFT, which is directed by Paco Plaza, co-director (with Jaume Balaguero, who also has a film in this series) of (REC), and which stars Maru Valdivielso (who gave a remarakable performance in Monte Hellman's IGUANA).
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Post by marksamuels on Apr 23, 2008 11:30:52 GMT
Damn! I wish I'd have seen this; it sounds great. But I don't have digital (in fact colour TV is quite an advance for me).
And it's not on the BBC iplayer either.
Que fuerte!
Mark S.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 23, 2008 12:19:16 GMT
I have all the necessary technology apart from a brain that can remember that these things are on. I was half-hoping any review on here might say it was rubbish and thus not make me feel so bad but...oh well...one to look out for on the reruns so I can forget it's on again I suppose |
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Post by bradstevens on Apr 23, 2008 12:33:01 GMT
I have all the necessary technology apart from a brain that can remember that these things are on. I was half-hoping any review on here might say it was rubbish and thus not make me feel so bad but...oh well...one to look out for on the reruns so I can forget it's on again I suppose Given that the BBC have done absolutely nothing to publicize this series (if they issued a press release, it must have been on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'), I would imagine that the chances of a rerun are pretty slim. I have the distinct impression that I'm the only person who watched this! |
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Post by Calenture on Apr 23, 2008 19:21:40 GMT
Given that the BBC have done absolutely nothing to publicize this series (if they issued a press release, it must have been on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'), I would imagine that the chances of a rerun are pretty slim. I have the distinct impression that I'm the only person who watched this! I've just marked my calendar with SPANISH HORROR BBC4 for next week. Yeah, I missed it too. Got home from work and fell asleep reading Peter Straub.  |
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Post by Calenture on Apr 29, 2008 19:24:02 GMT
...I'm certainly looking forward to next week's film, THE CHRISTMAS GIFT, which is directed by Paco Plaza, co-director (with Jaume Balaguero, who also has a film in this series) of (REC), and which stars Maru Valdivielso (who gave a remarakable performance in Monte Hellman's IGUANA). And just in case you forgot, this Spanish horror film is on BBC4 TONIGHT AT 10:30 P.M. Be there or... you know. ...if you can get BBC4 that is. With the digital switchover due in Cornwall this coming month, today NOT ONE SINGLE CHANNEL WAS AVAILABLE UNTIL 4:40 P.M.  For the moment it's back. But for godsake, a TV service that breaks down every time we get cold weather? I thought the whole point of digital was that there'd be no interference!  Oh, and on Film 4 on Friday at 5:00 p.m., Al Hedison in the original version of Arthur Porges great story, The Fly! Fingers crossed for the reception... |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 29, 2008 20:18:52 GMT
Managed to remember to set the machine to record it this week. And The Fly was by George Langelaan - you can't catch me out |
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Post by Calenture on Apr 30, 2008 13:52:19 GMT
Managed to remember to set the machine to record it this week. I wanted to, but I couldn't get BBC4 yesterday because it was staying indoors because of the cold. Damn, another fiendish plot rumbled.   <---Tries to pretend it was a deliberate mistake. |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Apr 30, 2008 21:00:09 GMT
The Christmas Tale was splendid - so cool one of the lead child characters has the poster from 'Tombs of the Blind Dead' on his wall, and with an ending where a psychopathic axe-wielding zombie woman dressed as santa chases kids around a deserted fairground while Baccara's 'Yes Sir I Can Boogie' blares on the soundtrack.
Absolute top quality TV. Why the hell can't we make stuff like this?
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Post by Calenture on Apr 30, 2008 21:08:04 GMT
The Christmas Tale was splendid - so cool one of the lead child characters has the poster from 'Tombs of the Blind Dead' on his wall, and with an ending where a psychopathic axe-wielding zombie woman dressed as santa chases kids around a deserted fairground while Baccara's 'Yes Sir I Can Boogie' blares on the soundtrack. Absolute top quality TV. Why the hell can't we make stuff like this? You enjoy making people who's Freeview is on the fritz suffer, don't you. |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Apr 30, 2008 21:28:27 GMT
'a psychopathic axe-wielding zombie woman dressed as santa chases kids around a deserted fairground'
Brilliant. Unspeakably brilliant and I missed it.
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<---Tries to pretend it was a deliberate mistake.