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Frank (Frank) Username: Frank
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.64
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 03:50 pm: | |
Have you seen this, John? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Terrible%27s_House_of_Horrible |
Kate (Kathleen)
Username: Kathleen
Registered: 09-2009 Posted From: 93.96.181.75
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 05:26 pm: | |
Lord P can't get to the broadband right now, but he says he has seen the TV series. |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 05:59 pm: | |
I remember seeing that - and enjoying it thoroughly as a spoof/send up. In fact, that reminder's made me want to go and buy the DVD and watch it again ... (BTW, John isn't the only Amicus fan on this here board you know ) |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.193.225
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 08:10 pm: | |
I have that! I especially enjoyed 'Frenzy of Tongs'. Silly, but fun. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.180.45.136
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 09:03 pm: | |
We all love Amicus! And Lord P.! |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.177.246
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 09:21 pm: | |
If you were to put Jon Pertwee, Milton Subotsky, Coffin Joe, John Keir Cross, Lucio Fulci and John Steed (of The Avengers) into Jeff Goldblum's transforming pod thingy in The Fly, I suspect that what would emerge would bear more than a passing resemblance to His Lordship. |
Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec
Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 09:29 pm: | |
>>If you were to put Jon Pertwee, Milton Subotsky, Coffin Joe, John Keir Cross, Lucio Fulci and John Steed (of The Avengers) into Jeff Goldblum's transforming pod thingy in The Fly, I suspect that what would emerge would bear more than a passing resemblance to His Lordship.<< That's quite a scary image! * shock * |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.180.45.136
| Posted on Sunday, September 27, 2009 - 10:46 pm: | |
...you'd need a touch of Tony Hancock too... |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| Posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 - 08:39 am: | |
My favourite Dr Terrible was And Now the Fearing, but you'd guessed that, hadn't you? Made even better by the extras on the Pete Walker set where David McGillivray says 'I turned on the TV and I thought what's Sheila Keith doing on here spoofing her Mrs Yates role from Frightmare?' |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.196.12
| Posted on Monday, September 28, 2009 - 05:26 pm: | |
Lord P, that Paul Naschy film I've been going on about over the years is finally being released on DVD tomorrow (region 1 - don't know about R2). The Hanging Woman (aka Orgy of the Dead) features Naschy as Igor, a deranged gravedigger. It's apparently set in Scotland, but it looks more like a remote eastern European village to me. Essential viewing for the connoisseur of dodgy Euro horror! |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81
| Posted on Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 08:46 am: | |
Thanks Huw, Amazon have told me they've just despatched it! |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.187.192
| Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 02:17 pm: | |
Lord P, I watched The Hanging Woman last night and was pleased to find that it was just as atmospheric, offbeat and funny (unintentionally, mostly) as I remembered it being way back in the early 80s. It has just about everything you'd expect from an old Euro-horror picture: a creepy, run-down old village, a mad scientist, a freaky woman dabbling in the occult, zombies, hidden passageways, autopsies, a seance, gratuitous nudity and a necrophiliac gravedigger. It also has a lead actor sporting a particularly fine head of gold locks (practically a mane!) and a rather inept inspector who looks like a cross between a stocky Dr. Who-era Tom Baker and a scruffy Sherlock Holmes. The blurb on the back about it being set in Scotland must be a mistake, unless they have towns called Scopje and people with names like Serge and Igor. There is some priceless dialogue. I'd be interested to know what you thought of it. |
Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts)
Username: Martin_roberts
Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91
| Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 07:11 pm: | |
I rather enjoyed this one too... I can almost predict that Lord P would love to star in his own version of this movie. |
John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.147
| Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 09:07 pm: | |
Now I really can't wait to see it! Where's that bloody parcel? |
Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts)
Username: Martin_roberts
Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91
| Posted on Saturday, October 03, 2009 - 09:13 pm: | |
Being held hostage by all these damn postal strikes along with several books and DVD's I'm waiting for too! |