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     Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Just watched DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT last night. What a delightfully over-the-top film. I've never seen so much sustained screaming hysteria before. It's really the perfect candidate for remaking as an opera. Can't you just hear the poignant duet "Strawberries" with the raving nymphomaniac and the ax-wielding psychotic judge: (baritone) "Ripe strawberries are the colour of blood." (soprano) "Taste me, please. Taste me. I can be anything you want." "To be carnally minded is death." "I do taste like strawberries! Taste me!" "Shroud your nakedness! You’re obscene!" "I’m warm and loving. I have love and passion. Men love me. There’s not a man anywhere that doesn’t really love my body and soul." "Slut!" "You freak! You don’t want to be touched because you’re so damned PURE! You phony freak!" And after Mrs Callingham's delusional bit - "Up the airy mountain, down the rushing glen, you never can go hunting for fear of little men!" - there won't be a dry eye in the theatre as she sings her tongueless death aria. And the gruesome bloody finale with the whole company singing about "cutting out the sickness" (chop, chop)... great stuff! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Good old SF Brownrigg - no-one made deep South sweaty psycho thrillers like he did. Keep My Grave Open, Poor White Trash II (I think that's the one where someone gets strangled using a barbed wire fence), Don't Open the Door, and the completely barmy and yet somehow claustrophobically engrossing Don't Look in the Basement. There's a good article on his films in the defunct magazine Shock Express. I don't think it's the same issue that carries Ramsey's exhaustive article on spanking movies but I could be wrong. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
"Ramsey's exhaustive article on spanking movies "???!!!???!!!???????????????  I never know if these throwaway comments are for real. | ||
| Niki Flynn (Niki) Username: Niki Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.32.69.29 |
Lord P, how did you manage to squeeze med school in amongst this orgy of horror film watching? Does your watch stop time or something? And Weber: http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/ramsey_campbell_probably_pb.html Where ya been, man? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Lord P, how did you manage to squeeze med school in amongst this orgy of horror film watching? Does your watch stop time or something? Perhaps that's what it is. One day, when I have mastered the art of transferring video to DVD you might get to see some of my little university efforts that made it to the stage. The Lenton Primary School Puppet Theatre version of Wes Craven's Wind in the Willows got me into trouble when the pristine white proscenium arch of the stage in the main hall at the University of Birmingham got sprayed with fake blood from the bit where Ratty got murdered with a claw hammer by the insane Mr Badger. And as for Gynaecologist Man, the super-hero whose gynaecological procedures always went 'a bit wrong'... |