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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Me and the kids watched this over two nights - fantastic stuff. Funny because I've seen it since about their age, and it was weird finding myself really fancying Glynnis Johns and Anna Massey and wondering why Terry Thomes lived in that little bungalow. And how creepy was 70s decor? Ugh... Lovely atmosphere to the piece, too - especially the vampire town. (Fave line - from the vampire ep - ; 'I don't much like the town your sister's living in...') Nice photography, too - just right. And the kids loved it, btw. | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228 |
What a classic. I can't get enough of it. They certainly don't make 'em like this anymore. This film evokes a strange feeling inside me. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I often rewatch this and Tales From the Crypt. Both are great films, and hold up rather well after all these years. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
What do folk make of this list? And why is the only way to get Tales From the Crypt as region one, with trimmed Vault?http://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Anthology-horror-films/lm/R3OWUX4Q3DQVCQ/ref=cm_lm t_srch_f_2_rsrsrs0 | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.6 |
I can quote the whole of Vault of Horror by heart (and play the music on the piano). Perhaps FantasyCon might be interested in a one man show (where I would be the only one?). I love it! One of the first horrors I saw & I taped the soundtrack with one of those grotty Woolworths Alpha C-90 cassettes. The movie got slated when it came out but all the stories have good points, even 'Bargain in Death'. Anyone spot that that episode and 'The Neat Job' were switched around for the final print and the covering dialogue subtly altered? Anyway: Midnight Mess is a classic - superbly atmospheric on a tiny budget, great acting (especially from the tiny parts - Mike Pratt as the detective & Erik Chitty as the waiter) and a brilliant final scene (if you see it uncut). The Neat Job has held up better than it should over the years. Like Tony I thought if Terry-Thomas was so well off why was he in that bungalow? But the final routine with Glynis Johns knocking everything over is almost a comedy horror classic. This Trick'll Kill You - Trying to do India on 2p and a prayer was always going to be difficult & a few Bollywood film posters, lovely Jasmina Hilton and beardy Ishaq Bux aren't really enough, but the bit where Dawn Addams screams and disappears to be replaced by a spreading patch of blood on the ceiling terrifies me even now. Bargain in Death is a bit shit, but the opening graveyard bit is atmospheric, & it gives Subotsky a chance to get all his in-jokes in. Drawn & Quartered: "You cheated me - all three of you. And now I'm going to have revenge". An utter, utter fucking classic and the inspiration for my story The Kreutzenberg Sonata. Acting from the mighty Tom & Denholm and a climax relentlessly driven by Douglas Gamley's score. And the painting dripping with thinner is another permanent addition to the Probert Library of Nightmare Images So yes I love it. And I watch it every other year or so. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
Whoops, I confused this one with from Beyond the Grave - but Vault is a good one, all the same. I also have a soft spot for Torture Garden. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Ooh... http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=8441 | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
Met Ingrid Pitt at a Hammer con in the 'eighties. She's tiny. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.23.233.247 |
Just ordered From Beyond the Grave and The House That Dripped Blood. Can't wait! Um, Mick ... isn't everyone tiny to you?  BTW have any of you seen pics of Vern Troyer's past girlfriends? Jeezuz - the little basket! I'm so jealous! Is it illegal to kill dwarves...? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.93 |
If you're Colin Farrell it's okay to karate-chop them. (That'll only make sense if you've seen In Bruges, by the way.) | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
If you did kill one, would you get a reduced sentence? Half a life? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
Um, Mick ... isn't everyone tiny to you? I was going to say that myself! There's tiny and there's tiny, though. I reckon she was around five feet tall. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.92.193 |
Where on earth do you order all these DVD's from? I'll have to get organized. Yes I now I use Z's instead of S's but I can't help it. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
From Beyond the Grave; £5.99 from Play, House that Dripped, about £6 from Amazon. I used to think I had paedo tendencies for fancying tiny women, till I realised I fancied ginormous ones as well. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Vault was recorded off the telly. Apparently the dvd is cut. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
I used to think I had paedo tendencies for fancying tiny women, till I realised I fancied ginormous ones as well. Tony, often I think I imagine some of the tuff you write on here...  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.209.204.97 |
The Region 1 DVD of VoH is cut, the Vipco UK one is uncut but fullscreen | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
I rewatched From Beyond the Grave last night: brilliant. Tales from the Crypt is this evening's fayre. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.209.204.97 |
I've been watching all five Harry Alan Towers Fu Manchu movies this week - the Jess Franoc double bill finale - courtesy of your good self Mr McMahon, is truly a film-making nadir. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143 |
truly a film-making nadir. I may be the only person here who sees that statement as a good reason to watch a film...  | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.209.204.97 |
There are two of us and you jolly well know that | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
My Beyond the Grave comes tomorrow! And I've found an old Tales From the Crypt recorded off the telly last year! Yowza... Tonight I let the kids watch the first story in The House that Dripped Blood - fantastic, absolutely fantastic. I was actually scared! I dunno why I harped on about antho films recently - I've enjoyed every one of the ones we've been watching this past week. As long as there's a good link story they can get away with owt. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
Check out Grimm Prairie Tales - Brad Dourif and James Earl Jones - it's brilliant. The (very short) segment with the pregnant woman has stuck in my head for many years. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
Kid friendly? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11 |
12+ I think. Definitely not friendly for very young kids | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Watched To The Devil a Daughter the other night. Man, but that's a bad movie! Such a sad end for Hammer. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.157.112.5 |
I watched the opening to that - odd tone and nice photography, I thought. It's odd, but i'm finding mysel warming more to Amicus in recent years - they have a softer, warm and fuzzy feel to them than the sometimes 'shouty' Hammers. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
To The Devil etc is a Hammer film. It's the last one. Not an Amicus one at all. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
I'm not sure if it's true, but I remember reading that the Hammers often started with a load noise to get the attention and shut up the kind of rowdy audience they thought went to see their pictures. Cetainly some movies like Plague of the Zombies do seem to start with an almost 'Shut the fuck up & watch this!' approach. |