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     Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
In the modern West the vampire takes the form of a somewhat aristocratic and seductive male, complete with cape and fangs, and with the ability to transform himself into a bat. This picture is, though, just a partial story; a reflection of the Victorian imagination ... To dissect this image is to uncover the real horror of the vampire, an evil that has tortured the human imagination for thousands of years... Full article here: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25679126-25132,00.html | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.170.85 |
Anyone read the Twilights? I bought them all on recommendation of a friend, but apparently they suck. I like the look of this new show, True Blood. Only seen a little of it though. I think the vampire genre can't go away, is more capable of rethinking than the zombie one. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.70 |
I gave Twilight the 'Dan Brown' test, Tony: opened pages at random to see if it managed to be free of more than 3 cliches or stock phrases per page. Maybe I was unlucky, or the book was - it failed. I can see why teens would enjoy it. Though a sneaky part of me would prefer they were reading Guy N Smith's Crabs books... | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Ah, Guy N. Smith, has anyone every checked out his site? Pipe smoker of the year several times running you know? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.177.118.49 |
Oh yes! Btw, there's an interesting article in the latest Word magazine about how, as vampires are going (even more) angsty and bloodless, girls are becoming huge fans, but boys still prefer zombies! | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.73 |
There was a piece on Open Book today - brief piece - on zombies because of the popularity of Pride & Predjudice & Zombies. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.132.130 |
Guy N. Smith? Even the donkeys in the sulphurous depths of Hell were telling him "It's not you, it's me, I've got a headache..." | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.109.175.48 |
People don't understand his country way you know? | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
I was surprised to see he's still published. Well, recently. Severn House put out a couple of titles by him a couple of years ago. Maybe they've put more out since, I don't know. I did find an omnibus edition of Shaun Hutson's 'true life UFO abduction' novels ina charity store the other day. Someone had left their bookmark in, which was a cut out from the ladies' undies section of a catalogue... Kind of thing that makes you worry about those stuck together pages... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.72 |
I always preferred Guy's stuff to Shaun's. Guy seemed to be happily having fun, whereas Shaun just seemed eager to stress the wilfully unpleasant, and not in any artistic fashion. The opposite of James Herbert's assertion that you can write about any depravity if you do it with style. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
I believe that Smith has set up his own publishing company to publish sequels to his novels, written by new writers. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
There's a company called Ghostwriter Publications which is putting out Smith's stuff. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
"People don't understand his country way you know?" You're right, Jon. He always struck me as a country bloke. It's worth noting how ultra-conservatives always consider themselves to define the true identity of the communities they live in. That's as true as the Field Sports Association (which recently rebranded itself as the Countryside Alliance) as it is of the Taliban or the KKK. | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
That's the one. I'm pretty sure that it's owned by Smith | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.37.199.45 |
The posting crossover to end all posting crossovers. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
We're a gonner here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHiGZJ47Y0w | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.143.178.131 |
Now I publish pulp fiction, so really shouldn't get on my high-horse about these things, but for the love of God... | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.71 |
I think that trailer's great. Unsuspecting youths of the modern age may fear the clicking is of a computer mouse, but then they get... Excellent. You know, they should do a graphic novel or manga version... Would be great fun. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.208.166 |
Whisper it softly... haven't they just photographed a couple of normal crabs close up to make them look big? If that's the scariest image the film has to offer it will end up on BBC2 at 5pm. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.171.129.69 |
See, I HATE knowing how these great big special effects movies are made... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Imagine the size of the tubs they'd sell in seaside stalls if crabs were really that big. You'd need a truck to pick one up and a cheque-book to pay for it. You'd have to eat loads before it went off, cos you'd never get it all in your freezer. It's just impractical. I won't be buying this book. The logistics of its implications are simply unfathomable. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.244.47 |
Ah, but Gary, the deckchairs and chip cones will be bigger too. The sea will be bigger. The whole world will be bigger. And the sun and moon, of course. The running costs of making the film appear to have caused a global recession, but don't let that worry you. Future generations will pick up the tab so we can watch this film. In purpose-built giant cinemas. Alternatively, they may just use trick photography or CGI. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.26.90.161 |
Or seek crushed Asians. | ||
| Steve Jensen (Stevej) Username: Stevej Registered: 07-2009 Posted From: 82.0.77.233 |
haven't they just photographed a couple of normal crabs close up to make them look big?  ^This^ is reminding me of Father Ted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmU_q5xrnto | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.132.95.247 |
Maybe our local chavas could trade all their horses in for them and ride them instead. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.238.127 |
Which provokes the question: what treatment can crabs get for an infection of people? | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.109.175.48 |
I'm pretty sure that the trailer is actually for the sequel to the book, not a film. | ||
| Mark_lynch (Mark_lynch) Username: Mark_lynch Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.79.235.202 |
I'd assumed the trailer was for a reissue of the original book. |