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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 213.158.199.64 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
We all love Amicus! And Lord P.! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.177.246 |
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 |
>>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 |
...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 |
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 |
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 |
Thanks Huw, Amazon have told me they've just despatched it! | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.187.192 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Being held hostage by all these damn postal strikes along with several books and DVD's I'm waiting for too!  |