| Author | Message | ||
     Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.59.122 |
An interesting drama, if not a bit too concupiscent for my tastes. Some good weird images that will stay etched in the dreaming mind. Good horror moments. Resonating with Sugar's reference to James Thomson's City of Dreadful Night. A Dickensian serial in over-drive. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.185.17.198 |
I watched a good spooky mainstream film called Frozen the other night, with the superb Shirley Henderson. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
I liked the Crimson Petal and the White and was impresssd by the surrel quality of the photography. I also loved the darkness that underlies the story. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.166.117.210 |
I didn't even know it was on. We have so many channels these days (most of them filled with crap) that I never know what's on, and always miss the decent stuff. Sigh... | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.153.149.248 |
Gary - the woman who directed that film has read all my stories and really likes them! It's my big boast. I have two stories she was literally begging me to develop but I just can't - one I have written about 100 pages of and the other is just floundering. It's a faintly sf piece and should be easy peasy, but it's not - largely because I'm trying to impress her too much.  It's a huge example of my determination to avoid great opportunity. (She has a stunning house in the middle of London, btw. She bought me a bagel, but wouldn't give me Shirley Henderson's phone number for some reason.) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.84.113 |
We have Crimson Petal recorded but as yet unwatched. FROZEN I thought excellent when I saw it at the LFF years ago, and again on a recent viewing on TV. | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.31.24.131 |
Interesting, Tony. You should get that tale done. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.236.228 |
Ep 2 : dark and insidious. | ||
| Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 88.104.130.94 |
Caught up with it. Will watch it next week. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.236.228 |
I think this is the darkest period TV serial there has ever been. And I suggest that the music and sounds have to be listened to on headphones. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.158.236.228 |
I was just thinking - it seems to be a cross between 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'Jane Eyre' ... with a todash of Dickens. | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.36.129 |
Final episode: I know nobody else has commented on it, but I genuinely believe that to have been one of the most significant Horror TV Drama series in recent years. Utterly nightmarish atmosphere. | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
I'm one episode behind but I agree with you Des. Beutifully filmed, acted and scripted. Gillian Anderson, though in a supotign role is magnificent, as is Richard E Grant as the vile doctor. subtle, dark, emotionally ambiguous, one of the year's best telelvision events so far. Cheers Terry | ||
| Des (Des) Username: Des Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 86.165.36.129 |
I agree with all that, Terry. There was a supernatural feel about it - astral projection etc - and a metafiction about her manuscript. A *very* frightening and disturbing series. And the vision of 'Sugar' in her hat...Ah... (A bit of Jane Eyre and 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and Dickens and...). The music and sound effects are also very good, especially on good headphones | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Yes, a subversion of Jane Eyre. Funny because that crossed my mind last night (episdoe 3 on iplayer); "mad" woman in the attic, precocious child, governess... | ||
| Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 82.6.90.22 |
Watched the last episode, just now. Wow. What a fantastic series this has been. I loved the surreal quality of the soap factory, it was like a metallic version of hell, the semi-human creatures who inhabited the half-world of the red light district were more sinister than anything Clive Barker ever dreamed up (and I like Barker's monsters). Yes this was good. Cheers Tel | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.143.133.40 |
Damn - missed it. I thought it was going to be like that Victorian lesbian thing they had on last year, a sort of bodice-ripper. I might pop it on my projector, surround-sound it, if it makes it to disc. I feel slightly trivial for talking about the effects of my projector but really it's given me some of the viewing experiences of my life. It's like a whole new vocabulary. And again, it's not that dear. |