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     Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
A real film legend in the horror genre. A real loss. Brilliant screen writer, brilliant director. I'm not the biggest fan of Hammer Horror films, but I loved Sangster. | ||
| Weber (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.142.201 |
A real gent when I met him at the film festival in Manchester as well. A sad loss. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.250.238 |
Great shame - we were lucky to see him at the NFT a few years back, where he was interviewed on stage before a showing of TASTE OF FEAR. Roy Ward Baker was sitting in the row in front of us - he died last year too; all these great names gone. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.250.238 |
Just looked - the NFT event was April 2008, so not long ago. | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Mick - was the NFT event the one in which Kim Newman and Stephen Jones attended? There's a photograph on Kim Newman's page which just came up about twenty mins ago? | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 82.24.1.217 |
Very sad news. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.176.250.238 |
Frank - no, it was this one:- http://stage.hammerfilms.com/events/hammer-classics-plus-jimmy-sangster-in-conve rsation-at-the-nft | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 92.232.199.129 |
Oh, that's sad to hear. First Roy Ward Baker, now Jimmy Sangster. Both Hammer "greats" as far as I'm concerned. RIP. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.4.19.77 |
Very sad news. Another Hammer Horror legend gone... How many of them are still left I wonder? | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Perhaps its providence that gives us the new Hammer as the old says its goodbyes. Like I said, Hammer was never top of my list, but I have nothing but good memories and respect for the studios and the directors and writers and actors, in no particular order. Like the Bond films through the sixties and onwards, they often more than not produced quality films for a certain market that kept alive the British industry. One of my favourite films will always be Quatermass and The Pit. Only Seigel's Invasion of the Body Snatchers pip's it to the post. Yes, Sangester's passing is a great loss to film-making in general. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.26.211 |
Alas! A genial chap and a craftsman. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.138.68.165 |
Well at 84 that's a pretty good innings & I think he was fairly fit up to the end so well done to him I say. My favourite Sangster story must be when he ended up being chased all around his hotel room by a randy Bette Davis when he was producing The Anniversary! | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.42.144.112 |
Sad news. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
First chance I've had for this much deserved round-up of his genre achievements: 'X The Unknown' (1956) - writer 'The Curse Of Frankenstein' (1957) - writer 'Blood Of The Vampire' (1958) - writer 'Intent To Kill' (1958) - writer 'The Crawling Eye' (1958) - writer 'Dracula' (1958) - writer 'The Revenge Of Frankenstein' (1958) - writer 'The Snorkel' (1958) - writer 'Jack The Ripper' (1959) - writer 'The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959) - writer 'The Mummy' (1959) - writer 'The Brides Of Dracula' (1960) - writer 'The Criminal' (1960) - writer 'Scream Of Fear' (1961) - writer 'The Hellfire Club' (1961) - writer 'The Terror Of The Tongs' (1961) - writer 'Maniac' (1963) - writer 'Nightmare' (1963) - writer 'Paranoiac' (1963) - writer 'Hysteria' (1964) - writer 'The Nanny' (1965) - writer 'The Anniversary' (1968) - writer 'Crescendo' (1969) - writer 'The Horror Of Frankenstein' (1970) - writer/director 'A Taste Of Evil' (1971) - writer 'Lust For A Vampire' (1971) - director [Tudor Gates was writer] 'Who Slew Auntie Roo?' (1971) - writer 'Fear In The Night' (1972) - writer/director 'Scream, Pretty Peggy' (1973) - writer 'Good Against Evil' (1977) - writer 'The Legacy' (1978) - writer 'Phobia' (1980) - writer 'No Place To Hide' (1981) - writer An astonishing list of some of the finest British horror films ever made, imho. RIP... |