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     Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.24.226 |
I think some folk here will be happy about this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Uninvited-Special-Edition-DVD/dp/B006Y9FQDW/ref=pd_l uc_mrairnr_02_01_t_lh It is Region 2, so I'm hoping Stateside fans can play it. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.24.226 |
Oh, and the BFI are about to reissue the BBC ghost stories. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.144.90 |
What do you think of the ghost stories, Ramsey? I like The Signalman and Oh Whistle, and Warning to the Curious, but Lost Hearts is really not very good for the most part, and the recent ones have been awful. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.24.226 |
I rather liked Lost Hearts - in fact, I'm writing the notes for the reissue. I didn't care for the new Oh, Whistle. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 178.116.61.103 |
I have a soft spot for "A View from a Hill", the best ever adaptation imho. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
I love The Uninvited! On a semi-related-but-perhaps-more-tanengtial note, I happened to this week randomly see two movies from the following year, 1945, for the first time: The Spiral Staircase (yes, I'd not seen this one before!), and then the more obscure (now—then, this series was popular) Crime Doctor's Warning, directed by William Castle. I believe these two films are significant, because they contain all the seeds of what later would be known as giallo (I stumbled across someone else pointing this out on Staircase, after seeing it, and wholly agreed). CDW alone is a strange and surreal little pic, with its serial killings and clues-in-a-painting and ghastly tableau finale. Neither's your standard mystery-thriller from the era, but seem out of their time... and forward-looking.... | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
I've long been a big fan of 'The Univited' and 'The Spiral Staircase' and haven't seen either for many years. That William Castle flick does sound interesting. I wasn't aware he was about in those days. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.181.214.176 |
I saw THE UNINVITED quite recently for the first time in many years - it was still a great experience so I'll pick up a copy when I can. I posted about the BFI DVDs some time back:- http://www.knibbworld.com/campbelldiscuss/messages/1/5682.html?1336062201 ...very much looking forward to this, even though I have most of them! | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 92.8.30.70 |
Sorry, Mick! There's little brain left here. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.144.90 |
I watched another film called The Uninvited (called that for no particular reason, I think) last night, a recent film, and it was pretty great. Frightening and strange, and certainly enjoyable and well-filmed. It got bad reviews but had nothing wrong with it other than that 'popcorn' air. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.164.150 |
There's a decent Korean horror film from 8-9 years ago called The Uninvited. Other than that, the only film of the same title I can recall was the vastly inferior American remake of A Tale of Two Sisters (surely one of the best recent supernatural films). | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.144.90 |
That was the one! I preferred it the remake; less pretentious. I had to turn the original off. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 220.138.164.150 |
Really, Tony? I found the original Korean film very powerful and disturbing. I didn't find it pretentious, but it was quite complicated, and the last third dragged on a bit in places. Still, I think it's one of the handful of truly upsetting and original horror films in recent years, and to me the remake had none of its intelligence, eeriness and emotional punch. As is the case with many remakes, much of what made the original so good was lost in a bid to make a typical Hollywood horror film that was more palatable for American audiences. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 82.18.174.156 |
Have to agree with that, Huw. 'A Tale Of Two Sisters' is one of the finest Asian horror movies I have seen. Right up there in the Top 10. I wouldn't even bother with the remake. The original was so unique in its atmosphere and obviously untranslatable to the US market without losing all of its potency. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.155.144.90 |
I think if a horror has too much style I can get distracted. For me the 'hollywood' style is sort of invisible and I enjoy the story more. It's odd, because in many other ways I prize style above other qualities, especially in writing. |