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     Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
Quiet round here, innit? | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
It is a bit. Do you think they've all been eaten by the beast of bal shoggotth. Or was it that bastard Slurp spider again? | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.195.236.131 |
Oh, that slurp spider!!!!!!!!!!!!!! | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 82.3.65.135 |
No, they're all surfing...the net. Catching viruses. | ||
| Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 83.98.9.4 |
The net? or the Web? The slurp spider's web, that fiendish wotsit | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.227.242 |
S[surfing]TDs... It is pretty slow here. I'll throw this in, saw this appear today - is the original any good?... Note use of term "classic": true?... ------ DON'T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK Horror A young girl, sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend, discovers sinister creatures living underneath the stairs. (07/30/2008) [Remake] Buyer(s): Studio: Miramax Executives: Daniel Battsek, Michael Falbo, Keri Putnam Producers: Guillermo del Toro Seller(s): Writer: Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Robbins Agency: Endeavor, Exile Entertainment Representatives: Gary Ungar Comments: Troy Nixey will direct this remake of the classic 1973 ABC telefilm. Guillermo del Toro and Matthew Robbins are doing the adaptation. Previously set up at Dimension. | ||
| Laird Barron (Laird) Username: Laird Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 71.212.50.31 |
Cheesy, cheesy. But it scared the three year old me enough to remember it after all this time. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.204 |
Funny little monsters and a post True Grit Kim Darby. Can't remember much else but I saw it as a kid and anything with TV movie on it I tended to expect to be rubbish Except for Horror at 37000 Feet with William Shatner. Anyone remember that? The mid-70s TV movie not the TZ episode. The Shat is a defrocked priest on an aeroplane with various Airport 75 cast rejects and a cargo hold full of monoliths from Stonehenge (or somewhere) that start getting a bit frisky in mid air. That was great fun. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.228.150 |
Ha! That sounds great! I'm going to look for it. Ever hear of a movie called FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, John? Recent pic, I believe, and exactly what it sounds like. But I've heard it's actually much better than that title would lead you to believe.... | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.193 |
There was a SUNSHINE thread here about a year ago (I daresay). Only just discovered it and am totally enthralled by it, especially by its well-nigh poetical grandeur. A pity it had to lapse into EVENT HORIZONisms near the end (the insane captain of Icarys I); still, this film is a miracle of rare design. And that spaceship! | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.43.97 |
I totally agree Hubert - as I said in a much earlier thread...Isn't saving the sun & the earth enough?? Real shame about the stupid subplot as it weakened what should have a great film. (See Silent Running too!) gcw | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.227.193 |
I was mostly reminded of Bradbury's "The Golden Apples of the Sun". Strangely enough this story - which basically involves a spaceship passing by the sun in order to steal away (with a giant spoon, no less!) some of the sun's 'ore' - hasn't cropped up in any review I've seen. Ah, SILENT RUNNING. I did see that, a VERY long time ago. I remember but very little about the storyline, but I'll never forget the robots  | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
John - I remember that Shatner film. It was great! The other film, with Kim Darby, is very overrated. One of those good-at-the-time films (the time being when you were 11 years old). | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.204 |
I figured if anyone might remember it it would be you Mr McMahon! Good stuff sir! You probably saw it on the same early mid-week evening BBC1 showing I did as a lad seeing as I think that's the only time it ever got shown | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
Pretty sure I've seen that too - doesn't Kim Darby end up being dragged across the floor by these small creatures? | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
Mick - I think John's talking about the Shatner film. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 194.176.105.47 |
I AM talking about the Shatner film. Which I would now love to see again having refreshed my memory of it with some internet screen grabs, The Kim Darby one was on late a fair bit in the HTV area, along with Look What Happened to Rosemary's Baby with Patty Duke Astin - that was on a lot too as well as Satan's School for Girls Dr Strange The Immortal The Norliss Tapes The Dead Don't Die and various other TVMs that have dropped off the face of the earth | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
Ah, ok. I'll go back to my corner... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
No, no! Come further out and admit any fond memories you may have of Satan's School for Girls or that one with James Farentino as a priest that had a bit part for Harrison Ford | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
I do have fond memories of Satan's School for Girls, but that may have been a daydream rather than the film! Satans' School for Girls and that James Farentino one aren't one and the same, are they? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
Ah, I see they're not so far as imdb is concerned - Pamela Franklin and Kate Jackson? In the same film? I MUST see this! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
Good man! But I don't think so Mick - the Farentino one was called (quick IMDB check) The Possessed. And I see PJ Soles was in it as well! It was meant as a pilot that would see Farentino fighting the forces of evil every week. He managed it once. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
PJ Soles as well? Swoon! I've fancied her since the days of Halloween and Carrie! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
Me too! Have you seen ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL? Apparently she's in that (with The Ramones I think) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
Yes! She is (and they are) - she's married to Dennis Quaid (or at least she was many years ago)... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
There's a whole sub-genre of American movie that seems to have passed me by (probably because of its unavailabilty on TV or video). I'd love to see stuff like the above, Joe Dante's & Allan Arkush's HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD, and a whole host of Corman's New World pictures. It's a shame they don't play on some obscure satellite channel like Movies4Men. Movies4Eccentrix? Movies4Fansof70sActresses? Surely that would get more viewers that Zone Romantica? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
I saw ROCK AND ROLL HIGH SCHOOL at a late-nighter many years back at the 'Little Bit Ritzy' in Brixton, I think, principly because the Ramones were in it - imagine my pleasure on seeing Ms Soles as well! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
...another lass I fancied all those years ago is Kathleen Quinlan, she of the "Joe College strikes out!" comment in AMERICAN GRAFFITI, although the only 'genre' picture she appeared in that I've seen is TWILIGHT ZONE: THE MOVIE. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.236.90 |
She's in EVENT HORIZON as well. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
Yes I liked Miss Q. She was in Oliver Stone's The Doors with no clothes on wasn't she? And in a similar state in a good made-for-cable thriller called (I think) BLACKOUT, which I only watched because it was directed by Douglas (Theatre of Blood) Hickox. EVENT HORIZON, despite getting bad reviews, is a film I quite guiltily like. "Where we're going we don't need eyes to see" Still gives me a little shiver. And so little does that to me these days. Filmwise anyway | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.156.43.97 |
I agree John, good silly fun film. While we are on hot totty...How about Elizabeth Brooks as Marsha Quist in The Howling..? Niiiiice.. gcw | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
Yes indeedy Mr GCW. She met a tragic end did she not? And seeing as we are on the subject, my research into the mighty Shatner starring Horror at 37000 Feet reminded me I used to have a thing for Jane Merrow (Hands of the Ripper, Night of the Big Heat, etc etc). | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
She's in EVENT HORIZON as well. Of course she is! How could I forget - thanks Hubert... | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
Jane Merrow was also in an episode of THE AVENGERS last week on BEEB4 | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
And if you're going to mention THE AVENGERS, aside from its obvious attractions Angela Douglas was in one episode and I quite liked her too. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
Yes, she were looovely as well; yet another reason (if one was needed) to watch THE AVENGERS! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
Who played the Tara King stand in for a few episodes? The character was meant to be posh - Lady someone or other. Was it Liz Fraser in extra lovely mode? | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
That'll be Lady Diana Forbes-Blakeney, played by the lovely Jennifer Croxton. I love THE AVENGERS, me! | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
'Twas only for one episode, though - "Killer". | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
..although Liz Fraser did accompany Steed through one episode in the Emma Peel era. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.156 |
Thanks Mick! You know I've got the whole of THE AVENGERS on DVD (and some of thsoe box sets seem to be worth a small fortune now) but I've never sat down to watch half of them. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.168.57.173 |
Good man! If you can only watch some, watch the 26 monochrome Diana Rigg episodes first. If you have a little more time move on to the 24 colour Rigg ones. Then (and only then!) sample the Linda Thorson era, presuming you don't have the Honor Blackman ones, 'cos some of those are very good, if very cheap - lots of talking heads and stuff. As for the Ian Hendry era, well, there're only two-and-a-bit remaining of those anyhow, but one - GIRL ON THE TRAPEZE - is very good. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.145 |
I neglected to buy the Honor Blackman set when I saw it in the shop & now of course I'd need to mortgage the house to get it. I do however have the original box set of the New Avengers, because of fond memories of Last of the Cybernauts & Gnaws. I'll have to discipline myself to properly get through them. |