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     John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.101 |
Here's a quick plea - does anyone know any other outlets that stock the 'Best Buy Exclusive' DVDs and happen to ship to the UK? (As Best Buy bloody doesn't). Why? Because Warners are releasing The Shuttered Room, Chamber of Horrors and most importantly It! the 1966 Goldstar horror picture about the golem destroying Hammersmith Bridge but not before he kidnaps lovely Jill Haworth for Roddy McDowall who keeps his mummified mother in bed upstairs. And I have to see it. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I've always wanted to see that golem film again (it was on TV when I was very youbg, but I kept falling asleep and missing parts), Lord P...let me know if you find an outlet. Where do you get all this info? | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
Ah, THE SHUTTERED ROOM - there's one I haven't seen. With the unequalable Oliver Reed. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I think these folk (who I've found very reliable) may, John. Ask them if they have the titles. http://www.diabolikdvd.com/ | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186 |
I'd second trying Diabolik DVD - they're a great source of obscure and interesting titles. | ||
| Joel (Joel) Username: Joel Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.197.47 |
THE SHUTTERED ROOM is pants though. It's based on a Lovecraft/Derleth 'collaboration' but has all the weird stuff taken out. It sells as a horror film but is not a horror film in any way, shape or form, and is approximately as Lovecraftian as CARRY ON CLEO. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
Yeah, but it has Oliver Reed in mad mode. In a vest. It doesn't get more iconic than that... :-) | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.238.203 |
Speaking of Reed: after some googling and youtubing (does the verb even exist?) I ended up with a six-part documentary on the making of THE DEVILS, another one I've never seen. I don't think I was aware of the controversy when it came out - still in a catholic school in a (then) nice country and all that . . . The bit about the rape of Christ looks great, I can see why it stirred things up. It'd probably stir things up today. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 75.4.244.90 |
Oh my JHC, Hubert - THE DEVILS is awesome! You simply must find it and see it! Top priority! Forget the controversial stuff, it's just a delicious, well-wrought, texture-rich movie. At least from what I remember... hell, I've gotta go out and see this one again myself!... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.29 |
Thanks everyone. Zed - as far as I was aware IT! had never been shown on UK telly so you're lucky to have even seen a bit in 'sleep' mode. The first five minutes of THE SHUTTERED ROOM scared me silly as a little 'un but the rest is rubbish. Can't find them on DiabolikDVD either & they're meant to be out in 2 weeks (they're double bills - IT!/THE SHUTTERED ROOM and CHAMBER OF HORRORS/BRIDES OF FU MANCHU. Bloody Best Buy exclusives Craig - THE DEVILS is superb. Apparently according to producer Robert H Solo it's only just gone into profit. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.163.48.186 |
'Course, if Craig was a real mate, he'd buy 'em and ship them to JLP... Oh, and another vote for THE DEVILS. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
I loathed The Devils possibly even more than most of Russell's stuff. He almost makes Tony Richardson seem worthwhile. | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 67.116.103.241 |
What?!? ... Well that's a swift kick in the pants!  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
Ha! I was bored by Devils even though it had all these shocking things going on. Russell was best on telly, his sibelius stuff etc, but Women in Love was good, and Whore had it's moments, and Crimes of Passion was fun, but...his films can sort of feel like raunchy Children's Film Foundation films, like an amatuerish person made memorable because they were rude. | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243 |
I loved THE DEVILS. | ||
| Albie (Albie) Username: Albie Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 87.102.91.127 |
I thought it so grotesque that you never got anything else out of it. One dimensional. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.129.151.199 |
That was it. Hellboy 2 felt like that; no world beyond the linen. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
"...I loathed The Devils possibly even more than most of Russell's stuff. He almost makes Tony Richardson seem worthwhile." RC, obviously you don't like Russell! He is a 'love him or hate him character' but I do get off on his films, But that said, you gotta be in the mood. I watched Savage Messiah t'other night and had to turn it off...just couldn't get on with it despite the fact I had enjoyed it before. I love The Devils, Whore, (anything with Theresa Russelll...hmm.) Women In Love, Not bothered by Tommy... A guilty pleasure. I love Lair Of The White Worm. Its toss. Magnificent toss. gcw | ||
| Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.242.126 |
I'm with you on Russell, GCW. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.24 |
I love Lair of the White Worm! I think I saw I twice on its initial release. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 217.43.119.113 |
I was the same with Mike hodges Flash Gordon (we discussed this...  ).. I think I singlehandedly made it a hit in the UK! gcw | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 85.158.137.195 |
"Flash! A-ah!" | ||
| Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts) Username: Martin_roberts Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91 |
John - I've read that the previous Best Buy DVD's, released about 2 months ago are been shipped to all stores when the new titles are released. Which could mean that in 2 months time the same could happen to these films... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.208.214.29 |
Thanks Martin | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.112 |
Is The Shuttered Room the one where Ollie returns as an adult to his childhood home? I remember a part with a child in a cot, and a dollhouse... It must be nearly 30 years since I last saw it, if so. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.241 |
I think it's Carol Lynley who's the adult returning. Ollie's just a thug. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.179.105 |
I vaguely remember Ollie being a thuggish type in this film too. He said one line that always cracked me up, although I can't recall it precisely right now. Something about "boot leather" (I think he was trying to put a city-type in his place by showing how rugged he was). I really hope these films will be easy enough to find when they're released. I've not seen It, but it sounds good. I'm a sucker for anything golemy... | ||
| Steve Bacon (Stevebacon) Username: Stevebacon Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.211.103.112 |
Yeah, John you must be right. I can't imagine Ollie as a child having a dollhouse. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Well, I don't know. Doesn't he say to the Carol Lynley character "Here's another fine house you've gotten me into?" | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.90.51 |
There was once a scenario for the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game called On the Trail of the Loathsome Slime. Stan & Ollie could have fought the Cthulhu Mythos. Bertie Wooster might've gotten into a deuced-rotten scrape with it, too. | ||
| Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 89.19.90.51 |
Following on from the mention of Theresa Russell above, it was only when I re-watched Bad Timing recently that I realised what a good actress she could be. One of my favourite scenes in all of Roeg's work is Russell and Denholm Elliot parting ways at a checkpoint. The actors manage to communicate the heft of an entire relationship that we haven't seen: tenderness, regret and the inevitability of the situation in which they find themselves. Russell's magnificent throughout the film, but her performance is so good, it becomes transparent. I suspect this is true of a lot of actors. Who else am I overlooking? | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.184.66 |
Lord P, did you find a copy of The Shuttered Room/It yet? I'm hoping mine will arrive today. I am hoping to spend tonight watching Oliver Reed being a campy thug and Hammersmith Bridge being menaced by a golem... A few other goodies have been released recently: The Skull, The Picture of Dorian Grey, and a 2-disc, four-film set that includes the Hammer films Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Two Faces of Dr, Jekyll, Scream of Fear and The Gorgon. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.84 |
No Huw - I still haven't found anywhere selling IT!/SHUTTERED ROOM. I've got all the others, though. And Night Gallery 2 on pre-order! (All 60-odd episodes) | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
And Night Gallery 2 on pre-order! (All 60-odd episodes) Do you know if they've improved things this time around, John? The first series was slated as no cleaning up was performed and I think the episodes were trimmed. Oh, and don't get too down, but it's sixty stories over 22 episodes rather than 60 eps, unfortunately. Some NG info here:- http://www.nightgallery.net/index.html?title.html&0 | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.199.0.84 |
No idea if these discs will be any better, Mick, but as I've never seen the series on TV even a slightly messy box set will be better than none at all. Nice site by the way | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.159.158.168 |
I recall seeing a fair few episodes in the 'seventies. As ever with such things, there was great variation, but there were some goodies in there. Reading through the info on the second series DVD release, it does sound as if some more thought has gone into things this time around. | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.192.53 |
John, you can find It/The Shuttered Room on Ebay for around $15. | ||
| Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts) Username: Martin_roberts Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91 |
On December 9th, Warner Home Video will debut the Warner Bros. Horror Double Features, a "terror two-fer" of classic horror films never before seen on DVD. THE SHUTTERED ROOM (1967) / IT! (1966) CHAMBERS OF HORRORS (1966) / THE BRIDES OF FU MANCHU (1966) Each double feature disc will be available for $19.98 SRP Just in case you never picked this up John... | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.253.174.81 |
Does that mean they're getting a wider release? Btw my Series 2 Night Gallery box set is apparently on the way.. | ||
| Martin Roberts (Martin_roberts) Username: Martin_roberts Registered: 06-2008 Posted From: 86.5.239.91 |
Yep... approx. two months after the Best Buy exclusives http://r1.find-dvd.co.uk/region1DVDPrices.aspx?dvd=B001HZ4KGW | ||
| Simon Strantzas (Nomis) Username: Nomis Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 99.225.104.255 |
John, did you manage to get these? I stumbled upon the SHUTTERED/IT combo online today and immediately thought of you. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.139 |
Simon - thank you my friend. Yes I did in the end - a friend very kindly brought them over from the US for me. And as I mentioned on another thread the incredibly rare It! is now showing on one of our freeview UK movie channels. Typical. | ||
| Coral (Coral) Username: Coral Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 90.215.237.100 |
Totally off the beaten track for a moment, it always amuses me when I see a post by Lord P as the topic board describes him as "John Llewellyn Probe". Sorry John, but it works on so many levels, hee hee. I'm probably going to be apologising shortly! | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 90.203.130.196 |
Sorry John, but it works on so many levels, hee hee You're not the first person to have mentioned it Coral! |