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Post by baggs on Nov 18, 2021 15:53:21 GMT
THE VOID
directed , written by the prosthetics man so you can well imagine wot shit this is.
Excuse for gore.
And that is about it.
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Post by baggs on Dec 12, 2021 18:56:16 GMT
Jill Haworth (boner) time: Horror House Horror of Snape Island (aka Tower of Evil)
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Post by baggs on Dec 28, 2021 15:39:34 GMT
"Taboo" good ,dark series about a bastard taking on the East India Company (which was the Walmart of the day) for possession of Vancouver island and exclusive rights to tea trade with China. Apparently the series never aired here in North America. Which makes me wonder how many fine BBC series I'm unaware of. "Flowers" sounds good, but I cant get my hands on it. Horrible histories: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlKoaikdjSE
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Post by baggs on Dec 30, 2021 15:29:47 GMT
The Haunting (of hill house)
series - this fookin fing be loike 10 LONG episodes! Interminable. Shirley Jackson must be spinning in her grave: there are basically NO children in the origonal. Here we have a family of two boys (one becomes a drug addict - of course not in the book) and 3 girls. Actually, not bad but why connect this to Jackson's novel. They just use it as a spring board. they use character names here indiscriminately - one of the girls is called "Shirley". Im one third thru this and still no mention of a parapsychologist doctor of praeternatural-wotsit - a character so important in the book. One of the girls grows up to own a funeral home and we spend lotta viewing toime there - again, NOT IN THE BOOK.
And of course Theo is CLEARLY made out to be a lesbian, the furthest the book went in this direction was when Nell in a fit of anger lets it out naming Theo as being "unnatural". After all the movie was 1963.
If you check the internet there is fascinating reading on the making of the origonal '63 movie by fabled director, Robert Wise (Sound of Music, Day the Earth Stood Still,I Claudius, West side Story...etc etc.
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Post by baggs on Dec 30, 2021 15:54:40 GMT
Crimbo is the time for ghost stories - at least in o' Blighty. Here in Canada Christmas has NOTHING to do with ghost stories. Also Santa wears red, not green. Not to mention there is no such thing as a Father Christmas here.
So to keep the spirit, I've lined up these films. not exactly ghost films, but you get the drift:
THE CREMATOR Checkslovakia film '69???
THE CASTLE Check film on the Kalfka novel. (Also were GREAT versions made, one with Maximillian Schnell as the land surveyor, the other perfectly cast with Orson Welles and Anthony Wotsit (Psycho)
THE BODY SNATCHER 1943, Robert wise directing, Boris Karloff
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Post by Deleted on Dec 31, 2021 23:47:27 GMT
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK. JOHN CARPENTER with his TANGERINE DREAM style music of the time. Jesus only the early 80's crappy Synthesizers to blame. Waste of time gonna bed all the idiots & their fireworks already.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2022 10:54:08 GMT
Got the timer set for this afternoons viewing
TALKING PICTURES Channel:
14.05 - ONE MILLION YEARS B.C [1966] Do some Pervin' over Raquel Welsh LOL 16.20 - DALEKS: INVASION EARTH 2150 [1966] 2nd Dr Who movie before the shite BBC TV Series. 18.35 - IM ALRIGHT JACK [1959] Comedy Peter Sellers, Terry Thomas, 22.50 - DIRTY MARY, CRAZY LARRY [1974] Love the ending when the speeding car hits the train.
So id better get my jobs done & dinner prepared. Nice bit of Lamb Shoulder for Nosh up today.
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Post by baggs on Jan 2, 2022 15:26:12 GMT
BANISHED BBC series about prisoners shunted to build colony in Huddersfield.
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Post by baggs on Jan 6, 2022 22:41:30 GMT
CASTLE ROCK series 2
small town of 400 in Maine US. Somalis starting up their own mall, building from scratch - that Somali actor (Boardwalk Empire. The Road) wot recently bought the farm.
Pretty good. Holds the interest. Produced by Steven King which is a good thing cos if he wrote it you can be sure it would rather stinky-stink-stink.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2022 20:08:23 GMT
Its Friday night Talking Pictures Channel: 20:00 - OUTER LIMITS [1964] CELLAR CLUB hosted by Caroline Munroe of Hammer House of Horror/Bond Girl fame. 21:00 - CURSE OF THE CRIMSON ALTER [1968] 01:15 - SHADOW OF FEAR [1971]
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Post by deacon on Jan 8, 2022 1:37:25 GMT
CURSE OF CRIMSON ALTAR is okay. I seem to recall one of the early Dr Who's starred in this.
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UNKNOWN Liam Neeson comes out of a 4 day comma to have his wife say she never heard of him and someone taking his name/place at a Berlin convention. German actor Ganz is great in this.
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Andre: this forum sucks. No one is contributing. Do you know of another forum where we can go?
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Post by baggs on Jan 9, 2022 18:59:31 GMT
HAPPY VALLY (huddersfield)
police drama series
How come so many BBC/ITV series (DCI Banks, Scarborough, Dalziel & Pascoe,etc) are filmed in Yorkshire Can you think of any filmed in, say, East Anglia or the picturesque Lake District?
Always tough, dismal, sinister-looking, workingclass Yorkshire where every town mainstreet corner comes with its habitual shambling, shady ne-er-do-well. Even lighthearted series like Heartbeat - ferk! every stranger that Gina falls in love with turns out to be a criminal.
Ferkin' Royston Vasey loikes.
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Post by baggs on Jan 10, 2022 18:43:11 GMT
Haunted House of Horror is crap.
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Yesterday I did a Happy Valley season one indulgence - watched it from 10 am to about 6PM.
The opening theme song ends: "Troubled city where the only thing that's pretty is the thought of getting out"
Huddersfield/Halifax
Gonneur start season two now.
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Post by baggs on Jan 10, 2022 22:30:35 GMT
ATLANTIS (Ukraine, 2019)
Dismal, grim, film. Slow slow mover. Like Kubrick's 2001, lotta tedious long-distance, drawn-out shots. So much so that you rarely get to see any semblance of good shot of actors' faces. Open spaces, derelict factories,scorched earth.
From the boring beginning to the protracted fuck scene at the end there is no hope here.
Sort of reminds of tha very dark version of "1984" (with Burton & John Hurt). This is a dystopian film only its THE MOST RECENT distopia movie I've ever seen since its only a few years in the future: The year is 2025 and the war has been over for just over a year.The Soviets have departed leaving East Ukraine a mine-filled desert. They have poisoned the water and soil. Our "hero" is ex Ukrainian soldier (sniper?) who now drives a tanker of precious water. He meets with a woman who has volunteered for the dreadful job of bringing exhumed corpses for identification so as to inform relatives.
I guess this is called "Atlantis" because, like Atlantis, Ukraine has gone down under and is unlivable anymore.(The woman says it will take decades to de-mine the land and clean the wells.Ukraine has become un-resettleable;unworkable, dead to humanity. She advises the truck driver to join her humanitarian work elsewhere in another beaten country - and leave this godforsaken place of no hope.
If you like panoramic, slow-burn scenes of rusting factories and slag heaps , this is for you.
Won a prize at recent Venice Film Festival...but they don't say for what.
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Post by baggs on Jan 15, 2022 14:14:32 GMT
Well, I gave Vera yet another try. Season foxing 10!
AGAIN I tried two episodes and just could not finish them due to complete lack of interest. (And ,like I stated beefwhore, it is almost never that I drop-out of a BBC production). Its always the same old-same old. Them going thru 10 red herrings.
Lacky: "We checked his cellphone contacts." Vera: "See if there is any CCTV in the area." Lacky: "Will do! I never thought of that."
Oh, fox off.
.... The thing I absolutely love about BBC is that they remain loyal to their actors. You can see them age thru the decades. Familiar faces anorl. The smaller character actors moreso.
Eventually they all end up on Midsomer Murders beefwhore they pop their clogs.
Brenda Blethyn had an '80s role (living with another woman - but they never made it clear that they were lesbian.) She used to be a real good-looker. It was one of the excellent P.D.James Dalgleish detective mysteries. I forget the title. (Not "Shroud for a Nightingale") And eve
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