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Old 15-07-2005, 02:37 PM
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Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors (1964)

I found myself just fancying another peek at this Amicus portmanteau after chatting here about From Beyond The Grave.

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Is this the one with Chris Lee and his witchy little daughter? I thought that was a great story ...

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Old 15-07-2005, 03:16 PM
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Is this the one with Chris Lee and his witchy little daughter? I thought that was a great story ...
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House That Dripped Blood is the one for 'Sweets for the Sweet' (as I think that episode is called. With the wonderfully innocent seeming Chloe Franks as Chris Lee's daughter.... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbsup.gif[/img]

She also appears as Joan Collins' daughter in the Tales From The Crypt 'Santa Claus is coming' segment. It always tickles me that hubby, who gets seen off by Joanie at the start, is that wonderfully appropriately-named character actor, Martin Boddey ! [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Hoep you enjoy the wine and get to have a Smashing Time later - me, I'm off down the pub... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]

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I had a quick look at Harlequin last night on BBC1 just to see the quality of the broadcast. I was most pissed off to find that the broadcast was a far superior quality to the released DVD I have of this film. I wish I had recorded it now.
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Old 15-07-2005, 08:13 PM
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John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm. One of those period films, and an eccentric one at that, that the BBC do so well. Kate Beckinsale is quite marvelous as the lead and proves she could once act before crossing the Atalantic and ending up in Pearl Harbour. Just a shame more use wasn't made of Ian McKellen as the barking mad preacher.

Still no idea what it was the grandmother saw in the woodshed in the opening b&w scenes.
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John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm. One of those period films, and an eccentric one at that, that the BBC do so well. Kate Beckinsale is quite marvelous as the lead and proves she could once act before crossing the Atalantic and ending up in Pearl Harbour. Just a shame more use wasn't made of Ian McKellen as the barking mad preacher.

Still no idea what it was the grandmother saw in the woodshed in the opening b&w scenes.
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Yes, it was a good production. CCF. Was Freddy Jones in that one?

I recorded and watched 'Horror Hospital' - 'struth, what a waste of film! The excellent Michael Gough in such rubbish. Still, I suppose it pays the mortgage! And some actors can't be as choosey as others. I never got to the end, having rewound it half way through and watched Jack Dee instead. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]
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John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm. One of those period films, and an eccentric one at that, that the BBC do so well. Kate Beckinsale is quite marvelous as the lead and proves she could once act before crossing the Atalantic and ending up in Pearl Harbour. Just a shame more use wasn't made of Ian McKellen as the barking mad preacher.

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Yes, it was a good production. CCF. Was Freddy Jones in that one?

I recorded and watched 'Horror Hospital' - 'struth, what a waste of film! The excellent Michael Gough in such rubbish. Still, I suppose it pays the mortgage! And some actors can't be as choosey as others. I never got to the end, having rewound it half way through and watched Jack Dee instead. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/thumbdown.gif[/img]
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I watched the swinging 60s "Smashing Time" with Rita Tushingham this weekend. I haven't seen this film in many years and really enjoyed it. That put me in a totally 60s mood so I watched "Here we go the Mulberry bush" again. I just love this film. The scenes where he watches Judy Geeson from afar, there is a little bit of acoustic guitar which is incredibly melancholy, pure magic. Like many people here I never get tired of this film.
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I have the US version of the soundtrack album of this film ,(Mulberry Bush). Apart from the Spencer Davis and Traffic stuff, there is some music written and performed by Andy Ellison. He was part of of a band called John's Children which included Marc Bolan. Another member was Simon Napier-Bell who would later go on to manage Wham. (Takes off anorak). [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif[/img]
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I tried to watch it for kitsch value but after the opening 20 minutes I was fast asleep. Shame really as the beheading Rolls Royce hinted it was going to be a truly ridiulous horror.
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Weekend viewing:

The Magnificent 7 deadly sins
Vault of Horror (with TT)

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Vault of Horror on this weekend, huh? Time I re-recorded it ....
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No, no, that is what I watched last weekend (on DVD).
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Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth)

Does this count as a Britflick ? It stars Ollie Reed, Geraldine Chaplin and Diane Cilento.

Michael Campus' bleak tale of a post-apocalyptic Earth, heavily over-populated and smog bound, where breeding is forbidden for an entire generation. This worldwide edict carries the sentence of death.

Like No Blade Of Grass meets Rosemary's Baby, this one has two basic plots ; the illicit birth and its discovery and subsequent blackmail by the baby-less neighbours. It only has one moment of genuine tension and a number of convenient cop-outs which build up to the ending.

Reed is given very little to do apart from look broody and moody in equal measure. Cilento steals the film with her obsessive and eventually insane character.

Doom laden, like many of its contemporaries, this film suffers that curse of the early 70s ; incidental music which forgets that it's supposed to be incidental.

Still interesting though, particularly for how the State portrays the 1970s to be the death throes of the earth, had they not come in and made everything illegal after the (pre-requisite) nuclear wars.

Some wonderfully (now) kitsch set designs and concepts. One for the completists or the curious... [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/shocking.gif[/img]

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Yep, the farmhand.
I tried to watch it for kitsch value but after the opening 20 minutes I was fast asleep. Shame really as the beheading Rolls Royce hinted it was going to be a truly ridiulous horror.
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I suffered the same fate - asleep after 30 minutes. The scene where Robin Askwith catches a train to the country house was truly amazing - railway buffs would have detected the continuity girl took the day off! Mind you, judging by the terrible dialogue, I think the scriptwriter took the entire movie off. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]
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No, no, that is what I watched last weekend (on DVD).
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Thanks for that - I would have been scanning the paper for ages, trying to find it!! So you have the DVD?
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Come on! H.H. wasn't that bad.....was it? I for one really enjoyed it. I think it's a bit of a Marmite film.

I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority on this one. I guess I'm just a sucker for anything with a 70s "vibe" really, good or bad.

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