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Old 31-05-2007, 09:44 PM
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Thanks, A... I was only looking at the North American list of 497 DVDs released this past week - I hadn't got to the Region-2 lists! Excellent!
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In 2005, they were releasing 150 DVDs a week or so, and rarely hitting 250 for a special week or two. Now it's 350-400 commonly, and 450-550 per for 12 or 15 weeks a year. Maybe those DVD Forests are so thinned out that all they could afford were the Maughams for the Region-2 markets! "Sorry - we can't chop down more DVD trees yet... wait 'til next week..."

I'm sure that must be the reason North America doesn't get a lot of the Region-2-Only releases.
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Default Headless Ghost... 1959
"Teenagers wander into a haunted castle and are 'attacked' by a ghost looking for his head."

And the film itself is a LOT worse. This is halfway between Scooby-Doo and Lost Skeletons, and probably more than an homage to CANTERVILLE and other castle-ghost films. And a whole lot less of a film.

Still, I'm glad to have watched it. "Been there, done that" has an upside.
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Still, I'm glad to have watched it.
Which is more than I can say about the movie I watched tonight. 'Prince of Darkness'... enough said.
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Old 05-06-2007, 09:09 AM
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Which is more than I can say about the movie I watched tonight. 'Prince of Darkness'... enough said.
If that was the John Carpenter film, it is truly terrible.

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If that was the John Carpenter film, it is truly terrible.

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As a Hammer fan, I'm not overly keen on their similarly titled Dracula Prince of Darkness, either. It's got a couple a memorable set pieces (most memorably the Count's resurraction), but on the whole I find it a little staid and dull. The following two (...Has Risen from the Grave and Taste the Blood of... ) are much livelier and thought-provoking.
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As a Hammer fan, I'm not overly keen on their similarly titled Dracula Prince of Darkness, either. It's got a couple a memorable set pieces (most memorably the Count's resurraction), but on the whole I find it a little staid and dull. The following two (...Has Risen from the Grave and Taste the Blood of... ) are much livelier and thought-provoking.
Isn't it funny how we all like different things (a good job too). This is my favourite Hammer Dracula. I find it really menacing and unsettling and the fact that Dracula doesn't speak really works for me.

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If that was the John Carpenter film, it is truly terrible.
Yeps. I had seen it years ago but forgot the title. When I sat down to watch it last night, I remembered it and my heart sank.

I have 'Patrick', 'Black Christmas' and 'The Changeling' arrive on my door step today. None of them may be British... but at least none of the are from the USA - lol - so maybe I won't be lynched on this forum - lol. They're all from Commonwealth countries
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As a Hammer fan, I'm not overly keen on their similarly titled Dracula Prince of Darkness, either.
John Carpenter's 'Prince of Darkness' isn't a Dracula movie, M'lard

My favourate Draccie is the one with the John Williams score, and starring Frank Langella, Lawrence of Olivier and a Pleasence fellow named after a famous duck (with the real Sylvester McCoy in a small role)
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These Dangerous Years.

Another film in the mould of Some People; shot by middle-aged adults and displaying how 'the kids' are misunderstood and can find an outlet througn music. In this case the rebel is erm.. Frankie Vaughan. An interesting document of the times with some Liverpool locations but all terribly predictable.
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Old 05-06-2007, 08:55 PM
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These Dangerous Years.

Another film in the mould of Some People; shot by middle-aged adults and displaying how 'the kids' are misunderstood and can find an outlet througn music. In this case the rebel is erm.. Frankie Vaughan. An interesting document of the times with some Liverpool locations but all terribly predictable.
Liverpool must have been a dodgy place in those days ..... i recently watched Violent Playground with Stanley Baker. David McCallum was pretty dangerous with his machine gun, but Frankie must have been devastating with at cane of his! Bats.
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Liverpool must have been a dodgy place in those days ..... i recently watched Violent Playground with Stanley Baker. David McCallum was pretty dangerous with his machine gun, but Frankie must have been devastating with that cane of his! Bats.
Frankie Vaughan and his Droogs in A Clockwork Scouser.

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Wed night, May 30, TCM-America broadcast three wonderful Somerset Maugham films, QUARTET, TRIO and ENCORE.

Wonderful films that are 4, 3 and 3 adaptations of Maugham's short stories, done by different directors, different casts. Maugham introduces two of the three films' collections, and discusses his critics and his career's writings. "Sometimes fact and fiction are so intertwined, I can't remember who the real people were and which were only characters," he laughs.

Fortunately, the DVD forests remain untouched because these films aren't worthy of DVD production. This week's other 497 titles get released instead. We're so lucky these films didn't make it an even 500. (Why hasn't DB installed that Sarcasm Font yet?)
love all these films Christine, check out the segment Mr. Know it all??? or something like that (Nigel Patrick) superb story and acting and a lovely little twist.
keep well and remember the Long Arm
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THE SPIDER AND THE FLY

Eric Portman and Guy Rolfe as cop and burglar in a tense game of cat and mouse in pre WWI France. Exciting, beautifully photographed by Geoffrey Unsworth and with an unexpected ending. Well worth 85 mins of anyone'stime.

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