Films NOT really for kids.

[batman]

Originally Posted by Windthrop Denis Giffords by any chance ?

We had that book, but that didn't come out till the 70s IIRC .... we had a book about Universal films plus assorted editions of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland'.

[PaulPlowman]

When I saw Raiders Of The Lost Ark as a child, the ending really freaked me out. For quite a while after that, I watched every film through my fingers just in case something horrific happened. And that was a PG! Steven Spielberg always seems to be treated quite lightly by the BBFC; Jurassic Park got a PG as well, despite featuring severed limbs and people being eaten and general terror.

[Carmel]

lady in white started out as a child's film great film but not really appropriate for children, plus the part were he is locked in the school and sees the ghost of the little girl quite creepy.

[Marky B]

Originally Posted by PaulPlowman When I saw Raiders Of The Lost Ark as a child, the ending really freaked me out. For quite a while after that, I watched every film through my fingers just in case something horrific happened. And that was a PG! Steven Spielberg always seems to be treated quite lightly by the BBFC; Jurassic Park got a PG as well, despite featuring severed limbs and people being eaten and general terror.

Interesting point that,Paul. I remember I was talking to a woman I used to know and I remarked how frightening the film was - especially when the T-Rex (or whatever they call them now) was chasing the Jeep with Jeff Goldblum at the back. Anyway,she replied:"How can you find it frightening when you know it can't happen."
And those words have stuck in my mind whenever I watch the movie.
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[Marky B]

Quote from Jan Dawson.
"There is a heightened discrepency between the romping jolity with which everyone goes about his business and the actual business being gone about....such narrative elements as the exploitation of child labour,pimping abduction,prostitution and murder combine to make Oliver! the most non-U subject ever to receive a U certificate."

Still a great film.
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Marky B

[Marky B]

Originally Posted by batman We had that book, but that didn't come out till the 70s IIRC .... we had a book about Universal films plus assorted editions of 'Famous Monsters of Filmland'.

I've got the Pictorial History Of Horror Films by Dennis Gifford.
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Marky B

[penfold]

Originally Posted by Windthrop Denis Giffords by any chance ?

The Pictorial History of Horror Movies...about '72, without digging my copy out. I had it on near-permanent loan from the local library when I was a kid...as it was writtten before the 8o's slashers and the tail-end of Hammer, so as well as the usual Universal suspects there were fantastic full-page plates from the silent era - Der Golem, Nosferatu, Faust, various Lon Chaneys....that had a direct impact in me getting into silents fifteen years later. Bought a copy from Hay-On-Wye for old times sake, to find it a very well written account, especially good on Val Lewton. You still see copies around, well worth having, even now.
As a sideline, apparently David Pirie's Heritage of Horror - possibly the first academic book to take British Horror films seriously, and a seminal work in the field of British films generally, has been republished in an updated version. The original (from '72) was getting very expensive and hard to find.

[silverwhistle]

Originally Posted by faginsgirl Me too Silverwhistle, I loved Hammer horror from being small Anything to do with the supernatural is and always has been normal to me! xx

Yes.
I think the things I have always found most frightening and/or depressing are soap operas and mundane tales in which no-one seems to have an imaginative/inner life, or give any sign of being capable of intellectual activity. I know some people live that way, but it horrifies me.

[Greyandwhite]

Originally Posted by Marky B I've got the Pictorial History Of Horror Films by Dennis Gifford. Ta Ta Marky B

Did that have a predominantly green dust jacket with Frankenstein's Monster on it? If so I had that as a lad and used to pour over it for hours at a time with my mates. I also used to make my squemish big sister nauseous with some of the photos. I seem to remember some monster with an axe in its head crawling up a beach (could be two separate photos combined in my memory)! I'll look out for that in my trawling of 2nd hand bookshops but I don't know if it ever got published here in Aus.

[batman]

It seems like most of us had a copy of this.

[Everett Sloane]

Originally Posted by Greyandwhite I had that as a lad and used to pour over it for hours at a time with my mates.

Too much information!

[faginsgirl]

Originally Posted by batman It seems like most of us had a copy of this.

Me too!

xx

[Greyandwhite]

Originally Posted by batman It seems like most of us had a copy of this.

Yes, that's the one. Many thanks Bats. I've got chills just looking at it again!

[Greyandwhite]

Originally Posted by Everett Sloane Too much information!

Ah, yes. Obviously, I meant pore over here, Everett. Is that the joke? Or is it just a Finbarr Saunders "Yik, Yik" type of thing. Still, well spotted whichever it is.



(To everyone else..tell me, does he do this sort of thing a lot?)

[Marky B]

Originally Posted by Greyandwhite Yes, that's the one. Many thanks Bats. I've got chills just looking at it again!

That was the book that introduced me to Rondo Hatton,an actor who had suffered facial and bodily deformity as a result of acromegaly. He was used in many horror films in the thirties and forties before his early death in 1946 aged 51/51.
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