Unman, Wittering and Zigo

[penfold]

It was filmed at my old school...well, most of it; the cliff scenes are elsewhere, but the school interiors, the squash court, the woods, are horribly familiar. The schoolboy extras were prefects when I got there; some of the teaching staff were used as extras as well. I have a poster, but not the film itself; I didn't have a great time there, not sure I want to see it now, even after this amount of time (30 years...)

So, did any of your schoolteachers appear in sadistic horror flicks??

[Rob Compton]

Originally posted by penfold@May 18 2005, 12:13 AM

It was filmed at my old school...well, most of it; the cliff scenes are elsewhere, but the school interiors, the squash court, the woods, are horribly familiar. The schoolboy extras were prefects when I got there; some of the teaching staff were used as extras as well. I have a poster, but not the film itself; I didn't have a great time there, not sure I want to see it now, even after this amount of time (30 years...)

So, did any of your schoolteachers appear in sadistic horror flicks??

Can't say they have, penfold (least I don't think so!) But Mr Walker, one of my teachers, did have the pleasure of beating John Major at one school I attended! This was before he was PM, of course!



Do you mind saying which school you meant re U, W and Z, penfold?



rgds

Rob

[penfold]

Originally posted by Rob Compton@May 18 2005, 12:51 PM

Do you mind saying which school you meant re U, W and Z, penfold?



rgds

Rob

A minor (i.e. crap) public school called Reading Blue Coat School, on the banks of the Thames at Sonning. Also featured in an episode of Morse, this time masquerading as a girls school, with the pupils including Liz Hurley ...but this was AFTER my sentence was over....the school has a website if you want to compare photos with memories of the film. Just don't send your kids there.

[Steve Crook]

Originally posted by penfold@May 19 2005, 12:40 AM

A minor (i.e. crap) public school called Reading Blue Coat School, on the banks of the Thames at Sonning. Also featured in an episode of Morse, this time masquerading as a girls school, with the pupils including Liz Hurley ...but this was AFTER my sentence was over.

Also used as a location for The Hole (2001).



Steve

[penfold]

So I can add Keira Knightley and Thora Birch to my fellow alumni

I really timed my school years badly, then; all my peer group looked like the Llanelli front row...mind you , so did I...I just looked at the old school website, and it's gone from being a single-sex boarding school to a co-ed day school...progress at last. I had to smile at the fulsome tributes to the recently-deceased head from my time there; we all called him Davros after his benign management skills and oratorial style...no mention of THAT in the obits...



Thanks for telling me that Steve; I just have to decide whether I want to watch The Hole now. There really were weird tunnels in that place, from the dining room to the woods for instance (why?) and although the building is late Victorian gothic, it's built on older foundations, like the house in The Stone Tape. Well, mediaeval at least...I spent a fair amount of time dodging people in the vaulted stone-built cellars

[penfold]

I know there have been a couple of questions here about the location of the school building in UW&Z, well the episode of Morse screening tonight on ITV3 at 10.00pm was also filmed there.

[michaelmace]

I walked right past it just the other day on a bracing trek along the Thames Path from Henley-in-Thames to Reading.