We will be waiting Jinx! It's kind of cool that your newest "blog header art" has you with your palm facing the audience...like the art for WAKE WOOD...cept no blood...and a friendlier message :) r/e
I've been very disappointed with the new Hammer's releases especially "Let Me In" which I wasn't going to watch ever but did and hated. I don't think they'll ever recapture their heyday which, for me, was the '70s. I hope this new film does well but I fear the worst.
There doesnt seem much room on the modern market for that good old cheese that Hammer used to create. But I hope that changes. I'll be watching out for this one!
Just getting back to you on this now that I've seen it... it wasn't as bad as it could have been but... well, I think we all know a certain very famous Stephen King story which it is far too similar to. :(
I'm looking forward to The Wake Wood at some point (not sure about a US release date). I'm glad to see the Hammer brand lurching back to life- I may be in the minority, but I actually enjoyed "Let Me In" (I thought it was superior to the original from a purely technical perspective, although it was also rather pointless as it added nothing new to the story). I hear what Dr. Blood is saying about the obvious similarity to Pet Semetary, but I can live with that sort of thing while Hammer gets back on its feet.
The Rentaghost cast When I was young Rentaghost was my absolute favourite show ever Once, when I was about seven, in an attempt to integrate me, my mother suggested I join the Brownies; the idea was met with scorn and derision largely because the Brownies swarmed (I’m assuming that’s what Brownies do) on a Rentaghost night, and they sucked, and dressed like tiny poos, and they sucked. It turned out later that I just wasn’t a naturally inclined participator in group activities. Needless to say I didn’t have a lot of friends as youngster, but then there are also no childhood pictures of me dressed like a chubby, redheaded turd at a jamboree somewhere, so take that, Brownies, who’s big and clever now?! Rentaghost was a British children's television comedy programme broadcast on the BBC between 1976 and 1984 and revolved around a company, 'Rentaghost', which hired out ghosts for a variety of potentially hilarious jobs and purposes. The first series of Rentaghost saw th
Kurt Russell R.J. MacReady The Thing (1982) I’m fairly certain that it’s widely agreed upon and that I can speak on behalf of everyone everywhere when I say that The Thing is awesome. I’m also confident that few people will disagree when I say that Kurt Russell in The Thing is awesome. But, despite the inarguable awesomeness of Mr. Russell, there is still one who monumentally and heroically overshadows even him, one who is the true star of The Thing, and that star is, of course, Kurt Russell’s beard! As helicopter pilot R.J. MacReady, Kurt Russell, or more specifically Kurt Russell’s beard, is stationed at U.S. Outpost 31 in the Antarctic when all manner of alien skulduggery kicks off and it seems apparent to me that it was the beard who was running this show. Although part of a twelve man crew, MacReady is something of the brooding loner and prefers to spend his time alone in his cabin playing computer chess and cultivating an alcohol problem. Despite this, and a general al
I have issues with Clive Barker. In theory I should love him, the gore factor, the homoeroticism, the 80s, etc., but somehow I find his books inherently forgettable and that annoys me because I really want to love him and he insists on making that so hard for me. I keep being surprised by books of his, they jump out at me from nowhere and I discover I’ve read them and just couldn’t remember a damn thing about them. (Actually the reason CB keeps cropping up in my house at the moment is that my husband has suddenly developed something of a big boy crush on him and his novels keep dropping through my letterbox with alarming regularity and startling me with their familiarity). When I read the blurb about Coldheart Canyon I thought that it was going to be right up my street: A Hollywood Ghost Story, it promised me, I love old Hollywood, I love ghost stories, this has to be the Clive Barker book for me! Also, one irate Amazon reviewer described it as: ‘far from what I would call horro
We will be waiting Jinx!
ReplyDeleteIt's kind of cool that your newest "blog header art" has you with your palm facing the audience...like the art for WAKE WOOD...cept no blood...and a friendlier message :)
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It's good to see Hammer back at work. I grew up on the films from the old Chris Lee/Peter Cushing/Barbara Steele days.
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I've been very disappointed with the new Hammer's releases especially "Let Me In" which I wasn't going to watch ever but did and hated. I don't think they'll ever recapture their heyday which, for me, was the '70s. I hope this new film does well but I fear the worst.
ReplyDeleteThere doesnt seem much room on the modern market for that good old cheese that Hammer used to create. But I hope that changes. I'll be watching out for this one!
ReplyDeleteCheers Jinx
Just getting back to you on this now that I've seen it... it wasn't as bad as it could have been but... well, I think we all know a certain very famous Stephen King story which it is far too similar to. :(
ReplyDeleteI'm looking forward to The Wake Wood at some point (not sure about a US release date). I'm glad to see the Hammer brand lurching back to life- I may be in the minority, but I actually enjoyed "Let Me In" (I thought it was superior to the original from a purely technical perspective, although it was also rather pointless as it added nothing new to the story). I hear what Dr. Blood is saying about the obvious similarity to Pet Semetary, but I can live with that sort of thing while Hammer gets back on its feet.
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