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WAKEWOOD 2017??


aIDAN gILL-WOTSIT (FROM gAME oF tHRONES) and this skirt wot looks loike Catherine Deneuve.
Couple's daughter gets mauled and dies. Couple move to isolated cottage. Funny goings-on by the locals led by Timothy Spall.Villagers are fecked-in-the-head ; Wickerbloke loikes.

Very slow and boring....but believable.
Stark -little dialogue and almost no soundtrack.

Gotta feeling this is Oyerish - not Brit. (I've pretty well never seen ANYTHING worth come out of Ireland or Australia.)

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Horror Hospital 1973

Despite the lame title, this is a good'un.

Sad to see the venerable actor, Dennis Price reduced to a bit role in something like this.

That is the little karlick (dwarf) that played Hop-frog in the Corman Poe adaptation.

Dig the part where coolcat Abraham strolls onto the grounds with that hipster Herb Alpertish muzack.

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Cthulhu Mansion (1992)

This sucks so bad.

First third of film is totally unnecessary.

Teen thugs murder someone in the fairground Haunted House. They kidnap a stage magician and force him to drive them to his mansion where they can hide from the law. Normally this story could be laid down on film in 5 minutes. here it takes 25.


This movie is like watching Sammy Davis Junior do "Here Comes the Judge" on eternal loop in the middle of HELL.

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PSYCHOMANIA ('73) Just watched it.

Motorcycles amongst the Standing Stones.
Rockin' soundtrack.

The smooth, classy George Sanders in his last role.
The ubiquitous Robert Hardy. I mean - this actor shows up everywhere through all Brit cinema. He must have more roles than Christopher Lee!

They rate this one rather highly, but, IMHopo, good acting does not help much in a failing ,nothing plot: again we have teenage roustabouts making trouble. Zombie-motorcyclists and a pact with The Devil. Ho-hum.

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HORROR EXPRESS '72

Prehistoric man-creature frozen in Manchuriais being transported on Trans Siberian Express.
Telly Savalis -pre-Kojack - shows up 2/3 way thru this film, as a cocksure Cossack.

Well-done but weak, predictable story.
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CITY OF THE DEAD aka HORROR HOTEL

cheap sets but, wot the heck, its made in 1966.
Decent acting. Once again its Christpher Lee.
Witch burnings, curse anorl.

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ISOLATION

Isolated Irish farm. Cow gives birth to pregnant calf.

Farmer being paid-off.

Genetic modification, loikes. Oyerish probs.

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POSSESSION '81

A young Australian actor, Sam Neil, who now gets tons of roles, and Adjani - both outrageously over-acting.

First half of movie is dead-boring couple-with-problems fodder. Then it becomes a horror movie. You are reminded of Polanski's "Repulsion" only "Repulsion" is classic and this is just mediocre.
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CRAZE (1973)

Antiques dealer (Jack Palance) has an African idol (the lovegod, Chewkoo) in the basement which demands chickiepoo-sacrifice.
Somehow they looped Hugh Griffith, Diana Dors and Trevor Howard into this rubbish.

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THEATRE OF BLOOD '73

excellent cast:
Vincent & Dennis Price, Micheal Hordern,Eric Sykes,Diana Rigg,Robert Morely......



This one is rated rather highly but Blind Child saeth, "ho-hum"

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AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS ('71)

Not bad Amicus film - yet another with Patrick McNee

Herbert Lom, Cushing, Rosalie Crutchley...well you can't really go wrong, can you.

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EYE OF THE DEVIL (1966)

Atmospheric Pagan sacrifice film
David Niven, Deborah Kerr, David Hemmings, & Donald Pleasence get down onnit.
Crops failing...need blood. Holy Wickerman!!

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THE GORGON

You all know the mythology: over 2000 years ago there were three sister-monstrosities, The Gorgons whose gaze could turn men to stone..
The second sister, Medusa , is slain by Perseus, who beheads her , avoiding her gaze by looking at the reflection in his shield.

Well, this here Hammer film, proposes that the spirit of the third sister, Magrathea (or sumfink loike that) , goes to Austro-Hungarian pre WW2 times, possessing a woman's body and habituating a castle that has been empty the last 50 years.

This is a lesser known Hammer and one of the best ones. Good sets, solid acting (Lee, Cushing, and David Troughton (Dr Who). Also that actor wot was in the series, "Sorrell And Son" does a great job here. Director Terrence Fisher is associated with the better Hammers.

Totally shoite special effects at the end - where Lee beheads the Gorgon - but wot do you expect , its made in 1964.

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THE GHOUL

Peter Cushng, John Hurt

Get down onnit, okay?

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DOMINIQUE

Jean Simmons, Simon Ward


rubbish
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DARK WATERS


poo.

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INCENSE FOR THE DAMNED aka THE BLOODSUCKERS aka DOCTORS WEAR SCARLET (of course, there are no doctors in this crap film) 1970

Speaking of Wickerman, this has Edward Woodward in it. Cushing,Patrick McNee (Steed of The Avengers).

An Oxford don - he is no more than 25, yet a don! Jesus! It took me 40 years to become a Prog Masterman! - specializing in Greek mythology, falls in with a bad "happening" crowd of decadent youth on the islands of Greece.
You don't find out till most ways through this "film" that - of course - they are vampires of an old Greek Minoan cult.
They have put him under some sorta trance spell. Word gewts round of murdered teens in the countryside traced to this famous Oxford "don".
McNee and three others rush to Greece to find their friend and clear his name.

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The earth dies screaming (1964)

Our old friend, Dennis Price.

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TALES OF UNEASE "70 (??) tv series

Blind Child has only watched one episode:

Its the end of the workday and two cocksucker-executives are wrapping it up after a hard-day's grind issuing a redundancy memo. Many senior employees are to be fucked-over so as to make room for skirt to enter the workplace.

Its on the 20th floor and they find they cant get out - the elevator seems not to function. (Actually it really does not function at all.) And -not explained at all - the emergency stair exit has been blocked off by a fucking sliding metal door, chrissakes!
The room begins to be pumped full of freezing, very humid air. A voice comes on the wotsit: "Pounding on the doors shan't bring you any good, my fine cocksucking cocksuckers."
It is a taped message and it also does not do them any good to try to reason with it. They are told they will be poisoned to death (via sprinkler system) if they do not send out a counter-memo rescinding the imminent layoffs of their hardworking old gaffers.

And I just realized this has NOTHING to do with the supernatural , so.....

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Sapphire and Steel.

TV series starring David McCallum and Joanne Lumley as supernatural investigators. Didn't last long but should have developed further.

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SYMPTOMS '74

Not supernatural, but madness.

Angela Pleasance (daughter of Donald) invites female friend to her country mansion where she lives alone except for a shady oddjob man played by Peter Vaughn.

Slow, slow, slow...but good.

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HAUNTED 1995

Nice look to this one.Afterall, settings are VERY important in this genre of film.

I won't give the plot away but you can figure it out pretty soon. (Even if your watching the Polish-spoken version on youtube.) The clue is in the title.

Good example of what can be achieved with mood & minimum special effects. And thats what Brithorrors are all about.

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Have been watching Scooby Doo with my grandaughter. :lol: Brings back childhood memories.

I know it's not British, but has stood the test of time.
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Hammer House of Horror (1980) had a few decent episodes. Urban Gothic was quite good. Penny Dreadful was a British/American co-production and if I can count that, I really liked it. Becoming Human (not the U.S. remake) was excellent if you like a few laughs along with your gore.

Most of the films you've mentioned from the seventies, I saw when they came out.

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I used to like the old Hammer horror films with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushon.
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