blackhole.bsky.social
Love modernist architecture, horror movies, 1970s paperbacks (especially from New English Library), building original Lego models, movie locations, Blade Runner, Lon Chaney, Peter Cushing, Amicus films, David Lynch…
Gay, and in the UK.
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Love this cover too.
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Why?
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Also starring Bruce Dern, Dennis Hopper and Susan Strasberg. Great cast for a Corman!
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I’m a huge fan of helicopter action scenes and don’t know how I’ve missed this series until now. I guess it wasn’t ever aired in the UK, but still.
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Discount grammar and mixed messages!
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Main one is that the original design for the Millennium Falcon was considered too similar to the Eagle Transporter, thus getting a last minute redesign. But the name… Falcon, Eagle? Millennium, 1999…
Besides the senior visual effects guy from Space:1999 joining the crew of Empire Strikes Back.
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Ewwww.
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I think he’d already passed by the time it was shown in the UK.
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Yes! Why no film adaption? The library ‘dream’ makes me love it even more.
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Of course, the 18th century internet was
ridiculously slow compared to nowadays.
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I’m amazed at how some of your posts never become headline news.
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Saw it in the cinema. It’s one of a few of his movies I keep rewatching.
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George Romero was amused at how flashy the movie’s Pittsburgh River Police speedboats were.
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Any good?
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A must see. Scary soundtrack from Lalo Schifrin.
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There’ve been many more Enigma albums since. Love ‘em!
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Nice. Thankfully Ennis has had some much needed work.
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Lucky! I always check for tours of the Ennis Brown house when I’m in town. (Not that it’s happened very often for decades.)
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Absolutely. Pity they didn’t stick with the same look for the interiors.
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A happy happenstance.
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Of course now I don’t read nearly as many magazines or papers, and switched to collecting images online. Including a large number of behind the scenes photos of movies, modernist buildings, sci-fi art, things I’d like to build in Lego…
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Although I didn’t keep up scrapbooks after this, I never stopped collecting photos and cuttings from papers and magazines.
Bubble gum cards in the 60s and 70s, postcards of movie posters in the 80s…
Used them for two huge collages on my study bedroom walls. Still have them.
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Just bought this magazine again. At the time, I filleted out most of these articles for my scrapbook. I’d just turned 12.
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I guess that these two book plugs in Film Review were how I learned about Gifford’s magnificent horror movie book and this paperback edition of the first great Harryhausen book, that’s mostly photos and production sketches. Both books were republished and expanded.
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1973 interview with Linda Hayden and features on Ray Harryhausen and more…
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It has everything!
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Love how the poster blends the Mayan-esque modernism of the Frank Lloyd Wright location with a more typical haunted house.
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There’s also a sixth, it was the hardest to find.
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I’m currently collecting his anthologies.
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Same here. The bread has a weird, inescapable aftertaste that swamps everything else.
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Nope (twice). But have lost count of my (complete) rereads of The House on the Borderland.
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I’m sure he’s sincere. He never lies.
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There weren’t any chainsaws in The Godfather. Is he thinking of Scarface?
But please, feel free to carry on playing with power tools. On ketamine. Make my day.
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Amazing sword fights, superb locations and production design (influenced by Ken Russell’s The Devils?) glorious music, stellar cast, funny, thrilling… and with an excellent sequel too.
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A “stab murder”? Never heard that phrase before. Try ‘fatal stabbing’. And if you’re ever unsure about the wording in a headline again, ask your teacher.
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Anyone saying it’s “not Lynchian” obviously haven’t watched it.
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Also cheats at golf.
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In the UK, it was
banned from cinemas until the 1960s!
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With electricity prices high and storm/flood outages, this could be more about logic than ecology. But it’s a no-brainer for the sunnier states, now that the kit is cheaper.
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Of course! Was lucky enough to see it in the cinema, as the supporting film in a 70s’ double-bill.
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Still an entertaining film. Used to play repeatedly on TV in the UK.