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Current Talk '07 I / Re: julia
« on: March 22, 2007, 08:44:24 PM »
Julia DID get her own back by bitch-slapping more people than anybody else at Collinwood.  At last count, besides Dear Dead Cassandra (hahahaha), Julia bitch-slapped Mrs. Johnson, Joe Haskell, and Sabrina.  She may have bitch-slapped Willie at one point, too--I honestly forget.

I sometimes wonder whether bitch-slapping was an approved technique with the American Psychiatric Association, given how frequently Julia used it to help various individuals "calm" themselves...

evilly grinning,

Gothique

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Birthday blessings to the eternally beautiful Mr. Briscoe.  May he rest in peace.

Steve

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Sorry to hear that these are not legit releases, but thanks Darren for letting us know.

A friend of mine turned my old VHS of The Devil's Daughter into a DVD-R, but I held onto the tape, and I'm glad I did so, now that I know about the very limited shelf-life of DVD-R's.

I agree one thousand percent about the need for decent releases of those wonderful old TV movies of the Seventies.  The one I want is The Cat Creature, with fabulous Gale Sondergaard (directed by genre afficionado Curtis Harrington--now something of a legend in his own right).  I bought a bootleg of it on eBay and the qualtiy is beyond shitty.  Watching even that did bring back happy memories, I must confess.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '07 I / Re: Barbara Steele News
« on: March 22, 2007, 06:25:22 PM »
Penny darling, Miss Steele was contracted for exactly one day's work on She Beast.  It was the first feature film to be directed by "angry young man" of the late 1960s British genre directors, Michael Reeves.  He saw to it that Miss Steele worked an exhaustingly long shift on her "one day" of work--I forget just how long, but it was around a 20 hour day for her, I believe.  Ian Ogilvy, who was a close buddy of Mr. Reeves,' worked I believe through the entire shoot.

I do recall the scenes between Steele and Ogilvy in the film's beginning as by far the best in the movie--definitely worth viewing if you're a fan of either or both.  There's a definite chem between the two.  I am really looking forward to hearing them swap stories about working in the genre during the Sixties, and beyond.

Unfortunately, the She Beast itself is a singularly unfrightening, embarrassing bit of goods--definitely bargain basement horror!

G.

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Current Talk '07 I / Re: The Wicked Woman--'91 remix
« on: March 22, 2007, 06:15:50 PM »
An interesting postscript to this thread:  last night, rewatching some scenes from the extraordinary Anchor Bay DVD release of George Romero's fabulous 1972 sleeper Season of the Witch, I noticed that the hereditary Witch tapped the Queen of Swords during a Tarot reading and called it "the Wicked Woman."  Still more interesting, the card referred to a woman with whom the husband of a friend of the heroine's was having an adulterous affair.

I should go check Eden Gray and see whether she describes the Q of Swords as "the Wicked Woman" in this way...

G.

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The Devil's Daughter is a gem.  Shelley Winters chews the scenery as Lilith, sinister and glamorous leader of a Satanic coven.  Jonathan Frid is wonderful in the small but poignant non-speaking role of the Winters character's chauffeur and butler.  And Abe Vigoda has a small role in it as well.  Horror vet Joseph Cotten doesn't get to do much but is fun to watch as a Judge.

Belinda Montgomery, who stars in the title role, practically defines the somewhat stodgy aesthetic of ABC TV movies of the week.

I'm afraid I don't remember Crawlspace at all--although I do recall the ads for it.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '07 I / Re: Barbara Steele News
« on: March 22, 2007, 03:29:26 PM »
Wow, what a fantastic photo, and with the divine Ian Ogilvy, too!  Thanks for that link, Mr. Retzev!

I found the She Beast a crashing bore when I saw it on tape years ago, but I will have to revisit it, thanks to that new edition.

G.

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Regarding Maggie's memories of 1967:

[spoiler]Warlock Nicholas Blair erased them after Maggie escaped from the Mauseoleum in the Autumn of '68.  Nicholas could not allow Maggie to interfere with his plans for the creation of Eve.  He also was in love with Maggie and was obviously unwilling to harm her in any way.  We don't actually see him erase her memories nor do we get to be privy to his motives for doing so--the viewer is simply left to work this out.[/spoiler]

As for David, this is one of the most extreme instances of sheer sloppiness on the part of the writers.

[spoiler]Given the nature of Dark Shadows, they could and should have come up with SOME explanation for David's clear knowledge that Barnabas is one of the Undead by the end of the 1967 story.  But there is no explanation whatsoever.  The child simply no longer knows what he knew then.  Perhaps there was a scene on the cutting room floor where the Evil Dark Shadows Anti-continuity Phantasm (cameo role for Dan Curtis) appeared in David's bedroom and fixed him with a vicious, bloodshot glare and grated: "Lissen UP, Kid--you'll forget everything ya evah KNEW about Bahnabas CAWLLINS and you'll forget it NOW.  As of LAST MONTH.  Clear?" Scowl.

Sorry, Just Kidding! *wink*[/spoiler]

cheers, G.

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[spoiler]Well, don't forget that when we last saw them, Sabrina had suffered a really terrible attack at the hands of Barnabas.  When Barnabas disappeared and Julia, who was the main person trying to help Chris, seems to have wandered off into emotional la-la land before her own "transcendence" into Parallel Time, Chris probably decided it was time to get Sabrina and Amy the hell out of Collinsport.

It would have only taken about 3 sentences more of dialogue in that scene in the drawing room in the Summer of 1970 to sum this up.  As was so often the case, however, the writers couldn't be bothered.

I have to wonder whether this snippet of dialogue was inserted into that scene because DC still hoped that Briscoe and Nickerson would one day return to this show.  It's hard to know at this point.[/spoiler]

G.

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"Nanny gone mad!"  I love it!  How priceless!

I see that Ms. Mills' years in Hell Lay haven't robbed her of her native English sense of humor.

G.

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Current Talk '07 I / The Wicked Woman--'91 remix
« on: March 21, 2007, 09:21:43 PM »
I've been revisiting some of the 1991 remake episodes of our beloved series.  I was tickled to see that the writers brought back the old notion of a Tarot card identified by the Countess du Pres as "the wicked woman."  As we've discussed on a number of occasions on this forum, there is no such card in any orthodox edition of the Tarot.

I had speculated that the Countess may have been in the habit of regarding one of the standard cards of the Tarot as "the Wicked Woman" because it tended to reveal the presence of a female intent on mischief.  I believe I speculated that the card might have been one of the Queens.

I was amused to see two different episodes in which the Countess exclaimed "the wicked woman!" in the midst of a Tarot reading and on both occasions, the camera showed us which card she had just drawn.  On the first occasion it was the Queen of Pentacles, and on the second, the Queen of Swords.

Of course, there is still a broad streak of anachronism here.  There were no commercially available tarot decks around in the 1780s/90s, and a French aristocrat such as the Countess would have undoubtedly commissioned her own deck.  It would have given the French names for the Major and Minor Arcana.  Pentacles did not come into play on Tarot cards until the publication of the so-called "Rider Waite Deck" (the work of mystic and artist Pamela Colman Smith, working from descriptive outlines supplied by Golden Dawn initiate and master A. E. Waite) in 1910.  A deck created in the 1780s or earlier would like have used coins (deniers) in the suit that eventually became diamonds in standard playing cards and pentacles in most Tarot decks.  This was the case with the Marseilles deck and the popular Swiss "IJJ" deck around 1800--either would have been a suitable prop for the Countess to use.  Instead, however, the production crew provided her with what looks like a typical 1980s "Aquarian Age" type deck, complete with card designations in English.

Well, after all, the show was "filmed on location in Beverly Hills"!

I have to say that this time around, I was more impressed than I expected to be by Lysette Anthony's performance as Angelique.  It's really unfortunate that the breakneck pace of the series, and the calibre of the scripts, did not give her more to do in the role.  I've seen her in UK productions and she's a fine craftswoman as an actress.

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '07 I / Re: Have a Seat, Morticia!
« on: March 21, 2007, 09:07:39 PM »
Divine, Darling!

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '07 I / Barbara Steele News
« on: March 21, 2007, 09:05:09 PM »
Greetings, Cousins--

I was intrigued to see a new entry on Barbara Steele's IMDB page the other day.  Barbara has a role (I think a cameo, really) in something called Her Morbid Desires, the work of LA scene figure Edward Plumb.  A trailer (no appearance by Ms. Steele, unfortunately) can be viewed here:

http://bloodbyte.com/IrenaBelle/HMD_IBFilms.html

It looks, on the basis of this trailer, like a direct-to-DVD production, but could be a fun backdrop to a Halloween party (I forecast an October release date).

G.

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Darren, this is awesome!

I'm afraid I still, to this day, think of a now-forgotten show called Nanny and the Professor whenever Juliet Mills' name is mentioned.  She co-starred in it with Richard Long who died young a few years later of a heart attack. I think it only lasted one season but I was a faithful viewer. 

It's very cool that the movie you mention is being restored and released on disc.  And even more cool that you are involved with this!

G.

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Calendar Events / Announcements '07 I / Re: Amy vs. the Leviathan Pets
« on: March 21, 2007, 07:58:57 PM »
I can't view this cousin's links.  The site shuts down my browser whenever I click on it.  I'm sure the art is a kick!

G.

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