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I know we often discuss the horror stories that are shown on tv in the run up to Christmas ( must admit that I was disappointed with this years offering about the mummy) but I’ve discovered a great podcast about horror called Hypnogoria. I discovered it because of my love of fantasy children’s books and realised that there is an overlap with children’s fantasy and horror. There are over 300 podcasts for me to catch up on so it’s going to keep me busy for a while! They’re great fun along with being very informative!
Quatermass and the Pod
is horrible to watch.
Far better to have a cocoa!The reverse is true for Chezza especially if he’s charged for the cocoa.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Horror films leave me cold- they’re never scary.
Horror works best in book form, and my favourite writer of the genre is H.P. Lovecraft.
Been taking time off work for one reason and another and have been watching lots of Hammer 60/70s horror films, they aren’t scary and the blood always seems to be red emulsion paint.
The Wicker Man is one of my favourite films.The more I know the less I understand.
I’ve visited nearly all the filming locations for The Wicker Man inc Plockton , the graveyard is my favourite
Didn’t find the remake of Wicker Man in 2006 with Nicolas Cage all that good, prefer the 1973 original with Edward Woodward.
In fact not many remakes are better than their original.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Thanks for the recommendation moehat. As you say, there’s a big overlap between fantasy and horror, both being genres that I’m a big fan of.
I agree that this year’s Christmas offering about the mummy (“Lot No. 249”) was a little underwhelming.
Wickerman always interested me. I have never known a poster start his posting career by putting up questioning posts about the click success of the site. It was such a different approach to come out with all guns blazing – and as I was always more interested in contrarian posts, and he seemed to express himself quite well, and with some authority. He/She was of some interest to me just from an enquiring viewpoint. This was about six years ago I suspect. His line was that the site’s viewing figures were falling and he used Google analysis, which according to the powers that be in here, is not a reliable counter. He clearly touched a nerve.
I was generally interested in who he was and why he was posting such, and the fact he seemed to have a chip made him more interesting.
As you may guess, my enquiring mind was soon put to sleep, when he was quickly removed from the site after possibly three postings.
He was possibly a disruptor but but is that a reason to remove someone ? Possibly saved me a bit of work, however his untimely death slightly saddened me and for some reason he stays full in my memory.my favourite writer of the genre is H.P. Lovecraft.
M.R.James will always be my favourite but Lovecraft runs him a close second. Weird, eerie tomes such as ‘The Shunned House’ ‘The Dunwich Horror’ ‘The Shadow over Innsmouth’ ‘The Shadow Out of Time’ and ‘The Colour Out of Space’ spring to mind though there’s plenty of other chillers too
Have you read any Robert Aickman? Very strange, unsettling and ambiguous tales that bear repeated reading
Yep- I enjoy both James and Aickman. Both excellent choices. 👍
Aickman’s grandfather, Richard Marsh, is also worth reading.
I’m a huge fan of horror (and Sci-Fi too). Mind you, when I was a toddler, I stopped up one night with my parents who were watching the 1922 film Nosferatu. From he sight of Count Orlok rising from his coffin as stiff as a poker to seeing his chilling, lofty shadow ascending a staircase sent my heartbeat through the roof. Going to bed that night was hard to say the least.
My favourite horror movie is John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982).
Wickerman died at the stake.
Together with him and his charred corpse burned brightly his three invigorating posts, and this was a blaze to behold – Guy Forkes take a nap.
THIS IS HORROR
THIS WAS HORROR
THIS WAS DAVID LYNCH
ON A ROPE AND ON STEROIDS.
I lost not a minutes sleep, and, rather than waste a minute rueing this stranger’s ungainly, untimely certainly worthless death, I rather took a nib and wrote in bright blue royal ink..He that toucheth pitch shall be defiled. Let not the white rabbit play his best cards all at once, or all in in one go, but rather bide bunny time and hold follies close to a soft furry chest and with it the venom.
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The Wicker Man was a cracker and one of Christopher Lee’s finest performances in that era in my book.
The rest of the time he was playing Dracula in those Hammer movies – but surrounded by all that 70s “talent,” (as my Dad would have said) I could hardly blame him.
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