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Actually Ian, in “The Devil Rides Out” also a Hammer House Of Horrors he played one of the good guys. A good film in the horror category was Salom’s Lot with the now deceased David Soul.
You've got to accentuate the positive.
Eliminate the negative.
Latch on to the affirmative.
Don't mess with mister in between.Twins Of Evils and Scars Of Dracula were my favourites as a teenager – terrible movies, but certain members of the casts of each compensated.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ frightened me to death when I first saw it as a short-trousered nipper in the ’60s; and it remains one of the best ‘horror’ films along with Hitchcock’s other super-chiller ‘Psycho’
‘The Devil Rides Out’ was on the Talking Pictures channel recently, who’ve dusted-off quite a few other Hammer films too
Hammy-hammer they seem now but still jolly good fun
With the unsettling backdrop of a woman screaming off her full set of teeth whilst dressed in disturbing and unsettling blood red murder attire, allow me to relate some…
REAL HORROR… 😱
In the 1960’s a lot of people disappeared or were reported missing , and they disappeared quite simply off the face of the planet. These were run of the mill unsurprisingly ordinary people, mugs if you like, but going about their ordinary humdrum lives, when one day, and not a day that was particularly out of the ordinary, but hey hold on and grip yourself tight, it so happened that these folks simply never came home for their haddock.
There was a lot of gnashing of teeth by the relatives and friends of the disappeared and shifting of torsos and wringing of hands too. They wanted answers but no one was going the extra mile or linking up all the lost and realizing there was a pattern of death and on a ginormous scale – certainly unnatural possibly even supernatural.
Someone at my father’s office got wind of these unusual disappearances and in hushed tones told Paw all about it, at the same time advising him to keep it a bit under his hat. It was almost as if he was saying that if Paw ruffled a few feathers he might join the disappeared. Paw told me about it when he got home and when I heard about it, I banged the kitchen table hard with my hand in a sort of reaction shouting “DAMN DIRTIES”. Apparently the authorities knew about it all, but were a bit baffled by it, and did not want it widely known in case people put the blame on them. It was hugely covered up and stashed sway in locked drawers in the faint hope it might resolve itself. It was a bit like the Post Office scandal that’s happening now, but this was more Norman Bates. It wasn’t a small number of people either – it was hundreds and they were mostly taxpayers and from ordinary homes often with mortgages. Shipman was still in short trousers then, and he was only interested in orchestrating extra official deaths, albeit of unusual circumstances – they were all injected with overdoses of morphine. They killed my mother the same way in a respite centre.
To be honest I found it hard to take in all these disappearances and a bit hard to swallow, but there was always a niggling doubt. I was a bit of a sucker for conspiracies falling hook line and sinker for the story about the hairy hand.
The only winners were the haddocks.
But then again if someone hooked me up whilst minding my own business in the ocean – then I would most like to see a defibrillator – not the state of my capturor’s flossing and dental work.1968…
1400 haddock wait on plates
They have already given their lives – but feel totally let down.
1400 people never came home.Who feels worse ?
These were the days of our lives !
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