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Post by hoodylover on Oct 7, 2016 23:01:06 GMT
Ouch! About 1972 I think.
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Post by Miranda on Oct 8, 2016 9:34:56 GMT
I was 7 so wouldn't have been watching it.
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Post by yellowcat on Oct 12, 2016 22:53:39 GMT
Joanna Lumley was Purdey in the The New Avengers (1977), that was when I became aware of her but she had parts in films and TV from the 1960s on.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 21:03:08 GMT
The Twilight Zone
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The Outer Limits
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 22:40:41 GMT
The Haunting is the scariest movie I've ever watched. It was made in the 1950s, has hardly any special effects and no blood or gore at all. It frightened the absolute crap out of me. I had to go and wake up my flatmate to talk to me until I'd calmed down enough to sleep. The Haunting is one of my all time Favourite films ... I remember first watching it when I was about 14 and it terrified me
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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2016 22:42:24 GMT
Joanna Lumley's first acting job, wasn't it? Her first acting job was in Corrie I think. She played Ken Barlow's posh girlfriend. Joanna was acting quite a while before Coronation Street .. she was in a James Bond film and appeared in a sitcom in the late 60's called It's Awfully Bad For Your Eyes Darling
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Post by sqwerty on Oct 22, 2016 20:56:25 GMT
I am watching another old film tonight, Marathon Man. I had forgotten what an excellent and absorbing film this is, never boring for a second. Dustin Hoffman is such a great actor, and Laurence Olivier is exceptionally frightening as the torturing dentist.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2016 21:08:14 GMT
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Post by yellowcat on Nov 4, 2016 10:04:17 GMT
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Post by Miranda on Nov 4, 2016 11:50:07 GMT
I shalll have to watch that cos I don't remember it all and that's the kind of thing I would watch.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 19:15:02 GMT
I remember going to the flicks when a teenager to see Vincent Price in The Tingler. That scared the life out of me, walking home in the dark of a winter's night I was glad to get home. I've seen it a few times since and of course it seems so tame now we have all these slasher films about.
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Post by yankee on Sept 25, 2019 20:38:22 GMT
I have all of the old Universal horror films on Blu-Ray (Frankenstein, Dracula, Wolfman, Mummy, Creature from the Black Lagoon etc.) and I also have their Hammer Studios remakes in that glorious lavish color (though Creature was one Hammer never remade).
For television - when I was a lad there was a daily horror soap opera called "Dark Shadows" that was on every afternoon at 3:30. My mates and I would always rush home from school to watch it.
Being a soap, our mothers enjoyed it too. It was fairly scary. Witches, a wolfman, a vampire named Barnabas Collins played by a terrific Canadian actor Johnathan Frid.
Tim Burton made a horrible film of Dark Shadows with Johnny Depp and made it a camp comedy.
Someone already mentioned the Twilight Zone. Rod Serlings follow up series "The Night Gallery" was also very creepy. It was an anthology series with 2 or 3 stories per episode. Serling would wander through a museum and come across a painting with a very scary image and then begin narrating the story behind it which would then lead into the acted out short story.
I used to wonder (I still do) if they actually commissioned all of those painting for the series or if they just found existing paintings with macabre imagery and had a script writer create a story around it.
The Outer Limits and Thriller hosted by Boris Karloff were a couple of other scary shows of my youth.
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Post by HoraceCoker on Sept 25, 2019 23:33:29 GMT
.....Journey into the Unknown was an anthology of supernatural tales with an eerie intro in a deserted fairground...circa 1971...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 26, 2019 14:42:19 GMT
The Night Gallery is famous for a number of things, including that it was that Steven Spielberg was hired to direct one of the segments for the 1969 pilot episode with Joan Crawford. This photograph is from the production.
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Post by yankee on Sept 26, 2019 14:58:04 GMT
This was the opening theme montage from "Creature Features" the weekly monster movie show when I was a boy. Still gives me chills. The surf guitar music plays eerily against the images. I think the theme was written by Henri Mancini.
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