Comments | strange_complex: 15-18. Films seen at the Bradford Fantastic Films Weekend, day 3 (Sunday).

strange_complex

15-18. Films seen at the Bradford Fantastic Films Weekend, day 3 (Sunday).

Jun 10, 2010 15:54

Whew! It's taken me a couple of days to type this lot up, as I saw a lot of films on the final day of the festival, and I think we all know I am a bit prone to tl;dr reviews, even when I think the thing I'm writing about was rubbish. But I've managed it now! It's up to you to decide if you are brave enough to read it all. ;-)

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Comments 11

steepholm June 10 2010, 14:59:45 UTC

Children of the Stones is indeed excellent. I remembered it from first time round, and when I bought it on VHS a few years ago it was just as good. Think "The Wicker Man meets The Stepford Wives and they all move to Avebury". What's not to like?

strange_complex June 10 2010, 15:08:09 UTC

I know - all that, and flared trousers, too! (Some people apparently think that is something not to like, but I beg to differ.) I'm definitely looking forward to seeing the rest.

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Re: DROP YOUR WEAPON! YOU HAVE TWENTY SECONDS TO COMPLY! strange_complex June 10 2010, 15:30:03 UTC

Will do! Review the DVD, that is, not drop my weapon...

hollyione June 10 2010, 17:50:46 UTC

With the risk of being slightly pedantic I don't think you would get "gyrating" dancing in 1962 (all night long) - as 1962 was pre beat era even, they'd probably have still done rock and roll dancing - but pedantry aside another fab recap.

I vaguely remember Children of the Stones from being very young. Maybe they repeated it or something.

The zombie German film sounds ace. Did you ever watch a film where Malcom McDowell was a sort of moral vampire who had to have blood to survive but tried to get it from blood banks? Maybe it was one of the tales of the crypt stories, but I think you'd like it.

hollyione June 10 2010, 17:52:30 UTC

:) Just re read the All Night Long recap and I guess they wouldn't do rock and roll dancing in a jazz club ;)

strange_complex June 10 2010, 18:00:38 UTC

Did you ever watch a film where Malcom McDowell was a sort of moral vampire who had to have blood to survive but tried to get it from blood banks?

No, but Google tells me you're probably thinking of this, and it does sound good. Thanks for the tip-off!

And yeah, 1962 was probably a bit early for the kind of dancing I was craving, whatever the type of music. Mind you, Susan in the opening episode of Doctor Who actually does a (fairly restrained) version of the type of dancing I mean while listening to music on a portable radio, and that is 1963.

hollyione June 10 2010, 18:46:23 UTC

Fair point. I need to research what (if anything) happened in 1963 to make music more "swinging"... I know the song Hippy Hippy Shake came out in that year...

It was Tales from the Crypt! ace

Happy Day! big_daz June 11 2010, 07:34:37 UTC

I think that's what yhey used to greet each other with in Children of the Stones- it's 30-odd years since I've seen it, so I'm not 100% sure.

Very creepy as I recall, particularly the music

*hides behind sofa*

Re: Happy Day! strange_complex June 11 2010, 10:36:15 UTC

Yup, well remembered! It gave it quite a Prisoner-ish feel - small inward-looking community, creepy catchphrase, weird stuff going on... I'm definitely looking forward to more.

splendorsine June 12 2010, 00:10:26 UTC

I saw The Sorcerors once! I remember thinking it pretty weird and cheap at the time, though there was certainly something interesting/unsettling there that I couldn't put my finger on, perhaps to do with the sixtiesishness of it all... You make me want to rewatch it, in any case, because I probably missed much that was important.

And other things too! I had no recollection of there being a guest appearance by Laocoon in 28 Days Later. Then again, I had no recollection of Cillian Murphy being in 28 Days Later either, so there's probably no hope for my perceptive faculties...

strange_complex June 12 2010, 13:34:58 UTC

I definitely wouldn't deny that the The Sorcerors is a bit weird and cheap - that's part of what I mean when I say it has oodles of period charm, really! But that was par for the course in British horror films of that era (much like Doctor Who, of course). Given the constraints of the genre, I felt it was offering something a little beyond the norm, especially in the way that it engaged with the late '60s zeitgeist. And Boris Karloff, Catherine Lacey and Ian Ogilvy all turn in really very impressive performances in it.

As for 28 Days Later, that was actually my first exposure to Cillian Murphy. It's made me well-disposed to him ever since, though I seem to see a lot of people on t'internet these days expressing fashionable jadedness with him. You can't please everyone, I guess.