7.-9. Hammer's Golden Trilogy at the National Media Museum

[strange_complex]

The local cultural offerings of last weekend could not have been more perfect for me. Not only did the National Media Museum in Bradford put on a Hammer Horror themed film course, but Robert Lloyd Parry, who played M.R. James in Mark Gatiss' documentary about his life on Christmas Day, was to be found doing live readings of Lost Hearts and A

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[minnesattva]

It was Matthew Cheeseman. :) Just saying.

I stayed up later than I meant to last night because once I saw you'd written this, I wanted to read it before I went to bed.

Looking forward to the second half!

[strange_complex]

Oops, sorry to have kept you up! Hope it was worth it. ;-)

Yes, I thought it probably must have been Matthew Cheeseman talking about the Suez canal, since it was a historical point rather than a literary one, but I lost faith in my memory as I was writing it up, so played safe.

[minnesattva]

Well, I had to think about it too, I wasn't sure either. But she did the background of the Egyptian gothic and then handed over to him -- I think halfway through a slide! -- and wasn't Suez was the first thing he talked about? So it's easy for the memory to get confused. :)

[ms_siobhan]

Am listening to the Dracula AD 1972 soundtrack as I read/type - it's cheesily wonderful. Wish I could see that on the big screen.

Hope you are having an okay weekend xx

[strange_complex]

Heck yeah - I would pay serious money to see that on the big screen. That is of course exactly the sort of thing we need festivals like the Fantastic Film Weekend for, as I doubt there would be enough crazy people (like us!) to make it worthwhile for any cinema otherwise. :-/

Totally agree about the fab-ness of the soundtrack, though. I listened to it while driving down to B'ham yesterday, and it kept me cheerful through a series of very trying diversions and delays. I've also just picked up a belated Christmas present, which wasn't delivered in time for Christmas itself - this CD, which has soundtrack music from Dracula 1958, Risen, Taste, Hands of the Ripper (for some reason) and Vampire Circus. I'm really looking forward to listening to that on my way home tomorrow, and can of course do you a copy of that one too (unless it is the same as the one you've already got which you mentioned before).