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Carfax Abbey: Rediscovering Mike Raven
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Thursday, March 8, 2012. If by any chance you're wondering where Carfax has been of late, we've been moonlighting over at Hammer and Beyond. Where I've been examining the short and much-maligned (not least by me: apologia here. Career of Mike Raven: the British horror star that time overtook, then forgot. Do please pop over and take a look: it was a real labour of love. You can read part one here. And part three here. Thanks a million for those awesome posts, Matthew. March 8, 2012 at 12:32 PM. I got a S...
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Carfax Abbey: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 22, 2011. Devil Bats In His Belfry: An interview with Peter H. Brothers. When you're obsessed with something to a degree that qualifies as 'medical', it's always a relief to encounter someone else who shares the same problem. Even better when they've got it even worse than you have. I thought I had plumbed the outer limits when it came to obsessively pondering. For that stroke of genius, ladies and gentleman, the gent to whom your fedora must be tipped is Peter H. Brothers. And I thought ...
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Carfax Abbey: January 2013
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013. Dropping in on The Ghoul. If you're anything like me, when you watch Veronica Carlson in a 1920s wig take a bath and then get slaughtered and eaten by a green-skinned maniac in a toga and sandals, you're thinking only one thing: where in England exactly is this movie set? Read my speculations on the plot locations of The Ghoul. Unless of course you're not anything like me, over at Hammer and Beyond ( here. Links to this post. Monday, January 28, 2013. Links to this post.
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Carfax Abbey: Steckler for detail
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Monday, January 28, 2013. That Ray Dennis Steckler appraisal I've been promising here for donks' yonks has landed over at Acidemic, here. Labels: Ray Dennis Steckler. 8220;The effects he achieved were the accidental alchemical consequence of filtering ordinary Hollywood aspirations through an extraordinary psychological prism, on not enough money (a bit like a meth high). Alter the balance by changing any of the variables and the effect would be lost.”. An Ed Wood type that can shoot beautiful movies?
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Carfax Abbey: Nobody wants to eat a film: The hermetic universe of Ted V. Mikels
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Saturday, August 10, 2013. Nobody wants to eat a film: The hermetic universe of Ted V. Mikels. Okay, before you do anything else, certainly before you read any more of this, pop over to here. And, if you have a quid or two to spare, contribute to the budget of Ted V Mikels’s latest film. This is the first time the legendary filmmaker has part-funded one of his films by public subscription, and the campaign's only got about a week left to run. That ten pounds you were saving to go and see Pacific Rim.
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Carfax Abbey: March 2012
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Thursday, March 8, 2012. If by any chance you're wondering where Carfax has been of late, we've been moonlighting over at Hammer and Beyond. Where I've been examining the short and much-maligned (not least by me: apologia here. Career of Mike Raven: the British horror star that time overtook, then forgot. Do please pop over and take a look: it was a real labour of love. You can read part one here. And part three here. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). View my complete profile. Wheatley on f...
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Carfax Abbey: October 2011
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Sunday, October 30, 2011. Bath - City of Cheese, Monsters and John Landis. A gala day in Bath on Saturday (and as Groucho will tell you a gal a day's enough for any man). Not only was it the Bath Cheese Festival, with over twenty award winning cheesemakers keen for us to sample their wares - oh! Cheese heaven; my friends, you have never smelt anything like it - but John Landis was in town too, signing copies of his new coffee table book. Get me a Diet Coke! That's not a werewolf! Your website's no good!
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Carfax Abbey: Did a vampire really haunt Highgate Cemetery? No. Of course it didn't.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012. Did a vampire really haunt Highgate Cemetery? No Of course it didn't. If you have the sort of memory that retains the details of two year old blog posts, then you may recall that back here. I wrote of how my attempts to get on a Highgate Cemetery walking tour, in order to see the parts of the site that were used for location filming in Taste the Blood of Dracula. Were thoroughly rebuffed by the stuffy chap at the gate. That's all the guy needs to know, right? And that was that.
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The House of Cobwebs: March 2010
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The House of Cobwebs. I only like old stuff. Tuesday, 30 March 2010. Measure the louse for the hot seat while I take these two babes out where they can fight over me! Crime Mysteries No. 3, September 1952. What-ho, pals. Welcome back to the fusty virtual corridors of THE HOUSE OF COBWEBS. Where have I been? Never you mind. But, in the interim period between this and my last posting, I have been engaging in a possibly futile attempt to get my life together (cripes! Is there really any point in it? Which i...
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Carfax Abbey: A world that dust and scratches try to hide: an interview with Bjørn Egil Eide
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Thursday, February 2, 2012. A world that dust and scratches try to hide: an interview with Bjørn Egil Eide. I was intrigued to receive an email a few weeks ago from Bjørn Egil Eide, to tell me about a film he has made called. It was, as he explained it:. There's something perversely heroic about an amateur film-maker striving to recreate the look and atmosphere of a silent movie, and I really do like the finished product. I'd like to think that the renewal of interest in silent cinema brought about by.
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