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Post by muckypup on Jun 27, 2018 0:18:17 GMT
Anyone who’s an audible member it’s todays daily deal and you can get it for £1.99.......,
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2018 10:51:35 GMT
SPOILERS ...
Well, this is excellent. Simon Barnard's production has all the folk-horror elements of the original film, as well as a heightening of the gothic horror used to replace the visuals and unnerve the audio audience.
For some, Blood on Satan's Claw might seem a rather obscure production to adapt. Released in 1971 among a swathe of low budget horror films - Hammer were at their most prolific despite being well past their peak in terms of tickets sales, there was also Amicus, Tyburn and Tigon (who released this) as well as a whole host of Euro-horrors and further releases from around the world. As such, Blood didn't get the attention it deserved in my view, but clearly made a big impression on those who saw it. This audio adaption, beautifully sound-designed by Simon Robinson and Edwin Sykes, features great turns from an unrecognisable Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and original cast member Linda Hayden (here playing shrewish Mistress Isobel). Big Finish names David Benson and Lisa Bowermen are also in attendance. There's no point in naming specific names - every performance is great. I will mention (UK series) Shameless's Rebecca Ryan who shines in the pivotal role of Angel.
Mark Morris' adaption crackles with the kind atmosphere a writer or great horror can bring, and adds extra depth to various characters and unpleasant scenes - several characters are expanded on in a very satisfying way. Isobel - possibly due the casting of the Legendary Linda - is expanded in a way that makes her much more pertinent to the ongoing threat in a very satisfying way.
Simon's direction is faultless for those who like to be scared. The growing unease in the community, with the chittering of giggling young folk at moments of shock; the shrieking, rasping tones of the demonic titular character; constant birdsong and the swirling of leaves and rustling of trees reminding us of the rural setting - all these things really do serve up a hugely atmospheric sense of a community being soiled and ripped apart by ... somethink 'orrible! Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed this. Here's to many more similar projects from Bafflegab!
If you like horror, or audio drama in general, I really cannot recommend this highly enough.
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Post by Simon Barnard on Jul 5, 2018 20:15:48 GMT
Thank you, Paz! Just read this, what a lovely review. And thanks very much for your kind words about my direction, too - I rarely get a mention (sniff) Well, this is excellent. Simon Barnard's production has all the folk-horror elements of the original film, as well as a heightening of the gothic horror used to replace the visuals and unnerve the audio audience.
For some, Blood on Satan's Claw might seem a rather obscure production to adapt. Released in 1971 among a swathe of low budget horror films - Hammer were at their most prolific despite being well past their peak in terms of tickets sales, there was also Amicus, Tyburn and Tigon (who released this) as well as a whole host of Euro-horrors and further releases from around the world. As such, Blood didn't get the attention it deserved in my view, but clearly made a big impression on those who saw it. This audio adaption, beautifully sound-designed by Simon Robinson and Edwin Sykes, features great turns from an unrecognisable Mark Gatiss, Reece Shearsmith and original cast member Linda Hayden (here playing shrewish Mistress Isobel). Big Finish names David Benson and Lisa Bowermen are also in attendance. There's no point in naming specific names - every performance is great. I will mention (UK series) Shameless's Rebecca Ryan who shines in the pivotal role of Angel.
Mark Morris' adaption crackles with the kind atmosphere a writer or great horror can bring, and adds extra depth to various characters and unpleasant scenes - several characters are expanded on in a very satisfying way. Isobel - possibly due the casting of the Legendary Linda - is expanded in a way that makes her much more pertinent to the ongoing threat in a very satisfying way.
Simon's direction is faultless for those who like to be scared. The growing unease in the community, with the chittering of giggling young folk at moments of shock; the shrieking, rasping tones of the demonic titular character; constant birdsong and the swirling of leaves and rustling of trees reminding us of the rural setting - all these things really do serve up a hugely atmospheric sense of a community being soiled and ripped apart by ... somethink 'orrible! Thoroughly, thoroughly enjoyed this. Here's to many more similar projects from Bafflegab!
If you like horror, or audio drama in general, I really cannot recommend this highly enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2018 20:19:06 GMT
Thank you, Paz! Just read this, what a lovely review. And thanks very much for your kind words about my direction, too - I rarely get a mention (sniff) It's an outrage! Really, it's a wonderful audio - a very deserved award winner. Any more such horror projects on the way, I wonder?
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jul 5, 2018 21:53:29 GMT
I really do feel like audio is the best medium for horror.
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Post by Simon Barnard on Jul 6, 2018 8:07:11 GMT
Yes, more horror on the way... there's a modern-day adaptation of Casting the Runes, written by Stephen Gallagher and starring Tom Burke, Anna Maxwell Martin and Reece Shearsmith. That's out later this year. And then there's lots of other things I can't talk about yet! Thank you, Paz! Just read this, what a lovely review. And thanks very much for your kind words about my direction, too - I rarely get a mention (sniff) It's an outrage! Really, it's a wonderful audio - a very deserved award winner. Any more such horror projects on the way, I wonder?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 21:12:21 GMT
I relistened to this last night and it really is something quite special. The film is one of my all time favourites (as Audio Watchdog knows I've got it 5 times over on DVD for features, different title cards and restorations...) but I love that the audio takes the jumping off point in a lot of places and massively expands on it. The Judge for example disappears for much of the film while waiting for the evil to grow enough to be tanglible, therefore killable. Here he's a presence throughout the piece and is kinda folded into the Judge character - so Mark plays the Squire and The Judge in one, really. Mark Gattis getting to do the "I give you his Catholic Majesty.." speech is a real insiders treat for League Of Gentlemen fans, and those that have heard the League's commentary on the film. Reece Shearsmith too gets a lot more to do than Anthony Ainley's Reverend and we go much deeper into the idea that Angel is framing him for molesting her. Reece could maybe have changed his voice a bit more here, as Mark did, as sometimes it does lend it a bit of a League/Inside No. 9 feel. While the piece is largely faithful to the film I love that the coda takes what film fans think is the ending and adds another scene that really subverts things and ends in a much darker place than the Tigon classic. Patrick Wymark got to go out the hero (fitting as he died before the film was released) but Mark Gatiss gets an ending that's so much bleaker and infuriating (in a good way). Kudos to the score and the sound design too. You can feel the soil on the ground and the chill in the air here. Top notch production. So, while I've got a bit of a cheek re-listening to things when my BF pile grows faster than fur on Ralph Gower's leg, this deserves it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 22:27:44 GMT
I need to relisten to this.
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Post by frisby78 on Feb 11, 2020 13:21:54 GMT
An excellent adaption of, in my opinion, the best British horror film.
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Post by BHTvsTFC on Oct 14, 2020 20:49:53 GMT
I really do feel like audio is the best medium for horror. It's certainly an extremely compelling one. I saw bits of Blood on Satan's Claw years back that were very disturbing to my young eyes - they killed Zoe!! So, when I was looking for horror blu rays last year I picked up the lavish special edition and gave it a viewing a few months back. To be honest I didn't take much from it, although the quality of the remastering, etc was absolutely top notch, but I decided it wasn't for me. I bought the audio last year too on a whim and on the strength of other stuff Bafflegab have done. I'd recently listened to The Ash Tree and The Hellbound Heart and adored both, so I got Blood and a few other releases. After the movie I didn't really feel like listening to the audio but I'm glad I did. It shines so much and Gattis is amazing in it in particular, as is Rebecca Ryan who just oozes evil! Big Finish need to get her onboard for a villain role sometime! I might rewatch the movie this weekend and see if my opinion has changed. Sometimes a difference perspective is all that is needed.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2021 7:08:10 GMT
Cannot say I know the film and I don’t think I will be seeking it out ether that was for a Causality of a different era I guess.This is well done definitely but unlike The Ash Tree it won’t get the relistens.(The Ash Tree really is brilliantly realised)The days of The endless rewatches of The omen Trilogies are days long gone for me I watched Doctor Sleep once and decided that there are other genres I love more.I would love to explain more but that’s best left for whenever we all meet for a pint hahahah. But yes it’s well done ,excellent acting and directing and soundscape is truly wonderful.Got to say also bothe Ash Tree and Satan’s Claw the artwork is absolutely beautiful and both productions are excellent.
So how come as a matter of interest does Bafflegab manage to sell at almost half the price of Big Finish. Even the Luxury Hammer Chillers set is beautiful and nicely packaged and of a more storage friendly design than BF.
when I finish the Chillers it will be Vince Cosmos....and do I get Hellbound Heart hahaha
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