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Post by Trace on Apr 14, 2016 1:17:07 GMT
You both seem to be rebutting a point I didn't make. Note I didn't say or imply anything about her work or ability at all I won't elaborate here but my issue is nothing to do with her work and all to do with her as a person based on more than one interaction. Certainly a Slytherin Nope, no rebuttal. I think I knew from your original post that you didn't necessarily have a problem with her ability or the stories per se. I think the implication seemed clear enough that it was based on something else.
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Post by silverednickle on Apr 14, 2016 2:43:12 GMT
Congrats to Wally! Though selfishly, I'm worried he might become another tricky actor to pin down for recordings. Yet no cameos from his or his father last "season," and we still had marvelous tales. I've become quite attached to Collinsport younger members.
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Post by bobod on Apr 14, 2016 10:26:47 GMT
Congrats to Wally! Though selfishly, I'm worried he might become another tricky actor to pin down for recordings. Yet no cameos from his or his father last "season," and we still had marvelous tales. I've become quite attached to Collinsport younger members. Wally is the nicest guy imaginable (though his Scottish accent is shocking), and he's always busy, but always keen/happy to be involved. In my podcast with him, Alex Donnachie and Mike Shon, he was comedically bemoaning the fact Tom and Jackie were back in the last season and Cody wasn't.
IIRC Dr Richard Hill does cameo in Twinkling, doesn't he?
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Post by bobod on Apr 15, 2016 8:48:59 GMT
Mind you, I'm not sure we should be celebrating Cody - turns out that Wally has been seeing other Big Finish ranges behind Dark Shadows' back.
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Post by Trace on Apr 16, 2016 5:00:33 GMT
For anyone who collected the five Hermes Press beautiful hard-bound volumes of the complete DS Gold Key comic books from the 1970's, plus a "Best of...." compilation, plus a reprint of the Gold Key Story Digest paperback, I have some good news. You may recall a few years ago that they also planned to release the entire run of daily newspaper DS comic strips--with all the color Sunday strips....and then it just never happened. Months, then years, went by with no word and it looked like it was dead in the water. Well, Shadowgram e-newsletter just announced that Hermes Press is still looking for a few missing color strips and that the book is very much still a possibility! So, it looks like we'll be able to complete our collections. The books are really beautiful and have great forewords/introductions with much new material. And NOTHING has been left out. It's been a major disappointment NOT to have the planned newspaper strip book, but by a twist of fate, it's back on the front burner. By the way, all the books are on Amazon if you're interested!
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Post by lurkerintheshadows on May 11, 2016 14:42:18 GMT
I was looking through one of the piles of books that take up most of the space in my house when I was found something that reminded me of my long ago attempt at a form of Dark Shadows tribute - not quite fan fiction, but fiction that was filled with this fan's enthusiastic references to Dark Shadows. Not that I expect many Dark Shadows fans would be aware of it, or that the publication's audience would be aware of Dark Shadows, for this was in The Bunty Annual 2002. (For anyone who hasn't heard of it before, Bunty was a British comic magazine for young girls - up to about 14 years old - that ran from 1958 to 2001, with a mixture of school stories, adventures, tales of plucky Victorian orphans or aspiring ballerinas, and the occasional tale of the supernatural.)
During the closing days of the weekly Bunty comic, when it was almost entirely reprints, I managed to grab a page or two in the last few issues to write some text stories under the title Strange Shadows. ("In the dark of night, when the witching hour has struck, could things from another place, another time, another world, cast their strange shadows across our dreams... and our nightmares?" was the vague attempt at a Rod Serling-type intro to each.)
For the 96 page 2002 annual (released in time for Christmas 2001), I wrote a serialised text story throughout the book (with illustrations by Keith Robson), titled The Mansion of Strange Shadows. This was partly a homage to Amicus anthology films, since each chapter was basically a separate story, with one of the heroines finding something horrible in different parts of the mansion before linking it all together in the end, though mainly homage to Dark Shadows, since every character was named after an actor from that show. Even the title was a joking reference to House of Dark Shadows with hints of DS 'homages' Dark Mansions and Strange Paradise thrown in for good measure. Hey, if I was going to be obscure, I reckoned I might as well be thorough with it.
For anyone still with me, here's a quick synopsis...
"The Mansion of Strange Shadows"
Chapter One - The House Through the Woods Three friends, Lara, Kat and Alex, are among the pupils in Mr Selby's school class in a field trip to view the restoration work being undertaken on local stately home, Nightshade Mansion. Legend has it that in 1795, mad Lord Jonathan Nightshade, the 13th Lord of the manor, vanished, spiriting away the family treasure, and putting a diabolical curse on the house as he departed.
On this day, in the basement, beneath the slabs, Dr Grayson's museum team have uncovered a massive metal covering - a door with no keyhole but hollowed spaces seemingly waiting for carved symbols to be be placed into them.
As the three girls break off from the school party and set out to explore the shadowy corners for themselves, they find themselves in a room full of dusty old ornaments... before Kat seems to vanish into thin air...
Chapter Two - Cold Comfort An amnesiac girl finds herself wandering toward the old house through a snowstorm. Miss Nancy and the rest of the house's inhabitants insist she is their cousin, Miss Kathryn, and all seem under the influence of their butler, Mr John. The family are seemingly prisoners within the great house, for each and every time any one of them tries to leave, there is a loud rumbling and a storm that shakes the house to its foundations. Could the answer lie in the room full of precious things, amongst the ornaments and crystals and snowglobes?
Chapter Three - The Ghastly Gallery Still searching for the missing Kat, Alex and Lara split up and Lara finds herself in the family portrait gallery, where certain portraits seem more than usually lifelike. And when a mysterious artist restores the portrait of a young girl, Lady Denise, she begins to escape from her picture. But, if she escapes, she'll need someone to take her place. And why does the artist want to keep Lara away from the covered portrait of Lord Jonathan Nightshade?
Chapter Four - Out of Time Alex follows a winding staircase up to the clock tower, where the ancient clock mechanism has been frozen for centuries - since 1795, in fact. But, when Alex removes the strange metal symbol that has become trapped in the gears, the clock starts running... running backwards. Phantom figures come and go, ghosts of the past, their lives running in reverse, as Alex is taken back, as a ghost herself, to the strange and frightening night when the curse began. The night when Lord Jonathan Nightshade, fleeing a mob accusing him of witchcraft, places his curse on the old mansion, leaving it trapped within his evil shadow. He then disappears into the vault beneath the house, his power becoming complete and trapping Alex in the past...
Chapter Five - The Vault of Shadows Having both recovered mysterious symbols during their adventures, Kat and Lara slot them into the huge door in the cellar floor, opening two of the locks and weakening Lord Jonathan's power so that Alex is restored to her rightful time. With the third key, they open the vault and descend to face the strange shadows within...
There were more DS references in the story, and elsewhere in that same annual, as a newly coloured up version of an old spooky comic strip had references to 'Rose Cottage', which prompted a couple of other DS refs to slip into the reworked dialogue. While for sister publication, Mandy Annual 2002, I made direct references to the series in a feature on 'spooky' television shows ostensibly about Buffy and Charmed and other current series the readers would have been aware of.
Anyway, for curiosity value alone, that was my earliest homage to Dark Shadows - for an audience, as I say, that would be almost entirely unaware that it was an homage - though the Dark Shadows influence lurks in much I've written since. So if you spot a copy of an old girl's comic annual at a jumble sale or car boot sale - or in that antique shop run by that strange couple in town - you never know what might be lurking inside...
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 12:17:23 GMT
Does anyone here know how I might get hold of the Doctor Mabuse DVD that involved Jerry Lacy, Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker please? I can't find it anywhere. Many thanks
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Post by lurkerintheshadows on May 12, 2016 12:27:04 GMT
Does anyone here know how I might get hold of the Doctor Mabuse DVD that involved Jerry Lacy, Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker please? I can't find it anywhere. Many thanks The film, plus its sequel (also featuring Christopher Pennock) are available for pre-order on a single disc set from Amazon.com. 'The Doctor Mabuse Collection', currently available for $5.98 (or £4.30 if you're in the UK). To be released May 17th.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2016 13:05:02 GMT
Does anyone here know how I might get hold of the Doctor Mabuse DVD that involved Jerry Lacy, Kathryn Leigh Scott and Lara Parker please? I can't find it anywhere. Many thanks The film, plus its sequel (also featuring Christopher Pennock) are available for pre-order on a single disc set from Amazon.com. 'The Doctor Mabuse Collection', currently available for $5.98 (or £4.30 if you're in the UK). To be released May 17th. Thank you - the fact that it's on pre-order explains why I haven't been able to find it! At £4.30, it's far from over-priced. And a sequel too? Wonderful. Right, I'm off to Amazon
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2016 23:24:28 GMT
Sweet! Both DS films on bluray for less than a fiver each Chuffed!
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Post by Deleted on May 26, 2016 18:48:54 GMT
The film, plus its sequel (also featuring Christopher Pennock) are available for pre-order on a single disc set from Amazon.com. 'The Doctor Mabuse Collection', currently available for $5.98 (or £4.30 if you're in the UK). To be released May 17th. Thank you - the fact that it's on pre-order explains why I haven't been able to find it! At £4.30, it's far from over-priced. And a sequel too? Wonderful. Right, I'm off to Amazon I have finally watched Doctor Mabuse (2013), and really enjoyed it. After watching a lot of horror films in my life, it's delightful to find something so different from the norm - albeit a respectful homage to German expressionist films from the 1920's and 1930's (especially 'Vampyr' and the original 'Nosferatu'). Very stylised, very noir-ish, and really very strong performances from Kathryn Leigh Scott, Lara Parker and escpecially Jerry Lacy, who is wonderful playing Mabuse. An acquired taste for sure, I'd nevertheless recommend this highly!
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Jun 4, 2016 20:48:38 GMT
And if you ever get the chance to see it, I would give a serious recommendation to The 1,000 Eyes of Doctor Mabuse. Not only is it Fritz Lang's final say on the franchise, and I think his final film, but it is also a pretty good template for the 007 films, of which the first, Dr. No followed a year later.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 5, 2016 4:04:48 GMT
And if you ever get the chance to see it, I would give a serious recommendation to The 1,000 Eyes of Doctor Mabuse. Not only is it Fritz Lang's final say on the franchise, and I think his final film, but it is also a pretty good template for the 007 films, of which the first, Dr. No followed a year later. I now have it on my DVD rental list - thank you
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Post by Zagreus on Aug 18, 2016 15:51:26 GMT
So I was reading up on some unrelated stuff for a project, and Strix, or Striga, are the name of owlkin. Now, Angelique's description in House of Despair is a bit overblown, but it still basically fits. It'd be somewhat interesting if, beneath that vampire curse, the body Barnabas is currently inhabiting was afflicted with a different sort of curse...
Could make for some interesting storylines if the town's ever overrun with vampires and they need someone to take care of the all the flying rats...
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Post by Deleted on Sept 1, 2016 10:35:21 GMT
I know it isn't meant to be exhaustive, but the new Vortex lists Big Finish releases well into next year, and there is no mention of 'Bloodline'.
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Post by Zagreus on Sept 1, 2016 16:32:22 GMT
Well that's a bit worrisome :/
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Post by Samuel_T_Davern on Sept 2, 2016 21:52:19 GMT
I have a feeling that, due to the sparse September release schedule, Bloodline was slated to start pretty soon but there has since been some unforeseen complication with recording/editing/sound design etc. that has delayed it.
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Post by barnabaslives on Sept 3, 2016 3:31:28 GMT
I'm hoping if no sooner, that Bloodline might come out at the same time as Haunting Memories, same as Blood & Fire came out as the same time as Echoes of the Past, but I have no idea really. Hoping for some Dark Shadows news soon.
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Post by omega on Sept 3, 2016 3:51:31 GMT
I have a feeling that, due to the sparse September release schedule, Bloodline was slated to start pretty soon but there has since been some unforeseen complication with recording/editing/sound design etc. that has delayed it. It's possible, there's been no update or a pre-order page. I'd assumed that some of the recording was done when the actors were recording their parts for Blood & Fire (that session that was the first time Scott Haran and Walles Hamonde first met). Since the Blood and Fire interviews on the CHS there have been no further podcasts or Bloodline news. A pity, since it's a release I'd immediately pre-order the CD of, regardless of the pesky Per Order Charge.
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