well everyone in the scene said they'd have slab cake so i guess they were already on the way out
― mark s, Saturday, 23 December 2023 11:59 (five months ago) link
that slab cake looked great tbf
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 23 December 2023 12:00 (five months ago) link
it's what's lurking behind the slab you have to worry about
― mark s, Saturday, 23 December 2023 12:15 (five months ago) link
what's wittgenstein's favourite cake?slab!
― organ doner (ledge), Saturday, 23 December 2023 14:55 (five months ago) link
This year's bbc ghost story for christmas appears to be
"Kit Harington and Freddie Fox star in Mark Gatiss’ adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No.249."
( https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/bbc-christmas-whats-on-tv-iplayer-2023 )
― koogs, Wednesday, 6 December 2023 12:42 (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink
haunting my tv right now i dont know if theres any legal basis for gatiss to be prevented from working but morally surely there's something that can be done
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Sunday, 24 December 2023 23:45 (five months ago) link
If I speak I will be in trouble
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 December 2023 07:44 (five months ago) link
jesus i've seen a couple of reviews and they must've been on the Baileys early
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 December 2023 10:55 (five months ago) link
If you want to experience the absolute nadir of Gatiss/Moffat, the play Unfriend - about SOCIAL MEDIA and TRUMP and LIBERAL HIPOCRISY - is a truly cursed production (walked out during the interval).
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 December 2023 11:30 (five months ago) link
lot 249 is a story i was scared witless by as a kid when i read it at school along with all the other down-canon conan doyles (he wrote several good horror stories, my ten-yr-old self advises that you skip the brigadier gerard books tho)
i have no doubt gatiss will wreck it and will subscribe to deems's problematic newsletter
― mark s, Monday, 25 December 2023 12:00 (five months ago) link
lol I enjoyed Brigadier Gerard!
also worth tracking down his autobio where, at one point, he visits Australian troops in wwi and lectures them for being too boastful when after all they were only there to serve the British Empire
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 25 December 2023 12:03 (five months ago) link
lol early keano eh
― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Monday, 25 December 2023 12:33 (five months ago) link
only got round to reading some james last night - a neighbour's landmark and rats, because they're short and it was late. I thought, it's only words and surely familiarity has dulled any of their power to scare. but I was not a little nervous after turning out the light. but I am a big wuss.stoked for the gatiss badness.
― organ doner (ledge), Monday, 25 December 2023 12:44 (five months ago) link
i think this doesn't count as spoilers: the opening scene is some dialogue that i assume is lifted straight from Conan Doyle and the actors readings felt a bit off and i thought "ah well at least they're going for a sense of period"
two minutes later the phrase "colour me surprised" appeared out of nowhere
it was downhill from there
― emishi sun hack (Noodle Vague), Monday, 25 December 2023 13:18 (five months ago) link
watched "night of the demon" on friday courtesy my sister's BF's collection
superb combo of tourneur for spooky mis-en-scene in various diversity plus niall macginnis as karswell (everyone else might as well be bit parts but this doesn't matter) (exception: maurice denham, tho his part is over in moments)
• excellent deployment of "scary clown" trope • the damaged local yokel whose hypno-testimony saves the good guys is named "rand hobart" lol (name is highly unjamesian; character is not his) (there's an oddly similar scene in quatermass and the pit two years later) • the scene where holden encounters and is menaced by the rest of the farming family hobart is nevertheless tremendous • there are no runes on stonehenge but #whocare • the demon revealed remains adorable
― mark s, Sunday, 31 December 2023 15:36 (four months ago) link
That the demon is totally un-Jamesian goes without saying but that death scene is kind of horrific for 1957?
(Karswell's screams awoke traumatic memories of some of the deaths in the black and white Tarzan episodes that used to be in the 6 o'clock slot on, I think, BBC2.)
― I would prefer not to. (Chinaski), Sunday, 31 December 2023 18:14 (four months ago) link
love the demon. such a good boy!
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 31 December 2023 18:18 (four months ago) link