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PIRATE TEACHES MORALS

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February 10, 2015

BLACKBEARD’S GHOST directed by Robert Stevenson  (USA, 1968)

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What was your favourite movie when you were 10?

At that age, my tastes were strongly dictated by Disney so mine would have been a toss-up between Jungle Book and Blackbeard’s Ghost. The latter would probably have narrowly won by a hair of the dread pirate’s ragged whiskers.

Watching it again now, I can guess that one of main appeals was the way it pitched underdog outsiders against crooks and jocks.

It is based very loosely on real life 18th century pirate Edward Teach and a novel by Ben Stahl.

Blackbeard’s spirit has been wandering in limbo following a curse put on him by his aggrieved wife Aldetha as she was being burnt at the stake as a witch. Continue reading →

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THE WOODS ARE ALIVE!

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November 12, 2012

It’s been one of those days!

THE EVIL DEAD directed by Sam Raimi (USA, 1991)

I’m not much of a horror fan as can be gauged from the fact that it’s taken over thirty years for me to see the original of Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead franchise.

I have to say that I found it more comical than scary but there’s no mistaking the fact that it’s an audacious piece of filmmaking.

The relatively small budget forced Raimi to be creative. For instance, the actors had to wear thick contact lens to get the white eye effect. Continue reading →

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HALLOWEEN VIEWING FOR CHEAPSKATES

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October 31, 2011

Entertaining the guests in The House On Haunted Hill.

If you’re looking for a scary Halloween movie but are broke then you should check out the 40 best free to download movies listover at Tech.Blorge blog. Ten of these are in the Sci-Fi/Horror category and include cult classics like George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and White Zombie starring Bela Lugosi.

I intend to work my way through this list (not all in one night!) and I began with a 1959 classic: House on Haunted Hill directed by William Castle.  This is  the story of a wealthy man who offers to pay $10,000 each to a select group of people if they can survive a night in his haunted house. It stars Vincent Prince being suavely sinister as only he knows how. His cunning plan is to prove his wife is cheating on him.

If you’re wondering where the script writers of Scooby Doo got some of their ideas you should check this out. There are skeletons on puppet strings, severed heads in suitcases, freaky looking ‘caretakers’ and ‘ghosts’ that glide by as though on roller skates. Great fun!

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