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Miniatures Adventure => Gothic Horror => Topic started by: Malamute on 13 May 2017, 01:27:47 PM
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This new film looks rather good scheduled for release in September:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4733640/
Carriages, fog, dimly lit London streets and Bill Nighy. It's got everything ;D
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I guess Bill Nighy will be an admirable stand in, but it was supposed to have Alan Rickman. :'(
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Based on the Ackroyd novel 'Dan Leno and The Limehouse Golem' presumably?
Good read. But that came out maybe 20 years ago? Surprised someone hasn't made a movie from it already.
But I guess with Ripper Street and Penny Dreadful, Gothic Horror has come back even into vogue over the last 2-3 years, and this is squarely in that territory from what I remember from the book...
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The trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PekVYYRkU8 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PekVYYRkU8)
Looks GREAT!
;)
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Yeah! Gaming potential ;D
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Looks interesting, always like Bill Nighy, not such a fan of Douglas Booth, far too perfect for any age...
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I guess Bill Nighy will be an admirable stand in, but it was supposed to have Alan Rickman. :'(
Shame, I always thought he had a touch of the Vincent Price about him.
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I immediately got the old "Hammer" vibe. Love it!
Too bad we have no Roddy McDowel, Cushing and lee to star in it!
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Is this out yet? Seems like ages since I heard anything about it.
Really enjoyed the book. Great atmosphere of pea-soupers and the strange world of the music halls. Bit of a "From Hell" vibe about it, right down to the Hawksmoor churches reference. Did Ackroyd copy Moore, was it the other way around, or just blind coincidence, I wonder? Can't remember when the respective books came out. I Felt quite smug in that I saw the twist coming a mile off. But then again I think most people would, so it wasn't really all that clever of me.
Interesting that the Bill Nighy policeman character seems to be the protagonist. He's barely in the book, a background character. It's Mr. and Mrs. Cree that tell the story in the book. Well, sort of... I guess that's just part of transferring a literary work into a new medium. I was wondering how they'd go about that as the book didn't seem particularly filmable.
There is something slightly bothersome about the story from the perspective of someone going in as a gothic horror fan, but I can't really say what it is without giving away massive spoilers. Didn't bother me that much as I was really enjoying inhabiting that strange world of the Victorian slums, but it might make other people hate it.
Anyway, looking forward to seeing what they do with the story, but I might wait until it comes on the telly if I'm honest.
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Is this out yet? Seems like ages since I heard anything about it.
It is scheduled to be released in the United Kingdom on 1 September 2017. ;)
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Looks interesting. Bill Nighy will be playing Bill Nighy as usual, I suppose? I like him but his range is rather limited. Fortunately, his one turn is usually enjoyable.
Doug
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I saw a trailer for this at the cinema yesterday. It looks good and as Jimbib said, there's some gaming potential there. No doubt it'll flick my scratch-building switch too!
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Looking forward to it.
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I guess Bill Nighy will be an admirable stand in, but it was supposed to have Alan Rickman. :'(
Alas, one real loss among all the insignificant ones.
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It looks good and as Jimbib said, there's some gaming potential there.
Unless it's very different from the book I'd say no, not so much. Not from a scenario point of view, anyway. Maybe from a purely atmospheric standpoint you might gain inspiration, but not any scenarios, really.
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Awesome can't believe I haven't heard about this till now!!
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Has anyone seen this yet? It's on at the local cinema and the synopsis of the story makes it sound pretty much like the same tale that was featured in the last 2 series of Ripper St.
Doug
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Bit of a "From Hell" vibe about it, right down to the Hawksmoor churches reference. Did Ackroyd copy Moore, was it the other way around, or just blind coincidence, I wonder? Can't remember when the respective books came out.
Just for the record, Peter Ackroyd's "Hawksmoor" came out in 1985 and "Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem" in 1994. He'd been weaving fictions around London's history and historical characters at least since "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde" (1983).
Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell originally serialised "From Hell" between 1989 and 1996. I've always felt that Moore's major stylistic influence here was Iain Sinclair, particularly "White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings" (1987), but also the "psychogeography" approach in general. The Duke of Clarence/William Gull conspiracy theory is, of course, taken wholesale from Stephen Knight's "Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution" (1976). Moore is basically a demiurge - he's great at drawing out implications of other people's work and at narrative structure, but I don't think he's had an original idea in his life.
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Moore is basically a demiurge - he's great at drawing out implications of other people's work and at narrative structure, but I don't think he's had an original idea in his life.
Batman: The Killing Joke (1988) ? ::)
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Saw it yesterday. Don't bother.
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Saw it yesterday. Don't bother.
That's all I wanted to know :)
Thanks
Doug
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Apologies for the Threadomancy... in the UK this movie is now on Netflix. Just watched it. Actually I thought it was rather good. Well made, lots of evocative gothic smoggy gloom counterbalanced by the gaudy yet grim interior of the music hall, and some very nice performances all round. A few good twists too. I don’t remember much about the book - I read it when it was first published, long long ago, but I recall it being a bit dense - the movie felt a bit simpler. Not a bad thing. Anyway, if you’ve got Netflix, you can judge for yourself.
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How about dvd for those is us that do?
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Dunno. But if it’s out on Netflix, and it was released in the cinema almost 2 years ago, I’d guess it’s also available on dvd.
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Okie doke
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Thanks Richard. Just added it to my watch list. Will indulge next weekend.