Mark H
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Horror movies, 1970s paperbacks (especially New English Library), building original Lego models, synthesizer music, movie locations, Blade Runner, Lon Chaney, Peter Cushing, Amicus films, David Lynch…
Gay, and in the UK.
Gay, and in the UK.
“The year nature went berserk”
1965 sci-fi predicting ridiculous disasters…
1965 sci-fi predicting ridiculous disasters…
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
“The year nature went berserk”
1965 sci-fi predicting ridiculous disasters…
1965 sci-fi predicting ridiculous disasters…
1970 ABC Film Review.
Superb spread on The Dunwich Horror, with a BTS photo I’ve not seen till now.
Career interview with Pamela Franklin, which should be 100 pages longer. She’s in several of my most favourite horrors.
John Hurt enjoying Film Review in Antarctica (for Mr Forbush and the Penguins).
Superb spread on The Dunwich Horror, with a BTS photo I’ve not seen till now.
Career interview with Pamela Franklin, which should be 100 pages longer. She’s in several of my most favourite horrors.
John Hurt enjoying Film Review in Antarctica (for Mr Forbush and the Penguins).
November 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
1970 ABC Film Review.
Superb spread on The Dunwich Horror, with a BTS photo I’ve not seen till now.
Career interview with Pamela Franklin, which should be 100 pages longer. She’s in several of my most favourite horrors.
John Hurt enjoying Film Review in Antarctica (for Mr Forbush and the Penguins).
Superb spread on The Dunwich Horror, with a BTS photo I’ve not seen till now.
Career interview with Pamela Franklin, which should be 100 pages longer. She’s in several of my most favourite horrors.
John Hurt enjoying Film Review in Antarctica (for Mr Forbush and the Penguins).
Escape from the Dark (1976, UK title) aka The Littlest Horse Thieves.
Filmed in Yorkshire and Pinewood studios, a children’s film that’s tough. Coal gas, cave-ins, kids in peril and, gulp, pit ponies headed for the slaughterhouse!
Made for Disney this deserves to have had regular showings in the UK.
Filmed in Yorkshire and Pinewood studios, a children’s film that’s tough. Coal gas, cave-ins, kids in peril and, gulp, pit ponies headed for the slaughterhouse!
Made for Disney this deserves to have had regular showings in the UK.
November 10, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Escape from the Dark (1976, UK title) aka The Littlest Horse Thieves.
Filmed in Yorkshire and Pinewood studios, a children’s film that’s tough. Coal gas, cave-ins, kids in peril and, gulp, pit ponies headed for the slaughterhouse!
Made for Disney this deserves to have had regular showings in the UK.
Filmed in Yorkshire and Pinewood studios, a children’s film that’s tough. Coal gas, cave-ins, kids in peril and, gulp, pit ponies headed for the slaughterhouse!
Made for Disney this deserves to have had regular showings in the UK.
Reposted by Mark H
Blimey. Didn't have this one on the card but a very, very pleasing bit of news.
It's been 50 years since Split Enz's debut album. Now they're getting the band back together for a string of arena dates in next year.
Split Enz announces first Australian tour in 20 years
It's been 50 years since Split Enz's debut album. Now they're getting the band back together for a string of arena dates in next year.
www.abc.net.au
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Blimey. Didn't have this one on the card but a very, very pleasing bit of news.
Didn’t know that this book by Harry Grey was filmed as…
Once Upon A Time In America!
My deep dive on New English Libary is a late education.
Once Upon A Time In America!
My deep dive on New English Libary is a late education.
November 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Didn’t know that this book by Harry Grey was filmed as…
Once Upon A Time In America!
My deep dive on New English Libary is a late education.
Once Upon A Time In America!
My deep dive on New English Libary is a late education.
Pretty sure that HMV isn’t the best place to shop for ouija boards, but pleased that it’s at least a possibility.
November 8, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Pretty sure that HMV isn’t the best place to shop for ouija boards, but pleased that it’s at least a possibility.
Now have the three books by Idries Shah (aka Arkon Daraul) I’ve been chasing.
Vintage occult, rare horrors, movie tie-ins, Guy N Smith and gay penned murder mysteries are about the only things that tempt me to get non New English Library books at rhe moment.
Vintage occult, rare horrors, movie tie-ins, Guy N Smith and gay penned murder mysteries are about the only things that tempt me to get non New English Library books at rhe moment.
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Now have the three books by Idries Shah (aka Arkon Daraul) I’ve been chasing.
Vintage occult, rare horrors, movie tie-ins, Guy N Smith and gay penned murder mysteries are about the only things that tempt me to get non New English Library books at rhe moment.
Vintage occult, rare horrors, movie tie-ins, Guy N Smith and gay penned murder mysteries are about the only things that tempt me to get non New English Library books at rhe moment.
Suddenly, it’s foggy here. Amd a full moon too. Perfect for Halloween…
November 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Suddenly, it’s foggy here. Amd a full moon too. Perfect for Halloween…
Post something random for the collective amusement.
November 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Post something random for the collective amusement.
1958. The old ABC Film Review magazines may have dull covers, attempting to get glamour shots of Britain’s top actresses, but I like the two page spreads of the new releases, and of course the full page colour posters!
#HammerHorror
#HammerFilms
#HammerHorror
#HammerFilms
November 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
1958. The old ABC Film Review magazines may have dull covers, attempting to get glamour shots of Britain’s top actresses, but I like the two page spreads of the new releases, and of course the full page colour posters!
#HammerHorror
#HammerFilms
#HammerHorror
#HammerFilms
New arrivals look like laugh riots.
New English Library / Four Square loved their true crime. From 1975 and 1961.
New English Library / Four Square loved their true crime. From 1975 and 1961.
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
New arrivals look like laugh riots.
New English Library / Four Square loved their true crime. From 1975 and 1961.
New English Library / Four Square loved their true crime. From 1975 and 1961.
Just discovered there are two songs known as Burlington Bertie, both written for cross-dressing music hall stars.
Burlington Bertie From Bow is the best known song, recorded many times in musicals and TV variety shows, but it was written as a low rent spoof of the original Burlington Bertie...
Burlington Bertie From Bow is the best known song, recorded many times in musicals and TV variety shows, but it was written as a low rent spoof of the original Burlington Bertie...
November 6, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Just discovered there are two songs known as Burlington Bertie, both written for cross-dressing music hall stars.
Burlington Bertie From Bow is the best known song, recorded many times in musicals and TV variety shows, but it was written as a low rent spoof of the original Burlington Bertie...
Burlington Bertie From Bow is the best known song, recorded many times in musicals and TV variety shows, but it was written as a low rent spoof of the original Burlington Bertie...
Reposted by Mark H
Keeping with their new occult business model, Debenhams are now selling shirts of the black metal band MAYHEM
November 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Keeping with their new occult business model, Debenhams are now selling shirts of the black metal band MAYHEM
Finally! Arrived today!
Monster edition of Little Shoppe of Horrors dedicated to GORGO (1961) the British answer to Godzilla!
270 pages (!!!) heavily illustrated with rare photos and art. The first ever indepth account of the making of the movie!
Available in the UK from Hemlock Books.
Monster edition of Little Shoppe of Horrors dedicated to GORGO (1961) the British answer to Godzilla!
270 pages (!!!) heavily illustrated with rare photos and art. The first ever indepth account of the making of the movie!
Available in the UK from Hemlock Books.
November 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Finally! Arrived today!
Monster edition of Little Shoppe of Horrors dedicated to GORGO (1961) the British answer to Godzilla!
270 pages (!!!) heavily illustrated with rare photos and art. The first ever indepth account of the making of the movie!
Available in the UK from Hemlock Books.
Monster edition of Little Shoppe of Horrors dedicated to GORGO (1961) the British answer to Godzilla!
270 pages (!!!) heavily illustrated with rare photos and art. The first ever indepth account of the making of the movie!
Available in the UK from Hemlock Books.
Christian Slater giving heavy Adric vibes.
Name of the Rose. Jean Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Umberto Eco’s postmodern detective novel set in a medieval monastery is exquisitely shot with a cast of gargoyle monks investigated by Connery and a young Christian Bale. SC in full old man mode was 56.
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Christian Slater giving heavy Adric vibes.
I feel it’s my duty to scrape off bits of dried food stuck to the pages of library books. For those who may follow (and think it was me).
November 4, 2025 at 11:54 PM
I feel it’s my duty to scrape off bits of dried food stuck to the pages of library books. For those who may follow (and think it was me).
“Stay close to the glass of milk. These steps can be dangerous…”
Long day tomorrow. Early night. Glass of milk before bed...👀🎬
#Noirvember #filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky
#Noirvember #filmnoir #filmsky #moviesky
November 4, 2025 at 11:28 PM
“Stay close to the glass of milk. These steps can be dangerous…”
Help!
What’s the old US movie where a husband gets trapped, (pinned down after a crash?) on the banks of a rising river (or possibly on a beach) and his wife goes for help but gets hijacked by a criminal (on the run?).
I want to say Ida Lupino is involved but I just can’t remember.
What’s the old US movie where a husband gets trapped, (pinned down after a crash?) on the banks of a rising river (or possibly on a beach) and his wife goes for help but gets hijacked by a criminal (on the run?).
I want to say Ida Lupino is involved but I just can’t remember.
November 4, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Help!
What’s the old US movie where a husband gets trapped, (pinned down after a crash?) on the banks of a rising river (or possibly on a beach) and his wife goes for help but gets hijacked by a criminal (on the run?).
I want to say Ida Lupino is involved but I just can’t remember.
What’s the old US movie where a husband gets trapped, (pinned down after a crash?) on the banks of a rising river (or possibly on a beach) and his wife goes for help but gets hijacked by a criminal (on the run?).
I want to say Ida Lupino is involved but I just can’t remember.
Reposted by Mark H
In the future everyone will be a zombie for fifteen minutes.
Today I learned that Andy Warhol watched George Romero’s living dead trilogy and after Day of the Dead (1985) wanted to become a zombie!
Tom Savini obliged with the zombie make-up, assisted by Greg Nicotero. Then Christopher Makos took the photo portraits.
Tom Savini obliged with the zombie make-up, assisted by Greg Nicotero. Then Christopher Makos took the photo portraits.
November 4, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In the future everyone will be a zombie for fifteen minutes.
Lazy scrapbook of wonky observations but…
Terry Nation at home,
Barbara Steele giving a hazy Grace Jones style interview,
Christopher Lee in his heyday,
The production office of Torture Garden,
Screaming Lord Sutch pre-empting punk, goth and especially The Damned by a decade,
Elisabeth Lutyens!
Terry Nation at home,
Barbara Steele giving a hazy Grace Jones style interview,
Christopher Lee in his heyday,
The production office of Torture Garden,
Screaming Lord Sutch pre-empting punk, goth and especially The Damned by a decade,
Elisabeth Lutyens!
I should really have posted this last week but never too late to watch Alan Whicker doing an endlessly unctuous monologue about the world of horror
(if you don't know, just watch the opening minute and you'll 'get' Alan Whicker, a man of his time in so many ways)
youtu.be/J5wiALFxzZk?...
(if you don't know, just watch the opening minute and you'll 'get' Alan Whicker, a man of his time in so many ways)
youtu.be/J5wiALFxzZk?...
1968: Whicker's World of Horror | Classic BBC Documentary | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
youtu.be
November 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Lazy scrapbook of wonky observations but…
Terry Nation at home,
Barbara Steele giving a hazy Grace Jones style interview,
Christopher Lee in his heyday,
The production office of Torture Garden,
Screaming Lord Sutch pre-empting punk, goth and especially The Damned by a decade,
Elisabeth Lutyens!
Terry Nation at home,
Barbara Steele giving a hazy Grace Jones style interview,
Christopher Lee in his heyday,
The production office of Torture Garden,
Screaming Lord Sutch pre-empting punk, goth and especially The Damned by a decade,
Elisabeth Lutyens!
Tarzan and his Mate (1934) is extraordinary, spoilt by repeating so many situations from the first film (Tarzan the Ape Man).
But must have been released before the Hays Code was enforced, because the violence is off the scale. High body count, close ups of dead bodies, and fully naked Jane!
But must have been released before the Hays Code was enforced, because the violence is off the scale. High body count, close ups of dead bodies, and fully naked Jane!
November 4, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Tarzan and his Mate (1934) is extraordinary, spoilt by repeating so many situations from the first film (Tarzan the Ape Man).
But must have been released before the Hays Code was enforced, because the violence is off the scale. High body count, close ups of dead bodies, and fully naked Jane!
But must have been released before the Hays Code was enforced, because the violence is off the scale. High body count, close ups of dead bodies, and fully naked Jane!
Must scan my negs for our 2004 trip to Japan for Godzilla’s 50th birthday.
#GodzillaDay
#GodzillaDay
November 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Must scan my negs for our 2004 trip to Japan for Godzilla’s 50th birthday.
#GodzillaDay
#GodzillaDay
Today I learned that Andy Warhol watched George Romero’s living dead trilogy and after Day of the Dead (1985) wanted to become a zombie!
Tom Savini obliged with the zombie make-up, assisted by Greg Nicotero. Then Christopher Makos took the photo portraits.
Tom Savini obliged with the zombie make-up, assisted by Greg Nicotero. Then Christopher Makos took the photo portraits.
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Today I learned that Andy Warhol watched George Romero’s living dead trilogy and after Day of the Dead (1985) wanted to become a zombie!
Tom Savini obliged with the zombie make-up, assisted by Greg Nicotero. Then Christopher Makos took the photo portraits.
Tom Savini obliged with the zombie make-up, assisted by Greg Nicotero. Then Christopher Makos took the photo portraits.
Short film season suggestion - Christopher Lee in seedy bars and nightclubs. Nightclub/bar owner, spiv, magician…
The Battle of the River Plate
Too Hot to Handle
Beat Girl
The Hands of Orlac…
any more?
The Battle of the River Plate
Too Hot to Handle
Beat Girl
The Hands of Orlac…
any more?
November 3, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Short film season suggestion - Christopher Lee in seedy bars and nightclubs. Nightclub/bar owner, spiv, magician…
The Battle of the River Plate
Too Hot to Handle
Beat Girl
The Hands of Orlac…
any more?
The Battle of the River Plate
Too Hot to Handle
Beat Girl
The Hands of Orlac…
any more?
Amazing boxset!
Bits #BD Review – @timsalmons.bsky.social and Dennis check out the 6-FILM COLLECTION: HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS OF HORROR featuring six previously-available #horror classics, available on #Bluray from the Warner Archive Collection. @billhuntbits.bsky.social thedigitalbits.com/reviews/item...
November 3, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Amazing boxset!