Michael Galley
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Teacher, writer, husband, father, wild-eyed leftie and horror film fan. But not necessarily in that order. Author of ‘Dracula, Frankenstein and Friends.’
Norwich, England
Joined July 2021
Bit of a throwback on BBC2 tonight. A horror double bill, which some of you may know is something I’m quite keen on. Brian DePalma’s extraordinary ‘Carrie’ immediately followed by Jordan Peele’s ‘Get Out.’ If only we could have a season rather than a one off…
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Concluding my series of summer reports from yesteryear with the news that on this day 50 years ago the very first series of horror double bills ended with Robert Florey’s very enjoyable’The Beast with Five Fingers’ and ‘The Maze’ which remarkably I’ve still never seen.
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Absolutely. In fact my only disagreement throughout is the usual one for me, since Mr D shares the almost universal critical disdain for the 1931 Dracula. It’s a lonely life for we Lugosi fans.. But I’ll forgive one lapse in judgement given how wonderful the book is.
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Re-reading this beauty by @dysonjeremy . Horror fans are very lucky in the quality of writer our favourite genre attracts but of all the modern(ish) books on horror films this is the only one I feel the same kind of affection for as the Gifford and Frank books I loved in the 70s.
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In an act of admirable perversity, having finally decided to call the 1980 season ‘Horror Double Bill’ (which is what we had all always called them despite the various season titles) BBC2 chose to end the season 45 years ago today with a single film. Cushing in ‘The Skull.’
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So 50 years ago today we had a double dose of comedy horror. Not an easy trick to pull off but you could do a lot worse than the archetypal spooky house comedy of the 1939 ‘The Cat and the ‘Canary’ and then Price, Lorre, Rathbone and Karloff camping it up in ‘Comedy of Terrors.’
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Staying in Aldeburgh (or Seaburgh as Monty fans will think of it) and looking out over the beach poor old Paxton would have walked. Such is the power of TV however, that to me ‘Warning to the Curious’ always means Holkham, where LG Clark’s film was shot, rather than here.
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…while the horror double bill five years later offered up Vincent Price in 1959’s ‘The Bat’ followed by another Tyburn film, ‘Legend of the Werewolf,’ still as sadly unavailable today as ‘The Ghoul’ which had helped kick off the 1980 season a few weeks earlier.
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It’s that time on a Saturday you all look forward to…50 years ago today the ‘Fantastic Double Bill’ gave us a twin slice of sci-fi with some classic 50s alien shenanigans in ‘This Island Earth’ and then Jane Fonda in various stages of undress in the very 60s ‘Barbarella.’
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Tonight’s cinema trip gave me the first chance to see ‘Fire Walk With Me’ on the big screen since its original release. Wonderful and devastating and still my favourite Lynch. And features, for me, perhaps the best performance I’ve ever seen from the extraordinary Sheryl Lee.
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Meanwhile, five years later and forty five years ago today the horror double bill of August 16th 1980 was the not at all bad ‘The Beast from 20,000 fathoms’ followed by the not at all good ‘Night of the Lepus.’
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Continuing my weekly rush to be first with the news from half a century ago, the ‘Fantastic Double Bill’ for 16th August 1975, according to BBC Genome, was ‘Noah’s Ark’ followed by dinosaur action in ‘Man and his Mate’ (aka ‘1m Years BC’ later remade by Hammer with Raquel Welch).
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Saturday horror double bill nostalgia part two. Meanwhile 45 years ago today you’d have been looking forward to Rathbone, Karloff and a youthful Vincent Price in 1939’s ‘Tower of London’ followed by a quick game of Guess The Werewolf in ‘The Beast Must Die.’
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Saturday horror double bill nostalgia part one. Fifty years ago today you would be gearing up for a Poe bonanza. 1960’s ‘Tell Tale Heart’ with Laurence Harvey and a double bill debut for Corman’s ‘Premature Burial’ two years before its 1977 showing scared the bejaysus out of me..
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And in further news, 2nd August 1975 saw the very first double bill, 'Caligari' and 'Quatermass 2.' The horror double bills are 50 today. I've written something about it here... https://t.co/ZegiDjH33T
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Saturday 2nd August 1975 The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1920,Decla-Bioscop AG , Robert Wiene) 22.55-00.05 Quatermass 2 (1957, Hammer, Val Guest) 00.05-01.20 I’d like to share a moment with you, …
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45 years ago today the double bill for the 2nd August 1980 was 'Paranoiac' followed by 'Captain Kronos Vampire Hunter.' I must add that, unbelievably, twitter will currently not permit me to see any '40, 45 years?' jokes till they can estimate my age. Online safety gone mad...
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A nice little pairing of Hammer and Amicus on this day in 1980. ‘Curse of the Werewolf’ and ‘From Beyond the Grave.’ Are you ready @CRAIGWILLIAMS4 ? Or rather are Sheridan and Charles ready?How many years ago?
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Continuing my series of weekly ‘45 years ago today’ reports, on Saturday the 19th July 1980 we were offered the slightly uninspiring double bill pairing of ‘The Devil Doll’ from 1936, followed by a pre-Magnum Tom Selleck in ‘Daughters of Satan’ from 1972.
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I really, really wish Lugosi had been in 'The Mad Ghoul', as it would have given me the opportunity to deploy my 'Hungarian Ghoulish' pun. You're welcome. I'm here all week...
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