tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post3908601178270163067..comments2024-01-09T04:01:00.672+00:00Comments on Breakfast In The Ruins: Horror Express: The Haunted House of Horror (Michael Armstrong / Gerry Levy, 1969)Benhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-23737974669949216252020-05-05T12:04:10.228+01:002020-05-05T12:04:10.228+01:00Thanks for your comments Ian and Maurice! Apprecia...Thanks for your comments Ian and Maurice! Appreciated as always.<br /><br />Yes, seeing 'Julian Barnes' on the cast list raised my eyebrows too. More literary fiction / Brit exploitation cross-overs are definitely to be wished for. Perhaps I should try to start a rumur that Ian McEwan got murdered in one of the 'Xtro' movies or something? (As mentioned in my review of it, I tend to suspect Fay Weldon was probably responsible for much of the laugh-out-loud dialogue in 'Killer's Moon'.)<br /><br /> Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14951955227326548340noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-4218365772283516322020-05-04T09:18:20.450+01:002020-05-04T09:18:20.450+01:00Biggest revelation of this film for me was when th...Biggest revelation of this film for me was when they tidied up the copy used for telly hsowings and I could actually see who the killer was! For years, the print had been so dark and murk that the big revelation took place in total darkness, so I had no idea what was going on other than by speech.<br /><br />As for the film, its a bit of a missed opportunity and didnt make a lot of sense even when a fresh yoof watching it. e.g. "....and probably stoned." "Drunk!? Me?"<br /><br />Top Carnaby Streeting at the beginning though. The "Forget the seance, lets have an orgy!" lines a winner as wellMaurice Mickelwhitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05415253943533672436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369610344911858466.post-79624288371788464922020-05-02T07:14:44.433+01:002020-05-02T07:14:44.433+01:00Thanks for that review. I remember first seeing &...Thanks for that review. I remember first seeing 'The Haunted House of Horror' on ITV late one Friday night when I was about 12 or 13. By that time I'd already seen 'Blood on Satan's Claw' and 'The Creeping Flesh', so I assumed that anything with the words 'A Tigon Production' at the beginning of it would be really good. Thus, this was a massive disappointment. I was the most un-hip kid imaginable, but as soon as Richard O'Sullivan appeared on screen, even I realised that these characters were NOT mad, bad and dangerous-to-know reprobates from Swinging London. That said, when the first kid got murdered... I jumped six inches out of my seat. It was the goriest thing I'd seen up till that point.<br /><br />Incidentally, I'd always wondered about the actor Julian Barnes, who played the mad killer in 'The Haunted House of Horror'. For years I wanted to believe he was the same Julian Barnes who became the acclaimed author of such highbrow literary novels as 'Flaubert's Parrot', 'A History of the World in Ten-and-a-Half Chapters' and 'Arthur & George'. (This would be like finding out that Martin Amis had once worked with Pete Walker or Salman Rushdie had once appeared in a Norman J. Warren movie. Come to think of it, Fay Weldon really was involved in Alan Birkinshaw's 'Killer Moon.') But alas, it wasn't the same Julian Barnes. Checking out his IMDb page now, I see that he's a different person who's still acting today and has appeared in such Hollywood fare as 'The Astronaut's Wife' and 'Pacific Rim'.Ian Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17895092159128758361noreply@blogger.com