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Creative DrWho / Star Wars / old telly & music. Target Books blog at: https://escapetodanger.net/

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That there @scottkandrews.bsky.social, whose dad done the music, was sat behind me at Target Book Club.

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Watching a movie on the train and hoping there are no boobie scenes. Psychomania (1973) - great intro music! #SHOCKtober

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Next up for #SHOCKtober is Paul Naschy's take on another classic monster - The Mummy's Revenge (1975), though this isn't a Universal remake but a very close match to Hammer's The Mummy's Shroud (1967), including a near identical first scene, narration and all.

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Even the music is Hammeresque. As with Dracula and the wolfman, Naschy's weightlifter physique makes him rather a chunky member of the undead.

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From Hell (2001) is full of actors who were in Doctor Who, mainly with David Tennant. I'm looking out for an old friend who plays a journalist reporting on the murders. #SHOCKtober

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Gosh, my mate's in it a lot. He gets actual dialogue and loads of scenes with Robbie Coltrane and Johnny Depp.

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Learned my lesson with Lucio Fulci, so I'm watching this one in daytime. The House by the Cemetary (1981) was actually on the BBFC video nasties list - and its opening scene justified it.

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Final #SHOCKtober for today and it's been on the list for years. The Invisible Man (2020)

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I'm going to count this as extra credit for #SHOCKtober as To Hell and Back: The Kane Hodder Story (2017) is a horrific, motivational story of a beautiful, creative man in the horror field.

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I've been saving this one - Mike Flanagan's Oculus (2013) - ooh and Karen Gillan is in it! #SHOCKtober

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Well that was depressing. Also a rare film that makes me cry out in shock. Very good.

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I've been saving this one - Mike Flanagan's Oculus (2013) - ooh and Karen Gillan is in it! #SHOCKtober

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Hurrah, Katie Sackoff!

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Roger Corman afternoon fun as Vincent Price stars in Masque of the Red Death (1964) #SHOCKtober

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I love that there were academics at Target Book Day who were congratulated on how funny their lectures were. I wonder if they ever get that in their day jobs?

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Made it to the train and now I"m eating the most expensive sausage roll ever while watching Inseminoid (1981) #SHOCKtober

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What a gorgeous day celebrating Target books. Thanks to @gossjam.bsky.social for putting so much effort into not just organising it but being such a great host all day.

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Meanwhile, I'm getting some #SHOCKtobers done on the journey. From a Whisper to a Scream (1987) is a portmanteau starring Vincent Price (the film I got confused with the other day).

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There are TWO six o'clocks a day??? On train to London for Target Book Day. Please say hello if you see me - and introduce yourself too, as crowds can be so overwhelming for me I often can't remember my own name :-)

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More lunchtime fun with Paul Naschy ticking off another original Universal monster type in Hunchback of the Morgue (1973) #SHOCKtober

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I'm not sure fajitas were a good idea for lunch. This is already rather graphic with the body horror. The clue is in the title, eh?

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Kind of holding this one back as Lucio Fulci tends to go for gross-out but here goes - The Beyond (1981). Already the opening sequence is really violent and gruesome.

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There's a sequence involving a conscious but paralysed man slowly being devoured by tarantulas. It goes from being an impressive merging of real spiders and puppets to me growling "that's unnecessary" at the screen. Italians really do mine areas of horror nobody else goes near.

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Journey home with Vincent Price (he says hello), Mark Eden and "introducing" Virginia Wetherell in Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968).

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Mark Eden walks past a wanted poster outside of a police station. The man on the poster looks very much like Mark Eden!

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And I'm an idiot because I was browsing two potential movies for the journey home and it was the other one with Vincent Price in!

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Journey home with Vincent Price (he says hello), Mark Eden and "introducing" Virginia Wetherell in Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968).

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Mark Eden tells Virginia Wetherell her uncle's house is straight out of a Boris Karloff movie. Ten mins later, this fella wheels in and he doesn't bat an eyelid...

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Watching another Hammer that I've not seen before - Crescendo (1970). Know nothing about this... and I'm watching it on a train! #SHOCKtober

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Lunchtime fun for #SHOCKtober with Vincent Price in Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972)

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Well now.... I'm wondering what kind of film starts with advertising a tight anus...

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Tonight's film is a giallo classic with the greatest title ever - Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

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Best thing about #SHOCKtober is trying films I've never seen. A big one tonight - Ginger Snaps!

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A quirky Australian coming-of-age tale, Celia (1989) #SHOCKtober

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Leptirica (1973) is, I think, the only Serbo-Croatian -language film I've ever seen. A vampire folk horror with a persuasive mix of comedy and horror. #SHOCKtober on Saturday :-)

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The creature makes a noise like a loon ("stupid Canadian wolfbird" as he says in Heated Rivalries). It's really unsettling.

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Dutch lunchtime horror - de Lift (1983). It's VERY 80s sythtastic so far.

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This is the greatest scene ever.

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This might be the second best scene ever. This is so blackly funny....

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I fancy the colour palette of Mario Bava tonight so here's Christopher Lee in another film I've never seen, The Whip and the Body (1963). An oddity because, apparently due to scheduling conflicts, Lee is dubbed!! #SHOCKtober

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Despite the star-laden cast - Patrick Macnee, Peter Cushing, Edward Woodward - I suspect this might be a terrible movie. Clumsy narration expjaining who everyone is up front. Tonight's #SHOCKtober film is Bloodsuckers (1971)

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Uh-oh... they're clearly desperate. After six mins of infodump, we then have a ten-minute orgy backed by a band failing to be the Spencer Davis Group.

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That awful thing where the film seems to have ended but you know you've not seen one of the credited stars and realise there's another 30 minutes to go. Edward Woodward pops up for his sole scene, delivering ridiculous dialogue and pouting like he's only just keeping the giggles in.

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This script is a stream of exposition dumps. Oh and here comes Patrick Mower, whose popularity has always baffled me. Blokey directors think he's hot but he's utterly lacking in sexiness. You just know he lives off stolen pocket money.

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Forgot to post for #SHOCKtober earlier, but there are some Hammer films I still haven't seen. Now there's one off that list - The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)

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Oh Em Gee. I've been saving this. The New York Ripper (1982). Lucio Fulci cast Jack Hedley (from Colditz) as an NYPD cop in a thriller about a murderer who quacks like a duck... honest! #SHOCKtober