carol27
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 12, 2015, 18:38
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Also Susan Hill' s " The Woman In Black", the ITV adaptation ,not the recent Daniel Radcliffe film ( although that has it's moments) is truly creepy; the female ghost being the scariest horror I've seen. The true star though is the landscape surrounding the haunted house, with the sea cutting off the causeway, and the swirling sea frets obscuring the view and exaggerating any noise. Brrr...
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 12, 2015, 20:03
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The TV version was terrifying! I remember watching it on my own late at night one Christmas, I lived in a very quiet rural village, no street lights, etc. Turning the lights out and going to sleep was not very easy!
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spencer
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 12, 2015, 20:46
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Treasure her, m'boy, treasure her :) ......and cop an eyeful of BB countryside 'n nature artistry from his society's website: http://www.bbsociety.co.uk/bb-the-illustrator.php Genius, imho
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GLADMAN
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 12, 2015, 21:23
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John Foxx walking the derelict railway lines of London in 1980 and changing the course of electronic music forever.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 12, 2015, 22:06
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Have you heard this yet?
http://flipsideflipsidereviews.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/john-foxx-london-overgrown.html
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GLADMAN
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 12, 2015, 22:24
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thesweetcheat wrote:
Not yet. But I grew up listening to Foxx and the original Ultravox!... OMD, Human League, Depeche. Love the latest Maths stuff with the modular synths. Always sounds slightly out of synch, which I like. Very North European. What would I give to own an original ARP Odyssey?
Ironically it was Midge Ure, not Cope, who inspired me to one day see the Tursachan at Calanis. Considering I was a school boy in Essex that's not bad going.. taking shelter by the standing stones... guess I decided I wanted to.
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carol27
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 13, 2015, 16:35
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thesweetcheat wrote: The TV version was terrifying! I remember watching it on my own late at night one Christmas, I lived in a very quiet rural village, no street lights, etc. Turning the lights out and going to sleep was not very easy!
Especially when that freaky woman burst through your window! One of my sons was watching it in bed on YouTube & when she came in he fell out of bed literally.
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Howburn Digger
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 13, 2015, 19:51
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I've enjoyed all of this thread and the links people have posted. I had forgotten completely about Penda's Fen" - Thanks!
Only British Strangeness could come up with this one. Still works for me.
https://youtu.be/Sg6IVUvVsAs
And remember Ringstone Round with its full-on British Strangeness?
https://youtu.be/SFK0ttbDHZI
Anyone for Albert Finney in the weirdly bacchanalian TV adaptation of the Kingsley Amis novel The Green Man?
https://youtu.be/bdK93bYG6gE
But for strangeness and darkness and weird connectedness to The Land and The Past.. the last few minutes of the 1971 BBC adaptation of Sunset Song mustn't be overlooked. Take it away Raffles...
https://youtu.be/GRBjcfWyDbY?t=2h4m44s
And as for music... the dark strangeness of the countryside... in this case with a particular focus on Tayside and Dundee... is hinted at by The Associates. From "Sulk" and featuring a uniformed-up Billy MacKenzie with a matching Martha (Muffin) Ladly it has to be "Skipping"
https://youtu.be/kg-Joajg9sw
Before that there was "Logan Time".
https://youtu.be/Iw4T3xSSXss
This thread will run and run...
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tjj
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 16, 2015, 10:50
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On a contemporary note, 'Inside No 9' - the Witch Trials. Excellent dark, twisted humour ...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05qkfzy/inside-no-9-series-2-3-the-trial-of-elizabeth-gadge
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Wild Wooder
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Re: Rural British strangeness in books, music + films
Apr 20, 2015, 21:35
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I liked the sound of this after reading a few reviews on amazon. Sounded very enigmatically written. Thought I'd order it from the library.
Then I looked it up on Wikipedia. Dang! They gave away the whole plot and denouement!
Bugger!
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