CaptKarnstein
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Am off to bed, so will miss tonight. I watched this not too long ago and enjoyed it. Some good performances, especially the lad Jack.

Enjoy the show. X #TheFilmCrowd
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Tonight! 📽️ Premiere Wednesday 8th October, 9:05pm THE CASE OF THE FRIGHTENED LADY (1983) starring #VirginiaMcKenna #WarrenClarke #TimWoodward mystery drama #TPTVsubtitles
The Case of the Frightened Lady Talking Pictures TV Sky 328 Freeview 82 Virgin 445 Freesat 306
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Frankenstein:

"I have made a monster!"

"No. You are the monster!"

DIES IN SNOW.

The end.
newyorker.com
Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.
Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?
Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.
www.newyorker.com
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Good morning!

(art by Ertugrul Edirne)
In a collage based on the movie Horror Express, we see a train passing through the Siberian tundra, with a screaming woman menaced by an ape lie being with glowing eyes.
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Today I learn there's a early 80s version of Edgar Wallace's Case of the Frightened Lady with Warren Clarke. Definitely watching this.
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Schedule for tomorrow, Wednesday 8th October on #TalkingPicturesTV
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NEXT: Dan Curtis brings Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale to the small screen with the help of Jack Palance and Denholm Elliot in THE STRANGE CASE OF DR JEKYLL & MR HYDE this Wednesday with #thefilmcrowd
youtu.be/_y7Z54rluGU?...
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Good morning!

(art by Timo Wuerz)
Framed inside a black hood is a scene of skeletons dancing with woman and a man amid them brandishing a cross.
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Damon looking up to suddenly see he's nobbing an actual bat will live with me forever. #TheFilmcrowd
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He's Dracula now? Fair enough, he has a cape. #ThefilmCrowd
Mark Damon is suddenly Dracula
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Us and the furries again. People are gonna talk. #TheFilmcrowd
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Genuinely, this is a badly made piece of nonsense, but there's so much GOTHICNESS onscreen that I kinda love it.
#TheFilmCrowd
Ladies in nightgowns walking the grounds of a spooky castle at night.
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Suddenly realises what film she's in. #TheFilmcrowd
Startled actress in 1970s Italian vampire schlock.
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"Where's the amulet?"

"I remember showing it to the inn-keeper's daughter."

"Yes, but what about the amulet?" #TheFilmCrowd
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"I shall hide behind this candle!" #TheFilmCrowd
Vampire hides behind candle.