15 - The Earth Dies Screaming (1964)
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08/01/21 • 83 min
The Earth Dies Screaming is a black and white, 1964 British horror science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher ( who also directed The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - covered in episode 2 of the General Witchfinders, and went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
‘Dies Screaming’ stars Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price.
Human bodies are scattered around an English village, apparently dead in a sudden cataclysm. A small group of survivors gather in the local hotel bar, led by an American jet test pilot, Jeff Nolan (played by Parker). During the very short feature the rag tag team face off against Ro-berts, zombies and each other.
The film was shot in black and white at Shepperton Studios in London. Location filming was done at the village of Shere in Surrey.
The British band UB40 released a single, "The Earth Dies Screaming", in 1980, which spent 12 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number 10.
The first track on Tom Waits' 1992 album Bone Machine is entitled "Earth Died Screaming."
Something Horrific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIgXhiOpeQ
https://www.hammerhouseofhorrortvseries.co.uk/project/h-children-of-the-full-moon/
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The Earth Dies Screaming is a black and white, 1964 British horror science fiction film directed by Terence Fisher ( who also directed The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) - covered in episode 2 of the General Witchfinders, and went on to film several adaptations of classic horror subjects, including Dracula (1958), The Mummy (1959), and The Curse of the Werewolf (1961)
‘Dies Screaming’ stars Willard Parker, Virginia Field and Dennis Price.
Human bodies are scattered around an English village, apparently dead in a sudden cataclysm. A small group of survivors gather in the local hotel bar, led by an American jet test pilot, Jeff Nolan (played by Parker). During the very short feature the rag tag team face off against Ro-berts, zombies and each other.
The film was shot in black and white at Shepperton Studios in London. Location filming was done at the village of Shere in Surrey.
The British band UB40 released a single, "The Earth Dies Screaming", in 1980, which spent 12 weeks in the UK chart, peaking at number 10.
The first track on Tom Waits' 1992 album Bone Machine is entitled "Earth Died Screaming."
Something Horrific
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIgXhiOpeQ
https://www.hammerhouseofhorrortvseries.co.uk/project/h-children-of-the-full-moon/
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14 - The Omen (1976)
Released on the 6th day of the 6th month in the year 1976, the week The Wurzels ‘Combine Harvester’, became number one in the UK (coincidence?)...
The Omen, which was originally considered by Warner Bros, who thought it might be ideal for Oliver Reed, is an American-British supernatural horror film directed by Richard Donner, written by David Seltzer, and eventually starred Gregory Peck, Lee Remick and David Warner.
One of Richard Donner's first requests to screenwriter Seltzer was to remove all suggestions of the supernatural, such as cloven-hoofed demons and witches' covens. The idea was that there should be some degree of doubt over whether or not Thorn was deranged.
The films follows Damien Thorn, a young child replaced at birth by an American ambassador unbeknownst to his wife, after their biological child dies shortly after birth. As a series of mysterious events and violent deaths occur around the family and Damien enters childhood, they come to learn he is in fact the prophesied Antichrist.
The Omen received mixed reviews from critics but was a commercial success, grossing over $60 million at the U.S. box office and becoming one of the highest-grossing films of the year. The film earned two Oscar nominations, and won for Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith, his only Oscar win.
The film spawned a franchise, starting with Damien: Omen II, released two years later, followed by a third installment, Omen III: The Final Conflict, in 1981, and in 1991 with Omen IV: The Awakening. A remake was released in 2006.
Something Horrific:
Relic - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgSXwlcIvtg
In The Earth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Lqkfo7IymU
L.T.C. Rolt - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._T._C._Rolt
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Blast from the Past - Creeping With Armstrong
Because Jon is rushed off his feet with work, we haven’t been able to record a usual General Witchfinders, so to give you something to listen to, here is part of a podcast that Ross and James ran for about 10 years or so called Creeping With Armstrong.
This is from April 2010 (we think) just after the first episode of Matt Smith’s Doctor Who, The Eleventh Hour, when we drove to Wales to talk to Jon about it..
There is a bit of horror in here but its not indicative of our usual show, please check out another episode if it’s your first time here, hopefully we will get back to normal for next time.
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