Ingrid Pitt RIP

[pixie_twinkle 44]

This is shocking news. It's hard to believe the woman who brought sexiness to the late Hammer and Amicus horror films of the early 70s has passed away. RIP. Tonight I watch The Vampire Lovers.

[steb74 53]

Oh wow, that's sad indeed!

I thought she was stunning.

RIP

[Naïve Old Fart 6,637]

A great supporting player. She was right up there with Valerie Leon, and Caroline Munro.

BTW, I've just watched that fatuous Winkle-person on "Film 2010" give a painting-by-numbers, copied-from-Wikipedia "tribute" to her. Miss Pitt deserves more than this.

[Andy 1,492]

Saw this in the paper yesterday morning. Too bad. She was the real deal, and made Vampires sexy before it was hip to do so. I liked her of course in Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, but her part in House That Dripped Blood shouldn't be missed also. R.I.P.

[Naïve Old Fart 6,637]

You could always tell that a horror film was going to be good, if it had Ingrid Pitt, Michael Ripper, Francis Matthews, Sam Kidd, and Patrick Magee. Add Peter Cushing and/or Donald Pleasance into the mix, and you've got yourself an instant classic!

[Melange 446]

Add.....Donald Pleasance into the mix, and you've got yourself an instant classic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GawMISYzyjs

I never went near any dark and lonely water again

[Naïve Old Fart 6,637]

Add.....Donald Pleasance into the mix, and you've got yourself an instant classic!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GawMISYzyjs

I never went near any dark and lonely water again

Oh, wow, that's creepy, with a capital CREEP, and it's aimed at kids! You could never get away with something like that now...more's the pity.

[Melange 446]

Oh, wow, that's creepy, with a capital CREEP, and it's aimed at kids!

You could never get away with something like that now...more's the pity.

I remember seeing that one at the time (repeated in the later 70s). We had worse though. Apache, a feature length film we saw in school where a bunch of kids play 'Apache'at a farm and are systematically destroyed through a series of graphic deaths in farm machinery and drowning in a pity of slurry. Apche used to be on YouTube, until someone realised they could make money out of releasing it on DVD as 'nostalgia' and pulled it. The ones I remember the most are 'Protect and Survive' series narrated by Patrick Allen, advising people of what they could do after a nuclear attack. Today they offically claim they were never actually shown to the public, but they most certainly were because I remember some of them clearly (particularly the creepy sound they used for radioactive 'fallout') and others do too. Perhaps the schools were tested as guinea pigs?

[pixie_twinkle 44]

Think that's bad? In 1984 our school showed us the film Threads, which was at the time the most graphic and realistic film made about the events leading up to, and the fall out after a nuclear attack. It centres around the city of Sheffield being hit by a nuclear bomb. The school that showed us the film: King Edward VII lower school, Sheffield. Needless to say many of us kiddies didn't sleep much for the next few months. It didn't help that many of the streets and shops we saw exploding and melting during the blast were places we went every saturday.

[Andy 1,492]

OMG, I've seen Threads. It's terrifying.

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,251]

Nuclear shockwaves cannot harm you if you hide under your school desk!

[Melange 446]

Think that's bad? In 1984 our school showed us the film Threads

Dredging up old traumas for ya. 48:30 onwards.

1984 is my Primary School era, and I can't be sure we were shown that one or not. It looks familiar, but not strongly.

Here is a 50s take on things. Somehow more creepy in its quietness. Quite a creative piece.

Nuclear shockwaves cannot harm you if you hide under your school desk!

Yep. Bert the Turtle has spoken. It sounds quite comfy sunday evening Flintstones, to me.

I bet Morlock has already gone through multiple drills of that kind in his life time.

Oh yes, btw R.I.P Ingrid Pitt

[Andy 1,492]

Too bad Ingrid Pitt was never a Bond Girl. She'd have been perfect.

[Naïve Old Fart 6,637]

Think that's bad? In 1984 our school showed us the film Threads, which was at the time the most graphic and realistic film made about the events leading up to, and the fall out after a nuclear attack. It centres around the city of Sheffield being hit by a nuclear bomb. The school that showed us the film: King Edward VII lower school, Sheffield. Needless to say many of us kiddies didn't sleep much for the next few months. It didn't help that many of the streets and shops we saw exploding and melting during the blast were places we went every saturday.

Somehow, I always found "Threads" far more chilling than "The Day After". As a way of personalising the event, I like "When The Wind Blows", not least, for the fine David Bowie title song.