The Films of PETE WALKER
 

Tough choice between Frightmare and Cool It Carol for top spot for me. I also enjoyed the underrated Home Before Midnight.

I watched House Of The Long Shadows again last week (via the Guild video) and didn't enjoy it as much as I used to. In fact, considering the phenomenal cast, it was a bit of a wasted opportunity at times.

Frightmare for me.A very grisly brit horror for the time.The House Of Mortal Sin (Confessional Murders) was okay,though it's a shame Peter Cushing was unable to make the movie.

Schizo is WAY overlong & could easily have lost 15 minutes.I have the uncut R1 disc,but I'm not a big fan of the film.

FRIGHTMARE for me also.Though as I say,I like all of his films.

FRIGHTMARE has the grubby and gritty locations,some of which I believe were filmed eastwards along the coast from you Vince.

HOUSE OF WHIPCORD is definitely my favourite. It's such an intensely uncomfortable experience.

Most of it was filmed in Haslemere, Surrey. :nod:

Thought that.There is a motorway sign visible in the film.
My sister in law lives down that way.....

Anyone think Peter Cushing would have did a better job on 'Mortal Sin'?

Yes I do. Anthony Sharp was an excellent actor and did the best he could, but he didn't quite have the necessary bite for the role.

Cushing also turned down Blood From The Mummy's Tomb, Lust For A Vampire and Halloween.

Sharp did do well.He was rather manic.....but had Cushing got the role,and went into Baron mode,well......

Home Before Midnight is rather 'Jailbait' isn't it?:eek:

Sharp will probably always be best remembered as Malcolm McDowell's government buddy in A Clockwork Orange and in To The Manor Born. :eek:

Sure is. Great film though with a typical brilliant Richard Todd performance as James Aubrey's barrister. The judge is Whipcord's Patrick Barr.

Frightmare, for me. One of the truly great Brit horrors, with a fantastic performance from Sheila Keith.

FRIGHTMARE seems to be the most popular Moj,and rightly so.:cool:

No one else like THE COMEBACK or THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW.?

In The Comeback,Pamela Stephenson once again shows off her psychology talents...;)

I have only seen 3 PW films:

Cool it Carol! (good)

Frightmare (good)

The Flesh and Blood Show (bad)

Perhaps TFABS is worth another go at a later stage Loops?

I tried to watch it again but I turned it off.

The dvd might have something to do with me disliking it though. The trasnfer was a lousy NTSC to PAL and it was far too dark.

Which disc is it,the Shriek Show one?

The UK Odeon release.

Their disc of Cool it Carol is much better.

Hmm...don't know about those Odeon discs....The Shriek Show one was okay as I recall....

Odeon are re-releasing Frightmare and The Comback and a few other brit horrors like a 2 Discer of The Asphyx and The Blood on Satans Claw.

What happened to all their releases last year?

Frightmare et al never appeared...:confused:

I think they got delayed. They are comming out, I have the order forms.

I need to get round to watching their disc of Neither the Sea Nor the Sand.....
back to Mr Walker.....

Britain could hav done with more directors like PW.

Anyone anything good to say about Die Screaming Marrianne?

The Comeback was excellent in parts but very draggy. Good gore sequences when they came. The Flesh And Blood Show was just deadly dull.

Susan George boogeying over the opening credits. http://www.mysmiley.net/imgs/smile/love/love0010.gif

Absolutely.My sentiments exactly.:nod:

Schizo and House of Mortal Sin are my 2 favourites.

I had Schizo but I got shot of it before I watched it:(

I found Schizo overlong despite some great gore scenes. Much preferred Mortal Sin.

Mortal Sin is the superior film,but you can't be too hard on any film that features the late,great Jack Watson.;)

Horror-wise, Watson also turned up in From Beyond The Grave and as the dubious fisherman in the entertaining Tower Of Evil. He was also in 60's gems such as Peeping Tom, The Gorgon and The Night Caller.

Great actor. Much missed.

Sure is.He was superb in THE WILD GEESE.

Tower of Evil is another British gem.

Britain churned out some fantastic horror movies during the seventies.

Definitely. He replaced Stephen Boyd at short notice but made the role his own. He was also excellent in The Hill and This Sporting Life (two of my favourite 60's Brit films).

He seems to be more remembered now for Coronation Street. :ack:

I actually quite enjoy Schizo and still have a sealed copy of Image's no-frills DVD.
Redemption's uncut release looked awful imo and i recall years ago one of Sky's movie channels screening a very nice anamorphic print which was sadly still snipped!:(

The scene with the bespectacled psychic medium is also blatantly pilfered from Argento's Deep Red too if i'm not wrong.

The old Warner VHS was snipped to high heaven. Badly edited too. Much of it didn't make sense.

Which I used to pronounce in my younger days as Shyzo.....:laugh:

If anyone is shopping around the four disc Shriek Show box set can be picked up online at pretty good prices!

I bought the Anchor Bay coffin-shaped box set of his films last year, I've only watched Die Screaming, Marianne and Frightmare though, both were ok although Frightmare was the superior film. I'll get round to watching the others at some point.

House Of Whipcord is my second favourite in the Walker box (after Frightmare).