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WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
 Posted: 16-05-2008 16:11 Post subject: Fortean Culture Freebies |
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I started this thread primarily to propagate the news that Horror Express, starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, has popped up over at archive.org, then thought I may as well begin a topic whereby we can post links to downloadable films, programmes and books of a Fortean theme (though no naughty torrents, please): here are the results of a quick perusal of the films over at archive.org, anyway: -
Frankenstein (1910)
The Terror (Roger Corman, 1963)
Attack of the Giant Leeches (Roger Corman, 1959)
Satanic Rites of Dracula, The (1974)
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
The Wasp Woman (Roger Corman, 1960)
Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ) (1919/20)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Haxan (1922)
The Phantom Of The Opera (1929)
Horror Express (1973)
Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) (1975)
Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror) (1922)
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| Pietro_Mercurios Heuristically Challenged
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| Posted: 16-05-2008 20:54 Post subject: Re: Fortean Culture Freebies |
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Great stuff! Some genuine classics! 
I'd just like to point out that 'Häxan' is a very early, Fortean style, documentary on witchcraft hysteria and psychiatry through the Ages and well worth checking out.  |
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| graylien Great Old One Location: Norwich - home of the Puppet Man! Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 16-05-2008 22:50 Post subject: |
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| Damn, that's an amazing resource. I notice they also have Carnival of Souls - I find it a bit overrated myself, but it seems to have quite a following. It's a shame they don't have my two favourite Roger Corman flicks, though - The Viking Women and The Sea Serpent and The Undead. |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 30-05-2008 11:51 Post subject: |
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| WFMU has both sides of the 7" given away with copies of the book Breakthrough: An Amazing Experiment In Electronic Communication With The Dead (and later with The Unexplained) available for download. |
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| Tapeloop Yeti Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Total posts: 37 Location: Reading, UK Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 14-06-2008 21:06 Post subject: |
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This website has what I think is the entire series of Jon Ronson's 'For The Love Of' available to view or download.
If you've never heard of it, For The Love Of was a late night discussion program on Channel 4 (I think), which was chaired by Jon Ronson and featured a host of interesting characters, usually rather eccentric ones at that. While they weren't all on Fortean type subjects, there are episodes on things like ghosts, time travel and alien abduction.
I think the site is legit, I found the link via Jon Ronson's own forum so presumably it's all above board (though the website could do with sorting out some missing images). There's a couple of episodes you have to pay for, but most are free to watch/download. Each film is about an hour long and around 250 meg. If you download them, they are in a weird Quicktime format, but I've managed to view them on a pc using the free VLC player.
I can't quite remember when they are from though. I remember watching most of them, but I can't think of when exactly it was on. I'm leaning towards late 1990s. Anyone else recall? |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 02-08-2008 16:28 Post subject: |
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| Todd Browning's Freaks (1933) is now available to watch or download over at archive.org |
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| theredmeanie heat gently, do not boil. Joined: 29 Jan 2004 Total posts: 918 Location: stored in a cool, dry place away from bright lights and strong flavours Age: 43 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-09-2008 18:59 Post subject: |
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Vladimir Bortko's 2005 mini-series adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's bizzare masterpiece about the devil causing havoc in Stalin's Moscow 'The Master and Margarita' is available in segments of 10 minutes or so on youtube.
It is well worth a look. No spoilers: just trust me. 
edited cause I am shite at links |
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| Brown_Forever .. much preferred his original Forum name
Great Old One Joined: 03 Sep 2005 Total posts: 230 Location: The Absurdatory, Brown Towers Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-12-2008 22:49 Post subject: |
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Thank you WJ, I wasn't aware of archive.org.
Haxan has been on my 'must see' list for a while.
Brown! |
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| WhistlingJack Joined: 29 Oct 2003 Total posts: 4298 Location: The Sewers of The Strand Age: 9 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 26-02-2009 15:08 Post subject: |
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| Gould and Pyle's Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine is now available for perusal here. |
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| ttaarraass Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Total posts: 1635 Location: Cambridge Gender: Male |
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| usbycjthape Grey Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Total posts: 7 Gender: Unknown |
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That first anecdote about the time slip in France is something I mentioned in my comic here.
Pretty difficult to summarise a complicated story like that in the space of one panel, but it's nice to know I didn't dream it up. My own time slip "experience" (in panel 4) is rather less dramatic, unfortunately. |
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| ttaarraass Joined: 27 Oct 2002 Total posts: 1635 Location: Cambridge Gender: Male |
| Posted: 06-06-2009 18:02 Post subject: |
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| usbycjthape wrote: | | That first anecdote about the time slip in France is something I mentioned in my comic here. |
Now I'm pretty disappointed the Bigass Book of Seriously Weird Shit doesn't actually exist.
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| usbycjthape Grey Joined: 26 Jan 2006 Total posts: 7 Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 08-06-2009 13:23 Post subject: Hmmm |
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| ttaarraass wrote: | | usbycjthape wrote: | | That first anecdote about the time slip in France is something I mentioned in my comic here. |
Now I'm pretty disappointed the Bigass Book of Seriously Weird Shit doesn't actually exist.
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It just occurred to me that it actually might exist, I mean nothing's surprising on the the internet, right? Unfortunately, googling that phrase only brings up predictable and er... questionable results. The good news is that it's a perfectly marketable idea for a spinoff publication for the boys at FT - maybe they could get it out in time for Christmas? |
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