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Celebrating Ingrid Pitt

Ingrid Pitt (born Ingoushka Petrov; 21 November 1937 – 23 November 2010) was a Polish-British actress and writer best known for her work in horror films of the 1970s.

Ingoushka Petrov was born in Warsaw, Poland, one of two daughters of a father of German Jewish descent and a Polish Jewish mother. During World War II, she and her mother were imprisoned in Stutthof concentration camp in Sztutowo, Free City of Danzig (present-day Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland) but escaped. In Berlin, in the 1950s, Ingoushka married an American soldier, Laud Roland Pitt Jr., and moved to California. After her marriage failed she returned to Europe, but after a small role in a film, she took the shortened stage name "Ingrid Pitt", keeping her former husband's surname, and headed to Hollywood, where she worked as a waitress while trying to make a career in films.

In the early 1960s, Pitt was a member of the prestigious Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor role. In 1968, she co-starred in the low-budget science-fiction film The Omegans, and in the same year, played British spy Heidi Schmidt in Where Eagles Dare opposite Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood.

Her work with Hammer Film Productions elevated her to cult figure status. She starred as Carmilla/Mircalla in The Vampire Lovers (1970), based on Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's novella Carmilla, and played the title role in Countess Dracula (1971), based on the legends about Countess Elizabeth Báthory. Pitt also appeared in the Amicus horror anthology film The House That Dripped Blood (1971) and had a small part in The Wicker Man (1973).

During the 1980s, Pitt returned to mainstream films and television. Her role as Fraulein Baum in the 1981 BBC Playhouse Unity, who is denounced as a Jew by Unity Mitford (Lesley-Anne Down), was uncomfortably close to her real-life experiences. Her popularity with horror film buffs had her in demand for guest appearances at horror conventions and film festivals. Other films in which Pitt has appeared outside the horror genre are: Who Dares Wins (1982) (or The Final Option), Wild Geese II (1985) and Hanna's War (1988). Generally cast as a villainess, her characters often died horribly at the end of the final reel. "Being the anti-hero is great – they are always roles you can get your teeth into."

In the 1980s she also reinvented herself as a writer. Her first book, after a number of ill-fated tracts on the plight of Native Americans, was the 1980 novel, Cuckoo Run, a spy story about mistaken identity. "I took it to Cubby Broccoli. It was about a woman called Nina Dalton who is pursued across South America in the mistaken belief that she is a spy. Cubby said it was a female Bond. He was being very kind."

In 1999, her autobiography, Life's a Scream (Heinemann) was published, and she was short-listed for the for her own reading of extracts from the audio book.

The autobiography detailed the harrowing experiences of her early life—in a Nazi concentration camp, her search through Europe in Red Cross refugee camps for her father, and her escape from East Berlin, one step ahead of the Volkspolizei. "I always had a big mouth and used to go on about the political schooling interrupting my quest for thespian glory. I used to think like that. Not good in a police state."

Pitt died in a south London hospital on 23 November 2010, a few days after collapsing, and two days after her 73rd birthday, from congestive heart failure.

Seven months before she died, Pitt finished narration for Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest (2011), an animated short film on her experience in the Holocaust, a project that had been in the works for five years. Character design and storyboards were created by two-time Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Bill Plympton. The film is directed by Kevin Sean Michaels; co-produced and co-written by Jud Newborn, Holocaust expert and author, "Sophie Scholl and the White Rose"; and drawn by 10-year-old animator, Perry Chen.

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#Ingrid Pitt #The Vampire Lovers #Countess Dracula #Academy Award #Anne Frank #Holocaust #Nazi #Where Eagles Dare #Kevin Sean Michaels #Hammer Films #The Wicker Man #The House That Dripped Blood #concentration camp #Stutthof concentration camp

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the-malewife-ever · 1 year

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its 5am. i am very tired. i do not want to go through and pick out all the best responses when i have a test today. so what youre getting now is:

every single character that was submitted [unless i didnt feel comfortable adding them to the data]

^ this includes:

- i didnt feel comfortable putting them in [they are a kid is the most likely answer]

- they break the rules

and goodnight everyone im going back to bed you get your pairings later today. feel free to demand your malewife be in the pairings in the notes of this post all you want but be nice

and sorry to the ppl checking the tags in the search bar for ANY of these characters

read more because we got 301 and then some submissions:

The Top Submitted Characters:

Crazy Dave [Plants Vs Zombies] - 14

Kazuki Kurusu [Buddy Daddies] - 8

Hero [Omori] - 8

Saul Goodman/James McGill [Better Call Saul/Breaking Bad] - 7

Tatsu [Way of the House Husband] - 7

Thoma [Genshin Impact] - 7

Laszlo Cravensworth [What We Do In the Shadows] - 5

Percy de Rolo [Critical Role/Vox Machina] - 5

Ron DeLite [Ace Attorney] - 5

Brett Hand [Inside Job] - 4

Puss in Boots [Puss in Boots] - 4

Sanji [One Piece] - 4

Spamton G. Spamton [Deltarune] - 4

Got 3 Or Less Votes:

9 [9 (2009)]

Adrian Graye Vernworth [The Owl House]

Adrien Agreste/Chat Noir [Miraculous Ladybug]

Alador Blight [The Owl House]

Alistair Theirin [Dragon Age]

Andre Legris [Innocent/Innocent Rouge]

Asgore Dreemurr [Undertale]

Axel Summers [Lemon Soda and Coffee (Webcomic)]

The Baker [Into the Woods (1991)]

Bandit Heeler [Bluey]

Barry Draxum [Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]

Beacrox Molan [Lout of the Court’s Family]

Benny [Fallout: New Vegas]

Bilbo Baggins [The Hobbit]

BJ Hunnicutt [MASH]

Bob Belcher [Bob's Burgers]

Briefers "Brief" Rock [Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt]

Brock [Pokemon]

Bruno Buccerati [JoJo's Bizzare Adventure]

Bruno Madrigal [Encanto]

Calculester Hewlett-Packard [Monster Prom]

Caleb Wittebane [The Owl House]

Cardan [The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black]

Cecil Palmer [Welcome to Night Vale]

Chakotay [Star Trek Voyager]

Charlie Kelly [It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

Chisaki Kai (Overhaul) [My Hero Academia]

Chris Pearson [Dan Vs.]

Chrom [Fire Emblem Awakening]

Clay Rockridge [The Sexy Brutale]

Colin Robinson [What We Do In the Shadows]

Connecticut Clark [FlorkofCows/The Saga of Clark]

Cove Holden [Our Life: Beginning & Always]

Cyclonus [Transformers (IDW1)]

DaLey Vigil [The Great Ace Attorney]

Daniel Cain [Re-Animator]

Darius Deamonne [The Owl House]

Dedue Molinaro [Fire Emblem Three Houses]

Dick Grayson [DC Comics]

Dick Gumshoe [Ace Attorney]

Do Hyun Soon [Flower of Evil]

Ed [Our Flag Means Death]

Eddie Munson [Stranger Things]

Elliott [Stardew Valley]

Faria [Thrilling Intent]

Flex Mentallo [Doom Patrol]

Fox Mulder [The X-Files]

Fukuo [Kiki’s Delivery Service]

Furio Giunta [The Sopranos]

Gao Yizhi [Iron Widow]

Garmadon [Ninjago]

Garry [Ib]

Geto Suguru [Jujitsu Kaisen]

Gilbert Nightray [Pandora Hearts]

Gomez Addams [The Addams Family]

Grover Underwood [Percy Jackson Series]

Hannibal Lecter [Hannibal]

Harrier du Bois [Disco Elysium]

Hazama Masayoshi [Samurai Flamenco]

Heinz Doofenshmirtz [Phineas and Ferb]

Herlock Sholmes [The Great Ace Attorney]

Hordak [She-Ra (Netflix)]

Howl Jenkins Pendragon [Howl's Moving Castle]

Hugh Neutron [Jimmy Neutron]

Hugh Test [Johnny Test]

Ianto Jones [Torchwood]

Ignis Scientia [Final Fantasy XV]

Ingo [Pokemon]

Izzy Hands [Our Flag Means Death]

Jake Sully [Avatar]

James [Pokemon]

Jason Todd [Batman]

Jesus Christ [The Bible]

Joel Hammond [Santa Clarita Diet]

Johnathan Harker [Bram Stoker's Dracula]

John Silver [Treasure Island (1988)]

John Watson [BBC Sherlock]

Jonathan Byers [Stranger Things]

Kaiden Alenko [Mass Effect]

Kai Satou [Your Turn to Die]

Kaito [Vocaloid]

Kakashi Hatake [Naruto]

Katsuya Serizawa [Mob Psycho 100]

Ken [Barbie]

Kermit the Frog [The Muppets]

Kim Dokja [Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint]

Kim Gongja [SSS-Class Suicide Hunter]

Kingsley [Papa Louie Games]

Kisuke Urahara [Bleach]

Klavier Gavin [Ace Attorney]

Kojiro “Joe” Nonjo [Sk8 the Infinity]

Laurance Zvahl [Minecraft Diaries]

Lazarus Bleeze [The Hex]

Leon [Pokemon]

Lestat de Lioncourt [Interview with the Vampire (TV Show)]

Lieutenant Columbo [Columbo]

Light Yagami [Death Note]

Link [Breath of the Wild]

The Lobby Boy [The Hotel Podcast]

Loid Forger [Spy X Family]

Luigi [Mario Franchise]

Luo Binghe [The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System]

Mac McDonald [It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia]

The Man in the Yellow Hat [Curious George]

Manolo Sanchez [The Book of Life (2014)]

Mario [Mario Franchise]

Marshall Eriksen [How I Met Your Mother]

Marvin [Falsettos]

Mendel Weisenbachfeld [Falsettos]

Me [The Mod]

Michael [The Good Place]

Miles Edgeworth [Ace Attorney]

Min-Gi Park [Infinity Train]

Minato Namikaze [Naruto]

Momo [Stray]

Mr. Mime [Pokemon]

The Narrator [The Stanley Parable]

Naven Nuknuk [Epithet Erased]

Oliver Queen [DC Comics (Green Arrow)]

Olruggio [Witch Hat Atelier]

The Onceler [The Lorax]

Palamedes Sextus [The Locked Tomb]

Paper [Inanimate Insanity]

Peeta Mellark [The Hunger Games]

Percy Jackson [Percy Jackson Series]

Peter Nureyev [The Penumbra Podcast]

Preminger [Barbie: Princess and the Pauper]

Qifrey [Witch Hat Atelier]

Quirrel [Hollow Knight]

Ramsey Murdoch [Epithet Erased]

Randy Valentine Jade [Dialtown]

Redd Rockridge [The Sexy Brutale]

Reigen Arataka [Mob Psycho 100]

Ronaldo [The Vampire Dies in No Time]

Rouxls Kaard [Deltarune]

Roy Mustang [Full Metal Alchemist]

Ryoji Kaji [Neon Genesis Evangelion]

Ryuuji Takasu [ToraDora!]

Samwise Gamgee [Lord of the Rings]

Sasuke Itachi [Naruto]

Satan [Puyo Puyo]

Satoru Gojo [Jujitsu Kaisen]

Seven [Zero Escape]

Shinya Fujikawa [Corpse Factory]

Sig Curtis [Full Metal Alchemist]

Silco [Arcane (Netflix)]

Sojiro Sakura [Persona 5]

Sokka [Avatar: The Last Airbender]

Soldier [Team Fortress 2]

Spirit Albarn [Soul Eater]

Spongebob Squarepants [Spongebob Squarepants]

Steve Harrington [Stranger Things]

Steven Grant [Marvel]

Suoh Tamaki [Ouran High School Host Club]

Sword Boyfriend [Transistor]

Tanjiro Kamado [Demon Slayer]

Thomas Sharpe [Crimson Peak (2015)]

Tohru Adachi [Persona 4]

Tom Wambsgans [Succession]

Travis Matagot [Campaign Skyjacks]

Tsukasa Jinguuji [Fabiniku (Life with an Ordinary Guy who Reincarnated into a Total Fantasy Knockout)]

The Tumblr Boyfriend [Tumblr]

The Twelfth Doctor [Doctor Who]

Tyrell Wellick [Mr. Robot]

Vanitas [Vanitas no Carte/The Case Study of Vanitas]

Vash the Stampede [Trigun]

Victor Nikiforov [Yuri on Ice]

Waymond Wang [Everything Everywhere All At Once]

Whizzer Brown [Falsettos]

William "Spike" Pratt [Buffy the Vampire Slayer]

William “Dex” Pointdexter [Check Please!]

Yeza Brenatto [Critical Role]

Yoo Joonghyuk [Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint]

You [The Voter]

Zagreus [Hades]

#malewife data #malewife speaks

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videomessiah · 3 years

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Dracula’s Widow (1988)

#Dracula's Widow #Christopher Coppola #horroredit #Lenny von Dohlen #Sylvia Kristel #Josef Sommer #Stefan Schnabel #My Stuff

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elizascharlesdanceblog · 5 years

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CD - A Remarkable Man

Charles Dance on making Godzilla: 'The catering was sensational!'

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Freed from Game of Thrones and waging eco-terror in the new monster flick, cinema’s go-to bad aristo talks about turning down 007 and paparazzi ambushes.

Charles Dance is 15 minutes late. “London, yer know?” says the 72-year-old actor through a mouthful of pastry. His friends call him “Charlie” and Americans call him “Chuck”, though for his mother there was never any ambiguity. “‘His name’s Charles,’ she’d say. She ’ad a few ideas above ’er station.” The voice is rougher and more gor-blimey than the one to which audiences are accustomed, as well as friendlier and less imposing. His thinning hair, formerly red and now sand-coloured, is swept back, and he is wearing a blue short-sleeved shirt over a white T-shirt. The silver bracelet halfway up his forearm could pass for memorabilia from Game of Thrones, in which he played Tywin Lannister, shot by his own son with a crossbow while on the loo.

Any confusion between the upper-class roles in which Dance has specialised throughout his 35-year film and television career, and the man he really is – the working-class son of a mother who was in service from the age of 13 – was cleared up long ago. But that hasn’t stopped him playing commanders and archbishops, monsignors and monarchs. He will soon be seen in the third series of The Crown as Lord Mountbatten, while in the new blockbuster Godzilla: King of the Monsters he reprises the aristocratic menace routine that has kept him in fancy silver clasps since the days of starring opposite Eddie Murphy in The Golden Child and Arnold Schwarzenegger in Last Action Hero.

Godzilla takes place mostly in darkened rooms or during inclement weather. Major characters drift through the film, their storylines petering out arbitrarily. I couldn’t make head nor scaly tail of it. And Dance? “I had difficulty staying awake,” he jokes, as though imitating an old duffer who’s wandered into a multiplex by mistake. Then he reverts to normal volume: “No, I didn’t say that! I mean, it’s spectacular.” He plays a former British colonel turned eco-terrorist who has a vested interest in facilitating Godzilla’s reign. Before he says a word in the film, he has already shot someone in the head and is thereafter restricted to the odd line and the occasional scowl. Was his performance cut? His laugh is booming and good-natured. “I keep hearing that! ‘I wish there was more of you.’ It’s what was offered. I just like working. Unless it’s complete and utter crap. I’ve got somepride.” There were clear compensations in this case. “The catering was sensational,” he says.

And, as he points out, it has been a while since he did a mega-budget movie. After all, Godzilla couldn’t be more different from Happy New Year, Colin Burstead, Ben Wheatley’s family-get-together film for the BBC in which he played the cross-dressing widower Uncle Bertie without a hint of camp. “Ten days we shot that in. Handheld cameras, communal green room. SAS film-making.” The character’s sartorial preferences were Dance’s idea. “I told Ben: ‘Ever since his wife died, I think Bertie’s worn women’s clothes. He’s been doing it so long, the family accept it.’ He turns up in his modestly heeled shoes and a bit of cashmere, his twin set and pearls.”

I remind him that the role marked his third foray into women’s fashion. “Riiiight,” he says suspiciously. Well, there was Ali G Indahouse, in which he writhed around at Sacha Baron Cohen’s behest in a red rubber micro skirt, thigh-high leather boots, leopardskin crop-top and drop earrings. He rolls his eyes. “Ah yes. The director said: ‘We’ve had an idea for the ending.’ I was kind of forced into that.

”And for one scene in White Mischief, the 1987 drama about the amoral British upper-class in Kenya during the second world war, the toffs interrupt their routine of polo and wife-swapping for a cross-dressing party. “Joss Ackland was there in bombazine and a tiara. I had on a mid-blue chiffon affair. Then Greta Scacchi comes out looking gob-smackingly gorgeous in this jacket with nothing underneath. Joss said, ‘This is all wrong. We should be going to each other’s wardrobe and just putting on whatever fits.’ He stormed off to complain to the director and I went with him. There’s Joss with his handbag on his arm, me standing there in me gear. I thought, ‘Here we are, expecting to be taken seriously …’

”White Mischief was pivotal for him, cementing his image as a sexy but faintly cold-blooded member of the ruling class. The ITV end-of-the-Raj drama The Jewel in the Crown had already made him a sensation three years earlier. The Sun called him “Dishy Dance” and the People claimed he had given up jogging because of the women flinging themselves under his running shoes on Hampstead Heath. Not that he was in danger of having his head turned – he had been “shlepping around the provinces” in theatre for nearly a decade before that big break, which didn’t happen until his late 30s.

And he was married with two children, so the tabloids weren’t interested in his love life until he split from his wife in 2004 and began dating much younger women. (He had a daughter with one of them, Eleanor Boorman, seven years ago.) Getting tailed by photographers in his 50s and 60s was no fun. “I was going to a shrink for a while and I got papped coming out of there. Pain in the arse. Lowest of the low.”

He was more prepared for the fuss over Jewel than he would have been if he had played James Bond, a part he was invited to test for – and refused – in 1986. “I think I’d have fucked it up. It might’ve gone to my head a bit. When Jewel happened, you couldn’t open a paper without reading about me. I was ‘the thinking woman’s crumpet’. But Bond would’ve been much bigger. I might’ve blown it.” He’s been eyeing the names currently in the frame. “Young Richard Madden is pretty good. Or James Norton. I think Daniel’s been fantastic. What he lacks in the wit of Roger Moore he makes up for in a sense of danger.”

Walking on set on his first day, he wore a T-shirt that read: 'I’m Cheaper Than Alan Rickman'

Without the slightest prompting, he identifies White Mischief as the fork in the road: the moment when he could have pushed his career to the next level, but didn’t. It was in 1988 that Michael Caine said: “Charles Dance is the one. Why? Because he wants it.” Caine approached him in a restaurant: “He told me, ‘I’ve got money on you. Don’t let me down.’ I thought: ‘Fucking hell, that’s nice.’” But Dance himself isn’t sure he ever really did want it – whatever “it” was. “Maybe if I’d had more cardinal ambition. I mean, I’m ambitious, but I don’t tread over people. And sometimes I just don’t feel like it. I thought: ‘No, I don’t want to go off to LA and sit in endless bloody meetings. If it’s meant to be, it’ll be.’ I’m a bit like that.

”Then there was the competition. “Jeremy Irons was, and still is, a few feet ahead of me. Who else? Alan Rickman, bless him.” The shallowness of the casting pool was vividly brought home when he received the script for Last Action Hero. “I get to my character’s entrance and it says: ‘The door opens and there stands Alan Rickman.’” Still, he was a good sport about it. Walking on set on his first day, Dance wore a T-shirt that read: “I’m Cheaper Than Alan Rickman.”

It has been a career with obvious highlights: he was the only person to sleep with Ripley in the Alien series (in David Fincher’s Alien 3), played the director DW Griffith for the Taviani brothers in Good Morning, Babylon, and was part of the flawless ensemble in Gosford Park. On the other hand, he was in the medieval stoner romp Your Highness and was recently seen licking Luke Evans with a long, leathery grey tongue in Dracula Untold. He has done Celebrity Antiques Road Trip and Who Do You Think You Are?, where he met the South African great-niece and the three great-great-nephews he never knew he had. He read solemnly from Fifty Shades of Grey and Mel B’s autobiography on The Big Fat Quiz of the Year to much comic effect, and is in the forthcoming Kingsman prequel.

But a significant part of his acting range is currently being neglected. When I asked earlier why he hadn’t yet written an autobiography, his response was humorously gruff: “Who wants to read another book by an actor?” The question of what is missing from the scripts he gets offered prompts an altogether gentler, more ruminative answer. “I’d like to properly front something,” he says softly, his hearty manner replaced by a note of introspection. “If anyone was brave enough to do a remake of Death in Venice, that would be ideal. I notice I tend to be brought in to give a bit of weight to something, you know? Maybe I should be more choosy. I’d just like to be fronting things a bit more than I am.”

source: TheGuardian

#CD #charles dance #a remarkable man #interview #the guardian #30 May #2019

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dear-indies · 5 years

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Hello! If asks are back open - this page says yes, but you posted before it wasn't, so I'm not sure, but I'd figure I'd ask just in case - can you please suggest some FC's that would fit as a part of a Supernatural Mafia? Thank you!

Claire Holt - especially in TO.

Phoebe Tonkin - especially in TO.

Kate Beckinsale- especially in Underworld.

Victoria Smurfit - especially in Dracula.

Katie McGrath - especially in Dracula.

Jessica De Gouw - especially in Dracula.

Emily VanCamp - especially in Revenge.

Madeleine Stowe - especially in Revenge.

Krysten Ritter - especially in Jessica Jones.

Anna Paquin - especially in True Blood.

Kristin Bauer van Straten - especially in True Blood.

Greta Scarano - especially in Suburra.

Leighton Meester - especially inBy the Gun

Cristiana Dell'Anna- especially in Gomorrah.

Cristina Donadio - especially in Gomorrah.

Maxim Roy - especially in Bad Blood.

Radha Mitchell - especially in Red Widow.

Maggie Siff- especially in Sons of Anarchy.

Eliza Dushku - especially in Dollhouse.

Jodie Comer - especially in Killing Eve.

Eliza Coupe - especially in Future Man.

Emma Dumont - especially inThe Gifted

Lauren German - especially in Lucifer.

Laura Vandervoort - especially in Bitten.

Peyton List - especially in The Tomorrow People.

Sarah Paulson - especially in Ocean’s 8.

Anne Hathaway - especially inOcean’s 8.

Cobie Smulders - especially in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Willa Holland (1991) - especially in Arrow.

Lena Headey - especially in Dredd.

Emily Blunt - especially in Sicario .

Chiara Caselli (1967)

Maria Grazia Cucinotta (1968)

Jaime Murray (1977)

Valentina Lodovini (1978)

Elisabetta Canalis (1978)

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe (1978)

Vanessa Ferlito (1980)

Natalie Dormer (1982)

Katie McGrath (1983)

Jaimie Alexander (1984)

Fahriye Evcen (1986)

Tonia Sotiropoulou (1987)

Heida Reed (1988)

Ashley Benson (1989)

Matilde Gioli (1989)

Gia Mantegna (1990)

Elizabeth Gillies (1993)

and:

Cody Fern - especially in AHS.

Mark Sheppard - especially in Supernatural.

Jonathan Rhys Meyers - especially in Dracula.

Oliver Jackson-Cohen- especially in Dracula.

Joseph Morgan - especiallyin TO.

Daniel Gillies- especially in TO.

Tyler Hoechlin- especially in TW.

Tom Ellis - especially in Lucifer.

Stephen Moyer - especially in True Blood.

Alexander Skarsgård- especially in True Blood.

Luke Pasqualino - especially in Snatch.

Jaime Lorente Lopez - especially in Elite.

Alessandro Borghi - especially in Suburra.

Giacomo Ferrara- especially in Suburra.

Marco D'Amore - especially inGomorrah.

Salvatore Esposito - especially in Gomorrah.

Fortunato Cerlino - especially in Gomorrah.

Goran Višnjić - especially in Red Widow.

Luke Goss - especially in Red Widow.

Ron Perlman- especially in Sons of Anarchy.

Tommy Flanagan- especially in Sons of Anarchy.

Matthew Daddario - especially in Shadowhunters.

James Mackay - especially in Dynasty.

Jason Statham - especially in Fast and Furious and in like every movie he’s been in to be honest!

Frank Grillo - especially in The Purge and in like every movie he’s been in to be honest!

Mads Mikkelsen - especially in Polar and Hannibal.

John Krasinski - especially in Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan.

James Purefoy - especially inAltered Carbon.

Pablo Schreiber - especially in Skyscraper.

Ansel Elgort- especially in Baby Driver.

Jon Hamm- especially in Baby Driver.

Greyston Holt - especially in Bitten.

Greg Bryk - especially in Bitten.

Brett Dalton - especially in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

Norman Reedus - in like every movie he’s been in to be honest!

Robert De Niro - in like every movie he’s been in to be honest!

Alessio Boni (1966)

Billy Burke (1966)

Gabriel Garko (1972)

Dominic Cooper (1978)

Riccardo Scamarcio (1979)

Andrew Lee Potts (1979)

Giulio Berruti (1984)

Oliver Stark (1991)

Brock O'Hurn (1991)

Douglas Booth (1992)

Hey anon - I don’t really promote mafia roleplays since most of them have been rather questionable but since this is supernatural based I made an exception! All of these facecalims are white because villainizing people of colour in very prominent in the community as of late and it isn’t cool! -C

#this got lonnnnnnnng!#fc help #tph #Anonymous

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Anya Taylor-Joy and Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu Revives the Strangest Movie Vampire

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Dracula is the most prolific character in cinema. Really. According to Guinness World Records, the not-so-good count even beats out Sherlock Holmes as the literary character adapted more than any other. Perhaps that’s why learning Universal Pictures has two new Dracula movies in production barely raises an eyebrow. Yet to hear a new interpretation of the vampire’s original cinematic incarnation is in the works—to hear that Robert Eggers and Anya Taylor-Joy are at last remaking Nosferatu? Well, that’s a corpse of a different pallor… and one that’s eminently more sinister.

Yes, technically speaking, the director and star pair who made The Witch one of the best horror movies of this century are following in the footsteps of the first Dracula movie, F.W. Murnau’s German Expressionist masterpiece, Nosferatu (1922). But they’re also exhuming a legacy more twisted than that. Which provides them a lot of leeway to get weird with archetypal vampires and the ancient spells they cast.

This stems from the fact that Murnau’s Nosferatu is not officially an adaptation of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel. This detail was the result of a shady attempt by the German filmmakers to get around the novel’s copyright holder, Stoker’s widow Florence Balcombe. The scheme didn’t work. Nonetheless, it allowed Murnau to take what in 25 years had slowly become the definitive vampire yarn and reinterpret it into something infinitely more gruesome.

Released nearly a decade before Bela Lugosi successfully changed the vampire into a figure of sexual desire in Hollywood’s first Dracula adaptation, the silent Nosferatu went in a starkly different direction. The ‘22 film’s Count Orlok, portrayed with an unsettling pitifulness by actor Max Schreck, appeared as more of a walking cadaver than even Stoker’s literary creation. With sunken cheeks and rodent-like teeth, he was the manifestation of disease and pestilence—a decaying rat given human shape, and who brought the literal Black Death with him to Germany.

More abstract than Stoker’s source material, the Expressionistic Nosferatu is a surreal nightmare from which the DNA of all horror cinema can be traced. And while future Dracula movies continued on an increasingly familiar path after Lugosi, the legacy of Count Orlok’s grotesque visage refused to go the same way. In fact, the first Nosferatu remake by writer-director Werner Herzog was even more artful and detached than Murnau’s film. Long cinematic sequences drenched in atmosphere and dread are built around just the image of Klaus Kinski’s vampire sailing down a river.

In ancient folklore, the vampire was neither a creature of desire or great intelligence. It was a wraith; a revenant back from the grave who existed only to leech off the living. Herzog leaned into that idea and found even a macabre serenity in it, recreating Renaissance paintings that lovingly embraced the baroque despair wrought by plagues. One of the film’s best visuals is of rats who traveled with the vampire to Wismar now swarming an outdoor feast’s table. In times of modern pandemic and renewed interest in outdoor dining, such imagery hits all the closer.

Kinski would reimagine this version again in Nosferatu a Venezia (1988), a schlocky Italian pseudo-sequel that moves yet further from traditional vampire storytelling, reinterpreting “Nosferatu” (as he’s now simply referred to in that film) as a creature of comfort; a demon lover who frees his prey from the dreariness of this mortal coil and the constraints of their youth.

That Robert Eggers of The Witch and The Lighthouse fame is going to add his own distinct flavoring to this legacy is genuinely intriguing. As a filmmaker compelled to unearth the historical roots and wellsprings of our culture’s collective nightmares, Eggers will be liberated by the simple title “Nosfertau” to bypass a hundred years worth of Dracula, Anne Rice, Twilight movies, to name but a few. It’s worth remembering that the original 1922 Nosferatu already has its feet more firmly rooted in the 19th than 20th century. Still, revisiting a legacy with two horror masterpieces to its name is risky. Eggers told us as much in 2019 when we asked him about whether he was still moving ahead with a Nosferatu remake then.

“I spent so many years and so much time, just so much blood on it, yeah, it would be a real shame if [Nosferatu] never happened,” Eggers said at the time. “But also, I don’t know, maybe Nosferatu doesn’t need to be made again, even though I’ve spent so much time on that.”

Apparently, Eggers couldn’t let the project go, even as his and frequent muse Anya Taylor-Joy’s profiles continued to rise. Indeed, Eggers’ The Lighthouse won several Independent Spirit Awards, including for Willem Dafoe’s performance and cinematography. Meanwhile Taylor-Joy’s career has skyrocketed in recent years thanks to roles in Emma. and The Queen’s Gambit, and with the coup of being cast as a young Furiosa in filmmaker George Miller’s upcoming Mad Max: Fury Road prequel. Yet she and Eggers appear drawn to the same spirits, having already reteamed for next year’s Viking drama, The Northman. And it was Taylor-Joy who revealed this week to The Los Angeles Times that she and Eggers are prepping their third collaboration: Nosferatu.

Which raises the question of what Eggers and Taylor-Joy might bring to the material. Likely it’d be something as rooted in ancient vampire lore as the witchy authenticity of their first film, and the nautical superstitions in The Lighthouse… but also perhaps something that can justify a third major interpretation of such a storied title. A Countess Orlok, perhaps? It’s easy to imagine both parties sinking their teeth into that kind of interpretation…

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"She's the Woman of Your Dreams ... In Your Worst Nightmares." Dracula's Widow (1988) VHS cover is unexpected #horrorposterart #horrormovieposters #poster #horrorhound

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L’acteur Lenny Von Dohlen (22 décembre 1958 - 05 juillet 2022) a interprété M. Cox dans la série Le Caméléon.

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Né en Géorgie, il grandit au Texas avant de commencer sa carrière sur les planches de théâtre new-yorkais. Il débute sa carrière cinématographique avec le film Tendre Bonheur nommé aux Oscars.

Père d’une fille en 2000, il épouse en 2007 Marina Drujko, alias Marina Sosnenko, dont il divorcera 1 an plus tard.

Il est récompensé en 2016 du prix du Meilleur Acteur au Los Angeles World Int'l Film Festival.

Actualité 2022 : - Sallywood

Ses rôles dans les séries TV : alias M. Cox dans la série Le Caméléon. alias Harold Smith dans la série Twin Peaks

Ses rôles au théâtre : 2014 - Hit ... 2012 - Private Lives ... Elyot 2011 - Legacy of Light ... Voltaire - Camino Real ... 2008 - Dead Man's Cel Phone ... Gordon 2007 - Velvet Rut ... Mr Smith 2006 - Doubt ...Père Flinny 2004 : - Theatre District ... - Light ... Voltaire 2002 - The Blue room ... 199? - A Poster of the Cosmos ... Tom 1988 - Lulu ... Alwa 1985 - The Team ... Dan Moore 1982 - Loot ... Hal 1981 : - Cloud 9 ... Betty/Gerry - The Chinese Viewing Pavilion ... Richard ? - The Flowering Peach ... Japeth 1977 - Romeo and Juliet ... Romeo 19? - School of scandal ... Charles 19? - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ... premier joueur 19? - Bus Riley's Back in Town ... Bus Ryley 19? - Ah, Wilderness ! ... Richard 19? - Tea and Sympathy ... Tom

Sa filmographie [extrait] : 2020 - For the weekend 2009 - Esprits Criminels (Ep. 5.07) 2007 - Ghost Whisperer (Ep. 2.18) 2002 - Les Experts Miami ( Ep. 1.10) 1996 - Walker Texas Ranger 1994 - Tollbooth 1992 : - Jennifer 8 - Twin Peaks , les 7 derniers jours de Laura Palmer avec Pamela Gidley ! 1988 - Dracula’s Widow 1984 - La Belle et l’Ordinateur 1983 - Tendre Bonheur

sources : imdb, 6.big.or.jp/~syntax/lenny-en. et @TheNewspaper8

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Movies I Saw In 2018 (July - December): 159 - 302

Everything else I saw (for the first time) last year.

July 159. Marjorie Prime (Michael Almereyda, 2017, USA) 160. Aloys (Tobias Nölle, 2016, Switzerland/France) 161. Buchanan Rides Alone (Budd Boetticher, 1958, USA) 162. Duck Butter (Miguel Arteta, 2018, USA) 163. Before I Wake (Mike Flanagan, 2016, USA) 164. ‘R Xmas (Abel Ferrara, 2001, USA/France) 165. Annabelle: Creation (David F. Sandberg, 2017, USA) 166. Shockproof (Douglas Sirk, 1949, USA) 167. Resolution (Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, 2012, USA) 168. Abel Ferrara: Not Guilty (Rafi Pitts, 2003, France) 169. Underworld U.S.A. (Samuel Fuller, 1961, USA) 170. Love & Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 2010, USA) 171. Creep 2 (Patrick Brice, 2017, USA) 172. Road Games (Richard Franklin, 1981, Australia) 173. Mirror, Mirror (Marina Sargenti, 1990, USA) 174. Incredibles 2 (Brad Bird, 2018, USA) 175. Tale of Cinema (Hong Sang-soo, 2005, France/South Korea) 176. Go Go Tales (Abel Ferrara, 2007, Italy/USA) 177. Hotel Artemis (Drew Pearce, 2018, UK/USA) 178. Claire’s Camera (Hong Sang-soo, 2017, France/South Korea) 179. Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (David DeCoteau, 1988, USA) 180. Mission: Impossible - Fallout (Christopher McQuarrie, 2018, USA) 181. Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008, USA/UK/Germany) 182. The Purge: Anarchy (James DeMonaco, 2014, France/USA) 183. Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963, USA) 184. Ant-Man and the Wasp (Peyton Reed, 2018, USA)

August 185. Ride Lonesome (Budd Boetticher, 1959, USA) 186. Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (Danny Steinmann, 1985, USA) 187. Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards! (Seijun Suzuki, 1963, Japan) 188. Justice League (Zack Snyder, 2017, UK/Canada/USA) 189. Evil of Dracula (Michio Yamamoto, 1974, Japan) 190. Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (Tom McLoughlin, 1986, USA) 191. 47 Meters Down (Johannes Roberts, 2017, UK/USA/Dominican Republic) 192. The Meg (Jon Turteltaub, 2018, China/USA) 193. Ruin Me (Preston DeFrancis, 2017, USA) 194. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before (Susan Johnson, 2018, USA) 195. The Changeling (Peter Medak, 1980, Canada) 196. Demons (Lamberto Bava, 1985, Italy) 197. The Ranger (Jenn Wexler, 2018, USA) 198. Summer of 84 (François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell, 2018, Canada/USA) 199. The Cleaning Lady (Jon Knautz, 2018, USA) 200. Braid (Mitzi Peirone, 2018, USA) 201. Piercing (Nicolas Pesce, 2018, USA) 202. Rock Steady Row (Trevor Stevens, 2018, USA) 203. Blue Sunshine (Jeff Lieberman, 1977, USA) 204. Ravers (Bernhard Pucher, 2018, UK) 205. One Cut of the Dead (Shin'ichirô Ueda, 2017, Japan) 206. Chuck Steel: Night of the Trampires (Michael Mort, 2018, UK) 207. What Keeps You Alive (Colin Minihan, 2018, Canada) 208. Upgrade (Leigh Whannell, 2018, Australia) 209. Hell Is Where the Home Is (Orson Oblowitz, 2018, USA) 210. The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot (Robert D. Krzykowski, 2018, USA) 211. Bodied (Joseph Kahn, 2017, USA) 212. Terrified (Demián Rugna, 2017, Argentina) 213. Anna and the Apocalypse (John McPhail, 2017, UK/USA) 214. Open 24 Hours (Padraig Reynolds, 2018, USA) 215. The Field Guide to Evil (Ashim Ahluwalia, Can Evrenol, Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz, Katrin Gebbe, Calvin Reeder, Agnieszka Smoczynska, Peter Strickland, Yannis Veslemes, 2018, New Zealand) 216. The Dark (Justin p. Lange, 2018, Austria) 217. The Golem (Doron Paz, Yoav Paz, 2018) 218. Climax (Gaspar Noé, 2018, France) 219. Police Story (Jackie Chan, Chi-Hwa Chen, 1985, Hong Kong) 220. BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee, 2018, USA)

September 221. Bull Durham (Ron Shelton, 1988, USA) 222. The Legend of Boggy Creek (Charles B. Pierce, 1972, USA) 223. Crazy Rich Asians (Jon M. Chu, 2018, USA) 224. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Jake Kasdan, 2017, USA) 225. Searching (Aneesh Chaganty, 2018, USA) 226. Tango & Cash (Andrei Konchalovsky, 1989, USA) 227. How Stella Got Her Groove Back (Kevin Rodney Sullivan, 1998, USA) 228. The Predator (Shane Black, 2018, USA/Canada) 229. A Simple Favour (Paul Feig, 2018, USA) 230. Kwon Ji Yong Act III: Motte (Byun Jin Ho, 2018, South Korea) 231. Let the Corpses Tan (Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, 2017, France/Belgium) 232. Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988, Hong Kong) 233. The Comfort of Strangers (Paul Schrader, 1990, USA/Italy/UK) 234. Best F(r)iends: Volume 1 (Justin MacGregor, 2017, USA) 235. Den of Thieves (Christian Gudegast, 2018, USA) 236. Truth or Dare (Jeff Wadlow, 2018, USA) 237. SuperFly (Director X., 2018, USA)

October 238. Mandy (Panos Cosmatos, 2018, Belgium/USA) 239. Assassination Nation (Sam Levinson, 2018, USA) 240. The Hate U Give (George Tillman Jr., 2018, USA) 241. A Star Is Born (Bradley Cooper, 2018, USA) 242. Hotel by the River (Hong Sang-soo, 2018, South Korea) 243. Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi, 2018, Japan/France) 244. L’Atalante (Jean Vigo, 1934, France) 245. Blind Beast (Yasuzô Masumura, 1969, Japan) 246. Hearts Beat Loud (Brett Haley, 2018, USA) 247. Fido (Andrew Currie, 2006, Canada) 248. Knife + Heart (Yann Gonzalez, 2018, France/Mexico/Switzerland) 249. Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2018, France) 250. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón, 2018, USA/Mexico) 251. Sorry to Bother You (Boots Riley, 2018, USA) 252. Destroyer (Karyn Kusama, 2018, USA) 253. Earth Girls Are Easy (Julien Temple, 1988, UK/France/USA) 254. Bad Times at the El Royale (Drew Goddard, 2018, USA) 255. Venom (Ruben Fleischer, 2018, USA) 256. Dead Pigs (Cathy Yan, 2018, China/USA) 257. The Night Comes For Us (Timo Tjahjanto, 2018, Indonesia) 258. Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018, South Korea) 259. Cam (Daniel Goldhaber, 2018, USA) 260. Support the Girls (Andrew Bujalski, 2018, USA) 261. Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Gan Bi, 2018, China) 262. Halloween (David Gordon Green, 2018, USA) 263. If Beale Street Could Talk (Barry Jenkins, 2018, USA) 264. Deadly Games (René Manzor, 1989, France) 265. Night of the Demon (Jacques Tourneur, 1957, UK) 266. Been So Long (Tinge Krishnan, 2018, UK) 267. Shirkers (Sandi Tan, 2018, USA) 268. Hell House LLC (Stephen Cognetti, 2015, USA) 269. Parents (Bob Balaban, 1989, Canada/USA)

November 270. Satan’s Slaves (Joko Anwar, 2017, Indonesia/South Korea) 271. Errementari (Paul Urkijo Alijo, 2017, Spain/France) 272. Widows (Steve McQueen, 2018, UK/USA) 273. Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (Anthony Hickox, 1989, USA) 274. Wildlife (Paul Dano, 2018, USA) 275. Blood Punch (Madellaine Paxson, 2014, USA) 276. Think Like a Man Too (Tim Story, 2014, USA) 277. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, 2018, USA) 278. The Princess Switch (Mike Rohl, 2018, USA) 279. Things to Come (Mia Hansen-Løve, 2016, France/Germany) 280. The Hills Have Eyes (Wes Craven, 1977, USA) 281. Thumper (Jordan Ross, 2017, USA) 282. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017, UK/Ireland/USA) 283. Creed II (Steven Caple Jr., 2018, USA)

December 284. The Bare-Footed Kid (Johnnie To, 1993, Hong Kong) 285. A Bramble House Christmas (Steven R. Monroe, 2017, Canada) 286. Love in a Puff (Ho-Cheung Pang, 2010, Hong Kong) 287. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, 2018, USA) 288. The Christmas Chronicles (Clay Kaytis, 2018, USA) 289. Gnomeo & Juliet (Kelly Asbury, 2011, UK/USA/Canada) 290. Beautiful Boy (Felix van Groeningen, 2018, USA) 291. Honeymoon (Leigh Janiak, 2014, USA) 292. The Story of Yonosuke (Shûichi Okita, 2013, Japan) 293. Aquaman (James Wan, 2018, Australia/USA) 294. Christmas Presence (Steve Davis, 2017, UK) 295. You Might Be the Killer (Brett Simmons, 2018, USA) 296. 6 Balloons (Marja-Lewis Ryan, 2018, USA) 297. Bumblebee (Travis Knight, 2018, USA) 298. Mary Poppins Returns (Rob Marshall, 2018, USA) 299. 13 Going on 30 (Gary Winick, 2004, USA) 300. Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989, Japan) 301. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (David Slade, 2018, USA/UK) 302. Dumplin’ (Anne Fletcher, 2018, USA)

Cheers, Andrew

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January - June

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Superhero/Comic movie list

Just a list of the Superhero/Comic movies we have and haven’t watched. Hoping we get through this entire list. Feel free to help us add (or subtract if its really not worth the watch = not good but not bad enough to be entertaining)

Gonna checklist it by which we’ve seen. {J=Jordan, C=Caz} means we’ve seen it. Will update as we go. 30 Days of Night - J C 30 Days of Night 2 - 300 - J C 300 2 - J C Alien vs Predator - J C Alien vs Predator: Requiem - J C Ant-Man - J C Ultimate Avengers - J Ultimate Avengers II: Rise of the Panther - J Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow Avengers - J C Avengers: Age of Ultron - J C Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher Barb Wire - J Batman - J C Batman Returns - J C Batman Forever - J C Batman & Robin - J C Batman: The Movie (1966) - J Batman Begins - J C The Dark Knight - J C The Dark Knight Rises - J C Batman vs Superman: DoJ - J C Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero Batman: Mask of the Phantasm - J C Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker - J C Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman Batman vs Dracula Batman: Gotham Knight - J C Batman: Under the Red Hood - J C Batman: Year One - J Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (Parts 1&2) - J Son of Batman - J Batman vs Robin Batman: Assault on Arkham - J Batman: Bad Blood Batman: The Killing Joke - J Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders Batman and Harley Quinn Big Hero 6 - J Blade - J C Blade II - J C Blade: Trinity - J C Blankman - J Captain America (1979) Captain America II: Death Too Soon (1979) Captain America (1990) - J Captain America: The First Avenger - J C Captain America: The Winter Soldier - J C Captain America: Civil War - J C Catwoman - J C Chronicle - J C Constantine - J C

The Crow - J C The Crow: City of Angels - J The Crow: Salvation The Crow: Wicked Prayer Daredevil - J C Darkman - C Darkman II - C Deadpool - J C Defendor - J Doctor Strange: The Sorcerer Supreme (Animated) - J C Doctor Strange (2016) - J C Dr. Strange ('78) Elektra -C Fantastic Four (1994) Fantastic Four (2005) - J C Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - J C Fantastic Four (2015) - J C Ghost Rider - J C Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance Green Hornet - J C Green Lantern - J C Green Lanters: First Flight Green Lantern: Emerald Knights Guardians of the Galaxy - J C Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 Guyver Bio Booster Armor (Mini Series) - J The Guyver (1991) - J The Guyver: Dark Hero - J Hancock - C Hellboy - J C Hellboy II: The Golden Army - J C History of Violence - J C Howard the Duck - J C Hulk (Bana) - J C Incredible Hulk Returns (1988) Trial of the Incredible Hulk (1989) Death of the Incredible Hulk (1990) The Incredible Hulk (Norton) - J C Hulk Versus - J Planet Hulk - J C Hulk: Where Monsters Dwell I Am Legend - J C The Incredibles - J C The Invincible Iron Man (Animated) - J Iron Man - J C Iron Man 2 - J C Iron Man 3 - J C Iron Man: Rise of the Technovore Iron Man and Hulk: Heroes United Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United Jonah Hex - J C Judge Dredd (Stallone) - J C Dredd (Urban) - J C Jumper - J Justice League of America (1997) Justice League: The New Frontier - J Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths Justice League: Doom - C Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox - J Justice League: War JLA Adventures: Trapped in Time Justice League: Throne of Atlantis Justice League: Gods and Monsters Justice League vs Teen Titans Justice League Dark Justice League (2017) Kick-Ass - J C Kick-Ass 2 - J C Kingsman: The Secret Service - J C Kingsman: The Golden Circle League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - J C Lego Batman Movie The Losers - J C Man-Thing The Mask - J C Son of the Mask Max Steel Megamind - J C Men in Black - J C Men in Black II - J C Men in Black III - C Meteor Man - J Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995) - J C Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie - J Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (2017) My Super Ex-Girlfriend Mystery Men - J C Nick Fury: Agent of SHIELD - J The Phantom - J C The Punisher (1989) - J The Punisher (2004) - J C Punisher: War Zone - J C Push - J C R.I.P.D. - J C Red - J C Red 2 - C Road to Perdition - J C The Rocketeer Scott Pilgrim vs The World - J C The Shadow - J C Sin City - J C Sin City: A Dame to Kill For - J Sky High - J C Spawn - J C Spider-Man ('77) Spider-Man - J C Spider-Man 2 - J C Spider-Man 3 - J C Amazing Spider-Man - J C Amazing Spider-Man 2 - J C Spider-Man: Homecoming The Spirit - J C Steel - J Suicide Squad - J C Super - J Supergirl - J Superman and the Mole Men (1951) Superman - J C Superman II - J C Superman III - J Superman IV: The Quest for Peace - J Superman: Brainiac Attacks Superman: Doomsday - C Superman Returns - J C Superman/Batman: Public Enemies Superman/Batman: Apocalypse All-Star Superman Superman vs The Elite - J Superman: Unbound Man of Steel - J C Swamp Thing (1982) - C Return of Swamp Thing (1989) Tank Girl - C Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo Teen Titans: The Judas Contract Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) - J C TMNT II: Secret of the Ooze - J C TMNT III - J TMNT (Animated) - J C Turtles Forever Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) - J C TMNT: Out of the Shadows - J Thor - J C Thor: Tales of Asgard - J Thor: The Dark World - J C Thor: Ragnarok The Toxic Avenger - C The Toxic Avenger Part II The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie Citizen Toxie: Toxic Avenger IV Unbreakable (and...) - J C V for Vendetta - J C Vs (All Superheroes Must Die) Wanted - J C Watchmen - J C Witchblade Wonder Woman (Animated) - J Wonder Woman (2017) X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men X-Men - J C X2: X-Men United - J C X-Men: The Last Stand - J C X-Men Origins: Wolverine - J X-Men: First Class - J C The Wolverine - J C X-Men: Days of Future Past - J C X-Men: Apocalypse - J C Logan

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Game 368: The Legacy (1992)

I bought the GOG version, which says nothing about a Realm of Terror.

The Legacy

United Kingdom

Magnetic Scrolls (developer); MicroProse (publisher)

Released 1992 for DOS

Date Started: 3 June 2020

The Legacy is a rare horror-themed RPG. We’ve had a few, including Don’t Go Alone (1989), Elvira (1990), Elvira II (1991), and Waxworks (1992). I guess you could toss House of Usher (1980) in there, too. Most of these games are adventure-RPG hybrids and the one thing that they all have in common is that none of them are scary. They have horror themes, but none of them are truly horrifying the way a good Hitchcock movie is. I never screamed during any of them, the same way that no Dungeons and Dragons player ever screams at the appearance of a skeleton. The reason, I think, is that the RPG enemy exists specifically to be fought, and usually in large numbers. The ghost, zombie, skeleton, demon, or whatever in a truly scary film or game is something of a mystery. It’s unclear whether the protagonist will be able to defeat him with conventional means, or indeed any means. And the protagonist probably isn’t even trying to defeat it–probably didn’t even want anything to do with all of this in the first place. When the ghost appears briefly in the mirror, it’s a viscerally scary moment because you don’t know what it is or what it can do. You didn’t even get a good look at it. The RPG ghost, on the other hand, has a fixed number of hit points and can be defeated with a variety of spells or magic weapons as it’s spelled out in the monster manual–and you’re probably going to fight 20 of them. The horror RPG faces the same problem as the zombie film: you can make the first one scary, maybe, but not the fiftieth.

A shot from The Legacy’s opening cinematic. It’s a dark game.

I think horror also requires a certain attention to location and story that the typical RPG hasn’t provided through the current era. You can set a good horror game in a gothic mansion with 15 rooms, each full of lore. It’s harder to do this in six 20 x 20 levels of similar wall textures. It is thus not surprising to me that most famous horror games have been adventure games. You can take time to craft more thorough stories and locations with adventure games. You don’t need to supply dozens of foes because you don’t need the character to build skills or earn experience points.

Horror games rely more heavily on graphics and sound than other genres. You could write a fantastic horror-themed text adventure, but I doubt you could make a player scream. The same goes for the primitive graphics of the 1980s. It wasn’t until the early 1990s that both graphics and sound (including music) advanced enough on the personal computer that developers could create true atmospheres in games and make a player really feel something in his gut. This is when we started to see an explosion of games that still define the genre: Alone in the Dark (1992), The 7th Guest (1993), Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (1993), BloodNet (1993), The Dark Eye (1995), and others that you’ll undoubtedly fill me in on because this isn’t really my area.

The character approaches the mansion.

The Legacy comes out of this era, and the best I can say is that it’s about as scary as a horror adventure-RPG hybrid could be, which means not very scary. Sure, the first time you open a door and there’s a zombie, you maybe jump a little, but pretty soon zombies are just another thing to be killed so you can earn experience. The creators did a good job with the mansion except that, as with most RPGs, they made it a bit too big to plausibly be a mansion. The backstory is just a little too derivative of things you’ve already read or watched. It is horror-themed rather than horrifying. If you can get past that, it’s not a bad game. I had a very enjoyable first session. Mechanically, it’s not unlike a first-person Quest for Glory. The adventure side of the game has a mystery to solve and a variety of puzzles necessary to solve it. The RPG side has a selection of skills and attributes that increase through use or through direct allocation of experience points. There’s enough “extra space” with wandering foes to satisfy the RPG need for combat and character growth. These are the types of features you need for a true hybrid, and not just an adventure game “with RPG elements.”

The Winthrop Mansion, as given in the game manual.

The Legacy comes from U.K. developer Magnetic Scrolls, a relatively long-lived creator of graphical adventures, including The Pawn (1985), Jinxter (1987), The Guild of Thieves (1987; I vaguely remember playing this one in the 1980s), Corruption (1988), Fish (1988), Myth (1989), and Wonderland (1990). The Legacy is the company’s first game with RPG aspirations, although it uses the same basic interface as Wonderland. The commonly-given subtitle, Realm of Terror, appears only on some boxes and not, as far as I can tell, on any manuals or title screens, so I’ve left it off as per my policy. A lot of sites give it as a 1993 game, but plenty of reviews attest to a 1992 release in Europe followed by a 1993 release in North America.

It took me a while to get a screenshot illuminated by lightning. You can clearly see this is not the same house as in the manual.

The main character is the last surviving descendant of Elias Winthrop (1599-1662), who built the Winthrop Mansion in 1630. The style of house depicted in the manual was built nowhere in New England, probably nowhere in the world, until the mid-1800s. The manual tries to justify this with talk of “extensions,” as if it wouldn’t have been easier to just build a new house than to incorporate a First Period home into a Gothic Revival. Anyway, at some point, the mansion acquired some kind of supernatural curse; the manual claims that Edgar Allen Poe experienced it while visiting a friend, and that it clearly inspired his House of Usher. During his visit–in which the entire family had become sickly and insane–he saw an apparition that screamed, “Melchior! Free me! Perform the rite!”

The family tree from the manual is also given in a piece of paper in-game.

As the game begins, a newspaper clipping claims that three people are “missing” in some kind of undefined “tragedy.” These three are likely Robert Prentiss, his wife Catherine, and his mother Karen, as all of their dates of death are given in 1992 in the family tree included in the manual. Karen had married Nathan Prentiss (died 1964), a descendant of Elias Winthrop through his maternal grandmother. The game’s main character is given as a cousin of Robert, a descendant of Nathan’s sister Sarah, although a graphical “break” in Sarah’s line makes it difficult to determine how much of a descendant. The game comes with eight pre-made characters from which you choose one. Each has different levels of strength, knowledge, dexterity, stamina, and willpower. Those first three attributes each come with five related skills, such as “Brawling” and “Lift” for strength, “Electronics” and “Mechanics” for knowledge, and “Firearms” and “Throw” for dexterity. Willpower determines your magic ability and whether you start with any spells. The language of the newspaper clipping is slightly modified for each:

Brad Norris, a sophomore at New York University. Captain of the NYU ski team and member of the Debating Society, Norris is reportedly “planning a mondo party.” He has fairly even skills and attributes but no magic at all. I don’t have any theories to the origins of the name.

Brad’s statistics.

Charles Weiss of Bangor, Maine (yay!), a magician, astrologer, and student of the occult. He has a noodle incident called “the Arlington ‘sacrifice’ scandal” in his past. Balanced in most skills, comes with two spells. The name belongs to a founding employee at Oracle, but I’m not sure he would have been well-known in 1992.

Charlotte Kane, a New York businesswoman who may be planning to turn the mansion into a luxury hotel and conference center. Strong in knowledge-based skills and comes with “Crimson Mists of Myamoto,” a protection spell. No idea on the name.

Lucy Weston, a sophomore at UCLA, sorority girl, tennis and volleyball champion. Heavy in strength, dexterity, and associated skills; has virtually no knowledge and no magic. Her name is taken from the character in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Professor Henry Jones, head of the Department of American History at Pennsylvania State University, authority on the Salem Witch Trials. Strongest in knowledge and its skills; not so bad in dexterity; comes with “Sight of the Walker,” which seems to have something to do with dispelling illusions. Naturally named after Indiana Jones’s father.

Jane Olson, a New York daily Post reporter. Strong in all skills but has no magic. Probably an homage to James Olsen of Superman fame given her profession.

Jane’s version of the newspaper clipping.

Major Robert “Boomer” Kowalski, retired from the U.S. Marine Corps after decorated service in Grenada, Panama, and the Persian Gulf. Strongest in strength and dexterity skills; has no magic. No idea on the name.

Isobel Gowdie, the most mysterious of the characters, described only as a “widow” with an ancestor who lived in the area. Balanced but weak in all skills and attributes but comes with both “Flames of Desolation” and “Sight of the Dark Walker.” Her name comes from the famous Scottish self-confessed witch of the late 17th century.

You can also edit one of the characters, change the name, and define your own. I turned Isobel into Irene, giving her enough willpower for “Flames of Desolation” and “Sight of the Dark Walker,” otherwise favoring knowledge skills but putting a few points into “Firearms.”

My character.

The game’s opening cinematic shows a car arriving at the mansion on a stormy night. Glyphs on the main gate posts glow as the gate opens to admit the car. As the approaches the front of the mansion, we see a light on in the cupola. (The mansion shown in the cinematic, it must be said, looks very little like the one in the manual except for the size and a certain dedication to symmetry.) The front door opens into an entry hall, and the view immediately goes up the split staircase and into a dead-end hall before the viewer is consumed by some tentacles coming out of the floor. Gameplay itself begins in the entry hall, and right away we see that The Legacy features some excellent period graphics. There will be banal, repetitive textures in some of the hallways and less important rooms, but when the game really needs to convey a sense of place like an “entry hall” or a “study,” the artists are up to the challenge, and I find myself wondering again why more era titles (e.g., Wizardry, the Gold Box series) couldn’t have offered this blend of the generic and the specific when the occasion called for it.

Gameplay begins in the entry hall.

The engine, known as Magnetic Windows, brings an Amiga or Atari ST-style windows GUI into the game. The windows for the character portrait, exploration, messages, and automap can all be moved, overlapped, and re-sized. Most actions are accomplished with the mouse, in somewhat obvious ways, for instance clicking on an object and dragging into to an open inventory space in the character portrait, or double-clicking on an object to use it. Right-clicking on things brings up a contextual menu, and right-clicking on the “desktop” behind the windows lets you save the game and adjust settings. I wish there were more keyboard backups for some of the actions, such as the “Hit” and “Aim” buttons in combat, but one thing the developers did anticipate is the difficulty using the mouse with the right hand while moving (as in most games) with the numberpad or arrows. Instead, they mapped movement to the QWEASD cluster, which works relatively well.

The various windows and game options.

The game uses tiles in which you can turn and face any direction. Occasionally, for an especially detailed room, you transition to a single-screen view in which you can’t rotate, but that’s rare. The entry hall is 3 x 3, and the game is spatially sophisticated enough to let you walk under the two upper parts of the split staircase. The front door is magically locked behind me. There are a couple of tables, a statue of a demonic creature behind a glass display case, and a painting from 1662 depicting “the burning of a warlock at the stake.” I am compelled by my history to note that if this was supposed to be a real event, it must have happened in continental Europe because there is no record of anyone accused of witchcraft having been burned in North America, and even England had stopped the practice well before 1662.

The painting in question.

There are also a couple of notes on the floor, and as I explored the ground floor of the mansion, I would continue to find more of them. The first, slipped under the front door, was from E. Croxley & Co. Realtors, welcoming me to the house and noting that some of the furniture had been sold to pay for the family’s debts. But the others are from a “Marcus Roberts of Boston,” who clearly preceded me in his explorations of the mansion and has presumably died there. His notes so far have conveyed the following:

The mansion’s various historical owners have been given to “vile depravities.”

Every 50 years, disappearances have been recorded in nearby towns at the same time that “strange lights [were] reported in the skies above the house.” The last batch was in 1943.

Roberts believed the house is possessed by an “infernal entity that is preparing to break through to our world.”

As he explored, Roberts discovered portals to other planes through which “demons and other monstrous beings” enter the house, particularly on the second floor. I also have him to thank for all the zombies roaming the ground floor, as he apparently released them from the mausoleum.

At some point, Roberts decided that it was necessary to find something called the Golden Torc, apparently in the lower levels.

One of the messages from the mysterious Marcus Roberts.

I started exploring using my normal “right wall” approach and soon found a zombie in a corridor east of the entry hall. Irene had begun the game with no weapons, just a spellbook, so I tried out “Flames of Desolation.” It took three castings to kill the creature. There were more zombies later on, and I ran out of spell power after killing three of them. Spell power doesn’t regenerate on its own. Neither do hit points. The manual is a bit cagey on how exactly you do regenerate these bars. I eventually found a first aid kit that helps with health. Spell points are supposed to be regenerated with meditating, but you apparently have to find some special crystals first. You otherwise do occasionally need to rest and eat, but you can only rest in rooms with a special symbol that I haven’t found yet.

I cast a fireball at a zombie.

As I ran out of spell points, I tried attacking zombies with my fists. This worked out for a few of them. For physical attacks, you just have options to “hit” or “aim” and then hit. Hitting temporarily depletes an accuracy bar, so you can’t hit a bunch of times in a row without losing accuracy with each successive strike. You can’t really do a “combat waltz” because enemies in melee range are in your square, not an adjacent one. Trying to side-step to another square requires passing a roll to escape combat first. But I did manage to somehow get one enemy stuck facing perpendicular to me, so I could beat him without retaliation. Later, I couldn’t replicate this. I’d really like to find a weapon, but I’ve got nothing so far. When you attack with no weapon, I’m not sure if the game treats whatever you’re holding as a weapon (e.g., a flashlight) or whether it assumes you’re temporarily dropping that object and using a fist. I didn’t notice that my fist attacks increased my “Brawling” skill, but my experience bar did increase. It seems to increase a little bit with almost every successful action, including exploring new areas, finding objects, and defeating foes. You can then spend the experience directly on skills or spell power, but I’ve just let it accumulate for now, I guess waiting for the first time I try to use a skill like “Electronics” and it goes poorly. I’ve been relying mostly on the auto-map so far. Based on it, I’m guessing that the main floor is 20 x 20. The automap annotates rooms and doors relatively well, but it doesn’t do anything with objects, stairs, or puzzles, so I’m probably going to restart and create my own maps, since I use the mapping process to annotate things like locked doors and unsolved puzzles. You’ll be happy to know that I’ve left the music on. The main theme isn’t really very melodic or insistent. It basically consists of three lugubrious bass notes, a pause, and then either a succession of percussive beats or a non-melodic flutter in a higher register. It has a clear “haunted house” vibe and sets the atmosphere well. I didn’t deliberately plan this, but it appears that I’m playing The Legacy along with my cousins at The Adventure Gamer. At least, I assume it’s still active. Voltgloss posted an introductory entry on 2 March 2020, but there hasn’t been a second one yet. Perhaps someone from there can clarify. Time so far: 2 hours ************* I had intended to return to Ultima VII for this entry, but it’s taking me longer to catch up to where the game glitched than I thought. I’m still devoting a portion of my playing hours to that game, so when I finally do catch up, I’ll stop introducing new titles and pick up where I left off.

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