#Talking Mongoose

[wordofthewolf]

Legally Gef: Lambert v. Levita

Our story begins in 1931 on the Isle of Man, a 221-square-mile island under the control of England. For reference, the Isle of Man is one-sixth the size of the state of Rhode Island. A former piano salesman and farmer James T. Irving lived in an area called Cashen Gap with his family. In the walls of their home, they started to hear strange animal noises which were driving them crazy. Irving…

[liminalflares]

We can all have a charming little cryptid mystery, as a treat. Here for everything about this movie and its marvelous cast, complete with @neil-gaiman voicing Gef.

[agentnico]

Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose (2023) Review

And the weirdest film title of the year goes too...

Plot: When famed paranormal psychologist Dr Nandor Fodor investigates a family's claim that a talking mongoose lives in their barn, he uncovers a mysterious web of hidden motives. Soon, everyone becomes a suspect in his relentless pursuit of the truth.

The most fascinating fact about Nandor Fodor and the Talking Mongoose aside from its title is that it is based on a true story. Gef was an allegedly talking mongoose that was claimed to inhabit a farmhouse owned by the Irving family. The Irvings' farm was located at Cashen's Gap near the hamlet of Dalby on the Isle of Man. The tabloid press in Britain gave the story extensive coverage in the early 1930s. The Irvings' claims gained the attention of parapsychologists and ghost hunters, such as Harry Price, Hereward Carrington, and Nandor Fodor. Some investigators of the era and contemporary critics have concluded that the phenomenon was a hoax that the Irving family perpetuated by using ventriloquism. Amusingly enough the Irving family in the film are very open about the fact that the daughter is a talented ventriloquist.

The film itself comes off as strangely peculiar. Director Adam Sigal is evidently trying to create a tone of eeriness and mystery, and though there is that constant question throughout if the talking mongoose is real or a fraudulent manifestation, there's almost that sense of why should we care. The dialogue is heavily clunky, aside from the very delightful few scenes in the pub between Simon Pegg (trying his best at a Hungarian accent to questionable results) and Christopher Lloyd, with them talking about the mongoose, spirituality, fraud and at one point Harry Houdini. I found it strangely comforting seeing Lloyd still on top of his game at his age, and Pegg too is enjoyable when allowed to simply go with the flow. However aside from those moments, the script is poor, and as this is very much a talker of a film, there are so many interminably dull stretches of dialogue and conversation. The comedy also hardly lands, with again the key word being peculiar, with the movie attempting humor through strange happenstances, yet aside from the primary Rikki-tikki-tavi (voiced by Neil Gaiman of all folks), those shenanigans are not that interesting nor amusing. Shame, as the cast seems to be really trying, yet the plot seems more befitting for a short film or possibly a little documentary or TV special rather than a full feature length.

The entire movie is in this constant state of meandering as if its characters are stuck in this constant loop of doing nothing. Maybe that is it - the film is saying that life is so boring that people end up finding fascination and obsession over the smallest and silliest of things, like a myth about a mongoose that is able to talk. If so, then that's just sad, and now I am sad. So thank you Nandor Fodor for making me sad. That is exactly what I need when I come back from a long day at work and want to watch a casual movie on Prime. Silly mongoose.

Overall score: 4/10

[forthegothicheroine]

The more I hear about cryptids, the more I admire the audacity of the Gef the Talking Mongoose story. No fleeting glimpses, no possibly that it's a bear. This is an annoying little beast who won't shut up. We reached a truce where we wouldn't try to kill him and he would let us know if we left the stove on. He said his name was Jeff but he spelled it Gef because mongooses can't spell. Now that's a cryptid.

[capesandshapes]

I actually care so much about gef the talking mongoose and how he was a ghost trapped in an English farmhouse whose favorite hobbies were talking shit about locals and scaring mice

And how he would go to the market with the family he lived with (whose daughter had the really quirky fun hobby of ventriloquism) but no one would see him because he had the really fun habit of walking in the bushes to the side of the path when they went places because he's shy

And how like he was a mongoose but had really wiry bushy hair that looked like a long haired dog's fur but definitely wasn't because the family had a long haired dog with hair the same exact color as his and they were like "no, it is a little different if you look, because he's a ghost mongoose and that's a dog so"

And how like you could hear him scurrying all throughout the house because they had these really cool double walls that you could speak into from another room and make it sound like you were somewhere else.

Like what a guy

Supposedly someone shot him and like showed everyone a stuffed mongoose as proof, but gef wasn't a LIVING mongoose, but rather a ghost stuck in mongoose form so, you know

Justice for Gef. They faked his death.

[wanderingmongoose]

Ok, folks. Re: Theo is (probably) the deer, I am also wondering if the raven’s very ominous prediction is some kind of misinterpreted prophecy situation. Consider, for instance, that Lenore’s Spector is made of a Lot of Bones. “You will be bones by morning” seems a bit less universally grim if that’s the case.

Because the raven watches all the cohorts at Nevermore, he would have seen Theo, and whatever happened to him. What he didn’t know was why Theo was interested in Lenore. He tracks her down to see if he can find out, and Lenore tells him about the Vandernacht curse. That last name rather neatly connects her to Theo, along with the hint that their have been many premature deaths in her family. So why the prophecy of death, if the raven knows that Theo probably doesn’t want to hurt Lenore? Maybe it’s not actually a prophecy of death. After all, it COULDN’T be, right? In Nevermore, dead means insentient orb, not pile of bones.

[localratwithcowboyhat]

Gef the mongoose💥

[gef-the-mongoose-blog]

Gef's alleged birthday is June 7th, 1852- which just so happens to be today! Happy birthday, Gef!

I wish I could've drawn something better, but oh well. He's 172!

Please reblog my art instead of just liking it.

[sireington]

guys I just had a crazy idea. eight wonder by Lemon Demon animatic and it’s billfold. Boom. So epic right

[helyiios]

oscar winning tears. simon pegg

[therealgefthetalkingmongoose]

Pictured is the house the Irvings lived in with Gef. The two people are apparently Jim Irving and Voirrey.

(ID: A side view of a simple house with no discernible features between the walls and the roof. There is a small partition jutting out from the front. A young woman and a man stand next to each other.)

[mametzwood]

who up gefing their mongoose

[oliveatesoap]

[forthegothicheroine]

Movies from a universe where Gef the Talking Mongoose, rather than the Amityville Horror, was the "real" haunting that spawned a million movie titles

Gef II: The Possession

Gef 4: The Evil Escapes

The Gef Curse

Gef: It's About Time

Gef: A New Generation

Gef's Asylum

Gef: Vanishing Point

The Gef Legacy

Gef: No Escape

Gef's Exorcism

Gef: Evil Never Dies

Gef Against the Night

Witches of Gef's Academy

Gef's Harvest

Gef's Moon

Cult of Gef

Gef the Vampire

Gef's Scarecrow

Gef Uprising

Gef in Space

Gef in the Hood

Gef's Christmas Vacation

I could go on.

[kirbee-hd]

[localratwithcowboyhat]

This may sound daft but since i am aware you know a lot about it, is the Gef the Mongoose case real or was it just a hoax? /genq

Well there has been news articles on him in the 30s and people did report missing rabbits in think? There also has been an interview w him. But other than the information provided by the irvings there is no real evidence, tho after the family left the farm house and a new person moved in she reported having cached a weasel looking creature ( that she killed ) ( that was as 1945 tho, so its been a few years since the irvings left) and thats the last thing we know from, what might have been, gef the mongoose

the only one to ever actually see gef was monica ( ? The daughter | i forgot her name) but there’s no actual pictures of him i think, only drawings.

But its still debated whether it was real or not