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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) Robert Hamer

October 19th 2024

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"Was wir auch sehen oder scheinen, ist bloß ein Traum in einem Traum." (Edgar Allan Poe)

“Traum ohne Ende” (“Dead of Night”) (1945)

Der Londoner Architekt Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) fährt am Wochenende zu Eliot Foley (Roland Culver) und dessen Mutter (Mary Merrall), die ihn eingeladen haben, ihr Landhaus “Pilgrim’s Farm” umzubauen. Dort begegnet Craig einigen Gästen: der attraktiven Joan Cortland (Googie Withers), dem Psychiater Dr. van Straaten (Frederick Valk), dem Rennfahrer Hugh Grainger (Anthony Baird) und dem Teenager Sally O’ Hara (Sally Ann Howes) Kurz darauf trifft - wie von dem sich stetig unwohler fühlenden Craig vorhergesagt - noch Graingers Gattin Joyce (Judy Kelly) ein. Walter Craig eröffnet den Anwesenden, dass er sie alle aus einem ständig wiederkehrenden Traum kennt, an dessen Inhalt er sich zunächst nur vage zu erinnern vermag, der sich jedoch im Laufe des Abends zu einem Alptraum wandeln wird. Während der Psychiater Craigs Angaben bezweifelt und seine düsteren Andeutungen in das Reich der Imagination verweist, sind die übrigen Gäste bereit, dem Architekten Glauben zu schenken, zumal alle von ihnen bereits selbst mit übersinnlichen Phänomenen konfrontiert waren. Jeder der Anwesenden erzählt die ihm widerfahrene Geschichte, und selbst der skeptische Psychiater weiß von einem solchen Fall zu berichten. Nach dem plötzlichen Ausfall des Notstromaggregats wandelt sich Craigs Traum in den von ihm prophezeiten Alptraum, in dem der Architekt den Psychiater erwürgt und durch sämtliche Schauplätze der zuvor geschilderten Erzählungen zu fliehen versucht. Walter Craig erwacht aus einem Alptraum. Ein Anruf von Eliot Foley bestellt ihn zu dem Landhaus “Pilgrim’s Farm” …

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Halloween Horror Movie Review: Dead of Night (1945)

Title: Dead of Night Release Date: September 9, 1945 Director: Charles Crichton, Robert Hamer, Alberto Cavalcanti, and Basil Dearden Production Company: Ealing Studios Main Cast: Anthony Baird as Hugh Grainger Roland Culver as Eliot Foley Renée Gadd as Mrs. Craig Sally Ann Howes as Sally O’Hara Mervyn Johns as Walter Craig Judy Kelly as Joyce Grainger Barbara Leake as Mrs. O’Hara Mary Merrall as…

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Dead of Night | Various | 1945

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"Na solidão da noite" (dead of night) - torrent.

A presença de um diretor brasileiro nesse filme de terror de 1945 chamou a atenção da namorada. Alberto Cavalcanti nasceu no Brasil, mas logo foi pra Europa e fez sua carreira na direção por lá. Já consagrado, dirigiu alguns filmes por aqui. Nesse filme inglês, ele compartilha a direção com outros três, cada um encarregado de um dos quatro contos da história. Bora ver:

depois de ver: ótimo filme, bom clima. as quatro histórias são boas, mas o destaque, sem dúvida, fica pro conto do ventríloquo, dirigido por Cavalcanti. 

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The Avengers: Series 6, Episode 26 - Homicide and Old Lace https://bit.ly/3nF60OF   An episode written by Malcolm Hulke and Terrance Dicks, and then rewritten by Brian Clemens when he returned to the series. It was Clemens who inserted the framework narrative device – Mother visiting a pair of aged aunts and spinning them yarns about legendary feats of Avengers derring-do. The Great Great Britain Crime was … Read More »

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Cedric Hardwicke and Sally Ann Howes in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (Alberto Cavalcanti, 1947) Cast: Derek Bond, Cedric Hardwicke, Bernard Miles, Sally Ann Howes, Alfred Drayton, Aubrey Woods, Stanley Holloway, Jill Balcon, Mary Merrall, Athene Seyler, Sybil Thorndike, Fay Compton, Cathleen Nesbitt, James Hayter. Screenplay: John Dighton, based on a novel by Charles Dickens. Cinematography: Gordon Dines. Art direction: Michael Relph. Film editing: Leslie Norman. Music: Lord Berners. Forgettable and rather plodding version of the Dickens novel, kept alive only by some good actors doing their thing well.

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I was tagged for the following info by @icalledyoudumb and @alwaysdearie .

1. Favorite color: Periwinkle. But really any blue/purple. I don’t care much for red/purples.

2. Last song I listened to: https://youtu.be/ndJYRigKKT8

3. Favorite Musicians (including singers): Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen ⤴️, Itzhak Perlman, Joe Walsh, Glenn Gould, Jonny Greenwood, Thom Yorke, Joey Ramone, Bing Crosby, Gene Krupa.

4. Last movie I watched: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0037635/

5. Last show I watched: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860659/

6. Sweet, Spicy, or Savory: Any. I just like things that have a strong taste.

7. Bubble Water, Tea, or Coffee: Coffee, as my header shows. Those are a bunch of cups of coffee that I had over time at Kelly’s Diner in Somerville, MA.

I tag (which I rarely do, but here goes) @gotankgo @justbeneath-thesurface2 @spinningininfinity @thisspaceof-mine @millerflintstone @retake-retoocs @mtman1 @randomberlinchick @thatsnotyourpurse @lisagotherwingson

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Rx Murder (1958) Director: Derek N. Twist. Writers: Joan Fleming, John W. Gossage and Derek N. Twist from Joan Fleming’s 1955 novel ‘The Deeds of Dr Deadcert’

American doctor Jethro Jones (Rick Jason) comes to a quiet English seaside resort to investigate the activities of its leading medical doctor, Henry Dysert (Marius Goring). He learns from Miss Bettyhill (Mary Merrall), the town-gossip, and others that 'the good doctor' might not be all that good, since each of his three wives (only one at a time), Louise (Vida Hope), Charlotte (Helen Shingler) and Stella (Sandu Scott), had mysterious and tragic deaths. The non-gossiping townsmen had regarded the three deaths, each of which left Dr Dysert in better financial shape, as unfortunate personal tragedies. Jason has only a short time to prove that Dysert was a multiple wife-killer, since Kitty Mortlock, Dr Dysert’s secretary (Lisa Gastoni) appears to be the next designated victim, and Jason has fallen in love with her himself. mariusgoring.com

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current reading list for 2019

crossed = finished bolded = currently reading plain = to read

CURRENTLY READING Erotism: Death and Sensuality by Georges Bataille Fleurs du Mal by Charles Baudelaire Violence and the Sacred by René Girard Selected Prose of Heinrich von Kleist

TO READ to resume The Horror Reader edited by Ken Gilder The Collected Works of Clarice Lispector Là-Bas by J.K. Huysman On Touching by Jacques Derrida Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection by Julia Kristeva

novels The Border of Paradise by Esmé Weijun Wang Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (reread) Justine by Lawrence Durrell Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy Death in Venice by Thomas Mann (reread) I’m Starved For You by Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride by Margaret Atwood The Name of the Rose (reread) by Umberto Eco The Letters of Mina Harker by Dodie Bellamy Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille Sunshine by Robin McKinley Nightwood by Djuna Barnes Malina by Ingeborg Bachman The Lesser Bohemians by Eimear McBride A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing by Eimear McBride Enfermario by Gabriela Torres Olivares Monsieur Venus by Rachilde The Marquise de Sade by Rachilde

Hannibal Hannibal Rising by Thomas Harris Monsters of our own Making by Marina Warner “Monsters of Perversion: Jeffrey Dahmer and The Silence of the Lambs” by Diana Fuss

short stories The Wilds by Julia Elliot The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt Severance by Robert Olen Butler

poetry Extracting the Stone of Madness by Alejandra Pizarnik The Complete Poems by William Blake Unholy Sonnets by Mark Jarman collected works of Charles Baudelaire collected works of Arthur Rimbaud

theatre Faust by Goethe The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe

nonfiction (history, biography, memoir) Love's executioner and other tales of psychotherapy / Irvin D. Yalom. Countess Dracula by Tony Thorne The Bloody Countess by Valentine Penrose Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsebet Bathory by Kimberly L. Craft Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History by Bill Schmutt Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middles Ages by Nancy Caciola Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici Blake by Peter Akroyd The Trial of Gilles de Rais by Georges Bataille The Marquis de Sade by Rachilde  Blake by Peter Akroyd Dinner with a Cannibal: The Complete History of Mankind's Oldest Taboo by Carole A. Travis-Henikoff The Dragons of Eden by Carl Sagan Emily Brontë by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson  Lives of the Necromancers by William Godwin A History of the Heart by Ole M. Høystad In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

essays When the Sick Rule the World by Dodie Bellamy Academonia by Dodie Bellamy The Body of Frankenstein's Monster by Cecil Helman

academia Monsters of Our Own Making by Marina Warner Monster Culture in the 21st Century: A Reader edited by by Marina Levina and Diem My Bui Essays on the Art of Angela Carter: Flesh and the Mirror edited by Lorna Sage The Routledge Companion to Literature and Food edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Donna Lee Brien

the gothic Woman and Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth by Nina Auerbach Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters by J. Halberstam Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic by Eugenia C. Delamotte Art of Darkness: A Poetics of Gothic by Anne Williams Body Gothic: Corporeal Transgression in Contemporary Literature and Horror Film by Xavier Aldana Reyes On the Supernatural in Poetry by Ann Radcliffe The Gothic Flame by Devendra P. Varma Gothic Versus Romantic: A Reevaluation of the Gothic Novel by Robert D. Hume  A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke Over Her Dead Body by Elisabeth Bronfen The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology by Kate Ellis Gothic Documents: A Sourcebook, 1700-1820 by E. Clery Limits of Horror: Technology, Bodies, Gothic edited by Fred Botting  The History of Gothic Fiction by Markman Ellis The Routledge Companion to the Gothic edited by Catherine Spooner and Emma McEvoy  Gothic and Gender edited by Donna Heiland Romanticism and the Gothic Tradition by G.R. Thompson Cryptomimesis : The Gothic and Jacques Derrida's Ghost Writing by Jodie Castricano

religion The Incorruptible Flesh: Bodily Mutation and Mortification in Religion and Folklore by Piero Camporesi Discerning Spirits: Divine and Demonic Possession in the Middle Ages by Nancy Caciola “He Has a God in Him”: Human and Divine in the Modern Perception of Dionysus by Albert Henrichs The Ordinary Business of Occultism by Gauri Viswanathan The Body and Society. Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity by Peter Brown

cannibalism Eat What You Kill: Or, a Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent Eat What You Kill: Or, a Strange and Gothic Tale of Cannibalism by Consent Charles J. Reid Jr. Consuming Passions: The Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe by Merrall Llewelyn Price Cannibalism in High Medieval English Literature by Heather Blurton Eating Their Words: Cannibalism and the Boundaries of Cultural Identity edited by Kristen Guest

crime Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

theory/philosophy Life Everlasting: the animal way of death by Bernd Heinrich The Ambivalence of Scarcity and Other Essays by René Girard Interviews with Hélène Cixous Symposium by Plato Phaedra by Plato Becoming-Rhythm: A Rhizomatics of the Girl by Leisha Jones The Abject of Desire: The Aestheticization of the Unaesthetic in Contemporary Literature and Culture edited by Konstanze Kutzbach, Monika Mueller The Severed Head: Capital Visions by Julia Kristeva

perfume & alchemy Perfume: The Alchemy of Scent by Jean-Claude Ellena The Perfume Lover: A Personal Story of Scent by Denyse Beaulieu Past Scents: Historical Perspectives on Smell by Jonathan Reinarz Fragrant: The Secret Life of Scent by Mandy Aftel Das Parfum by Patrick Süskind Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture by Catherine Maxwell “The Ugly History of Beautiful Things: Perfume”

medicine Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery by Richard Hollingham Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance by Atul Gawande Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande The Butchering Art by Lindsey Fitzharris

articles “The Dread Gorgon” by Caroline Alexander “Ruggiero’s Deceptions, Cherubino’s Distractions” by Mary Reynolds “A Thing of Shreds and Patches” by J’Lyn Chapman “Dissection” by Meehan Crist

unsorted Dwellings of the Philosophers by Fulcanelli Mysteries of the Cathedrals by Fulcanelli Jean Cocteau, from ‘Orphée’ The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio*

FINISHED Red Dragon by Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris Hannibal by Thomas Harris Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi (reread) Things We Lost in the Fire by Mariana Enríquez (reread) Painting Their Portraits in Winter: Stories by Myriam Gurba The Sadeian Woman by Angela Carter the collected poems of Emily Brontë Fearful Symmetry by Northrop Frye A Monster’s Notes by Laurie Sheck Cain by José Saramago House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (reread) Such Small Hands by Andres Barba House of Incest by Anaïs Nin Macbeth by William Shakespeare Hannibal Lecter and Philosophy: The Heart of the Matter edited by Joseph Westfall The Body: An Essay by Jenny Boully A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments by Roland Barthes Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu Cabinet of Curiosities by Guillermo del Toro John Donne’s Holy Sonnets Surfacing by Margaret Atwood Literature and Evil by Georges Bataille Mr. Fox by Helen Oyeyemi Richard III by William Shakespeare The Dead Seagull by George barker Power Politics by Margaret Atwood

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They Made Me a Fugitive (I Became a Criminal) (1947) Alberto Cavalcanti

May 18th 2024

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Mary Merrall Killed - Death | Mary Merrall Dead - Passed Away

Mary Merrall Death - Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On December 10th, 2020, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Mary Merrall through social media publications made on Twitter. Click to read and leave tributes

Mary Merrall Death – Dead,  Obituary, Funeral, Cause Of Death, Passed Away: On December 10th, 2020, InsideEko Media learned about the death of Mary Merrall through social media publications made on Twitter. InsideEko is yet to confirm Mary Merrall‘s cause of death as no health issues, accident or other causes of death have been learned to be associated with the passing. This death has caused a…

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Classic TV/Character Actors/Mary

Merrall

Kenton

Tamm

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Non-Assigned Readings

Aristotle. De Anima (On the Soul). Translated by Hugh Lawson-Tancred. London: Penguin Books, 1986.

Cicero. The Nature of the Gods. Translated by P. G. Walsh. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Amundsen, Darrel W. Medicine, Society, and Faith in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1996.

Appleford, Amy. “The Good Death of Richard Whittington: Corpse and Corpration.” In The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross, 86-109. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Archambeau, Nicole. “Healing Options During the Plague: Survivor Stories from a Fourteenth-Century Canonization Inquest.” Bulletin of the History of Medicine 85, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 531-559.

Avramescu, Catalin. An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009.

Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.

Benton, John F. “Consciousness of Self and Perceptions of Individuality.” In Renaissance and Renewal in the Twelfth Century. Edited by Robert L. Benson, Giles Constable, and Carol D. Lanham, 263-295. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.

Biller, Peter. “John of Naples, Quodlibets and Medieval Theological Concern with the Body.” In Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis, 3-12. York: York Medieval Press, 1997.

Bynum, Caroline Walker. The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christianity, 200-1336: Expanded Edition. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.

Caciola, Nancy. “Breath, Heart, Guts: the Body and Spirits in the Middle Ages.” In Communicating With the Spirits. Edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs, 21-39. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2005.

Dinzelbacher, Peter. Structures and Origins of the Twelfth-Century ‘Renaissance.’ Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2017.

East, W. G. “This Body of Death: Abelard, Heloise and the Religious Life.” In Medieval Theology and the Natural Body. Edited by Peter Biller and A.J. Minnis, 43-59. York: York Medieval Press, 1997.

Hayes, Dawn Marle. “Body as Champion of Church Authority and Sacred Place: the Murder of Thomas Becket.” In Body and Sacred Place in Medieval Europe, 1100-1389: Interpreting the Case of Chartres Cathedral. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Kralik, Christine. “Death is Not the End: the Encounter of the Three Living and the Three Dead in the Berlin Hours of Mary of Burgundy and Maximilian I.” In The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross, 61-85. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.

Gothoni, Rene. “Religio and Superstitio Reconsidered.” Archive for the Psychology of Religion 21, no. 1 (1994): 37-46.

Gow, Andrew Colin. “’Sanguis Naturalis’ and ‘Sanc de Miracle’: Ancient Medicine, ‘Superstition; and the Metaphysics of Medieval Healing Miracles.” Sudhoffs Archiv 87, no. 2 (2003): 129-158.

Mikolajczyk, Renata. “Non Sunt Nisi Phantasiae et Imaginationes: a Medieval Attempt at Explaining Demons.” In Communicating With the Spirits. Edited by Gabor Klaniczay and Eva Pocs, 40-52. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2005.

Park, Katherine. “The Life of the Corpse: Division and Dissection in Late Medieval Europe.” The Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 50 (January 1995): 111-132.

Price, Merrall L. “Corpus Christi: the Eucharist and Late Medieval Cultural Identity.” In Consuming Passions: the Uses of Cannibalism in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. New York: Routledge, 2003.

Reynolds, Philip Lyndon. Food and the Body: Some Peculiar Questions in High Medieval Theology. Leiden: Brill, 1999.

Ritchey, Sara. “Affective Medicine: Later Medieval Healing Communities and the Feminization of Health Care Practices in the Thirteenth-Century Low Countries.” Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures 40, no. 2 (2014): 113-143.

Siraisi, Nancy G. Medieval & Early Renaissance Medicine: an Introduction to Knowledge and Practice. Chicago: the University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Sugg, Richard. Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: the History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians. London: Routledge, 2011.

Westerhof, Danielle M. “Amputating the Traitor: Healing the Social Body in Public Executions for Treason in Late Medieval England.” In The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture. Edited by Suzanne Conklin Akbari and Jill Ross, 177-192. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2013.

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Mary Merrall (Helen Beattie)

The Camp on Blood Island ~ 1958

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Love on the Dole (1941) John Baxter

August 22nd 2021