[UA] Re: Horror Actors

[Timothy Ferguson]

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> Sent: Saturday, 2 June 2001 5:04 PM
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stuart Anderson" <stuartanderson at qwest.net>
> To: <ua at lists.uchicago.edu>
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 11:25 PM
> Subject: [UA] Re: Horror Actors
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> > Stevens Dustin wrote:
> >
> > > ObUA: Obviously, you have an adventure made up of a
> > > creepy old house where old horror actors; Cushing,
> > > Karloff, Lugosi, Chaney (Sr. and Jr.), go when they
> > > die to become zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc. Or
> > > at least go to be put in make up one last time. Maybe
> > > PCs follow Lee to the house (an off-branch of the
> > > House of Renunciation?), then see somebody putting in
> > > Lee's plastic fangs and burying him in the nearby
> > > cemetery. The atmosphere is to perfectly duplicate an
> > > old B&W silent horror movie, including with the
> > > obvious fake gnarled tree, and dark backdrop. The
> > > capper is when they all come out of the shadows for
> > > one last 'bite'.
> >
> > Holy crap! I saw that picture! Help me out, y'all--it was John
> > Carradine, Vincent Prince, Karloff, and someone else--Claude
> > Rains?--Hell, I don't remember. It was one of the arty pictures
> > the guys put out. I don't even remember the thrust of it. But it
> > was just a bunch of creepy smart guys sittin around talking.
> > Jeez--I haven't thought of that picture in years.
>
> House of the Long Shadows (1983)
> http://us.imdb.com/Details?0085693

Which, oddly, I have a copy of sitting on top of my VCR right now.

>
> It was Price, Lee, Cushing, and Carradine.  Sounds fascinating, not
> available to rent or buy, tho.

I bought mine from a rental store clearing out old stock...what strange
synchronicity.


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