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24.-28. A multi-film catch-up
Having finally written up that long post about Nosferatu, I now want to plough through as many of the other films I've seen since then as possible, before they all get entirely forgotten. Some are ones I tweeted about at the time, so I'm handling those by copying and pasting the tweets here. Others are another new phenomenon - films I've watched ( Read more... ) -
23. Nosferatu (1922), dir. F. W. Murnau
I rewatched Nosferatu in May ahead of the World Dracula Day lecture I gave ( LJ / DW), because this year marks the centenary of its release and I’d themed my talk around a series of such vampire-related anniversaries. I’d wanted to watch it at some point this year anyway, as I will be going to Slovakia with DracSoc at the end of August on a ( Read more... ) -
One epic month
A month ago today, i.e. Thursday 26 May, I gave a lecture to mark World Dracula Day in Bradford ( LJ / DW). Since then, my life has managed to unfold with immense intensity on almost all possible fronts - generally with very good results, but it's just been A Lot. Here's my attempt to narrativise and capture the main outlines of it at least. For ( Read more... ) -
World Dracula Day
On Thursday, I had the pleasure of delivering the second Goth City World Dracula Day lecture at the Midland Hotel in Bradford, and thus helping to cement it as an annual institution. I went to the first one last year ( LJ / DW), and had already booked a ticket for this year when I got a message from the organiser asking if I would deliver it this ( Read more... ) -
22. The Haunted Palace (1963), dir. Roger Corman, broadcast 13 May
The latest Cellar Club screening, and a really good one! It was the only entry from Corman's Poe cycle which I hadn't seen, though of course in fact it isn't a Poe story at all. Instead, it's based on H.P. Lovecraft's 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward' (framed by few lines of Poe's poetry), which I also haven't read, so it was all new to me. ( Read more... ) -
20. The Comedy of Terrors (1963), dir. Jacques Tourneur, broadcast 6 May
This film came at the end of what had felt like a long week, so I was in something of a state of torpor on the sofa by the time it came on and don't think I really engaged with it very productively. But I also don't think the problem was entirely me - it just wasn't really up to much, and I'm afraid has only confirmed my existing view that few ( Read more... ) -
19. Dracula: the Original Living Vampire (2022), dir. Maximilian Elfeldt
I don't think I've even mentioned this here yet due to being busy with other things, but I have agreed to give a lecture in Bradford on 26 May to mark World Dracula Day. As it's the 125th anniversary of the publication of Stoker's novel, I'm going to lean into the theme and talk about how Stoker himself uses temporal resonances in the novel, and ( Read more... ) -
18. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), dir. Roger Corman
So, having finally got up to date with recording all my film-watching, I can transfer the tweets for the ONE film I watched last night here! It was a cracker, and indeed probably a lot better than I really captured given that I'd only just submitted an article and hastily cooked dinner in time to catch the beginning of the film.
( 18. The Tomb of Ligeia (1964), dir. Roger Corman, broadcast 29 April ) -
10-17. The rest of my Cellar Club tweet-alongs to date
Onwards with the Cellar Club tweet-alongs... Films 6 to 9 of 2022 were a bunch of Hammer vampire rewatches connected with the live webcast I did about them, and I wrote those up separately at the time ( LJ / DW). So this entry covers 10 onwards.
( 10. Burnt Offerings (1961), dir. Dan Curtis, broadcast 18 February )