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Post by Cyggy on Mar 4, 2022 22:16:29 GMT
Please rate and discuss this story here.....
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 6, 2022 13:04:17 GMT
Owes maybe a little too much to John Carpenter's " The Fog" - but this an enjoyable enough tale imo. Ace and the soldier's ridiculous dialogue during the scene where she is distracting him is beyond daft though!
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Post by Black Orchid on Mar 13, 2022 14:52:00 GMT
Apart from Caves of Androzani, perhaps the greatest story of the 1980's albeit one on an even more reduced budget than normal. _____________
WAINWRIGHT: I was just remembering when I was a child. My father was the vicar here then. It seemed such a warm, friendly place in those days. ACE: Things always look different when you're a child. WAINWRIGHT: Now I stand in the church every Sunday, I see all the faces looking up at me, waiting for me to give them something to believe in. ACE: Don't you believe in anything? WAINWRIGHT: I used to believe there was good in the world, hope for the future. ACE: The future's not so bad. Have faith in me. _____________________
MILLINGTON: Just think what a bomb full could do to a city like Dresden or Moscow. DOCTOR: It's inhuman. MILLINGTON: It could mean the end of the war. DOCTOR: And Whitehall thinks that Moscow is careless enough to let you detonate one of those things inside the Kremlin? MILLINGTON: Oh, that's the beauty of it, Doctor. We won't detonate it. They'll do it themselves. They'll use the machine to decrypt our ciphers, but Doctor Judson has programmed it to self-destruct when it tries to decrypt a particular word. And, once the political climate is appropriate, we will include the word in one of our ciphers. DOCTOR: And the word is? MILLINGTON: What else could it be, Doctor? Love. __________________________________
WAINWRIGHT: But vampires are just superstition. Why? JEAN: We have black hearts. We were lost on the day we were born. WAINWRIGHT: That's not true. No one is lost. PHYLLIS: Everyone is lost. WAINWRIGHT: No further. This is holy. It will destroy you. PHYLLIS: Objects can't harm us. It's human belief, and you stopped believing when the bombs started falling. WAINWRIGHT: I'm not frightened of German bombs. JEAN: Not German bombs, British. PHYLLIS: On German cities. British bombs killing German children. WAINWRIGHT: No. No! (The Doctor runs in between the girls and Wainwright.) DOCTOR: Stop! ACE: What's happened to you? What are you doing? PHYLLIS: You should have come into the water with us. Then we'd have been together. DOCTOR: Go! Go! JEAN: We go, but we'll return for you, Wainwright. _____________________________
MILLINGTON: Many years ago, when I was Chief Petty Officer on board ship, we had an explosion in an engine room. DOCTOR: But the Russians are our friends, our allies! MILLINGTON: I had to seal it off to save the ship, keep the flames restricted to one section. WAINWRIGHT: Please, Commander. Those two men won't stand a chance against those creatures. They're inhuman! ACE: So's he. MILLINGTON: We could hear men screaming behind the bulkheads for nearly an hour, and then the screaming stopped. __________________________
Jean, Phyllis and the haemovores break out of the tunnel.) WAINWRIGHT: I'm here. (He holds out his Bible.) JEAN: The book won't do you any good. You don't believe. WAINWRIGHT: We'll see. (They take a step back and scream as Wainwright looks heavenwards and prays.) PHYLLIS: It's not true. You don't believe it. JEAN: Look at us. There's no good in us. WAINWRIGHT: No! I believe in good. (But the seed of doubt has been sown.) PHYLLIS: Look in yourself. There's no good in you. WAINWRIGHT: No! No! (The haemovores stop screaming and move forward.) WAINWRIGHT: No! No! No! (He disappears beneath their claws.) ________________________________
Fantastic stuff.
8.5/10
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Post by Cyggy on Mar 24, 2022 23:45:42 GMT
Watched this the other day. I thought Sylvester was superb and a brilliantly, quietly scheming Doctor in it. Nicholas Parsons also brilliant imo, with Dinsdale Landen being the other standout performance. The rest of the cast all variable I think. That flirting scene between Ace and the guard still a load of rubbish though imo.
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Post by GC on Mar 25, 2022 5:51:20 GMT
A cracking, moody little tale, nice bit of atmosphere and mystery going on. Loved the Haemovores in this, great looking little monsters, creepy things. Thought McCoy was pretty good at all that so-called dark Doctor stuff here. Also good were the two geezers that played the scientist in a wheelchair, and the General type that looked like Hitler respectively*. Old Nicholas Parsnips weren't too bad in it either. Yeah that Ace 'seduction' scene is pretty cringe inducing.
EDIT: *Dinsdale Landen (Dr. Judson) and Alfred Lynch (Commander Millington)
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Post by Cyggy on Jun 22, 2022 15:02:25 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jun 22, 2022 15:22:15 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jun 22, 2022 15:46:40 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jun 22, 2022 16:49:20 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jun 22, 2022 16:57:54 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 5, 2022 17:40:33 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jul 11, 2022 19:04:48 GMT
The Forgotten Brilliance Of The Curse Of Fenric
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Post by Cyggy on Aug 8, 2022 10:54:01 GMT
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Post by Cyggy on Jan 19, 2023 5:42:46 GMT
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Post by GC on Feb 4, 2024 18:37:47 GMT
Glad we ended up with what we got...
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