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"Growing up I didn't have an older brother, so all my music was formed by my mother and father. The latter would play old Irish folk songs and outlaw music by Johnny Cash and the only thing my mother would play was heavy melancholy orchestral movements like Night On Bald Mountain. What my mother would make me do is sit on the floor and tell my father to tell a story while putting on this record. This was big for me. I was probably four years old at the time. It sounded eerie, spooky and epic. My dad would make up these ghost stories but what he was really doing was recreating these children's story soundtracks that I'd listened to! I was too young to understand what he was doing at the time, but he was just making his personalised version of The Little Prince or Tales of Witches, Ghosts And Goblins. So he'd be like [eerie voice]: ""The ghosts would move up the Catskill Mountains..."" and I'd just sit there freezing in fear of these ghost stories! It was like having a musical campfire in your living room. Also, this song featured on the film Fantasia, which was my whole life up until the age of ten. It stuck with me and it was embedded in there now you're mixing visuals. I wasn't into the Mickey Mouse aspect of it, but when you watch the eerie castle and spooky ghosts, this is just feeding a young boy's imagination and this is the world he's going to confront when he grows up. These were all the ingredients going into my soup."

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Deb (14 KP) rated True Love: A Nantucket Brides Novel in Books

Jun 11, 2018

It was a story that was hard to put down. (0 more)

Exceptional Read

The story grabbed at me from the beginning. It was an author that I had never read before and it is now one that I will continue reading books from. You have to be one that enjoys a good romance with a few ghosts thrown in, but even if you are not one of those types, this book may still be one for you as it grabs at you until the very end.

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Dean (6927 KP) rated The Gravedancers (2006) in Movies

Dec 24, 2018

The Gravedancers (2006)

2006 | Horror, Mystery

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At last a decent low budget horror that was quite entertaining! It had a good cast with a few familiar faces from TV of yester year. The story was something a bit different from the normal. What really made this for me though was the design, largely on animatronics and prosthetics than cgi, of the ghost characters. The production of the whole film looked pretty good for the budget. It reminded me a lot of Thirteen Ghosts. Hopefully there is scope for a sequel.....or two!

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Deb (14 KP) rated True Love: A Nantucket Brides Novel in Books

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Dean (6927 KP) rated The Gravedancers (2006) in Movies

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