Lenard (726 KP) rated Fantasy Island (2020) in Movies
Feb 24, 2020
Diamonds At Dinner: My Life as a Lady's Maid in a 1930s Stately Home.
Hilda Newman and Tim Tate
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The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of...
Cuba: 101 Beautiful and Nostalgic Places to Visit
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At a time when more travelers are discovering or rediscovering Cuba, this book is an in-depth...
The Alphabet of Birds
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If death comes to a loved one, can we grieve alone? When all around is in ruins, can we confine our...
The Japanese Lover
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From internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende comes an exquisitely crafted,...
Three Daughters of Eve
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Read our exclusive author interview Set across Istanbul and Oxford, from the 1980s to the...
Lee KM Pallatina (951 KP) rated The Haunting of Hill House in TV
Oct 15, 2020
NETFLIX as usual has given us a great horror story just in time for Halloween, haunting of hill house is a diamond in the dark that follows a group of distant siblings who are troubled and haunted by their childhood.
A brilliant offering with some very strong "the shining" vibes that were very welcome.
Dark, intense and deep with common issues.
After the death of one of their own, the siblings are forced to reach out and come face to face with each other....and their estranged father.
With storys of past, present & future dangerously entwined and nightmares clawing their way back in, time, trust & understanding may be their only means of surviving.
Although some parts seemed to drag a little, it more than made up for it with sub plot explaining and some great cliffhangers.
The show is an adaption of the Shirley Jackson novel of the same name from 1959.
It is definitely something I will watch again and something I'd like to see more of.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Haunted Palace (1963) in Movies
Dec 15, 2020
The plot: Condemned warlock Joseph Curwen (Vincent Price) curses a New England village just before being burned alive. More than a century later, Curwen's kindly great-great grandson Charles Ward (also Price) arrives in town and moves into Curwen's old mansion. Caretaker Simon Orne (Lon Chaney Jr.) helps Charles and his wife Ann (Debra Paget) adjust to their new home. The ancient curse, however, takes hold of Joseph, awakening inside him a long-dormant evil passed on through blood.
Its a decent film.
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Haunting (1963) in Movies
Oct 4, 2019
The Plot: Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor (Julie Harris), a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora (Claire Bloom), who has ESP, join John and the mansion's heir, cynical Luke (Russ Tamblyn). They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.
From the great novel- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson.
In 2010, The Guardian newspaper ranked it as the 13th-best horror film of all time. Director Martin Scorsese has placed The Haunting first on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time.
The film was remade in 1999 by director Jan de Bont, starring Liam Neeson, Lili Taylor, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Owen Wilson, but that version was heavily panned by critics and audiences. Dont watch that film, but instead watch this masterpiece.
I would highly reccordmend this movie.
