- Mon Aug 23, 2021 2:20 pm
#142757
Okay, time for a new thread for you fucken nerds. A place to testify your love of something across multiple media...
Any combo of the four, with at least three - sadly I'm kicking this off with an incomplete set since I no longer have my 2-disc Belgian DVD (still the only way to get the 'Director's Cut' in any form I think?)
MALPERTUIS
The novel - Jean Ray (Belgium, 1943)
The film - Harry Kumel (Dutch, 1971)
The poster - Unknown Artist (Belgium, 1971)
The soundtrack - Georges Delerue (Pascal Bertrand Music, 1979)
Malpertuis is a Belgian Gothic-Surrealist novel with shades of Lovecraft, about strange happenings within the walls of the titular stone mansion. It's amazing, with a terrifying finale, I have the English language Atlas edition from 1998. The film (aka 'The Legend of Doom House', amongst others...) is one of my all time favourite European surrealist/horror films - I promise you won't have seen anything quite like it. Bizarre, enchanting, camp, and ultimately genuinely shocking with it's final twists, like a strange Giallo haunted house fever dream by a really arty filmmaker (Harry Kumel, of Les Levres Rouges - this guy knows art!) With a late-period Orson Welles performance as the master of the house, who never leaves his bed. (This might seem an interesting director choice, but believe me - it was all Welles' doing as he insisted he didn't want to 'move around'. From what Kumel says, he was an absolute 'joy' to work with haha!) The wonderful soundtrack is by Georges Delerue, who never wrote a single uninteresting piece of music, he was incapable. Old school genre film score wizardry. Wish I could tell you who painted the fab original Belgian mini-poster, but I can't find the info.
Watch the film! Check out the score! Read the damn book! :D
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Any combo of the four, with at least three - sadly I'm kicking this off with an incomplete set since I no longer have my 2-disc Belgian DVD (still the only way to get the 'Director's Cut' in any form I think?)
MALPERTUIS
The novel - Jean Ray (Belgium, 1943)
The film - Harry Kumel (Dutch, 1971)
The poster - Unknown Artist (Belgium, 1971)
The soundtrack - Georges Delerue (Pascal Bertrand Music, 1979)
Malpertuis is a Belgian Gothic-Surrealist novel with shades of Lovecraft, about strange happenings within the walls of the titular stone mansion. It's amazing, with a terrifying finale, I have the English language Atlas edition from 1998. The film (aka 'The Legend of Doom House', amongst others...) is one of my all time favourite European surrealist/horror films - I promise you won't have seen anything quite like it. Bizarre, enchanting, camp, and ultimately genuinely shocking with it's final twists, like a strange Giallo haunted house fever dream by a really arty filmmaker (Harry Kumel, of Les Levres Rouges - this guy knows art!) With a late-period Orson Welles performance as the master of the house, who never leaves his bed. (This might seem an interesting director choice, but believe me - it was all Welles' doing as he insisted he didn't want to 'move around'. From what Kumel says, he was an absolute 'joy' to work with haha!) The wonderful soundtrack is by Georges Delerue, who never wrote a single uninteresting piece of music, he was incapable. Old school genre film score wizardry. Wish I could tell you who painted the fab original Belgian mini-poster, but I can't find the info.
Watch the film! Check out the score! Read the damn book! :D
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