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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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I have a true classic to post this evening when I get home :)
Although no score because it's never been released :(

It is a Belgian classic.... that I have never read... nor seen the movie. I will fix that! (the movie part that is :-) )

I’m sure everyone here will have some variation on this, but I've always particularly loved this Drew Struzan alternate poster artwork that appears here on the paperback movie tie-in of DADoES?.

i'll have to consider which of these i want to do this for...

zuko wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 2:55 pm I’m sure everyone here will have some variation on this, but I've always particularly loved this Drew Struzan alternate poster artwork that appears here on the paperback movie tie-in of DADoES?.


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Agreed about that DS art Zuko. I kinda wish he had done this version as a print run a few years ago, instead of the alt treatment.

The Keep

Fantastic @static! That’s how it’s done. Please refrain from throwing down CDs in future though ;)

static14 wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 7:25 pmThe Keep

I’m not home at the moment but I’ll see your keep collection and raise you the board game, comic book adaptation, and a signed first edition of the novel. Pics to come :)

@Hatter can't wait to see that! :)

Like I said no score exists but figured this would be a fun one to share.

Creepshow

inksb wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:53 pm Like I said no score exists but figured this would be a fun one to share.

Slugs, so good! This film rocked my world one Saturday afternoon all those years ago. My mom thought I had lost my mind.

deafmetal wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 10:53 pm

inksb wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:53 pm Like I said no score exists but figured this would be a fun one to share.

Slugs, so good! This film rocked my world one Saturday afternoon all those years ago. My mom thought I had lost my mind.

Such an incredibly fun film. It was actually filmed a little over an hour from where I grew up. I showed my wife the film when the bluray came out and she loved it so much. The poster, VHS and book are actually hers.

Can’t find the comic or the vhs right now, but heres the board game which was a crazy find a few years ago. It’s all intact too haha. The simple cover edition is part of a full signed set of Wilson’s adversary cycle from borderlands press, and that first edition is signed to me from a convention several years back. Who knows where the wax came from…just one of those things

ScoJo wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 5:38 pm Agreed about that DS art Zuko. I kinda wish he had done this version as a print run a few years ago, instead of the alt treatment.

Yeah, I know the one you mean. I think there’s also *another* variation on this one too, where Pris is different.

Hatter313 wrote: ↑Thu Aug 26, 2021 12:48 am Can’t find the comic or the vhs right now, but heres the board game which was a crazy find a few years ago. It’s all intact too haha. The simple cover edition is part of a full signed set of Wilson’s adversary cycle from borderlands press, and that first edition is signed to me from a convention several years back. Who knows where the wax came from…just one of those things

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For some reason I had always assumed that the RPG was an internet joke... and now I'm slightly flustered finding out it was a real thing. I almost... don't know what to do with that information now. Insane.

Beautiful spread there anyway Hatter!

inksb wrote: ↑Wed Aug 25, 2021 9:53 pm Like I said no score exists but figured this would be a fun one to share.

Haha! That's... amazing.

No poster, and I selected only the most recent 4k release rather than the multiple formats I’ve owned this thing on home video, but I humbly submit the original premiere program in lieu of a one sheet. 3 issue comic adaptation as well.

lovely stuff @Hatter! How's the Dune 4k? My copy isn't gonna get here until next week.

Literally just opened the package! Probably going to watch it this weekend but I expect arrow has done a lovely job as usual. Long live the fighters!

I should have known you would fully embrace the spirit of this new thread, @Hatter! :D

I have so many of these Things, just picked a few that were handy.

Hellraiser