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Post by slayrrr666 on Apr 23, 2013 10:34:21 GMT -5
RIP to those killed in Boston, Jess Franco, Roger Ebert and Sarita Montiel.
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 1, 2013 10:40:48 GMT -5
RIP to singer/actress Deanna Durbin.
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 3, 2013 10:52:07 GMT -5
RIP to Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman.
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 8, 2013 10:29:35 GMT -5
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Post by slayrrr666 on May 21, 2013 10:24:13 GMT -5
RIP to Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jun 20, 2013 10:30:28 GMT -5
RIP to James Gandolfini.
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Post by Fenril on Jun 25, 2013 0:32:09 GMT -5
RIP to Richard Matheson. This one came as quite the surprise to me, through it seems he had been ill for a while.
He was quite important to modern horror, sci-fi and fantasy, both because of his prose and for the many movie and tv adaptations of his work.
For example:
Movies adapted from his work: The omega man; The last man on earth; The legend of hell house; Somewhere in time; What dreams may come; Stir of echoes...
TV: Several classic Twilight zone episodes, such as "Nightmare at 4,000 ft.", "Steel", "Little girl lost", and "The invaders". Also assorted episodes of "Night gallery", "Alfred Hitchcock presents"...
Tv movies: Trilogy of terror (Karen Black and that infamous Zuni fetish doll!); The stranger within; Duel; The night stalker (The origin of Kolchak!)...
Written works: All the source material for the above works, plus short stories and novels like "Haunted past reason", "Crickets", "Lemmings", "From dark places", "The shores of space"...
A good portion of his work hasn't aged well. Moreover, several of his short stories had a rather misogynist tone (more accurately, they display an intense fear of women, which Matheson would admit to and reject later in life), not to mention ocassional racism (again, he did try to make up for it in latter years, and even started including all sorts of minorities in his work). He also came to reject his fame as an horror author in latter years, going so far as to claim that horror fiction is "bad for the soul" (yet agreed to have all of his horror work bought back to print because of self-admitted greed. Make of that what you will).
Nevertheless he was quite a legend, or at least a very important piece of genre fiction history.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jun 26, 2013 10:41:30 GMT -5
RIP to Richard Matheson.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jul 15, 2013 11:15:24 GMT -5
RIP to actor Cory Monteith.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Jul 23, 2013 11:02:13 GMT -5
RIP to Dennis Farina.
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Post by slayrrr666 on Aug 9, 2013 10:34:34 GMT -5
RIP to actress Karen Black.
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Post by Fenril on Aug 9, 2013 12:50:43 GMT -5
RIP to Karen Black --I especially remember her from "Trilogy of terror" and "Burnt offerings" --not to mention her fine work outside of the genre, such as in "Day of the locust" and "The great Gatsby".
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Post by Fenril on Aug 16, 2013 20:42:31 GMT -5
RIP to Polish (briefly naturalized Mexican) author (writer, playwright and comic book scripter) Sławomir Mrożek. I especially liked his short story collection "Trudne życie" ("Harsh life", or at least that's what I think the title means; I only read the spanish translation).
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Post by slayrrr666 on Aug 21, 2013 10:26:09 GMT -5
RIPs to writer Elmore Leonard and director Ted Post.
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Post by Fenril on Sept 25, 2013 14:43:02 GMT -5
RIP to Gary Brandner; pulp horror writer mainly remembered for his novel "The howling" --adapted into a seminal werewolf movie and recognized by Richard Laymon as the reason he himself never dealt with werewolves ("It could never be as good as this!"). I only read "Floater" by Brandner, and to be frank it wasn't very good. Still, he was a notable contributor to modern horror fiction.
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