ART SHRECKO

This 1946 art deco illustration of a sprawling Moonbase by Alexander Leydenfrost is just stunning.

It appeared in Colliers magazine

It reminds me completely of that other art deco monolith, the vertical movie house in House on Haunted Hill 1999.

Does anyone know this location?

There is something intrinsically gothic about art deco piles. Brutal, towering, they do give me the creeps. You?

XTRO SPECIAL: ALIEN FARM

 I've always liked the 1982 British horror flick XTRO, a cheapo alien spree set in the English countryside.

It got caught up in the Video Nasty furore in the late 80's, so be warned, its certainly not for the squeamish!

Besides the appearance of a life-size Action Man, featured before here, I did some digging into the location.

The early scenes are set in this lovely big house near a river and it always struck me as quite idyllic, the quintessentially English rustic backdrop for the gruesome terrors that unfold.

A little image searching of this house took me to this, Stockers Farm in Rickmansworth near London.

image: historic

Although looking slightly different, there are enough points of similarity to make me pretty sure its the same house.

Checking up on Stockers Farm, turns out its a well-known London rustic location according to IMDB. 

Strangely their list does not include XTRO!

I wonder why?

What do you think?

The Music Box Steps: Laurel and Hardy's Location

Hi Woodsy,
While looking up Bronson Cave location (the Bat Cave) last month, I came across another short video by same the team, this time on the location of the steps used in the classic Laurel and Hardy short The Music Box (1932). 

In this they had to carry a piano up a very long flight of steps. The clip shows the steps as they are today, with a lot more foliage along the sides - when Laurel and Hardy filmed at the site it was much more open. 

Part of the Oddity Odysseys series, which looks interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsjQ8YTXXPE

Yours Sincerely,
Paul Adams from New Zealand

A CHRISTMAS WARNING TO THE CURIOUS: THE TV PLAY LOCATIONS

This is an interesting video travelogue of the locations on the Norfolk coast for the 1972 UK TV M.R.James' Ghost Story for Christmas A Warning to the Curious. It was done by BookoftheDead on You Tube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1fNHbPKtv8

I did something similar but less specific a few years ago when I was in Norfolk with Missus Moonbase. It was fun to do though and quite creepy!

FINDING SINBAD

This is fun, a fellow blogger's visits to locations from the film The 7th Voyage of Sinbad!

How cool is that!

http://thecinescapader.blogspot.com/2016/04/visiting-filming-locations-of-7th.html

Have you been to any of these or any other film locations readers?

DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS 54 YEARS AGO

Its Beltane and its still Walpurgis Nacht so here's a great BFI article about two of my fave Hammer horrors, Dracula Prince of Darkness, starring Captain Scarlet and Captain Brown no less and the Plague of the Zombies, Cornish horror at its best starring no less than Servalan.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/killer-double-bill-turns-50-plague-zombies-dracula-prince-darkness

HOWLING FOR HALLOWEEN

I love horror movie locations.

Check out the locations of the Howling and get ready for Halloween. 

I found a few myself over the years as well as props but here's a site that lists loads of locations in the werewolf flick.

Enjoy. Grrrrr!

http://www.thennowmovielocations.com/2015/01/the-howling.html