The Haunted Castle
Georges Méliès’ “The Haunted Castle,” showing that you can do a lot more in three minutes in 1896 than you can in two hours over two episodes of a James Herbert adaptation in 2012. I’m looking at you Crickley.
James Herbert has had a bit of a bad run with adaptations. I don’t think anyone has ever made a good film or TV adaptation of one of his books. One of my favorites, The Survivor, was turned into a terrible film and one of my other favorites, The Spear, has never been tackled when I’ve always thought it would make a terrific film.
On the other hand, if no one is really up for getting some really great scriptwriters and directors to tackle one of his stories then perhaps we’re just better off reading the books.
Brian H
November 21, 2012 at 10:38 amThought the Spear was good too. Interested in the occult roots of Nazism. I’ve got this book if you’re interested, excellent read: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Unholy-Alliance-History-Involvement-Occult/dp/0826414095/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1353493984&sr=1-6
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Julian
November 22, 2012 at 2:38 pmThanks I’ll check it out.