the continuity’s having the night off tonight, as are the regular features/series. though i might run the next strange paradise after 7pm just to see how it stacks up with this marathon.
the usual anthology roulette material was getting a little stale/repetitious, so i thought that something i’m probably never going to find a slot for in the schedules for and “speed run” some of it.
Christopher Lee’s Theatre Macabre
Recommended from a friend and Leodensian Goth/Schlock culture connoisseur as follows:
“The dramas themselves appear to show Polish theatre and TV at the time as stuck in a tradition of Stanislavskian realism so rigid that it’s almost like hallucinating – as if a Russian theatre troop from the 1910s had been left doing a constant production on a desert island, until they can only walk in straight lines
This Polish TV equivalent of ‘Tales Of The Unexpected’, topped & taled by Christopher Lee, has dozens of episodes but absolutely none of them land – all running the gamut from trite to downright incomprehensible. The Lee segments often bear absolutely no relation to the stories themselves, seemingly based on the original stories rather than the rather loose adaptations on the show,…
