Various fannish things

[thisbluespirit]

1. Commentfest with a fairy tale/fae theme spotted around and about: November Nymphs & Nixies.


2. I have my Yuletide assignment and it's a nice one, so fingers crossed, I can do something with it! (I haven't yet, though.)


3. In my Dracula giffing, I have now achieved Dracula (1958), although most of the gifs are still pending in my queue or hanging about in my drafts over at tumblr. In the meantime, have a Peter Cushing or two:






And not to be unfair, have a bonus Christopher Lee:






4. I also did these gifs from Spiders (2000) an SFF/Horror film starring a young Lana Parrilla as UFO-obsessed college reporter Marci Eyre. It promised to be terrible in exactly the right enjoyable way and it was. I would say have some gifs of a young, geeky Lana vs a giant mutant spider from space, but I'm sorry, I edited out the spider. I have priorities. They don't have eight legs.







I especially liked how both Lana and the hero kept losing clothes as it progressed. Personally I would have chosen not to shed layers while running from giant venomous spiders, although in the hero's case, I suppose it isn't his fault if his shirt evaporates on contact with water. (I mean, I'd have thought that was a serious design flaw even in California, but each to their own.)

Also some admirably terrible SFX spider-rampaging at the end. Oh, and Villain/Alien Spider was totally canon; that was quite impressive in its own special way. Marci is totally ruthless as a reporter, though. Even Lynda Day would have let the story wait if she'd got two of her best friends killed, but it wasn't the kind of film where you want to worry about logic much.


Other than that, I've been pretty tired and had an appointment, hence gifs. Tragically no James Maxwell ones, though. This year is very short on James Maxwell and it's an unfair thing, but OTOH, it had Lana vs a Giant Spider, so I suppose that is something.

Comments

[strange_complex]

Excellent giffing! It never ceases to amuse me how, no matter how many times he tucks that coat around Tanya, it still just slips straight back off again. Perfect choice of Christopher Lee gif, too ❤️

[thisbluespirit]

The gif will never let the coat stay! :-D

I am not at all sure how I would rate my Draculas as yet (apart from the 1968 obv. still being my favourite - bring me all the stagey telly!) but certainly I think Christopher Lee is a strong contender for best Count Dracula. And possibly No #1 Cape Wearer of All Time.

[theseatheseatheopensea]

Excellent gifs! And good luck with Yuletide writing! *sends inspiration vibes*

[thisbluespirit]

Thank you! ♥

[vilakins]

Lana Parrilla almost makes me want to watch that: she looks as if she's having a great time.

[thisbluespirit]

Ha, well, she is the main character. It was pretty bad, but I found it the right kind of so bad you can have fun with it, especially for a fave actor. It was fun to see her so young as well! (It wanted to be really gruesome, but its SFX have dated and even as a wimpish horror viewer, it made me laugh at how hard it was trying!)

[liadt]

Cute 'Dracula' gifs (and not so cute gif!):D

I like Lana's nail varnishes:D

Oh and I've seen 'The Traitors' now (just about) and it wasn't half as hard to spot Jack May as I expected! I also watched 'Cone of Silence' which didn't have as much Peter Cushing as I'd like.

I hope you are feeling a little better today *hugs*

[thisbluespirit]

It's always important to sort out your nail varnish before offing giant mutant spiders!

Oh and I've seen 'The Traitors' now (just about) and it wasn't half as hard to spot Jack May as I expected!

It's a lot easier when you know he's in it! Although why it still took me a while after that I don't know. I was very ill. And distracted by James Maxwell. Also the picture was very blurry. But yes, I will not be getting the Old Telly Actor Spotting Badge any time soon. I am a fail.

I don't know why I like that film so much! (I mean, obv., it has plenty of JM, but so do other things I don't like for themselves as well). I think it is just all low key and quite thoughtful and ironic and short, like Spooks 1962 or something. Best bit though is obv. when Anton Rodgers has trouble with the betting shop cover!!

Also the part when they make James Maxwell go in the grim 1960s local swimming pool, and there should def. be some Ellis/Lane slash. With paper aeroplanes.

(I'm feeling quite a bit better now you gave me an excuse to talk about James Maxwell!!)

[liadt]

The swimming pool was the best bit:D Chuck those chairs! And life before 24 hr gyms. Patrick Allen's boss was rubbish asking why spies would meet up in a cinema, because it's dark, fool(!)! Obv he should've retired. And the knowledge that commie pinko spies are all become alcoholics when they go over to the red side, explains why they were no match for PA and co.

Aw <3

[thisbluespirit]

The boss was no good at all, except for causing paper folding.

The swimming pool was the best bit:D Chuck those chairs!

Action!JM is very rare, but he's always quite fun when he happens.

[singe]

One of my favorite Draculas! Thank you.

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, my pleasure!

[scripsi]

Christopher Lee was my first Dracula. I still find his version menacing, even if the movers are not...

[thisbluespirit]

He is an excellent Dracula. *nods*

[fh14]

God now I'm just thinking of all the gifs and fanart I've compiled on my tumblr blog for the movie "Elfie Hopkins", which is easily one of the worst movies I've ever seen, both writing and production-wise... but it has Aneurin Barnard as it's co-lead.

I wish Lana Parrilla was in more stuff in general. She was really strong in Once Upon a time and I hope she shows up in something again soon.

[thisbluespirit]

Oh, watching terrible things for good people is a particular joy and pain all its own! *sits down beside you in commiseration* I like a lot of people from elderly Brit telly, and that can be *ahem* interesting. One time there was this film where aliens were abducting girls by hanging out in Soho and advertising for their victims in Bikini Girl and then for some reason someone tried to colourise the film, but only half-heartedly and literally did not colour in anybody's hair! That was the highest low point yet. :-D

I'm sure Lana will be in something else, but OTOH Regina allowed her to be so many different things in one in a way that's unlikely to happen again.

[fh14]

God that sounds... like a very specific artistic choice lmao. The choice not to colorize the hair is the most baffling to me. You'd think that'd be much easier than colorizing skin tone.

The only other thing I really know Lana's been is is a one-and-done show from 2008 from Swingtown, but it's not part of any streaming service so I'd have to buy it from Amazon or iTunes and I don't know if I wanna spend the money on a show that got cancelled and I don't know is any good. :/

[thisbluespirit]

I have pics here. It was amazingly bad. (The colourisation, that is. The film was just bad. Although amusingly it started off like a dry run of Spearhead from Space while the villain was totally the Master. Just the rest of it was full of things the Brigadier would Not Be Having With and quite right too.)

I've been looking at Lana's IMBD and managed to record a TV movie called Mistaken or The Double Life of Eleanor Kendall, which was fairly slow but top notch on Lana content. Other than that, it's mostly things that aren't even available here and which I probably wouldn't want to watch her in anyway. I've got Boomtown S1 and Swingtown actually does look quite interesting (Lana, at any rate, was being very enthusiastic about it in an interview I saw recently) but was more expensive!

[a_phoenixdragon]

OMG!!!! She was so CUTE in that movie! What?? *Claps hands in delight!*

And who can say no to some Peter Cushing? Not me!

*HUGS*

[thisbluespirit]

Yes, it was only 2000 so she was still pretty young! :-D

♥