{"id":104440,"date":"2016-04-21T01:50:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/21\/gloriascott93-isitandwonder-i-just\/"},"modified":"2016-04-21T01:50:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T01:50:35","slug":"gloriascott93-isitandwonder-i-just","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/21\/gloriascott93-isitandwonder-i-just\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gloriascott93.tumblr.com\/post\/143059196101\" target=\"_blank\">gloriascott93<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/isitandwonder.tumblr.com\/post\/142735244561\" target=\"_blank\">isitandwonder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I just watched\u00a0\u2018Horror Europa\u2019, a documentary by Mark Gatiss made in 2012 for BBC4. You can watch it on youtube if you are so inclined:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/t.umblr.com\/redirect?z=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DbrEzdZnoMzY&amp;t=MzJmN2ZlOWVlODkzY2M5ZDI1NzZhZWEzODFjMjZkMzVkYTY1YzNhMix6U2dCaFo0bQ%3D%3D\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brEzdZnoMzY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, MG talks about the history of European horror films and lists his favourites. One is by the legendary Italian horror director Dario Argento. It\u2019s called\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><i>The Bird with the Crystal Plumage<\/i> (Italian: <i>L&#8217;uccello dalle piume di cristallo<\/i>), made in 1970. In the documentary, there\u2019s one specific scene MG emphasises:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/98ec22e4d10bfa410fa3d5edcde052f5\/tumblr_inline_o5kmgoFhep1ttsfm2_540.png\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Watch the documentary or the original film to get the context (the man is a helpless witness to a brutal murder).<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me heavily of these shots from THoB (Henry Knight\u2019s conservatory):<\/p>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/fd20bbe8553156475de65ee7e2572762\/tumblr_inline_o5kmikLQZc1ttsfm2_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/16e3789b5c23bed545b90e831476c1fe\/tumblr_inline_o5kmjylGiN1ttsfm2_540.jpg\" class=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>When I remember the THoB commentary correctly, MG even crouched behind that counter, directing Tovey in this scene.<\/p>\n<p>I think the visual parallels are striking. Quoting Argento in the most scary episode of Sherlock is a nice touch (and a tiny bit geeky\u2026)<\/p>\n<p>Always learn from the best!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh this a brilliant catch. \ud83d\udc4f\ud83d\udc4d\ud83e\udd13<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gloriascott93: isitandwonder: I just watched\u00a0\u2018Horror Europa\u2019, a documentary by Mark Gatiss made in 2012 for BBC4. You can watch it on youtube if you are so inclined:\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brEzdZnoMzY Anyway, MG talks about the history of European horror films and lists his favourites. One is by the legendary Italian horror director Dario Argento. It\u2019s called\u00a0 The Bird &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/21\/gloriascott93-isitandwonder-i-just\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[12899,12898,252,15,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}