Is it Worth Buying?

[Susan Foreman]

Bit different here

I'm not asking is it worth buying - I'm asking is it worth watching

Let me explain...

I have got (and watched) Downton Abbey series 1 - 4, plus the specials ('Christmas At Downton Abbey', 'A Journey To The Highlands', 'The London Season'). I have not seen series 5 and 6 or the associated specials ('A Moorland Holiday', 'The Finale')

What I want to know is...can I watch 'Downton Abbey: The Movie' as a standalone film, or do I need to have seen all the previous episodes to get the best from it?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Susan Foreman

Bit different here

I'm not asking is it worth buying - I'm asking is it worth watching

Let me explain...

I have got (and watched) Downton Abbey series 1 - 4, plus the specials ('Christmas At Downton Abbey', 'A Journey To The Highlands', 'The London Season'). I have not seen series 5 and 6 or the associated specials ('A Moorland Holiday', 'The Finale')

What I want to know is...can I watch 'Downton Abbey: The Movie' as a standalone film, or do I need to have seen all the previous episodes to get the best from it?

You definitely need to have seen the series first.

[nicholasrope]

Is Running On Empty any good?

It's just been released on Blu Ray and I've seen the trailer.

My impressions are to wait for it to be in a sale and whilst it's not an evening type of film, it could be a decent film for the afternoon?

[Justin101]

The Legacy - Indicator Films?

Never seen it before, but it's the start of a new sale at Powerhouse and I was going to get Torture Garden so thought i'd add a few more

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Justin101

The Legacy - Indicator Films?

Never seen it before, but it's the start of a new sale at Powerhouse and I was going to get Torture Garden so thought i'd add a few more

I really like The Legacy. It's on my list to get this sale...yes, along with Torture Garden.

It's a bit of an old dark house mystery with some memorable murders along the way then ends up creatively weird.

Here's what i said in March 2018.

The Legacy (1978)

Architects, Katherine Ross and Sam Elliott, are stranded at an old English manor house following a road accident. It soon transpires they were expected visitors and are soon joined by the likes of Charles Gray and Roger Daltrey among others as it turns out the house is owned by a wealthy but dying man (John Standing) and the six guests are there for a very sinister reason.

A late entry into the time honored old dark house horror genre. The longer the film goes on the more convoluted and ridiculous it becomes as well as the more entertaining. Following a stodgy opening the story evolves and we have a monstrous creature in the attic, a satanic coven as well as the reincarnation of a long dead witch.

The cast are great and the whole thing is slickly directed by Richard Marquand (who would later go on to direct Return of the Jedi.) and has some delicious death scenes including Gray engulfed in flames, Daltrey dying from a gory tracheotomy and Marianne Broome drowning in the indoor pool - probably the films most memorable sequence. The final third has enough tension and WTF? moments to make it eminently watchable and thoroughly enjoyable.

[Justin101]

sounds like it's worth a go, thanks!

[Dave Boy]

I really like The Legacy. I still have the DVD. I never picked the Blu ray up on release because if I remember rightly there were issues reported. Was it freezing issues?

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Originally Posted by Dave Boy

I really like The Legacy. I still have the DVD. I never picked the Blu ray up on release because if I remember rightly there were issues reported. Was it freezing issues?

I trust the issues have been fixed for the standard release?

[Justin101]

Just had a look on the bluray forum post about it, Indicator were replacing faulty copies with newly pressed ones, didn't seem to be a problem with the encode but the manufacturing of the first batch of discs. They got more made.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

Anyone seen House of Gucci and did you enjoy it?