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Aldbury is a popular location for films and television. Among film and television series scenes filmed in the village are: Film: 1947: Jassy (the last production by Gainsborough Pictures) 1967: The Dirty Dozen (the scene at the beginning of the training exercise) [25] 1969: Crossplot (last scene) 1979: The Shillingbury Blowers (film) starring ...
The 1969 Michael Caine film Play Dirty follows a similar theme of convicts recruited as soldiers. The 1977 Italian war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari, The Inglorious Bastards, is a loose remake of The Dirty Dozen. [37] Quentin Tarantino's 2009 Inglourious Basterds was derived from the English-language title of the Castellari film. [38] [39]
Stocks House and the village of Aldbury have been a popular choice for location shooting for music, film and television productions. In 1967 the house was used for an episode of the popular television serial The Avengers entitled "Murdersville". [15] [16] Some shots in the music video for the 1982 song "Our House" by Madness were filmed at ...
TV Tropes was founded in 2004 by a programmer under the pseudonym "Fast Eddie." He described himself as having become interested in the conventions of genre fiction while studying at MIT in the 1970s and after browsing Internet forums in the 1990s. [17]
Threads is a 1984 British apocalyptic war drama television film jointly produced by the BBC, Nine Network and Western-World Television Inc. Written by Barry Hines and directed and produced by Mick Jackson, it is a dramatic account of nuclear war and its effects in Britain, specifically on the city of Sheffield in Northern England.
Saturday Morning Mystery (originally released as Saturday Morning Massacre) is a 2012 independent horror film by Spencer Parsons that premiered at the 2012 Los Angeles Film Festival. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The movie is a dark parody/spoof of the Scooby-Doo cartoon series. [ 3 ]
Chillerama is a 2011 American horror comedy anthology film consisting of four stories (or segments) that take place at a drive-in theater playing monster movies. Each segment is a homage to a different genre and style. The first is "Wadzilla" and was directed and written by Adam Rifkin spoofing 1950s monster movies.
American International Pictures released the film in July 1959 as a double feature with Diary of a High School Bride. The film spoofed the 1950s monster and drag racing films of AIP, and has been regarded as a forerunner of the 1960s Beach Party films. Spoofs like this film helped bring a close to AIP's 1950s low-budget horror film genre. [2]