RSS Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 It's all about body parts this week as Darryll and Desmond watch the original Pang Brothers film, The Eye. Then Desmond smells, I mean, reviews Jeff Strand's novella The Severed Nose. Check out Movies About Girls at www.moviesaboutgirls.com, and make sure to vote for Dread Media in the Earth-2.net Mainpage Awards. Or I'll cut your nose off! Tunes include: "Electric Eye" by Judas Priest, "Caught My Eye" by Danzig, "Nosebleed" by the Deftones, and "Witchdoctor" by Clutch. [ 1:08:52 || 31.7 MB ] The above is from: http://www.earth-2.net/podcasts/dreadmedia/episodes/dreadmedia_124.mp3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Gah! You should have told me you were doing The Eye! That's my favorite foreign horror film! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Blame Darryll. It's easier that way. Or call in/send in an audio review as a companion piece. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Woo-hoo! More Jeff Strand talk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Woo-hoo! More Jeff Strand talk Indeed. Prepare for more in the coming months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadzilla Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 My reaction was a tad cooler, but your commentary regarding the cultural differences was spot on. I did prefer Dark Water and disliked the American version (the original was a quiet horror masterpiece worthy of Val Lewton). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Man Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 One of these days I'd like to do a Val Lewton double feature on Dread Media. Creepy. Atmospheric. Fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 It's on the docket! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 Des, have you read "The Nose" by Nikolai Gogol? If so, is Jeff Strand's novella an homage to it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 20, 2010 Report Share Posted January 20, 2010 I have not. And I do not know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeffStrand Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 The Severed Nose is not an homage to Gogol's story, but it could have been if I'd been aware of it, since they both start out with the discovery of a severed nose. Somebody asked me the same question when I first announced my book, and I pulled up the story online and immediately thought "Oh, crap! I'll never be able to claim that a story written in 1835 ripped me off!" Fortunately, the stories veer off in completely different directions. Ironically, the cover and interior illustrations of The Severed Nose feature "humanized" noses, which don't appear in the actual book (the severed nose is just a regular ol' severed nose) and would be more appropriate for Gogol's story, in which the nose can talk and move. By the way, if you don't think that 1835 Russian literature about noses can be awesome, here's an excerpt: Ivan Yakovlevitch donned a jacket over his shirt for politeness' sake, and, seating himself at the table, poured out salt, got a couple of onions ready, took a knife into his hand, assumed an air of importance, and cut the roll open. Then he glanced into the roll's middle. To his intense surprise he saw something glimmering there. He probed it cautiously with the knife — then poked at it with a finger. “Quite solid it is!” he said to himself. “What in the world is it likely to be?” He stuck in his fingers, and pulled out — a nose! .. His hands dropped to his sides for a moment. Then he rubbed his eyes hard. Then again he probed the thing. A nose! Sure enough a nose! Yes, and one familiar to him, somehow! Oh, horror spread upon his feature! Yet that horror was a trifle compared with his spouse's overmastering wrath. “You brute!” she shouted frantically. “Where have you cut off that nose? You villain, you! You drunkard! Why, I'll go and report you to the police myself. You brigand, you! I have already heard from three men that, while shaving them, your pulled their noses to the point that they could hardly stand it.” --Jeff www.JeffStrand.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted January 24, 2010 Report Share Posted January 24, 2010 Thanks for popping in to address my question, Jeff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Nice, Jeff. Welcome. Though, that excerpt is devoid of your usual wit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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