the time just seems to fly past,
next our starters, chicken satay with a spicy mini cucumber and sliced peppers salad,
I will be so pleased when I can smile again!, denture back on Tuesday,
for our main course roast beef, with gravy for Diana sans gravy for myself,
'Cheers!',
and this was so nice,
our dessert, a hand rolled pistachio & raspberry roulade, covered in cream, delicious!, then feet up for a afternoon film, for today:
The Abominable Dr. Phibes, both Diana and myself enjoyed the comedy/horror so much when we watched it before we decided to watch it again, released in 1971, it does show it's age a tad, but great fun, below the plot from one reviewer on IMDB,
'Vincent Price plays a "dead" man avenging the surgical team that lost his wife on the operating table. Nine doctors in all (one of them a nurse) are treated to nine of the most innovative, creative, outlandish deaths imaginable. The deaths loosely follow the Ten Plagues of the Old Testament, but each with a new twist. The film is an exercise in witty, stylish black comedy seldom seen today. Price gives one of his best performances in a role that barely utilizes his greatest attribute, his voice. Price relies heavily on movement and facial expressions, and does so wonderfully. The cast is superb with British stalwarts adorning the film all over. This film rejuvenated Price's career in the 70's. It is unique, poetic, haunting, and, for me the most important, very amusing. If you lack a sense of humour with regards to the world of the macabre, you might want to stay away from Phibes. It is a very dark, black comedy, yet one that is at its heart nothing more than a tragic love story of sorts'.
some of the sets especially Dr. Phibes home are so Art Deco, a style that we really like, if you have time and have not watched it before it is a great look at the 1970s horror movie scene, after a few other programs we had a snack in the evening, and another horror,
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, 5 travellers on a train have their fortune told by a mysterious tarot card reader, each of the five see how their futures pan out, and they are not very nice! we followed that with a Midsomer Murder, as it happens one we had not watched before, after which a Have I Got A Bit More News For You, before we were off to bed.
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