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I watched the 2000 British-Irish movie Borstal Boy on DVD last night.
Borstal refers to a type of youth detention centre for boys that existed in Britain from the Victorian era until 1982.
As Wikipedia says:
The regimen in these institutions was designed to be "educational rather than punitive", but it was highly regulated, with a focus on routine, discipline and authority. Borstal institutions were designed to offer education, regular work and discipline, though one commentator has claimed that "more often than not they were breeding grounds for bullies and psychopaths." Some uncorroborated anecdotal evidence exists of unofficial brutality, both by staff towards the inmates and between inmates – though possibly no more than is the case for the prison system as a whole.
Borstal Boy is the true story of teenage Irishman Brendan Behan. The movie is set in 1941 when Behan was an IRA volunteer. Behan sails from Ireland over to war-torn England on a bombing mission in Liverpool with a bomb hidden under his trouser leg. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned for three years in a Borstal in East Anglia, eastern England (although the entire movie was filmed in Ireland). At Borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he perceives as "the enemy" - the English.
He was brought up to hate the English but, whilst in an English Borstal, he unexpectedly takes a liking to, and befriends, several of the English lads in there, especially a young, gay Cockney sailor named Charlie Milwall. In fact, Brendan and Charlie - despite the fact that they are supposed to be enemies, with one being a member of the IRA and the other being a member of His Majesty's Armed Forces - actually fall in love with each other.
Shawn Hatosy as Brendan Behan (right) and Danny Dyer as Charlie Milwall (centre) in the true story Borstal Boy, about an IRA member who befriends English inmates - even falling in love with one of them - in an English Borstal during WWII
These friendships with people who he perceived as the enemy reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing.
Eventually a couple of tragedies happen to three of his friends - including to his sailor friend Charlie, who is freed from the Borstal to fight in the War - and Brendan is thrown into a complete spin. In the emotional vortex, he finally faces up to the truth - that he must move away from violence.
Borstal Boy is a true story and is based on Brendan Behan's 1958 autobiography of the same name. Behan - who became a playwright, a poet and a novelist - died in Dublin from alcohol abuse at the age of 41 on 20th March 1964.
The movie's stars include Shawn Hatosy as Brendan Behan and Danny Dyer as Charlie Milwall.
The real Brendan Behan
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Here's another show that people should watch: Goodnight Sweetheart. I've got every episode on DVD.
It is a British time travel comedy series that ran for six series on BBC1 between 1993 and 1999. It starred Nicholas Lyndhurst (an actor who shuns the limelight, one who never appears in the papers falling out of a London nightclub at 2am), who's most famous role was playing Rodney Trotter in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003).
In Goodnight Sweetheart Lyndhurst plays a disillusioned TV repairman by the name of Gary Sparrow, in a drab marriage with his ambitious wife Yvonne (Michelle Holmes; later replaced by Emma Amos), and best friends with Ron (Victor McGuire), a printer whose marriage is on the brink of breakdown. In the very first episode, whilst on a TV repair call-out in East London, Gary gets lost, wanders down an alleyway - and suddenly discovers that he has somehow travelled back in time 53 years to 1940. The alleyway contains a time portal which only he can use which, whenever he walks down the alleyway, sends him back to the exact same spot as the time portal - the alleyway - but always 53 years previously to the very day.
When he first arrives in 1940 he walks into the Royal Oak pub to ask for directions. There he meets Phoebe (Dervla Kirwan; later replaced by Elizabeth Carling), a pretty barmaid who works in the pub who's husband is fighting in the war, her father, and also Reg Deadman (Christopher Ettridge), a dim-witted but friendly policeman. Gary at first thinks they are having some sort of 1940s themed do - but it gradually dawns on him that he actually IS in 1940. As he's wearing green overalls and doesn't look out of place in 1940, nobody suspects anything.
Gary strikes up a friendship with Phoebe, and eventually falls in love with her, and makes repeated trips through the time portal, gradually establishing a second life for himself in the 1940s. He never tells both women in his life - Yvonne in the 1990s and Phoebe in the 1940s - that he is seeing another woman, and Phoebe, nor anyone else in the 1940s, realises he is a time traveller from the future.
In his 1940s life, he claims to be both a secret agent (aided by his knowledge of future wartime events) and a singer-songwriter, in fact passing off modern day pop songs - which he plays on the pub's piano - as his own, particularly by The Beatles (which, of course, people didn't know about in the 1940s). He impresses Phoebe by bringing her goods which are widely available in the present day, but were rationed in wartime Britain, such as chocolate, bacon, and nylons and they begin a romance.
Throughout the series, Gary flits between both time periods, struggling to balance his two lives and keep Yvonne and Phoebe happy, getting tangled in webs of lies and deceit as he invents cover stories to explain away his constant absences to both. Most episodes centre on a dilemma for Gary caused by his dual life, often having to choose between letting Yvonne or Phoebe down. Gary's printer friend Ron is the only other character who knows of his double life - he helps Gary by printing 1940s five pound notes and ID documents for him - and it is to him who Gary usually turns when in a predicament, even if helping him is to Ron's detriment.
Here's the first ten minutes of the very first episode from 1993, where Gary discovers the time portal to 1940:
GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART: Series 1, Episode 1 (Part 1 of 3) - YouTube
It is a British time travel comedy series that ran for six series on BBC1 between 1993 and 1999. It starred Nicholas Lyndhurst (an actor who shuns the limelight, one who never appears in the papers falling out of a London nightclub at 2am), who's most famous role was playing Rodney Trotter in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses (1981-2003).
In Goodnight Sweetheart Lyndhurst plays a disillusioned TV repairman by the name of Gary Sparrow, in a drab marriage with his ambitious wife Yvonne (Michelle Holmes; later replaced by Emma Amos), and best friends with Ron (Victor McGuire), a printer whose marriage is on the brink of breakdown. In the very first episode, whilst on a TV repair call-out in East London, Gary gets lost, wanders down an alleyway - and suddenly discovers that he has somehow travelled back in time 53 years to 1940. The alleyway contains a time portal which only he can use which, whenever he walks down the alleyway, sends him back to the exact same spot as the time portal - the alleyway - but always 53 years previously to the very day.
When he first arrives in 1940 he walks into the Royal Oak pub to ask for directions. There he meets Phoebe (Dervla Kirwan; later replaced by Elizabeth Carling), a pretty barmaid who works in the pub who's husband is fighting in the war, her father, and also Reg Deadman (Christopher Ettridge), a dim-witted but friendly policeman. Gary at first thinks they are having some sort of 1940s themed do - but it gradually dawns on him that he actually IS in 1940. As he's wearing green overalls and doesn't look out of place in 1940, nobody suspects anything.
Gary strikes up a friendship with Phoebe, and eventually falls in love with her, and makes repeated trips through the time portal, gradually establishing a second life for himself in the 1940s. He never tells both women in his life - Yvonne in the 1990s and Phoebe in the 1940s - that he is seeing another woman, and Phoebe, nor anyone else in the 1940s, realises he is a time traveller from the future.
In his 1940s life, he claims to be both a secret agent (aided by his knowledge of future wartime events) and a singer-songwriter, in fact passing off modern day pop songs - which he plays on the pub's piano - as his own, particularly by The Beatles (which, of course, people didn't know about in the 1940s). He impresses Phoebe by bringing her goods which are widely available in the present day, but were rationed in wartime Britain, such as chocolate, bacon, and nylons and they begin a romance.
Throughout the series, Gary flits between both time periods, struggling to balance his two lives and keep Yvonne and Phoebe happy, getting tangled in webs of lies and deceit as he invents cover stories to explain away his constant absences to both. Most episodes centre on a dilemma for Gary caused by his dual life, often having to choose between letting Yvonne or Phoebe down. Gary's printer friend Ron is the only other character who knows of his double life - he helps Gary by printing 1940s five pound notes and ID documents for him - and it is to him who Gary usually turns when in a predicament, even if helping him is to Ron's detriment.
Here's the first ten minutes of the very first episode from 1993, where Gary discovers the time portal to 1940:
GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART: Series 1, Episode 1 (Part 1 of 3) - YouTube
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I just watched a fairly candid documentary on the Kennedys. The narrator didn't pull any punches!
I like this scene from Goodnight Sweetheart. It is Episode 6 of Series 2 (1994). In this episode time traveller Gary has decided to fake his own suicide and disappearance in 1994 in order that he can leave his wife Yvonne and go and live permanently with Phoebe in war-torn London in 1941.
Gary and Yvonne's marriage in 1994 is struggling, so Gary decides that it's best to make Yvonne think he has committed suicide in order that he can go and live with his girlfriend Phoebe in 1941. Gary loves visiting Phoebe in 1941 and now wants to live there permanently.
But Gary soon realises that Britain in 1941 may be a good place to visit - but it's not a good place to live.
With rationing, blackouts and mines falling from the sky Gary starts to feel miserable. He also tries to get out of fire-watching duty - in which a civilian has to douse German incendiary bombs falling from the sky with buckets of sand - by pretending to have a bad leg (a ploy which doesn't work. It seems that only the dead are excused from fire-watching duty). But then it gets worse. Phoebe and Constable Deadman are angry with Gary after Gary forgets to do fire-watching duty on the roof of a highly flammable paint factory the night before, forcing Gary to finally undertake the dangerous duty which he is dreading but which he has to do in order to "do his bit" for the war effort.
After doing his fire-watching duty a shocked Gary - who decides to go back to 1994 - realises just what it was that the people of Britain had to put up with in those dark times.
GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART: Series 2, Episode 6 (Part 3 of 3) - YouTube
Gary and Yvonne's marriage in 1994 is struggling, so Gary decides that it's best to make Yvonne think he has committed suicide in order that he can go and live with his girlfriend Phoebe in 1941. Gary loves visiting Phoebe in 1941 and now wants to live there permanently.
But Gary soon realises that Britain in 1941 may be a good place to visit - but it's not a good place to live.
With rationing, blackouts and mines falling from the sky Gary starts to feel miserable. He also tries to get out of fire-watching duty - in which a civilian has to douse German incendiary bombs falling from the sky with buckets of sand - by pretending to have a bad leg (a ploy which doesn't work. It seems that only the dead are excused from fire-watching duty). But then it gets worse. Phoebe and Constable Deadman are angry with Gary after Gary forgets to do fire-watching duty on the roof of a highly flammable paint factory the night before, forcing Gary to finally undertake the dangerous duty which he is dreading but which he has to do in order to "do his bit" for the war effort.
After doing his fire-watching duty a shocked Gary - who decides to go back to 1994 - realises just what it was that the people of Britain had to put up with in those dark times.
GOODNIGHT SWEETHEART: Series 2, Episode 6 (Part 3 of 3) - YouTube
I just saw a flik called "The Wicker Tree", and frankly I was both stumped and impressed.
If you want to see Texas Evangelical mixes with British dry horror humour you should check it out.
On so many levels it's done so credible that you *will* have trouble figuring out the target audience.
If you want to see Texas Evangelical mixes with British dry horror humour you should check it out.
On so many levels it's done so credible that you *will* have trouble figuring out the target audience.
A 1990 episode of Mr Bean, where Mr Bean has to look after a boy with nausea on a plane.
On a Plane with Mr Bean - YouTube
On a Plane with Mr Bean - YouTube
Mr Bean on a train with an annoying laughing man:
Mr. Bean - On a Train - YouTube
Mr Bean packing for his holidays:
Mr Bean - Packing for holiday - YouTube
Mr Bean has problems with his new television:
Mr Bean - TV Aerial -- Mr Bean - Fernsehausstrahlung - YouTube
Mr. Bean - On a Train - YouTube
Mr Bean packing for his holidays:
Mr Bean - Packing for holiday - YouTube
Mr Bean has problems with his new television:
Mr Bean - TV Aerial -- Mr Bean - Fernsehausstrahlung - YouTube
Here's a new British comedy series that looks good.
Chickens - written by and starring Inbetweeners star Simon Bird, and starring Jonny Sweet and Bird's fellow Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas - is a comedy about three young men who avoid combat in the First World War: George is a conscientious objector; Cecil would love to be fighting for King and Country but his flat feet mean the army won't have him - and then there's Bert, a philandering scaredy cat on the run.
In the eyes of their neighbours they're all the same: Chickens. So in a world of (quite sexy) women, children and the infirm these twenty-something chaps have only each other for company - and nothing else in common.
The women of the village are bound to treat them with the contempt they deserve - any man worth their salt should be doing their duty for the war effort abroad. But with pretty much every other man away, can George, Cecil and Bert claw themselves back into the good books of the ladies on the home front?
Chickens is a sitcom about three young guys in a woman's world, trying to prove their manhood. Every day they live in fear of being labelled as cowards - an argument they've already lost in the mere act of still being in England.
This started out as a Channel 4 Comedy Showcase pilot but switched to Sky for the series.
Our Review: As was the case with war-set sitcoms such as Dad's Army and 'Allo 'Allo! before it, concerns were raised regarding the pilot of Chickens and its depiction of the war and its weighty issues. However, as in all those cases, such worries are unwarranted; Chickens deals with the grave issues of war both respectfully and sensitively so as to make a clear distinction between the brave fighting men of Britain, their families, and the various non-combatants left at home.
What resulted was a highly pleasing piece. This pilot was not without faults - notably, some of the dialogue jars as especially anachronistic, and Jonny Sweet's character seems just a little too objectionable - but it provided a good helping of laughs and showed much promise.
"What war?"
"The war! The WORLD war!"
"I'm not in the army. I have a moral opposition to the slaughter."
Woman to one of the chickems: "If you're really keen to help you'd have killed yourself to raise morale!"
Chickens - Meet The Chickens - YouTube
Chickens | Anyone for Crow? | Comedy Showcase on 4 - YouTube
Chickens | Dead Man's Wife | Comedy Showcase on 4 - YouTube
Chickens | Water in War | Comedy Showcase on 4 - YouTube
Chickens - Sky1 / C4 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide
Chickens - written by and starring Inbetweeners star Simon Bird, and starring Jonny Sweet and Bird's fellow Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas - is a comedy about three young men who avoid combat in the First World War: George is a conscientious objector; Cecil would love to be fighting for King and Country but his flat feet mean the army won't have him - and then there's Bert, a philandering scaredy cat on the run.
In the eyes of their neighbours they're all the same: Chickens. So in a world of (quite sexy) women, children and the infirm these twenty-something chaps have only each other for company - and nothing else in common.
The women of the village are bound to treat them with the contempt they deserve - any man worth their salt should be doing their duty for the war effort abroad. But with pretty much every other man away, can George, Cecil and Bert claw themselves back into the good books of the ladies on the home front?
Chickens is a sitcom about three young guys in a woman's world, trying to prove their manhood. Every day they live in fear of being labelled as cowards - an argument they've already lost in the mere act of still being in England.
This started out as a Channel 4 Comedy Showcase pilot but switched to Sky for the series.
Our Review: As was the case with war-set sitcoms such as Dad's Army and 'Allo 'Allo! before it, concerns were raised regarding the pilot of Chickens and its depiction of the war and its weighty issues. However, as in all those cases, such worries are unwarranted; Chickens deals with the grave issues of war both respectfully and sensitively so as to make a clear distinction between the brave fighting men of Britain, their families, and the various non-combatants left at home.
What resulted was a highly pleasing piece. This pilot was not without faults - notably, some of the dialogue jars as especially anachronistic, and Jonny Sweet's character seems just a little too objectionable - but it provided a good helping of laughs and showed much promise.
"What war?"
"The war! The WORLD war!"
"I'm not in the army. I have a moral opposition to the slaughter."
Woman to one of the chickems: "If you're really keen to help you'd have killed yourself to raise morale!"
Chickens - Meet The Chickens - YouTube
Chickens | Anyone for Crow? | Comedy Showcase on 4 - YouTube
Chickens | Dead Man's Wife | Comedy Showcase on 4 - YouTube
Chickens | Water in War | Comedy Showcase on 4 - YouTube
Chickens - Sky1 / C4 Sitcom - British Comedy Guide
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I've seen the ads for that "Chickens" series. Strange that nobody (so far) has called it reverse sexist.
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Am watching/listening to Steeleye Span:
Steeleye Span - Cold, haily, windy night - YouTube
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Am watching/listening to Steeleye Span:
Steeleye Span - Cold, haily, windy night - YouTube
"The White Bus" [1967] by Lindsay Anderson - script by Shelagh Delaney of "A Taste of Honey" fame.
highly surreal & metaphysical
highly surreal & metaphysical
Last night I watched a new Russian/American movie called The Dyatlov Pass Incident, which is based on the real-life and mysterious events of February 1959 of the same name.
The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to the mysterious, bizarre deaths of nine young Russian ski hikers - three men and two women in their early Twenties Igor Alekseievich Dyatlov (Игорь Алексеевич Дятлов), the group's leader, born January 13, 1936; Zinaida Alekseevna Kolmogorova (Зинаида Алексеевна Колмогорова), born January 12, 1937; Ludmila Alexandrovna Dubinina (Людмила Александровна Дубинина), born May 12, 1938; Alexander Sergeievich Kolevatov (Александр Сергеевич Колеватов), born November 16, 1934; Rustem Vladimirovich Slobodin (Рустем Владимирович Слободин), born January 11, 1936; Yuri (Georgiy) Alexeievich Krivonischenko (Юрий (Георгий) Алексеевич Кривонищенко), born February 7, 1935; Yuri Nikolaievich Doroshenko (Юрий Николаевич Дорошенко), born January 29, 1938; Nicolai Vladimirovich Thibeaux-Brignolles (Николай Владимирович Тибо-Бриньоль), born July 5, 1935; Semyon (Alexander) Alexandrovich Zolotariov (Семен (Александр) Александрович Золотарёв), born February 2, 1921; Yuri Yefimovich Yudin (Юрий - in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат-Сяхыл) (a Mansi name, meaning Dead Mountain due to lack of game, not "Mountain of the Dead" as some suggest). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов).
On February 26, the searchers found the abandoned and badly damaged tent on Kholat Syakhl. Mikhail Sharavin, the student who found the tent, said “the tent was half torn down and covered with snow. It was empty, and all the group’s belongings and shoes had been left behind.”Investigators said the tent had been cut open from inside. A chain of eight or nine sets of footprints, left by several people who were wearing socks, a single shoe and barefoot, could be followed and led down toward the edge of nearby woods (on the opposite side of the pass, 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north-east), but after 500 metres (1,600 ft) they were covered with snow. At the forest edge, under a large old cedar, the searchers found the remains of a fire, along with the first two bodies, those of Yuri Krivonischenko and Yuri Doroshenko, shoeless and dressed only in their underwear. The branches on the tree were broken up to five meters high, suggesting that a skier had climbed up to look for something, perhaps the camp. Between the cedar and the camp the searchers found three more corpses, Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova and Rustem Slobodin, who seemed to have died in poses suggesting that they were attempting to return to the tent.They were found separately at distances of 300, 480 and 630 meters from the tree.
Searching for the remaining four travelers took more than two months. They were finally found on May 4 under four meters of snow in a ravine 75 meters farther into the woods from the cedar tree. These four were better dressed than the others, and there were signs that those who had died first had apparently relinquished their clothes to the others. Zolotaryov was wearing Dubinina’s faux fur coat and hat, while Dubinina’s foot was wrapped in a piece of Krivonishenko’s wool pants.
The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation. Soviet investigators simply determined that "a compelling natural force" had caused the deaths.Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident.The chronology of the incident remains unclear because of the lack of survivors.
Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within with knives (the tent door were still buttoned close), departing barefoot into heavy snow and a temperature of −22 °F. Although the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.
A legal inquest started immediately after finding the first five bodies. A medical examination found no injuries which might have led to their deaths, and it was concluded that they had all died of hypothermia. Slobodin had a small crack in his skull, but it was not thought to be a fatal wound.
An examination of the four bodies which were found in May changed the picture. Three of them had fatal injuries: the body of Thibeaux-Brignolles had major skull damage, and both Dubinina and Zolotarev had major chest fractures. According to Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny, the force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high. He compared it to the force of a car crash. Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure. Dubinina was found to be missing her tongue.There had initially been some speculation that the indigenous Mansi people might have attacked and murdered the group for encroaching upon their lands, but investigation indicated that the nature of their deaths did not support this thesis; the hikers' footprints alone were visible, and they showed no sign of hand-to-hand struggle
What what is that so terrified them, causing them to slash their way out of the tents and run in freezing temperatures in bare feet? Theories range from an avalanche although the area isn't known for avalanches) to aliens (strange orange lights were seen in the seen in the week leading up to the incident) and even that the nine were attacked by a yeti.
In fact, those nine deaths were not the only deaths in the area. Nine people of the local Mansi tribe also died in mysterious circumstances some time before, and nine people were killed in a plane crash. All the incidents involved nine deaths.
Now onto the movie. The movie, a found-footage movie iof the genre started in 1999 by The Blair Witch Project, is about five young American friends - four of whom are actually played by British actors - who aim to go in the footsteps of the original doomed skiers with the help of a couple of guides. The students even get to meet the one survivor of the original expedition in a mental hospital (in the real-life incident one young man pulled out of the expedition near its start), but – surprise, surprise – pay no heed to the grim warnings.
With the snowy mountainous locations adding to the sense of tension, a mysterious bunker is found at Dyatalov Pass and some tasty creature action is added to the already chilling horror brew.
The ending of the movie is the director's theory of what may have happened to those kids on 2nd February 1959.
MOVIE PICTURES
REAL LIFE PICTURES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
What killed the nine young hikers in the vast Russian wilderness in February 1959? The Soviet military? Aliens? Were they attacked by a yeti? A centuries-old horror legend in the Urals speaks of a fearsome zolotaya baba — a ‘golden woman’ — lurking in the area.
Eerie: The tent as the rescuers found it on February 26, 1959, which had been cut open from inside. What were they running from?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...berias-Death-Mountain-1959.html#ixzz2dIBUcQam
The Dyatlov Pass incident refers to the mysterious, bizarre deaths of nine young Russian ski hikers - three men and two women in their early Twenties Igor Alekseievich Dyatlov (Игорь Алексеевич Дятлов), the group's leader, born January 13, 1936; Zinaida Alekseevna Kolmogorova (Зинаида Алексеевна Колмогорова), born January 12, 1937; Ludmila Alexandrovna Dubinina (Людмила Александровна Дубинина), born May 12, 1938; Alexander Sergeievich Kolevatov (Александр Сергеевич Колеватов), born November 16, 1934; Rustem Vladimirovich Slobodin (Рустем Владимирович Слободин), born January 11, 1936; Yuri (Georgiy) Alexeievich Krivonischenko (Юрий (Георгий) Алексеевич Кривонищенко), born February 7, 1935; Yuri Nikolaievich Doroshenko (Юрий Николаевич Дорошенко), born January 29, 1938; Nicolai Vladimirovich Thibeaux-Brignolles (Николай Владимирович Тибо-Бриньоль), born July 5, 1935; Semyon (Alexander) Alexandrovich Zolotariov (Семен (Александр) Александрович Золотарёв), born February 2, 1921; Yuri Yefimovich Yudin (Юрий - in the northern Ural mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened on the east shoulder of the mountain Kholat Syakhl (Холат-Сяхыл) (a Mansi name, meaning Dead Mountain due to lack of game, not "Mountain of the Dead" as some suggest). The mountain pass where the incident occurred has since been named Dyatlov Pass (Перевал Дятлова) after the group's leader, Igor Dyatlov (Игорь Дятлов).
On February 26, the searchers found the abandoned and badly damaged tent on Kholat Syakhl. Mikhail Sharavin, the student who found the tent, said “the tent was half torn down and covered with snow. It was empty, and all the group’s belongings and shoes had been left behind.”Investigators said the tent had been cut open from inside. A chain of eight or nine sets of footprints, left by several people who were wearing socks, a single shoe and barefoot, could be followed and led down toward the edge of nearby woods (on the opposite side of the pass, 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) north-east), but after 500 metres (1,600 ft) they were covered with snow. At the forest edge, under a large old cedar, the searchers found the remains of a fire, along with the first two bodies, those of Yuri Krivonischenko and Yuri Doroshenko, shoeless and dressed only in their underwear. The branches on the tree were broken up to five meters high, suggesting that a skier had climbed up to look for something, perhaps the camp. Between the cedar and the camp the searchers found three more corpses, Dyatlov, Zina Kolmogorova and Rustem Slobodin, who seemed to have died in poses suggesting that they were attempting to return to the tent.They were found separately at distances of 300, 480 and 630 meters from the tree.
Searching for the remaining four travelers took more than two months. They were finally found on May 4 under four meters of snow in a ravine 75 meters farther into the woods from the cedar tree. These four were better dressed than the others, and there were signs that those who had died first had apparently relinquished their clothes to the others. Zolotaryov was wearing Dubinina’s faux fur coat and hat, while Dubinina’s foot was wrapped in a piece of Krivonishenko’s wool pants.
The lack of eyewitnesses has inspired much speculation. Soviet investigators simply determined that "a compelling natural force" had caused the deaths.Access to the area was barred for skiers and other adventurers for three years after the incident.The chronology of the incident remains unclear because of the lack of survivors.
Investigators at the time determined that the hikers tore open their tent from within with knives (the tent door were still buttoned close), departing barefoot into heavy snow and a temperature of −22 °F. Although the corpses showed no signs of struggle, two victims had fractured skulls, two had broken ribs, and one was missing her tongue.
A legal inquest started immediately after finding the first five bodies. A medical examination found no injuries which might have led to their deaths, and it was concluded that they had all died of hypothermia. Slobodin had a small crack in his skull, but it was not thought to be a fatal wound.
An examination of the four bodies which were found in May changed the picture. Three of them had fatal injuries: the body of Thibeaux-Brignolles had major skull damage, and both Dubinina and Zolotarev had major chest fractures. According to Dr. Boris Vozrozhdenny, the force required to cause such damage would have been extremely high. He compared it to the force of a car crash. Notably, the bodies had no external wounds, as if they were crippled by a high level of pressure. Dubinina was found to be missing her tongue.There had initially been some speculation that the indigenous Mansi people might have attacked and murdered the group for encroaching upon their lands, but investigation indicated that the nature of their deaths did not support this thesis; the hikers' footprints alone were visible, and they showed no sign of hand-to-hand struggle
What what is that so terrified them, causing them to slash their way out of the tents and run in freezing temperatures in bare feet? Theories range from an avalanche although the area isn't known for avalanches) to aliens (strange orange lights were seen in the seen in the week leading up to the incident) and even that the nine were attacked by a yeti.
In fact, those nine deaths were not the only deaths in the area. Nine people of the local Mansi tribe also died in mysterious circumstances some time before, and nine people were killed in a plane crash. All the incidents involved nine deaths.
Now onto the movie. The movie, a found-footage movie iof the genre started in 1999 by The Blair Witch Project, is about five young American friends - four of whom are actually played by British actors - who aim to go in the footsteps of the original doomed skiers with the help of a couple of guides. The students even get to meet the one survivor of the original expedition in a mental hospital (in the real-life incident one young man pulled out of the expedition near its start), but – surprise, surprise – pay no heed to the grim warnings.
With the snowy mountainous locations adding to the sense of tension, a mysterious bunker is found at Dyatalov Pass and some tasty creature action is added to the already chilling horror brew.
The ending of the movie is the director's theory of what may have happened to those kids on 2nd February 1959.
MOVIE PICTURES
REAL LIFE PICTURES OF THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCES
What killed the nine young hikers in the vast Russian wilderness in February 1959? The Soviet military? Aliens? Were they attacked by a yeti? A centuries-old horror legend in the Urals speaks of a fearsome zolotaya baba — a ‘golden woman’ — lurking in the area.
Eerie: The tent as the rescuers found it on February 26, 1959, which had been cut open from inside. What were they running from?
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...berias-Death-Mountain-1959.html#ixzz2dIBUcQam
"Hillsborough" (1996) by Jimmy McGovern - British tv movie about the tragedy and the government cover up of the role played by the police culprits
"Hillsborough" (1996) by Jimmy McGovern - British tv movie about the tragedy and the government cover up of the role played by the police culprits
I've seen that. It's usually shown on TV every 15th April, the anniversary of the disaster which killed 96 people in 1989.
Last night I watched another movie, Sawney: Flesh of Man.
This 2012 British movie is based on the old Scottish legend of Sawney Bean. According to that legend a man named Sawney Bean, who was born in East Lothian in south eastern Scotland in the 1500s, left home and met a vicious woman. The two moved to a cave in South Ayrshire on the coast of western Scotland. The cave was 200 yards deep and during high tide the entrance was blocked by water.
The couple eventually produced eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons and fourteen granddaughters. Various children and grandchildren were products of incest. Lacking the inclination for regular labour, the clan thrived by laying careful ambushes at night to rob and murder individuals or small groups. The bodies were brought back to the cave where they were dismembered and cannibalised. Leftovers were pickled, and discarded body parts would sometimes wash up on nearby beaches.
The body parts and disappearances did not go unnoticed by the local villagers, but the Beans stayed in the caves by day and took their victims at night. The clan was so secretive that the villagers were not aware of the murderers living nearby.
It was not long before King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) heard of the atrocities and decided to lead a manhunt with a team of 400 men and several bloodhounds. They soon found the Beans' previously overlooked cave in Bennane Head. The cave was scattered with human remains, having been the scene of many murders and cannibalistic acts.
The clan was captured alive and taken in chains to the Tolbooth Jail in Edinburgh, then transferred to Leith or Glasgow where they were promptly executed without trial; the men had their genitalia cut off, hands and feet severed and were allowed to bleed to death; the women and children, after watching the men die, were burned alive.
Now onto the movie Sawney: Flesh of Man.
This movie is set in the present day. In this movie a member of the Sawney family managed to escape execution back in the Sixteenth Century and his descendant is alive and well today.
The modern Sawney (played by Scottish actor David Hayman starring in his first horror movie) drives around Scotland in a devilish black cab (the black cab has the letters HMP on its number plates, which is ironic when you consider that HMP also stands for Her Majesty's Prison) looking for his victims, which he drags into the black cab and then drives them to his lair in the cold, foggy, dreary Highlands, where they are brutally raped, tortured and cannibalised. His insane family of inbred killers, Judd and Jake, use their agility to wreak slaughter and havoc among their victims. Sawney with his skillful surgical blade removes the appetizing pieces of human flesh for dinner before feeding the remains to a chained BEAST in the cellar named Mother. The Missing Persons list is beginning to rise!
Investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald (Samuel Feeney) writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. Frustrated police inspector Bill Munro (Gavin Mitchell) is under great pressure to catch the serial killers but is hindered by Hamish who is constantly giving him bad press.
Hamish eventually finds the Sawneys' lair..... and soon regrets it.
If you are not one for seeing plenty of gore and body parts then this movie is not for you. And you may want to look away at the shocking bit where a male victim - a traffic warden (so some would say he got his just desserts) - is imprisoned in a set of stocks where he is brutally buggered before getting his head hacked off, with several blows needed to sever it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TIXJWoESiOQ
This 2012 British movie is based on the old Scottish legend of Sawney Bean. According to that legend a man named Sawney Bean, who was born in East Lothian in south eastern Scotland in the 1500s, left home and met a vicious woman. The two moved to a cave in South Ayrshire on the coast of western Scotland. The cave was 200 yards deep and during high tide the entrance was blocked by water.
The couple eventually produced eight sons, six daughters, eighteen grandsons and fourteen granddaughters. Various children and grandchildren were products of incest. Lacking the inclination for regular labour, the clan thrived by laying careful ambushes at night to rob and murder individuals or small groups. The bodies were brought back to the cave where they were dismembered and cannibalised. Leftovers were pickled, and discarded body parts would sometimes wash up on nearby beaches.
The body parts and disappearances did not go unnoticed by the local villagers, but the Beans stayed in the caves by day and took their victims at night. The clan was so secretive that the villagers were not aware of the murderers living nearby.
It was not long before King James VI of Scotland (later James I of England) heard of the atrocities and decided to lead a manhunt with a team of 400 men and several bloodhounds. They soon found the Beans' previously overlooked cave in Bennane Head. The cave was scattered with human remains, having been the scene of many murders and cannibalistic acts.
The clan was captured alive and taken in chains to the Tolbooth Jail in Edinburgh, then transferred to Leith or Glasgow where they were promptly executed without trial; the men had their genitalia cut off, hands and feet severed and were allowed to bleed to death; the women and children, after watching the men die, were burned alive.
Now onto the movie Sawney: Flesh of Man.
This movie is set in the present day. In this movie a member of the Sawney family managed to escape execution back in the Sixteenth Century and his descendant is alive and well today.
The modern Sawney (played by Scottish actor David Hayman starring in his first horror movie) drives around Scotland in a devilish black cab (the black cab has the letters HMP on its number plates, which is ironic when you consider that HMP also stands for Her Majesty's Prison) looking for his victims, which he drags into the black cab and then drives them to his lair in the cold, foggy, dreary Highlands, where they are brutally raped, tortured and cannibalised. His insane family of inbred killers, Judd and Jake, use their agility to wreak slaughter and havoc among their victims. Sawney with his skillful surgical blade removes the appetizing pieces of human flesh for dinner before feeding the remains to a chained BEAST in the cellar named Mother. The Missing Persons list is beginning to rise!
Investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald (Samuel Feeney) writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. Frustrated police inspector Bill Munro (Gavin Mitchell) is under great pressure to catch the serial killers but is hindered by Hamish who is constantly giving him bad press.
Hamish eventually finds the Sawneys' lair..... and soon regrets it.
If you are not one for seeing plenty of gore and body parts then this movie is not for you. And you may want to look away at the shocking bit where a male victim - a traffic warden (so some would say he got his just desserts) - is imprisoned in a set of stocks where he is brutally buggered before getting his head hacked off, with several blows needed to sever it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TIXJWoESiOQ
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I just start watching the entire stare trek shows and movies starting with enterprise which takes place 100 before Captain James Kirk. currently in season 4. will watch the original series next