{"id":6929,"date":"2013-08-26T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/?p=4232"},"modified":"2013-08-26T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T21:30:35","slug":"hands-of-the-ripper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6929","title":{"rendered":"Hands of the Ripper!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4233\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 302px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HandsOfTheRipper_pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4233\" title=\"HandsOfTheRipper_pic\" src=\"http:\/\/mondomark.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HandsOfTheRipper_pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"172\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">What she&#39;s about to do with knitting needles I&#39;d like to do to the bug in my throat. Boo!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Okay: so it\u2019s the last week of August, it\u2019s still summer,  and yet I have a wintry ailment. A sore throat that inhibits the consumption of  nothing more than cream of wheat in baby-sized globs, and maybe ice cream  (which I don\u2019t have, but technically can make, perhaps with a special  cinnamon\u2013Chloraseptic fashion flavour for the current situation).<\/p>\n<p>The good news is the pounding headache from yesterday has  subsided, which means I was able to throw out the incoherent review for  Twilight Time\u2019s <strong>Body Double<\/strong> and redo  the thing before sending it off for an upcoming Rue Morgue issue. Took 6 hours  to edit and rewrite 3 small paragraphs Sunday, and took about an hour to redo  the thing sans headache. (All I remember from yesterday were long periods of  staring at the screen, with my brain droning a kind of \u2018uhnnnnn\u2019.)<\/p>\n<p>Still sick and eating minimally, but there is this wad of  reviews that has to get uploaded, so between rest periods I\u2019m doing quick edits  and posting the lot. Any related Editor\u2019s Blog will be brief, if not  perfunctory.<\/p>\n<p>First up is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/h\/4099_HandsOfTheRipper.htm\">Hands of the  Ripper<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6910\">M<\/a>] (1971) from  Synapse Films on Blu. Surprisingly solid nonsense with a great cast. Yes, it\u2019s  billed as one of Hammer\u2019s goriest productions, but knitting needle incident  aside, it\u2019s not that shocking. Big plus for film music fans is the inclusion of  an isolated music &amp; effects track with Christopher Gunning\u2019s score.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Sasdy\u2019s direction is also solid, and he seems to have  been among the last of Hammer\u2019s directors to have remained with the studio  during its final years, directing several episodes of Hammer&#8217;s last two TV series. I reviewed <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/h\/4043_HammerHouseOfHorror.htm\">Hammer  House of Horror<\/a><\/strong> [<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=6064\">M<\/a>] (also  from Synapse) a while back, and am working my way through their last production  before a long period of stasis \u2013 the uneven but sometimes effective <strong>Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense<\/strong> \/  aka <strong>Fox Mystery Theater <\/strong>from 1984.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> reviews of Tom Hank\u2019s double-header of 1993 \u2013 <strong>Philadelphia<\/strong> and <strong>Sleepless in Seattle<\/strong> on Blu from  Twilight Time.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>,  Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com <\/strong>(  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/Main_Index_Page.htm\">Main Site<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php\">Mobile Site<\/a> )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of Synapse&#8217;s new Blu-ray \/ DVD combo edition of Hammer&#8217;s bloodiest film, Hands of the Ripper (1971).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-1NL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}