It took me *years* to get round to it, but yes. I was surprised how *relatively* accomplished it is (I didn't realise Bava shot most of the new stuff), I think I always assumed it was essentially the same film with a few snippets of badly plonked in sleaze. It's still terrible, mind...

One heck of a cut to credits...

I like Horror Express, though my go-to Eugenio Martin flick is A Candle for the Devil 👌...

It's one of my favourite cinematic tropes: a protagonist who may or may not be dead/dreaming/concussed drifting around an uncanny unfamiliar environment. I'm thinking Carnival of Souls, Footprints on the Moon, The Driver's Seat, The House with Laughing Windows, Symptoms...

Back on Bava-geddon, I revisited the dream logic strangeness of Lisa and the Devil (1973). Might be my favourite Bava flick, I love the Lewis Carol rabbit hole plotting, and Telly Savalas is clearly having a ball. Elke Sommar lost in the labyrinthine deserted backstreets of Toledo: perfezione 👌...

Thanking you..!

I have a very vague memory of it, I think I mostly found it boring. An interesting exercise in wasting money, though..!

Flashback to Morgan Creek making the same film twice with two different directors, ooft, cursed franchise...

Blumhouse scrabbling around trying to recoup that $400 million they spent on the rights to the franchise...

The bookshop is bangin'...

One particular Blackpool holiday in the late 90s when I was desperate to win a Scream mask on the grabber machines. The particular PVC/rubber scent of them is another permanently imprinted sense memory...

He's going wild in the aisles at the moment isn't he..!

I do actually quite like the smell of pipe tobacco despite being aggressively anti-smoking...

Jean-Michel Jarre's Oxygène, Pt. 4 on the radio. It always immediately transports me back to childhood Blackpool holidays, the song blasting out on a loop from the Sea Life Centre on the windy promenade...

Cheers Jay..!

'Seems' indeed. You've gotta factor in the year-round dread of being a freelancer in the arts sector. But yeah on balance I guess I shouldn't complain...

(And because I'm now firmly in my 40s I also received some extremely comfortable slippers and socks with bats on)...

Perhaps it's a copyright thing, Blatty's director's cut of III retains his Legion title...