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House of the Long Shadows. House of the Long Shadows is a 1983 British comedy horror film directed by Pete Walker. It is notable for featuring four iconic horror film stars (Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine) together for the first [2] and only time. [3] The screenplay by Michael Armstrong is based on the 1913 ...
A selection of the characters from the series The Shadows House manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by the manga artist duo Somato. Living Dolls Living Dolls (生き人形, Iki Ningyō) are the servants of the Shadows, with each Shadow master having their own Doll. The Doll and their master have an identical silhouette and differ merely in their presence (or absence ...
It was used as a filming location for the 1983 feature film House of the Long Shadows, the 1997 TV remake of du Maurier's Rebecca, [9] and the 2006 Agatha Christie's Poirot episode After the Funeral. [10] Rotherfield Park was also used in the fourth season of Grantchester (2019), for the scenes around the manor house owned by the new vicar's ...
The umbra, penumbra and antumbra are three distinct parts of a shadow, created by any light source after impinging on an opaque object. Assuming no diffraction, for a collimated beam (such as a point source) of light, only the umbra is cast. These names are most often used for the shadows cast by celestial bodies, though they are sometimes used ...
Sheila Keith (9 June 1920 – 14 October 2004) was a Scottish stage and screen actress. [1] She is well-known to horror film fans for her collaborations with director Pete Walker, starring in House of Whipcord, Frightmare, House of Mortal Sin, The Comeback and House of the Long Shadows. She was once referred to as the "Female Boris Karloff ...
4 July 1939 (age 85) Brighton, Sussex, England. Occupations. Film director. screenwriter. producer. Parent. Syd Walker (father) Pete Walker (born 4 July 1939) [1][2] is an English film director, writer, and producer, specializing in horror and sexploitation films, frequently combining the two. [3][4][5]
Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1893 to 1908. [1] The elder brother (by seven years) of detective Sherlock Holmes, he is a government official and a founding member of the Diogenes Club. Mycroft is described as having abilities of deduction and knowledge exceeding even those of ...
Carcosa is a fictional city in Ambrose Bierce 's short story "An Inhabitant of Carcosa" (1886). The ancient and mysterious city is barely described and is viewed only in hindsight (after its destruction) by a character who once lived there. American writer Robert W. Chambers borrowed the name "Carcosa" for several of his short stories featured ...