WE ARE ROLLING!" COMES the cry. "SFX are hot!" Why, thank you. Ah... apparently they don't mean us, but the squibs on a stuntman's chest, ready to be activated by an effects person.
A group of neatly lined-up squaddies present arms, cock their weapons, and aim at their superior officer - who stands stock-still, showing no signs of alarm. Then they all fire simultaneously. The squibs crack, perfectly timed, and he drops to the ground like a puppet that's had its strings cut.
It's 18 October 2021, and we're looking out from Shelter 9 at RAF Upper Heyford in Oxfordshire. It's a vast complex, one you could spend half an hour driving around - and on arrival, it looked like our bewildered cabbie might... In the '50s and '60s, this hangar was home to US bombers; a mural nearby celebrates the Fightin' Fifty-Fifth. Today, it's playing host to filming for a new TV version of John Wyndham's classic 1958 novel The Midwich Cuckoos.
Half an hour ago, we sat in a catering bus, observing with wry amusement as a crowd of red-eyed military extras winced and cursed as they struggled to insert jet-black contact lenses. An hour before that, we caught a brief scene featuring Keeley Hawes and Max Beesley sitting in their Land Rover, having recently arrived at the fictional Winthorpe Military Base.
Hawes's character expressed concern about tests being carried out on two children: "What are they doing in there? Why aren't we allowed in?" Then they both mysteriously slumped forward, unconscious. Piece all this together and you'll understand that it's not the children's welfare she should have been worried about...
PREGNANT PAUSE
Bu hikaye SFX dergisinin June 2022 sayısından alınmıştır.
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ANCER MAHAGEMENT
WITH A NEW TRILOGY IN SIGHT, WE SPEAK TO THE DIRECTOR OF 28 WEEKS LATER THE ORIGINAL CHILLING SEQUEL TO DANNY BOYLE'S SEMINAL SURVIVAL HORROR
WHO YA CONNA CALL?
BEHIND THE SCENES AT HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS FOR GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE
SPEAK OF THE DEVIL
THE DEVIL'S HOUR STRIKES TWICE AS THE GENREDEFYING DRAMA RETURNS
SCARRY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK
FROM THE RETURN OF EC COMICS TO SCREAM!, THIS YEAR'S HALLOWEEN OFFERS UP HORROR COMICS FOR ALL THE AGES
UNDEADS REFLECTIONS
NEIL JORDAN ON BRINGING ANNE RICE'S MODERN VAMPIRE CLASSIC TO SCREEN, 30 YEARS ON
MUNSTER MASH!
PRODUCTION HELL, SHOCK RECASTING AND HOTLY CONTESTED AUTHORSHIP. AS THE MUNSTERS CELEBRATE THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY, WE UNCOVER HOW THE SPOOKY SITCOM WAS ALMOST DEAD ON ARRIVAL
COMING TO AMERICA
THE MOGWAI LIVE THE AMERICAN DREAM IN THEIR SECOND CHAPTER, GREMLINS: THE WILD BATCH
BEING HUMAN EVOLUTION
IT MAY HAVE BEEN AN INSTANT HIT, BUT BBC THREE'S DARKLY COMIC DRAMA ABOUT A HOUSE-SHARING VAMPIRE/WEREWOLF/GHOST TRIO HAD A STRANGE JOURNEY TO THE SCREEN, SERIES CREATOR TOBY WHITHOUSE TELLS SFX
THE MAINE EVENT
THE DARK IS RISING IN SALEM'S LOT AS STEPHEN KING'S DEATHLESS TALE RETURNS TO THE SCREEN
WHY DON'T YOU STAY FOR A BITE?
THE VAMPIRE COMES HOME AS DIRECTOR EUROS LYN WELCOMES SFX TO HIS NEW DARK COMEDY THE RADLEYS