{"id":578,"date":"2015-10-26T05:19:13","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T05:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=578"},"modified":"2015-10-26T05:19:13","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T05:19:13","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-tormented-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;Tormented&#8221; (1960)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Pay no mind to that vibrator-shaped lighthouse. What do you want? I had to sandwich it between so much text I couldn\u2019t help slimming it just so! A jazz pianist faces blackmail from the \u201csecond rate singer\u201d he was dating after dumping her for his rich fianc\u00e9e, so he lets her fall to her death when she accidentally stumbles thru an abandoned lighthouse railing! As payback she haunts the hell outta his tell-tale heart for the rest of the film trying to make him crack! Off kilter surrealism of special effects gets downright <em>David Lynchian<\/em>! The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2011 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201c<em>Mis<\/em>give Up The Ghost!\u201d As always; the original art\u2019s for sale @ 100 bucks. More deets below or contact me for info. (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tormented.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-579 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tormented-668x1024.jpg\" alt=\"tormented\" width=\"627\" height=\"961\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tormented-668x1024.jpg 668w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tormented-196x300.jpg 196w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/tormented.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a><\/span>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HALLOWEEN COUNTDOWN! Pay no mind to that vibrator-shaped lighthouse. What do you want? I had to sandwich it between so much text I couldn\u2019t help slimming it just so! A jazz pianist faces blackmail from the \u201csecond rate singer\u201d he was dating after dumping her for his rich fianc\u00e9e, so he lets her fall to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}