Unbelievable … !

Well, finally!

Allison managed to track down the form she needed, to track that blessed Postal Order she’d sent to Rampdale, down!

Oy!

Believe it or not, she’d scootered off to a friend’s farm, near Blackmore, and stopped at the post office, there, and took a chance.

And found out they had one, there!

When the sub-post-office, here in Warley, and the one in Brentwood High Street, didn’t!

Go bloody figure!!

So, by now, she’s got it filled in, and sent off; although saying that, I noticed that she could also hand it in at any branch post-office.

Whether that means the blessed thing will get to where it’s supposed to go, I don’t know. I’m hoping so.

I’m also hoping the Post Office customer service people are reading this. I’m not going to mention “Brazil”, 1st Edition “Paranoia” or anything by Franz Kafka, but …

£70 is not small potatoes, when you’re on me and Allison’s sort of money … !

•••••

But, enough, already!

He says!

I do know that something I’ve meant to mention for a while is the much heralded — and seemingly troubled — remake of “Hellraiser”.

From what I’ve been able to pick up, Clive Barker — writer of the original short story, and director of the original film — is fully behind the idea of a remake.

But it’s been stuck in production hell, for at least a year, now.

Saying that Gary J. Tunicliffe, the effects artist who’d worked on the “Hellraiser” franchise from 1993 onwards, got inspired by the various bits of gossip going around, to have a go at a re-design.

Of a certain, rather iconic, villain.

Now, I’m hard to impress by iCandy, these days, but Tunnicliffe’s slant on Pinhead is … well …

Blimey!

The original Pinhead — played by Doug Bradley and designed by Geoff Portass — was truly nastily, evil; and had that vindictive look and feel to him, laced on top of the feel that the character would inflict pain for pain’s sake.

And thoroughly enjoy it.

And be all the more frightening for that; after all, we recognise evil and are frightened and despairing of it because we know we’re ALL capable of it.

But an old friend, Sean — owner of Georgia’s finest Games Store! — summed up the Tunnicliffe slant very well for me, as being ‘beautifully soulless’ …

And I think he’s right.

It looks, not ‘inhuman’ but soulless, and UN-human.

And all the more damned for that.