with so many changes in the movie
such as
The child being called "peggy" in the movie and Fluer in the book
Rex arriving in England by airoplane at the beginning of the movie where the start of book has him already arrived and having dinner..
etc etc
does the film do justice to the book?
Do people still read Dennis Wheatley? I didn't think his books were even in print anymore.
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I have had the book ( and audio book) from my local Library.The book does have quite a lot of references, that do not appear in the film, the book does seem to drag on a lot with the "chase",. towards the end.
I belive the book ( and audio version) can be brought from.
www.amazon.co.uk
Dennis Wheatley was out of print for a while but he was reprinted a year or two back.
It is many years since I read it, but if I recall it was quite accurate and is a good book.
Cant find them in stores and yeah i think theyre out of print but you can find old used ones online.. the only problem is if you order one you'll start getting crazy e-mails reguarding "your interests in the occult"
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denniswheatley.info will tell you all about that.
For me, his account of the outbreak of the Great War aka WW1 "The Second Seal" is one of the great historical novels of all time. Timely, too, as we observe the centennial of that disaster. Check it out.
Unrepentant Nazis? Are you reading the same book as me? In the Wheatley novels DeRicheleu is French and Rex is American. Also, their friend Simon Aron is JEWISH! I think you have a bit of an agenda and you are reading far too much into what is really just a good, exciting novel.
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I guess it's because the Duque (EDIT) stole gold that Spanish Republicans were after?
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Toned down a bit the film was i mainly remembered a trip to France where the group met a city type who was invloved with The coven.
shareI read the book recently..the coven at the end when they went to look for Peggy (Fleur) was in greece and they flew over there in Rex's aeroplane
shareIt is very close, especially for the time. There are a few changes and some events happen in the book are not in the same order to the events in the films.
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From memory of the film and the book which I read 40 years ago (sheesh !), I do remember that the entity in the room appears as a giant spider in the film but in the book I think it was a big shapeshifting, blobby thing. Am I right ?
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The climax is also slightly different. After the Angel of Death is summoned, the climax takes place within their minds and everything is solved when they wake up. But the film has the climax actually happening and then time just resetting itself.
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The actual point of the novel is quite different from the film. In the book, Mocata is trying to get hold of the 'Talisman of Set' which is supposed to be the actual phallus of Osiris, who was supposedly a human pharaoh. All of the Satanists activities and rituals, including the kidnapping of Simon are directed towards this end. They need the Talisman of Set for a ritual of high magic which will not only give Mocata power but will also release the four horsemen of the apocalypse. The previous time that the Talisman of Set was used brought about World War I and the Russian Revolution. If Mocata gets hold of it, it is inferred that there will be another great confrontation, (the book was written before the Second World War). Moccata also needs Tanith for the ritual, but when she dies in the place of De Richleu Moccata decides to try to get her back by sacrificing Fleur (the little girl, "Peggy" in the film). At the end of the book, Mocata has the Talisman of Set but is thwarted before he can use it. The film goes at such a pace that we never quite notice that it just a lot of mischief with no real point until the end. Oddly enough, the publicity material always showed Mocata apparently sacrificing Tanith on his alter, which is far from the point of the film, but of course, had they shown him attempting to sacrifice a little girl, which actually happened, the censors would have been down on them like a ton of talismans.
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