{"id":16429,"date":"2022-10-30T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-30T19:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16429"},"modified":"2022-10-30T21:45:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T01:45:37","slug":"halloween-countdown-day-30-wrapping-things-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/?p=16429","title":{"rendered":"Halloween Countdown: Day 30 \u2013 Wrapping things up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/221029\/1030.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"343\" title=\"You'd be pissed, too, if you brain had been picked out with a wire hook shoved up your nostril.\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Though the role was silent and didn&#8217;t offer much in the way of facial expression, Christopher Lee&#8217;s turn as the bandage-clad revenant in Hammer&#8217;s <em>The Mummy<\/em> is an all-time favorite of mine.  Lee&#8217;s lean but towering frame combined with skilled physical acting to perfectly portray the shambling menace of an undead powerhouse.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/img\/221029\/1030a.jpg\" width=\"590\" height=\"346\" title=\"Five millennia old, and feeling every century of it today.\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And those eyes! Dear lord, those eyes &#8212; capable of expressing the depths of rage, sorrow, and pain despite an otherwise silent and still visage. I can see why Lee wanted to get away from this type of plodding monster role, but I&#8217;m glad he took this one on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended listening:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A1T5HjXhQ2w\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though the role was silent and didn&#8217;t offer much in the way of facial expression, Christopher Lee&#8217;s turn as the bandage-clad revenant in Hammer&#8217;s The Mummy is an all-time favorite of mine. Lee&#8217;s lean but towering frame combined with skilled physical acting to perfectly portray the shambling menace of an undead powerhouse. And those eyes! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[668,15],"tags":[961,396,2843],"class_list":["post-16429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-halloween-countdown","category-music","tag-mummy","tag-my-favorite-things","tag-undead-undead-undead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16429"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16431,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16429\/revisions\/16431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armagideon-time.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}