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This is terrible. Maybe some enterprising young chap could take over the property and turn it into a theme park. The potential is there. Heck, if Disney could do it, Hammer can, too. They may not have Mickey, Daffy and Goofy but they have Frankenstein, Dracula, the Mummy and many other horror icons, could have people dressed up in costumes strolling around on the studio tour, teaching, giving lectures, some background on the films made there.

All this may sound utterly insane, but so did Disneyland when the idea was first put forth. Disney had a tough time getting backers. Once the park was up and running, they were turning people away. A Hammer park would attract people from not only all over the UK and Ireland but Europe as well. They'd need to advertise, could maybe get Chris Lee to do some promos. Think of all the Americans who'd flock there, including every man jack (and jill) on the CHFB. I'll betcha you'd have to book a year in advance for their Halloween special. They could have rides, underground "fright walks" in caves and caverns, maybe a boat ride down the river Styx. All in good fun, of course.

Gee, thanks, all, for the reality check . It was a great idea while it lasted. A day, but still...



It does seem bloody unlikely that moviemaking is going to return to how it was forty or fifty years ago. Time moves ever forward. There's no going back.



True, Ted, theme parks have their dark rides but most are wholesome. There was one in the suburb I grew up in, and it was an old one, too, built as the last stop for an old trolley line, pre-World War I, the trolley gone by the time I came along. It was a family place, with "safe" rides for kiddies, such as one with mad tea party cups little ones could get into and spin around. There was one horror ride,--my fave, natch, and the one I remember best--called Davy Crockett's Nightmare (for some unfathomable reason, as Davy Crockett had nothing to do with it!). It was a horror ride on a little train that jerked around this way and that, as we were confronted by ghosts, goblins and witches, and a skeleton that popped out of nowhere. The ride was in a large wooden building that sort of hung over the Charles River, and in quieter moments one could hear the water splashing underneath. Sweet memories. But there's no going back to that, either. I do miss indie, non-Hollywood theme parks. Movies are great, but it was more fun when everything didn't reference something in the mass media, and the people who designed the parks built them from scratch, based on ideas of their own.

To return to the thread's topic: It looks pretty grim for Bray, and my sense is that there's no way the studio will be designated a national historical landmark (or whatever they call useless old buildings greedy developers want to tear down in England). We've had some really good luck in the States with such things, as many old libraries, high schools, churches various kinds of municipal buildings and the like have been saved, but as to Bray, well, it's the UK, not the U.S., and this ain't Stonehenge or Stratford we're talkin' about, so my guess is that this ain't gonna happen.