"Visitor From The Grave"
A superb little scene from 1980's
'Hammer House of Horror' (which should have some amongst you humming Dum-Dum-Dum-Dum-Da-Da already) this episode was entitled
"Visitor From The Grave". It's one of those times where you just have to applaud the film-makers as they've really made an effort to smash stereotypes, dispense with cliche-ridden formulas and fully address pernicious attitudes of bigotry and discrimination towards anything that falls outside the scope of normal everyday experience.
So, do we have;
A mysterious looking woman dressed in 'gypsy' attire seated at a velvet-clothed table? Well, yes we do.
Is she speaking in a (very) dodgy attempt at an Eastern European accent? Yep again.
Does the death card make an appearance for no apparent reason? Oh, it's bang in the middle of the shot.
Is there a nice closing shot panning slowly in on the Devil while creepy music plays? Well of course there is.
Does the lady say "The cards never lie"? Disappointingly no, but she does say
"I have seen it all in the future" so I think we can give half a tick for that.
By now you are probably thinking
"Well this is all very interesting, and extremely well-written - but what deck are they using?" Given what's gone before you would be forgiven for thinking it's an RWS or a Grimaud etc - but you'd be wrong, you'd be so wrong! I don't remember this deck ever making any other on screen appearance, so to celebrate this fact let's have an amazingly exciting competition.
These are three stills from the scene shown below;
If you can name the deck (and are first to post the correct answer) after only picture then you are the winner and may download and print out the badly photo-shopped
"Expert Tarot Identifier" badge from here;
If it takes you two pictures then you have a consolation prize of the full version of the great theme tune from
'Hammer House of Horror' here;
If it takes you three pictures then you need to spend more time with your nose in some extremely large and heavy tarot books, but there is still hope.
If you are one of these people (and you know who you are) who after looking at all three pictures, then waits for somebody to post the right answer, before exclaiming
"Oh yeah - I thought it might be that, I was just about to say that". Then you are quite frankly fooling nobody - and if it later transpires that you downloaded a badly photo-shopped
"Expert Tarot Identifier" badge and have been wearing it whilst doing the shopping at Tescos, then there will be repercussions, oh yes indeed, repercussions there will be.