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<title><![CDATA[Hammer Films Productions: Sus películas -primera parte-]]></title>
<link>http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/hammer-films-productions-sus-peliculas-primera-parte/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[    En el anterior post de la Hammer intenté, desde mi humilde punto de vista, exponer brevemente lo]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://cinefagos.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/la-hammer-sus-comienzos/">En el anterior post de la Hammer</a><strong> intenté</strong>, desde mi humilde punto de vista, <strong>exponer brevemente los inicios de la productora británica, indagando en su historia y resumiendo sus elementos más característicos</strong>.  En este post me centraré más en <strong>sus obras más significativas,</strong> o al menos las que un servidor cree que son merecedoras de  análisis. Seguro que en mi lista de films elegidos no estarán todos los que merecen estar y probablemente me deje en el tintero algunos que bajo vuestra respetable opinión deberían ser nombrados. Pero no olvidemos que la  filmografía de la Hammer es dilatadísima y aunque  tienen numerosas obras de gran calidad, y de necesario estudio también, produjeron algunos  films  muy “particulares“  dignos de interés. Ya sea por su rareza, por su escasa distribución, o  porque son poseedores de algún detalle o curiosidad  que los hacen especiales. Inevitablemente  “perderé“ por el camino alguna que otra joya  que sin duda debería ser mencionada, acepten por adelantado mis más sinceras disculpas.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Cuando hablamos de cine de terror ineludiblemente nuestro cerebro se pone a trabajar, rebuscando en nuestra memoria imágenes que han sido protagonistas de  horribles y recurrentes pesadillas</strong>. Rememorando  gritos desgarradores que atormentaron  nuestra dulce adolescencia. Ese miedo,  fiel compañero de viaje, tan omnipresente,  tan necesario y tan cautivador,  se manifiesta a lo largo de nuestra vida de varias formas. Como el miedo al fracaso, a la verdad, al silencio o a la oscuridad. <strong>Pero  hay un miedo  ancestral que incansablemente nos acompaña desde que el mundo es mundo y  que ha perseguido históricamente a la humanidad</strong>. Evidente y palpable en todas y cada una de nuestras culturas,  un miedo tan antiguo como la vida misma pero tan aterrador y tan fuerte que seguirá  latente hasta el final de nuestros días.  <strong>El miedo a la ineludible muerte</strong>. La Hammer con gran astucia supo explotar como nadie nuestros temores más ocultos y lo que es aún más prodigioso, con una simpleza insultante y unos presupuestos irrisorios, virtudes de las que deberían tomar nota muchos de los cineastas de la actualidad. Gran parte de los éxitos de la Hammer  fueron adaptaciones de  de clásicos la literatura, a los que trataron con gran maestría y profundo respeto en la mayoría de las ocasiones. Es el caso de La maldición de Frankenstein basada en el libro de Mary Shelley y dirigida por Terence  Fisher. Esta película del año 1957 fue la primera obra en la que pudieron disfrutar de un Frankenstein en color. Pionera  en mostrar una cruda violencia que hasta entonces se había tratado con insulsa delicadeza. Esta obra maestra del terror gótico fue protagonizada por el gran actor británico Peter Cushing que interpretó magníficamente el papel del Dr. Victor Von Frankentein y que se convertiría en uno de los actores fetiches de la productora británica,  actor al que veríamos en numerosas películas de la Hammer , siendo el interprete que más veces se ha puesto en la piel del implacable cazador de vampiros Van Helsing, el archienemigo del conde Drácula.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Una de las particularidades de esta película es  el monstruo de Frankenstein, interpretado por el magnífico actor inglés Cristopher Lee ( el actor fetiche por excelencia de la Hammer ). Un monstruo  claramente distinto a la criatura que se había visto en otras adaptaciones anteriores a esta, siendo la versión de la Hammer la más fiel a la hora de trasladar la fisonomía y el carácter del monstruo. Que para nada se mostraba agresivo salvo en los casos en que peligraba su vida, mostrándose una criatura “ patosa  “ y atontada, como desubicada  que inspiraba una contradictoria mezcla de sentimientos como el miedo, el afecto y en ocasiones incluso producía risa. Siendo más que evidente que los verdaderos monstruos no  eran otros que los humanos que con tanta ferocidad le perseguían.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">En su estreno el film recibió la clasificación X, siendo  vapuleada por cierta parte de la  crítica de la época (muy conservadora y puritana) poco acostumbrada al tipo de violencia y al explicito trato de la sangre que exhibía  la producción de la Hammer, pero produjo excelentes resultados de taquilla y  gozo del apoyo de los críticos más progresistas cansados ya de tanta “ ñoñez “.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">El film al igual que la obra literaria se acerca más al drama que al terror, poniendo en el tapete ( como ya antes he comentado ) uno de los miedos más recurrentes de la humanidad, el miedo a la muerte. Convertido en obsesión por el Dr. Victor Von Frankenstein , que persigue incansablemente la formula de la inmortalidad mostrándonos el lado más aterrador de la mente humana. En fin, gran película que contiene muchos de los elementos más característicos de la productora Británica.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Otra obra importantísima que también mencioné en el anterior post de la Hammer es &#8221;Drácula&#8221;. Una producción basada en la obra de Bram Stoker, dirigida nuevamente por Terence Fisher, que se convertiría en otro gran éxito de la Hammer. Como en la anteriormente mencionada, &#8220;La maldición de Frankenstein&#8221;, esta adaptación sería muy diferente y novedosa en comparación a las anteriores versiones llevadas a la gran pantalla del cásico de terror. Como el &#8220;Nosferatu de Murnau&#8221;, que por problemas económicos  y de contrato con los herederos  de Stoker, tuvo que hacer notables cambios en el guión y en el aspecto del vampiro. El Drácula de la Hammer  interpretado por Cristopher Lee no tendría nada que ver con la apariencia monstruosa del Conde Orlok de Nosferatu. El legendiario actor, con su imponente físico y su mirada enigmática, consiguió  darle los matices necesarios al vampiro, un rostro  tan humano  como aterrador. Con una visible y poética tristeza cargada de la elegancia que desprendía el brillante actor inglés. Consiguiendo plasmar con gran carisma los elementos más destacados del libro de Bram Stoker. Un vampiro atormentado por la soledad y parco en emociones. Perseguido despiadadamente por Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) en una épica  confrontación. Drácula es una historia cargada de fuerza, es la clásica lucha del bien contra el mal. Si queréis entender el verdadero significado de terror gótico os recomiendo esta obra. Realizada con un modesto presupuesto y que tiene una duración  de escasa hora y media. Por cierto, este vampiro se quema cuando le da el sol, no tiene cristales de Swarovski incrustados en la piel.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Otro film interesantísimo  producido por la Hammer es Los vampiros amantes ( 1970 ) dirigida por Roy Ward Baker con gran talento y originalidad. Una película cargada de erotismo protagonizada por la sensual  actriz Ingrid Pitt. Esta obra, muy desconocida e infravalorada, tiene la particularidad de contener  grandes dosis de amor lésbico en una época  en la que el erotismo entre mujeres era un tema tabú. Peter Cushing también tendría un papel en este film cargado de sensualidad.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">El perro de los Baskerville ( 1959 ) basada en la obra  homónima de Arthur Conan Doyle es otro ejemplo claro del buen hacer de la Hammer a la hora de adaptar clásicos de la literatura. Dirigida con acierto por Terence Fisher y  protagonizada por Peter Cushing, interpretando al sagaz detective más famoso de todos los tiempos Sherlock Holmes, (tan en la palestra ahora por el próximo estreno de un film de Guy Richie, miedo me da) y Sir Cristopher Lee, dando vida a Henry de Baskerville. He destacado esta producción  de la Hammer por su tétrica belleza a la hora de plasmar los paisajes del paramo, consiguiendo con maestría una tenebrosa  y misteriosa atmósfera que logró captar con inteligencia y juicio la esencia gótica del clásico de Conan Doyle.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Para finalizar el segundo post dedicado a la Hammer hablaré brevemente de un título curioso y muy interesante. Solo el nombre ya es digno de estudio, &#8220;Kung-fú contra los siete vampiros de oro&#8221;. Esta producción del año 1975 fusionaba extrañamente dos géneros tan opuestos como el cine de artes marciales ( en pleno auge ) con el de terror. Y concretamente con el sub-género vampírico.  Buscando con agudeza  fórmulas novedosas para atraer al público a las salas de cine. El resultado es una obra singular que más por su calidad (que no tiene mucha) la he añadido por su rareza y originalidad. La Hammer ya en declive apostó por esta película para revitalizar su maltrecho bolsillo, creyendo que con el coctel de terror, Kung-fú y tías en pelotas salvarían su economía, desgraciadamente no fue así. Pero nos regalaron un insólito film que puede que no pase a la historia pero al menos entretiene y es interesante.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Por lo inmensamente abultada que es la filmografía de la Hammer y el poco espacio del que dispongo he decidido dividir en varios posts  el análisis de las obras más significativas de la productora británica, así que no os preocupéis si habéis encontrado muy escueto este post, pues me comprometo a escribir al menos dos más. El siguiente estará dedicado nuevamente a algunas de las películas más interesantes de esta productora. El cuarto y último lo centraré en indagar en las influencias que ha producido la Hammer en directores tan interesantes como Tim Burton, Neil Jordan o Peter Jackson, por nombrar algunos.</p>
<p>Sayonara!</p>
<p>Fdo: <strong>Harry Powell   <a title="harry powell" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/35883083@N00/4059033044/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2621/4059033044_d979d39ae8_m.jpg" border="0" alt="harry powell" width="48" height="48" /></a></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[La Momia (1959)]]></title>
<link>http://elrinconoscuroblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/la-momia-1959/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ElenaAnele</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Varios arqueólogos británicos, entre los que se encuentra John Banning (Peter Cushing), profanan la ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Look Who's Tarkin]]></title>
<link>http://liveforfilms.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/look-whos-tarkin/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 13:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry this just made me chuckle! Source: Empire]]></description>
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I&#8217;m sorry this just made me chuckle!</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.empireonline.com/">Empire</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Doctor Terror]]></title>
<link>http://elrinconoscuroblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/doctor-terror/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ElenaAnele</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[TÍTULO ORIGINAL Dr. Terrors House of Horrors DIRECTOR Freddie Francis REPARTO Peter Cushing, Christo]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Minuto-a-minuto: A lenda dos sete vampiros dourados]]></title>
<link>http://alertageral.wordpress.com/2009/11/24/2386/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[00:00:10 &#8211; Transilvânia, 1804. Um andarilho vagueia cambaleante pela região montanhosa dos Cár]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/legend_of_seven_golden_vampires1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-2410" title="legend_of_seven_golden_vampires" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/legend_of_seven_golden_vampires1.jpg" alt="" width="468" height="312" /></a>00:00:10 &#8211; <span style="color:#c5000b;">Transilvânia, 1804.</span> Um andarilho vagueia cambaleante pela região montanhosa dos Cárpatos. Sua fisionomia revela que é de origem oriental, provavelmente chinesa.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:02:14 – O andrajoso peregrino (<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0791461/">Shen Chan</a>) mal consegue disfarçar seu contentamento ao divisar um certo castelo no horizonte. Sua jornada finalmente chegou ao fim.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:02:25 – O chinês desce ao porão da fortaleza, um ambiente nada assustador, <a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/caixao-com-d2.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2411" title="caixão com d" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/caixao-com-d2.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="164" /></a>banhado em tons de verde e laranja.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:02:53 – Avistamos um ataúde com uma imensa letra &#8220;D&#8221; gravada na lateral; presumivelmente, não é de &#8220;discreto&#8221;.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:03:04 – Um par de morceguinhos serelepes, pendurados em fios de nylon, vem recepcionar o visitante.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:03:15 – Ajoelhado diante do caixão, o homem faz uma solene reverência. A tampa da tumba se move, e de seu interior emerge simplesmente o <strong>Conde Drácula</strong> mais frutaço da história do cinema (</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes-Robertson_%28actor%29">John Forbes-Robertson</a>, uma espécie de reserva de Drácula do <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee">Christopher Lee</a> na <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_Films">Hammer</a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">).</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dracula-frutaco1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2412" title="dracula frutaço" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dracula-frutaco1.jpg" alt="" width="271" height="186" /></a>00:04:15 – <span style="color:#c5000b;">&#8220;Quem ousa invadir os domínios de Drácula?&#8221;</span>, pergunta a mona, enfezada. Ainda de joelhos, e com os olhinhos praticamente ocidentais de tão arregalados, o forasteiro se apresenta: <span style="color:#c5000b;">&#8220;Meu senhor, eu sou <strong>Khan</strong>, o sumo-sacerdote dos <strong>Sete Vampiros Dourados de Ping Kwei, na China</strong>. Quando os vampiros caminhavam sobre a terra, meu templo era o centro de todo o poder na região. O populacho era leal a mim. Mas agora os vampiros dormem e as pessoas vivem da forma que bem entendem. Perdemos o poder. Caminhei por muitas luas procurando o seu castelo, e agora curvo-me diante do senhor, pedindo ajuda. Ressuscite os sete vampiros dourados! Permita que a lenda viva  novamente!&#8221;</span> Que texto! <strong>Laurence Olivier</strong> deve ter se roído todo de inveja por não ter sido ele a declamar tão rica prosa. A resposta do Conde, contudo, é bem menos eloquente: <span style="color:#c5000b;">- &#8220;Patife! Eu não faço favores!&#8221;</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:05:45 – Cansado da vida miserável em seu castelo, Drácula resolve assumir a <a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/khan1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2413" title="khan" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/khan1.jpg" alt="" width="237" height="193" /></a>forma  do visitante recém-chegado: <span style="color:#c5000b;">- &#8220;Eu preciso de seu corpo mortal. Preciso da forma de sua carcaça miserável. Preciso de sua vil imagem. Preciso percorrer novamente essa terra, sair desses muros. Libertar-me desse mausoléu. Regressarei ao seu templo com a sua imagem, Khan. Eu serei o mestre dos sete vampiros dourados. Eles serão a ferramenta para minha vingança contra a humanidade. Vou ocultar-me no seu manto. Com sua aparência&#8230; Com sua imagem&#8230;&#8221;</span> Drácula arreganha os caninos e uma fumacinha azul ascende do solo. Coitado do Khan, perdeu a viagem. Num passe de mágica, o espírito malévolo do arqui-vampiro encarna no couro do desafortunado chinês. E assim termina a introdução de <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_the_7_Golden_Vampires">A Lenda dos Sete Vampiros Dourados</a> (1974), insólito resultado do encontro da Hammer (a lendária companhia inglesa especializada em filmes de horror) com a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaw_Brothers_Studio">Shaw Brothers </a>(produtora de Hong Kong conhecida por suas fitas de artes marciais).  Sim&#8230; Shaolin encontra Drácula! <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Ward_Baker">Roy Ward Baker</a> o nome do responsável por essa  indigesta salada de gêneros.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/professor-van-helsing1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2414" title="professor van helsing" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/professor-van-helsing1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="150" /></a>00:09:45 – <span style="color:#c5000b;">Chung King, China, 1904.</span> Cem anos depois dos sinistros acontecimentos  acima descritos, vamos encontrar o professor <strong>Van Helsing</strong> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cushing">Peter Cushing)</a> ministrando uma palestra na Faculdade de História da universidade local. O lendário caçador de vampiros narra a uma plateia incrédula a &#8220;Lenda dos Sete Vampiros Dourados&#8221;:  <span style="color:#c5000b;">&#8220;as lendas da antiga China são milenares. Algumas são inventadas e terríveis em suas implicações. Outras são reais, fundadas sobre a verdade. Há uma aldeia amaldiçoada situada em algum lugar da vastidão da China cuja maldição se repete a cada ano durante a sétima lua. Escuta com pavor os lamentos das almas atormentadas e o medo apodera-se do coração de seus habitantes. Todos sussuram a palavra &#8220;vampiro&#8221;, e o horror é real, e muito próximo. De tempos em tempos um homem valente, cansado de tanta dor e ira frustrada, arma-se com valor  e sai dos muros de sua aldeia para enfrentar os monstros que atormentam seu povo. Há alguns anos existiu um homem assim; um agricultor, um pobre pai que tinha perdido seu bem mais precioso para os vampiros. Seu nome era <strong>Hsi Tien-en</strong> </span><span style="color:#000000;">(vemos o pobre Hsi se arrastando sobre uma perna côxa, armado de uma enxada, indo ao encontro dos sete vampiros. Eu não apostaria uma pataca nele&#8230;)</span><span style="color:#c5000b;">.<!--more--></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:13:18 – Hsi Tien-en (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chiang">David Chiang</a>, um dos grandes astros dos filmes da Shaw nos anos 70) alcança o templo, onde os sete vampiros realizam um ritual bárbaro: ao redor de um tonel de sangue, sete mocinhas indefesas, amarradas, aguardam o inevitável sacrifício. Khan, o andarilho em cujo corpo Drácula encarnou, é o mestre de cerimônias.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:13:41 – Hora de conhecer os notórios sete vampiros dourados. A primeira coisa <a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/um-dos-sete-21.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2415" title="um dos sete 2" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/um-dos-sete-21.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="168" /></a>que aprendemos a seu respeito é que têm muito mau gosto na escolha dos acessórios: cada um deles traz pendurado em sua túnica um amuleto de ouro em forma de morcego, muito do bagaceiro. Mas o pior de tudo é a aparência dos sete sanguessugas: são máscaras bisonhas, nada convincentes. Um deles tem cabelos azuis e seus caninos superiores estão nitidamente colados nos lábios inferiores. Nem o <strong>Bento Carneiro</strong> era tão pobre assim&#8230;</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">00:14:50 – Prosseguindo com o </span><span style="color:#000000;"><em>flashback</em></span><span style="color:#000000;">, Hsi Tien-en intervém no culto, tentando libertar sua filha. Os vampiros contra-atacam, matando a pobre moça. Irado, o pai da defunta avança sobre o assassino, conseguindo arrancar o amuleto-morcego às suas vestes. </span><span style="color:#000000;">Do lugar onde o talismã foi retirado, começa a sair uma fumaceira dos infernos. A razão eu ignoro; vai ver, o morceguinho dourado carregava o </span><span style="color:#000000;"><em>mojo</em></span><span style="color:#000000;"> deles. O velho agricultor aproveita a manobra pra dar no pé.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:15:34 – O líder dos vampiros soa o gongo, fazendo com os mortos levantarem de suas tumbas e se unirem aos sete vampiros na perseguição a Hsi Tien-en. Alguns desses mortos-vivos correm de forma esquisita, saltitando lépidos e fagueiros como se fossem a própria <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidi">Heidi</a> nos <strong>Alpes Suiços</strong>. Vampiros, kung fu e zumbis! Só faltou sexo explícito para esse filme se tornar o <strong>Cidadão Kane</strong> da trasheira!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;"><a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/goldenmedallion.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-2416" title="goldenmedallion" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/goldenmedallion.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="125" /></a>00:18:45 – Hsi Tien-en tem sua garganta cortada pelos vampiros. Antes disso, porém, mocoseia o amuleto no colo de uma imagem de <strong>Buda</strong>, em um ebó de beira de estrada. O vampiro tenta recuperá-lo, mas é pulverizado ao simplesmente tocar na estatueta. Mais adiante, Van Helsing, em tom professoral, comentará que os vampiros temem os símbolos sagrados de maneira geral: </span><span style="color:#c5000b;">-</span><span style="color:#000000;"> </span><span style="color:#c5000b;">Na Europa é a imagem de Cristo na cruz. Aqui no oriente, por analogia, deve ser o Buda.</span><span style="color:#000000;"> Imaginem só o vampiro recuando apavorado diante da simples visão daquele gordinho careca, simpático e pachorrento:</span><span style="color:#c5000b;"> &#8211; AAAAARRRGGH! Um Buda!!! Socorro!!!</span><span style="color:#000000;"> Eu, hein? Não me admira a Hammer ter ido à bancarrota poucos anos depois desse filme.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:19:50 – Nosso <em>flashback </em>encerra com Van Helsing dizendo acreditar que a lenda é real e que é provável que o fundamento  do mito do vampiro se encontre na própria China. A assistência abandona a sala de aula, censurando o professor. Não sei ao certo   se pelo fato da estória toda soar como uma grande balela ou por considerarem ofensivo um holandês petulante ir até seu país para ensiná-los sobre suas próprias lendas.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:25:22 – Van Helsing recebe a visita de Hsi Ching (novamente David Chiang), que afirma ser neto do agricultor da lenda. Hsi pede ajuda ao caça-vampiros, pois sua aldeia ainda é constantemente aterrorizada pelos seis vassalos remanescentes do Cão. A princípio, Van Helsing recusa. Mas após alguns minutos de enrolação, quando conhecemos o filho de Van Helsing, <strong>Leyland</strong>, e <strong>Vanessa Buren</strong> (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Ege">Julie Ege</a>, ex-miss Noruega, falecida ano passado), uma europeia rica, gostosa e entediada, que se dispõe a financiar a expedição (com a condição de tomar parte nela), o professor muda de ideia, e nossos heróis finalmente tomam o rumo da aldeia amaldiçoada de Ping Kwei, o lar dos sete vampiros dourados.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:36:24 – Uma longa sequência de artes marciais, com nossos heróis combatendo o bando de um pelintra que tinha diferenças com o Van Helsing Filho. A cena é importante para mostrar em ação todos os irmãos de Hsi Ching, cada um deles um especialista em uma arma em particular: os gêmeos <strong>Sung</strong> e <strong>San</strong>, mestres espadachins; <strong>Chi Tao</strong> usa as maças e tem a força de dez bois; <strong>Po Kwei</strong>, que há muitos anos optou pela lança cortante; <strong>Ta</strong> e seu machado; <strong>Kwei</strong>, o arqueiro; e por fim, <strong>Mai Kwei</strong>, a irmãzinha, que eventualmente vai cair na fala mansa do holandês jovem, formando um dos pares interétnicos da trama (o outro será a lôra e Hsi Ching).</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:45:55 – Ao redor de uma fogueira, Van Helsing ensina aos oito irmãos como se deve matar um vampiro: fala da estaca de madeira no coração e também recomenda um projetil de prata (??). Bastaria ele ter dado essa informação antes, e sua ida até a aldeia se tornaria completamente desnecessária. Mas tudo bem, segue o barco.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:46:09 – Van Helsing toma o medalhão-morcego em suas mãos: <span style="color:#c5000b;">- &#8220;Uma coisa eu sei&#8230; Este medalhão de ouro é o símbolo da força vital dos não-mortos </span><span style="color:#000000;">(Acertei! Era mesmo o </span><span style="color:#000000;"><em>mojo</em></span><span style="color:#000000;"> dos sacanas)</span><span style="color:#c5000b;">. Os seis vampiros restantes farão de tudo para recuperá-lo. Assim que o conseguirem, poderão reencarnar o sétimo vampiro.&#8221; </span><span style="color:#000000;">À simples menção do lacaio do <strong>Canho</strong>, o medalhão arde como fogo nas mãos de Van Helsing, que larga o artefato blasfemo no chão: </span><span style="color:#c5000b;">- Eles sabem que estamos a caminho.</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:50:00 – Enquanto alguns de nossos desfrutam de um breve interlúdio romântico à beira de um lago, na aldeia as coisas ficam pretas: os seis vampiros dourados e seus serviçais defuntos tocam o terror, matando alguns aldeões e sequestrando suas filhas. Levam as moças para o templo, perpetrando o mesmo rito satânico descrito por Van Helsing em sua aula. O sangue das jovens sacrificadas escorre para o tonel localizado no centro do bizarro altar.<a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ritual1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2426" title="ritual" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ritual1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="124" /></a></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">00:54:00 – O grupo acampa uma última vez, dentro de uma caverna próxima à aldeia. Ao cair da noite, três morcegos de<em> papel-maché </em>que dormiam nas paredes da gruta revelam sua verdadeira identidade: vampiros dourados! E não estão sozinhos! Aos poucos, a caverna fica lotada de zumbis. Como diria o s<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thing_%28comics%29">obrinho favorito da Tia Petúnia</a>, &#8220;é hora do pau!&#8221;<a href="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/zumbis.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2425" title="zumbis" src="http://alertageral.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/zumbis.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="150" /></a></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:00:40 – Com a morte dos três vampiros dourados (até o velho Van Helsing, quem diria, consegue dar cabo de um deles), os mortos-vivos, atordoados pela falta de liderança, fogem correndo do abrigo. Nenhuma baixa no grupo dos viventes. Entretanto, o combate exauriu as suas forças: Hsi teme que ele e seus irmãos não sobrevivam a um segundo <em>round</em>. E ainda faltam três VD&#8217;s&#8230;</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:05:50 – Nossos heróis alcançam a aldeia de Ping Kwei, e imediatamente se lançam ao trabalho de guarnecer o local. Confeccionam estacas de madeira e cavam uma grande trincheira na entrada, o que julgo inútil contra inimigos que podem se transformar em morcegos e atrevessar  obstáculo voando. Mas, enfim, quem sou eu para julgar uma cultura de quase cinco milênios? Pelo menos contra os zumbis deve surtir algum efeito.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:10:00 – Cai a noite e a batalha tem início; os servos de Belzebu atacam, mas não avistamos Drácula-Khan entre eles. Pra bobo esse não serve, não foi à toa que se tornou o arqui-vampiro.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:14:50  &#8211; A luta é encarniçada; um dos vampiros dourados morde a lôra europeia, que imediatamente vira uma sugadora de sangue do Cão. Sem perceber a metamorfose, Hsi vai acudir a amada e acaba mordido por ela. Temendo pelo pior, ele afunda o belo corpo da moça em uma estaca, e antes que ele mesmo se transforme, dá a vida em holocausto.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:17:35 – Na sequência do entrevêro, morrem mais dois VD&#8217;s. Alguns dos irmãos de Hsi também morrem, mas não sei quais. Podem me acusar de preconceituoso, mas o fato é que no meio daquele furdunço todos eles me parecem todos iguais. A irmã, contudo, ainda está viva. O VD remanescente taca a mão na pobrezinha e a leva em seu cavalo. O Van Helsinho vai atrás.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:18:10 – A bela chinesa é levada ao templo, como seria de se supor. Van Helsing também corre para salvá-la, acompanhado de dois guerreiros (Po Kwei e Kwei, que eu confesso, só consegui identificar pelas armas).</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:18:22 – O VD amarra Mai Kwei no altar de sacrifícios. Antes que possa fazer algum mal à moça, entretanto, é impedido pelo Van Helsinho, que se arroja sobre ele como um bólido. O Van Helsing pai chega pra ajudar, cravando uma lança no último dos vampiros dourados. Após ser trespassado, o débil começa a rodar e gritar como uma pomba-gira, indo em direção ao tonel de sangue localizado no centro do altar de sacrifícios. Devido à máscara e à espessa maquiagem, o ator certamente devia enfrentar dificuldades para visualizar onde estava o tonel onde deveria cair. Dificuldade ainda maior, visto que deveria realizar a manobra com o corpo girando&#8230; É possível nitidamente ver o cara dando uma paradinha básica entre um giro e outro, só pra ver onde estava o tonel, antes de se atirar em definitivo. O sangue devia estar fervendo ou misturado com ácido, pois em questão de segundos o VD vira <em>sukyaki</em>. Pena que tá chegando ao fim&#8230; Agora só falta o Patrão.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">01:20:47 – Os jovens deixam o templo. Van Helsing permanece, sua expressão denota apreensão: pressente que o perigo ainda não acabou. Seu medo não é infundado, pois de fato, ainda resta a origem do mal:</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Van 	Helsing, por todo o mundo, através do globo, até mesmo aqui, tem 	me perseguido!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Drácula!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Rárárárárá!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Conde 	Drácula! Eu sabia! Sabia que tinha que estar por aqui!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Eu 	amaldiçôo você e toda sua casta!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Mostre-se! 	Ou será que você precisa se esconder sob a imagem de outro homem? 	Será que o poderoso Drácula tem medo de revelar-me o seu rosto?</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Eu 	sou Drácula, senhor da escuridão, lorde dos vampiros, príncipe 	dos não-mortos, chefe dos malditos <span style="color:#000000;">(o cara é 	meio sensível com esse lance de ostentar títulos).</span></span></span><span style="color:#c5000b;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Demonstre 	isso!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#c5000b;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;">- Certo! 	Van Helsing&#8230; Você verá meu rosto mais uma vez&#8230; Antes de 	MORRER!</span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">01:21:45 	- O china cruza os braços, a fumacinha sobe e&#8230; voilá! Temos de 	volta o Drácula-Moça do início do filme. O combate terá início: 	será um duelo de titãs, uma luta como nunca se viu antes, uma 	batalha sem igual&#8230; Pfffui&#8230; Que nada! Anticlímax total: a luta 	entre Drácula e Van Helsing dura míseros e exatos 15 segundos. Resumidamente, Drácula dá um tapa em Van Helsing (tapa&#8230; coisa de 	mulherzinha), que reage atravessando seu coração com uma lança. O arqui-vampiro se transforma em purpurina, digo, poeira. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;"><span style="color:#000000;">E é 	isso. That&#8217;s all, folks!</span></span></p>
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<description><![CDATA[Sin muchas presentaciones ni ceremonias, dos película de Terence Fisher, uno de los mejores director]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fisher.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1391" title="fisher" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fisher.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="209" /></a>Sin muchas presentaciones ni ceremonias, dos película de Terence Fisher, uno de los mejores directores de la historia del cine, así como suena, perteneciente a su esplendorosa saga sobre el infame <a href="http://frankensteinia.blogspot.com/" target="_self">Barón Frankenstein</a>. Ambas son, en principio, cuerpos extraños dentro del ciclo, en una el personaje es casi un secundario y en apariencia y solo en apariencia es un título menor “Frankenstein created the woman”. La otra es la última y fue “la última”, parece fea y lo es, parece destartalada y lo está pero entre las paredes mohosas de manicomio sórdido encierra y nunca mejor dicho toda una reflexión/recapitulación demoledora sobre el personaje e incluso sobre el devenir de “la casa del terror”, “Frankenstein and the monster from hell”, a la vez parodia y espejo.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBX7PCsvUZc" target="_self">&#8220;Does the body rule the mind or does the mind rule the body? I don´t know&#8230;&#8221;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankensteincreatedwomanposter.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1392" title="frankensteincreatedwomanposter" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankensteincreatedwomanposter.jpg?w=199" alt="" width="199" height="300" /></a><a href="http://www.cinemagraphe.com/frankenstein-created-woman.php" target="_self">Frankenstein created the woman</a></p>
<p>Año: 1967</p>
<p>País: Gran Bretaña</p>
<p>86 min.</p>
<p>Fotografía: Arthur Grant</p>
<p>Música: James Bernard</p>
<p>Guión: Anthony Hinds</p>
<p>Reparto: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, Robert Morris</p>
<p>Terence Fisher retoma el personaje casi diez años después de &#8220;La venganza de Frankenstein&#8221; y con el interludio de “The evil of Frankenstein” facturada por el magistral operador de fotografía y apreciable director Freddie Francis en 1964, en esta extraña realización, mucho más densa de lo que el<a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankenstein_created_woman3.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1398" title="frankenstein_created_woman3" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankenstein_created_woman3.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="181" /></a> aspecto levemente “kitsch” de su desaforado romanticismo pueda aparentar.</p>
<p>En esta ocasión el progresivamente enloquecido Barón ocupa una posición secundaria ejerciendo como el elemento necesario para una (doble) venganza de ultratumba, la de una muchacha deforme, coja y con medio rostro desfigurado, víctima de las burlas y vejaciones de los mozos del pueblo a la que el doctor reconvertirá en una belleza despampanante y la del novio de esta (y ayudante de Frankenstein en su nuevo laboratorio), falsamente acusado de asesinato y por ello ajusticiado, tal y como lo había sido su <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/mujer1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1395" title="mujer1" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/mujer1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="163" /></a>padre. Un fatalismo que Fisher inmortaliza con la presencia obsesiva de una solitaria y descomunal guillotina que amenaza ominosa el plano cada vez que puede. Todo ello en el marco de esa historia de amor entre desesperados que acabará retorciéndose entre todo tipo de sugerencias pringosas y/o luctuosas. El Doctor Frankenstein aprovechará tan dramáticas circunstancias para poner en práctica sus nuevas técnicas de transmigración y sus teorías sobre conservación, es decir queda claro que nuevamente es ajeno a la tragedia y a las personas que le rodean a las que no contempla más que como probetas y sujetos experimentales, un desapego emocional y una frialdad indiferente a la que nuevamente Cushing presta su ensimismada energia y su magnético carisma.<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/GnoxuYt-7zA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/GnoxuYt-7zA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cushdenb1.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1396" title="Cush&#38;Denb1" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/cushdenb1.jpg?w=176" alt="" width="176" height="300" /></a>De tal modo el “alma” o la “identidad” conservada en la cabeza decapitada del muchacho será trasportada (¿mesmerizada?) al (arreglado) cuerpo de la chica. A partir de aquí la atmósfera perversa y trágica que Fisher crea resulta tan pegajosa como audaz, de una profundidad conceptual y de huna turbiedad sexual asombrosas: la mente escindida de la chica es dominada alternativamente por uno de los dos ocupantes. El deseo de venganza provoca que la aparte masculina prevalezca y entonces nos encontramos con que el descabezado novio utiliza a &#8220;la criatura&#8221;, al nuevo (y espléndido) cuerpo de su amada y el deseo que esta lustrosa apariencia provoca, como cebo sobre sus antiguos acosadores a los que irá ejecutando, es decir usa sexualmente a el objeto de su amor, a la que defendió hasta la muerte para satisfacer una vendetta personal. Pero más aún, tenemos una mente masculina usando un cuerpo de mujer para satisfacer apetitos ocultos de la mente femenina y de la misma masculina, <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankenstein_created_woman9.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1397" title="frankenstein_created_woman9" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankenstein_created_woman9.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="182" /></a>recordar que también el era rechazado y así es aceptado&#8230;.y deseado lo que incluso desliza una extraña pulsión homoerótica. Y viceversa claro, la parte femenina también reclama su ración de atenciones eróticas que no había tenido antes y además saca a la bestia castradora a pasear, exhibiendo con orgullo lo que antes había sido rechazado y negándolo en el último momento. En fin&#8230;increíble, que cada cual elucubre su combinación, son tan inagotables como retorcidas. En cualquiera de los casos una idea magistral en su subversivo tratamiento de la dualidad sexual y el descubrimiento del poder erótico como arma. Todo en 86 apretados minutos y sin salirse del género.<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/-psrFc69n0w&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/-psrFc69n0w&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span>Formalmente resulta ser una (otra) película tremendamente brillante merced a la elegancia habitual del director, a ese intransferible sentido de la puesta en escena y a l adinámica interna del plano, una mezcla de precisión en el <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankenstein_created_woman151.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1400" title="frankenstein_created_woman15" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/frankenstein_created_woman151.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="182" /></a>encuadre y movimiento constante en el interior del mismo. Peter Cushing tan bien como suele, dando aquí una imagen más distendida del Barón (sobre todo en comparación a la siguiente y magnífica &#8220;El cerebro de Frankenstein&#8221; donde descenderá a simas de abyección nunca vistas) que incluso y dada la magnitud de la tragedia acabará por verse conmovido y la más que saludable <a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2495/3687469628_ca60bb7892.jpg?v=0" target="_self">Susan Denberg</a> antológica en su (doble) papel como pobrecita desvalida y mantis depredadora sexual.<a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/susdenberg1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1401" title="susdenberg1" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/susdenberg1.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="252" /></a></p>
<p>&#8220;..y podeis moriros todos de risa porque la llevo con orgullo&#8221;, Elvis Costello</p>
<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2180943818_fc2004f7d0_o.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1402" title="2180943818_fc2004f7d0_o" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2180943818_fc2004f7d0_o.jpg?w=213" alt="" width="213" height="300" /></a><a href="http://www.pasadizo.com/peliculas2.jhtml?cod=788&#38;sec=1" target="_self">Frankenstein and the monster from hell</a></p>
<p>Año: 1974</p>
<p>País: Gran Bretaña</p>
<p>99 min.</p>
<p>Fotografía: Brian Probyn</p>
<p>Música: James Bernard</p>
<p>Guión: Anthony Hinds</p>
<p>Reparto: Peter Cushing, Shane Briant, Madeline Smith, David Prowse</p>
<p>Un título bastante superior a lo que se le suele conceder que supone un cierre divertidamente sardónico para el glorioso ciclo “frankensteiniano” pero que aún así resulta una triste despedida para el gran Terence Fisher además de una película desmañada y carente casi por completo, aunque <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/collectedworks4.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1413" title="collectedworks" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/collectedworks4.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="174" /></a>refulja por instantes, de la elegancia del maestro, claramente incómodo con las modas hacia las que la “Hammer” viró en los años 70 y que en gran medida precipitaron el adiós de un director que había sido viga maestra en su crecimiento y evolución conceptual y estética.<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/IEcqCXkemMU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/IEcqCXkemMU&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2126793633_1b409fccab_o.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1406" title="2126793633_1b409fccab_o" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2126793633_1b409fccab_o.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="238" /></a>Ofrece una relectura crepuscular cuyo punto de partida absolutamente genial ya sienta las bases de la ironía cruel que preside toda la función, de tal modo que reencontramos al inefable Barón en un manicomio ¡pero como director!, siendo así el regente el más loco de todos los internos, una inmersión a lo bruto en la demencia y el sinsentido, un mundo bocabajo regido por la lógica extraviada de un personaje convertido en parodia. El atildado “look” de Cushing y el aire ensimismado e incongruentemente risueño que otorga a su interpretación o el aberrante aspecto de la criatura no hacen más que subrayarlo. El antaño imparable Doctor Frankenstein ni<a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/3500344308_dce1391333_o.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1405" title="3500344308_dce1391333_o" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/3500344308_dce1391333_o.jpg?w=277" alt="" width="277" height="300" /></a> siquiera parece darse cuenta de la chapuza que está perpetrando en la creación de ese  recosido grotesco compuesto por abollados restos de serie, en cierto modo tanto como lo está el mismo a esta alturas.</p>
<p>Frankenstein atraerá con malas artes (será condenado por sus experimentos a una temporada en el sanatorio) a un prometedor y revolucionario médico al que forzará a colaborar en una lucha eterna que a estas alturas ya ha adquirido un carácter mitológico y patético a partes iguales. El nuevo discípulo necesario (recordemos que, aparte del carácter vanidoso y arrogante del Barón, este necesita unas manos que hagan la faena desde que el se las quemase en la tercera parte de la serie) está interpretado por el inquietante lampiño <a href="http://cinebeats.blogsome.com/2009/05/04/10-questions-with-shane-briant/" target="_self">Shane Briant</a>, uno de los actores que la &#8220;Hammer&#8221; intentó lanzar como herederos de los clásicos con bien poca fortuna, a excepción del gran Ralph Bates, claro.<span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/DxCwLgHqqWA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/DxCwLgHqqWA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span>El resto es más o menos lo de siempre (el doctor recolectando las piezas de entre la quincalla que ofrecen su enfermos, el jovenzuelo engreído dándose cuenta del camino que toma, la damisela en <a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2127568928_2b6165e64a_o.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1407" title="2127568928_2b6165e64a_o" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2127568928_2b6165e64a_o.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="239" /></a>apuros, aquí la sexy <a href="http://www.lovegoddess.info/MS4L.JPG" target="_self">Madeline Smith</a>,  irresistible “Hammer girl” a la que Ingrid Pitt vampirizaba a base de bien en la simpática &#8220;The vampire lovers&#8221;, etc &#8230;) pero todo visto a través de una óptica de frenopático, que acentúa despiadadamente lo inútil del intento y exhibe sin pudor la eterna repetición a la que esta condenado el protagonista. Fisher desnuda a su personaje y lo despoja de cualquier grandeza para dejarlo convertido en un guiñapo terrorífico, un espantajo que barre el suelo de su último fracaso con la ilusión  de comenzar el próximo mientras la cámara se aleja de semejante mundo dejando a los personajes encerrados en una habitación mientras el espectador se va de allí espantado, y con Terence Fisher de la mano.<a href="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/1024x768.gif"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1408" title="1024x768" src="http://esbilla.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/1024x768.gif" alt="" width="497" height="372" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Dracula A.D. 1972 - The Dungeon Review!]]></title>
<link>http://goregirl.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/dracula-a-d-1972-the-dungeon-review/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>goregirl</dc:creator>
<guid>http://goregirl.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/dracula-a-d-1972-the-dungeon-review/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I looked back over my reviews for the year and was surprised at how few Vampire flicks were in the m]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img src="http://goregirl.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/dracula-ad-1972.jpg?w=213" alt="dracula ad 1972" title="dracula ad 1972" width="213" height="300" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3365" />I looked back over my reviews for the year and was surprised at how few Vampire flicks were in the mix. What the hell, I&#8217;ll rent a couple. Today we have Hammer&#8217;s attempt to drag Dracula kicking and screaming into the 1970&#8217;s, in the aptly named &#8216;Dracula A.D. 1972&#8242;. Tomorrow I review the Canadian horror-comedy &#8216;Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter&#8217;. </p>
<p>We begin with a stagecoach rolling out of control then crashing. We see that Dracula has received a stagecoach wheel spoke to the chest and is fading fast. Van Helsing, also injured from the crash, drags himself over to the count and really pushes down on that wheel until there is nothing left but dust. Van Helsing takes his last breath and then dies. A man happens by and picks up Dracula’s ring and scoops some of his dust into a vile. Fast-forward 100 years to a group of mods that have crashed an uptight socialite&#8217;s party. When group member Johnny Alucard suggests they try something different, even dangerous, they agree to take part in a black magic ritual. The only one with reservations is Jessica Van Helsing, a blood relation to the infamous vampire hunter. The ritual raises Dracula up from the ashes, and this time he intends to eliminate the Van Helsing’s bloodline.<br />
<img src="http://goregirl.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/still-from-dracula-ad-1972.jpg" alt="still from dracula ad 1972" title="still from dracula ad 1972" width="450" height="256" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-3366" /></p>
<p>&#8220;The Count is back, with an eye for London&#8217;s hot pants . . . and a taste for everything&#8221;. That tagline is terrible! Just awful. But like many things in this movie, it&#8217;s badness makes me chuckle. It has moments of ‘so bad it&#8217;s good’, and some moments that are just plain bad. This film has a pretty lame title and contains one of the worst musical scores I have ever heard. I assume they weren&#8217;t trying to make a comedy. It did make me laugh though, whether it was intentional or not. At one point Van Helsing figures out that the surname Alucard is Dracula spelled backwards. You wouldn&#8217;t believe how he works through it.<br />
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I am a sucker for the 70&#8217;s. I love the horror and exploitation films from this decade. I love the hair and the fashions and the music. I also love Christopher Lee, who doesn&#8217;t get nearly enough screen time. Those bloody eyes were cool! Cushing of course is also great and does a formidable job of it. Unfortunately it is Jessica Van Helsing and her pals who get the most screen time. Stephanie Beacham, who plays Jessica, didn&#8217;t really move me. I enjoyed her best when she was hypnotized and wasn&#8217;t speaking. Christopher Neame who plays Johnny Alucard is a bit over-dramatic, but I must admit, he was pretty entertaining at times. I enjoyed Caroline Munro who plays Laura Bellows. She is great fun, and what an amazing head of hair! Jessica&#8217;s boyfriend was a bit wishy-washy, but the rest of the cast we&#8217;re okay. It&#8217;s not really the cast that is the problem. The dialog is pretty ugly. They are a little over enthusiastic with the catch phrases. Can you dig it man? I found the groups conversations occasionally amusing. But more often than not, I found them annoying.<br />
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There&#8217;s a bit of the red stuff in one scene but there&#8217;s not much otherwise. Gore is pretty much non-existent, but there is a decent skin rotting from the bone and turning to ash sequence. I really liked the opening sequence with the stagecoach. I also liked the ending, even though it was a bit anti-climatic. One of the best scenes in the film outside of the Cushing/Lee bits is the &#8220;black magic ritual&#8221;. Alucard shouting incantations, while some appropriate raising the devil music plays and the group are &#8220;Digging it&#8221; and getting really groovy. It&#8217;s a really cool scene man! That is until Alucard cuts himself, bleeds into a chalice, and then pours it all over one of the girls. Everything kind of goes haywire and they start running out of the building. This is one of those &#8220;so bad it&#8217;s good&#8221; scenes. I would pretty much recommend any of the earlier Lee-Hammer vampire films over this one. But &#8216;Dracula A.D. 1972&#8242; has it&#8217;s moments of glory, even though many of them are from unintentional laughs. It entertained me enough to pass it and it got a cherry for making me laugh. </p>
<p><strong>Dungeon Rating: 3/5</strong></p>
<p><strong>Directed By:</strong> Alan Gibson</p>
<p><strong>Starring:</strong> Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Stephanie Beacham, Christopher Neame, Michael Coles,  Marsha A. Hunt, Caroline<br />
Munro, Janet Key, William Ellis, Philip Miller, Michael Kitchen</p>
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<title><![CDATA[good evening!]]></title>
<link>http://mygirlfriendsjeans.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/good-evening/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:14:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>amandamae</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mygirlfriendsjeans.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/good-evening/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Keeping up a blog is hard work once you leave college and have Real Life to deal with. Yeah. Same la]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Keeping up a blog is hard work once you leave college and have Real Life to deal with. Yeah. Same lame excuse as everybody else. When I finally have a spare moment to relax, I&#8217;d rather go on YouTube and watch episodes of QI than anything.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Stephen Fry" src="http://www.bbccanadashop.com/media/dvd/stephen-fry-qi.jpg" alt="" width="442" height="258" /></p>
<p>Oh, you haven&#8217;t heard of QI? Well, maybe I do have a topic to blog about for a minute! (I have mentioned it before, but what else am I to do on a Saturday night?) QI is a panel trivia show in Britain, (it stands for Quite Interesting) hosted by the wonderful Stephen Fry (Dr. Gordon Gordon Wyatt on Fox&#8217;s <em>Bones</em> to you kids who aren&#8217;t much anglophiles). Each season is a letter of the alphabet, and each episode is a take off from that letter. On one hand it&#8217;s a show to learn weird pieces of trivia, and on the other it&#8217;s just fine to listen to British comedians pretend they know something, and digress from there. You get some real gems floating around on YouTube, even if you don&#8217;t immediately recognize the comedians. For example:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc3OyvbJkj4" target="_blank">The panel discusses British accents in Hollywood, and Alan Rickman</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXQ_tQzge_Y" target="_blank">How to defend yourself against an alligator</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdTLxyS2bdU" target="_blank">A great story from Stephen about Dracula and Van Helsing</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXSw07zrio" target="_blank">Now you know why we say &#8220;hello&#8221; when we answer the phone</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv8icJf8mjk" target="_blank">Campy German words</a>.</p>
<p>And my personal favorite, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAySycTIau0" target="_blank">the Moonwalking Bird</a>!</p>
<p>I totally blame Taylor for this, as I do most things I enjoy. This is why we are friends, because we can share a love for bizarre things like British quiz shows. I mean, really. I dare you not to get hooked!</p>
<p>By not riding the bus anymore I&#8217;ve found I have less time to things done. I&#8217;ll work on that for you. Until next time&#8230; ever wanted to know <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mppK1qlpvek" target="_blank">what the Queen has in her handbag</a>?</p>
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<title><![CDATA[What is it that you're a professor of, exactly?]]></title>
<link>http://bradygolden.com/2009/11/10/what-is-it-that-youre-a-professor-of-exactly/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Brady</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bradygolden.com/2009/11/10/what-is-it-that-youre-a-professor-of-exactly/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I finished up Rick Yancey&#8217;s The Monstrumologist over the weekend. It impressed the hell out of]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Monstrumologist-Rick-Yancey/dp/1416984488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1257401258&#38;sr=8-1"></a>I finished up <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Monstrumologist-Rick-Yancey/dp/1416984488/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#38;s=books&#38;qid=1257965793&#38;sr=8-1" target="_blank">Rick Yancey&#8217;s <em>The Monstrumologist</em> </a>over the weekend. It impressed the hell out of me. Certainly, it&#8217;s some of the best horror literature to come out this year, and as 2009 has seen new books from Sarah Langan, Dan Simmons, and Stephen King, that&#8217;s no mean feat.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-517" title="The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey" src="http://bradiation.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/1416984488-01-lzzzzzzz1.jpg?w=199" alt="The Monstrumologist - Rick Yancey" width="199" height="300" /></p>
<p>I&#8217;m curious to see if it&#8217;ll end up being as successful as it deserves to be. Technically, it&#8217;s a YA novel, and I have trouble imagining it showing up in too many middle school libraries or Scholastic bookorders.<sup>1</sup> <em>The Monstrumologist </em>is an unequivocally R-rated book, both for the extremity of its violence and the darkness of its themes; sizable chunks of dialogue are devoted to discussions of eugenics and Nietzche&#8217;s <em>Übermensch</em> (timely topics in the book&#8217;s late 1800s academic setting). I don&#8217;t doubt for a second kids&#8217; ability to handle the material, but I have slightly less faith in the adults who have a hand in choosing what they get to read. I worked in a bookstore for a few years with a children&#8217;s section run by an &#8220;expert&#8221; who seemed to be under the impression that anyone under the age of twenty-one was mentally and emotionally retarded.</p>
<p>Maybe I&#8217;m wrong. I readily admit to having no idea what&#8217;s going on in the world of YA literature. Maybe it&#8217;s more sophisticated than when I was a kid. The last thing I read that qualified as belonging to the genre was that <em>Deathly Hallows</em> book, which was pretty fucking dumb.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m getting sidetracked here. What I wanted to talk about was something that I realized while reading this book, the title character of which is a professor of (&#8230;have you guessed it?&#8230;) <em>monstrumology</em>, a little-known, little-respected field of study, well, monsters. Or, as Yancey&#8217;s website puts it:</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" src="http://www.rickyancey.com/monstrumologist/images/definition.png" alt="" width="368" height="198" /></p>
<p>What I realized is this: I fucking love monster hunters in tweed suits. <em>Love</em> &#8216;em. Possibly my favorite horror sub-genre, ranking even higher than zombie apacolypse. (Possibly. Don&#8217;t quote me.) I&#8217;ve put a fair amount of thought into it since then, and I&#8217;m not sure I can explain my affection. It might have something to do with getting to see the frail-but-intelligent getting to be the heroes for once. Perhaps I just like the idea of old-timey academia, monsters or no. Or maybe I just have a fondness for earth-toned suits.</p>
<p>Here are a few of the badassical bookworms I&#8217;ve dug on over the years:</p>
<p><strong>Abraham Van Helsing</strong></p>
<p>As far as I know, the man who took on Count Dracula is the original. In most movie versions, he&#8217;s portrayed as a vampire expert, but in Bram Stoker&#8217;s book, he&#8217;s an expert in just about everything (a category into which vampirism happens to fall).</p>
<p>Next to Dracula himself, I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s any other character in literature who has shown up in as many adaptations and sequels across all mediums as this guy. The worst, by far, would have to be the Hugh Jackman movie, in which V.H. is written as being some kind of cowboy/priest/angel&#8230;maybe a werewolf? Some shit. I don&#8217;t really remember. On a personal note, I saw <em>Van Helsing </em>in a theater in Prague, a city that appears in the movie at one point. Hugh Jackman looks out upon its unmistakable medieval skyline and breaths, <em>&#8220;Budapest.&#8221;</em></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter" title="Van Helsing" src="http://bradiation.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/vanhelsingcross1.jpg" alt="Van Helsing" width="250" height="187" /></p>
<p>Perhaps not the best, but at least my favorite, would be Peter Cushing in the Hammer series of Dracula films. Nowhere else is he portrayed as being so dapper, to the point of dandihood. The man&#8217;s just as likely to wear a tweed three-piece as he is to wear a purple crushed velvet suit worthy of <a href="http://14.media.tumblr.com/KJvVkFE17ky1xvj6rhCXPLEyo1_400.jpg" target="_blank">Chuck Bass</a>. You know he&#8217;s in dire straights when his immaculately slicked-back hair gets messy. A little.</p>
<p>It is unclear why the good people at Hammer Film Productions felt compelled to change his first name from &#8220;Abraham&#8221; to &#8220;J.&#8221;</p>
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<div class="mceTemp"><strong>Dr. Henry Armitage</strong></div>
<p style="text-align:left;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Miskatonic University Seal" src="http://bradiation.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/miskatonic_seal_medium1.png?w=300" alt="Miskatonic University Seal" width="210" height="210" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Miskatonic University&#8217;s head librarian is one of the few H.P. Lovecraft characters to ever <a href="http://bradiation.wordpress.com/wp-admin/Go Pseudopds!"></a>accomplish something other than going crazy or getting squished, and for this reason, some critics consider &#8220;The Dunwich Horror&#8221; to be one of the Mythos&#8217;s weaker entries. It&#8217;s true that it&#8217;s got a different adventure-to-horror ratio than much of Lovecraft&#8217;s writing, but the idea that this somehow makes it inferior is garbage. That there is an actual range of emotional and dramatic possibilities throughout the Cthulhu Mythos is exactly why writers are still dabbling in it decades later.</p>
<p><strong> </strong><strong>Rupert Giles</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img title="Buffy-and-Giles-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-5883202-343-400[1]" src="http://bradiation.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/buffy-and-giles-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-5883202-343-4001.jpg?w=257" alt="Buffy-and-Giles-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-5883202-343-400[1]" width="257" height="300" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">The father figure/mentor of <em>Buffy the Vampire Slayer</em> certainly fits the academic monster hunter trope: tweedy attire, glasses, stuffy accent, works in a library. As tends to be the case with the show&#8217;s characters, though, Giles is written against type. As we eventually learn, he dropped out of Oxford at twenty-one to play in a rock band and practice black magic (which I guess leaves me a little confused as to what kind of credentialing he has that allows him to work at a California public high school). As tends to be the case with the show&#8217;s characters&#8217; histories, it all comes back to bite him and the  people he cares about.</p>
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<p><sup>1</sup> Do these still exist? Am I showing my age?</p>
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<link>http://sfugue.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/2009-halloween-fugue-fest-post-2/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://sfugue.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/2009-halloween-fugue-fest-post-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For brevity&#8217;s sake, here&#8217;s some pictures linking to items concerning the next two films ]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>For brevity&#8217;s sake, here&#8217;s some pictures linking to items concerning the next two films in my fest, 1966&#8217;s Kill Baby Kill and 1973&#8217;s Horror Express. Enjoy the search, give into your sense of the fugue..</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060794/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1595" title="kill_baby_kill" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/kill_baby_kill.jpg" alt="kill_baby_kill" width="468" height="721" /></a><br />
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=479&#38;aff=16"><img class="size-full wp-image-1596 aligncenter" title="shadowy village" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/shadowy-village.jpg" alt="shadowy village" width="320" height="161" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.cinedelica.com/2007/10/10-questions-wi.html"><img class="size-full wp-image-1597 aligncenter" title="killbaby look" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/killbaby-look.jpg" alt="killbaby look" width="468" height="255" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068713/"><img class="size-full wp-image-1598 aligncenter" title="horrorexpress" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/horrorexpress.jpg" alt="horrorexpress" width="290" height="424" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://eccentric-cinema.com/cult_movies/horror_express.htm"><img class="size-full wp-image-1600 aligncenter" title="HorrorExpress2" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/horrorexpress2.jpg" alt="HorrorExpress2" width="170" height="118" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1599" title="horrexp3" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/horrexp3.jpg" alt="horrexp3" width="189" height="199" /></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://classic-horror.com/reviews/horror_express_1973"><img class="size-full wp-image-1601 aligncenter" title="horror express savalas" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/horror-express-savalas.jpg" alt="horror express savalas" width="400" height="288" /></a></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>The third and final post in the HFF will be coming soon in the next few days.</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[2009 Halloween Fugue Fest ! Post # 1]]></title>
<link>http://sfugue.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/2009-halloween-fugue-fest-post-1/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://sfugue.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/2009-halloween-fugue-fest-post-1/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hope you didn&#8217;t think we were done with Halloween! Like all good horror fans, TSFI is ensconce]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><strong>Hope you didn&#8217;t think we were done with Halloween! Like all good horror fans, TSFI is ensconced in horror movie marathon. So here&#8217;s what has been watched so far&#8230;. Do I have to mention here there be discreet linkage? Be sure to explore. If you haven&#8217;t been during the 31 posts blog to Halloween, there are many treats hidden there.</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0065738/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1560" title="FRANKENSTEIN_MUST_BE_DESTROYED_quad" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/frankenstein_must_be_destroyed_quad.jpg" alt="FRANKENSTEIN_MUST_BE_DESTROYED_quad" width="468" height="354" /></a></strong></p>
<p><strong> Instead of going for the obvious Hammer Horror choices like The Horror of Dracula, I tried to mix it up a little.</strong></p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1562" title="Did someone say Frankenstein?" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/did-someone-say-frankenstein1.jpg" alt="Did someone say Frankenstein?" width="468" height="267" /></strong></p>
<p><strong>Though I was fascinated by Christopher Lee&#8217;s feral agressive sexualized Dracula as a teen, I find myself becoming drawn more and more to Peter Cushing&#8217;s amoral deluded Doctor Frankenstein as I get older. The evil that he represents in the Frankenstein cycle of films is so much more real. Well, in a pulpy over the top way. But in the colorful atmosphere of Hammer Films that&#8217;s close enough for me. </strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1564" title="showing the dr his exit" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/showing-the-dr-his-exit.png" alt="showing the dr his exit" width="400" height="225" /></p>
<p><strong>Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, the 5th film in the cycle, takes the spirit of the original novel and runs it through the early 70s shock combine. In alot of ways this is one is pretty gruesome and, in one scene, sleazy.  Cushing pretty much dominates this cast, though George Pravda&#8217;s portrayal as Dr. Brandt is memorable as well.  Veronica Carlson&#8217;s turn as the gothic horror honey of the piece is merely okay.  A good start to the fest. </strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062909/"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1565" title="dracula_has_risen_from_the_grave_poster_" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/dracula_has_risen_from_the_grave_poster_.jpg?w=195" alt="dracula_has_risen_from_the_grave_poster_" width="195" height="300" /></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>How was I to know I was going to be doing a Veronica Carlson double feature?  Dracula Has Risen from The Grave was a surprise in several ways. It actually has continuity with previous installments in a clever way. The prologue  fits around the time of The Horror of Dracula and the movie starts proper around the time following  Dracula Prince of Darkness. While not having Van Helsing or vampire hunting monks, it has a decent cast of supporting characters.  I enjoyed the turns of Ewan Hooper as the tormented priest and Michael Ripper as tavern owner Max.  Just wish I could get the appeal of Barry Andrews. Not that he&#8217;s bad just compared to Lee&#8217;s Dracula, he&#8217;s a really trivial hero. That said, he&#8217;s sudden conversion from atheist to true believer is handled pretty succinctly in this most overtly religious of the Dracula cycle.  Some obvious plotting flubs keep this from being my favorite but it had that flavor I crave! </strong></p>
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<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1566" title="christopher-lee-dracula-has-risen-from-the-grave" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/christopher-lee-dracula-has-risen-from-the-grave.jpg" alt="christopher-lee-dracula-has-risen-from-the-grave" width="440" height="301" /></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1567" title="lee's shadow" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/still10.jpg" alt="lee's shadow" width="427" height="241" /></p>
<p><strong>Then the fest jumped from Hammer to 1953&#8217;s House of Wax.  What can I say?  It is a movie that seems to bridge two eras of horror.  Vincent Price is great as usual. But the more I watch this one, I am more freaked out by Carolyn Jones&#8217;s portrayal of Sue&#8217;s friend. Did people like her really exist? Yes it is a campy movie but there are many effective bits. I really enjoy the bit when Professor Jerrod is giving the tour of the museum. And the chase through the rainy fog shrouded streets. And the elevator murder. And the part where Professor Jerrod&#8230;uh&#8230;loses face with Sue. I wish there were more horror villains like Professor Jerrod than Jason.  I mean there is always room for one more knife wielding psychotic but could we get some classy monsters too? </strong></p>
<p><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1568" title="house of wax in 3-d" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/house-of-wax-in-3-d.jpg" alt="house of wax in 3-d" width="275" height="400" /></strong></p>
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<p><a href="http://www.thelightningbugslair.com/2009/08/terrifying-tuesday-house-of-wax-1953.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1569" title="sculptor on fire" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/sculptor-on-fire.jpg" alt="sculptor on fire" width="400" height="304" /></a></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1570" title="vince and the cavemen" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/vince-and-the-cavemen.jpg" alt="vince and the cavemen" width="338" height="450" /></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1571" title="wax in rain" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/wax-in-rain.jpg" alt="wax in rain" width="320" height="265" /></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Due to Tim Lucas&#8217;s awesome commentary on the latest  DVD of Baron Blood,  House of Wax lead me to this Bava shocker.  Baron Blood is not the best Bava but damn it sure finds its way back to the player a lot. It sends my brain back to a time when late night was ruled by horror films and not info-mercials. The atmosphere is mesmerizing. I also enjoy the way that Bava uses the Baron Blood character to make commentary on his obsessions. Very meta for its time. While it does resound in proximity to House of Wax, it seems more personal.  Before I start to babble..Here&#8217;s to shutting up!</strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-weight:normal;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069048/"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1572" title="_gli_orrori_" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/gli_orrori_.jpg" alt="_gli_orrori_" width="231" height="325" /></a></span></strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1573" title="running from the baron" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/running-from-the-baron.jpg" alt="running from the baron" width="468" height="265" /></p>
<p><a href="http://tenebrouskate.blogspot.com/2009/01/baron-blood-1972.html"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1574" title="hanging by the spiral" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/hanging-by-the-spiral.jpg" alt="hanging by the spiral" width="468" height="273" /></a></p>
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<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1576" title="baron_blood" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/baron_blood.jpg?w=197" alt="baron_blood" width="197" height="300" /></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Not to be confused with&#8230;.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baron_Blood"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1584" title="baronblood" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/baronblood.gif" alt="baronblood" width="254" height="401" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Okay that&#8217;s it for now. This fest will end sometime tomorrow as the world stumbles through All Saint&#8217;s Day like the undead! Don&#8217;t forget to set your clocks back!</strong></p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1578" title="Times Square Long Gone" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/theatre10.jpg" alt="Times Square Long Gone" width="468" height="315" /></p>
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<link>http://monsieursleaze.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/today-in-sleaze-history-2/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:46:55 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://monsieursleaze.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/today-in-sleaze-history-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell October 30 1974 Trivia: Peter Cushing claimed that the wig he]]></description>
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<h1 style="text-align:center;">Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell</h1>
<h1 style="text-align:center;">October 30 1974</h1>
<p style="text-align:left;">Trivia: <a href="http://img2.allposters.com/images/MMPH/165191.jpg" target="_blank">Peter Cushing</a> claimed that the wig he was required to wear made him look like <a href="http://acamp.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/hh-1931.jpg" target="_blank">Helen  Hayes</a>.</p>
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<link>http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/the-system/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:51:17 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The official story is that Hitchcock, under contract to Paramount, somehow felt that he hadn&#8217;t]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[31 Posts to Halloween 2 - Post # 28: Sir Christopher, King Fisher, &amp; The Count]]></title>
<link>http://sfugue.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/31-posts-to-halloween-2-post-28-sir-christopher-king-fisher-the-count/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 04:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[You can keep your sparkling emo vampires, I&#8217;ll take 1958&#8217;s The Horror of Dracula. This i]]></description>
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<p><strong>You can keep your sparkling emo vampires, I&#8217;ll take 1958&#8217;s The Horror of Dracula. This is a childhood favorite. Here&#8217;s some related video. Enjoy!</strong></p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/TxXpQat660A&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/TxXpQat660A&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.horror-movies.ca/horror_16027.html"><img class="size-full wp-image-1533 aligncenter" title="mrs dracula" src="http://sfugue.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/mrs-dracula.jpg" alt="mrs dracula" width="468" height="263" /></a></p>
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<link>http://cinemabooks.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/uniquely-hammer-films/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://cinemabooks.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/uniquely-hammer-films/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[New in at Cinema Books: Hammer Films A Life in Pictures by Wayne Kinsey, $54.95 cloth. Limited editi]]></description>
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<link>http://liveforfilms.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/star-wars-whats-all-that-noise/</link>
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<dc:creator>liveforfilms</dc:creator>
<guid>http://liveforfilms.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/star-wars-whats-all-that-noise/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Han Solo was a bit of a plonker sometimes. Source: I Watch Stuff]]></description>
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Han Solo was a bit of a plonker sometimes.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/10/han_finally_pays_for_all_that.php">I Watch Stuff</a></p>
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<link>http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/peter-cushing-1990s/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>drwhointerviews</dc:creator>
<guid>http://drwhointerviews.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/peter-cushing-1990s/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a brief quote from Peter Cushing, talking about the success of &#8216;Dr. Who and the D]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;I had played Winston Smith in &#8216;1984&#8242; on television, and the next thing I played &#8216;Doctor Who&#8217;. I was doing it in the cinema while Bill Hartnell was doing it on TV! That&#8217;s the way it goes. It was no surprise to me to learn that the first &#8216;Doctor Who&#8217; film was in the top twenty box office hits of 1965, despite the panning the critics gave us. That&#8217;s why they made the sequel and why they spent twice as much money on it. Those films are among my favourites because they brought me popularity with younger children. They&#8217;d say their parents didn&#8217;t want to meet me in a dark alley but &#8216;Doctor Who&#8217; changed that. After all, he is one of the most heroic and successful parts an actor can play. That&#8217;s one of the main reasons the series had such a long run on TV. I am very grateful for having been part of such a success story.&#8221;</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The Gorgon released October 18, 1964]]></title>
<link>http://goremasterfx.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/the-gorgon-released-october-18-1964/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>goremasterfx</dc:creator>
<guid>http://goremasterfx.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/the-gorgon-released-october-18-1964/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[  The Gorgon (1964)   The Gorgon is a 1964 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer]]></description>
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<p><strong><em>The Gorgon</em></strong> is a 1964 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer.</p>
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<p>It stars Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Barbara Shelley and Richard Pasco. The film was photographed by Michael Reeves, and designed by Bernard Robinson. For the score James Bernard combined a soprano with a little-known electronic instrument called the Novachord. The film marks one of the few occasions when Hammer turned to Greek mythology for inspiration; this time it is the legend of the Gorgon that is respun for the Hammer audiences.</p>
<p>Tagline:  A Monster With the Power to Turn Living Screaming Flesh Into Stone!</p>
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<p>Trivia:</p>
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<li>Prudence Hyman&#8217;s snake-filled wig was worked by five wires which were attached to a box that was about 25 feet behind her.</li>
<li>Although the UK cinema version was uncut some shots of the Gorgon&#8217;s decapitated head were slightly darkened by the BBFC.</li>
<li>Actress Barbara Shelley, who played the possessed heroine, Carla Hoffmann, wanted to play the part of the gorgon as well for continuity, and suggested to producer Anthony Nelson Keys that she use a special wig with live green garden snakes woven into it for a more realistic effect. Her idea was rejected by Keys due to budget and time considerations. When Keys saw the abysmal gorgon effects in the finished film, he told Shelley that he should have listened to her suggestion. As Christopher Lee quips, &#8220;The only thing wrong with &#8220;The Gorgon&#8221; is the gorgon!&#8221;</li>
<li>The name of the Gorgon character is &#8220;Megaera&#8221;, supposedly taken from mythology. But Megaera (&#8220;jealous&#8221;) in ancient myth is one of the three Erinyes, or Fates &#8211; the goddesses of revenge &#8211; not a Gorgon. According to Hesiod, the three Gorgons were Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa.</li>
<li>Prudence Hyman was nearly decapitated for real. She was supposed to duck when Lee swung the sword but forgot to do so at the critical moment. The assistant director pushed her aside just in time. The scene was then redone with a dummy.</li>
<li>Michael Goodliffe who plays Richard Pasco &#8217;s father in this film is only 12 years older than Pasco.</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Peter Cushing]]></title>
<link>http://elrinconoscuroblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/peter-cushing/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ElenaAnele</dc:creator>
<guid>http://elrinconoscuroblog.wordpress.com/2009/10/18/peter-cushing/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Peter Cushing (26 de mayo de 1913 † 11 de agosto de 1994). Desde muy pequeño se interesó por el mund]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Doctor Terror's House of Horrors, 1965 - Movie Review - 31 Days of Horror]]></title>
<link>http://liveforfilms.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/doctor-terrors-house-of-horrors-1965-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>liveforfilms</dc:creator>
<guid>http://liveforfilms.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/doctor-terrors-house-of-horrors-1965-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Director: Freddie Francis Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Roy Castle, A]]></description>
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<strong>Starring</strong>: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Sutherland, Roy Castle, Alan Freeman, Max Adrian, Michael Gough, Jennifer Jayne, Neil McCallum, Ann Bell, Kenny Lynch</p>
<p><em>This great review by Alan – all part of my </em><a href="../2009/09/30/31-days-of-horror-i-want-your-reviews/"><em>31 Days of Horror</em></a>.</p>
<p><em><a href="mailto:live.for.film@hotmail.co.uk">Send me your horror film reviews</a>.</em></p>
<p>One of Amicus’ “portmanteau” films Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors takes the form of five strangers finding themselves sharing a train carriage with the titular Doc (played fantastically by Peter Cushing) who proceeds to use his Tarot deck to tell tales of woe, soon to befall each of the five men.</p>
<p>First up is Jim Dawson, an architect sent to a rich widow’s house in the Hebrides, to make structural changes i.e. she wants a wall knocked down to make one big room. So far, so Location, Location, Location – but all is not as it seems… You may think you are being subtly pointed in a lycanthropic direction by the mists, moon shots and occasional howling. But subtlety is smashed, as swiftly as the offending wall, when Jim is told by creepy caretaker Caleb that he has “unearthed the coffin of Cosmo Valdemar… THE WEREWOLF!” This is probably the most accomplished of the five tales, and the one that could most easily have been a full feature. It’s atmospheric, creepy, features a nice little twist and best of all: a polite werewolf, who knocks before entering a room.</p>
<p>Next to tap the doc’s deck three times is Bill Rogers. He returns home from a family holiday, to find a sinister plant has sprung up in his front garden.  When it resists a spot of pruning by screaming, then knocking his shears out of his hand – Bill decides it’s best to go straight to the MOD. Here we meet two botanists: one is nothing but (carnivorous) plant food, the other is played by Bernard Lee (Connery and Moore’s “M”) who turns out to be a pipe smoking, flaming newspaper wielding badass.  There then follows some stealthy plant kills and fantastic faux science &#8211; Bernard Lee places a leaf of the evil plant under his microscope and declares “A brain! I was right!” This is another great little story with some fantastic lines and leaps of logic.</p>
<p>Third is record breaking Roy Castle *trumpet solo*. He plays musician Biff Bailey in a Voodoo-jazz-tastic tale of the perils of copyright infringement. Biff and his band travel to Tahiti for a gig, and while there he copies down the music of a secret voodoo ritual. Even though the High Priest warns him against bootlegging “the sacred music of the great god Dambellah”, Biff returns home and drops his black magic beats in a swinging London nightspot. Cue… well not very much at all really. A sinister wind blows all the club’s tablecloths onto the floor and everyone concerned acts as if the disco has been decimated. Biff is then tormented by mysterious match needing strangers, bins that appear from nowhere and a fourth wall breaking “Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors” (Certificate X) poster. Even though it is by far the weakest section, “Voodoo” is charming and amusing &#8211; from Roy Castle’s Prince Phillip-ian remarks to the ridiculously un-terrifying curse’s consequences.</p>
<p>Christopher Lee’s malicious art-critic (Franklin Marsh) makes the mistake of slamming artist Eric Landor’s efforts and is punished by being tricked into giving an enthusiastic review of a chimpanzee’s painting (I’m not making this up). Marsh responds by running Landor over and, as a result of his injuries, Landor loses his hand. Evidently he is not ambidextrous, as he promptly shoots himself and his disembodied hand sets out to wreak revenge. This is perhaps the nastiest segment, Lee is fantastically vitriolic and the hand effects still hold up surprising well.</p>
<p>Finally, Donald Sutherland plays Bob Carroll who brings home a new wife who seems to have a predilection for the red stuff. When his new Bride hungrily sucks the blood from his nicked pinkie, then turns into a bat and flies out the bedroom window and a local boy starts suffering from acute anaemia, Bob and a fellow Doctor put two and two together and start whittling. Though the bat effect is pretty poor and comes across as a demonic seagull, there’s plenty to enjoy here. The performances are nicely restrained and there’s a killer last line.</p>
<p>Yes, I’ve poked fun at it, but I dearly love Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors. It features some excellent actors (and Roy Castle). It moves along at a swift pace and if you’re not getting much from one of the tales – it’ll make way for another shortly. The range of stories covers lots of bases – you don’t get vampires, werewolves, triffids, voodoo AND avenging hands in one film very often. Plus, it’s British and they even kill the dog!</p>
<p>Previous <a href="../tag/31-days-of-horror/">31 Days of Horror</a> reviews:  <a href="http://liveforfilms.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/wrong-turn-3-left-for-dead-2009-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Wrong Turn 3</a>,  <a href="../2009/10/15/zoltan-hound-of-dracula-1978-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Zoltan Hound of Dracula</a>,  <a href="../2009/10/14/home-movie-2008-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Home Movie</a>, <a href="../2009/10/13/the-thing-1982-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">The Thing</a>, <a href="../2009/10/12/vamp-1986-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Vamp</a>, <a href="../2009/10/11/audition-1999-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Audition</a>, <a href="../2009/10/10/the-fury-1978-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">The Fury</a>, <a href="../2009/10/09/blood-feast-1963-movie-review-by-andrew-barker-31-days-of-horror/">Blood Feast</a>, <a href="../2009/10/08/paranormal-activity-2009-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Paranormal Activity</a>, <a href="../2009/10/07/braindead-1992-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Braindead</a>, <a href="../2009/10/06/halloween-1978-movie-review-by-michael-marshall-smith-31-days-of-horror/">Halloween</a>, <a href="../2009/10/05/friday-the-13th-part-2-1981-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Friday the 13th Part 2</a>, <a href="../2009/10/03/martin-1977-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Martin</a>, <a href="../2009/10/02/fright-night-1985-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Fright Night</a>, <a href="../2009/10/01/zombieland-2009-movie-review-31-days-of-horror/">Zombieland</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Twins of Evil released October 3, 1971]]></title>
<link>http://goremasterfx.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/twins-of-evil-released-october-3-1971/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>goremasterfx</dc:creator>
<guid>http://goremasterfx.wordpress.com/2009/10/17/twins-of-evil-released-october-3-1971/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[      Mary and Madeleine Collinson in Twins of Evil (1971)     Twins of Evil is a 1972 horror film b]]></description>
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<p><strong><em>Twins of Evil</em></strong> is a 1972 horror film by Hammer Film Productions starring Peter Cushing. It is the third film of The Karnstein Trilogy, based on the vampire tale Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu. The film has the least resemblance to the novel and adds a witchfinding theme to the vampire story. It is sometimes seen as a prequel to The Vampire Lovers, the first film in the Karnstein Trilogy, as the set design and costumes give the film an 18th Century look and feel. Much of the interest of the film revolves around the contrasting evil and good natures of two beautiful sisters, Frieda and Maria Gellhorn (played by twin Playmates Mary and Madeleine Collinson). Unlike the previous two entries in the series, this film contains only a brief vampire lesbian element.</p>
<p>Tagline: A new terror-filled X film</p>
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<p><strong>Trivia:</strong></p>
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<li>Harvey Hall is the only actor to appear in all three films of the Karnstein trilogy, although in different roles in each one. Peter Cushing also played one of the leads in the first, The Vampire Lovers, and also Luan Peters, who plays a small role in this film, also appeared in the second film Lust for a Vampire.</li>
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<li>Both the Collinson Twins were dubbed</li>
<li>Ingrid Pitt was offered the cameo role played by Katya Wyeth.</li>
<li>Used the same sets as Vampire Circus (1972)</li>
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<title><![CDATA[Introducing... Video Of The Week #1! ]]></title>
<link>http://matthewceo.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/introducing-video-of-the-week-1/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<guid>http://matthewceo.wordpress.com/2009/10/13/introducing-video-of-the-week-1/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Today, I decided people needed to watch videos on my blog, not just because they are associated with]]></description>
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<link>http://geeksyndicate.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/metropols-31-days-of-hammer-horror-double-feature-the-hound-of-the-baskervilles-1958the-man-who-cheat-death-1958/</link>
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<title><![CDATA[The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires released Oct. 6, 1974]]></title>
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<p><em><strong>The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires</strong></em> was a 1974 horror film produced by Hammer Studios and Shaw Brothers Studio.  Starring Peter Cushing, David Chiang, Julie Ege, and John Forbes-Robertson.</p>
<p>Both Roy Ward Baker, a British director who had helmed several previous Hammer films, and Chang Cheh, a veteran Hong Kong action director, worked on the movie, though only Baker is credited.</p>
<p>Tagline:  Deadly Horrors! Dragon Thrills! The First Kung Fu Horror Spectacular!</p>
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<p><em>The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires</em> was a co-production with Hong Kong&#8217;s Shaw Studio, made in the hope of garnering some of the kung fu movie market share.</p>
<p>The movie was released with various titles in different locations, including <em>The Seven Brothers Meet Dracula</em> and <em>Dracula and the Seven Golden Vampires</em>. It is a clear precursor of the ghost kung fu comedy genre initiated by Sammo Hung some ten years later (Encounters of the Spooky Kind, Mr. Vampire).</p>
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<p>The <em>Seven Brothers Meet Dracula</em> version trims twenty minutes of the film&#8217;s footage and soundtrack and loops several remaining scenes to fill the running time. The Anchor Bay DVD release features both the <em>Seven Brothers Meet Dracula</em> version and the original uncut <em>Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires</em> version.</p>
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<li><a name="#tr0713290"></a>Although Christopher Lee was offered the role of Dracula, he declined after reading the script.</li>
<li><a name="#tr0703479"></a>WILHELM SCREAM: During the big fight scene at the village (at 1hr 12mns) when Van Helsing shoves a zombie into the fire pit.
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