tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72473432397693479252024-02-07T22:22:25.844-08:00The Cult of Horrorm morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-71241626072203396802014-08-03T20:33:00.002-07:002014-08-03T22:13:11.074-07:00Messiah of Evil 73' aka Dead People dir. Willard Huyck<div class="MsoNormal">
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was watching the re-mastered version alone in a San Antonio hotel and midway I
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finished watching it on my phone. The bleak abandonment, the searching in a
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while viewing a film since the first time I had seen<i> <b>Let’s Scare Jessica to
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A young beautiful Arletty (Marianna Hill) travels to a dark
and dreary town called Point Dune, to visit her abstract artist father. She
finds letters in his heavily decorated gallery type, abandoned beach house
addressed to her about the “<b>Blood Moon</b>” and the terrible things that have
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The next morning, she searches for more answers at a local
art gallery and meets Thom (Michael Greer) a well-dressed art snob and his two
gal pals who are also curious about the “<b>Blood Moon</b>” as well. The nightmarish
and surreal events that take place after their meeting at the beach house can be likened to a bizarro,
Pre Lynchian-Fellini-esque night of horror, that also fades away when the sun
rises. At night some of the towns folk turn into a form of cannibalistic
vampires that can only be destroyed by fire, tearing one blood droplet from the left eye, wandering the dark streets, in supermarket’s
and movie theaters added numbers to their ghoulish horde, led by a dark stranger, a 100 yr old a descendant from the "Donner Party" Some ghouls leap through high windows, resist gun shots to the throat and one pours a gallon of blue paint on his face to add to the artistic back drop of the film.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A perfect score electronic score adds to the hypnotic and at
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m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-75053823155465618982014-05-27T18:09:00.000-07:002014-08-03T20:39:37.429-07:00Remembering Ingrid PittThe Gorgeous Ingrid Pitt only graced the world of horror with 4 notable cult films but her unmatched beauty stands the test of time.<br />
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A weird moment in my life, I was on a Hammer Horror kick and rented Vampire Lovers, obviously smitten by her looks, I looked her up the normal horror watching day on November 23rd 2010 and was shocked to discovery that same day she had died.<br />
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Young Ingrid Pitt survived being a Nazi Concentration camp and worked her way into minor movie stardom with <b><i>Dr Zhivago</i></b> and <i><b>Where Eagles dare</b></i> but horror fans remember her stunning looks, curvaceous figure and sultry voice in her Carmilla Karnstein roles <b><i>Countess Dracula</i></b> and <b style="font-style: italic;">Vampire Lovers </b>and the Amicus Anthology <i style="font-weight: bold;">The House that Dripped Blood. </i>Ingrid played a small role as a Summerisle police burning pagan in the beloved <i><b>Wicker Man. </b></i><br />
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Although her mark in horror cinema was brief her centerfold looks are timeless and have been adored for decades from horror fans around the world.<br />
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Ingrid Pitt November 21st, 1937-Novermber 23rd, 2010<br />
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m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-25420844083135653992014-04-16T18:53:00.003-07:002014-04-16T20:09:32.807-07:00Calvaire (04)<div class="MsoNormal">
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This by-the-numbers slow paced "Oh-no, my car is broken
down a creepy town horror" really caught my attention. I heard about
particular scenes (bar dance) from this film for years and was surprised at the
director's minimalist surreal approach to a typical setting story. A young traveling performer Marc Stevens (Laurent Lucas) travels in a treacherous rain
storm through old country road and unshockingly becomes stranded and led by an
odd ball local, who is searching for his dog, to an abandoned Inn. The Inn
keeper Bartel (Jackie Berroyer ) is a lovelorn man that never recovered from his lost love who was
also a performer. The two become friends as the performer's vehicle is to be
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upon a glimpse of towns folk engaging in some pig bestiality. The man flees
back to the hotel and realizes that the phone has never worked and no one is
coming to fix his vehicle, at that point the Inn Keeper destroys his vehicle
and holds him hostage. The traveler is then has half of his head shaven, wears
women's clothes and is forced into the identify of his lost lover. The Inn Keeper goes into the town, with rifle in hand, and says to the peculiar villagers that his lover his back and he will kill anyone who
tries to take her away. The oddball local finds a pig and thinks it is his lost
dog and has Christmas Dinner with the Inn Keeper and his new found love. The
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the protagonist and when the credits rolled abruptly, The film felt as if it
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Jodorowsky level. Most horror fans would hate this and would be turned off by
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m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-88066585051951957992014-04-02T20:03:00.002-07:002014-04-02T20:05:24.591-07:00Burnt Offerings 76' Produced, Written and Directed by Dan Curtis<br />
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An extremely well directed and plotted "Haunted House Horror" written, financed and directed by Dan Curtis (House of Dark Shadows) starring the impressive thespian Oliver Reed (Paranoiac, The Brood) as a husband "" and his peculiar wife Marian (Karen Black) and his mother " (Bettie Davis) and their annoying son rent (for a modest price) a large Victorian age house for the summer, two peculiar elderly folks (Burgess Meredith) with the condition of taking care of the old (and never seen) Ms. Aladice in the top room of the house.<br />
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7/10m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-38390208903001291372014-04-02T19:51:00.004-07:002014-04-02T20:05:51.081-07:00The Confessional aka House of Mortal Sin 76'Directed by British Thriller Veteran Pete Walker (Frightmare, Flesh and Blood Show)<br />
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Young Jenny Welch (Susan Pehaligon) succumbs to the taunts of a manipulative and murderous catholic priest (played perfectly by Anthony Sharp) but has no one to turn to. The priests victims, who are morally askew, suffer his religious wrath through taped confessions and even a few of the fragile flock end up dead through poison communion wafers and Rosary Bead strangulations. The priests invalid and mute mother desperately tries to let someone know of his madness but her attempts are blocked by a disfigured Miss Brabazon (Sheila Kiethalso from Walker's Frightmare)<br />
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After the local goons are taken into custody for Bubba's death, it is written off as self defense and the men go free. Shortly afterwards each of the men who were guilty start seeing a Scarecrow in a field periodically and then a gruesome death follows afterwards. Films like this follow a Wash, Rinse, Repeat of a basic storyline but the cool angle of Dark Night is you are on the side of the Stalker side waiting patiently for him to kill each victim. With wide shots of farm scenery and a scarecrow theme killer, this is a perfect film to watch around Halloween. <b>8 out of 10</b><br />
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Catherine then frees her next stripped bare victim and sets her loose, self-realizing that she is evil and is hating what she is becoming. Then Helene sets a tourist on fire who flees screaming and jumps off of a bridge and chops another tourists head with a midieval axe. Moved by guilt and self loathing. Catherine attempts to drown herself in a lake but is rescued by Helene. In Catherine's fury she rips her to shreds and devours her with a slow backwards moving camera shot, leaving the blood-soaked Catherine alone in the dark.<br />
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Clint Ramsey's luck turns around when he meets a woman quite like Super Angel in appearance (also played by Shari Eubank)but only all she is all too sweet as a gas station/restuarant owner. Ramsey finally finds love until the evil Harry Sledge enters their life again to bring a climax of cartoonish dynamite throwning violence that could only be taken slightly serious in the entertaining Universe of Russ Meyer. 8/10<br />
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A young pregnant Martha Schmidt(Maren Jensen) loses her husband in a farming accident, attempts to stay on the farm with the help of her friends Vicki and Lana (starring a young voluptuous Sharon stone and Susan Buckner). Vicki suffers her own hell after being trapped in the barn and battles nightmares of a spider and Lana tries seducing a curious Hittite, who was the brother Hittite turned wordly John Schmidt. The Hittites (as quoted from the film "Makes the Amish look like swingers") continue to torment these three woman with threats of vandalism and planting typical scares for the genre helmed by the screen captivating Michael Berryman, until they decide to fight back and arm themselves.<br />
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The films third act transcends into the supernatural, and delivers more frightening tension than an average slasher with a sleep walking psychic, ghostly visitation and one hell of a shoot out that was not scene in Craven's films until this one. The ending rings a bell for exploitation fans of Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. Borgnine's strong performance as the overbearing rule enforcing elder brings strength to the story, and his harsh way of dishing out punishment to even shunning his own people. <span style="text-align: center;">A surprising 8/10. If you are a Craven completist or are tired of the regular late 70's early 80's slasher fair, this will be a breath of fresh air.</span><br />
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Fandom always appreciates Hammer productions for being moody, Gothic period pieces, some varying in budget from impressive to unconvincing. Twins of Evil,however shot in the 70's was way past Hammer's prime, yet comes out strong, more evil and showing more skin usual in a Hammer production. <br />
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With the Collinson twins upping the ante for sex appeal, and the atmospheric directing of John Hough (Legend of Hell House) <i>Twins </i> is a pleasing and strong third entry. As of 2012 Synapse release a gorgeous Blu Ray/DVD combo and fandom was finally satisfied. Prior viewing would have to be seen on VHS or a rough VHS to DVD transfer. m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-3140373604765520292012-07-09T17:12:00.000-07:002013-03-09T02:02:37.871-08:00Zulawski's Possession 81'<br />
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A distraught husband (Sam Nell) is certain his wife (Isabella Adjani) is having an affair. His investigation leads him on a downward spiral to an emotional breakdown, as he finds out the truth of his wife's actual were-abouts. The end result reveals a dark, evil realm of questions that no man should ever asked himself.<br />
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Adjani's award winning performance maybe (and I am not saying this lightly) one of the most disturbing performances ever filmed. This marital drama transcends paranoia and rejection and enters into a bizarre world of sickening horror that would turn most audiences stomachs and even drop the jaws of hardened horror viewers.<br />
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A must see for any fan of cult cinema or horror. Few films have come close to the disturbing content, save the earlier work of David Cronenberg (The Brood)m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-24056485566019700762012-04-28T01:47:00.002-07:002013-03-09T02:14:40.052-08:00Horror Hotel aka City of the Dead 60'<br />
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The always screen captivating Christopher Lee stars as an occult savvy Professor who leads a young student, Nan Barlow, into a haunted Massachusetts town called Whitewood, for the furthering of her knowledge in Witchcraft. Little does she know that she is the now a target for a virgin sacrifice.<br />
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The title is a mouthful and a bit convoluted, however in the early days of Italian slashers (Giallo's) director Sergio Martino made a film that was head and shoulders above what was in Italy at that time. <i>Your Vice </i>is loosely based off of <i>Edgar Allen Poe's </i><b>The Black Cat</b> starring the saucy thesp Edwige Fenech (a staple vixen for Giallo films), the abused wife Anita Stringberg and her villainous husband Luigi Pistilli.<br />
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A burnt out, writer/cheating husband humiliates his wife in front of guests during one of his drunken parties then begins having hallucinations of his dead mother. The downward spiral of the inebriated husband becomes more unbearable as the wife becomes more afraid for her life, dead women start piling in the house and the police start questioning. Fenech's role is a breath of fresh air to the cruel and foreboding atmosphere that looms over the villa. She plays a mysterious lovelorn and bi-curious character who brings unanswered questions from her past. The black cat plays his role admirably (named Satan) and the he plays the same plot device as Poe's story. Yet the "Black Cat" plays a red herring in this mystery for the viewer as well ,the storie's twist comes unseen as the victimized show their true deceptive motives.<br />
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Beautifully executed by <i>Martino's</i> masterful direction in a gorgeous Italian Villa. <i>Martino's</i> style is different then <i>Argento's</i> or <i>Bava's</i> surrealist approach to the genre nor is his violence as over the top as <i>Lucio Fulci, Martino</i>'s focus on his stories is character struggle mixed with sensuality (see <b>Strange Vice of Mrs.Wardh </b>and <b>All the Colors of the Dark</b>) Watch also for the hilarious placement of J&B bottles within the house. (Green J&B bottles are as much a character in Giallo films as a black gloved killer). <b>9 out of 10.</b>m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-12491393174802798242011-09-18T14:20:00.000-07:002013-03-09T21:48:28.573-08:00Grapes of Death 79' by Jean Rollin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My favorite Jean Rollin Film, rough and typical start for this French gorefest but the story picks up quick. Two young college girls travel by train to a lush country side, a mindless attacker, covered in sores, staggers into their train car, kills on of the girls and Elizabeth (the beautiful and late Marie Georges Pascal) barley escapes the train alive and runs to safety at a secluded farm house. She stumbles upon a farmer and his disfigured and dead wife and then he turns to attack her as well. The story precedes with an infected country side, due to pesticides in the vineyards, with tragic results to whomever drinks the wine from that area, becomes a savage undead killer. Good social commentary that we should ponder today about chemicals in our own foods today.<br />
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Decent cinematography mixed, fantastic gore and atmosphere and the sterotypical Euro-trash nudity make this Rollin film stand out from the rest of his catalog. Their is an unforgettable graphic scene of a woman being nailed to a door, then decapitated while screaming, that will surely stick with you. Very bleak and ambiguous ending. If you have seen Dawn, Day, Night and Zombi 2, you will really enjoy this.<b>8 out of 10</b><br />
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This almost forgotten film finally has received it's proper treatment to Blu Ray, Curtains was kept in hiding for years on VHS to DVD transfers and talked about in small circles. The bleak winter atmosphere, creepy dolls on rainy back woods roads, a killer in an old woman mask with a sickle and a scary mental breakdown performance by Samantha Egger (The Brood).<br />
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An overbearing director charges six beautiful women to stay with him in his dark secluded mansion for the weekend to bear everything in an audition for a role in his upcoming film. Jealousy ensues and the women back stab and betray each other until they die off one by one. The lavish death scenes are cruel, like a Giallo and the pace is formidable for a slasher, but the unconventional twist at the end demands a re-watch to follow characters motives.<br />
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Curtains was shot in 81 and released in 83 but it feels like a mid-70's horror film, in terms of atmosphere and cinematography. <b>8 out of 10</b>m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-3429753744738079582011-06-28T14:19:00.000-07:002011-10-22T09:37:43.243-07:00Top 70's HorrorThere are easily a good 100 or so horror films from the 70's that can overthrow most modern horror in terms of suspense, gore, social commentary, innovativeness and most of all atmosphere.<br />
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There are the obvious 70's horror films like John Carpenter's <i>Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw</i> <i>Massacre</i> and <i>The Exorcist</i> then there are the 2nd tier of 70's horror like <i>Black Christmas, George Romero's Martin, </i>and<i> Suspiria</i>.<br />
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Hollywood has laid waste to most of these good names with remakes, rehashes and re-hacks that most common horror viewers are unaware that <i>The Hills Have Eyes, Last House on the Left</i> or<i> The Crazies</i> are remakes.<br />
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My unconventional top 70's horror is as follows (By unconventional, I mean you might not have heard of it)<br />
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<b>Shockwaves (77)</b>- The quintessential Nazi Zombie film, starring Peter Cushing. A boat is shipwrecked on a seemingly deserted island, that is the old experimenting grounds of SS killing machines. They awake from their slumber and kill again. Fantastic cinema photography, the suspenseful build up to the killings is treated as fair and intelligent to the viewer, equivalent to Carpenter's delivery in Halloween. The ending is very disturbing and leaves a grim feeling, superior film that deserves more attention. <b>8 out 10. </b><br />
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<b>Rabid (77)</b>- Another David Cronenberg gore-fest. Adult star Marilyn Chambers under goes radical plastic surgery after a motorcycle accident then its all "body-horror" meets <i>Night of the Living Dead.</i> Odd deaths that involve a tentacle from the armpit. Comparable to Romero's <i>The Crazies</i> with trigger-happy Military vs.Quarantined Citizen. Chambers proves her acting abilities outside the adult world as the terrorized and unknowing murderess. <b>9 out of 10.</b><br />
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<b>Silent Night, Night Bloody (74)</b>- Crazy people used to reside in an old house, have they resided there all these years? Watch for the beautiful sepia toned asylum flashback. The House on Haunted Hill remake lifted this scene. <b>7 out of 10.</b><br />
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<b>Isle of the Damned (76)</b> aka <i>Who Can Kill a Child</i>. Hitchcokian elements inspire this evil child horror film. Low on gore, heavy on suspense. The first documentary style segment is unnecessary however the film build and builds as the town closes in on the unsuspecting couple. <b>8 out of 10.</b><br />
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<b>Daughters of Darkness (71)</b> Harold Kumel directs this big budget, Vampire, Euro-Horror with a classy finesse, more dialogue driven and focusing on the drama and turmoil of another married couple with a Countess that comes in between their marriage. <b>9 out of 10.</b><br />
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<b>Vampyres (75)</b> Part Vampiress Gothic-Horror and part lesbian-erotica. Two beautiful young females lure men and women back to their castle to commit seduction and murder. Gained a cult following. Great restored copy by Blue Underground. Not for the Squeamish. <b>9 out of 10.</b><br />
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<b>Private Parts (72)</b> One of the most strange love scenes in any film ever, (spoiler, man + blow-up doll) but don't let that scare you. Paul Bartel's <i>Private Parts</i> is a creepy hotel horror with even creepier tenants, more of a bizarre character study than actual scares. Great restoration and much better than <i>Howard Stern's</i> film Private Parts. <b>8 out of 10.</b><br />
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This particular Italian slasher features a large roster of beautiful college girls that get killed off particularly quickly, with little time for any character development or attachment. But Torso sets it self higher than most other films of this nature. The killer, a dapper and perverse psychopath, donned with a gray ski mask and a handsome silk neck scarf creatively eliminates each victim in the oh-so elegant ways of murder that the scenes are gore-tacular artistry.What makes Torso stand out amongst slashers films with the same premise is the odd camera angles and perspectives, which could have been an influence on John Carpenter for Halloween and I think even more so for Alexander Aja's High Tension. Halloween is praised for its credit for what it did for slasher films but I think credit should established to Italian director Sergio Martino ( Your Vice, All the Colors of the Dark) .<br />
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Concerning the blood and gore of the film, for 1973, hack-sawing limbs off of dead corpses and close ups of blood pools slowing draining in the muddy water while a minimalistic score seems pretty bold for the time and place of where this film was in the world of horror. Fortunately, the recent release of Torso on DVD may increase popularity along with the rise of in popularity of the Giallo genre, one would hope a 70's gem like this could be talked about in the next decade as one of the great contributors to horror. <b>9 out of 10</b>m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-31847785374938786912011-06-15T19:16:00.000-07:002013-03-09T02:18:29.498-08:00Pete Walker's Frightmare<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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After watching hundreds of horror films you become desensitized to well, just about everything, the only good that could come out of horror desensitization is when you see a good horror film, that actually IS good you say, "well dammit, I should tell someone about this one." Frightmare was a treat. Any film about cannibalism should either not take it self seriously or freak the hell out of you but Frightmare was directed, with a bit more finesse and written and acted so well that not only was it taking the subject matter very seriously but it had a simmering tension that came to a conclusive ferocious boil at the end. I have become a recent fan of British horror director <i>Pete Walker</i>, with <b>The Confessional</b>, <b>House of the Whipcord</b> and the wonderfully disturbing <b>Schizo</b> and I love all of his films. <b>8 out of 10.</b><br />
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Pete Walker is a criminally underrated master of horror or better yet, horror-dramas. His films usually are lengthy, a bit wordy and are shot with a by the numbers standard but the way he tells his stories with editing and how the actors flesh out the complex scripts mixed with great scores make each and every one of his films something to be sought after. Frightmare is a great start to his catalog but another gem to be held on par is his psycho-thriller masterpiece <b>Schizo</b>.m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-81500311763769507352011-06-15T19:11:00.000-07:002013-03-09T02:19:05.003-08:00Black Belly of the Tarantula<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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1971 was a good year for the Giallo genre. All Giallo films have the haunting score, a good majority by Ennio (genius) Morricone, and most Giallo's have the bold camera tricks, black gloved killers, colorful back drops, excessive blood-letting and oh-so-beautiful victims, but director Paolo Cavara (Mondo Cane) had the right elements with the film to make it one of the best of the genre.<br />
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The story's perspective isn't the typical Hitchcockian framed man caught in the middle of a murder while proving his innocence but instead follows a brooding inspector, who lost heart in his profession, yet follows the killer's bloody trail. The victims are viciously killed by being debilitated with a poisonous needle in the back of the neck and then cut open by a scalpel in the stomach. Black Belly has the right elements to transcend similar films within the genre by its ominous and hypnotic tone. The atypical cheese that comes with 70's European horror films is not present and the end leaves you feeling melancholic. (Which was also present concerning context in Dirty Harry of the same year) If you like Hitchcock or even the 70's films from Brian De Palma you should start you Giallo viewing with this particular film. <b>9 out 10.</b>m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-64058488622983346992011-06-15T19:07:00.000-07:002011-10-22T09:50:20.867-07:00Lady in a Cage<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY4YUHt9nK6ENxn4rGZkJzZMychjutLTA8nyMymC3yW-aV6vhGgdmvx_flaL5Wqqpqxhbft3PzmCU2eoZKOVd84Nf1xEftgWoMNWqsy3lcVVF_R1gxCm03kbP0cpqKIC2RQlnwEY3WkgM/s1600/987vmc6qq5m5cmq8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiY4YUHt9nK6ENxn4rGZkJzZMychjutLTA8nyMymC3yW-aV6vhGgdmvx_flaL5Wqqpqxhbft3PzmCU2eoZKOVd84Nf1xEftgWoMNWqsy3lcVVF_R1gxCm03kbP0cpqKIC2RQlnwEY3WkgM/s320/987vmc6qq5m5cmq8.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>In the early 60's Hollywood churned out films that would fall under the title of "hag-horror" or older women-in-peril films. The genre's explosion began with What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? and most of those films starred the aged and heavy handed Joan Crawford (Straight Jacket). Lady in a Cage was the lesser known of the genre but the social commentary that it held then, still holds an impact now. The violence and mean-spirited villian's were an an exaggeration of what society could be like in a world where people turn a blind eye to blatant crimes of violence in broad daylight.<br />
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The old woman in peril (Olivia DeHavilland) viciously battles mental abuse and physical attacks from a Preaching Wino, a Aged Prostitute and three grimy beatnik hoodlums (one of them being a young and handsome James Caan) while imprisoned in her own house, in an elevator (the cage) on a hot summer afternoon. Films like these spawned into a more bizarre type of films called "roughies" in which the damsel in distress became a young beauty instead of easy targeted elderly. Notable "Roughies" were <i>Bad Girls go to Hell</i> and <i>Defilers</i> which pushed sex and violence towards women even further. <b>9 out of 10</b>m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-88852738016239764592011-04-18T12:50:00.000-07:002013-03-13T22:13:12.590-07:00Cult Italian Siren Edwige Fenech<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Edwige Fenech, the gorgeous Italian, raven haired, doe-eyed, Christmas Eve born beauty, has been a great contribution to Italian horror films and thrillers and even a few Euro sex-comedies since the early 70's. Her striking features have captivated European audiences for years and finally in the wake of her films being released on DVD (in the past 10 years) American audiences are being swept away as well. Fenech came out of retirement and got face time in a short cameo in Eli Roth's Hostel 2.<br />
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Edwige's wide range of characters varies from a damsel-in-distress, sultry temptress to a voluptuous villain-ess. In most cases within her roles the character is in various states of undress with psychedelic backgrounds and trippy music that was common place in Italian horror. It is rumored that Italian director Sergio Martino had a difficult time working with Fenech, not at her fault, but at the cast and crew around her, her apparent beauty would make the cast and crew nervous. Let's give her a 10 out of 10 also.<br />
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Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh<br />
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I have the Key<br />
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Hostel 2m morganhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04545664008236766363noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7247343239769347925.post-66030136505900141522011-03-23T13:14:00.000-07:002013-03-09T02:21:27.341-08:00Give it to the Italians!Giallo's are unlike anything else in the world or horror.<br />
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The rich colorization, hyper-editing, odd camera angles'& POV's, beautiful woman, psychedelic murders, non-linear story telling and red herrings and oh, the titles of the films, the titles alone are a story on there own. Combining these rich artistic elements can either make a normal horror viewers head spin and shake your fist at the screen or only cry out for more.<br />
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The Godfather of this movement came from <b>Mario Bava</b>. He exploded on the scene in 1960 with moody and thick atmosphere black & white supernatural masterpiece <i>Black Sunday</i>, then moved into rich color and lighting with <i>Black Sabbath</i> and <i>Blood and Black Lace</i>. These films had the suspense of a Hitchcock film but also incorporated a level of Art House horror by paying attention to special set and lighting details.<br />
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In 1970 <b>Dario Argento</b>, who was heavily influence by Bava, redefined the Giallo films with Bird with the Crystal Plumage. The financial success of that film created a frenzy of Italian film makers to shoot more colorful and gory films. Which launched the success of other Italian film-makers such as <b>Sergio Martino</b> and <b>Lucio Fulci </b>and then later <b>Lamberto Bava </b>(son of Mario) and <b>Michele Soavi</b>, who many credit his film <i>Dellamorte Dellamore</i> 1994 to be the last of the true Giallo films.<br />
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Thanks to the cult following of these films, many of the reputable films have been beautifully transferred to DVD and and have come out of obscurity. Now, Giallo fans can clutch onto copies of their favorite Italian Slashers that have the clarity and color treatment those films deserve.<br />
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Recommended Giallo's and Supernatural Italian Horror.<br />
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Black Sunday<br />
Black Sabbath<br />
Blood & Black Lace<br />
The Whip and the Body<br />
Twitch of the Death Nerve<br />
Bird with the Crystal Plumage<br />
Cat O' Nine Tales<br />
Four Flies on Grey Velvet<br />
Suspiria<br />
Inferno<br />
Tenbre (Unsane)<br />
Opera <br />
Two Evil Eyes<br />
Macabre<br />
Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only Have the Key<br />
The Strange Vice of Mrs.Wardh<br />
Case of the Scorpion's Tail<br />
Case of the Bloody Iris<br />
All the Colors of the Dark <br />
Black Belly of the Tarantula<br />
Torso<br />
The Red Queen Kills Seven Times<br />
Seven Blood Stained Orchids<br />
Who Saw Her Die?<br />
What Ever Happened to Solange?<br />
The House with Laughing Windows <br />
Short Night of the Glass Dolls<br />
The Beyond<br />
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin<br />
Don't Torture a Duckling <br />
Stagefright<br />
The Church <br />
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