tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52149304408843481272024-03-18T19:38:04.019-04:00The Bloody Pit of HorrorReviews of vintage horror/exploitation films (1950 to 1990 covered) from all over the globe.The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.comBlogger2893125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-41918788047934246352024-03-17T14:45:00.000-04:002024-03-17T14:45:08.363-04:00Medium (1985)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRHzE5-q90AJuvDFRGC36x_ckZO6SwvvhNTibmgD6h2-_TfT_OSDJCrfetT9KVbv27AlyK1ms0hE0a01xTU1pu1NxI4aS_bAsqYbh1-spVKZTcden1hHp0ik4UBrsNO0jdBh22Wy0_2OnldIoaufHyHk8cZ5R-g7hRTPMGw0CDyQu1L2k_SbKTvIaw43H/s708/medium851.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="708" data-original-width="468" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaRHzE5-q90AJuvDFRGC36x_ckZO6SwvvhNTibmgD6h2-_TfT_OSDJCrfetT9KVbv27AlyK1ms0hE0a01xTU1pu1NxI4aS_bAsqYbh1-spVKZTcden1hHp0ik4UBrsNO0jdBh22Wy0_2OnldIoaufHyHk8cZ5R-g7hRTPMGw0CDyQu1L2k_SbKTvIaw43H/s320/medium851.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Ling yu an jian</i> (<i>Supernatural Cases</i>)<div>... aka: <i>Mediet</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Медиум</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Mysteria replica di un omicidio</i> (<i>Mystery - Replica of a Crime</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Un misterio llamado Aleksander Orwicz</i> (<i>A Mystery Called Aleksander Orwicz</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jacek Koprowicz</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Setting: 1933, Nazi-occupied Poland. Greta Wagner (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ewa Dałkowska</span></b>), the powerful psychic sister of veteran parapsychologist / occultist Ernst (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jerzy Nowak</span></b>), tunes into strange visions that are actually the current activities of another unknown medium. The medium is using his or her powers to control four different people, entrancing them and leading them all somewhere to do different tasks. Andrzej Gaszewski (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jerzy Zelnik</span></b>) travels from Warsaw to the autonomous city-state Sopot / Gdańsk via train and has no idea how he even got there, but vows not to leave until he finds out. Schoolteacher Luiza Skubiejska (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Grażyna Szapołowska</span></b>) walks right out on her students mid-class, goes to a museum, steals a turn-of-the-century dress and then ends up in a park with no clue how she got there or why she has the dress. She then immediately returns the garment to the museum. Since this hasn't been the first time this has ever happened, she's on the radar of the police and could potentially lose her job. Likewise, out-of-town banker Georg Netz (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jerzy Stuhr</span></b>) keeps waking up in a strange house, despite the fact he's simultaneously paying for a hotel room in town. He has no idea how he got there, why he's there or why he's been writing gloomy lovelorn poetry while entranced.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIW1C3RCNVPKiDP3GuLFjmzV5t7XGClZRnHBqSL1fV_zqHv3X3sPWStu-jrULI7VNNGL0TdbtAbZf6wM_4HFy9tM-C7DOFBvrcjcJPfqW08sk6C1aIcRxFGrRZ-WjUqPexQSZ_EFCxRhoSQET1ZIWX1mguWNQY2-V-WTDiIHGaTM5_ecGZsJHV2K5iGnrm/s703/medium854.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="703" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIW1C3RCNVPKiDP3GuLFjmzV5t7XGClZRnHBqSL1fV_zqHv3X3sPWStu-jrULI7VNNGL0TdbtAbZf6wM_4HFy9tM-C7DOFBvrcjcJPfqW08sk6C1aIcRxFGrRZ-WjUqPexQSZ_EFCxRhoSQET1ZIWX1mguWNQY2-V-WTDiIHGaTM5_ecGZsJHV2K5iGnrm/w400-h268/medium854.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguMVFydXrzJN5mnLJ27k-3p2VCkXzafJBlRR5fqDQgPaNZ8sxZ_vq2AobqL_3Mh_6K4mn_V3DjioqFa59GJLwfYGlmTBjt_TbSvb6OR9QVOkqEOL5GuGwRzvFy8uc_VKhwEnME9NdAVjbln78qzTvq661y7eCq7n945eoAOJGvo_6YMUWNZ3jQUc59pWJL/s706/medium859.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Every night after work, he mysteriously ends up on a beach, where he gets drunk and goes to sleep. When morning comes he doesn't remember the evening before and then turns up at the office every day unbathed, unshaven and reeking of alcohol. His young assistant Krank (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Michał Bajor</span></b>) is something of a sadist who worships Hitler ("it's logical to side with the stronger," he claims) and is conspiring against Selin behind his back. He secretly goes to their higher-ups to report the superintendent's bizarre behavior but they refuse to fire him for it. At least for now.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The strange home that appears to be the centerpiece of the action belongs to a Polish man named Aleksander Orwicz, who suffers from diabetes and is later found in a diabetic coma. 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In the late 1890s, extremely rich forty-something banker Stefan Orwicz married beautiful 22-year-old Zofia. He built her a luxurious Italian-style home and the two soon welcomed a son named Aleksander. Things then took a turn for the worst when Stefan went blind due to his diabetes. A live-in doctor named Malicki moved into the home to care for him full time. Soon after, he and Zofia began an affair. That arrangement would soon came to a bloody end when Wiktor Arlt, Stefan's hunchbacked secretary and personal assistant, went crazy and murdered all three of them with an axe. See, he too was in love with Zofia, and would often write her poems about how grueling his unrequited love for her was. 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That's not an endorsement of its quality so much as it is the simple fact that not many horror films were produced in Poland in the 80s and two of those were <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2021/05/wilczyca-1983.html" target="_blank">THE SHE-WOLF</a></b> (1983) and <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/01/lubie-nietoperze-1986.html" target="_blank">I LIKE BATS</a></b> (1986). Some of their other genre films from this time sound promising so this may even end up on the lower half of the scale for me by the time I see the rest. Nevertheless, being slightly better than the two middling films mentioned above doesn't mean <i>Medium</i> is inspiring or noteworthy itself. It's not. Things open well and the intrigue is maintained until about the midway point. That, combined with the competent directing, acting and production values, keep everything watchable even after it starts becoming something of a mess. The true undoing of the film is that it's never able to make its myriad plot threads work together harmoniously.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Slow and talky most of the time, this attempts to dress up its average mystery plot with various needless complications. The script makes room for psychic powers, doppelgangers, leech treatments, telekinesis, spontaneous combustion, human lives linked to sea turtles (?), immortality, physical regression to childhood, horoscopes that combine astrology and math (birth dates and times) to predict the exact time and day of death and a solar eclipse that's somehow needed to bring the bad guy's plot together. Why? You got me! There are a LOT of ideas crammed in here; <i>too many</i>, and this doesn't do an adequate job explaining most of them. The overcast cinematography, funeral pacing, lack of personable characters and humor and Nazi era setting also gave me bad flashbacks to Luca Guadagnino's tedious <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2019/03/suspiria-2018.html" target="_blank">SUSPIRIA</a></b> remake from a few years back.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LLOLwW1u5uXViim5pCqaxX1CL_vsHzNbFLgtnZdKQe1Kg-AGCZBe2qh37udGUtlpXBEXa8awqjHZuzuyzm_QjueA16OMOV9Q-_yZXdV6wB5OETyIxB40mpeXkWaZJgRJEB-7Gji4-ItkW58RCswLjWBqNqA4-IYrBzZYV6X8XbmrikS65csCGnA2GNz6/s706/medium8519.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="706" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0LLOLwW1u5uXViim5pCqaxX1CL_vsHzNbFLgtnZdKQe1Kg-AGCZBe2qh37udGUtlpXBEXa8awqjHZuzuyzm_QjueA16OMOV9Q-_yZXdV6wB5OETyIxB40mpeXkWaZJgRJEB-7Gji4-ItkW58RCswLjWBqNqA4-IYrBzZYV6X8XbmrikS65csCGnA2GNz6/w400-h271/medium8519.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Both involve a coma patient who's fully conscious inside their unresponsive body and using their telekinetic abilities to strike out against others. There a number of other similarities between it and this one, only this opts to gum up the works with numerous ill-explained supernatural detours.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9h3lcnh9nntPTJ0Y5gkZwMDfhF_4C3VlGLeyNJSZhDED2PoTL-ctsaULgBSHK3__eJbovOXpuWzQ5PfaOiaSuBh_lrx2cFm6ZIye-fxxZ5l3LyFU3c1gSlKo9SqDg7TTLuzeF-TsWwvkb8yKlvSz8WWmKWuMdCxOSEtZzIREgQShNwsWWvdRU7lCa2T0X/s869/medium852.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="869" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9h3lcnh9nntPTJ0Y5gkZwMDfhF_4C3VlGLeyNJSZhDED2PoTL-ctsaULgBSHK3__eJbovOXpuWzQ5PfaOiaSuBh_lrx2cFm6ZIye-fxxZ5l3LyFU3c1gSlKo9SqDg7TTLuzeF-TsWwvkb8yKlvSz8WWmKWuMdCxOSEtZzIREgQShNwsWWvdRU7lCa2T0X/s320/medium852.jpg" width="221" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXXj85NDJsmSYS7Y2p5N4N9gWzcUmtFPrBYsWL2g9tZQfq-wDYdywIk1PyCZVNhDUBnB-0HUdcpn1PnUKqs1RcppvS7g5FvpSIE03fkCnfoQi14hIpsnNgGGj40AKNQ_yktg6JOwHb0etlGIlhyphenhyphenIvC26PYDkgvrWV5OC8DiAnlz-7LDKP8pqy-QQ0Nzqf/s1618/medium853.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1618" data-original-width="1127" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtXXj85NDJsmSYS7Y2p5N4N9gWzcUmtFPrBYsWL2g9tZQfq-wDYdywIk1PyCZVNhDUBnB-0HUdcpn1PnUKqs1RcppvS7g5FvpSIE03fkCnfoQi14hIpsnNgGGj40AKNQ_yktg6JOwHb0etlGIlhyphenhyphenIvC26PYDkgvrWV5OC8DiAnlz-7LDKP8pqy-QQ0Nzqf/s320/medium853.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Outside of its home country, this was given a theatrical and VHS release (on the Penta Video label) in Italy under the title <i>Mysteria replica di un omicidio</i> ("Mystery: Replica of a Crime"), but that appears to be it as far as 80s international distribution was concerned . A West German co-production, it <i>may</i> have also played in some other European cinemas, or on TV, as well. It's now pretty easy to find with English subtitles and is on Youtube, Daily Motion and other websites free to view, and was even available on Netflix for a spell, though I don't know if it's still there or not. Studio Filmowe Tor / Studio Blu offer region free Blu-ray and DVD versions with English subs.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-76852322157869737062024-03-16T17:55:00.004-04:002024-03-16T17:55:44.069-04:00Kybernetická babicka (1962)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw4S6gLv9_ws2SU7Qm4PpojivQTO8D-vfIkIhIjh1AojVpdEZ6XzaEFMGdPP8XlnSJU8yzxzwUV-sRtMb7L5RhEzhnBYMFA33pCOYUrY7Izn02JvY7hsMlY0L9jmx06Yw-QRa3klWqT9c6DLnJ2J8wT_yRBA1Z2ObaJeh_Td9aOFaa3iL2gXJUbIQVF0Vy/s759/cyberneticgr46.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw4S6gLv9_ws2SU7Qm4PpojivQTO8D-vfIkIhIjh1AojVpdEZ6XzaEFMGdPP8XlnSJU8yzxzwUV-sRtMb7L5RhEzhnBYMFA33pCOYUrY7Izn02JvY7hsMlY0L9jmx06Yw-QRa3klWqT9c6DLnJ2J8wT_yRBA1Z2ObaJeh_Td9aOFaa3iL2gXJUbIQVF0Vy/s320/cyberneticgr46.jpg" width="211" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Cyber Grandma</i><div>... aka: <i>Cybernetic Grandmother, The</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Die Oma vom anderen Stern</i> (<i>The Grandma from the Other World</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jiří Trnka</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They can speak like us. They can say all the right words and do all the right things. They can teach us everything we need to know. They probably make fewer mistakes. And they can claim to feel things and care about us and nurture us and pacify us and put on an impressive almost-human-like show of compassion and emotion. But can they actually fully replace us? This eerie sci-fi tale, which is as timely as ever despite being made over sixty years ago, theorizes that they indeed cannot. "They," in this case, being robots, cyborgs, androids, cyber-whatevers; machinery and computers programmed to replace human beings by duplicating what humans typically do in their day-to-day lives but also mimicking the assumed correct things humans <i>should</i> say. Despite being less prone to error, age, illness and the complexities of the human psyche, there isn't and likely will never be a suitable artificial replacement for family and friends of the human variety, says Trnka. After marveling at technology, taking advantage of it and playing with all of the cool new toys in a futuristic world, sometimes all you really need is a hug from your grandma.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At a small cottage, a grandmother and her beloved young granddaughter receive a message from the girl's absent mother delivered by a drone-like device. There's a lot to gouge about the coldness of technological advancement from this one brief message alone. The girl isn't referred to by name, even by her own mother. Instead, she's "the kid" and is given her new identification number, ACH028. And then there's the fact the mother automatically assumes the little girl <i>must</i> be bored staying with her old-fashioned and tech illiterate grandmother in her simple country cottage. After all, she prefers her quiet, simple life and doesn't even bother with all of the dazzling gadgets available to this advanced society. However, little does the mother know, her daughter is already perfectly content with her red ball and the affection she receives from her loving granny. Nonetheless, the message orders the girl be delivered to her new home.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rgdD1Zte-yp1Y6GBTqrHoA6MJuH7pr8L3E7XF-_vQysdnQbam2XF04bvW0kneiiTcVFnblfv6CNHf20_1Kh-SCNNiO4ysZJ462jDGwFSyaY2CVE9YaACihHzcu_SVLpuR6cc-DL2cEZdw8iGSuFcuD_GRv-HZIsVZmMqhZnzr7AjOrJKnThzTjxnPadZ/s633/cyberneticgr1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="633" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_rgdD1Zte-yp1Y6GBTqrHoA6MJuH7pr8L3E7XF-_vQysdnQbam2XF04bvW0kneiiTcVFnblfv6CNHf20_1Kh-SCNNiO4ysZJ462jDGwFSyaY2CVE9YaACihHzcu_SVLpuR6cc-DL2cEZdw8iGSuFcuD_GRv-HZIsVZmMqhZnzr7AjOrJKnThzTjxnPadZ/s320/cyberneticgr1.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYBQrwNET2wil_4ROUKuQc9N_Hh0SCRFCcI5joiq5jhoVMX6OVsodLdwUcwAgScOc7TJsPEQxkT0NXGe2NMtPJFUbwU7Mw_h3xEiM2ZcHWMUYsxUImHLmA4s59sK16GDVAu2Wnk04nHYyqfKMFoNbj6J467rHxReFyWGU3RXkCkS8ciNburwoAjKAh_nbw/s636/cyberneticgr3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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A paved roadway is no longer used because cars are no longer used, TV sets, airplanes, weaponry and other commonly used things of the previous generations sit around covered in cobwebs. Once they arrive at their destination, the sad, scared girl is given her number, says goodbye to her grandma and is then whisked away to her new home, which <i>may</i> be somewhere in space for all we know. Just like any other product, she finds herself on a conveyor belt and is then placed in an egg-shaped glass pod that entertains her with machine-generated music as lights and other pods travel around a complex system where seemingly meaningless numbers, letters and symbols constantly flash. It's all impressive, yet cold, confusing, impersonal and sterile.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finally arriving at her destination, the girl discovers her new home cavernous, quiet and deserted. Both of her astronaut parents are away; mom on some "geological expedition" and dad back on the moon. Left in their place to babysit is a robot (voiced by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Otýlie Benísková</span></b>) who's been programmed to behave just like a grandmother; even physically designed for that purpose to resemble a comforting chair with angel-like doily wings. "She" insists there's no reason to be scared, assures the girl it loves her, wants the girl to call it grandma and is equipped with all kinds of annoying old school phrases like like "A healthy mind is a healthy body!" and "Cleanliness is next to godliness!" When it comes time to scold ("Leaning out the window is strictly forbidden!"; "Sit straight!") it does so in the same artificially chipper tone. It coaxes her into a bathroom where robot arms do all of the cleaning for her and then sits her down for a bedtime story that involves murder and dismemberment. Needless to say, the girl is distrustful and horrified, but her story ends on a hopeful and heartwarming note.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZAC4nhKDi-ET6PX63VsGxRkNSvOlyuUxoM-4hoNICzENLEp2O7T-7Mr7WVMGUAE4A8yuLXCzc2so1Yv_8RzxyMsfw3u72fVe07uKJLzrkk0CVA9MWl9cq-LnD3s7kNdmUlm1_RRx7TVdfn3TmxD8FEWKKtK1JMzvkfod70SlWNEbB_edllBe8-Sn571gZ/s630/cyberneticgr12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="630" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZAC4nhKDi-ET6PX63VsGxRkNSvOlyuUxoM-4hoNICzENLEp2O7T-7Mr7WVMGUAE4A8yuLXCzc2so1Yv_8RzxyMsfw3u72fVe07uKJLzrkk0CVA9MWl9cq-LnD3s7kNdmUlm1_RRx7TVdfn3TmxD8FEWKKtK1JMzvkfod70SlWNEbB_edllBe8-Sn571gZ/s320/cyberneticgr12.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjaRSrOn4Pr4kok-M_9YJ0oX0xtLm4KNdtVap_GkMvX7qKo4wB9uNvmVDmSfFFz-Jn7VIyQ9i7zEbaSMTMD912caW5Vs71DanocNKBqDXY9m-GBODHu2znZNSnjaw_pjsKlxRG0k44YYyhraEUVxxRsbQH3HzVkmj28opPBOSX5VCSbSR3SWLeqsIqpLcu/s632/cyberneticgr13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yhFFFvmIQDQSbUwzdTSPY6nf60q1PJR59B1e5czFfpMQD3Lx1RPUHapAboS_FiE-R2ffDte94LapCivtjyWaJSNeVzofXqJCQhA9AQMMP8-rLoia2Dl9o5tMtprs_IV7GHpc5kW5yJ1AF0nxTN3AnWP5GYCLE955l62VYFqQTbkvEP2x-yzZp-Bw8FCB/s630/cyberneticgr27.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="630" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-yhFFFvmIQDQSbUwzdTSPY6nf60q1PJR59B1e5czFfpMQD3Lx1RPUHapAboS_FiE-R2ffDte94LapCivtjyWaJSNeVzofXqJCQhA9AQMMP8-rLoia2Dl9o5tMtprs_IV7GHpc5kW5yJ1AF0nxTN3AnWP5GYCLE955l62VYFqQTbkvEP2x-yzZp-Bw8FCB/s320/cyberneticgr27.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This is another gem from influential Czech animator Trnka that I probably should have watched a lot sooner since I'd previously loved his allegorical short <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2020/09/ruka-1965.html" target="_blank">THE HAND</a></b> (1965). His trademark combination of stop motion animation and puppetry is put to visually striking effect here, with unique, brilliant designs for this futuristic world, as well as an important message delivered in a concise and affecting way. Even more impressively, this is able to relay its exact intentions to the audience with surprisingly little dialogue, instead focusing on the visuals and sound design, with <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jan Novák</span></b>'s varied score, alternately whimsical and disquieting / horrific, ably supporting the scenario.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QELOF9xRl9RaQ7qOenJ-ueon6lSFled6dARl7eQkgUiXtUnc4nX8mBRFEkxGq9yChO_TIsMrd7fj1Bha6QmzSU3IxK7B2WKowoX9BGrsUpcify2ojeZlF5DuexXeRQe6WmDGIv42jdamTsUiedwBHYudBNr4Nv_b_SnTYcLXz-n8_XyfB-GOaTADvJvd/s632/cyberneticgr20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="632" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2QELOF9xRl9RaQ7qOenJ-ueon6lSFled6dARl7eQkgUiXtUnc4nX8mBRFEkxGq9yChO_TIsMrd7fj1Bha6QmzSU3IxK7B2WKowoX9BGrsUpcify2ojeZlF5DuexXeRQe6WmDGIv42jdamTsUiedwBHYudBNr4Nv_b_SnTYcLXz-n8_XyfB-GOaTADvJvd/s320/cyberneticgr20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fimMEjTzBgn8vwy-UdRCek_6qhX5nRkiHlSyh_z6NMTbPkBKeQi57P8Q-8Kp97Ys7yWrJA8kjNuSJrDNNryYjsjfN8S7cCIMnujMJjLr3FqbiS9BmyErMhxippgzwRzpbAV0LVpfTd7tkN5rBfYEb7JVu-ln24PbsRRpCkWZYSQA6Htg5Gzy7TvzF1lA/s646/cyberneticgr33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="646" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3fimMEjTzBgn8vwy-UdRCek_6qhX5nRkiHlSyh_z6NMTbPkBKeQi57P8Q-8Kp97Ys7yWrJA8kjNuSJrDNNryYjsjfN8S7cCIMnujMJjLr3FqbiS9BmyErMhxippgzwRzpbAV0LVpfTd7tkN5rBfYEb7JVu-ln24PbsRRpCkWZYSQA6Htg5Gzy7TvzF1lA/s320/cyberneticgr33.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Since we've already moved into an age where people are not only somewhat disconnected from nature and the outside world, but also somewhat disconnected from other human beings, what this has to say is even more relevant now than it was back in 1962. While the flesh-and-blood grandma may be slower and more feeble, she has the advantage of interpersonal wisdom and nuance gained through lived experience. Her genuine affection for her granddaughter is not something a computer can exactly or believably duplicate, just as the granddaughter is intuitively more receptive to love coming from an organic place that feels earned and authentic as opposed to a manufactured one.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-6619208642215862062024-03-15T22:57:00.000-04:002024-03-15T22:57:15.014-04:00Almohadón de plumas (1988)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63bGHpH8djk_jbeMedUhV4JW9v80hXwmvWWNaNNQGgugRFItQyMtke1cvNQJVfD4McmPFqgESyZiTR4o2DaiTZrphH6onCCHVhiYq6eSDYeRyhg9A9NhTwxpndbUeXFCXy2WH7y6GiHH9fkLFubOc5delBLnhIX2CDvq4EJsn5okYVgSeEFMhZunMUdDo/s908/featherpillow26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="908" data-original-width="580" height="325" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg63bGHpH8djk_jbeMedUhV4JW9v80hXwmvWWNaNNQGgugRFItQyMtke1cvNQJVfD4McmPFqgESyZiTR4o2DaiTZrphH6onCCHVhiYq6eSDYeRyhg9A9NhTwxpndbUeXFCXy2WH7y6GiHH9fkLFubOc5delBLnhIX2CDvq4EJsn5okYVgSeEFMhZunMUdDo/w207-h325/featherpillow26.jpg" width="207" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Feather Cushion</i><div>... aka: <i>Feather Pillow</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ricardo Islas</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This was made by the same fella who'd just done the ultra low-budget shot-on-video vampire film <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/04/crowley-1987.html" target="_blank">CROWLEY</a></b> (1987). Since I already wrote a bit about him on that review, I'll give you the Cliffs Notes version here: Islas was a horror-movie-loving teenager living in Uruguay, a low population country (around 3 million when this was made) that didn't have much of a film industry to speak of. Still, he didn't let that stop him from making his own camcorder-shot features, which appear to have only been shown on TV in his home country. Islas churned out quite a few of these in the late 80s into the mid 90s (including a <i>Crowley</i> sequel) before relocating to the U.S., where he continues to make ultra low budget horror films to this day. This one is an adaptation of a short story (a <i>very</i> short one) of the same name by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Horacio Quiroga</span></b>, who's sometimes referred to as "The Edgar Allan Poe of Latin America" and was born in Uruguay but spent most of his professional career working in Argentina. <i>El almohadón de plumas</i> was first published back in 1917 in a collection of eighteen short stories from the author titled <i>Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte</i> ("Tales of Love, Madness and Death"). Though he's mostly unknown here in America, apparently his work is frequently praised in Spanish-speaking countries.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjWEBXqnuWYhzybuJGn4eP0o0uUoc_ywqQPZfBVO1FEIqba1w7fGtUPLxbTnO4SSUeNRBOumpAU3C_dEsx4HIzMsVftfqGQuFStjTqjIqH-0uY4UEwjK81n-R0MTLiTQpLGqNnOqJltfPLqyxbWUxc4mtmKUB8uQbfeHShYjlEaCPXKHaYWggEJTIzJZj/s633/featherpillow2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="633" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkjWEBXqnuWYhzybuJGn4eP0o0uUoc_ywqQPZfBVO1FEIqba1w7fGtUPLxbTnO4SSUeNRBOumpAU3C_dEsx4HIzMsVftfqGQuFStjTqjIqH-0uY4UEwjK81n-R0MTLiTQpLGqNnOqJltfPLqyxbWUxc4mtmKUB8uQbfeHShYjlEaCPXKHaYWggEJTIzJZj/s320/featherpillow2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsOWkX_Y9SGAE30ewxbrgNkeLTqZfdpLaE8ruvYRO2tOucz6HatDv27yjynkLjRK2EzjyKT29r8F-54MXWcvUXXVGL_4Jhay31hyphenhyphencYZ5IX4aRPDS3Gb4fl6BWqixxnixOWLXM_B6w7EJh1ua-SqP_E4QK3-zjabIgAJmkxKKWANgx3AShBji2dTS31VwL/s636/featherpillow3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The camerawork is shaky, the videography is sometimes blurry, everything is blindingly bright in the day yet too dark at night and there's almost no attention whatsoever paid to making sure we can actually hear what the actors are saying in the first scene. As our protagonist is discussing some kind of construction deal with his colleague Antonio (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Richard Perlas</span></b>) the audio is muffled and voices are drowned out by passing cars. Cars can even sometimes be heard in some of the scenes taking place <i>indoors</i> and a faint hissing sound is present over most of the dialogue from relying on the camcorder's built-in mic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The story centers around Jordan (played by the director) and Alicia (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Norma Morgan</span></b>), former college sweethearts who have just gotten married, yet sleep in separate bedrooms. He's so preoccupied with work that he usually brings it home with him and it seems like it's all he can ever talk about. She doesn't seem to have a career or much to do aside from sleeping a lot. Alicia has recently purchased a fancy red feather pillow with a curious, hand-painted design on it (a six-pointed star with an eyeball in the middle) that she seems to be pleased with.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguTZRl_ZocFBor9_IgiLjxokXJeQEwFqVbQJBdyLfqIhSH5yxmf7mYS09xTo1pHvh4d6i4om8Rd0ZVSXJr_sPDx3iFK-4ZjvLwSDfV6AePaV9Vh0lP8fV7B9ZRQHC7fROpxYc-5d3S9qe1qj1oJKXzOGzuWwyKNAR5Kyxfe5rMrq2SACb9pnnPAtVxdc7m/s631/featherpillow34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="467" data-original-width="631" height="237" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguTZRl_ZocFBor9_IgiLjxokXJeQEwFqVbQJBdyLfqIhSH5yxmf7mYS09xTo1pHvh4d6i4om8Rd0ZVSXJr_sPDx3iFK-4ZjvLwSDfV6AePaV9Vh0lP8fV7B9ZRQHC7fROpxYc-5d3S9qe1qj1oJKXzOGzuWwyKNAR5Kyxfe5rMrq2SACb9pnnPAtVxdc7m/s320/featherpillow34.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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A doctor is called in and recommends she change her diet. However, her issues continue and she starts getting even worse. Woken up by a noise, she thinks she sees a black-clad figure lurking around their home and follows it into the cellar, where a ping pong ball eyed woman with rotten teeth charges at her. After hearing his wife screaming, Jordan rushes down to the cellar to find her unconscious. Back to the doctors they go. This time they run some more tests and question whether she's on drugs, vomiting blood and / or suffering from "nasal or vaginal discharge" (?!) They finally come to the conclusion she's having hallucinations brought on from anemia and recommend she get more rest. No problem there. All this chick ever seems to do is lie around in bed! Nevertheless, Jordan has his sister Nancy (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Beatriz Rossi</span></b>) come stay with them to help around the house so Alicia has even less to do.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Further encounters with the mysterious lady follow, which leads to more screaming and more passing out, plus dramatic physical changes like dark under eye circles, paleness, rapid loss of weight, rapid loss of blood and small sores on her face that resemble bug bites. After the doctors assure Jordan there's nothing to worry about, Alicia suddenly passes away in her sleep, just five days after first becoming sick. 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Though there are awkward, bland and / or technically inept moments sprinkled throughout, a surprising number of scenes are professionally staged, paced and edited, to the point where you sometimes actually forget about this being a home movie. It's almost as if scenes were (gasp!) planned out by the director in advance to the point he may have actually (double gasp!) storyboarded them. Faults and all, I genuinely appreciated the effort that went into this, especially when compared directly to most other SOV horrors from this same time period.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIReWDkF_DDFeET6hvQwc3HX-4EiWcgbJD5vS_EUPxmQ24drmeKfZQnznTaDUbmUBO_8UU8CGCHGxwdA0q76Sat8K_g2Sm0oDJKqhyK10tfGo2znJ1ILgoiRxBV9BSiNQBk-OzZINRw6jCOTHlQ4mAeTXUGQxrTEtalM79IEGYWyMHk0r_RYDa65zprRDb/s634/featherpillow20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="634" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIReWDkF_DDFeET6hvQwc3HX-4EiWcgbJD5vS_EUPxmQ24drmeKfZQnznTaDUbmUBO_8UU8CGCHGxwdA0q76Sat8K_g2Sm0oDJKqhyK10tfGo2znJ1ILgoiRxBV9BSiNQBk-OzZINRw6jCOTHlQ4mAeTXUGQxrTEtalM79IEGYWyMHk0r_RYDa65zprRDb/s320/featherpillow20.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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You can breeze through that in just a couple of minutes afterward like I did, but watching the movie version play out with no knowledge of what's going to happen offers up some surprises you won't be getting if you familiarize with it beforehand. The film does a pretty nice job respectfully staying faithful to the story while also elaborating upon it, especially adding an ambiguous element about the source of the pillow that sends it into faintly supernatural territory.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-O4gvNumW0KNfNCG0M-iLXhbL7T42znPXBVyycYKv66zB6DhivtKYCjscSPj74SpeAtDPgYWaPB5DsNAcig7bI0WqmJeQfdSeVksNxf_gezS4pNNzaOYjdphFRE4Tyn9M-eIJNdBhsP6MKE-J1nzs1ALP4NsshJ6G8aoKMXWGTqEgR4y0TXySgOrq5yF/s914/featherpillow38.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="914" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-O4gvNumW0KNfNCG0M-iLXhbL7T42znPXBVyycYKv66zB6DhivtKYCjscSPj74SpeAtDPgYWaPB5DsNAcig7bI0WqmJeQfdSeVksNxf_gezS4pNNzaOYjdphFRE4Tyn9M-eIJNdBhsP6MKE-J1nzs1ALP4NsshJ6G8aoKMXWGTqEgR4y0TXySgOrq5yF/s320/featherpillow38.jpg" width="210" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXvR3vlo4wAE4tyvhPkhjYc1KNeTl-6MdGwRsH8Zgp64VSY1FNKL3DLCCUzPxv3I-42-gIqbyN9MoNJF-tnS5Ck9mbbC6RUdduVzcs7t1Ir5Ncb6MYl0MrK8Lm2KJDWuPQvtvrGEvuMETpzxEuQyG_Qj1PKYhYu5ItXlnLwhqQAgm4s9Cj-nH33XKItymB/s555/featherpillow37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="555" data-original-width="384" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXvR3vlo4wAE4tyvhPkhjYc1KNeTl-6MdGwRsH8Zgp64VSY1FNKL3DLCCUzPxv3I-42-gIqbyN9MoNJF-tnS5Ck9mbbC6RUdduVzcs7t1Ir5Ncb6MYl0MrK8Lm2KJDWuPQvtvrGEvuMETpzxEuQyG_Qj1PKYhYu5ItXlnLwhqQAgm4s9Cj-nH33XKItymB/s320/featherpillow37.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are a number of other filmed versions of the same story. It was adapted by Mexican filmmaker Alicia Violante in 1990 (which appears to have been a student film), was the subject of Cuban and Chilean shorts in, respectively, 2000 and 2007, was an episode of the Argentinian TV series <i>Fantasmagorias</i> in 2018 and an episode of the Paraguayan TV series <i>Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror</i> in 2020. There's also Japanese TV movie version from 2022 and it's been featured on several Spanish-language podcasts. To my knowledge, this particular version has never been given an official home video release, nor has it ever been released with English subtitles.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-74076070711634073342024-03-11T20:52:00.002-04:002024-03-11T20:53:56.043-04:00Pimag (1980)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnit6g4CX2X3Ch_Bc9SIwgQ5UME5JXLHKGY2-gKVyojdH30pdsL_tCYN56GkGbBMviYc81jZAzil_EokjypzJUG3DmBd0GebYvk5aqtf80hZ8ZEggLDmi9Jmwu4nuz0Y6ZY8V8Z63JkpR0W8v1OrRZrTzQy7jZsK5DhUAktFqrcDmNAMcUCzEaeXI7BPi/s1080/hut802.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1080" data-original-width="733" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWnit6g4CX2X3Ch_Bc9SIwgQ5UME5JXLHKGY2-gKVyojdH30pdsL_tCYN56GkGbBMviYc81jZAzil_EokjypzJUG3DmBd0GebYvk5aqtf80hZ8ZEggLDmi9Jmwu4nuz0Y6ZY8V8Z63JkpR0W8v1OrRZrTzQy7jZsK5DhUAktFqrcDmNAMcUCzEaeXI7BPi/s320/hut802.jpg" width="217" /></a></div>... aka: 피막<div>... aka: 避幕</div><div>... aka: <i>Bi mu</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Death Cottage, The</i></div><div>... aka: <i>House of Death</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Hut, The</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Pee-Mak</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Pimak</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Woman's Grudge and Exorcism, A</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Doo-yong Lee</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wealthy village leader's son Seong-min (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Beom-gi Kim</span></b>) is dying. Believing he may be possessed by evil spirits, Master Jin-sa Kang (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Seong-ho Choi</span></b>), his wife (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Shook Jeon</span></b>) and his mother Noma-nim aka Great Madam (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jeong-sun Hwang</span></b>) enlist the aid of shamans from all over the countryside in hopes that one of them can finally cure him. Many elaborate exorcism rituals are performed, including a man dancing on sharp blades, but none seem to release Seong-min from his spell. Priestess Ok-hwa (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ji-in Yu</span></b>) manages to impress them the most by casually removing a venomous snake from the son's deathbed and then using her powers to make it slither away. She threatens to leave unless her demands are met, which include money and them banishing all other shamans from the village and allowing her to take charge. The desperate family agree to her terms.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlike most of the con artists working the spiritualist circuit, Ok-hwa appears to be the real deal. Spending days and nights meditating and praying, she's eventually able to uncover some clues as to what's actually causing the illness. She beats Seong-min with a tree branch, which seems to release an animal-voiced demon, then lets the branch lead her to a secluded spot in the woods. Dropping down to her knees, she digs through the dirt and reveals a buried, smoking bottle. Somehow the top of the bottle has been broken off, which may have unleashed a spirit in the process.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bottle housed the remains of someone named Sam-dol and the Kang family are hush-hush about both who he is and how he met his untimely demise twenty years earlier. However, Ok-hwa will need this information if she's to be able to exorcise the ghost from the home. And none too soon. Hunchbacked butler Kim (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tae-il Han</span></b>) starts spitting up blood and keels over simply for holding the bottle, so even though the spirit has perhaps left the son's body for the time being it's certainly not through tormenting the family. 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Think hospice, only dirty, without a trained medical staff, appropriate equipment and adequate pain management. The excuse for this place even existing is superstitious nonsense about spirits not being able to find their way back to the village but the real reason is more likely that the wealthy didn't want to deal with the emotionally-draining, stressful task of seeing their loved ones through their final few days. Much easier to shuffle all responsibility off onto outcast Sam-dol, who's apparently deemed fit to deal with the dying but otherwise treated as a leper driven to living alone on the fringes of their society.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Kang family are obsessed with prestige, tradition and reputation. Since men in the family have had a bad habit of passing away at a very young age, the widows left behind were forced into a life of chastity until death as not to tarnish the family's good name. 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Great Madam convinced Sam-dol to make love to her as a last minute means to appease her and keep her from returning as a tormented spirit. Then a funny thing happened: After tending to the widow's wounds with herbs, Sam-dol was able to save her life. At first outraged at being taken advantage of while in a vulnerable state, Ms. Lee discovers the truth and finds herself drawn to the outcast. She starts visiting him, doing his laundry and bringing him food and new clothes. Before long, the two begin a consensual sexual relationship. All in secret, of course. It has to be in secret. Remember that all-important Kang family reputation?</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But Ms. Lee eventually found herself pregnant, the Kang clan men discovered what had been going on and the only way to conceal it was to murder them both. Ms. Lee's body got tossed over a cliff into the ocean in a staged suicide while Sam-dol's spirit was drawn out by a shaman, captured and housed in a bottle, which was then buried outside of the village. Returning to modern day, a revenge motive is revealed and some (though sadly not <i>all</i>) of the deserving characters get their comeuppance in a variety of different ways (snakes, hanging, wheat cutter...) during the climactic exorcism finale.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqB4RJioDKk3LEs9xhTZkC04ZRGUodyvXOYJ3rLmHPiCcSykQkURN__gB2d0ZOsU4yHktQ3mXx_ntoHquxSO6Gqm8fOlEGtu1g5PKAXySx80AIVsT8ufRQwu0K_XBSOgAFYy_tF2NBA1xTMjqsa4Z0ZtO7AfDkHS3vHTAWRMUR1XyFXfX4JxN8voDV9r6N/s867/hut8017.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="867" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqB4RJioDKk3LEs9xhTZkC04ZRGUodyvXOYJ3rLmHPiCcSykQkURN__gB2d0ZOsU4yHktQ3mXx_ntoHquxSO6Gqm8fOlEGtu1g5PKAXySx80AIVsT8ufRQwu0K_XBSOgAFYy_tF2NBA1xTMjqsa4Z0ZtO7AfDkHS3vHTAWRMUR1XyFXfX4JxN8voDV9r6N/w400-h168/hut8017.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This is a professionally directed, acted, written and shot film, which gets most of its mileage from its subtext as opposed to the actual plot itself, which is a bit too predictable. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Still, it's fascinating (in a bleak, depressing kind of way, at least!) watching something made over 40 years ago that calls out certain obvious, harmful societal issues only to realize those same exact issues are still very much with us today, and perhaps always will be. It's doubly disheartening that this film was made over 40 years ago but is set way before that (some time in the 15th - 19th century Chosun Dynasty), and, if anything, the issues addressed have only gotten worse. Though this may have been directly mirroring certain contemporary problems in South Korea (I'm not so sure since I don't know what was going on there at the time), what this has to say is universal and still timely. Essentially we're presented a village that's a microcosm of a larger society. 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secretly using superstition as a tool to manipulate and exploit the peasantry in essentially the same way modern day politicians use religion to manipulate and exploit the poor and middle class. This patriarchal society grants men, even married ones, the ability to have sex with whomever they please (even if by force), while women of equal social standing are made to live like nuns when widowed or even get killed for falling in love with someone beneath their social standing.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As far as Ok-hwa is concerned, she's in the unfortunate position of being a woman, poor <i>and</i> in a line of work that's considered lowly and disreputable within this society, which means the wealthy men around her think nothing of utilizing her services one day and raping her the next, knowing they'll always be protected and no one's ever really going to care what becomes of her. Limited in options, Ok-hwa's only way to really fight back is to use sex as a tool to manipulate these men whenever possible, but this also dooms her to a lonely existence. Her grim potential future is cleverly reflected right back at her by the elderly, territorial local female shaman (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jeong-ok Ra</span></b>) who eventually takes her under her wing. She's been used when needed for many, many years, but has still been forced to live in isolation on the outskirts of the village and is frequently mocked as an "old hag."</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZP07nYfslHoLfVJixFZ9IgETvdYC9BScUBfsnbiXWYdhvUeao7j7Fr0NBec08vBw0KGt2D6oaG1MHyNPVKyCU8E3eL4vAClUnUmlKrVnh1eHC6t6sqSWTCQCjUwa_c_hr7Niv79dL099nCFUSocn72-QWO5CWlb8Sp-74teYYphoA1YZOl-PDqFwCoRpK/s826/hut803.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="722" height="460" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZP07nYfslHoLfVJixFZ9IgETvdYC9BScUBfsnbiXWYdhvUeao7j7Fr0NBec08vBw0KGt2D6oaG1MHyNPVKyCU8E3eL4vAClUnUmlKrVnh1eHC6t6sqSWTCQCjUwa_c_hr7Niv79dL099nCFUSocn72-QWO5CWlb8Sp-74teYYphoA1YZOl-PDqFwCoRpK/w403-h460/hut803.jpg" width="403" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This won two awards - <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sam-yuk Yoon</span></b> for Best Screenplay and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kyeong-ja Lee</span></b> for Best Editing - at the Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, a Best Actor award (for Won) from the Grand Bell Awards (Korea's Oscar equivalent) and a Best Director Award at the Baeksang Arts Awards. Most notably, it was the first film in twenty years to win a major international film award after it took home a special prize at the Venice Film Festival. Because of that, this is considered a key title when it comes to getting the ball rolling on global recognition of Korean cinema. Just look where we are today! Not only are Korean horror films regularly acclaimed and popular around the world, but who would have ever guessed a worthy South Korean film (Joon-ho Bong's <i>Parasite</i>) would make history over 40 years later by winning Best Picture, Director and Screenplay Academy Awards? And, just one year later, veteran Korean actress Yuh-jung Youn (<b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2020/01/hwanyeo-1971.html" target="_blank">WOMAN OF FIRE</a></b>) would make history yet again for winning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for <i>Minari</i> (2000).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtmHMoB3FVsM-RlRCeh0nJxeC-r7P1lzQwcmrTqbeeFv0kpBAQmkjpUvPu7LWhJ6K-CHptcj637WREOU4DZdALyt16SLQCZCOqrApzRx_Y7jPk6kFiaB8wsTY0gw-bkhQrSrO_6YpREk8VeBizvnC35PymKOzuJ-hW9U50S3tqEYw-T2IG0Zq38YJ7h_O/s700/hut804.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="485" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtmHMoB3FVsM-RlRCeh0nJxeC-r7P1lzQwcmrTqbeeFv0kpBAQmkjpUvPu7LWhJ6K-CHptcj637WREOU4DZdALyt16SLQCZCOqrApzRx_Y7jPk6kFiaB8wsTY0gw-bkhQrSrO_6YpREk8VeBizvnC35PymKOzuJ-hW9U50S3tqEYw-T2IG0Zq38YJ7h_O/s320/hut804.jpg" width="222" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXD1f2Q6ohRTsNcSQR4NXS7Nj_mbz3wxbtnInUfI9kdP_vNF93MrAi9TSlULgUKs4BKFpa3Z_b0VEHsHrsYPuJMG56jYPDCYT_ZkV2rqAWl_GKv9HSGlfvZjcNMC8FqRCuBAhtIUA8hmPWt7RVk8z6x_ytwm5K6VDHclxWst9mv8K8125EwNreyVxJnHxu/s477/hut8011.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="300" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXD1f2Q6ohRTsNcSQR4NXS7Nj_mbz3wxbtnInUfI9kdP_vNF93MrAi9TSlULgUKs4BKFpa3Z_b0VEHsHrsYPuJMG56jYPDCYT_ZkV2rqAWl_GKv9HSGlfvZjcNMC8FqRCuBAhtIUA8hmPWt7RVk8z6x_ytwm5K6VDHclxWst9mv8K8125EwNreyVxJnHxu/s320/hut8011.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There was only one VHS release that I'm aware of, in Korea (under the English title <i>Pee-Mak</i>) on the Goldstar Video label. However, this was given a boost when it was chosen by the Korean Film Archive as one of the 100 most important Korean films of all time. KFA then oversaw a remaster and Blu-ray release of the film, which comes with English subtitles and includes a commentary track from the director. This is also free to view (with English subs) on KFA's Youtube channel, though the quality isn't nearly as good as the physical release judging by the photos I've seen.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: yellow; font-size: large;">★</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-60154591480029974362024-03-10T16:52:00.003-04:002024-03-10T18:43:08.994-04:00Dèmoni 2... l'incubo ritorna (1986)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOWlWmkIML6SZ9g2hMarLXO3d72ba-UILKtuOllAFKPcLFhYzyd6rWSGCM5Ew0aaRRWNmhJORUbXdFiA3BN3fSNuXyP5T5KSeyCAkt6IdinJP3oNwxsDwleVLinWruVkEuIuxS07o8-cINZHGyIphZxkMbJ1TW9f1NwUUffB5PaXoXAmZ-v4752UCwckc/s603/demonspt23.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="603" data-original-width="398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTOWlWmkIML6SZ9g2hMarLXO3d72ba-UILKtuOllAFKPcLFhYzyd6rWSGCM5Ew0aaRRWNmhJORUbXdFiA3BN3fSNuXyP5T5KSeyCAkt6IdinJP3oNwxsDwleVLinWruVkEuIuxS07o8-cINZHGyIphZxkMbJ1TW9f1NwUUffB5PaXoXAmZ-v4752UCwckc/s320/demonspt23.jpg" width="211" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Dämonen</i><div>... aka: <i>Dance of the Demons 2</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Demonen 2 huiveringwekkend leuk</i> (<i>Demons 2: Chilling Fun</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Demons 2</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Demons 2: The Nightmare Is Back</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Meng gui fan sheng</i> (<i>The Devil's Reincarnation</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lamberto Bava</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The original <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2019/03/demoni-1985.html" target="_blank">DEMONS</a></b> (1985) was such a hit with Italian audiences that this sequel was immediately rushed into production, began filming a mere seven months later and was already in theaters nearly a year to the day of the first film's debut. Clearly not aspiring to do anything other than give fans a second helping of what they loved the first time out, director / co-writer Bava, producer / co-writer <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dario Argento</span></b>, additional writers <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Franco Ferrini</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dardano Sacchetti</span></b> and special effects man <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sergio Stivaletti</span></b> repeat pretty much the exact same formula here. We're talking a very simple plot of trapped people fighting for their lives as a demonic contagion quickly spreads (with a nearly nonexistent explanation <i>behind</i> these events), a loud rock music soundtrack, a very high body count, identical looking ugly, green, veiny-faced demon designs, a lengthy film-within-the-film that somehow unleashes the evil and plenty of bloodshed, gruesome make-ups and elaborate special effects.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This at least makes one very good decision to alter the location. Instead of being set inside an old, dark, dingy, comparatively small flea pit movie theater, this one takes place inside an expansive, modern luxury high rise apartment building, giving it kind of a sleeker, more industrial feel that's accentuated with a consistent steely blue color palette. It also means we get a much larger playground for the demons to do their thing in. Not only are there various apartments with personalized art direction to reflect the occupants, but this building also has a gym, sauna, tanning salon, large parking garage, elevators, stairwells and more for all of the horror scenes to play out in. Sure this idea was likely cribbed from Cronenberg's <i>Shivers</i> (1975), which also features an outbreak inside a hi-tech apartment building, but the location change actually <i>does</i> make a big difference here.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9eSewyplFod9wSXW67SbaB9ya4vQJhjV6dgPAXD9NPA_EnP_ZxwYwUyv-5OK6P9KoqDga9l-g_MU5vwlQx3RpfYzTFWKUKM3kriaePzM_tiEE24oQc-XNaNc81AQt6K6jNGD8bfSdgUxdmcmb28RwK5-bX0AFoP7anIWSGZRmf77MTywo3XNX_kkc1Q4/s829/demonspt24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="829" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN9eSewyplFod9wSXW67SbaB9ya4vQJhjV6dgPAXD9NPA_EnP_ZxwYwUyv-5OK6P9KoqDga9l-g_MU5vwlQx3RpfYzTFWKUKM3kriaePzM_tiEE24oQc-XNaNc81AQt6K6jNGD8bfSdgUxdmcmb28RwK5-bX0AFoP7anIWSGZRmf77MTywo3XNX_kkc1Q4/s320/demonspt24.jpg" width="232" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtem5JttWR3_Ucb6yWrq4veJaIL1-QHM1bTy-pbXeGNpjosn9EDNJjPqUcdUaMxFMfNOzC2lkXB5JifOV9xdKdXVJ1ofg2ncZG1AvMxsiMLlx6fBoWqaaCVvx04IKxHb587dNh_w4uQqVImIeOyjCedy6B7xtwaymE5mWQQPVuQdfbzZQYpe-eO5c-Ays2/s765/demonspt26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="548" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtem5JttWR3_Ucb6yWrq4veJaIL1-QHM1bTy-pbXeGNpjosn9EDNJjPqUcdUaMxFMfNOzC2lkXB5JifOV9xdKdXVJ1ofg2ncZG1AvMxsiMLlx6fBoWqaaCVvx04IKxHb587dNh_w4uQqVImIeOyjCedy6B7xtwaymE5mWQQPVuQdfbzZQYpe-eO5c-Ays2/s320/demonspt26.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">As far as the characters are concerned, it's the usual assortment of thinly-defined fodder just as it was before. The closest thing to heroes we got in the first time out were hunky George and pretty music student Cheryl. Here we get another hunky student named George (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">David Edwin Knight</span></b>) and his pretty wife, Hannah (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nancy Brilli</span></b>). This does add a few slight details in that George is an extremely busy student who's also working a full-time job while his wife is 9 months pregnant and about to pop at any moment, but otherwise it's about the same routine. The more colorful and entertaining folks in the original film were those in smaller supporting parts, which is, again, mimicked here.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's Mary (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Virginia Bryant</span></b>), a claustrophobic high priced call girl who's there visiting a john. There's the Haller family, including young daughter Ingrid (10-year-old <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Asia Argento</span></b> in her feature film debut), who loves horror movies much to her father's (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Antonio Cantafora</span></b>) chagrin. Nearby is an even younger boy named Tommy (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Marco Vivio</span></b>), who's scared because he's been left all along by his mother (who's out on a date), and there's a spinster (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Anita Bartolucci</span></b>) and her beloved pet pooch in another unit. A number of actors return from the first film, though they're all playing different roles here. Fan favorite <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Bobby Rhodes</span></b> (Tony the pimp from the original) is cast as drill instructor-like personal trainer Hank, while <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lino Salemme</span></b> (Ripper the punk from the original) is front desk security guard Frank and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Eliana Miglio</span></b>, featured in the film-within-a-film segment in the first, also turns up in the film-within-a-film segment here.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb34OYRq00LNQNr7xboC5Kxn92n2tGdbzApVSRQtrBGaxoc8qaWpHusdC0VgXbWG_TurfuVoFT2ub7Ft9l6uJ7L9QufBv9s1zUNTKI5331iUyjyexLaGGioEDUbrR8JCOulh1B9PuxbhHFDiQnGB59itLX4PsqdJ4ddC3B423oA1pYjbwpwAJNZzNYVhM/s937/demonspt21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="937" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSb34OYRq00LNQNr7xboC5Kxn92n2tGdbzApVSRQtrBGaxoc8qaWpHusdC0VgXbWG_TurfuVoFT2ub7Ft9l6uJ7L9QufBv9s1zUNTKI5331iUyjyexLaGGioEDUbrR8JCOulh1B9PuxbhHFDiQnGB59itLX4PsqdJ4ddC3B423oA1pYjbwpwAJNZzNYVhM/w400-h234/demonspt21.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Sally is hosting her own birthday party but refuses to leave her bedroom for, hmm, reasons. When a friend complements her, she loudly shrieks "Not true! My hair stinks! This dress stinks!" She then has a meltdown over her "disgusting" shoulder pads and sleeves. Why? Well, because they "go back and forth" (?) And then when she finds out a boy she doesn't like has accidentally been invited, she has another screaming meltdown ("GET OUT!!!") and runs back into her bedroom to pout. I'm not sure if they were intentionally trying to make her unbearable so that audiences would be cheering on her demise or it just turned out that way, but spending ten minutes listening to this chick scream and complain is eleven minutes too long.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like in the first film where the initial demon is able to enter into our world through a theater screen showing a film about demons, the one here manages to pop right out of a television set showing a movie about demons. And it immediately does us all a huge favor by choosing Sally as its first victim. Her ear-piercing whines are soon replaced by the much more pleasant sounds of deep-voiced moaning, groaning and yowling as she starts shredding her party guests with her freshly-sharpened claws and fangs, transforming the entire event into a bloodbath and creating a mini-army of demons in the process. Afterward, Sally expels some acidic ooze that eats right through the floors and enters into other apartments downstairs, contaminating even more folks. 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There are some goofy murder scenes, like a woman roasted alive in a tanning bed, a guy getting smooshed in gym equipment and a demon claw squashing a guy's crotch.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's not just the plot being rehashed here, but also some of the more memorable shots from the first film (like a group of backlit, glowing-eyed demons running down a long dark corridor in slow motion) are repeated. This also seems to repeat the mistake of constantly cutting away to irrelevant activity outside of the apartment building to show Sally's parents, Tommy's mother and a quartet of obnoxious punks (AGAIN!) driving around seemingly for the sole purpose of being able to cram more rock songs onto the soundtrack. However, I'm willing to let that slide here because the director at least uses our familiarity with the events of the original to subvert expectations and uses these characters to set up an unexpected event right outside the building.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhSnlEaV1nCxdt0zTgUStKmAP_jrzqwTQnrN5zib90KE-1wGK6YX9MDa86RGothg-WIeeTn1ObDESwHkHhLsAxD9mTmC_zQd7tNdVxmCUkiHcQxk07AY7x5C5E9Ruxi6w0Gu-zKB4ZkNNSI8l3fiIwuM5d7nJx0CBQ5HpRSVfRRkQGA4rHmPJpDOebqfm/s935/demonspt246.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="935" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFhSnlEaV1nCxdt0zTgUStKmAP_jrzqwTQnrN5zib90KE-1wGK6YX9MDa86RGothg-WIeeTn1ObDESwHkHhLsAxD9mTmC_zQd7tNdVxmCUkiHcQxk07AY7x5C5E9Ruxi6w0Gu-zKB4ZkNNSI8l3fiIwuM5d7nJx0CBQ5HpRSVfRRkQGA4rHmPJpDOebqfm/w400-h241/demonspt246.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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One could mark it down for recycling too much material from the first, but the change of location mostly makes up for that. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Simon Boswell</span></b> score is perhaps not as memorable as the previous one from Goblin, but it's still pretty good, while the soundtrack (featuring The Smiths, Love and Rockets, The Art of Noise, The Cult, Gene Loves Jezebel, Dead Can Dance, Peter Murphy and more) swerves away from 80s glam metal to include a more diverse sound that includes new wave, alternative, post-punk, Gothic rock and synth-pop. As for which of the <i>Demons</i> films is actually better, I can now officially call it a draw.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgGnaEdtGkKYGM8bSaHrH8K0KF9yLELqTSkBr62mW20j3fk-7FniUP-STtJNpNKjfCAd7HqQg3eDFi_L5KYRu5YE5_CR-gBsyO1G8cAIm9pqLheRoaxUDXLGQFk-Rp2gkmsoyhkU1s7-EAnH4-HggVsRxNVsjPlijEmASo0CyrI0strzX6WVpWm6XCFtW/s938/demonspt237.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="938" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhgGnaEdtGkKYGM8bSaHrH8K0KF9yLELqTSkBr62mW20j3fk-7FniUP-STtJNpNKjfCAd7HqQg3eDFi_L5KYRu5YE5_CR-gBsyO1G8cAIm9pqLheRoaxUDXLGQFk-Rp2gkmsoyhkU1s7-EAnH4-HggVsRxNVsjPlijEmASo0CyrI0strzX6WVpWm6XCFtW/w400-h241/demonspt237.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgAXrxLeYhx2KE3vMzBNLQKz8MYPAl_LsYy93T8IRx7fL6FSlEPVOXY_GqUvA9psCninhuDnFlkwiXbxPa3ZERxTu4ylhl1maExpd9KmNMEzvd8TAmgAMXKCf0NxxW1otYCpm7VIbwr8Rzb7ZEKqN0Uwk0MLXX2pewLzYuHJabc_ni_uNM1mSESDMpVTz6/s936/demonspt228.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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However, that ended up going through a number of abandoned story ideas before the sequel idea was scrapped altogether. Bava and Sacchetti both left the project to do other films, but it eventually took shape as Michele Soavi's <i>La chiesa</i> / <i>The Church</i> (1989), which both Argento (a producer and writer) and Ferrini (writer) were involved with.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyJr9vrhqeZ8PCcHtzr0wgZi7rAB3Aa5w_euYK7NLa6EXt2Z9Ta3wIMb3wGfyckyYMvD8ybhrBtSSL3-0r0khWoxiDYwRAkeZFail7ks8lg48dbS_OZrqrkKOoBVkFn9AkR8AahI0zrcfw84xPjdxzSPC-_QcNONKWj_6CpBPxqc_vELO_Q7T9Fd3q0lu/s564/demonspt28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="412" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsyJr9vrhqeZ8PCcHtzr0wgZi7rAB3Aa5w_euYK7NLa6EXt2Z9Ta3wIMb3wGfyckyYMvD8ybhrBtSSL3-0r0khWoxiDYwRAkeZFail7ks8lg48dbS_OZrqrkKOoBVkFn9AkR8AahI0zrcfw84xPjdxzSPC-_QcNONKWj_6CpBPxqc_vELO_Q7T9Fd3q0lu/s320/demonspt28.jpg" width="234" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJhoOgryJZhRgAQ8JAnw6MOoeTn0yQbrYRSsvjHd0XfYiMrH5bnurW0DLv1AQOcpEW2WKEswDx0Q4V4LHLbfzZ-1ODIrR-LpqN-EdQjKzI_mAYJ9JDzoJocVWJW3IN8tAJih9RQgMBjVsCGkLcL5fe_6wwmxgoQzZye_2OhzG-CheYdQ_jUQso3m875ux9/s735/demonspt25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="735" data-original-width="465" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJhoOgryJZhRgAQ8JAnw6MOoeTn0yQbrYRSsvjHd0XfYiMrH5bnurW0DLv1AQOcpEW2WKEswDx0Q4V4LHLbfzZ-1ODIrR-LpqN-EdQjKzI_mAYJ9JDzoJocVWJW3IN8tAJih9RQgMBjVsCGkLcL5fe_6wwmxgoQzZye_2OhzG-CheYdQ_jUQso3m875ux9/s320/demonspt25.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Similar to the very loose <i>Zombi</i> series, there were a few other films released under the <i>Demons</i> banner in different countries, though none of these are really official sequels. The aforementioned <i>The Church</i> was called <i>Demons 3</i> in Japan. <i>La casa dell'orco</i> / "The Ogre's House" (1988), which was made by Bava for the Italian TV series <i>Brivido giallo</i>, was released in certain markets (including the U.S.) as <i>Demons III: The Ogre</i>. Umberto Lenzi's <i>Black Demons</i> (1991), an Italian production filmed in Brazil, was released in many European countries as <i>Demons 3</i>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Soavi's <i>La setta</i> / <i>The Sect</i> (1991; U.S. title - <i>The Devil's Daughter</i>) was called <i>Demons 4</i> in Japan. Bava's <i>La máscara del demonio</i> / <i>The Mask of Satan</i> (1989), a made-for-TV loose "remake" of Bava Sr.'s <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2015/01/la-maschera-del-demonio-1960.html" target="_blank">BLACK SUNDAY</a></b> (1960), was released in Japan and the U.S. as <i>Demons 5: The Devil's Veil</i>. Luigi Cozzi's <i>Il gatto nero</i> / <i>The Black Cat</i> (1989), his unsanctioned conclusion to Argento's "Three Mothers" trilogy (which Argento would officially finish himself a few decades later), was called <i>Demon 6</i>, or <i>Demons 6: De Profundis</i>, in France, Japan and the U.S. Finally, Japanese distributors (who are the ones mostly responsible for turning these unrelated films into bogus sequels) got their hands on Soavi's <i>Dellamorte dellamore</i> / <i>Cemetery Man</i> (1994) and rechristened it <i>Demons '95</i> for the home video release.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFcdbVAWHay4CO246mHQ3YwUmb9pSvGqdIbtuQWdC_lyJkleC1Ejc12brGObjrs1hUrMtgR5Lg3ld_nelGkeO7KAxwpqXkhLvwYhli7Z83rvcAlmFIuDk3Y-pIv0f-IvxSSqXdodnYUB_g-B2mMKVyZFLxjSFU9MPbKJUrVKhr6Wc3I-PbjXsFL57-c1Mw/s567/demonspt22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="365" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFcdbVAWHay4CO246mHQ3YwUmb9pSvGqdIbtuQWdC_lyJkleC1Ejc12brGObjrs1hUrMtgR5Lg3ld_nelGkeO7KAxwpqXkhLvwYhli7Z83rvcAlmFIuDk3Y-pIv0f-IvxSSqXdodnYUB_g-B2mMKVyZFLxjSFU9MPbKJUrVKhr6Wc3I-PbjXsFL57-c1Mw/s320/demonspt22.jpg" width="206" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGXwfBQRWzw-ecOWanJ6HKJFiHIxHPFYUjNJwkNvnb8Ty7ffzAhwYC-pBEbSDlkt2NJhnHLxKb12Z9XtS7T55pxp-_z6bg2xnzlmcSmN_gx86vzMygQuvqFPpqCrj-iEckvott_jhO2b3f6ntekMzX49bPzqmOCaANHbuliXuE_EDb5aI4ngGT5zLGBuz/s513/demonspt248.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHGXwfBQRWzw-ecOWanJ6HKJFiHIxHPFYUjNJwkNvnb8Ty7ffzAhwYC-pBEbSDlkt2NJhnHLxKb12Z9XtS7T55pxp-_z6bg2xnzlmcSmN_gx86vzMygQuvqFPpqCrj-iEckvott_jhO2b3f6ntekMzX49bPzqmOCaANHbuliXuE_EDb5aI4ngGT5zLGBuz/s320/demonspt248.jpg" width="250" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">For its limited 1987 theatrical run here in America, Artists Entertainment Group had around 4 minutes of gore removed so it could secure an R rating. The same cut turned up on home video courtesy of Imperial Entertainment, which claims to run 88 minutes. To my knowledge, all later DVD and Blu-ray releases, from Anchor Bay, Synapse, etc., are the uncut version running just shy of 92 minutes.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-26927928948523519842024-03-09T16:33:00.000-05:002024-03-09T16:33:22.749-05:00Banned (1989)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XMXeWG2xtuYr9O24ThA5jK0YYJ3mnmM-0rT57pwcxSSApkE8ihYHDOqaDOZc4hQELtyByz0NhSytQMsT6Q4Dw2RwmelgQUO7j0BpxQJzQdnX3FtHjnwmKTYQTUZE4mNGuB68X4cKzV5YYlzM2KarXpssOymxjsZtgxEpsqoi06TSQy17cs6n6tkKnUsq/s572/banned3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="367" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-XMXeWG2xtuYr9O24ThA5jK0YYJ3mnmM-0rT57pwcxSSApkE8ihYHDOqaDOZc4hQELtyByz0NhSytQMsT6Q4Dw2RwmelgQUO7j0BpxQJzQdnX3FtHjnwmKTYQTUZE4mNGuB68X4cKzV5YYlzM2KarXpssOymxjsZtgxEpsqoi06TSQy17cs6n6tkKnUsq/w195-h305/banned3.jpg" width="195" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Banned: The Return of Teddy Homicide</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Roberta Findlay</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Findlay's stint in the dregs of New York exploitation was a pretty fascinating one. Not that the films were always that good, but what other woman at the time directed, wrote, produced, shot, lit, edited, did music and sound, operated the camera, composed scores, acted <i>and</i> had a hand in distributing their own films? I can't think of any. Findlay's career can basically be broken down into three distinct phases. The 60s saw lots of gritty soft-core / "roughie" films, often shot in black-and-white, sometimes quite interesting (at least by the low standards of that genre) and usually made in conjunction with her then-husband, Michael. That lasted until the two separated in the early 70s. Starting in 1974, Findlay began churning out dozens of hardcore sex films and racked up some unique credits there as well. When cheaply-shot porn videos began to dominate the adult market the following decade, she made the switch to R-rated horror and capped off her career with a string of low budget films that were well-distributed and profitable on home video. The last thing on anyone's mind was creating high art. It was all about making a quick buck by riding current trends. Once the money stopped rolling in, Roberta stopped making movies and settled into another line of work. It was just that simple.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Banned</i> is the film that officially ended Findlay's two-and-a-half-decade long filmmaking career. She has referred to it as "garbage," "unreleasable" and "terrible" in various interviews and claims she was rushed into making it, had to settle for a subpar screenplay ("The script was awful!") and was uncomfortable with the subject matter. Not that being merely bad ever stopped something from making money in the past, but this was not only bad but also a difficult sell and distributors passed on it. Ads were run in <i>Variety</i>, but it was soon shelved and completely forgotten about. Findlay and her producing partner, <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Walter E. Sear</span></b>, lost around 80K of their own money on the project, which prompted them both to throw in the towel and focus their energies elsewhere. It then sat unreleased for over 30 years (!) which automatically made the entire thing more enticing to cult movie aficionados, especially as people became more interested in Findlay's career.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4xdS2ymvq7glIdFCrWN1_sDXIoNyFaw-tc699FeClY-OvsRUgzhdNPPA4Ol26ONXXBdClYLxxT4QfvfjNj7K8kXRKlj-LjI-BYsKpxstmL3ZYU67X9BEM_FyEunK4xAqVXTOsttEbqBA6REMsqwpCThlu5_CjeBCdtiKglFIJpv4ZbIm2-QEYzHlPy9v/s1211/banned4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1211" data-original-width="900" height="481" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEin4xdS2ymvq7glIdFCrWN1_sDXIoNyFaw-tc699FeClY-OvsRUgzhdNPPA4Ol26ONXXBdClYLxxT4QfvfjNj7K8kXRKlj-LjI-BYsKpxstmL3ZYU67X9BEM_FyEunK4xAqVXTOsttEbqBA6REMsqwpCThlu5_CjeBCdtiKglFIJpv4ZbIm2-QEYzHlPy9v/w358-h481/banned4.jpg" width="358" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Back in 1978, untalented, purple-haired Aussie (?) punk rocker Teddy Homicide (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Neville Wells</span></b>) went crazy, whipped out a machine gun, killed an entire studio full of engineers, musicians and groupies (plus a pizza delivery man) then ended it all by drowning himself in a toilet. Cut to present day, when a struggling, very confused-sounding NYC jazz / prog rock fusion band (!) called Banned is out performing for spare change on 42nd Street. Consisting of guitarist / Berkeley graduate Kent Travis (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dan Erickson</span></b>), keyboardist / performance artist Chelsea Fontaine (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Brent Trish Whitney</span></b>), bassist and military vet Willie Jeffries (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Roger Coleman</span></b>) and former roadie turned drummer Serge (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Fred Cabral</span></b>), everyone involved is getting impatient waiting for their big break. After all, they've still got bills to pay, and their last attempt at a breakthrough album - "Stand and Deliver" - failed to do either and bombed.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Willie comes up with a possible solution to turn things around. His brother has recently purchased an old recording studio called Impulse. The band can work there to test out the soundproofing before the studio officially opens, and use the space to make another album plus gain some much needed publicity in the process. Publicity you say? Yes, Impulse was the site of the 1970s punk massacre, so this could boast of being the first album recorded there since.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLiXtHwwF8tilAC7I4NXq13sVHEv0pR_9WDeD9wRyUNhfgpwxR5ttAjRVhuxizr4nhxiwCKI-Ru75DX_XMyfJUE8YJ-RQhqxTaWhwfNB9xKgEn7sNHg8kuBYFtqxVAYaGetDEflmENs-1oykanAA-j92bNZDRpDix6MbpDYc06r24gv1190XRjXB-OQcGj/s894/banned1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="894" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLiXtHwwF8tilAC7I4NXq13sVHEv0pR_9WDeD9wRyUNhfgpwxR5ttAjRVhuxizr4nhxiwCKI-Ru75DX_XMyfJUE8YJ-RQhqxTaWhwfNB9xKgEn7sNHg8kuBYFtqxVAYaGetDEflmENs-1oykanAA-j92bNZDRpDix6MbpDYc06r24gv1190XRjXB-OQcGj/w400-h224/banned1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Willie's uncle, studio producer Rod Jeffries (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Glen Mitchell</span></b>), is assigned the difficult task of helping Banned come up with their first hit single and reigning in Kent's pretentious impulses. However, that plan goes out the window after Kent starts hearing voices coming from the toilet bowl and then finds himself possessed by the spirit of Teddy Homicide. Somehow that injects some much-needed appeal into the band despite them actually sounding <i>even worse</i> than they did before.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Kent acts in a kind of schizo manner where he's his usual mild-mannered pacifist self part of the time and the manic, screaming, giggling, hard-partying trouble-maker Teddy the rest of it. On stage, he goes into a fit, screaming profanities at the audience, which makes the place go wild and instantly turns on all of the ladies in the crowd. Though he's dating painter Rachel Fesperman (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Amy Brentano</span></b>), his newfound loss of inhibitions also means he feels free to make a move on Chelsea, who he's always had a crush on. When he takes her to lunch at an outdoor café, a group of Lebanese terrorists show up and start shooting everyone until Kent goes and gives them a pep talk, sending them over to Tavern on the Green instead (!)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYxN-c0G3fs5aZwj_3YrRPJqVcraUHhc9v5-zDFQj3pcVqb5UrnCUhAfSAlrcr_J3zzuGP9c2lhK0REG4szOnJDReIjvyOmcYLEtkRdpTqdVKeas4QK1br_ppbw-tslGMkrT6G6AbIcigmNuM4qWNk1eACGyMUf9g6XHN1ich5Jjz72MGXFacF9WYBnXzG/s893/banned11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="893" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYxN-c0G3fs5aZwj_3YrRPJqVcraUHhc9v5-zDFQj3pcVqb5UrnCUhAfSAlrcr_J3zzuGP9c2lhK0REG4szOnJDReIjvyOmcYLEtkRdpTqdVKeas4QK1br_ppbw-tslGMkrT6G6AbIcigmNuM4qWNk1eACGyMUf9g6XHN1ich5Jjz72MGXFacF9WYBnXzG/w400-h225/banned11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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a couple mildly amusing, most excruciating. The worst bit is when Kent takes his girlfriend home to visit his parents and his drunken, psychotic dad goes on a screaming rant that feels like it lasts an hour. The old Jewish record exec snorts some white powder made from "beef tissue" (?!) and periodically transforms into a muscular black man (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Cecil Howsen</span></b>). Once the Teddy persona starts fully taking over, Kent starts "terrorizing" Rachel by trashing their apartment, huffing chemicals, insisting on exhausting sex marathons and forcing her to go dancing late at night after she's had a long work day. The short, balding drummer is somehow irresistible to women and manages to bed half the female cast, including studio assistant Debbie (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jacqueline Price</span></b>) and even Kent's teenage sister, Eileen (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Cheryl Hendricks</span></b>).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt0mRacxaGlIqjRVDHs64SwhGxdgRwr8aRAUTVOfLyCuxrcuh54HyS0TraWbiMOzNb-QcUUVwBWSsAAGrcMSflRMmDC0ke_IbFOXoW5bGW-xEGPn8YQpwM6gye1fjkvF4xWiW2FrUK7itFJo55RggKwAUX4KB9Y81PIEs-ER_xwT3peuzWxH8mFFKPrFGp/s893/banned37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="893" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt0mRacxaGlIqjRVDHs64SwhGxdgRwr8aRAUTVOfLyCuxrcuh54HyS0TraWbiMOzNb-QcUUVwBWSsAAGrcMSflRMmDC0ke_IbFOXoW5bGW-xEGPn8YQpwM6gye1fjkvF4xWiW2FrUK7itFJo55RggKwAUX4KB9Y81PIEs-ER_xwT3peuzWxH8mFFKPrFGp/w400-h223/banned37.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There are also a few recurring gags like our protagonist repeatedly falling into open manholes, cops showing up a decade late to investigate crimes and a seemingly endless chase scene through Central Park with machine guns and a rocket launcher (!) 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECczspfCW_BBK2-prF-brTfBqZO3DCwPLS1AST4fv_QIvr8ekluWLCPoEDIuWCdXLTryk7wkKgC-5XeVA_MX_7IVFoCQuYOk0b10jZFvs8sKjL9JocwI6GuALO5F2lCcw8w46nC7ey4K-M8mzgoJMJ9M7n7dTz1Fzq42DQIm9ksS5UvNSuRn3VOppiZob/s891/banned41.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="502" data-original-width="891" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjECczspfCW_BBK2-prF-brTfBqZO3DCwPLS1AST4fv_QIvr8ekluWLCPoEDIuWCdXLTryk7wkKgC-5XeVA_MX_7IVFoCQuYOk0b10jZFvs8sKjL9JocwI6GuALO5F2lCcw8w46nC7ey4K-M8mzgoJMJ9M7n7dTz1Fzq42DQIm9ksS5UvNSuRn3VOppiZob/w400-h225/banned41.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Watching this, I felt truly bad for lead actor Erickson, who was previously seen in Findlay's dull and near-bloodless (despite the title) slasher <i>Blood Sisters</i> (1987), along with Brentano. He puts a lot of energy and enthusiasm into his performance, and is likeable and appealing when he gets to act normal, but is consistently undermined by terrible dialogue. Whitney also displays some genuine charisma as the keyboard player but she disappears from most of the last third of the film after a dispute with her possessed band mate. The film's failures are certainly not for lack of trying from the cast, though nearly everyone comes off poorly because they're asked to constantly mug for the cameras and wildly overact as if that's automatically going to be amusing. It's not. It's simply annoying and borderline intolerable.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are production issues, especially with the editing and the audio, and though this was marketed as a horror-comedy, and utilizes many horror film tropes, the horror is almost nonexistent here. However, belying the director's past work in sexploitation, there's plentiful topless nudity from nearly all of the female cast, including a young <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Debbie Rochon</span></b> in a minor early role as one of the groupies. Another sleazy touch is the drummer's bedroom, which is decorated with posters for Findlay porn films like <i>Private School Girls</i> and <i>Shauna: Every Man's Fantasy</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrAZFil6CW4qW7n4yWYJ9zGE2b4LjY_nhiT9HYQYCqCDWIdGCNUf1mqnwPHCwTvK1MsbldHrjpTmbeGyMtl1SuzEIBRlf-xqaS1JXb_3VcnDVReVSFanL2_6fgBDuCS19OpGUvDWU7SVFpw5pEykCQ2Ucf690vj4MSmkOk5o93aRnVnw37IePLTeeHiBwi/s779/banned2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="779" data-original-width="700" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrAZFil6CW4qW7n4yWYJ9zGE2b4LjY_nhiT9HYQYCqCDWIdGCNUf1mqnwPHCwTvK1MsbldHrjpTmbeGyMtl1SuzEIBRlf-xqaS1JXb_3VcnDVReVSFanL2_6fgBDuCS19OpGUvDWU7SVFpw5pEykCQ2Ucf690vj4MSmkOk5o93aRnVnw37IePLTeeHiBwi/w405-h450/banned2.jpg" width="405" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've read several differing accounts about this film's belated release. To my knowledge, Findlay never publicly expressed anything but contempt for the project and claims to have never wanted to release it, but that seems a little bit suspect considering she personally held on to a print of it for nearly three decades. I suppose she finally just stopped caring about potential embarrassment and made what little she could from this disaster. I've also read that, supposedly, Media Blasters had purchased the film from Findlay herself way back in the early 2010s. That's also a bit odd considering they didn't bother officially releasing it to Blu-ray until 2022. I'm sure there's an interesting story or two to tell here that I'm unaware of. Definitely not worth the wait in any case.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-75008131004050762432024-02-28T19:44:00.000-05:002024-02-28T19:44:03.856-05:00Dracula père et fils (1976)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-rH-aQ2cj8ujuj2Py7Jjbhs7Jy8ppCXDOQr7E_AikA_DdS2q0wqytNus96e96SSvHTbuNDGpFXAiJwic_O1Z6KstygxnQ_SDEZrf8S6ptTflZJqQZZSTpDImDxedpKDkuAneBHLQj5yiScdCC8o0FjHoOObbmBBpa9xZs0Wdhk9woKSIAmGCrpU6FP4q/s946/draculaandson5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj-rH-aQ2cj8ujuj2Py7Jjbhs7Jy8ppCXDOQr7E_AikA_DdS2q0wqytNus96e96SSvHTbuNDGpFXAiJwic_O1Z6KstygxnQ_SDEZrf8S6ptTflZJqQZZSTpDImDxedpKDkuAneBHLQj5yiScdCC8o0FjHoOObbmBBpa9xZs0Wdhk9woKSIAmGCrpU6FP4q/s320/draculaandson5.jpg" width="203" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Die Herren Dracula</i> (<i>The Dracula Gentlemen</i>)<div>... aka: <i>Dracula and Son</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Dracula padre e figlio</i> (<i>Dracula, Father and Son</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Pure, vampyyri, pure!</i> (<i>Bite, Vampire, Bite!</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Édouard Molinaro</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite being mostly associated with Hammer Films in the UK, and British horror in general, <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Christopher Lee</span></b> has an impressive and quite varied slate of international productions on his resume as well. Even when he was at his peak with Hammer, he was still simultaneously taking up jobs elsewhere, namely in Italy, where he carved out a niche for himself in their Gothic horror cycle, and Germany, where he did other genre films and took part in their popular Edgar Wallace cycle. That turned out to be a wise career decision on his part. By the mid 70s, Hammer was running into problems and horror films were on the downturn in the UK. Since Lee already had cultivated an international following, he didn't have to look hard to find steady work elsewhere. The late 70s saw him appearing in American, British, Canadian, German and Spanish productions, and he was also shooting numerous films in the Middle East and Africa around this same time.</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Dracula and Son</i>, a vampire-themed horror comedy, was one of several French productions he turned up in during the later half of the 70s. He'd already spoofed his own image to good effect in another, earlier vampire comedy called <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2015/01/tempi-duri-per-i-vampiri-1959.html" target="_blank">UNCLE WAS A VAMPIRE</a></b> (1959); a French / Italian co-production. Interestingly, his frequent Hammer co-star Peter Cushing also ended up headlining a French vampire comedy of his own called <i>Tender Dracula</i> (1974).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHV165RZxih3BxIvycDnXmUgChP9MBLv8BaOUKPtdenL3OTzUFDBxsgg0ouVd2ldtFiKpb46EVI-2A-WOTTeIJNjg3phJMh4Xct24ig-Og1OuM32nNfWbWdlSd9dZr5AMl-JviOsnNq2M4pTybL1dzE0VhQGu4zZTITgI9fOIjz9LmjvXayZ0ylX6EPUVJ/s883/draculaandson7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="883" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHV165RZxih3BxIvycDnXmUgChP9MBLv8BaOUKPtdenL3OTzUFDBxsgg0ouVd2ldtFiKpb46EVI-2A-WOTTeIJNjg3phJMh4Xct24ig-Og1OuM32nNfWbWdlSd9dZr5AMl-JviOsnNq2M4pTybL1dzE0VhQGu4zZTITgI9fOIjz9LmjvXayZ0ylX6EPUVJ/s320/draculaandson7.jpg" width="217" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRxqilt3hD08eZMriOsGn9iCtNQYp9tQ51cYR5o-DDuPHU_-UM-Qc50X6bW_3CFekfNu1gtqLckkzhwYHcXtMQmK8r8_MQL1Wo4gj2Q92E8UejJctJ93Jt_1mT7zDqCP0JkpyBekb9SzcXSZSup64CDiFzej9gNP3kWrz0xhB5l68tLMWxDyPZnx4DGsx/s889/draculaandson8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="889" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbRxqilt3hD08eZMriOsGn9iCtNQYp9tQ51cYR5o-DDuPHU_-UM-Qc50X6bW_3CFekfNu1gtqLckkzhwYHcXtMQmK8r8_MQL1Wo4gj2Q92E8UejJctJ93Jt_1mT7zDqCP0JkpyBekb9SzcXSZSup64CDiFzej9gNP3kWrz0xhB5l68tLMWxDyPZnx4DGsx/s320/draculaandson8.jpg" width="216" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">1784. A stagecoach rushing through a Transylvanian forest trying to reach their destination before nightfall breaks a wheel. Knowing it will take several hours to fix, a second stagecoach swings by and two of the ladies - noblewoman Marguerite (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Claude Génia</span></b>) and her nympho daughter Herminie (played by future director <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Catherine Breillat</span></b> in a rare acting role and the same year she made the controversial and oft-banned <i>A Real Young Girl</i>) - decide to catch a ride with them. They don't even make it to the castle before the pale-faced stranger on board (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Xavier Depraz</span></b>) sinks his fangs into the mother's neck. Herminie becomes locked inside the castle grounds and is soon face to face with Dracula (Lee) himself. After he makes a grand entrance from behind a bronze statue of his likeness, Herminie passes out. Next thing we know she's moaning in ecstasy and having sex with a fully-clothed Lee (!) inside a coffin. After they finish, she hops out, runs over to the mirror and starts examining her neck. He assures her, "You will find no marks... I was extremely careful!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The girl's relief doesn't last long. "You are now the bride of the prince of the powers of darkness!," proclaims Lee. He'll now keep her prisoner in the castle until she can produce an offspring. Nine months later, she does just that, delivering him a son / heir he names Ferdinand, which finally makes her worthy of vampire bride status. Lee puts the bite to her, but the resultant creature is a weak, weepy, reluctant whiner of a bloodsucker. It then comes as no surprise that when he sends her out to claim her very first victim on her own, the whole thing backfires when she fails to make it back before sunrise and is reduced to a pile of ashes.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqsJDLSnWboHS4PWqXgLG4V2GHWpoAp6YHPr-AnZ0sxCQwtzcWeKSnffuYDTqO4t6oaFl-VczXhI_mWfxS4aXFX6JSc3Wxgy5mcuejaYAbc9cZacpHz211Rp6Mzb9PsGq3wjbNv5xkt88_PO595XN4FmOabSRlEEsNKES18Ipih3ppEjGbtqB39KZoUT5r/s839/draculaandson1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="839" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqsJDLSnWboHS4PWqXgLG4V2GHWpoAp6YHPr-AnZ0sxCQwtzcWeKSnffuYDTqO4t6oaFl-VczXhI_mWfxS4aXFX6JSc3Wxgy5mcuejaYAbc9cZacpHz211Rp6Mzb9PsGq3wjbNv5xkt88_PO595XN4FmOabSRlEEsNKES18Ipih3ppEjGbtqB39KZoUT5r/w400-h240/draculaandson1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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He's fed blood in a baby bottle and rolls a skull across the floor to knock over the urn containing his mother's ashes while the sound of a bowling ball hitting pins is heard. He then has a laugh killing his old nanny by tricking her into going outside right before dawn and then locking the door. 116 years pass and the now grown Ferdinand (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Bernard Menez</span></b>) is a lazy, whiny, pale, mustachioed weakling who has thus far refused to claim a victim and is still using a baby bottle. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jump ahead to present day and not much has changed but the scenery. When some peasants and communist soldiers invade the castle to throw a party, Dracula and Ferdinand are forced to flee. They make their way into the nearest village, kill a couple of sailors and then try to stowaway in their coffins, hoping they'll be shipped back to France. 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He befriends fellow immigrant Khaleb (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Mustapha Dali</span></b>) and the two hitch a ride in the back of a produce truck. They move into a derelict building with other immigrants and Ferdinand is eventually able to gain appropriate employment as a graveyard shift security guard. However, even there he's bullied and exploited by a personnel director using his illegal status to try to blackmail him out of his paycheck. Is this vampire comedy actually striving for a deeper sociopolitical meaning in between all the silly gags? It would appear so! No doubt that Ferdinand is facing the same hardships other Iron Curtain defectors possibly faced in other parts of Europe at around the same time and, sadly, some of this commentary is as timely today as it was back in 1976. Since he's still not worked up the courage to actually attack anyone, Ferdinand is reduced to raiding the local blood bank for nourishment.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Meanwhile, a disheveled-looking Dracula is caught in a fishing net and ends up in London, where his first victim is an inflatable sex doll. Weakened, he's having a hard time catching any prey until he's discovered by actress Anna Gaynor (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Anna Gaël</span></b>) and her movie director boyfriend, who immediately cast him as the Count in their vampire movie. He makes the mistake of vampirizing Anna and taking her home, where she proves to be a little too needy and codependent, so he promptly does away with her. Dracula becomes a huge movie star and starts making global news, which is how Ferdinand discovers he's still alive. 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Nicole bears a striking resemblance to the count's first wife and he becomes romantically interested in her right away. Likewise, she's attracted due to his magnetism and commanding nature (plus, duh, he's Christopher Lee), which means her relationship with campaign designer Jean (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Bernard Alane</span></b>) gets pushed to the side for the time being. However, the lonely Ferdinand has also fallen in love with her, which is kind of weird seeing how she's a dead ringer for his mom, but what have you. This leads to jealousy, tension, sabotage and even murder attempts between parent and child that, thanks to the insanely childish and annoying behavior of the son, will probably have you cheering on Lee as he slaps the shit out of him multiple times and then booing during the conclusion.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The general consensus seems to be that this is bad, but I don't agree, at least when viewed in its original, uncut form. The story structure spanning centuries is pretty neat, with lots of little side characters filtering in and out of the vampires' lives over the years, some more interesting and / or amusing that others. The bits of social and political commentary were an unexpected surprise. The early period-set scenes have a lovely soft focus look to them and the art direction / sets and costumes are all good. Best of all, Lee gives a wonderful performance. There are actually more layers to his character here than he was given to play off of in most of his Hammer Dracula films. The multi-lingual genre icon's voice can be heard in both the French and English language versions.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are definitely some problems here too, though. Things eventually deteriorating into a dull love triangle seems like a lazy cop out; as if the filmmakers didn't know quite where to go. While there are some clever and amusing moments sprinkled throughout, there really aren't many outright hilarious moments. I also found it almost impossible to care about Ferdinand, which is odd since I typically gravitate toward the black sheep / outcast characters. This guy is really <i>that</i> irritating. Furthermore, believing Nicole would be romantically interested in him is even less believable than when Caroline Munro agreed to go on a date with Joe Spinell in <i>Maniac</i>. To be fair, I did watch the English version and the congested-sounding voice actor for Ferdinand was damn near unbearable to listen to. I'm not sure if he's as bad in the French version, though even without the dubbing the character's actions are annoying enough as is.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQW9OeH4C0WXqH-fAfcvzbN9ZtVidujlNPG628djoiQTG9nhyphenhyphen5KrulOlpnZT1UWirxMtX0et4SMPaGH_qyIso20-inmyOAd67Au-ZuNWGNpCtZKpNcR4k2q2qEL2ZKw32f925xMLXGXvjmr7WzO6-0vaUAcLRM5rJ0VmaJ64w6w37gVBNfzQi-8eJfeMcO/s835/draculaandson36.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="501" data-original-width="835" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQW9OeH4C0WXqH-fAfcvzbN9ZtVidujlNPG628djoiQTG9nhyphenhyphen5KrulOlpnZT1UWirxMtX0et4SMPaGH_qyIso20-inmyOAd67Au-ZuNWGNpCtZKpNcR4k2q2qEL2ZKw32f925xMLXGXvjmr7WzO6-0vaUAcLRM5rJ0VmaJ64w6w37gVBNfzQi-8eJfeMcO/w400-h240/draculaandson36.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<i>The Crazy Boys vs. Dracula</i> [1980]) is a blackmailing factory manager and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dominique Zardi</span></b> (<b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2013/01/litan-1982.html" target="_blank">LITAN</a></b>) is an agent.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Just two years after this, Molinaro would hit the big time with the comedy <i>La cage aux follies</i> (1978), an adaptation of the 1973 play by Jean Poiret. The film was a runaway financial success across Europe and even in the United States, where it quickly became the highest-grossing foreign language film up to that time (even over four decades later it's still in the Top 20). In addition, it earned Molinaro a pair of Oscar nominations, including for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. Two sequels followed and it later became the basis for the 1996 comedy <i>The Birdcage</i> starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane, which was also a huge hit.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU63NVTUCos4s9w_NFkSnRO5DywstbAnC3paymDSKMA7MJMq1vwzEI_5Gh1_WgFWA0U33-w0kavHy4v0FXYGGmwp5RlDY0VuKaIGYN-CStRRSqT9nDu8FLdxL_6QvUgwCz5Xn_m0YrnQ-w6TlUBwxiEiUryIbZotaMwSKcaZ0Hnla13Ecjz3yxcF2d3Pt6/s744/draculaandson3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="744" data-original-width="483" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU63NVTUCos4s9w_NFkSnRO5DywstbAnC3paymDSKMA7MJMq1vwzEI_5Gh1_WgFWA0U33-w0kavHy4v0FXYGGmwp5RlDY0VuKaIGYN-CStRRSqT9nDu8FLdxL_6QvUgwCz5Xn_m0YrnQ-w6TlUBwxiEiUryIbZotaMwSKcaZ0Hnla13Ecjz3yxcF2d3Pt6/s320/draculaandson3.jpg" width="208" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvNL_wtnQaIJS8z_tY3O2P7An9_p_P128TfLgHquHs6GIAJ8Wo0mmzGIMDPG-bCzmSlkEY9fpcbJPN_-goOVctVeLG_ZuK_klWg22plD9g25O2O6C_WgaRZceugUTAB2aBUl13hMPK7WbnC893wdaq8AjDmsPrWnM5SxfkYKVvzz33jTJu9wtgzRI8LHY/s868/draculaandson2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="868" data-original-width="588" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJvNL_wtnQaIJS8z_tY3O2P7An9_p_P128TfLgHquHs6GIAJ8Wo0mmzGIMDPG-bCzmSlkEY9fpcbJPN_-goOVctVeLG_ZuK_klWg22plD9g25O2O6C_WgaRZceugUTAB2aBUl13hMPK7WbnC893wdaq8AjDmsPrWnM5SxfkYKVvzz33jTJu9wtgzRI8LHY/s320/draculaandson2.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This was based on a 1974 novel called <i>Paris Vampire</i> by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Claude Klotz</span></b>. The book was later reissued numerous times to tie into the film by re-titling it <i>Dracula père et fils</i> and either reusing the same poster art or showing images of Lee on the cover. A soundtrack album featuring music from Romanian composer <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Vladimir Cosma</span></b> was also released in 1976 on the Vogue International label.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcz8bPSBS86dA9oHHSALSLUSDuFoU8n6hWYrraWAurxYp3T6FtVdxAuHRitZM3kY6PTfzYP0ceWed0qI7DD6dkoS5G1JgJCvavHJHxzBU26qm7JTxXRXG6w6fdlLm7q37IXBB8Bf_SbLd-Xg7MTqJWLNv-Bv9IbpyyxnvhS-xTBnqN_1M_Us2Y5KOQrx53/s906/draculaandson9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="906" data-original-width="565" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcz8bPSBS86dA9oHHSALSLUSDuFoU8n6hWYrraWAurxYp3T6FtVdxAuHRitZM3kY6PTfzYP0ceWed0qI7DD6dkoS5G1JgJCvavHJHxzBU26qm7JTxXRXG6w6fdlLm7q37IXBB8Bf_SbLd-Xg7MTqJWLNv-Bv9IbpyyxnvhS-xTBnqN_1M_Us2Y5KOQrx53/w125-h200/draculaandson9.jpg" width="125" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLp0jh9iAWl79_mSYcFxMeWQa4V0RYlZGtPOe5ZvtHfY9x5dyyB0b1s8dO52doD7fdB-zur2dCitcUy-fdFcVnx90AqC_md57BV-9g6Jj52XX_PkFyT2UoY7W29KU83e9J5lfLIwUiEmTFYSp-qcECCaL5rkm2y_LbOXpXJrxEHmY_kT0NhyphenhyphenXsutZa91E/s568/draculaandson10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="568" data-original-width="356" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggLp0jh9iAWl79_mSYcFxMeWQa4V0RYlZGtPOe5ZvtHfY9x5dyyB0b1s8dO52doD7fdB-zur2dCitcUy-fdFcVnx90AqC_md57BV-9g6Jj52XX_PkFyT2UoY7W29KU83e9J5lfLIwUiEmTFYSp-qcECCaL5rkm2y_LbOXpXJrxEHmY_kT0NhyphenhyphenXsutZa91E/w126-h200/draculaandson10.jpg" width="126" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjssp_zYcOicxAT4q1elnDKuxHYDT-ehFSE7KQUfka0PqClLMCQCNLHf2zT4N1sFpABKhDZXz6VKPZU-TBshKrGx6i35iCBZJa-RXQeA_oVKTyJyiJdZOXSd9vzdBzfh7x46nH71pFf7S5da0LMQjCvosRZfJxV9qkHYJPz_xWfivm9sxjstb7F_oK1EJTF/s945/draculaandson11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="945" data-original-width="600" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjssp_zYcOicxAT4q1elnDKuxHYDT-ehFSE7KQUfka0PqClLMCQCNLHf2zT4N1sFpABKhDZXz6VKPZU-TBshKrGx6i35iCBZJa-RXQeA_oVKTyJyiJdZOXSd9vzdBzfh7x46nH71pFf7S5da0LMQjCvosRZfJxV9qkHYJPz_xWfivm9sxjstb7F_oK1EJTF/w127-h200/draculaandson11.jpg" width="127" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The English dubbed version that was released to U.S. theaters by Quartet Films in 1979 was cut down by 20 minutes and completely butchered in the process. (I'm also certain this version is a big part of the reason the film has such a bad reputation in the first place). This same cut was given at least two VHS releases in the 80s, from Columbia Pictures and GoodTimes. It wouldn't be until 2016 when an uncut version was released by Sinister Cinema, who offered an English-subbed, French-language widescreen version. In 2022, Severin finally released it on Blu-ray fully uncut and restored with all available audio options and subtitles one would need. It's available as part of their release "The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee, Collection 2."</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-53127096314949082992024-02-25T13:20:00.003-05:002024-02-26T17:38:57.137-05:00Making Contact (1985)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyTiI2AzexpUM1Ffar21Js88qz7EV5AmHEITFFBQUSfwquWn-tfoit7bN5axUKWhyphenhyphenIo24aUo2q-WupVXL0Pp79cdco_SMi9Uw6aaQkGPiOphAnUuVq0oqR2WU8bongqlacPYWu-rh4j4_noWMaW_vzXmhJ_TlsrJE_9MhXIMDxQdzfqPKNdN7gd3OSq3L/s930/makingcon5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="930" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZyTiI2AzexpUM1Ffar21Js88qz7EV5AmHEITFFBQUSfwquWn-tfoit7bN5axUKWhyphenhyphenIo24aUo2q-WupVXL0Pp79cdco_SMi9Uw6aaQkGPiOphAnUuVq0oqR2WU8bongqlacPYWu-rh4j4_noWMaW_vzXmhJ_TlsrJE_9MhXIMDxQdzfqPKNdN7gd3OSq3L/s320/makingcon5.jpg" width="206" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Contacto con el más allá</i> (<i>Contact with the Beyond</i>)<div>... aka: <i>Debiru doru</i> (<i>Devil Doll</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>El secreto de Joey</i> (<i>Joey's Secret</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Joey</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Joey, una storia meravigliosa</i> (<i>Joey: A Wonderful Story</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Roland Emmerich</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Having lofty aspirations to become Germany's answer to Spielberg or Lucas, Roland Emmerich started out in his home country with smaller scale science fiction films. His first feature length effort fresh out of film school was <i>The Noah's Ark Principle</i> (1984), which didn't set the box office ablaze but did manage to turn a profit due to securing an international distribution deal on a budget of around 300 thousand U.S. dollars. Next up was this effort, which took a year and a half to complete and was budgeted at around 1.5 million. Like his previous effort, this sold well internationally (to 22 markets) and made even more money due to the director's decision to shoot the film in English and keep it tame and schmaltzy enough to secure a PG rating, thus netting an even wider audience. As for the critical response to the film, it was almost universally terrible; a recurring theme for the director. Not that he cared any. Emmerich would later go on record admitting that he only makes popcorn movies for mass consumption. That attitude would end up serving him well when he later segued into his big budget Hollywood career. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Less than a decade after he started with his modest little fantasy / sci-fi films, he was "discovered" by Sylvester Stallone and then recommended to direct the popular Jean Claude Van Damme action vehicle <i>Universal Soldier</i> (1992). From there he made the uneven though successful sci-fi film <i>Stargate</i> (1994), which at least spawned a far superior TV series, and then was on to the alien invasion extravaganza <i>Independence Day</i> (1996), which ended up becoming the highest grossing film of its year despite not being very good.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGOKTLcC7JDun91Mg4D39R-Oj72F-77ss_aOq-uPkMvm-yBn1iOHAiq-hpfItqOVA2se1-iqQvDQemcNFYlsaK2piO6n8nXDJxDhQHHjkkhOvK8Vej753KHBJYJajCxysZD9p3Q8ho7dceDwljPqQ9jKCO1KNkT6JLOa5dlbn9uBrNk4sXNm0cgdGo7PQ/s797/makingcon3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="538" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNGOKTLcC7JDun91Mg4D39R-Oj72F-77ss_aOq-uPkMvm-yBn1iOHAiq-hpfItqOVA2se1-iqQvDQemcNFYlsaK2piO6n8nXDJxDhQHHjkkhOvK8Vej753KHBJYJajCxysZD9p3Q8ho7dceDwljPqQ9jKCO1KNkT6JLOa5dlbn9uBrNk4sXNm0cgdGo7PQ/s320/makingcon3.jpg" width="216" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIfeK_EfYSBQHkGWKsdnSEERZmCtK8UDtiElp-HupL8BZmFgcG-PuKim_uqGuFUi3KSbjOUxv3t7rEvtpfp_y1Ef5okEDpTvYRhyER1twvQBzHq9mb64G8BaL6vN4MvwginC-ixBrRal9fDs8lNrWlIY0F1mRm3yQMesD_1UhL5DUo2K6-qU7r4z6ybEK/s873/makingcon4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="873" data-original-width="586" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOIfeK_EfYSBQHkGWKsdnSEERZmCtK8UDtiElp-HupL8BZmFgcG-PuKim_uqGuFUi3KSbjOUxv3t7rEvtpfp_y1Ef5okEDpTvYRhyER1twvQBzHq9mb64G8BaL6vN4MvwginC-ixBrRal9fDs8lNrWlIY0F1mRm3yQMesD_1UhL5DUo2K6-qU7r4z6ybEK/s320/makingcon4.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The formula was all pretty simple: huge budgets, huge major studio marketing campaigns, casts filled with popular actors, expensive state of the art special effects and depictions of mass destruction, all pasted together with extremely hokey human interest drama. Audiences just couldn't get enough for awhile and he'd repeat the same routine with later films like <i>The Day After Tomorrow</i>, <i>10,000 BC</i> and <i>2012.</i> However, the sheen would eventually wear off. Later "event" movies like the <i>Independence Day</i> sequel under-performed, while his last film as of this writing - <i>Moonfall</i> (2022) - was a certifiable box office bomb.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As someone who's <i>not</i> a fan of his Hollywood career at all, I actually went into this with my curiosity piqued at the prospect of seeing what Mr. 200 Million Budget could do with only a tiny fraction of the money he'd later become accustomed to working with. I didn't expect good, but I did perhaps expect moments of interest seeing someone with such big, expensive visions facing budget constraints. How will he overcome that? <i>Will</i> he overcome that? Let's take a look...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaIeZbLXXn9afEQBiS7el6Ixsxq2_KEoy2IzNHZVH3C-lCAqgzwyLJ0Pa7CptayD53fjYC_WE3cDkIVaKaQRjM1uDuNs4GcWc8Nw-XxGizHnOP5WJEPY_ELIGWQEpTdQZrZ_Sfk0P7PFo6I2OWUhrk_-2FzHxk0oJsFhyphenhyphenB1k_-BFkjoVqlI7AUsU8pSXgm/s858/makingcon9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaIeZbLXXn9afEQBiS7el6Ixsxq2_KEoy2IzNHZVH3C-lCAqgzwyLJ0Pa7CptayD53fjYC_WE3cDkIVaKaQRjM1uDuNs4GcWc8Nw-XxGizHnOP5WJEPY_ELIGWQEpTdQZrZ_Sfk0P7PFo6I2OWUhrk_-2FzHxk0oJsFhyphenhyphenB1k_-BFkjoVqlI7AUsU8pSXgm/s320/makingcon9.jpg" width="224" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtue0A4b1T-QjVW40m2v99Xi4LOanDzQ2AuoEJeR2gPPKvy7aL5KokmRIqS09gf8FkhXVg1KKG3jW2pT7Xqjm9Egv2BeLHS3YK3dqSUjfBOaljK8A7qq8t8w__jQGFbJmrmCjPv0RP2hTZ1MvWxxSbZ-q3TPtGm4oWSDhdXsvUK2rIAGbXkb-HyxcGJHQK/s669/makingcon10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="455" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtue0A4b1T-QjVW40m2v99Xi4LOanDzQ2AuoEJeR2gPPKvy7aL5KokmRIqS09gf8FkhXVg1KKG3jW2pT7Xqjm9Egv2BeLHS3YK3dqSUjfBOaljK8A7qq8t8w__jQGFbJmrmCjPv0RP2hTZ1MvWxxSbZ-q3TPtGm4oWSDhdXsvUK2rIAGbXkb-HyxcGJHQK/s320/makingcon10.jpg" width="218" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Grand, whimsical John Williams-esque music swells over the opening credits and then we're whisked off to a funeral. Laura Collins (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Eva Kryll</span></b>) has just lost her husband, leaving her to raise their 9-year-old son Joey (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Joshua Morrell</span></b>) all on her own. Later that night, while Joey is mourning his father, his toys seem to come to life, lights flash from his closet and a glowing red plastic phone starts ringing. Joey answers it to find his father on the other line. Or does he? When mom catches him under his blankets talking to his deceased father, she's mildly concerned but decides to just give it some time. Maybe this is his unique way of grieving. Joey makes the mistake of telling some of his classmates that he's still making contact with his dead dad, which makes him the target of a group of bullies led by Bernie (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Matthias Kraus</span></b>) and William (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jerry Hall</span></b>).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At a nearby abandoned house, Joey finds an old, ugly ventriloquist's dummy in the basement. He cleans it up, takes it home and puts it in his bedroom. The dummy turns out to be alive, or at least possessed by someone and being animated, and also appears to be the root cause of all the supernatural events that have been occurring thus far. 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It goes "Blarrrrr!" in a deep voice and shoots lasers out of its eyes. It tries to kill his mom by flinging a knife at her and attempting to run her over with a car, shows him historical clips on a TV screen and tells him he hasn't actually been talking to his father all this time. Instead, he's been speaking to a famous former stage magician and ventriloquist named Jonathan Fletcher, who's been dead since the 1920s and had brought his stage prop to life via black magic. As for their motives, the dummy chimes in and says that he and the dead Fletcher want to "control" him. As for why, and what they plan on doing once they do, your guess is as good as mine. I couldn't make heads of tails of much of this, though it's kind of revealed toward the end that the dummy is the real issue, not the ventriloquist. Or something.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Joey does have a couple of helpful allies, including a friendly, pigtailed neighborhood girl named Sally (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tammy Shields</span></b>), his dog Scooter and a super-intelligent miniature R2-D2 style robot named Charlie that can think for itself and even has feelings (!?) Concerned teacher Martin (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jan Zierold</span></b>) starts showing up periodically to check on the boy and is set up as a potential love interest for the widowed mother, though nothing ever comes of this. Just like in <i>E.T.</i> where a huge swarm of government agents and scientists basically take over the family home, here a huge swarm of paranormal investigators, police officers and scientists take over the family home. While they're running tests on Joey, his bullies convene at the former ventriloquist's home and make elaborate plans to "rid ourselves of this menace." (What do they plan on actually doing? <i>Killing</i> him?) 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This is a delightfully colorful and handsomely shot (by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Egon Werdin</span></b>) film, with expensive-looking art direction and special effects. It's actually impressive how the director and his crew are able to almost completely pull off the look and feel of a big budget 80s Hollywood production with meager means. That said, the visuals are about the only good thing going on here, unless you can have fun counting the endless blatant ways the director tries, and fails, to copy Spielberg's brand of "heartwarming" family friendly fantasy entertainment.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Undoing nearly all of the polish is an absolutely terrible screenplay, which is completely unable to generate any sympathy for its cardboard protagonists, fails to establish any kind of compelling, coherent plot, fails to come up with a satisfactory conclusion (there basically ISN'T a conclusion) and is filled with laughably awful dialogue, including giving the dummy a bunch of lame "funny" one-liners. Everything here feels soulless, heartless, charmless and derivative, as if every prior popular PG fantasy film was fed into some kind of malfunctioning computer and this got spit out.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AalMNcfatSrwap3Wo6qgJYTvClmJBNCkqtg9zNhTv76CjPD2h6U2alS2QZCGPvD5l2LWiBvy0vRToYW20ULZACfdo4kl934FiDaHnwTtJAPPXSTMjpgxG9gjaV_qnpo6qjw1x87h0vUMFpygQMmzNUcsj_H3YgsoeL9ZlZSfrFHW9fkVrxVbTsC2HWKX/s889/makingcon24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="379" data-original-width="889" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8AalMNcfatSrwap3Wo6qgJYTvClmJBNCkqtg9zNhTv76CjPD2h6U2alS2QZCGPvD5l2LWiBvy0vRToYW20ULZACfdo4kl934FiDaHnwTtJAPPXSTMjpgxG9gjaV_qnpo6qjw1x87h0vUMFpygQMmzNUcsj_H3YgsoeL9ZlZSfrFHW9fkVrxVbTsC2HWKX/w400-h170/makingcon24.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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His decision to cast mostly amateurs simply because they spoke English results in across-the-board stone-faced performances and stilted delivery of nearly every single line of dialogue. Apparently all of the young "talent" were completely inexperienced kids that were plucked from a U.S. military base / school to take part in the film, though they don't really come off any worse than most of the adults. Not sure where they found the rest of these folks at but most never appeared in anything else ever again. I'm also not sure why they even bothered shooting in English since most of the actors ultimately got dubbed over anyway. The woman playing the mother, for instance, looks like she can actually act based on her reactions to various events but then she's given a monotone dub that ruins her entire performance.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You'd be hard pressed to find another film filled with as much product placement as this one, though I don't believe there were any kind of paid licensing deals going on here either. The director seems to have basically just used whatever he wanted to give this a more American appearance. The young star's bedroom is filled to the rafters with name brand toys and merch; Sesame Street, Star Wars, Smurfs, various Disney characters, Garfield, Pac Man, E.T., you name it. If kids were into it at the time, Joey definitely has it. This goes even further than that with a perplexing cameo appearance from Darth Vader himself. The kitchen is filled with products like Skippy peanut butter and Heinz ketchup. Their dog eats Alpo. 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Most of the film was shot in Germany, but exteriors were shot in the U.S. because this is supposed to be taking place in Virginia Beach, which somehow also means we get gratuitous shots of Southwestern Bell pay phones and a Krispy Kreme shop.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfc4e_MLMYnProTVAx6ZSHYMzEHcOJl_LlNzZhoX_mBMfW8Td3Ji90kuwZK4_vofURB5ll___tFD7yuUDsMjq7qU7Yr3Z5rZTk7MXeK3M9XenkO3ltteiij87d7fzxAFa3Jt-cYNPbfyLKZyJFrOAbWG1s6WbhkfUi9BDV6IUg-jDAdOGsuoMRP7i7rzJO/s1177/makingcon7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1177" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfc4e_MLMYnProTVAx6ZSHYMzEHcOJl_LlNzZhoX_mBMfW8Td3Ji90kuwZK4_vofURB5ll___tFD7yuUDsMjq7qU7Yr3Z5rZTk7MXeK3M9XenkO3ltteiij87d7fzxAFa3Jt-cYNPbfyLKZyJFrOAbWG1s6WbhkfUi9BDV6IUg-jDAdOGsuoMRP7i7rzJO/w480-h442/makingcon7.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">From <i>Cinemafantastique</i> Vol. 16 #3 (July 1986)</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are a number of different versions available. The first is the original 101 minute version released in Germany under its original title, <i>Joey</i>. This same version appears to have been released throughout Europe. And then there's the heavily-cut, English language release called <i>Making Contact</i>. Over twenty minutes have been removed (having browsed through the longer version it doesn't appear you're missing out on much) and it features a different, inferior score. The cut U. S. release was briefly distributed theatrically by New World Pictures in 1986, then turned up on home video courtesy of New World Video later that same year. Anchor Bay distributed it on DVD and then Blu-ray duties were handed off to Kino Lorber. The latter includes both the original and cut versions of the film.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A little note here, my rating is entirely a reflection of the craftsmanship of some of the crew people, not a reflection of my enjoyment of the actual film. I actually hated this with every fiber of my being. It grated on my nerves nearly the entire time. It's obvious. It's insulting. It's dumb as hell. It's offensively cynical in how stupid it assumes its target audience is going to be. And it actually just pissed me off.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-83727341508542060352024-02-24T20:01:00.000-05:002024-02-24T20:01:51.284-05:00House of the Long Shadows (1983)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ef_oTzeAQcV5BGdlOUhVI5gtBgTO4QmM7bK9Z4avJFSIekNiPrtbRyia966YMEqGm7xT4pjhEDuVT8R2WR3ZdPdabxd_HBnh9cBWHvbO3mHtQ3SVul5efT76Z32nlyRyaSROrzQXDC60bvQwa9GBWYrDxSTrcpGYEaPVuY7Wvp8hGZrP4dc_YkAqMxag/s937/houseoflong2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="937" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_ef_oTzeAQcV5BGdlOUhVI5gtBgTO4QmM7bK9Z4avJFSIekNiPrtbRyia966YMEqGm7xT4pjhEDuVT8R2WR3ZdPdabxd_HBnh9cBWHvbO3mHtQ3SVul5efT76Z32nlyRyaSROrzQXDC60bvQwa9GBWYrDxSTrcpGYEaPVuY7Wvp8hGZrP4dc_YkAqMxag/s320/houseoflong2.jpg" width="205" /></a></div>... aka: <i>A Mansão da Meia-Noite</i> (<i>The Midnight Mansion</i>)<div>... aka: <i>Hosszú árnyak</i> (<i>Long Shadows</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>House of Long Shadows, The</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Kauhujen talo</i> (<i>House of Horrors</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>La casa de las sombras del pasado</i> (<i>The House of Shadows of the Past</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Le manoir de la peur</i> (<i>The Manor of Fear</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Pete Walker</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most horror movies that become infamous earned their reputation via shocking content; graphic, tasteless and / or socially "objectionable" material. The key is to drum up controversy, go places others are unwilling to go and get people talking. And then you have those films that become notorious for entirely different reasons. Some are simply so terrible it's difficult to fathom how people could have ever made them with serious intentions. And then you have this anomaly, which quickly gained infamy as one of the biggest missed opportunities of all time. When you're bringing together four of the greatest horror stars of all time for the first time ever, it's going to be impossible to avoid setting the bar extremely high for yourself, especially when those actors are absolute genre royalty like <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Vincent Price</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Christopher Lee</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Peter Cushing</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">John Carradine</span></b>. A lot of people fondly remember all four of these actors and also fondly remember the high quality of their better projects so the last thing you want to do is disappoint their longtime fans with something subpar or mediocre. Sadly, that's pretty much exactly what happened here, and critics of the day were merciless in ripping this thing apart. Horror fans didn't seem to care much for it either.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now that plenty of time has passed and expectations have been somewhat tempered (most younger fans probably aren't even going to <i>have</i> expectations to begin with), we can now look at this once again minus some of the bias. Is it a masterpiece worthy of the talent on hand? Nope, it misses the mark there. Is it as bad as many critics said at the time? Absolutely not. Seeing all of these great veteran actors performing alongside each other and interacting in the same shots is so special that not even a mediocre script can't diminish the enjoyment. Even better, the director makes sure that all four are allowed their moments to shine here.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n09WkNzL5_Q5Hq8o_-KUlOhcFJ0CTRwvJfmnHEWCezIW6tZocmK7Ky8Ob1lky7h1rRAjzbFS9AqYNwU12TVKHZw4vVfwvGE-n3ksdvaY5k-DB25OYWXYjIqdelKypshuqqeOMfU_2EflOWON4lmB0PvvUS0j0wq7NwrydWBr6Erkk7E3ddieY2rdIyhE/s700/houseoflong6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="700" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3n09WkNzL5_Q5Hq8o_-KUlOhcFJ0CTRwvJfmnHEWCezIW6tZocmK7Ky8Ob1lky7h1rRAjzbFS9AqYNwU12TVKHZw4vVfwvGE-n3ksdvaY5k-DB25OYWXYjIqdelKypshuqqeOMfU_2EflOWON4lmB0PvvUS0j0wq7NwrydWBr6Erkk7E3ddieY2rdIyhE/w436-h286/houseoflong6.jpg" width="436" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0xWsA6U-F89d_6QJitEX9-94IZ24eRXfa9qyeseLaNmDUzrSU9-Agx9MPNbWuBToFbJYw49jf6APahtECWeqH4wN2X4jlQQXw9A8zwW4J1YU1a8cSLhjB5vPVsU-EcUNla-QpWUszcLKB5AWKtAItm_B59COVmU4VGmpWORgT2KAyCmQ-Wx8u8_qIG-y/s600/houseoflong3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="578" data-original-width="600" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0xWsA6U-F89d_6QJitEX9-94IZ24eRXfa9qyeseLaNmDUzrSU9-Agx9MPNbWuBToFbJYw49jf6APahtECWeqH4wN2X4jlQQXw9A8zwW4J1YU1a8cSLhjB5vPVsU-EcUNla-QpWUszcLKB5AWKtAItm_B59COVmU4VGmpWORgT2KAyCmQ-Wx8u8_qIG-y/w437-h421/houseoflong3.jpg" width="437" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">American writer Kenneth Magee (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Desi Arnaz Jr.</span></b>), who's trying to rebound from disappointing sales of his latest novel "The Lie," arrives in London for a small publicity tour orchestrated by literary agent / publisher Sam Allyson (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Richard Todd</span></b>). Unlike all of those "over the top" classic novelists, the young, arrogant and brash Kenneth has a more contemporary attitude about his craft. Making money is "all that matters" to him, though he also enjoys some of the perks of being an author, namely access to a lot of women. As far as relationships themselves go, he doesn't believe in them. Sex is fine. Love doesn't even hit his radar. He still has a lot of growing up to do. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sam thinks he's too sure of himself and is going to ruin his career by refusing to develop his talent further and take creative chances. After all, slumping recent sales are suggesting people are tiring of him writing about the same subject matter all the time. Over a discussion at lunch about classic literature, Kenneth smirks about the status of acclaimed authors like Tolstoy and Dickens. When <i>Wuthering Heights</i> comes up, he proclaims "Anyone can write one of those things!" That sparks a 20,000 wager that he can write something similar and just as good in just 24 hours (!) All he needs is an atmospheric setting, complete isolation and some quiet.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Coincidentally (or maybe <i>not</i>!), Sam has a friend named Sir Richard Thornton, who owns a remote rural property called Bllyddpaetwr in Wales that's currently in the process of being sold. The old manor house supposedly hasn't been occupied in 40 years and has no electricity, but it's the perfect setting for Magee to pen his next novel by candlelight. The bet is on.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxOlcQzNMjhfvFUWAXTST1FpNWDvzCXmU3oZ8qKhk_kJIaC7q7oxgPBpdxFOJYXMWWht2Sq0DCOInQdtyHE1u16t9l9BxCdIDEvA5ppQ84AD8cnRFe7iTrFxDL9FUcVAw1pbGF4IYoFt3-5-MANlitfCbJEVChesEi9vdGYb3xdrhT7s31Mg1ePHflRK3/s899/houseoflong1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="899" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjxOlcQzNMjhfvFUWAXTST1FpNWDvzCXmU3oZ8qKhk_kJIaC7q7oxgPBpdxFOJYXMWWht2Sq0DCOInQdtyHE1u16t9l9BxCdIDEvA5ppQ84AD8cnRFe7iTrFxDL9FUcVAw1pbGF4IYoFt3-5-MANlitfCbJEVChesEi9vdGYb3xdrhT7s31Mg1ePHflRK3/w400-h211/houseoflong1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGuAr1lKuqko4JCo4xsST50-FGPl3aF0ynywf3KSTW9Ih5oJq7oRtGCWaiuZY_wgi5i8Kg7eG8S4-Fbwlbmy3GZWU10G7UwdOjojoqcqXchAt233I5pxd94CM1-b9gCUZMxY6OzeFMtAc3G5psl-bT2N8BisXjJOmQK-WNYv_djVT6luu103GhYd48VJ4b/s892/houseoflong12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_7_EWmdSySPLykTnY8LO7Ydmb3y47TA6FiD7m0qdAwms-bloAkWF6cxUhMFiTq3HiEoX9rc4JCvOvYMp6HthOwXwVmgfjfApubol7eEXKyHlH3DbMDw2iWhOqnmm4X-GFbKCbbmfRWqwPFHK4bQqixt7mTMLZ4ZPprntNhr24hKUXFA-njgmId0uYhvst/s895/houseoflong43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="895" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_7_EWmdSySPLykTnY8LO7Ydmb3y47TA6FiD7m0qdAwms-bloAkWF6cxUhMFiTq3HiEoX9rc4JCvOvYMp6HthOwXwVmgfjfApubol7eEXKyHlH3DbMDw2iWhOqnmm4X-GFbKCbbmfRWqwPFHK4bQqixt7mTMLZ4ZPprntNhr24hKUXFA-njgmId0uYhvst/w400-h215/houseoflong43.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After a brief detour at a train station, where the foreboding station master (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Norman Rossington</span></b>) warns that the home he's looking for is "cursed," the writer finally arrives at his destination on an appropriately stormy night. After fumbling through the dark, he finally locates a bedroom, lights some candles, sets up his typewriter and begins writing "Midnight Mansion." However, he's soon interrupted. Surveying his surroundings, he becomes suspicious that the home hasn't been unoccupied for 40 years like he's been told. There's fresh water in his room, the bedding has been washed and it's relatively clean... almost as if he, or someone else, was expected there. He then ventures out into the hallway, hears a noise and sees someone ducking into a room. Problem is, no one's supposed to be there and Kenneth was told that he has the only key.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kenneth is soon greeted (if that's the word for it!) by the elderly, grumpy Elijah Quinby (Carradine) and his sinister, hyper-religious daughter, Victoria (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sheila Keith</span></b>), who claim to be the caretakers there. That's followed by the appearance of an old cloaked woman Kenneth had brief spotted at the train station earlier, who turns out to actually be masked young blonde Katherine De Corsi (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Julie Peasgood</span></b>), who Kenneth had briefly flirted with while in London. Speaking privately, she warns him that both of them will be killed if "they" - members of O.P.I.T. (The Organization for the Promotion of International Terrorism) - spot them talking. She, like most of the other people in this film, isn't who she claims to be.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9gdZ3WTcy8w5BBBvJidjGGHJ1DqU6u3AiqUle9Xrjmzp8OB3ZMToT5K__CaiKhw_sqyrFMt-KtIsKgDgD63VHJofkIG2m87DqxMO-Cwl2jbrfA4FnicqN6nwC7iywWS9GETESkSF-TEP0vuyE3WDqi8-GGKXqy2ttjHBrMLDc5-dEERRVDr-jGXycKn8/s889/houseoflong17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="889" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk9gdZ3WTcy8w5BBBvJidjGGHJ1DqU6u3AiqUle9Xrjmzp8OB3ZMToT5K__CaiKhw_sqyrFMt-KtIsKgDgD63VHJofkIG2m87DqxMO-Cwl2jbrfA4FnicqN6nwC7iywWS9GETESkSF-TEP0vuyE3WDqi8-GGKXqy2ttjHBrMLDc5-dEERRVDr-jGXycKn8/w400-h216/houseoflong17.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaDijIUNRuiLea124EjIKfJ8VgVXpMIBvBYoHMPHPHYOEuvRXXFhj1jE2RmX6DsB3BfEmIsd9bUArMqX5i5pDXjLWw6SWoCxWm5GEN_Hm69JivAuBgEGdtWVoVCHTUQooao-dscI7qSEa9jvPanoGjwxnK-8MOdlDwV_yGKHABVH2p0ojxFbpn3Tiu_-eD/s893/houseoflong19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Maybe she's telling the truth. Maybe she isn't. Other unexpected guests soon arrive and each seem to have their own key... and their own secret. Sebastian Rand (Cushing) claims to have been out driving in the horrible weather and has stopped there hoping for a place to spend the night. Soon after, Lionel Grisbane (Price) shows up there announcing himself as the eldest son of Lord Grisbane, adding that he's been living in America since World War II and has decided to pay one last visit to his ancestral home. Mr. Corrigan (Lee) pops in insisting he's about to purchase the property, but saw lights on and decided to investigate. Finally, a young, bickering newlywed couple; Diana (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Louise English</span></b>) and Andrew (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Richard Hunter</span></b>), swing by after having missed their train.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kenneth eventually just throws up his hands in disbelief ("It's like I've gate crashed the social event of the year!") and stops even caring who's there or why they're even there. He's still got a book to write and 20 thousand dollars on the line, after all. Nonetheless, he gets dragged back out of his bedroom repeatedly when more horrific things start going on. 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Said secret is a sadistic, psychotic man who supposedly murdered his pregnant girlfriend as a teenager and then had to be condemned to the attic ever since. He'd been fed for the past four decades by one of the guests but otherwise was unable to leave the small room for all that time and is now even madder than ever. Also, he's recently escaped. Remnants remaining in his cobweb-strewn room include destroyed toys, broken plates, dead rats, bones, claw marks on the walls and a dead, decaying corpse, and he's able to use secret passageways and underground catacombs to get around. Later murders involve everything from hanging and piano wire strangulation to sulfuric acid and poisoned wine.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH-PLmH8riNU1rnP1m7YrIkBLfWokPtkEleJJJ0Pl8xgMgr5eIYHfE4584mmMVAYAdyXalxA-buUQS6hume2UoWGHwBu0h4KNT8M4nyMl5OgHsWgxwRe78U2mwFM_0PcW98WIHYUjpJTKJu4wwmeyr29PqDSLLjJr0VkY8sohfvb7tP_z048B1TYdzbd7N/s892/houseoflong30.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="482" data-original-width="892" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH-PLmH8riNU1rnP1m7YrIkBLfWokPtkEleJJJ0Pl8xgMgr5eIYHfE4584mmMVAYAdyXalxA-buUQS6hume2UoWGHwBu0h4KNT8M4nyMl5OgHsWgxwRe78U2mwFM_0PcW98WIHYUjpJTKJu4wwmeyr29PqDSLLjJr0VkY8sohfvb7tP_z048B1TYdzbd7N/w400-h216/houseoflong30.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEido_CaXXB7YuGSXTrIz6Ct4DRQnmUeMvv8yLZvn67rQ8aVEqHJgkiHTH-ZDXMs0BV5op2SaqzNRt8OAlphqjNWytJGC33h8lwBGuk0N_7HJTz-FJY2RbqW7O6dqJYZ97LzJ7Co0yYSpci0_Rc8zZTaTIp3MoxpXryhEiZeOeTAuUrXNAHffA1ZvooFCeM6/s890/houseoflong48.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnioGM6F_ThP3vfkJfPer-4iWFWhRXOyZor3uNf5N21937bbkiL5yr5TSjZc2cak2JaEBkH8N1H1k7X0fTmrVrrU22B7EU80KrJJb86xae4B_t2_Mjs19ZWLhgjiApE3edImScJXjYWR0GNjoFB-syJzXAo7sQW86g9ARGHiWSOFCBnhvh2S-Z1KbjVbRD/s891/houseoflong47.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="891" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnioGM6F_ThP3vfkJfPer-4iWFWhRXOyZor3uNf5N21937bbkiL5yr5TSjZc2cak2JaEBkH8N1H1k7X0fTmrVrrU22B7EU80KrJJb86xae4B_t2_Mjs19ZWLhgjiApE3edImScJXjYWR0GNjoFB-syJzXAo7sQW86g9ARGHiWSOFCBnhvh2S-Z1KbjVbRD/w400-h216/houseoflong47.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">While watching the four male horror legends (and Keith) do their thing is a real treat, there's no escaping the fact that this is otherwise a highly flawed film. The casting of Arnaz Jr. as the male lead proves to be an issue. Sure, he's got a famous family name to fall back on and perhaps they were banking on that, but he's not really charismatic enough to play this part, much of his dialogue delivery is awkward and stilted and he sticks out like a sore thumb trying to perform alongside such high caliber talent. Still, the fact he's surrounded by people who command interest just standing in the background helps us to somewhat gloss over his inadequacies.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7Wl0-DmNGwvBvzw0FQ7DVIfJIG6SVWzoJC3t-viOpL-t3iLxcLeAZy4uFu8kwxpNUgTi4XVlYQaBMlpv9PuRtsxZyB7AVnid-QCPYqc2moxYy1FsNZ5D5iwb0ktdXvoSzIk-K7mAFqwDi4-G5b8Jw_yDq0YBxJ3C3I6vzWVfh4ZDahbPlEBcXkV_BCBw/s857/houseoflong9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="857" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii7Wl0-DmNGwvBvzw0FQ7DVIfJIG6SVWzoJC3t-viOpL-t3iLxcLeAZy4uFu8kwxpNUgTi4XVlYQaBMlpv9PuRtsxZyB7AVnid-QCPYqc2moxYy1FsNZ5D5iwb0ktdXvoSzIk-K7mAFqwDi4-G5b8Jw_yDq0YBxJ3C3I6vzWVfh4ZDahbPlEBcXkV_BCBw/s320/houseoflong9.jpg" width="224" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PGWKNWVacqV65EW8NscLVQ5EQniOgcBEBRwHDpZFb-EjEgq9wxGKbWnsiQCd_PoaKbxqO3wrZ1kicKlyiwNKW-lB31Fn8KY2RVKSzapr205ZONfKFr6VjDdNYffNHeUqb4-4cP4ieQfoaJH3frR0MHYxkIo-1Aqmm5yfuLLc7jTiweGXMn3kcXeKcTPW/s849/houseoflong5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="849" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7PGWKNWVacqV65EW8NscLVQ5EQniOgcBEBRwHDpZFb-EjEgq9wxGKbWnsiQCd_PoaKbxqO3wrZ1kicKlyiwNKW-lB31Fn8KY2RVKSzapr205ZONfKFr6VjDdNYffNHeUqb4-4cP4ieQfoaJH3frR0MHYxkIo-1Aqmm5yfuLLc7jTiweGXMn3kcXeKcTPW/s320/houseoflong5.jpg" width="226" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The biggest issue here is really the writing. <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Michael Armstrong</span></b>'s (<b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/02/hexen-bis-aufs-blut-gequalt-1970.html" target="_blank">MARK OF THE DEVIL</a></b>; <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2011/10/screamtime-1983.html" target="_blank">SCREAMTIME</a></b>) script boasts some sharp, witty dialogue and contains other fun material, but the plot is so dead-set on delivering twist after twist after twist it becomes ridiculously convoluted by the end; undermining a lot of the good that went on before. By the time the final plot revelations are revealed, this thing is so ridiculous it's downright insulting to anyone's intelligence. The film is at its best from the mid-point up to the climax, when the director finally has space to generate creepiness, suspense and a little excitement since he's no longer having to set aside time to have the actors reveal their second and third "true" identities.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Production values, photography, art direction, etc. are all solid, and an admirable job has been done to carefully shoot and light everything to capture a perfect throwback old dark house feel. We get a near-constant shroud of darkness yet are also able to see everything we need to see at the same time, so this is <i>visually</i> presented well.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndAfln1GqeziEFQzSVmbPRSYc8egB988Bmhc1obdmFgEfDhY4-VQvhC_q4XWXJYQavA_emLYb-wPtyUpzsXZ2tQJmsh4w2bm3dULWIBIGMD5uWLWk152cG91LbD4h3hOuGU8WdXC2vXGJ003tojBOcvBAlP4vrv1TZtXx1kau1yVOVO1wPY_SsY0M7TCQ/s600/houseoflong7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="454" data-original-width="600" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndAfln1GqeziEFQzSVmbPRSYc8egB988Bmhc1obdmFgEfDhY4-VQvhC_q4XWXJYQavA_emLYb-wPtyUpzsXZ2tQJmsh4w2bm3dULWIBIGMD5uWLWk152cG91LbD4h3hOuGU8WdXC2vXGJ003tojBOcvBAlP4vrv1TZtXx1kau1yVOVO1wPY_SsY0M7TCQ/w452-h342/houseoflong7.jpg" width="452" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This was "suggested by" the once-popular 1913 novel <i>Seven Keys to Baldpate</i> by Ohio-born <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Earl Derr Biggers</span></b>, who's best known for his <i>Charlie Chan</i> detective novels. <i>Keys</i> had previously been adapted many times. It was the basis for a hit stage production and spawned half a dozen film versions in the silent era and 1930s. Just like with the <i>Chan</i> novels, this property was everywhere for a time but has rarely been resurrected since the 1940s.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Director Walker curiously didn't develop much of an international name for himself until the DVD era despite the fact many of his films had already been well-distributed on VHS in the prior decades. He spent most of the 60s making TV commercials and black-and-white “glamour” (stag) shorts showcasing the charms of nude models. By the end of the decade he'd graduated to profitable feature length soft sex films and then finally ventured into the horror genre, directing the handful of films he's best remembered for today. His work includes <i>Die Screaming Marianne</i> (1971), <i>The Flesh and Blood Show</i> (1972), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2012/06/frightmare-1974.html" target="_blank">FRIGHTMARE</a></b> (1974), <i>House of Whipcord</i> (1974), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2012/06/confessional-1975.html" target="_blank">THE CONFESSIONAL</a></b> (1976), <i>Schizo</i> (1976) and <i>The Comeback</i> (1978). <i>Long Shadows</i> (his only PG-rated genre effort) was his final film before retiring from filmmaking for good.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_bWMEO8FIl-0O8M65G4oL8CUI31x0kZ5p-bnXY8VDgPHG5z-RB9NdsaCchshUad1a33h5xO2qSxPvGd3V-9ZeARx_fMf1FHyL675qwoirkm9rAJOYxyMxCV2U3XtUcrx-Y3H0vJsqBdTMIrG42t-VmjfhYQAOCe5BfzuIWvxy_JGAcNZY4HTzbRYTz_r/s769/houseoflong4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="769" data-original-width="489" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-_bWMEO8FIl-0O8M65G4oL8CUI31x0kZ5p-bnXY8VDgPHG5z-RB9NdsaCchshUad1a33h5xO2qSxPvGd3V-9ZeARx_fMf1FHyL675qwoirkm9rAJOYxyMxCV2U3XtUcrx-Y3H0vJsqBdTMIrG42t-VmjfhYQAOCe5BfzuIWvxy_JGAcNZY4HTzbRYTz_r/w127-h200/houseoflong4.jpg" width="127" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibYhBhd501_5JrbOAZRwbghaHgq6hAbLV3JMHQeSqN6kWzFqaV9d3DhJ59pFGOnnyuj3heBF5AMcWTa4Fly1tk4QGlj92nvRHVX_XO9Ks_-fG7JkJgKHcvkYxYzeCBhbo4pDPRbZBQYIhpXSCDv0rkmiOJfKoo8Ya9fEou3_vyERkfDZuMJUxyGTzm3k0c/s747/houseoflong10.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="533" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibYhBhd501_5JrbOAZRwbghaHgq6hAbLV3JMHQeSqN6kWzFqaV9d3DhJ59pFGOnnyuj3heBF5AMcWTa4Fly1tk4QGlj92nvRHVX_XO9Ks_-fG7JkJgKHcvkYxYzeCBhbo4pDPRbZBQYIhpXSCDv0rkmiOJfKoo8Ya9fEou3_vyERkfDZuMJUxyGTzm3k0c/w143-h200/houseoflong10.jpg" width="143" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGckVF9FGWUiy-j9rwQEoWVFZ1x_8JQuAXYEazAK_uTexja2gCKiNkj46kLBQZ7R3fgqwsClcFg4gfk9hL94zLrtiaG2jM13s6LtAHz_KMPL5ttYBRZdbsPw7Axs1Jner9o7ZF_6laugTrQVm_FI3UxZErPCXEpdv6eJRF0C89vgxBTdpzp1lPlvB3QDf/s478/houseoflong11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="313" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOGckVF9FGWUiy-j9rwQEoWVFZ1x_8JQuAXYEazAK_uTexja2gCKiNkj46kLBQZ7R3fgqwsClcFg4gfk9hL94zLrtiaG2jM13s6LtAHz_KMPL5ttYBRZdbsPw7Axs1Jner9o7ZF_6laugTrQVm_FI3UxZErPCXEpdv6eJRF0C89vgxBTdpzp1lPlvB3QDf/w131-h200/houseoflong11.jpg" width="131" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Produced by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yoram Globus</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Menahem Golan</span></b> of Cannon Films, the film reputedly had a healthy 7.5 million budget but was a box office bomb and then quickly spat out on home video with little fanfare in 1984 by MGM / UA after its unsuccessful theatrical run. It wouldn't be until 2015 that it received a restored DVD and Blu-ray release courtesy of Kino Lorber, whose release also comes with a commentary track from the director.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-30817367442969844622024-02-21T20:20:00.003-05:002024-02-21T20:29:48.057-05:00Mindwarp (1991) [copyright 1990]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAjQpMP9A2kCCuLhASu5nVGtIEqApyBbe60WJ4vb-M7O5rURsEUlvzqkU3WgxfoajRYiHfNC6WOS9ACOE2UNfFYq1zqa2z1zupN6J5jRCcnCX0VpDqkt_1mck2CPzqj7R-syKFy2P1xcmEmjKj9kVHVKP-ceZVbTYTYqZmBCJ2OPkkufThITY-QS79T3X/s599/mindwarp44.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="407" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFAjQpMP9A2kCCuLhASu5nVGtIEqApyBbe60WJ4vb-M7O5rURsEUlvzqkU3WgxfoajRYiHfNC6WOS9ACOE2UNfFYq1zqa2z1zupN6J5jRCcnCX0VpDqkt_1mck2CPzqj7R-syKFy2P1xcmEmjKj9kVHVKP-ceZVbTYTYqZmBCJ2OPkkufThITY-QS79T3X/s320/mindwarp44.jpg" width="217" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Brain Slasher</i><div>... aka: <i>Dream System</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Mindwarp - Futuro virtuale</i> (<i>Mindwarp - Virtual Future</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Odisea en el tiempo</i> (<i>Odyssey in Tim</i>e)</div><div>... aka: <i>Pesadelo Futuro</i> (<i>Future Nightmare</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Steve Barnett</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Fangoria</i> magazine became such a big deal in the 80s that they decided to branch out into filmmaking by the end of the decade. The initial plan, and not necessarily a bad one in theory, was to produce one genre film per year. Seeing how covering gory horror and sci-fi flicks was still profitable at the time, the magazine was still selling, they were hosting a popular namesake genre convention and already had a fan base and name brand established, why not cut into a slice of the lucrative home video market while you're at it? Well, a few problems here. For starters, they should have tried this about five years earlier. Video stores were already stocked to capacity and tons of different labels were already competing for shelf space in the early 90s. A store may or may not buy a copy of an unknown movie from Fangoria Films (who had a partnership with Columbia Pictures at the time) but they're definitely going to buy 100 copies of a movie with big name stars from any number of major studio competitors. Additionally, while the types of splatter films <i>Fangoria</i> made their name on were not completely dead in 1990, their popularity <i>was</i> waning and these types of film wouldn't really be all that popular just a few years later.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Still, I'd say the primary problem here was expectations. If your company is comprised of genre aficionados who are supposed experts in the genre, people are going to expect these releases to be, ya know, actually good, or at the very least better than the usual low budget genre fodder. After all, if these people don't know their shit, then who does? Well, they pretty much fumbled the ball here and I think that was primarily because they were banking more on what <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">K.N.B. Effects Group</span></b> would bring to the table than who they were hiring to make these movies.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimoPxyX9dMtQzY12sfewXO11C8eoywKHxz45l8gsdXGgLsO2P6LoeXsJOv9nPXUFifyN_mtumiGSqouVx1FZB96CKmhxY9N5zE4QOZgS_cgPdK8_xdcdQPjV7scxvlyzQUK_eBysa1lY3YS3TCM-ENw1aJSJ2I53mF2pTg5M1AZnbagO4Tyq9Q9xMoLSDd/s786/mindwarp4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="786" data-original-width="536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimoPxyX9dMtQzY12sfewXO11C8eoywKHxz45l8gsdXGgLsO2P6LoeXsJOv9nPXUFifyN_mtumiGSqouVx1FZB96CKmhxY9N5zE4QOZgS_cgPdK8_xdcdQPjV7scxvlyzQUK_eBysa1lY3YS3TCM-ENw1aJSJ2I53mF2pTg5M1AZnbagO4Tyq9Q9xMoLSDd/s320/mindwarp4.jpg" width="218" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6pAbHcyu848xzSlS1ZAp24JhZZ874aQKE5X6UjnYdfEDy1ENku1kIANJWhZlAPQShb-5OtxQcCgrUTHWS4WHE-tvbWxuBmeSygMj1RYEUE9nEHIuByVK7vjhGJyqGrnLGfZEp2N1UZaWyPgkn9VOL5DW5a57QbljfO0-W-qLLeY09rl5wThyMxmruguO/s571/mindwarp5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="571" data-original-width="363" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgs6pAbHcyu848xzSlS1ZAp24JhZZ874aQKE5X6UjnYdfEDy1ENku1kIANJWhZlAPQShb-5OtxQcCgrUTHWS4WHE-tvbWxuBmeSygMj1RYEUE9nEHIuByVK7vjhGJyqGrnLGfZEp2N1UZaWyPgkn9VOL5DW5a57QbljfO0-W-qLLeY09rl5wThyMxmruguO/s320/mindwarp5.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Tony Randel, whose previous foray into the genre was the incredibly dreary <i>Hellbound: Hellraiser II</i>, was tapped to direct their vampire film <i>Children of the Night</i>. Not surprisingly, the end result was an incredibly dreary movie that wasn't much fun to watch despite Karen Black giving it her best shot and attempts at humor that were childish at best. For <i>Army</i> (later re-titled <i>Severed Ties</i>), <i>Fangoria</i> was able to get a few known actors (like Oliver Reed) on board and then handed the reigns over to Damon Santostefano. Santostefano's only previous genre work as director was a couple of <i>Scream Greats</i> documentaries and shooting (very bad) "comic" linking footage for the horror shorts compilation <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2009/07/fright-show-1985.html" target="_blank">FRIGHT SHOW</a></b> (1985). <i>Mindwarp</i> (easily the best of these for what it's worth) was handed over to Steve Barnett, whose sole previous feature directorial credit was the comedy <i>Hollywood Boulevard II</i> (1989). Aside from that, he did a lot of post production work for Roger Corman.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm not saying the people above don't have any talent and I'm not saying the people above shouldn't have been given, or didn't somehow earn, an opportunity to prove what they could do. I'm just saying it probably wasn't a good idea for <i>Fangoria</i> to start a film production wing on the backs of unproven entities, especially since they were connected to pretty much every major horror talent who was working at the time. Not surprisingly, none of these films did all that well critically, commercially or with fans, and in house productions from <i>Fangoria</i> were no more after just three attempts. Instead, they decided to re-brand themselves as a distributor of other people's films.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjctxWxPP_5-jPtjW2PX9s5Whfqx5ve51gP4t9RIbErUfeWwjdY_5JGB8VqpyUji78CXbmnpfV3YuhV9xF4Du_ULQxQldTWg6MU28Yf4GFlaIhdSnbgCHj467Y7uKqV0ZYnud15XHr8ZoiJuC6C0pq0y2E8y5xf2Q3UJQTVXbww9JgTtgmZhDXCMQOhQcts/s585/mindwarp43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="585" data-original-width="550" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjctxWxPP_5-jPtjW2PX9s5Whfqx5ve51gP4t9RIbErUfeWwjdY_5JGB8VqpyUji78CXbmnpfV3YuhV9xF4Du_ULQxQldTWg6MU28Yf4GFlaIhdSnbgCHj467Y7uKqV0ZYnud15XHr8ZoiJuC6C0pq0y2E8y5xf2Q3UJQTVXbww9JgTtgmZhDXCMQOhQcts/w365-h388/mindwarp43.jpg" width="365" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It's 2037 (just 13 years from now folks... buckle up!) and the human race have mostly retreated from the real world and opted for a virtual one instead. Imagine never having to leave your home - or your BED even (except for nourishment and potty breaks) - and still be able to go anywhere you want, do whatever you want with whoever you want and be whatever you want. A company called Infinisynth has invented a technology that does just that and it's resulted in humans being able to completely retreat from reality and live in whatever fantasy world they choose. With a quick and easy outlet implant in your neck, you can now plug into a machine and live the exact life you want to live. No more jobs, no more interactions with pesky real people, no more responsibilities, no more having to feel bad feelings or negative thoughts, or be disappointed, or worry about friends or family or anything else. Your life is now entirely whatever you want it to be and the best part is that you don't even have to put any real effort into it.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Right away, this is a fascinating, still-timely premise that has parallels to our modern day online existence. Most of us now kind of do retreat from the real world on a daily basis, at least for part of the day. There are those that take it to extremes by essentially burying themselves in gaming worlds and small online communities, where we enjoy our anonymity and can claim to be whatever or whoever we want. It's certainly not to the extreme it is here but this isn't too far out of the realm of future possibilities at all, especially with all of the recent metaverse talk. I'd say a large chunk of the population probably would volunteer to live exactly like this if given the option.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8BrG8QdIOsk8uTVtmSNkJT6IQB2-x3fxiZAo7GkAtAFgob41s5lxa43LIYJDOMdbTp2a6KiA1rpEvYhwtsFVs173qruu00bggQy4Z3DwWB9bonShyphenhyphencQ6kE1ZrPqu0RyZyTfhe5QnFSdq4ohkVE_9KjaKleV58z7yFzEftfiB3z07Eo2ogeTc1kzhNWFS2/s898/mindwarp1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="898" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8BrG8QdIOsk8uTVtmSNkJT6IQB2-x3fxiZAo7GkAtAFgob41s5lxa43LIYJDOMdbTp2a6KiA1rpEvYhwtsFVs173qruu00bggQy4Z3DwWB9bonShyphenhyphencQ6kE1ZrPqu0RyZyTfhe5QnFSdq4ohkVE_9KjaKleV58z7yFzEftfiB3z07Eo2ogeTc1kzhNWFS2/w400-h214/mindwarp1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3CJLNPrMWpNWZhhLsjYvmQl6TiT4EeSsgfArtydAyZYgmC4mOySPEr9EsjQB1PLpyr0vOgKgYPypENCWTfbmCVcVsRmE3lIjuhBLH378vKlaQRogLawYVYpL2peVyamiNFEgT11nBk4e5lz8krrkes0Xnyg1mQBlnHJCYhZ7H-S33C9jWuTvqAuK8eC4W/s889/mindwarp39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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She finds her current life to be a prison and has been going without her virtual fix for awhile now. Her mother, Pamela (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Mary Becker</span></b>), is too far gone at this point. Using such technology for a constant deluded high would certainly have an effect on one's mental state over time. Judy is revolting against it. In an effort to wake her mother up, she manages to plug in and invade her virtual opera singer fantasy but accidentally kills her in the process. When she unplugs, she awakens to find her mother actually dead. An alarm sounds, two helmeted guards bust in and she's injected with a substance that knocks her out.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When Judy awakens she's buried in a very shallow grave in a desolate, icy, nightmarish post apocalyptic wasteland. Clawing her way out, she's first greeted by the sight of a corpses strewn on poles, and then stumbles into a sinkhole. A pair of nomads wearing gas masks and driving a refurbished tractor swing by long enough to throw her a rope and pull her out. Unfortunately, the nomads are also cannibalistic mutants, so they proceed to immediately tie her up and gag her; presumably to make her their next meal. Another wasteland dweller, this one decked out in patchwork animal rags and goggles, and armed with a crossbow, shoots the cannibals. 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He's careful to wash off the toxic chemicals he comes into contact with, eats possum instead of human flesh and knows how to survive. Before destroying the Ozone layer and rendering Earth almost completely uninhabitable, the rich naturally retreated underground to safety where they've lived as "dreamers" hooked up to their Infinisynth machines, while the poor were left to scavenge, wither, mutate and / or die. Those adversely effected have turned into those cannibal mutants (called "crawlers"), who've built a civilization under some landfills, while Stover has bucked all the odds and managed to keep himself alive, and relatively normal, all of this time. His wife and family weren't so lucky. As Stover is teaching Judy how to survive in her harsh new home, the two fall in love.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ambushed by the crawlers late one night, Stover and Judy are dragged into the bowels of their catacomb home. There they discover a makeshift society and a hierarchy of sorts with some of the mutants treated as captive slaves (used to dig out the tunnels and find "treasures" in the mountains of trash) and the others the sadistic guards, meant to whip the workers into action and / or punish those who disobey. Stover and Judy are separated, with him promptly shackled and put to work digging and she ending up in the clutches of the sadistic Cornelia (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Elizabeth Kent</span></b>), who hopes to put her to work as a breeder to help repopulate their society. Cornelia has a mute young female slave named Claude (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Wendy Sandow</span></b>) and is the mistress of the real ruler of this society: The Seer (Phantasm series star <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Angus Scrimm</span></b>).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkRzhLuYGBApspGdvErLbhfG7f3EB9FNstFMbGWw8t6i0sfA1UCQnCMoLN5hgTvZnzS_JTMriE75SuVHpAemMbNyjX1hD0Uavei6NakcshcSFkgpFLAvqDt0P56vU0IbtwazHQSnv6eeHV34ffDa4ZqQlppgfFyI1ijYmpO8Cw6yrRPgdmz-Wt3WLb37Y/s892/mindwarp13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="481" data-original-width="892" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwkRzhLuYGBApspGdvErLbhfG7f3EB9FNstFMbGWw8t6i0sfA1UCQnCMoLN5hgTvZnzS_JTMriE75SuVHpAemMbNyjX1hD0Uavei6NakcshcSFkgpFLAvqDt0P56vU0IbtwazHQSnv6eeHV34ffDa4ZqQlppgfFyI1ijYmpO8Cw6yrRPgdmz-Wt3WLb37Y/w400-h216/mindwarp13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The film then treads water as our heroes plot their escape and doesn't pick up again until Scrimm enters the picture hatching incest plots, ripping out eyeballs with a Freddy-like clawed glove, presiding over human mulching rituals and drinking fresh blood out of a skull goblet. The underground trash heap production design is appropriate for the story but the relentless hideousness of the backdrop, dreary lighting and ugly, muddy color schemes make this look, and feel, miserable. And while that may be the desired effect, it's tedious all the same. The plot twists trotted out toward the end are mostly predictable and the more interesting plot points don't feel like they're being utilized to their full potential. That said, there is at least some interesting content and genuine ambition that went into this, which helps to make up for <i>some</i> of the flaws.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As expected, there's a heaping helping of gore on display; so much so that this originally had to be released in both R and unrated versions. We get dismemberment, hooks stuck in faces and backs, disembowelment / gut splatter, slashed throats, impalements, eye gougings, pulverized bodies, mutant leech-fish burrowing under skin, a mouth spraying a blood geyser and loads more. 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Leading lady Alicia (who has a much larger role than either Campbell or Scrimm despite being billed third) gives a surprisingly capable performance, especially considering this was one of her first film roles. Scrimm, Kent and Becker all do fine in support. No real Oscar turns here, but the quality of the acting was still better than expected.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's still some conflicting information about this online, with some sources claiming it began filming in 1989 and others claiming it was 1990, and the release year given as both 1991 and 1992 depending on where you look. The credits copyright date is 1990 (the same year the male stars were promoting it at the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors convention) and, while it may have played at film festivals in late '91, it didn't see the general release light of day here until the following year. The U.S. VHS debut came in August 1992, at least two years after it was shot. The Blu-ray releases are from Mill Creek and Twilight Time.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-73731530084186664742024-02-18T18:04:00.001-05:002024-03-17T00:56:20.923-04:00Aventura al centro de la tierra (1965)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAM-JsWwK9jhiP2FtL1k4NtRDwj0qSwLHYcYOprSW-WE-FNDIY_0IdNvqA1YYH8BCvgaFPX7jNnx9jEetEasWmsUGomSS2qaNpJ__4A7bLXUqe46PRlgl37iXDLtG_QIkpi0GK3eWx8aGmbYD5fAEQJP6YXxFX-lVjWrYyIOPwyDQzVAIVCf-EqHg-pxra/s709/adventurecen43.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAM-JsWwK9jhiP2FtL1k4NtRDwj0qSwLHYcYOprSW-WE-FNDIY_0IdNvqA1YYH8BCvgaFPX7jNnx9jEetEasWmsUGomSS2qaNpJ__4A7bLXUqe46PRlgl37iXDLtG_QIkpi0GK3eWx8aGmbYD5fAEQJP6YXxFX-lVjWrYyIOPwyDQzVAIVCf-EqHg-pxra/s320/adventurecen43.jpg" width="217" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Adventure at the Center of the Earth</i><div>... aka: <i>Adventure in the Center of the Earth</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Adventures at the Center of the Earth</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Adventures to the Center of the Earth</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Adventure to the Center of the Earth</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Alfredo B. Crevenna</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mexican genre movies from the 1960s have maintained a certain level of interest over the years, but most of the focus seems to fall on the camp appeal of their wrestler movies featuring Santo, Blue Demon, Mil Máscaras, etc. While a lot of those are certainly fun, there are quite a few other worthy titles that often get lost in the shuffle. Take this one, for instance. Doing IMDb and Letterboxd searches, about 90 Mexican horror films turn up for the decade and <i>Adventure</i> is definitely not among the more popular ones. In fact, it barely ranks above a bunch of movies no one has had access to for over 50 years now and may even be lost forever. Maybe this one has been forgotten because of direct competition from the multitude of other, older, typically much higher budgeted "Center of the Earth" / Jules Verne, or Verne inspired, films?</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The most likely culprit though is availability issues. While most other Mexican genre films from this era have a wealth of posters, lobby cards, production stills, etc. available, ones for this title are exceedingly rare; a strong indicator that the original theatrical release was either extremely limited or somehow compromised. It never played theatrically outside of the Americas to my knowledge and also hasn't been well served on home video since then. Despite being technically released, none of the official home viewing releases were in English. Some bootleg copies on DVD-R (like the one found on Trash Palace) have English fan subs but, as you can probably tell from the many slightly altered alt titles listed above, no one seemed to even be able to agree on a title translation.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAk4DM9dUP3sT0O0vzufR3VKV6gGakmF2P0GCbLpSGtkVQhZRxGA3F6nNZ6i_NLXh5b1NyClel0SDfvE_V793NqsqmjrsIsbf-XmwHIQp10Q_oQRWwjejbd4FB3GfkVDZe1wlkmrm_0TOxHpuhklVRDObb56DyA5pm4ibtenmAVHXbZwMJyTGFMn3of5C/s600/adventurecen44.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="490" data-original-width="600" height="342" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAAk4DM9dUP3sT0O0vzufR3VKV6gGakmF2P0GCbLpSGtkVQhZRxGA3F6nNZ6i_NLXh5b1NyClel0SDfvE_V793NqsqmjrsIsbf-XmwHIQp10Q_oQRWwjejbd4FB3GfkVDZe1wlkmrm_0TOxHpuhklVRDObb56DyA5pm4ibtenmAVHXbZwMJyTGFMn3of5C/w419-h342/adventurecen44.jpg" width="419" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6U29qAsC3_lzvz731wmcBb2yNlhIOwqKtzaCmO6KTEA3AV16QEWH6Fd9Zz2mcy4aIYFPGX9lNaIJ9rC7Ag-E4gwnlZdoaV9uOexJVpfARvGtUR0bM3piWF3oYhRk5N29Zk7H18nfHUfEoq5Hsjf8rwZDsh5Dy7uE7M7ErcvDHD3G52ZhJyYPPZr-RsY_/s563/adventurecen1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="411" data-original-width="563" height="307" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm6U29qAsC3_lzvz731wmcBb2yNlhIOwqKtzaCmO6KTEA3AV16QEWH6Fd9Zz2mcy4aIYFPGX9lNaIJ9rC7Ag-E4gwnlZdoaV9uOexJVpfARvGtUR0bM3piWF3oYhRk5N29Zk7H18nfHUfEoq5Hsjf8rwZDsh5Dy7uE7M7ErcvDHD3G52ZhJyYPPZr-RsY_/w420-h307/adventurecen1.jpg" width="420" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Sneaking away from their tour group, love birds Julia (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Carmen Molina</span></b> - <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/04/el-hombre-sin-rostro-1950.html" target="_blank">THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE</a></b>) and Pedro (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Carlos Nieto</span></b>) fall into a deep hole and end up in the bowels of an elaborate underground cave system. Unable to climb out, they're then attacked by something with a clawed, reptilian-like hand. The two are eventually found; she frozen in a state of shock and he frozen in a state of death after having his throat ripped out. Julia is taken to the hospital and administered sodium pentothal to induce a responses while under hypnosis. 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An expedition is organized and the participants are announced. Along with Díaz, there will be physician Dr. Peña (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Carlos Cortés</span></b>), geology professor Laura Ponce (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Columba Domínguez</span></b>) and speleologist, adventurer and hunter Jaime Rocha (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">David Reynoso</span></b> - <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/04/terror-sexo-y-brujeria-1968-1984.html" target="_blank">NARCO SATANICO</a></b>). All of those names are given in rather flat fashion but then we enter into more problematic territory, which may be another of the reasons this has been kind of buried! The professor's assistant, Hilda Ramírez (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kitty de Hoyos</span></b>), is called "beautiful" but it's assured that will in no way inhibit her "efficiency" in case you believe a woman's looks have anything to do with job performance. Even more jaw-dropping is the announcement that "The black servant of Dr. Díaz" will be joining them. Another guy asks, "Why a black man?" with an incredulous look on the face. Response: "He's the cook."</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The team are all shown movie clips from <i>One Million B.C.</i> (1940) and <i>Unknown Island</i> (1948) to give them some idea of the types of giant lizards and dinosaurs they may encounter while underground. There's also a late addition to the group not initially announced; writer Manuel Ríos, who's played by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Javier Solís</span></b>. Solís was a very popular Mexican singer at the time and even randomly breaks into song during one of the slower moments! Tragically, the singer / actor died at the age of just 34 during gall bladder surgery just a few years after this was made.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arriving at the caves, they're joined by a local guide named Apolinar (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ramón Bugarini</span></b>), his brother and some other men and everyone ventures inside and set up base camp. Even before running into anything too freaky, dangers in the cave system are everywhere. Of course there's always the possibility you could slip while climbing or fall into a hole or get hit with a falling rock, but there are also a lot of other <i>living</i> hazards around, like snakes, lizards, "billions" of bats and even a random armadillo or two. During one very surprising scene, a slew of <i>real</i> snakes are covered in gasoline and set ablaze! (Note: I couldn't 100% tell if this was real or a really good superimposition effect due to the quality of the print I viewed but it certainly <i>looked</i> real and there were no other visual effects of this type in the movie.)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhlYQuJ5FRuwt-8tyoeL2ZXmjo4Kn3LlWUizcEfUU1ZieDBK68AjLoF27SEqVTCTsWXt8-n98U-86Ql-olHgzD0vEuFu13Iqc3uE1PnCUegokZO-u8g9NDyPW23GwWzKOdkeRtslYJO_Dl0Hy7atJ_yuHnSSMdQuyqlpYTxLrtuiTntFwOrB0fSHu246m/s629/adventurecen12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="629" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhlYQuJ5FRuwt-8tyoeL2ZXmjo4Kn3LlWUizcEfUU1ZieDBK68AjLoF27SEqVTCTsWXt8-n98U-86Ql-olHgzD0vEuFu13Iqc3uE1PnCUegokZO-u8g9NDyPW23GwWzKOdkeRtslYJO_Dl0Hy7atJ_yuHnSSMdQuyqlpYTxLrtuiTntFwOrB0fSHu246m/s320/adventurecen12.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Laura proves to be something of a schemer and was only interested in getting into geology to strike it rich finding precious gems. Once she locates a diamond in the government-owned caves, she and Manuel plot to secretly swipe a bunch while they're there. She wanders off by herself while the others are sleeping to take a look around and runs afoul a man-in-a-suit cyclops lizard monster thingy with sharp teeth, sharp claws and a tail. She gets roughed up but survives the attack. Apolinar's brother isn't so lucky in a follow-up attack and becomes the first casualty. 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For starters, it was filmed at Grutas de Cacahuamilpa in Guerrero, Mexico (one of the largest cave systems in the entire world), and you really couldn't ask for a better, more atmospheric setting for a film like this. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The director is also able to keep things tense most of the time and even manages to generate some genuine excitement and suspense in certain scenes. It's fast paced, doesn't wear out its welcome at just 78 minutes, offers up a few surprises and is entertaining throughout.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcFx6uXtxRDrW12-QzEtsgUB3B_4vBtVZiM_ocVBBnWInYjbvyuuXQBoRAsIemaeN52u2MrlEHSuo0kfmpeqbRNlObNOlyyCT7bHym5ROB3tRNuIjBblS4SJX4gB5hzwMUAraYeRs9-SIgOmwbeugXsTfrg0OKv0SWVCDThC8dzlJkkGdxEoUGmDzmjGs/s627/adventurecen15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="470" data-original-width="627" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWcFx6uXtxRDrW12-QzEtsgUB3B_4vBtVZiM_ocVBBnWInYjbvyuuXQBoRAsIemaeN52u2MrlEHSuo0kfmpeqbRNlObNOlyyCT7bHym5ROB3tRNuIjBblS4SJX4gB5hzwMUAraYeRs9-SIgOmwbeugXsTfrg0OKv0SWVCDThC8dzlJkkGdxEoUGmDzmjGs/s320/adventurecen15.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3YhG4BeOlLx8KiqbSW04j0koGSGakimCBve-YMVnEpABZOqChrZs9nz6CT27JmWS5Bhr3_YWyOkBOa-lJKCLX03etS21QFb7YzkME7fScZwHakFOO84tdo6eWQS3xyj6OJS7LTTHDlbKfVo4Tuqhl_kD8RfQSAhSTU_WTkrvfD9gS6m3bHpe9oRblS1O_/s630/adventurecen30.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The best make-up job on one of the monsters (seen only in extreme close-up) appears to have been taken from another film entirely, and some other shots (like the lava) are clearly from another source since the aspect ratio is completely different than the rest of the film. There's a surprisingly high body count and a decent amount of blood for a 60s film.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIFYH5u-dAsoLeb2rc-u9cq6tFQjczXq9t7gd3hyphenhyphenXvK1DIWCn5303FOcmQGscKwasMnVMcRH3AuQjmWyMgOWiw29c2taxBfUVITfbZmo57yZcO9yp1JU3-7tkadfqgzIO4y7Qh5_PMS-ayxFntzvc4ARx8jvJk68kZR-q3wbSkzRprH-psRlIS3XqGbOnV/s794/adventurecen2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="794" data-original-width="600" height="319" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIFYH5u-dAsoLeb2rc-u9cq6tFQjczXq9t7gd3hyphenhyphenXvK1DIWCn5303FOcmQGscKwasMnVMcRH3AuQjmWyMgOWiw29c2taxBfUVITfbZmo57yZcO9yp1JU3-7tkadfqgzIO4y7Qh5_PMS-ayxFntzvc4ARx8jvJk68kZR-q3wbSkzRprH-psRlIS3XqGbOnV/w240-h319/adventurecen2.jpg" width="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqM2m16pI0m3PQeizr8thX6WrKAj2yYLiPcMvPQCMczgf4jLnqKNpvjI-2GEXKup1LfNpVWEHZVsqekrqPFTj-gVnTCM0bNXU9-n6_DdUsiO13qnAhYQ8SYN82Vcx3nw0p0RjRLdzrwA_IhXHDdQkX81lyA4KtsAxlDiwZgyjJieN1BIALy5Q59V22GDK/s1116/adventurecenter33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1116" data-original-width="690" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEqM2m16pI0m3PQeizr8thX6WrKAj2yYLiPcMvPQCMczgf4jLnqKNpvjI-2GEXKup1LfNpVWEHZVsqekrqPFTj-gVnTCM0bNXU9-n6_DdUsiO13qnAhYQ8SYN82Vcx3nw0p0RjRLdzrwA_IhXHDdQkX81lyA4KtsAxlDiwZgyjJieN1BIALy5Q59V22GDK/s320/adventurecenter33.jpg" width="198" /></a><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Presumably, this was released to U.S. theaters in 1966 by Columbia Pictures (the b/w lobby card seems to prove this), but only the Spanish language version. IMDb claims it was given a Spanish-only VHS release by Something Weird Video in 1996, though I couldn't find a single copy of that video cassette to verify this and the title isn't currently listed on their website. What I <i>can</i> verify is that the same company used footage from the film (which they titled "Adventures at the Center of the Earth") on an earlier video release titled <i>Mexican Monsters on the March</i> (1994). In 2004, the company Xenon officially released this on DVD but, again, only in Spanish.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-20827135369207320772024-02-17T15:06:00.000-05:002024-02-17T15:06:38.980-05:00Bisikan Setan (1985)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkscAFNG-WHtnrmxLln3m1zAQdwCxhNXjMiFTGVNWcxjFk65-VA7CIo55UBs27Ns2YEReEviFuYl8Bi_ZYKMbNN_XX7WzRhkAVgjXxnnW0ADoYaYl7A61M57O-y7Dz-za0GBnXBA9gI-x2sXSdxqF3F9CKNr0HJnfVjchFh-v9NsN9WM0wt85YD-td4tFd/s742/satanswhis37.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkscAFNG-WHtnrmxLln3m1zAQdwCxhNXjMiFTGVNWcxjFk65-VA7CIo55UBs27Ns2YEReEviFuYl8Bi_ZYKMbNN_XX7WzRhkAVgjXxnnW0ADoYaYl7A61M57O-y7Dz-za0GBnXBA9gI-x2sXSdxqF3F9CKNr0HJnfVjchFh-v9NsN9WM0wt85YD-td4tFd/s320/satanswhis37.jpg" width="216" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Satan's Whisper</i><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">B.Z. Kadaryono</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Vina Mintaraga (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lia Waroka</span></b>) is the latest pop sensation to hit Indonesia by storm. Her tapes are quickly flying off the shelves, she packs venues (well, <i>not very big</i> ones but they're still venues!), she's constantly swarmed by photographers, she's on the front page of newspapers, she has an adoring public hunting her down begging for her autograph and she's just recently scored a top-selling gold album. While her professional life couldn't be better, her personal life has its problems, namely in the form of Antoni (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Leroy Osmani</span></b>). Back when Vina was still struggling, Antoni was a frequent collaborator. He thinks he made her and deserves compensation. She thinks she made herself and he deserves nothing. Either way, she feels she no longer needs his services and continuing to associate with him is only going to hold her back. She finds his band subpar and opts to use another, and also rejects any song he submits to her manager and refuses to record it. Another sore spot is that Antoni is secretly in love with Vina, but she's dating a college student named Baskoro (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Bagus Santoso</span></b>) instead.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQHsKD3kjet3JllYuqkO-qLA5UbLYWn_52a-W7qyYgyv0JjAGzgDH0QLgfv_JCIEOk5OFIH36XpdvvcvceI_CQn55F8e40QDcQeQj5Lej2plqGf1qAdimP4xI3tOfW2Zfot6msrM1h64niJebGungvb9vcluMy31jTezxVMxM4Tvw-7vhNAVGGbM-MlQuO/s850/satanswhis1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="850" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQHsKD3kjet3JllYuqkO-qLA5UbLYWn_52a-W7qyYgyv0JjAGzgDH0QLgfv_JCIEOk5OFIH36XpdvvcvceI_CQn55F8e40QDcQeQj5Lej2plqGf1qAdimP4xI3tOfW2Zfot6msrM1h64niJebGungvb9vcluMy31jTezxVMxM4Tvw-7vhNAVGGbM-MlQuO/w400-h173/satanswhis1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Not that the two don't love each other and want to be together, but Baskoro's wealthy and powerful parents have set him up in an arranged-marriage-to-be with Rini (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yenny Farida</span></b> - <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2022/05/guntur-tengah-malam-1990.html" target="_blank">MIDNIGHT THUNDER</a></b>). Thus far he's rejected the union; no surprise considering Rini is an unpleasant, materialistic spoiled brat, but his parents keep insisting. That means he has to keep his relationship with the pop star a secret for the time being. When Rini catches the two out in public together, she immediately rats him out to his parents. The father, Kang (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Doddy</span></b> "Wijaya" / <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sukma</span></b> - <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2020/11/pengabdi-setan-1980.html" target="_blank">SATAN'S SLAVE</a></b>), then goes to Vina's home and demands she end the relationship, which results in a heated argument and Vina's wheelchair-bound mother (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tien Kadaryono</span></b>) kicking him out of the house.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As that's going on, Antoni gets even nastier. He and one of his band mates attack Vina and Baskoro and attempt to kill him with a switchblade. For some reason, the police are never called and this attack isn't mentioned again. Antoni then starts stalking her around town and at her shows. He and two other thugs eventually kidnap her after a late night performance, drag her back to their home and gang rape her. 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Yes, it's ghostly revenge time. In the cemetery, the ground cracks open, Vina (now alternately seen looking normal in her white burial clothes and as a bloody-faced ghoul) levitates out of her grave, floats through the graveyard and then immediately gets to work. She first visits one of her rapists, making him puke up worms, trapping him in a wormy (acidic?) blood shower, pelting him with levitating furniture, clawing him and then knocking him out a window. Later we get to see eyeballs ripped out, a hand cut off with a cleaver and people getting thrown off bridges, drown, run over and some other stuff.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not only is Vina out to avenge her own death, but she still wants to intervene in Baskoro's life to help him out. She finds out that Rini isn't in love with him and she and her mooch parents are simply scheming to get their hands on all of that money. Vina would much rather he get together with the sweet, shy Astuti (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dina Mariana</span></b>), a girl he casually knows from college. Coincidentally, Astuti is also an aspiring singer and, even more coincidentally, Antoni has also weaseled his way into her life as a new "mentor." He then tries to destroy the romantic relationship the ghost is trying to facilitate using the same techniques he used on Vina (namely blackmail and rape).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1RLoYCFAm7mtmVH9dtDXOAAkyhP4oCHFPDxhWxffSmMp0LtQ1dAMo63TFfYuy_eEZrdnZToYHNc7BzQlN4OrOcZDIUEPtmfmM8y2a3tayquTB1OKEDpHvmyvrD5ZmWW4WjtbxNRBmz64tXEaa9bo989znGPv7F4yx5iuueQJKVHBM39j0a-LOlxF0AGZ/s850/satanswhis18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="850" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh1RLoYCFAm7mtmVH9dtDXOAAkyhP4oCHFPDxhWxffSmMp0LtQ1dAMo63TFfYuy_eEZrdnZToYHNc7BzQlN4OrOcZDIUEPtmfmM8y2a3tayquTB1OKEDpHvmyvrD5ZmWW4WjtbxNRBmz64tXEaa9bo989znGPv7F4yx5iuueQJKVHBM39j0a-LOlxF0AGZ/w400-h173/satanswhis18.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The ghost helps Baskoro's basketball team win and ruins a date he has with Rini by pulling the seat out from under her and splashing a drink in her face. She also protects Astuti from being beaten up, pulls ears and hair, slaps people in the face, knocks people into a pool, makes someone envision worms in their noodles and pushes Rini's face into a cake at a birthday party then rips off her dress. It's all enough to finally convince Baskoro's parents that Rini is too crazy to be their daughter-in-law and they call off the arrangement. Not that they shouldn't have been controlling assholes and just let their son pick his own girlfriend to begin with but, ya know, different cultures and stuff.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This never really rises above being merely average, with scattered fun moments mingling with dull, soapy familial melodrama. I've seen far worse produced, acted and directed films from this time than what we get here, but that still doesn't make up for the fact there's nothing new plot-wise, too few surprises and too few outrageous moments. The biggest hurdle for most will be that it takes time to actually get to the horror content. In fact, the first 40 minutes would lead you to believe this wasn't a horror film at all. Once the genre trappings finally do set it, the results are mixed but it's at least a lot more entertaining then.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also thrown into the mix are a few uninspired fight scenes, a brief and blurry "erotic" bathing scene with Farida looking directly at the camera making come hither faces and half a dozen stage performances and recording sessions featuring Waroka lip syncing her way through "Pesona" ("Charm") and "Nayalakan Lilin Dihatimu" ("Light a Candle in Your Heart"), a couple of cheesy ballads written by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Gatot Sudarto</span></b>, who also scored the film. The vocals were provided by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yenny Sri Wahyuni</span></b>, a complete unknown here in America but, judging by her extensive discography in the 70s and 80s, apparently a popular singer in her home country at the time.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuE4vzACRwJNWfBXsXqmiZJIO5amE8-HilJjflaoTmP_7HfVOe2j5Ybawj7jAI1HRbvxnkZMik8U_5_tUJjIiwMQhz7XMztD78qYpgmsMBgo9rQ90frzLXpoddHDPWkD_3ZFDpSN0_hjSkO5zTvhQWC3NWnoFByWSk5VynjXKmWb9kIRXFwUEITv8bt_t/s851/satanswhis34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="851" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuuE4vzACRwJNWfBXsXqmiZJIO5amE8-HilJjflaoTmP_7HfVOe2j5Ybawj7jAI1HRbvxnkZMik8U_5_tUJjIiwMQhz7XMztD78qYpgmsMBgo9rQ90frzLXpoddHDPWkD_3ZFDpSN0_hjSkO5zTvhQWC3NWnoFByWSk5VynjXKmWb9kIRXFwUEITv8bt_t/w400-h173/satanswhis34.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="852" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmh4IWNACL8W8LPUayKPgveBsYDPTIgtCbdLf5EVQwgMDefKeHAkyuxF-M6trfZhhfGLyXBhUmy-gMqiXba_ajiDjjmcUIomMFXbUdl-u9kzcfxGr4WX0r7JHRmD7qL3Ni2thyphenhyphenGR-8exbyKWG9QS54Ai57rVNa86f9AOZpnJESD24a33SXYf-Nr9kldCIr/w400-h173/satanswhis19.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j2fljlZMLUcUm8OffEv2GpTe7CuAxT86F4v7TUgFmSq3HHZfMDfq5ZU42_-01xgwyhz_S0Sxdi9cD9uJcK1fhca9C1UJYVG5EI_aNENp4PRNXGBGXWT_L_NRekbKOI-rPTn9aZCyuFDUh5uC5b-cUjCM_EonE17JdBMWC4eEy8U0huufgDi0Bt-bK4jF/s853/satanswhis9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="853" height="173" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_j2fljlZMLUcUm8OffEv2GpTe7CuAxT86F4v7TUgFmSq3HHZfMDfq5ZU42_-01xgwyhz_S0Sxdi9cD9uJcK1fhca9C1UJYVG5EI_aNENp4PRNXGBGXWT_L_NRekbKOI-rPTn9aZCyuFDUh5uC5b-cUjCM_EonE17JdBMWC4eEy8U0huufgDi0Bt-bK4jF/w400-h173/satanswhis9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Small roles are inhabited by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Baron Hermanto</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Cherry Ivonne</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lina Budiarti</span></b>, <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Eddy Bakar Pare</span></b> and other familiar faces. For being the fourth most populated country on the planet (over 165 million when this was shot), Indonesia sure seemed to have tiny talent pool to pull from in the 80s since the same exact folks always pop up in these things. Not that I'm necessarily complaining either. It gives off a close knit family type of appeal similar to that of the concurrent U.S. B-movie industry.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As far as I know, this title was only released on VCD a single time but a decent widescreen version (day scenes are too soft / overexposed but night scenes look good here) is around now and it has played on Indonesian television. It's also currently available on Youtube. No real English subs are available to my knowledge but you can follow the plot easily enough translating the auto-generated subs.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-32645846096654317662024-02-11T20:27:00.002-05:002024-03-09T16:45:10.360-05:00Mangryeong-ui Wedingdeureseu (1981)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjLQuYiw606okn4Oto_ljOsry27dejPk4ByXRQ2y7hx08iK7iPcwUO70f2XgFGYhj0HF559AZ8BsFjaJLyoCmWH8A__q14dtdMUHhVfS-ZEWnYbJ4Whc1IWMOqSO45ezdNF5ISv_LG8wnwXm_PgVXZ4SeIOePwOJcG8HGGpeRjjpm72IiDIYnY9Bf9nWF/s929/weddingdress1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="929" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbjLQuYiw606okn4Oto_ljOsry27dejPk4ByXRQ2y7hx08iK7iPcwUO70f2XgFGYhj0HF559AZ8BsFjaJLyoCmWH8A__q14dtdMUHhVfS-ZEWnYbJ4Whc1IWMOqSO45ezdNF5ISv_LG8wnwXm_PgVXZ4SeIOePwOJcG8HGGpeRjjpm72IiDIYnY9Bf9nWF/s320/weddingdress1.jpg" width="207" /></a></div>... aka: 망령의 웨딩드레스<div>... aka: 亡霊의 웨딩드레스</div><div>... aka: <i>Ghost's Wedding Dress, The</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Haunted Wedding Dress, The</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Mangryongui Wechingturesu</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Wedding Dress of the Ghost</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yun-kyo Park</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Filmmakers who frequently dabbled in the genre have been around since the advent of film itself but it wouldn't be until the late 70s to early 80s that directors would turn into bankable commodities themselves <i>specifically</i> because they specialized in making good horror films. Sure, one could say that James Whale is famous for his Universal horror classics, but he wasn't bouncing from one horror film to the next his entire career either. After <i>Bride of Frankenstein</i> he was off to the musical <i>Show Boat</i> and never again returned to the genre. Audiences at that time weren't clamoring for the next James Whale horror movie. They may have been anticipating the next Whale film, but it wasn't genre specific. What they were really looking forward to was the next Boris Karloff horror movie regardless of who made it. That's not a slight on Whale, it's just a testament to the marquee star power of the day. Back then, it was primarily the actors who were selling the tickets, as all of the posters and advertising materials for these older films can attest.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The impetus for all of that to start changing perhaps began in the late 1950s with Forry Ackerman and James Warren's invaluable <i>Famous Monsters of Filmland</i>, a magazine dedicated solely to science fiction, horror and fantasy films. The publication was popular from the onset, led to many similar rivals magazines, helped solidify fandom as an enriching and genuinely fun thing and influenced an entire generation of later Hollywood filmmakers. What's especially interesting is that the magazine also acted as an outlet for those who perhaps felt a little alienated from society. Nerds, misfits or whoever may have been a little different than their peers could find a sense of community in the pages of <i>Famous Monsters</i>, whether reading letters from fellow fans, learning about the people making their favorite films or checking out photos of kindred spirits in the form of misunderstood fictional monsters. This also explains why the magazine was especially popular with kids and teenagers.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Flash forward a few decades to the explosion of the home video market, which lead to an even greater explosion of horror films (always one of the top rental categories), which lead to an explosion of horror magazines and books needed to cover all of those films. Fans genuinely wanted to know more about the films they loved, who was making them and what to expect next. People behind the scenes who'd made their mark in the previous decades, as well as emerging new filmmakers, were suddenly being put on a pedestal and becoming just as big of stars as the actors themselves. And filmmakers were suddenly receiving very prominent billing in ads, with "From the makers of..." and "From the director of..." becoming perhaps the biggest selling point of all.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJU8yXYjv2hO2ahzZKsOIGrw3dZBqRIorXEaJVqOSx5O5KkUXVonGsqDJNmBDqaXCLCrcsZC7BonNfiEQM20aPLi9ptCq-hvlKo_l9samuW_3ktQaGP3K7zFYEumscVVsGPfgIVm0EVpigS1TK54TkPwn4Omn-S8xwNEf0tW9D2SRf7AgE4POdVsHNDj2/s797/weddingdress2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="535" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZJU8yXYjv2hO2ahzZKsOIGrw3dZBqRIorXEaJVqOSx5O5KkUXVonGsqDJNmBDqaXCLCrcsZC7BonNfiEQM20aPLi9ptCq-hvlKo_l9samuW_3ktQaGP3K7zFYEumscVVsGPfgIVm0EVpigS1TK54TkPwn4Omn-S8xwNEf0tW9D2SRf7AgE4POdVsHNDj2/w229-h341/weddingdress2.jpg" width="229" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsryqhUkfYzHyY_yNiMcVV25XTRSybQZYCeHIBjch8aTnx06tEKjosKhKo4UIoppST-Rm1P4LfnIPNq6JYDuXyBVlvQCAMyG0VVrGwUFORUE-7OjpMD5E7WdPKGDsqgW2_-vqBiA4xHv4PW72sBT3sLCX6nmebcx6QdsjT9b7_DQExiwc0V2DeX0ylgwfH/s472/weddingdress3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="472" data-original-width="262" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsryqhUkfYzHyY_yNiMcVV25XTRSybQZYCeHIBjch8aTnx06tEKjosKhKo4UIoppST-Rm1P4LfnIPNq6JYDuXyBVlvQCAMyG0VVrGwUFORUE-7OjpMD5E7WdPKGDsqgW2_-vqBiA4xHv4PW72sBT3sLCX6nmebcx6QdsjT9b7_DQExiwc0V2DeX0ylgwfH/w189-h341/weddingdress3.jpg" width="189" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">However, this luxury wasn't afforded every director out there and was almost exclusively enjoyed by those working in markets that courted international distribution as part of their business model (namely in North America and Europe, especially Italy). While names like Craven and Carpenter and Fulci became internationally known horror royalty, there were just as many others with just as many credits who no one outside of their home countries even knew existed.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The above is especially true for Asian filmmakers, whose efforts usually didn't make it outside of Asia and, in the off chance they did, they almost always got butchered beyond recognition in the process. The closest I think anyone ever got to receiving accolades here in America during this time was "Father of Godzilla" Ishirô Honda. Otherwise, it really didn't matter how well versed in horror you thought you were, you still almost certainly didn't know anything about Hong Kong's Chih-Hung Kuei, Taiwan's Feng-Pan Yao, Indonesia's Sisworo Gautama Putra, India's Ramsay Brothers or South Korea's Yun-kyo Park, the director of the film we're about to watch.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even though Park was considered "The Master of Horror Films" in his homeland, he was, and remains, completely unknown outside of South Korea. That's in spite of the fact he averaged about a horror film a year over an 18 year period lasting from 1967 to 1985. You wouldn't even know that if you used IMDb as a reference, which lists just 10 of his 40+ directorial credits spread over two different pages (one spelled "Yoon Kyo Park"). And there likely would have been a lot more than just that had he not passed away in 1987 while just in his early 50s. While it's difficult to obtain biographical information on this guy, we can deduct one thing: He <i>had</i> to have loved horror / ghost films himself. There were pretty long stretches of time in his home country where genre films weren't popular at all and didn't have much of an audience, yet he made them anyway. Had he solely been in the business for money or fame, he'd have zero reason for sticking by the genre like he did.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Even so, while his dedication may nudge us into his corner, it takes more than just that to develop a devoted international following. You have to have quality work, or at least a couple of really good key films, to back yourself up. Even though I'm now just two movies into his filmography and am hoping I'm proven wrong here, I've yet to see evidence that Park had what it took to break out of his obscurity even if his movies had been made more readily available. What we get here is the tired old "wronged murdered woman returns as ghost for revenge against a scumbag" plot, a long-time staple of Asian ghost cinema, trotted out again and not done in an especially memorable, stylish or interesting way. This is extremely high on overwrought emotional melodrama and extremely low on most of the things horror fans are really going to want to see.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo3Z3IJeYIW2RS0QlFV5Ucknz-ZayHn27AiJRbjj0sW21NtsLUaGUWahNa7D9FixN4aHzIqkhbOiT18rVRrmgKCIkDVEducL-pXGKyFn4v-KxLSjMgtbYaqCiIHRnD0YmQLoAJbUXNY33P8Enrs6RFVAxO8VH7DDsWcTZtzeNYeXnIwBlui5-hCWAsabz6/s500/weddingdress52.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="500" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo3Z3IJeYIW2RS0QlFV5Ucknz-ZayHn27AiJRbjj0sW21NtsLUaGUWahNa7D9FixN4aHzIqkhbOiT18rVRrmgKCIkDVEducL-pXGKyFn4v-KxLSjMgtbYaqCiIHRnD0YmQLoAJbUXNY33P8Enrs6RFVAxO8VH7DDsWcTZtzeNYeXnIwBlui5-hCWAsabz6/w223-h174/weddingdress52.jpg" width="223" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoLl-HwgcNGPzONKCe-i5I3CiwLYSWApTZIEBl913KDiKffTqY6k5g-XCJvdC-Lf2mVj0ywMZ8S76Qb2tZ3e5_3Y9tbudp7NDYIbI7_fYNU5waRuVhf6LJLXHAnE5jvPKwyczRzY1b5-FXG5LGjA2hr0V2Tz0M7X9oHxlTJDEeITi0lMObGRd4PWL_hmKM/s500/weddingdress51.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="391" data-original-width="500" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoLl-HwgcNGPzONKCe-i5I3CiwLYSWApTZIEBl913KDiKffTqY6k5g-XCJvdC-Lf2mVj0ywMZ8S76Qb2tZ3e5_3Y9tbudp7NDYIbI7_fYNU5waRuVhf6LJLXHAnE5jvPKwyczRzY1b5-FXG5LGjA2hr0V2Tz0M7X9oHxlTJDEeITi0lMObGRd4PWL_hmKM/w220-h172/weddingdress51.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">While heading home on a dark and stormy night, wealthy industrialist Yeong-ha Kim (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Se-hyeok Jeong</span></b>) runs over a screaming woman who darts out into the street. When he steps out of his car to investigate, the "woman" has suddenly turned into a mannequin. Upon returning home, he hears water running, flings open the bathroom door, gets a quick flash of a blue-faced ghost girl and then discovers he's barged in on his maid taking a shower. Oops. Then he finds out his young son, Cheol-su (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yong-won Choe</span></b>), had an accident while he was away and ended up breaking his leg. Rushing to the hospital, he learns from his wife (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Flora Seo Jeong-Ah</span></b>) that a woman dressed in black had broken into their home earlier and coerced the son onto the stairs, where he fell.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The black-clad mystery woman in question turns out to be a beautiful 19-year-old aspiring singer named Jeong-im (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Eun-sook Sunwoo</span></b>). Well, she <i>was</i> an aspiring singer before her untimely demise, which we learn all about in a lengthy flashback...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIij7oGiiK0YomX5YAXflPKh1Hd_EOx5t4LxdFDHAgA6cQqWh5lAezbwpMvXPO_Lmc-myAFC6V1S2m1xkrQgUpXkaXZLkNtJLi0tzwXFOyub3J3coe8H1VTgB1Zruy_UDnvOrQjFKczmz_zqhFKqYV2nTJreoVFRz4vHeCW4d7upL-BzHdrGASJedJn_Ug/s629/weddingdress5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="388" data-original-width="629" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIij7oGiiK0YomX5YAXflPKh1Hd_EOx5t4LxdFDHAgA6cQqWh5lAezbwpMvXPO_Lmc-myAFC6V1S2m1xkrQgUpXkaXZLkNtJLi0tzwXFOyub3J3coe8H1VTgB1Zruy_UDnvOrQjFKczmz_zqhFKqYV2nTJreoVFRz4vHeCW4d7upL-BzHdrGASJedJn_Ug/w400-h246/weddingdress5.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkHotDCu38jG7tgy66aQHm8Cp2MB7kzWFPV_Z6EGAp7sj4YcSvMLkxsS6WQIlq9itNjfe5gzzh8gq4vJ3udXRQ8guzLhZryqA8M5OS2VICZ6gBpxJl9rvt9S5b6dbUm0VGKER_ki1CtWimUa7yPgQHQTWDGhnsDHrIPjl5gM6KO7psWcLm6oC5hCSJIAhM/s622/weddingdress16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Arriving in the city with stars in her eyes and cheery optimism, Jeong-im later turned up in Yeong-ha's office broke, destitute and begging him to help her find a job and a place to stay. Yeong-ha put the girl up in a company villa located out in the country, whose only other occupant was elderly caretaker Old Man Kwak (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Hyang Lee</span></b>), who started to develop a fatherly bond with the orphaned teen. Dropping in for a visit one day, Yeong-ha became lust-crazed after spying on the girl in the shower, forced himself on her and then the two began a consensual romantic relationship. An unexpected pregnancy soon followed, which led Yeong-ha to not only insist they stop seeing each other, but also that she get an abortion. After all, his reputation, family life and social standing would all take a massive hit if any of this were to get out. Adding salt in the wound, Jeong-im was then accidentally knocked down the stairs during an argument and broke her leg.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pregnant, alone, heartbroken, desperate, now crippled and facing a impossible battle, Jeong-im deteriorated into a pathetic, groveling and emotionally unstable mess. After receiving a late night phone call demanding his presence, Yeong-ha arrived at the villa to find his lover crazy-eyed, decked out in a black wedding gown, holding a black rose and hobbling around on her crutch talking about their upcoming wedding and showing him the wedding cake she made them. She then offered up her <i>own</i> list of demands: He's to divorce his wife, kick her out of the home, move her in to take her place and then let her raise their son. Also, no abortion. She's going to have the child whether he likes it or not. If he doesn't acquiesce to what she wants, she'll expose him. Another heated argument ensued, ending with an enraged Yeong-ha punching her in the face, kicking her in the head and killing her. 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She makes Yeong-ha have visions of a couple hanging by nooses at work and may also be responsible for one of his employees falling to their death. She puts the son in a sleepwalking trance, lures him outside and tries to kidnap him. She shows up at the home, makes lights flicker, breaks a doll and then finally presents herself to the wife. She bemoans her untimely death yet is vague about the details and is basically like, "Hey, why don't you ask your husband about it." Rumors are spreading around that Jeong-im died while pregnant, which also sparks suspicion. However, Yeong-ha simply lies about all of it and says she probably killed herself because some other guy knocked her up.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The ghost then starts getting meaner. She lures Yeong-ha out to a cemetery, attacks him and gives him such a bad nervous breakdown he has to be hospitalized. He then starts drinking too much and becomes partially despondent and sometimes violent, driven by visions of the ghost in place of other people. During a ritual to try to appease the spirit with chanting, dancing and a severed pig's head, Yeong-ha has a red-and-blue lit hallucination where the ghost shows us in a clownwitch-looking costume and entombs him alive. And there's some other stuff that happens, none of it too horribly exciting. What this really is is a family melodrama, and it's not a very good one at that.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLv-oOBD_PaLZACoAEwQGdymU1VlDp4brIMJHfO51h5C-OGdCHiYj1T4wiX2gdEWdOKRxWPgaBjgPNwkIJt7ZruLwS1KxWnHt9fMxEwAGh_hUX7s7KcCgROpziHj-eidVZtpb7xNQLl6OoBmkz3qiQK-OYBEMz3y5h-khesbNsWP9r9LzB-ye2mWwhxwT/s625/weddingdress40.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="625" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWLv-oOBD_PaLZACoAEwQGdymU1VlDp4brIMJHfO51h5C-OGdCHiYj1T4wiX2gdEWdOKRxWPgaBjgPNwkIJt7ZruLwS1KxWnHt9fMxEwAGh_hUX7s7KcCgROpziHj-eidVZtpb7xNQLl6OoBmkz3qiQK-OYBEMz3y5h-khesbNsWP9r9LzB-ye2mWwhxwT/w400-h250/weddingdress40.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ8Uy3FBKaGMYZ3fojAgESdK55Lr_lKJ0g9xY9gzzJYlPZ2y1hxV9EpyUDM07ZnF0MJSpXjoMt9aPUEAFT1kBHOvF02Qa6mc1QJ_CKfywNP15PB8laqAIYPxQwE2nmD7fFZ3Ga8dfRrJZ2BFvVgH6Qsf5mbpTsqbZ9JCLx-Jo0GkfTLDiliv0fs_oNjDLA/s626/weddingdress45.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif3hNwOkZZitUEQGb8X1OCYWaexlL7B7p68yYfqqc3EiLmUlIWlEdj9oNvGwt_PtnipgNP1XRdXgtVKn1MDEEjoNm4eiyVrnOgfuxb_h_tqhzdXTKhwdDLmza4-MgVPpcs-HKH85ILZly2N_SXoVq-3wun52Ms0-pU360vhtnw2rgsYxsyivMDmxx3nZOb/s621/weddingdress42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="390" data-original-width="621" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEif3hNwOkZZitUEQGb8X1OCYWaexlL7B7p68yYfqqc3EiLmUlIWlEdj9oNvGwt_PtnipgNP1XRdXgtVKn1MDEEjoNm4eiyVrnOgfuxb_h_tqhzdXTKhwdDLmza4-MgVPpcs-HKH85ILZly2N_SXoVq-3wun52Ms0-pU360vhtnw2rgsYxsyivMDmxx3nZOb/w400-h251/weddingdress42.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">My initial fear was that this was going to go down the exact same morally dubious path that the director's previous effort, <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/11/manglyeong-ui-gog-1980.html" target="_blank">WAIL OF THE GHOST</a></b> (1980), did. In <i>Wail</i>, we're rightly positioned from the beginning to sympathize with a poor, orphaned peasant girl who's murdered after delivering a son / heir to an awful rich family before the film tries to switch gears at the very end and expect us to side with the her killers and co-conspirators instead! Having already seen that, a sinking feeling then fell over me the minute the director suddenly started portraying the husband as some poor pitiable shell of his former macho, stone-faced self and he was huddling together with his weepy wife and child. Thankfully, this eventually steers itself away from the same trap <i>Wail</i> fell into, but the lengths it goes to get there creates a brand new problem entirely!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And, Jeezus, is there still a lot of problematic content here. So how would you react if your spouse had an affair, murdered their pregnant lover, hid the body, lied about it the entire time and ended up putting both you and your child's life at risk as a result? Would you be like Stepford Tradwife over here and be like "Oh, I still love you, honey! Must. Keep. Family. Together." No, of course not, unless you happened to be severely mentally ill, possess deeply masochistic tendencies, are really, really dumb or are just a terrible person more concerned with maintaining your upper class lifestyle than your own child's safety. If you ever find yourself in a similar situation in the future, here's a line you can borrow: "Hey ghost girl, leave me and my child alone and hurry up and kill this useless motherfucker I'm currently married to before I do it myself."</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While this film is almost entirely bloodless and doesn't have any notable special effects to speak of (best we get is colored lights), it does "boast" one of the most ludicrous twist endings I've ever seen in one of these things. Part of me wanted to go back and find all of the different ways it was impossible, but that would require me spoiling it. Let's just say, it's at least good for a laugh. On a more positive note, I can at least say some actual justice was meted out at the end (unlike with <i>Wail</i>), and that a couple of the lead performances, most notably from the two female leads, are strong and probably better than the film deserves.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I found two different Korean VHS releases for this title (the earliest was from 1983) as well as two entirely different prints on Youtube. The ragged though brighter and sharper print, used for the first video release is missing a lot of screen image plus ten minutes of footage, including the entire opening sequence with the mannequin and lots of other stuff. The other, longer print (not sure where this came from exactly) is widescreen and has less damage but it's also much darker and murkier. I hopped between the two to keep tabs on what I was missing, but I much preferred the look of the shorter, poorly cropped VHS print. Here are some comparisons...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0s952PurcChE7YNyCsvZgD28e2GmKfkUpJDWsDWDKVeb3ivODCraUIgroNS4GXbTHx4ZO448qfJPS4oPfpfnlwGd7Kqj2LU_2c58qf7r2RVWQuD658NvxKjrkceymZpO-QXjq40UZ59lGhhIPJ3-n2myrfR_ddEBln6ilOrJBcgtxtukv_LhN7k6WRvNs/s818/weddingdress27.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="383" data-original-width="818" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0s952PurcChE7YNyCsvZgD28e2GmKfkUpJDWsDWDKVeb3ivODCraUIgroNS4GXbTHx4ZO448qfJPS4oPfpfnlwGd7Kqj2LU_2c58qf7r2RVWQuD658NvxKjrkceymZpO-QXjq40UZ59lGhhIPJ3-n2myrfR_ddEBln6ilOrJBcgtxtukv_LhN7k6WRvNs/w400-h188/weddingdress27.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1CS6dk1SdXfFABcVFG6MO8kFlHXAZOOQPUDgL0cYGhoDlZOhNomVuEs61_E0leXIc3ReaOM-lPZzqcaPqFP_zrqNADysJQ9p22XoYl5N7djEOugGG48_p84R0fXnGVjfATQPvM5C_G0YduSDixF_Dnz88zoTn4uGlqdlisvrMi_YPlUin6EacBnJHRGRA/s625/weddingdress26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_QYboDEDmpGvNpjxS9tf6cCj5TP_tYNLUBs8GcyX1-7KADYYeCXRPNjpkZrYwMprz8RFHK6AYcfKSSTwQG2YggP3ddpwvkFxwBlDIbvS6lak3M1OB3skVGxaKChrwC1ivBYxFooLi4EQrpNO8Dr_3_s7viZzq17w2jDbpbTCf_JP9YIFIb8561KaLlBYH/s816/weddingdress13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="816" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_QYboDEDmpGvNpjxS9tf6cCj5TP_tYNLUBs8GcyX1-7KADYYeCXRPNjpkZrYwMprz8RFHK6AYcfKSSTwQG2YggP3ddpwvkFxwBlDIbvS6lak3M1OB3skVGxaKChrwC1ivBYxFooLi4EQrpNO8Dr_3_s7viZzq17w2jDbpbTCf_JP9YIFIb8561KaLlBYH/w400-h188/weddingdress13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZ4TE98aW2GmLIaUB4C7cJY70ga9D9NNck0yMeWPdOmBx4eQJepWkItRaTpd2zK5KKeOZ7YEyoA-eb5fgYH2h9kXlBpyPcr5oLP3mjTsy_klVki7arc1IamsOWga9f2YFunxhliQXR1V9UfCTgyQZH0vcVx7_UdTgRqEmNMebDFbiJudNFK3kZEl2WjCs/s621/weddingdress15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="389" data-original-width="621" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAZ4TE98aW2GmLIaUB4C7cJY70ga9D9NNck0yMeWPdOmBx4eQJepWkItRaTpd2zK5KKeOZ7YEyoA-eb5fgYH2h9kXlBpyPcr5oLP3mjTsy_klVki7arc1IamsOWga9f2YFunxhliQXR1V9UfCTgyQZH0vcVx7_UdTgRqEmNMebDFbiJudNFK3kZEl2WjCs/w400-h250/weddingdress15.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite Park being 0 for 2 with me thus far, I'm still going to continue to comb through his filmography at some point looking for something better. There HAS to be something better, right? His other genre credits include <i>The Girl with White Hair</i> (1967), <i>Witch Castle</i> (1968), <i>Magical Sword of the Skeletal Spirit</i> (1969), <i>Demon's Bedroom</i> (1970), <i>Ok-Nyeo's Resentment</i> (1972), <i>Resentment of Daughter-in-Law</i> (1972), <i>Resented Spirit of the Baby Bride Groom</i> (1973), <i>The Story of Lady Arang</i> (1974), <i>A Young Lady's Resentment</i> (1974), <i>Grudge</i> (1976),<i> Legend of the Mountain</i> (1979), <i>The Wail in Spring</i> (1981), <i>Daughter of the Demon World</i> (1983), <i>Thousand Year Old Wolf</i> (1983) and <i>Song Under the Moonlight</i> (1985). Anyone out there seen any of these?</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-47647148099915415652024-02-10T16:36:00.001-05:002024-02-17T15:15:21.380-05:00La polizia brancola nel buio (1975)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUdLwwRpTqroc0f4NPDiVUAxTpgcXVwWl7DlwypQJZPlQA6FOwev4kCpVdUDnvMEe6d9bkvLqmdLIuAloHuuqrjqF_CgEaugoCLrnMATQ8GEZfWPW31MY6Ow7Nyr4Z6bwcigFvLpavK0wsGlLoWYicfdyLgotOIM4Py_o7GlTJyITXXEEvFOQ-lQ4U8bb/s759/policeblun1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="759" data-original-width="503" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbUdLwwRpTqroc0f4NPDiVUAxTpgcXVwWl7DlwypQJZPlQA6FOwev4kCpVdUDnvMEe6d9bkvLqmdLIuAloHuuqrjqF_CgEaugoCLrnMATQ8GEZfWPW31MY6Ow7Nyr4Z6bwcigFvLpavK0wsGlLoWYicfdyLgotOIM4Py_o7GlTJyITXXEEvFOQ-lQ4U8bb/s320/policeblun1.jpg" width="212" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Il giardino delle lattughe</i> (<i>The Lettuce Garden</i>)<div>... aka: <i>Police Are Blundering in the Dark, The</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div>"Helia Colombo" (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Elio Palumbo</span></b>)</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When I'm preparing to review a movie I usually put in a tiny bit of research prior to hitting play. Nothing like plot spoilers or anything to that effect, but more just getting a basic idea of the cast, crew, release date, some website scores, etc. And let me tell you, this particular title may as well have been holding up a giant, flashing neon sign reading "I'm going to suck!" The amount of red flags here was absolutely insane. First and foremost, this was completed in 1972, right smack in the middle of the theatrical heyday of giallo in European cinema, yet no one bothered to release it until three years later. So why didn't they capitalize on a hot short-term trend while it was still big? Second, when this was finally released it was re-titled to steer audiences away from thinking it was a horror-mystery and instead more of a police / crime movie. It's not that the two didn't usually overlap anyway, but there are still some major distinctions that can be drawn and this intentionally chose to blur those lines with a marketing misdirection.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I should point out that this is far from a cop / crime / poliziotteschi movie; further away, in fact, than most other gialli. The "police" of the new title don't even factor into the plot in a significant way and only show up during the last few minutes. Not that this is necessarily a bad thing. I still have no clue how anyone could think watching a bunch of detectives sitting at desks rehashing the very things we the viewers have already seen for ourselves minutes earlier is anything but boring.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_y9UqyRYcRoXsVWtBNoSRLykWv9YvIkc8tnR7KuzKNk-pfbgYwg0ctov10ds3dNcx2Ycb7zpxWeLspjIslDaJCqqOp04qf2qxuPXt3w70v83rlU9lIufv8RnM6cUgYbX__rxz2K_UGvH1D9flNLT1j6jsY1gfJ6f_bAEs1yzBA-WflQ7JVEukO4r-Khi/s700/policeblun41.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="700" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjq_y9UqyRYcRoXsVWtBNoSRLykWv9YvIkc8tnR7KuzKNk-pfbgYwg0ctov10ds3dNcx2Ycb7zpxWeLspjIslDaJCqqOp04qf2qxuPXt3w70v83rlU9lIufv8RnM6cUgYbX__rxz2K_UGvH1D9flNLT1j6jsY1gfJ6f_bAEs1yzBA-WflQ7JVEukO4r-Khi/w392-h276/policeblun41.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKdgJ1gWXp197aXXqiog_6-cAwB-sBU8x_6r4fMzZhZVB3eX_osM7d2BdjZdjUcy9WBn9mQqRHfKenixryBk0uRmvgmBgAjO_3XEt5BnJwUEHwtt-hEyD1rqLNaB5CponbTvWurL2fqdpGQeiNl_lduQ7Ilc2iTyvjMxRAmqeAUptCGyW0XVQQLEi9Ep1/s700/policeblun43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="700" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoKdgJ1gWXp197aXXqiog_6-cAwB-sBU8x_6r4fMzZhZVB3eX_osM7d2BdjZdjUcy9WBn9mQqRHfKenixryBk0uRmvgmBgAjO_3XEt5BnJwUEHwtt-hEyD1rqLNaB5CponbTvWurL2fqdpGQeiNl_lduQ7Ilc2iTyvjMxRAmqeAUptCGyW0XVQQLEi9Ep1/w392-h277/policeblun43.jpg" width="392" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There are many luminaries who worked in this subgenre at the time, both behind and in front of the camera, and on both big and low budget productions. <i>None</i> of them were involved with this. The first time director / writer (more on him later) opted to use a pseudonym and never made another film. The producer, and the attached production company, never made another film. Gialli are renowned for their cinematography and scores above all else, and this was shot by an unknown and features a score from another one-time composer. Were these real people or is everyone listed in the crew using a fake name? Good movies can certainly be made by virtual unknowns but those people would have absolutely zero incentive to hide their identities if they were proud of the work they were putting out.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The backers of these films frequently shelled out at least a little money to attract a name star or two who'd help them sell the film to an international audience. Nope, none of that here! In fact, the four top-billed male lead actors are complete unknowns who never appeared in another film again, at least not using the names they used here. There are a couple of female cast members that did other things, but even these ladies are going to be alien faces to everyone out there who's not a <i>very</i> dedicated exploitation fan. The only person I was somewhat familiar with was <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Halina Zalewska</span></b>, who had previously appeared in the Barbara Steele vehicles <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2015/02/i-lunghi-capelli-della-morte-1964.html" target="_blank">THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH</a></b> (1964) and <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/04/un-angelo-per-satana-1966.html" target="_blank">AN ANGEL FOR SATAN</a></b> (1966).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWk8tbuzuFGhc0kTQtOXOMOQq7arV_j6ayGbwJXfxbgddwHQypdXMp1itwWL8Ajm3TQ9T1iivlvhOe5QnEGWf40Nbtnbv3HWmOD1fqZvQJB0gXEYUc5wRRQiRsKHi_slDHJ0-qQoDMp3g49ox_iZnxnmSguCN3Zr5YFPyWcnZUygRFAsEDeX2k2v6hnF-f/s799/policeblun2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="565" height="535" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWk8tbuzuFGhc0kTQtOXOMOQq7arV_j6ayGbwJXfxbgddwHQypdXMp1itwWL8Ajm3TQ9T1iivlvhOe5QnEGWf40Nbtnbv3HWmOD1fqZvQJB0gXEYUc5wRRQiRsKHi_slDHJ0-qQoDMp3g49ox_iZnxnmSguCN3Zr5YFPyWcnZUygRFAsEDeX2k2v6hnF-f/w378-h535/policeblun2.jpg" width="378" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Jump ahead a decade to the VHS boom. No one wanted to release this. Jump ahead a few more decades to the DVD boom, when there was a big resurgence in the popularity of these kind of films, and still no one wanted to release this. It wouldn't be until 2020 that this finally surfaced on Blu-ray as part of Vinegar Syndrome's "Forgotten Gialli" line.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Taking a glance at viewer scores on film websites is yet another warning. Gialli fans are far more forgiving than I when it comes to their beloved subgenre and if even <i>they</i> are rejecting this, there must be something amiss. Another clue is that gialli fans are quick to remove the horror tag from these movies on various websites and instead assign the (they believe) classier designation of "thriller" to them instead, yet they've let the horror tag remain on this one. It's like they're saying, "OK, this one's so terrible that even WE don't want to claim it!" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That all gives me bad flashbacks to the IMDb board days when we had a seemingly endless fight on the main boards about whether <i>Jaws</i> should receive a horror genre classification or not. It was there from the start, then it was stripped away, then it was reinstated, then it was removed again... Over and over and over again it went. The mods were annoyed. We had a lengthy debate about it. For those of us who were pro horror tag, our points of debate centered around the movie being called a horror film by its very own director, it being advertised as "the most terrifying motion picture..." and "the movie that scared millions out of the water...", how it was heavily influenced by older monster movies that no one debates are horror films, how it had recurring suspense builds where the entire payoff was delivered in the form of a jump scare and how its chief objective was to try to scare / terrify the audience, which is precisely what it did when it hit theaters in 1975. Also, ya know, that part about it revolving around a giant, monstrous man-eating shark terrorizing an entire community, ripping off limbs, devouring skinny dippers and little kids whole and all that.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, long story short, we ended up losing the battle and the mods permanently locked down <i>Jaws</i> as an "action / mystery / thriller" instead, which is how it remains to this very day. The truly interesting part of all of this is that none of the pretentious snobs who thought it was too good to be horror ever once advocated for similar treatment for any of the sequels. Despite containing almost identical content, right down to the same characters, plot points, etc., the follow-ups were apparently mid or bad enough that it was OK to still consider <i>them</i> horror.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggn6p8CFhseW8H4y8cFqYhZrojjgJ62IHNemuPeodONscTGniHvOAV0o239XUaHTQ8M66lhjtUCzyYPQ2h6CmpFQxAqXLhXmN0XGXXmSx0fER_WICgqar1n4ycdPEdvQo6m_lNRIi9omn1jcbQ-txTsfRh1dS-3vaRdC4umLO6qpXS9BCHr7sHoIMTO_TE/s700/policeblun40.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="700" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggn6p8CFhseW8H4y8cFqYhZrojjgJ62IHNemuPeodONscTGniHvOAV0o239XUaHTQ8M66lhjtUCzyYPQ2h6CmpFQxAqXLhXmN0XGXXmSx0fER_WICgqar1n4ycdPEdvQo6m_lNRIi9omn1jcbQ-txTsfRh1dS-3vaRdC4umLO6qpXS9BCHr7sHoIMTO_TE/w390-h274/policeblun40.jpg" width="390" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BhRBPXtoPcd0XGGpUr4-fASBkei4lr75Fx4ktuxrnIDEaf_nPONCyPvQXkuyipNqloSCI-o8HltbanFjulzoM4ceKCiP7njGP1ushVelBcS_8XWPCMrA_JQCFnxDe4UQOrCOMmuirUnhbDTNm5CZQWn465vj3AC3BJt4PsTy9ufTG-VT8TKePQaoQUig/s700/policeblun42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="700" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8BhRBPXtoPcd0XGGpUr4-fASBkei4lr75Fx4ktuxrnIDEaf_nPONCyPvQXkuyipNqloSCI-o8HltbanFjulzoM4ceKCiP7njGP1ushVelBcS_8XWPCMrA_JQCFnxDe4UQOrCOMmuirUnhbDTNm5CZQWn465vj3AC3BJt4PsTy9ufTG-VT8TKePQaoQUig/w388-h272/policeblun42.jpg" width="388" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Beginning as any good film in this subgenre must begin, an attractive young woman with her breasts exposed gets carved up by some unknown black clad psycho armed with a large pair of scissors. Well, I shouldn't really say <i>completely</i> unknown. As he thrusts his murder weapon of choice forward, his face enters the frame to reveal it's an older gentleman wearing glasses and with unkempt pork chop sideburns, which may have taken the mystery completely out of this mystery in just the first couple of minutes. A newspaper article then informs us that the victim is one of four photo models who've recently disappeared, adding "la polizia brancola nel buio!"</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0AmLA1u33ZVbkaNGktte_RgVzbgw2RtK1GdSQvksKFTcYhFS6OE0symoV2jo-f5ZajBssLaX8o0LZbTdfA6Fe-XytQBTvuFZBQUXhO_ecPmEK_4k_yGdPXglhlImCGj6EEt2uR4s2RgdCrVd_q4DvSSoX8TPFogcOllH4sRBUUGbL2hhncgRygReEApXW/s1024/policeblun3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="551" data-original-width="1024" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0AmLA1u33ZVbkaNGktte_RgVzbgw2RtK1GdSQvksKFTcYhFS6OE0symoV2jo-f5ZajBssLaX8o0LZbTdfA6Fe-XytQBTvuFZBQUXhO_ecPmEK_4k_yGdPXglhlImCGj6EEt2uR4s2RgdCrVd_q4DvSSoX8TPFogcOllH4sRBUUGbL2hhncgRygReEApXW/w400-h215/policeblun3.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmhPTNUjYE25apTuWRS4MX4x4IYQ3wBGtk5mat5F__Nr6Ur56_YCkd0RdpDxhxuNuufEu0xtiH76iw7fiF24ZocvmoMRr_r8KW5GHliAvF7UtxEchu4ihNBQbOt111qF9mQ5d_p-xL5qKJzmAkO726RmvlBnUmNnMMuULxUCFP5ECN7HW9tc7NL92JO2si/s1022/policeblun6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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There's Edmundo Parisi, the rich, eccentric, chain-smoking, wheelchair-bound, afro-sporting nudie photographer (!) and his always-miserable-looking wife Eleanor (Zalewska), who's grown angry and bitter at both her isolation in the country and her self-serving husband's arrogance and impotence. They share their secluded villa with Parisi's orphaned teenage niece and understudy, Sarah (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Elena Veronese</span></b>), as well as young porter Alberto and "erotomania"-suffering maid Lucia (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Gabriela Giorgi</span></b>), who both seem to be up to something sketchy. 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The girlfriend, Enrichetta (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Margaret Rose Keil</span></b>), is then forced to spend the night in a creepy old inn, where she gets felt up by the owner's half-wit son after stripping out of her clothes by the fireplace. She then just decides to leave her clothes off and walks around her room, takes off her make-up and eats a ham sandwich while topless before someone sneaks in and stabs her through the throat and tit. When Giorgio shows up the following day, the crime scene has been cleaned up and she's nowhere to be found, which sends him on a quest to discover what happened to her.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thankfully, Giorgio's an independent journalist by day, so being a snoop is like second nature to him. After locating his former girlfriend's car and scheduling book, he's able to track her previous known location to the villa where she was doing a modeling assignment for Edmundo. Unfortunately, chasing after tail is his first nature and he seems to forget why he's even there approximately five minutes after arriving. It takes him no time at all to charm his way into the troubled families home as a guest. It then takes him no time at all to charm the panties right off the teenage niece. And leave it to an Italian giallo to expect us to cheer on a "hero" who inadvertently killed his own girlfriend because he was too busy cheating of her and then cheated on her again while in the process of trying to find her. Hell it would have been <i>two more times</i> had the jealous butler not been interrupted when he was with the nympho maid.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuNZVwn2r0Pm-Fq76mR57W80VHpDX2noFXf9qjVPzALZQxecW6iNMlpz2FG4WkiJVi_wkG620AkPqQmLZPapiCQ6nyWuY8LBQZl6kjgZMAvaT1_vUAsomPfqXWXw6Qm-qGkYTojlu7kxkXn8XTY3a1PdJswyBlPHW9vH_U37yCQkhbzsmSIJ7idslpCGS/s1024/policeblun11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="1024" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeuNZVwn2r0Pm-Fq76mR57W80VHpDX2noFXf9qjVPzALZQxecW6iNMlpz2FG4WkiJVi_wkG620AkPqQmLZPapiCQ6nyWuY8LBQZl6kjgZMAvaT1_vUAsomPfqXWXw6Qm-qGkYTojlu7kxkXn8XTY3a1PdJswyBlPHW9vH_U37yCQkhbzsmSIJ7idslpCGS/w400-h216/policeblun11.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ4AdxDl5N53uIJSqH69T0xZ90RFVyk4cSfVBgAiVI6YHNj016gI6EU_S1MaKciC3XANFX3qxGpYOyd69YTKc9eznNdz2by-AxXYgfz2fq47PAoYbSEvCCLobq28qPmWm-okg4fEDibVDgo1l03OQnvlB8JaTqLCcKOMMYzbUcMfABuomeDhfCR9tC4xmd/s1024/policeblun34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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The niece lives in fear of both of her guardians and claims that her uncle is insane, cruel and controlling while her aunt has been using her as a sexual plaything since hubby can no longer perform. Being the kind and nurturing type that he is, Giorgio responds to the poor girl's teary-eyed confession of abuse and rape by immediately stripping off her dress, lying her down in bed and then double checking to make sure her hymen is still intact since it was only her female guardian who'd been raping her and not the male. Once she passes his purity test, he then feels free to take her virginity.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A completely weird plot point is thrown out toward the end when Sarah reveals that her uncle has invented a brand new style of photography that allows him to take images of people's thoughts (?!) He hides his little contraption inside a bronze Buddha looking statue, uses it secretly take photos of everyone and then sits around in a hidden control room all bug eyed, laughing maniacally as he looks over the results. What's even stranger is that this absurd idea is not even exploited in any kind of fun or novel way nor is it even used to uncover the killer. It's just kind of there. For no discernable reason. As for the big killer reveal, it turns out NOT to be the same guy whose head accidentally entered into frame in the opening scene, which makes me realize that either the filmmakers didn't think anyone would notice or simply didn't care if anyone noticed. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGp5esdBnULsKnne-qlHHud2Fy10jOs2gXVb2WCVbpGXUJpguXOaHvW3YaRDMcZFFT609oR5A63-nLa6thj42t3mbbWiiaepTgm3UFVFnGbPXY8nbv-vAqICoQGGbHqCEl1X0UK7o9MKriQL2ugb1KfrrAuB27PUyDDhfDeJXaSGRXG1LNV_Oebs7axNh/s1024/policeblun24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="553" data-original-width="1024" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeGp5esdBnULsKnne-qlHHud2Fy10jOs2gXVb2WCVbpGXUJpguXOaHvW3YaRDMcZFFT609oR5A63-nLa6thj42t3mbbWiiaepTgm3UFVFnGbPXY8nbv-vAqICoQGGbHqCEl1X0UK7o9MKriQL2ugb1KfrrAuB27PUyDDhfDeJXaSGRXG1LNV_Oebs7axNh/w400-h216/policeblun24.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Going in assuming this was going to be terrible actually resulted in it exceeding my expectations in its own shitty little way. While it's true this is a bad movie, it's no less entertaining than your average film in this subgenre. It's as sleazy as other gialli from the same time and filled with lots of great 70s fashions (crazy suits, miniskirts, wigs and go go boots galore), cars and home décor. It's dumb, yet it's no dumber than, say, <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2014/02/perche-quelle-strane-gocce-di-sangue.html" target="_blank">THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS</a></b> or <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2020/02/nude-per-lassassino-1975.html" target="_blank">STRIP NUDE FOR YOUR KILLER</a></b>; two films many devotees seem to love. It's also kind of boring at times yet not as boring as some others, like <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2008/10/coltello-di-ghiaccio-il-1972.html" target="_blank">KNIFE OF ICE</a></b> or <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/02/la-casa-de-las-muertas-vivientes-1972.html" target="_blank">NIGHT OF THE SCORPION</a></b>. And, while it's not very stylish or visually creative, the photography and score aren't noticeably bad either. So hooray for low expectations coming through, and getting me through, once again!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for the director's true identity, it was later revealed to be Elio Palumbo. Though not a known entity here in the U.S., Palumbo was a very successful platinum-selling artist / composer, record executive and music producer in Europe in the 1970s and 80s.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-79628837505115806872024-02-09T20:30:00.005-05:002024-02-10T11:58:04.168-05:00Alien Predator (1986)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjucv6TK1_GwmsMomFHKxo-7HfN78MO6CYZlw_zV9q5iv5sRxwpeRKTvafWwN1L-bykjdoj0NdzZOg1nctYpxG4fKtQ-UFY6cEZZZmuKltah2XVZGP8a0N5pKR_Ht1sBcI4GKILMXpSbJ8VJXcyvvVuNJ9SHCyM3xdmcu7N-Ck8WJH2_9TKANua0aMy2hKc/s1485/alienpred1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1485" data-original-width="964" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjucv6TK1_GwmsMomFHKxo-7HfN78MO6CYZlw_zV9q5iv5sRxwpeRKTvafWwN1L-bykjdoj0NdzZOg1nctYpxG4fKtQ-UFY6cEZZZmuKltah2XVZGP8a0N5pKR_Ht1sBcI4GKILMXpSbJ8VJXcyvvVuNJ9SHCyM3xdmcu7N-Ck8WJH2_9TKANua0aMy2hKc/s320/alienpred1.jpg" width="208" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Alien Predators</i><div>... aka: <i>Cosmos mortal</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Drapieżca z kosmosu</i> (<i>A Predator from Outer Space</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Falling, The</i><br /><div>... aka: <i>Mutant II</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Uhka avaruudesta</i> (<i>Threat from Space</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Deran Sarafian</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Interesting casting decision here to lead with <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lynn-Holly Johnson</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Martin Hewitt</span></b>, not because both stars are any better or worse than others who'd probably be appearing in something like this, but because both had been mercilessly savaged by critics just prior to being cast. Hewitt bizarrely started out his career simultaneously on the top and on the bottom. While his breakout role in the teen romance <i>Endless Love</i> (1981) paired him up with a then-popular Brooke Shields, was made for major studio Universal under the guidance of respected Italian director Franco Zeffirelli and did well at the box office, both the film and the performances were absolutely savaged by most critics. Hewitt, who had to beat out over 5,000 other actors (including Tom Cruise) for the part, then ended up earning his first acting award nomination. Unfortunately, that award was the "Worst New Star" Razzie. After the one-two gut punch of <i>Love</i> and the all-star comedic misfire <i>Yellowbeard</i> (1983), he was pretty much done for in big budget Hollywood films and it was TV guest spots and B-movies from then on out. Hewitt capped things off by appearing in a number of erotic thrillers in the 90s before calling it a day as an actor. He now runs a home inspection business.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlike Hewitt, who basically face planted out of the gate, pretty blonde Johnson's career started out on a high note. She was a competitive figure skater, moved on to the Ice Capades and received a star vehicle soon after in the popular ice skating romantic drama <i>Ice Castles</i> (1978), which netted her some surprisingly good critical notices and a Golden Globe nomination. However, poorly-received roles in Disney's <i>The Watcher in the Woods</i> (1980) and the Bond film <i>For Your Eyes Only</i> (1981) knocked her back a few pegs, and then a Worst Supporting Actress Razzie turn in the God awful <i>Where the Boys Are</i> (1984) knocked her down the rest of the way. Johnson's acting career was never able to recover and her film and TV appearances grew sparse starting around 1990. She's now also retired from film acting.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R-gcgGude4oFNbc-R-_zIV8H3DfXkYXdjUWpMWvEZhVAfu6HWQ8xhuhz0K8FOF4437Vo0eksDgl_95W3cX8anYRkjcYNId9U7hzawnsiE2U49YTFQ3eNYf4hUCR_yIh3gCYhxVE0txbyMlJLQZOijKhTb3jZjrBMqIJ1yIyPc9WX39lLpzDG_-JboF0a/s643/alienpred5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="643" data-original-width="450" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-R-gcgGude4oFNbc-R-_zIV8H3DfXkYXdjUWpMWvEZhVAfu6HWQ8xhuhz0K8FOF4437Vo0eksDgl_95W3cX8anYRkjcYNId9U7hzawnsiE2U49YTFQ3eNYf4hUCR_yIh3gCYhxVE0txbyMlJLQZOijKhTb3jZjrBMqIJ1yIyPc9WX39lLpzDG_-JboF0a/s320/alienpred5.jpg" width="224" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUVIlS6MU_Nz086x6G3NYZiFYJR_pgXEmfF6Y15gyOYfcpaENiu-HediOWsA56LEQqZ0B0aU2ope4N0Y-FD7Tu7EtyOihstKGUbbxKnGgl446stHxOUodiEzK1C-Z7qh6cRfik2iOZpiZporzCjVNoQgIhAGwcOrhVn9Rgs3Ad6MtfGgDI4Y0mwLdBgMo/s636/alienpred4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="403" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGUVIlS6MU_Nz086x6G3NYZiFYJR_pgXEmfF6Y15gyOYfcpaENiu-HediOWsA56LEQqZ0B0aU2ope4N0Y-FD7Tu7EtyOihstKGUbbxKnGgl446stHxOUodiEzK1C-Z7qh6cRfik2iOZpiZporzCjVNoQgIhAGwcOrhVn9Rgs3Ad6MtfGgDI4Y0mwLdBgMo/s320/alienpred4.jpg" width="203" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Completing the trio is Dennis Christopher, a former child actor whose career has also had ups and downs, though it's certainly more notable that the other two stars regardless. As a young teen he appeared in the sleazy drive-in horror film <i>Blood and Lace</i> (1971). By the end of the decade he landed the lead role in the Oscar-winning bicycling drama <i>Breaking Away</i> (1979). His performance earned him a BAFTA win and a Golden Globe nomination for "Most Promising Star" plus he was selected as one of twelve "Promising New Actors of 1979" in John Willis' Screen World. He then took on the lead role in the mediocre horror film <i>Fade to Black</i> (1980) and a supporting part in the Best Picture Oscar winner <i>Chariots of Fire</i> (1981).</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Seeing how his career wasn't exactly in the toilet in 1984, I was initially perplexed as to how Christopher ended up in this thing. It wasn't until I connected a few dots that it all started to make sense. Director Sarafian, who was first employed doing uncredited jobs for Roger Corman's company, is the son of director <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Richard C. Sarafian</span></b> (<i>Vanishing Point</i>) and Helen Joan Altman, the sister of acclaimed director Robert Altman. Christopher had appeared in Altman's ensemble comedy <i>A Wedding</i> back in 1978, so this looks like just another case of an aspiring young director simply having the right family connections to land an established actor. Similarly, Johnson was dating the director at the time, though I'm not sure if they were dating <i>before</i> this was made or started dating during filming.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWvWH_Gr7MzNwoNkOj2ZGzqgIWdGAkLezdxGStEcQ7qQEMXsK2kzMTkARSNshqKMMe_pZGoq7DdgygG8u6To49ISMMoPCzqXM4h76dF6VZWROxJtMBnK3zT0uy6L7xrW2l4rCknbfuK4WdyyxoxF2f4PMTIzer3y2mcWQ0m9vICTEnErtIZiu68lCMiKp/s580/alienpred3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="360" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWvWH_Gr7MzNwoNkOj2ZGzqgIWdGAkLezdxGStEcQ7qQEMXsK2kzMTkARSNshqKMMe_pZGoq7DdgygG8u6To49ISMMoPCzqXM4h76dF6VZWROxJtMBnK3zT0uy6L7xrW2l4rCknbfuK4WdyyxoxF2f4PMTIzer3y2mcWQ0m9vICTEnErtIZiu68lCMiKp/s320/alienpred3.jpg" width="199" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6YFPGW-sEHf5SfUixrVd4lyYW7zIgGx8S3r93lW1quOX62eqFVuIoPSFr-v9cNxZa45EEKiEhaav_YqY1TC9DbafJltUEZSUpZOArMKwIy4K1WSQt27qxxVUiEmgQ2C-21PoYDbMDohrqwTmx4XN8zTrKnKEMjewFQkM9CU9lUtdboXkaeXPUvpkgaNHF/s954/alienpred2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="954" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6YFPGW-sEHf5SfUixrVd4lyYW7zIgGx8S3r93lW1quOX62eqFVuIoPSFr-v9cNxZa45EEKiEhaav_YqY1TC9DbafJltUEZSUpZOArMKwIy4K1WSQt27qxxVUiEmgQ2C-21PoYDbMDohrqwTmx4XN8zTrKnKEMjewFQkM9CU9lUtdboXkaeXPUvpkgaNHF/s320/alienpred2.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The opening text scroll reads "May 14, 1973: NASA launched Skylab Space Station into orbit around Earth. Objective: To perform a series of highly classified experiments that could not take place on Earth. July 11, 1979: Skylab's orbit decays and re-enters the Earth's atmosphere." The film then cuts to flaming Skylab debris scattered in the deserts of Duarte, Spain. In reality, Skylab was an occupied space station for less than a year and, upon re-entry into Earth's orbit (which was a huge media event in '79), debris was scattered in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia, not Spain. But I suppose historical accuracy isn't a chief concern here so we'll just brush all that aside and get on with the movie...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkN_0bdmkEL4t20YKPUBSDvOc1UEgtBW3NuYbyvHWJeoKWwlorDrfWw_cwgBldBY5Yh4C8UlHXvtkA-ick2Ie9BHrMpLzsyN6km6JCu0PkDhWo5KoHsufVgiiEwuCwTQq6YTsNwgifHcgOXbuvceJejJ9Tr1F46uWqZGa_AFrBOQwaqajFHJ6J2mCxhXzg/s892/alienpred9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="892" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkN_0bdmkEL4t20YKPUBSDvOc1UEgtBW3NuYbyvHWJeoKWwlorDrfWw_cwgBldBY5Yh4C8UlHXvtkA-ick2Ie9BHrMpLzsyN6km6JCu0PkDhWo5KoHsufVgiiEwuCwTQq6YTsNwgifHcgOXbuvceJejJ9Tr1F46uWqZGa_AFrBOQwaqajFHJ6J2mCxhXzg/w400-h221/alienpred9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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As far as characterizations go, Sam has basically designated herself as den mother to the guys and has inadvertently been terrorizing them with her awful cooking (example: pork tartar), which the guys suffer through in silence because they're both smitten with her. Before you can say "I'm so hungry I could eat a..." we cut to bunch of wild dogs feasting on the guts of a disemboweled cow, which means they're not only going to be infected with whatever killed the cow but they're also still probably eating better than Damon and Michael. After stumbling upon the bloody scene, the trio basically shrug and then venture on to Duarte. Experiencing some car problems, they set up camp on the outskirts of the town.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The following day, after having a truly embarrassing "comic" encounter with an Indian couple and their young daughter talking about diarrhea, they head into Duarte and discover there's something seriously wrong going on. Not only is the village almost completely uninhabited, but those who remain are all behaving in a <i>Body Snatchers</i>-style manor. After a zombie-like café waitress shows up with <i>huge</i> hair, a bloody nose and a decided lack of both professionalism and basic hygiene, they split and are then almost run over by someone in a van on their way out. They return to their campsite and Sam, angered by a blowjob joke (!?), runs back into town all by herself to do some grocery shopping. Yes, this is in spite of the fact they'd just been attacked there. To no one's surprise but her own, she finds herself getting attacked yet again and eventually kidnapped.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDqMzQGoGSZ4fRlIMxneZZIqSG0jAmMGBqOoDC87BCd9uLKxi2-hlV1Do7IkFNcFGbJC0zhK_bfd7Q43aDR6nuzSdocgtITvTFheHQvXBS5Jl_Ng7UJvE_hz4wE9O_v0SkVkdheSFXR0F6_vZpZZxtsjnTEOOExJtHs_0UQ4S7PCBxW_0yekg4zkheS52/s893/alienpred14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="491" data-original-width="893" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvDqMzQGoGSZ4fRlIMxneZZIqSG0jAmMGBqOoDC87BCd9uLKxi2-hlV1Do7IkFNcFGbJC0zhK_bfd7Q43aDR6nuzSdocgtITvTFheHQvXBS5Jl_Ng7UJvE_hz4wE9O_v0SkVkdheSFXR0F6_vZpZZxtsjnTEOOExJtHs_0UQ4S7PCBxW_0yekg4zkheS52/w400-h220/alienpred14.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ-gXqVegxVMAP7e3QjB8Kkxd0zeHcTQqfq0A1A-rFRA7V6vMMEz_j_jLJZh97mP7V5VqJLygUZMq-hUVFWEknWS4nIIMVj4JxhJ1w3JpF9HOfXs5PN-0cUF9khCWVXXPWnXvy1OTjMPFkqwTHGzk1u77rOmmBv3fp2dDqNQeNWO0TDJQprmQNNeSWuPsr/s892/alienpred15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Investigator Wells (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">J.O. Bosso</span></b>, who's dubbed over by the director's father) shows up to inquire about a series of other Americans who've disappeared there after coming to check up on surviving scientist Dr. Tracer (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Luis Prendes</span></b>). The two analyze a bloated corpse of another scientist in a hotel before heading out to the "NASA Research Center" (in BFE Spain?), which is run out of a huge castle (!) with five underground levels (!!) Curiously, every other staff member who's been working there has vanished.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">What's eventually revealed is that Skylab wasn't just doing regular old space experiments, but instead analyzing alien microbes that were found on the moon during the Apollo 14 mission. Alan Shepard, what were you hiding from us all that time? Said microbes were then unleashed on Earth after the Skylab debris returned. A five year period of dormancy followed but now we've reached the end result: infection, madness and death just 48 hours after exposure. 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Otherwise, this is a great example of what happens when any bit of good you have going in your favor gets squandered because of a terrible screenplay and poor direction that allows the film to come to an almost complete halt during the final half hour. You know, when it <i>should</i> be exciting. There's also major anticlimactic disappointment that the actual formed alien is only visible in a single scene and all we get of it are <i>very</i> brief flashes. I couldn't even get a clear screen grab of the damn thing!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not only is the pacing awful and the plot not particularly interesting, but this tries so aggressively hard to make its protagonists witty and personable that the exact opposite ends up happening and everyone comes off obnoxious and annoying as hell. The dialogue is consistently awkward, the friendly competition for the chick shtick grows tiresome after a short while and the casting is also bizarre, with the geeky Christopher cast as the studly, popular, outgoing ladies man and the hunky Hewitt playing the "homier" one filled with self doubt. After sitting through all kinds of dumb nonsense, this then expects us to actually care about their friendship, and find it all charming and heartwarming. No sir. That did not hit at all.</div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for Johnson, she's perky and cute at times but her line deliveries are even more stilted and awkward than the guys' forced banter. I could go into the numerous illogical moments and stupid plot points in more detail here, but there's really no point. The only other thing really worth mentioning is the large quantity of blatant <i>Twilight Zone</i> jokes / references littered throughout, which are here because Sarafian Sr. had directed the famous "Living Doll" episode of the series back in 1963.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijl9b23P3anju9_FierZCP5CeWDEL-b9IAYLzi1Ylt28OxBS-wObga3sINymQ6MlXuxw_kKOJ-8jVPPnbJI0PZIv3Y0k7vkvY9L-FvoGfXWBu9SpsdKg_vJhyphenhyphenrbiWNJVVkTAybPPhtGxJztfDk2Osv-uFdaYC2MAoqlCmHJ06zkEymO45qLBAnRpvrn2CV/s890/alienpred31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="890" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijl9b23P3anju9_FierZCP5CeWDEL-b9IAYLzi1Ylt28OxBS-wObga3sINymQ6MlXuxw_kKOJ-8jVPPnbJI0PZIv3Y0k7vkvY9L-FvoGfXWBu9SpsdKg_vJhyphenhyphenrbiWNJVVkTAybPPhtGxJztfDk2Osv-uFdaYC2MAoqlCmHJ06zkEymO45qLBAnRpvrn2CV/w400-h217/alienpred31.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The two would later go on to produce better genre films like <i>Killer Klowns from Outer Space</i> (1988) and <i>I, Madman</i> (1989). <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Carlos Aured</span></b> was another producer and did not have very nice things to say about the filmmakers nor the experience in general. In fact, the film pushed him into early retirement!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPW0Q-pntPqxrj0LYMvcSrpdqq9L-Rj-cZSeT_zhwbaxAeqTEIhhE6Rj_pUWIp1n0a65q8QVQTOLD_Zm5Y_HxwmkjhkDpqOUFq1dPrfZE1QRBS49BnWNeH4uuSrl5MNJFEoc_JM0TyfqqFyqWZ6WLGq8shrFKbuOOd9zVBY4Ocr4pmtJx4vlc4EGBLlr_/s817/alienpred6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="817" data-original-width="600" height="557" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipPW0Q-pntPqxrj0LYMvcSrpdqq9L-Rj-cZSeT_zhwbaxAeqTEIhhE6Rj_pUWIp1n0a65q8QVQTOLD_Zm5Y_HxwmkjhkDpqOUFq1dPrfZE1QRBS49BnWNeH4uuSrl5MNJFEoc_JM0TyfqqFyqWZ6WLGq8shrFKbuOOd9zVBY4Ocr4pmtJx4vlc4EGBLlr_/w409-h557/alienpred6.jpg" width="409" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After completion, this was shelved for several years before finally being released. Given a very limited theatrical run, it first turned up on home video in the UK with the bogus sequel title <i>Mutant II</i>. Here in the U.S., eventual distributor TransWorld re-titled it <i>Alien Predator</i> to obviously cash in on two popular big budget sci-fi blockbusters: Ridley Scott's <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2013/08/alien-1979.html" target="_blank">ALIEN</a></b> and John McTiernan's <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2015/06/predator-1987.html" target="_blank">PREDATOR</a></b>. The latter was getting a lot of press beforehand and was still in post production whenever this hit video stores. Strangely, TransWorld used the plural <i>Predators</i> on the advertising materials and video box, yet the singular <i>Predator</i> for the title screen. Scream Factory released the film on Blu-ray in 2018, which comes with a director commentary.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-8284177142622238782024-02-03T21:53:00.004-05:002024-02-03T21:53:17.108-05:00I'll be returning next weekend.Glad to report I'm back to reviewing next weekend (should be on Feb. 9). Long story about my absence - let's just say a lot came up in the past few months - but maybe I'll get into that in a bit more detail in one of the reviews. Now I have a lot of ground to makeup (life kept me from hitting my quota last year dammit!), so see everyone next weekend!The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-14733804645831644812023-11-05T16:59:00.001-05:002023-11-05T16:59:40.602-05:00Berserker (1987)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FGqkk5lOERu3PYC3WeQ-IaPgbXI6pyBSbLY-KUCgITVjLmlluAcVyRrPF_3Fm_b69crUtwEVwyB8nv4Yt0f5P965md7_4-g85HwJFuY8lZIT28wtV1CxbcX6OEqfSDRfEZ9mSieV6v-jL785jVC-DJkPy1KcXM8X5mQc3ZbT1FGCMG7xnbYoGasnWBk5/s592/berserker1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="592" data-original-width="388" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1FGqkk5lOERu3PYC3WeQ-IaPgbXI6pyBSbLY-KUCgITVjLmlluAcVyRrPF_3Fm_b69crUtwEVwyB8nv4Yt0f5P965md7_4-g85HwJFuY8lZIT28wtV1CxbcX6OEqfSDRfEZ9mSieV6v-jL785jVC-DJkPy1KcXM8X5mQc3ZbT1FGCMG7xnbYoGasnWBk5/s320/berserker1.jpg" width="210" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Berserker: The Nordic Curse</i><div>... aka: <i>Ôkami Otoko Basâkâ</i> (<i>Werewolf Berserker</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>O Vale Assassino</i> (<i>The Killer Valley</i>)</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div>Jef (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jefferson</span></b>) <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Richard</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"A true pioneer of the independent film movement..." opens the late director's self-penned IMDb bio. He goes on to state his credentials as a graduate of the Cambridge School of Broadcasting and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, frequent collaborator of Matt Cimber and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">George "Buck" Flower</span></b>, employee of Park City Utah's Sunn Classic Pictures and top indie film producer. While patting oneself on the back, especially when most people have never even heard of you before, can come off as delusional and arrogant, this guy more or less has the credits to back himself up. Usually as a production manager, assistant director or line producer, Richard worked on a whole host of films over a 30+ year period, starting with sleazy 70s offerings (<b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2012/08/ilsa-she-wolf-of-ss-1974.html" target="_blank">ILSA, SHE WOLF OF THE SS</a></b>, <i>The Witch Who Came from the Sea</i>), then moving up to medium budget genre films (<i>Maniac Cop</i>, <i>Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat</i>) and finally graduating to to bigger budgeted productions starring the likes of Kevin Costner, Sylvester Stallone, Benicio del Toro, Jack Nicholson and Kurt Russell. He also mentions meeting and working with Orson Welles, whom he considered an inspiration, and being part of Flower's touring repertory company The Inspiration Players, who put on "morality-based classical theatre in churches and schools;" a far cry from all of the exploitation film work the two men would later find themselves involved in!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Listed almost as an afterthought toward the bottom of the bio are his two directorial credits; the PG-rated family adventure <i>In Search of a Golden Sky</i> (1984), which he co-wrote and co-produced with Flower (who also stars in the film) and this one, described as a "campy horror cult classic," which has become a synonym for "shitty" as of late. Flower is, unsurprisingly, also in this one and is pretty much the closest thing to a name draw in the mostly amateur cast.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3AIhnpKgQwQ4c8TJCZq2QNw526cx9yIgS92e0d7De6iaoxIjpqNKovfmc2aNu7xWeZ_jm2XyyoAVueYS_tEsIHhyphenhyphendZs5QbumnFIoyDD6jCvgHLCDYyPfWJjTB4N6IJybXEhW98VuMr-j7sCS4L8mVYf2XS43aG2uGL9p4Vj39P2v_KtBsi80z3W_zIz0/s754/berserker5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="754" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg3AIhnpKgQwQ4c8TJCZq2QNw526cx9yIgS92e0d7De6iaoxIjpqNKovfmc2aNu7xWeZ_jm2XyyoAVueYS_tEsIHhyphenhyphendZs5QbumnFIoyDD6jCvgHLCDYyPfWJjTB4N6IJybXEhW98VuMr-j7sCS4L8mVYf2XS43aG2uGL9p4Vj39P2v_KtBsi80z3W_zIz0/s320/berserker5.jpg" width="212" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhjbK46y9Jd_80QgQsDE_m1mlGLoO5mhdDEhr5ldKA3uHG_f08ra9yLuinGDESuPFhyfqs8raQvqQongkQrYCxIuo42zZ5AYjwyP7_oj2szvvvneZ-Gd8vEOBVNE2JRhPA2BV8CcxAcwlDu2eVkAjVxshB3zH6xe9335xTTUd6jlUaMoKp8nZjeNWsiOB/s893/berserker3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="893" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwhjbK46y9Jd_80QgQsDE_m1mlGLoO5mhdDEhr5ldKA3uHG_f08ra9yLuinGDESuPFhyfqs8raQvqQongkQrYCxIuo42zZ5AYjwyP7_oj2szvvvneZ-Gd8vEOBVNE2JRhPA2BV8CcxAcwlDu2eVkAjVxshB3zH6xe9335xTTUd6jlUaMoKp8nZjeNWsiOB/s320/berserker3.jpg" width="215" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You know the supposed horror movie trope that black people always die first in older slasher films? Well, let's put aside the fact that isn't even true (I personally think the real issue was black people being <i>underrepresented</i> in the genre) and focus on another group: Old folks! If I had to venture a guess, I'd say that far more seniors, regardless of skin color, died first in 80s horror / slasher flicks than any other group. Why? Well, there's probably more than one correct answer here...</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'd say the most obvious reason would be that producers usually wanted teenage or early 20-something leads because they assumed the primary audience was also going to be teenagers and early 20-somethings. And then there's the eye candy factor, as a lot of these films were expected to showcase photogenic, younger, up-and-coming actors. Older folks may be used as early cannon fodder so often because they're viewed as being weaker, more fragile and more physically compromised (poor mobility, hearing, eyesight, etc.), which makes them easy early targets. And then, granted the audience was indeed typically younger, they may get a laugh out of seeing an older person, perhaps a generic stand-in for a repressive authority figure or one with an outmoded or uncool way of thinking, die first. I'd say it's most likely a combination of all of the above.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So the moment we see ol' Homer and Edna (played by real-life couple <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Oscar Rowland</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Beverly Rowland</span></b>) trudging around at a campsite, we pretty much know they won't last too long. Celebrating their 40th anniversary with a camping trip, the two take a wrong turn while out walking, get lost in the woods after nightfall and are then slaughtered by what appears to be a bear. This 4-minute scene perfectly illustrates why experienced older performers should have been given more to do in these things. There's a moment when Mrs. Rowland breaks down into tears because she's so scared at being lost that's the single best bit of acting you'll see in the entire film. And then she's gone. And then they cart in a bunch of unlikeable, untalented younger actors we're stuck with for the rest of the film.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl-JxKbhecla0s19MZGX-7pRhBiMSHuTTcDdJoQJCHYnelRZnqniPy25ADLcmDbQasLGayzfjfsYW1wPJFXSteUzZVx8yx4k03Ek3fKlZbO1huSkH7LH2kN6wT0D0GjS5HJeI4HyZ6tAl14HMom63fCxVe64wS0wFe_H-Nmt0BI-z_3QORQLP8qB1elsn0/s854/berserker6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="459" data-original-width="854" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl-JxKbhecla0s19MZGX-7pRhBiMSHuTTcDdJoQJCHYnelRZnqniPy25ADLcmDbQasLGayzfjfsYW1wPJFXSteUzZVx8yx4k03Ek3fKlZbO1huSkH7LH2kN6wT0D0GjS5HJeI4HyZ6tAl14HMom63fCxVe64wS0wFe_H-Nmt0BI-z_3QORQLP8qB1elsn0/w400-h215/berserker6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There's awful hair metal music, lots of "dude" this and "dude" that, discussions about beer, pot and "humping" and the same stock teen characters we almost always see in these things. Receiving the most screen time is Josh Winter (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Greg Dawson</span></b>), a cocky, smart ass, obnoxious, jag-off-jock who counts belching, drunk driving, suddenly blaring his radio to startle others out of their sleep and losing his shit over the dumbest, most insignificant things among his favorite pastimes. Mike Stone (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Joseph Alan Johnson</span></b>, who was also in the slashers <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2009/06/iced-1988.html" target="_blank">ICED</a></b> and <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2012/05/slumber-party-massacre-1982.html" target="_blank">THE SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE</a></b>) is the nice, level-headed, popular one, while Larry Fishman (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Rodney Montague</span></b>) is the nerdy "bookworm" who naturally brings along a book about the history of the place they're about to spend a week at. Someone needs to relay important plot information when the time arrives, eh?</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for the girls, let's just say 80s slashers got a reputation for being sexist for a good reason. And no, it's not because women were often victims (they were also typically the heroes), nor is it because women often appeared nude (what's wrong with showering?), it's because women were often not given actual characters to play. While that's fine in films where their male counterparts are also treated like slabs of meat, it's not fine when a lot of time is set aside defining every single male cast member while every single female is a piece of cardboard. The ladies here may as well be named Blonde #1, Blonde #2 and Brunette but, for the record, they're called Kathy (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Valerie Sheldon</span></b>), Kristi (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Shannon Engemann</span></b>) and Shelly (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Beth Toussaint</span></b>). 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After setting up camp, they throw a football, drive a three-wheeler around, pour beer over each other's heads, go swimming and then settle down around a campfire for marshmallows and scary stories.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The nerd plucks an appropriate tale out of his book about vicious Viking warriors called "berserkers," who not only were the most feared of all Vikings but were also rumored to have cannibalized their victims. Typical attire for one of these warriors was a bear-skinned robe with a bear snout mask fashioned from a bear the men killed with their own bare hands as a way to prove their mettle. The warriors who became too unhinged to handle due to their bloodlust were chained, caged, fed raw meat scraps (including human meat) and essentially treated like rabid dogs to unleash upon enemies. Good thing rampaging Vikings are no longer a thing, right? Well, not so fast. Due to all of the massacring and flesh-munching, berserkers don't get to enjoy a peaceful afterlife. Instead, they sit in limbo and occasionally return to Earth by possessing the body of one of their ancestors.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Someone or some <i>thing</i> then starts going around killing the teens, starting with those dumb enough to wander around outside at night alone despite being explicitly told about animal attacks and mysterious deaths in the area. One girls dies after walking a mile into the woods just to take a dump and another is killed after participating in a nude sex scene, yet her boyfriend is allowed to walk away unscathed. As for the presentation of the death scenes, well, you can only see a woolly paw reach into frame to maul a shrieking victim to death so many times before the tedium sets in. And, while we're on the subject of tedium, there are seemingly endless scenes of people walking around in circles in the woods tripping over the same dead bodies over and over again that would be almost comical if they weren't so boring.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Nref7Y1gG_MShOCgxKCUgzf1fivxdDisaB2SiUtTCdcg_c7hyphenhyphenaVeoNolFbmcNfAycxbRWYq3qFJR7kh-DznOIOZ2XifsmyqZ6KxlUfpKt8UqIIbD2ukF7wML2CC4bTLyWOsp4hW_BzdRam9KyZpDih2GqTIS4EUpyHYsgbDddS-xwLUclUKu4oj2anBJ/s854/berserker18.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="462" data-original-width="854" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Nref7Y1gG_MShOCgxKCUgzf1fivxdDisaB2SiUtTCdcg_c7hyphenhyphenaVeoNolFbmcNfAycxbRWYq3qFJR7kh-DznOIOZ2XifsmyqZ6KxlUfpKt8UqIIbD2ukF7wML2CC4bTLyWOsp4hW_BzdRam9KyZpDih2GqTIS4EUpyHYsgbDddS-xwLUclUKu4oj2anBJ/w400-h216/berserker18.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Alas, the ferocious forest creature is simply being used as an all-too-obvious red <i>bear</i>ing. A scene where Pappy sits down for a chess match with his police officer buddy, Walt Hill (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">John F. Goff</span></b>), and they discuss how the father of one of the teens comes from a Nordic bloodline and disappeared in the same area years earlier, is yet another sloppily done diversion attempt. There's a bear vs. berserker wrestling match that should have been a high point but somehow isn't and, while the berserker costume actually looks pretty cool, we bearly (sorry) even get to see it.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGaukZ0Bg6dYE-TEYD5ScnKk8Fe7YeBoB_92JfwfmgfbXSGdJR2g7ntw2INCj8Xbz9L-DCyQPhBOn-yx_PcX-t16carN1MruQsxDvaZftsF2mh-ZT_g1UV17Xibz2HnHR8K_omfEDgmJOnGg6Fwz9PX0ICq_5pEImY_o7bklIu_fsHUOqPeuPt_M1Ap6C/s854/berserker31.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="461" data-original-width="854" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHGaukZ0Bg6dYE-TEYD5ScnKk8Fe7YeBoB_92JfwfmgfbXSGdJR2g7ntw2INCj8Xbz9L-DCyQPhBOn-yx_PcX-t16carN1MruQsxDvaZftsF2mh-ZT_g1UV17Xibz2HnHR8K_omfEDgmJOnGg6Fwz9PX0ICq_5pEImY_o7bklIu_fsHUOqPeuPt_M1Ap6C/w400-h216/berserker31.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There are nice Utah shooting locations and the nighttime scenes are sometimes atmospherically shot (by Sunn Classics vet <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Henning Schellerup</span></b>) thanks in part to lots of added fog, but that's about it as far as the good is concerned. Well, the super-hot Toussaint sans clothing isn't a bad thing either. Though it's admittedly not saying much since her co-stars are all dreadful, she's by far the best actor of the younger cast, which also probably explains why she was able to land some roles on known TV shows and films after this.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The biggest star to emerge from the abyss also happens to be the youngest: 10-year old Bart the Bear. This 9-foot-tall brown bear would go on to become something of an animal celebrity soon after, appearing alongside top stars like Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt and landing credited starring roles in <i>The Bear</i> (1987), <i>Walking Thunder</i> (1995), <i>The Edge</i> (1997) and many more. His other roles include Bear, The Bear, The Bear, Bear, The Kodiak Bear, The Bear, The Bear and The Bald-Headed Bear. He was clearly a victim of typecasting.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nhOEuHyo4jMgj5sDRiqON4KfhfAURNBsUgWjeIA6iUXcqnwcYldRz5w2PJusWvTBy8EJaXoL31r7X_U6r9PlZbH8NhtR9IcpUZuM4FqZ8Au_ifpXngxCq-q5Uw9o9fWLNseLti5SL9S6SSGKd3Eh4L75FuTlsYntblakPH4vz4cP5cwjK6mc2GnjW4Lj/s899/berserker2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="600" height="622" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5nhOEuHyo4jMgj5sDRiqON4KfhfAURNBsUgWjeIA6iUXcqnwcYldRz5w2PJusWvTBy8EJaXoL31r7X_U6r9PlZbH8NhtR9IcpUZuM4FqZ8Au_ifpXngxCq-q5Uw9o9fWLNseLti5SL9S6SSGKd3Eh4L75FuTlsYntblakPH4vz4cP5cwjK6mc2GnjW4Lj/w416-h622/berserker2.jpg" width="416" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This was given home video releases in the U.S. (well-distributed on the Prism label), the UK, Australia, Canada, Japan, Brazil and Germany. In 2019, Vinegar Syndrome released it on Blu-ray and DVD, which includes on-camera interviews with the director and stars Johnson and Engemann, as well as an audio interview with <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Mike Riley</span></b>, who plays the title character. 80s slasher enthusiasts should probably still check this out regardless of my comments. Everyone else can safely give <i>A Norwegian Cannibal Viking in Utah</i> a pass.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-55773955950036840472023-11-04T12:41:00.000-04:002023-11-04T12:41:04.916-04:00Jeonghyeongmi-in (1975)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqV83yRj0WGB8s43Vu_CQET_e9NuQF6rUPRegHHb7drYbKp5VLgNTkkYLLxup9_YW4p0p_Ibl7DOi-anobiiBYAQ1EL12RRHuf_yp-X5zjvVRsHo2MzLgSdLgW9qkrnHJPodP9W9nzViV12cTjOvKtaGozIH-PPcY22TptW1zckWhr40XcsWnBcnOi6Z3H/s1425/remodel1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="927" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqV83yRj0WGB8s43Vu_CQET_e9NuQF6rUPRegHHb7drYbKp5VLgNTkkYLLxup9_YW4p0p_Ibl7DOi-anobiiBYAQ1EL12RRHuf_yp-X5zjvVRsHo2MzLgSdLgW9qkrnHJPodP9W9nzViV12cTjOvKtaGozIH-PPcY22TptW1zckWhr40XcsWnBcnOi6Z3H/s320/remodel1.jpg" width="208" /></a></div>... aka: 정형미인<div>... aka: 定形美人 (<i>Ding xing mei ren</i>)</div><div>... aka: 鬼猫上身</div><div>... aka: <i>Geom-eungoyang-i gamyeon</i> (<i>Black Cat Mask</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Guai tan zheng xing mei nu</i> (<i>Ghost Story: Plastic Surgery Beauty</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Gui mao shang shen</i> (<i>Ghost Cat Daughter</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Remodelled Beauty, A</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Il-ho Jang</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Taking the bones of the French mad scientist / face transplant classic <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2013/10/yeux-sans-visage-les-1960.html" target="_blank">EYES WITHOUT A FACE</a></b>, adding a supernatural twist and giving it a distinctly Asian ghost cat flair sounds like the makings of a pretty fun film... and this actually <i>is</i> pretty fun!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As domestic cats curiously swarm a hospital, obstetrician Tae-min Shin (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nak-hoon Lee</span></b>) is horrified to discover that his delirious wife, Gyeong-ja (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yang-mi Park</span></b>), has just given birth to a hideously deformed baby girl, which is supposed to be cat-like in appearance but actually looks more like someone let a toddler doodle on an infant's face with a Sharpie. It all has something to do with a family curse that we eventually see the origins of via flashback. (Note: If your wife's black cat scratches your bratty daughter, don't repeatedly slam your spouse's face onto hot coals until she's dead, strangle kitty to death with your bare hands and then bury them together.).</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The more pressing immediate issue is that the wife dies shortly after giving birth and Tae-min is now saddled with a monstrous baby he has no interest in claiming. 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After returning from an international conference in the U.S., he announces to the press that he's been working on "artificial skin awareness in the field of orthopedics" and has revolutionized the art of skin grafts. He and live-in nurse / assistant Mi-hye have become romantically involved and raised the oblivious Yeong-ran (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ok-jin Kim</span></b>), now a happy, well-adjusted and beautiful teenager, as their own. However, someone else has tuned in to the news broadcast, and she's about to make an unscheduled and unwelcome appearance at Yeong-ran's 19th birthday dance party.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A masked young woman cloaked in all black shows up in the cellar late at night. She - Myo-sook (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ji-in Yu</span></b>) - announces herself as the doctor's dejected biological daughter and proves it when she removes her mask and gloves to reveal her blotted face, bushy eyebrows, fangs and claws. 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She can also levitate and do some other cool stuff that regular humans cannot. With her deep, gravely, echoed voice, and the sadistic delight she shows in shocking and scaring others, she actually comes off a <i>lot</i> like Regan in <i>The Exorcist</i>, which not-so-coincidentally was released just a few years before this.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When it comes time for the operation, Myo-sook refuses to be put under or given any kind of anesthesia. She wants to be awake to watch the entire process as it plays out! Once the operation begins, something even stranger happens. As Myo-sook's face is restored, Yeong-ran's face starts to deteriorate, almost as if the two are switching identities. Myo-sook, who has lived the life of an outcast hiding in the country her entire life, decides to take advantage of her newfound beauty by venturing out into the city. 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At a restaurant, the cat woman gags when she tries to eat sweets yet helps herself to live goldfish she digs right out of a fish tank, much to the shock of onlookers! She also leaves dead animal gifts for the doctor, kills and feasts on rats, hisses, howls, hangs from the rafters and raids the fridge looking for raw seafood. The chaotic finale finds her disappearing and reappearing at will, leaping onto trees and the roof, transforming into an actual cat, multiplying herself and flying, sometimes accompanied by some silly slide whistle-sounding music cues. 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I've seen some sources claim it was his 1966 manga <i>Nekome no Shōjyo</i> ("The Girl with Cat Eyes"), which also involves two sisters - one normal and the other cursed with cat eyes - but instead this uses his <i>Kuroi Nekomen</i> ("Black Cat Mask"). "Mask" (seen below) has the cat stuff, the family curse, the doctor father, the assistant, the hospital stuff, the baby swap, the two young women (one beautiful, one disfigured), etc. According to the Korean Film Database, <i>Black Cat Mask</i> was also the film's original shooting title, so that should finally clear up any confusion in regards to the actual source material.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnVmIBHfMVKLM32FciQAkt7jOR0FOjOLDPkzO6PKYG4JkN9NENhD_f8tVJohSofTG1LhfD2UV9_j6n2_ZGlxA1h4-_Y-KHkYnEasbUIKCCFo8W6ifuzyIJaZShFpuMru4cePKDiEm6V5kp1nUr3ds8ml55moO0pNGYZGbqKC5JhbXGVVm0lqPT3YHhSIa3/s517/remodel50.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="517" data-original-width="359" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnVmIBHfMVKLM32FciQAkt7jOR0FOjOLDPkzO6PKYG4JkN9NENhD_f8tVJohSofTG1LhfD2UV9_j6n2_ZGlxA1h4-_Y-KHkYnEasbUIKCCFo8W6ifuzyIJaZShFpuMru4cePKDiEm6V5kp1nUr3ds8ml55moO0pNGYZGbqKC5JhbXGVVm0lqPT3YHhSIa3/s320/remodel50.jpg" width="222" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjESMzF07KZcpy61cY0lU6LaXCCFeDfeKpHrOpGTN087W_lNWvqI5pPVP-W3o72Xrumd2Aan35UZAcArjh00fXNfXklhzUnGMYzP5KOR46Rj8nk4_PDHoLGv76tCXImuS9RKnR1xD0B0P0AckYXdFdIxJ7qUrtB07tojocwNjh0RLni8ShTnK2upB1t_DZ/s527/remodel43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="527" data-original-width="368" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjESMzF07KZcpy61cY0lU6LaXCCFeDfeKpHrOpGTN087W_lNWvqI5pPVP-W3o72Xrumd2Aan35UZAcArjh00fXNfXklhzUnGMYzP5KOR46Rj8nk4_PDHoLGv76tCXImuS9RKnR1xD0B0P0AckYXdFdIxJ7qUrtB07tojocwNjh0RLni8ShTnK2upB1t_DZ/s320/remodel43.jpg" width="223" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Unlike most of his contemporaries, the director was occasionally wooed away from his homeland to make movies in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, including being tapped by Shaw Brothers to direct the martial arts films <i>The Deadly Knives</i> (1972) and <i>The Thunderbolt Fist</i> (1972), as well as the horror film <i>Night of the Devil's Bride</i> (1975). He also made the obscure genre films <i>Legends</i> (1968) and <i>Life After Death</i> aka <i>The Afterworld</i> (1981) in his home country. Released just six years later, Yu-seop Lee's <i>Hannyeo</i> / "Grudge of Women" (1981) also involved skin transplants and was heavily inspired by <i>Eyes Without a Face</i>.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There was a poor quality VHS release in South Korea in 1983 (below, left), which is very clearly cut, though I'm not sure by how much. This version runs just 63 minutes, while the original theatrical running time given by Korean sources is 81. While I can't comment about the uncut version, the hacky editing jumps, scenes ending mid-sentence and incoherent butcher-job of a finale featuring shots seemingly out of order (like someone safely inside one minute but outside fighting the cat-lady a second later) is probably not how this originally played out. Though I'd love to see the film restored to its full glory one day (which would almost certainly boost my rating up at least half a star), I'm not sure that's even a possibility. This severely cut and heavily-damaged version is all that's known to exist. Since it was a box office flop, apparently nobody really cared about preserving this title.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4K3QH1zTqpU0YpCw5-BL-ItQUTPNeJ8B3XjFi1MKZ5z9lXg14RSHu3Vs10Vjy1HO6n2ROyVub640boeYcL-R0n0F1AtIDdUbGPYCiJC_88EdsUjusw7Z5WdVKM-bu0QWVEYrrH3JZOWR5RMYAPU9bSHa41MnvHxfE3V1XZ5-O-26AXxM9ZACkKqBhK0M/s826/remodel3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="826" data-original-width="534" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgo4K3QH1zTqpU0YpCw5-BL-ItQUTPNeJ8B3XjFi1MKZ5z9lXg14RSHu3Vs10Vjy1HO6n2ROyVub640boeYcL-R0n0F1AtIDdUbGPYCiJC_88EdsUjusw7Z5WdVKM-bu0QWVEYrrH3JZOWR5RMYAPU9bSHa41MnvHxfE3V1XZ5-O-26AXxM9ZACkKqBhK0M/w224-h346/remodel3.jpg" width="224" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ec06rA4zkNZZn3Bhs21ksfKkyauGGKYoxNQkbSzqWwAOCK52PwtexT7UgpS4hAKJVtiPj5AZLSZOXEWPHvkkARTHTZF76jz69luhCWJ2a9ZnNNiXqTpwJ_K7rkXD8DB2D7WyTnWznBvZYovxYkFyNdTNB8Voq4goTSJHefHN8wvBtZ0cr5WX0GY6nYMB/s885/remodel2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="885" data-original-width="561" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ec06rA4zkNZZn3Bhs21ksfKkyauGGKYoxNQkbSzqWwAOCK52PwtexT7UgpS4hAKJVtiPj5AZLSZOXEWPHvkkARTHTZF76jz69luhCWJ2a9ZnNNiXqTpwJ_K7rkXD8DB2D7WyTnWznBvZYovxYkFyNdTNB8Voq4goTSJHefHN8wvBtZ0cr5WX0GY6nYMB/w221-h348/remodel2.jpg" width="221" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This also received a VHS release in Hong Kong (above, right) with burnt-in English subtitles in the 80s, though that's not the version I watched. One source claims the HK video is a few minutes longer, though again I'm currently unable to verify that claim.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-60389777123673465802023-11-03T20:14:00.002-04:002024-02-10T19:54:55.313-05:00Manglyeong-ui gog (1980)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI47zOYKTX_5Xa4VoCHFXXKtTKDJTfDiNk2QI1G6WBCLZHxeyuu-dWQ7tVPk-NzOuTsH0wVuVTy3UUELJRXrCeDMDPfs8bp4J841ojfO-JdQM4BHNq-gFz-6UDN2_c2dipZjupQGz8uCE09mtc7GKoKu7dRqSeXoE7bRQ9eIrn6-K7QoQEHuYPO7yT4G8k/s1493/bloodysmile1.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1493" data-original-width="970" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI47zOYKTX_5Xa4VoCHFXXKtTKDJTfDiNk2QI1G6WBCLZHxeyuu-dWQ7tVPk-NzOuTsH0wVuVTy3UUELJRXrCeDMDPfs8bp4J841ojfO-JdQM4BHNq-gFz-6UDN2_c2dipZjupQGz8uCE09mtc7GKoKu7dRqSeXoE7bRQ9eIrn6-K7QoQEHuYPO7yT4G8k/s320/bloodysmile1.jpg" width="208" /></a></div>... aka: 망령의 곡<div>... aka: <i>Bloudy Smile</i> (<i>Bloody Smile</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Ghost's Song</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Mangryongui Kok</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Song of the Dead</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Wail of the Ghost</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Yun-kyo Park</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">According to the Korean Film Archive, this thoroughly unimpressive film actually helped kick start a horror film revival of sorts in South Korea. While there were genre releases in the 60s and 70s, horror, unlike in most other Asian countries, wasn't one of their more popular genres until the 80s, and the surprise box office success of this particular title helped to usher that all in. Shame that the movie itself is rather weak.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the death of her parents, teenager Jeom-rye (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Mi-ok Ji</span></b>) has been staying with, and relying on the generosity of, some Buddhist monks. That is until she's hit with an offer too good to pass up from the wealthy Madam Kim (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Shook Jeon</span></b>). The Kim family will provide her a home, money and a comfortable life in exchange for her agreeing to an arranged marriage with their thirty-something son, Tae-hwa (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Se-hyuk Jeong</span></b>). Jeom-rye takes them up on their offer and is soon relocated to the home, but signs this is going to be an unpleasant arrangement are present right away. The Kim family are desperate for an heir; so desperate they'd already banished Tae-hwa's previous wife from their home because she kept having miscarriages. After Jeom-rye dolls herself up to be presentable for their honeymoon, she has to sit and patiently wait half the evening for her new husband to even show up. 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However, that nice behavior doesn't last too long. When the now-pregnant Jeom-rye goes to the hospital for a check-up, her gynecologist (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Seung-il Lee</span></b>) discovers she has an "ovarian insufficiency" (tumor) that will lead to gastrointestinal and heart issues, and likely death, if it's not immediately removed. The problem? Removing it also means sacrificing the now-three-month-old fetus. Since the fetus stands a good chance of surviving even if Jeom-rye doesn't, Mrs. Kim demands the baby be born at the potential cost of her otherwise "useless being" of a daughter-in-law.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Though she's fully aware of what's going on, Jeom-rye has no one to turn to and figures her strong religious faith (uh) will be enough to save her (oh). Six months later, she finds herself tied down to a hospital bed pleading for her life, gods be damned. The corrupt surgeon (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Min-gyu Kim</span></b>) in charge of the delivery has already been instructed by the rich and powerful father-in-law, Man-ho (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Gi-jong Kim</span></b>), to favor the baby over the mother. To no one's surprise, Jeom-rye ends up being the sacrificial lamb in this scenario. Even less of a surprise, no one in the Kim family is too horribly broken up about it since a healthy baby boy was able to be removed via c-section prior to Jeom-rye's passing. To rub additional salt in the wound, the poor girl can't even have her burial wishes met. 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The direction and camerawork are mostly dull and do nothing to spruce up the tired plot. In addition to that, the pacing of this film is terrible and there are no special effects unless one counts poorly-executed jump cuts, a couple of fish eye lens and kaleidoscope shots and colored lighting on ghost faces, as effects.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As far as the kills are concerned, they're unimaginative and almost entirely bloodless. The ghost first takes out the three construction workers because they didn't give her the burial she wanted. One is "accidentally" killed when an explosion goes off. Another tries to run over the ghost and it causes his truck to explode. And the last is killed when he Tae-hwa confronts him and sends him falling over a cliff onto some rocks. The ghost is able to eventually drive Tae-hwa mad by calling out to him and plaguing him with nightmares, then heads to the hospital to possesses the surgeon, who tries to stab his nurse (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ju Hyeon</span></b>) with a scalpel and chases her to the rooftop, where the two fall to their deaths.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwuqZy6O9IQQzgONB9C3uHqz1DXm0fo2yKSOjwwjBcrOhiUkVOW2RufBdJHyFkatTXqcrUaeREZtZnJp6KfF2KZp8WjVuZbLD219DCcGDi8IEJGQsmqAOxVuhbzIcMKFuxm33gt4JASmqHJFK9nSxwO7ZajJvQTHaAVyElgAfVWAoAqPGsDE289Mr3b7e-/s702/bloodysmile22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="702" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwuqZy6O9IQQzgONB9C3uHqz1DXm0fo2yKSOjwwjBcrOhiUkVOW2RufBdJHyFkatTXqcrUaeREZtZnJp6KfF2KZp8WjVuZbLD219DCcGDi8IEJGQsmqAOxVuhbzIcMKFuxm33gt4JASmqHJFK9nSxwO7ZajJvQTHaAVyElgAfVWAoAqPGsDE289Mr3b7e-/w400-h271/bloodysmile22.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Things come to a head when the young couple go home for a family visit, and Jeom-rye's spirit possesses Young-sook, which is so poorly-done you don't even know she's inhabiting a host body until a monk (Am Park - <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2019/02/iodo-1977.html" target="_blank">IO ISLAND</a></b>) finally shows up to do a proper exorcism. I have no clue why the ghost waited so long to try to kill the family nor why it took the monk 25 years to perform an exorcism, especially since he's the same monk who was housing Jeom-rye prior to her death.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZ1e27yKIdZyRdrWtlxLWOr8PBwERUfOtVXsnx9Car9g0D63HOaMd70yX58GueZ9RMB8UJS1GxoV1ZPVtA-Gvydc48t-9rBoxKOyCLoLvxi4HWldpUeNWuN2aAOJboOa_lafuu84L7lrEE_tJLq6paJGYG2ENrVNz1DVgylYXtdwqDNQJXbc2p6rKTbgC/s701/bloodysmile25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="428" data-original-width="701" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyZ1e27yKIdZyRdrWtlxLWOr8PBwERUfOtVXsnx9Car9g0D63HOaMd70yX58GueZ9RMB8UJS1GxoV1ZPVtA-Gvydc48t-9rBoxKOyCLoLvxi4HWldpUeNWuN2aAOJboOa_lafuu84L7lrEE_tJLq6paJGYG2ENrVNz1DVgylYXtdwqDNQJXbc2p6rKTbgC/w400-h244/bloodysmile25.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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expecting us to now sympathize with this awful family! Apparently they're all now "enlightened" after becoming hardcore Buddhists and atoning for their past sins. Never mind the fact that, due to arrogance, impatience and a stupid family bloodline obsession, they actually <i>murdered</i> an innocent young woman, tried to hide her body, stole her baby and didn't spend a second in prison for any of it. Clearly that's all just water under bridge now that they're religious! From an American perspective, this is basically equivalent to how roughly 99% of incarcerated killers, rapists, child molesters, etc. will become born again Christians and think claiming such should automatically afford them leniency, while the sane among us just hope they stay locked up.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are also flagrantly sexist (the only family member to pay with their life ends up being the only female family member involved) and classist (the working class folks who help the family are immediately slaughtered, yet the wealthy elites get a chance at redemption and are supposedly worthy of our sympathy) elements to the script that are difficult to stomach. I expected a lot better from this considering the director was a genre veteran who made at least 15 horror films between 1967 and 1985. Maybe I just watched one of the rotten ones.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyTSVekwc9EnNe-dPb9mHSU4mlJFWM3KpCsZjYK-ifoOl7l8OHNP23cY5lu96-hn8PrbnbbfOkpI0Aa8rLxEceqx6uHhfTPDm97T_GN4qMfs0DE6a8AHQtpBv10elM6LEO3JM83_hyphenhyphen1F63EZGhT5qBqJCHGSiPa1DEyuY_X6t_p-tQqyKxB63CBoLCcLB/s614/bloodysmile2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="430" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxyTSVekwc9EnNe-dPb9mHSU4mlJFWM3KpCsZjYK-ifoOl7l8OHNP23cY5lu96-hn8PrbnbbfOkpI0Aa8rLxEceqx6uHhfTPDm97T_GN4qMfs0DE6a8AHQtpBv10elM6LEO3JM83_hyphenhyphen1F63EZGhT5qBqJCHGSiPa1DEyuY_X6t_p-tQqyKxB63CBoLCcLB/s320/bloodysmile2.jpg" width="224" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGplKiNuDVRprwu7LjKICT8t2x0rLHBNTQ0si-HCDBawBovc-jUwg8TqyFlGfKHLP7S65r91MAJSPHfYg2FtetXh9NNYePEej7q6p3DjStec0Y79Y8x5KVH-9hgk6ZIcfga5l4Aqyl68S_7kXySbS56qCGt_EReeJiJ7FKa_rXQ1etK5gELRLVgjOEdo4A/s477/bloodysmile3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="477" data-original-width="292" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGplKiNuDVRprwu7LjKICT8t2x0rLHBNTQ0si-HCDBawBovc-jUwg8TqyFlGfKHLP7S65r91MAJSPHfYg2FtetXh9NNYePEej7q6p3DjStec0Y79Y8x5KVH-9hgk6ZIcfga5l4Aqyl68S_7kXySbS56qCGt_EReeJiJ7FKa_rXQ1etK5gELRLVgjOEdo4A/s320/bloodysmile3.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">To my knowledge, this was never given an official release outside of South Korea. Even though the original title translates to "Song of the Dead" and this is also sometimes listed online as "Song of the Ghost" or "Ghost's Song," the original English title (seen on the 1983 Korean VHS release) was "Bloody Smile". Well, actually it's "Bloudy Smile" but someone, perhaps the same dude who wrote the English subtitles for older Hong Kong and Taiwanese films, used a long-ago-obsolete spelling!</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-60269949316337904432023-10-21T19:11:00.000-04:002023-10-21T19:11:18.262-04:00Ren pi deng long (1982)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWjMo0bL4qRDrPi7fH3Kxx2Sx1OgVEf7REbsK2FqvEnmNO1POwbmIHqOV7aVp7pA5zsc6H44mhUpPTen_9yrx6TaCRTwXjUm-Lt-AtG7VjrAw10FQgP8x4pBZUwJkXAPJ1IM7_kQFUiUt5Tf80RLSqAqv8Y5X6R3KlqooTACOOFuKiEiZ0Q4wNxdLLmWp7/s750/humanlant1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWjMo0bL4qRDrPi7fH3Kxx2Sx1OgVEf7REbsK2FqvEnmNO1POwbmIHqOV7aVp7pA5zsc6H44mhUpPTen_9yrx6TaCRTwXjUm-Lt-AtG7VjrAw10FQgP8x4pBZUwJkXAPJ1IM7_kQFUiUt5Tf80RLSqAqv8Y5X6R3KlqooTACOOFuKiEiZ0Q4wNxdLLmWp7/s320/humanlant1.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>... aka: 人皮燈籠<div>... aka: 인피등롱</div><div>... aka: <i>Das blutige Geheimnis</i> (<i>The Bloody Secret</i>)</div><div>... aka: <i>Human Lanterns</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Human Skin Lanterns</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Yun pei dung lung</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Chung Sun</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Egotistical, mule-stubborn and ancestrally wealthy Master Shu Ai Lung ("Liu Yung" / <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tony Liu</span></b>) and his demure wife, Lee Ching (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Tanny</span></b>), are invited to a lantern unveiling / banquet at the home of his long-time rival, Master Fu Tan (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Kuan-Tai Chen</span></b>). Not content with just rubbing it in Shu Ai's face that he's recently acquired a lantern that took six months to construct, Master Tan has another thing to publicly reveal: Local prostitute Yen Chu (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Linda Chu</span></b>) has been secretly having an affair with Shu Ai. The two men get into a verbal altercation and trade insults, which ends with an angry and humiliated Shu Ai storming out. In order to one-up his competitor, Shu Ai decides he's going to win the upcoming Lantern Festival by whatever means necessary. He goes to the old drunk (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ching-Ho Wong</span></b>) he usually gets his lanterns from, who reveals that he hasn't actually been making them himself and has been purchasing them from somewhere else. That leads Shu Ai to the home and workshop of the real lantern maker, Chun Fang Chao (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lieh Lo</span></b> - <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2019/01/gui-tai-1975.html" target="_blank">THE POSSESSED</a></b>)...</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It turns out that Master Lung and Chun Fang also have a history. Seven years earlier, they were both competing for Lee Ching's affections and got into a swordfight (initiated by Lung), which left Chun Fang both heartbroken and physically and emotionally scarred. He has since moved to the outskirts of the city and into a large old abandoned mill, where he's been anonymously perfecting his craft ever since. Master Lung pleads with him to forget the past and forge a mutually-beneficial union with him. 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That will all soon be a non-issue when an extremely agile skull-masked killer with furry boots and clawed paws shows up and kidnaps her. He drags her back to an underground lair, ties her to a pole, sinks an axe blade into her skull, drizzles molten silver into the wound and then skins her alive. With Yen Chu now missing, Constable Poon (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Sun Chien</span></b>) and his men start looking into matters. Local gossip implicates Master Lung in her disappearance since witnesses saw the two of them arguing the night prior. As a result, Master Lung's reputation takes such a hit that no one in the village wants anything to with him. 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Now he's delighted to be able to kidnap and mutilate his female victims, drown town drunkards in vats of blood and decapitate villagers with shovels and string their severed heads up like lanterns overnight to terrorize the denizens of Phoenix City. His main objective though is to construct beautiful lanterns using the most soft and supple of human flesh, which, of course comes from young female victims. After he kidnaps and kills Master Tan's hunter sister, Ching-Hua (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Hsiu-Chun Lin</span></b> - <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2022/12/shui-jing-ren-1983.html" target="_blank">PORTRAIT IN CRYSTAL</a></b>), Tan is put on the radar of the investigators himself. 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It's easy to see why this one has endured. Fast-paced and entertaining, this is filled with loads of bloody, expertly-choreographed action / fight scenes, which are sometimes in slow motion, utilize a lot of stunt and wire work and often bring in nifty weapons, like razor-sharp hooks, fans made of blades and a giant golden axe. In addition to that, there's quite a bit of gore thrown in, including decapitations and two pretty graphic skinning sequences. Add Shaw's usual pristine production values and high quality photography and you've got a film that's also quite easy on the eyes, though this one's not quite as bold and visually imaginative as some of their more colorful efforts.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As is usually the case, the film's Achilles heel is the script. What little story there is isn't always engaging and centers around the expected soap opera-style conspiring and backstabbing between the main characters as they run around trying to kill each other while giving their best evil mastermind impersonations ("Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!"). Some story elements, like assassin Szu-Yi Kuei (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Meng Lo</span></b>) dragged into the fray to try to kill Master Lung, are not here because they're crucial to the central plot but because it's an easy way to set up even more action set pieces. On the plus side, the story here is at <i>least</i> coherent, which one cannot say for many other Shaw productions.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlDdhKatERB5ZuAo_U-Y-XzQWdwQYDArkY3f8nNbeYKOyTxxlb6hI371j6PrjJJAKYalm1x8IfQZl5tC-y9tMa6c_Mz2apPBcbWJpvdIYE392Wq5aP37tswF-nA6Gah4i1nAQtdBF7tTbFleJ4aOXgUuDMcNbpjn2LB7tuPdd54mwkPgvUFzFFg-B7ZzN/s1024/humanlant53.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="436" data-original-width="1024" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlDdhKatERB5ZuAo_U-Y-XzQWdwQYDArkY3f8nNbeYKOyTxxlb6hI371j6PrjJJAKYalm1x8IfQZl5tC-y9tMa6c_Mz2apPBcbWJpvdIYE392Wq5aP37tswF-nA6Gah4i1nAQtdBF7tTbFleJ4aOXgUuDMcNbpjn2LB7tuPdd54mwkPgvUFzFFg-B7ZzN/w400-h170/humanlant53.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1v-eCd5c70IxxPqcReiCgt5JpIV5WHHU6ROxKuIzm-iinekeI-w5a4FSifWjH7xbqVgR1u5fCcrxyH7FL14wup4IJKKgBYxZiTq-ytT6WAQH0SE4CjkSCcI4qKJkKXScobsh8YEooPpa0Ud7i2-PznEobjFkDCF6moSgew_l4YJEcTRu1ZDQtuW7WNzBW/s1024/humanlant33.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="1024" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIz9-wYUsTQDzo_RQlgswgy8QpFGyw0WE7oFqCsdOppwrwFooBG964RYhdlN_6wRXOf5Y4QiHIRdpVFOLARlhSpgTpfnMXX1pURj_rB3zLtOYPbDmB_ai2QCIxClN-KHBw-UlEpoMRXdQXvMnm1_KgGx9F8Fa9h_C_BobjurCeRDMZzxvVv06FBP-hN0SG/w400-h169/humanlant56.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One thing that detracts somewhat from the fun are the uncommonly unlikable characters. There's no one to root for here. Asian genre films are often (rightly) championed for letting the female cast members play as much a part in the action as their male counterparts, but that's not the case here, where they're around simply to look pretty, show some flesh (in more ways than one!) and die. Only Ching-Hua puts up anything resembling a fight and even then it's not much. The two smug "masters" (even our "hero") are both arrogant assholes, with only veteran Lieh Lo getting to make much of an impression as he camps it up in crazy mode. He, Chu and Chen would all be reunited for the HK / Thai co-production <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/04/nao-mo-1983.html" target="_blank">THE BLACK MAGIC WITH BUDDHA</a></b> (1983), the following year, which was also directed by Lo.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEimEql4H8mug_HOjnTczi_V-WktCwdkfFH3ZB-nMgIt4y5gFd79xIcKlR6jHRCuBbG50iMOSpaveyeoEBb8PhliVx0upyEo-4ahzC5dV9773_m2Dc4Ff2Rn86Km9zYTMsVBunDurGMx-xpr9WEHa_1XaVSGm6aag8o_uS3sJpW-vYb18rRW3pcT3Ex9aO/s543/humanlant2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="543" data-original-width="366" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEimEql4H8mug_HOjnTczi_V-WktCwdkfFH3ZB-nMgIt4y5gFd79xIcKlR6jHRCuBbG50iMOSpaveyeoEBb8PhliVx0upyEo-4ahzC5dV9773_m2Dc4Ff2Rn86Km9zYTMsVBunDurGMx-xpr9WEHa_1XaVSGm6aag8o_uS3sJpW-vYb18rRW3pcT3Ex9aO/s320/humanlant2.jpg" width="216" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eoxo0SGEvfAa5emkmCOp3UgrwSGFiIeA2rYoCVBGhbgpDnx30-N9ODQCpmv907EvKqcVVg-vSC9JF8vF1Xbjpse2vBQn1IXcnW1lY2xe89UkGbhu262rrbJCh7DVCtTrTVYU4oBV1SsZNZT26zHEFzAs12tnLH8atOMKy04c6zDL8n8qcTtqkY5wvCzQ/s922/humanlant8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="922" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6eoxo0SGEvfAa5emkmCOp3UgrwSGFiIeA2rYoCVBGhbgpDnx30-N9ODQCpmv907EvKqcVVg-vSC9JF8vF1Xbjpse2vBQn1IXcnW1lY2xe89UkGbhu262rrbJCh7DVCtTrTVYU4oBV1SsZNZT26zHEFzAs12tnLH8atOMKy04c6zDL8n8qcTtqkY5wvCzQ/s320/humanlant8.jpg" width="208" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The cast also includes brief appearances by <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Teresa Ha Ping</span></b> (brothel madam), <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lao Shen</span></b> (innkeeper), <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Susan Yam-Yam Shaw</span></b> and <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Fei Ai</span></b> (<b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/11/xie-zhou-1982.html" target="_blank">CURSE OF EVIL</a></b>) (banquet guests) and many other regulars in other Shaw productions. The director mostly worked in the realm of action / martial arts but also made a few other genre films like <i>The Devil's Mirror</i> (1972), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2022/12/ren-she-shu-1977.html" target="_blank">FANGS OF THE COBRA</a></b> (1977) and <i>Revenge of the Dead</i> (1981).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RO3BxX8NPu5vxGeo93LXbfTjUX4GPtgOhueG2N-58RDkNQdZTseWC5q5rCRi3zLev30eX20JOg9uhuLR0xAsbXwbTL2wPLSVCqiz0EA5EvIVmiYbWfrEVJh3MAIidQZqBlB3G-P9Z_1EMWdmT1OxnGY-5I9heeMYrxpNcacZgG4BGbXWIQtGMiQZerUf/s773/humanlant3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="773" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6RO3BxX8NPu5vxGeo93LXbfTjUX4GPtgOhueG2N-58RDkNQdZTseWC5q5rCRi3zLev30eX20JOg9uhuLR0xAsbXwbTL2wPLSVCqiz0EA5EvIVmiYbWfrEVJh3MAIidQZqBlB3G-P9Z_1EMWdmT1OxnGY-5I9heeMYrxpNcacZgG4BGbXWIQtGMiQZerUf/s320/humanlant3.jpg" width="248" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIwGXw0bs-JBDOSUctIt395GidLSxBJisLyO-HAMOe65IdPIRQGHx1qXk62s-3S16y3Q6SBQc-SkPourAXL1r4WkvoYP1RKuQQbPcCaAukpFG65KI0iJNapz1SGiWhTPRXwpKGX-7ArihP-ur8I51Hya_m8v9z5oky_tdeCPjersMmRf2OMoc5Q9FX_Ne/s896/humanlant4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="896" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnIwGXw0bs-JBDOSUctIt395GidLSxBJisLyO-HAMOe65IdPIRQGHx1qXk62s-3S16y3Q6SBQc-SkPourAXL1r4WkvoYP1RKuQQbPcCaAukpFG65KI0iJNapz1SGiWhTPRXwpKGX-7ArihP-ur8I51Hya_m8v9z5oky_tdeCPjersMmRf2OMoc5Q9FX_Ne/s320/humanlant4.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This wasn't widely available here in America until an English-subtitled DVD was released by Celestial in the early 2000s. The film was re-released numerous times on the same label and one of the releases came with a 58-page guide to Shaw Brothers films from Total Film. In 2022, there was a Blu-ray release from 88 Films, which comes with a commentary track, interviews with Chu and Shaw, a profile on male star Liu and other extras.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-86498783054025018022023-10-14T19:34:00.000-04:002023-10-14T19:34:33.297-04:00Errand, The (1980) [short]<b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrzdYuBG6m0oZUmBgBpNBE4yOjCofNXZbEvzbjWa5DYob8IThbPgdRBvWXlmViuT5nBIQQbbCsUVc5LnK0zF3WJMdl2L8OEKX-HVrRyugnP3zWZ7iL1juiXNv9q8WRAg90tf1xnOQCABZD534x-MQjX1-_pNXdylunDZbVw9jb2JovDh6RiEJktg0bmi2/s590/errand34.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="376" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghrzdYuBG6m0oZUmBgBpNBE4yOjCofNXZbEvzbjWa5DYob8IThbPgdRBvWXlmViuT5nBIQQbbCsUVc5LnK0zF3WJMdl2L8OEKX-HVrRyugnP3zWZ7iL1juiXNv9q8WRAg90tf1xnOQCABZD534x-MQjX1-_pNXdylunDZbVw9jb2JovDh6RiEJktg0bmi2/s320/errand34.jpg" width="204" /></a></div>Directed by:</b><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Nigel Finch</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At some gated top secret military post, Captain Garrett (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Edward Kalinski</span></b>, who was apparently dubbed by Andy Milligan movie regular <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Berwick Kaler</span></b>) is tapped for a special assignment. A warrant officer tells him he's just going "out for a spin," while his superior (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Peter Howell</span></b>) informs him that it's "little more than an errand." Nothing to get all worked up over. He's to drive into the country and retrieve some papers and then return. Simple as that. After arriving at his destination, a crumbling old home out in the middle of a wheat field, he meets up with a suspicious-acting female contact (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Philomena McDonagh</span></b>), retrieves an envelope and starts to head back to his Land Rover. Immediately after realizing someone has tampered with his vehicle, a man with his face painted black (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Brian Attree</span></b>) jumps out of the backseat and starts garroting him with a wire. Garrett is able to temporarily distract the attacker with a wrench blow to the head but as soon as he exits the jeep, the woman contact shows up and starts attacking him with a knife, landing a few good stabs to his midsection. The terrified and confused Captain then takes off running down the road with his assailants in hot pursuit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfaWfgPgnIOBhpr-r1GNf2WDaxgCRMTy04-CJaUprh3ZwFbdnc4MzT13sIzOHktjfPMWnbARDl3BK3dPTkHO1PDuVkHRKXFT-Y3fp0x7u7B2siCweCaNSYWDnmj8R9N8NB_L2h1CC4G3AIdCwOEQZEE8bYa3hhJOp-E8YGMsuaXYEvJsdjzUcEK1Tl_6_/s1011/errand2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="694" data-original-width="1011" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipfaWfgPgnIOBhpr-r1GNf2WDaxgCRMTy04-CJaUprh3ZwFbdnc4MzT13sIzOHktjfPMWnbARDl3BK3dPTkHO1PDuVkHRKXFT-Y3fp0x7u7B2siCweCaNSYWDnmj8R9N8NB_L2h1CC4G3AIdCwOEQZEE8bYa3hhJOp-E8YGMsuaXYEvJsdjzUcEK1Tl_6_/s320/errand2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ56yc28Q3mVS11rp_9vesxdKiU11kSrtHwIJzTJTGgeEt7E_9lOrN8YRW9MwA7MdA4JWO5LFuTJDMny9IZDtvuWMNEMTX_G1CZhb9aiGvT1LkwDJDYu-vHcaTfv6fESx3q3X_-GLdyJpv95JoD3eJWDiCODlYcRgvUQ5lbvUP1z-Lro1Gbf7Jqk2xmitP/s987/errand3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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He's also without transportation as the assassins circled back around and stole his jeep after they were unable to locate him. A weakened Garrett ends up falling over by a road. An old man riding a bicycle spots him and crouches down, as if to administer some help. Nope! He steals Garrett's watch and raids his pockets instead. Mustering up just enough strength to drag himself to a nearby farmhouse, he's met with a mixed response from Maurice (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ray Roberts</span></b>) and Sarah (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dorothy Alison</span></b>) Clemens, the elderly couple who live there. While she insists they "get rid of him" and suggest they "take him down to the road and dump him," Maurice refuses to mistreat a dying man.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Refusing to involve herself in the situation due to a similar bizarre occurrence she and her husband observed earlier, Sarah jumps in her car and takes off, leaving Maurice without a vehicle. He instead promises to go retrieve help by foot, but just as he's preparing to go Sarah returns with Lieutenant Barnard (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Timothy Morand</span></b>), who claims he and his men have been out looking for the fallen soldier. 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This was written by self-described "prolific hack writer" <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">David McGillivray</span></b>, who not only has a fine sense of humor but is also well known to us classic horror lovers for writing some of Pete Walker's best films, like <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2012/06/frightmare-1974.html" target="_blank">FRIGHTMARE</a></b> (1974), <i>House of Whipcord</i> (1975) and <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2012/06/confessional-1975.html" target="_blank">THE CONFESSIONAL</a></b> / <i>House of Mortal Sin</i> (1976). McGillivray was also one of the executive producers.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Director Finch's most lasting work would be as a producer on Jennie Livingston's documentary <i>Paris Is Burning</i> (1990), which chronicles the New York City drag subculture, was met with widespread critical acclaim and a boatload of awards and was selected as important and culturally relevant enough to be preserved in the National Film Registry in 2016. He also made a <i>Stonewall</i> (1995), a dramatization of the events leading up to the Stonewall riots which sparked the gay rights social movement. 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It's recently been remastered and given a second chance at life as the ninth and final short included in BFI's 2 disc "Shock Sharp Shocks" Blu-ray collection. Preceding it on the set are <i>Lock Your Door</i> (1949), <i>The Reformation of St. Jules</i> (1949), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/09/tell-tale-heart-1953.html" target="_blank">THE TELL-TALE HEART</a></b> (1953), <i>Death Was a Passenger</i> (1959) and <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/09/portrait-of-matador-1958-short.html" target="_blank">PORTRAIT OF A MATADOR</a></b> (1959) on disc 1, and <i>Twenty-Nine</i> (1969), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/10/sex-victims-1973-short.html" target="_blank">THE SEX VICTIMS</a></b> (1973) and <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/10/lake-1978-short.html" target="_blank">THE LAKE</a></b> (1978) on disc 2. Even though this one isn't bad, <i>The Lake</i> is the only short from the set that I'd consider mandatory viewing for horror buffs. Of special interest in the special features is <i>A Crazy, Mixed-Up Kid</i>, a great 43-minute interview with McGillivray. This is also given script and short story galleries.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BFI followed their first set with a second: "Short Sharp Shocks: Vol. 2" in 2021. It includes the shorts <i>Quiz Crime No.1</i> (1943), <i>Quiz Crime No.2</i> (1944), <i>The Three Children</i> (1946), <i>Escape from Broadmoor</i> (1948), <i>Mingaloo</i> (1958), <i>Jack the Ripper with Screaming – Lord Sutch</i> (1961), <i>The Face of Darkness</i> (1976), <i>Hangman</i> (1985), <i>The Mark of Lilith</i> (1986) and one I'd already seen and reviewed here prior to that release: <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2016/11/dumb-waiter-1979.html" target="_blank">THE DUMB WAITER</a></b> (1979), which I'm sure looks a hell of a lot better than the copy I ended up viewing!</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-9764666588858289782023-10-14T11:53:00.002-04:002024-02-10T16:47:26.317-05:00Lake, The (1978) [short]<b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhljE2R-ufnOSCr2bRTJI71WpGCTqxAj9exFet8j-AAj7d3aN8FOjeHqwrDxlTeYGnxfdtjp0LoKDcqXuOUO0xT5hyphenhyphen4AkVnPkaxC9btLt1ThpokiKvLVxoRgZeKsPvt-xs8FA6fNKbzWFT2oR0ZrkRo2vAtUb5xZ-GIK4L1nEtGc-CrjvoUCKoi1Tw-gEob/s804/lake7839.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="520" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhljE2R-ufnOSCr2bRTJI71WpGCTqxAj9exFet8j-AAj7d3aN8FOjeHqwrDxlTeYGnxfdtjp0LoKDcqXuOUO0xT5hyphenhyphen4AkVnPkaxC9btLt1ThpokiKvLVxoRgZeKsPvt-xs8FA6fNKbzWFT2oR0ZrkRo2vAtUb5xZ-GIK4L1nEtGc-CrjvoUCKoi1Tw-gEob/s320/lake7839.jpg" width="207" /></a></div>Directed by:</b><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lindsey C. Vickers</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Prowling around a deserted farmhouse, both inside and out, the camera captures shattered glass, dead bugs and birds, old newspapers, children's drawings, a birthday card, empty jars and cans and miscellaneous pieces of wood and plastic that used to be furniture and toys; all remnants of a families former life. Most of these things, once prized, beloved and / or useful possessions, have been reduced to little more than debris ready for a landfill. A yard that was once kept is now overgrown, with rusted out farm equipment almost lost within the weeds. A barn that was once used for cattle is now is disrepair and barely standing upright. Accompanying these images are faint sounds of parents and children, a strong wind and creaking wood, along with a light piano melody as it finally closes on a cracked, sideways black-and-white photo of a family of four. A father. A mother. A son. A daughter. As the camera closes in on the father and an ominous note hits on the soundtrack, we notice the father is missing one of his fingers.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This opening scene is both genuinely chilling and well shot, and the good news is that the rest of this 33 minute short is able to sustain the creep factor and the clever cinematography... and thank God for that! By the time I reached this, the eighth of nine shorts contained on BFI's box set "Shock Sharp Shocks," I'd pretty much given up hope of seeing much of anything worthwhile, but this turned out to be a real gem on this set. The ONLY real gem thus far, though I still have one more - Nigel Finch's <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/10/errand-1980-short.html" target="_blank">THE ERRAND</a></b> (1980) - to go!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPF1gOVRpEor8MZyrrutj2aNUjxMdiLoaW6w-vXUw1mgvr1V5urIzqf6_HbAGUHwR9i_SXgI00qsnB-Z7u9sxsVI8Td7ydwK4W1A9sxP_kSgBuXEdowOqMPXPtg2JcE4CyFtgUE_l3XhvOqLSY4QuhWYVMXqT9WUUAjfKcl_gGS0pKE3K6k8PjGok63Kj8/s986/lake781.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="986" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPF1gOVRpEor8MZyrrutj2aNUjxMdiLoaW6w-vXUw1mgvr1V5urIzqf6_HbAGUHwR9i_SXgI00qsnB-Z7u9sxsVI8Td7ydwK4W1A9sxP_kSgBuXEdowOqMPXPtg2JcE4CyFtgUE_l3XhvOqLSY4QuhWYVMXqT9WUUAjfKcl_gGS0pKE3K6k8PjGok63Kj8/s320/lake781.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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We learn that three years earlier, the father in the photo may have killed his entire family, all of their pets and their livestock. No one is quite sure because he vanished immediately after the murders and hasn't been seen since. Perhaps he was a victim as well and the killer hid his body. Perhaps he killed them himself and then fled the area. Perhaps he killed them himself and <i>is still in</i> the area waiting for some people to come snooping around...</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The bank, now in possession of the property, has had an impossible time trying to unload it onto someone. None of the locals are willing to buy it and it's sat vacant and in a slow state of deterioration ever since. After a brief tour of the notorious murder site, Tony, Barbara and their Rottweiler, Condor, travel down the road a piece to a lake to have a picnic, but something that started stalking them around the home has followed them there.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXb0jIewkxi-yunFLKhjpTSnE6nuQTtPsd9sYYwAn5s74vrm-Y6UvCq4ASnEgfljpCUGClu9tD400zBBRXszwlSaUISN1xjDp-b_SMhWVHKlexT-kh_5XnR9aZUKgHJZJcZqPvITJNW66LKi65Cyu5CjQy-S6Bb4O1n1Bu7jA__5jAAPAq2VXfmYmEom4F/s985/lake7819.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="678" data-original-width="985" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXb0jIewkxi-yunFLKhjpTSnE6nuQTtPsd9sYYwAn5s74vrm-Y6UvCq4ASnEgfljpCUGClu9tD400zBBRXszwlSaUISN1xjDp-b_SMhWVHKlexT-kh_5XnR9aZUKgHJZJcZqPvITJNW66LKi65Cyu5CjQy-S6Bb4O1n1Bu7jA__5jAAPAq2VXfmYmEom4F/s320/lake7819.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This is filled with creepy POV camera shots stalking about in the woods spying on the couple, much of it reminiscent of the same type of camerawork later used in Sam Raimi's breakthrough hit <i>The Evil Dead</i> (1981), though, unlike that film, this is entirely set during the day and is more ambiguous about its threat. The actors are good (the female lead is also given an 18-minute interview as an extra on this set), and it's well directed, scored and edited, but perhaps this film's greatest attribute of all is the incredibly unnerving, distorted sound design full of strange noises, fuzz, echoes, bird-like calls, synths, hushed voices and heavy breathing. While I wasn't terribly fond of the annoyingly inconclusive ending, everything leading up to it is pretty great.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Despite showing all of the promise in the world with this, the director went on to make just one feature: <i>The Appointment</i> (1981), starring Edward Woodward. Back in the early 80s, it was met with indifferent reviews and distribution problems before being unceremoniously dumped onto the home video market in 1982, where it was quickly forgotten. Since then it's developed something of a following and, based on the strength of this one, expect a review for it here sooner rather than later.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0IQzWRAtmRvocpnBZMW88EjsK5drNsF1gsVHQovS3TScAlx1Il83r7kSG5XYlsCSzDy_0L0IEXGerBZ2NEFps7hGgWftgu7MOlJGN1CJjnybmXPhFKVaDRgfYOAUYn7Bt4SyzhDit31uynNhFw8kfstF9bF6FW01-dQlpkf2I3qlF2Mkvf09585xhjXH/s986/lake7815.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="686" data-original-width="986" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA0IQzWRAtmRvocpnBZMW88EjsK5drNsF1gsVHQovS3TScAlx1Il83r7kSG5XYlsCSzDy_0L0IEXGerBZ2NEFps7hGgWftgu7MOlJGN1CJjnybmXPhFKVaDRgfYOAUYn7Bt4SyzhDit31uynNhFw8kfstF9bF6FW01-dQlpkf2I3qlF2Mkvf09585xhjXH/s320/lake7815.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF-q17UB7TZYq3gxenZUZnnkSq2DqMynxFe8BG2cPCtcGf9XYVExL0_rQBNW6PnQzPcEcpNzDMpSLwrfOjoU38JrNKX4d9Qq_a4qB8LpoYxfXXLlPaJqGdFLtVRizDaNDi4XytSoVyhDoaQaCtA2BjgQ1LDH-Nm3KKy5nC66zvaUqo-g8ZQmnCVaD3KoxZ/s987/lake7811.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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That sure as hell beats the 30 minutes of trailers for the 50 super hero movies coming out next month that we get nowadays!</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The other genre shorts on the first BFI set (there are two volumes thus far) include <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/09/tell-tale-heart-1953.html" target="_blank">THE TELL-TALE HEART</a> </b>(1953), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/09/portrait-of-matador-1958-short.html" target="_blank">PORTRAIT OF A MATADOR</a></b> (1958) and <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/10/sex-victims-1973-short.html" target="_blank">THE SEX VICTIMS</a></b> (1973).</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-3972673022406443882023-10-13T20:30:00.006-04:002024-02-10T16:57:18.298-05:00Sex Victims, The (1973) [short]<div><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTO4xt57m8Rne6HiVRhSIegF-zknLhfUWNNhVpjKM6u9Ipc7_cHfB3L1vKz-hGaRAKLmoUQe9mabXsS2P9CWPhX-wGkrsY0eV4QqNiItiMZeoWnO7uVCwf1-gZuR8powNTqMhKVx0R4MEcQxVyl8j3p3u74fzK6_admZzAiATwacGJgo1AgHP8DePzs68/s636/sexvictims40.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="396" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMTO4xt57m8Rne6HiVRhSIegF-zknLhfUWNNhVpjKM6u9Ipc7_cHfB3L1vKz-hGaRAKLmoUQe9mabXsS2P9CWPhX-wGkrsY0eV4QqNiItiMZeoWnO7uVCwf1-gZuR8powNTqMhKVx0R4MEcQxVyl8j3p3u74fzK6_admZzAiATwacGJgo1AgHP8DePzs68/s320/sexvictims40.jpg" width="199" /></a></div>Directed by:</b></span></div><div><span style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Derek Robbins</span></b></span></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since I've been sitting on this set for awhile now, let's go ahead and start wrapping up BFI's "Short Sharp Shocks" Blu-ray today. We're now on disc 2 of this collection of nine previously difficult-to-find British short subjects, which thus far have been neither sharp nor shocking, though they are short. If you'd like to start at the very beginning of my journey up 'til now, please hop over to my review of <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/09/tell-tale-heart-1953.html" target="_blank">THE TELL-TALE HEART</a></b> (1953) and follow the link-crumbs until you get back here. Otherwise, let's get started!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Like with the first disc, not all of these are horror or within our timeline here and thus won't be covered in any great detail. <i>Twenty-Nine</i> (1969), which opens this second disc, is one such short. French-Canadian Alexis Kanner, who had a sporadic though interesting acting career and also directed a few films, stars as Graham Baird, an extremely arrogant jag-off on the verge of turning 30 who still has a lot of growing up to do. Despite having a wife (Justine Lord) and kids at home, he spends most of his free time "at the office" i.e. going to bars and picking up young women. After one such bender leading to a blackout, he wakes up 16 hours later in a strange apartment. There's a mysterious message written in lipstick on the bathroom mirror and he's wearing someone else's clothing. As he tries to piece together the events of the previous evening, he begins to suspect that he may have been involved in a murder. This hinges most of its confusing narrative on a twist ending, which is merely OK. It's much more interesting as a little snapshot of Swingin' London at the time and, though mediocre, comes off looking like a masterpiece compared to the next short...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR7g6PynDjqpGEcFhx5pd49zW2cyX4RwnV-S3H-FGmkO2E4Emhglc5vVynXPix_eun9X6GW_1b7o3Mhpebi7TY-NcOncl9BQXq7LaEFcdbax-94NsYRlvdc5vD4nzGfdoK1VtJE51CPHUL4PtP4ce8BiiGe4h3XnyQJ_6JR4-Hp-wA2OmFnBrbJS6tAgjA/s967/sexvictims3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="967" height="228" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhR7g6PynDjqpGEcFhx5pd49zW2cyX4RwnV-S3H-FGmkO2E4Emhglc5vVynXPix_eun9X6GW_1b7o3Mhpebi7TY-NcOncl9BQXq7LaEFcdbax-94NsYRlvdc5vD4nzGfdoK1VtJE51CPHUL4PtP4ce8BiiGe4h3XnyQJ_6JR4-Hp-wA2OmFnBrbJS6tAgjA/s320/sexvictims3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The man in question gets filed away for the time being as we then meet degenerate Jack Piper (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Ben Howard</span></b>), a Ryder truck driver who likes to liven up his boring route by occasionally picking up young female hitchhikers and having his way with them, whether they want to or not. After he fails to lure a short-skirted brunette into his truck, he starts driving down a country road and spots a blue-eyed blonde (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Felicity Devonshire</span></b>) horseback riding completely nude; a sight so shocking it sends him right off the road! He pulls over to scream at her ("What do you think you're doing, you stupid bitch, riding around starkers!") but will return to the same spot like the Pavlovian dog he is hoping for a second look. A strange old tramp stops by long enough to make a comment about "bird watching" and then mysteriously disappears soon after.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfinEw31pa_GvhsDIy6IAULDKSafGoxv_9P9JwNqmNmyhKAXIvz2HhsXB6IwoE_uccFqelFXzvTgU2wwz9nWBu7zClSa31rdJsv1ubxbnepnVimmW_d2myFG98CXEPt4foWtzzuBIssE8YB6B0n6-iZXx0J-o8OXWxeNz41ukbh8mFk0fAoLZGMwgoJctC/s961/sexvictims10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="961" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfinEw31pa_GvhsDIy6IAULDKSafGoxv_9P9JwNqmNmyhKAXIvz2HhsXB6IwoE_uccFqelFXzvTgU2wwz9nWBu7zClSa31rdJsv1ubxbnepnVimmW_d2myFG98CXEPt4foWtzzuBIssE8YB6B0n6-iZXx0J-o8OXWxeNz41ukbh8mFk0fAoLZGMwgoJctC/s320/sexvictims10.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3cvdSAA7PQ3r8GhOAWuirA2qsdWOPILk-1wIvdnjZyNyEGxe3fCtyK0iHKRgayeqezKucLqh6Scd5hpKZjlD5IinNpBa_cLZHWqQOF6We9IgvhKk4eI_dstxvPwAcvHgB5HEqdxDLPvJWH9DYR7bUdWbWLrD7iO6UP2RxVaUNFrpyz58QZJQOApNkg5qT/s961/sexvictims7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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Despite his weird and salacious behavior (like basically jerking off her riding crop - sorry, <i>riding stick</i> - right in front of her!), she agrees to let him saddle up one of her horses and go for a ride. Naturally, he's after the Godiva blonde first and foremost and finally runs across her, only this time she's actually wearing clothes! Well, if an ill-fitting bra that keeps falling down, low ridin' lace panties, high heels and a short, sheer blue nightie count as clothes.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After Jack feigns being unconscious from getting knocked off his horse, Lady G (who is never given an actual name) dismounts and walks over to help him. He then grabs her, gropes her, chases her through the woods and then chases her through a large abandoned factory and then chases her through the woods some more until he finally catches up to her. Finally caught, she curiously has consensual sex with the predator and then tells him she wants him to bring along his friend, whom she claims to have actually been trying to seduce by riding naked, next time. The friend? George (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Alun Armstrong</span></b>), the weirdo from the opening sequence who emerged from the woods after presumably attacking a girl. 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzUlMuxW4_MEINXizrllp64hm1x78aUj8dCnXQEY6wrtysYguh9dDzJvzJ7Ge4kBQ8XfLbFF2KxHyHKAiiUu8kEAhBl0ZPgZa2xudVGaqcZvlWsQk5IkoWgC9rda87II1RAz8N75sG2ZS-XP0JmZUtdDlc6Qyg-oLABWxiXsygYg7tJNOsKl_C9q3KQk2/s959/sexvictims29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="959" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWzUlMuxW4_MEINXizrllp64hm1x78aUj8dCnXQEY6wrtysYguh9dDzJvzJ7Ge4kBQ8XfLbFF2KxHyHKAiiUu8kEAhBl0ZPgZa2xudVGaqcZvlWsQk5IkoWgC9rda87II1RAz8N75sG2ZS-XP0JmZUtdDlc6Qyg-oLABWxiXsygYg7tJNOsKl_C9q3KQk2/s320/sexvictims29.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The running time is just 37 minutes, but it's a very long 37 minutes filled with endless horseback riding and running around. The editing and photography are both poor and the extremely thin plot doesn't seem fully formed. I suspect this may have been intended to be a full feature at some point and it either wasn't finished or they padded it out as much as they could and still came up short. Either way, after this was finally cobbled together it was used as a support feature to a number of soft sex films released in the UK, such as <i>She Should Have Stayed in Bed</i>, a re-title of some French sex film starring Sandra Julien.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBM3mNIhoKAV5wx6arb4frJHADrIDpRtfzKXWI5wc3GRXsYKQWfDwQ_6398N8IeLIxELAj3avVq1ixh5dwOGNHjdt-eMmPUw-qNN4D4owL7JGfsgVnEfBg0HB0X8V-0fBt1ELSqS7czYXK38MY-duAVVzUgBpx5HDls6fT2CsraS3oO4VP2mOKefr3FSlj/s577/sexvictims2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="577" height="310" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBM3mNIhoKAV5wx6arb4frJHADrIDpRtfzKXWI5wc3GRXsYKQWfDwQ_6398N8IeLIxELAj3avVq1ixh5dwOGNHjdt-eMmPUw-qNN4D4owL7JGfsgVnEfBg0HB0X8V-0fBt1ELSqS7czYXK38MY-duAVVzUgBpx5HDls6fT2CsraS3oO4VP2mOKefr3FSlj/w417-h310/sexvictims2.jpg" width="417" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Both male stars would go on to other things (Armstrong even graduated to award winning stage roles and big budget Hollywood films), but the real reason this thing even exists is to showcase former Page 3 girl, model and soft-core star Devonshire, who spends much of her screen time naked. Though not much of an actress, Devonshire would at least rack up a few interesting credits, like Ken Russell's <i>Lisztomania</i> (1975), the artificial insemination exploiter <i>Whose Child Am I?</i> (1975) and the Italian production <i>Teenage Emanuelle</i> (1976), before throwing in the towel on her acting career at the end of the decade. Though she actually gets to keep all of her clothes on, Cardew was also a sex comedy regular who'd previously appeared alongside Devonshire in several films, like Pete Walker's <i>Four Dimensions of Greta</i> (1972).</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The director only made one other film; <i>Sextet</i> (1976), not to be confused with the Mae West vehicle <i>Sextette</i> from the following year. Next up on <i>Short Shocks</i> is the ghost story <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2023/10/lake-1978-short.html" target="_blank">THE LAKE</a></b> (1979), which I hope to God is going to finally redeem this set because it's been a disappointing trip thus far.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-31185288052181777152023-10-09T21:22:00.002-04:002024-02-10T12:14:53.582-05:00Serbuan Halilintar (1982)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNs2fqK7fRxv80iWX2HmARhy-WIcZNzNUwa9jlG7KX66XnVDqXtuIU5iQhw7ufdOqaV2B2JhJqZD7ygOxpW_i3bGB_pdww2vAbYqAEtlXD_gnD6QLUpxta3FvKQyDujMAoKSjDQjSHYqNHFI-w7c87jFhEJo2MpVM8oDp5uVvZ3AiqV8Ze0I9RlI9P8nN2/s493/specialsilencers3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="323" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNs2fqK7fRxv80iWX2HmARhy-WIcZNzNUwa9jlG7KX66XnVDqXtuIU5iQhw7ufdOqaV2B2JhJqZD7ygOxpW_i3bGB_pdww2vAbYqAEtlXD_gnD6QLUpxta3FvKQyDujMAoKSjDQjSHYqNHFI-w7c87jFhEJo2MpVM8oDp5uVvZ3AiqV8Ze0I9RlI9P8nN2/s320/specialsilencers3.jpg" width="210" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Batas Impian Serbuan Halilintar</i><div>... aka: <i>Lightning Strike</i><br /><div>... aka: <i>Special Silencers</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Thunderbolt Invasion</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Arizal</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When I first did a brief capsule review for this title back in 2009, I noted, "...this seems like something Mondo Macabro might be interested in releasing." Now here we are well over a decade later and, lo and behold, Mondo Macabro will finally be releasing <i>Special Silencers</i> on Blu-ray here in just a few weeks! It will join their slowly growing catalogue of Indonesian titles that currently also includes <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2020/08/ratu-ilmu-hitam-1981.html" target="_blank">QUEEN OF BLACK MAGIC</a></b> (1981), <i>Mystics in Bali</i> (1981), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2018/06/jaka-sembung-1981.html" target="_blank">THE WARRIOR</a></b> (1981), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2020/08/golok-setan-1984.html" target="_blank">THE DEVIL'S SWORD</a></b> (1984), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2022/05/perawan-di-sarang-sindikat-1986.html" target="_blank">VIRGINS FROM HELL</a></b> (1986), <b><a href="https://thebloodypitofhorror.blogspot.com/2013/08/pembalasan-ratu-pantai-selatan-1989.html" target="_blank">LADY TERMINATOR</a></b> (1989) and <i>Dangerous Seductress</i> (1992). Though a poor-quality English-dubbed VHS copy (sourced from an old Dutch tape) has been available for quite some time now online and on torrent sites, Mondo's Blu-ray will be the film's very first official U.S. release.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Evil, power-mad Gundar (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">W.D. Mochtar</span></b>) is willing to do whatever it takes, even abstaining from sex to "purify" his soul and murdering whoever gets in his way, to become the head of the village of Kulon. Problem is, that role is already occupied by the wealthy and well-liked Hamid (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Darussalam</span></b>), who plans on soon passing the torch off to one of his relatives... and there are plenty of them in line! Included are his brother, Harun (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Malino Djunaedy</span></b>), his daughter, Yulia (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Eva Arnaz</span></b>), and his beloved nephew, Dayat (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Herman Pero</span></b>), whom he has raised as his own since he was a young boy. In order to destroy that family dynasty and seize control, Gundar has hatched a plan using some magical pink "Pati seeds" he's acquired. 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If one has a pure heart and is spiritually centered, like the monks are, they can be used to make the person who possesses them invincible to weapons and sharp objects. However, if they're slipped into an unsuspecting Regular Joe's food or drink, or if someone rotten eats one, there's another complication - a rapidly-growing tree begins sprouting in their stomach, ripping them apart! Gundar lost a limb in the process of stealing them when gramps hacked his leg off with a machete, but he's hoping it was all worth it.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gundar's equally depraved right hand man, Gumilar (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Dicky Zulkarnaen</span></b>), has already managed to infiltrate Hamid's inner circle by landing a job working as his clerk, which enables him to slip a seed into Hamid's coffee. 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Riding into town on his motorcycle at around the same time is Hendar (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Barry Prima</span></b>), a former classmate of the nephew. When he stops to help them, he and Yulia are instantly smitten with one another, just as Prima and Arnaz are instantly smitten with one another in nearly every other film they appeared together in, just as the two were smitten with each other in real life since they'd eventually marry, though smitten isn't always a permanent condition, so the two would eventually divorce. Stranded while waiting for a bridge to be repaired and waiting for Hendar to retrieve help, Yulia and Harun have their attempt at a peaceful picnic ruined when Gumilar shows up and sneaks seeds into their chow when nobody's looking. Harun ends up eating them with the expected results.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Most of the rest of the film is wall-to-wall action, with our heroes barely having the time to catch their breath before they're jumping into their next fight scene, usually against Gundar's seemingly never-ending stockpile of thugs. Though the editing and choreography is uneven, these scenes are still very entertaining, elaborately staged and fun to watch, featuring lots of high kicks, punches, flips, various martial arts moves (Prima himself has a background in tae kwan do) and incorporating spears, logs, pipes, nets, swords, sickles, axes and other props for a little variety. One of the most memorable scenes finds Prima fighting off the bad guys while on top of, and underneath, a moving truck as they attempt to stab him through the cover tarp with a machete!</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeuDglNnbc_8LcPhuF75TnBV2swShxw-WmxTmS7s9BGJLZV7z0mGaEa4v3boLQ58IbArKAHVYia3OZUeEiVu_w2XY1am6eIrrmQvBTKHvZslBTH8FaC3FtFgb3UxJ2_6hEj1rOCUugV5huYJtnMYlW_k3uzunZaJjilbu2OocFRw9C1buCF69JphyIGn2/s853/specialsilencers22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="853" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOeuDglNnbc_8LcPhuF75TnBV2swShxw-WmxTmS7s9BGJLZV7z0mGaEa4v3boLQ58IbArKAHVYia3OZUeEiVu_w2XY1am6eIrrmQvBTKHvZslBTH8FaC3FtFgb3UxJ2_6hEj1rOCUugV5huYJtnMYlW_k3uzunZaJjilbu2OocFRw9C1buCF69JphyIGn2/w400-h168/specialsilencers22.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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The scenes featuring the seeds at work, with branches popping out of stomachs and mouths accompanied by large quantities of gushing blood are memorable, and the special effects themselves are surprisingly good, especially for an older Indonesian film. We also get impalements, eye gougings, hacked off limbs, animal attacks, a very catchy synth score from <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Gatot Sudarto</span></b> and lots of other goodies.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8G_tpb2pK_-kBR0c9QfyiJumzJrwVavRb4oaBeuVkRoqz82JZ4CC75J9IxgM_m_pXS5-UoUFSIpgcmSsPSCV-W6Tza_dSbSMwawepakQ0LxQ0KrSyJP-6lO0onIS3-W37bjCFmm8Wx9Ea4BJwzzjwMpORtsJEC860WH92T3aywica-9WPF6SfWk3PYc-D/s854/specialsilencers55.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="359" data-original-width="854" height="169" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8G_tpb2pK_-kBR0c9QfyiJumzJrwVavRb4oaBeuVkRoqz82JZ4CC75J9IxgM_m_pXS5-UoUFSIpgcmSsPSCV-W6Tza_dSbSMwawepakQ0LxQ0KrSyJP-6lO0onIS3-W37bjCFmm8Wx9Ea4BJwzzjwMpORtsJEC860WH92T3aywica-9WPF6SfWk3PYc-D/w400-h169/specialsilencers55.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Both are a joy to watch and seem to be having a ball playing sleazy, evil assholes who takes great pride in all of their heinous deeds! Zulkarnaen (also great in the aforementioned <i>Virgins from Hell</i>) especially seems to be having fun as he rapes a virginal fisherman's daughter (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Enny Beatrice</span></b>) and then laughs in her face, causing her to commit suicide, and then climbs a tree and dumps a bag of poisonous snakes over a rival's head as he rides by on a bicycle. Both he and Mochtar also get to oversee the memorable finale where they torture our heroes with snakes, rats, whipping, bear traps, stinky shoes (!) and even a giant saw blade. The cast also includes Indo genre regulars <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Eddy S. Jonathan</span></b> as the main henchman (who smokes a lot of weed) and an uncredited <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Husin Lubis</span></b> as a healer.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibPI8x8lqRfrzuk3Bq1k2gumjz2QaQPVcA_qHm5l5uwEIXnM2VCADjPlRZfUw0r5dRE79oAEmUKJCbwIwJdfHGzHnYEDQGrnR0vJpNOnIO6p0s_Dzk0Rks5T-YE1_p62di1AN6E-OILsbxtDEs8bl3Lx4H_Sg9Cvq9Qi-RwlpaVbA_3ANoc0wkUZW0U_M/s564/specialsilencers57.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="355" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjibPI8x8lqRfrzuk3Bq1k2gumjz2QaQPVcA_qHm5l5uwEIXnM2VCADjPlRZfUw0r5dRE79oAEmUKJCbwIwJdfHGzHnYEDQGrnR0vJpNOnIO6p0s_Dzk0Rks5T-YE1_p62di1AN6E-OILsbxtDEs8bl3Lx4H_Sg9Cvq9Qi-RwlpaVbA_3ANoc0wkUZW0U_M/s320/specialsilencers57.jpg" width="201" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm0-OQmavhMi7tvOOKb8JhmjcSvTxcRXkxK65gpDcE4KuOtN5ycqP-PpTMOrxFPjLgxL4FAyHw1o5qYLPludfcv_pugdWv6wFoR89KbKx1VmtRUFq0rF-UTvGny3rlFNF4fUIkOUntk0dL7no-KxdlyuYcRJtUoEbzEXa4-yPV6iRCXRj2ltwPdWLwA2x4/s493/specialsilencers59.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="329" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm0-OQmavhMi7tvOOKb8JhmjcSvTxcRXkxK65gpDcE4KuOtN5ycqP-PpTMOrxFPjLgxL4FAyHw1o5qYLPludfcv_pugdWv6wFoR89KbKx1VmtRUFq0rF-UTvGny3rlFNF4fUIkOUntk0dL7no-KxdlyuYcRJtUoEbzEXa4-yPV6iRCXRj2ltwPdWLwA2x4/s320/specialsilencers59.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">What most have seen up to this point, the English-dubbed Dutch VHS from Delta Video, was in very poor condition, had the company logo frequently pop up on screen, had jagged editing cuts and blurred out nudity during the rape scene. What I just viewed is the restored version that was recently released in Indonesia. While this version looks a hell of a lot better than the Dutch VHS, it still has the same abrupt cuts and blurred nudity and the two releases have the same exact running time of 86 1/2 minutes. I'm not sure if the Mondo Macabro Blu will be longer, contain any new scenes or be truly uncensored, but I'll come back here and do a comparison once it hits the market. I'm also really looking forward to seeing their new box art since all of the older art for this title sucks. (Update: Added this below and it is indeed much, much better artwork as expected.)</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm59-jwva8mzO6nKP8CqbC_BFznK1BgEPsF0q9xpdVeactvmvK3ZJ8CJWYIhHskBYu7D2QmOiBzG07b1m59VO1fTtOGpwYt9OdywKyJEu8o5AM4ajcKCXmqvW4JZE8iuyTpaY6N5T5b91enY8OF4kNi5OxONdrw2bev5GI9V9EbYdjwlsh8XlmZGDxC40/s600/specialsilencers56.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="600" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicm59-jwva8mzO6nKP8CqbC_BFznK1BgEPsF0q9xpdVeactvmvK3ZJ8CJWYIhHskBYu7D2QmOiBzG07b1m59VO1fTtOGpwYt9OdywKyJEu8o5AM4ajcKCXmqvW4JZE8iuyTpaY6N5T5b91enY8OF4kNi5OxONdrw2bev5GI9V9EbYdjwlsh8XlmZGDxC40/w449-h289/specialsilencers56.jpg" width="449" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS6f0eMsxpHEBRoRjLF6qsvn7nnvPTKQEOXE6gNQvbms0Srb_ofCLgZ_RUVF9W98rK-UiZH-PNoFpJI7sw8Gf6FgGgmaA6cTAKoc92IuUtXwix4JzqqdTrS7ytzs0gwe3oFV6-4DC50N31uRpsRLF5NojNRsHQDyneeE_iVz3Hqj4b2-xSULoZuzPeUrh/s697/specialsilencers88.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="600" height="521" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiS6f0eMsxpHEBRoRjLF6qsvn7nnvPTKQEOXE6gNQvbms0Srb_ofCLgZ_RUVF9W98rK-UiZH-PNoFpJI7sw8Gf6FgGgmaA6cTAKoc92IuUtXwix4JzqqdTrS7ytzs0gwe3oFV6-4DC50N31uRpsRLF5NojNRsHQDyneeE_iVz3Hqj4b2-xSULoZuzPeUrh/w448-h521/specialsilencers88.jpg" width="448" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The release year for this is often listed as 1979, though the copyright date in the opening credits is 1982 and all Indonesian film sources also say 1982. Ironically enough, this potential error traces back to the 1997 book <i>Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema Around the World</i> written by British author Pete Tombs, who's one of the co-founders of distributor Mondo Macabro.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">* Going to add another brief note here that the actual release year for this is still not entirely known as of this writing. My hunch of 1982 comes from both the Indonesian sources and the film coinciding with the debut of a certain cast member.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5214930440884348127.post-23445530393788851262023-10-08T16:18:00.002-04:002023-10-29T20:37:21.322-04:00Psychotronic Man, The (1979)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKWyNBh4aazpQ_VL-N4sp4GezywWzqMQmus2SlItFQ-dhMJHTcsHnaXMp83Yx4TgESi9UunRJU_zgmdOfuSUEch-r0UPeyuQv01Yiqh20qTodh6z3IKMni1UWf23QPpfMQzlv6uEMK87Ahuul8UeR1dJT1VDtfSUY63HMl1EpUw-bc5in1a-PPDJ50Qd2/s480/psychotronic3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="306" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKWyNBh4aazpQ_VL-N4sp4GezywWzqMQmus2SlItFQ-dhMJHTcsHnaXMp83Yx4TgESi9UunRJU_zgmdOfuSUEch-r0UPeyuQv01Yiqh20qTodh6z3IKMni1UWf23QPpfMQzlv6uEMK87Ahuul8UeR1dJT1VDtfSUY63HMl1EpUw-bc5in1a-PPDJ50Qd2/s320/psychotronic3.jpg" width="204" /></a></div>... aka: <i>Bomberman</i><div>... aka: <i>El hombre psicotrónico</i></div><div>... aka: <i>Revenge of the Psychotronic Man</i></div><div><br /></div><div><b>Directed by:</b></div><div><b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Jack M. Sell</span></b></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'll be saying some not-so-nice things later on in this review, but let's first bask in the glory that is the opening ten minutes. After our protagonist closes down his barber shop for the night and sucks down a few swigs of whiskey, he takes a long, leisurely drive home through the country listening to terrible twangy music and continuing to down booze. First of all, he's escaping the hustle and bustle of the city (Chicago) for a more serene, slower-paced rural area. Second, this sequence is unnecessarily filmed in the most elaborate fashion imaginable. There are shots taken from inside another car looking back at the man as he drives, low angle shots as he whips through strategically-placed piles of fallen leaves on the back roads and even helicopter shots from high above trailing the man as he goes, giving us scenic shots of the natural surroundings. It's as if you can see every dream and aspiration these filmmakers had for their little film laid out right before you on the screen. They're actually - gasp! - <i>trying</i> to make a movie proper.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That's followed by some nice opening credits with shots panning around a forest looking up at ominous trees and then a borderline surreal sequence where the man pulls his car over to the side of the road to sleep, awakens later to find himself caught in a blanket of fog, tries to exit the car and then suddenly realizes his car is floating way up in the sky! Surprisingly, this sequence is also fairly well executed and atmospheric, with some neat little lighting effects and the image sometimes curiously turning green and then back to normal again.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHCd6UnVJi45-lgqnC15lPgr0FuV61YOQpfvW33DesQFBGWq9YZD1olKFp6gzMZpiVYNefbfVZvjmaFcj_I0iqVRHLZENZ1K8gfufNLvMiM4DfHmBHj8ERCM4-mmNzJXTci8NDduO0MfntWzMRSndJBLAdCwxr9hiFZHfh3Y1Lh_SuUIhqCbVzID76Q0W/s689/psychotronic2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="459" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixHCd6UnVJi45-lgqnC15lPgr0FuV61YOQpfvW33DesQFBGWq9YZD1olKFp6gzMZpiVYNefbfVZvjmaFcj_I0iqVRHLZENZ1K8gfufNLvMiM4DfHmBHj8ERCM4-mmNzJXTci8NDduO0MfntWzMRSndJBLAdCwxr9hiFZHfh3Y1Lh_SuUIhqCbVzID76Q0W/s320/psychotronic2.jpg" width="213" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlntAnpEtARve78H9PHTRuS6JGyB-FcBkPFyjUlB-v8eC2TC3DbGoNP2wuDtla_xdlmML3LQ2nytyEQ3yvf0ra1EMLKWWR_cOriu5JsqqH7MdmkfDg6OynCAKFSA8WHiM7JO1uSTF5DG4fukekHyJbFG4CBOyt_S4tq_NrWky0tntQm3TNCth-AOa-DkI/s949/psychotronic1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="949" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQlntAnpEtARve78H9PHTRuS6JGyB-FcBkPFyjUlB-v8eC2TC3DbGoNP2wuDtla_xdlmML3LQ2nytyEQ3yvf0ra1EMLKWWR_cOriu5JsqqH7MdmkfDg6OynCAKFSA8WHiM7JO1uSTF5DG4fukekHyJbFG4CBOyt_S4tq_NrWky0tntQm3TNCth-AOa-DkI/s320/psychotronic1.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">After actually engaging us right away, the filmmakers then have to go and ruin everything by failing to come up with a compelling, engaging plot and asking its cast of amateurs to actually, ya know, act. The biggest issue here though is that once the premise is established, this doesn't do a single interesting with it and proceeds to spend most of its time treading water to pad out its extremely thin story.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDYXBvd1dXWsNz4qBH2nsU8ixvwZBOVjwUthTI8ywvqb7Ykb_wN4TLHFiEinV6dW6RO6i1TDMb5Kcc_lAS5dwhFMSQjSYWiUsmm26wA6MNom0hEjrYeEMonlenaUVtTxWCUarXGo1NTwUotEXdTtvUtgW4NtUmtTWqFvcOnrcBS4ST6Hktzb2MSWngewY/s593/psychotronic9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="488" data-original-width="593" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigDYXBvd1dXWsNz4qBH2nsU8ixvwZBOVjwUthTI8ywvqb7Ykb_wN4TLHFiEinV6dW6RO6i1TDMb5Kcc_lAS5dwhFMSQjSYWiUsmm26wA6MNom0hEjrYeEMonlenaUVtTxWCUarXGo1NTwUotEXdTtvUtgW4NtUmtTWqFvcOnrcBS4ST6Hktzb2MSWngewY/s320/psychotronic9.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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He's been passing out a lot and having vivid and terrifying nightmares, always accompanied by awful headaches. His miserable, naggy wife (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Lindsey Novak</span></b>) is getting fed up with his unpredictable behavior and absence from their home, and she'd no doubt be even more pissed if she knew her hubby was carrying on a secret affair with perky beautician-next-door, Kathy (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Robin Newton</span></b>). Rocky goes to see Dr. Steinberg (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Paul Marvel</span></b>), who runs some tests / brain scans and then gives a professional prognosis: "You've gotta lay off the booze!" Alas, drinking too much is the least of his current problems.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rocky has developed strong telepathic abilities he doesn't have a handle on. Whenever he's having one of his episodes, he has no control over how his powers are used or who they're used on. As for his car levitating, that actually wasn't a dream. He really did make his car float. Anyone who crosses his path is in jeopardy but especially those who anger or cross him. He happens upon an old-timer who invites him into his home for coffee, but the man ends up dead after their encounter. A police investigation, led by Lt. Walter O'Brien (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Christopher Carbis</span></b>) and Sgt. Chuck Jackson (<b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Curt Colbert</span></b>), is soon underway. After Dr. Steinberg, who tries to rat Rocky out to the cops, is thrown out a window to his death, the officers find paperwork that implicates Rocky and then the chase is on...</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRACdjadAfhCpG6ZDzS7KUKOkK5kmoR7o3z2YuqpnFz8OJXOkxVoz4v0Yrdlh5liv9_jT513hQ96eVimi3QUztlYoSPVj2GW4Arnqzsa0-MqNen9PX6pV1Ez2p2wtQFfK-4jyLEBmKlj-MtSmQtkgEpmLeqhU4715HzWF2ahCWJq_Zm0o16WU3BRA2HKn5/s587/psychotronic14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="498" data-original-width="587" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRACdjadAfhCpG6ZDzS7KUKOkK5kmoR7o3z2YuqpnFz8OJXOkxVoz4v0Yrdlh5liv9_jT513hQ96eVimi3QUztlYoSPVj2GW4Arnqzsa0-MqNen9PX6pV1Ez2p2wtQFfK-4jyLEBmKlj-MtSmQtkgEpmLeqhU4715HzWF2ahCWJq_Zm0o16WU3BRA2HKn5/s320/psychotronic14.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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There's an unexciting nighttime car chase through Chicago that lasts almost ten minutes, which at least has some cool camera angles and lighting I guess, followed by a lengthy foot chase through the city where the cops indiscriminately open fire at the fleeing suspect while a bunch pedestrians are walking around! We then get a little cat-and-mouse as Rocky is chased into a large building followed by a standoff with SWAT team snipers. A mysterious "S.I.A. Agent" (ADR victim <b><span style="color: #fcff01;">Corney Morgan</span></b>) shows up at the eleventh hour trying to plead for Rocky's life since he possesses "psychotronic" powers that could be of use to our military. How they even know about him, his powers or that he's even at this particular location in the middle of the night, is quite the mystery.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While the script is a dud (there's not even enough material here for a half hour TV episode) and there's endless padding (including a visit to the "Oyster Bar" where people dance around as a funk band plays), the director provides a surprising amount of visual interest. There's highly varied camerawork and surprisingly good shot framing at times but it's not enough to make up for the multiple other areas where the film fails miserably. Still, this does have a legacy of sorts, though not because of the film itself. Michael J. Weldon ran with the "Psychotronic" moniker for his line of magazines and books, which introduced many in the 80s, 90s and 2000s to the joys of lesser-known, lower budgeted films. A British punk band (Revenge of the Psychotronic Man) also took its name from the title.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuEUZCZU0MQvZuBesqC9YQopP5OuKo9qEOp7OpCvf7HK8l0eZ6OOTh6IYYV9N7kY0dt7N8DIutDXuWzXFjUSVg713YkSq_za-q5Ilt73GMjv26EWjfAx0mK7Vqkw1dZe21wEkxfAUjnOT6vQjt0itUL-_UNU-CiTtZi5sHrzhjRxqY8oJUWEc4GxW6dhh/s591/psychotronic39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="485" data-original-width="591" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTuEUZCZU0MQvZuBesqC9YQopP5OuKo9qEOp7OpCvf7HK8l0eZ6OOTh6IYYV9N7kY0dt7N8DIutDXuWzXFjUSVg713YkSq_za-q5Ilt73GMjv26EWjfAx0mK7Vqkw1dZe21wEkxfAUjnOT6vQjt0itUL-_UNU-CiTtZi5sHrzhjRxqY8oJUWEc4GxW6dhh/s320/psychotronic39.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfDlI9ucKfvhaICXKIemzQLKEooEbRbh7wmAI1UsXHEEPArXpQW1-CyX0uhSL23vi53fCJKw00OWANYmQTIK8rxI2UtuEgNG29TQfTxTJ-rMX7m40Twh0xZdolMHYYoQYvSAhOYQGusdVuOZ7zPYWUOO3-h8bBrXJy2l79WateOMYCpqslUNbZRzGkOBot/s592/psychotronic17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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His first effort, the suspense-thriller <i>Main Street Eagle</i> (1976), which he financed as a vehicle for himself, vanished immediately after its theatrical premiere and hasn't been seen since. <i>Psychotronic Man</i>, which he also co-wrote and produced for his fledgling namesake production company, Spelson Productions Inc., had a bigger budget (175k) and fared a little better as it was at least distributed in theaters and on home video, but the reviews were dreadful. He'd turn up one last time in a supporting role in the filmed-in-Wisconsin <i>Blood Beat</i> (1983), which features a farm family dealing with an evil Japanese samurai spirit (in <i>Wisconsin?!</i>), and that was it for his film career.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7pt78RGLNWyJz9WL9CHigDS7leNzuK0V3m9t2ljmJNk_EgYYof2MHKZCLduEW0lPWpJMquD4TnLwzV38HSLZ5D1i_qZCiRkepBHFIHxkID0NyoOLquLcU6UndK561O4tvoGSXzqrzu275AAw93TToKoag4IlBn6WTfABnABpSmlDq5lsJRGLTU_Klq6o/s591/psychotronic26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="591" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw7pt78RGLNWyJz9WL9CHigDS7leNzuK0V3m9t2ljmJNk_EgYYof2MHKZCLduEW0lPWpJMquD4TnLwzV38HSLZ5D1i_qZCiRkepBHFIHxkID0NyoOLquLcU6UndK561O4tvoGSXzqrzu275AAw93TToKoag4IlBn6WTfABnABpSmlDq5lsJRGLTU_Klq6o/s320/psychotronic26.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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He'd go on to make a couple more films (neither of them good) for the home video market. First, there was the cheap, tasteless sketch comedy <i>Outtakes</i> (1987), which "parodies" tampons, pubic hair, porno mags, women gushing blood during their periods, phone sex, hemorrhoids, puking, farting and other charming stuff. And then came the possibly even worse spy spoof <i>Deadly Spygames</i> (1989), which he also starred in and somehow managed to convince Troy Donahue and Tippi Hedren to appear in.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAmSSE2i2SHCgtTG4_ednoMPSAKhypl-a1NcXxmQihJFx3ff2rEoLKQ_uoYQXEqnlpUwBG7dMhnm63Ibj8kD2mnBvsiSjIGt62Mf0R9dhqmqTwyssVeX0b4O0MSbxR9b-7w4f9sfBy_51Mrm3L07vPEKkTRSOowW2NZ5LyI_TU2fkvlxJT7pcnsDPD_OO/s412/psychotronic44.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="268" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKAmSSE2i2SHCgtTG4_ednoMPSAKhypl-a1NcXxmQihJFx3ff2rEoLKQ_uoYQXEqnlpUwBG7dMhnm63Ibj8kD2mnBvsiSjIGt62Mf0R9dhqmqTwyssVeX0b4O0MSbxR9b-7w4f9sfBy_51Mrm3L07vPEKkTRSOowW2NZ5LyI_TU2fkvlxJT7pcnsDPD_OO/w136-h209/psychotronic44.jpg" width="136" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHl9yASMxQi3vhM170ovCvmiU8JrGIbApW9HHIi6_qh5wFhMzdniM29T9_x1LBwccdC2riEd2PnY_XJQWlPfccBMsM32gM_idch5mCjPxk7qag5zZMSRrr_fJO1BB1KTBp5Dae7a8F3P64sJ6OKKaS2E97qgsaXaW_ptF9tEYZw-WPfsl5o15x1RPgTma0/s771/psychotronic6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="500" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHl9yASMxQi3vhM170ovCvmiU8JrGIbApW9HHIi6_qh5wFhMzdniM29T9_x1LBwccdC2riEd2PnY_XJQWlPfccBMsM32gM_idch5mCjPxk7qag5zZMSRrr_fJO1BB1KTBp5Dae7a8F3P64sJ6OKKaS2E97qgsaXaW_ptF9tEYZw-WPfsl5o15x1RPgTma0/w135-h208/psychotronic6.jpg" width="135" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl027HJkx8KPb5okw821P4bw4g9FNSWdg2_UmNZa1dkaXzom78EFOnZfF6J3hloDxiRTpc9woCR3jX9tFV9PiQ5TwG6UnLTfGWMBTzr_CWFJpDGn2LBsgaCbrDQt0_UV5W-Ksq37AkXFURyWE_k7IizuYqD9hwKFVGYD4Vc9Wr6M0ui50rQBUX9X3MNaUd/s1048/psychotronic5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="600" height="208" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl027HJkx8KPb5okw821P4bw4g9FNSWdg2_UmNZa1dkaXzom78EFOnZfF6J3hloDxiRTpc9woCR3jX9tFV9PiQ5TwG6UnLTfGWMBTzr_CWFJpDGn2LBsgaCbrDQt0_UV5W-Ksq37AkXFURyWE_k7IizuYqD9hwKFVGYD4Vc9Wr6M0ui50rQBUX9X3MNaUd/w119-h208/psychotronic5.jpg" width="119" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Conflicting years are given for the film's release date. Though the copyright date is 1979, IMDb claims this debuted at WorldFest Houston in April of that same year, which means they would have somehow had to book the film just a month or two after completion. This is also listed as having played at the now-defunct Paris International Fantastic Film Festival in November 1979; a claim I have also been unable to verify. What we do know for sure is that this entered general release in Chicago on April 23, 1980 and was downgraded to the Southern drive-in circuit shortly thereafter.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There were VHS releases in the U.S. (Unicorn Video), UK (Trailblazer Video), Spain (Lumiere Video) and West Germany (Karo Video), as well as DVD releases in the UK (Dancebuy Limited), and the U.S., from Frolic Pictures, who paired it with the Italian <i>Robocop</i> / <i>Terminator</i> rip-off <i>Cy Warrior</i> (1989). This is also available with Rifftrax "comic" commentary.</div><div><br /></div><div><span style="color: #ffff33; font-size: large;">★</span><span style="color: #ffff33;">1/2</span></div>The Bloody Pit of Horrorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04419921450872885649noreply@blogger.com0