Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 19:14:47 GMT -5
The Two Babysitter films on Netflix are great. There are definitely exceptions but for the most part... Yeah. For me the Netflix originals are better than say those Blumhouse made for HULU horror films.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 19:16:52 GMT -5
Hmmm am I the only one that thought Bram Stoker's Dracula was a piece of crap?
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Post by DSR on Sept 22, 2020 19:19:08 GMT -5
Hmmm am I the only one that thought Bram Stoker's Dracula was a piece of crap? Here's what I had to say about the film 5 years ago: I watched BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992). I'm not going to go into a full review, but man, did I not care for that flick. It was well-made, sure, and Gary Oldman is always fantastic, but the idea of presenting Dracula as a genuine romantic figure just screams bullshit to me. He holds Mina Harker's fiancee prisoner while he moves to England and presents himself as a young handsome dude, and he courts Mina while at night he turns into a wolf/ape thing and rapes and drains the blood of Mina's best friend...BUT HE REALLY LOVES MINA, SO IT'S OKAY! How in the Hell do you portray that as a love story with a straight face? Ugh.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 22, 2020 19:22:13 GMT -5
Hmmm am I the only one that thought Bram Stoker's Dracula was a piece of crap? I have a bit of a soft spot for it since it was the first R Rated movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I was born in 1986 by the way. Great parenting by my dad there
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 22, 2020 20:50:04 GMT -5
Decided to make a stack of DVDs/Blu-rays that I have for October viewing. Here is what I got so far: I’m not sure of how much I’ll be able to get through. I’m looking to watch things that I haven’t watched before and is more hard horror rather than multi-genre stuff. Some of the sets I’ve watched some movies from but have movies I’ve yet to get to as well. If anyone has seen any of these and has suggestions for what I should get to first, I’m all ears
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Post by DSR on Sept 22, 2020 22:05:35 GMT -5
I watched and enjoyed HISSS last year, and have decided to quote my review for your convenience: HISSS (2010) was written and directed by Jennifer Chambers Lynch (BOXING HELENA), daughter of famed filmmaker David Lynch. The film begins with a narrator telling of the Indian legend of Nagin, a snake goddess that can transform into a woman. The Nagin's blood, or Naagmani, is said to grant immortality to those who obtain it. However, all who have tried to capture the Naagmani have failed, and the Nagin has brutally killed them. In the present day, George (Jeff Doucette, THE DENTIST 2), an old American man with an inoperable brain tumor, has gone into the forests of India in search of that immortality I mentioned earlier. He and a small band of locals find two snakes having sex, steal the male, and run-off to their hideout. There, George waits for the female to come in search of her mate. Sure enough, the female snake undergoes a really cool transformation sequence, turning into a beautiful mute woman (Mallika Sherawat). She steals some clothes from a woman bathing nearby and heads out to try to find her sssoulmate. Her journey takes her into Indian villages where she is sexually assaulted. Before the creeps get too far, though, she transforms back into a snake, sinking her fangs into one man and then swallowing whole the other. The next day, police inspector Virkram Gupta (Irrfan Khan, THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) is brought to the scene. The poor guy has to try to make sense of a man loaded up with so much venom, one would believe he'd been bitten by hundreds of snakes at once. Or worse, the large pellet found on the scene containing all the things on the other man that couldn't be digested: bones, hair, clothing, a cellphone. Gupta is not a man who believes in superstition and folklore. He believes in facts and concrete evidence. But as more bodies of abusive husbands, rapists, and the like turn up over the next few days, the newsmedia and the local populous latch onto the tale of the Nagin, believing her to be a savior or a sssuperhero. Inspector Gupta is probably gonna have to change his line of thinking about legends if he hopes to solve these supernatural murders. When I watched Hammer Studios' THE REPTILE (1966) I mentioned that I loved the design of the titular villain but found the film on the whole to be slow-moving and without much excitement. HISSS is the kind of movie I was actually hoping for. It's got plenty of eroticism and bloodshed for your viewing pleasure. And HISS, much like its monster, shapeshifts in exciting ways. Gory creature feature, Bollywood dance numbers, police procedural, quirky dramedy as we learn about Gupta's homelife (he and his wife take care of her elderly, possibly dementia-stricken mother, who for some reason believes Virkram to be an ugly woman and not the man married to her daughter), prolonged Jason Bourne-esque chase scenes through the streets of town. The film takes us through these unexpected genre-shift detours that kept me on my toes throughout the film's 98 minute runtime. Robert Kurtzman (ALL CHEERLEADERS DIE) and his team bring the snake-into-woman and back again transformations to life. A lot of the mid-transformation parts are really cool, but when she's just a gigantic snake it's usually done with some unconvincing CGI, which is a bit of a letdown. HISSS is the kind of "genuine weirdness" I was referring to a few days ago: there's humor here and there but it doesn't contradict or deflate the overall tone of the film. There's a scenery-chewing performance from Jeff Doucette, as the character's cancer has caused pressure on his brain making him lose his sanity. There's a scene where a beautiful woman has sex with a snake! A lot of the reviews I've read of this flick have found it to be distasteful and cheesy. Well, I'm of the opinion that sometimes those are positives! And it's hard for me to root against a movie with a sexy badass feminist anti-hero as its centerpiece. The film has flaws, no doubt, but it's still a wild ride.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 22:10:02 GMT -5
Hmmm am I the only one that thought Bram Stoker's Dracula was a piece of crap? Here's what I had to say about the film 5 years ago: I watched BRAM STOKER'S DRACULA (1992). I'm not going to go into a full review, but man, did I not care for that flick. It was well-made, sure, and Gary Oldman is always fantastic, but the idea of presenting Dracula as a genuine romantic figure just screams bullshit to me. He holds Mina Harker's fiancee prisoner while he moves to England and presents himself as a young handsome dude, and he courts Mina while at night he turns into a wolf/ape thing and rapes and drains the blood of Mina's best friend...BUT HE REALLY LOVES MINA, SO IT'S OKAY! How in the Hell do you portray that as a love story with a straight face? Ugh. My big issue with it is before it came out all the press was how this would be the first film "to truly follow the Bram Stoker's novel." I was excited cause I enjoy the novel. The movie and the novel have very little in common. The film looks great. But man even the good actors/actresses in the film appear to me to be phoning it in.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 22:20:10 GMT -5
Hmmm am I the only one that thought Bram Stoker's Dracula was a piece of crap? I have a bit of a soft spot for it since it was the first R Rated movie I ever saw in the movie theater. I was born in 1986 by the way. Great parenting by my dad there First R Rated film I saw in a theater,was a drive in,was Texas Chainsaw Massacre 74. I was 3. My older cousin,who is 12 years older than me,was staying the summer with my family. Him and dad wanted to go see TCM at the local drive in. Mom was off with some friends of hers. Dad figured "hey the film starts at 9pm,Ultimo will fall asleep on the ride to the theater." Nope I stayed awake.And been told I stood up on the front seat watching the entire film. My only memory of seeing TCM that first time is the part when Leatherface slams that big metal door shut.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 22:21:27 GMT -5
Decided to make a stack of DVDs/Blu-rays that I have for October viewing. Here is what I got so far: I’m not sure of how much I’ll be able to get through. I’m looking to watch things that I haven’t watched before and is more hard horror rather than multi-genre stuff. Some of the sets I’ve watched some movies from but have movies I’ve yet to get to as well. If anyone has seen any of these and has suggestions for what I should get to first, I’m all ears That Gorehouse Greats set is fun. See ya got the Flesh trilogy from SWV.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 22:25:32 GMT -5
Here is the 17 of the 31 films I have picked out for 31 Days of Halloween. Blinded by the Blood-Documentary on Tim Ritter's SOV film Killing Spree. Hosted by Debbie Rochon Wrong Turn 2 Unrated-Got a pack of the so far 6 films in this franchise. Mirrors 2 Unrated-Always wondered why when this first came out why it got so much hype online. Then watched it and found out. Hostel 2 Director's Cut-Haven't seen this since the workprint leaked a month before the film hit theaters. Satanis the Devil's Mass-Something Weird Video put this documentary out. It is based on Anton Levay's Church of Satan. Carnival of Souls-Creepy Koffee Movie Time was a Horror host show based in the Bay area of Cali.Never reviewed Carnival Of Souls and just discovered that Creepy Koffee Movie TIme is up on Amazon Prime video. Blood Sucking Freaks-Gonna watch the Joe Bob's last drive in airing of this. Pledges-Modern slasher,got it cheap. Pilgrim-One of those Blumhouse monthy horror films on Hulu films. Kingdom of the Spiders-Shatner vs spiders!! Verotika-Yep the Glenn Danzig made erotic horror anthology film. Resident Evil-Never reviewed any of the films from this series. Zombieland-Never reviewed this. Scary Movie-Not a big fan of this parody film. But I have never reviewed it. Trailer Park Shark-I love these cheesy shark attack films. This one has Mr Belding and Tara Reid. Evil Bong 420-ya they are low budget and cheesy. But in the right mood they can be fun to watch. Evil Bong High 5-See the above. Added two more films to my list Candyman-Got the Scream Factory Blu Ray Firestarter-Same as Candyman
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 22, 2020 22:49:37 GMT -5
Decided to make a stack of DVDs/Blu-rays that I have for October viewing. Here is what I got so far: I’m not sure of how much I’ll be able to get through. I’m looking to watch things that I haven’t watched before and is more hard horror rather than multi-genre stuff. Some of the sets I’ve watched some movies from but have movies I’ve yet to get to as well. If anyone has seen any of these and has suggestions for what I should get to first, I’m all ears That Gorehouse Greats set is fun. See ya got the Flesh trilogy from SWV. I still somehow haven’t finished the Gorehouse Greats set despite getting it in 2018. I’ve watched most of the actual horror stuff in it though. For this October I’m thinking of watching Stanley, Satan’s Slave, and Trip With Teacher on it. Although with that last one I’ve heard it may be more exploitation/drama than horror. I’m looking forward to finally checking out the Flesh trilogy. Whenever I read about the best SWV releases that disc usually gets mentioned. I have some other SWV discs I still need to get to. In that photo there is the Atomic Brain/Love After Death/The Incredible Petrified World triple feature. Also not pictured I have Please Don’t Eat My Mother and the Kiss Me Quick!/The Night on Bare Mountain double feature. I’ll probably at least watch Please Don’t Eat My Mother in October. It’s OOP but I pulled the trigger and got it back in August. I can’t remember the last time I paid that much for a single disc DVD. About $30! But I’ve been hunting for it for a while and I’ve never seen it cheaper. For the Kiss Me Quick!/The Night on Bare Mountain I got it for a better deal since I won it as part of some auctions. Both those DVDs you’ll mostly find going for $50+ though I’m not sure how many folks are plunking down the cash to buy them.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 22, 2020 23:24:52 GMT -5
That Gorehouse Greats set is fun. See ya got the Flesh trilogy from SWV. I still somehow haven’t finished the Gorehouse Greats set despite getting it in 2018. I’ve watched most of the actual horror stuff in it though. For this October I’m thinking of watching Stanley, Satan’s Slave, and Trip With Teacher on it. Although with that last one I’ve heard it may be more exploitation/drama than horror. I’m looking forward to finally checking out the Flesh trilogy. Whenever I read about the best SWV releases that disc usually gets mentioned. I have some other SWV discs I still need to get to. In that photo there is the Atomic Brain/Love After Death/The Incredible Petrified World triple feature. Also not pictured I have Please Don’t Eat My Mother and the Kiss Me Quick!/The Night on Bare Mountain double feature. I’ll probably at least watch Please Don’t Eat My Mother in October. It’s OOP but I pulled the trigger and got it back in August. I can’t remember the last time I paid that much for a single disc DVD. About $30! But I’ve been hunting for it for a while and I’ve never seen it cheaper. For the Kiss Me Quick!/The Night on Bare Mountain I got it for a better deal since I won it as part of some auctions. Both those DVDs you’ll mostly find going for $50+ though I’m not sure how many folks are plunking down the cash to buy them. Trip with Teacher is a rape/revenge movie. Best remembered cause Zalman King stars in it. Stanley is pretty fun. I am happy I got Please Don't Eat my Mother almost 20 years ago. Bought it when it came out and I am betting it was 25 bucks then. It's pretty much a softcore porn version of Little Shop of Horrors. I got it cause Rene Bond is in it. Lots of those SWV dvds are pricy now. I know the Sting of Death/Death Curse of Tartu one was going for stupid high prices a few years ago.
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Post by DSR on Sept 29, 2020 1:08:41 GMT -5
It's looking like I'm spending the bulk of my October this year with Italian horror, so I think I'm gonna squeeze one more of these in before taking a break from it.
50 states horror project: California
SLEDGE HAMMER (1984) is the directorial debut of David A. Prior, who would go on to a prolific career in low-budget action cinema, making films starring the likes of Jan-Michael Vincent, Brigitte Nielsen, and David Carradine. For his first feature, though, Prior made an early SOV slasher starring his brother, bodybuilder and Playgirl model Ted Prior.
Our story begins at a red house, with a mother angrily locking her 10-year-old son in a closet before heading into the living room to cheat on her husband. The woman and her lover have plans to leave their respective marriages and run away together. Those plans never materialize, as they are both beaten to death with the titular weapon.
Ten years later, a group of four muscle-bound party animals and three level-headed women travel to this same red house to spend a weekend drinking beers and unwinding from their regular lives. One night, Chuck (the aforementioned Ted Prior) recounts the story of the couple's gory demise and reveals that the killer was never caught and the boy that was locked away in the closet was never found. Chuck then instigates a seance to commune with the dead lovers and find out who did the ugly deed. In truth, this seance is a ruse pulled off by Chuck's friend Joey, who plays a spooky tape on his boombox in another room while Chuck fools his pals into thinking it's legit. Unfortunately for Joey, there is a genuine killer in the house, and he is the first victim!
This is no run-of-the-mill killer, though, as our remaining characters are stalked and sledged by a supernatural being: the child from the prologue morphs into a full-grown man in a clear plastic mask and back again to confuse and terrorize our heroes. Items and corpses disappear and reappear in different places without any explanation. It quickly becomes clear that our jock heroes will need more than their muscles if they want to survive the night...
The opening establishing shot of the red house runs way too long, setting a mood for me to riff this sucker, MST-style, into oblivion, but when it actually gets going SLEDGE HAMMER comports itself well. True, the actors are obviously first-timers, the video tape has that soft-focus that makes everything look cheap, and the gore effects are minimal (a sledgehammer to the back of a head during the prologue is the best effect on offer). But the actors give their best effort and the film has a nerve-rattling score that disorients the viewer. The frequent use of slow-motion to build tension gives the film a dream-like quality coupled with the lack of an explanation for the killer's paranormal activity makes this picture work for me in that nightmare-logic fashion that I love so much.
At no point was I scared by this picture, but I still found it charming. SOV horror has such a stigma to it that I expected way less competence than what was actually displayed, especially given that this was David Prior's alternative to attending film school. There's still goofy characterizations you can laugh at, but I came away with a genuine appreciation for what these folks were trying to achieve. I think SLEDGE HAMMER is pretty cool!
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 29, 2020 6:21:54 GMT -5
It's looking like I'm spending the bulk of my October this year with Italian horror, so I think I'm gonna squeeze one more of these in before taking a break from it. 50 states horror project: California SLEDGE HAMMER (1984) is the directorial debut of David A. Prior, who would go on to a prolific career in low-budget action cinema, making films starring the likes of Jan-Michael Vincent, Brigitte Nielsen, and David Carradine. For his first feature, though, Prior made an early SOV slasher starring his brother, bodybuilder and Playgirl model Ted Prior. Our story begins at a red house, with a mother angrily locking her 10-year-old son in a closet before heading into the living room to cheat on her husband. The woman and her lover have plans to leave their respective marriages and run away together. Those plans never materialize, as they are both beaten to death with the titular weapon. Ten years later, a group of four muscle-bound party animals and three level-headed women travel to this same red house to spend a weekend drinking beers and unwinding from their regular lives. One night, Chuck (the aforementioned Ted Prior) recounts the story of the couple's gory demise and reveals that the killer was never caught and the boy that was locked away in the closet was never found. Chuck then instigates a seance to commune with the dead lovers and find out who did the ugly deed. In truth, this seance is a ruse pulled off by Chuck's friend Joey, who plays a spooky tape on his boombox in another room while Chuck fools his pals into thinking it's legit. Unfortunately for Joey, there is a genuine killer in the house, and he is the first victim! This is no run-of-the-mill killer, though, as our remaining characters are stalked and sledged by a supernatural being: the child from the prologue morphs into a full-grown man in a clear plastic mask and back again to confuse and terrorize our heroes. Items and corpses disappear and reappear in different places without any explanation. It quickly becomes clear that our jock heroes will need more than their muscles if they want to survive the night... The opening establishing shot of the red house runs way too long, setting a mood for me to riff this sucker, MST-style, into oblivion, but when it actually gets going SLEDGE HAMMER comports itself well. True, the actors are obviously first-timers, the video tape has that soft-focus that makes everything look cheap, and the gore effects are minimal (a sledgehammer to the back of a head during the prologue is the best effect on offer). But the actors give their best effort and the film has a nerve-rattling score that disorients the viewer. The frequent use of slow-motion to build tension gives the film a dream-like quality coupled with the lack of an explanation for the killer's paranormal activity makes this picture work for me in that nightmare-logic fashion that I love so much. At no point was I scared by this picture, but I still found it charming. SOV horror has such a stigma to it that I expected way less competence than what was actually displayed, especially given that this was David Prior's alternative to attending film school. There's still goofy characterizations you can laugh at, but I came away with a genuine appreciation for what these folks were trying to achieve. I think SLEDGE HAMMER is pretty cool! I was curious about David A. Prior and looked him up on IMDB. I found that he directed Rapid Fire. However NOT the Rapid Fire starring Brandon Lee. This one was made a few years earlier and looks delightfully cheesy. And the more popular Rapid Fire was cheesy to begin with! I’ll have to check out some more Davis A. Prior. I watched his movie Killer Workout not too long ago. It was free on Amazon Prime and might be still up there
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 29, 2020 14:01:06 GMT -5
Got the Vestron Video Blu Ray of Shivers today for 13 bucks. Saw the VV Blu release of Little Monsters was teh same price.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Sept 30, 2020 16:16:21 GMT -5
Here is the 17 of the 31 films I have picked out for 31 Days of Halloween. Blinded by the Blood-Documentary on Tim Ritter's SOV film Killing Spree. Hosted by Debbie Rochon Wrong Turn 2 Unrated-Got a pack of the so far 6 films in this franchise. Mirrors 2 Unrated-Always wondered why when this first came out why it got so much hype online. Then watched it and found out. Hostel 2 Director's Cut-Haven't seen this since the workprint leaked a month before the film hit theaters. Satanis the Devil's Mass-Something Weird Video put this documentary out. It is based on Anton Levay's Church of Satan. Carnival of Souls-Creepy Koffee Movie Time was a Horror host show based in the Bay area of Cali.Never reviewed Carnival Of Souls and just discovered that Creepy Koffee Movie TIme is up on Amazon Prime video. Blood Sucking Freaks-Gonna watch the Joe Bob's last drive in airing of this. Pledges-Modern slasher,got it cheap. Pilgrim-One of those Blumhouse monthy horror films on Hulu films. Kingdom of the Spiders-Shatner vs spiders!! Verotika-Yep the Glenn Danzig made erotic horror anthology film. Resident Evil-Never reviewed any of the films from this series. Zombieland-Never reviewed this. Scary Movie-Not a big fan of this parody film. But I have never reviewed it. Trailer Park Shark-I love these cheesy shark attack films. This one has Mr Belding and Tara Reid. Evil Bong 420-ya they are low budget and cheesy. But in the right mood they can be fun to watch. Evil Bong High 5-See the above. Added two more films to my list Candyman-Got the Scream Factory Blu Ray Firestarter-Same as Candyman Added Spoopy Movie time airing of Spider Baby Manos Returns and Child's Play 2019
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Sept 30, 2020 22:36:20 GMT -5
I started my horror movie all month marathon a little early today I did a double feature of William Grefe’s Mako: The Jaws of Death and Stanley. Going into them I didn’t know too much about them other than the first emphasized sharks and the second emphasized snakes. But aside from those two things they’re pretty much the EXACT same movie. Both focus on a kind and mild mannered weirdo who is obsessed with the respective animal. For different reasons the antagonists of each movie kill the animals the lovable oddball is obsessed with. This makes the weirdo a whole lot less lovable as this is the reason he kills people. Mako is the slightly weaker of the two. It came out four years later but aside from some decent underwater shots doesn’t improve the formula at all. Other than what I’ve mentioned to get an idea of Mako, it’s like if you threw Jaws and Billy Jack in a blender added some horror and decided to blend without a budget. Speaking of Billy Jack I could easily see Tom Laughlin playing the lead in either picture. It’s kind of a shame that Laughlin never made a horror movie, but not really. I’m sure if he was in either of these there would be a lot less action and a lot more long winded preaching. Stanley is a tad longer than Mako, but doesn’t really need to be. Again like Billy Jack some of this time gets eaten up by montages while crappy 1970’s music plays. Despite this what makes Stanley the superior picture is a much better ending, which I won’t spoil. Grefe has a Blu-ray box set coming out and I believe both movies are in it. It might be worth the pick up as these were plenty of fun
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Post by DSR on Sept 30, 2020 23:04:53 GMT -5
Inspired by my devotion to Italian Horror this month, I felt compelled last night to write this long article/essay thingy, a bit of a love letter to Daria Nicolodi's involvement with the famed "Three Mothers" series of films:
Daria Nicolodi And The Five "Three Mothers" Films
Daria Nicolodi first met Dario Argento when she auditioned for a role in his giallo film DEEP RED. She secured the role, and three months into the film's production Nicolodi and Argento's romantic relationship began. DEEP RED was released in Italy on March 7, 1975. The couple's daughter Asia Argento was born September 20th that same year.
Dario and Daria's next collaboration was the film SUSPIRIA, in 1977. The pair co-wrote the film, influenced by Thomas De Quincey's 1845 essay "Suspiria De Profundis" and based on allegedly true experiences in the life of Nicolodi's grandmother. The film tells the tale of an American girl attending a German ballet academy and learning that the school is a front for a coven of witches.
SUSPIRIA was a success both in Italy and abroad, and the couple revealed that it was only the first part in a trilogy of films, dubbed the "Three Mothers Trilogy." The second film in this series would be 1980's INFERNO, concerning a young woman discovering a book detailing the history of three witches and their plans to plunge the Earth into eternal sorrow.
Dario Argento wrote the screenplay for INFERNO from a story written by Daria Nicolodi. Nicolodi does not receive a story credit in the film, however, because getting the co-writer credit for SUSPIRIA was such a battle for her that she did not want the hassle a second time. Nevertheless, Nicolodi appeared in the film in a prominent role.
While filming INFERNO, Argento suffered a severe case of hepatitis that caused him a great deal of pain. And once the film was completed, it received a limited theatrical release outside of Italy: both SUSPIRIA and INFERNO were to be distributed by 20th Century Fox. Fox underwent a change in management between the two films' production cycles, and the new people at Fox did not care for INFERNO, resulting in its shoddy treatment and thus, its poor box office.
Argento had said that he wrote the third film of the trilogy shortly after INFERNO was finished but lost interest in it (I'm presuming the circumstances detailed in the previous paragraph had something to do with that loss of interest). He also said he attempted to pick it back up after making a few more films, but again lost interest.
Argento and Nicolodi ended their romantic relationship in 1985 and ended their professional relationship with Nicolodi playing a role in Argento's OPERA (1987). Nicolodi would take her script for the "Three Mothers" finale to director Luigi Cozzi (STARCRASH, ALIEN CONTAMINATION). Cozzi is an Argento collaborator/business partner, however, and reworked the script so as not to step on Dario's toes. The changes caused Nicolodi to quit the project (she was supposed to star in the film) and again go uncredited for her writing.
Luigi Cozzi's Third Mother film goes by many names, but I'll give you two of them: THE BLACK CAT and DEMONS 6: DE PROFUNDIS (the latter title obviously referring back to the Thomas De Quincey essay). THE BLACK CAT (1989) is about filmmakers hard at work on a film about the witch Levana, accidentally incurring the wrath of the actual witch! The film SUSPIRIA and its director Dario Argento are referenced by characters within this movie, giving it a level of separation from the "main narrative" of SUSPIRIA and INFERNO.
(Ironically, Cozzi's film did end up upsetting Argento. The reason the film is titled THE BLACK CAT is because the distributor, 21st Century Film Corporation, wanted to market it as part of a series of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations...despite the fact that the film isn't a Poe adaptation at all. Cozzi's THE BLACK CAT was ultimately released before Argento's collaboration with George Romero TWO EVIL EYES, in which Argento directed an adaptation of Poe's The Black Cat!)
Nicolodi gave an interview for a book on Italian Horror in 1996 in which she said she still had the third chapter of "The Three Mothers" sitting in a drawer.
In 2007, Dario Argento finally unleashed THE MOTHER OF TEARS upon the world. Argento and four other screenwriters (none of whom are Daria Nicolodi) put together a story in which an art restoration student (Argento and Nicolodi's now full-grown daughter Asia) does battle with the final witch of the triumvirate.
Nicolodi appears in THE MOTHER OF TEARS, playing the mother of Asia's character in STAR WARS "Force Ghost"-style. In a video interview several years after the film's release, Nicolodi said she was happy to act alongside her daughter in the film, but ultimately she did not care much for the film, calling it "sluggish." She went on to reiterate that the REAL Third Mother story has yet to be told...
While I'm never going to harass studio executives or even start a hashtag about it, I truly hope that some day Daria Nicolodi's take on the Third Mother sees the light of day in some fashion. And hell, put her name above the title for this one. As much as I enjoy Argento's work, it seems bogus that he has a legacy as a Master of Horror (tm) while her legacy seems relegated to "Dario's ex-wife". It seems to me like she was far more than simply the inspiration behind Dario's most fantastical horror outings.
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Oct 1, 2020 6:13:02 GMT -5
My October focus on '70s horror starts today with . . .
My review of Carrie (1976)
Plot: A shy, bullied teenager with a religious mother unleashes her telekinetic powers on her classmates after they humiliate her on prom night.
What new take could I possibly give on Carrie? The performances are fantastic. Its themes of repression and social ostracism are timeless. It’s also in that elite club of horror films seemingly everyone knows. My mom hates horror films, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t one of the first ones I’d heard, mainly because she told me about it. Heck, you probably know the entire story by now even if you haven’t seen it. It’s a seminal work in the genre, a perfect choice if you were looking to teach Horror 101.
It’s also a perfect choice if you were looking to teach *‘70s* Horror 101 because not only is it one of the best horror films of all time, it’s also one that best represents what was such a revolutionary decade for the genre. The ‘60s set the stage, but the ‘70s built on it to show horror didn’t need to come from a giant space monster or somewhere far away in a Gothic castle. In Carrie, the scares come from a high school like yours and mine, in the cruelty of the title character’s classmates and deep fanaticism of her mother. In a billion of other movies, the telekinetic powers would be the scary part, and they do get pretty frightening, but the movie shows us the terrors of the real world will always be scarier.
It can’t be stated enough how well the story builds sympathy onto poor, hapless Carrie White. I’ve seen this movie many, many times now. Every time it gets to the prom, I feel the same sense of sadness and dread. I know the bucket of blood is coming. I know she will be humiliated and kill everyone in telekinetic bedlam. And yet, I always want better for her. I want the prom to be the night of her life. I want her to graduate school and escape her crappy home life and live a decent life for herself. It doesn’t happen; it never does, but it speaks to the power of this movie that it puts me in that position and that I like it that way.
It’s kinda funny how the film’s retained its status as a classic when, stylistically, it’s such a product of its time. The disco prom and gym detention montage could tell you that alone. That’s the thing, though: the best horror films don’t just plunge us into the depths of our darkest fears; they also drive us to a place of deep empathy. The trends in hair, clothes, and music may change, but the feeling of being bullied and outcasted hasn’t, and that’s why Carrie continues to rise from the rubble to this day. It’s in turns tragic, horrifying, and oddly satisfying.
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Ultimo Gallos
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Dreams SUCK!Nightmares live FOREVER!
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 1, 2020 9:39:23 GMT -5
Yep time to start the best month of the year. TITLE-Evil Bong 420 SOURCE-Tubi TV Streaming service Earlier this year I learned that you can use a free program and download the movies/tv shows off Tubi TV. This way you can not only watch them at times you don't have internet access but you get the bonus of no ads. For those that don't know Tubi TV,found online at Tubi.TV, is a free streaming app. It is loaded with piles of movies that fans of cult/horror/sci fi would enjoy seeing. The films are usually uncut but you do get short ad breaks during the films. Never more than say 8 minutes of ads in your normal 1&1/2 hour long film. So I had been wanting to watch some of the newer Full Moon films. Saw Tubi had a Full Moon channel. And that channel had all 8 films in the Evil Bong franchise. Having already seen Evil Bong 1 thru 3 I figured that Evil Bong 420 would be the next one to watch...I was wrong. Read the rest 31 Days of Horror Day 01 Evil Bong 420And if you want to read about an actually good film my buddy CodyLL is covering 31 Hammer films this month. Day 01 The Quatermass Xperiment
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