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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 30, 2012 20:45:43 GMT -5
No by then she was in her fifties ,but I thought she looked in her sixties.
One of the reasons I watched the movie was because I lliked her from the Munsters so much. That was a good tv show.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 30, 2012 23:27:37 GMT -5
Just finished a Spanish film, The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman, aka Walpurgis Night or La Noche de Walpurgis. Here is the Wikipedia entry. La Noche de Walpurgis (translated as Walpurgis Night) is a 1970 Spanish horror movie starring Paul Naschy that is the fifth in a series about the werewolf Count Waldemar Daninsky. The film was directed by León Klimovsky and written by Naschy and Hans Munkel.
Synopsis
Two students, Elvira and her friend Genevieve, go searching for the tomb of medieval murderess (and possible vampira) Countess Wandessa. They find a possible site in the castle of Count Waldemar Daninsky, who invites them to stay for as long as they like. When he shows them the tomb of the countess, Elvira accidentally revives her. Daninsky is forced to battle and destroy the vampire queen at the end of the film.So to me the interesting part is that the lesbian and creepy vampiress was based on a real historical character, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, and again to Wikipedia, this one is interesting. Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of Hungarian nobility. Although the number of murders is debated, she has been labeled the most prolific female serial killer in history and is remembered as the "Blood Countess."
After her husband Ferenc Nádasdy's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, now in Slovakia and known as Čachtice, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.
Later writings about the case have led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula.Now to Weird Encyclopedia. Amongst her numerous acts and tortures, the accusation that Bathory drained the blood of her victims and bathed in it was what earned her the title of a vampire. It is also noted that she occasionally bit the flesh of the girls during their torture. It is said that the reason Bathory bathed in blood was to retain her youthful looks and beauty, and she was, by all accounts, a most attractive woman.
All records of Elizabeth were sealed for more than a century, and her name was forbidden to be spoken in Hungarian society.
Unlike most females of the time, Elizabeth was well educated and her intelligence surpassed even some of the men of her time. Elizabeth was exceptional, becoming "fluent in Hungarian, Latin, and German... when most Hungarian nobles could not even spell or write... Even the ruling prince of Transylvania at the time was barely literate." Some modern scholars and contemporaries of hers postulated that she may have been insane, thus accounting for her seemingly inconceivable atrocities, but even a brief glance into her past reveals a person fully in control of her faculties.
Dracula, created by the Irish author Bram Stoker, was based, albeit loosely, on the Romanian Prince, Vlad Dracula, the Impaler. Raymond T. McNally, who has written four books on the figure of Dracula in history, literature, and vampirism, in his fifth book, Dracula was a Woman, presents insights into the fact that Stoker's Count Dracula was also strongly influenced by the legends of Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary. Why, for example, make a Romanian Prince into a Hungarian Count? Why, if there are no accounts of Vlad Dracula drinking human blood, does blood drinking consume the Dracula of Stoker's novel, who, contrary to established vampire myth, seems to appear younger after doing so? The answers, of course, lie in examining the story of Countess Elizabeth Bathory.
It was largely Slovak servants whom Elizabeth killed, so the name "Csejthe" is only spoken in derision, and she is still called "The Hungarian Whore" in the area.
Back to the movie. It was good, not great, more entertaining at moments and dull at others. The makeup and effects were good and the lesbian vamps were creepy as hell. And there was also a crazed German rapist/murderer character for a scene or two. And here is the trailer. Drinking a Left Coast Una Mas Lager. Muy bueno, Salud! LOB-32
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 31, 2012 3:06:57 GMT -5
Watched Les Diaboliques a classic French horror film that I've been trying to watch for awhile. This is a great movie , which is the first time I can say that about a fifties movie. Unfortunately like Psycho or Soylent Green the twist was so famous that it's kind of runined for people that didn't see it when it came out. At the end of the movie it even asks the audience not to tell their friends about the twist. Man the man in this movie is a dick and looks very creepy during certain moments.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 31, 2012 6:46:42 GMT -5
Watched British horror comedy from the 70s The Abominable Dr. Phipes starring Vincent Price. This movie had alot of funny moments, particuarly with the two detectives. It's about the aformentioned Phibes played by Price getting revenge for the death of his wife. Phibes place looked really cool near the end and I thought it was cool how Phibes talking matched whenever his throat moved instead of his mouth.
JAS-35
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Post by loverofbeers on May 31, 2012 7:33:56 GMT -5
Just watched a movie I wanted to rediscover from my youth which I couldn't remember, and I highly recommend it.
Horror Express brings back horror's favorite duo of Lee and Cushing and also co-stars Telly Savalas. This movie has many parallels to The Thing.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 31, 2012 9:57:04 GMT -5
Watched Martyrs a French horror movie. This is what's called New French Extremity which to my understanding is the recent movement of extremely brutal, horror movies that leave little to the imagination. Its a good film and is well made ,but this is quite a messed up movie so if you ever watch it be warned.
It's about a girl who's been tortured by people to make her a martyr.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 31, 2012 16:59:27 GMT -5
Just watched Atom Age Vampire, a 1963 Italian Sci-fi/horror crap-sandwich about rejuvinating skin, Hiroshima and Nagazaki, and a Mad Scientist/Man-Made Monster. Skip it.
Time to get ready for my second job, it's going to be a long one tonight. Cheers JAS!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 31, 2012 22:05:41 GMT -5
Watched Tony a British horror movies from 2010 about an akward man who lives by himself and spends most of his time watching 80's action movies. This is a good realistic movie. It turns out Tony is a serial killer ,but you don't reallly feel sorry for his victimss because they're all kind of act like asses to him.
On a sidenote the part with the tv license guy weirded me out, my god I didn't know such a thing existed in England.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 31, 2012 23:41:20 GMT -5
Just finished The Lodger, Alfred Hitchcock's first film, about a murderer.
Now watching Nosferatu!
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Post by loverofbeers on May 31, 2012 23:43:22 GMT -5
A brief synopsis of The Lodger from horrornews.net.
The Lodger (1927) subtitled A Story Of The London Fog was adapted by Eliot Stannard from a rather brilliant novel by Marie Belloc-Lowndes with a ‘Jack The Ripper’ theme, in which an unknown murderer is at large eliminating blondes. To a Bloomsbury boarding house comes a mysterious young man who keeps to himself and paces the floor despairingly before gliding out of the house on nocturnal sorties. Inevitably he is suspected, arrested and almost lynched before his innocence is established by the red-handed capture of the real killer. A major figure from the West End stage was cast in the lead, the popular Ivan Novello. The fact that he was a matinee idol meant that he had to be found innocent by the end, much to Hitchcock’s disappointment, for he would have preferred to have left open the possibility that he was the murderer. The same problem would crop up years later when Cary Grant behaved like a murderer in Suspicion (1941).
Drinking a Real Ale Lost Gold IPA, Cheers!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on May 31, 2012 23:51:48 GMT -5
Watched The Fly a Canadian horror film by Chronenberg. This is a great movie and while I'd seen the end before I'd never seen the full movie. Man Chronenberg really is a master of body horror. Goldblum just degrades more and more as the film goes on.
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Post by loverofbeers on May 31, 2012 23:54:27 GMT -5
I will earn my last two points, but the winner is JAS! I'm gonna dedicate the rest of this beer to you, and the next one. Well played, Sir. The theme for next month is?
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Post by loverofbeers on Jun 1, 2012 0:59:59 GMT -5
Typing before the end, which is nigh....
The original Nosferatu just ended. I have no idea how many times I have seen this movie. Max Shrek has no glitter, just rats and big ears. Cheers, Big Ears!
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Drinking a Saint Arnold Santo for JAS's butt-hurting victory over yours truly. Cheers!
And...... End movie! Prost JAS!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 1, 2012 1:58:35 GMT -5
Watched the aformentioned Horror Express after your post peaked my curiosity. Most of the acting is great particuarly Cushing, Lee, and the police inspector. That bald russian guy was laughably bad though. Really liked the idea though of this ancient being just trying to get back home. The whole gaining of knowledge quickly and permanently has always fascinated me and it was neat to see it slowly getting smarter ,but a horror setting isntead of a regular one like Limitless. This is a movie I'd like to see get remade.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jun 1, 2012 2:22:56 GMT -5
Thanks LOB yeah I managed to win ,but barely. Man I don't think both of us brought it his much since our original Halloween contest.
As for themes I don't really know I was thinking maybe horror anthology or low budget movies ,but don't really know of its broad enough. Maybe we can combine our ideas?
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