Showing posts with label Dracula A.D. 1972. Show all posts
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Monday, October 12, 2020

SHOCKTOBERFEST 2020 FOURTH EDITION, A ROUGH TRANSITION TO THE MODERN ERA


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This week’s edition of Shocktoberfest 2020 is about old world horrors under the modern world’s electric lights. A Bay of Blood, which I wrote about last week, is an apt milestone to delineate between the dignified, gloomy gothic horror films set in the past and the newer, present-day, violent, and gory horror films that began to push them aside. Viewers began to lose interest in watching movies set in the previous century and began to crave movies set in a more familiar world – the one they were living in now. 

Friday, July 5, 2019

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) [Paul Naschy]

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) [Paul Naschy]
La rebelión de las muertas (original title)
Director: León Klimovsky (as Leon Klimovsky)
Writers: Paul Naschy (screenplay) (as Jacinto Molina), Paul Naschy (story) (as Jacinto Molina)

León Klimovsky's Vengeance of the Zombies draws from many sources.  It presents a jaw dropping mashup of Hindu mysticism, Satanism, and Voodoo, plus references to the  Kali Death cult thuggees and a nod to the writings of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. This willingness to clump all sorts of horror sources together in one movie was a trademark of Spanish actor, director, and screenwriter Paul Naschy (who provided the screenplay). A truly admirable quality from Naschy's large body of work, as uneven or downright weird as it could get, was his love of the genre. He truly was a Glenn Danzig before there was a Glenn Danzig.