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Upbeat Tango Monday ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: April 10 2015 Location: Buenos Aires Status: Offline Points: 1189 |
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Horror of Dracula
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18045 |
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Hi, The Bela Lugosi version has some really well spoken dialogue that comes off really well, specially considering that English was not Bela Lugosi's first language. I have not noticed that if it was dubbed at all, as the face and expressions do not appear to be out of sync ... Try listening to the film, instead of watching it ... the words come out really well, and stronger than almost all the versions of the story. It doesn't sound "acted", or the words twisted in a way that fits the characterization of the Count ... which was very visible in Herzog's ... and while I like Christopher Lee's versions, even his words in the LP/CD of the reading, are not as smooth as Bela's. They are nice, but not as "visual" for me. Edited by moshkito - September 21 2020 at 13:00 |
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Polymorphia ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: November 06 2012 Location: here Status: Offline Points: 8856 |
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Both the Murnau and the Herzog versions of Nosferatu are great. I find the 1931 Dracula to be stagey and stale. The Coppola version of Dracula isn't too sharp either. I don't know too many other vampire films.
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geekfreak ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
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Christopher Lee Is a absolute magnificent actor add. Vincent Price and Peter Cushion superb talented trio... Hammer House Of Horrors: movies are absolute favourites of mine... You know which one took my vote ![]() |
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Atavachron ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65590 |
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Oh my god I think that's the Brady Bunch's Robert Reed. Roarke's fantasys usually involved some punishment or cautionary tale for the client, so the similarities between it and Golden Gun are quite striking. One almost wonders if they offered the show to Lee first. |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37129 |
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"Look boss, da plane, da plane" (Tattoo). "Welcome to Fantasy Island" (Mr. Roarke). "How do you like my island, Mr Bond?" (Scaramanga). Christopher Lee on an island with three nipples and a little man-servant could sound like a dream come true to some, but those nipples and servant are potentially deadly. I wrote a rather humorous -- humour being in the eye of the beholder -- and long treatise many years ago for a defunct site comparing the Man With the Golden Gun and Fantasy Island (and also comparing those to The Prisoner). Obviously both take place on islands, both have Hervé Villechaize looking much the same as Nick Nack and Tattoo and in in similar positions, Ricardo "Khannnnnn!" Montalban and Christoper Lee''s characters have definite similarities (in build, fashion sense, greyinging sideburn area, and more, and I find both sinister) both feature planes and both deal in fantasy -- one where the fantasy fulfillment involves the island's host killing the guest, and the other where the island's host is providing fantasy-fulfillment for the guests. Mr. Roarke with Tattoo vs. Scaramanga with Nick Nick, now that could be a duel between titans... my man-servant against yours. By the way, man-servant can refer to a part of the male anatomy, so I should stop saying that. ![]() Speaking of vampires and fantasy island, there was an episode of Fantasy Island called "Vampire/The Lady and the Longhorn". ![]() And I watched the Buck Rogers vampire episode again the other night (recorded off MeTV -- two favourites from their sci-fi night for me being The Invaders and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea). Edited by Logan - August 28 2020 at 14:13 |
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It was called Fantasy Island . |
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37129 |
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It most definitely is. I think the remake is called Let Me In. I haven't seen the remake and don't plan to -- well, I think I caught a bit of it. |
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Near Dark is a tremendous movie and gets my main vote. I've seen about 80% of these movies with, for me, other standouts as The Fearless Vampire Killers, 30 Days of Night, What We Do in the Shadows and From Dusk Til Dawn.
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I really enjoyed "Shadow of the Vampire" when I watched it, but only up to a certain scene in which the character Gustav von Wangenheim uses the word "Scheißkopf". This totally ruined the movie for me. "Scheißkopf" is not a German word at all; no German would ever use it. The word is nothing but a literal and false translation of "sh*thead" into German. A German would say "Scheißkerl", which literally translates as "sh*t guy". When this word was used it totally ruined the credibility of the movie for me.
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Blacksword ![]() Prog Reviewer ![]() ![]() Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130 |
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From the list, Let the Right one in. If that's the original Swedish version.. I'm guessing it is.
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Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!
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Earl of Mar ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: May 13 2020 Location: UK Status: Offline Points: 1214 |
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Love Hammer. Dracula for me will always be Lee pursued by Cushings Van Helsing.
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That's my vote......New Orleans, the natural place for vampires.
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Logan ![]() Forum & Site Admin Group ![]() ![]() Site Admin Joined: April 05 2006 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 37129 |
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^ My favourite film with Christopher Lee is the one in my avatar, and he loved that film. The Wicker Man for those that don't know it. What an amazing character Christopher Lee was in so many ways. And with him in The Man With The Golden Gun, I had thought of a little spin-off called "The Man with the Superfluous Mammalian Gland that Is a Nipple". Catchy title, I thought.
Francisco Scaramanga: "A duel between titans... my third nipple against your Walther PPK." James Bond: "What, your three nipples against my six bullets?" Francisco Scaramanga: "I only need the third one, Mr. Bond." The original dialogue: Francisco Scaramanga: "A duel between titans... my golden gun against your Walther PPK." James Bond: "One bullet against my six?" Francisco Scaramanga: "I only need one, Mr. Bond." Bond and big Lee fans will know that Scaramanga as played by the amazing Christopher Lee had three nipples (a superfluous mammalian gland, a supernumerary (third) nipple), as well as a golden gun which took only one bullet. I just watched Bram Stoker's Dracula again last night, and now I feel kind of bad leaving it off the list, still feel Keanu Reeves performance to be as wooden as a stake through the heart. Good call on Carl Theodor Dreyer's Vampyr, Morningrise, which I have seen. Obviously I only have so many spaces and am going to leave some off, but for such a classic that is an odd omission despite only posting films I have seen. Edited by Logan - August 08 2020 at 12:19 |
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18045 |
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Hi, It's a good movie, and Christopher Lee has always been a very good looking Dracula, although the Hammer version is probably more film educated than it is novel educated. Btw ... I was just thinking about your tag line "Life Is Not As Good As The Book. It sure can SUCK!!!!" ... and how we might rewrite that ... so it fits this board better ... no one reads here much ... some are well read, but the majority don't know what a book is ... so it should say ... "Life is not as good as a SONG. It sure ain't PROGRESSIVE!"
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geekfreak ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 21 2013 Location: Musical Garden Status: Offline Points: 9872 |
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Horror Of Dracula (1958) got my vote i also like the movie “Untold Story”
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Atavachron ![]() Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 30 2006 Location: Pearland Status: Offline Points: 65590 |
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Vampire flicks were never a favorite of mine but I gotta give it to the 1931 original Dracula, such a beautiful film ~ ![]() an early influence on Batman, surely - I recently watched Brides of Dracula, a Hammer production form '60 with surprisingly good detail and script... ![]() ...and featuring the lovely Yvonne Monlaur Edited by Atavachron - July 13 2020 at 15:02 |
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Argo2112 ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: June 20 2017 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 4462 |
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Went with From Dusk to Dawn. I'm much more of a Frankenstein fan then Dracula/Vampires.
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Lifeforce is my personal favourite and I also like Salem's Lot too.
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moshkito ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: January 04 2007 Location: Grok City Status: Offline Points: 18045 |
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Hi, The Fearless Vampire Killers ... 1967 ... Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Alfie Bass, Jessie Robins, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, David Hemmings (with fake name) Director of Cinematography is Douglas Slocombe ... The Music Lovers, The Lion in Winter, The Great Gatsby, Rollerball, Julia, Nilinsky, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lady Jane ... not exactly someone that would not know his way around the camera, which I'm sure he had fun talking with to Roman about to make the film slick'er and funnier. However, Roman is well known as a director for creating shots that are scary and difficult and incredible and at times insane. In TESS, the camera is the rapist (so to speak), in ROSEMARY'S BABY at least one shot is the kind that shows you how curious everyone of us is, and can be taken for a ride ... on a film, in The Fearless Vampire Killers, the shot from the middle of the ballroom is INCREDIBLY CLASSIC and insane at the same time ... it's beautifully done!
Part of the problem is the commercialism that everything is tied to and how something like Variety shows "numbers" to make you believe that this film or that film are good, and the one that did not bring in any money is a lousy film. No one, NO ONE, realizes who owns and pays for Variety ... the film studios, thus only their films get a listing and all the rest is crap! Today, with the virus situation, these numbers "don't exist" ... and no film is going to be perceived as making gazillions, and I think that the "big names" are hoping that film theaters return so they can make another film and collect half a billion ... so, yeah, my take is that this will likely not happen and things will change to the small guy film maker and this will be a boon for smaller films ... and artists!
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