Horror with Colin & Mitch
From YearOfTheTeledu
| This is a Scheduled Programme Item |
| Day: Saturday |
| Time: 11AM |
| Duration: 1 Hour |
| Location: Knighton |
| Named Organiser: Colin & Mitch |
Colin & Mitch write books on films, talk about films on the radio and generally watch a lot of films.
May contain adult content: No under 18s allowed.
A bit about the films discussed:
Contents |
[edit] El Vampiro (1957)
Plucky Marta returns to her family home, meeting the overly-jovial Enrique on the way. But Enrique is an agent for Marta’s uncle, here to undercover the mysterious deaths that have plagued the locals as well as the attempts by the neighbourly aristocrat Mr Duvel to buy the decrepit hacienda. Duvel is also not who he seems, in reality he is Count Karol de Lavud, currently draining the local villagers in order to resurrect his long dead brother and desperate to turn Marta into a vampire, like her black-clad aunt.
· Part of a wave of Mexican horror that that was prevalent in the late 50’s early 60’s
· Count Karol de Lavud’s (Germán Robles) suave, impeccably dressed vampire
· Sequel - El Ataúd del Vampiro (The Vampires Coffin, 1958)
· In camera editing and jump cuts
· Moody b&w visuals
[edit] Mr Vampire (1985)
· Lam Ching Ying’s dynamic Van Helsing style character battling vampiric mayhem
· Hopping vampire trend the jiangshi dianying film started here although there were earlier examples (7 Golden Vampires for example)
· Mixes horror and comedy
· Note the garish colour, the acrobatics etc
· Methods of dispatch are unusual
· Numerous spinoffs to this day – notably Musical Vampire, the westernised Doctor Vampire etc…
[edit] Kuroneko (1968)
· Kaneto Shindo’s companion piece to Onibaba
· Deliberately evocative, eroticised b&w cinematography
· Extremely innovative and stylised editing in the fight sequence – unlike Western or even Chinese film
· Popular Japanese style mixing of the jidai geki with the oni or ghost film
[edit] Nails [Gvozdi (2003)]
Hitman is having migraines, vivid hallucinations and an identity crisis bought on by years of indoctrination, drugs and through his forced killing of Hitwoman. The solution to his problems seems to lie in his toolbox where six inch nails hammered into his skull seem to provide relief from his living nightmare.
· Andrey Iskanov’s debut is a surreal and nightmarish vision of Hell in your own mind – like a Shinya Tsukamoto flick
· B&W to colour, good use of sound
· Rare Russian horror (Night/Daywatch excepted) – also made Visions of Suffering (2006)
· Only real dialogue at the opening and close
· Predominantly visual film
[edit] Purana Mandir (1984)
200 years ago in Bijapur the demonic sorcerer Saamri caused havoc – defiling women, drinking the blood of children and desecrating graves in order to eat the corpses within. In order to stop his bloody reign this chained fiend is decapitated, his body buried and his head guarded with Shiva’s trident. At his semi-execution Saamri decrees that all of Singh’s female heirs will die horribly in childbirth. Fast forward to present day and the last heir is worried that his daughter Suman’s growing up will invoke the curse.
· Sleeper hit
· Ramsey Brothers proved controversial in censorious India and even got in trouble from posters
· Throws everything at the screen with joyous abandon
