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Lost media is always fascinating for the "what could have been" factor. You never know what hidden gems are still out there. The most famous lost movie is easily the Day The Clown Cried but soon the world will know, we just gotta' wait 10 years. Then after that there's London After Midnight. But for me, one of the more interesting ones is Alberto Cavallone's Maldoror.
Alberto Cavallone was an Italian exploitation/art house (kinda) director whose' most famous film was Blue Movie (no affiliation with the Warhol picture) which was kind of an art house porno. His other films could be described in that way. I've seen 3 of his films and Blue Movie was the most interesting for me.
Maldoror was a book written around 1868 and whose author Issidore Ducasse (under the pen name Lautreamont) died shortly after release. The book was really discovered around the 1920's by the Surrealists and is considered to be one of the biggest influences to the movement and Lautreamont is considered to be one of the forefather's of Surrealism. Influencing everyone from Salvador Dali to Goddard. The book is a poetic novel about a being named Maldoror who may or may not be a fallen angel, a vampire, a shape-shifter, or just a lonely young man. The book is notable for it's prose, consistently shifting perspective, and passages of extreme violence and blasphemy. In short, perfect material for someone like Cavallone. Unfortunately, Cavallone's Maldoror was shown at film festivals, never picked up, and has been considered lost ever since. Some stills have emerged but so far that's been it.
Another one I found out about in the last year or so is a zombie flick called Dead End: http://obscurityandbeyond.blogspot.c...-end-1985.html
That article sums up the quest behind that film very nicely. But unlike other lost films, there are claims that some have seen it with pretty in depth descriptions. Few mention the "infamous" scene of a zombie baby crawling back inside it's mother.
Alberto Cavallone was an Italian exploitation/art house (kinda) director whose' most famous film was Blue Movie (no affiliation with the Warhol picture) which was kind of an art house porno. His other films could be described in that way. I've seen 3 of his films and Blue Movie was the most interesting for me.
Maldoror was a book written around 1868 and whose author Issidore Ducasse (under the pen name Lautreamont) died shortly after release. The book was really discovered around the 1920's by the Surrealists and is considered to be one of the biggest influences to the movement and Lautreamont is considered to be one of the forefather's of Surrealism. Influencing everyone from Salvador Dali to Goddard. The book is a poetic novel about a being named Maldoror who may or may not be a fallen angel, a vampire, a shape-shifter, or just a lonely young man. The book is notable for it's prose, consistently shifting perspective, and passages of extreme violence and blasphemy. In short, perfect material for someone like Cavallone. Unfortunately, Cavallone's Maldoror was shown at film festivals, never picked up, and has been considered lost ever since. Some stills have emerged but so far that's been it.
Another one I found out about in the last year or so is a zombie flick called Dead End: http://obscurityandbeyond.blogspot.c...-end-1985.html
That article sums up the quest behind that film very nicely. But unlike other lost films, there are claims that some have seen it with pretty in depth descriptions. Few mention the "infamous" scene of a zombie baby crawling back inside it's mother.
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