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#32
Frankenstein Created Woman
(Terence Fisher, 1967)
I know that '..Must Be Destroyed' is usually the critics choice, but this remains my favourite entry in the Hammer Frankenstein series.
I'll refrain from blathering on about it, but hey, why not google up Martin Scorcese waxing lyrical about it instead? Always worth a read.
Random memory:
The blu-ray has a commentary track with Jonathan Rigby talking to Derek Fowlds and the other actors who play the gang of bully-boys in the film, and there's a bit where Rigby reads them Scorcese's thoughts on the film's grand metaphysical significance. There's a pause for a few beats, and then...
"HE, said THAT, about THIS?"
(another pause)
"I wish I'd have known, I would've asked him for a job."
Really cracked me up.
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#33
Taste The Blood of Dracula
(Peter Sasdy, 1970)
Likewise, although I've gained a whole new respect for the '58 original in the past few years, and I appreciate '..Prince of Darkness' a lot more than I used to, this is still my pick for the best Christopher Lee Dracula movie.
Sasdy's direction has real punch, the performances are all just great, and above all, the idea of Dracula inspiring these prim, Victorian young ladies with ever-more-plunging necklines to rebel against their hypocritical arsehole fathers is just too delightful to resist; a complete 180 on the moral universe of Fisher's films, and very much pre-empting the kind of hi-jinks Linda Hayden would go on to get up to in 'Blood on Satan's Claw' a year or two later.
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Frankenstein Created Woman
(Terence Fisher, 1967)
I know that '..Must Be Destroyed' is usually the critics choice, but this remains my favourite entry in the Hammer Frankenstein series.
I'll refrain from blathering on about it, but hey, why not google up Martin Scorcese waxing lyrical about it instead? Always worth a read.
Random memory:
The blu-ray has a commentary track with Jonathan Rigby talking to Derek Fowlds and the other actors who play the gang of bully-boys in the film, and there's a bit where Rigby reads them Scorcese's thoughts on the film's grand metaphysical significance. There's a pause for a few beats, and then...
"HE, said THAT, about THIS?"
(another pause)
"I wish I'd have known, I would've asked him for a job."
Really cracked me up.
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#33
Taste The Blood of Dracula
(Peter Sasdy, 1970)
Likewise, although I've gained a whole new respect for the '58 original in the past few years, and I appreciate '..Prince of Darkness' a lot more than I used to, this is still my pick for the best Christopher Lee Dracula movie.
Sasdy's direction has real punch, the performances are all just great, and above all, the idea of Dracula inspiring these prim, Victorian young ladies with ever-more-plunging necklines to rebel against their hypocritical arsehole fathers is just too delightful to resist; a complete 180 on the moral universe of Fisher's films, and very much pre-empting the kind of hi-jinks Linda Hayden would go on to get up to in 'Blood on Satan's Claw' a year or two later.
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