Ina's 70s Horror Blog http://horrorclass.posterous.com To Die For: The American Horror Film From 1968-1980. Prof. Freitas posterous.com Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:04:34 -0700 il giallo della paine! @ governors island http://horrorclass.posterous.com/il-giallo-della-paine-governors-island http://horrorclass.posterous.com/il-giallo-della-paine-governors-island


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I've begun my own little horror film that's included in an installation of my short films in the basement of 17 Nolan Park, Governors Island where West Harlem Art Fund has a group exhibit called "Loosely Coupled".


The basement setting plus two fascinating summers of 70s American, and British and Italian Horror, inspired "Il Giallo Della Paine" the 3rd film in a trio I'm calling "Upstairs in the Basement".


Here are some shots of the installation and some of the characters in the video:


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Some of the players...


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Giallo chic, an attempt at Hammer Glamour & Frank!



PC and Me 3Ah, and my hero, Dr. Van Helsing!


Giallo wallpaper And, of Course, Wallpaper!


Screening one more weekend: Sept. 24th and 25th! See you in The Basement!

 

 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:41:00 -0700 From Beyond: Dellamorte Dellamore (1994) d. Michele Soavi http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-dellamorte-dellamore-1994-d-miche http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-dellamorte-dellamore-1994-d-miche

DELLAMORTE DELLAMORE aka CEMETERY MAN-POSTER

While this wasn't my very favorite film, "Cemetery Man" was the perfect way to bid Cheerio and Arrivederci to our British and Italian film class. The trip down the road to the uncanny that started with Dead of Night:

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(open) ends with another Brit, Rupert Everett, on another precipice...

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Sorry to see it end, as always, but I'm looking forward to my next foray into different worlds of the horror genre (I hear it's Asian Horror) Meanwhile, I have plenty of giallo and Hammer to catch up on!

And you know I can't resist a disembodied head!

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La Tête Sans Corps "Lobby Card" (2007) digital print, ina diane archer

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:16:00 -0700 sally hardesty!! http://horrorclass.posterous.com/sally-hardesty http://horrorclass.posterous.com/sally-hardesty

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 (via Tom Blunt's Meet the Lady)

Here's a longish Texas Chainsaw Massacre post: Sally Through the Looking Glass 

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Class is drawing to a close tonight so I can't say more right now about amazing (and disarming) Santa Sangre but you've got to love a horror film that features lots of Perez Prado on the soundtrack!


 


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¡Dilo!"

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:59:00 -0700 From Beyond: toby dammit (1968) d. frederico fellini http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-toby-dammit-1968-d-frederico-fell http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-toby-dammit-1968-d-frederico-fell

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This Fellini short was extraordinary!

Terence Stamp is so affecting in this Poe interpretation by Fellini from the compendium film, Spirits of the Dead.  The story seems to exemplify the meeting of British and Italian (horror) cinema.  Loved it! Anon...

 

 

 


 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Thu, 21 Jul 2011 13:31:24 -0700 From Beyond: the beyond aka e tu vivrai nel terrore! l'aldilà (1981) d. Lucio Fulci. http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-the-beyond-aka-e-tu-vivrai-nel-te http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-the-beyond-aka-e-tu-vivrai-nel-te

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LET THE EIBON TEMPS ROULE!


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I like how this trailer pretends that something else significant happens in the movie. It features most of the grossest moments including my favorite(?), the creeping, foamy, bloody-acid Zombie juice.  It's like zombie Mr. Bubble!


 


Scariest parts of the film includes the poster below daring to relate the film in any way to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and that it doesn't realize that in NOLA, as in the Alamo, there is no basement! Oh yes, and the synthesizer (I actually loved that!)


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That said, it struck me that there was something in The Beyond that could be used metaphorically to explore a post-Katrina landscape. Intriguingly, Fulci locates (and shoots) the film in Louisiana, but otherwise makes nothing of the setting or the culture.  And Hello, Zombies...


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love this from: Fulcithon

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Thu, 21 Jul 2011 12:44:25 -0700 From Beyond: suspiria (1977) d. dario argento http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-suspiria-1977-d-dario-argento http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-suspiria-1977-d-dario-argento

Suspiria b+W wallpaper FABulous!


You know I've always loved Suspiria but this time found it a bit wanting in relation to some of the other films we've seen in both semesters of my Horror classes. Maybe I've outgrown it for the moment.  It made me think of my favorite Italian-Film-To-Rag-Upon, Io Sono Amore (don't get me started!)--gorgeous and exciting, full of sound (GOBLIN!) and fury (razor-wire room?) signifying nothing. Yes, there are hints at fascism and maybe class insulation but is there even a hint ("a bat squeak" as PM, David Cameron says)of critique?  Well there is a phenomenal bat...Still as far as style (Italianate, 70's Deco, Nouveau Modern decor, clothes, maekup and hair),sound, wallpaper and just plain nuttiness in horror goes, Suspiria is beato!


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"Just curious, what's going on in this scene?"

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:35:00 -0700 From Beyond: la casa dalle finestre che ridono (the house of the laughing windows) (1976) d. pupi avati http://horrorclass.posterous.com/la-casa-dalle-finestre-che-ridono-the-house-o http://horrorclass.posterous.com/la-casa-dalle-finestre-che-ridono-the-house-o

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A great film! Sort of a cross between Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Rosemary's Baby, and Black Christmas (with a little 8½ thrown in). More later but I couldn't help but to think of this work by Sanford Biggers:


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?

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Christopher Lee...or a CAT??

I, Monster (1971) d. Stephen Weeks (stellar cat performance @ 3:14)

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Cat Eyes!! And check out the tag line...  (via http://www.cannon.org.uk/)

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:32:50 -0700 From Beyond: la maschera del demonio (1960) d. mario bava http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-la-maschera-del-demonio-1960-d-ma-99367 http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-la-maschera-del-demonio-1960-d-ma-99367

What th'!


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What is the name of this movie?(Black Sunday, The Mask of the Demon, The Hour When Dracula Comes?..) No matter what,it's fab! More anon...


@ ina's 70's horror

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:20:34 -0700 From Beyond: La Maschera del Demonio (1960) d. Mario Bava http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-la-maschera-del-demonio-1960-d-ma http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-la-maschera-del-demonio-1960-d-ma
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Enjoy the skin you're in!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Thu, 07 Jul 2011 11:50:00 -0700 From Beyond: Les Yeux Sans Visage (1960) d. Georges Franju http://horrorclass.posterous.com/les-yeux-sans-visage-1960-d-georges-franju http://horrorclass.posterous.com/les-yeux-sans-visage-1960-d-georges-franju
A little vacances in France before heading to Italy...

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Despite French "comedies" (who makes the joke that the phrase is oxymoronic?) dsl, and Catherine Breillat movies, I agree with the assertion that the French disdain horror.  However, when they do it it's trés chic and spooky as in the case of Eyes Without a Face.  This, the original Face-Off, features Alida Valli and a hard to recognize (except for his beautiful voice), cold and uncharmant, Pierre Brasseur.  It was hard not to think of this film the final revenge of the Cinema du Papa--that Brasseur exemplified in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945)-- as he and Valli cruise and scalpel off the faces of les jeune filles du Paris who, in 1959/60, are just on the cusp of the Nouvelle Vague.  (Papa needs les peaux to give a new look to his Givenchy clad daughter locked away in a banlieue chateau.) The Cahiers  crowd were waiting just around the corner...

But what is Papa Le Docteur if not an Auteur in grafting!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Fri, 01 Jul 2011 17:36:00 -0700 From Beyond: 28 Days Later (2003) d. Danny Boyle http://horrorclass.posterous.com/28-days-later-2003-d-danny-boyle http://horrorclass.posterous.com/28-days-later-2003-d-danny-boyle
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Hel-looo!

Well, as our class leaves England with 28 Days Later we've come full circle to the country house of Dead Of Night.  I'm having trouble finding images of the mansion at the end of the film but while looking I ran into this little gem:

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Fri, 01 Jul 2011 11:57:00 -0700 From Beyond: Hellraiser (1987) d. Clive Barker http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-hellraiser-1987-d-clive-barker http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-hellraiser-1987-d-clive-barker
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Hellraiser was Hel-larious!!  I guess everyone else had already seen it but I was cracking up throughout...

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What about Clare Higgins/Julia, the classic evil stepmom with her 80’s blowback, round-brush ‘do, aggressive powder rouge, power suits and tripartite eye shadow—not waiting for the hammer to fall?

And how about Uncle Frank, the slasher film’s Uncle Charlie?

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Who doesn’t have an addicted uncle who returns to live in the attic or the basement after too many spiritual and sexual misadventures in foreign climes? He’s just trying to pull himself together, the messed up, crackhead sibling who dresses himself for a new role in the straight world (like Dickie in The Fighter),

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even tho’ he has no skin and the shirts and suits get soaked with blood. 
That leechy vampire relative…

Hellraiser was like Dracula and Frankenstein put together--or pulled apart really.

I could go on listing the things that cracked me up:
The silly (visual) double entendres:
Nails, getting “nailed”, and “hammered”
The Cinnebon with the "vagine" for a throat? 
And the giant larvae wearing sunglasses? 
And the penis head with the teeth?  Well, it was more like a peen with a vagine.  A kind of Pegine Dentata!
And last but not least, the guy John calls "Aqualung" who is actually the hoarder who lives up the street from the studio.

The film, which I enjoyed but have no need to see more of, has many of the themes I’ve found interesting in this group of British horror films—which I haven’t yet outlined here.  Whether intended or due to budget constraints, the ambiguous settings gives the film an unsettled, claustrophobic feeling. The action is mostly confined to a few isolated locations that all seen to come from different periods but are always vaguely English (that "eclectic" 80's style thing). I particularly like the super slick bar where Lipstick, Red Julia picks up a succession of balding douchbag victims (shown in a bloody montage) and was reminded in class of the bizarre 1940’s hospital room—that could have come out of Tommy or The Singing Detective, with the TV that only plays the Flower Show (the English like to  garden). The Ealing-style pet store was full of grasshoppers! 

The main location, the antique house that any adolescent girl would avoid getting stuck in with her parents, is filled with trash at first and the requisite suspicious “old” things that I’ve noticed in many horror films that we’ve seen (often represented by floral wallpaper).  It’s the “fantastic” house of the Chainsaw family and Let's Scare Jessica To Death.  It’s attic literally has a heart and organs and the floorboards breathe like the doors of Hill House.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:10:00 -0700 From Beyond: Don't Look Now (1973) d. Nicolas Roeg http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-dont-look-now-1973-d-nicolas-roeg http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-dont-look-now-1973-d-nicolas-roeg

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image via: http://extendedcut.blogspot.com/

An amazingly beautiful film, both British & Italian, that requires time and attention so just a place holder right now.

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Just the clothes require their own posts! Fabulous!!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:05:00 -0700 From Beyond: The Witchfinder General (1968) d. Michael Reeves http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-the-witchfinder-general-1968-d-mi http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-the-witchfinder-general-1968-d-mi

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"All Of Them Wi-atchz" *(a previous post)

aka:

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:21:00 -0700 From Beyond: The Haunting (1963) d. Robert Wise http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-the-haunting-1963-d-robert-wise http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-the-haunting-1963-d-robert-wise

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There's no place like home!

meanwhile: 

The *DECOR OF HORROR coming soon.... 

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image via: http://wondersinthedark.files.wordpress.com/

*Posts devoted to the presence of wallpaper and interior decoration in horror films: aka The Wallpaper of Terror...

and the fashions of horror, too!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:04:00 -0700 From Beyond: Peeping Tom (1960) d. Michael Powell (of love) http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-peeping-tom-1960-michael-the-grea http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyond-peeping-tom-1960-michael-the-grea

"Every night you turn on that film machine..."

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MWAH! I loves you Bolex! (or Bell & Howell...)
via:1linereview.blogspot.com

BEWARE of the bongo's in this trailer!
 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:46:08 -0700 From Beyond:Curse of Frankenstein (1957) d. Terence Fisher http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyondcurse-of-frankenstein-1957-d-teren http://horrorclass.posterous.com/from-beyondcurse-of-frankenstein-1957-d-teren
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I was totally excited to see this on my birthday!

Here's my previous post on this blog:
http://horrorclass.posterous.com/the-curse-of-frankenstein-1957-the-revenge-of#

And more to follow, I just have to stitch it together.
Meanwhile here's a collage with my "beloved" Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Frankenstein's Gothic twin...

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/521113/soulful_w-lisa_face_lge.jpg http://posterous.com/users/36ENorpVAsDL inaarcher inaarcher Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:16:00 -0700 From Beyond: Dead of Night (1945) d. Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer http://horrorclass.posterous.com/dead-of-night-1945-d-alberto-cavalcanti-charl http://horrorclass.posterous.com/dead-of-night-1945-d-alberto-cavalcanti-charl
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Hooray!  My summer horror class has begun!
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From Beyond: The British and Italian Horror Film : Instructor: John Freitas 

The Horror film, begotten from Gothic Romance, born out of technology and nurtured by God, Freud, and blood, attempts (at it’s best) to encapsulate the individual’s desperate struggle with morality and religion for one’s self, one’s humanity. Two countries whose filmmakers have most notably articulated these complex themes of individual integrity and moral chaos via the horror genre are England and Italy. Themes explored and unearthed include; abjection, colonialism, misogyny, scopophilia and sexual repression with a specific focus on the image and roles of women and religion. In a comprehensive and comparative analysis the course discovers, defines, and discusses a series of great horror films by well known and less-known masters, including Dario Argento, Clive Barker, Mario Bava, Danny Boyle, Alberto Cavalcanti, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Michael Powell, Nicolas Roeg, and Jacques Tourneur. 

The British and Italian Horror Film Screening Series 
The following films are screened: Dead of Night (Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden, Robert Hamer, 1945), Curse of Frankenstein (Terence Fisher, 1957), Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960), The Haunting (Robert Wise, 1963),The Witchfinder General aka The Conqueror Worm(Michael Reeves, 1968), Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973), Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987) and 28 days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002); Les Yeux Sans Visage aka Eyes Without a Face (George Franju,1959), La Maschera del Demonio aka Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960), La Casa dalle Finestre che Ridono aka House with Laughing Windows, (Pupi Avati, 1976), Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1976) Tu Vivrai Nel Terrore! L’Aldila aka The Beyond (Lucio Fulci, 1981), Sante Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989) and Dellamorte Dellamore aka Cemetery Man (Michele Soavi, 1994). 

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