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Post by Johnlprobert on Jan 9, 2008 14:03:50 GMT
The post Xmas period for me has mainly consisted of watching low-budget 70s Spanish horror pictures filled with the kind of exploitation elements we all know & love. I know this site is dedicated to British (hurrah!) crud but anyone who's a fan of the Cushing-Lee Horror Express might want to check out The Lorelei's Grasp that stars both Sylvis Tortosa & Helga Line, who's also on show (in every way imaginable) in Horror Rises from the Tomb. The Region 1 DVDs are lovely transfers and I got mine from the Us for about a fiver each.
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 17, 2010 21:00:31 GMT
I know it's been a long time since this thread was started, but I'm a fan of cheesy Spanish horror flicks. How about 'Los Muertos Sin Ojos' - the Blind Dead? There are four films about these creatures, who are a cross between mummies and zombies, a cult of evil Templars who go in for molesting Spanish ladies in shorts an awful lot. And you must have come across the awe-inspiringly awful Coffin Joe.
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Post by marksamuels on Jul 18, 2010 0:26:32 GMT
Coffin Joe is Brazilian, I believe.
I like the Blind Dead series; apart from the one set on a ghost ship, that's a bit dull. Good ending though.
I think Lord P shares my enthusiasm for Who Could Kill a Child?
Mark S.
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 18, 2010 7:40:08 GMT
Coffin Joe is indeed Brazilian, and daft as a brush. I still have 'Embodiment of Evil' on the shelf that I haven't seen.
The Blind Dead movies are fab and I watch them at least once a year. As Mark says the third one is a bit rubbish but the others are all superbly creepy, with the final film (Night of the Seagulls) being far better, and more Lovecraftian, than you would expect.
Who Could Kill A Child is a film that could probably only have been made in the controversial, experimental, anything-goes period of the mid-seventies. According to Serrador (in an interview in House of Hammer I think - see how all these things link together?) it's meant to be science fiction and set in the future, where most of the world is 'going to hell' (which is what the radio reports and newspaper stories are meant to be about at the start). It works really well as a straightforward horror picture, though.
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Post by Steve on Jul 18, 2010 9:09:06 GMT
Who Could Kill A Child is a film that could probably only have been made in the controversial, experimental, anything-goes period of the mid-seventies. According to Serrador (in an interview in House of Hammer I think - see how all these things link together?)... Ah, memories! When I was... oh, about 10 or so, I suppose... I used to do my own 'magazine' called, wait for it... Horrorscope. Wrote it all out myself longhand in biro, drew all the pictures, stapled the bastard. Circulation of 2 or 3. Remember my dad leafing through one copy and being a bit taken aback by an article I'd written (well, it was really more of a paraphrase of that same HOH article you mention) about Who Could Kill A Child. I think he was ready to call in a child psychologist. I'd never seen the film at the time of course, I just thought it sounded... interesting. When I did finally get to see it years later I was a little bit disappointed, to be honest. Not that it's a bad film at all, just that I think I'd built it up in my mind to some sort of semi-mythical status - you know, it was one of those films that I'd heard about (ususally courtesy of HOH) but never thought I'd get chance to see. It still amazes me that you can get just about anything on DVD these days - I'm assuming this is true of WCKAC - or at least find it on the internet with little or no fuss. It's like when I saw Driller Killer for sale in the local pound shop once - probably cut to ribbons but still, this stuff was considered dangerous back in the day, if not actually obscene. These days it seems it's about as dangerous as a garden gnome. I digress... |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 19, 2010 6:26:17 GMT
Clockwork Orange was the mythical film I didn't see until much older.
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Post by bushwick on Jul 19, 2010 17:08:58 GMT
Who Could Kill A Child is a film that could probably only have been made in the controversial, experimental, anything-goes period of the mid-seventies. According to Serrador (in an interview in House of Hammer I think - see how all these things link together?)... Ah, memories! When I was... oh, about 10 or so, I suppose... I used to do my own 'magazine' called, wait for it... Horrorscope. Wrote it all out myself longhand in biro, drew all the pictures, stapled the bastard. Circulation of 2 or 3. Remember my dad leafing through one copy and being a bit taken aback by an article I'd written (well, it was really more of a paraphrase of that same HOH article you mention) about Who Could Kill A Child. I think he was ready to call in a child psychologist. I'd never seen the film at the time of course, I just thought it sounded... interesting. When I did finally get to see it years later I was a little bit disappointed, to be honest. Not that it's a bad film at all, just that I think I'd built it up in my mind to some sort of semi-mythical status - you know, it was one of those films that I'd heard about (ususally courtesy of HOH) but never thought I'd get chance to see. It still amazes me that you can get just about anything on DVD these days - I'm assuming this is true of WCKAC - or at least find it on the internet with little or no fuss. It's like when I saw Driller Killer for sale in the local pound shop once - probably cut to ribbons but still, this stuff was considered dangerous back in the day, if not actually obscene. These days it seems it's about as dangerous as a garden gnome. I digress... Steve, you freak me out - I did EXACTLY this sort of stuff when I was kid. Uncanny. My folks did actually get a child psychologist in to see me as I just drew pictures of monsters and bloody violence! |
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Post by Johnlprobert on Jul 19, 2010 20:20:54 GMT
Ah, memories! When I was... oh, about 10 or so, I suppose... I used to do my own 'magazine' called, wait for it... Horrorscope. Wrote it all out myself longhand in biro, drew all the pictures, stapled the bastard. Circulation of 2 or 3. Remember my dad leafing through one copy and being a bit taken aback by an article I'd written (well, it was really more of a paraphrase of that same HOH article you mention) about Who Could Kill A Child. I think he was ready to call in a child psychologist. I'd never seen the film at the time of course, I just thought it sounded... interesting. When I did finally get to see it years later I was a little bit disappointed, to be honest. Not that it's a bad film at all, just that I think I'd built it up in my mind to some sort of semi-mythical status - you know, it was one of those films that I'd heard about (ususally courtesy of HOH) but never thought I'd get chance to see. It still amazes me that you can get just about anything on DVD these days - I'm assuming this is true of WCKAC - or at least find it on the internet with little or no fuss. It's like when I saw Driller Killer for sale in the local pound shop once - probably cut to ribbons but still, this stuff was considered dangerous back in the day, if not actually obscene. These days it seems it's about as dangerous as a garden gnome. I digress... Steve, you freak me out - I did EXACTLY this sort of stuff when I was kid. Uncanny. My folks did actually get a child psychologist in to see me as I just drew pictures of monsters and bloody violence! Count me in too - I did a mag called 'The Horror Profile', done on that pulpy wood paper we were given to draw on at school, with cut out pictures. I only ever did one issue. It had a Christopher Lee career retrospective and the cover was devoted to The Alligator People, kicking off my A-Z of horror. My dad was unimpressed. "Why can't you do that about Brahms?" he asked. (You need to imagine that in a fiery Welsh accent to fully appreciate how cowed my ten year old self was) |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 20, 2010 9:45:35 GMT
Steve, you freak me out - I did EXACTLY this sort of stuff when I was kid. Uncanny. My folks did actually get a child psychologist in to see me as I just drew pictures of monsters and bloody violence! Count me in too - I did a mag called 'The Horror Profile', done on that pulpy wood paper we were given to draw on at school, with cut out pictures. I only ever did one issue. It had a Christopher Lee career retrospective and the cover was devoted to The Alligator People, kicking off my A-Z of horror. My dad was unimpressed. "Why can't you do that about Brahms?" he asked. (You need to imagine that in a fiery Welsh accent to fully appreciate how cowed my ten year old self was) Coming from a broken home I had more leeway but I am afraid I am part of the team. I still have a jotter kicking about with mostly sf stories but they were generally very visceral. Poor mum never got the psychologist in because we didn't know they existed but the doctor was consulted. Needless to say he pronounced me incurable. |
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Post by lemming13 on Jul 20, 2010 18:11:11 GMT
I was another of the scribbling brood, but my mother actually didn't freak out; she did get a bit worried when I developed a lifelong phobia of things touching my eyeballs from watching Bunuel's An Andalusian Dog, but generally she had no problem with my writing horror fanzines, and sitting up watching Creature Features. I stand corrected over Coffin Joe, I forgot he was Brazilian cheese. But the Murders in the Manchester Morgue, that was Spanish. And there have been a few recent ones which stand up very well; I enjoyed The Dark Hour, Fermat's Room and Timecrimes, and of course The Orphanage. Mind you, they're a bit classier than the kind of pulp we all know and love. Rec, though, (and I in no way recommend the Americanised one, because I haven't seen it), touches the old gory roots.
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Post by Steve on Jul 21, 2010 6:12:32 GMT
I still have a jotter kicking about with mostly sf stories but they were generally very visceral. Reminds me of the still, as yet, unfinished sequel to The Incredible Melting Man I started when I was about 12. It was very densely plotted - there was this man and he was really, you know... melty. Seem to remember some bosoms as well and... well, that was it basically - this bloke melting all over this woman's bosoms. What an opening chapter that was. I don't write 'em like that anymore... |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 21, 2010 7:15:06 GMT
I still have a jotter kicking about with mostly sf stories but they were generally very visceral. Reminds me of the still, as yet, unfinished sequel to The Incredible Melting Man I started when I was about 12. It was very densely plotted - there was this man and he was really, you know... melty. Seem to remember some bosoms as well and... well, that was it basically - this bloke melting all over this woman's bosoms. What an opening chapter that was. I don't write 'em like that anymore... Sounds brilliant. Finish it before you see it in the next blockbuster |
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Jul 21, 2010 8:48:17 GMT
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