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Post by valdemar on Aug 10, 2013 7:40:08 GMT
Hello. I have just sat at work for the last 12 hours with the thought of a film I CANNOT put a name to, and it's starting to get on my chimes. The film starts with a woman in a psychiatrist's office. As part of her treatment, the psychiatrist hypnotises her, and then 'regresses' her - way past her birth, and into a previous incarnation, somewhere back in mediaeval times. and here my memory of the film gets hazy. I know that a rather camp Devil appears, and I think that the woman's timeline is catastrophically altered, as at the end of the film, she has vanished from the shrink's office, but her clothes, still buttoned and zipped up, etc. are left on the chair she was seated in. I thought it might have been a Roger Corman movie, as I DO recall it having that AIP 'look', in the same way that a lot of Gothic horrors from Bray have that HAMMER 'look'.
The film I'm trying to find might have been made by Corman's close associates Floyd Crosby and Daniel Haller - it has that kind of feel. Can any of you lovely, well-adjusted people out there help? Cheers.
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Post by mattofthespurs on Aug 10, 2013 13:05:57 GMT
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Post by valdemar on Aug 11, 2013 6:08:09 GMT
Thank you! That's the bunny. Didn't realise it was a fifties movie. I've now looked it up on thingypedia - what a great poster for it! Thanks again - my headache has eased off now. I would never have thought of 'The Undead' in a million years.  |
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Post by mattofthespurs on Aug 11, 2013 6:32:54 GMT
No problem, happy to help.
Can't remember where I left my keys, or even what day it is, but this kind of malarkey I have an aptitude for.
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Post by ripper on Aug 14, 2013 8:27:03 GMT
Larry Buchanan re-made a number of 1950s AIP B+W films in colour in the mid/late 1960s for sale direct to television. Sadly, The Undead wasn't one of them.
The Undead was featured as an episode of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, which is where I first saw it. It's low budget, as you'd expect from an AIP film from the 1950s, but I thought it was quite entertaining and didn't really deserve the ribbing it received. I don't know, but I wonder if AIP made The Undead to cash in on the popularity of The Search for Bridey Murphy?
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