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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:10,800 --> 00:00:12,760 Well, we have The Mad Foxes now. 2 00:00:14,620 --> 00:00:15,780 What to say about this one? 3 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:21,000 I love this film. I didn't see it for a long, long time. I think I only saw it 4 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:22,000 about five years ago. 5 00:00:22,120 --> 00:00:25,220 And you know how you think maybe you've squeezed the last drops out of a 6 00:00:25,220 --> 00:00:29,060 particular period of film. You think, OK, I know my Spanish horror now. 7 00:00:29,860 --> 00:00:33,380 I'm probably not going to be surprised by any really major revelations or 8 00:00:33,380 --> 00:00:34,680 shockers, you know. 9 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:38,440 This is extraordinary. It's one of the... 10 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,560 It's one of the funniest and strangest films from that period that I've seen. 11 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:48,120 Strange on so many levels. Like for a start, it's about the gayest 12 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:49,360 film I think I've ever seen. 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:51,400 And more, please. 14 00:00:51,820 --> 00:00:55,860 Not only have you got a biker gang who are as homoerotic as anything from 15 00:00:55,860 --> 00:01:00,380 Kenneth Anger, the hero gets beaten up by them and phones a karate club to call 16 00:01:00,380 --> 00:01:02,960 for some help to battle with the bikers. 17 00:01:03,180 --> 00:01:04,400 Gang of bastard hoodlums. 18 00:01:04,640 --> 00:01:06,940 I know where to find them. 19 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:10,760 And you want us to help you, is that it? Yeah, that's it. Would you? 20 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:11,839 Of course. 21 00:01:11,840 --> 00:01:14,860 And the karate club are as gay as any karate club I've ever seen. 22 00:01:15,520 --> 00:01:17,960 Mishima ought to be running the place, you know, it's just incredible. 23 00:01:18,360 --> 00:01:19,318 Come on, gang! 24 00:01:19,320 --> 00:01:21,100 Let's teach these guns a good lesson! 25 00:01:22,320 --> 00:01:26,960 I don't know if there was any gay involvement behind the camera at all. I 26 00:01:26,980 --> 00:01:30,480 I'd speculate, at a guess, you know, gaydar tweaking. 27 00:01:31,340 --> 00:01:34,240 Yes, I would imagine there must be some, surely, surely. 28 00:01:35,420 --> 00:01:39,680 Because... I don't know if my sides can take it if there isn't, because it 29 00:01:39,680 --> 00:01:41,900 becomes even funnier if there isn't. 30 00:01:42,460 --> 00:01:46,480 If it's made by somebody with a gay sensibility, then it's a great, fun 31 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,800 exploitation film. If it's made by somebody who's straight down the line 32 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:53,160 heterosexual, then it's just... 33 00:01:53,370 --> 00:01:57,250 Ten times funnier. Although this is a wonderful film with tons of quotable 34 00:01:57,250 --> 00:02:01,970 dialogue and lots and lots of sex and violence, that's only in its uncut form. 35 00:02:02,230 --> 00:02:06,910 Sadly, the version, this version, which is released in this country on video, 36 00:02:07,010 --> 00:02:10,470 has a lot of that cut out and it was a BBFCX version. 37 00:02:10,770 --> 00:02:15,210 This is one of those instances where I would strongly recommend that you watch 38 00:02:15,210 --> 00:02:18,730 the uncut version and don't go anywhere near this version because too much is 39 00:02:18,730 --> 00:02:19,730 missing. 40 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:24,560 This is a movie that its opening gambit is to show you the old chestnut of the 41 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:27,360 biker gang that cut off a guy's prick and shove it down his throat. 42 00:02:28,680 --> 00:02:32,780 If you're going to show that, you need to see it. You can't hint at it, can 43 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:33,939 What shall I do? 44 00:02:33,940 --> 00:02:34,939 Cut it off. 45 00:02:34,940 --> 00:02:36,000 No, no, no, no! 46 00:02:36,340 --> 00:02:39,280 So it's the kind of thing that this film does all the way through. There are 47 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,640 violent moments in this film, like old ladies in wheelchairs getting shotgun 48 00:02:42,640 --> 00:02:43,640 blasts to the head. 49 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,600 It's got the kind of plotting where instead of actually coming up with a 50 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:51,260 narrative structure, you just basically say, Right, OK, I need to get some more 51 00:02:51,260 --> 00:02:55,520 victims in. Where are we going to get them from? So the hero literally, en 52 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,520 to somewhere important, stops off and picks up a hitchhiker for no other 53 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,160 than just we need another girl in the story. 54 00:03:01,520 --> 00:03:03,660 Would you mind giving me a lip? I'm going that way. 55 00:03:03,860 --> 00:03:07,520 The lip has been written by somebody who has a complete memory wipe every ten 56 00:03:07,520 --> 00:03:11,340 minutes. You could join it at any point in the film and you won't lose anything, 57 00:03:11,560 --> 00:03:14,020 you won't misunderstand anything, because it's always restarting. 58 00:03:15,420 --> 00:03:18,980 And then if the writer gets into difficulty, for instance, when the hero 59 00:03:18,980 --> 00:03:21,980 trying to track down the bikers and he needs to work out where their secret 60 00:03:21,980 --> 00:03:26,440 is, he just pulls into a gas station and says to the guy at the pump, I'm 61 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:29,780 looking for this biker gang. And he says, oh, sure, they live down the road, 62 00:03:29,820 --> 00:03:31,900 just as such and such. Yeah, everybody knows their hideout. 63 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,580 Just follow the road straight forward until you cross three bridges, then turn 64 00:03:35,580 --> 00:03:36,800 to the right at the first street you find. 65 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:39,980 Will they be there? Yeah. You sure those are the ones? Those hoodlums are 66 00:03:39,980 --> 00:03:41,740 unmistakable with their helmets and dirty hair. 67 00:03:42,590 --> 00:03:46,670 So there's no attempt at plotting, just convenience is the name of the game. 68 00:03:47,150 --> 00:03:50,490 But you don't care, it doesn't really matter, because what the film is really 69 00:03:50,490 --> 00:03:55,170 about is some guy having a grenade tossed into the toilet whilst he's on 70 00:03:55,170 --> 00:03:57,330 and getting blown up ass first. 71 00:04:00,430 --> 00:04:04,990 And also imported from some of the Franco films, music as well. 72 00:04:05,970 --> 00:04:10,490 There are musical cues from a lot of the films that Franco made for Dietrich, 73 00:04:10,530 --> 00:04:11,530 like Voodoo Passion. 74 00:04:12,140 --> 00:04:15,520 So there is a lot of overlap, and there are locations which you might recognise. 75 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:19,519 If you know Jack the Ripper by Jess Franco, you'll see an interior which is 76 00:04:19,519 --> 00:04:23,080 shared with that film as well. So even though most of the film was shot on 77 00:04:23,080 --> 00:04:26,440 location in Barcelona, a lot of the interiors were shot at Irwin Dietrich 78 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,520 Studios in Switzerland, in Zurich. 79 00:04:28,840 --> 00:04:32,780 As far as trying to understand why a film that was so heavily cut ended up on 80 00:04:32,780 --> 00:04:37,560 the Section 3 list, well, maybe this is one instance of the marketing people 81 00:04:37,560 --> 00:04:42,760 getting it wrong, thinking that by putting on dire warnings about... uh 82 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:47,360 an extremely violent film which could seriously disturb you that they thought 83 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:50,560 that that would help to sell a film which had essentially been cut to pieces 84 00:04:50,560 --> 00:04:54,160 um maybe instead all it did was attract the attention of the censors it's worth 85 00:04:54,160 --> 00:04:57,980 mentioning as well that on top of the music borrowed from the jess franco 86 00:04:57,980 --> 00:05:02,620 dietrich productions um it does kick off with uh with a piece of music by 87 00:05:02,620 --> 00:05:03,620 croakers 88 00:05:09,770 --> 00:05:12,770 Given the homoerotic quality of the film in general, I can't help feeling that 89 00:05:12,770 --> 00:05:15,110 they missed a trick and really they should have got Judas Priest. 90 00:05:59,159 --> 00:06:05,960 Comrade, tonight we've come here to farewell a friend. A friend whom we will 91 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:06,960 forget ever. 92 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:43,920 I swear it! 93 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:47,020 So here's a question for you. What was the first film rated G for violence in 94 00:08:47,020 --> 00:08:48,020 America? 95 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:48,999 Give up? 96 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:53,340 Well, it's Mark of the Devil, directed by Michael Armstrong. 97 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:54,760 Or was it? 98 00:09:08,720 --> 00:09:13,980 Mark of the Devil's original title in German was Witches Tortured Till the 99 00:09:13,980 --> 00:09:18,180 Comes. But it started off as a script called The Witch Hunter, Dr Dracula. 100 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:24,480 It was rather as if somebody had seen Witchfinder General on Monday, written 101 00:09:24,480 --> 00:09:28,840 half a script, then seen a Dracula film on Tuesday, and God knows what they've 102 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:29,840 been on on Wednesday. 103 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:34,120 Now, this was written by an ex -matinee idol who was a very, very famous actor 104 00:09:34,120 --> 00:09:38,220 in Germany called Adrian Hoven. And he went to Gloria Films and said, look, I 105 00:09:38,220 --> 00:09:39,220 want to make this movie. 106 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:44,160 They took a look at it and said, well, yeah, it's OK, but it doesn't really get 107 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:47,920 there. And also, we don't want you to direct. We want somebody else to do 108 00:09:48,700 --> 00:09:53,240 They chose Michael Armstrong, the British director of Haunted House of 109 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,240 because that had been a huge hit in Germany. 110 00:09:55,480 --> 00:09:57,480 Haunted House had opened in Germany and done very good business. 111 00:09:58,380 --> 00:10:03,280 And Adrian Hoven, who produced Mark of the Devil, had originally wanted to make 112 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,160 a film which he would have starred in, written, directed and done everything. 113 00:10:06,500 --> 00:10:09,860 Adrian Hoven hated Michael Armstrong coming on board. 114 00:10:10,820 --> 00:10:14,500 I am the witch finder in this town. Is that clear? 115 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:19,920 So I thought, well, what on earth am I going to do with this? 116 00:10:20,160 --> 00:10:25,320 And as the starting point had been, at least this witch hunting idea, I 117 00:10:25,340 --> 00:10:26,119 well, let me... 118 00:10:26,120 --> 00:10:30,220 go from there because they had a very limited time which to write it michael 119 00:10:30,220 --> 00:10:34,920 armstrong agreed to do the film but when he first read the script um he told me 120 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,460 that it was like a hardcore version of dracula with a few sort of witch hunters 121 00:10:39,460 --> 00:10:43,840 thrown in so he decided to rewrite it entirely from scratch under the name 122 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:47,960 sergio kastner now this of course didn't sit well with adrian hoven who thought 123 00:10:47,960 --> 00:10:52,240 he'd written a masterpiece and this was the reason why the filming was 124 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,660 apparently an absolute nightmare 125 00:10:55,390 --> 00:10:57,830 Owen then decided he was going to act in it as well. 126 00:10:59,210 --> 00:11:01,690 These dolls really can do devilish things. 127 00:11:02,070 --> 00:11:04,790 And almost for the first day of shooting, he'd be on set. 128 00:11:05,290 --> 00:11:09,810 And the cameraman also, Ernst Kalinka, was a great personal friend of his. So 129 00:11:09,810 --> 00:11:13,830 that didn't help. I had a lot of enemy in my lighting cameraman, who also 130 00:11:13,830 --> 00:11:14,709 speak English. 131 00:11:14,710 --> 00:11:18,110 I mean, Udo Keir, who's the lead actor in it, used to tell me that there were 132 00:11:18,110 --> 00:11:22,310 screaming matches all the way through, every single day. 133 00:11:22,550 --> 00:11:24,950 And it sort of carried on like that the whole time. 134 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:29,720 It was an absolute nightmare. I mean, the crew was on Hoven's side, and here 135 00:11:29,720 --> 00:11:34,660 this upstart Englishman coming along and taking over, who they saw as, like, a 136 00:11:34,660 --> 00:11:36,000 master of the art. 137 00:11:36,240 --> 00:11:37,920 Here, of course, was also... 138 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:43,240 Not truthful about the movie. He always told me that he never saw any of the 139 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:47,020 violence being filmed But he's actually in the frame and Michael Armstrong then 140 00:11:47,020 --> 00:11:51,220 told me that of course Udo saw everything and he sort of like 141 00:11:51,220 --> 00:11:56,280 slightly from it when it was beginning quite a controversial movie You see 142 00:11:56,280 --> 00:12:00,440 a lot of torture in this and according to Armstrong It was actually filmed 143 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,520 the real torture instruments in the actual places where his fictional story 144 00:12:05,520 --> 00:12:06,860 supposedly set the 145 00:12:07,950 --> 00:12:09,130 Tongue -carrying scene. 146 00:12:09,370 --> 00:12:10,370 The tongue. 147 00:12:11,250 --> 00:12:14,210 All that cage and everything is authentic. 148 00:12:16,470 --> 00:12:19,830 The thumb screws are authentic. 149 00:12:20,610 --> 00:12:24,150 It's horrible, because it's basically just a vice. 150 00:12:24,490 --> 00:12:26,450 They just screwed it down, that was it. 151 00:12:27,670 --> 00:12:31,410 The voting machines, again, were all authentic, the way they were done. Even 152 00:12:31,410 --> 00:12:32,410 the... 153 00:12:33,280 --> 00:12:36,880 the thing with Gabby Hooks when she's actually stretched out and low down that 154 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:37,779 way. 155 00:12:37,780 --> 00:12:42,240 I suppose for the crowd, they would come up with showbiz -type variations. 156 00:12:42,900 --> 00:12:48,320 And so because of it, I thought, I want to show this. I want to show exactly 157 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:54,840 what horrendous kind of things are done by God -fearing people in the name of 158 00:12:54,840 --> 00:12:59,080 God and the hypocrisy of it. And so taking that as the principal theme. 159 00:12:59,800 --> 00:13:01,140 I started working on the script. 160 00:13:01,380 --> 00:13:06,000 What became interesting for me was the idea of the local amateur witch hunter, 161 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:10,420 who's really just doing it for his own personal sexual ends, the albino figure 162 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:13,320 in the movie. I swear he rapes women before burning them. 163 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:14,600 Yes, it's true. 164 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:16,500 Look, look, look at his face. 165 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:17,880 He is the devil. 166 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:20,120 But what happens when the state takes over? 167 00:13:21,180 --> 00:13:26,780 And particularly what happens when a character comes in who is doing it in 168 00:13:26,780 --> 00:13:28,260 name of God, in the name of right. 169 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:35,380 We must never weaken in performing God's work. So I wanted to really show 170 00:13:35,380 --> 00:13:41,680 that whereas a one -off amateur is one thing and bad enough, but once it 171 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:44,320 official and state, then it is horrendous. 172 00:13:44,860 --> 00:13:48,220 Michael Armstrong always told me the worst sort of violence is the violence 173 00:13:48,220 --> 00:13:49,260 don't look away from. 174 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:54,680 And that's the reason he made the scenes very, very graphic, very cruel and very 175 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:59,700 barbarous. I believe violence when presented should be unpleasant for an 176 00:13:59,700 --> 00:14:04,840 audience. I don't think it's helpful that one should be able to sit and enjoy 177 00:14:04,840 --> 00:14:05,840 it. 178 00:14:09,680 --> 00:14:14,020 But in his original script, it was going to end supernaturally with an 179 00:14:14,020 --> 00:14:16,860 explanation that said, it's OK, it's fine. 180 00:14:17,080 --> 00:14:20,880 But the producers decided to take that off because they felt it was a bit 181 00:14:21,120 --> 00:14:25,680 The ending that never was, or the ending that was but never actually ended up in 182 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:31,920 the film, what happened was that after Vanessa 183 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:37,460 has come across Christine's dead body, 184 00:14:39,560 --> 00:14:43,480 The film, it was then going to go to a series of dissolves. 185 00:14:44,620 --> 00:14:49,100 And it was going to dissolve where he was then in her arms in the graveyard. 186 00:14:50,220 --> 00:14:55,540 And then hands suddenly came out, were trying to grab him. 187 00:14:55,760 --> 00:14:58,580 And the graveyard came alive, all graves opened. 188 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:03,880 And the Jews were supposed to be the victims of the torture, all coming up to 189 00:15:03,880 --> 00:15:07,660 take Christian with them. He was in her mind, obviously, by this time. 190 00:15:09,209 --> 00:15:15,990 um dreamlike nightmarish uh idea of her trying to cling on to him screaming 191 00:15:15,990 --> 00:15:20,210 he's mine he's mine you have no right to him he's mine he's mine uh which was 192 00:15:20,210 --> 00:15:24,170 the close of the film as he was gradually taken away and it ended on her 193 00:15:24,170 --> 00:15:31,030 screaming that and here is the vomit 194 00:15:31,030 --> 00:15:35,410 bag that you were given on the way in just in case some of the horrific scenes 195 00:15:35,410 --> 00:15:37,710 you saw made you want to throw up 196 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:41,640 The vomit bag, yes. 197 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,460 And I've actually got one of these, a friend of mine sent me one, empty, from 198 00:15:46,460 --> 00:15:51,500 America when they first launched it. I think it's a wonderful idea, absolutely. 199 00:15:52,340 --> 00:15:53,840 No home should be without one. 200 00:15:54,180 --> 00:15:58,720 In fact, James Furman used to use this movie, or sections of it, in his 201 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:05,010 lectures. in the 70s for why censorship uh should be around i mean i went to see 202 00:16:05,010 --> 00:16:08,030 one particular lecture by him where he actually used the first 20 minutes of 203 00:16:08,030 --> 00:16:11,570 this and said look this is the reason why these films have to be cut it's so 204 00:16:11,570 --> 00:16:15,230 disgusting and of course all the more reason for me actually wanting to see it 205 00:16:15,230 --> 00:16:19,570 and we could in the 80s with this one james firmer made sure this was always 206 00:16:19,570 --> 00:16:25,310 rejected by the bbfc but here it was completely uncut one of the reasons why 207 00:16:25,310 --> 00:16:26,370 became the focus of attention 208 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:31,640 Mark of the devil. 209 00:16:32,060 --> 00:16:34,520 It's your sacred duty to tell us the truth. 210 00:16:34,720 --> 00:16:39,880 In Germany, it had opened and been a huge success, but there'd been no 211 00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:40,940 censorship problems. 212 00:16:41,200 --> 00:16:46,940 The first indication of this was when I was told about the reactions in Cannes, 213 00:16:46,940 --> 00:16:53,780 where I gather that year it was totally the scandal movie with everybody talking 214 00:16:53,780 --> 00:16:54,820 about Mark of the devil. 215 00:16:56,500 --> 00:16:57,700 And the... 216 00:16:58,920 --> 00:17:04,700 A British company, New Realm, were going to distribute it here, were making 217 00:17:04,700 --> 00:17:09,940 plans to open it very big, and they couldn't get it through the centre at 218 00:17:11,060 --> 00:17:17,000 And that's really when I think I first became aware of the real problems with 219 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:19,480 it. I hadn't known about it until then. 220 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:24,280 I think also because England was the only country that was really... 221 00:17:24,560 --> 00:17:25,740 acting so ridiculously. 222 00:17:26,079 --> 00:17:28,800 And then, of course, it opened in America, which was huge in America. 223 00:17:29,220 --> 00:17:36,180 And I was aware of the success of the film, the commercial success of the 224 00:17:36,220 --> 00:17:39,860 and the fight and the struggle to try and get it shown in England. 225 00:17:40,100 --> 00:17:42,880 And even to this day, it's still cut, I gather. 226 00:17:43,100 --> 00:17:46,980 I mean, another reason why it was frowned upon by censors worldwide is 227 00:17:46,980 --> 00:17:50,000 the violence actually intercut with the sex scenes. 228 00:17:50,320 --> 00:17:52,640 This was always a no -no for most censor boards. 229 00:17:53,200 --> 00:17:55,500 Nevertheless, it was a number one film in Germany. 230 00:17:56,180 --> 00:17:59,440 Interestingly enough, you can't see it there now because it's banned, and there 231 00:17:59,440 --> 00:18:04,180 was indeed a Mark of the Devil Part II directed by Hovind, so he did finally 232 00:18:04,180 --> 00:18:05,179 his way. 233 00:18:05,180 --> 00:18:07,520 I'd love to know the truth behind this movie. 234 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,760 I've heard three sides of the same story, and they've all been different. I 235 00:18:11,760 --> 00:18:16,940 would love to know what actually really did happen on this film set, but so far, 236 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:18,620 no -one's ever told me the truth. 237 00:18:19,360 --> 00:18:23,770 And now the only... The ghost will descend on you in the shape of lovely 238 00:18:23,770 --> 00:18:26,110 doves. Nice rooster. 239 00:18:26,550 --> 00:18:27,550 Go on, run. 240 00:18:29,330 --> 00:18:35,710 Heart of the devil. 241 00:18:36,550 --> 00:18:38,830 It's your sacred duty to tell us the truth. 242 00:18:39,310 --> 00:18:42,430 Name just one of the accomplices and the executioner will stop the torture. 243 00:18:42,710 --> 00:18:44,790 Confess, confess that you've been guilty of witchcraft. 244 00:18:46,330 --> 00:18:47,850 We must not let her die yet. 245 00:18:48,330 --> 00:18:50,130 I want confession, not corpses. 246 00:18:53,290 --> 00:18:57,670 When you asked me three years ago to become my pupil, I warned you not to see 247 00:18:57,670 --> 00:18:58,649 idol in me. 248 00:18:58,650 --> 00:19:01,090 On the difficult path we are going to go together, I said. 249 00:19:01,750 --> 00:19:04,850 Many innocent people are going to die. I said that to you. I remember the day. 250 00:19:05,170 --> 00:19:06,170 Stop that witch! 251 00:19:15,790 --> 00:19:16,810 Mark of the devil. 252 00:19:19,650 --> 00:19:20,650 Are you afraid? 253 00:19:26,220 --> 00:19:27,240 Is that clear? 254 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:31,320 Tear up my tongue, but before you do, I'll make them laugh. I'll tell them you 255 00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:34,940 rape women, you burn innocent people, that you kill for money, that you're 256 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:35,940 impotent. 257 00:19:38,700 --> 00:19:43,620 Be happy. 258 00:19:43,960 --> 00:19:45,400 You mustn't say things like that. 259 00:19:45,800 --> 00:19:46,800 Why? 260 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,520 So beautiful, isn't it? 261 00:19:50,180 --> 00:19:53,840 My lord, she made a pact with the devil in the shape of a man. And after, she 262 00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:55,060 let the devil fornicate with her. 263 00:19:55,450 --> 00:19:56,990 Making the men impotent. 264 00:20:00,590 --> 00:20:02,190 This Vanessa, for example. 265 00:20:02,390 --> 00:20:03,390 She's falsely accused. 266 00:20:04,630 --> 00:20:05,630 Don't become soft. 267 00:20:05,850 --> 00:20:09,150 She's a witch. A beautiful girl, I grant you, but a witch. She will confess. 268 00:20:48,200 --> 00:20:51,100 The prisoner has been sentenced to have his head cut off according to the law of 269 00:20:51,100 --> 00:20:54,540 the land. It has also been decreed that all his earthly possessions be delivered 270 00:20:54,540 --> 00:20:57,460 to the church for safekeeping until disposed of by the Lord Bishop. 271 00:21:05,180 --> 00:21:10,060 In Europe, between the 15th and 19th centuries, it is estimated nearly 8 272 00:21:10,060 --> 00:21:14,100 people were convicted of heresy and executed by fanatical witch hunters in 273 00:21:14,100 --> 00:21:15,100 to save their souls. 274 00:21:15,380 --> 00:21:16,380 In front of death. 275 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:24,800 thank you for your mercy for having me freed from the terrible agony 276 00:21:24,800 --> 00:21:27,000 of torture. 277 00:21:28,300 --> 00:21:29,300 Which? 278 00:21:29,820 --> 00:21:31,460 Which? Which? 279 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:32,840 Which? 280 00:21:36,180 --> 00:21:36,900 George 281 00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:45,140 Romero's 282 00:21:45,140 --> 00:21:50,690 favourite film and the one he thinks is the best directed is martin on hello 283 00:21:50,690 --> 00:21:55,950 video um 29 .95 look at the price of this can you believe we actually pay 284 00:21:55,950 --> 00:21:59,710 amount of money for these things especially with quotes saying how 285 00:21:59,710 --> 00:22:03,790 gruesome it is aren't attributed to anybody which is of course a typical 286 00:22:03,790 --> 00:22:08,530 trick from the time this is the first production of george's with richard 287 00:22:08,530 --> 00:22:13,070 rubinstein who would go on to do many many movies and it was based on um a 288 00:22:13,070 --> 00:22:17,960 newspaper story that he saw about a serial killer drinking people's blood 289 00:22:17,960 --> 00:22:22,240 a goblet. And he thought this is a really interesting way of exploring 290 00:22:22,240 --> 00:22:23,820 in a contemporary context. 291 00:22:24,780 --> 00:22:27,180 Martin, another kind of terror. 292 00:22:27,420 --> 00:22:29,700 So that's why you get lead actor John Ampliss. 293 00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:31,200 Is he a vampire? 294 00:22:31,340 --> 00:22:35,640 Isn't he? You don't really know. And it's that ambiguity that a lot of 295 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:39,400 took note of at the time, because this is a superbly made movie. And a lot of 296 00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:44,040 the flashbacks, while he's indulging in his little syringe theatrics. 297 00:22:44,510 --> 00:22:49,370 were in black and white because of the gothic universal flavor that george 298 00:22:49,370 --> 00:22:53,250 wanted to bring to it in fact there was an original plan to shoot the whole film 299 00:22:53,250 --> 00:22:57,410 in black and white but of course back then as of now that didn't seem like a 300 00:22:57,410 --> 00:23:03,550 very good commercial prospect martin another kind of terror i would like to 301 00:23:03,550 --> 00:23:07,410 like everyone else john amplis was chosen by romero when he saw him in a 302 00:23:07,410 --> 00:23:12,120 where he played a christian persecuted by romans and he felt that if he could 303 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:17,920 that well and pull it off, he could certainly pull off what is about 304 00:23:17,920 --> 00:23:23,300 versus reality, really, with a bit of the whole... What did George call it? He 305 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:26,380 called it the curse of Nosferatu. He never mentioned vampires. 306 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:28,760 Nosferatu. 307 00:23:29,540 --> 00:23:35,860 Nosferatu. I actually met George on Martin for the very first time, and he 308 00:23:35,860 --> 00:23:39,020 very erudite, very, very, you know, keen to put a cross. 309 00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:44,540 uh what he felt with this subtext in this movie and it is very graphic one of 310 00:23:44,540 --> 00:23:48,300 the reasons why obviously people thought that it was on the video nasties list 311 00:23:48,300 --> 00:23:52,680 this was tom savini's very first collaboration with romero hey but i'm a 312 00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:57,560 mechanic i should be fixing cars what am i doing here and i think they got on so 313 00:23:57,560 --> 00:24:02,720 well that it led to their previous work together um All in all, I think this is 314 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,620 a pretty amazing film. 315 00:24:05,740 --> 00:24:07,120 I'm glad it was on the video analysis. 316 00:24:07,360 --> 00:24:09,200 It probably meant more people actually got to see it. 317 00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,380 I mean, three things to note about this movie that you probably don't know. 318 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,860 Although it was made in 1977, investors didn't break even with the movie until 319 00:24:16,860 --> 00:24:22,060 1983. When it was shown in Italy, of course, it actually had a Goblin score 320 00:24:22,060 --> 00:24:23,060 it was recut to that. 321 00:24:28,940 --> 00:24:33,000 And Christine Forrest, who's one of the stars of the movie, ended up being Mrs 322 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,660 George Romero just after. 323 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,000 My name is Martin. 324 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:38,860 I'm 84 years old. 325 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:42,300 People think I'm crazy when I tell them how old I am. 326 00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:44,900 I'd like to be normal. 327 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,720 I just have a sickness. 328 00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:49,980 The only way I can survive is by drinking blood. 329 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:04,160 It's not easy living the way I do. 330 00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:06,860 I have to be careful all the time. 331 00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:09,180 But I'm pretty good at it. 332 00:25:09,560 --> 00:25:12,140 I think as I get older, I get better. 333 00:25:12,840 --> 00:25:14,340 I haven't been caught yet. 334 00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:17,660 Martin, another kind of terror. 335 00:25:29,300 --> 00:25:31,660 See, people don't understand what's wrong. 336 00:25:32,430 --> 00:25:35,730 They think that I'm a monster. They think I'm a vampire. 337 00:25:48,850 --> 00:25:53,370 People don't realize that those things they see in the movies are not real. 338 00:25:54,110 --> 00:25:57,030 I don't have a whole lot of women. 339 00:25:58,210 --> 00:25:59,970 It's nice to watch them. 340 00:26:00,590 --> 00:26:03,790 I watch them a lot all the time. I have to. 341 00:26:04,090 --> 00:26:06,590 To be sure that nothing goes wrong. 342 00:26:07,090 --> 00:26:09,150 I follow them. I plan. 343 00:26:09,490 --> 00:26:10,730 I'm very careful. 344 00:26:12,250 --> 00:26:13,690 I have needles now. 345 00:26:14,030 --> 00:26:15,170 I can use them. 346 00:26:15,510 --> 00:26:16,990 I can put them to sleep. 347 00:26:17,530 --> 00:26:18,810 And it doesn't hurt. 348 00:26:27,810 --> 00:26:28,810 Martin. 349 00:26:29,270 --> 00:26:30,750 Another... Kind of terror. 350 00:26:30,990 --> 00:26:32,990 I would like to be like everyone else. 351 00:26:34,010 --> 00:26:37,370 I have to do things that I don't necessarily like to do. 352 00:26:37,870 --> 00:26:39,270 I want to stay alive. 353 00:26:39,990 --> 00:26:41,350 I do need blood. 354 00:26:46,590 --> 00:26:48,770 From the director of Night of the Living Dead. 355 00:27:13,580 --> 00:27:19,720 Massacre Mansion, also released as Mansion of the Doomed. Mansion of the 356 00:27:20,020 --> 00:27:22,620 And probably filmed as The Eyes of Dr. 357 00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:27,660 Chaney. Well, frankly, it's a remake of Les Yeux Sans Visage, except it's the 358 00:27:27,660 --> 00:27:31,880 other way round. It's not Eyes Without a Face, it's The Face Without Eyes. 359 00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:38,040 As in Les Yeux Sans Visage, our mad doctor has stupidly crashed his car and 360 00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,320 injured his daughter, but he's blinded her. 361 00:27:46,730 --> 00:27:51,630 However, him being a genius eye surgeon, he finds a way of transplanting the 362 00:27:51,630 --> 00:27:54,590 eyes of unwilling living donors into her head. 363 00:27:54,810 --> 00:27:59,210 However, they don't last long, so he keeps doing it. And the basement just 364 00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:05,730 up with eyeless and fairly annoyed people who, in the end, do what mutants 365 00:28:05,730 --> 00:28:09,970 always do in films like this and get their horribly ironic revenge. 366 00:28:11,390 --> 00:28:13,710 It's kind of a fun picture in a way. 367 00:28:15,020 --> 00:28:20,120 The director is Michael Pataki, who was best known as an actor. I think he's 368 00:28:20,120 --> 00:28:23,700 terrific in Grave of the Vampire, where he plays the vampire. He's also kind of 369 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:28,000 fun in Zoltan Hound of Dracula, the last descendant of Dracula. 370 00:28:29,480 --> 00:28:34,440 But not, we have to say, much of a director. It's a bit of a plod. 371 00:28:34,660 --> 00:28:39,080 It's one of the early productions from Charles Band's stable. 372 00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:40,920 So it's sort of a... 373 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:46,780 you know, a foundation stone of his mini -exploitation empire, which has lasted 374 00:28:46,780 --> 00:28:51,060 several decades since. I'm surprised he's not remade it or made 15 sequels to 375 00:28:51,060 --> 00:28:53,720 it. Like everything else, he's had his name on. 376 00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:59,040 It's kind of a cool cast for a, you know, a frankly rubbish exploitation 377 00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,820 Richard Basehart, who plays Dr. 378 00:29:02,020 --> 00:29:07,600 Len Chaney, to homage horror films of previous era, he started out as a really 379 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:08,740 great, intense... 380 00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:14,020 American character actor in film noir. He made a great movie called 14 Hours 381 00:29:14,020 --> 00:29:15,280 about a guy standing on a ledge. 382 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:19,340 And then he was married for a while to Valentina Cortese, the Italian actress, 383 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,640 and went to Rome and he appeared in Fellini movies. 384 00:29:22,960 --> 00:29:27,360 And then somehow after that, he ended up on television doing Voyage to the 385 00:29:27,360 --> 00:29:33,960 Bottom of the Sea for endless years, which I think took a bit of the gloss 386 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:35,360 him as a movie star. 387 00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:42,380 He did appear in major motion pictures afterwards. He's in The Satan Bug, for 388 00:29:42,380 --> 00:29:46,620 instance, as a mad scientist in that as well. But he didn't get the kind of 389 00:29:46,620 --> 00:29:48,680 leading roles his talent deserved. 390 00:29:49,140 --> 00:29:54,120 And in this little film, he's really trying, he's really putting out, he's 391 00:29:54,120 --> 00:30:00,180 for the pathos of this stupid role, which is badly written and makes no 392 00:30:00,340 --> 00:30:02,400 But he's really working hard at it. 393 00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:08,340 Gloria Graham plays the Alida Valley role of the housekeeper who's kind of in 394 00:30:08,340 --> 00:30:12,480 love with him and enables all the horrible stuff to go on. 395 00:30:12,720 --> 00:30:14,260 Get rid of those people, then. 396 00:30:14,840 --> 00:30:18,180 How would you suggest that we do that, Catherine? 397 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:28,700 Kill them. She also is a great faded beauty from the wonderful 1950s 398 00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,520 She made a couple of other... 399 00:30:30,780 --> 00:30:34,180 horror exploitation movies at the time. Blood and Lace, she's pretty good in. 400 00:30:34,300 --> 00:30:39,440 Here, I think she's fun. I think she, you know, brings her A -game to it. 401 00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:48,900 And the, almost by default, the young hero is Lance Henriksen, who must have 402 00:30:48,900 --> 00:30:54,100 longest filmography of any exploitation veteran going. 403 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:55,300 And he's been in... 404 00:30:56,399 --> 00:31:01,080 almost, I would imagine, well over 100 pictures by now. This is one of his 405 00:31:01,080 --> 00:31:05,020 credits. It's odd seeing a young Lance Henriksen. 406 00:31:05,280 --> 00:31:08,920 Dr Cheney, at the risk of compounding your displeasure with me, some of us 407 00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:09,920 still like to get your opinion. 408 00:31:10,420 --> 00:31:13,720 Dr Buran of Dublin and his theory regarding eye transplants. 409 00:31:14,540 --> 00:31:16,380 It's also unfortunate because... 410 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:21,700 One of the reasons people hire Lance Henriksen is he's got these great eyes. 411 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:26,500 They photograph really well on screen. He's got this kind of fanatic gleam. 412 00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,600 And of course, most of this film, he's playing with his eyes bandaged because 413 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,640 he's had them ripped out and put into somebody else's face. 414 00:31:34,340 --> 00:31:37,540 Yeah, that was very, very ironic. 415 00:31:37,780 --> 00:31:43,520 Which limits his ability to act down there in the basement. However, he gets 416 00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:44,520 own back at the end. 417 00:31:45,770 --> 00:31:48,370 They told us death was the ultimate horror. 418 00:31:49,170 --> 00:31:50,330 They were wrong. 419 00:31:54,090 --> 00:32:00,890 Yet who would have predicted that dreadful day how far 420 00:32:00,890 --> 00:32:02,090 I might have to go? 421 00:32:02,470 --> 00:32:04,610 I'll see you in hell. 422 00:32:10,150 --> 00:32:12,810 I don't care. 423 00:32:13,070 --> 00:32:14,450 The only thing you... 424 00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,420 Better discover is a way to get rid of those people. 425 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:24,520 Wait a minute. This isn't the way to Disneyland. You're heading toward the 426 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,700 ocean. Catherine, no more! 427 00:32:29,740 --> 00:32:32,000 Kill them. 428 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,520 Daddy, I love you. 429 00:32:35,840 --> 00:32:37,360 That's most of us have my intent. 430 00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:39,900 Oh, please, people. Let me go. Let me go. 431 00:33:13,100 --> 00:33:14,300 Some you'll feel. 432 00:33:16,600 --> 00:33:19,460 You'll feel Mansion of the Doomed. 433 00:33:40,750 --> 00:33:42,690 top 10 means in this context. 434 00:33:42,910 --> 00:33:48,610 I mean, was it like number 10 in Variety's list of director video 435 00:33:48,610 --> 00:33:50,930 couldn't get a proper theatrical release? Who knows? 436 00:33:51,650 --> 00:33:55,790 Are you brave enough to enter the mausoleums? 437 00:33:58,590 --> 00:34:04,230 This is what you'll remember from Mausoleum, is Bobby Brise, who was sort 438 00:34:04,230 --> 00:34:08,730 early screen queen, even before Linnea Quigley. 439 00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:14,800 We seem to court, like, the horror fanzines. 440 00:34:15,100 --> 00:34:19,980 Forrest J. Ackerman, who's in her other film, Evil Spawn, seemed to build her up 441 00:34:19,980 --> 00:34:26,400 as sort of a minor horror celebrity, presumably in the hope that she'd go on 442 00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,199 be as big a star as, ooh, Florence Marley. 443 00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,480 That, of course, didn't happen. 444 00:34:34,989 --> 00:34:39,389 She stuck around, she made one other film, Evil Swarm, which is a sort of 445 00:34:39,389 --> 00:34:44,489 of The Watchwoman, and then just did cameos in sort of Fred Olin Ray -type 446 00:34:44,489 --> 00:34:45,489 horror pictures. 447 00:34:46,270 --> 00:34:51,989 Truth be told, she wasn't really that well -suited to horror. She was a big, 448 00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:53,830 buxom, bubbly California blonde. 449 00:34:54,170 --> 00:34:57,830 Her credits listed here are things like The Fall Guy and Charlie's Angels. 450 00:34:58,250 --> 00:34:59,250 You OK? 451 00:35:00,670 --> 00:35:01,670 Mm -hm. 452 00:35:01,840 --> 00:35:05,200 I think to be a horror star, you kind of have to have a sort of darker 453 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:08,300 personality, be a sort of Barbara Steele -type character. 454 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:12,620 She gave her soul to the evil force in the mausoleum. 455 00:35:12,940 --> 00:35:14,100 What's the matter, Susan? 456 00:35:17,500 --> 00:35:22,040 This film seems to be entirely built around the talents of Bobby Brzee. 457 00:35:22,380 --> 00:35:24,900 You didn't know I existed! 458 00:35:27,860 --> 00:35:30,580 Which is odd, because she's not much of an actress, either. 459 00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:36,940 It does have the scene where her breasts turn into individual monsters with 460 00:35:36,940 --> 00:35:43,340 fangs and chew on the chest 461 00:35:43,340 --> 00:35:50,200 of her leading man, Roger Gortner, the former evangelist and the great 462 00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:52,480 star of Star Crash and Food of the Gods. 463 00:35:52,700 --> 00:35:57,200 And that's kind of like the big ticket in this film is that sequence, is the 464 00:35:57,200 --> 00:35:59,620 fanged nipples. 465 00:36:01,640 --> 00:36:06,240 And I have to say, it's not even that well done. It's a John Buechler effect. 466 00:36:06,340 --> 00:36:11,160 And it's the sort of thing that Italian movies like Demons would have done in a 467 00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,160 much more gross and disturbing way. 468 00:36:14,420 --> 00:36:19,320 But it's so conceptually weird that it does kind of lodge in your memory. 469 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:23,480 However, it obliterates everything else about the film, which is the old one 470 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:24,480 about the... 471 00:36:24,750 --> 00:36:29,610 The woman who's doomed to be possessed by an evil witch and will then slaughter 472 00:36:29,610 --> 00:36:31,770 everybody else in the film to get revenge. 473 00:36:32,210 --> 00:36:38,390 It's also one of those movies where anagrams and palindromes come into play. 474 00:36:38,490 --> 00:36:43,110 It's about the nomad family and it takes forever for somebody to work out that 475 00:36:43,110 --> 00:36:44,550 that's demon spelt backwards. 476 00:36:46,710 --> 00:36:51,380 And there's a big sort of... you know, crashing revelation built around that. 477 00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:58,360 It's kind of fun. But, you know, as 478 00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:03,700 mausoleum -based horror movies go, it's not Phantasm. It's not even One Dark 479 00:37:03,700 --> 00:37:09,040 Night. It's your third most important mausoleum -based horror film of the 480 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:14,700 1980s. If that's enough to make you want to see it, and frankly, it would be 481 00:37:14,700 --> 00:37:16,300 enough to make me want to see it. 482 00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,740 then you probably need to track it down instantly. 483 00:37:23,460 --> 00:37:25,220 Was it a broken dream? 484 00:37:25,500 --> 00:37:27,600 An unfinished memory? 485 00:37:27,980 --> 00:37:32,740 What terrible secret drew Susan to the mausoleum? 486 00:37:52,330 --> 00:37:54,830 I didn't mean to scare you, Mrs. Farrow. 487 00:37:58,310 --> 00:38:05,150 She gave her 488 00:38:05,150 --> 00:38:09,790 soul to the evil force in the mausoleum. What's the matter, Susan? 489 00:38:13,050 --> 00:38:15,190 What cursed things? 490 00:38:17,270 --> 00:38:18,970 Oh, my God! 491 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:26,920 Now, the secret haunts her, and she cannot control the power. 492 00:38:32,720 --> 00:38:34,940 There's some strange shit going on in this house. 493 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,740 What are you talking about? What's wrong with my wife? She's not your wife. 494 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,590 The woman you're living with... Looks like Susan. She looks exactly like your 495 00:38:51,590 --> 00:38:56,510 wife, but she's not your wife. She lives in horror as she tries to escape the 496 00:38:56,510 --> 00:38:57,810 demon she has become. 497 00:39:05,410 --> 00:39:09,310 Obviously, we're not going to be able to confine her. What do you suggest? 498 00:39:09,610 --> 00:39:11,930 Go to the mausoleum tonight. 499 00:39:13,330 --> 00:39:18,370 A new dimension in fright. An experience of untold terror. 500 00:39:24,650 --> 00:39:27,430 I am going to finish what your father died trying to do. 501 00:39:28,230 --> 00:39:32,390 Are you brave enough to enter the mausoleums? 502 00:39:45,870 --> 00:39:50,090 Well, Don Russo's Midnight is a very low -budget feature. It's made for about 503 00:39:50,090 --> 00:39:51,310 $70 ,000 or something. 504 00:39:51,570 --> 00:39:54,190 It was probably made around about 1980 or didn't actually get released until 505 00:39:54,190 --> 00:39:55,190 about 1982. 506 00:39:55,610 --> 00:40:00,110 The book from the co -author of Night of the Living Dead comes to life on the 507 00:40:00,110 --> 00:40:03,970 screen. Don't miss John Russo's Midnight. 508 00:40:04,290 --> 00:40:07,370 It's a real mishmash. It's kind of like, I think John Russo said he was 509 00:40:07,370 --> 00:40:09,770 influenced by the success of Friday the 13th, like many filmmakers. 510 00:40:10,560 --> 00:40:14,220 but this is kind of like um if you can imagine a potpourri of horror movie not 511 00:40:14,220 --> 00:40:18,140 cliches exactly but you've got the slasher movie you've got um the backward 512 00:40:18,140 --> 00:40:24,160 satanic cult almighty lord satan we ask thee to help us in the destruction of 513 00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,600 our enemies as you have done for us today. 514 00:40:26,940 --> 00:40:29,980 You've got not zombies exactly, but like trying to resurrect the dead 515 00:40:29,980 --> 00:40:34,500 grandmother or mother, I think it was. The backdrop is basically a young girl 516 00:40:34,500 --> 00:40:39,660 called Nancy who escapes home after being molested by Lawrence Tierney, 517 00:40:39,660 --> 00:40:43,660 famous Hollywood actor, who also went on to appear in The Prowler. John Russo 518 00:40:43,660 --> 00:40:46,640 was involved famously with Night of the Living Dead, which, of course, was a 519 00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:48,500 trendsetter by actually having a black protagonist. 520 00:40:49,160 --> 00:40:51,960 And Midnight was one of the few kind of fashion movies or films from the early 521 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,620 1980s which actually had black... 522 00:40:53,840 --> 00:40:58,560 characters in it hey hank i won't mind picking her up like we're just a couple 523 00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:04,220 minutes too late though huh yeah good thing too obviously she's jailbait but 524 00:41:04,220 --> 00:41:07,600 there's also um two characters that become the most flasherific i kind of 525 00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:11,060 element for the film there's a black pastor and his teenage daughter i'm 526 00:41:11,060 --> 00:41:14,680 reverend carrington pastor of the first baptist church this is my daughter 527 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,620 sandra and in the moment where it's really where the real nod to the slash 528 00:41:18,620 --> 00:41:20,800 is they get chased by this huge fat 529 00:41:21,910 --> 00:41:27,630 giggling overweight kind of um backwards psycho with a machete um and he chases 530 00:41:27,630 --> 00:41:34,630 around the house laughing all the time it's 531 00:41:34,630 --> 00:41:37,850 kind of a strange kind of movie but it's i mean i like it and also it's got 532 00:41:37,850 --> 00:41:42,350 probably one of the catchiest theme tunes of all early 80s movies i mean 533 00:41:42,350 --> 00:41:44,290 it's it's bad but i love it 534 00:41:52,490 --> 00:41:53,970 Once you've heard it, you can't get it out of your head. 535 00:41:59,270 --> 00:42:05,790 Midnight stars John 536 00:42:05,790 --> 00:42:07,150 Amplis. You're in luck. 537 00:42:07,590 --> 00:42:11,230 Who was in Romero's Martin. John talks about the film, I think, in one of the 538 00:42:11,230 --> 00:42:15,530 DVD intros for when it was put out, saying that he was a little bit off his 539 00:42:15,530 --> 00:42:18,130 when he did it, but he managed to hold it all together. 540 00:42:20,149 --> 00:42:23,210 It's a great little fun movie. It's amazing how much you can do for $70 541 00:42:24,430 --> 00:42:27,040 Some of the acting's a little bit... you know, rough around the edges. 542 00:42:27,340 --> 00:42:31,520 But Russo said, I think some of the film stock got damaged or there was 543 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:34,800 something wrong with it. So a lot of the better takes he couldn't use, which is 544 00:42:34,800 --> 00:42:38,780 why the film has a slightly strange feel to it because they use some of the 545 00:42:38,780 --> 00:42:41,660 takes that weren't quite as good. But it gives the film a bit of a dog -eared 546 00:42:41,660 --> 00:42:45,280 charm, I think. Midnight's put out by Intervision in the UK on video with a 547 00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:49,360 slightly misleading kind of cover because it showed this kind of zombie 548 00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:52,560 from a kind of a chalice. And of course, there wasn't actually a zombie in the 549 00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,240 movie, but, you know, hey -ho sort of misleading video. 550 00:42:55,440 --> 00:42:57,000 covers a dime a dozen. 551 00:42:57,220 --> 00:43:00,100 And of course, the other thing, of course, with the movie, it's got Tom 552 00:43:00,100 --> 00:43:03,720 special effects, which, of course, is a selling point. But actually, even if you 553 00:43:03,720 --> 00:43:07,020 watch the uncut version, the special effects aren't all that to write home 554 00:43:07,020 --> 00:43:10,540 about. There's a decapitation scene in the film, which is quite graphic. 555 00:43:10,980 --> 00:43:15,820 But again, because it's such a low -budgeted movie, it's not Savini's 556 00:43:15,820 --> 00:43:18,380 hour. It's not Rousseau's finest hour, but it's a fun movie. 557 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,520 Tom is 19, Nancy 17, and Hank 21. 558 00:43:25,240 --> 00:43:29,600 They had a good time for a while, but now they're missing. 559 00:43:30,240 --> 00:43:32,640 It all started as innocent fun. 560 00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:38,120 The van, the drinking, the turn -ons, until they cross the county line. 561 00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:45,880 They cross the line into a lonely community where anything can happen, 562 00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,260 anyone can disappear without a trace. 563 00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:54,380 And now, from the pages of John Russo's best -selling novel, the story becomes a 564 00:43:54,380 --> 00:43:56,240 motion picture, Midnight. 565 00:44:03,180 --> 00:44:06,220 I thought I saw a shoe sticking out from under that blanket. 566 00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:09,180 Nah, he was just a big farmer with a bundle. 567 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,400 Your mind's playing tricks on you, girl. You're all shook up. 568 00:44:12,820 --> 00:44:17,340 Soon as we find a good campsite, we'll smoke some of this good hash and loosen 569 00:44:17,340 --> 00:44:18,340 you up. 570 00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:19,920 Hold it there, fellas. 571 00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:22,000 Don't you make any foolish moves. 572 00:44:23,260 --> 00:44:24,760 Keep your hands visible. 573 00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,640 You reach for anything inside that bag and I won't wait to see what you're 574 00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:29,640 reaching for. 575 00:44:30,380 --> 00:44:31,380 I'll just shoot. 576 00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,000 Maybe we'll drag them out in the woods one at a time. 577 00:44:35,220 --> 00:44:36,240 Question them separately. 578 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:37,560 Good idea. 579 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:08,960 What'd you do with my daughter? 580 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:13,040 Well, she might be right in front of you. 581 00:45:24,940 --> 00:45:31,840 About a half a dozen people found dead 582 00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:35,320 around here just in the past couple of years since I came here to preach. 583 00:45:36,000 --> 00:45:38,740 Some look like accidents, some obviously murders. 584 00:45:43,740 --> 00:45:45,240 I'm looking on you, black woman. 585 00:45:45,580 --> 00:45:46,840 Which one of you owns this van? 586 00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:48,078 I do. 587 00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:51,300 Okay, take your six -pack, get in the van, get out of town, now. 588 00:45:51,880 --> 00:45:52,880 You heard the man. 589 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:55,580 Come on, let's go, let's go. We don't need your counter out here. 590 00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:56,840 Hank, move it. 591 00:45:57,380 --> 00:45:58,380 Let's go. 592 00:45:58,900 --> 00:46:01,400 They should have known better when they came into town. 593 00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:04,380 Every sign pointed to what could happen there. 594 00:46:04,890 --> 00:46:06,890 Every indication told them to leave. 595 00:46:07,130 --> 00:46:12,750 Now, the wise guys in the bar, the preacher's warning, and the sheriff who 596 00:46:12,750 --> 00:46:14,030 hate a way of life. 597 00:46:14,530 --> 00:46:16,150 Go. Get out of town. 598 00:46:16,430 --> 00:46:18,110 We don't want your kind here. 599 00:46:18,450 --> 00:46:19,550 But they stayed. 600 00:46:19,810 --> 00:46:22,550 They stayed, and it became too late to leave. 601 00:46:22,790 --> 00:46:26,210 Too late, as the clock approached midnight. 602 00:46:30,870 --> 00:46:36,220 Midnight. Now the book from the co -author of Night of the Living Dead 603 00:46:36,220 --> 00:46:37,400 life on the screen. 604 00:46:38,020 --> 00:46:41,100 Don't miss John Russo's Midnight. 605 00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:07,180 Here we have Naked Fist by Sergio Santiago. 606 00:47:07,740 --> 00:47:12,140 It's also known as Firecracker. It was made back in 1981. 607 00:47:27,400 --> 00:47:29,860 Firecracker. See Gillian Kessner. 608 00:47:30,190 --> 00:47:34,710 grand prize winner at the black belt olympics he'll mix seduction with 609 00:47:34,710 --> 00:47:41,690 destruction in the screen's first erotic kung fu classic the box art 610 00:47:41,690 --> 00:47:46,310 features the american one -seat poster as released by Manson international and 611 00:47:46,310 --> 00:47:50,290 most of this company's other releases also just use the posters it's basically 612 00:47:50,290 --> 00:47:54,490 remake of San Diego's earlier TNT Jackson a blaxploitation movie but this 613 00:47:54,490 --> 00:47:58,690 around there's no blaxploitation a lot of action and more nudity and stuff here 614 00:47:58,690 --> 00:48:03,050 we get Julian Kessner, who you might recognise from War 4, who plays Susan 615 00:48:03,050 --> 00:48:07,630 Carter, a six -man black belt karate champion and martial arts teacher, who 616 00:48:07,630 --> 00:48:10,510 heads to the Philippines to track down her missing reporter sister. 617 00:48:10,910 --> 00:48:15,290 After the bar fight, she gets a few locals on her side, including bartender 618 00:48:15,290 --> 00:48:19,810 Pete, and a kung fu expert called Ray. 619 00:48:21,430 --> 00:48:25,970 With their help, she finds her sister's camera, and when she gets the film 620 00:48:25,970 --> 00:48:28,010 developed, she finds pictures. 621 00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:31,960 of a local hoodlum called Chuck Donner, who works at a place called The Arena, 622 00:48:32,100 --> 00:48:35,780 which is a vicious martial arts fighting club. It turns out that her sister was 623 00:48:35,780 --> 00:48:40,700 doing a story on the place. The club is owned by Eric, another bruiser, and in 624 00:48:40,700 --> 00:48:44,040 order to gain his touch, he has to prove her fighting ability by getting up on 625 00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:45,720 stage and fighting their local champ. 626 00:48:50,080 --> 00:48:53,380 Strangely, Susan finds herself in an ongoing sling with Chuck. 627 00:48:53,790 --> 00:48:56,670 From then on, she encounters numerous thugs and must literally fight for her 628 00:48:56,670 --> 00:49:00,010 life in order to discover the reason for her sister's disappearance. 629 00:49:01,650 --> 00:49:03,450 I was hoping this would not be necessary. 630 00:49:03,990 --> 00:49:06,070 I could scream and call the police, you know. 631 00:49:06,730 --> 00:49:07,730 I am the police. 632 00:49:07,990 --> 00:49:11,690 If you like trashy movies, then this one really is well worth tracking down. 633 00:49:11,910 --> 00:49:12,930 It's a lot of fun. 634 00:49:13,130 --> 00:49:18,270 There's a hilarious fight scene where our heroine is sort of chased through 635 00:49:18,270 --> 00:49:22,190 these alleyways and this factory and she loses bits of clothing on the way. 636 00:49:22,780 --> 00:49:27,360 She ends up in a pair of skinny knickers after losing her bra with a knife. 637 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,720 This was one of the additional scenes Cormann had shot by a guy called Alan 638 00:49:32,720 --> 00:49:34,620 Holzman and it's a standout moment. 639 00:49:34,860 --> 00:49:39,060 Holzman of course went on to direct the science fiction movie Forbidden World. 640 00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:42,440 Oh, and if you recognise the soundtrack from somewhere it's probably because it 641 00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:43,920 was also used in Shogun Assassin. 642 00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:48,580 I reckon it was probably put on the section 3 list for the scene where her 643 00:49:48,580 --> 00:49:50,900 clothes are cut off with a knife because that's... 644 00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,820 You could probably say sexual violence of some sort. That's the only thing I 645 00:49:54,820 --> 00:49:59,400 could see in it that would probably have had the power to be, you know, worrying 646 00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:00,400 a bit. 647 00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:15,920 Naked fit. 648 00:50:16,060 --> 00:50:18,880 A hundred luscious pounds of TNT. 649 00:50:43,310 --> 00:50:46,830 See Jillian Kessner, grand prize winner at the Black Belt Olympics. 650 00:50:47,110 --> 00:50:51,530 She'll mix seduction with destruction in the screen's first erotic kung fu 651 00:50:51,530 --> 00:50:52,530 classic. 652 00:51:29,610 --> 00:51:34,750 Remember, you've got a date to detonate with Naked Biff. Watch her explode. 653 00:51:40,910 --> 00:51:43,730 Naked Biff. She'll blow you away. 654 00:51:59,920 --> 00:52:04,220 The Nesting is one of those titles that I'm not entirely sure what it means. 655 00:52:04,520 --> 00:52:09,000 The film was, I think, made as phobia. Probably had to change its title because 656 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:12,260 there was that John Huston movie called Phobia that came out about the same 657 00:52:12,260 --> 00:52:17,280 time. Also, it's one of those things where the heroine originally has 658 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,100 agoraphobia. She's afraid to leave the house. 659 00:52:19,470 --> 00:52:22,650 But that actually doesn't seem to have anything to do with the particular 660 00:52:22,870 --> 00:52:28,030 which is a writer who discovers that the house she's rented is a former brothel 661 00:52:28,030 --> 00:52:31,130 and the site of a massacre that there are ghosts about. 662 00:52:31,510 --> 00:52:33,330 You are not going crazy. 663 00:52:33,570 --> 00:52:35,170 Then what the hell is it? 664 00:52:35,590 --> 00:52:42,050 It's when your dreams turn to nightmares and your nightmares turn on you. 665 00:52:43,870 --> 00:52:47,190 It's an interesting minor ghost story. 666 00:52:47,690 --> 00:52:52,110 It's one of those pictures that uses sort of interesting people in cameos. 667 00:52:52,250 --> 00:52:59,070 Gloria Graham is back in it. She had a certain exploitation record in 668 00:52:59,070 --> 00:53:03,050 Massacre Mansion and Blood and Lace. And she plays a ghost. 669 00:53:03,350 --> 00:53:09,850 John Carradine, who's like your step down from Vincent Price as a horror 670 00:53:10,940 --> 00:53:15,540 He'd been at it for so long. And in the early 80s, with the sort of revival of 671 00:53:15,540 --> 00:53:20,080 horror, he started getting a lot more work. He's in things like The Howling 672 00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,780 The House of the Long Shadows and The Boogeyman. 673 00:53:23,100 --> 00:53:25,640 And so he became a sort of horror name again. 674 00:53:26,340 --> 00:53:31,040 And I think this is actually one of his best latter -day parts. 675 00:53:31,260 --> 00:53:36,520 So he gets some meat. Obviously, he's not in good enough shape to be in lots 676 00:53:36,520 --> 00:53:37,479 lots of scenes. 677 00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,780 But what he does has a lot of impact. 678 00:53:40,570 --> 00:53:41,570 It's she. 679 00:53:41,970 --> 00:53:43,550 It's got to be. 680 00:53:45,150 --> 00:53:46,750 She's come back. 681 00:53:49,730 --> 00:53:52,410 As a story, it's rather ordinary. 682 00:53:52,770 --> 00:53:58,150 Armand Weston, the director, had made some porn stuff previously under several 683 00:53:58,150 --> 00:54:02,770 names, and this seemed to be the movie he thought would launch him into a 684 00:54:02,770 --> 00:54:06,330 respectable, above -ground career, which he didn't. 685 00:54:06,570 --> 00:54:10,950 He didn't go on to make anything else at all and died in 1988. 686 00:54:11,810 --> 00:54:16,990 He does a good, solid, competent job on this, but no more. 687 00:54:17,310 --> 00:54:23,970 And the movie didn't really stand out enough, set next to any one of a 688 00:54:23,970 --> 00:54:25,450 dozen other. 689 00:54:26,060 --> 00:54:30,160 people moving to a creaky old house and scary stuff happen films it's not as 690 00:54:30,160 --> 00:54:34,880 memorable as silent scream for instance it's not as memorable as legend of hell 691 00:54:34,880 --> 00:54:40,220 house it's just another one of these haunted house pictures watchable enough 692 00:54:40,220 --> 00:54:47,020 an afternoon but nothing special fear visits many places but 693 00:54:47,020 --> 00:54:48,940 this is where it lives 694 00:54:55,630 --> 00:54:57,890 You cannot escape the fear. 695 00:54:58,610 --> 00:55:01,330 You cannot forget the fear. 696 00:55:02,750 --> 00:55:09,570 You will not know until you've killed the nesting. 697 00:55:10,290 --> 00:55:12,670 You are not going crazy. 698 00:55:12,990 --> 00:55:19,270 Then what the hell is it? It's when your dreams turn to nightmares and your 699 00:55:19,270 --> 00:55:21,470 nightmares turn on you. 700 00:55:24,010 --> 00:55:26,050 It goes beyond the supernatural. 701 00:55:27,450 --> 00:55:29,350 Beyond the psychological. 702 00:55:30,690 --> 00:55:32,790 Beyond the realm of reason. 703 00:55:37,150 --> 00:55:38,570 The nesting. 704 00:55:40,050 --> 00:55:41,530 The horror grows. 705 00:55:42,150 --> 00:55:43,870 The mystery builds. 706 00:55:45,290 --> 00:55:46,290 It's she. 707 00:55:47,030 --> 00:55:48,830 It's got to be. 708 00:55:49,230 --> 00:55:52,350 The madness infects everyone around you. 709 00:56:11,020 --> 00:56:13,700 Just you and it. 710 00:56:18,260 --> 00:56:23,880 The net thing. It's the terror that hides inside your mind. 711 00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:26,460 Coming soon. 712 00:56:41,640 --> 00:56:46,180 So the next film we have is The New Adventures of Snow White, and in America 713 00:56:46,180 --> 00:56:48,880 was released as Grimm's Fairy Tales for Adults. 714 00:56:49,120 --> 00:56:52,460 It's got a lot of different actresses that people may find familiar. 715 00:56:52,820 --> 00:56:56,080 Eva Steyer, who was in three James Bond films. 716 00:56:56,300 --> 00:57:01,780 It also has Gabby Fuchs from Mark of the Devil, and it also has Marie Lillardal, 717 00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:06,000 who played Eugenie in Eugenie, Her Journey into Perversion by Jess Franco. 718 00:57:06,910 --> 00:57:11,230 It is a beautifully European looking film and I think you can tell it has a 719 00:57:11,230 --> 00:57:14,570 certain homage to surrealism which may come from the fact that the director was 720 00:57:14,570 --> 00:57:15,570 Czech. 721 00:57:17,470 --> 00:57:21,910 Essentially the film is a story of Cinderella and Snow White merged 722 00:57:21,910 --> 00:57:28,170 so it's all the most perverse and most elegant examples of the events that take 723 00:57:28,170 --> 00:57:32,810 place in those and I say the most perverse and elegant because they are 724 00:57:34,020 --> 00:57:38,420 For example, we don't get in the Disneyfied versions of a lot of these 725 00:57:38,420 --> 00:57:43,440 gory scenes, which you do get in this film when the stepsisters, for example, 726 00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,300 cut the backs of their feet off to get their shoes on. This we do see in this 727 00:57:47,300 --> 00:57:48,800 film. But it's not a gory film. 728 00:57:49,020 --> 00:57:53,260 It's not a violent film. It's a film that revels in its absurdism. 729 00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:59,120 Mirror, mirror on the wall, am I the fairest one of all? 730 00:57:59,460 --> 00:58:00,460 My queen. 731 00:58:01,440 --> 00:58:08,160 Thou art of beauty rare, but Snow 732 00:58:08,160 --> 00:58:14,320 White living in the glen with the seven little men is a thousand times more 733 00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:19,440 fair. It's got amazing witches, amazing wenches. It's got a lot of animals with 734 00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:20,440 crowns on. 735 00:58:20,560 --> 00:58:26,640 And there is a lot of interaction with animals and furries and that kind of 736 00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:32,740 wildlife sex, if you like, with a very... naive kind of innocence and 737 00:58:32,740 --> 00:58:37,840 strangeness. So you see women with snakes crawling all over their bodies 738 00:58:37,840 --> 00:58:42,240 the snakes have little crowns on their heads, but it's not a phallic use of a 739 00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:47,940 snake. And the relationship between the bear and Snow White is quite formidable 740 00:58:47,940 --> 00:58:49,260 and quite funny. 741 00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,240 What do you animals want from me? Don't you know I'm Snow White? You're Snow 742 00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:57,660 White and I'm an enchanted prince. Save me. Everybody's sexuality in this film 743 00:58:57,660 --> 00:59:02,000 has got its own special direction and a lot of the time everyone's scared of 744 00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:04,320 everyone else because they're all a bit too randy. 745 00:59:05,100 --> 00:59:10,020 Fascinating. It is certainly an eyebrow -raising film and I think that if one 746 00:59:10,020 --> 00:59:15,300 takes it as it's meant to be, which is in a jubilant, naive kind of way, even 747 00:59:15,300 --> 00:59:18,840 the sexuality becomes quite innocent and quite playful. 748 00:59:19,360 --> 00:59:23,760 The one... thing that I found a little bit iffy about the film, it's a West 749 00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:27,580 German film and the ugly stepsisters, obviously because it's meant to be 750 00:59:27,580 --> 00:59:32,240 titillating, they can't be ugly, but they have been made with the assistance 751 00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:38,120 very dark wigs and very dark eyebrows to be very, very southern Italian looking 752 00:59:38,120 --> 00:59:45,000 and so there is certainly a sense in this film that the Aryan is the beauty 753 00:59:45,000 --> 00:59:49,400 according to this kind of ideology from the south of Europe. 754 00:59:50,090 --> 00:59:56,130 And I thought that, you know, that gave a little tinge of iffiness about the 755 00:59:56,130 --> 00:59:57,130 film. 756 00:59:57,210 --> 01:00:01,750 The only reason I can imagine that the film was attempted to be put on the list 757 01:00:01,750 --> 01:00:07,690 is because it does really take, you know, things that should be sacred and 758 01:00:07,690 --> 01:00:12,830 have been Disneyfied. And it shows them for what they are, which is perverse 759 01:00:12,830 --> 01:00:18,470 explorations of burgeoning sexuality in iconic young figures. 760 01:00:25,060 --> 01:00:28,980 It doesn't actually go that far from the fairy tales themselves, so I think that 761 01:00:28,980 --> 01:00:34,460 its adherence to the perversion in fairy tales is possibly a reminder of the 762 01:00:34,460 --> 01:00:38,500 original nature of fairy tales before the Disneyfication of them. Perhaps that 763 01:00:38,500 --> 01:00:43,640 is what is the thing that we find quite difficult to deal with, not simply the 764 01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:49,700 issuing of sexuality from what is meant to be for the realm of children, but the 765 01:00:49,700 --> 01:00:50,649 fact that... 766 01:00:50,650 --> 01:00:55,530 already these children's stories were quite perverse in themselves the cover 767 01:00:55,530 --> 01:01:00,890 clearly adult but at the same time there is a certain kind of cartoonism that 768 01:01:00,890 --> 01:01:04,350 you see in a lot of european countries not not in britain but in european 769 01:01:04,350 --> 01:01:10,650 countries with the the funny jolly either you know a dwarf or um 770 01:01:10,650 --> 01:01:17,460 just a very pathetic sort of skinny scrawny guy in the throes of poking fun 771 01:01:17,460 --> 01:01:23,160 and in passion with the Amazonian kind of big -breasted nymphs. And that is a 772 01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:28,020 kind of European sense of humour that we don't really have in Britain, that 773 01:01:28,020 --> 01:01:34,880 coalescence of comedic, clown -like character in a Fellini -esque 774 01:01:34,880 --> 01:01:38,280 kind of way with the overtly sexualised woman. 775 01:01:39,120 --> 01:01:44,220 I don't think that the British are so comfortable with the idea of laughing 776 01:01:44,220 --> 01:01:45,220 sex. 777 01:01:45,460 --> 01:01:51,720 cartoons and kids and so I would be very interested to know of any 778 01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:58,060 anecdotes of Sunday evening going to the video shop with the kids and watching 779 01:01:58,060 --> 01:02:03,780 this and seeing what mum and dad would say when the Queen says go and get her 780 01:02:03,780 --> 01:02:10,180 lady parts and cut them off for me once upon a time there was a magical kingdom 781 01:02:13,130 --> 01:02:14,790 A land of fertile fields. 782 01:02:17,770 --> 01:02:19,050 And dark forests. 783 01:02:19,570 --> 01:02:22,130 And everyone was busy all the time. 784 01:02:24,310 --> 01:02:27,110 It was here that two brothers came one day. 785 01:02:27,330 --> 01:02:29,650 With their fortune. To seek adventure. 786 01:02:30,050 --> 01:02:32,170 And it was here that lived Snow White. 787 01:02:33,650 --> 01:02:34,650 Cinderella. 788 01:02:34,990 --> 01:02:36,310 And Sleeping Beauty. 789 01:02:39,510 --> 01:02:41,990 You know all about these lovely maidens. 790 01:02:42,570 --> 01:02:43,570 Or do you? 791 01:02:43,890 --> 01:02:45,450 Now it can be told. 792 01:02:46,570 --> 01:02:47,890 The true story. 793 01:02:50,230 --> 01:02:51,690 Where men were men. 794 01:02:52,770 --> 01:02:54,210 And women were women. 795 01:02:55,610 --> 01:02:57,630 But they found the wicked queen. 796 01:02:57,950 --> 01:02:59,750 The evil stepsisters. 797 01:03:00,070 --> 01:03:02,770 A nice old devil. And the blue witch. 798 01:03:03,770 --> 01:03:05,050 Grimm's Fairy Tales. 799 01:03:05,790 --> 01:03:06,790 For adults. 800 01:03:18,990 --> 01:03:22,950 So, Night of the Living Dead, it's strange that it's even in this company, 801 01:03:23,030 --> 01:03:29,530 because it seems so elevated above the entire rest of the genre. It's almost 802 01:03:29,530 --> 01:03:33,970 like all subsequent horror pictures owe this huge debt to Night of the Living 803 01:03:33,970 --> 01:03:39,970 Dead. I wrote a whole book about the influence of Night of the Living Dead on 804 01:03:39,970 --> 01:03:41,570 contemporary horror cinema. 805 01:03:42,270 --> 01:03:46,950 And yet, when you get back to it, one is, of course, it's still... 806 01:03:47,820 --> 01:03:53,440 a low budget black and white film that is rough -hewn and a bit amateurish and 807 01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:59,940 that was part of its shock welcome to a night of total 808 01:03:59,940 --> 01:04:06,880 terror and you know it's uh it's older than 809 01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:13,220 most of the films. It's a film from the mid -60s, not even the late 60s. It's 810 01:04:13,220 --> 01:04:18,800 the template of so much that came afterwards that it's difficult to 811 01:04:18,800 --> 01:04:23,240 shocking it was when it came out. Although recently I... 812 01:04:23,550 --> 01:04:27,730 watched it again at the the ritzy cinema in brixton with an audience of kids who 813 01:04:27,730 --> 01:04:32,310 hadn't seen it before and although you could see that they were distanced from 814 01:04:32,310 --> 01:04:38,110 it in time and in technique uh and some of the things about it seemed clumsy to 815 01:04:38,110 --> 01:04:42,470 them the ending still is a kick in the teeth there are things about this movie 816 01:04:42,470 --> 01:04:44,250 that go further than 817 01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:49,860 most contemporary horror pictures than the remakes and the imitations and the 818 01:04:49,860 --> 01:04:56,280 sequels and the spin -offs. It's where we came in, in modern horror, and it's 819 01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:59,760 still a film that we should regularly watch again. 820 01:05:00,140 --> 01:05:01,860 Well, you used to really be scared here. 821 01:05:02,920 --> 01:05:05,440 Johnny! You're still afraid. 822 01:05:06,060 --> 01:05:07,580 Stop it now, I mean it! 823 01:05:11,500 --> 01:05:13,900 They're coming to get you, Barbara. 824 01:05:14,750 --> 01:05:20,030 So it's odd in this context to see it as just part of the product, just another 825 01:05:20,030 --> 01:05:24,170 popular video release of the early 80s. But it was. I mean, it was a film that 826 01:05:24,170 --> 01:05:30,450 was around a lot, partly because of the grey market rights issue that still 827 01:05:30,450 --> 01:05:32,110 dogs night the living dead. 828 01:05:33,110 --> 01:05:39,490 And it was just, it was another zombie film. I don't know how many of the 829 01:05:39,490 --> 01:05:41,490 big hit... 830 01:05:42,180 --> 01:05:46,100 video movies of the 80s turned out to be in black and white when you pop the 831 01:05:46,100 --> 01:05:47,098 tape in. 832 01:05:47,100 --> 01:05:52,500 I wondered if some renters might have been quite shocked by that. 833 01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:56,520 Because, yeah, it's almost like that. 834 01:05:57,020 --> 01:06:01,340 I think it may be the last American film to be made in black and white for 835 01:06:01,340 --> 01:06:02,340 budgetary reasons. 836 01:06:04,200 --> 01:06:08,860 And things had so much changed by the early 80s, where black and white wasn't 837 01:06:08,860 --> 01:06:14,220 cool yet. There was no sense that maybe you might go out and make a black and 838 01:06:14,220 --> 01:06:18,940 white movie, although David Lynch had just made Eraserhead, that this was 839 01:06:18,940 --> 01:06:24,720 something that distanced it from your usual run of video product. 840 01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:28,060 But it's also possible to look at it and say, yeah, it's just a really gruesome 841 01:06:28,060 --> 01:06:29,960 zombie movie with... 842 01:06:30,300 --> 01:06:36,300 actors you haven't seen before and won't be seeing again, and lots of gut 843 01:06:36,300 --> 01:06:38,060 -munching and some pretty good suspense stuff. 844 01:06:38,280 --> 01:06:44,640 The fact that it then has this enormous weight of critical importance bared on 845 01:06:44,640 --> 01:06:46,620 top of it isn't the film's fault. 846 01:06:46,920 --> 01:06:53,080 And I think that part of its lasting success has been that fresh audiences, 847 01:06:53,220 --> 01:06:56,300 once they get past the sort of shakiness... 848 01:06:57,040 --> 01:07:02,160 can still be shocked and upset by it. And certainly the video rental kids of 849 01:07:02,160 --> 01:07:09,140 early 80s were like the second or third wave of fans of 850 01:07:09,140 --> 01:07:12,300 this movie who embraced it, who went back and watched it over and over again, 851 01:07:12,340 --> 01:07:19,240 which I certainly did, and saw it as a major classic, as one of our films, one 852 01:07:19,240 --> 01:07:20,740 of the most important films of... 853 01:07:21,470 --> 01:07:22,470 our culture. 854 01:07:22,570 --> 01:07:27,290 An experience in shock, more shattering than your strangest nightmare. 855 01:07:28,890 --> 01:07:33,270 Night of the living dead. 856 01:07:33,770 --> 01:07:38,130 It's nice seeing it as a maybe knock down a peg or two to be here. 857 01:07:38,390 --> 01:07:44,910 There's something that there it is on the rack between Charles Band's movies 858 01:07:44,910 --> 01:07:49,730 and the slasher pictures of the 80s as just another good solid horror picture. 859 01:07:50,170 --> 01:07:55,330 And one of the reasons Night of the Living Dead was a big video was that 860 01:07:55,330 --> 01:07:58,570 the Dead had just been a success, so it got re -released off the back of that. 861 01:07:58,910 --> 01:08:04,010 In 1968, George Romero brought us Night of the Living Dead. 862 01:08:04,290 --> 01:08:08,710 It became the classic horror film of its time. There were various things that 863 01:08:08,710 --> 01:08:14,410 linked the two movies, including the amazing box artwork of Tom Chantrell, 864 01:08:14,410 --> 01:08:17,330 everybody stole from the rental copies and stuck up on the wall. 865 01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:25,020 Welcome to a night of total terror. 866 01:08:31,700 --> 01:08:32,800 Night 867 01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:39,760 of 868 01:08:39,760 --> 01:08:45,939 the living dead. The dead who live on living flesh. 869 01:08:46,720 --> 01:08:50,520 The dead whose haunted souls hunt the living. 870 01:08:50,920 --> 01:08:57,220 The living whose bodies are the only food for these ungodly creatures. 871 01:08:58,979 --> 01:08:59,979 What? 872 01:09:07,939 --> 01:09:11,479 Night of the living dead. 873 01:09:14,729 --> 01:09:16,590 A bizarre adventure in fear. 874 01:09:17,689 --> 01:09:22,970 An experience in shock. More shattering than your strangest nightmare. 875 01:09:24,410 --> 01:09:29,069 Night of the living dead. 876 01:09:30,090 --> 01:09:34,330 A night with the dead who cannot die. 877 01:09:36,990 --> 01:09:40,130 A night of total terror. 878 01:09:54,700 --> 01:09:57,300 Night Of the living dead 879 01:09:57,300 --> 01:10:08,880 Okay, 880 01:10:08,920 --> 01:10:13,140 so here's Night Beast by Don Dohler, actually one of the earliest examples of 881 01:10:13,140 --> 01:10:16,750 director who came from the fan tradition of horror Before he became a filmmaker, 882 01:10:16,930 --> 01:10:21,210 he had his own film magazine called Cinemagic, and he was a devotee of the 883 01:10:21,210 --> 01:10:25,010 famous monsters of film land, wrote a great deal about monster movies and was 884 01:10:25,010 --> 01:10:28,690 obviously very, very passionate about monster movies, and made the move from 885 01:10:28,690 --> 01:10:32,450 interest in special effects and an interest in other people's movies as a 886 01:10:32,450 --> 01:10:35,530 and a writer into making his own movies. 887 01:10:35,750 --> 01:10:40,210 Seeing the movie that will change the face of modern science fiction cinema, 888 01:10:40,590 --> 01:10:44,290 Night Beast, Terror From Beyond. 889 01:10:45,180 --> 01:10:50,320 Made, you know, for beer and cigarettes, basically, in Baltimore, for just a 890 01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:54,260 tiny amount of money, but with a great deal of creativity and a lot of love for 891 01:10:54,260 --> 01:10:56,960 the genre. He's also somebody who understands that if you're going to make 892 01:10:56,960 --> 01:11:00,180 monster movie, show the bloody thing. Don't waste time. 893 01:11:00,400 --> 01:11:04,400 Don't spend 45 minutes with people chit -chatting away before you finally let 894 01:11:04,400 --> 01:11:06,340 the thing peek its nose around the corner of the camera. 895 01:11:06,660 --> 01:11:07,660 Show it. 896 01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:13,480 And the great thing about Nightbeast is that within... 897 01:11:13,920 --> 01:11:19,700 Within two or three minutes, it's attacking people, ripping people's guts 898 01:11:19,700 --> 01:11:23,280 and having laser gunfights with the local constabulary. It's great. 899 01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:32,280 For the first 20 minutes, it's monster, monster, monster all the way. 900 01:11:32,740 --> 01:11:35,820 Now, this is something that I wish a lot of monster movie makers would learn. 901 01:11:36,060 --> 01:11:40,020 It doesn't matter how cheap your monster is. It doesn't matter how shabby or 902 01:11:40,020 --> 01:11:41,020 homemade it looks. 903 01:11:41,280 --> 01:11:43,180 The worst thing you can do is hide it. 904 01:11:43,450 --> 01:11:44,590 Because everyone's come to see it. 905 01:11:45,130 --> 01:11:46,410 So, you know, why get coy? 906 01:11:47,090 --> 01:11:51,370 All the best monster movies, no matter how tacky or unlikely their monsters 907 01:11:51,370 --> 01:11:53,150 look, are the ones that push it to the front. 908 01:11:53,590 --> 01:11:57,330 And if you've got the balls to do that, then you gain an awful lot of kudos and 909 01:11:57,330 --> 01:11:58,330 a lot of credit. 910 01:11:59,530 --> 01:12:03,510 And Dola, you know, God bless him, he understood that. He really puts the 911 01:12:03,510 --> 01:12:04,510 monsters out there. 912 01:12:06,090 --> 01:12:10,430 And as drama, the films are rudimentary. Sheriff Cinder! 913 01:12:13,560 --> 01:12:17,940 There's not a great deal of complexity. 914 01:12:18,180 --> 01:12:22,740 There's nothing to tax you. There's no subplot or no subtext or anything to 915 01:12:22,740 --> 01:12:23,659 think about. 916 01:12:23,660 --> 01:12:25,540 Jesus, must have been lightning. 917 01:12:25,780 --> 01:12:27,700 Hell, I ain't never seen lightning like that before. 918 01:12:29,160 --> 01:12:31,240 But if you love monster movies, he delivers. 919 01:12:31,580 --> 01:12:32,960 He knows how to play the game. 920 01:12:35,300 --> 01:12:37,880 The monster itself, well... 921 01:12:38,710 --> 01:12:42,930 It might not have any movable parts, but still, it looks great. It's got more 922 01:12:42,930 --> 01:12:46,590 teeth than it knows what to do with. It's got these little piggy eyes that 923 01:12:46,590 --> 01:12:47,590 hilarious. 924 01:12:48,410 --> 01:12:50,250 The whole thing just looks fantastic. 925 01:12:50,550 --> 01:12:55,290 The design is made by John Dodds, who, probably at the peak of his skills, 926 01:12:55,370 --> 01:12:57,030 created the monsters in The Deadly Spawn. 927 01:12:57,850 --> 01:12:59,030 Almost on a similar basis. 928 01:12:59,610 --> 01:13:02,610 Again, teeth everywhere. That was obviously a thing with him. 929 01:13:02,830 --> 01:13:07,810 It's got a lot of charm, considering that it was made for Peanuts. 930 01:13:08,320 --> 01:13:12,700 It functions very, very well as a fun piece of work. If you're very familiar 931 01:13:12,700 --> 01:13:16,800 with the films of John Waters, it's amusing to see George Stover turn up in 932 01:13:16,800 --> 01:13:17,438 of them. 933 01:13:17,440 --> 01:13:19,360 That scum, you ought to lock him up. 934 01:13:19,600 --> 01:13:23,900 He's always playing kind of concerned local citizens in the Dola films. 935 01:13:24,140 --> 01:13:26,360 I just can't imagine who could do something like this. 936 01:13:26,820 --> 01:13:29,900 He plays straight man as a character in Female Trouble as well. 937 01:13:30,100 --> 01:13:32,040 The films were made in Baltimore in Maryland. 938 01:13:32,560 --> 01:13:35,320 So it's often amusing to think that... 939 01:13:35,530 --> 01:13:39,810 Don Dohler and John Waters in the 1970s, in the late 1970s, were making their 940 01:13:39,810 --> 01:13:44,170 films kind of almost in the same little bits of scrub woodland around the edge 941 01:13:44,170 --> 01:13:44,849 of Baltimore. 942 01:13:44,850 --> 01:13:48,710 You know, maybe just if you would pan the camera to the right in one of Don 943 01:13:48,710 --> 01:13:51,990 Dohler's films, you'd see Divine, you know, making out on a mattress, you 944 01:13:52,010 --> 01:13:53,010 in female trouble. 945 01:13:53,450 --> 01:13:56,450 Or, you know, if you kind of move in the other direction during one of Waters' 946 01:13:56,550 --> 01:14:00,430 films, you'll see some giant infectoid sort of rubber monster lurching around 947 01:14:00,430 --> 01:14:03,210 the trees because they're working at the same time in the same place. 948 01:14:04,420 --> 01:14:06,440 But apart from that, very different sensibilities. 949 01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:11,800 I mean, obviously Waters has a satirical and comic sensibility. And Don Dohler 950 01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,080 is as straight as the day is long. 951 01:14:14,320 --> 01:14:17,800 You know, there's irony doesn't exist in Don Dohler's films. 952 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:21,340 You don't understand, Jack. I've got this party for Governor Embry here this 953 01:14:21,340 --> 01:14:22,318 afternoon. Remember? 954 01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:24,220 Election time, ass -kissing time. 955 01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,980 Bert, I've got something running around killing people. 956 01:14:28,180 --> 01:14:29,180 I mean, Night Beast... 957 01:14:29,290 --> 01:14:34,410 I suspect it ended up on the Section 3 list because within the first ten 958 01:14:34,410 --> 01:14:37,090 there is a fairly graphic disembowelling. 959 01:14:42,610 --> 01:14:47,130 Again, I doubt seriously whether or not the police watched the whole film. They 960 01:14:47,130 --> 01:14:49,710 probably just watched as far as the first ten minutes and thought, OK, 961 01:14:49,710 --> 01:14:50,710 all we need to know. 962 01:14:50,870 --> 01:14:54,530 Somebody gets loops of intestine pulled out of their stomach by a monster. 963 01:14:56,790 --> 01:15:00,050 Never mind that the monster looked like something from Doctor Who, that you 964 01:15:00,050 --> 01:15:04,290 couldn't possibly be offended by. How could anybody be offended by Night 965 01:15:04,770 --> 01:15:09,130 But, you know, that's all they care about is a bit of splatter, and that was 966 01:15:09,130 --> 01:15:10,130 enough. 967 01:15:10,510 --> 01:15:16,170 As far as sex is concerned, it very rarely rears its head in Dohler's films. 968 01:15:16,170 --> 01:15:20,410 mean, in his first film, Alien Factor, there's virtually no sexual element at 969 01:15:20,410 --> 01:15:23,470 all. Here, I think somebody's probably had a little word in his ear and said, 970 01:15:23,550 --> 01:15:24,650 you know, Don... 971 01:15:25,490 --> 01:15:28,630 The films might distribute a little better if you just include a little bit 972 01:15:28,630 --> 01:15:33,450 TNA. So there are a couple of nipples visible here and there and a few of the 973 01:15:33,450 --> 01:15:34,450 girls take their tops off. 974 01:15:34,950 --> 01:15:38,170 But the thing is, it's a lot harder to get your friends and neighbours to take 975 01:15:38,170 --> 01:15:41,030 their tops off in your film than it is to get some girl from a casting agency 976 01:15:41,030 --> 01:15:43,790 come and take her top off. And I think that's why the Dohler films don't have 977 01:15:43,790 --> 01:15:44,790 sexual content. 978 01:15:44,850 --> 01:15:46,430 It's because he's making it with... 979 01:15:46,860 --> 01:15:50,200 The guy down the road that runs the hardware store that he sees every day, 980 01:15:50,200 --> 01:15:52,020 can't ask his daughter to take her top off, can you? 981 01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:58,400 So, you know, I suspect that's why they're sexually a little repressed, you 982 01:15:58,400 --> 01:16:00,520 know, because it's just socially kind of difficult. 983 01:16:03,400 --> 01:16:07,840 From another galaxy, from another world, 984 01:16:08,060 --> 01:16:14,750 comes... The embodiment of 985 01:16:14,750 --> 01:16:16,650 fear. What the hell was that? 986 01:16:19,050 --> 01:16:20,050 Night Beast. 987 01:16:20,370 --> 01:16:21,970 Terror from beyond. 988 01:16:27,850 --> 01:16:31,210 A high -tech warrior from a distant planet. 989 01:16:33,510 --> 01:16:36,250 A killing machine with a taste for human flesh. 990 01:16:38,370 --> 01:16:42,430 A community abandoned in a code of silence. 991 01:16:42,990 --> 01:16:46,370 Wicker never even called us a state. They don't even know we have a bad 992 01:16:46,370 --> 01:16:47,370 situation here. 993 01:16:53,230 --> 01:16:54,350 A love affair. 994 01:16:54,670 --> 01:16:58,550 You know, you're a very attractive girl, Lisa. Two people brought together by 995 01:16:58,550 --> 01:16:59,790 the urgency of the moment. 996 01:17:00,190 --> 01:17:04,710 Two people torn apart by the savage fury of Night Beast. 997 01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:08,460 I'm sorry, Jeremy. There was nothing that could be done. The most vicious 998 01:17:08,460 --> 01:17:12,960 creature to ever span the intergalactic void has come to pay its respect. 999 01:17:20,040 --> 01:17:21,960 Jesus Christ! 1000 01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:28,700 This is the story of how the little people answer the big questions. 1001 01:17:39,820 --> 01:17:43,400 that will change the face of modern science fiction cinema. 1002 01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:47,360 Night Beast. 1003 01:17:47,740 --> 01:17:50,140 Terror from beyond. 1004 01:18:02,610 --> 01:18:05,750 Nightmare City, put out by VTC in a cut version. 1005 01:18:05,970 --> 01:18:09,430 Um, Zimberto Lenzi's also known as City of the Walking Dead, and there's an 1006 01:18:09,430 --> 01:18:13,490 irony there, because neither are they dead or are they walking. In fact, this 1007 01:18:13,490 --> 01:18:16,170 probably an inspiration. I'm sure they probably wouldn't agree with this. This 1008 01:18:16,170 --> 01:18:17,410 is something like 28 Days Later. 1009 01:18:17,650 --> 01:18:22,650 The film was also put out, um, in an even more cut version, um, on a double 1010 01:18:22,650 --> 01:18:26,590 with Alien Terror, um, and, um, again, put out on VTC. 1011 01:18:27,300 --> 01:18:31,040 using the American artwork, which was put out, I think that was the one -sheet 1012 01:18:31,040 --> 01:18:33,080 artwork for City of the Walking Dead in the US. 1013 01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:38,020 And Bertolensi was obviously the famous trash auteur who put his hand to loads 1014 01:18:38,020 --> 01:18:41,700 of different films, from Jali to police thrillers to cannibal films. 1015 01:18:42,060 --> 01:18:45,700 And this was his zombie film, although, again, he says this isn't a zombie film. 1016 01:18:45,740 --> 01:18:50,280 In fact, these aren't zombies. These are radiated madmen and women. In other 1017 01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:54,830 words... This individual and others like him have been subjected to strong doses 1018 01:18:54,830 --> 01:18:58,770 of atomic radiation, which increased their physical capacities beyond the 1019 01:18:58,990 --> 01:19:02,410 Actually, and of course, are they zombies or are they vampires? Because 1020 01:19:02,410 --> 01:19:03,049 the other thing. 1021 01:19:03,050 --> 01:19:07,370 In the film, they don't chomp on guts like many of the Italian gut munchers. 1022 01:19:07,370 --> 01:19:08,630 They actually drink blood. 1023 01:19:10,090 --> 01:19:11,130 I don't believe it. 1024 01:19:11,480 --> 01:19:14,660 It's got Hugo Stiglitz, if I'm pronouncing that correctly. He was a 1025 01:19:14,660 --> 01:19:19,040 actor. Umberto Lenzi said that he wanted to actually cast Franco Nera or Fabio 1026 01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:23,000 Testi in the film. Now, it seems very unlikely either Franco Nera or Fabio 1027 01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:24,860 would have been in this film. Why me in particular? 1028 01:19:25,160 --> 01:19:28,700 He got Hugo instead, apparently for the Mexican audiences who wanted to see this 1029 01:19:28,700 --> 01:19:34,900 film. He plays a TV reporter who gets sent out to interview a famous scientist 1030 01:19:34,900 --> 01:19:40,970 who's coming into an unnamed city to talk about a chemical spill or a... 1031 01:19:40,970 --> 01:19:45,450 accident it's never quite clear and what happens in one of the greatest kind of 1032 01:19:45,450 --> 01:19:50,950 trash kind of moments in cinema is this plane lands and out jump all these kind 1033 01:19:50,950 --> 01:19:56,730 of well monsters vampires zombies whatever you want to call them they all 1034 01:19:56,730 --> 01:20:00,210 like they've all fallen got a bit drunk and fall into a cow pat now again it's 1035 01:20:00,210 --> 01:20:03,950 probably not the best special effects ever but again it really really works 1036 01:20:03,950 --> 01:20:05,770 these aren't low shuffling zombies 1037 01:20:08,390 --> 01:20:12,390 This is basically a complete polar opposite to something like Fulci's 1038 01:20:12,390 --> 01:20:16,050 movies, like Zombie Flesh Eaters or Beyond, which is much more insular or 1039 01:20:16,050 --> 01:20:19,410 esoteric, I can guess. This is essentially an action movie. 1040 01:20:23,940 --> 01:20:27,300 This is one of the greatest party movies, in my opinion. 1041 01:20:27,900 --> 01:20:29,460 It's a huge amount of fun. 1042 01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:32,680 Maybe one of the best lines in it, I think it's Mel Ferrer, who says, 1043 01:20:33,420 --> 01:20:34,720 let's use Plan H. 1044 01:20:35,060 --> 01:20:36,780 We'll follow Emergency Plan H. 1045 01:20:37,160 --> 01:20:40,180 And if we can't use Plan H, if it gets really bad, we'll go to Plan B. 1046 01:20:40,500 --> 01:20:43,600 And we'll keep Plan B in reserve in case the situation gets out of hand. 1047 01:20:43,900 --> 01:20:47,700 And it's just bizarre, these kind of bizarre things. But Umberto Lenzi, who I 1048 01:20:47,700 --> 01:20:51,580 haven't met Umberto, but he's famously a little bit po -faced about his movies. 1049 01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:54,700 Now, I can't believe he didn't make this movie. a little bit of tongue -in 1050 01:20:54,700 --> 01:20:55,700 -cheek. 1051 01:20:55,980 --> 01:20:58,120 It's got some great moments, great gore moments. 1052 01:20:59,660 --> 01:21:03,200 Probably, if it had come out in uncut version, it probably would have been one 1053 01:21:03,200 --> 01:21:06,420 of the bona fide video nasties, one of something that would have attracted a 1054 01:21:06,420 --> 01:21:07,219 more attention. 1055 01:21:07,220 --> 01:21:11,680 And, of course, one of the standout scenes is the scene when, if you 1056 01:21:11,780 --> 01:21:14,880 Top of the Pops from the 1970s, when Pan's people were dancing, and if you 1057 01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:19,360 imagine, suddenly, on the Top of the Pops studio, a load of zombies burst in 1058 01:21:19,360 --> 01:21:21,060 with machetes and start cutting off press. 1059 01:21:22,060 --> 01:21:25,160 then you can see why this film might have got the attention that it has. 1060 01:21:25,520 --> 01:21:28,340 In reality, the film's far too silly to be offensive. 1061 01:21:34,260 --> 01:21:37,340 Lindsay tries to go one further than thought she would with some eye 1062 01:21:37,500 --> 01:21:42,120 where there's a very protracted scene where a woman gets her eyeball cut out. 1063 01:21:42,220 --> 01:21:45,260 But what the film does do, and I think what it succeeds in doing, is actually, 1064 01:21:45,300 --> 01:21:49,800 on what is quite a low budget, it's actually got quite almost a pan... 1065 01:21:50,190 --> 01:21:54,170 pandemic feel to it and so much it goes out you actually do have a city being 1066 01:21:54,170 --> 01:21:57,810 attacked rather than just a lot of people holed up in a farmhouse it's far 1067 01:21:57,810 --> 01:22:02,690 expansive so you although it's kind of very low low budget you do get like a 1068 01:22:02,690 --> 01:22:06,670 great scene in hospital where there's doctors nurses being chased and of 1069 01:22:07,290 --> 01:22:10,030 All the time, all the nurses have their blouses ripped off, and of course it's 1070 01:22:10,030 --> 01:22:12,070 an Italian zombie movie, so what else would you expect? 1071 01:22:12,310 --> 01:22:14,790 It's a great deal of fun, you know, it's one of my favourite zombie movies. 1072 01:22:15,050 --> 01:22:18,250 And Nightmare City is a bit like, I mean, the horror equivalent of Bobby 1073 01:22:18,250 --> 01:22:19,450 stepping out of the shower in Dallas. 1074 01:22:19,970 --> 01:22:22,070 It's essentially, it was all a dream. 1075 01:22:26,290 --> 01:22:30,880 So Hugo wakes up and suddenly goes... And then, so it's all happening again. 1076 01:22:30,880 --> 01:22:35,120 goes off to meet the professor at the airport, and it all starts again. The 1077 01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:36,120 nightmare continues. 1078 01:22:36,200 --> 01:22:40,720 So it's one of those great circular endings, which I imagine would have, a 1079 01:22:40,720 --> 01:22:43,240 groan would have gone out from the audience, possibly because they're going 1080 01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:44,240 watch the whole thing again. 1081 01:22:48,900 --> 01:22:53,040 Top of the news this evening is speculation concerning the real facts. 1082 01:22:53,610 --> 01:22:58,750 behind a Department of Health announcement about a radioactive spill 1083 01:22:58,750 --> 01:23:01,510 have occurred yesterday at the state nuclear plant. 1084 01:23:02,670 --> 01:23:07,310 Information from an official source, which reached our newsroom this 1085 01:23:07,670 --> 01:23:10,010 stresses the seriousness of the situation. 1086 01:23:17,930 --> 01:23:18,930 Mr. 1087 01:23:22,550 --> 01:23:24,960 Miller. Something very serious has happened at the airport. 1088 01:23:25,240 --> 01:23:30,160 But until we conclude our investigation and take the necessary countermeasures, 1089 01:23:30,200 --> 01:23:33,860 nothing is going to leak out. Nothing. Last night I had this nightmare. 1090 01:23:34,180 --> 01:23:38,620 It was all about my leg. It was a big explosion. It was right here in the 1091 01:23:38,620 --> 01:23:40,140 hospital. I got hit. 1092 01:23:40,480 --> 01:23:42,280 My leg got cut off. 1093 01:23:43,000 --> 01:23:45,040 Well, we don't have to worry over that any longer. 1094 01:23:45,640 --> 01:23:47,180 Jimmy, your leg's going to be just fine. 1095 01:23:54,570 --> 01:23:59,190 Yes General Murchison would like you to come down here right away now 1096 01:23:59,190 --> 01:24:06,910 This 1097 01:24:06,910 --> 01:24:13,790 individual and others 1098 01:24:13,790 --> 01:24:18,050 like him have been subjected to strong doses of atomic radiation which 1099 01:24:18,050 --> 01:24:22,050 their physical capacities Beyond the norm in short. It's a kind of a Superman 1100 01:24:25,599 --> 01:24:27,320 This is Channel 5 TV station. 1101 01:24:27,860 --> 01:24:28,860 They're being attacked. 1102 01:24:29,200 --> 01:24:31,120 For God's sakes, send somebody fast. 1103 01:24:37,060 --> 01:24:41,040 The victims of these creatures are contaminated, even if they only suffer 1104 01:24:41,040 --> 01:24:45,100 injuries. Then they can reproduce themselves, Colonel, say, indefinitely? 1105 01:24:52,110 --> 01:24:55,710 We'll be completely on our own. We'll simply have to declare a state of 1106 01:24:55,710 --> 01:24:56,710 emergency ourselves. 1107 01:24:57,290 --> 01:25:00,530 Or before we all become contaminated just like them. 1108 01:25:12,110 --> 01:25:13,110 It's frightening. 1109 01:25:13,350 --> 01:25:14,870 How could a thing like this happen? 1110 01:25:15,970 --> 01:25:19,050 It's part of the vital cycle of the human race. 1111 01:25:19,850 --> 01:25:22,330 Create and obliterate until we destroy ourselves. 1112 01:25:23,870 --> 01:25:28,750 We have special commando units positioned at all strategic points in 1113 01:25:28,750 --> 01:25:33,010 the city. Public buildings, offices, and businesses alike have been ravaged. And 1114 01:25:33,010 --> 01:25:35,250 damage is estimated in the hundreds of thousands. 1115 01:25:35,950 --> 01:25:38,070 General Hospital has been hit the hardest. 1116 01:25:38,550 --> 01:25:42,890 Many have been seriously injured and hundreds of lives have been lost. With 1117 01:25:42,890 --> 01:25:48,330 end still not in sight. My God, Sheila, what's going on? I don't know. I really 1118 01:25:48,330 --> 01:25:49,330 don't know. 1119 01:25:57,990 --> 01:25:59,290 Dino, I don't want us to die. 1120 01:26:30,700 --> 01:26:33,400 Right, so here's Oasis of the Zombies by Jeff Franco. 1121 01:26:33,680 --> 01:26:38,120 And it's one of those Franco movies which was everywhere like a bad rash in 1122 01:26:38,120 --> 01:26:39,360 video shops up and down the country. 1123 01:26:39,720 --> 01:26:44,320 Very frustrating for Franco fans who want to try and make a case for Franco 1124 01:26:44,320 --> 01:26:49,060 really interesting director that several of his absolute worst films were 1125 01:26:49,060 --> 01:26:51,460 absolutely everywhere on the shelves in this country. 1126 01:26:53,020 --> 01:26:54,460 You know, I'm going to do it again though. 1127 01:26:54,820 --> 01:26:58,400 Oasis of the Zombies, for all the fact that it's a terrible film, has 1128 01:27:00,780 --> 01:27:05,300 I'm probably blowing all credibility as a commentator on Franco now to say this, 1129 01:27:05,420 --> 01:27:10,100 but I can watch it, and I can watch it more than... I've watched it about four 1130 01:27:10,100 --> 01:27:12,700 times already, and I shall probably watch it another four times. 1131 01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:15,160 I think you're out of your head. 1132 01:27:15,960 --> 01:27:16,960 There's something there. 1133 01:27:17,280 --> 01:27:22,240 There's something a little poignant about it. It's as if all the really 1134 01:27:22,240 --> 01:27:27,640 zombie stuff is happening just over the sand dunes, like maybe 200 metres down 1135 01:27:27,640 --> 01:27:29,020 the dunes. 1136 01:27:29,370 --> 01:27:31,830 there's a really exciting zombie film happening and we're just getting the 1137 01:27:31,830 --> 01:27:35,050 dregs. I mean, Franco was making some really wonderful films around this time. 1138 01:27:35,210 --> 01:27:39,370 In the early 80s, he was having a real burst of energy and was back to making 1139 01:27:39,370 --> 01:27:41,150 maybe 10, 12 films a year again. 1140 01:27:41,830 --> 01:27:43,110 And some of them are fantastic. 1141 01:27:43,770 --> 01:27:50,770 This one is a mess because he doesn't give two hoots about zombie films. Just 1142 01:27:50,770 --> 01:27:53,210 like with the cannibal movies that he made, he didn't care about those either. 1143 01:27:53,950 --> 01:27:57,030 He just kind of went along with the prevailing desire. 1144 01:27:57,740 --> 01:28:02,300 from his producers to make these kind of movies and said, OK, well, if you want 1145 01:28:02,300 --> 01:28:03,300 me to do that, I'll do that. 1146 01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:09,660 He probably thought, well, in two weeks' time, I've got another movie that they 1147 01:28:09,660 --> 01:28:10,660 want, so why not? 1148 01:28:10,780 --> 01:28:12,020 No! No! 1149 01:28:12,420 --> 01:28:13,420 No! 1150 01:28:14,060 --> 01:28:17,860 He doesn't have a feel for this, but if you're a Franco watcher and a Franco 1151 01:28:17,860 --> 01:28:22,580 fan, there are elements and traces there that you can enjoy. I mean, the music, 1152 01:28:22,700 --> 01:28:25,480 so copperific and so... 1153 01:28:26,650 --> 01:28:30,550 dreamy and half there and half focused you know when a movie goes out of focus 1154 01:28:30,550 --> 01:28:34,670 well the sound is doing that it's like organ music that feels like it drifting 1155 01:28:34,670 --> 01:28:41,470 out of audibility almost it kind of nudges you out of the frame it's got a 1156 01:28:41,470 --> 01:28:45,420 of the signs and symbols that you would associate with the zombie film but It's 1157 01:28:45,420 --> 01:28:46,500 drifting away from them. 1158 01:28:47,100 --> 01:28:52,140 You feel the energy of the film is not taking you in the action -adventure 1159 01:28:52,140 --> 01:28:55,760 direction that you would get from Romero. Franco can't afford the violence 1160 01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:57,160 would take you in the Lucia Fulci direction. 1161 01:28:57,740 --> 01:29:04,160 All he's left with is ambience, and a sort of a desolate, sandy, vague, 1162 01:29:04,500 --> 01:29:08,480 diffused ambience, which, if you can tap into that, and if you're willing to 1163 01:29:08,480 --> 01:29:13,400 spend 70 or 80 minutes just soaking that up, fine. 1164 01:29:13,980 --> 01:29:16,360 Not everyone's going to be happy with that. That's not enough for a lot of 1165 01:29:16,360 --> 01:29:19,660 people. But if you can get off on that, then Oasis of the Zombies does have some 1166 01:29:19,660 --> 01:29:20,780 pleasurable aspects to it. 1167 01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:24,960 It's an interesting one as well because it was shot in two different versions. 1168 01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:29,580 This one is, I think, the less interesting of the two. The version that 1169 01:29:29,580 --> 01:29:33,340 as Oasis of the Zombies was actually the French cut of the film. 1170 01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:38,160 About a year or maybe 18 months later, Franco went back to the same locations 1171 01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:39,640 and shot extra footage. 1172 01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:43,540 with Spanish actors, a couple of Spanish actors, including Lina Romay, his 1173 01:29:43,540 --> 01:29:46,640 partner, in order to resell the film for the Spanish market. 1174 01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:50,780 And the Spanish version has a different score and slightly different themes. 1175 01:29:55,700 --> 01:29:59,460 The score actually makes a difference. The score for the Spanish version is 1176 01:29:59,460 --> 01:30:02,720 avant -garde, more bizarre and extreme. 1177 01:30:05,180 --> 01:30:08,540 puts you up in your seat a little bit, whereas the music for the French version 1178 01:30:08,540 --> 01:30:13,020 is, as I say, quite soporific and too dreamy for its own good, really. There 1179 01:30:13,020 --> 01:30:16,220 aren't very many people out there that would tax themselves by watching the two 1180 01:30:16,220 --> 01:30:17,560 of them back -to -back. I've done it. 1181 01:30:18,160 --> 01:30:20,600 I've written about it. No -one else need ever do it. 1182 01:30:21,580 --> 01:30:25,180 The Spanish version has a different title. It's called La Tamba de las 1183 01:30:25,180 --> 01:30:29,760 Vivientes, which is Tomb of the Living Dead. The French version actually was 1184 01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:33,120 called La Bime de Mont -Revant, which is The Abyss of the Living Dead. 1185 01:30:33,500 --> 01:30:36,380 It's only the English language version that's called Oasis, but the English 1186 01:30:36,380 --> 01:30:39,920 language version is basically the French version retitled. As far as its reason 1187 01:30:39,920 --> 01:30:43,660 for attracting the attention of the police or the courts, it's purely to do 1188 01:30:43,660 --> 01:30:44,599 the zombie thing. 1189 01:30:44,600 --> 01:30:49,080 I mean, this time, really, we can say for certain, I'm sure, that there's 1190 01:30:49,080 --> 01:30:54,840 nothing that could really justify putting this film on a list of video 1191 01:30:54,840 --> 01:30:56,100 in terms of content. 1192 01:30:56,320 --> 01:31:00,680 It's purely going to be that some police officer has had the word zombie branded 1193 01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:01,680 into his imagination. 1194 01:31:02,540 --> 01:31:05,960 And as soon as you saw it on a video shelf, you just plucked the title down 1195 01:31:05,960 --> 01:31:07,040 probably didn't even look at the front. 1196 01:31:23,720 --> 01:31:24,720 You believe in zombies? 1197 01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:30,780 I believe it when I see it. 1198 01:31:48,839 --> 01:31:51,000 The living, the dead. 1199 01:31:51,260 --> 01:31:52,620 Oh, Father. 1200 01:31:53,000 --> 01:31:54,420 For God's sake, where's the oasis? 1201 01:31:56,480 --> 01:31:58,660 For God's sake, where's the oasis? 1202 01:33:03,440 --> 01:33:04,440 Chia! 1203 01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:24,700 Parasite was one of a little blip of 3D movies that came out in the 80s, mostly, 1204 01:34:24,700 --> 01:34:26,100 oddly enough, in 1983. 1205 01:34:26,640 --> 01:34:27,640 3D. 1206 01:34:29,380 --> 01:34:34,240 The movie fantasy of yesterday is now the terrifying film experience of the 1207 01:34:34,240 --> 01:34:36,020 future. We think of Jaws 3D. 1208 01:34:36,490 --> 01:34:37,570 Amityville 3D. 1209 01:34:37,810 --> 01:34:42,930 It started off with a Spaghetti Western called Come In At Ya. And I think 1210 01:34:42,930 --> 01:34:48,070 Charles Band got in second, maybe with Parasite, maybe with Metal Storm, The 1211 01:34:48,070 --> 01:34:49,590 Destruction of Jared Sin. 1212 01:34:49,890 --> 01:34:54,510 But for a while, he was one of the few people in America who was taking 3D as a 1213 01:34:54,510 --> 01:34:55,510 process seriously. 1214 01:34:57,030 --> 01:35:00,070 3D, the ultimate sensation of visual art. 1215 01:35:00,310 --> 01:35:04,730 He didn't stick with it, perhaps because video. 1216 01:35:05,360 --> 01:35:10,720 just took off as the medium that his kind of movies were going to. And even 1217 01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:16,920 they can't really do 3D on, you know, using videotape as a medium. There were 1218 01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:21,160 few releases of older things like The Mask where they put some glasses in, but 1219 01:35:21,160 --> 01:35:23,100 I've never met anybody who's made it work. 1220 01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:26,900 who's actually had anything except a headache out of looking through the 1221 01:35:26,900 --> 01:35:33,620 cardboard glasses at a VHS playing. So Parasite came out flat on video. 1222 01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:38,180 For technical reasons, the preview you are about to see is not three 1223 01:35:38,180 --> 01:35:44,340 -dimensional. It was sort of an alien imitation, sort of a Mad Max imitation 1224 01:35:44,340 --> 01:35:50,620 its miserable near future in the late 1990s. And there's a scientist who's got 1225 01:35:50,620 --> 01:35:51,620 parasite. 1226 01:35:52,600 --> 01:35:56,320 Which looks like, as Cynthia Rose memorably said, a Big Mac with teeth. 1227 01:35:56,320 --> 01:36:01,200 some futuristic scumbags like the ones in Mad Max who do some bad things which 1228 01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:05,560 require revenge being taken on them. And we have the very young Demi Moore in 1229 01:36:05,560 --> 01:36:07,360 cut -off shorts and a belly shirt. 1230 01:36:07,920 --> 01:36:10,860 As a matter of fact, I don't even know what I'm getting involved with. 1231 01:36:11,360 --> 01:36:16,620 All credit to her. She's, over her career, has become... occasionally a bit 1232 01:36:16,620 --> 01:36:21,100 standing joke for a kind of tabloid lifestyle she has always been a good 1233 01:36:21,100 --> 01:36:26,500 she has always had dignity even in rubbish and she's very good in parasite 1234 01:36:26,500 --> 01:36:32,960 i don't have a choice you can see that this is a movie which any producer 1235 01:36:32,960 --> 01:36:38,100 watching would say get me that girl and lose the number of all those other guys 1236 01:36:38,100 --> 01:36:40,740 can i open it rick can i rick i want to know 1237 01:36:42,780 --> 01:36:46,760 So as a stepping stone in her career, it's of interest. 1238 01:36:47,100 --> 01:36:53,080 I think now it has, like a lot of those 80s futuristic visions, it's almost 1239 01:36:53,080 --> 01:36:58,580 nostalgic. They're kind of broken down America, although, you know, global 1240 01:36:58,580 --> 01:37:01,780 warming and gas shortages and all these things that would never happen in real 1241 01:37:01,780 --> 01:37:04,880 life. I hope you got some money to pay for all this. 1242 01:37:05,680 --> 01:37:07,740 Nobody's filled up their car with gas in years. 1243 01:37:10,480 --> 01:37:11,880 And I think that the... 1244 01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:19,080 The once -in -a -lifetime teaming of Robert Glaudini and Luca Bercovici, 1245 01:37:19,140 --> 01:37:24,760 who I still get mixed up as antagonists, is quite interesting. 1246 01:37:29,080 --> 01:37:30,080 3D. 1247 01:37:32,100 --> 01:37:37,040 The movie fantasy of yesterday is now the terrifying film experience of the 1248 01:37:37,040 --> 01:37:38,700 future, for technical reasons. 1249 01:37:39,280 --> 01:37:44,760 The preview you are about to see is not three -dimensional. Be assured, Parasite 1250 01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:47,880 is the most gripping and frightening movie you will ever see. 1251 01:37:48,100 --> 01:37:52,240 And in 3D, you will be part of the terror. 1252 01:37:52,820 --> 01:37:57,520 You are about to witness the future. Be warned, it is a shocking sight. 1253 01:37:58,100 --> 01:38:03,380 3D, the ultimate sensation of visual art, now creates the newest, most 1254 01:38:03,380 --> 01:38:06,380 terrifying form of fear, Parasite. 1255 01:38:07,580 --> 01:38:08,900 That thing on your stomach. 1256 01:38:09,180 --> 01:38:13,540 A new strain of parasite. When it reproduces, it will cast millions of 1257 01:38:13,540 --> 01:38:15,380 microscopic spores into the air. 1258 01:38:15,640 --> 01:38:18,760 Just move your legs towards me. Real slow. 1259 01:38:19,120 --> 01:38:20,340 Real slow. 1260 01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:26,500 Experience the living, breathing, terrifying vision of modern 3D. 1261 01:38:28,060 --> 01:38:30,880 Parasite. You have only seen the preview. 1262 01:38:31,140 --> 01:38:34,980 In 3D, you will live the film. 1263 01:38:37,019 --> 01:38:40,860 Parasite, the first futuristic monster movie in 3D. 1264 01:38:41,840 --> 01:38:42,840 Parasite. 1265 01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:59,620 Okay, so we have here Phantasm by Don Coscarelli. Now, I'm sure that this 1266 01:38:59,620 --> 01:39:00,840 doesn't need very much of an introduction. 1267 01:39:04,590 --> 01:39:08,630 If this one doesn't scare you, you're already dead. 1268 01:39:09,990 --> 01:39:12,870 If you're a horror fan and you've not seen Phantasm, then where the hell have 1269 01:39:12,870 --> 01:39:17,370 you been? It's an essential, essential film. One of my all -time favourites. 1270 01:39:17,550 --> 01:39:21,890 It's doing that kind of dreamlike, is it real or is it a dream, is it real or is 1271 01:39:21,890 --> 01:39:26,890 it some parallel fantasy world? It's playing with the boundaries of what's 1272 01:39:26,890 --> 01:39:29,910 and what isn't real in a way that a few years later films like Nightmare on Elm 1273 01:39:29,910 --> 01:39:31,370 Street would come along and kind of... 1274 01:39:31,920 --> 01:39:36,000 nail down a bit more whereas the boundaries in this film feel looser and 1275 01:39:36,000 --> 01:39:42,080 stranger than that phantasm is it a nightmare it is very very dreamlike 1276 01:39:42,080 --> 01:39:48,660 phantasm is it an illusion it kind of combines so many different elements as 1277 01:39:48,660 --> 01:39:53,200 well it's a reality bending uh horror story it's a sort of a story about 1278 01:39:53,200 --> 01:39:57,080 fraternal love and loyalty as well which i think is one of the reasons why it's 1279 01:39:57,080 --> 01:40:02,640 attracted a lot of among fans over the years. It's not just a... Nothing wrong 1280 01:40:02,640 --> 01:40:05,860 with just a horror film, I should add, but it's not just a horror film. 1281 01:40:06,480 --> 01:40:08,260 There's a lot of emotional content as well. 1282 01:40:08,480 --> 01:40:11,440 Mike, that tall man of yours did not take Jodie away. 1283 01:40:11,720 --> 01:40:13,280 Jodie died in a car wreck. 1284 01:40:19,060 --> 01:40:22,420 Instead of what usually happens in horror movies these days, where everyone 1285 01:40:22,420 --> 01:40:25,880 basically chipping at each other all the time and trying to outdo each other, 1286 01:40:25,960 --> 01:40:26,960 and there's a lot of... 1287 01:40:27,490 --> 01:40:31,670 waspish and snide comments between the characters, because scriptwriters love 1288 01:40:31,670 --> 01:40:32,670 write that shit. 1289 01:40:32,990 --> 01:40:38,350 They can make themselves sound a bit sharper and wittier than they perhaps 1290 01:40:38,350 --> 01:40:41,970 like they are in real life by writing characters like that. In this, people 1291 01:40:41,970 --> 01:40:42,749 each other. 1292 01:40:42,750 --> 01:40:46,510 And it's kind of unusual in these kind of horror movies. And it's got a kid at 1293 01:40:46,510 --> 01:40:48,750 the centre who's not a pain in the ass. 1294 01:40:49,110 --> 01:40:50,850 We're going for the sheriff. Go get your... 1295 01:40:51,100 --> 01:40:52,160 Evidence. All right. 1296 01:40:53,160 --> 01:40:59,200 The other characters in the film, the relationships between them are... 1297 01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:01,340 friends. You feel that they're friends. 1298 01:41:01,560 --> 01:41:04,360 It's actually a very warm film in a lot of ways. 1299 01:41:04,580 --> 01:41:07,340 And then underlying it is this strange element to do with the absence of 1300 01:41:07,340 --> 01:41:11,500 parents. At the beginning of the film, the lead characters, parents, you find 1301 01:41:11,500 --> 01:41:14,540 out that one of them died a few months ago and another one has just been put in 1302 01:41:14,540 --> 01:41:15,279 the ground now. 1303 01:41:15,280 --> 01:41:17,380 So two brothers basically are left to fend for themselves. 1304 01:41:17,740 --> 01:41:21,540 I don't know if this is an entirely universal experience, but I remember as 1305 01:41:21,540 --> 01:41:27,060 kid feeling, kind of fantasising, not in a really mean way, but thinking, if 1306 01:41:27,060 --> 01:41:30,060 your parents died, you'd kind of have the house to yourself, wouldn't you? 1307 01:41:30,440 --> 01:41:33,520 And just kind of imagining how that would work and thinking, yeah, just 1308 01:41:33,640 --> 01:41:36,200 it'd be really sad, you know, and you'd... 1309 01:41:37,480 --> 01:41:40,920 you'd be terribly sad and you'd kind of mentally work through this fantasy of 1310 01:41:40,920 --> 01:41:44,580 your parents dying and think, oh, I'd be terribly sad. But then again, you'd 1311 01:41:44,580 --> 01:41:45,680 have more freedom as well, wouldn't you? 1312 01:41:46,120 --> 01:41:51,400 So there's this kind of underlying trend in fantasy, all sorts of kind of 1313 01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:54,560 adolescent fantasies, I think. And then there's also this kind of emerging 1314 01:41:54,560 --> 01:41:59,880 sexuality, the fact that the kid's older brother is scoring with girls, so he's 1315 01:41:59,880 --> 01:42:02,320 kind of spying on his older brother, and there's all this kind of intimacy. 1316 01:42:03,690 --> 01:42:07,830 a blossoming sort of sexual interest and awareness represented by very 1317 01:42:07,830 --> 01:42:11,710 mysterious women in the film. There's a mysterious, very beautiful, voluptuous 1318 01:42:11,710 --> 01:42:15,030 younger woman that the older brother is making out with. 1319 01:42:15,530 --> 01:42:18,770 And then the other women in the film are extremely strange and mysterious, 1320 01:42:18,970 --> 01:42:23,950 including a kind of a witch -like mystic living at a house by the crossroads who 1321 01:42:23,950 --> 01:42:28,510 has magical powers and who, just in the most casual way possible, the lead 1322 01:42:28,510 --> 01:42:31,530 character goes to visit for advice about what's going on. Of course, this brings 1323 01:42:31,530 --> 01:42:32,530 us on to... 1324 01:42:33,340 --> 01:42:37,460 The central character, perhaps, in the film, the iconic figure, the tall man, 1325 01:42:37,660 --> 01:42:42,600 who is as much a part of horror iconography as Dracula and Frankenstein, 1326 01:42:42,600 --> 01:42:44,920 as I'm concerned, and I think for a lot of other people as well. 1327 01:42:45,580 --> 01:42:48,280 The funeral is about to begin, sir. 1328 01:42:48,880 --> 01:42:52,220 And what does the tall man represent? He's a sort of a, again, a kind of a 1329 01:42:52,220 --> 01:42:56,890 childhood... And, of course, he's played brilliantly by this wonderful actor, 1330 01:42:56,990 --> 01:42:59,570 Angus Scrimm. It's not his real name. He's actually called Rory Guy. 1331 01:43:00,090 --> 01:43:02,890 And he did actually appear in some horror films before this. He's in a 1332 01:43:02,890 --> 01:43:06,750 little movie called Scream Bloody Murder in the early 70s. Not playing a 1333 01:43:06,750 --> 01:43:10,310 menacing figure, playing a doctor, but if you're a big fan of Phantasm and 1334 01:43:10,310 --> 01:43:14,430 like to see the tall man a few years before Phantasm, then check out Scream 1335 01:43:14,430 --> 01:43:15,148 Bloody Murder. 1336 01:43:15,150 --> 01:43:18,030 There's a great scene in Phantasm, one of my favourite scenes in any horror 1337 01:43:18,030 --> 01:43:20,750 movie, where you see him walking down... 1338 01:43:21,150 --> 01:43:24,350 A high street of this little mid -American town in slow motion. 1339 01:43:24,890 --> 01:43:28,470 And there's an ice cream van with the back door open and there's the 1340 01:43:28,470 --> 01:43:30,550 condensation wafting out of the ice cream van. 1341 01:43:30,950 --> 01:43:36,410 And he just kind of turns and warms his hands or cools his hands on the 1342 01:43:36,410 --> 01:43:42,810 condensation and basks for a second, you know, in this kind of mist and fog from 1343 01:43:42,810 --> 01:43:43,810 the ice. 1344 01:43:43,850 --> 01:43:47,170 It's such a strange scene. It's straight out of a dream. 1345 01:43:47,770 --> 01:43:49,690 It's, you know, perfect, perfect filmmaking. 1346 01:43:49,930 --> 01:43:55,350 I think Phantasm, it sometimes has more ideas than it can comfortably make into 1347 01:43:55,350 --> 01:43:56,309 a coherent whole. 1348 01:43:56,310 --> 01:44:00,950 Who gives a fuck? Who gives a... Coherence be damned. I mean, it's just 1349 01:44:00,950 --> 01:44:04,110 this way, if there are loose ends and things that don't quite make sense. 1350 01:44:05,070 --> 01:44:08,990 It's the kind of movie that should be partially incoherent. It's actually a 1351 01:44:08,990 --> 01:44:09,990 strength, not a weakness. 1352 01:44:10,030 --> 01:44:15,130 As far as why it was on the verge of being prosecuted, I mean, it's the 1353 01:44:15,130 --> 01:44:16,130 balls, isn't it? 1354 01:44:17,530 --> 01:44:21,230 The filth of spears with the drill bits drilling into people's heads. Again, 1355 01:44:21,310 --> 01:44:24,410 that's probably it, isn't it? You know, a driller killer is anything with 1356 01:44:24,410 --> 01:44:27,690 drills. And then, you know, not only do they kind of latch onto your head and 1357 01:44:27,690 --> 01:44:32,430 dig blades into your head, but a drill bit goes into your forehead as well. 1358 01:44:33,030 --> 01:44:37,630 So, given that there were five or six titles which all the police forces 1359 01:44:37,630 --> 01:44:41,590 were obscene, or, you know, the courts were saying were obscene, ice pit on 1360 01:44:41,590 --> 01:44:45,370 grave, driller killer, cannibal holocaust, anything that reminded the 1361 01:44:45,370 --> 01:44:46,510 enforcement of... 1362 01:44:48,000 --> 01:44:51,940 those emblematic titles was put forward for prosecution on the basis that it was 1363 01:44:51,940 --> 01:44:55,280 a bit like that. Another possibility, and again, it's always hard thinking 1364 01:44:55,280 --> 01:44:59,140 way into the mindset of people who want to ban things. It's a very strange 1365 01:44:59,140 --> 01:45:03,360 mental puppeteering exercise you have to do to try and imagine how that process 1366 01:45:03,360 --> 01:45:08,540 works. But yeah, maybe because the lead character is a teenager and there's a 1367 01:45:08,540 --> 01:45:13,340 general feeling of it almost being a kids' film. It's got one foot in a 1368 01:45:13,340 --> 01:45:15,580 adventure as well as horror. 1369 01:45:16,300 --> 01:45:22,000 And so maybe it's the collision of some graphic horror scenes with a sensation 1370 01:45:22,000 --> 01:45:26,420 of almost like a sort of an after -school children's adventure as well. 1371 01:45:26,580 --> 01:45:30,380 plus the fact that you've got whirling drills going into people's heads, I 1372 01:45:30,380 --> 01:45:35,680 that probably accounts for it. But, hey, you know, most people can tell that 1373 01:45:35,680 --> 01:45:38,780 it's not a nasty in the sense of being anything like. 1374 01:45:39,650 --> 01:45:44,430 you know, the more notorious titles. It's a wonderful, wonderful fantasy 1375 01:45:44,550 --> 01:45:46,030 really, I think, more than anything else. 1376 01:45:53,190 --> 01:45:54,190 Phantasm. 1377 01:45:55,110 --> 01:45:56,150 Is it a nightmare? 1378 01:46:03,430 --> 01:46:04,430 Phantasm. 1379 01:46:04,570 --> 01:46:05,590 Is it an illusion? 1380 01:46:13,950 --> 01:46:17,030 Phantasm, is it an evil? 1381 01:46:21,390 --> 01:46:21,790 You 1382 01:46:21,790 --> 01:46:29,790 have 1383 01:46:29,790 --> 01:46:32,870 to take me home. What, what? No questions. You must take me home. 1384 01:46:36,050 --> 01:46:37,970 Phantasm, is it a fantasy? 1385 01:46:55,010 --> 01:46:56,990 Is it alive? 1386 01:46:58,590 --> 01:46:59,910 Was nobody driving? 1387 01:47:15,270 --> 01:47:16,730 Whatever it is. 1388 01:47:22,090 --> 01:47:23,570 This one doesn't scare you. 1389 01:47:24,050 --> 01:47:25,650 You're already dead. 1390 01:47:34,550 --> 01:47:35,550 Phantasm. 1391 01:47:52,680 --> 01:47:54,160 Pigs. Nice punchy title. 1392 01:47:54,620 --> 01:47:58,740 A film that's had a great many titles, not all as punchy as that. It's been 1393 01:47:58,740 --> 01:48:03,900 called a variety of things, from Daddy's Deadly Darling to The Strange Exorcism 1394 01:48:03,900 --> 01:48:07,640 of Lynn Hart, with the addition of an entirely spurious exorcism scene at the 1395 01:48:07,640 --> 01:48:11,340 beginning, which was apparently added because the distributor at the time 1396 01:48:11,340 --> 01:48:14,860 like the incest theme that the film's got and took away the first five 1397 01:48:14,940 --> 01:48:15,940 which makes that clear. 1398 01:48:16,080 --> 01:48:19,920 But yes, it's one of those films that's had a problematic distribution history. 1399 01:48:21,070 --> 01:48:23,950 No one seems to have quite been able to squeeze the money out of it that they 1400 01:48:23,950 --> 01:48:26,790 thought they were going to get out of it. And it's just been tossed from one 1401 01:48:26,790 --> 01:48:31,530 distributor to another, desperately trying to come up with a last house on 1402 01:48:31,530 --> 01:48:35,290 left type title that will kind of grab people. But I think it's best called 1403 01:48:35,290 --> 01:48:40,110 because, you know, it is a film about a pig farmer who keeps pigs in his 1404 01:48:40,110 --> 01:48:44,670 backyard of his little diner sort of restaurant, cafe, and periodically feeds 1405 01:48:44,670 --> 01:48:47,390 dead bodies to the pigs. I gotta do it. 1406 01:48:48,680 --> 01:48:55,180 If they got used to eating human flesh, I'd got to do it. He explains that he 1407 01:48:55,180 --> 01:48:59,300 didn't start this process, it wasn't his fault. You know, the first time it 1408 01:48:59,300 --> 01:49:00,480 happened, it was an accident. 1409 01:49:01,660 --> 01:49:05,240 They got loose in the field, there was a drunk, he was asleep. 1410 01:49:05,640 --> 01:49:08,960 And they'd eaten him alive, but then they developed a taste for human flesh 1411 01:49:08,960 --> 01:49:11,240 they wouldn't accept anything else, so what's a guy to do, you know? 1412 01:49:11,660 --> 01:49:12,660 Let them starve? 1413 01:49:12,720 --> 01:49:13,720 Cut off that. 1414 01:49:14,220 --> 01:49:16,720 He feeds those pigs dead people. 1415 01:49:17,290 --> 01:49:18,510 And then he eats the pigs. 1416 01:49:18,770 --> 01:49:22,710 But then the story actually really gets underway because this isn't a film about 1417 01:49:22,710 --> 01:49:26,350 one psycho, it's a film about two, which has got an interesting plot line. The 1418 01:49:26,350 --> 01:49:30,750 other psychotic in the film is this unfortunate girl who experienced incest 1419 01:49:30,750 --> 01:49:36,070 the hands of her father, murdered him in a fury, spent some time in a mental 1420 01:49:36,070 --> 01:49:41,230 hospital having electroshock for her pains, and then manages to escape and 1421 01:49:41,230 --> 01:49:45,290 on the run. And Chance brings her together with our pig -farming nutjob. 1422 01:49:45,900 --> 01:49:46,920 I'm looking for work. 1423 01:49:47,660 --> 01:49:50,300 You want a job, eh? 1424 01:49:50,980 --> 01:49:51,980 I guess. 1425 01:49:52,060 --> 01:49:58,420 And an unusual May -December semi -romance develops between this girl 1426 01:49:58,420 --> 01:50:02,180 about 20 and the pig farmer who's in his 60s. 1427 01:50:03,100 --> 01:50:04,780 I like to find things out for myself. 1428 01:50:05,020 --> 01:50:06,020 What did you find out? 1429 01:50:07,400 --> 01:50:08,900 That you worked in a circus. 1430 01:50:09,620 --> 01:50:13,480 And they're like ships that pass in the night, but they have a sympathy for each 1431 01:50:13,480 --> 01:50:14,880 other, and he has a sympathy for her. 1432 01:50:15,859 --> 01:50:19,320 She starts to understand his and they kind of come together. 1433 01:50:19,560 --> 01:50:20,560 Somebody after you? 1434 01:50:20,660 --> 01:50:22,280 Why would anyone be after me? 1435 01:50:22,540 --> 01:50:24,660 I didn't ask. Why, just if. 1436 01:50:25,000 --> 01:50:29,680 It's a very unusual story about two psychos who have a kind of an almost 1437 01:50:29,680 --> 01:50:30,680 affair. 1438 01:50:30,700 --> 01:50:37,520 It's a particularly unusual film because the director, Mark Lawrence, cast his 1439 01:50:37,520 --> 01:50:42,560 daughter, Toni Lawrence, as the psychopathic girl in the film. 1440 01:50:43,050 --> 01:50:48,390 So this is a very odd film about infest, where a girl murders her abusive, 1441 01:50:48,550 --> 01:50:53,510 incestuous father, goes on the run and shacks up with a psychopath who takes on 1442 01:50:53,510 --> 01:50:58,670 a quasi -paternal protective role, played by her real father. 1443 01:50:59,290 --> 01:51:02,670 Very odd. And apparently the whole point of the film, the reason why Mark 1444 01:51:02,670 --> 01:51:05,310 Lawrence made it in the first place, was there's a kind of a showreel for his 1445 01:51:05,310 --> 01:51:09,150 daughter as an actress, and she gives a great performance. She's genuinely 1446 01:51:09,150 --> 01:51:10,150 frightening at times. 1447 01:51:15,080 --> 01:51:19,740 She's a murderous psychopath one minute and a traumatized little girl the next. 1448 01:51:20,180 --> 01:51:22,040 So it's a tour de force of acting. 1449 01:51:23,020 --> 01:51:27,620 I didn't do anything. Please don't blame me. I didn't do anything. 1450 01:51:28,600 --> 01:51:30,560 I don't blame you. 1451 01:51:30,780 --> 01:51:31,780 Mark Lauren. 1452 01:51:32,100 --> 01:51:36,640 Tragic story. He was a great, great actor. He was one of those people that 1453 01:51:36,640 --> 01:51:40,040 never out of work in the 40s and 50s playing gangsters. 1454 01:51:40,260 --> 01:51:44,260 He had one of those faces that just, you know, he was kind of in the mould of 1455 01:51:44,260 --> 01:51:48,460 the Cagney's of this world, you know. You would want him as your criminal 1456 01:51:48,460 --> 01:51:50,680 sidekick, you know, just looked the part. 1457 01:51:52,260 --> 01:51:58,500 Worked his way all the way through the 40s and then in the 1950s he fell foul 1458 01:51:58,500 --> 01:52:00,700 the House Un -American Activities Committee 1459 01:52:02,040 --> 01:52:06,680 He was questioned about his allegiance to the Communist Party and admitted that 1460 01:52:06,680 --> 01:52:10,020 he had been a member of the Communist Party at some point in the past. Under 1461 01:52:10,020 --> 01:52:16,020 knows what pressure from the McCarthy questioners, he grasped up a couple of 1462 01:52:16,020 --> 01:52:18,080 people that were also members of the Communist Party. 1463 01:52:19,800 --> 01:52:23,820 I mean, it sounds reprehensible, but as anyone who's looked into that period 1464 01:52:23,820 --> 01:52:27,380 will know, a lot of innocent people were placed under intolerable pressure at 1465 01:52:27,380 --> 01:52:28,380 the time. 1466 01:52:28,600 --> 01:52:29,740 Anyway, it... 1467 01:52:30,120 --> 01:52:31,780 It was the end of his career in America. 1468 01:52:32,140 --> 01:52:33,680 He moved to Europe for a while. 1469 01:52:34,040 --> 01:52:39,440 I think he came back in the early 70s or late 60s, and Pigs was his only 1470 01:52:39,440 --> 01:52:40,500 directorial credit. 1471 01:52:40,800 --> 01:52:44,040 It's just a very strange little film. It's got a very, very odd mood to it. 1472 01:52:44,100 --> 01:52:47,440 Rather like The Child, which we were discussing earlier, you can't tell where 1473 01:52:47,440 --> 01:52:49,880 it's set. It seems to be set in the middle of nowhere, and there's this 1474 01:52:49,880 --> 01:52:52,020 kind of hermetic, isolated feel about the film. 1475 01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:04,320 It's even stranger, though, when you realise that this is a film that feels 1476 01:53:04,320 --> 01:53:09,200 much like a kind of an independent weirdo sort of horror film made by one 1477 01:53:09,200 --> 01:53:13,860 classic actors of Hollywood of the 1940s. It's a combination you would 1478 01:53:13,860 --> 01:53:14,860 have expected to have happened. 1479 01:53:15,840 --> 01:53:18,060 Personally, I think it's a real shame that he didn't get to make any more 1480 01:53:18,060 --> 01:53:21,460 because I could watch another three or four films just like it. And, in fact, 1481 01:53:21,460 --> 01:53:23,560 screen pigs here in England when... 1482 01:53:24,090 --> 01:53:27,830 We had a film festival for the release of Nightmare USA, and I was thrilled to 1483 01:53:27,830 --> 01:53:31,610 be able to show a print of one of the many different, slight different edits 1484 01:53:31,610 --> 01:53:32,990 pigs on that occasion. 1485 01:53:33,310 --> 01:53:36,990 So, yeah, it's another very special film, I think, and a real one -off. 1486 01:53:36,990 --> 01:53:38,290 not pigs, you know. 1487 01:53:39,770 --> 01:53:40,770 They're dead people. 1488 01:53:41,850 --> 01:53:47,310 Evidently, it's the idea of pigs eating human flesh that's the shocking element 1489 01:53:47,310 --> 01:53:48,289 of the film. 1490 01:53:48,290 --> 01:53:52,990 Within the first few minutes, you do see some pig snouts chomping away at 1491 01:53:52,990 --> 01:53:54,200 Severed. body parts. 1492 01:53:55,120 --> 01:54:00,020 I doubt, I seriously doubt whether or not the police watched much more than 1493 01:54:00,020 --> 01:54:03,420 first few minutes, just probably saw that and thought, it's that kind of 1494 01:54:03,480 --> 01:54:07,040 Rather like Evil Speak, one of the ones that was prosecuted, it was Evil Speak 1495 01:54:07,040 --> 01:54:10,980 which had a scene where a woman is eaten by pigs in a shower cubicle, I seem to 1496 01:54:10,980 --> 01:54:14,340 remember. Maybe that was already in someone's mind when they thought, here 1497 01:54:14,340 --> 01:54:16,040 again, more flesh -eating pigs. 1498 01:54:18,040 --> 01:54:19,960 You know, that should be the tagline really, shouldn't it? 1499 01:54:29,710 --> 01:54:33,150 Perhaps the other reason why it attracted the attention of Her Majesty's 1500 01:54:33,150 --> 01:54:38,110 Constabulary is A, because it's called pigs, and B, because the ad line is, 1501 01:54:38,110 --> 01:54:40,490 eat anything, even evidence. 1502 01:54:41,370 --> 01:54:43,930 Well, perhaps that was just a little too close to the bone for them, you know. 1503 01:54:44,570 --> 01:54:47,690 You've got to realize, your father is dead. 1504 01:54:48,790 --> 01:54:49,790 That's a lie. 1505 01:54:51,710 --> 01:54:53,490 This is real nice and friendly of you. 1506 01:54:54,270 --> 01:54:56,930 You know, most girls would be too frightened to give a guy a lift. 1507 01:54:57,430 --> 01:54:58,670 Especially as big as I am. 1508 01:54:59,230 --> 01:55:02,230 I'm not afraid of you. You remind me of my daddy. 1509 01:55:03,670 --> 01:55:07,690 Oh, something should be done about that man. 1510 01:55:10,810 --> 01:55:12,510 Whatever you did, I don't care. 1511 01:55:12,750 --> 01:55:13,810 I'll make a difference to me. 1512 01:55:14,950 --> 01:55:16,070 I know you're here. 1513 01:55:17,170 --> 01:55:18,650 They smelt you out. 1514 01:55:18,870 --> 01:55:21,070 They got used to eating human flesh. 1515 01:55:21,550 --> 01:55:22,870 Something wrong with that man. 1516 01:55:23,710 --> 01:55:26,550 Something wrong up here. They're not pigs, you know. 1517 01:55:26,970 --> 01:55:32,490 They're dead people. He feeds those pigs dead people, and then he eats the pigs. 1518 01:55:32,670 --> 01:55:36,590 Where would you say that he gets his dead people from? 1519 01:55:40,070 --> 01:55:46,290 Papa bear, tell me, what do you see? 1520 01:55:49,450 --> 01:55:52,030 One little girl... 1521 01:56:07,210 --> 01:56:08,210 He really has a new pig now. 1522 01:56:09,170 --> 01:56:10,610 That young man is dead. 1523 01:56:11,530 --> 01:56:13,670 And he's a pig now. That young man is a pig. 1524 01:56:20,130 --> 01:56:21,390 I had a bad dream. 1525 01:56:21,750 --> 01:56:23,670 Everybody has bad dreams. 1526 01:56:25,170 --> 01:56:26,170 Everybody. 1527 01:56:26,630 --> 01:56:33,170 Only small part of the bodies were... 1528 01:56:51,230 --> 01:56:53,390 It's Norman J. Warren's Prey. 1529 01:56:53,790 --> 01:56:57,590 Norman, I love you, but let's be honest, this is pretty slow. 1530 01:56:58,050 --> 01:57:01,950 Okay, it features lesbianism, it features cannibalism, it features 1531 01:57:02,480 --> 01:57:07,860 but it's all a handheld camera job, really cheaply made, and a bit slow, 1532 01:57:07,940 --> 01:57:11,260 I mean, it comes up with some really outrageous ideas, though. I mean, I 1533 01:57:11,260 --> 01:57:16,560 remember one book saying that it featured some of the strongest images of 1534 01:57:16,560 --> 01:57:21,060 British horror. And what they're probably referring to is an actual fact, 1535 01:57:21,060 --> 01:57:26,420 main scene that it was all geared around, which was the cannibalism scene 1536 01:57:26,420 --> 01:57:29,880 Barry Stokes there, actually seen in the... 1537 01:57:32,390 --> 01:57:37,850 Quota quickie, as it says. All British quota programme notes here for 1538 01:57:37,850 --> 01:57:41,390 distributors. And as you can see, it was on a double bill with Charlie One -Eye. 1539 01:57:43,050 --> 01:57:46,590 Well, I mean, what can you say about this movie? I mean, Barry Stokes plays a 1540 01:57:46,590 --> 01:57:52,780 half... half -alien called Cantor. He told me that he actually kept the fangs 1541 01:57:52,780 --> 01:57:54,380 that he uses in the dog disguise. 1542 01:57:54,680 --> 01:57:58,200 So he obviously had a good time making it. Some of the actresses, like Laurie 1543 01:57:58,200 --> 01:58:02,560 Annan, didn't, because when they're thrashing around in that stagnant pond, 1544 01:58:02,560 --> 01:58:05,600 all had to get tetanus shots just to make sure they weren't sick afterwards. 1545 01:58:08,180 --> 01:58:11,920 Obviously the budget was so low they couldn't afford any special effects. So 1546 01:58:11,920 --> 01:58:17,640 what you basically get is anything alien is like a few torches sort of waved in 1547 01:58:17,640 --> 01:58:21,620 the face off camera. But hey, you know, you took it with good grace in those 1548 01:58:21,620 --> 01:58:22,620 days. 1549 01:58:24,620 --> 01:58:28,940 of fiction it was only shot in 10 days so it probably made money and i remember 1550 01:58:28,940 --> 01:58:34,040 norman actually did announce a sequel called human prey that sadly was never 1551 01:58:34,040 --> 01:58:38,840 made but he did make outer touch a sort of a sex alien version of this and that 1552 01:58:38,840 --> 01:58:42,720 also starred barry stokes and glory annan too so they went on to bigger and 1553 01:58:42,720 --> 01:58:45,530 better things i mean It's a simple movie. 1554 01:58:46,050 --> 01:58:50,050 It's one of Norman's warmest. It's certainly one of his cheapest. 1555 01:58:50,390 --> 01:58:54,410 This was shot three years before in Seminoid, and in America it was called 1556 01:58:54,410 --> 01:58:59,550 Prey. But, you know, all that endless thrashing around in that pond, I mean, 1557 01:58:59,570 --> 01:59:03,670 really, you just get enough of it after half of it, and it goes on and on and 1558 01:59:03,670 --> 01:59:07,650 on. Obviously, it had to flesh out the running time, but the cannibal scenes... 1559 01:59:07,880 --> 01:59:10,760 what it's all about, especially Barry Stokes in Drag 2. 1560 01:59:11,140 --> 01:59:13,360 Barry, never have that sex change operation. 1561 01:59:15,340 --> 01:59:16,800 Cater to command ship. 1562 01:59:17,040 --> 01:59:18,040 Command ship. 1563 01:59:18,060 --> 01:59:19,440 I am now in orbit. 1564 01:59:20,380 --> 01:59:21,460 Proceed with mission. 1565 01:59:23,000 --> 01:59:25,020 UFOs, fact or fiction? 1566 01:59:25,560 --> 01:59:28,760 Space explorers are figments of the mind. 1567 01:59:31,260 --> 01:59:33,600 Made contact with human life forms. 1568 01:59:34,560 --> 01:59:36,140 New identity established. 1569 01:59:38,480 --> 01:59:40,260 Are aliens already amongst us? 1570 01:59:40,580 --> 01:59:41,279 Command ship. 1571 01:59:41,280 --> 01:59:42,280 Command ship. 1572 01:59:42,420 --> 01:59:44,040 Their immediate reaction, aggressive. 1573 01:59:44,520 --> 01:59:46,180 Take terminal action. 1574 01:59:46,740 --> 01:59:47,820 Continue with mission. 1575 01:59:48,800 --> 01:59:50,840 Why are they here? 1576 01:59:51,320 --> 01:59:53,540 Success of total operation essential. 1577 01:59:58,820 --> 02:00:01,340 For a million years, man was a hunter. 1578 02:00:01,760 --> 02:00:03,460 Now, he is the prey. 1579 02:00:11,119 --> 02:00:12,780 Hooray, certificate X. 1580 02:00:23,560 --> 02:00:28,180 Prom Night, made in Canada, where life was cheap, or where slasher movies were 1581 02:00:28,180 --> 02:00:30,400 very cheap in the early 80s. 1582 02:00:31,820 --> 02:00:32,820 Prom Night. 1583 02:00:33,260 --> 02:00:37,560 If you're not back by midnight, you won't be coming home. 1584 02:00:37,880 --> 02:00:38,880 There was a sort of... 1585 02:00:40,220 --> 02:00:44,660 You know that bit after the Titanic has hit the iceberg and before the sinking 1586 02:00:44,660 --> 02:00:46,460 starts, that quiet phase? 1587 02:00:46,760 --> 02:00:52,360 And after Halloween and Friday the 13th had come out, it took a while for the 1588 02:00:52,360 --> 02:00:57,040 industry to react and start making dozens of imitations. But in Canada, 1589 02:00:57,040 --> 02:01:01,720 really got it as early as Halloween because Jamie Lee Curtis got signed up 1590 02:01:01,720 --> 02:01:05,780 make Terror Train and Prom Night with Leslie Nielsen, who wasn't yet a comedy. 1591 02:01:06,190 --> 02:01:10,790 star directed by paul lynch who'd made a couple of interesting minor canadian 1592 02:01:10,790 --> 02:01:15,190 semi -art films nobody had seen and then went on to make more stuff like prom 1593 02:01:15,190 --> 02:01:21,730 night humongous is one of his humongous it's loose 1594 02:01:21,730 --> 02:01:28,090 it's angry and it's getting hungry and then i think he directed a lot of star 1595 02:01:28,090 --> 02:01:33,670 trek but prom night's one of those movies that i feel a certain affection 1596 02:01:33,670 --> 02:01:34,790 because i saw it in the cinema 1597 02:01:35,690 --> 02:01:36,870 It's not very good. 1598 02:01:37,090 --> 02:01:43,070 It's in that subset of slasher movies which are also whodunnits, except you 1599 02:01:43,070 --> 02:01:45,310 spot who the killer is really early on. 1600 02:01:46,010 --> 02:01:51,090 It has a bunch of teenagers who are really obnoxious and deserve to die, and 1601 02:01:51,090 --> 02:01:52,009 then duly do. 1602 02:01:52,010 --> 02:01:53,690 Jamie Lee Curtis is rather... 1603 02:01:53,980 --> 02:01:59,180 oddly used in it she's the heroine but because of the way the mystery works the 1604 02:01:59,180 --> 02:02:03,660 killer is never actually after her in some ways the killer is trying to 1605 02:02:03,660 --> 02:02:08,640 her so it doesn't go the the route that terror train or halloween does of of 1606 02:02:08,640 --> 02:02:12,940 having her in peril at the end so she's the star of this film but oddly removed 1607 02:02:12,940 --> 02:02:13,940 from the plot 1608 02:02:15,050 --> 02:02:17,570 It then became kind of a Canadian franchise. 1609 02:02:17,990 --> 02:02:22,330 There are three other Prom Night movies, all different. Prom Night 2, Hello Mary 1610 02:02:22,330 --> 02:02:26,670 Lou, is a sort of Nightmare on Elm Street rip -off with an evil dead 1611 02:02:26,670 --> 02:02:27,970 from the 1950s. 1612 02:02:28,250 --> 02:02:30,830 Now, Mary Lou has found her way back. 1613 02:02:31,610 --> 02:02:35,510 And Mary Lou is coming out for a party. 1614 02:02:49,840 --> 02:02:52,460 And she's back in Prom Night 3, The Last Kiss. 1615 02:02:53,000 --> 02:02:54,640 This is Mary Lou Maloney. 1616 02:02:55,020 --> 02:02:56,280 She's a good sport. 1617 02:02:56,640 --> 02:02:57,640 Touchdown! 1618 02:02:57,940 --> 02:02:58,980 She's sexy. 1619 02:02:59,760 --> 02:03:00,940 She's dead. 1620 02:03:01,940 --> 02:03:03,880 He was looking for something different. 1621 02:03:04,260 --> 02:03:06,540 She was looking for something new. 1622 02:03:06,780 --> 02:03:09,780 But when they got together, it was something deadly. 1623 02:03:10,880 --> 02:03:13,720 Prom Night 3, The Last Kiss. 1624 02:03:14,000 --> 02:03:18,660 But it's a killer monk in Prom Night 4, Deliver Us From Evil. 1625 02:03:32,749 --> 02:03:37,450 And then there's a movie called The Club, which is a Canadian film from the 1626 02:03:37,450 --> 02:03:40,550 makers of Prom Night that takes place on a prom night. 1627 02:03:40,830 --> 02:03:43,370 They all wanted to do something special. 1628 02:03:44,190 --> 02:03:50,170 So this year, the prom will be a costume ball in an old manor house with a 1629 02:03:50,170 --> 02:03:53,750 prince and princess and a new hope for this night. 1630 02:03:54,110 --> 02:03:58,970 Now, I would suspect that was developed as prom night five, and then they looked 1631 02:03:58,970 --> 02:04:02,010 at it and thought, you know, four prom nights is enough. 1632 02:04:02,390 --> 02:04:06,490 In this club, the initiation dues can be fatal. 1633 02:04:08,710 --> 02:04:09,770 The club. 1634 02:04:10,440 --> 02:04:15,680 So this is an unrelated Prom Night type film. And then there was a remake of 1635 02:04:15,680 --> 02:04:19,860 Prom Night, which is the most forgettable of all the remakes of 1636 02:04:19,860 --> 02:04:21,020 from the 80s. 1637 02:04:21,500 --> 02:04:28,180 If anybody has any particular memory or affection for the remake of Prom Night, 1638 02:04:28,360 --> 02:04:31,220 answers on a postcard. 1639 02:04:31,680 --> 02:04:35,960 If it's somebody's favourite film, who knows? I'm not sure why. 1640 02:04:36,540 --> 02:04:41,780 Prom night lasted so long. There may have been a feeling in Britain that the 1641 02:04:41,780 --> 02:04:45,300 whole idea of prom night was kind of exotic and strange. 1642 02:04:45,640 --> 02:04:50,740 There's a special night in the lives of all of us. A night to be beautiful, to 1643 02:04:50,740 --> 02:04:51,740 be desirable. 1644 02:04:52,140 --> 02:04:55,140 Because British schools didn't have them then, they do now. 1645 02:04:55,440 --> 02:05:02,380 And I suspect that Carrie had imprinted the ritual of prom night on 1646 02:05:02,380 --> 02:05:04,040 a lot of British kids. 1647 02:05:06,490 --> 02:05:11,610 from a British perspective, to be this strange alien world where kids could 1648 02:05:11,610 --> 02:05:14,890 limousines and tuxedos and all this sort of stuff. 1649 02:05:15,110 --> 02:05:20,710 That seemed a lot different from the school discos I remember, not least 1650 02:05:20,710 --> 02:05:24,930 is nobody dropped vats of pig's blood or had telekinetic freak -outs. 1651 02:05:25,250 --> 02:05:31,030 So that's how Prom Night became a good title for a horror film. 1652 02:05:31,270 --> 02:05:34,750 Before Carrie, if they'd made a film called Prom Night, you'd have to assume 1653 02:05:34,750 --> 02:05:35,750 was a teen comedy. 1654 02:05:38,960 --> 02:05:43,920 I suppose that's all there is to say about it. I don't remember the suspense 1655 02:05:43,920 --> 02:05:50,020 the death scenes being particularly explicit or impressive, but it's 1656 02:05:50,020 --> 02:05:54,120 reasonably well -made film, which a lot of these movies weren't. It moves along 1657 02:05:54,120 --> 02:05:56,980 at a fair old clip. I would happily watch it. 1658 02:05:57,280 --> 02:06:02,420 again, after all these years, because I have a certain flicker of nostalgia for 1659 02:06:02,420 --> 02:06:08,940 it, for movies like it. I also remember it was Cinefantastique, the 1660 02:06:08,940 --> 02:06:14,760 reviewer, said something about it which stuck in my mind ever since, and keeps 1661 02:06:14,760 --> 02:06:20,740 coming back every time I hear some old -time critic dissing the kind of films 1662 02:06:20,740 --> 02:06:27,240 kids like, and it was a A critic who I assume must have been like 10, 15 years 1663 02:06:27,240 --> 02:06:33,860 older than me was saying that he recognised that Prom Night served its 1664 02:06:33,860 --> 02:06:38,620 the way that films like I Was a Teenage Werewolf had served him when he was a 1665 02:06:38,620 --> 02:06:42,960 kid. He says, yeah, these are films that are addressing the concerns of the 1666 02:06:42,960 --> 02:06:48,060 teenagers who like films like this and for that reason will stick in their 1667 02:06:48,060 --> 02:06:50,260 minds, will become part of their culture. 1668 02:06:51,550 --> 02:06:54,950 They're just kooky and kind of fun and there's nothing actually wrong with 1669 02:06:56,590 --> 02:07:01,170 I'm not sure what it says about a generation that embraced Saw or Hostel 1670 02:07:01,170 --> 02:07:02,170 same way. 1671 02:07:02,270 --> 02:07:08,530 However, I recognize that those are their films and 1672 02:07:08,530 --> 02:07:12,290 that we should listen to them when they talk about what they like about them. 1673 02:07:15,750 --> 02:07:20,130 There's a special night in the lives of all of us. A night to be beautiful. 1674 02:07:20,880 --> 02:07:21,880 To be desirable. 1675 02:07:22,300 --> 02:07:25,900 A night we can break all the rules and make our own. 1676 02:07:26,120 --> 02:07:27,120 Prom night. 1677 02:07:28,720 --> 02:07:31,920 Everyone at Hamilton High is getting ready for prom night. 1678 02:07:33,060 --> 02:07:34,740 It's a day of rehearsals. 1679 02:07:36,380 --> 02:07:37,380 Arrangements. 1680 02:07:37,640 --> 02:07:38,760 Final preparations. 1681 02:07:40,500 --> 02:07:42,480 And last minute phone calls. 1682 02:07:53,580 --> 02:07:55,200 They're too old for games. 1683 02:07:55,800 --> 02:07:58,420 But someone still wants to play. 1684 02:07:58,740 --> 02:07:59,740 Why? 1685 02:08:01,340 --> 02:08:02,340 Kelly. 1686 02:08:03,320 --> 02:08:06,060 It's been a long time. 1687 02:08:07,020 --> 02:08:10,380 Tonight, it's my turn. 1688 02:08:11,600 --> 02:08:12,600 Tonight, 1689 02:08:16,620 --> 02:08:19,860 someone has come to the prom alone. 1690 02:08:24,010 --> 02:08:26,770 Someone who watches in the silent corridors. 1691 02:08:27,970 --> 02:08:28,970 Kelly. 1692 02:08:30,270 --> 02:08:35,330 Help! Someone who waits until no one can help. 1693 02:08:36,790 --> 02:08:38,090 Prom night. 1694 02:08:38,390 --> 02:08:42,890 If you're not back by midnight, you won't be coming home. 1695 02:08:58,000 --> 02:09:04,520 OK, well, here we have Rabid by David Cronenberg. And this is one of the best 1696 02:09:04,520 --> 02:09:08,900 the early Cronenberg films and somewhat belies its reputation in a lot of ways. 1697 02:09:08,960 --> 02:09:13,660 I think there is a general sense, or sort of a cliché perhaps, that the early 1698 02:09:13,660 --> 02:09:14,960 Cronenberg films are quite cold. 1699 02:09:15,180 --> 02:09:16,640 Rabid really doesn't feel like that. 1700 02:09:17,140 --> 02:09:21,180 You'd be surprised if you actually stop and look at it, just how much affection 1701 02:09:21,180 --> 02:09:22,860 is shown between characters in Rabid. 1702 02:09:23,180 --> 02:09:24,660 It's a very emotional film. 1703 02:09:25,680 --> 02:09:26,940 A film with no real monsters. 1704 02:09:27,220 --> 02:09:32,360 I mean, the lead character, played by Marilyn Chambers, is a victim of a 1705 02:09:32,360 --> 02:09:36,680 situation which she didn't seek out and which she's now thrown into a strange 1706 02:09:36,680 --> 02:09:39,120 new world where she's trying to make sense of her own drives. 1707 02:09:39,360 --> 02:09:43,600 And although the plot requires that she does some terrible things, it also 1708 02:09:43,600 --> 02:09:48,080 hinges around the idea that she slowly is forced to come to terms with what 1709 02:09:48,080 --> 02:09:51,660 she's doing. And it's that process of self -realisation which funnels you 1710 02:09:51,660 --> 02:09:52,860 towards the climax of the film. 1711 02:09:54,270 --> 02:09:57,390 Got all of the hallmarks of early Cronenberg which can lead to that sense 1712 02:09:57,390 --> 02:10:01,690 coldness and detachment. It's set in winter. There's a feeling of alienation 1713 02:10:01,690 --> 02:10:06,350 detachment created by these amazing modernistic sort of cold buildings which 1714 02:10:06,350 --> 02:10:09,430 would set films in. This is also one of those Cronenberg films that has that 1715 02:10:09,430 --> 02:10:14,730 uncanny sense of sort of predicting future developments rather in the way 1716 02:10:14,730 --> 02:10:15,730 Videodrome seemed to do. 1717 02:10:15,930 --> 02:10:18,710 There are characters early on talking about the possibility of setting up a 1718 02:10:18,710 --> 02:10:21,070 franchise chain of plastic surgery clinics. 1719 02:10:21,900 --> 02:10:25,440 At the time it was being discussed in the film, this seemed like a sort of a 1720 02:10:25,440 --> 02:10:31,260 slightly wacky sort of future sci -fi sort of idea under the character who 1721 02:10:31,420 --> 02:10:33,780 I don't want to become the Colonel Sanders of plastic surgery. 1722 02:10:34,120 --> 02:10:37,060 I just sure as hell don't want to become the Colonel Sanders of plastic surgery. 1723 02:10:37,880 --> 02:10:38,759 Why not? 1724 02:10:38,760 --> 02:10:39,760 Sounds great to me. 1725 02:10:40,000 --> 02:10:45,240 Well, we're now in a world where plastic surgery is on tap and on demand, that 1726 02:10:45,240 --> 02:10:50,000 you'll have high street plastic surgeons in a way which Cronenberg appears to 1727 02:10:50,000 --> 02:10:51,000 anticipate. 1728 02:10:51,950 --> 02:10:56,450 You know, the idea of a franchised operation for plastic surgery resorts is 1729 02:10:56,450 --> 02:10:59,570 unnatural. It's one of those magnificent, inevitable ideas. 1730 02:10:59,850 --> 02:11:03,430 There are other kind of prophetic elements, such as the focus on the idea 1731 02:11:03,430 --> 02:11:07,270 neutral field grafts. You'll then be called neutral field grafts. 1732 02:11:08,810 --> 02:11:10,790 In the film, you've got this whole idea that... 1733 02:11:11,440 --> 02:11:14,300 And it was a new idea, certainly a new idea to me at the time and probably to a 1734 02:11:14,300 --> 02:11:17,880 lot of viewers, the idea that there are certain kinds of tissue which can be 1735 02:11:17,880 --> 02:11:21,960 treated to develop into any kind of tissue, rather like an embryo's tissue 1736 02:11:21,960 --> 02:11:24,800 form arms, legs, skin, lungs or whatever. 1737 02:11:26,140 --> 02:11:30,220 These ideas, which were kind of cutting -edge medical and scientific ideas at 1738 02:11:30,220 --> 02:11:36,300 the time, were being fed into a genre that had absolutely no record for that 1739 02:11:36,300 --> 02:11:37,239 kind of thing at all. 1740 02:11:37,240 --> 02:11:40,260 I mean, when Rabid was made, we're talking about 1976. 1741 02:11:41,210 --> 02:11:44,030 We were only about four years out of classical Gothic, really. 1742 02:11:44,710 --> 02:11:49,810 You know, the Hammer Studios and Dracula and Frankenstein and the whole works 1743 02:11:49,810 --> 02:11:51,610 were still fairly recent. 1744 02:11:52,410 --> 02:11:56,070 And so Cronenberg's work, which was entirely coming from a completely 1745 02:11:56,070 --> 02:12:01,830 angle to do with modern concerns about science, to do with anxiety about the 1746 02:12:01,830 --> 02:12:04,590 body and the pace and progression of change in modern society. 1747 02:12:06,640 --> 02:12:08,020 were a bolt out of the blue. 1748 02:12:08,240 --> 02:12:11,980 I think one of the things that made Cronenberg so immediately striking is 1749 02:12:11,980 --> 02:12:15,320 that you sensed a whole paradigm shift. 1750 02:12:15,580 --> 02:12:19,380 You were no longer dealing with the old verities of the horror genre. He seemed 1751 02:12:19,380 --> 02:12:23,060 to have imported ideas that had come completely out of left field. 1752 02:12:23,620 --> 02:12:26,340 And I think part of the thrill of those early Cronenbergs, certainly at the 1753 02:12:26,340 --> 02:12:29,600 time, was thinking, I actually don't know where this is going. 1754 02:12:30,000 --> 02:12:32,420 I'm being presented with new ideas. 1755 02:12:33,180 --> 02:12:36,660 This director is not afraid to show me images that I can't even anticipate. 1756 02:12:37,160 --> 02:12:42,460 I mean, this is the film where the heroine, stroke anti -heroine, has a 1757 02:12:42,460 --> 02:12:47,420 a penis syringe in her armpit with which she sucks blood from unsuspecting 1758 02:12:47,420 --> 02:12:51,460 acquaintances. And part of the thrill of those films was just thinking, I'm in 1759 02:12:51,460 --> 02:12:55,460 the hands of somebody with a totally unique sensibility for the genre who is 1760 02:12:55,460 --> 02:12:58,480 pushing us into a new, troubling... 1761 02:12:58,980 --> 02:13:01,240 frightening and yet very, very fascinating terrain. 1762 02:13:01,600 --> 02:13:05,380 All around her, people are dying, and only Rose knows why. 1763 02:13:05,620 --> 02:13:06,620 You've got to come quick. 1764 02:13:06,660 --> 02:13:08,400 You've got to come quick and get me. 1765 02:13:08,700 --> 02:13:12,900 And as I was saying earlier, also a great deal of emotional honesty and 1766 02:13:12,900 --> 02:13:14,380 emotional resonance as well. 1767 02:13:15,160 --> 02:13:19,140 Some of the most upsetting things in the film are to do with people who love 1768 02:13:19,140 --> 02:13:25,780 each other, who are forced to deal with this eruption of impossible, insane new 1769 02:13:25,780 --> 02:13:26,880 developments in their lives. 1770 02:13:27,420 --> 02:13:30,000 and how they cope with that and how they try and understand it. 1771 02:13:30,740 --> 02:13:32,160 So they're anything but cold. 1772 02:13:32,380 --> 02:13:35,740 And part of that comes from Marilyn Chambers, who I have to say, as a porno 1773 02:13:35,740 --> 02:13:37,080 actress, who would have guessed? 1774 02:13:37,860 --> 02:13:42,180 I mean, you know, she gives such a beautiful, touching performance as Rose 1775 02:13:42,180 --> 02:13:42,898 the film. 1776 02:13:42,900 --> 02:13:43,900 I feel strong. 1777 02:13:44,560 --> 02:13:45,880 I feel very strong. 1778 02:13:46,820 --> 02:13:51,280 There's this wonderful element of the film to do with Cronenberg feeding into 1779 02:13:51,280 --> 02:13:54,220 the film his awareness of her reputation as a porn actress. 1780 02:13:55,000 --> 02:13:58,220 So there are certain setups in the film which feel like porno setups. 1781 02:13:58,940 --> 02:14:03,280 She's in the farmyard with the farm animals and a farmer comes in and wants 1782 02:14:03,280 --> 02:14:07,400 seduce her. She's picked up by a lorry driver and you think, oh, it's the porno 1783 02:14:07,400 --> 02:14:11,220 thing of the hitchhiker and the lorry driver and the seduction that you would 1784 02:14:11,220 --> 02:14:11,978 expect there. 1785 02:14:11,980 --> 02:14:15,900 There's the scene in a jacuzzi where she approaches a young woman in a jacuzzi 1786 02:14:15,900 --> 02:14:16,900 in a seductive manner. 1787 02:14:17,040 --> 02:14:18,240 Do you mind if I get in with you? 1788 02:14:18,760 --> 02:14:23,440 It's filmed in a very kind of imperious, seductive sort of pattern as she heads 1789 02:14:23,440 --> 02:14:25,500 towards what would normally look like a lesbian scene. 1790 02:14:25,920 --> 02:14:31,560 And most of all, in the cinema, when she goes to see a porno film, at which 1791 02:14:31,560 --> 02:14:35,380 point the whole thing just combusts with a real sense of wit and self 1792 02:14:35,380 --> 02:14:40,120 -awareness. Because here she is, porno queen Marilyn Chambers, going to see a 1793 02:14:40,120 --> 02:14:45,420 porno movie, sitting down and some guy two or three rows behind sees her and 1794 02:14:45,420 --> 02:14:47,880 thinks, as you can see from his expression, oh my. 1795 02:14:48,660 --> 02:14:53,740 God, look at her. She's so stunning. I mean, the dream fantasy, going to a 1796 02:14:53,740 --> 02:14:57,900 theatre and seeing a chick who looks that hot, you know, it's just like a 1797 02:14:57,900 --> 02:14:58,900 fantasy come true. 1798 02:14:59,280 --> 02:15:02,880 And if you couldn't take this level of self -awareness any further, on the 1799 02:15:02,880 --> 02:15:08,700 screen, in the porno movie that they're watching, you hear a line, reality is 1800 02:15:08,700 --> 02:15:09,700 like a dream. 1801 02:15:09,740 --> 02:15:11,080 And reality is like a dream. 1802 02:15:12,800 --> 02:15:14,300 And my dreams are like reality. 1803 02:15:15,530 --> 02:15:18,690 playing around with your awareness and your awareness of the game's been played 1804 02:15:18,690 --> 02:15:22,750 by employing this iconic actress from porn and bringing her into this 1805 02:15:22,750 --> 02:15:26,930 situation. Very cleverly done, but it's not done in a kind of a wanky, sort of 1806 02:15:26,930 --> 02:15:27,970 smart -ass sort of way. 1807 02:15:28,210 --> 02:15:33,810 It's just done carefully and with a level of ironic amusement that doesn't 1808 02:15:33,810 --> 02:15:34,810 in the way of the story. 1809 02:15:35,670 --> 02:15:39,270 So, yes, it's an incredibly subtle, clever film. 1810 02:15:39,710 --> 02:15:42,710 There's another really subtle touch to do with art design as well, which I 1811 02:15:42,710 --> 02:15:43,710 think... 1812 02:15:43,800 --> 02:15:47,420 In low -budget films, something that falls usually by the wayside is art 1813 02:15:47,600 --> 02:15:49,480 usually because they're shot on location. 1814 02:15:49,920 --> 02:15:53,460 You can't dress the sets. There isn't time for that. There isn't the money for 1815 02:15:53,460 --> 02:15:54,720 that. You film with what's there. 1816 02:15:56,240 --> 02:16:01,000 Cronenberg is very good at art design, and he's got a real eye for amplifying 1817 02:16:01,000 --> 02:16:04,180 the theme of the film through carefully chosen props and paintings. 1818 02:16:04,740 --> 02:16:08,140 And in Rabid, there's a wonderful scene where Marilyn Chambers... 1819 02:16:08,970 --> 02:16:13,650 is about to realise that she's the Typhoid Mary character who's been 1820 02:16:13,650 --> 02:16:19,070 the plague and she's lying in a sweat from the side effects of the illness 1821 02:16:19,070 --> 02:16:19,849 she's got. 1822 02:16:19,850 --> 02:16:24,070 And the painting in her friend's house where she's staying has these geometric 1823 02:16:24,070 --> 02:16:28,310 kind of triangular shapes all pointing down towards where she's lying. 1824 02:16:29,130 --> 02:16:34,110 But it's before she realises. If it was done when she realised, it would be 1825 02:16:34,110 --> 02:16:37,410 really, really over -determined and sort of like almost comic. 1826 02:16:37,900 --> 02:16:40,160 You know, it would be like kind of over -egging the situation. 1827 02:16:40,500 --> 02:16:44,040 But because she's on her way to realising that she's the person who's 1828 02:16:44,040 --> 02:16:48,400 all this, this little piece of art design is kind of just pointing you in 1829 02:16:48,400 --> 02:16:51,900 direction and just drawing your attention to the way that everything is 1830 02:16:51,900 --> 02:16:55,700 gathering without actually kind of hitting the nail, you know, clumsily on 1831 02:16:55,700 --> 02:16:56,700 head. 1832 02:16:57,200 --> 02:17:00,580 One minute, they're perfectly normal. The next, rapid. 1833 02:17:02,700 --> 02:17:06,760 As far as Section 3 is concerned and its presence on the list of films that were 1834 02:17:06,760 --> 02:17:10,900 considered to be banned, it is very hard to understand. I mean, as I understand 1835 02:17:10,900 --> 02:17:16,000 it, this film was released in the same form in the cinemas as the next 1836 02:17:16,000 --> 02:17:20,000 certificate release with no difficulty at all. There are moments of horror. 1837 02:17:20,180 --> 02:17:23,379 Obviously, there are moments, upsetting moments, grotesque moments in the film. 1838 02:17:26,090 --> 02:17:29,090 to try and understand why it ended up getting anywhere near the video analysis 1839 02:17:29,090 --> 02:17:32,530 list is to try and second -guess the mindset of an idiot. 1840 02:17:33,450 --> 02:17:36,910 You know, some idiot policeman watched something in the film that he thought 1841 02:17:36,910 --> 02:17:42,170 offensive and unpleasant, and here we are, 30 -odd years later, trying to 1842 02:17:42,170 --> 02:17:45,410 understand. I don't think... We don't stand a cat in hell's chance, because 1843 02:17:45,410 --> 02:17:50,469 there's nothing in this film that ought to be troubling people in the... You 1844 02:17:50,469 --> 02:17:53,809 know, I wouldn't put anything on a banned list. Let me get that right. But, 1845 02:17:53,809 --> 02:17:58,090 know, if you were to put ice bit on your grave, next to rabid, you know. 1846 02:17:59,110 --> 02:18:02,030 How can we possibly understand how anyone could have thought that they were 1847 02:18:02,030 --> 02:18:03,030 equivalent in any way? 1848 02:18:25,290 --> 02:18:28,290 People are dying and only Rose knows why. 1849 02:18:28,549 --> 02:18:31,350 You gotta come quick. You gotta come quick and get me. 1850 02:18:32,629 --> 02:18:35,250 It's Rose. It's gotta be. Something's happened to Rose. 1851 02:18:49,170 --> 02:18:50,128 Don't scream. 1852 02:18:50,129 --> 02:18:53,629 Don't panic. He's dead. And the dead can't hurt the living. 1853 02:18:53,850 --> 02:18:54,850 Rabbit. 1854 02:18:56,709 --> 02:19:00,450 The Prime Minister was reluctant to officially declare a state of emergency, 1855 02:19:00,450 --> 02:19:04,530 as any citizen in the streets can tell you, martial law has come to Montreal. 1856 02:19:09,270 --> 02:19:16,090 Shooting down the victims is as good a way of 1857 02:19:16,090 --> 02:19:17,690 handling them as we have got. 1858 02:19:31,920 --> 02:19:33,040 Trust your mother. 1859 02:19:35,000 --> 02:19:36,840 Your best friend. 1860 02:19:38,260 --> 02:19:40,360 The neighbor next door. 1861 02:19:43,040 --> 02:19:47,040 One minute, they're perfectly normal. The next, rabid. 1862 02:19:51,320 --> 02:19:54,480 Pray it doesn't happen to you. 1863 02:20:15,150 --> 02:20:18,590 Okay, Rosemary's Killer, a .k .a. The Prowler, is probably better known under 1864 02:20:18,590 --> 02:20:19,590 the Prowler title. 1865 02:20:19,810 --> 02:20:20,810 The Prowler. 1866 02:20:21,350 --> 02:20:23,710 If he wants you, he'll get you. 1867 02:20:24,070 --> 02:20:28,590 It's a 1981 slasher classic from Joe Zito, who went on to do Friday the 13th, 1868 02:20:28,590 --> 02:20:29,590 the final chapter in 1984. 1869 02:20:29,790 --> 02:20:33,290 In fact, it was this film which helped him get that gig. In fact, the people 1870 02:20:33,290 --> 02:20:36,310 behind the Friday the 13th series actually said to him, if they could put 1871 02:20:36,310 --> 02:20:40,290 film out as the Friday the 13th movie, it would make a, you know... a whole 1872 02:20:40,290 --> 02:20:42,850 of money. Unfortunately, they didn't do that, but they did get him to make that 1873 02:20:42,850 --> 02:20:47,170 film. You may think you're safe, but you're dead wrong. 1874 02:20:47,650 --> 02:20:51,510 Now, Rosemary's Killer is probably an apter title than The Prowler. 1875 02:20:51,590 --> 02:20:53,890 what it was was a prologue set in 1945. 1876 02:20:54,490 --> 02:20:59,010 At graduation dance, Rosemary is pitchforked with her new lover by her 1877 02:20:59,010 --> 02:21:01,270 GI boyfriend, who she sent a Dear John letter to. 1878 02:21:02,250 --> 02:21:06,510 Now, obviously, he's a bit pissed off by that, but... Nothing happens for 30 odd 1879 02:21:06,510 --> 02:21:10,090 years. And then, of course, as what happens in fashion movies in the early 1880 02:21:10,090 --> 02:21:14,350 1980s, they decide to have another dance. Just like My Bloody Valentine, 1881 02:21:14,350 --> 02:21:17,550 is a very similar sort of set -up. And, of course, the murders start anew, and 1882 02:21:17,550 --> 02:21:19,850 the G .I. is back with his trusty pitchfork. 1883 02:21:20,130 --> 02:21:21,130 Tonight. 1884 02:21:21,380 --> 02:21:22,960 The terror begins again. 1885 02:21:23,300 --> 02:21:26,840 It also, of course, has the Tom Savini special effects, which is probably the 1886 02:21:26,840 --> 02:21:28,500 biggest draw for the film. 1887 02:21:28,720 --> 02:21:32,280 Now, Tom Savini, you know, it's probably his best work, actually. Friday the 1888 02:21:32,280 --> 02:21:35,300 13th is obviously one of his better known than Dawn of the Dead. But you 1889 02:21:35,300 --> 02:21:38,480 back at them and they look a little bit hokey now, I would say. But Rosemary's 1890 02:21:38,480 --> 02:21:39,840 Killer is still incredibly brutal. 1891 02:21:41,100 --> 02:21:45,720 There's a scene where somebody gets a machete through the top of the head and 1892 02:21:45,720 --> 02:21:48,520 comes out through the bottom of their neck, get their eyeballs rolled back. 1893 02:21:49,580 --> 02:21:51,920 It's in the wine tribe. It's killed in a swimming pool. 1894 02:21:53,920 --> 02:21:57,580 Who somehow managed to swim underwater in all this kind of gear and cuts the 1895 02:21:57,580 --> 02:22:00,700 throat with a machete. Now, it's incredibly violent. And in its uncut 1896 02:22:00,840 --> 02:22:04,360 it still packs quite a punch. Now, of course, Rosemary's Killer, when it came 1897 02:22:04,360 --> 02:22:07,400 out in the UK, of course, when it did come out, it came out in cinema and, of 1898 02:22:07,400 --> 02:22:10,800 course, it was cut quite heavily. And this version was cut heavily on video. 1899 02:22:11,040 --> 02:22:14,240 Now, I remember hiring this when I was about 12 or 13. 1900 02:22:15,660 --> 02:22:17,740 And I managed to get it out of the video library. 1901 02:22:18,140 --> 02:22:20,920 And they were, you know, it was one of the few times I managed to get away with 1902 02:22:20,920 --> 02:22:24,040 actually hiring a film like this after seeing films like Friday the 13th. 1903 02:22:24,280 --> 02:22:27,620 And I remember thinking, well, there's not much in it. But, of course, again, 1904 02:22:27,740 --> 02:22:29,700 it's one of those films where pretty much everything was cut out. 1905 02:22:30,140 --> 02:22:35,480 Now, Rosemary's Killer also stars Lawrence Tierney, who was in Midnight. 1906 02:22:35,480 --> 02:22:36,480 another film we've talked about. 1907 02:22:36,520 --> 02:22:39,880 And also Farley Granger, who plays the sheriff, who, if you're trying to work 1908 02:22:39,880 --> 02:22:43,460 out, it sets itself up as a whodunit. Now, it doesn't really give much away 1909 02:22:43,460 --> 02:22:46,520 Farley Granger is probably the best known. with Lawrence Tierney in the 1910 02:22:46,520 --> 02:22:50,140 disappears after about five minutes. Now, who could be the killer? Hmm, I 1911 02:22:50,140 --> 02:22:54,520 wonder. So he turns up, he ends with Tom Savini blowing someone else's head off 1912 02:22:54,520 --> 02:22:55,520 with a shotgun. 1913 02:22:56,779 --> 02:22:58,800 Very much in the way of Maniac. 1914 02:22:59,080 --> 02:23:03,180 So it's a film that's come back into popularity, I guess, in the last few 1915 02:23:03,240 --> 02:23:08,480 It's been given some fantastic DVD and Blu -ray releases, but it's a film that 1916 02:23:08,480 --> 02:23:11,820 could have almost vanished for quite a while, and Joe Vito actually said he 1917 02:23:11,820 --> 02:23:15,640 almost decided he didn't want anyone to see it, partly because he was actually 1918 02:23:15,640 --> 02:23:17,700 concerned about how cheap some of the film looked. 1919 02:23:18,000 --> 02:23:21,380 There's a scene in a graveyard with a polystyrene gravestone, and he was 1920 02:23:21,380 --> 02:23:24,700 that it looked too cheap. There was also some other props in it he said he was a 1921 02:23:24,700 --> 02:23:25,700 bit worried about. 1922 02:23:28,500 --> 02:23:32,380 It's not my favourite slasher movie, but it's for fans of early 80s slashers. 1923 02:23:32,400 --> 02:23:35,460 You could do a lot, lot worse. Believe me, you could do a whole lot worse. And 1924 02:23:35,460 --> 02:23:38,220 think we're actually probably looking at some of these, some others you'll 1925 02:23:38,220 --> 02:23:41,460 probably see some trailers for coming up. But yeah, The Prowler, a .k .a. 1926 02:23:41,460 --> 02:23:43,660 Rosemary's Killer, is certainly one to watch. 1927 02:23:47,120 --> 02:23:51,180 It was 1945, the night of the graduation dance. 1928 02:23:52,220 --> 02:23:54,300 The war overseas had just ended. 1929 02:23:57,320 --> 02:24:01,140 The terror at home was about to begin. 1930 02:24:05,000 --> 02:24:06,000 Roy? 1931 02:24:09,980 --> 02:24:10,980 Come on. 1932 02:24:12,660 --> 02:24:14,400 Come on, kid. Don't play hard to get. 1933 02:24:15,200 --> 02:24:16,420 What about New Year's Eve? 1934 02:24:17,280 --> 02:24:18,460 Well, that was different. 1935 02:24:18,740 --> 02:24:20,100 I couldn't help myself. 1936 02:24:36,670 --> 02:24:38,930 Tonight, the terror begins again. 1937 02:24:39,470 --> 02:24:41,470 They never found out who did it. 1938 02:24:41,770 --> 02:24:45,670 But it had to be someone in town, someone who knew that she was called 1939 02:24:45,670 --> 02:24:47,390 Mark, that guy still might be around here. 1940 02:24:51,450 --> 02:24:54,390 I don't believe this. You're talking about something that happened over 30 1941 02:24:54,390 --> 02:24:55,390 ago. 1942 02:24:59,850 --> 02:25:03,150 Whenever the time was right, he'd come back. 1943 02:25:08,010 --> 02:25:12,670 If he wants you, he'll get you. 1944 02:25:41,390 --> 02:25:45,070 Night after night he waited for her. 1945 02:25:52,670 --> 02:25:56,550 If he gets you, you'll wish you were dead. 1946 02:26:51,760 --> 02:26:56,720 Just when you catch your breath, it starts all over again. 1947 02:27:10,380 --> 02:27:14,600 You may think you're safe, but you're dead wrong. 1948 02:27:31,029 --> 02:27:37,230 This is Savage Terror, 1979, Indonesian Cannibals, also called Primitives. 1949 02:27:37,930 --> 02:27:42,710 It's, in some ways, an attempt to be a serious film that goes very much non 1950 02:27:42,710 --> 02:27:46,910 -serious. The basic plot is you've got a group of research students who do the 1951 02:27:46,910 --> 02:27:50,350 typical kind of anthropology thing, where they want to go out and actually 1952 02:27:50,350 --> 02:27:53,110 a new tribe for their research. The object of the expedition... 1953 02:27:53,530 --> 02:27:56,370 was to come up with some research that nobody's ever done before. You know, 1954 02:27:56,370 --> 02:27:59,670 -blowing. It's one of the basic ways of getting ahead in academia. You go out 1955 02:27:59,670 --> 02:28:01,290 and find something nobody else has found. 1956 02:28:01,730 --> 02:28:03,870 Now, they journey into the jungle. 1957 02:28:04,090 --> 02:28:05,810 Is it possible to go any deeper into the jungle? 1958 02:28:06,430 --> 02:28:07,430 Yes, it's possible. 1959 02:28:07,870 --> 02:28:09,890 But I advise against it. It can be dangerous. 1960 02:28:10,250 --> 02:28:14,150 And at first, they end up talking to a tribe called the Primeval. 1961 02:28:14,370 --> 02:28:16,970 I guess all that means Primeval Primitives and so forth. 1962 02:28:17,190 --> 02:28:20,510 But naturally enough, they decide this is not enough for them. The tribe's 1963 02:28:20,510 --> 02:28:21,510 already been discovered. 1964 02:28:21,690 --> 02:28:25,070 no big deal all we want to do is go a little further to see if we can find 1965 02:28:25,070 --> 02:28:31,310 real primitives so what they do is they bribe their guide to actually go further 1966 02:28:31,310 --> 02:28:36,430 with them into the jungle i take her deep into the jungle big problem for 1967 02:28:36,430 --> 02:28:40,210 who are supposedly so intelligent they don't see the big problem with going on 1968 02:28:40,210 --> 02:28:42,150 rock in the middle of a fast -flowing river 1969 02:28:42,150 --> 02:28:48,830 and they'll get split up 1970 02:28:48,830 --> 02:28:55,360 they come across a particular tribe of cannibals we found it a primitive tribe 1971 02:28:55,360 --> 02:29:00,820 who evidently rather than being there for them they claim to as academics 1972 02:29:00,820 --> 02:29:05,360 that they actually look quite yummy at the time obviously that we are getting 1973 02:29:05,360 --> 02:29:10,800 ready to see a proper bit of gut munching and so forth we also see the 1974 02:29:10,800 --> 02:29:15,620 they are nevertheless trying to react to and study these savages you got it you 1975 02:29:15,620 --> 02:29:19,580 got it that's it now you can make yourself some clothes you know 1976 02:29:20,800 --> 02:29:25,360 One of the interesting things to pull out about this in particular is a very 1977 02:29:25,360 --> 02:29:28,460 sweet little act of the guy playing Tommy, Johan Margiono. 1978 02:29:28,780 --> 02:29:32,940 He's also reasonably believable as an academic in the sense of that he goes 1979 02:29:32,940 --> 02:29:35,660 through a very wide -eyed and he's trying to see how... 1980 02:29:36,080 --> 02:29:39,340 the tribes are behaving towards him how much would you give for their chances of 1981 02:29:39,340 --> 02:29:42,660 adapting to modern civilization you begin to look at the behaviors and it's 1982 02:29:42,660 --> 02:29:46,600 actually oddly presented in places as though it is a proper little bit of 1983 02:29:46,600 --> 02:29:49,780 ethnography you actually see the camera kind of looking at the way that the 1984 02:29:49,780 --> 02:29:52,900 families interact when they're eating you see a mother with a baby the 1985 02:29:52,900 --> 02:29:57,420 interesting thing in some ways about this is the use of the music and the 1986 02:29:57,420 --> 02:30:01,540 angles we have some quite funky psychedelic bits here particularly in an 1987 02:30:01,540 --> 02:30:03,460 instance where dear old tommy 1988 02:30:04,540 --> 02:30:08,840 stupidly, very stupidly, gets quite hungry, goes and finds a treat, grabs 1989 02:30:08,840 --> 02:30:13,020 stuff off a tree, necks it, and sure enough, we've got this kind of weird, 1990 02:30:13,020 --> 02:30:18,000 of disco -y bit going on, and we are, we've basically shown what he's seeing. 1991 02:30:22,760 --> 02:30:26,800 Now, the one thing that's got to be said, some of those actors deserve 1992 02:30:27,020 --> 02:30:29,820 Why am I saying that? How many different ways can you find to say, ooh? 1993 02:30:30,640 --> 02:30:32,880 Half of the script consists of very different oohs. 1994 02:30:33,370 --> 02:30:36,630 And it's interesting that they actually managed to get some level of tonality 1995 02:30:36,630 --> 02:30:37,630 there. 1996 02:30:40,010 --> 02:30:45,230 To convey shock, surprise or humour and general yummy that looks fun to eat. 1997 02:30:48,210 --> 02:30:51,250 It does give it a little bit of extra tone that some films don't have. 1998 02:30:53,630 --> 02:30:57,250 Of course, you might think you've seen some of this stuff a little bit 1999 02:30:57,250 --> 02:31:00,950 before and you'd be completely right. The film is basically a little bit of a 2000 02:31:00,950 --> 02:31:01,929 rip -off. 2001 02:31:01,930 --> 02:31:07,010 of last cannibal world okay some of the scenes in fact are a direct pinch of it 2002 02:31:07,010 --> 02:31:11,610 and naturally enough with things like cannibal holocaust anything that showed 2003 02:31:11,610 --> 02:31:14,830 people eating people was going to be a big no -no in terms of section three 2004 02:31:56,270 --> 02:31:57,610 I agreed to take you to the Pangaea. 2005 02:31:58,870 --> 02:32:00,130 Not any deeper into the jungle. 2006 02:32:46,190 --> 02:32:47,190 clothing and I couldn't... 2007 02:34:02,640 --> 02:34:08,300 Scanner, a film that I think we all love. It comes from that period where 2008 02:34:08,300 --> 02:34:14,540 Cronenberg was graduating out of really gruesome, exploitative horror pictures. 2009 02:34:15,180 --> 02:34:19,460 Slightly more mainstream. It's a film that's got its exploding head, but it's 2010 02:34:19,460 --> 02:34:25,580 also got conventional action sequences and some quite good science fictions of 2011 02:34:25,580 --> 02:34:26,860 mind -stretching ideas. 2012 02:34:27,500 --> 02:34:30,800 Why are you such a derelict? 2013 02:34:31,950 --> 02:34:33,750 Such a piece of human junk. 2014 02:34:36,230 --> 02:34:37,530 The answer's simple. 2015 02:34:38,690 --> 02:34:39,850 You're a scanner. 2016 02:34:40,470 --> 02:34:45,670 And you can see that Cronenberg, of all the filmmakers who came out of horror in 2017 02:34:45,670 --> 02:34:50,750 the 70s, is the one who wanted to do the most. He was probably the cleverest. 2018 02:34:51,449 --> 02:34:55,550 He may not have been instinctively the best filmmaker, but he was always a 2019 02:34:55,550 --> 02:34:59,170 filmmaker. He could turn around and make fast company if he had to. 2020 02:34:59,430 --> 02:35:02,710 Scanners are all Cronenberg's films. It's the one that became a franchise. 2021 02:35:03,450 --> 02:35:09,090 There were four sequels. There was a Scanners 2 and a Scanners 3 and two 2022 02:35:09,090 --> 02:35:10,049 Cop films. 2023 02:35:10,050 --> 02:35:14,190 There was talk of a TV series that never happened. I'm actually surprised that 2024 02:35:14,190 --> 02:35:18,470 it's not been remade because it's the kind of thing... Because anything that 2025 02:35:18,470 --> 02:35:19,650 four sequels... 2026 02:35:19,950 --> 02:35:23,330 is well known enough to be, you know, remakeable. 2027 02:35:23,630 --> 02:35:24,870 And it's a good premise. 2028 02:35:25,090 --> 02:35:27,210 There's stuff there that's still kind of cool. 2029 02:35:27,450 --> 02:35:33,450 I mean, I suppose it's a bit pre -Matrix -y or X -Men -y in its idea of, you 2030 02:35:33,450 --> 02:35:37,570 know, telekinetic supermen live among us and they're feuding. 2031 02:35:38,430 --> 02:35:44,930 And I see bits of it pop up in so many things. The TV show Heroes seems to me 2032 02:35:44,930 --> 02:35:45,559 owe a... 2033 02:35:45,560 --> 02:35:50,940 big debt to scanners it's also just a film i like i think i mean it's it's not 2034 02:35:50,940 --> 02:35:54,660 downer in a way that a lot of horror was then i mean it has a sort of 2035 02:35:54,660 --> 02:36:00,900 transcendent ending um it has michael ironside in uh and and this was the 2036 02:36:00,900 --> 02:36:06,100 time we noticed michael ironside and it got him a career you know if he's um 2037 02:36:06,100 --> 02:36:11,640 playing bad guys now it's because he was in scanners and actually you know he is 2038 02:36:11,640 --> 02:36:18,420 great in it um I'm not so sure about Stephen Lack, the 2039 02:36:18,420 --> 02:36:23,420 leading guy, who is a bit all over the place, but it's a kind of difficult 2040 02:36:23,660 --> 02:36:27,920 And Patrick McGowan, who'd been a bit AWOL since The Prisoner, sort of came 2041 02:36:27,920 --> 02:36:31,580 back, and I think he's really strong in it as well. It has lots of, you know, 2042 02:36:31,580 --> 02:36:34,680 great confrontational, bizarre, strange dialogue scenes. 2043 02:36:35,620 --> 02:36:36,620 Ripe. 2044 02:36:37,660 --> 02:36:38,660 Ripe indeed. 2045 02:36:42,540 --> 02:36:43,540 Ripe. 2046 02:36:44,539 --> 02:36:47,040 And then we're back to the exploding heads. 2047 02:36:48,040 --> 02:36:52,720 It's got great exploding head makeup. I assume the reason that it's on this list 2048 02:36:52,720 --> 02:36:55,840 is the exploding head. And that is one of those key moments. 2049 02:37:02,060 --> 02:37:07,000 I had a great deal of criticism for all those campaigners who just took the 2050 02:37:07,000 --> 02:37:13,300 bits. out of context from films and spliced them together to show how 2051 02:37:13,300 --> 02:37:18,640 horror movies were these days but that one scene in Scanners is 2052 02:37:18,640 --> 02:37:24,840 still for me the best exploding head that has ever appeared in the cinema 2053 02:37:24,840 --> 02:37:31,420 I vividly remember the 2054 02:37:31,420 --> 02:37:36,320 reaction the first time and 2055 02:37:37,130 --> 02:37:42,230 I remember going to see the film a second time a week later, almost just to 2056 02:37:42,230 --> 02:37:44,910 how the exploding head would play. 2057 02:37:45,570 --> 02:37:51,210 And it was in an era when films were built around special effects set pieces. 2058 02:37:51,210 --> 02:37:56,210 was an era of The Howling or American Werewolves, where one good effect was 2059 02:37:56,210 --> 02:37:58,510 enough that you would come out of it. 2060 02:37:58,870 --> 02:38:01,550 Now, you come out of a film and you've seen... 2061 02:38:02,860 --> 02:38:08,020 two and a half solid hours of special effects and shrug but then you know one 2062 02:38:08,020 --> 02:38:10,020 good shock was enough 2063 02:38:10,020 --> 02:38:24,880 i 2064 02:38:24,880 --> 02:38:28,180 would like again all of you in this room one at a time 2065 02:38:29,840 --> 02:38:33,060 I must remind you that the scanning experience is usually a painful one, 2066 02:38:33,120 --> 02:38:39,140 sometimes resulting in nosebleeds, earaches, stomach cramps, nausea, 2067 02:38:39,140 --> 02:38:42,020 other symptoms of a similar nature. At this point, I'd like to call for 2068 02:38:42,020 --> 02:38:43,020 volunteers. 2069 02:38:50,760 --> 02:38:53,240 Just sit right here, please. 2070 02:39:03,630 --> 02:39:05,530 No, I'd like you to think of something specific. 2071 02:39:06,950 --> 02:39:08,430 Do I have to close my eyes? It doesn't matter. 2072 02:39:10,070 --> 02:39:11,690 All right, yes. I have something. Yes. 2073 02:40:27,560 --> 02:40:33,280 Everyone has a boiling point. Then comes the, ellipsis, scream for vengeance, 2074 02:40:33,360 --> 02:40:35,480 with an explanation mark. 2075 02:40:35,700 --> 02:40:38,800 It's pretty much what you'd expect. There's a sort of Last House on the Left 2076 02:40:38,800 --> 02:40:39,880 vibe going on here. 2077 02:40:40,120 --> 02:40:45,300 It's about bank robbers who are also rapists, and they do some bad things to 2078 02:40:45,300 --> 02:40:48,020 some people, and the good guys... 2079 02:40:48,350 --> 02:40:51,690 sort of turn things around and do away with them. 2080 02:40:51,910 --> 02:40:55,470 This is actual vengeance taking place here on the cover. 2081 02:40:55,690 --> 02:41:00,670 Scream for vengeance. A brutal story torn from today's headlines involving 2082 02:41:00,670 --> 02:41:03,790 innocent people at the mercy of sadistic killers. 2083 02:41:04,150 --> 02:41:09,750 It's one of the most obscure of these films for justifiable reasons. 2084 02:41:11,230 --> 02:41:15,270 Not anybody would really remember. I suppose it's... 2085 02:41:16,680 --> 02:41:19,840 It works hard to be kind of queasily unpleasant. 2086 02:41:20,860 --> 02:41:25,820 It has those villains rather like Last House on the Left or Fight for Your Life 2087 02:41:25,820 --> 02:41:30,220 or Death Weekend. They work really hard on coming up with characters who are 2088 02:41:30,220 --> 02:41:35,820 thoroughly depraved and nasty, but they also seem to be deeply stupid. 2089 02:41:42,570 --> 02:41:47,590 Yeah, they obviously are asking for trouble, and it's only the fact that the 2090 02:41:47,590 --> 02:41:52,490 people they run into are so generally feeble that means they get to be evil 2091 02:41:52,490 --> 02:41:53,490 a full hour. 2092 02:41:53,610 --> 02:41:54,610 All right. 2093 02:41:54,970 --> 02:41:59,830 Before the half an hour of screaming vengeance descends upon them, ending 2094 02:41:59,830 --> 02:42:00,769 reign of terror. 2095 02:42:00,770 --> 02:42:05,650 It's one of those things that's made far away from the population centres of 2096 02:42:05,650 --> 02:42:07,570 America. Do you have any idea where we are? 2097 02:42:08,330 --> 02:42:09,330 Well... 2098 02:42:09,630 --> 02:42:11,130 I know it isn't downtown Miami. 2099 02:42:11,370 --> 02:42:14,410 And indeed the talent centres of the American film industry. 2100 02:42:14,870 --> 02:42:16,250 Are you ever serious? 2101 02:42:16,790 --> 02:42:18,350 Stars people you don't know. 2102 02:42:18,650 --> 02:42:20,310 We've only known each other a few hours. 2103 02:42:21,250 --> 02:42:26,210 Directed by somebody who never seemed to work again, Bob Blith. Or Bob Blith, as 2104 02:42:26,210 --> 02:42:27,790 he is on his IMDb page. 2105 02:42:28,230 --> 02:42:29,230 No. 2106 02:42:29,730 --> 02:42:31,050 I don't. I don't know. 2107 02:42:31,740 --> 02:42:36,680 It's a release that feels required to tell you the entire story of the film on 2108 02:42:36,680 --> 02:42:37,519 the back. 2109 02:42:37,520 --> 02:42:44,260 This was quite common in the video era, where they would just take the synopsis 2110 02:42:44,260 --> 02:42:48,000 that was written for the record for the American Film Institute or the Monthly 2111 02:42:48,000 --> 02:42:50,160 Film Bulletin and glue it here. 2112 02:42:50,380 --> 02:42:54,980 I mean, it doesn't really help if when you bring the thing home from the video 2113 02:42:54,980 --> 02:42:57,800 rental store, you already know the end because it's written here. 2114 02:42:58,160 --> 02:42:59,900 But then again... 2115 02:43:00,140 --> 02:43:04,300 Maybe for those of you who watched the first couple of minutes and then decided 2116 02:43:04,300 --> 02:43:09,580 to fast forward through the walking around bits between the rape and the 2117 02:43:09,580 --> 02:43:13,520 and the vengeance, it served as a useful guide. 2118 02:43:13,980 --> 02:43:17,800 Doesn't seem to have had any major lasting cult appeal. 2119 02:43:18,100 --> 02:43:21,920 Few people may well dimly remember it from their youth. 2120 02:43:23,260 --> 02:43:28,260 I couldn't honestly say that I remembered it and I had seen it before. 2121 02:43:29,900 --> 02:43:35,240 I think that this is the sort of thing that every video shop had loads of 2122 02:43:35,240 --> 02:43:39,920 of films like this and you finally rented out when everything you'd wanted 2123 02:43:39,920 --> 02:43:40,920 see had gone. 2124 02:43:42,520 --> 02:43:43,840 Scream for vengeance. 2125 02:43:44,040 --> 02:43:49,240 A brutal story torn from today's headlines involving innocent people at 2126 02:43:49,240 --> 02:43:50,780 mercy of sadistic killers. 2127 02:43:52,860 --> 02:43:56,920 Their only hope for survival, to fight for their very existence. 2128 02:44:14,920 --> 02:44:16,240 You've been seeing follow -ups. 2129 02:44:41,800 --> 02:44:45,040 Look, we've got to keep moving in a straight line. We'll get lost. We can't 2130 02:44:45,040 --> 02:44:46,540 outrun them. They're going to kill us. 2131 02:44:46,840 --> 02:44:51,740 Lost, intimidated, assaulted beyond human limits, and hunted like wild 2132 02:44:52,960 --> 02:44:56,820 Scream for Vengeance, a story of retribution and revenge. 2133 02:45:05,140 --> 02:45:06,140 Mom! 2134 02:45:06,540 --> 02:45:07,540 Mom! 2135 02:45:07,960 --> 02:45:09,440 Just shut up and stay put. 2136 02:45:09,700 --> 02:45:10,700 Mom! 2137 02:45:13,070 --> 02:45:14,070 Want some more, huh? 2138 02:45:14,630 --> 02:45:15,630 Stop it! 2139 02:45:15,810 --> 02:45:16,810 Kill him! 2140 02:45:18,510 --> 02:45:20,630 That's right, bitch. And you're next. 2141 02:45:55,340 --> 02:45:56,760 Everyone has a boiling point. 2142 02:45:57,280 --> 02:45:58,680 Scream for vengeance. 2143 02:46:15,720 --> 02:46:22,200 Well, here we have Filgrim Assassin, which is one of the 2144 02:46:22,200 --> 02:46:24,240 greatest exploitation films, I think. 2145 02:46:24,490 --> 02:46:28,790 A lot of people think Shogun Assassin was on the original Section 2 DPP list, 2146 02:46:28,870 --> 02:46:33,330 but it actually wasn't until later that it appeared on the Section 3 list. This 2147 02:46:33,330 --> 02:46:37,290 version is directed by Robert Houston, who actually edited the first two films 2148 02:46:37,290 --> 02:46:39,650 of the Lone Wolf and Cub series. 2149 02:46:40,110 --> 02:46:44,170 In fact, in this film, they only used the ten minutes of the first film, and 2150 02:46:44,170 --> 02:46:47,370 most of it comes from the second film, which is The Baby's Cart at the River 2151 02:46:47,370 --> 02:46:50,730 Styx. There's six Lone Wolf and Cub films. 2152 02:46:51,180 --> 02:46:58,100 Long Wolf and Cup Series is a very long -running manga, TV series, film series 2153 02:46:58,100 --> 02:46:59,100 in Japan. 2154 02:46:59,160 --> 02:47:05,400 It concerns a samurai and his son who go on the road defying the shogunate. This 2155 02:47:05,400 --> 02:47:10,720 is during the warring clans period of Japan, obviously, and because he defies 2156 02:47:10,720 --> 02:47:14,080 the shogunate, the shogun sends out all the clans after him, but the clans are 2157 02:47:14,080 --> 02:47:15,080 into fighting as well. 2158 02:47:15,600 --> 02:47:19,180 Once, he was the greatest of the magnificent samurai. 2159 02:47:21,140 --> 02:47:26,500 Now he hunts the evil lords who butchered his wife. But he has enormous 2160 02:47:26,620 --> 02:47:29,080 He's almost better at swordplay than anyone else. 2161 02:47:29,280 --> 02:47:34,080 And his aim is to walk the path of hell, bringing destruction wherever he goes. 2162 02:47:34,280 --> 02:47:40,100 But he also ends up helping a lot of small villages and women and children 2163 02:47:40,100 --> 02:47:43,960 the way. But there's always almost a lack of morality to the main character. 2164 02:47:44,600 --> 02:47:47,920 For the American version, they've taken the action scenes of the first two films 2165 02:47:47,920 --> 02:47:53,160 and edited them together with a sort of simplistic narration by supposedly the 2166 02:47:53,160 --> 02:47:54,240 son of the ninja. 2167 02:47:54,660 --> 02:47:56,560 But my father can't help it. 2168 02:47:58,860 --> 02:48:02,700 Sometimes he gets lost in the past. 2169 02:48:03,920 --> 02:48:08,700 They also take out all the interwarring clan stuff. They just say the shogun. 2170 02:48:10,890 --> 02:48:15,010 So whenever you see actually who's the leader of the Shadow Clan in the 2171 02:48:15,010 --> 02:48:16,270 film, they just say the Shogun. 2172 02:48:16,850 --> 02:48:20,990 But it moves fantastically because the film itself is so beautifully 2173 02:48:20,990 --> 02:48:23,630 choreographed. The violence is almost operatic. 2174 02:48:29,270 --> 02:48:32,970 There's gazes of blood just floating everywhere, but it's all long take. 2175 02:48:33,270 --> 02:48:39,450 And it is very deliberate, almost balletic action. When there's a sword 2176 02:48:39,530 --> 02:48:44,180 it's... doesn't last long the plot in the original is very traditional to the 2177 02:48:44,180 --> 02:48:48,920 jideki genre but the american version is obviously a very speeded up version 2178 02:48:48,920 --> 02:48:55,900 because they've just taken the action american actress and comedian 2179 02:48:55,900 --> 02:49:02,220 sandra bernhard did one of the voices for the film also robert houston got 2180 02:49:02,220 --> 02:49:07,760 people to come and suggest lines by reading the lip movements of the 2181 02:49:07,760 --> 02:49:12,720 actors so that they would think better, which works to a degree. Some of the 2182 02:49:12,720 --> 02:49:16,140 bits actually look like they're saying it. I agree. 2183 02:49:16,780 --> 02:49:22,360 The music was actually composed for the American version. It's credited as the 2184 02:49:22,360 --> 02:49:27,940 Wonderland Philharmonic, but it was actually one chap doing it in the Howe 2185 02:49:27,940 --> 02:49:28,940 Holmes studio. 2186 02:49:29,070 --> 02:49:32,350 It uses some of the themes from the original, but it's generally more synth 2187 02:49:32,350 --> 02:49:33,350 -based. 2188 02:49:36,270 --> 02:49:41,570 No surprises on the Section 3 list, because the violence is at a level that 2189 02:49:41,570 --> 02:49:43,210 UK probably hadn't seen. 2190 02:49:43,430 --> 02:49:46,010 The blood just flows freely for minutes at end. 2191 02:49:46,310 --> 02:49:47,550 And there's also... 2192 02:49:47,960 --> 02:49:51,640 the fact that the lead character always travels with his child, and the child 2193 02:49:51,640 --> 02:49:55,980 gets involved in this sword fight. The baby cart is well equipped with knives, 2194 02:49:56,200 --> 02:50:00,440 and in one instance, he's rolled down the hill, and he operates the knife to 2195 02:50:00,440 --> 02:50:04,120 take out the ankles of these ninjas that are running towards them. And you see 2196 02:50:04,120 --> 02:50:06,940 in graphic detail, the ankles split and coming off. 2197 02:50:07,360 --> 02:50:11,520 I'm sure that didn't bode well, and there's a scene where the child is hung 2198 02:50:11,520 --> 02:50:15,900 harness and then dropped into a well really fast, which probably panicked all 2199 02:50:15,900 --> 02:50:17,040 the moral guardians out there. 2200 02:50:25,550 --> 02:50:28,970 Return to the vanished kingdoms of ancient times. 2201 02:50:35,350 --> 02:50:41,470 Journey through a lost empire of mad wizards and 2202 02:50:41,470 --> 02:50:44,390 barbaric passions. 2203 02:50:47,430 --> 02:50:52,830 Behold the saga of a legendary warrior, a loving father, 2204 02:50:53,960 --> 02:50:58,700 who has the power of a dozen armies in one sweep of his mystic blade. 2205 02:51:00,020 --> 02:51:05,960 This is a story of honor, disgrace, vengeance, 2206 02:51:06,140 --> 02:51:12,100 massacre, 2207 02:51:12,360 --> 02:51:17,640 and a man who became a demon. 2208 02:51:18,600 --> 02:51:19,760 Shogun Assassin. 2209 02:51:22,180 --> 02:51:25,960 Once, He was the greatest of the magnificent samurai. 2210 02:51:27,260 --> 02:51:33,660 Now, he hunts the evil lords who butchered his wife and stained his 2211 02:51:35,000 --> 02:51:41,800 One man and one child defy the most notorious masters of 2212 02:51:41,800 --> 02:51:43,200 death on the planet. 2213 02:51:45,800 --> 02:51:50,240 Like father, like son. 2214 02:51:51,610 --> 02:51:54,710 Meet the greatest team in the history of mass slaughter. 2215 02:52:02,790 --> 02:52:05,950 Nothing on Earth can match their infernal fury. 2216 02:52:07,190 --> 02:52:13,950 Nothing on the screen can match this awesome spectacle of sword and sorcery. 2217 02:52:45,740 --> 02:52:52,240 So this film is Street Killers, also called Beast with a Gun. And this film 2218 02:52:52,240 --> 02:52:59,160 is a wonderful example of a 70s Italian gangster film and it 2219 02:52:59,160 --> 02:53:01,050 has... Helmut Berger. Yes. 2220 02:53:01,470 --> 02:53:06,450 Or Berger, depending on how you say it, who is this Conti's favourite psychopath 2221 02:53:06,450 --> 02:53:12,530 as this extraordinarily beautiful Aryan demigod with the piercing blue eyes and 2222 02:53:12,530 --> 02:53:16,010 the blonde hair. And of course, as we know, the prettier you are, the crazier 2223 02:53:16,010 --> 02:53:17,010 you are. 2224 02:53:18,290 --> 02:53:23,730 Hold it. Richard Harrison plays the buff, thick as two planks. 2225 02:53:24,090 --> 02:53:28,930 uh police inspector who really tries very hard to be the enigmatic italian 2226 02:53:28,930 --> 02:53:33,850 that fails abominably i practically ran into the gang during the breakout i 2227 02:53:33,850 --> 02:53:38,590 followed but lost them and it ends up being a kind of who's sexier who's 2228 02:53:38,590 --> 02:53:43,570 spunkier who's buffer hot off between him and helmet burger by the end of it 2229 02:53:43,570 --> 02:53:50,310 well look who it is so nice to see you inspector santini you're a filthy hyena 2230 02:53:50,830 --> 02:53:54,910 The film has Marissa Mell as the main female character, and she was in Danger, 2231 02:53:55,070 --> 02:53:56,810 Diabolique, and One on Top of the Other. 2232 02:53:57,010 --> 02:53:59,690 And so she carries off the role beautifully. 2233 02:54:00,010 --> 02:54:01,010 The police. 2234 02:54:01,810 --> 02:54:03,890 Police are looking for Barbadeschi, haven't you heard? 2235 02:54:04,250 --> 02:54:08,110 The relationship that she develops with the mad killer is actually a very 2236 02:54:08,110 --> 02:54:11,850 interesting one because obviously she begins as the victim, but there's a very 2237 02:54:11,850 --> 02:54:16,530 strange, enigmatic kind of amour -fou that starts to begin to develop between 2238 02:54:16,530 --> 02:54:20,290 them that is then interceded by Richard Harris and then it ends up at the end 2239 02:54:20,290 --> 02:54:25,970 with some pseudo -incest with another couple. So there's a lot of very 2240 02:54:25,970 --> 02:54:32,060 dynamic... triangle going on. It's a film of many triangles and of course 2241 02:54:32,060 --> 02:54:33,120 keeps it interesting. 2242 02:54:40,920 --> 02:54:44,960 Possibly one of the early scenes could have been the reason why the film was 2243 02:54:44,960 --> 02:54:50,720 threatened to be put on the list and this is where Helmut Berger gets his 2244 02:54:50,720 --> 02:54:57,220 to kill a man by pouring lime all over him and then burying him and then He 2245 02:54:57,220 --> 02:54:58,440 rapes the man's wife. 2246 02:54:58,720 --> 02:55:04,960 But it's a very strange thing because he's clearly, it's the least rapey rape 2247 02:55:04,960 --> 02:55:09,420 scene. He's got his trousers completely up and he keeps kind of randomly 2248 02:55:09,420 --> 02:55:14,100 fumbling with a general area that may be or may not be penile. He's humping her 2249 02:55:14,100 --> 02:55:15,620 legs kind of like a dog would do. 2250 02:55:17,100 --> 02:55:22,140 But more importantly, he is most obsessed with making sure that his gang 2251 02:55:22,140 --> 02:55:24,440 seeing him and seeing what he's doing. 2252 02:55:24,660 --> 02:55:30,640 So the whole scene is very much about attention being focused on to be seen to 2253 02:55:30,640 --> 02:55:35,100 be raping this woman. And there is a sense, as there is in all gang rape 2254 02:55:35,100 --> 02:55:40,000 in most films, this homoerotics, that actually this is a film and this is a 2255 02:55:40,000 --> 02:55:45,240 scene where it's men wanting to show their virility to other men and where 2256 02:55:45,240 --> 02:55:46,240 they're not actually... 2257 02:55:46,380 --> 02:55:50,740 raping women because they hate women although clearly they do but they are 2258 02:55:50,740 --> 02:55:53,980 raping women because they are trying to have some kind of homoerotic bond with 2259 02:55:53,980 --> 02:55:59,160 the other men that they're in the situation with and so when watching this 2260 02:55:59,160 --> 02:56:04,140 initially this is what i was thinking about Far, far later in the film there 2261 02:56:04,140 --> 02:56:08,320 some very interesting and nuanced indications that he is actually a 2262 02:56:08,320 --> 02:56:12,740 and that his psychotic tendencies may be coming from some kind of repressed 2263 02:56:12,740 --> 02:56:19,000 homosexual feelings towards a very handsome young rent boy that has become 2264 02:56:19,000 --> 02:56:20,000 partner in crime. 2265 02:56:20,060 --> 02:56:25,140 It's an enigmatic little film and I think that certainly both in its 2266 02:56:25,660 --> 02:56:31,280 and in all of the little nuanced, niggling, psychological peccadilloes 2267 02:56:31,280 --> 02:56:37,960 shows in all of its characters, it does have an enigmatic element for people who 2268 02:56:37,960 --> 02:56:42,200 enjoy that kind of Italian -iness in films that you can't really put your 2269 02:56:42,200 --> 02:56:43,200 on. 2270 02:56:49,040 --> 02:56:55,220 One strange little emergence that this film had was in Quentin Tarantino's 2271 02:56:55,220 --> 02:57:00,700 Jackie Brown, where the film is playing on the television in Bridget Fonda's 2272 02:57:00,700 --> 02:57:01,700 house. 2273 02:57:33,119 --> 02:57:34,720 Yes. I'm going to kill your friend. 2274 02:57:35,060 --> 02:57:37,100 And I'll do it very, very slow. 2275 02:57:37,440 --> 02:57:38,700 I'm going to inflict much pain. 2276 02:57:39,860 --> 02:57:42,880 You're going to hear a guy beg for his life, lady, because he betrayed Nanni 2277 02:57:42,880 --> 02:57:43,880 Vitale. 2278 02:57:44,060 --> 02:57:45,060 That's the car I want. 2279 02:57:50,080 --> 02:57:51,080 Don't worry. 2280 02:57:51,260 --> 02:57:52,780 There will be no bloodshed. 2281 02:58:00,340 --> 02:58:01,340 Don't worry. 2282 02:58:01,900 --> 02:58:03,140 There will be no bloodshed. 2283 02:58:15,640 --> 02:58:16,640 Police! 2284 02:58:17,420 --> 02:58:18,540 The police! 2285 02:58:21,080 --> 02:58:25,000 You afraid 2286 02:58:25,000 --> 02:58:30,900 of me? 2287 02:58:31,420 --> 02:58:32,420 Are you? 2288 02:58:32,720 --> 02:58:33,720 Let her alone. 2289 02:58:33,900 --> 02:58:34,980 You're not afraid of me? 2290 02:58:35,240 --> 02:58:37,500 No, let me go. Let me go. 2291 02:58:37,800 --> 02:58:38,800 Hold it. 2292 02:58:40,480 --> 02:58:42,440 Take the girls along. We'll need them as hostages. 2293 02:58:43,900 --> 02:58:45,280 Inspector Santini. 2294 02:58:48,760 --> 02:58:52,780 So nice to see you, Inspector Santini. 2295 02:58:57,940 --> 02:58:59,920 What are you shooting for, you crazy? 2296 02:59:00,480 --> 02:59:03,720 I'm sorry I lost my temper. You're lucky you don't get a bullet in the brain. 2297 02:59:04,080 --> 02:59:05,080 Check outside. 2298 02:59:05,460 --> 02:59:07,120 I told you, no one ever comes here. 2299 03:00:09,220 --> 03:00:12,700 Okay, so we have Suicide Cult here by James Glickenhaus. 2300 03:00:13,340 --> 03:00:17,420 And what the hell is going on in this one? Very, very confusing film. Very 2301 03:00:17,420 --> 03:00:21,860 ambitious film. Feels like a big -budget movie that's been squashed into a low 2302 03:00:21,860 --> 03:00:25,980 -budget in some way. Or a low -budget movie that couldn't quite sustain 2303 03:00:26,460 --> 03:00:30,460 We are now able, using computers, to accurately determine an individual's 2304 03:00:30,460 --> 03:00:34,480 zodiacal potential for response to environmental situations and stimuli. 2305 03:00:34,960 --> 03:00:38,860 Very, very ambitious subject matter. The narrative is spread over several 2306 03:00:38,860 --> 03:00:39,819 different continents. 2307 03:00:39,820 --> 03:00:44,520 There's action going on in Europe, in India and in the USA. 2308 03:00:44,840 --> 03:00:47,980 It has the hallmarks of a film that ran into production difficulties. 2309 03:00:48,580 --> 03:00:53,260 Someone is exerting a strong hold over you, preventing you from telling the 2310 03:00:53,260 --> 03:00:56,120 truth. We must strip away your pretense. 2311 03:00:56,460 --> 03:00:58,920 Go behind that screen and take off your clothes. 2312 03:00:59,470 --> 03:01:02,790 It's only 72 minutes long and yet it still feels like it hasn't quite managed 2313 03:01:02,790 --> 03:01:07,090 tell its story. The first credit that you get at the end is the editor, which 2314 03:01:07,090 --> 03:01:11,210 kind of a shorthand for this was hard to cut together. So I'd be intrigued to 2315 03:01:11,210 --> 03:01:14,850 know the full story of this film and we don't know it. Jim Glickenhouse, who 2316 03:01:14,850 --> 03:01:19,110 went on to make The Exterminator, a very, very successful vigilante movie, 2317 03:01:19,110 --> 03:01:21,750 never really discussed this film and apparently doesn't really like to 2318 03:01:21,750 --> 03:01:25,050 this film's full story. It's a shame because Suicide Cult is a very, very 2319 03:01:25,050 --> 03:01:26,050 strange film. 2320 03:01:26,200 --> 03:01:30,500 It's almost a sort of a 14 times sort of area of interest that we're dealing 2321 03:01:30,500 --> 03:01:34,120 with here. It's essentially kind of mystics in the CIA is the kind of vibe. 2322 03:01:34,240 --> 03:01:38,560 There's a branch of the American government who are exploring the use of 2323 03:01:38,560 --> 03:01:43,300 astrology to predict people of great potential for good or great potential 2324 03:01:43,300 --> 03:01:50,160 evil. The film is about 2325 03:01:50,160 --> 03:01:55,020 attempts to establish the astrological birth record of the Virgin Mary so as to 2326 03:01:55,020 --> 03:01:59,810 predict... the next birth of Christ or the second coming. If I had that 2327 03:01:59,810 --> 03:02:05,150 document, I could pinpoint the Virgin Mary's birth date to the exact hour. 2328 03:02:05,990 --> 03:02:08,650 Wembley, you're going to have that document one way or the other. 2329 03:02:08,910 --> 03:02:13,850 So many interesting and unusual ideas that it juggles with but can't quite 2330 03:02:13,850 --> 03:02:16,990 together into a coherent whole. Do you know your own didactical potential? 2331 03:02:17,570 --> 03:02:20,870 No, I don't. I never punched it in. I don't want to know. 2332 03:02:21,110 --> 03:02:25,000 It feels as if... The same director would have made a better film of it 2333 03:02:25,000 --> 03:02:28,320 five, six years later, with a bit more experience down the line. 2334 03:02:28,660 --> 03:02:35,240 Because of me, we can now wiretap directly into a man's soul, and all we 2335 03:02:35,240 --> 03:02:36,240 know is his birthday. 2336 03:02:36,920 --> 03:02:43,020 I'm not a devotee of astrology by a long shot, and yet I enjoy seeing a film 2337 03:02:43,020 --> 03:02:48,060 that takes such a, what is essentially, to my mind, a crackpot premise, and then 2338 03:02:48,060 --> 03:02:49,340 perfuse it relentlessly. 2339 03:02:49,680 --> 03:02:55,050 The old astrologers and the daily... Horror scopers expect everyone to have a 2340 03:02:55,050 --> 03:02:58,690 destiny. They just don't realise that the average astrological configuration 2341 03:02:58,690 --> 03:03:00,050 extremely balanced, almost neutral. 2342 03:03:00,750 --> 03:03:02,790 I can't think of any other films that have got that plot. 2343 03:03:03,590 --> 03:03:05,810 So it really is kind of going out on its own. 2344 03:03:06,030 --> 03:03:10,050 So it deserves full marks for originality, even if the project seems 2345 03:03:10,050 --> 03:03:11,990 escaped and run out of control. 2346 03:03:12,730 --> 03:03:15,210 The producer is a guy called Mark Buntsman. 2347 03:03:15,550 --> 03:03:19,690 He's also playing the lead villain of the film, a mystic called Kershurst. 2348 03:03:20,280 --> 03:03:25,620 who is living in india as a kind of almost like a manson -esque kind of cult 2349 03:03:25,620 --> 03:03:30,060 leader and he's quite frightening actually do you really think alexei 2350 03:03:30,060 --> 03:03:34,720 that a tribal outlaw with a few followers is going to take over the 2351 03:03:34,720 --> 03:03:39,580 really solid performance there's a theme in the film where a cia operative or an 2352 03:03:39,580 --> 03:03:43,610 american government operative whose job it is to try and enter the villain's 2353 03:03:43,610 --> 03:03:46,750 dreams. After we finish the videotape, we're going to play it through 2354 03:03:46,750 --> 03:03:49,490 which will temporarily glue to Kajur's skull. 2355 03:03:49,930 --> 03:03:52,570 You know, I said it was ambitious, yeah? With any luck, he'll confuse the 2356 03:03:52,570 --> 03:03:54,190 videotape with the day's real events. 2357 03:03:54,610 --> 03:03:57,930 She goes to India and he wills her to death. 2358 03:03:58,440 --> 03:04:01,760 once he works out that that's what he's trying to do. So it's like a battle of 2359 03:04:01,760 --> 03:04:03,880 worlds between different mythical forces. 2360 03:04:04,460 --> 03:04:06,140 Stay with me forever, Rob. 2361 03:04:11,380 --> 03:04:14,440 Not really sure if it's going to win very many converts. 2362 03:04:14,680 --> 03:04:18,340 One day, if it ever turned up on DVD in a decent transfer, I think people might 2363 03:04:18,340 --> 03:04:19,340 look again. 2364 03:04:19,940 --> 03:04:22,800 But it certainly deserves points for going off the map. 2365 03:04:23,100 --> 03:04:24,900 I haven't the faintest idea. 2366 03:04:25,610 --> 03:04:29,650 why it's called Suicide Cult, doesn't really have anything much to do with the 2367 03:04:29,650 --> 03:04:34,030 film. It suggests a kind of a Jim Jones set -up, and the Kajers character does 2368 03:04:34,030 --> 03:04:38,510 have elements of Jim Jones and Manson. It was based on a sort of a potboiler 2369 03:04:38,510 --> 03:04:42,270 paperback called The Astrologer, which came out in the early 70s, and the 2370 03:04:42,270 --> 03:04:45,450 original title for the film was The Astrologer. This film... 2371 03:04:45,790 --> 03:04:48,670 As I say, it shows all the signs of having been cut together in a bit of a 2372 03:04:48,670 --> 03:04:53,690 panic. Transitions between scenes look a little nervy and unfocused because it 2373 03:04:53,690 --> 03:04:58,190 keeps jumping from set -up to set -up using colourisation to affect the image 2374 03:04:58,190 --> 03:05:01,390 a way that makes you think, there's no need for this. It's like a stylistic 2375 03:05:01,390 --> 03:05:04,670 device that's been added by the editor and the people in the post -production 2376 03:05:04,670 --> 03:05:07,470 saying, we've got to find some way of making this cohere. 2377 03:05:08,790 --> 03:05:12,630 They haven't entirely succeeded, but still, it's an interesting movie and a 2378 03:05:12,630 --> 03:05:16,870 curious, almost... kind of Oliver Stone gets mystical sort of plot, which 2379 03:05:16,870 --> 03:05:18,250 deserves a bit of attention. 2380 03:05:23,670 --> 03:05:30,510 I think the 2381 03:05:30,510 --> 03:05:34,450 reason why it's attracted some negative attention from people wishing to censor 2382 03:05:34,450 --> 03:05:38,630 these kinds of movies may be just that the title rang alarm bells because of 2383 03:05:38,630 --> 03:05:39,630 idea of there being... 2384 03:05:40,140 --> 03:05:45,660 echoes of the you know the then quite recent jim jones uh case and also there 2385 03:05:45,660 --> 03:05:50,100 are times in the film where you see what i think are special effects recreations 2386 03:05:50,100 --> 03:05:54,440 of dead bodies which in the film were presented as real like mondo footage 2387 03:05:54,440 --> 03:05:57,480 but maybe that's the other reason as well maybe maybe whoever watched it 2388 03:05:57,480 --> 03:06:01,620 that they were looking at real kind of mondo style footage of corpses and that 2389 03:06:01,620 --> 03:06:07,320 might have added to the problem if i had that document 2390 03:06:08,120 --> 03:06:12,220 I could pinpoint the Virgin Mary's birth date to the exact hour. 2391 03:06:12,960 --> 03:06:15,720 Wembley, you're going to have that document one way or the other. 2392 03:06:16,420 --> 03:06:17,420 Very soon. 2393 03:06:20,000 --> 03:06:24,320 We are now able, using computers, to accurately determine an individual's 2394 03:06:24,320 --> 03:06:28,320 zodiacal potential for response to environmental situations and stimuli. 2395 03:06:29,220 --> 03:06:34,180 Kajur's zodiacal potential is so high that he must dominate others. He has no 2396 03:06:34,180 --> 03:06:35,180 choice. 2397 03:06:35,450 --> 03:06:39,970 His activities have included ritualistic mutilations and public deploration 2398 03:06:39,970 --> 03:06:44,430 ceremonies. Do you really think Alexei believes that a tribal outlaw with a few 2399 03:06:44,430 --> 03:06:46,370 followers is going to take over the world? 2400 03:06:46,710 --> 03:06:50,450 There has to be an answer. There is an answer, Kate. You just have to believe 2401 03:06:50,450 --> 03:06:54,350 me. So Kate has the same zodiacal potential as the Virgin Mary. 2402 03:06:54,810 --> 03:06:57,790 The child who's waiting to be born. 2403 03:06:58,590 --> 03:07:02,410 I honestly didn't do anything to the boy that could have possibly gotten me 2404 03:07:02,410 --> 03:07:03,410 pregnant. 2405 03:07:04,170 --> 03:07:07,550 I had to know the truth about the virgin birth. That's why I couldn't sleep with 2406 03:07:07,550 --> 03:07:08,550 her. 2407 03:08:08,210 --> 03:08:13,770 Superstition, aka The Witch, is one of a run of early 80s films on demonic 2408 03:08:13,770 --> 03:08:19,330 themes. It's the old favourite, you know, the witch who is done to death in 2409 03:08:19,330 --> 03:08:26,310 Puritan times, who manifests to avenge herself on the community that did her 2410 03:08:26,310 --> 03:08:27,950 in. I will not die! 2411 03:08:28,670 --> 03:08:29,670 Cut the rope! 2412 03:08:31,030 --> 03:08:36,430 In theory, going after the descendants of the Witchfinders. 2413 03:08:36,940 --> 03:08:42,560 in practice just killing whoever else happens to wander through mostly in 2414 03:08:42,560 --> 03:08:47,980 gruesome ways involving telekinesis in that sort of Omidy kind of stuff. 2415 03:08:51,220 --> 03:08:54,780 It's got some fairly tough gritty gruesome things in it. 2416 03:08:55,500 --> 03:08:57,620 It's a reasonably watchable little picture actually. 2417 03:09:01,800 --> 03:09:04,120 It's one of those movies that makes a great trailer. 2418 03:09:04,480 --> 03:09:05,980 Will anyone survive? 2419 03:09:08,600 --> 03:09:13,600 Yeah, you will find this trailer probably gives you all you need from the 2420 03:09:13,620 --> 03:09:15,220 It's got all the best bits in it. 2421 03:09:15,480 --> 03:09:18,120 The victims who died were the lucky ones. 2422 03:09:18,420 --> 03:09:24,240 It's a film that I think I would lump in with Evil Freak, you know, in terms of 2423 03:09:24,240 --> 03:09:27,020 demonic action from the early 80s. 2424 03:09:37,000 --> 03:09:38,780 Doesn't star anybody in particular. 2425 03:09:39,000 --> 03:09:40,320 Stacey Keech's dad is in it. 2426 03:09:41,820 --> 03:09:46,320 Directed by James Robeson, who made an early non -funny film about the American 2427 03:09:46,320 --> 03:09:47,800 cannibal Alfred Packer. 2428 03:09:48,460 --> 03:09:52,140 And that's kind of about it. It did get a theatrical release. 2429 03:09:52,620 --> 03:09:57,800 It's hard to confirm at this late date, but it seems possible that it came out 2430 03:09:57,800 --> 03:10:02,420 on video and did reasonably well, and then they put it in cinemas, or in very 2431 03:10:02,420 --> 03:10:03,420 few cinemas. 2432 03:10:04,120 --> 03:10:07,360 Sneakily changing the name, so if you were one of those suckers who'd already 2433 03:10:07,360 --> 03:10:12,000 seen it, you know, a superstition, you had to pay to see it again as the witch. 2434 03:10:17,820 --> 03:10:18,820 A ghost. 2435 03:10:19,880 --> 03:10:21,060 It's haunted, they say. 2436 03:10:22,700 --> 03:10:23,700 I'm scared. 2437 03:10:26,220 --> 03:10:32,660 Two kids were killed out there. 2438 03:10:32,880 --> 03:10:35,060 One kid was gutted and slashed to death. 2439 03:10:35,260 --> 03:10:36,260 He had a microwave. 2440 03:10:37,300 --> 03:10:38,540 There was a warning. 2441 03:10:38,900 --> 03:10:40,480 There are many houses on this foundation. 2442 03:10:40,840 --> 03:10:43,260 All of them and their tenants come to bad ends. 2443 03:10:45,820 --> 03:10:47,760 And only one man listened. 2444 03:10:48,040 --> 03:10:49,400 When did this violence begin? 2445 03:10:49,760 --> 03:10:50,820 There was a legend. 2446 03:10:51,300 --> 03:10:52,300 We want justice! 2447 03:11:02,990 --> 03:11:04,050 Only one man believed. 2448 03:11:04,470 --> 03:11:05,630 Am I too late? Has it already started? 2449 03:11:09,610 --> 03:11:14,090 There is a superstition. And will anyone survive? 2450 03:11:46,290 --> 03:11:50,890 Superstition. The victims who died were the lucky ones. 2451 03:11:52,710 --> 03:11:53,710 Superstition. 2452 03:12:11,820 --> 03:12:16,020 Here's the ticket for the actual original press show of Dario Argento's 2453 03:12:16,020 --> 03:12:19,600 Suspiria. One of the films that actually changed my life. 2454 03:12:20,280 --> 03:12:25,100 From this moment on, I was a devoted Argento fan, even though I'd seen the 2455 03:12:25,100 --> 03:12:28,560 Animal Trilogy and all his other jallows. But this led me to actually 2456 03:12:28,560 --> 03:12:35,040 him and eventually writing the book on him. You're missing more terrifying than 2457 03:12:35,040 --> 03:12:38,220 the last 12 minutes of Suspiria. 2458 03:12:39,480 --> 03:12:40,600 Father first. 2459 03:12:42,119 --> 03:12:45,520 19. Suspiria, of course, is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. 2460 03:12:45,760 --> 03:12:49,100 It's listed in so many top tens. It's certainly in mine. 2461 03:12:49,600 --> 03:12:56,260 Here's the original Thorny M .I. video box with, strangely enough, a very, very 2462 03:12:56,260 --> 03:13:02,260 erudite review by Alexander Walker on the back. That gives it a bit of cred. 2463 03:13:02,360 --> 03:13:05,360 They obviously wanted to go for more than just the horror crowd with this 2464 03:13:06,160 --> 03:13:10,440 What can I tell you about this movie? It's quite short because Deep Red had 2465 03:13:10,440 --> 03:13:11,500 suffered so many cuts. 2466 03:13:11,760 --> 03:13:16,220 It was co -written by Dario and Daria Nicolodi, although she's not in it 2467 03:13:16,220 --> 03:13:19,780 she hated the fact he took the credits so much that she walked off the movie. 2468 03:13:19,920 --> 03:13:23,800 Because there is a bit of a controversy about where exactly the story comes 2469 03:13:23,800 --> 03:13:28,060 from. I mean, is it Daria Nicolodi's grandmother who actually said she 2470 03:13:28,060 --> 03:13:29,860 a school for witchcraft in Germany? 2471 03:13:30,140 --> 03:13:31,700 Is it a story that... 2472 03:13:31,920 --> 03:13:35,820 Darry was told by his grandmother about witches working in schools. 2473 03:13:36,650 --> 03:13:41,770 Whatever the case, it comes together brilliantly well, all wrapped around 2474 03:13:41,770 --> 03:13:46,150 De Quincey's Confessions of an Opium Eater's Three Mothers Tale, and this 2475 03:13:46,170 --> 03:13:50,650 of course, is about Metis Asperiorum. I think this has got the best opening 15 2476 03:13:50,650 --> 03:13:53,710 minutes of any horror film you could ever have seen. 2477 03:13:54,350 --> 03:13:59,510 Dario, would you tell me that it opened like a major horror film would close, 2478 03:13:59,710 --> 03:14:02,190 because that way you never knew what was going to come next. 2479 03:14:02,750 --> 03:14:04,370 Jessica Harper is the star. 2480 03:14:04,890 --> 03:14:08,770 She was in it solely because Dario had seen her in Brian De Palma's Phantom of 2481 03:14:08,770 --> 03:14:09,970 the Paradise and loved her. 2482 03:14:10,430 --> 03:14:13,950 Just said to her, can you sort of like fake being a ballet dancer? She said, 2483 03:14:13,990 --> 03:14:15,830 sure. And so she was in it. 2484 03:14:16,110 --> 03:14:20,970 She told me that she wanted to be a part of it because it had such strong female 2485 03:14:20,970 --> 03:14:25,190 roles. There's a Leader Valley in it. There's Joan Bennett in it. She was 2486 03:14:25,190 --> 03:14:26,089 Lang's widow. 2487 03:14:26,090 --> 03:14:28,430 Fritz Lang being one of Dario's big heroes. 2488 03:14:28,770 --> 03:14:30,750 And they're very, very strong characters. 2489 03:14:32,600 --> 03:14:36,860 Dario is often sort of accused of being misogynist, but really, when you look at 2490 03:14:36,860 --> 03:14:40,940 his work, he did write some amazing parts for some very, very strong women. 2491 03:14:41,620 --> 03:14:43,740 I had no idea you were so strong -willed. 2492 03:14:44,680 --> 03:14:48,700 I see that when you make up your mind about something, nothing will change it 2493 03:14:48,700 --> 03:14:49,619 for you. 2494 03:14:49,620 --> 03:14:53,620 Originally, the plan was to have all the actors as about 14, 15 years old, but 2495 03:14:53,620 --> 03:14:57,260 the Italian distributor said, no, you can't have that, you've got to make them 2496 03:14:57,260 --> 03:15:01,340 teenagers or early 20s. But that's the reason why the production design is the 2497 03:15:01,340 --> 03:15:06,020 way it is. All the door handles are quite high up to reduce the actual 2498 03:15:06,020 --> 03:15:09,260 characters down, so they do look like children in a fairy tale. 2499 03:15:09,880 --> 03:15:14,220 Snow White, Disney's version of Snow White, is what Darius always said, 2500 03:15:14,220 --> 03:15:15,220 him on to do this movie. 2501 03:15:15,680 --> 03:15:17,560 This, of course, is famous for its look. 2502 03:15:18,260 --> 03:15:22,620 Luciano Tolloli's wonderful photography, which was all lights bouncing on 2503 03:15:22,620 --> 03:15:27,540 mirrors, to really, really heighten the blacks, the golds, and the three 2504 03:15:27,540 --> 03:15:31,740 colours, the blues, the greens, the reds. It is one of the most 2505 03:15:31,740 --> 03:15:36,400 -looking movies ever made, I think, and a total masterpiece, which is why... 2506 03:15:36,700 --> 03:15:40,500 all this stuff about a remake being done is nonsense because you can never 2507 03:15:40,500 --> 03:15:45,860 replicate this look i mean the story is nothing special uh you know a ballerina 2508 03:15:45,860 --> 03:15:50,880 goes to black forest time gets involved in a witch's coven um anyone can do that 2509 03:15:50,880 --> 03:15:55,840 it's the look and the feel of the film and goblin soundtrack is one of the best 2510 03:15:55,840 --> 03:16:00,400 ever how beautiful is that i mean they actually did act to some of it already 2511 03:16:00,400 --> 03:16:05,820 pre -recorded on set and you can really tell that you really get a real palpable 2512 03:16:05,820 --> 03:16:09,880 feeling of dread and i think that's one of the reasons why this film works so 2513 03:16:09,880 --> 03:16:15,640 well you can hide from suspiria i 2514 03:16:15,640 --> 03:16:22,560 mean clearly it was 2515 03:16:22,560 --> 03:16:26,910 going to cause problems i mean There's so many versions of the early part of 2516 03:16:26,910 --> 03:16:31,370 this movie. I mean, the heart being exposed, how many stabs in the heart. 2517 03:16:32,010 --> 03:16:36,110 So that would have, I think, drawn attention to the Section 3 listings. 2518 03:16:36,770 --> 03:16:43,130 But to everyone who knows anything about horror, Suspira is a total masterpiece 2519 03:16:43,130 --> 03:16:48,250 and one of the best of all time. I've attended many premieres in Rome of 2520 03:16:48,250 --> 03:16:52,130 films, and he's always exactly the same. He's sort of like... 2521 03:16:52,520 --> 03:16:55,920 drives round the corner of the cinema, keeps driving, making sure everything's 2522 03:16:55,920 --> 03:17:00,420 OK to calm his nerves. He gets out of the car, he comes up to the cinema, he 2523 03:17:00,420 --> 03:17:05,620 goes back, he's a bundle of nerves. But for the first time he told me that that 2524 03:17:05,620 --> 03:17:09,980 actually never was an issue with him, was with Suspiria. He was confident 2525 03:17:09,980 --> 03:17:13,400 into the premiere that it was going to work, and he said the moment the 2526 03:17:13,400 --> 03:17:15,320 screaming started, he relaxed. 2527 03:17:15,620 --> 03:17:16,640 He said it's the most... 2528 03:17:16,890 --> 03:17:21,110 amazing experience he's ever had at any one of his film showings and he still 2529 03:17:21,110 --> 03:17:22,270 remembers it to this day. 2530 03:17:51,170 --> 03:17:57,110 Suspiria. You can hide from Suspiria. 2531 03:18:17,610 --> 03:18:24,530 Only thing more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of Suspiria are 2532 03:18:24,530 --> 03:18:27,290 the first 92. 2533 03:18:33,830 --> 03:18:34,750 What 2534 03:18:34,750 --> 03:18:44,450 I 2535 03:18:44,450 --> 03:18:45,510 have here is terror. 2536 03:18:46,060 --> 03:18:50,880 Directed by Norman J. Warren, starring Carolyn Courage and James Albury. 2537 03:18:51,080 --> 03:18:56,380 Terror. It's a very fast -moving film. It's very short. It clocks in about 80 2538 03:18:56,380 --> 03:19:01,100 minutes. The script was written by David McGillivray, who also has a small cameo 2539 03:19:01,100 --> 03:19:02,120 in the film as a reporter. 2540 03:19:02,520 --> 03:19:06,220 If Tucker was found stabbed to death in the grounds of a house belonging to her 2541 03:19:06,220 --> 03:19:10,720 film producer friend, James Garrick. He worked extensively with Norman J. 2542 03:19:10,720 --> 03:19:14,180 Warren, but also Pete Walker and a few other British exploitation directors. 2543 03:19:15,790 --> 03:19:21,650 Okay. Also making uncredited appearances in this film are Alan Jones, film 2544 03:19:21,650 --> 03:19:24,130 historian and programmer of Fright Fest. 2545 03:19:24,810 --> 03:19:28,670 Yeah, I know. And Claire Rocco, who worked extensively with Kenny Everett. 2546 03:19:28,670 --> 03:19:35,290 about a 300 -year -old curse, which is put by Mad Molly in the 16th century, 2547 03:19:35,290 --> 03:19:39,150 she's burnt to death. And when a director has made a film about Mad 2548 03:19:39,250 --> 03:19:42,450 because the curse was put on his ancestors. 2549 03:19:43,090 --> 03:19:44,390 It was great. 2550 03:19:45,020 --> 03:19:46,020 Is it really true? 2551 03:19:46,280 --> 03:19:49,220 Yes. It actually happened in this very house. 2552 03:19:49,500 --> 03:19:53,320 The supernatural force seems to start killing him and people around him. 2553 03:19:55,700 --> 03:20:00,740 There's some attempt to play it as a whodunit, but that fails pretty quickly. 2554 03:20:01,020 --> 03:20:05,980 But what it does have are some rather remarkable set pieces. 2555 03:20:06,220 --> 03:20:12,380 The violence is very, very gory and very, very well produced. 2556 03:20:13,240 --> 03:20:18,520 There's a beheading and there's a stabbing, which is probably one of the 2557 03:20:18,520 --> 03:20:20,280 why it got onto the Section 3 list. 2558 03:20:20,580 --> 03:20:26,500 It also has some really dreamy sequences, almost Suspiria -like, with 2559 03:20:26,500 --> 03:20:27,500 coding of the environment. 2560 03:20:28,520 --> 03:20:33,640 One of the deaths is very, very modern because it involves a director being 2561 03:20:33,640 --> 03:20:38,700 killed in a film studio by reels of film. 2562 03:20:39,370 --> 03:20:42,070 at first, and then when he tries to run away from them, getting beheaded by the 2563 03:20:42,070 --> 03:20:43,070 window. 2564 03:20:43,850 --> 03:20:50,270 And the reels of film were apparently not usable copies, reels of Saturday 2565 03:20:50,270 --> 03:20:52,270 Fever, which they got from Rank Laboratories. 2566 03:20:53,070 --> 03:20:56,930 The film studio is quite an interesting space, because on the wall there's not 2567 03:20:56,930 --> 03:21:00,650 only a poster for Norman J. Warren's previous film, Satan's Slave, but also 2568 03:21:00,650 --> 03:21:06,610 Thriller, or They Call Her One Eye. Norman J. Warren had two other titles 2569 03:21:06,610 --> 03:21:07,690 on the Section 3 list. 2570 03:21:08,200 --> 03:21:10,200 in seminoid and pray. 2571 03:21:20,420 --> 03:21:23,680 Have you ever had that nightmare where you're running for your life? 2572 03:21:26,700 --> 03:21:28,940 But you know that escape is impossible. 2573 03:21:30,400 --> 03:21:31,400 That's terror. 2574 03:21:59,950 --> 03:22:03,610 Have you ever felt an evil presence all around you, but however much you scream, 2575 03:22:03,710 --> 03:22:04,970 no one can hear you? 2576 03:22:05,490 --> 03:22:06,490 That's terror. 2577 03:22:08,770 --> 03:22:12,330 Have you ever felt that you're being driven completely out of your mind? 2578 03:22:12,770 --> 03:22:13,770 That's terror. 2579 03:22:19,990 --> 03:22:24,890 Terror knows no bounds in stretching your endurance to the limit. You'll feel 2580 03:22:24,890 --> 03:22:28,210 all around you. It will trap you, terrify you. 2581 03:22:34,190 --> 03:22:37,050 reminding yourself it's only a movie. 2582 03:22:37,410 --> 03:22:39,050 It's only a movie. 2583 03:22:39,710 --> 03:22:41,030 Only a movie. 2584 03:22:54,630 --> 03:22:59,490 The text of Chainsaw Massacre, the film that everybody assumes was on the video 2585 03:22:59,490 --> 03:23:03,670 nasties list because all the films that imitate it were, but actually it wasn't. 2586 03:23:04,030 --> 03:23:05,310 What happened was true. 2587 03:23:10,790 --> 03:23:15,790 God knows why it slipped through the net. It was a fairly high profile video 2588 03:23:15,790 --> 03:23:18,010 release in the early 80s. 2589 03:23:18,510 --> 03:23:24,330 And that's after it being refused a BBFC certificate. It only had a GLCX 2590 03:23:24,330 --> 03:23:25,550 certificate with cuts. 2591 03:23:25,790 --> 03:23:28,110 And it was uncut on 16mm. 2592 03:23:28,430 --> 03:23:31,390 And that meant it was seen in London. 2593 03:23:31,900 --> 03:23:37,360 It was seen at a few select regional art cinemas. I saw it at the Brighton Film 2594 03:23:37,360 --> 03:23:40,680 Theatre, introduced by Alexander Walker, with a discussion about censorship 2595 03:23:40,680 --> 03:23:41,680 afterwards. 2596 03:23:43,560 --> 03:23:49,920 You didn't see it at your local 2597 03:23:49,920 --> 03:23:51,120 Isolde or Classic. 2598 03:23:51,920 --> 03:23:57,280 So... By the time it hit video, there was much more of a want -to -see factor. 2599 03:23:57,400 --> 03:24:01,800 If you're a horror fan, it was one of those films that had been difficult to 2600 03:24:01,800 --> 03:24:04,140 to see, and here it was at last. 2601 03:24:04,520 --> 03:24:08,940 If you're a horror fan, you'd seen Halloween, you'd seen Friday the 13th. 2602 03:24:08,940 --> 03:24:10,800 those pictures, they came round. 2603 03:24:11,160 --> 03:24:13,440 Texas Chainsaw Massacre had a bit of a forbidden fruit. 2604 03:24:13,770 --> 03:24:14,770 aspect to it. 2605 03:24:18,070 --> 03:24:18,750 And 2606 03:24:18,750 --> 03:24:27,730 so... 2607 03:24:28,090 --> 03:24:33,610 It was in demand when it came out on video. It came out from Ivor Films, who 2608 03:24:33,610 --> 03:24:37,990 it out several different times. First, they put it out on 8mm for a market that 2609 03:24:37,990 --> 03:24:39,830 disappeared very soon after. 2610 03:24:40,030 --> 03:24:43,730 Then they brought it out on video, but in the 8mm boxes, which presumably they 2611 03:24:43,730 --> 03:24:44,730 had a bunch left over. 2612 03:24:44,890 --> 03:24:48,150 Then there was a slipcase edition, and then there were various sleeves. 2613 03:24:48,370 --> 03:24:53,650 And meanwhile, Charles Band's Wizard video, who had the rights to it in the 2614 03:24:53,650 --> 03:24:57,190 States, rather strangely brought out a few... 2615 03:24:57,730 --> 03:24:59,870 copies in PAL, which were distributed here. 2616 03:25:00,190 --> 03:25:05,510 So the market was so glutted, you know, you couldn't get enough Texas Chainsaw 2617 03:25:05,510 --> 03:25:10,270 Massacres. It was one of those movies that a lot of people did see, against my 2618 03:25:10,270 --> 03:25:15,070 advice, first on video, because that was the only way they could see it. And 2619 03:25:15,070 --> 03:25:18,490 then when the Video Recordings Act came in, it was off the shelves. 2620 03:25:18,690 --> 03:25:21,310 It was one of the few films, The Exorcist. 2621 03:25:21,530 --> 03:25:26,290 was another, that James Furman just said, no, Britain's not having this 2622 03:25:26,510 --> 03:25:32,030 Texas Chainsaw Massacre was banned on film three times, and we tried to cut 2623 03:25:32,050 --> 03:25:35,550 The company said, look, will you work with us and see if we can cut it? 2624 03:25:36,230 --> 03:25:40,010 There's very little on -screen atrocity. 2625 03:25:40,390 --> 03:25:46,410 It's a slow terrorization. We cut five obvious bits, like the woman hung on a 2626 03:25:46,410 --> 03:25:47,410 meat hook. 2627 03:25:48,560 --> 03:25:51,260 And I brought it in and showed it to every member of the board, including the 2628 03:25:51,260 --> 03:25:54,140 president, Lord Harlech, at the time. It was about 1978. 2629 03:25:55,340 --> 03:25:58,680 And at the end of the film, they said, it's exactly the same. 2630 03:25:58,900 --> 03:26:02,880 It makes no difference at all. The experience of watching it is the same, 2631 03:26:02,880 --> 03:26:09,220 is this relentless terrorization, and particularly of the last surviving girl, 2632 03:26:09,460 --> 03:26:14,780 who is mentally tortured, really, for about 20, 25 minutes. 2633 03:26:16,650 --> 03:26:18,690 It's very difficult to watch. 2634 03:26:20,230 --> 03:26:25,270 And yet it's getting entertainment out of her suffering. 2635 03:26:25,610 --> 03:26:32,310 That was essentially what we decided on. And I think that it was a case of it 2636 03:26:32,310 --> 03:26:37,370 just being the loudest, the most famous, the most known. And a lot of it is to 2637 03:26:37,370 --> 03:26:38,530 do with the title. 2638 03:26:38,790 --> 03:26:41,050 If it had a different title... 2639 03:26:41,550 --> 03:26:45,710 I don't think it would have stuck in people's minds and been as famous as it 2640 03:26:45,710 --> 03:26:50,890 was. Part of the genius of the film comes from its title. I mean, I remember 2641 03:26:50,890 --> 03:26:54,630 first person who told me about the film is somebody who came back from America 2642 03:26:54,630 --> 03:26:59,710 and said, you'll never believe what I just saw on a marquee in a cinema in the 2643 03:26:59,710 --> 03:27:03,510 Deep South. He said, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. 2644 03:27:03,750 --> 03:27:07,890 And I remember being stunned at the thought that somebody would make a film 2645 03:27:07,890 --> 03:27:08,950 called that. 2646 03:27:09,580 --> 03:27:13,000 It was on a double bill with the incredible two -headed transplant, which 2647 03:27:13,000 --> 03:27:15,120 have been an evening out and a half. 2648 03:27:16,060 --> 03:27:22,060 But so that title. And even then, it got to the point where the BBFC just didn't 2649 03:27:22,060 --> 03:27:23,060 like chainsaws. 2650 03:27:26,200 --> 03:27:30,600 They changed Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers to Hollywood Hookers. And if you saw the 2651 03:27:30,600 --> 03:27:35,480 box to that, they just painted out the word chainsaw. So the lingering effects 2652 03:27:35,480 --> 03:27:38,920 of Texas Chainsaw Massacre in British censorship were quite... 2653 03:27:39,210 --> 03:27:40,730 huge i 2654 03:27:40,730 --> 03:27:52,650 think 2655 03:27:52,650 --> 03:27:57,290 actually it was a film that was not particularly well represented by video 2656 03:27:57,290 --> 03:28:02,850 because it's a movie that's an overwhelmingly overpowering experience 2657 03:28:02,850 --> 03:28:03,850 theater 2658 03:28:15,440 --> 03:28:21,140 Not just because of how relentlessly suspenseful it is and how gruesome it is 2659 03:28:21,140 --> 03:28:25,020 sort of conceptually, it's like all the art direction just makes you want to be 2660 03:28:25,020 --> 03:28:26,020 sick. 2661 03:28:32,000 --> 03:28:37,280 But it has that really interesting layered soundtrack, that kind of David 2662 03:28:37,280 --> 03:28:40,960 Lynchian grinding noises that go on underneath everything. 2663 03:28:45,740 --> 03:28:47,960 even when the chainsaw isn't buzzing. 2664 03:28:48,180 --> 03:28:53,080 And when you were in a cinema and having that, you know, pounded at you from all 2665 03:28:53,080 --> 03:28:59,280 directions, I mean, I remember seeing it a couple of times in the cinema in the 2666 03:28:59,280 --> 03:29:04,960 70s, and it being an absolutely devastating, shattering film. 2667 03:29:10,540 --> 03:29:12,360 Watching it on video... 2668 03:29:12,800 --> 03:29:17,240 It was all right. It still works. It still grips you. It's got a lot of 2669 03:29:17,340 --> 03:29:21,900 But it's not quite the overwhelming experience it was as a movie. 2670 03:29:23,120 --> 03:29:28,100 The only thing it had as a sort of hot button to annoy the censors was the mere 2671 03:29:28,100 --> 03:29:31,120 fact of the power tool, the mere fact of the chainsaw. 2672 03:29:31,880 --> 03:29:35,640 And... There isn't actually that much chainsaw action in the film. It's much 2673 03:29:35,640 --> 03:29:41,660 more concerned with general queasiness and being upsetting and pushing all the 2674 03:29:41,660 --> 03:29:47,320 buttons. It's a key horror film. I still think of it as one of the top ten most 2675 03:29:47,320 --> 03:29:49,080 horrifying films I've ever seen. 2676 03:29:49,500 --> 03:29:54,240 I don't know if I would feel that if my first exposure to it had been as a video 2677 03:29:54,240 --> 03:29:57,700 release in the 80s as opposed to a movie in the 70s. 2678 03:29:58,860 --> 03:30:02,280 It's interesting, again, seeing it put in the context of all this other stuff. 2679 03:30:02,400 --> 03:30:08,660 To me, it towers so far above films which would seem to be identical if you 2680 03:30:08,660 --> 03:30:14,440 go by the synopsis. And it shows just how much Toby Hooper brought to the 2681 03:30:14,440 --> 03:30:15,480 when he made this picture. 2682 03:30:17,400 --> 03:30:19,020 What happened was true. 2683 03:30:31,240 --> 03:30:34,380 the most bizarre and brutal series of crimes in America. 2684 03:31:21,070 --> 03:31:23,370 This is the movie that is just as real. 2685 03:31:27,310 --> 03:31:28,410 Just as close. 2686 03:31:30,930 --> 03:31:36,990 Just as terrifying as being there. 2687 03:31:39,330 --> 03:31:42,950 Even if one of them survives, what will be left? 2688 03:31:43,250 --> 03:31:48,330 The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. After you stop screaming, you'll start talking 2689 03:31:48,330 --> 03:31:49,330 about it. 2690 03:32:04,360 --> 03:32:05,780 John Carpenter's The Thing. 2691 03:32:06,620 --> 03:32:11,820 I can't believe anybody seriously thought of banning this one or pulling 2692 03:32:11,820 --> 03:32:12,820 one from the shelves. 2693 03:32:13,020 --> 03:32:15,360 It's a major studio film. 2694 03:32:16,720 --> 03:32:21,300 Although it had a sort of slightly rocky critical reception at the beginning, it 2695 03:32:21,300 --> 03:32:26,040 was fairly quickly accepted as a major classic of the modern horror picture. 2696 03:32:26,340 --> 03:32:30,540 It had that thing that was really great for video that... 2697 03:32:30,880 --> 03:32:35,020 it had underperformed in the cinemas for some reason it came out the wrong time 2698 03:32:35,020 --> 03:32:39,120 people said that that year everybody wanted to see ET with nice aliens rather 2699 03:32:39,120 --> 03:32:42,880 than the thing with nasty aliens so that meant there was a video audience out 2700 03:32:42,880 --> 03:32:46,600 there who hadn't seen it yet it 2701 03:32:46,600 --> 03:32:53,560 was also a film that kids loved 2702 03:32:53,560 --> 03:32:55,300 because it had like amazing effects 2703 03:32:59,630 --> 03:33:05,870 It's one of the few conceptually gruesome films that's more surreal than 2704 03:33:05,870 --> 03:33:10,880 repulsive. Because it has no female characters, it doesn't have that element 2705 03:33:10,880 --> 03:33:15,420 misogyny that's in a lot of extreme splatter movies, or even in something 2706 03:33:15,420 --> 03:33:17,080 The Evil Dead, which is slightly uncomfortable. 2707 03:33:17,680 --> 03:33:23,440 The fact is, it's blokes being mutated and torn apart and turned into monsters 2708 03:33:23,440 --> 03:33:27,480 and eaten by giant mutant huskies, and nobody cares about that, right? It's 2709 03:33:27,480 --> 03:33:28,480 fun. 2710 03:33:28,640 --> 03:33:32,580 So it's like, what kind of a mindset... 2711 03:33:33,070 --> 03:33:39,170 takes this and lumps it in with these other movies. OK, I can see that it's 2712 03:33:39,170 --> 03:33:41,210 of in the same genre. 2713 03:33:41,470 --> 03:33:45,750 The academic term at the time was body horror, which always struck me as being 2714 03:33:45,750 --> 03:33:52,510 bit po -faced and stupid. But it does key in, I suppose, with the extremes 2715 03:33:52,510 --> 03:33:55,990 of, like, Lucio Fulci's work or... 2716 03:33:56,810 --> 03:34:02,110 The stuff that Clive Barker started doing in literature about the same time, 2717 03:34:02,110 --> 03:34:07,530 sort of transformations and metamorphosis and flesh twisting. And it 2718 03:34:07,530 --> 03:34:12,770 of Rick Bader and Rob Bottin's rubber monster chain Joe effect. 2719 03:34:13,430 --> 03:34:19,230 And so there is sort of that. But to me, the fantastical element removed it into 2720 03:34:19,230 --> 03:34:20,230 another. 2721 03:34:20,460 --> 03:34:25,260 I would say a less censorable area. I don't think that it was a film that the 2722 03:34:25,260 --> 03:34:27,420 BBFC had any trouble with. 2723 03:34:28,700 --> 03:34:32,460 Some people may have felt it went too far, but some people thought Alien went 2724 03:34:32,460 --> 03:34:38,380 too far. It came out from CIC, who presumably made a packet with it, 2725 03:34:38,380 --> 03:34:44,880 was like a hot ticket video rental. They subsequently had a track record of 2726 03:34:44,880 --> 03:34:48,620 pre -cutting their films with quite a lot of the good stuff. 2727 03:34:49,300 --> 03:34:54,660 snipped and that may well have been because of responses to the thing I 2728 03:34:54,660 --> 03:34:58,680 know if it was put in maybe the science fiction section of video shops so a 2729 03:34:58,680 --> 03:35:03,320 younger audience rented it out when perhaps they weren't quite ready for it 2730 03:35:03,320 --> 03:35:10,320 that got some upset grannies complaining although I was like 22 or 2731 03:35:10,320 --> 03:35:14,640 23 when the thing came out and I actually much preferred the Howard Hawks 2732 03:35:41,290 --> 03:35:45,410 And it took me a while to warm up to the remake. If I'd been 12, it would have 2733 03:35:45,410 --> 03:35:46,550 been my favourite film ever. 2734 03:35:46,750 --> 03:35:53,670 I look at the thing and I see what it does is basically it does what 2735 03:35:53,670 --> 03:35:55,550 Doctor Who did for my generation. 2736 03:35:55,890 --> 03:36:00,150 It's like, you know, that kind of science fiction and horror in that one 2737 03:36:00,150 --> 03:36:01,690 concentrated package. 2738 03:36:02,170 --> 03:36:05,350 Absolutely irresistible for 12 -year -old boys. 2739 03:36:06,030 --> 03:36:10,230 No wonder they all grew up wanting to remake it badly. 2740 03:36:47,370 --> 03:36:49,090 Twelve men have just discovered something. 2741 03:36:49,870 --> 03:36:53,350 For 100 ,000 years, it was buried in the snow and ice. 2742 03:36:54,770 --> 03:36:56,650 Now it has found a place to live. 2743 03:36:57,370 --> 03:36:58,370 Inside. 2744 03:36:58,890 --> 03:37:00,230 Where no one can see it. 2745 03:37:01,090 --> 03:37:02,090 Or hear it. 2746 03:37:03,130 --> 03:37:04,130 Or feel it. 2747 03:37:04,190 --> 03:37:05,410 I know I'm human. 2748 03:37:05,790 --> 03:37:07,130 Some of you are still human. 2749 03:37:07,450 --> 03:37:10,510 This thing doesn't want to show itself. It wants to hide inside an imitation. 2750 03:37:11,370 --> 03:37:14,530 It'll fight if it has to. But it's vulnerable out in the open. 2751 03:37:14,790 --> 03:37:16,150 If it takes us over... 2752 03:37:16,440 --> 03:37:17,620 Then it has no more enemies. 2753 03:37:18,260 --> 03:37:19,260 Nobody left to kill it. 2754 03:37:20,380 --> 03:37:21,380 And then it's won. 2755 03:37:21,420 --> 03:37:22,760 You guys gonna listen to Gary? 2756 03:37:22,980 --> 03:37:24,280 We can beat one of those things! 2757 03:38:08,360 --> 03:38:13,200 Tomb of the Living Dead, which I don't think it was actually called that for 2758 03:38:13,200 --> 03:38:16,520 very long. I still think of it as Mad Doctor of Blood Island. 2759 03:38:18,940 --> 03:38:24,420 One of the run of shot in the Philippines Mad Doctor movies. It's 2760 03:38:24,420 --> 03:38:29,480 hilariously on the cover as from Eddie Romero, the maker of Apocalypse Now. 2761 03:38:30,240 --> 03:38:33,680 It actually stars John Ashley, who's another one of the makers of Apocalypse 2762 03:38:33,680 --> 03:38:34,680 Now. 2763 03:38:35,020 --> 03:38:38,840 You probably think that Francis Ford Coppola made Apocalypse Now, and you'd 2764 03:38:38,840 --> 03:38:43,380 right. However, every single person involved in the film industry in the 2765 03:38:43,380 --> 03:38:47,600 Philippines has a credit on Apocalypse Now, and Eddie Romero is one of those. 2766 03:38:47,640 --> 03:38:48,700 He's officially a producer. 2767 03:38:49,000 --> 03:38:55,520 I think that means he was basically a location finder, which is why I am told 2768 03:38:55,520 --> 03:38:59,780 that if you look at Apocalypse Now, you can see some of the very same locations 2769 03:38:59,780 --> 03:39:02,400 that turn up in the Blood Island movies. 2770 03:39:03,350 --> 03:39:07,550 Beast of Blood, Brain of Blood, which is the Al Adamson one that was dumped in 2771 03:39:07,550 --> 03:39:11,290 afterwards, Beast of the Yellow Knight, Beyond Atlantis. 2772 03:39:11,660 --> 03:39:16,120 They're all kind of a morass. They're a genre unto themselves. 2773 03:39:16,620 --> 03:39:21,400 If you only see one, Mad Doctor of Blood Island is a good one to start. It's got 2774 03:39:21,400 --> 03:39:26,720 John Ashley, who was sort of the American lead in most of these films. He 2775 03:39:26,720 --> 03:39:30,900 emigrated to the Philippines and went into production and direction out there. 2776 03:39:31,060 --> 03:39:36,260 And Angelique Petitjean, who's a sort of living cartoon. She'd been in a Star 2777 03:39:36,260 --> 03:39:39,640 Trek episode and she ended up making sort of... 2778 03:39:39,840 --> 03:39:44,660 soft core pictures and working with the likes of kitten natividad um and and 2779 03:39:44,660 --> 03:39:48,720 actually it's quite a strong presence and i guess i'm stupid for believing you 2780 03:39:48,720 --> 03:39:52,360 are going to try to help me and it features the chlorophyll man 2781 03:39:52,360 --> 03:39:59,260 who is one of the most goofy strange bizarre 2782 03:39:59,260 --> 03:40:06,020 of all uh monsters in mad doctrine and island movies oh i know what ails him 2783 03:40:06,020 --> 03:40:07,020 symptoms are rather apparent 2784 03:40:08,500 --> 03:40:09,500 Chlorophyll poisoning. 2785 03:40:10,680 --> 03:40:14,760 Chlorophyll? They're all derived distantly from H .G. Wells. 2786 03:40:16,020 --> 03:40:20,340 Wells was about turning animals into men. This is about turning men into 2787 03:40:21,180 --> 03:40:25,820 I can't see why anyone was offended by this. This is kiddie matinee horror. 2788 03:40:27,240 --> 03:40:34,000 This is the sort of stuff that would have been hokum 2789 03:40:34,000 --> 03:40:36,860 if it had been made with George Zuko in 1943. 2790 03:40:38,120 --> 03:40:43,240 The fact that they were making it in the 1970s, okay, with a bit more sex and a 2791 03:40:43,240 --> 03:40:49,760 bit more blood, maybe goes to show that it took a long time for new 2792 03:40:49,760 --> 03:40:52,120 ideas in horror to percolate out to the Philippines. 2793 03:40:53,840 --> 03:40:56,540 I think they're kind of endearing as films. 2794 03:40:56,860 --> 03:41:03,100 I certainly would happily watch an all -night showing of all of them. 2795 03:41:04,060 --> 03:41:07,400 And they have cool gimmicks like the blood -drinking ritual. 2796 03:41:07,950 --> 03:41:12,430 Get your samples of the green blood potion ready and recite the oath of Dr. 2797 03:41:12,550 --> 03:41:13,550 Lorca aloud with me. 2798 03:41:13,990 --> 03:41:19,330 Now, drink your sample of green blood and it is guaranteed that you can never 2799 03:41:19,330 --> 03:41:21,390 turn into a green -blooded monster. 2800 03:41:21,770 --> 03:41:26,390 I think, rather sadly, they didn't do much of that over here and this wasn't a 2801 03:41:26,390 --> 03:41:27,750 particularly big video release. 2802 03:41:29,330 --> 03:41:33,910 Why they stuck this title on it when there was already Tombs of the Blind 2803 03:41:33,910 --> 03:41:36,110 and Tombs of the Undead on the market? 2804 03:41:36,760 --> 03:41:39,980 Maybe they did want to get confused with either of those. 2805 03:41:40,660 --> 03:41:44,160 But as it was, they turned it into generic horror product. 2806 03:41:46,340 --> 03:41:48,720 Mad, mad, mad! 2807 03:41:50,240 --> 03:41:56,340 And he will shock you out of your sanity too when the transfusion of terror is 2808 03:41:56,340 --> 03:42:00,800 performed by the mad doctor of Blood Island. 2809 03:42:01,800 --> 03:42:05,340 All of those lives that you think have been wasted in the course of this 2810 03:42:05,340 --> 03:42:06,340 experiment. 2811 03:42:06,570 --> 03:42:10,430 actually have brought us closer to that lifelong dream of longevity. 2812 03:42:11,190 --> 03:42:12,190 Eternal youth. 2813 03:42:13,450 --> 03:42:16,350 I will not give up the work of a lifetime. 2814 03:42:18,290 --> 03:42:20,070 Simply because you think I'm mad. 2815 03:42:49,160 --> 03:42:52,220 We finally got him aboard. He was half conscious, so we tried to revive him. 2816 03:42:52,580 --> 03:42:54,560 He turned into a raving lunatic. 2817 03:42:55,720 --> 03:42:58,120 Killed one of my men before I finally got a bullet in. 2818 03:42:59,000 --> 03:43:00,020 What happened to him? 2819 03:43:00,400 --> 03:43:01,460 He jumped overboard. 2820 03:43:02,200 --> 03:43:03,660 It was right after sunset. 2821 03:43:04,660 --> 03:43:06,220 We couldn't find a trace of him. 2822 03:43:07,180 --> 03:43:09,600 But before he jumped, he bled a lot on deck. 2823 03:43:11,620 --> 03:43:14,180 His blood was green. 2824 03:43:24,200 --> 03:43:28,340 This is a barbaric experience in the most grotesque sense. 2825 03:43:28,660 --> 03:43:35,100 You will see supernatural beings caught up in the rampage of gory brutality. 2826 03:43:35,560 --> 03:43:40,900 And it will shock you and jolt you more than you would ever expect. 2827 03:43:41,300 --> 03:43:48,020 Creatures living for synthetic green blood. They walk by night and take 2828 03:43:48,020 --> 03:43:51,760 part in gruesome, unholy acts of savagery. 2829 03:43:58,990 --> 03:44:01,190 It's incredible. It's unbelievable. 2830 03:44:01,910 --> 03:44:05,970 But you will witness scenes so frightening that your mind will not be 2831 03:44:05,970 --> 03:44:12,610 accept what you see. But don't say we didn't warn you. The mad doctor of Blur 2832 03:44:12,610 --> 03:44:15,830 Island is coming your way soon. 2833 03:44:16,230 --> 03:44:17,870 And he's waiting for you. 2834 03:44:18,150 --> 03:44:19,770 Why don't you pay him a visit? 2835 03:44:20,050 --> 03:44:26,150 No appointments are necessary. But bring along your courage. You will need it. 2836 03:44:26,310 --> 03:44:27,310 Yes, indeed. 2837 03:44:43,690 --> 03:44:50,570 The toy box is one of those artifacts rather than films that must 2838 03:44:50,570 --> 03:44:54,090 have been just astonishing to stumble over on video. 2839 03:44:55,150 --> 03:44:59,790 Lord knows what the people who put it out thought they were buying and lord 2840 03:44:59,790 --> 03:45:02,170 knows what the people who rented it thought they were getting. 2841 03:45:10,600 --> 03:45:14,840 I imagine that there was a similar reaction, probably among the 42nd Street 2842 03:45:14,840 --> 03:45:18,380 sleaze patrons who went to see this as a porn movie. 2843 03:45:18,680 --> 03:45:23,980 For the most bizarre, horrifying and erotic sexual experience you will ever 2844 03:45:23,980 --> 03:45:28,040 have, don't miss the toy box. 2845 03:45:28,600 --> 03:45:35,060 It was made in that period where porn skin flicks were no longer... 2846 03:45:36,560 --> 03:45:41,400 a novelty but they hadn't yet had the deep throat moment when hardcore started 2847 03:45:41,400 --> 03:45:46,800 moving on so they got beyond the sort of the nude volleyball and the torn slips 2848 03:45:46,800 --> 03:45:53,580 in in ruffies type things they got a bit beyond ross meyer but this is one of 2849 03:45:53,580 --> 03:45:59,040 those movies that if you describe the plot uh it's so bewildering is so 2850 03:45:59,040 --> 03:46:05,050 it's about a couple of swingers who go to a party in a mansion, which is thrown 2851 03:46:05,050 --> 03:46:09,410 by a character called Uncle, who's this big, fat, strange, apparently dead guy. 2852 03:46:09,710 --> 03:46:13,970 But this is insane, performing in front of a dead body. Well, I'll never do it 2853 03:46:13,970 --> 03:46:16,690 again. I don't care how much money he gives me, it isn't worth it. 2854 03:46:17,210 --> 03:46:18,290 Well, how do we know he's dead? 2855 03:46:18,550 --> 03:46:23,450 Who has people around that perform weird sexual charades, and so you get the 2856 03:46:23,450 --> 03:46:27,730 turns. Not many of them are actually that sexy, although they do mostly 2857 03:46:27,730 --> 03:46:29,430 sexual activity and nudity. 2858 03:46:29,670 --> 03:46:34,250 But then in the last... quarter of an hour. It turns out that Uncle and indeed 2859 03:46:34,250 --> 03:46:35,330 the heroine are aliens. 2860 03:46:35,650 --> 03:46:37,410 There's something you're not telling her. 2861 03:46:39,430 --> 03:46:40,790 Nothing's free and easy. 2862 03:46:41,270 --> 03:46:46,590 On the contrary, your species on this planet are free and easy. 2863 03:46:47,630 --> 03:46:51,510 But on the planet Arkhan, you're expensive and illegal. 2864 03:46:52,110 --> 03:46:56,990 And it's all about aliens coming to Earth because they can turn human 2865 03:46:56,990 --> 03:47:00,150 into an illegal drug in their planet. We discovered. 2866 03:47:00,490 --> 03:47:05,170 By devouring your brains, your emotions enabled us to become effectively 2867 03:47:05,170 --> 03:47:10,310 intoxicated. It's sort of like the porn version of Star Trek. 2868 03:47:11,530 --> 03:47:15,290 You can't get through my shield. 2869 03:47:16,710 --> 03:47:23,350 Turns up in the last 15 minutes of this otherwise rather tame orgy movie in 2870 03:47:23,350 --> 03:47:28,270 which people grope each other very delicately in strange outfits and 2871 03:47:28,700 --> 03:47:33,500 in a monotone that kind of dialogue that could could just about go for a really 2872 03:47:33,500 --> 03:47:40,080 pretentious off -broadway play it just fell from the ceiling out of nowhere and 2873 03:47:40,080 --> 03:47:43,560 then it gets down to you know women taking their clothes off for a couple of 2874 03:47:43,560 --> 03:47:48,100 minutes and then it gets back to more doom haunted symbolism and stuff and 2875 03:47:48,480 --> 03:47:53,480 It sort of takes off for the stars, literally, in the last couple of 2876 03:47:53,480 --> 03:47:56,800 don't know if it was an influence on the Rocky Horror Show, but it has sort of 2877 03:47:56,800 --> 03:47:57,800 the same ending. 2878 03:47:57,840 --> 03:48:03,060 I find this one of those films that's kind of hypnotically bad. 2879 03:48:05,520 --> 03:48:06,700 Now, now, behave. 2880 03:48:07,780 --> 03:48:10,540 Oh, my gratitude forever, old kind mistress. 2881 03:48:11,800 --> 03:48:18,480 It's sort of... inept in many ways it doesn't have the filmmaking skills that 2882 03:48:18,480 --> 03:48:25,380 ross meyer or radley metzger brought to similar nudie type material but 2883 03:48:25,380 --> 03:48:30,240 it has some ambitions you know ron garcia who's gone on to a mainstream 2884 03:48:30,240 --> 03:48:34,060 as a cinematographer worked with david lynch and a couple things is obviously 2885 03:48:34,060 --> 03:48:36,960 trying to do more than just photograph naked people 2886 03:48:44,600 --> 03:48:48,340 But he doesn't really seem to have an idea what he's trying to do. 2887 03:48:48,800 --> 03:48:50,520 I find that quite rewarding. 2888 03:48:50,840 --> 03:48:55,860 I find that it's ambiguities and it's strangeness. It is a film that I would 2889 03:48:55,860 --> 03:49:00,240 back and look at again because I feel you can't quite puzzle out what it's 2890 03:49:00,240 --> 03:49:02,280 doing. Its mood changes all the time. 2891 03:49:02,520 --> 03:49:06,120 Some of it is genuinely funny in that. 2892 03:49:07,720 --> 03:49:11,980 Yeah, zombie dialogue reading lines. Some of the lines are quite amusing. 2893 03:49:12,720 --> 03:49:15,180 Wealthy Pooh doesn't want me. 2894 03:49:15,900 --> 03:49:17,900 Sure I do, baby. Cutie. 2895 03:49:18,220 --> 03:49:20,680 Or whatever your customers call whores. 2896 03:49:22,260 --> 03:49:25,560 You do things my way. You understand. 2897 03:49:26,900 --> 03:49:31,860 I copied down a lot of dialogue while watching it because it's the sort of 2898 03:49:31,860 --> 03:49:33,640 that I think that'll come in useful sometime. 2899 03:49:34,160 --> 03:49:35,320 How did you like my performance? 2900 03:49:35,680 --> 03:49:36,680 Was it okay? 2901 03:49:37,800 --> 03:49:39,980 It wasn't as good as your birthday two years ago. 2902 03:49:41,040 --> 03:49:42,100 But it was all right. 2903 03:49:42,320 --> 03:49:48,400 What it isn't, like a lot of sex films made about this time, is very sexy. 2904 03:49:48,920 --> 03:49:54,840 There's a lot of sex in it. But the filmmakers aren't particularly 2905 03:49:54,840 --> 03:49:59,720 or competent with eroticism, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. It strikes me 2906 03:49:59,720 --> 03:50:01,140 that... Yeah, there are filmmakers. 2907 03:50:01,980 --> 03:50:07,060 Jess Franco comes to mind, someone who has no talent at all for eroticism, who 2908 03:50:07,060 --> 03:50:10,240 seems to have made more sex films than anybody else ever. 2909 03:50:11,260 --> 03:50:15,880 It's not necessarily a handicap, whereas you think being tone deaf would be a 2910 03:50:15,880 --> 03:50:17,680 handicap in making musicals. 2911 03:50:18,580 --> 03:50:23,860 Although one -eyed guys have made 3D movies, so maybe it's not that. But this 2912 03:50:23,860 --> 03:50:29,100 weird asexuality of the direction and the production, yeah. 2913 03:50:29,660 --> 03:50:34,420 cuts against the would -be salaciousness of the material in actually quite an 2914 03:50:34,420 --> 03:50:35,420 interesting way. 2915 03:50:36,980 --> 03:50:43,960 Enter this doorway to the living, breathing house of captive horror with 2916 03:50:43,960 --> 03:50:49,620 inescapable destiny and their own ultimate private reward. 2917 03:50:50,980 --> 03:50:55,300 The most extreme human sexual debauchery. 2918 03:50:55,740 --> 03:51:01,880 since the dawn of man doesn't begin to compare with the secret, lust -filled 2919 03:51:01,880 --> 03:51:08,060 cravings of an unleashed alien mind sucking diabolical 2920 03:51:08,060 --> 03:51:14,440 syndromes of depraved eroticism from the undulating pit of 2921 03:51:14,440 --> 03:51:16,780 orgiastic consummation. 2922 03:51:17,440 --> 03:51:24,200 Ralph and Donna will enter this door and sacrifice all hope of returning. 2923 03:51:24,880 --> 03:51:30,540 from an endless existence in the vortex of this gaping orifice of depravity. 2924 03:51:30,940 --> 03:51:37,780 He will collect people to perform like puppets in a game with no end and no 2925 03:51:37,780 --> 03:51:38,780 beginning. 2926 03:51:44,540 --> 03:51:51,320 The game I have in store for you 2927 03:51:51,320 --> 03:51:53,940 this evening will be the most bizarre... 2928 03:51:55,600 --> 03:51:59,020 the most rewarding venture of your life. 2929 03:52:19,300 --> 03:52:23,860 You will see this bed alive with sexual desires. 2930 03:52:24,720 --> 03:52:28,920 Surround and penetrate this girl's deepest erotic emotions. 2931 03:52:30,120 --> 03:52:35,320 Men and women spreading erotic pleasure from one end of the screen to the other. 2932 03:52:35,900 --> 03:52:41,700 You will see that even death is no guarantee of peace in this most unusual 2933 03:52:41,700 --> 03:52:42,700 house. 2934 03:52:45,340 --> 03:52:51,940 This young man's secret desires include the ecstasy of orgasm with murder. 2935 03:52:57,610 --> 03:53:02,010 eaten alive in a scene that goes beyond anything you have ever witnessed. 2936 03:53:02,350 --> 03:53:08,510 You will see what happens when someone tries to escape from the toy box. 2937 03:53:09,650 --> 03:53:14,850 You will see people sucking pleasure from every dimension of sexual reality. 2938 03:53:17,110 --> 03:53:23,130 For the most bizarre, horrifying, and erotic sexual experience you will ever 2939 03:53:23,130 --> 03:53:27,200 have, don't miss The Toy Box. 2940 03:53:27,780 --> 03:53:29,180 Coming soon. 2941 03:53:53,360 --> 03:53:55,460 brilliant, lycanthropic exploitation masterpiece. 2942 03:53:55,880 --> 03:53:59,200 I love Reno de Silvestro's movies. He did Deported Women of the SS Special 2943 03:53:59,200 --> 03:54:01,640 Section, one of my all -time favourites. 2944 03:54:01,880 --> 03:54:06,760 This isn't quite up there, but it sort of works in a way. Quentin Tarantino 2945 03:54:06,760 --> 03:54:10,900 loved it. In fact, he actually kicked off an Austin festival with this, and 2946 03:54:10,900 --> 03:54:13,520 slot has since been known as the Wolf Woman Section. 2947 03:54:14,020 --> 03:54:18,240 Annick Burrell plays La Lupe Manara. More about possession. 2948 03:54:19,080 --> 03:54:22,600 really, because it was tying in with the exorcist trend than it was actually 2949 03:54:22,600 --> 03:54:23,740 about werewolves. 2950 03:54:24,340 --> 03:54:27,160 Possessed with an evil that is older than time itself. 2951 03:54:28,060 --> 03:54:32,380 An evil that turns her life into a bloody and terrifying nightmare. 2952 03:54:32,880 --> 03:54:35,300 But it's still a pretty good movie. A bit slow. 2953 03:54:35,840 --> 03:54:39,920 Some of the psychobabble section sort of slows it down to a bit of a snail's 2954 03:54:39,920 --> 03:54:44,480 pace. I think it really could be snail woman more than anything else. But 2955 03:54:44,480 --> 03:54:47,260 said that, I mean, the make -up effects are pretty good. 2956 03:54:49,550 --> 03:54:53,470 The special effects were done by Carlo Ramboldi, who was later to go on to E 2957 03:54:53,690 --> 03:54:54,830 and King Kong. 2958 03:54:55,230 --> 03:54:58,090 Of course, we weren't interested in those. We were more interested in all 2959 03:54:58,090 --> 03:55:01,870 Lucio Fulci, like a lizard in a woman's skin that he did. And this one, he often 2960 03:55:01,870 --> 03:55:06,570 told me that Annick Burrell looked like a wolf anyway, so he didn't really need 2961 03:55:06,570 --> 03:55:10,450 that much make -up, just as well, because let's face it, what she's 2962 03:55:10,450 --> 03:55:15,030 looks like a, well... a hairy jumpsuit, probably made out of, you know, old 2963 03:55:15,030 --> 03:55:18,670 chinchilla. But hey, you know, it worked for the time. It was more a 2964 03:55:18,670 --> 03:55:20,830 sexploitation movie, I think, than anything else. 2965 03:55:21,040 --> 03:55:25,200 Biggest surprise here is actually Howard Ross, or Renato Rossini, to give him 2966 03:55:25,200 --> 03:55:29,500 his real name. He plays a stuntman who actually falls in love with the werewolf 2967 03:55:29,500 --> 03:55:32,620 woman. But he gives a very, very strong and muscular performance. 2968 03:55:33,400 --> 03:55:36,880 Very atypical for him, despite the disco outfits, of course. 2969 03:55:37,080 --> 03:55:41,420 And Dagmar Lissander, who often isn't credited to be in this movie, gives a 2970 03:55:41,420 --> 03:55:42,940 of oomph to the meaty sex scenes. 2971 03:55:43,280 --> 03:55:45,640 The first release of the movie was on the Cine Hollywood label. 2972 03:55:45,940 --> 03:55:46,940 Then it was on... 2973 03:55:47,320 --> 03:55:51,480 the intercity video label, and then it went to the Cockney Rebel special label. 2974 03:55:51,780 --> 03:55:57,720 So this has had more releases than you could possibly imagine one video title 2975 03:55:57,720 --> 03:55:59,160 could ever possibly have. 2976 03:56:00,980 --> 03:56:06,260 How could any man guess that this girl, young, 2977 03:56:16,360 --> 03:56:17,820 The legend of the Wolf Woman. 2978 03:56:19,240 --> 03:56:21,780 A century -old family curse. 2979 03:56:25,660 --> 03:56:28,580 Possessed with an evil that is older than time itself. 2980 03:56:29,280 --> 03:56:34,580 An evil that turns her life into a bloody and terrifying nightmare that 2981 03:56:34,580 --> 03:56:35,580 ends. 2982 03:56:36,980 --> 03:56:39,180 The legend of the Wolf Woman. 2983 03:56:39,800 --> 03:56:44,440 Daniela is born and reborn in an act of reincarnation that is essential. 2984 03:56:46,460 --> 03:56:53,460 as violent, as bloody, as anything you will ever see on the motion 2985 03:56:53,460 --> 03:56:54,460 picture screen. 2986 03:56:55,780 --> 03:56:59,580 First, she will seduce you with the frenzy of someone possessed. 2987 03:57:00,560 --> 03:57:05,280 Then, she'll show you the soul of a creature that must devour the men who 2988 03:57:05,280 --> 03:57:06,920 her in order to live. 2989 03:57:08,240 --> 03:57:10,020 The Legend of the Wolf Woman. 2990 03:57:18,120 --> 03:57:21,940 In the legend of the wolf woman, we'll eat you up. 2991 03:57:33,700 --> 03:57:37,620 So this is Wrong Way, a film that was directed by Ron Kelly, who was actually 2992 03:57:37,620 --> 03:57:41,360 pseudonym for someone called Ray Williams. And it also starred a woman 2993 03:57:41,360 --> 03:57:46,240 Candy Sweet, who was in some other dodgy exploitation films, I guess you could 2994 03:57:46,240 --> 03:57:52,560 say. The poster art says they did it the wrong way, which I think was quite 2995 03:57:52,560 --> 03:57:56,100 perverse because obviously the first thing I thought was they went the wrong 2996 03:57:56,100 --> 03:58:02,800 way. And so it is a standard kind of girls' car fucks up and so they have to 2997 03:58:02,800 --> 03:58:07,840 get out, take all their clothes off to try and fix the car and then they are 2998 03:58:07,840 --> 03:58:11,260 hijacked, I guess you would say, by fake geologists. 2999 03:58:11,940 --> 03:58:15,680 Sam and I are geologists. We have a mobile lab station about four miles up 3000 03:58:15,680 --> 03:58:19,990 road. who end up being drug -crazed bikers. 3001 03:58:22,110 --> 03:58:28,850 Except that the film really doesn't 3002 03:58:28,850 --> 03:58:34,110 have any kind of deplorability that is worthy of it. The film is essentially 3003 03:58:34,110 --> 03:58:39,230 over an hour of four very ugly... 3004 03:58:40,200 --> 03:58:45,120 sunburnt redneck men naked raping these women and beating them in quite graphic 3005 03:58:45,120 --> 03:58:46,120 ways. 3006 03:58:46,940 --> 03:58:53,860 It's essentially a soft porn film but because I think for whatever reason 3007 03:58:53,860 --> 03:58:58,980 they didn't want to use a soft porn kind of ideology of titillation they've only 3008 03:58:58,980 --> 03:58:59,980 used abuse instead. 3009 03:59:00,200 --> 03:59:05,940 And then all of a sudden there's this grand rupture to a cult where they are 3010 03:59:05,940 --> 03:59:11,520 going to get raped for a kind of Strange God that has no name. 3011 03:59:11,820 --> 03:59:16,980 I feel Providence has finally singled us out for the ultimate gratification. 3012 03:59:17,820 --> 03:59:19,500 We shall kill them, of course. 3013 03:59:20,860 --> 03:59:26,000 Brutally. It is obviously of its time because it's very California Hills. It's 3014 03:59:26,000 --> 03:59:29,660 very zero -budget farmyard mentality. 3015 03:59:30,740 --> 03:59:37,320 What are you doing here? It was cut to under an hour 3016 03:59:37,320 --> 03:59:38,480 upon its release. 3017 03:59:39,120 --> 03:59:41,740 which means that they obviously cut all the nudity out. 3018 03:59:41,980 --> 03:59:48,540 There's nothing quite as strange as seeing over an hour of soft porn and 3019 03:59:48,540 --> 03:59:54,240 penises, because there's just sex scene after sex scene with clearly flaccid 3020 03:59:54,240 --> 03:59:58,660 penises, and there's something quite gruesome about that. It shows just how 3021 03:59:58,660 --> 04:00:02,680 miserable and insipid the film is. And I think that this is the problem with 3022 04:00:02,680 --> 04:00:05,680 this film, that it's not terrible. 3023 04:00:06,380 --> 04:00:10,500 and it's not great it's it's deplorable because it's not deplorable enough 3024 04:00:10,500 --> 04:00:16,520 there's nothing really dreadful enough it's just it is literally a flaccid kind 3025 04:00:16,520 --> 04:00:22,820 of film and also watching these very uh vile naked men one of whom has some kind 3026 04:00:22,820 --> 04:00:29,040 of skin necrosis above his ass formula you plus 3027 04:00:29,040 --> 04:00:34,440 wrong way the one thing that i will give it some merit for is that the 3028 04:00:34,440 --> 04:00:37,050 vernacular is phenomenal and hilarious. 3029 04:00:37,590 --> 04:00:38,590 Dig it. 3030 04:00:38,950 --> 04:00:41,590 Every second word is dig, bread. 3031 04:00:42,330 --> 04:00:43,490 The bread, man. The bread. 3032 04:00:43,770 --> 04:00:45,070 I'm down with that man. 3033 04:00:45,530 --> 04:00:50,810 It's like listening to Neil from The Young Ones narrate a David Hess film. 3034 04:00:51,030 --> 04:00:52,030 Oh, what a bummer. 3035 04:00:52,780 --> 04:00:57,620 So in reference to Section 3 and the possibility of what might have caused 3036 04:00:57,620 --> 04:01:03,220 to be such a controversial film, it is essentially a soft porn film because you 3037 04:01:03,220 --> 04:01:07,760 do see full male nudity, full female nudity. You see simulated fellatio, you 3038 04:01:07,760 --> 04:01:13,000 simulated forced cunnilingus. The film did come out the same year as Last House 3039 04:01:13,000 --> 04:01:15,720 on the Left and according to my research... 3040 04:01:15,930 --> 04:01:20,190 It's not quite clear whether they made it immediately after Last House on the 3041 04:01:20,190 --> 04:01:23,750 Left to cash in on it, because it certainly shares some things. But at the 3042 04:01:23,750 --> 04:01:28,930 time, it's so sparsely similar that it's hard to decide. 3043 04:01:29,170 --> 04:01:35,110 But clearly, because it has got the sort of insert at the end of the crazed cult 3044 04:01:35,110 --> 04:01:39,550 leader and the sex cult and the murder that is associated with it. But because 3045 04:01:39,550 --> 04:01:41,250 it's so... 3046 04:01:42,030 --> 04:01:46,730 as I said, flaccidly done, both in terms of the actual turgidity of the members 3047 04:01:46,730 --> 04:01:50,030 and also the kind of acting. 3048 04:01:50,710 --> 04:01:54,090 You mean you destroy a human being for a few lousy dollars? 3049 04:01:54,990 --> 04:02:00,850 It's like on paper it reads like it would be banned under Section 3. 3050 04:02:01,210 --> 04:02:02,250 You're intelligent, I like you. 3051 04:02:03,290 --> 04:02:04,330 In terms of... 3052 04:02:04,590 --> 04:02:09,030 box ticking it definitely would be considered a pornographic film but in 3053 04:02:09,030 --> 04:02:13,650 of what it's actually showing it wouldn't so for that reason its status 3054 04:02:13,650 --> 04:02:20,610 peculiar formula this plus 3055 04:02:20,610 --> 04:02:25,750 this plus this 3056 04:02:25,750 --> 04:02:30,730 plus this 3057 04:02:34,260 --> 04:02:36,100 Equal. Wrong way. 3058 04:02:36,540 --> 04:02:38,060 Two girls in trouble. 3059 04:02:41,700 --> 04:02:43,940 Two guys looking for trouble. 3060 04:02:48,080 --> 04:02:50,660 And lots more where they came from. 3061 04:02:56,740 --> 04:02:57,740 Action. 3062 04:02:59,740 --> 04:03:00,740 Drama. 3063 04:03:06,369 --> 04:03:07,890 Suspense. Comedy. 3064 04:03:10,750 --> 04:03:12,030 Wrong way. 3065 04:03:12,410 --> 04:03:15,570 A true experience brought to life on the screen. 3066 04:03:18,970 --> 04:03:24,950 Two girls kidnapped, humiliated, raped, and left abandoned. 3067 04:03:27,070 --> 04:03:30,390 Eventually making their way to what they think is safety. 3068 04:03:36,240 --> 04:03:41,260 only to fall into the hands of a maniacal killer cult of hippies. 3069 04:03:47,560 --> 04:03:48,900 Bizarre? Yes. 3070 04:04:00,560 --> 04:04:02,360 Sadistic? Yes. 3071 04:04:12,970 --> 04:04:19,350 Formula. You plus wrong way equals 3072 04:04:19,350 --> 04:04:21,350 an experience. 3073 04:04:47,920 --> 04:04:48,920 Wrong way. 3074 04:04:49,500 --> 04:04:50,500 See it. 3075 04:05:01,260 --> 04:05:05,620 What's the one film that most people think is on the original 72 video nasty 3076 04:05:05,620 --> 04:05:06,780 list, but actually isn't? 3077 04:05:07,040 --> 04:05:10,080 Well, it's Harry Bromley Davenport's Extra. 3078 04:05:10,820 --> 04:05:16,920 Nothing too extraordinary, I'm afraid, in the alien invasion stakes, but... 3079 04:05:17,680 --> 04:05:21,740 enough to warrant sort of like a low -rent franchise, that's for sure. 3080 04:05:23,660 --> 04:05:26,140 Tony's father has been away a long time. 3081 04:05:26,680 --> 04:05:29,260 Now he's coming home. 3082 04:05:34,250 --> 04:05:38,670 The film originally came about because Robert Shea of New Line Cinema wanted to 3083 04:05:38,670 --> 04:05:42,250 copy the Phantasm template, the Don Coscarelli movie. 3084 04:05:42,490 --> 04:05:46,910 He wanted a movie with lots of buzz moments, and he felt that Extro would 3085 04:05:46,910 --> 04:05:48,170 actually fulfil that brief. 3086 04:05:50,830 --> 04:05:54,590 Extro, bearing powers of black magic from deep space. 3087 04:05:56,360 --> 04:06:00,320 it was actually robert shea who insisted on the black panther scene he thought 3088 04:06:00,320 --> 04:06:03,900 it even though it made no sense he thought it needed a bit of a shock in 3089 04:06:03,900 --> 04:06:07,340 particular moment but it bears no relation to anything that goes on in the 3090 04:06:07,340 --> 04:06:13,060 so harry bromley davenport went off and filmed this i was actually on the set of 3091 04:06:13,060 --> 04:06:17,780 this movie and saw the alien which is really a mime artist bent over backwards 3092 04:06:17,780 --> 04:06:20,720 thought that was pretty obvious i never actually expected people to buy that 3093 04:06:21,290 --> 04:06:25,690 But, you know, it was a reasonable enough attempt at trying to do an alien 3094 04:06:25,690 --> 04:06:26,690 the cheap. 3095 04:06:26,970 --> 04:06:29,890 Indestructible, ever -changing evils. 3096 04:06:30,510 --> 04:06:34,390 And Harry Bromley Davenport was a pretty resourceful director, as Whispers of 3097 04:06:34,390 --> 04:06:39,250 Fear proved, but even he couldn't do much with the Michelle Parry script 3098 04:06:39,310 --> 04:06:42,750 which was like another version of I Married a Monster from Outer Space. 3099 04:06:43,350 --> 04:06:48,110 It takes off where Close Encounters of the Third Kind left off, is the way Mark 3100 04:06:48,110 --> 04:06:50,730 Forstater, the producer, explained Extro to me. 3101 04:06:51,210 --> 04:06:52,590 Well, fair enough. 3102 04:06:52,830 --> 04:06:59,170 It starred Bernie Steggers, Lamberto Barber's macabre star, and the wife of 3103 04:06:59,170 --> 04:07:02,420 Newell, the director who would do... Four Weddings and a Funeral and Prince 3104 04:07:02,420 --> 04:07:06,320 Persia. In later years, Harry brought me Davenport, who I actually met because 3105 04:07:06,320 --> 04:07:11,740 he was a very close friend of Maureen Bartlett, who ran Video Media, one of 3106 04:07:11,740 --> 04:07:15,160 very first video labels set in Wardour Street. 3107 04:07:15,620 --> 04:07:19,940 Harry always said that he was stoned throughout the whole of this film, and 3108 04:07:19,940 --> 04:07:23,120 fact that it actually held together was just amazing to him. 3109 04:07:23,380 --> 04:07:27,380 If you think hard about something, you can make it happen. 3110 04:07:31,280 --> 04:07:34,300 Harry always said the movie was a complete mess, that the atmosphere was 3111 04:07:34,300 --> 04:07:38,840 completely unintentional. He was very cynical about it. But, hey, as I said, 3112 04:07:38,840 --> 04:07:42,140 went on to become a major franchise, so, you know, who was right? 3113 04:07:46,100 --> 04:07:48,480 Tony's father has been away a long time. 3114 04:07:49,360 --> 04:07:51,540 Now he's coming home. 3115 04:07:55,640 --> 04:07:57,100 Extro has returned. 3116 04:07:59,820 --> 04:08:03,080 Once a man, he is now something more than human. 3117 04:08:03,880 --> 04:08:06,380 Indestructible, ever -changing, evil. 3118 04:08:07,820 --> 04:08:12,060 His mission, to avenge, to possess, to destroy. 3119 04:08:12,520 --> 04:08:13,520 Why did you come back? 3120 04:08:13,620 --> 04:08:14,640 I came back for you. 3121 04:08:14,940 --> 04:08:16,260 Oh, my God. 3122 04:08:17,220 --> 04:08:18,220 John! 3123 04:08:20,760 --> 04:08:24,520 Extro. Bearing powers of black magic from deep space. 3124 04:08:25,640 --> 04:08:27,980 If you think hard about something... 3125 04:08:28,970 --> 04:08:30,010 You can make it happen. 3126 04:08:43,250 --> 04:08:45,390 Use it when you need it. 3127 04:09:20,590 --> 04:09:22,650 Some extraterrestrials aren't friendly. 3128 04:09:22,890 --> 04:09:24,630 From New Line Cinema, rated R. 3129 04:09:38,230 --> 04:09:39,390 Zombie Holocaust. 3130 04:09:40,050 --> 04:09:45,730 One of the seemingly unendless parade of Italian zombie movies from the early 3131 04:09:45,730 --> 04:09:46,730 80s. 3132 04:09:47,290 --> 04:09:48,630 Actually, it's a... 3133 04:09:49,040 --> 04:09:52,460 It's a kind of crossover film because it's sort of a cannibal movie that turns 3134 04:09:52,460 --> 04:09:53,460 into a zombie movie. 3135 04:09:53,720 --> 04:09:55,740 Something about cannibalism from what I hear. 3136 04:09:55,980 --> 04:09:57,720 Where the hell did you hear that crap? 3137 04:09:57,920 --> 04:10:01,100 It's got mad science in it, but it's got cannibal tribesmen too. 3138 04:10:01,320 --> 04:10:04,840 Start Ian McCullough could be in a couple of actually better Italian 3139 04:10:04,840 --> 04:10:06,500 exploitation pictures. 3140 04:10:06,740 --> 04:10:11,480 The man from Zombie Flesh Eaters and Alien Contamination, which would 3141 04:10:11,480 --> 04:10:12,480 deliver. 3142 04:10:12,760 --> 04:10:15,620 all the stuff that Zombie Holocaust only promises. 3143 04:10:15,920 --> 04:10:20,060 You seem to know a great deal about these people. The various video versions 3144 04:10:20,060 --> 04:10:23,960 that were around in the UK were heavily cut, so... 3145 04:10:24,440 --> 04:10:28,480 The only reason you went and saw these films was for the gruesomeness and there 3146 04:10:28,480 --> 04:10:32,260 wasn't that much in the versions you got, which is probably why they took 3147 04:10:32,260 --> 04:10:36,320 on it and didn't make it a proper video nasty, although every other film with 3148 04:10:36,320 --> 04:10:41,780 zombie or indeed holocaust in the title managed to make it. I suppose calling it 3149 04:10:41,780 --> 04:10:45,980 zombie holocaust was an admission of failure because it's like gluing 3150 04:10:45,980 --> 04:10:50,460 titles from other films to make your film, which is rarely a way of... 3151 04:10:51,160 --> 04:10:55,400 of making striking original work that anybody will care about. 3152 04:11:02,560 --> 04:11:07,580 It was released in America as Dr. Butcher MD, which is actually a better 3153 04:11:07,720 --> 04:11:11,920 although completely irrelevant to what the film's about. 3154 04:11:12,160 --> 04:11:16,120 Yours is a typical example of median intelligence, enough to discover the 3155 04:11:16,120 --> 04:11:19,220 existence of my secret, but absolutely incapable of understanding it. 3156 04:11:19,560 --> 04:11:26,380 I have a certain affection for this period of rubbish, and I'm sure I own 3157 04:11:26,380 --> 04:11:27,339 this on DVD. 3158 04:11:27,340 --> 04:11:33,560 I may well have watched it several times, but I'd be hard put to say why in 3159 04:11:33,560 --> 04:11:35,920 particular this stands out of the pack. 3160 04:11:36,200 --> 04:11:40,700 It is kind of shuffling there at the back, isn't it? Because it doesn't have 3161 04:11:40,700 --> 04:11:45,700 really gross -out set pieces that some of the other zombie films have. It's 3162 04:11:45,700 --> 04:11:46,720 generally unpleasant. 3163 04:11:57,840 --> 04:12:01,600 The patient screamed, disturbing me, performed removal of vocal cords. His 3164 04:12:01,600 --> 04:12:07,480 is Dr. Butcher, M .D., medical deviant. He has perverted the science of medicine 3165 04:12:07,480 --> 04:12:09,560 for his own maniacal means. 3166 04:12:10,940 --> 04:12:11,940 Dr. 3167 04:12:16,920 --> 04:12:22,960 Butcher, M .D., medical deviant. You will die, only to live again in a 3168 04:12:22,960 --> 04:12:27,100 body. Then you can tell me if the operation was a success, what it's like 3169 04:12:27,100 --> 04:12:30,000 pass from life to death and death to life. 3170 04:12:30,420 --> 04:12:31,420 See Dr. 3171 04:12:31,640 --> 04:12:33,060 Butcher's diabolical surgery. 3172 04:12:35,500 --> 04:12:38,320 He must have a psychopathic deviant in the hospital. 3173 04:12:38,660 --> 04:12:41,700 See him mutilate patients with his murderous scalpel. 3174 04:12:43,600 --> 04:12:49,140 Dr. Butcher loves New York. There are so many attractive patients to operate on. 3175 04:12:49,980 --> 04:12:55,220 I could easily kill you now, but I'm determined to have your brain be the 3176 04:12:55,220 --> 04:12:56,500 culmination of my career. 3177 04:12:57,880 --> 04:13:03,280 Dr. Butcher, medical deviant. He loves to operate on beautiful women. 3178 04:13:04,020 --> 04:13:08,360 I'm on the verge of discovering the key to increasing man's lifespan by over a 3179 04:13:08,360 --> 04:13:09,360 hundred years. 3180 04:13:15,880 --> 04:13:17,520 Prepare the operating table. 3181 04:13:18,550 --> 04:13:21,290 I'm anxious to experiment on a male Caucasian brain. 3182 04:13:25,170 --> 04:13:30,870 The time has come for you to play your part in this momentous occasion. 3183 04:13:31,170 --> 04:13:34,510 Science must surmount all obstacles and this requires certain sacrifices. 3184 04:13:34,810 --> 04:13:38,510 It will comfort you to know that generations to come will reap great 3185 04:13:38,510 --> 04:13:39,510 from my experiments. 3186 04:13:55,560 --> 04:13:56,820 Bloodthirsty lunatic. 3187 04:14:06,540 --> 04:14:07,580 Dr. 3188 04:14:08,840 --> 04:14:14,440 Butcher, M .D., medical deviant. He's a depraved, sadistic rapist. A 3189 04:14:14,440 --> 04:14:16,380 bloodthirsty, homicidal killer. 3190 04:14:34,410 --> 04:14:39,750 And now we come to George Romero's Dawn of the Dead, probably the best film on 3191 04:14:39,750 --> 04:14:46,650 this compilation, probably the best film in the whole haul of this period, 3192 04:14:46,730 --> 04:14:49,730 one of the few that's remained a lasting classic. 3193 04:14:50,490 --> 04:14:55,110 This situation must be controlled before it's too late. They are multiplying too 3194 04:14:55,110 --> 04:14:56,570 rapidly. Dawn. 3195 04:14:57,540 --> 04:15:01,300 And yet everyone forgets that in Britain it wasn't particularly well treated 3196 04:15:01,300 --> 04:15:04,280 originally. It was retitled. It was called Zombies. 3197 04:15:08,680 --> 04:15:13,720 This situation must be controlled before it's too late. It is too late. They are 3198 04:15:13,720 --> 04:15:15,060 multiplying too rapidly. 3199 04:15:15,720 --> 04:15:18,760 Run if you can, but there's no escaping the zombies. 3200 04:15:19,480 --> 04:15:23,480 George Romero brings you face to face with the dawn of the day. 3201 04:15:25,100 --> 04:15:26,600 There's no more room in hell. 3202 04:15:26,820 --> 04:15:29,360 The dead will walk the earth. 3203 04:15:30,540 --> 04:15:35,000 They didn't even do it consistently. 3204 04:15:35,380 --> 04:15:39,520 It's called Zombies in its opening credits and Dawn of the Dead in its end 3205 04:15:39,520 --> 04:15:43,460 credits. This was the version, in fact, that premiered at the London Film 3206 04:15:43,460 --> 04:15:45,740 Festival in 1979. I know I was there. 3207 04:15:46,000 --> 04:15:51,900 And then had a successful theatrical run. But this was the very birth of... 3208 04:15:52,120 --> 04:15:58,760 It may well have been the first videotaped film I saw on Betamax, of 3209 04:15:58,940 --> 04:16:02,400 and I suspect it made a fortune. 3210 04:16:02,760 --> 04:16:08,480 Even though it's a slightly BBFC -snipped version that was around, but it 3211 04:16:08,480 --> 04:16:15,480 one of the kind of wonder films of the early days of the video rental industry. 3212 04:16:15,520 --> 04:16:18,220 I think it was one that everybody saw then. 3213 04:16:28,640 --> 04:16:34,880 I suspect we could fill the rest of this tape, the interview, with just talking 3214 04:16:34,880 --> 04:16:38,680 about the things about this movie everybody knows and how important it is 3215 04:16:38,680 --> 04:16:41,940 what a major influence it is on subsequent horror pictures. 3216 04:16:42,180 --> 04:16:47,780 But just in terms of its influence on the video industry, I suspect that it 3217 04:16:47,780 --> 04:16:48,780 was... 3218 04:16:49,040 --> 04:16:55,540 the release of this picture on video that inspired the release of all those 3219 04:16:55,540 --> 04:16:56,920 other zombie pictures. 3220 04:16:57,340 --> 04:17:02,640 Yeah, the famous Italian zombie movies, which had started, they got theatrical 3221 04:17:02,640 --> 04:17:06,200 releases off the back of the success of Dawn of the Dead. 3222 04:17:06,880 --> 04:17:11,620 But then they became the kind of mainstays of the video nasty list. 3223 04:17:11,860 --> 04:17:15,940 Imagine, if you will, that something has gone terribly wrong. 3224 04:17:16,910 --> 04:17:21,210 It's interesting that this was only, as it were, gray -listed as a video nasty. 3225 04:17:21,350 --> 04:17:27,770 I think even then there was a sense that George Romero was a cut above 3226 04:17:27,770 --> 04:17:29,350 the Italian hacks. 3227 04:17:29,730 --> 04:17:34,170 That this was reasonably serious. 3228 04:17:35,300 --> 04:17:40,400 And I think even the people who were predisposed to be upset looked at this 3229 04:17:40,400 --> 04:17:45,440 movie and saw something that was plainly operating on a completely different 3230 04:17:45,440 --> 04:17:51,140 level. Not that that usually stopped the censorious, but it meant that there 3231 04:17:51,140 --> 04:17:54,340 were more people in its corner willing to fight for it. 3232 04:17:54,700 --> 04:17:59,900 It is a horrible, hauntingly accurate vision of the mindless excesses of a 3233 04:17:59,900 --> 04:18:01,360 society gone mad. 3234 04:18:02,960 --> 04:18:08,200 In the UK, the theatrical distributor of Dawn of the Dead were Target, with a 3235 04:18:08,200 --> 04:18:10,300 precursor to Arrow, who were still in business. 3236 04:18:10,620 --> 04:18:16,380 On video, it was Alpha, who were Stanley Long's company, who were quite big as 3237 04:18:16,380 --> 04:18:18,140 an early video distributor. 3238 04:18:30,120 --> 04:18:34,760 I think even they were aware that they struck it really lucky with Dawn of the 3239 04:18:34,760 --> 04:18:35,760 Dead. 3240 04:18:36,480 --> 04:18:40,380 I assume they just bid the most for the rights. 3241 04:18:42,440 --> 04:18:49,090 And that they didn't do what some distributors did. did. They didn't 3242 04:18:49,090 --> 04:18:55,010 take advantage of the fact that, you know, they didn't have to release the 3243 04:18:55,010 --> 04:18:59,730 version. They did release the BBFC version, which is very slightly cut. I 3244 04:18:59,730 --> 04:19:03,690 if you watch the two back -to -back, you'll notice there's a famous head 3245 04:19:03,690 --> 04:19:09,970 exploding that's gone, and there are some gun sight shots where you see the 3246 04:19:09,970 --> 04:19:12,050 telescopic sight and the head exploding. 3247 04:19:12,270 --> 04:19:13,530 Those were trimmed. 3248 04:19:14,120 --> 04:19:16,380 But it was more or less left alone. 3249 04:19:16,580 --> 04:19:22,220 I don't think it was horribly compromised in the way that some of 3250 04:19:22,220 --> 04:19:27,340 were, by having anything remotely gory removed, leaving only the wandering 3251 04:19:27,340 --> 04:19:28,340 around scenes. 3252 04:19:28,980 --> 04:19:29,980 Zombies. 3253 04:19:30,480 --> 04:19:32,000 They get up and kill. 3254 04:19:32,480 --> 04:19:35,180 The people they kill get up and kill. 3255 04:19:35,740 --> 04:19:42,580 So it was a film that was treated reasonably respectfully, as zombie 3256 04:19:42,580 --> 04:19:48,900 were. George Romero brings back the dead the reason it's in this kind of 3257 04:19:48,900 --> 04:19:54,600 hinterland of almost a video nasty is almost to tick off the boxes it was the 3258 04:19:54,600 --> 04:19:59,840 other big zombie flesh -eating movie around at the time when zombie flesh 3259 04:19:59,840 --> 04:20:04,670 was why those movies want people wanted to toss into the fire so it was almost 3260 04:20:04,670 --> 04:20:09,230 like oh well you might as well take this as well and then people said yeah it's 3261 04:20:09,230 --> 04:20:13,430 actually quite a good film and that's quite an important movie uh i think it's 3262 04:20:13,430 --> 04:20:18,950 yeah in the the trawls that went round you know there are stories of people 3263 04:20:18,950 --> 04:20:22,830 taking apocalypse now because they got it mixed up with cannibal apocalypse 3264 04:20:22,830 --> 04:20:27,030 and i think this is one of those give me another list sure i'll just pull it out 3265 04:20:27,030 --> 04:20:28,030 of my ass right 3266 04:20:28,620 --> 04:20:35,560 and to be fair to ask the police to make distinctions between one 3267 04:20:35,560 --> 04:20:40,780 zombie film and another in a day before yeah you could go on your Yeah, your 3268 04:20:40,780 --> 04:20:43,660 iPhone and check the IMDB to sort out which is which. 3269 04:20:43,960 --> 04:20:47,640 When even companies didn't know which films they were releasing. 3270 04:20:48,040 --> 04:20:54,100 When certainly the bloke who ran your video corner store had no particular 3271 04:20:54,100 --> 04:20:58,300 what was on his shelves and who made it. It was difficult to ask people whose 3272 04:20:58,300 --> 04:21:04,300 job had nothing to do with this to try and make those distinctions. But I think 3273 04:21:04,300 --> 04:21:08,920 that's just part of the grand and tragic comedy of the Video Nasties years. 3274 04:21:10,190 --> 04:21:13,890 When there's no more room in hell, the dead will walk the earth. 3275 04:21:15,690 --> 04:21:16,690 Zombie. 3276 04:21:18,550 --> 04:21:25,370 This situation must be controlled before it's too late. 3277 04:21:25,650 --> 04:21:29,390 Meet me on the roof at 9 o 'clock. They are multiplying too rapidly. 3278 04:21:30,150 --> 04:21:32,090 We've got to survive. Somebody's got to survive. 3279 04:21:37,590 --> 04:21:38,590 Zombies. 3280 04:21:39,220 --> 04:21:40,620 They get up and kill. 3281 04:21:41,140 --> 04:21:43,800 The people they kill get up and kill. 3282 04:21:45,440 --> 04:21:50,120 Imagine that the most frightening things on Earth are about to come out of the 3283 04:21:50,120 --> 04:21:51,120 darkness. 3284 04:21:58,600 --> 04:22:01,400 George Romero brings back the dead. 3285 04:22:23,530 --> 04:22:25,650 What the hell are you doing playing around? Someone's upstairs shooting at 3286 04:22:26,930 --> 04:22:28,770 They kill for one reason. 3287 04:22:29,090 --> 04:22:30,590 They eat their victims. 3288 04:22:52,140 --> 04:22:54,520 but there's no escaping the terrifying consequences. 3289 04:22:58,500 --> 04:23:03,060 George Romero brings you face to face with the dawn of the dead. 3290 04:23:03,520 --> 04:23:04,520 Zombies. 3291 04:23:05,960 --> 04:23:07,780 Zombies. Zombies. 3292 04:23:08,060 --> 04:23:09,060 Well, 3293 04:23:19,620 --> 04:23:20,660 Zombies Lake. 3294 04:23:21,360 --> 04:23:25,380 or Zombie Lake, however you prefer, Le Lac des Morts Grévants. You won't find 3295 04:23:25,380 --> 04:23:29,260 very many people who are going to stick up for this one, but I'm going to try. 3296 04:23:31,420 --> 04:23:35,640 And before I do, I should point out that every time I've watched this movie, 3297 04:23:35,780 --> 04:23:39,400 within about 30 minutes, my eyes have been looking at the clock on the DVD 3298 04:23:39,400 --> 04:23:42,180 player or the video player, thinking, how much longer? 3299 04:23:42,420 --> 04:23:45,820 So I do sympathise. If you're sitting there thinking, God, no, that film is so 3300 04:23:45,820 --> 04:23:47,960 awful, how can anybody try and say anything nice about it? 3301 04:23:49,000 --> 04:23:52,240 I understand. It's really at the limit. 3302 04:23:52,480 --> 04:23:57,600 Why, of all things, are you interested precisely in The Lake of the Dead? 3303 04:23:58,180 --> 04:24:01,120 But when it came out on DVD, it actually looked a hell of a lot better. 3304 04:24:01,360 --> 04:24:04,980 Photography -wise, it looks actually rather beautiful. The clarity of the 3305 04:24:04,980 --> 04:24:09,280 and the beauty of these French rural settings are actually really quite 3306 04:24:09,280 --> 04:24:11,760 compelling, and I find myself drawn to it. 3307 04:24:12,360 --> 04:24:15,420 It's one of those movies that I find myself wanting to watch more often than 3308 04:24:15,420 --> 04:24:16,680 could possibly believe. 3309 04:24:17,660 --> 04:24:18,960 I'm in the mood for Zombie Lake. 3310 04:24:19,240 --> 04:24:20,240 What's wrong with me? 3311 04:24:20,640 --> 04:24:23,380 Why am I thinking this way? But I could sit down and watch it again. 3312 04:24:24,820 --> 04:24:26,540 It's a little hard to explain. 3313 04:24:26,760 --> 04:24:29,140 I certainly wouldn't want to spread the virus. 3314 04:24:29,400 --> 04:24:32,620 I don't want to try and convince anyone else. So don't blame me if you go and 3315 04:24:32,620 --> 04:24:33,940 watch it. I'm not trying to persuade you. 3316 04:24:34,440 --> 04:24:38,420 But there is something very strange about it. 3317 04:24:38,740 --> 04:24:43,940 For instance, if you love zombie movies, particularly from this period, the 70s 3318 04:24:43,940 --> 04:24:45,900 and 80s, it's always interesting to see how... 3319 04:24:46,500 --> 04:24:49,200 divergent the zombies get and how they act differently to the way they're meant 3320 04:24:49,200 --> 04:24:53,040 to act and this one's all over the place i mean in this one you've got zombies 3321 04:24:53,040 --> 04:24:57,980 who have fights with each other over points of honor you've got zombies who 3322 04:24:57,980 --> 04:25:01,920 for walks in the country with their bastard offspring odd little touches 3323 04:25:01,920 --> 04:25:08,720 zombies who return from the grave to express love and devotion to the child 3324 04:25:08,720 --> 04:25:12,820 they never saw whilst they were alive it's crazy stuff really i mean you know 3325 04:25:12,820 --> 04:25:15,300 sort of like we're not dealing with zombies in the sense of the the 3326 04:25:16,240 --> 04:25:20,800 you know, the accepted George Romero sense at all. It's all over the place. 3327 04:25:20,800 --> 04:25:24,320 I kind of like that. Another way in which these zombies don't work to the 3328 04:25:24,320 --> 04:25:27,660 zombie template is that the people that are bitten by the zombies don't 3329 04:25:27,660 --> 04:25:29,320 resurrect and become zombies themselves. 3330 04:25:29,680 --> 04:25:33,820 There are no resurrected French villagers who join the hordes and go on 3331 04:25:33,820 --> 04:25:38,400 rampage, which, when you think about it, is a little bit like racial purity kind 3332 04:25:38,400 --> 04:25:43,140 of zombie style, because the Nazi zombies don't want to create zombies 3333 04:25:43,140 --> 04:25:46,640 other races. They're too, you know... They're too into their own thing. So 3334 04:25:46,640 --> 04:25:51,780 are no Frenchmen join in with this platoon of Nazi zombies. 3335 04:25:52,540 --> 04:25:56,340 So, I mean, again, that's a twist which you don't get in any of the versions of 3336 04:25:56,340 --> 04:25:57,319 the zombie mythos. 3337 04:25:57,320 --> 04:25:59,100 Our fate's now in our own hands. 3338 04:25:59,680 --> 04:26:03,500 We must find a way to safeguard our town from the mad, murdering zombies. 3339 04:26:03,900 --> 04:26:06,800 I mean, there are some puzzling points to do with the politics of it, I must 3340 04:26:06,800 --> 04:26:07,800 say. 3341 04:26:08,680 --> 04:26:13,220 Essentially, it's about, you know, not to mince words, it's about some trollop 3342 04:26:13,220 --> 04:26:14,220 in France during the war. 3343 04:26:14,640 --> 04:26:19,580 who drops her knickers for a passing German soldier, has a baby, and then 3344 04:26:19,580 --> 04:26:22,840 he's killed in the war a bit later, his platoon are wiped out by the French 3345 04:26:22,840 --> 04:26:26,260 villagers and the partisan opposition in France. 3346 04:26:26,580 --> 04:26:29,540 You would think, really, for a film made in France, that the sympathies would 3347 04:26:29,540 --> 04:26:30,540 lie with the resistance. 3348 04:26:30,940 --> 04:26:34,340 But it's the German soldiers who are given all the nobility. 3349 04:26:34,940 --> 04:26:38,460 In fact, there's one point where a dignitary in the French village that are 3350 04:26:38,460 --> 04:26:42,560 being visited by these reanimated zombies many years later says... 3351 04:26:42,890 --> 04:26:44,570 We brought this catastrophe on ourselves. 3352 04:26:44,910 --> 04:26:46,270 What, by killing the Nazis? 3353 04:26:46,810 --> 04:26:50,210 Well, what a miscalculation. 3354 04:26:50,450 --> 04:26:52,790 I imagine you think we're all a little crazy. 3355 04:26:53,010 --> 04:26:56,450 It just so happens we ain't. And the French villagers, on the other hand, are 3356 04:26:56,450 --> 04:27:01,090 bunch of bad -tempered louts who generally kind of shout and leer at 3357 04:27:01,090 --> 04:27:02,790 scantily -clad ladies, you know. 3358 04:27:03,610 --> 04:27:04,930 So you think, well, what are you saying? 3359 04:27:06,050 --> 04:27:07,050 I mean... 3360 04:27:07,120 --> 04:27:12,280 This was made in France. It was directed at very short notice by one of France's 3361 04:27:12,280 --> 04:27:15,360 great, fantastic filmmakers, Jean Rollin. 3362 04:27:16,720 --> 04:27:19,900 Nobody connected with the film wants to claim that it's a valuable piece of 3363 04:27:19,900 --> 04:27:24,280 work. There is generally a sense that it was swept up off the cutting room floor 3364 04:27:24,280 --> 04:27:25,860 virtually. It was about to be abandoned. 3365 04:27:27,440 --> 04:27:30,160 Jess Franco was the original director. 3366 04:27:30,640 --> 04:27:33,600 He pulled out because there wasn't enough money. 3367 04:27:34,910 --> 04:27:37,690 If Jeff Franco's going to pull out because there's not enough money around, 3368 04:27:37,690 --> 04:27:41,710 really is saying a lot, isn't it? I mean, considering the kind of budgets 3369 04:27:41,710 --> 04:27:45,870 Franco would go along with, one should as to think how little money there was 3370 04:27:45,870 --> 04:27:47,030 the table for this. 3371 04:27:47,990 --> 04:27:51,610 Apparently the producers, Yorosini, phoned Jean Rolland over the weekend and 3372 04:27:51,610 --> 04:27:55,630 said, we need someone to come and pick up on Monday and shoot this film. 3373 04:27:56,130 --> 04:27:57,130 Rolland said yes. 3374 04:27:58,030 --> 04:28:01,710 And there is a sentimental streak in the film, which I think probably comes from 3375 04:28:01,710 --> 04:28:02,710 him. 3376 04:28:02,860 --> 04:28:07,140 No -one is quite sure what state the script was in, if indeed there was a 3377 04:28:07,140 --> 04:28:08,140 script. 3378 04:28:08,680 --> 04:28:13,300 But there's a kind of a sentimental element to the story involving the 3379 04:28:13,300 --> 04:28:19,260 Nazi's love for his daughter, which perhaps has echoes in some of Roland's 3380 04:28:19,260 --> 04:28:20,260 films. 3381 04:28:20,940 --> 04:28:25,300 But on the other hand, this question of the sympathetically portrayed noble 3382 04:28:25,300 --> 04:28:30,100 Nazis versus the coarse and vulgar French villagers is... 3383 04:28:30,490 --> 04:28:32,730 coming out of left field. I don't know who's responsible for that. 3384 04:28:34,750 --> 04:28:38,510 But it's little details like that that make very, very low -budget films more 3385 04:28:38,510 --> 04:28:39,510 intriguing. 3386 04:28:40,290 --> 04:28:42,450 It's not programmatic. It doesn't make sense. 3387 04:28:42,770 --> 04:28:46,450 It's not a very coherent movie, but the way in which it falls short of coherence 3388 04:28:46,450 --> 04:28:48,170 is what justifies watching it, I think. 3389 04:28:48,530 --> 04:28:51,190 And the others are bad ghosts, but not him. 3390 04:28:51,470 --> 04:28:57,410 As far as its attention from the constabulary, again, it's hard to 3391 04:28:57,430 --> 04:28:58,430 really. 3392 04:28:59,210 --> 04:29:02,870 Probably due to the fact that it's just a zombie film. It's called Zombie Lake. 3393 04:29:03,010 --> 04:29:08,070 So for PC Plod, who's been told to look out for zombie flesh eaters, Zombie Lake 3394 04:29:08,070 --> 04:29:09,070 is probably near enough. 3395 04:29:09,510 --> 04:29:13,070 The cover's got some guy with pizza stuck to his face chewing on someone's 3396 04:29:13,070 --> 04:29:14,070 throat. 3397 04:29:14,810 --> 04:29:16,390 That's probably all he needed to know. 3398 04:29:17,950 --> 04:29:21,550 Anybody who sat down to watch Zombie Lake would have to wait. 3399 04:29:21,920 --> 04:29:25,060 quite a long time before they got to any imagery at all that could be considered 3400 04:29:25,060 --> 04:29:28,260 shocking. In fact, most of this film, certainly in the version that was 3401 04:29:28,260 --> 04:29:31,400 available on video, could probably have been screened on television without any 3402 04:29:31,400 --> 04:29:34,200 major difficulties. It's not a grisly film. 3403 04:29:34,520 --> 04:29:40,180 There is some female nudity. There are some rather leering shots from 3404 04:29:40,180 --> 04:29:44,920 of female bathers, which in the uncut version gives you quite an eyeful. 3405 04:29:45,400 --> 04:29:49,860 I don't think those shots are really... A, they're not all there in the video 3406 04:29:49,860 --> 04:29:54,700 version, and B, the video transfer is so murky anyway that you'd be lucky if you 3407 04:29:54,700 --> 04:30:00,060 could tell the difference between a snatch and a piece of floating sort of 3408 04:30:00,060 --> 04:30:01,060 or something. 3409 04:30:36,590 --> 04:30:41,050 a whole team of basketball players, women, just simply disappeared into the 3410 04:30:41,050 --> 04:30:42,950 lake, swallowed up by some ghosts. 3411 04:30:44,290 --> 04:30:45,290 Let's level, Mayor. 3412 04:30:45,610 --> 04:30:47,670 I hope you don't really think ghosts killed them. 3413 04:30:48,830 --> 04:30:52,930 Yes, that's what I think. In fact, I'm convinced of it. Me? I didn't see them. 3414 04:30:53,210 --> 04:30:57,530 Do you think that if any one of us had seen those poor girls, we would have let 3415 04:30:57,530 --> 04:31:00,950 them go out there and get killed? Don't you think we'd have told them to stay 3416 04:31:00,950 --> 04:31:01,950 away from the lake? 3417 04:31:40,200 --> 04:31:41,200 You're damn right. 3418 04:31:41,520 --> 04:31:44,920 We better face the fact that zombies have declared war. 3419 04:31:45,400 --> 04:31:47,380 Our fate's now in our own hands. 3420 04:31:47,840 --> 04:31:51,780 We must find a way to safeguard our town from the mad, murdering zombies. 3421 04:31:52,140 --> 04:31:53,220 We are not powerless. 3422 04:31:53,600 --> 04:31:54,600 We must act. 3423 04:31:55,240 --> 04:31:57,740 Do you know who the man with the medallion is? 3424 04:31:58,640 --> 04:32:01,800 Yes, he's my father. The other ghosts, if you want me to. 3425 04:32:02,020 --> 04:32:05,260 But I won't let you hurt him. I won't. 3426 04:32:05,740 --> 04:32:07,360 And he would like to be dead. 310230

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