Showing posts with label Jorge Grau. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jorge Grau. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Ceremonia Sangrienta (1973) a.k.a The Legend of Blood Castle


































  An ageing cursed Countess finds that the blood of young women seems to restore her long lost youth and beauty. She falls in love with a young man whom she gets to bring her fresh dead girls using his vampiric curse and her thirst for blood never ends...
  Quality horror director Jorge Grau leaves his mark on yet another jaw-dropping film. The film narrates the story of Countess Bathory who allegedly bathed in the blood of young girls in order to stay young. Using a profound heavy atmosphere with silent and slow dialogues, the Grau manages to create a beautiful frightening  mood, like a sense that someone is after you. There is some nudity (of course, this is Europe) and some delightfully handled gore that definitely adds to the Gothic morale of the film.
  Lucia Boséius just the right person for playing Erzebeth Bathory. Her posture is magnificent and she seems to move like a real Countess. Espartaco Santoni is not such a good vampire but he gives real credit to his character while Ewa Aulin is the classic minx that can make even living dead fall in love with her. If it weren't for the actors' serious performances, the film would have been much more trashy and the whole horror quality would have been thrown down the drain!
Must watch this : on a rainy October night, alone with only a glass of sweet red wine.
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068352/
Oh, yeah! Suffocate me!
Period Strike!
Here comes the airplane! Open up!

Thursday, May 22, 2014

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974) a.k.a Non Si Deve Profanare Il Sonno Dei Morti


































  George and Edna, two young people, are brought together by chance while they both travel in Northwest England. An overly devoted police officer is after their trail as he suspects them for the a series of grotesque murders. Little does he know that chemical pesticides brought the dead back to life and they are out for blood...
  Jorge Grau directs this masterpiece of a zombie. Generally underrated, this film easily steps out of the norm of the zombie genre as it definitely has a lot more atmosphere and a lot more balls. With definitive touches of carefully administered Sci-Fi and bloody gore, this film creates an unbeatable horror story with intense action and dialogues set in the eerie landscape of England. No wonder the great Electric Wizard took a sample from this movie for one of their songs!
  Cristina Galbó plays the gloomy but beautiful Edna who crashes into bad boy/hippie/biker Ray Lovelock and together the must face they chemically-revived zombies. Arthur Kennedy a.k.a the man, plays the cop, a true depiction of the unbendable and ever vigilante law for whom this is just another case of hippies and LSD. His acting really sets the bar up high for the whole film!
Must watch this : on a breezy September night, when the temperature just starts cooling off from the summer. Accompany with red wine and cheese and enjoy during at dusk on an outdoors television. After the film, get the chills with this creeping bastard blasting and your bong a-burning!
Trailer
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071431/
So, shall we shag now or shall we shag later?
With eyes as the red as the devil's dick
Damn it, I forgot the turn off the oven