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zaat · 9 months

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The Last Horror Film (1982) dir. David Winters

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vintage1981 · 4 months

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROLINE MUNRO!

Caroline Munro (born 16 January 1949 in Windsor, Berkshire) is a British actress and model best known for her many appearances in science fiction and action films of the 1970s and 1980s. According to Munro, her career took off in 1966 when her mother and photographer friend entered some headshots of her to Britain’s The Evening News “Face of the Year” contest.

“I wanted to do art. Art was my love. I went to Art School in Brighton but I was not very good at it. I just did not know what to do. I had a friend at the college who was studying photography and he needed somebody to photograph and he asked me. Unbeknownst to me, he sent the photographs to a big newspaper in London. The famous fashion photographer, David Bailey, was conducting a photo contest and my picture won.”

This led to modelling chores, her first job being for Vogue Magazine at the age of 17. She moved to London to pursue top modelling jobs and became a major cover girl for fashion and TV ads while there. Decorative bit parts came her way in such films as Casino Royale and Where’s Jack? (1969). One of her many photo ads got her a screen test and a one-year contract at Paramount where she won the role of Richard Widmark’s daughter in the comedy/western A Talent for Loving (1969).

1969 proved to be a good year for Munro, because it was then that she began a lucrative 10 year relationship with Lamb’s Navy Rum. Her image was plastered all over the country, and this would eventually lead to her next big break.

Hammer Films CEO Sir James Carreras spotted Munro on a Lamb’s Navy Rum poster/billboard. He asked his right hand man, James Liggett, to find and screen test her. She was immediately signed to a one-year contract. Her first film for Hammer proved to be something of a turning point in her career. It was during the making of Dracula AD 1972 that she decided from this film onward she was a full-fledged actress. Up until then she was always considered a model who did some acting on the side.

A string of fantasy and horror roles followed, including starring turns in Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1973), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), At the Earth’s Core (1976), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), StarCrash (1978), Maniac (1980), The Last Horror Film (1982), Faceless (1988), and The Black Cat (1989).

By the 1990s Munro had decided to focus more on her family, daughters, Georgina and Iona, and husband George Dugdale. However, since 2003 Caroline has renewed her interest in acting and has appeared in a number of film and audio productions. Since 2021 Caroline has been presenting the hit television series The Cellar Club for Talking Pictures TV.

The title First Lady of Fantasy was given to Caroline by journalist Steve Swires, who wrote many Starlog and Fangoria (@FANGORIA) articles on the actress in the 1980s and 1990s.

Happy Birthday Caroline!

Official Website: http://www.CarolineMunro.org

Representation: Thomas Bowington/Bowington Management

Some of her credits include: Dracula AD 1972 (1972), Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (1973), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1974), At the Earth’s Core (1976), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), StarCrash (1978), Maniac (1980), The Last Horror Film (1982), Faceless (1988), The Black Cat (1989), Flesh for the Beast (2003), Turpin (2009), Midsomer Murders (2013), The Landlady (2013), Crying Wolf (2015), Vampyres (2015), Cute Little Buggers (2016), Frankula (2017), End User (2018), House of the Gorgon (2019), The Haunting of Margam Castle (2020), Ulalume - A Ballad (2023), The Pocket Film of Superstitions (2023), and the upcoming The Presence of Snowgood (2024).

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slimewalk · 4 months

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#the last horror film #horror #horror movies #movies #80s horror #80s horror movies #80s movies #80s #1980s #films #cinema #caroline munro #actress

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joespinell · 5 months

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#joe spinell #the last horror film

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rupertpumpkin · 7 months

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The Last Horror Film reviews <3

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diabolikdiabolik · 2 years

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The Last Horror Film (1982)

German VHS cover

#the last horror film #love to kill #maniac 2 #movies #horror #cover #art #vhs #joe spinell #caroline munro #toppic

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thenineofus · 11 months

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Do my fellow fans of trash know that TubiTV has an extensive Troma catalog available for free? Go watch a Troma film today! Bad taste awaits you!

#they have all the classics #the toxic avenger #sgt kabukiman nypd #class of nuke 'em high #tromeo and juliet #poultrygeist #the last horror film #all of them you name them!#troma #tubi

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splatteronmywalls · 1 year

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#horror #horror films #horror film #the last horror film #1982

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thedrillerkiller · 1 year

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Depeche Mode - Photographic

(Btw, have you seen The Last Horror Film with Joe Spinell and Caroline Munro? That's what introduced me to this one.)

Not bad. You got some fine taste anon!

#depeche mode #the last horror film #joe spinell #anon #ask me

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watching-pictures-move · 1 year

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Viddying the Nasties | The Last Horror Film (Winters, 1982)

When we first meet Joe Spinell in this movie, he's sitting in a darkened theatre watching a violent horror movie, drenched in sweat, making some kind of repetitive motion that's thankfully obscured. There's a good chance this guy is getting off to the movie, literally. This guy is obsessed by an actress played by Caroline Munro, whose hair has streaks that make her resemble a sexier Blackie Lawless. He spends his free time poring over movie magazines. His room is covered in pinups and glamour shots. He tells anybody within earshot (including his mother, played by Spinell's real life mother) any chance he gets that he's gonna make a movie with her. When you tell normie acquaintances in real life that you like horror movies, I imagine this is how they picture you.

This is the third movie in a row that Spinell did with Munro, after Starcrash and Maniac, the latter of which also features Spinell playing a murderous wacko. This one doesn't isolate his insanity quite as relentlessly as that other movie, but we get plenty of time to stare at the sweaty, harsh landscape of Spinell's face from an uncomfortably close distance. Apparently Munro was into Spinell in real life, making the man an inspiration to pockmarked uggos everywhere. The character's insanity is processed through his cinematic imagination, and we're treated to dream sequences where he sports a cape at premieres of his movie (The Lovers of Dracula, hence the cape), murder sequences captured with a camera, a scene where Spinell caresses his bare torso as Munro's face is projected onto it, and a memorable outburst after he's disgusted by a new violent horror movie. "You shouldn't be ALLOWED to make films like this, Stanley!" he shouts at the director.

But without revealing too much, let's just say that the movie's interrogation of the influence of horror movies on real life violence is a little tongue-in-cheek. For one thing, we get Munro refuting the usual talking points during a press release. And we get a lot of in-jokes, like the fact that the snippets we see of the horror movies are decontextualized murder scenes that end their respective movies. After one of them, in which Munro has her face burned with a blowtorch, we see a bunch of jurors circle her name for Best Actress, over the likes of Faye Dunaway, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie and Meryl Streep. You see, the movie takes place at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival, and while the setting allows lip service to violent times (a radio news broadcast refers to John Hinckley Jr. being inspired by Taxi Driver to shoot Ronald Reagan, and a bunch of non-movie-related events), it's really a great excuse to submerge us in movie culture. This was shot without permits during the actual festival, and we catch glimpses of stars like Isabelle Adjani (the real Best Actress winner that year) and Marcello Mastroianni, and publicity for movies like Quartet, Possession, For Your Eyes Only and Superman III, and get to hang out with Spinell's Texan cowboy friend as he drives around trying to pick up bikini babes. ("I love the movies!") Add to that some pleasingly gruesome kills, the woefully out of shape Spinell panting his way through chase scenes, some nifty visual style and use of music (Depeche Mode's "Photographic" features in the soundtrack), and a few twists, and this is a very good time.

"B-movie bastard."

#film #movie review #viddying the nasties #the last horror film #david winters

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filmtyping · 2 years

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The Last Horror Film, David Winters, 1982

#the last horror film #fanatic #1982 #typewriter #david winters

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cinemaburrito · 8 months

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Worked all day packing at Severin and the boss cat gave me this as payment 😍

#severin films #the last horror film

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vintage1981 · 2 years

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Coming Soon: In Search of Darkness: Part III

Last week I got to see a preview of the upcoming 80s horror documentary, In Search of Darkness: Part III.

The In Search of Darkness series is the most complete retrospective documentaries of the genre ever made. Featuring compelling critical takes, insider tales, and unheard anecdotes, this extraordinary documentary delivers a new perspective on the decade that gave rise to some of the horror genre’s greatest films and franchises.

The Last Horror Film (1982) features prominently in the upcoming Part III. Caroline Munro along with Maniac (1980) director William Lusting and Severin Films co-founder David Gregory speak on both films and star Joe Spinell. Rubén Galindo Jr. is also on hand to discuss his classic mexican horror, Cemetery of Terror (1985). These sre just some of the interviees that will feature in the massive documentary.

The documentary is out later this year.

https://80shorrordoc.com/

#In Search of Darkness #80shorrordoc #Creator VC #The Last Horror Film #Caroline Munro #Maniac #William Lustig #Severin Films #David Gregory #Joe Spinell #Rubén Galindo Jr.#Cemetery of Terror

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slimewalk · 5 months

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