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soulsanitarium · 1 year

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Mexico 🇲🇽 Three different films: Perdita Durango, Alucarda & La Tia Alejandra

1. The film La Tía Alejandra (1979). 🎥Aunt Alejandra arrives to a familiar household consisting of two parents and three children. Immediately the woman’s presence begins to interfere with the couple’s happiness and also sexuality. Everything seems to be surrounded by an aura of mystery.

Auntie teaches children witchcraft but when one of the children mocks her, she caused his death…She comes to a bathroom and makes the water so hot it burns the teenage girl’s body. Children hate the Auntie and she revenges. Husband starts to drink and is driven away from home. Finally Lucía, the wife, tries to save what is left and takes the active role.🔥👵You can compaire this movie to mother-child relationship in Carrie, or Psycho, depicted as abnormal and perverse. Lucía too desires independence and yearns to lead her own life, yet she is unable to break away from her “auntie’s” dominating influence. As a fantasy it is an important developmental step so that the separation - individuation process is completed and we can get distance to the mother. More interesting than average ⭐️⭐️⭐️

2. 🎥Alucarda (1977): Constant screaming and overacting. Movie borrows a lot from Carmilla - Sheridan Le Fanu’s novel and films and the rest from Mother Joan of the Angels, TheDevils... Perhaps it is more interesting to look for the psychological side of the film.

👯‍♀️ Alucarda (a Dracula, Mircalla - Marcilla - Carmilla) deals with twinship -themes. Is she just a fantasy figure? Justine’s sadistic inner world?

✝️Name ”Justine” is perhaps borrowed from DeSade’s novel. Is Alucarda just a channel for the aggression and shame, is it about Justine’s own sexuality? The film becomes more interesting if you look at it from different sides of one person.

Enlarge the image to see the borrowed dialogue

💞We all have the need to feel a degree of alikeness with other people. Processes of internalization are motivated by and emerge as the self’s protection of its existence through increasingly advanced ways to ensure the object’s availability in the individual’s world of experience. Identification is an essential form of internalization processes. (Tähkä 1996 & Tähkä R.) What it means to be treated as human by others? ”What I really want is just a sister” can be a wish of a clone-like relationship. Heinz Kohut (1978) calls this phenomena a twinship-transference / - self-object. This longing can also be sexualized.

☸️ In the Jungian psychology, in order to reach a relationship and integration of the Self for the individuation process, typically a person must face, reconcile, and assimilate two central components of the personal unconscious: 1) the Shadow, 2) Anima. Perhaps like in this scene (below) from Perdita Durango.

3. 🌪This is for the friends of Santeria, black humor and 🩸 violence Perdita Durango, released as Dance with the Devil in the United States, is a 1997 Spanish/Mexican action-crime-horror film directed by Álex de la Iglesia, based on Barry Gifford's 1992 novel 59° and Raining: The Story of Perdita Durango. It stars Rosie Perez as the title character and Javier Bardem.

🎬The film is reminiscent of many great other films. Such as: Wild at heart, Badlands, True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Bonny and Clyde, Il Capitano…both Perdita Durango and Wild at Heart go back to original novellas by Gifford. Isabella Rossellini played PERDITA DURANGO in David Lynch’s WILD AT HEART.

🔪Of course, real-life killer couples also come to mind, like: Homolkas, Sarah Jane and John Makin, Ian Brady & Myra Hindley, Mona Watson & Michael Howell, Suzan & James Carson…

🎭In the movie Romeo (Bardem) is a self-styled Santeria guru who spends most of his time flitting from one crime to another. When Perdita and Romeo hook up, all Hell breaks loose. Actually Romeo steals the show from Perdita…he is just amazing Santeria priest…captivating like a Rockstar ⭐️ Gandolfini, Perez …casting is Great

😨😨😨😨Human sacrifices, sadism, kidnapping, rape, murder, featus trafficking …

😂😂😂 Funny but then suddenly again not…

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Furious magic

🔪🔪🔪🔪Violence - Hay drogas y mucha violencia

😆 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins has a role in the film

🐆 One of the rear male witch performances in the film that actually is really worth seeing !

Best quote:

Romeo Dolorosa : I'm going to dance with the devil under the pale moonlight!

Perdita Durango : Go fuck yourself, Romeo.

Romeo Dolorosa : What's wrong? It's from Batman.

Perdita Durango : Fuck Batman!

✂️✂️✂️! The original Spanish version runs 10 minutes longer and features more sex and violence and ends with some characters digitally morphing into the scene finale from Vera Cruz. 🇩🇪 edition was original 126Mins.

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Recommended Source:

Reenkola, E. (2002). The Veiled Female Core. New York. Other Press.

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thenineofus · 1 year

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I guess what I'd like for people to take away from Dracula Daily, specially for anyone who hadn't ever read the book before, is the ratio of good stuff vs bad stuff.

This is one of my favorite books of all time, but I do find myself skipping more and more of it as I reread it, and I'm the first person to admit it's not a great book.

And here is where I come to talk about adaptations!

There are so many dracula adaptations it's very overwhelming to any dumbass who wants to experience all of them for some reason (that's me btw).

And the reason why there are so many great adaptations is exactly that any artist can pick and choose what they like and change a bunch of stuff they don't, to make it their own thing.

Unlike Frankenstein, which IS a great book, it's very unlikely your adaptation will be much worse than the book (so congrats BBC on being the only one to accomplish this).

So I now encourage you all to go explore Dracula adaptations and find which ones are your favorites.

My personal recommendation are:

Dracula (1931 both the Lugosi one as well as the spanish one)

Horror of Dracula (1958)

Count Dracula (1970)

Blood for Dracula (1974)

Dracula (the 1977 BBC miniseries, not the 2020 for god sake not that one)

Dracula (1979)

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

The Nuptials of Dracula (2017)

And those are only the ones that are direct adaptations of the book, don't get me started on movies with "dracula" in the title that are not really adaptations.

#dracula #dracula daily #about me #if you use this as a watch list please research the movies content before #for instance blood for dracula is full of triggering scenes and its very distasteful but thats why i love it

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thealmightyemprex · 2 years

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Which Dracula movie should I watch

Dracula is one of my favorite horror stories so which Dracula should I rewatch and ramble about

Nosferatu the Vampyre

Bram Stokers Dracula

DRacula 1979

Spanish Dracula

@ariel-seagull-wings @metropolitan-mutant-of-ark @the-blue-fairie @themousefromfantasyland @angelixgutz @amalthea9 @princesssarisa

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vincentvangodot · 1 year

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In the past two weeks I have watched every adaptation of Dracula I could find, twenty in all. (Not 'Dracula movies' in general, just the ones purporting to be adaptations of the book.) And now I’ve finished, just in time for Dracula’s second deathday.

Here is my list:

Nosferatu (1922)

Dracula (1931)

Dracula (Spanish) (1931)

Drakula İstanbul'da (1953)

Dracula (1958)

Dracula (Mystery and Imagination) (1968)

Count Dracula (1970)

Hrabě Drákula (1970)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1974)

Count Dracula (1977)

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Dracula (1979)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Bara no Konrei ~Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku~ (2002)

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002)

Dracula (miniseries) (2002)

Dracula (2006)

Dracula Reborn (2012)

Dracula 3D (2012)

Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing (2021)

My opinions are as follows:

Dracula (1979) was my favorite adaptation when I’d only seen three, and it’s still my favorite now.

Hrabě Drákula is tied for most accurate adaptation with Count Dracula (1977) and the 2002 miniseries, which was somehow very faithful to the book despite being set in modern-day Hungary.

The Spanish version of Dracula (1931), which was filmed on the same sets at the same time as the English version but with different actors, is honestly a better movie than the English version in most respects. The dialogue is less stilted and the ending is less abrupt. If only they’d had Lugosi it would have been perfect.

Dracula Reborn is absolute trash, the only thing that could possibly have bumped Nosferatu the Vampyre up from the bottom of the list. A worthless movie it was actively painful to watch even at double speed.

Bram Stoker’s Van Helsing was a complete surprise, but really good! It’s on youtube and I recommend it. Actually, all but #12 are online on some site or other, which was extremely helpful.

Only two of these movies had Mina and Lucy kiss, and only two implied the Count’s attention towards Jonathan was homoerotic, and this is how I know few of the screenwriters read the book.

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hrodvitnon · 2 years

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Favorite horror movies of all time?

Behold, in no particular order!

Nosferatu (1922)

The Haunting (1963)

The Thing (1981)

Alien (1979)

Dracula (1931) (I have the 75th anniversary edition with the concurrent Spanish language version included, and it's become a tradition to watch it every year)

And an honorable mention to The Blair Witch Project; I was 11 at the time and it was my first introduction to the concept of Nothing Is Scarier.

#tardisspacemug

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bbcumbercutey · 3 years

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MINA (MURRAY) HARKER in various Dracula adaptations [Movie Edition]

Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); Dracula (1931); Dracula - Spanish version (1931); Drakula İstanbul'da (1953); Horror of Dracula (1958); Count Dracula (1970); Dracula (1979); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992); Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995); Dracula 3D (2012); Dracula Reborn (2012).

*This includes all the versions where Mina's character was renamed for whatever reasons

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animusrox · 2 years

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31 Days of Horror Marathon 2021

#31horror21 #Horror Movies #horroredit #userhorroredits #31 days of horror marathon #filmedit #gifs #kane52630

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chthonic-cassandra · 4 years

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Hello! I'm trying to make a list of dracula adaptations to watch, and I was wondering, which ones are your faves? Are there any you'd advise not to waste my time on? Thanks!

Oh, this is the best ask, thank you! I love talking about this.

I always say that these are the five Dracula movies which will give you the clearest sense of the arc of adaptation the story has taken over time:

Nosferatu (dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922)

Dracula (dir. Tod Browning, 1931)

Dracula/Horror of Dracula (dir. Terrence Fisher, 1958)

Dracula (dir. John Badham, 1979)

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1992)

However, this is not the same as a list of my favorites! I think that all of those are pretty essential viewing for a comprehensive understanding of the world of Dracula adaptations, even though I virulently hate the Coppola, and would happily bestow on you all the permission needed not to waste your time on it, despite it being tremendously influential.

My alternative list of weird personal favorite Dracula adaptations aside from the above (Murnau and likely Badham’s films would make their way onto a comprehensive list of my favorites) would be the following:

Nosferatu (dir. Werner Herzog, 1979) - my first Dracula, my favorite Dracula, and also my favorite film period. Watch it watch it watch it.

Drácula (dir. George Melford, 1932) - made on the same sets as the Browning film, with Spanish-speaking actors who came in and filmed after the cast of the English version were done, this film as a fascinating comparison to the iconic Browning/Lugosi film, and better done in almost every way, solving many of the English version’s plot holes.

Count Dracula (Jesús Franco, 1970) - Franco was a Spanish B movie director who made tremendously trashy films but also made some inspired casting choices. He lured Christopher Lee into playing Dracula again for this by promising him the chance to actually say some of the speeches from the books (Hammer films never let him do this), and somehow also got Klaus Kinski to play a visionary wordless Renfield. The movie itself is a mess, but how can you care?

Dracula (dir. Bill Eagles, 2006) - this is a very odd BBC film that changes the plot around dramatically but somehow still retains the essence of many the characters, who are charmingly cast, especially Lucy, Mina, and Jack. It’s weakened by a really badly played Dracula, but is a lot of fun for fans of the book.

If you want to go into the depths of the weirdness, I recommend you try:

Blood for Dracula (dir. Paul Morissey, 1974) - this Warhol-influenced oddity is impossible to truly describe; it’s full of strangely placed (but sometimes intensely hilarious) humor, very graphic sex scenes, and just...strangeness. Warning that there are some very weird and rather tasteless sexual assault scenes, but if you’re up for the weirdness, it is not to be missed.

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (dir. Guy Maddin, 2002) - this is the silent film ballet Dracula. It doesn’t always work, but it is certainly going for something.

I have not yet managed to see Dracula in Istanbul or this apparently crazy Czech film called Jonathan (in which, according to my reading, the vampires are a metaphor for capitalism), so cannot speak to those.

As for what can be skipped...you will miss out on very little if you skip Van Helsing, Dracula 2000, Dracula Untold (which is not even really a Dracula adaptation proper), or the newest BBC Dracula.

I admit to getting the 1968 Mystery and Imagination Dracula, the 1974 Dan Curtis/Jack Palance Dracula, and the 1977 Louis Jourdan Dracula confused at times, but there is good reason for that; none of them is especially exciting or original, though each do have their good moment (and their fans, who I hope I am not too sorely offending here!). If you are choosing one of those three, I would go with the 1977; Louis Jourdan gives an interestingly understated performance, and they have some interesting Renfield-Mina interaction that other versions don’t have.

Once you watch The Horror of Dracula, you’ll have a sense of whether or not you like the Hammer film style, and you should know from there whether you want to watch the rest of them.

Have fun!

#dracula #movies #crocordile

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tenaflyviper · 4 years

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Hispanic and Latin- American Horror Films:

I wish I could have finished this list for Hispanic Heritage Month, but at least I could still get it done for October.

Sadly, this year marks the passing of beloved Brazilian horror icon José Mojica Marins (aka Zé do Caixão, or "Coffin Joe").

So, I hereby dedicate this list to his memory.

Please note: Permanent link availability is NOT GUARANTEED. I wish I could have had more links to offer, but I’ve tried to rely only on free streaming sites (and Youtube, for short films). Tubi TV requires signing up, but it is still 100% free (and it’s also available as an app on IOS, Android, Xbox Live and the Playstation Network). I will do my best to update links when there are changes.

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Spanish Horror:

11-11-11 (2011) - Darren Lynn Bousman (Spanish production)

28 Weeks Later (2007) - Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

The Abandoned (2006) - Nacho Cerdà

Acción mutante (1993) - Álex de la Iglesia

Aftermath (1994) - Nacho Cerdà (CONTENT WARNING: Necrophilia)

The Ancines Woods (1970) - Pedro Olea

Ataúdes de luz (2002) - Nacho Cerdà

Anguish (1987) - Bigas Luna

Apartment 143 (2011) - Carless Torrens

The Appeared (2007) - Paco Cabezas

Arachnid (2001) - Jack Shoulder (Spanish production)

Arrebato (1979) - Iván Zulueta

The Art of Dying (2000) - Álvaro Fernández Armero

Atrocious (2010) - Fernando Barreda Luna

Atrocious (2015) - Lex Ortega

The Awful Dr. Orloff (1962) - Jesús Franco

The Baby's Room (2006) - Álex de la Iglesia

The Beast and the Magic Sword (1983) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

The Beasts' Carnival (1980) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

The Bell from Hell (1973) - Claudio Guerín; Juan Antonio Bardem

Beneath Still Waters (2005) - Brian Yuzna (Spanish production)

The Blancheville Monster (1963) - Alberto De Martino

Blind Alley (2011) - Antonio Trashorras

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) - Vicente Aranda

The Bloody Judge (1970) - Jesús Franco

Bloody Moon (1981) Jesús Franco

Blue Eyes of the Broken Doll (1974) - Carlos Aured

Cannibal (2013) - Manuel Martín Cuenca

The Cannibal Man (1972) - Eloy de la Iglesia

Un Chien Andalou (1929) - Luis Buñuel (CONTENT WARNING: EYE GORE)

Childish Games (2012) - Antonio Chavarrías

Cold Skin (2017) - Xavier Gens

The Corpse of Anna Fritz (2015) - Hèctor Hernández Vicens (CONTENT WARNING: Necrophilia; r*pe)

The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973) - Juan Antonio Bardem

Cosmética Terror (2017) - Fernando Simarro

Count Dracula’s Great Love (1974) - Javier Aguirre

The Crimes of Petiot (1973) - José Luis Madrid

La cruz del diablo (1975) - John Gilling (Spanish production)

Cthulhu Mansion (1990) - Juan Piquer Simón

La ciudad maldita (1978) - Juan Bosch

Dagon (2001) - Stuart Gordon (Spanish production)

Darker Than Night (2014) - Henry Bedwell

Darkness (2002) - Jaume Balagueró

The Day of the Beast (1995) - Álex de la Iglesia

Deadly Manor (1990) - José Ramón Larraz

Decapoda Shock (2011) (short film) - Javier Chillon

Demon Witch Child (1975) - Amando de Ossorio

Devil Hunter (1980) - Jesús Franco

The Devil's Backbone (2001) - Guillermo del Toro

The Diabolical Dr. Z (1965) - Jesús Franco

Down a Dark Hall (2018) - Rodrigo Cortés

Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo (1972) - León Klimovsky

Dracula 3D (2012) - Dario Argento (partial Spanish production)

Edge of the Axe (1988) - José Ramón Larraz

Empuso (2010) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

Escóndete (2013) - Roque Madrid

Eskalofrío (2008) - Isidro Ortiz

Evolution (2015) - Lucile Hadzihalilovic (partial Spanish production)

Exorcismus (2010) - Manuel Carballo

Extinction (2015) - Miguel Ángel Vivas

Faceless (1987) - Jesús Franco

Fangs of the Living Dead (1969) - Amando de Ossorio

Faust: Love of the Damned (2000) - Brian Yuzna (Spanish production)

Fausto 5.0 (2001) - Àlex Ollé

Fist of Jesus (2012) - Adrián Cardona; David Muñoz

Fragile (2005) - Jaume Balagueró

From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) - Robert Rodriguez

The Fury of the Wolfman (1970) - José María Zabalza

The Ghost Galleon (1974) - Amando de Ossorio

The Glass Ceiling (1971) - Eloy de la Iglesia

H6: Diary of a Serial Killer (2006) - Martín Garrido Barón

Hannah, Queen of the Vampires (1973) - Julio Salvador

Hatchet for the Honeymoon (1970) - Mario Bava (Spanish co-production)

The Haunting (2009) - Elio Quiroga

Hell of the Living Dead (1980) - Bruno Mattei (Spanish co-production)

Hooked Up (2013) - Pablo Larcuen

Horror en el museo de cera (1990) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

Horror Express (1972) - Eugenio Martín

Horror Rises from the Tomb (1972) - Carlos Aured

The House That Screamed (1969) - Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

Howl of the Devil (1988) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

Imago Mortis (2009) - Stefano Bessoni

In a Glass Cage (1986) - Agustí Villaronga (CONTENT WARNING: Just... All of it)

The Influence (2019) - Denis Rovira van Boekholt

Inquisición (1977) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

Intruders (2011) - Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Julia’s Eyes (2010) - Guillem Morales

Kidnapped (2010) - Miguel Ángel

Land of the Dead (2005) - George A. Romero (partial Spanish production)

The Last Circus (2010) - Álex de la Iglesia

Léonor (1975) - Juan Luis Buñuel (partial Spanish production)

Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) - Jorge Grau (Spanish co-production)

Leviatán: El Juego De La Muerte (2018) - Oscar López

Licántropo (1996) - Francisco Rodríguez Gordillo

Lisa and the Devil (1974) - Mario Bava (partial Spanish production)

Lobos de Arga (2012) - Juan Martínez Moreno

The Loreley's Grasp (1973) - Amando de Ossorio

La Maldicion de la Bestia (1975) - Miguel Iglesias Bonns

Megamuerte (2014) - J. Oskura Nájera

Malenka (1969) - Amando de Ossorio

Mama (2013) - Andy Muschietti

Maneater of Hydra (1967) - Mel Welles (Spanish co-production)

Mansion of the Living Dead (1982) - Jesús Franco

The Mark of the Wolfman (1968) - Enrique López Eguiluz

Marrowbone (2017) - Sergio G. Sánchez

Mientras duermes (2011) - Jaume Balagueró

Mondo Cannibale (1980) - Jesús Franco

Monster Dog (1986) - Claudio Fragasso

Los Monstruos del Terror (1970) - Tulio Demicheli, Hugo Fregonese and Eberhard Meichsner (partial Spanish production)

Muñecas Rotas (2018) - Oscar López

Murder in a Blue World (1973) - Eloy de la Iglesia

Muse (2017) - Jaume Balagueró

The Nameless (1999) - Jaume Balagueró

Nightmare City (1980) - Umberto Lenzi (partial Spanish production)

The Night of the Devils (1972) - Giorgio Ferroni (Spanish co-production)

Night of the Rat (2015) - David R. Losada

Night of the Seagulls (1975) - Amando de Ossorio

The Night of the Sorcerers (1974) - Amando de Ossorio

The Night of the Virgin (2016) - Roberto San Sebastián

Night of the Werewolf (1981) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

La Noche de Walpurgis (1970) - León Klimovsky

Las Noches del Hombre Lobo (1968) - René Govar

The Nun (2005) - Luis de la Madrid

Oasis of the Zombies (1982) - Jesús Franco

Omnivores (2013) - Óscar Rojo

Open Graves (2009) - Álvaro de Armiñán

Open Your Eyes (1997) - Alejandro Amenábar

The Orphanage (2007) - J.A. Bayona

The Others (2001) - Alejandro Amenábar

Painless (2012) - Juan Carlos Medina (partial Spanish/Portugese production)

Pan's Labyrinth (2006) - Guillermo del Toro

Panic (1982) - Tonino Ricci (Spanish co-production)

Panic Beats (1983) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

Paranormal Xperience 3D (2011) - Sergi Vizcaino

Pieces (1982) - Juan Piquer Simón

Planet Terror (2007) - Robert Rodriguez (Mexican co-production)

The Platform (2019) - Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Presence of Mind (1999) - Antoni Aloy (Spanish co-production)

Pyro… The Thing Without a Face (1964) - Julio Coll; Luis García

[REC] (2007) - Jaume Balagueró

[REC] 2 (2009) - Jaume Balagueró

[REC] 3: Genesis (2012) - Paco Plaza

[REC] 4: Apocalypse (2014) - Jaume Balagueró

Red Lights (2012) - Rodrigo Cortés (Spanish co-production)

Red Summer (2017) - Carles Jofre

El Retorno de Walpurgis (1973) - Carlos Aured (Spanish/Mexican co-production)

The Returned (2013) - Manuel Carballo (partial Spanish production)

Return of the Evil Dead (1973) - Amando de Ossorio

Revenge in the House of Usher (1983) - Jesús Franco

Romasanta (2004) - Paco Plaza

Rottweiler (2004) - Brian Yuzna (Spanish production)

The Sadist of Notre Dame (1979) - Jesús Franco

Sadomania (1981) - Jesús Franco (Spanish co-production)

Die Schneider Krankheit (2008) - Javier Chillon (Spanish co-production)

Scream of the Demon Lover (1970) - José Luis Merino (Spanish co-production)

The Sea Serpent (1985) - Amando de Ossorio

Seven Murders for Scotland Yard (1971) - José Luis Madrid (Spanish co-production)

Sexykiller (2008) - Miguel Martí

The Shallows (2016) - Jaume Collet-Serra

She Killed in Ecstasy (1971) - Jesús Franco (Spanish co-production)

The Skin I Live In (2011) - Pedro Almodóvar

The Sky Is Falling (1979) - Silvio Narizzano

Sleep Tight (2011) - Jaume Balagueró

Slugs (1988) - Juan Piquer Simón

Sound of Horror (1966) - José Antonio Nieves Conde

The Spanish Chainsaw Massacre (2017) - Manolito Motosierra

Summer Camp (2015) - Alberto Marini (Spanish co-production)

Superstición (2014) - Esteban Calderín

Terror in the Crypt (1964) - Camillo Mastrocinque (Spanish co-production)

Tesis (1996) - Alejandro Amenábar

They Will All Die in Space (2015) (short film) - Javier Chillon

The Traveller (1979) - Paul Naschy (Jacinto Molina Alverez)

To Let (2006) - Jaume Balagueró

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972) - Amando de Ossorio

The Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks (1944) - Edgar Neville

Tuno negro (2001) - Pedro L. Barbero and Vicente J. Martín

The Vampires Night Orgy (1972) - León Klimovsky

Vampyros Lesbos (1971) - Jesús Franco (Spanish co-production)

Vengeance of the Zombies (1973) - León Klimovsky

Verónica (2017) - Paco Plaza

A Virgin Among the Living Dead (1973) - Jesús Franco

Who Can Kill a Child? (1976) - Narciso Ibáñez Serrador

The Witch Affair (2003) - José Miguel Juárez

Witching and Bitching (2013) - Álex de la Iglesia

Zombie Lake (1981) - Jean Rollin and Julian de Laserna (Spanish co-production)

Mexican Horror:

24 Frames of Terror (2008) - Cristian González

El alimento del miedo (1994) - Juan López Moctezuma

Alucarda, Daughter of Darkness (1975) Juan López Moctezuma

The Bermuda Triangle (1978)

Black Circle (2018) - Adrián García Bogliano (Mexican co-production)

Blacker than the Night (1974) - Carlos Enrique Taboada

The Black Pit of Dr. M (1958) - Fernando Méndez

The Body Snatcher (1956) - Fernando Mendez

The Book of Stone (1969) - Carlos Enrique Taboada

The Brainiac (1961) - Chano Urueta

Cemetery of Terror (1985) - Rubén Galindo Jr.

Crimson Peak (2015) - Guillermo del Toro (partial Mexican production)

Cronos (1993) - Guillermo del Toro

Curse of the Crying Woman (1961) - Rafael Baledón

Curse of the Doll People (1963) - Benito Alazraki

Don’t Panic (1987) - Rubén Galindo Jr.

The Door (1968) - Luis Alcoriza

The Exterminating Angel (1962) - Luis Buñuel

El extraño hijo del sheriff (1982)

The Ghost of the Convent (1934) - Fernando de Fuentes

Hasta el viento tiene miedo (Even the Wind is Afraid) (1968) - Carlos Enrique Taboada

Here Comes the Devil (2012) - Adrián García Bogliano

The Invasion of the Vampires (1963) - Miguel Morayta

Kilómetro 31 (2006) - Rigoberto Castañeda

La Llorona (1991) - Cesar Miguel Rondon

The Mansión of Madness / Dr. Tarr’s Torture Dungeon (1972) - Juan López Moctezuma

The Man Without a Face (1950) - Juan Bustillo Oro

Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1974) - Juan López Moctezuma

México Bárbaro (2014) - Aarón Soto, Lex Ortega, Isaac Ezban, Laurette Flores and Jorge Michel Grau

México Bárbaro II (2017) - Christian Cueva, Ricardo Farias, Carlos Meléndez, Abraham Sánchez, Michelle Garza

Mystery of the Pale Face (1935) - Juan Bustillo Oro

Night of 1,000 Cats (1972) - René Cardona Jr.

Night of the Bloody Apes (1969) - René Cardona

Poison for the Fairies (1984) Carlos Enrique Taboada

Quiere Jugar (2020) - Adrián García Bogliano

The Revived Monster (1953) - Chano Urueta

Santa Sangre (1989) - Alejandro Jodorowsky

Satánico Pandemonium (1975) - Gilberto Martínez Solares

Scherzo Diabolico (2015) - Adrián García Bogliano

La segua (1985) - Antonio Yglesias

The Similars (2015) - Isaac Ezban

La tía Alejandra (1978) - Arturo Ripstein

Two Monks (1934) - Juan Bustillo Oro

The Vampire (1957) - Fernando Méndez

The Vampire’s Coffin (1957) - Fernando Méndez

La Verdadera Historia De La Llorona (2006) - Aurora Martinez

We Are the Flesh (2016) - Emiliano Rocha Minter (Mexican co-production)

We Are What We Are (2010) - Jorge Michel Grau

The Witch (1954) - Chano Urueta

The Witch’s Mirror (1961) - Chano Urueta

World of the Vampires (1961) - Alfonso Corona Blake

#horror #list #links #Hispanic #Latin-American

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“DRACULA”: BOOK vs. MOVIES

Part 1: The Count

Being a big “Dracula” fan (and having recently reread the Bram Stoker novel for the umpteenth time) I thought I’d do a comparison of the movies popularly thought of as those most faithful to the book, cuz... well, it’s a lot more fun than watching the news.

I REALLY got into it and the result is a 5 part essay comparing specific characters and details that I will spread out over the week.

BUT FIRST...

This essay is NOT spoiler free. So don’t say I didn’t warn ya!

Next, whether you love or hate any of the films being compared here is beside the point and a subject best left to posts dedicated to film critique. This essay is SOLELY about which films are the most faithful to the novel... period. As far as I’m concerned, your love or hate of any of these films is a deeply private matter between you and your God.

Finally, though I LOVE them, I did not include the Frank Langella Version (1979), or the Bela Lugosi Version (1931 - and/or its simultaneously shot Spanish version) as these films are not historically considered faithful to novel. Instead the Langella Version was intended as a remake of the Lugosi film, which itself is not an adaptation of the novel but an adaptation of the Deane/Balderson Broadway play.

That said, those versions I compared that ARE historically thought of as “the most faithful” are:

“Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror” (1922) aka “Max Schreck Version”.

“Count Dracula” (1970) aka “Christopher Lee Version”.

“Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1973) retitled “Dan Curtis’ Dracula” aka “Jack Palance Version”.

“Count Dracula” (1977) aka “Louis Jordan version.”

“Bram Stoker’s Dracula” (1992) aka “Coppola version”.

And now...

PART ONE: THE COUNT

DRACULA’S APPEARANCE:

The novel is told entirely as a series of diary entries, journals and letters written and/or recorded by all involved except for Dracula himself. As such, Dracula’s personality, mannerisms and overall character varies throughout the novel depending upon each individual character’s perception of the Count. As a result, when it comes to adapting the character for cinema, Dracula’s persona is entirely up for interpretation by the actors and filmmakers involved in each production.

His physical appearance, however, is another matter as Stoker describes the Count in detail as having a gaunt figure, a sharp thin-nosed aquiline face with arched nostrils, thin cheeks, a domed forehead, a wide strong chin, hairy hawk-like eyebrows and long curly hair. A thick mustache partially obscures a cruel mouth from which sharp canine teeth overlap his lips. The Count also has hairy palms, long pointed ears and squat fingers with talon-like fingernails. No, Stoker’s Dracula is NOT a handsome aristocratic.

The Coppola and Louis Jordan versions have the hairy palms. Gary Oldman is the only one in ANY version I’ve ever seen with the long curly hair. Christopher Lee fully rocked the mustache (as opposed to Gary Oldman who only had the stash half the movie). And no, the fangs overlapping Christopher Lee’s lower lips in the original release movie art does not count, because Lee didn’t wear them that way in the actual movie.

Despite the overlapping sharp teeth being more bat/rat-like, and not having most of the hair, it is Max Schreck’s silent vampire (renamed “Count Orlock” in a failed attempt to not be sued by Stoker’s estate) that comes the absolute closest to the repulsive creature Stoker envisioned.

Winner: “Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror”

THE DE-AGING OF DRACULA:

In the novel Dracula first appears quite aged. But on the eve of traveling to England he feeds and becomes young again. The Christopher Lee version comes close but only one version fully depicts this transition with Gary Oldman under a ton of fake hair and makeup well beyond Christopher Lee’s painted wrinkles and hair grey.

Winner: Coppola Version

THE NON-ROMANTICIZED MONSTER

Stoker intentionally keeps the Count a mystery by providing only the vaguest of backstories. Dracula offhandedly claims to being descended from Atilla the Hun, as well as being an alchemist, soldier and Boyar clansman. Van Helsing tells of stories of a nobleman who ruthlessly led armies into battle, but he can only suspect hat this was Dracula and not confirm it. All of it may be mere legends Dracula himself made up... no one knows for sure. And no personal backstory of immediate family, spouses, children, etc... is ever given by Stoker.

As such it has become traditional in most filmed versions to depict Dracula as a tragic romantic figure who sees Mina as either a reincarnation of a dead wife - or simply the object of romantic obsession.

In the novel, however, Dracula is purely a monster who only seeks to make Mina his bride out of revenge over those who seek to destroy him - love has nothing to do with it.

To me Jack Palance and Max Schreck come closest to combining Stoker’s pure monster with the cinematic concept of love and/or desire... but only one actor portrayed the Count as the non-romanticized monster of the novel.

Winner: Christopher Lee Version

SUPERNATURAL POWERS

In Stoker’s novel Dracula has the power of mind-control over those he has bitten and there are hints that he can control the insane as well. He can shape-shift into bats, wolves/large dogs, mist and particles of dust in shafts of moonlight. He also has the ability to scale walls like a lizard.

Every one of the films show some variation of the mind-control, which is the extent of Dracula’s supernatural powers in both the Max Schreck and Jack Palance versions. And no version definitively shows Dracula shapeshifting into dust particles in moonlight, though the Coppola version has vague hints.

The Christopher Lee, Louis Jordan and Coppola Versions all show the Count turning into both a bat and a wolf/large dog.

Only the Coppola and Jordan versions depict Dracula transforming into mist, or climbing walls like a lizard.

One then could argue that this makes it a tie between the Jordan and Coppola versions, but I’m going to disagree on a technicality as the Coppola version took the more original approach of Dracula shapeshifting into what would be better described as a “werewolf” and “werebat”, thus leaving only one version to strictly follow the novel in this regard.

Winner: Louis Jordan Version.

SUNLIGHT WEAKENS, NOT KILLS

The concept of sunlight killing vampires comes not from the novel but from the movie “Nosferatu: a Symphony of Horror” and it has become a mainstay of vampire lore ever since.

BUT... in the novel sunlight only weakens a vampire. So, from dawn till dusk they are unable to use any of their supernatural powers, except oddly for a brief moment at 12 noon. I assume Stoker meant “local time.” Let’s not bring logic into this.

While the Louis Jordan version shows the Count’s hand emerging in the midday sun to no ill effect, only one film shows the Count blissfully walking around in broad daylight just as he is seen doing in the novel.

Winner: Coppola version

COMING TOMORROW...

PART TWO: THE OTHER CHARACTERS

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heliohawk · 5 years

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history repeats in waves*

Big Bang, 13.772 billion years ago

Earth, 4.543 billion years ago

Cretaceous–Paleogene Extinction Event, 66 million years ago; dinos no more

First Humans, 7-5 million years ago

Pleistocene Epoch/Last Ice Age, 2.6 million-11,600-7,000 years ago

Homo sapiens, approximately 350,000 years ago

Roman Empire, 27 BCE-1461 CE, in various and sundry incarnations

Viking Age (Berserkers), 793-1066

Leifur Eiríksson lands in North America, 1000

The Crusades, 1095-1291

Inquisition, Middle Ages, 1232; resurges 1542

Johannes Gutenberg’s movable type printing press leads to economically viable mass production of printed material; increased literacy threatens the power structures of the monied and political elite in Europe and a burgeoning middle class is born, 1439 onward

Vlad III, or Vlad Dracula (voivode or prince of Wallachia for three reigns, a historical region of Romania) impales his way into history, 1448, 1456-1462, 1476; derived eponymously in Bram Stoker’s gothic horror classic Dracula, 1897

Columbus encounters several Caribbean Islands en route to Asia, China and India, with subsequent exploration of coastal South America, 1492; his voyages funded by Queen Isabella of Spain

Spanish Conquest of the Americas, 16th-18th Centuries

American Indian Wars, 1540-1924

Salem Witch Trials, 1692-1693

Advent of Industrial Revolution, 1760

Let them eat cake (or brioche, depending on one’s palate)— Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Confessions, 1765; widely and likely inaccurately attributed to Marie Antoinette

American Revolutionary War, April 19, 1775-September 3, 1783

French Revolution, May 5, 1789-November 9, 1799

Underground Railroad, 1790s-1860s

U.S. Civil War, 1861-1865

World War I, July 28, 1914-November 11, 1918

Russian Revolution, 1917

Stalinism, 1927-1953

Nazi Book Burnings, 1933

Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939; Picasso completes Guernica in 1937

World War II, September 1, 1939-September 2, 1945

Dawn of the Nuclear Age, Trinity, July 16, 1945

The Cold War, post-World War II-December 26, 1991 ostensibly (the dissolution of the Soviet Union); realistically, ongoing

Onset of Contemporary Global Warming, mid-20th Century

McCarthyism, late 1940s-1950s

Iranian coup d'état, CIA sponsored, 1953

Vietnam War, November 1, 1955-April 30, 1975

Mao, The Great Leap Forward/Mass Famine, 1958-1962

Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, CIA sponsored, April 17, 1961

Stonewall Riots, June 28, 1969

Chilean coup d'état, CIA sponsored, 1973

Khmer Rouge/Cambodia/Genocide, 1975-1979

Iranian Revolution, Shah deposed and Ayatollah Khomeini takes power as a theocratic leader; January 7, 1978-February 11, 1979

Mount St. Helens erupts, May 18, 1980

Reaganomics, enacted 1980s

Fall of Berlin Wall, November 9, 1989

U.S. Invasion of Panama, December 20, 1989-January 31, 1990

Soviet Union dissolves into 15 independent republics, December 26, 1991

Bosnia/Herzegovina Civil War/Ethnic Cleansing, 1992-1995

Rwanda/Genocide, 1994

Bombing of Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, OK, April 19, 1995

al-Qaeda wages multiple terrorist attacks on U.S., September 11, 2001

U.S. War in Afghanistan, 2001-present

Iraq War, March 20, 2003-May 1, 2003; U.S.-occupied until 2011

Darfur/Genocide, 2003-present

Arab Spring, December 17, 2010-December, 2012

Libya Invasion, death of Qaddafi, 2011

Syria Civil War, 2011-present

Yemen Civil War/Mass Famine, 2015- present

*a highly select timeline

#world history #earth history #timeline #diaspora #humanity #warfare #revolution #history repeats itself #eternal recurrence

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Hi! If it's ok for the meta ask meme, 5, 6, 13, 14, 15 for anyone you'd like! (or if you're ok with suggestion, maybe your Gothic Lit/Universal movie monsters f/os or Lucy?) Thank you! (citrus-selfinserts)

hiiii @citrus-selfinserts thanks for the ask! always happy to talk about the plats and/or infodump about old movies

5: if your f/o is from a series, were you into the source content from the start or did you come in later? if you came in later, what was the most recent release when you got into it?

as a general rule, Gothic Lit and Classic Universal monster movies were well and over by the time I was alive, but there are more recent adaptations with the same characters. i think when i was just getting into them the newest was Van Helsing (2004), i liked how that one did Adam. Frankenweenie was in a similar vein and definitely gave me the brain worms

6: if your f/o is from a series, which episode/movie/game/book of their source content is your favorite?

A SINGLE ONE ough… well it’s gotta be dracula (1931) hasn’t it. best of the bunch. that and/or spanish language dracula from the same year. i also really like horro.r of dracula 1958, that was the first serious vampire movie i ever saw and it has a good van helsing. ACTUALLY you know what i’ll answer these one by one. for frankenstein, bride and Prae.torius best is frankenstein (1931) and bride of frankenstein. for the creature himself i like the book and penny dreadful (2014). dracula i like 1931 and 1979, jon is really good in coppola dracula and so’s lucy, i don’t think i have a favorite mina but there’s many good ‘uns - ‘79 comes to mind even though they call her lucy. fave van helsing is horror of dracula / dracula ad 19.72 but ‘79 comes close. for the invisible man and the mummy the ogs (1933 and 1932) are also my favorites. bizarrely my favorite larry talbot is in abbot and costel.lo meet frankenstein. i like him better as a guy managing a chronic condition, barely, than as a guy who always conveniently dies at the end. i cant possibly pick a favorite renfield movie but i’d go dracula 1931 or spanish dracula, penny dreadful, dracula 1977, or… fuck it. dracula dead and loving it. macnicol brought it as always.

13: are there any specific scenes/chapters/moments of your f/o that you find yourself going back to revisit more often than any other?

there are some… choice scenes… in penny dreadful that i’m known to revisit from time to time. also any of dracula 1931 and the scenes with renfield and seward from spanish 1931. honestly i don’t revisit either of the frankenstein’s or the mummy all that often but i love them when i do. i’ll watch any scene from the invisible man at the drop of a hat tho.

14: what’s your favorite outfit your f/o has ever worn?

dracula? everything coppola’s dracula rocked TBH. specially the top hat ensemble. the most stylish of the bunch are the bride, the mummy (as his alter ego ardeth bey not when he’s just.. just bandages) and jack griffin. love that bandage-face smoking jacket number, i did that for halloween as a kid. og adam kind of has his own emo icon thing going on with the black bowl cut.

15: do you own any merchandise from your f/o’s source content? what is it?

i have a pin with drac, frank, mummy and a couple of the others on it that i got at hot topic >< that’s all though i need t shirts for real

#self ship community #f/o community #answered #p: 🕸️ The OG Goths 🕸️#qp: 🧪 Gods And Monsters 🧪#p: 🦇 Your Friend‚ D. 🦇#qp: ⚗️ Out Of Sight‚ Out Of His Mind ⚗️#p: ⚡️ Prometheus Unhinged ⚡️#p: 🔩 Ain’t No Fortunate Son 🔩#p: 🥀 Drop Dead Gorgeous 🥀#p: 🪲 Sands Of Time 🪲#p: 🪰 Then I Am A Happy Fly If I Live Or If I Die 🪰

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If you’re looking to define the word “original,” you could easily use Al Diaz as an example: Al began a storied graffiti career in 1971 in New York City as BOMB-1, making him eponymous with the beginnings of the now flourishing art movement. It just so happens, also, that Al was half of the greatest graffiti collaboration to have ever taken place: SAMO©.

The SAMO© tag -- Pronounced Same-oh and meaning “Same Old Shit” -- was formed alongside his friend and artistic icon Jean-Michel Basquiat during their days in High School. The now legendary moniker accompanied poetic, thought-invoking sayings scrawled on countless surfaces across downtown New York City and created a remarkable amount of confusion, buzz and excitement. By the late 1970s the two had tagged so many locations that Jeffrey Deitch remarked “you couldn't go anywhere interesting in Lower Manhattan without noticing that someone named SAMO© had been there first.”

The two went their separate ways in 1980, tagging throughout New York City that “SAMO© IS DEAD” but, thanks to Donald Trump’s presidency, Diaz has resurrected the iconic tag, filling his Instagram with numerous incredible, never before seen photographs of him and Jean-Michel as well as brand new poetic sayings and collaborations, many of which he has released as limited edition prints with House of Roulx.

I was given the opportunity to send Al a few questions about his life, SAMO© and more which he kindly answered with wonderful tidbits of information and history, you can read them in full below:

What are your first memories of Jean-Michel?

I first met JMB at a mutual friend’s house in Brooklyn Heights. I had seen him at City As a School but did not speak with him until this occasion. He seemed perhaps a little shy, if only just soft spoken. Maybe slightly uncomfortable in the presence of a bunch of Graffiti Artists and Skateboarder kids. I would soon afterwards learn that he was quite a confident individual.

What were your artistic aspirations growing up?

I was exposed to art early in life (grammar school). I have pretty much always wanted to live my life creating. Using my ability to “make stuff” from any available materials, write and draw.

Do you have a favorite memory of you and JMB?

Me and JMB once climbed up the side of a building in the West Village just to cut a huge banner down and remove it for no particular reason. We had a few friends below who helped us roll it up and carry it away. It was later abandoned at a girlfriend’s house. The banner read: “Frank Langella As DRACULA at the CHERRY LANE THEATER.” It must have been at least 12’ x 18’. Huge.

I revived SAMO©… a few hours after the election this past November. It seemed appropriate. I had been making my WET PAINT sign anagrams for a few years and I was ready to add to or change my repertoire. SAMO was the obvious vehicle.

Could you tell me a bit about your early graffiti works?

I began writing graffiti in 1971. I wrote BOMB-1. I was one of the very first writers to import Graf Culture to the Lower East Side. I was influenced by SNAKE-1, STITCH-1, and other Writers Corner 188 (Washington Heights) writers as well as Cool Cliff 120 and the writers from Harlem. I first noticed this phenomena during my visits to my cousins house in Washington Heights and art classes I took in Spanish Harlem. I was totally impressed and wanted to be part of it.

Do you spend much time thinking of what you're going to write, or is it more spur of the moment? Are the locations planned?

The locations for the WET PAINT signage and collaborative “outlaw” installations with Jilly Ballistic are definitely mapped out beforehand. Sometimes even “Site Appropriate.” This does not generally apply to the SAMO graffiti, it’s more about the immediate opportunity.

Have you revisited areas you remember tagging as a teenager? How was 1977 different art-wise to 2017?

Let me count the ways… The most significant differences (to sum this question up) are A, I was 18 in 1977 and I will be 58 on June 10th, 2017…. B, there were no cell phones, computers were the size of a Volkswagen and NYC was still an affordable city to live in, etc.

I do not have a particular FAVORITE SAMO although I have always liked “SAMO©… AS AN END 2 MASS PRODUCED INDIVIDUALITY.” I must say I do really enjoy coming up with the RHYMING SAMOs.

You're an integral part of Art History, I'm curious if that's something you ponder on?

I have read my name in quite a few books and every now and then I think to myself: “What a ridiculous life I’ve lived.” Honestly, though, I guess I do feel flattered and have a sense of pride about it.

Tell me a bit about your years as a musician? Wild stories?

Around 1979, when Basquiat and I took separate paths, I began making and playing PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS. Brazilian, African and Caribbean type instruments. It was a trend for many artists to experiment with different mediums. Film and music included. I eventually played live shows and recorded with a variety of notable folks such as: Liquid Liquid, Elliot Sharp (ISM), KONK and a mostly female “Naive Rhythm” band named DOG EAT DOG. After a decade or so the late night lifestyle ultimately took its toll on me and many of my associates.

Any closing thoughts? Advice?

As far as advice I can give: Make your work the most important aspect of your life. Love, money and opportunities will follow. Also to reiterate what Patti smith so eloquently said: “Be happy, take care of your teeth.”

Al Diaz, NYC, 06/07/17

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(Happy Belated Birthday Al!)

House of Roulx

Al Diaz

#art #graffiti #al diaz #jean michel basquiat #samo #interviews

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What is the best vampire movie you have ever seen? I am in desperate need of some good ones to quench my thirst. Lol I apologize for that joke XD

Hehe. I love the pun. I like cheesy things.

1. Dracula (1979 version). This version of Dracula is one of the few romantic incarnations of Dracula that still seems to enjoy what he is and isn’t suicidal. I chose to believe he faked his death at the end. Also the Mina character (renamed Lucy) is delightfully aggressive and Laurence Olivier plays a fantastic Abraham Van Helsing.

2. Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Though this version is more faithful to The Dracula Tape by Fred Saberhagen than it follows Bram Stoker’s novel it’s the only version to leave Quincey Morris in tact and still the most faithful film adaptation to date despite the added love story between Mina and Dracula. And that odd origin story they gave for Dracula’s vampirism.

3. Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula. This film can be found on Youtube for free. It stars Rudolf Martin, who also played Dracula in the Buffy The Vampire Slayer episode Buffy vs. Dracula. It’s surprisingly respectful to the history while also implying Vlad the Impaler became the famous vampire after death and actually works as a very good prequel to most recent (within the last thirty years) adaptations of Dracula.

4. Fright Night (original 1985 version). If you love eighties music, traditional vampires, and loving homages to classic Hammer Horror and Dark Shadows I strongly recommend this movie. You don’t see too many serious modern vampires able to turn into a bat, wolf, or mist anymore and it’s just a fun movie. Also Roddy Mcdowell played Peter Vincent (a sweet homage to both Peter Cushing and Vincent Price) masterfully. You see excellent and well portrayed character growth and I highly recommend it and even it’s 1988 sequel, Fright Night: Part 2. I miss the traditional vampire powers to summon storms and change form into a bat, wolf, or mist and age and de-age at will and most of those lost powers make an appearance in this movie but not in the 2011 remake which lacks heart and passion on the part of the film makers behind it.

5. Lost Boys. Much like Fright Night this is a fun eighties movie. Like Fright Night it has an excellent soundtrack and humor with the horror. The sequel’s not very good but the third one is decent. Not as good as the first but decent.

6. Interview with the vampire. Despite what Anne Rice hopes I doubt she will ever be able to make a better film adaptation of the original source material than this movie and it’s a shame that a version of The Vampire Lestat was never made by the same people. If you can find it the San Francisco (NOT the New York) adaptation of the Lestat musical actually works pretty well as a direct sequel. The San Francisco version of the Lestat musical was never officially released to video but there is a good quality bootleg out there.

7. Let the Right One In. An eerie and beautiful platonic love story between a boy and a vampire. The film is adapted from the novel of the same name. Also it’s far better than it’s awful American remake.

9. The vampire Lovers. Despite deviations from the novel and two character name changes this is still a far better adaptation of Carmilla than many other film versions and it does capture the atmosphere and ambiance of the original novel, something few adaptations seem to manage.

10. Demon Under Glass. This one is extremely low budget. It’s so low budget it might as well have been filmed in someone’s basement however it has a very clever premise and a tie-in novel (with twice the plot) by the woman who wrote the script. It deals with what happens when a kindly doctor is roped into working with the government in regard to studying a captured vampire.

11. Scars of Dracula. This was Christopher Lee’s favorite Hammer Dracula movie to work on and you can tell.

12. Nightbreed. Not specifically dealing with vampires the main character does rise from the dead as a vampire who craves blood. Seek the director’s cut or “Cabal Cut” if possible. It’s based on the novel Cabal by Clive Barker. And it has a haunting score by Danny Elfman.

13. Monster Squad. This is a mulltimonster movie but Dracula is the ring leader and it’s fun. Another 80s gem.

Bonus mentions: F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu. Though I hate that people now think the word means a bald and bucked toothed vampire when it just means vampire. Vampire The masquerade helped popularize that idea and this movie popularized the idea of vampires burning in the sun, which didn’t exist until the movie. However, as terrifying as Count Orlock might be, I like Murnau’s Faust better than his Nosferatu. His adaptation of Goethe’s Faust is very underated and I highly recommend it even if it’s not a vampire movie.

And of course the 1931 Dracula starring Bela Lugosi and the Spanish film also made at the same time using the same sets. Who can forget those? And Dracula’s Daughter. Son of Dracula. House of Dracula and House of Frankenstein and Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein. (those require watching the other Universal Monster movies first).

The Subspecies movies. Cult classics and very under-rated. Radu (named after the real life Dracula’s brother) is not a sexy vampire but an intriguing one.

The Hunger starring David Bowie, based on the novel by Whitley Streiber.

Hammer’s Dracula movies: Dracula (1958) AKA Horror of Dracula. Brides of Dracula. Dracula: Prince of Darkness. Dracula has risen from the grave. Taste the blood of Dracula. Scars of Dracula. Dracula 1972 AD. Satanic Rites of Dracula (AKA Dracula and his vampire Bride).

Innocent Blood. This one deals with vampire mobsters after a female vampire bungles a feeding and has to team up with a cop.

For vampire comedies I recommend Love at First Bite, What we do in the Shadows and Dracula: Dead and Loving it.

TV shows: Castlevania (new animated series), Dracula: the Series (not the awful NBC series, but the 1990s kid friendly one, it’s weirdly respectful to the novel despite giving Dracula blond hair). Forever Knight. And Buffy The Vamprire Slayer. True Blood’s first few seasons were good but around the Lilith / Billith storyline it went down hill and never recovered. The “Hep V” storyline was God-awful. Midnight Texas is pretty good but not strictly vampire related. And for anime Hellsing and Hellsing: OVA.

For “So bad it’s good” I recommend Dracula 2 (sequel to Dracula 2000) and Dario Argento’s Dracula or as my friends and I have nicknamed it “Mantis Drac.” It’s like the Plan 9 from Outer Space of Dracula movies. And the badly dubbed anime Dracula: Sovereign of the damned (which can be found on Youtube). It’s meant to be an adaptation of Marvel’s Tomb of Dracula but they couldn’t get the rights to Blade and had to work around him. They also tried to condense years worth of comics into an hour and twenty minute animated movie.

For comic books I recommend Tomb of Dracula from Marvel. Morbius The Living Vampire, also from Marvel. Legion Of Monsters (2010 version). And Dracula: The Company of Monsters (independent and very good graphic novel series).

For plays I recommend the musical Dracula by composer Frank Wildhorn. It’s pretty much a musical adaptation of the 1992 Bram Stoker’s Dracula movie.

For novels I recommend the sorely under-rated Dracula books by Fred Saberhagen. There are ten in all and three short stories. The first book is The Dracula Tape. The audio books are available on Amazon and Audible (but sadly not the printed versions except used or digital) and the audio books are brilliantly read by Roblin Bloodworth (I kid you not. That’s really the reader’s name.). I strongly feel Fred Saberhagen’s Dracula novels deserve more positive attention than what they get.

And of course other books: Dracula, Carmilla, Let the Right One In. The first three Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice (and possibly Tale of the Body Thief for comic relief), All the obvious staples. But also try Quincey Morris: Vampire by P. N. Elrod.

For short stories try Box Number 50 by Fred Saberhagen which can be found in the Saberhagen vampire Tales and the Dracula in London short story collection edited by P. N. Elrod.

I’ll probably think of some better ones later. My mood about these things changes on a whim.

#Vampire #Vampires #Dracula

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