Ain't it the truth?!

More Hammer Films for me this evening. Kiss of the Vampire, 196...3, I think?

That's a good one, too! I have a multi-pack that has those 2 plus about 8 others.

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932). While the acting is a little dodgy, this is one of the best horror films ever...so incredibly perverse on so many levels. *****

That's a great collection. I have that, as well as the one we each received presents this year. Speaking of that set, ...

...watching The Gorgon. I'm on a Hammer Films kick right now.

I know what you mean! The 30's sure had a stranglehold on itself, didn't it? The opening of Frankenstein 31, King Kong, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (though a 1886 novella), The Black Cat, Freaks, The Most Dangerous Game, The Invisible Man... they weren't pulling any punches to the psyche.

I may do that next. After my Carrie Fisher homage. That, or Lord of the Rings.

Castle of Blood, to celebrate Barbara Steele's birthday.

That reminds me, I didn't post that I re-watched Black Sunday recently. Still a great movie, and I love that one line, "No need to fear the dead, they sleep very sound." Or something like that, either way I still get a chuckle out of it. Barbara was a gem like always. Hope she had a good birthday, she certainly deserves it and many more!

Black Sunday is not only my favorite my Steele film but it's my favorite Mario Bava movie as well. Yes, that line is perfectly quotable, and in general the
dialogue is pretty priceless. And don't get me started on the wonderfully executed visual effects!

Rosemary's Baby

I need a minute to even register this movie. It's the cock tease equivalent of horror movies. Right when you think you're really going to get something, it ends. We know the baby get's daddy's eyes, but what of the rest of him? There was talk about his hands and feet. Where they hooved? Damn it, movie don't tease me, I want to see!!

The last five minutes are worth the two hours of AGONY that it took to get to the good stuff. If it weren't such a good dramatic ending I would be pissed off about the ending being so abrupt. Does Rosemary take care of Adrian as his mother? The moral battle she must be going through right then at realizing who the father really was. It would make a beautiful story; the devil's child, surely evil and without hesitation for the sake of good must be destroyed, but at the same time... She is his mother. She held him within her, and is a part of her. He may be the devil spawn but he is still an innocent (at this point anyway from what we've seen, I don't think a baby even of Satan is capable of sin as a helpless infant). Would she try to influence upon him some good values? Or give in to the coven's desires to raise the anti-Christ?

Trying to find this on YouTube I came across what looked like a sequel. I'll have to look into it and see what happens next. For once I feel I am in need of a sequel because DAMN... You got me, movie... I see the hype.