My write-up of Dracula, Sovereign of the Damned has moved to the Carfax Abbey that is Diabolique. THIS should have been the future of Marvel movies: an anime adaptation of Tomb of Dracula.
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I’m on Diabolique, writing about Jean Harlow’s lunatic psycho-sexual comedy Red-Headed Woman which, with just a tweak here and there, could have just as easily been a disturbing horror film.
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It opens as any good film should: with a secret society of hooded criminals — the Crooked Circle — swearing allegiance to one another, to crime, to the occult, to pretty much anything evil they can think of.
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Over on the Cultural Gutter, I’m writing about the loony sci-fi epic, Hard to Be a God, a co-production between France, West Germany, and the Soviet Union made as the Berlin Wall was coming down.
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On the surface, The Wicker Man is the story of one police constable’s attempt to scrooge up a town’s May Day revelries. Delving deeper into its waters, however, is aided by a few key texts that informed the film.
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On Diabolique: Carl Theodor Dreyer’s surreal 1932 horror film Vampyr, Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla,” and the early history of vampire fiction, including dastardly Lord Ruthven and hapless Varney.
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These days, Bullitt‘s reputation is built almost entirely on the exhilarating eleven-minute car chase. Even people who have never seen the movie have seen or heard about that scene.
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