a few British horror films I’d never seen or heard of one Italian and one Spanish shocker.
Friday night commenced with the first Italian horror movie filmed in colour, “Drops of Blood” aka “Mill of the Stone Women” (1960).
In 1800s Holland, a fine arts professor and an unlicensed surgeon run a lab where the former’s daughter receives blood transfusions from kidnapped women who posthumously become macabre art. IMDb
Friday night concluded with a British oddity, “Eye of the Devil” (1966). A flick I’d never seen, indeed, never heard of even though it is packed with huge names. David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence, Flora Robson, David Hemmings and Sharon Tate.
How could I have never known anything about a film with those names? Anyway a weird one, as many pointed out a mixture of “Eyes Wide Shut” and “The Wicker Man”.
Workers employed at a French vineyard quietly follow old pagan rituals that call for the life of the marquis owner to save his crops during dry seasons. IMDb
Saturday night’s viewing commenced with one recommended, which I already had down on my list, Eloy de la Iglesia’s “The Cannibal Man” (1972). A good recommendation. I’ve liked the four titles I’ve watched of his, you know which way this one is going but it’s still a good’un.
A meat factory worker accidentally kills a taxi driver, and begins gradually killing people close to him in order to cover up his original crime. He starts getting rid of the mounting corpses stored in his bedroom through his day job. IMDb
Saturday night viewing concluded with the horror show that was the Yankees loss to the Mets, in their second game of the Subway Series. A horror that was continued on Sunday evening.
Sunday night’s viewing commenced with “…and Now The Screaming Starts!” (1973). Another oddity, a Roy Ward Baker horror flick I hadn’t seen, it looks like the only one I hadn’t.
England, 1795: the young Catherine has just married Charles Fengriffen and moves into his castle. She becomes the victim of a curse that was laid on the family long ago. On her wedding night she is raped by a ghost and gets pregnant. IMDb
Sunday night’s viewing concluded with another of the few British horror films of the 60s/70s I hadn’t seen before, “Daughters of Darkness” aka “Vampyres” (1974) poster. You can’t beat a bit of sapphic vampire action with a pair of beauties…
A pair of women lure passers-by to their countryside mansion to feed on them to satisfy their need for blood. IMDb
It also say a bit of J&B watch, another oddity as it’s normally just Italian films…
