I'll try to keep this short just in case there are still problems with this computer; I had it half-written once and AOL decided to disconnect me!
Daughters of Darkness (1971): The Belgian director Harry Kumel is little-known here apart from this strange art-house horror (and I use the word very loosely) and a glorious oddity called "Malpertuis" (Orson Welles speaking Flemish anyone?) What we have here is a grand hotel in Ostend out of season inhabited only by a honeymoon couple with problems and the Countess Elisabeth Bathory, played by a very glamourous Delphine Seyrig, and her lesbian companion. For those who know their horror history, the countess is probably several hundred years old and kept her youth by drinking blood (originally of virgins -- but she's less fussy now.) A weird yet beautiful bit of nonsense.
The Red House (1947): I've wanted to see this again for a long time, but it wasn't worth the wait as it has aged badly. Good old Edward G. Robinson plays a crippled farmer who possessedly is raising the daughter of his lost love, together with his sister played by Judith Anderson (the wonderful Mrs. Danvers but pretty ordinary here). There's something evil lurking in the woods near the ruins of the red house or so Eddie G. would have us believe, but the movie is no more than mouldy melodrama.
I'll try posting this now and see how I get on...
No comments:
Post a Comment