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2019-05-30
"Dawn Of The Dead" and "Trauma" uncut in Germany!
Great news for German horror fans: giallo shocker "Trauma" (1993) by Dario Argento, and zombie uber-classic "Dawn Of The Dead" (1978) by George A. Romero have been removed from German "Index", now allowing legal uncut releases in Germany.
2019-03-30
Joseph Pilato dies at age 70
Captain Henry Rhodes, played by Joseph Pilato in George A. Romero's zombie classic "Day Of The Dead" (1985), is one the most iconic figures in all of horror cinema. Pilato as Rhodes is to horror cinema what Sean Connery is to undercover agent films, Sylvester Stallone to boxing films, or Juergen Prochnow to naval war movies: the definitive incarnation of the character he's supposed to be, where the actor becomes synonymous with his role, the one that sets the standard in its class.
Never before or after has the army-general-gone-mad been portrayed more boldly, Joseph Pilato made it look as if the man was physically burning on the inside. Pilato plays Rhodes, a character driven by fear and despair, full of hatred and impatience, with such grotesque intensity, you're shocked, and break into laughter at the same time.
This is not your average gun crazy soldier - this man has serious issues. He feels the ground slipping away beneath his feet, his own redundancy imminent, unable to adjust and cooperate. In the end, when it all falls apart, all that's left for him is to sacrifice himself for his narrow minded cause: "Choke on them!"
Joseph Pilato's screen time in "Day Of The Dead" is one of the (many) outstanding features of the film, a perfect match for George A. Romero's comic strip inspired style of direction.
Never before or after has the army-general-gone-mad been portrayed more boldly, Joseph Pilato made it look as if the man was physically burning on the inside. Pilato plays Rhodes, a character driven by fear and despair, full of hatred and impatience, with such grotesque intensity, you're shocked, and break into laughter at the same time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRWbg8A3rDg
This is not your average gun crazy soldier - this man has serious issues. He feels the ground slipping away beneath his feet, his own redundancy imminent, unable to adjust and cooperate. In the end, when it all falls apart, all that's left for him is to sacrifice himself for his narrow minded cause: "Choke on them!"
Joseph Pilato's screen time in "Day Of The Dead" is one of the (many) outstanding features of the film, a perfect match for George A. Romero's comic strip inspired style of direction.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BKJHtobSvE
Joseph Pilato passed away on March 24th 2019 at age 70.
R.I.P.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Pilato
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0683334/
https://twitter.com/tedgeoghegan/status/1110250966606065670
https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/joseph-pilato-day-of-the-dead-captain-rhodes-dies-at-70
2019-03-27
The Amusement Park (1973) - George A. Romero's unreleased film
They're only very few, but those few who have seen it are deeply impressed, if not shocked, by it. Now a group of people is working on bringing "The Amusement Park" to a wider audience.
It's not a zombie film, but a scary one, about aging and society. And from what we can read in the few sources we have it really stirs up your guts - here's what film scholar Tony Williams, Professor and Area Head of Film Studies in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, had to say about it in the (only) "Cinema Spectrum" issue from 1980:
"... it is one of the most radical indictments of American callousness towards the vulnerable members of its society ... What gives THE AMUSEMENT PARK its edge is its keen combination of fantasy and realism in an allegorical condemnation of selfish materialism ... The film is too powerful for American society. It must never be released but kept in obscurity. ..."
Nowadays, writer Daniel Kraus, who has worked with Guillermo Del Toro, had a chance to watch the film, and made a couple of ecstatic tweets about it - here's one from Nov. 2018:
"With the exception of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - maybe - THE AMUSEMENT PARK is Romero’s most overtly horrifying film. Hugely upsetting in form & function."
And here's another one:
"It's hellish."
So, in other words, as you may have guessed: everybody needs to see this! And, yes, Daniel Kraus and the George-A.-Romero-foundation are working towards a 4K restoration!
Keep your eyes open for "The Amusement Park" - if we have any news for you we'll post it immediately. See "Sources" section below for more links and some more detail information.
An IMDB page has been created, but it doesn't give much information yet:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9270362/
If you want to help getting "The Amusement Park" released to the public, you can make a donation here:
https://www.georgearomerofoundation.org/the-amusement-park/restore-the-amusement-park
Sources:
https://www.georgearomerofoundation.org
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/george-romero-the-amusement-park-restoration-1202019725/
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2018/11/12/what-is-george-a.-romeros-the-amusement-park-actually-about
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3354783
https://geektyrant.com/news/exciting-details-on-george-a-romeros-unreleased-1973-horror-film-the-amusement-park-which-might-get-actually-released
https://twitter.com/DanielDKraus/status/1061401937499901953/photo/1
https://archive.org/details/CinemaSpectrum01Starbrite
http://sensesofcinema.com/author/tony-williams/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kraus_(author)
It's not a zombie film, but a scary one, about aging and society. And from what we can read in the few sources we have it really stirs up your guts - here's what film scholar Tony Williams, Professor and Area Head of Film Studies in the Department of English at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, had to say about it in the (only) "Cinema Spectrum" issue from 1980:
"... it is one of the most radical indictments of American callousness towards the vulnerable members of its society ... What gives THE AMUSEMENT PARK its edge is its keen combination of fantasy and realism in an allegorical condemnation of selfish materialism ... The film is too powerful for American society. It must never be released but kept in obscurity. ..."
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Nowadays, writer Daniel Kraus, who has worked with Guillermo Del Toro, had a chance to watch the film, and made a couple of ecstatic tweets about it - here's one from Nov. 2018:
"With the exception of NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD - maybe - THE AMUSEMENT PARK is Romero’s most overtly horrifying film. Hugely upsetting in form & function."
And here's another one:
"It's hellish."
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| https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Drr_EjoWsAMa-np.jpg |
So, in other words, as you may have guessed: everybody needs to see this! And, yes, Daniel Kraus and the George-A.-Romero-foundation are working towards a 4K restoration!
Keep your eyes open for "The Amusement Park" - if we have any news for you we'll post it immediately. See "Sources" section below for more links and some more detail information.
An IMDB page has been created, but it doesn't give much information yet:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9270362/
If you want to help getting "The Amusement Park" released to the public, you can make a donation here:
https://www.georgearomerofoundation.org/the-amusement-park/restore-the-amusement-park
Sources:
https://www.georgearomerofoundation.org
https://www.indiewire.com/2018/11/george-romero-the-amusement-park-restoration-1202019725/
https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2018/11/12/what-is-george-a.-romeros-the-amusement-park-actually-about
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/3354783
https://geektyrant.com/news/exciting-details-on-george-a-romeros-unreleased-1973-horror-film-the-amusement-park-which-might-get-actually-released
https://twitter.com/DanielDKraus/status/1061401937499901953/photo/1
https://archive.org/details/CinemaSpectrum01Starbrite
http://sensesofcinema.com/author/tony-williams/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kraus_(author)
2019-03-15
Streaming-Kino: Horror Express (1972) - Cushing, Lee, Savalas
Third part of "Streaming-Kino": Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee und Telly Savalas all in one movie!
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And together with Cushing, Lee und Savalas also Helga Line, Alberto de Mendoza, and Alice Reinheart in this slightly flashy, highly entertaining low-budget monster-shocker.
2019-03-12
Streaming-Kino: House On Haunted Hill (1959) - Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart
Zweiter Teil des "Streaming-Kinos": Vincent Price und Carol Ohmart in William Castle's Screamer-Klassiker "House on Haunted Hill" (1959)
2018-12-04
Streaming Kino: The Last Man On Earth (1964) - Vincent Price
"Streaming Kino" is a new series of articles: from time to time, and in no particular order, we will present recommendable and acclaimed movies, that are free to watch right here and now!
Many movies are freely available nowadays, for different reasons. In some cases, copyright has expired, in others, the movie was made available by the copyright holders, and some are even made for the open public in the first place.
Our first movie is:
A couple of years before "Night of the Living Dead" (1968) there was a movie that depicts the apocalypse with striking resemblance: "The Last Man on Earth" with Vincent Price is about vampires, but doesn't look at all like spiderwebs, dungeons, or the black cape from 1897. It's happening right here, in our modern world, on a scale that hasn't been seen before. Society has collapsed entirely - the enemy is out there in the streets, it's inside your head, and the struggle is to the bitter end.
"The Last Man..." is based on Richard Matheson's novel "I am Legend" from 1954, and George A. Romero did take a peek or two at Matheson's work for "Night...". The similarities are undeniable, "The Last Man..." being the prior almost feels like a template for "Night...".
Nonetheless the films are quite different. Vincent Price and the vampires are still connected to the romanticism associated with Dracula and Hammer movies, personal tragedy plays a big role in "The Last Man...", science still has an ace up it's sleeve. In "Night...", on the other hand, it's the naked horror of society disintegrating, on all levels.
In 1971 Matheson's novel has been (re)made into a movie called "The Omega-Man" with Charlton Heston, again in 2007 as "I am Legend" with Will Smith and "I Am Ωmega" featuring Mark Dacascos - but "The Last Man on Earth" from 1964 is still and by far the most gripping and touching version.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)
Many movies are freely available nowadays, for different reasons. In some cases, copyright has expired, in others, the movie was made available by the copyright holders, and some are even made for the open public in the first place.
Our first movie is:
The Last Man On Earth (1964)
"L'ultimo uomo della Terra", USA/Italy, directed by Ubaldo Ragona and Sidney Salkow |
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"The Last Man..." is based on Richard Matheson's novel "I am Legend" from 1954, and George A. Romero did take a peek or two at Matheson's work for "Night...". The similarities are undeniable, "The Last Man..." being the prior almost feels like a template for "Night...".
Nonetheless the films are quite different. Vincent Price and the vampires are still connected to the romanticism associated with Dracula and Hammer movies, personal tragedy plays a big role in "The Last Man...", science still has an ace up it's sleeve. In "Night...", on the other hand, it's the naked horror of society disintegrating, on all levels.
In 1971 Matheson's novel has been (re)made into a movie called "The Omega-Man" with Charlton Heston, again in 2007 as "I am Legend" with Will Smith and "I Am Ωmega" featuring Mark Dacascos - but "The Last Man on Earth" from 1964 is still and by far the most gripping and touching version.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058700/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Man_on_Earth_(1964_film)
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2018-11-06
"Jacob's Ladder" Remake kommt 2019!
Die Remake-Welle macht spaetestens seit "Evil Dead" (2013) auch vor heiligen Kultfilmen keinen Halt - "Jacob's Ladder" kommt 2019.
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