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The Naschy Weekender Part 3… El Hombre Invisibilo: PAUL NASCHY interviewed in 1994
Our Paul Naschy Weekender reaches its shattering climax tonight with this eye witness account by one hapless hack of the great man’s guest appearance at London’s Eurofest in 1994… I KNOW that he’s played The Wolf Man, Frankenstein’s Monster, Dr Hyde, The Phantom Of The Opera, Hunchback Of The Morgue, Old Nick himself, Grand Inquisitors, […]
The Paul Naschy Weekender Part 2… THE WEREWOLF AND THE YETI reviewed
It’s the second day of our Paul Naschy Weekender and I trust you all managed to get some sleep after the horrific emotional roller coaster that was our examination of Werewolf’s Shadow / Walpurgis Night (1971.) Hopefully by now you’ve regained your composure and are appropriately attired in brown trousers because tonight we’ll be looking at Naschy’s […]
The Paul Naschy Weekender Part 1… WEREWOLF’S SHADOW reviewed
Welcome to our Paul Naschy Weekender here at The House Of Freudstein… all Naschy, all trashy and nothing but the Naschy! If you’ve just woken from your siesta and are sitting comfortably with your tapas and glass of rioja, we’re going to kick off with one of Jacinto Molina Alvarez’s most influential efforts. DVD. Region […]
Beating The Bishop… MAGDALENA – POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL Reviewed
West Germany, 1974) aka Beyond The Darkness / Devil’s Female. Directed by “Michael Walter”. We’ve already surveyed Spaghetti Exorcist clones, but Italians were by no means the only ones trying to join the post-Blatty box office bonanza during the 1970s, Catholic countries proving to be predictably fertile soil for the Devil’s cinematic seeds. In Spain, […]
Because She Was Worth It… Jorge Grau’s THE LEGEND OF BLOOD CASTLE Reviewed
DVD. Mya Communication. Region Free. Unrated. “Keep young and beautiful, it’s your duty to be beautiful, keep young and beautiful, if you wanna be loved…” Al Dublin / Harry Warren. For longer than I can remember, Jorge Grau’s The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue (1974) has featured prominently among my very favourite films and since […]
Oxytocin Trumps Testosterone… Cocteau’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST on BFI Blu-Ray
BD. BFI. Region B. PG. One of the sustaining myths of civilisation building is that of the women dragging their men folk out of the saloon bars and into the church pews… of the latter ceasing to spread their wild oats and getting down to some serious husbandry… of love overcoming lust and oxytocin trumping […]
Dead Ringer… THE BELL FROM HELL, Reviewed
“La Campana Del Inferno”. DVD. Pathfinder. Region 1. Unrated. When I asked Paul Naschy about the difficulties of making genre films under the Franco dictatorship, he told me that he had encountered far more problems since the democratisation of Spain. I guess that his simple-minded paeans to the glory days of Universal horror were never going to […]
ALL THE COLOURS Of Blu… Sergio Martino’s Classic Occult Giallo On Shameless BD
BD. Region B. Shameless. 18. When Argento’s Bird With The Crystal Plumage parlayed Mario Bava’s giallo formula into the stuff of international crossover hits in 1970, every spaghetti exploitation director worth their salt (and several who weren’t) scrambled to get a piece of the slasher action by setting killers in broad-brimmed hats and dark macs […]
Re-Booty Call… Victor Matellano’s VAMPYRES Remake Reviewed
DVD. Region 2. Soda Pictures. 18. Victor Matellano makes no bones about his passion for the Spanish horror film tradition, having previously directed a documentary short about Jesus Franco and a feature length examination (Zarpazos! Un Viaje Por El Spanish Horror, 2013) of the whole Iberian genre shooting match, showcasing the likes of Franco, Jorge […]
