Friday 1 April 2011

John Not-Particularly Gaunt

So, so-called popular culture, Crazy Horses are fine but Mad Cows are not. That's just racism.

Watching "Dracula 1972" and admittedly not for the first time. Stand outs: Michael Kitchen as a randy hippy, rock band "the Stoneground"'s song "Alligator Man" (not available on general release), Johnny Alucard upsetting a vase at a rich ladies party to prove what a badass he is, the bit where Pete Cushing draws lines from the various letters in Alucard's name to work out that Alucard is Dracula backwards. Johnny's ultimate death-by-skylight-and-shower-fate. The way Steph Beacham's bosoms bloody the nose of gravity. The way that the "kids"* hang out in a coffee shop but go to the pub for pints of mild and desperately want to go to Jazz concerts.


I am clearly a seventies kid.


"Silver bullets are not practical and garlic not one hundred per cent effective"

And i was relying on those kievs!

* Bob's a cock

4 comments:

  1. Hmm. This may need revisiting.

    What's the fil-im with Richard O'Sullivan and George Sewell in it?

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  2. That's "The Haunted House of Horror". Should have been a good film but was mangled in the re-edit. Dave Bowie was up fort the part of the murderer - he couldn't have done a worse job than the knob they got in!

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  3. Where the hell was Kitchen? How did I miss him?

    And how come that Richard O'Sullivan wannabe in the monk's habit didn't get taken out?

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  4. He was one of the less showy members of the gang. Yeah, and it was a shame that the monk wasn't offed. And yet Caroline Munro died...no fair...

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