WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Scream and Scream Again 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.360 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind production of My 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:14.680 Heart Radio. Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. This is 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:17.639 Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick, and we have 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:20.640 a we have a weird one for you this week. Um, 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:23.040 because and this is one that is weird in so 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.520 many ways. Because sometimes the weird element of a weird 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:30.720 House Cinema selection it's about like a weird monster, a 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:36.960 weird character performance. Uh, this one has weirdness in its structure, 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.840 it's in its values, it's a it's a strange film 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:47.160 to behold. It is nineties seventies scream and Scream Again. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:50.880 I could not tell you what this movie was about 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.520 until about fifteen minutes from the end. And then at 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.720 the end there's a twist that really does kind of 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:01.440 make sense of everything. But up until then, this is 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:06.240 one of the most disjointed, confusing movies I have ever watched. Yeah, 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.960 this this movie throws you into the deep end and 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:10.800 and it and it is gonna watch and see if 0:01:10.800 --> 0:01:14.360 you can swim. It's uh, you're in in a way 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:19.840 to to a major degree. This film is such an 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:24.120 immersive experience because of that, because you're it feels like 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:27.840 the guardrails are off in terms of structure. Um, so 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.320 I I greatly enjoyed this one. It's it's one that 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:35.880 has a certain standing in the cult film status and 0:01:36.080 --> 0:01:40.360 among the movie enthusiasts for its weirdness. Uh. Ebert referred 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.120 to this film is Goddard for the masses, though I'm 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.520 not sure I completely understand what he's saying though, or 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.520 think it's the best way to describe the film. But yeah, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:52.800 it's a hard one to nail down. And it's also 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.520 one where, if you look at the way it's promoted, 0:01:56.320 --> 0:01:59.080 you're gonna go into this expecting, oh, it's we're gonna 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.680 watch a horror film that has Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.200 and Peter Cushing in it. Um, well, let's see what 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:07.440 this is about. But it's really not that. It's more 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:11.640 of a conspiracy science fiction film starring a handful of 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:15.600 lesser known actors with some cameos for the most part 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:19.000 by these three individuals. I think I can understand what 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:23.160 what he means by good art for the masses in that. Okay, 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.280 so I guess good art is like French new wave cinema, right, 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:30.600 like art films that are non traditional structures Uh, they're 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:34.679 gonna they're gonna ask weird existential questions. They're gonna be 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:37.399 of a different composition than the films you were used 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.560 to before. And this is in that tradition. You could 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.720 say it is structured like an art film. It is. 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.280 It doesn't have an easy to follow linear plot like 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.920 you would see in a standard genre thriller, which is 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.040 what it sort of turns out to be in the end, 0:02:52.680 --> 0:02:55.120 even though like it takes you most of the length 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:57.520 of the movie to figure that out. Yeah, yeah, and 0:02:57.560 --> 0:03:00.040 I and I don't I don't have much familiarity with 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.959 with Goddard myself, but certainly when I compare this film 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:11.040 to like pure artsy cinema, pure uh psychedelic cinema, there's 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:13.400 there's almost like too much freedom in some of those 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.520 type ventures where it just becomes a you know, fall 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.400 from one weird sequence to the next. This one seems 0:03:20.440 --> 0:03:23.000 to be to have an intelligent structure. This film is 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.880 like a slime mold making its way through a labyrinth. 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:28.800 Um you know that there's some sort of logic involved 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.160 in its path, or you trust that there is, but 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:35.520 you're not at sure exactly like how this thing works 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.440 without a brain. It's a It's a film that I 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.800 would compare favorably to V three Psychomania. In some regards, 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.000 you can't really compare anything directly to Psychomania, but I 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:50.720 feel like it hits similar notes of the weird. You know. Now, 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.640 Another thing this film has going for it is this 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.840 is very much a Hollywood acid movie. Uh, this is 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.360 a subject we covered on Stuff to Blow your Mind 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.480 a few years back. Yeah. The acid doesn't show up 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.040 until about two thirds of the way through, but then 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:07.520 it is the star of the third act. From there on, 0:04:07.720 --> 0:04:11.160 it's like acid in every scene. Right. And by acid, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:15.400 we don't mean psychedelic, we mean good old dissolving acid, 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:20.080 a big vat acid. In fact, the wonderful um of 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:22.960 a promise from the poster. The original poster for this 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:27.960 film is triple distilled horror as powerful as a vat 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:31.080 of boiling acid. Oh I'm glad they got it up 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.080 to a boil. Yeah, you want to boil your acid 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:40.960 from maximum uh destruction of organic tissues? Um. Without scream 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:45.560 and scream again, there would be no Batman forever. Yeah. Also, 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:48.159 this poster is pretty great because you also see a 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.320 body dissolving an ascid it's it's a really really tight poster. 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:52.520 I don't know if I put it on my wall, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:56.680 but it's it's pretty. It's pretty cool. I agree. But wait, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:00.240 what does triple distilled horror mean? Well, most of your 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.159 horror movies are only um only go through a single 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:08.520 or double distillation process. Joe, this film has been triple distilled. 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:13.560 This is the crystal Skull Vodka of films. Yeah, yeah, 0:05:13.600 --> 0:05:15.440 I know, I have no idea what this means. But 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.760 it's a strong promlemse. I mean, that's really I think 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:20.880 the ultimate. I love it when when a film is 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.960 promoted as is something well beyond anything that can be 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:29.719 tested or quantified. All right, Uh, I'm gonna go ahead 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.520 and mention where you can where you can watch this 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:35.039 in case anyone out there has has heard the pitch 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:37.520 and they're like, well I want in on this. Well, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:40.560 you can rent or purchase this film digitally most places. 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.560 It's also out on DVD and Blu Ray from KL 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.440 Studio Classics. It's Keno Lorber. They always do a great 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.359 job with these. I watched it streaming myself. Yeah I 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:54.200 did too. Now I think we should issue a disclaimer 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:57.000 near the top. I guess I sort of already alluded 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:02.360 to this, but our discussion will necessarily include spoilers for 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.640 this movie because I think there's literally no way to 0:06:05.720 --> 0:06:09.160 talk about it that makes sense without spoiling the twist ending, 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.480 because nothing makes sense until the twist ending, and then 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.120 it kind of does so, so I don't know, like 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.040 we we couldn't really have a coherent discussion of the 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:22.160 themes or plot of the movie without spoiling it, if 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.760 that makes any sense. Yeah, yeah, there's like, what can 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.240 you say other than I was confused by this scene? 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:30.960 And I will also advice We're about to listen to 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.719 some trailer audio here, but I would advise against watching 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:36.839 the trailer for this film before you go into it, 0:06:36.920 --> 0:06:39.840 because ultimately that's the feeling of being lost, of not 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:41.680 knowing where you're going. I thought that was one of 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.680 the best payoffs of this movie. Yeah, totally, all right, 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:52.040 let's have to listen. She wasn't just murdered, if you 0:06:52.080 --> 0:07:06.360 know what I mean. Job nobody snapped through a high 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:21.360 tensile steel He didn't look all right, Well, shall we 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.600 get into the people responsible for Scream and Scream again? 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:28.960 We must? We have no choice? All right, Well, let's start. 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:31.800 At the top of the director is Gordon Hessler, who 0:07:31.800 --> 0:07:37.440 lived through German born director of Danish and English heritage, 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:42.040 who directed nineteen sixty nine The Oblong Box, nineteen seventies 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:46.040 Cry of the Banshee Ones, Murders in the Room Morgue, 0:07:46.200 --> 0:07:50.960 and the nineteen seventy three Ray Harry Housing Extravaganza of 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:54.520 the Golden Voyage of Sinbad, which starred John Philip Law, 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.320 Caroline Monroe, and Tom Baker. I think Tom Baker plays 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.000 a sore sorrow of some kind. John Phillip Waw is 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:07.120 Sinbad um and uh, I don't remember who Carolyn Monroe 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.440 isn't it? But yeah, this one, like all of the 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.440 Ray Harry house in movies, has some excellent stop motion monsters. 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.040 I don't know how well this one passes the modern 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:20.040 cultural sensitivity test, but the stop motion effects are fantastic. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:23.880 There's one point where Sinbad's crew seems to that they 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.800 fight like an animated statue that seems to be based 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:30.480 on depictions of like Hindu gods with multiple arms, and 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:33.640 these arms are all wielding swords during the fight. Uh, 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:37.120 they're just monsters of plenty. It's it's fantastic. Yeah, I 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:39.280 got to see that one on the big screen at 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.200 a drive in theater many years ago. Let's say Gordon 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.160 Hessler directed a slew of things. He directed quite a 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:48.960 bit of TV episodes of such shows as The Master, 0:08:49.200 --> 0:08:54.040 That's The Levan Cliff, Ninja Show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents Chips 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:58.200 and more. He also directed a nine five Ninja movie 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:02.720 titled Pray for Death, starring eighties Ninja boom um star 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:07.640 show Kasuki. I don't know this one, um, it's one 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.640 I don't know if I've seen it in its entirety, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:14.360 but it has a very memorable VHS bit of box 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.280 ar because it kind of looks like the Shredder from 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.840 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and he's he's staring right at you, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:21.760 and you know that he's going to cut you with 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:26.080 sharukins and stuff. So I remember this this VHS box 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.520 aren't staring back at me when I was a kid. Oh, 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:31.120 I just looked it up. Yes, the mask on his 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.520 helmet looks like a piece of grilling equipment. Yeah, it 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.280 has sort of a metal face mask going on, very 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:40.920 very shredd Or esque. This seems like something there would 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:43.800 be an infomercial on this face mask for it's it's 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.920 how you see her salmon or something. So I haven't 0:09:47.920 --> 0:09:50.160 seen it myself. I don't think i've seen it. Possible 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:51.840 I saw parts of it on TV at some point 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:53.720 or another. But if anyone out there is a fan, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.480 let us know. All right, let's get to the writing year. 0:09:56.520 --> 0:10:00.000 The screenplay was written by Christopher Wicking, who through two 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:03.320 thousand and eight a British screenwriter known for, uh, some 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:05.400 of the films we listed already, We're gonna hear these 0:10:05.440 --> 0:10:07.520 titles again and again. Cry of the Band, Murder in 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.920 the Room, Morgue, Blood from the Mummies, Tomb, Absolute Beginners. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:16.160 In Lady Chatterley's Lover, I read that despite the fact 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:20.480 that this movie is based on a novel, a lot 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:24.000 of the distinctive ideas and it actually come from the 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.439 screenplay adaptation. Like I think a lot of the conspiracy 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:30.240 elements that we discover at the end are actually more 0:10:30.360 --> 0:10:32.880 the screenplay than the book it was based on. Yeah, 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.360 and the book it's based on is The Disoriented Man 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.520 by Peter Saxon. Now you're probably wondering, well, who's this 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:45.160 Peter Saxon guy, Well, he's nobody, he's not real it's 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:48.000 just a pen name used by various thriller authors from 0:10:48.040 --> 0:10:51.040 the nineteen fifties through the nineteen seventies, though I've read 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.440 that The Disoriented Man in particular was mainly written by 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:57.880 a writer by the name of Stephen D. Francis and 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.560 edited by W. Howard Baker, who originated the Saxon brand 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.439 of pulp. Ah. So, Peter Saxon is kind of a 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:09.480 composite human built out of the parts of other humans. Yeah, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.960 I guess you could say that. All right, let's get 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:15.280 into the cast on this one. But like I said earlier, though, 0:11:15.360 --> 0:11:17.920 this one's kind of weird because if you went by billing, 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:21.280 you just start with Cushioning and Price and Lee. But 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:23.959 they're not really the main characters. You don't spend a 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.959 tremendous amount of time with them for the most part, 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.559 maybe Price more than the other two, but not to 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:32.720 say they're not important, but they're not really the main characters. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.400 I want to start with the characters that we see 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.600 more of in the film. All right, So first of all, 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:43.080 we have, um, we have this character name Detective Belaviere, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.199 who is played by Alfred Marks, who of one through 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.920 a British comic actor and entertainer who, in my opinion, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.640 is pretty great in this is a tired, grumpy police 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:59.520 detective who has seen it all twice, is tired of 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:02.079 it all, um, and it's going to let you know 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.920 about it. Yes, but he's this is a great performance 0:12:06.040 --> 0:12:10.640 because the character is he's this bellowing blow hard who 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.880 has he's just always like dropping little comments about his 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:20.600 police knowledge about what psychos are like and he um, 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:24.440 he's got a great mustache. He's good in this role. Yeah, 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.040 now interesting. This is probably his best known film role, 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.559 but he did do a fair amount of TV and 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:34.480 also appeared in such films as Fannie Hill and Ken 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:40.760 Russell's seven film Valentino. Naming this character Belover, I thought 0:12:40.760 --> 0:12:43.600 it was a great choice. It's kind of Dickensian naming, right. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:46.079 It's it's one of those where the character's name just 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.840 sounds like their personality. Yeah, yeah, he doesn't. He bellows 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.480 a lot for sure. Now. The next character want to 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:57.400 mention is this Dr David Sorrel, who is I guess 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.599 as close to a central hero as we get in 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:04.439 this film, though I wouldn't rate him as being tremendously 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:08.120 effective at foiling evil. No. In fact, he almost seems 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.959 to be tempted to collaborate with the evil at the 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.360 very end, until he's like, wait, the person you were 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.880 going to dismember is somebody I've met. Yeah, he's way 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:20.760 more like you know, as as a hero in a 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.679 film like this. You know, it's it's courtesy to listen 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.480 to a villain monologue a little bit at least. I mean, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.559 it would be rude not to right, of course, but 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.800 Dr Sorrel here, Yeah, he seems to listen a little 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:35.840 bit too much and be a little bit too eager. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:39.200 Um He's like, no, no, yeah, absolutely, let's hear all 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.560 about it. Price is giving a monologue like I am 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:46.240 not evil when I build these people out of other 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:49.920 people's body parts. Uh, And Sorrel is like, no, that 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:54.920 sounds reasonable. Yeah, yeah, it's it's it's fun. It's so 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.280 this this actor, this is one of those guys that 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.280 I'm not sure exactly who he looks like, but he 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.719 looks like body else that I've seen in many more 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.520 things than I think. That kind of messes with me 0:14:04.559 --> 0:14:07.720 a little bit. But the actor here is Christopher Matthews. Uh. 0:14:07.880 --> 0:14:10.680 Dates unknown as far as I could find, but active 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:14.320 from nineteen sixty three through two thousand and six, mostly 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:19.040 did TV were including roles on Dr Who, Space and 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:22.840 East Enders. He also appears in nineteen seventies Scars of 0:14:22.920 --> 0:14:26.520 Dracula starring Christopher Lee and nineteen seventy one See No 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.720 Evil starring Mia Pharaoh. I thought it was an interesting 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:33.560 choice that he the character is technically supposed to be 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.680 a medical examiner. I think we first meet him during 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:41.040 an autopsy scene, and I couldn't understand why he just 0:14:41.200 --> 0:14:44.520 sort of becomes an assistant to the detective for the 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.520 rest of the movie, like he's going to all the 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.480 crime scenes. I I do love it when this happens 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.120 in a film, um the generally a genre film of 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:55.280 some sort, where somebody who should not be present at 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:58.760 every stage of like a homicide investigation, just it just 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.720 becomes baked into the investigation. They just they just hang 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.000 out long enough and they're just part of it. Well, 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.600 you know what, you know what happens here. It's taking 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:08.920 it too personal. He is he's he's taking it too 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:14.560 personal for sure. Alright, Another another person, this is probably 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.560 the closest thing we have to a central relatable character 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:22.320 in the film is policewoman Helen Bradford, who is frequently 0:15:22.400 --> 0:15:25.840 just imperil due to the villains of the picture, but 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:28.480 is very much a likable screen presence for the most part. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:32.160 I would say, yeah, So she plays an officer who 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:36.560 goes undercover because one of the multiple plot threads in 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.080 this movie is, Hey, we've got some psychotic murderer who's 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:43.880 just who's just killing women and drinking their blood. I 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:45.480 know what we need to do. We need to put 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.360 one of our officers undercover as a as a PARTI 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:53.120 er at a London, uh psychedelic rock club, and then 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.160 she will get picked up by the murderer and then 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:57.280 we'll let the murderer drink her blood a little bit, 0:15:57.400 --> 0:15:59.240 and then eventually we'll get in there and do something 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.640 about it. Yeah, and Helen's like sure works through me. So. 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:08.520 Helen is played by Judy Bloom, actor Stage, screen and 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:11.120 two TV, who I think started off as a child 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:15.440 actor based on her dates on IMDb. All right, Uh, 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.880 despite all those wonderfully villainous names on the poster, Cushing, 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.560 Lee and Price, Uh, it's ultimately an actor by the 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:27.320 name of Marshall Jones that really plays I think in 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.960 my opinion, the most frightening character in the picture. Uh, 0:16:30.040 --> 0:16:32.880 this guy by the name of Conrats. Yes, and I 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.120 thought this actor was also very good. He has a 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:39.640 kind of a void face, a face like a predatory 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.480 bird of some kind. And uh and he and he 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:47.800 uses it to great effect. He is he is much menace. Yeah. 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:51.200 He has this, uh, this look on his face most 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.520 of the movie where it's it's like he just thought 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.720 of something funny. He could have said in the torture 0:16:57.200 --> 0:17:01.080 uh inquiry that he was conducting or lier in the day. Oh, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:06.280 I should have said, don't get too attached to it exactly. 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.440 Like he's a total total villain. But uh, Marshall Jones 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.520 performance here like he has a he has a real 0:17:12.680 --> 0:17:16.560 physically imposing stature. Uh. You know, he looks like he 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.960 towers over, perhaps naturally, most of the other actors in 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:22.480 the in the picture. So yeah, I thought he was 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:27.439 quite good in this. Um. This particular actor lived two 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:31.800 thousand and seven. Um appeared in the film's Cry of 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.200 the Banshee in nineteen seventy Murders in the Room or 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:37.960 nineteen seventy one. UM, but this seems to be his 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.560 his biggest role. Um. If you you know, when you 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.800 look into the pictures he's he's been in, this is 0:17:42.840 --> 0:17:45.680 the one that seems to be best remembered, and it 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.440 seems like the main one where he played a central villain. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.359 I don't know that he really played this sort of 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.159 role in other pictures, but he excels here. He's some 0:17:54.440 --> 0:18:00.080 kind of high level functionary in an unnamed easter in 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:06.520 European dictatorship. Yeah, that has this frightening trident as its icon. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.159 Uh and and and yeah, not not a trident like 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:13.080 the like the flag of Barbados, like a scary one 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:16.080 that looks like a devil's pitchfork. Yeah. Well, so I 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.240 actually interpreted that as three arrows, but that would be 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:24.640 weird imagery because a bit of symbology of the history 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:28.600 of European politics. So the three arrows was a political 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:33.240 symbol in uh, like I think nineteen twenties thirties Germany, 0:18:33.359 --> 0:18:35.600 but it was the symbol of like the social Democratic 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:38.760 coalition that because the three arrows I think had something 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:44.720 to do with the opposing Nazism, monarchism and communism. Okay, well, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:46.280 either way it would make sense because I think and 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.080 I was reading that in the original novel it's it's 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.200 supposed to be some sort of fictional German regime and 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:54.119 they made it. They went a little more vague with 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.359 it in the in the picture, which I ultimately like, 0:18:56.520 --> 0:18:59.040 it feels a lot more you know, kafka esque, to 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:02.640 not have a particular name for this uh, this country. 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:06.680 It's just the h and maybe it maybe doesn't even 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:09.240 have a name, Like that's the degree of the of 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.840 the totalitarianism here. It's just uh, this place where the 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:18.159 trident flag or the triple arrow flag reins. All right. 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:22.040 The next major name in this movie is Michael Gothard, 0:19:22.400 --> 0:19:26.320 who plays Keith Uh, the alleged vampire killer. Let's take 0:19:26.359 --> 0:19:32.000 your standard Mick Jagger type, but then creep if I him. Yeah, yeah, 0:19:32.040 --> 0:19:35.240 he's pretty great because he's yeah, he's he's handsome, but 0:19:35.400 --> 0:19:38.480 in a dangerous way. You know, he's got that you 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:41.119 don't completely trust him, and of course we're led to 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:43.879 believe that he's killing people and uh and hunting them 0:19:43.920 --> 0:19:47.520 for sport. At a discos, he has this ridiculous uh 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.399 what kind of way he described this shirt that he's wearing. 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.680 It's like a purple pirate shirt. Yeah, he's wearing like 0:19:54.840 --> 0:20:00.600 a lavender shiny satin frilly shirt and he's wearing it 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.320 through a chase sequence that takes up the middle third 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:07.639 of the movie. So it's he's scrambling over rocks, jumping 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:12.439 through windows of abandoned buildings and driving around London running 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:16.960 cars off the road, all wearing this this purple satin shirt. Yeah. 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:21.280 So yeah, it's it's a great, great performance. Um. Michael Gotthard, 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.840 who ninety nine through two uh, went on to be 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.520 known for a number of other films. This was apparently 0:20:27.680 --> 0:20:31.080 one of his big breakout roles. He'd previously been in 0:20:31.200 --> 0:20:33.680 some TV shows and a few films such as the 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:37.720 West German drama Michael Cole host at Dae Rebel from 0:20:37.800 --> 0:20:42.800 nineteen sixty nine, which start David Warner. Um. But after 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.879 this he went onto some really memorable roles, including the 0:20:45.960 --> 0:20:50.480 Demented Exorcist and witch Hunter Father Baret and Kin Russell's 0:20:50.520 --> 0:20:53.600 The Devils from nineteen seventy one. And then he also 0:20:53.720 --> 0:20:56.640 plays this, Um, I'm not sure is this a villain 0:20:56.760 --> 0:21:00.119 or a Hinchman Joe from Ones for Your Eye is 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:05.280 only James Bond film. This was a late Roger Moore movie, 0:21:05.359 --> 0:21:08.400 and I think he plays an assassin in it, he's 0:21:08.440 --> 0:21:11.399 like a guy who Oh, now I'm afraid I'm remembering 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:13.560 this wrong. I think he's a guy who like he 0:21:13.680 --> 0:21:16.080 like puts a rifle together out of a briefcase that 0:21:16.160 --> 0:21:19.000 he carries around. Oh, that's always a good bond villain 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.439 move the character's name villain or hnchman. And I think 0:21:22.440 --> 0:21:24.160 you're right. I think it's more of an assassin. Character 0:21:24.640 --> 0:21:29.480 is Emil Leopold Locke. Uh. And I I've seen this movie, 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.960 or at least a large chunk of it, But really 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:35.320 the only thing that that really I remember from it 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:41.359 our Gothard's signature spectacles in this because uh, he has these. 0:21:41.560 --> 0:21:45.560 Uh there's a curious shape to them. Uh. And apparently 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:47.639 he insisted on wearing them. He was like, no, no, 0:21:47.800 --> 0:21:51.720 that this character needs something else. Um. And indeed this 0:21:51.880 --> 0:21:54.320 is also something you see in The Devils his character 0:21:54.400 --> 0:21:57.480 and that also has a pair of spectacles on. And 0:21:57.560 --> 0:21:59.800 there's something about Michael Gothard like he's he's he's a 0:21:59.800 --> 0:22:02.280 great character actor. Uh. He has been in a number 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:05.360 of roles and rememberable, but these two roles that really 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:08.360 stand out are ones where he wears kind of weird glasses. 0:22:08.480 --> 0:22:10.600 They just put him over the top. Yeah, I agree. 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:13.960 So in the Bond movie they're kind of octagons, and 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:16.120 the way he's made up for the Bond role, he looks. 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:18.719 He looks a little bit Jagger, still a little bit 0:22:18.920 --> 0:22:24.160 Kinski but all creep. Yeah. Meanwhile, in um, The Devil's 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:27.000 I'd say he looks a little bit Warren Zevon, a 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:30.600 little bit klaus Kinsky, you know. But but but strong 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.280 Zevon vines here at least the just the boy the 0:22:34.359 --> 0:22:36.879 character looks, not so much the way he acts the 0:22:36.960 --> 0:22:40.160 glasses however, I'm I mean, I don't think it's unreasonable 0:22:40.280 --> 0:22:43.960 for a seventeenth century Frenchman to potentially have spectacles of 0:22:44.080 --> 0:22:46.080 some sort, But I don't think they would have looked 0:22:46.119 --> 0:22:48.480 this modern and stylish. Maybe I'm wrong on that, but 0:22:49.400 --> 0:22:52.040 I think this is more of an artistic choice. H 0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.680 Russell's part for The Devil's you don't you don't think this? Uh, 0:22:55.840 --> 0:22:58.719 this psychotic convent had a had a flower child here 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:03.520 and there. Yeah yeah, um, but still very memorable role 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:07.040 for sure. Um. He he had a number of other 0:23:07.119 --> 0:23:10.240 prominent roles. Uh. He appears in the nineteen seventies Three 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.919 Musketeers movies. He pops up in Life Force, as well 0:23:14.920 --> 0:23:18.280 as a pair of Michael Caine movies of note, Jack 0:23:18.359 --> 0:23:22.840 the Ripper in the Last Valley. His last film before 0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:28.080 his untimely death was the T and T Frankenstein adaptation 0:23:28.480 --> 0:23:31.960 starring Patrick Bergen and Randy Quaid as the Monster. I've 0:23:32.000 --> 0:23:34.359 mentioned this film before on the show because I fondly 0:23:34.400 --> 0:23:36.560 remember watching it on T and T when I was 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:39.120