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The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires 1979
After a 16 year run, Hammer's Dracula series goes out in a blaze of Kung Fu! Features some quality blood soaked Asian T&A worthy of a Jess Franco Fu Manchu film. The 7 Golden Vampires' temple lair is particularly memorable with its boiling vat of blood surrounded by seven slanted torture tables to hold their female victims.
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Frankenstein Created Woman 1967
Baron Frankenstein goes metaphysical! Not your typical Hammer Frankenstein film in the sense that there's no gruesome surgery creating and bringing to life a patchwork of dead body parts topped off by your obligatory criminal brain. Instead the Baron's work is focused on the trapping and transplant of the human soul. 5 years later another British horror film, "The Asphyx" would tackle this very subject equally effectively. One of the highlights in the supporting cast was Hammer regular Thorley Walters…
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Barbarella 1968
"You'll wish you had died of pleasure before this day is done!" Quintessential 60s Psychedelia Pop Sci-Fi Softcore Pornography! By no means a good film. But a whole hell of a lot of fun to watch. It's like Ed Wood dropped acid and was given a budget!
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Lady in the Lake 1947
Fascinating experiment in filmmaking that ultimately fails to deliver. Lauded by MGM as the greatest breakthrough in film since the advent of the talkie. In terms of realism I find the first-person perspective gimmick rather clunky at times. Clever transitions and cutting techniques help enable seemingly long continuous takes. The choice of almost no traditional musical score helps the realism. Montgomery's occasional on screen narration feels intrusive and counter productive to the style they're attempting. Some quality verbal sparring between Montgomery & Totter. Prototypical hard boiled noir dialogue.