While Franco's relatively faithful adaptation has its faults, Lee's portrayal of a greying and weary Boyar is possibly my favourite Dracula. You really get the sense that he's been there, seen it, done it and left a trail of impaled corpses in his wake.
Also of note is the unique and ghostly way that Franco shows Dracula's brides rising from their coffins, Kinski's quietly insane Renfield, Soledad Miranda's child-murdering Lucy and some pretty effective, no-budget effects consisting of a few shadows and silhouettes.
An unusually restrained outing from Franco but one I thoroughly enjoyed.
The first film I ever watched at the cinema - Christmas Eve, 1972 and I was about to turn five in four days.
Daniel Johnston didn't start "Outsider Music".
I've seen Otway live a couple of times, shook his skinny hand once and still have a 7" of "Really Free". A lovely, sweet, incompetent, mess of a man.
Minus 1/2 a star for not showing the whole, painful clip of "Headbutts" and I don't care what anyone says, "Geneve" is a beautiful song.
"I've got this really, great idea!"
From the opening joust fought to the tune of "We Will Rock You" we know we're in for something a little different. Medieval tournaments crossed with modern day football, celebrity, and The Canterbury Tales, soundtracked with classic rock. Sounds awful? Well, it isn't and I'll take a lance to any knave that says otherwise!
A great big glorious mess of a movie and I love it!
I know I've been absent for a few weeks but my wife has had another Multiple Sclerosis relapse and is due to go back into hospital for another course of treatment - it's the same chemotherapy as they give leukaemia patients. Plus I've had to do a load of construction/carpentry work on my daughters bedroom and other assorted shit. Anyway, I thought I should at least try to get back into the swing of things and what better than the…
