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     Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.203.110 |
Anyone seen Daughters of Darkness, a 1971 film? Or a forties Brit film, Daughter of Darkness? Both sound very interesting indeed, and certainly our-cup-of-tea stuff. | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
The 1971 film is rather fine - an elegant vampire film with clear echoes of Marienbad. The director's Malpertuis is also very interesting. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.21.23.93 |
Part of it was shot here in Ostend, in the old Hotel des Termes. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
I saw Malpertuis last year at the Fantastic Films Weekend in Bradford - an amazing film with a Gormenghast feel to it. They also showed Daughters of Darkness as the director, Harry Kumel (I think that's right - off the top of my head?), was a guest at the event. Unfortunately, I had clashes of events as I was part of the "press corps" interviewing another director there at the time, so I missed D of D and Kumel's interview. But if it's anything like Malpertuis it'll be worth watching (although possibly a bit slow-paced?) | ||
| Huw (Huw) Username: Huw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.179.237 |
I liked both Daughters of Darkness and Malpertuis, although I admired the latter more for the atmosphere of strangeness and a few weird images than anything else. It wasn't quite as good as I'd expected it to be but was certainly worth seeing. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
I've seen it several times. (Daughters of Darkness, that is.) Mostly for Andrea Rau. | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.178.214 |
I got the other one, 'Daughter'. Very strange atmosphere, the sort imperfect films often have, that of a sense of boundaries being nudged. Some beautiful images. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.31.153.8 |
I haven't seen Harry Kumel's Daughters of Darkness since it was shown on Channel 4 at least 20 years ago. I liked it, but I'm a sucker for stories set in out of season hotels. I haven't seen Malpertuis. Thinking about it, my fascination with Euro-Vampire horror goes all the way back to David Pirie's book The Vampire Cinema which I bought when I was little (too little for a lot of the pictures contained within ;->). Back then a movie book with a still from a Jean Rollin film on the front was unheard of, and I was amazed that Hammer was more or less dispensed with in favour of discussion of weird unheard of stuff like Ulli Lommel's Tenderness of the Wolves | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.74 |
Pirie will be at the Brighton WHC, I believe, John. | ||
| Hubert (Hubert) Username: Hubert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 78.22.229.114 |
This is where Daughters of Darkness was shot: http://www.thermaepalace.be/ Very close to my humble abode. | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.31.153.8 |
Pirie will be at the Brighton WHC, I believe, John. How marvellous! On my second day at medical school I was chatting away as one does about 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' over the dissection table, and my anatomy professor subsequently loaned me his copy of 'A Heritage of Horror' to read. And I've still got his Vampire Cinema book somewhere. | ||
| Carolinec (Carolinec) Username: Carolinec Registered: 06-2009 Posted From: 82.38.75.85 |
>>On my second day at medical school I was chatting away as one does about 'Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed' over the dissection table, and my anatomy professor subsequently loaned me his copy of 'A Heritage of Horror' to read. And I've still got his Vampire Cinema book somewhere.<< John, that story really does something for my faith in our health system.  | ||
| Tony (Tony) Username: Tony Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.170.178.214 |
John! You're back! I was wondering about you. You been haunting Scarbrough again? | ||
| John Llewellyn Probert (John_l_probert) Username: John_l_probert Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 62.31.153.8 |
Hi Tony! I've been all over the country actually, doing Lord P type things, which I shall leave to your imagination  . Nice to see you back too! Caroline you don't need to worry- all that's behind me now. Now I'm more interested in what Dr Gruber has been doing in Zurich... |