The second film with Jean DuJardin starting as Agente 117, Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, was released in April in France, and will be coming out shortly on DVD. The first film (OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions) was great, and exactly my kind of movie, so I have high hopes for the new one. I just have to hunt around for a copy with English subtitles, or wait a year or so for a US version to come out...Thursday, September 17
OSS 117
The second film with Jean DuJardin starting as Agente 117, Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath, was released in April in France, and will be coming out shortly on DVD. The first film (OSS 117: Le Caire nid d'espions) was great, and exactly my kind of movie, so I have high hopes for the new one. I just have to hunt around for a copy with English subtitles, or wait a year or so for a US version to come out...
Wednesday, September 16
Halloweenies Nine-Fifteenies
Last night we watched the follow-up to House of Frankenstein, imaginatively titled House of Dracula. I actually liked it better than HoF.
In this one, both Dracula and Larry (Wolfman) Talbot end up at the castle lab of a non-mad doctor asking to be cured of their respective afflictions (though I'm not sure how sincere the Count is). We get a poignant lady hunchback nurse this time, and get spared repetition of the Wolfman rhyme. 
The best aspects are the going-mad of the benevolent doctor, thanks to an unwanted blood transfusion from Dracula, and the novel twist of having vampirism and werewolfism (is that a word?) having a biological, rather than supernatural basis--this about 10 years before Richard Matheson rewrote the rules in his novel I Am Legend (which itself has been filmed three times). Also, some good supporting performances by Lionel Atwill and Skelton Knaggs, creepy in the role of the riled-up villager.
Mr. Knaggs (from a different movie)
The weaknesses: the Frankenstein monster's superfluous role, John Carradine still not totally making it as Dracula, and a rushed ending.
In this one, both Dracula and Larry (Wolfman) Talbot end up at the castle lab of a non-mad doctor asking to be cured of their respective afflictions (though I'm not sure how sincere the Count is). We get a poignant lady hunchback nurse this time, and get spared repetition of the Wolfman rhyme. 
The best aspects are the going-mad of the benevolent doctor, thanks to an unwanted blood transfusion from Dracula, and the novel twist of having vampirism and werewolfism (is that a word?) having a biological, rather than supernatural basis--this about 10 years before Richard Matheson rewrote the rules in his novel I Am Legend (which itself has been filmed three times). Also, some good supporting performances by Lionel Atwill and Skelton Knaggs, creepy in the role of the riled-up villager.
Mr. Knaggs (from a different movie)Tuesday, September 15
TV Classics
Don't tell Beebo, but this is what she's getting for Xmas--all 2,347 episodes of this classic series, plus a talking Hawkeye action figure that says a variety of world-weary phrases.
Monday, September 14
Sunday, September 13
Deebo the Vampire
The second photo is actually the way it looked when we took his picture--he was lying in a box on his back, looking at me upside-down.
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