Halloween is almost here and I wanted to suggest a creepy double feature for watching in a dark room on that night. Both movies can be downloaded from The Internet Archives for free. www.archive.org/
The two movies are: CARNIVAL OF SOULS and DAUGHTER OF HORROR. Both are eerie black and white movies that will remind you of the old TWILIGHT ZONE TV show.
CARNIVAL OF SOULS tells the story of an woman who survives a car crash and move to a new town where is is fallowed around by a ghostly pale face man.
DAUGHTER OF HORROR was first released under the title DEMENTIA. It was an arty movie without dialogue on it's first release. The DAUGHTER OF HORROR release has narration. In this film a woman encounters many weird people one night including Bruno VeSota as a gross fat man and Angelo Rositto. It is rumored that VeSota ghost directed some of the movie. VeSota also directed THE BRAIN EATERS and INVASION OF THE STAR CREATURES.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
SEX MADNESS - A VD HORROR MOVIE FROM THE 30'S
I first encounter the movie SEX MADNESS on the old NIGHT FLIGHT TV show on the USA network back when it was an interesting cable network. You can now find the film on the INTERNET ARCHIVES and on YOU TUBE with little trouble.
This film was shot in the early 30's in the days before penicillin was invented and VD was hard to treat. There was many untreated people back then who went blind or suffer brain damage.
The film opens with with a very old man reading the newspaper and saying to his very old wife that he wished the police would do something about the displays of sex. He is talking about the burlesque show of the time. Their son walks in (They must of had him in their late 40's) and tell them that he's going on a date.
Else where in an office an stereotype lesbian in a suit jacket and tie makes the moves on her co worker and they decide to go to the burlesque show that night.
The movie then switches to the burlesque show. A bunch of women in tight shorts are dancing. Watching them is the girls from the office. They decide to stay the night together. The son from the open scene goes to a hotel with his girlfriend and a sleazy looking man who watched the show murders a little girl.
The rest of the film has nothing to do with these people. The film now fallows a dancer from the burlesque show. She has VD and is seeing a doctor who is helping her. But she wants to go home and married her boyfriend. She goes to quack who sells her a fake cure and she gets married.
Soon after getting married and having a baby things go bad. Her husband is losing his sight and the baby becomes sick. The family doctor in his office tells them that they have VD and demands that the husband admits that he is the cause. The wife breaks down and admits that she is the one who infected them.
The VD horror films of vintage exploitation movies era are a lot like the AIDS dramas we have now. Since there is no cure there is a sense of doom in the movies. Just like in the early AIDS era when there was no treatments and no one was living very long.
A lot of people who considered themselves moral attacked the victims of AIDS when if first started killing people saying it was their own fault for their life styles. The same thing happen back in the VD days. People would insist that VD was the results of what they believed was a bad life style and that 'nice' people did not get sick like that.
Of course there is still people who think that way. Maybe heart attacks are the results of their lifestyle.
SEX MADNESS is a crudely shot movie with low productions values. I'm sure it played in many grind house movie theaters until penicillin came along.
This film was shot in the early 30's in the days before penicillin was invented and VD was hard to treat. There was many untreated people back then who went blind or suffer brain damage.
The film opens with with a very old man reading the newspaper and saying to his very old wife that he wished the police would do something about the displays of sex. He is talking about the burlesque show of the time. Their son walks in (They must of had him in their late 40's) and tell them that he's going on a date.
Else where in an office an stereotype lesbian in a suit jacket and tie makes the moves on her co worker and they decide to go to the burlesque show that night.
The movie then switches to the burlesque show. A bunch of women in tight shorts are dancing. Watching them is the girls from the office. They decide to stay the night together. The son from the open scene goes to a hotel with his girlfriend and a sleazy looking man who watched the show murders a little girl.
The rest of the film has nothing to do with these people. The film now fallows a dancer from the burlesque show. She has VD and is seeing a doctor who is helping her. But she wants to go home and married her boyfriend. She goes to quack who sells her a fake cure and she gets married.
Soon after getting married and having a baby things go bad. Her husband is losing his sight and the baby becomes sick. The family doctor in his office tells them that they have VD and demands that the husband admits that he is the cause. The wife breaks down and admits that she is the one who infected them.
The VD horror films of vintage exploitation movies era are a lot like the AIDS dramas we have now. Since there is no cure there is a sense of doom in the movies. Just like in the early AIDS era when there was no treatments and no one was living very long.
A lot of people who considered themselves moral attacked the victims of AIDS when if first started killing people saying it was their own fault for their life styles. The same thing happen back in the VD days. People would insist that VD was the results of what they believed was a bad life style and that 'nice' people did not get sick like that.
Of course there is still people who think that way. Maybe heart attacks are the results of their lifestyle.
SEX MADNESS is a crudely shot movie with low productions values. I'm sure it played in many grind house movie theaters until penicillin came along.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
OTELLO AND THE ROBOT- A SCI FI MANUSCRIPT. Novel and Ebook
Once in a while I think I'm a writer. I just put out on Lulu.com the novel OTELLO AND THE ROBOT: A SCI FI MANUSCRIPT. The novel tells the story of a slacker who leads an aimless life and who is working on a novel about a woman named Otello who meets a robot with no name.
You can check out a few pages of the novel by going to www.lulu.com/aronaamora - I also have a couple of other books and another novel: I LED ONE LIFE.
Lulu.com is a publish on demand service and the novel can by bought in paperback form or as a PDF ebook for download.
You can check out a few pages of the novel by going to www.lulu.com/aronaamora - I also have a couple of other books and another novel: I LED ONE LIFE.
Lulu.com is a publish on demand service and the novel can by bought in paperback form or as a PDF ebook for download.
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| This is the PDF ebook edition- The print edition as another cover. |
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