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Feb 2 05 6:50 PM
Feb 2 05 7:18 PM
Feb 2 05 7:20 PM
Quote:The gay subtext found hither and thou in SS is neither here nor there.
Feb 2 05 7:44 PM
Feb 2 05 9:53 PM
Feb 2 05 9:58 PM
Quote:Peel's casting just strikes me as perhaps a veiled decision to take the Dracula series in a different direction that just wasn't popular at that time. The sapphic vamps of "The Vampire Lovers" and "Lust For A Vampire" would become prevalent years later, but similar ambiguity toward the male of the species stayed pretty under the radar.
Feb 2 05 10:08 PM
Feb 2 05 10:14 PM
Feb 2 05 10:31 PM
Quote:I'll say something - I actually like BRIDES better than HORROR OF DRACULA.
Feb 2 05 10:45 PM
Feb 2 05 10:48 PM
Quote:Remember when they recently released dvds on CAPTAIN KRONOS VAMPIRE HUNTER and FRANKENSTEIN AND THE MONSTER FROM THE HELL? They almost gave them away and I suspect neither of them made Paramount enough money to warrant further excursions into Hammer's film vaults.
Feb 2 05 11:16 PM
Feb 3 05 12:05 AM
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Feb 3 05 12:52 AM
Feb 3 05 2:39 AM
Quote:and a good deal of kinky subtext has been read into the film in retrospect, what with its "Suddenly, Last Summer" vibe and the fact that Peel gets to sink his teeth into Cushing's Van Helsing.
Feb 3 05 2:56 AM
Feb 3 05 3:35 AM
Feb 3 05 4:26 AM
Quote:Meinster's origins are more vague. He isn't the prey of a female vamp like Bates is in "Lust For A Vampire". Instead, he's damned by his own unspeakable desires.
Quote:Just the fact that no other male vampire like Meinster who isn't outwardly dark and scary really ever appears in another Hammer vampire film seems telling to me.
Feb 3 05 7:52 AM
Quote:What subtext here? As Tim mentioned previous, yep...that's what a vampire does...sink their teeth into people - men or women. Or rats, if you happen to be Louis...
Feb 3 05 10:27 AM
Quote:And if you figure that violence tends to be substituted for male on male sex in most films
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