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Oct 15 06 11:17 PM
Quote:The title card for the K. Gordon Murray version reads THE BRAINIAC.
Oct 18 06 6:47 PM
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Nov 12 06 7:33 PM
Quote:Since the movie conveniently jumps past the arrest and trial, one can't help but wonder about the competence of the doc's defense attorney, let alone the mystery of jurisprudence from beyond the pale.
Nov 13 06 3:07 AM
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Nov 17 06 3:05 AM
Nov 17 06 4:39 AM
Quote:At our meeting last night, we also started to watch the new DVD of THE BRAINIAC. Same thing again -- no opticals, not even rear screen projection! Two shots at the beginning were done with photo backgrounds, which would seem to me to cost as much to make as rear screen shots (unless you just don't have the equipment, of course).
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Dec 5 08 8:57 PM
MISTERIOS DE ULTRATUMBA (Mexico, 1958), d. Fernando Méndez
[a.k.a. THE BLACK PIT OF DR. M] Wow... this thing is the real deal! MISTERIOS DE ULTRATUMBA is *NOT* one of those campy, demented K. Gordon Murray Mexican imports-- this is a serious, well-crafted masterpiece of black-and-white gothic movie-making. The art direction, lighting design, cinematography and editing are all top-o'-the-line for the genre, resulting in a well-done atmosphere of morbid moodiness and doom. And there isn't a masked wrestler or an Aztec mummy in sight. I'm sure I watched parts of the dubbed version of this on WPIX's "Chiller Theater" when I was a kid-- the scene of the dead guy clawing his way out of his grave tapped into some long-repressed scary memory of this movie --but this time I around I watched Casa Negra's 2006 DVD release. Apparently, the dubbed version is lost, so this is subtitled, but please don't let this stop you from watching this. Read the other comments upthread and you'll see that this one is totally worth the effort. (Interestingly, Frank Coleman's commentary raises questions about whether or not the English-dubbed version was the work of Murray, but one of the extras on the disc is the English-language shooting script which is plainly marked as the property of the UPRO-- wasn't that organization one of Murray's regulars?)
Feb 6 09 12:05 PM
Feb 6 09 12:58 PM
Fu Manchu wrote: Can anybody tel me what is the true translation of the title Mistrios De Ultrtumba? surely it can't mean The Black Pit of Doctor M as there wasn't really a black pit and Doctor 'M' used his full name can anybody help me with this?
Feb 6 09 1:57 PM
CreepingBride wrote: Wow... this thing is the real deal! MISTERIOS DE ULTRATUMBA is *NOT* one of those campy, demented K. Gordon Murray Mexican imports-- this is a serious, well-crafted masterpiece of black-and-white gothic movie-making. The art direction, lighting design, cinematography and editing are all top-o'-the-line for the genre, resulting in a well-done atmosphere of morbid moodiness and doom. And there isn't a masked wrestler or an Aztec mummy in sight.
Wow... this thing is the real deal! MISTERIOS DE ULTRATUMBA is *NOT* one of those campy, demented K. Gordon Murray Mexican imports-- this is a serious, well-crafted masterpiece of black-and-white gothic movie-making. The art direction, lighting design, cinematography and editing are all top-o'-the-line for the genre, resulting in a well-done atmosphere of morbid moodiness and doom. And there isn't a masked wrestler or an Aztec mummy in sight.
Feb 6 09 4:54 PM
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Jul 20 10 8:29 AM
MBarnum wrote:Evidently I need to stop staring at the DVD case and actually watch this movie! LOL! Of course I bought this one as soon as it was released because, as is often the case, I just "have to have it now!!!"....and several months later it can be found gathering dust along with 30 or 40 other DVDs I have bought and not yet watched.
Jul 21 10 12:40 PM
...by far the best Mexican horror film I've seen.
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