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Daughters of Darkness, a review by Danae Cassandra

Daughters of Darkness
Year of Release: 1971
Directed By: Harry Kumel
Starring: John Karlen, Delphine Seyrig, Danielle Ouimet, Andrea Rau
Genre: Horror

Overview:My Thoughts:
This was a beautiful, stylish film.  The shot of the Countess and Valerie standing at the top of the hill, where the Countess extends her cape and envelops Valerie is simply magnificent.  This is an exercise in artistry, in a Gothic aesthetic, a triumph of art direction.  It's also a very, very slow moving film.  There's very little vampire lore, very little action, very little blood.  There's also quite a bit of mystery, and some of it never explained.  A lot is left to the viewer to infer.

It reminded me a lot of A Virgin Among the Living Dead, which was equally beautiful, unexplained, and featured a lot of artistic nudity.  I'd definitely be willing to watch it again, but I can't give it an unqualified recommendation.  The characters aren't engaging, the plot is thin, and the pace is extremely slow.  It could be extremely dull to the wrong viewer.  I'd almost tell someone to watch Last Year at Marienbad first (which isn't a horror movie, of course), and then if they enjoyed that try this.  Definitely for the art house crowd.

Bechdel Test: Pass

Overall: 3/5

2015 Horror Movie Count: 8

(From Horror/Halloween Marathon 2015 on October 12th, 2015)

A Man Called Django!, a review by GSyren

Title	A Man Called Django! (011301-660060)
Director	Edoardo Mulargia
Actors	Anthony Steffen, Stelio Candelli, Glauco Onorato, Donato Castellaneta, Esmeralda Barros
Produced	1971 in Italy
Runtime	90 minutes
Audio	English Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles	None
My thoughts	A rather typical spaghetti western. Not one of the best, but certainly not one of the worst either. Revenge theme, have we seen that before...? English dubbing is adequate. Acting, well this kind of movie doesn't really challenge the actors, so it's ok I guess. Fine enough when you're in the mood for this kind of stuff.
My rating	3 out of 5

(From Reviews and ramblings by Gunnar on May 19th, 2013)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Futurama: Season One (1999/United States) IMDb | Wikipedia Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment (Germany) Length: 286 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, German: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround, Commentary: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: Commentary, Danish, English, Finnish, German, Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish

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Futurama
1.01 Space Pilot 3000
Writer: David X. Cohen (Writer), Matt Groening (Writer)
Director: Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo
Cast: Billy West (Fry/Farnsworth/Zoidberg/Various (voice)), Katey Sagal (Leela (voice)), John DiMaggio (Bender/Various (voice)), Dick Clark (Himself (voice)), Leonard Nimoy (Himself (voice)), Tress MacNeille (Various (voice)), Dave Herman (Various (voice)), Kath Soucie (Michelle (voice))

I have been a fan of this series since day one. It's nice to finally see the first episode again. It has been awhile. I forgot that it started out with Fry running from Leela because he wanted to avoid to have a career chip implanted. They have dropped this concept later it seems.
And sure enough, you can really see Nibbler's shadow in the scene where Fry falls into the freezer. It was an episode in a later season which revealed that it was no accident that he was frozen, but caused by Nibbler when he travelled back in time to ensure Fry being frozen.
Is it me, or are the voices that Billy West is doing (Fry/Farnsworth) a little different than later in the series?

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on June 20th, 2011)