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Creature of the Walking Dead
USA 1965
produced by Jerry Warren, Alfredo Ripstein hijo (archive footage)
directed by Jerry Warren, Fernando Cortés (archive footage)
starring Ann Wells, George Todd, Willard Gross, Bruno VeSota, Lloyd Nelson, Robert Christopher, Chuck Niles, Katherine Victor, Fred Hoffman, Rock Madison (not actually in the film, name made up), and in archive footage: Fernando Casanova, Aurora Alvarado, Rosa María Gallardo
written by José María Fernández Unsáin, Jerry Warren
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Decades ago, Dr. Malthus (Fernando Casanova) was trying to achieve
immortality regularly transfusing the blood of young women into his body -
with the side effect that these women die in the process. Eventually
though he's captured by the authorities, tried and hanged. Now, Dr.
Malthus has a descendant (Fernando Casanova again) who steals his body
from the crypt, revives him using the blood of a young woman ... and
Malthus the older, instead of showing undying gratitude, cages up Malthus
the younger next to an array of young woman, and has a second go at
immortality. And not only that, he also takes over his descendant's life
including his fiancée. Thing is, Malthus the older needs more and more
blood, as the effects of the blood are only temporary, and thus now and
again he turns back into his original horrid form of a walking dead - and
as that, he kidnaps quite a number of girls he throws into cages in his
lab. Eventually the caged girls and the younger Malthus manage to make an
escape, and burn down the lab, with the older Malthus inside. Creature
of the Walking Dead is pretty much one of producer/director Jerry
Warren's typical cut-and-paste jobs: He takes a foreign (this time
Mexican) movie, La Marca del Muerto, but instead of giving it a
proper dub, he uses mostly voice-over to move the story along and injects
plenty of new footage with an unconnected cast (including Bruno VeSota as
a cop, Katherine Victor as a rich woman who's into séances) into the
story that does little to help the plot along but pads out the movie to
feature length. The result's talky and schizophrenic, especially since the
characters of the new footage are written into and out of the story rather
at random and have nothing to do with the film's ultimate resolution, but
the Mexican source material is a good pulp product with some really nice
shots at least, so if you're into rather trashy vintage entertainment,
this movie's anything but a loss. Far from a masterpiece for sure, but
worth quite a few laughs.
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Robots and rats,
demons and potholes, cuddly toys and shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill Your Bones to is all of that.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to -
a collection of short stories and mini-plays ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle,
all thought up by the twisted mind of screenwriter and film reviewer Michael Haberfelner.
Tales to Chill Your Bones to
the new anthology by Michael Haberfelner
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