Thursday, October 18, 2012

MY SCARE LADY

Since Turner Classic Movies is featuring a Hammer horror line-up this Saturday…  

Monster-of-the-Week: …let’s give the nod to a creature from one of the evening’s features: The woman (Susan Denberg) revived by Frankenstein, but infused with a vengeful male soul, in 1967’s Frankenstein Created Woman…


Martin Scorcese admires this movie (try to hear the following in his rat-a-tat voice): “I like all Hammer films. If I singled this one out, it’s not because I like it the best—it’s a sadistic film, very difficult to watch—but because, here, they actually isolate the soul: a bright blue shining translucent ball. The implied metaphysic is close to something sublime.”
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  1. Anonymous18 October, 2012 11:50

    I remember seeing this on TV as a little kid, and being impressed when the guy gets beheaded.

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  2. M.V. MOORHEAD18 October, 2012 12:01

    ME TOO--& I'm glad you said that, because a year or so ago I saw it on TV, and the beheading wasn't there, with no obvious sign that anything was cut, so I wondered if it never was there, & I just remembered the bloody head-lopping with Kidvision, as it were. But I think Hammer must have prepared multiple versions of varying goriness for various parts of the international market, as they were known to do with their films.

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