Screening Log
This new site feature is a collective effort to summarize our viewing habits. Occasionally, you will find titles here that are coming to a theater near you, in addition to films viewed on television, and even films viewed in piecemeal. The screening log is archived each month; to view past entries select a month in the menu below.
October 2007 activity
Total Log Entries: 46
- Adam (12)
- Andrew (0)
- Chet (0)
- Chiranjit (0)
- David (0)
- Eva (2)
- Evan (0)
- Ian (18)
- Jenny (1)
- Katherine (0)
- Leo (1)
- Megan (1)
- Rumsey (7)
- Teddy (2)
- Thomas (2)
- Timothy (0)
- Victoria (0)
Total Comments: 12
- The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman (0)
- Les Enfants Terribles (0)
- 3:10 To Yuma (0)
- The Kingdom (0)
- Orchestra Rehearsal (0)
- The Voice of the Moon (0)
- Ginger and Fred (0)
- No Country for Old Men (0)
- The Wicker Man (0)
- 28 Days Later (0)
- Braindead (0)
- Shaun of the Dead (0)
- Robyn Hitchcock: Sex, Food, Death… and Insects (0)
- Project Grizzly (0)
- The Host (0)
- My Super Ex-Girlfriend (0)
- Crazy Love (0)
- Freaks (0)
- Cat People (1)
- Toby Dammit (0)
- The Temptations of Doctor Antonio (0)
- A Marriage Agency (0)
- 4 (0)
- The Bridge (0)
- Severance (0)
- The Clowns (0)
- Amarcord (0)
- City of Women (0)
- Boys and Girls (0)
- Breaking and Entering (0)
- The Proposition (1)
- The Baron of Arizona (0)
- I Shot Jesse James (0)
- Little Miss Sunshine (0)
- No Country for Old Men (1)
- Avida (7)
- Dragon Wars (1)
- The Boss of it All (0)
- L’Iceberg (0)
- Lust, Caution (0)
- Bonnie And Clyde (0)
- The Alps (1)
- Eastern Promises (0)
- Zoo (0)
- Lenny (0)
- Klute (0)
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The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman / La Noche de Walpurgis / Spain / Germany / 1970
In the age of Freddy vs. Jason, it’s hard to imagine that versus horror movies were ever anything more than contrived amalgams of popular franchises. But as The Werewolf vs. The Vampire Woman proves, an ostentatious title did not always mean a forgettably ludicrous monster mash. Yes there is a werewolf, and a vampire woman, and yes they eventually throw down, but this excellent Spanish production is an atmospheric and entertaining tale of gothic horror, and the battle throughout is more cerebral than physical, a centuries-old struggle between an immortality-seeking vampire queen, and an accursed werewolf trying to find a way to end his earthly days.
Like many Spanish horror films of the day, we never get a solid sense of when or where all this is happening (an unpopulated valley somewhere in France?), the few establishing shots in evidence (a ruined cemetery, a crumbling country estate) doing little to place this story within a larger world. And yet, by populating this amorphous, and isolated, location with but a handful of interesting characters (lecherous henchmen, drooling werewolves, slow-motion prone vampires), a wonderfully eerie intimacy is created that makes us feel we are participants, not spectators, in this involved tale of timeless monsters.
by Thomas Scalzo | Source: Mill Creek Entertainment DVD
30 Oct 2007 12:27 AM | Submit Comment