And what theme ties together the last two movies featured in Month of the Living Dead? Easy. They’re both Spanish-language. And I swear I didn’t plan this.
(Their titles both begin with “G,” too, at least in the versions I watched. How crazy is that?)
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#1 by KeithA on October 29, 2009 - 9:56 am
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The one-off comment about all the candles int he Satanist’s cave brings up something I have, sadly, wondered about. Horror movies are always full of dudes who stand around in rooms full of thousands of candles. Who lights those things? Who goes shopping for more? Does Phantasm’s Tall Man go to Costco to buy bulk quantities of candles for his inner sanctum, or do the evil dwarfs handle it?
As for the Ghost Galleon:
There was a Templar navy. Once the purge began, most of the ships set sail and were never tracked down. It’s one of the many tasty mysteries of the fall of the Templars. Sure, the ships didn’t look like the ship in this movie, but hey.
I always assumed that, tired of shrieking, backstabbing Eurotrash scumbags, the Blind Dead invested in a boat and hoped to get away from it all. Sail around the world. Terrorize exotic ports of call. You know, really find themselves and test themselves against nature. But then, no matter where they go, the shrieking, annoying Eurotrash keep popping up to hassle them.
#2 by Nathan Shumate on October 29, 2009 - 10:08 am
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Dude, if your evil dwarfs can’t go to Costco for you, why bother having evil dwarfs?
And even a one-sentence reference to the Templar navy (complete with their skull-and-crossbones flag, which was original to them, not pirates) would have helped instead of some blather about 18th-century “sectarians.” Still wouldn’t have explained why a shipload of the Blind Dead are blind, but if you want questions answered, you really shouldn’t be watching eurohorror, I guess.
#3 by Read MacGuirtose on October 29, 2009 - 12:31 pm
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Scurvy.
#4 by Nathan Shumate on October 29, 2009 - 1:22 pm
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“They’re dead, AND they’re malnourished!”
#5 by Braineater on October 31, 2009 - 11:48 pm
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About them candles: Mariano Baino shot some scenes for Dead Waters in an alcove he’d filled with hundreds of lit candles. Because, you know: evil Satanic cult = candles galore. Unfortunately, he’d lit so many of the damned things that they left precious little unconsumed oxygen in that confined space, and he apparently nearly asphyxiated himself.
(Thanks, guys; here is was Hallowe’en, my only religious holiday… and I’ve spent it picturing the Tall Man at Yankee Candle, sniffing the jars: “Mmmmm, Fresh Linen!” Phooey.)
#6 by Caronte on November 22, 2009 - 5:04 pm
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The original title of “The ghost galleon” is “El buque maldito” (in english is not the exactly translation, but almost) from the cult director Amando de Ossorio, as Nathan says is a part of his Templar trilogy, so bad it’s true.
#7 by Caronte on November 22, 2009 - 5:04 pm
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sorry, I meant so bad is good.
#8 by Nathan Shumate on November 22, 2009 - 9:23 pm
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Of course, it was only a trilogy until he made the fourth installment.