I’ve always felt that movies with certain titles have an obligation to live up to those titles. For instance, any movie with a title like The Werewolf and the Yeti needs to be a movie full of scenes where a werewolf fights a yeti. If the movie doesn’t live up to that title, then you’ve just ruined humanity’s chances of getting an awesome movie in which a werewolf fights a yeti. It’s just unfair to use up an awesome title/concept on a crappy movie. So when I first heard that a movie called The Werewolf and the Yeti existed, I was both excited and reticent. excited because — well, come on. Werewolf versus yeti. Reticent because I couldn’t help but think, “if this movie isn’t any good, then it ruins my chances of seeing the movie a title like The Werewolf and the Yeti deserves.” When, upon further investigation, I discovered that the movie was one of Spanish actor Jacinto Molina’s — aka Paul Naschy — many werewolf movies, I didn’t know whether to let my hopes rise or plummet. Somehow, I ended up letting them do both, and somehow, the movie fulfilled both those suspicions.
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#1 by El Santo on June 1, 2010 - 5:21 pm
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“Although Spain produced its fair share of horror directors, horror actors of any repute were fewer and farther between”
Now that you mention it, it damn near comes down to a choice between Naschy and Jack Taylor, doesn’t it?
#2 by Braineater on June 1, 2010 - 5:37 pm
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Jack Taylor’s a ringer. Anyway, I’d trade them both for Narciso Ibáñez Menta.
#3 by KeithA on June 2, 2010 - 9:29 am
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Still a better choice than I usually get during elections