… but I think those are words John Carradine must have muttered to himself on a regular basis. And this movie, Las Vampiras (“The Vampire Women”, 1965), probably had him saying it to himself even more than usual.
I’d planned on doing an Al Adamson movie for this Roundtable, but instead I ended up with something much worse. Las Vampiras is one of five — count ’em, five! — movies that Carradine made in Mexico in the late 1960’s. Excluding Carradine’s performance, it’s terrible. Factor in Carradine, and suddenly it becomes terrible in a whole new wonderful way. It wasn’t supposed to be a comedy, but John had other ideas…
Will Laughlin is the Braineater.
#1 by ronald on June 5, 2015 - 3:23 am
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Is he beating his chest like Tarzan?
#2 by Braineater on June 6, 2015 - 3:27 pm
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It’s from his first scene, when he’s pretending do be an idiot. He’s shouting, “I am the King of the Vampires! I am! Long live the King!”
#3 by lyzard on June 5, 2015 - 6:54 pm
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Boris’s Mexican period is so uncomfortable to think about that it takes some mental gymnastics to absorb the alternative scenario of JC having a bizarrely fun working holiday.
I hope we can still look forward to your take on Blood Of Dracula’s Castle, hmm??? Not that I’m not familiar with Uncooperative Brain Syndrome…
#4 by Braineater on June 6, 2015 - 3:48 pm
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Same producer, too. But Boris Karloff was closer to Basil Rathbone’s age than Carradine’s, and he was in much worse health. Unlike Rathbone, Karloff didn’t actually go all the way to Mexico; his scenes were shot in LA by Jack Hill.
Come to think of it, “The Fear Chamber” could have used a masked wrestler or two.
#5 by blake on June 6, 2015 - 4:27 pm
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Random: Why didn’t El Santo’s last update show up here?
#6 by The Rev. on June 6, 2015 - 9:35 pm
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Okay, it wasn’t just me that noticed that. Good. I just assumed I’d missed the announcement somehow (exceedingly unlikely, I grant you, but still possible). I happened to wander over there a week ago and, lo and behold! New reviews!
One of which I can’t read until I see the damn movie (It Follows). I need more hours in the day…
Hopefully we’ll get his roundtable update before long (and perhaps one from TC as well).
#7 by El Santo on June 8, 2015 - 2:45 pm
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I’m having log-in trouble. It’s complicated, it’s stupid, and I’m now even less fond of WordPress than I was to begin with.
#8 by Braineater on June 8, 2015 - 4:06 pm
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Just sent you an email. Let me know what’s going on, and I’ll try to fix it. (We’re currently being attacked by the Ukrainians, so that may have something to do with it.)
#9 by El Santo on June 8, 2015 - 4:10 pm
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Actually, I think it was my efforts to make my log-in Ukranian-proof that screwed everything up…
#10 by ronald on June 7, 2015 - 11:35 am
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>>>Come to think of it, “The Fear Chamber” could have used a masked wrestler or two.
How many movies are there that *wouldn’t* benefit from the presence of a masked wrestler or two?
#11 by Braineater on June 7, 2015 - 1:26 pm
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In my opinion, masked wrestlers should be added to anything adapted from Nicholas Sparks. Either wrestlers (“El Santo y Blue Demon en… El Notebook Maldito!”) or giant monsters (“Nights in Rodanthe Flying Monster”).
#12 by The Rev. on June 7, 2015 - 10:51 pm
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…….you magnificent bastard.
(Please imagine that Orson Welles clapping gif here.)
#13 by RogerBW on June 8, 2015 - 5:49 am
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Bat. Bandsaw. The red kites overhead have been startled by a laughing Roger.