The Blood Rose (1970)

We're closing out April Showers of Blood with yet another French movie (we can't seem to get enough of France this year). A gothic fairy tale riff on Eyes Without a Face, The Blood Rose delivers so much of what we love in horror films.
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Episode Transcript

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Prepare yourself for the terror, theprison of madness. We have few intero
and none return. Welcome to UnsungHorrors with Lance and Denica. Leave all

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your sanity behind. It can't helpyou now. Welcome to another episode of
Unsung Horrors, a podcast where wereview underseen horror films, specifically those were
fewer than one thousand views on Letterboxed. I'm Lance, I'm Erica, and
it's been reading blood this month.Yes, April Showers of Blood. We

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are closing it out. But beforewe jump into this week's episode, or
this this episode, the Blood Rose. Yeah, the film that I've selected,
we have to talk about some veryexciting news. Yeah. I didn't
do a lot of homework this week. Sorry, no, no, it's
very very understandable. Yeah, thebook has landed. The book has finally

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landed. It is here. Ihave I no longer have a dining room,
or a functional dining room rather,but yeah, it's exciting, it's
beautiful. Hunt Love knocked it outof the park with the layout. In
design. I'm proud of myself forpicking the right paper thickness or something.
Yeah, but yeah, I'm reallyhappy with how it turned out and everyone

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that was a backer. You willbe getting shipping notification this week. Yeah.
I'm not to rub it into anybody'sface, but I'm smelling the book
right now. Yeah, thumbing throughit. You can brag even more and
tell them what copy number you have. I do it. So the books
are numbered, which is a greatgreat touch, great little personalized touch and
stuff, and they're signed by thegreat Erica Schultz. This is book number

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two that I have of a thousandcopies, and it has a beautiful Peter
Bark. Yeah he's all yeah,yeah, he's rightfully so, so if
there's anything wrong with it, youcan blame it on him, not me
from missing something in the editing phase. Yeah, haunt Love just killed it
with It's an amazing job. So, listeners who backed the book, I'm

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going to just give you a warningwhen you receive this in the mail or
either you know, locally, beforeyou crack it open, be sure you're
sitting on the toilet because you're gonnashit when you see this. It is
so gorgeous. Like, I mean, I knew it was gonna be great,
but this is like beyond imagination andsuper proud of Erica. She's she's

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worked so hard on this. You'veworked so hard on this. I don't
know I'm talking to you like athird person, but I mean it's so
impressive and it's deserved and I can'twait for everybody to get their hands on
their copy. Thank you. No, I mean, I just kind of
want to talk about the book,the entire epod no no, no,
when we have a movie to cover. I love this movie. I want
to I want to get to talkingabout it. But before that, real
quick, I just I do wantto thank everyone in Austin that showed up

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on last Wednesday for the Weird Wednesdaybook launch screening of war Dog. I
really appreciate everyone's support. It wasreally nice seeing some friendly faces there,
you know. I mean, youknow, I'm awkward with strangers, so
like I put I put on aface. But like, you were awesome.
The introduction you gave was pro likeI I mean, I yeah,

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kudos to everybody that came out layeredfor putting that and programming that War Dog
movie. But you were again,I was like so proud when you're up
there, you were in your elementand delivering on all fronts. It was
it was awesome to watch. Butyeah, that weird Wednesday was a lot
of fun. I'm glad it happened, Yes, all right, but of
blood? Yeah, yeah, Iwant to let let's run through this episode.

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I want to get home and startreading this book. No, the
this is going to be a fifteenminute episode. This movie deserves. I
have a lot of notes. Actually, okay, good so, I mean,
especially with the cast and crew,because it is a fun one.
Yeah. So The Blood Rose.This could possibly be our last April Showers
of Blood pick I think, Imean, I have a feeling we'll pick
movies that might have blood in thetitle, but that can be open now
year round. Yeah, moving forward. So it's currently on YouTube, The

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Blood Rose from nineteen seventy with anthere's an English dub, a subtitled version,
which we all prefer, and we'llhave in show notes. Yeah.
As of this recording, it's sittingat five hundred and forty six views on
Letterbox. Again. On the Letterboxjust watch list, it says it's on
two B, but that is adifferent Blood Rose movie. It doesn't link

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to the right movie. I thinkyou'll figure it out pretty quick. I
gave it ten minutes, did youI did, because I was out of
curiosity. It's fucking awful. Ithink, what did I I wrote something
in discord about it. I saidsomething about, like Danzig probably saw this
or something like that, because itlooks like that kind of shit, And
I'm like, oh god, it'sjust got that look of like the twenty

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tens and beyond it. I justI fucking hate how those movies look.
And you are selling it for me. I know, I know, I
know everyone wants to watch it becausethe twenty tens is everyone's favorite decade for
movies. Yeah, and Danzig,I mean, that's an extra, don't
you on Danzig. That's what I'msaying. He's getting better. I believe
in him. Everyone give Danzig yourmoney so he can make another movie.

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Yes, I agreed. Okay,So the synopsis isn't completely original, following
the plot of another French banger,Eyes Without a Face, from nineteen sixty
but in the Blood Rows, awoman named Anne is badly scarred after having
fallen into a bonfire at a partythat she and her famous artist husband Frederic
Lonsak are throwing, and the husband'sex lever Moira, shows up jealous and

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confronts Anne and pretty much causes herto fall into the fire. Frederic is
heartbroken. He announces to everyone thathis wife passed away, but while everyone
believes she's dead, he's working withthe botanist professor Romaire, who was once
a successful surgeon but barred from practicingdue to a child dying from an illegal
procedure which possibly involved a face transplant. So Romare and Lonsack need to find

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a living woman to remove her faceto transplant transplant onto his wife so that
she can be beautiful again and feelloved by her husband. So yeah,
similar to eyes without a Face,an idea that's inspired a lot of ripoffs
that I'm sure we'll talk about herein a bit. But there are a
few things that set the Blood Roseapart from eyes. Like the two horny
servants. I love them. They'relittle people tours yes, Igor and Olof,

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Igor and Oloff, and they takecare of the chateau. They lived
there before Lonsac arrived, and theywear like cave man togas they do,
And that's what I like. Iwas like, so they'd never like Lonsac
doesn't want to dress him up,but I feel like it might be trying
to put like clothes on a cator something like that. It just they're
comfortable in what they wear. Yeah, that's who they are. Yeah.

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The bald one. I kept callinghim Michael Berryman, Yes, because of
course, like when you put himin that outfit and he's bald, I'm
like, my mind automatically just goesto Michael Berryman. Yeah. And also
for some reason, you know,Michael Berriman is a great actor, is
in a lot of great movies.But I always go to the Motley Crue
video of it. I started them, like here we go. Yeah.

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But besides Igor and Olaf, thereis a nurse, Anyes Agnes however you
say it, who's hired to carefor the wheelchair bound wife. And here
are some spoilers. I'm just gonnago ahead and spoil it. Anyas is
killed by Anne using a poisonous plant, and Anyas's sister, Barbara, worries
about her, heads to the chateauto ultimately figure out what's going on with

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the professor, the husband and disfiguredwife. So I've already pretty much spoiled
it for you, but we willget into more spoilers obviously. So The
Blood Rose was directed and co writtenby Claude muloh. He is a French
director whose life and work was cutshort at a very young age. He
drowned while swimming in Paris in nineteeneighty six at forty four years old.

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This always reminds me of Jeff Buckley, who drowned swim in the Mighty Mississippi.
So when somebody dies young and kindof in their prime, it's sad
story. Did he drown or didhe get attacked by a shark? Because
there's a movie coming out that isabout a shark in the canal in Paris.
Maybe it's inspired by Claude. Ithink it might be. If the

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lead character's name is Claude, I'mgoing to lose my shit. But he
did go by a pseudonym, andsome of his directing and writing credits he
went by Frederic Lonsak, who isthe lead character in The Blood Rose.
That's the name of the character playedby Philippe Lamar Lamaire. So he used
to spake name mainly for a lotof the adult films that he wrote and

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directed. He started directing with horrorfilms and thrillers. The Blood Rosby,
in one of his earliest movies innineteen seventy and then in nineteen seventy one
he wrote and directed Manhunt for Murder, also known as The Contract or The
Blood Letting, another April Showers eligibletitle, which April Showers is No More.

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I watched this film and I reallyenjoyed it. It's about a young
French waiter living in New York Cityand he witnesses a murder and he's on
the run. The police are afterhim who, you know, they believe
he could have done it, themafie after him who actually did the killing,
and he heads back to France andwe watch him just paranoid, scared
out of his mind as he triesto settle back into his hometown with his

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mom there and an ex lover,and he's followed by the mafia hit man
and this corrupt police this cop,and they kind of work together to find
him. It's just a great crimethriller. It's early seventies, has a
lot of like that gritty New YorkCity look, while it takes place in
New York and has like this humorousI mean, I found it humorous.

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But this such a downer of anending, which we always love it.
I love it, and the leadactor He reminded me of an adult size
Peter Bark. Oh shit, it'slike Peter Bark meets Heith Ledger. It's
weird, like a Joseph Gordon love. Look he's but I kept seeing Peter
Bark in him, and I waslike, I love this movie because of

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that. But Manhuf for Murder isreally good. Mullo's first two straight movies,
you know, thrillers, Manhuf forMurder the Blood Rose were really strong,
I felt like. But then hebegan writing and directing adult films after
this, and he continued to dothat for a decade and I watched a
few of them, and he wasgood at this as well, you know,
very very well done. Then heshifted back to straight dramas and thrillers

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in nineteen eighty three with Black Venusabout a sculptor who loses inspiration in his
art, but he finds a museand this mysterious woman who strangely appears to
him. And then Mulo's last film, which is kind of a Giallo of
sorts, called Knife under the Throat. Yeah, I wanted to watch this,
and time time got away from methis week. Yeah, I watched
it. Well, I understand whytime got away from You're Busy. Yeah.

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This was released in nineteen eighty six, the year he passed away,
and I watched it first off.It's a fantastic title. Yeah, the
Threat. It's been on my likeJallo January Potentials list since twenty twenty,
so it's is it okay or it'sgreat? Yeah? It stars what's your
name? Florence Garon, who's thelead in Luigikotsi's the Black Cat. Oh

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okay? Yeah? Yeah. Ithas a Bridget Lay in it and they
go on and they work together andFaceless in nineteen eighty eight yea, which
you know, kind of this,but it's about a fashion model who's being
stoked by this creepy killer. Hecalls her and he's like, yeah,
I'm mascurbating, I'm to your photo. People around her start dying, you

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know, are murdered by a blackglove killer. There's a lot of red
herrings. It has this great openingof her she's completely naked but she's wearing
a trench coat and she's just runningthrough the city at night with these awesome
credits being displayed. I mean,I highly recommend it, but there are
a lot of gross characters, especiallythe men. They abuse all the women

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left and right, especially this fashionphotographer named JB who just drinks JB whiskey
like all the time, and heloves to rape this particular model. There's
a lot of rape scenes and everybodyknows about it, but he just kind
of gets away with it. Butit's just really bizarre how most of the
events don't really make a whole lotof senses you're watching it. They're almost
shot kind of in these weird segments. It's a linear story, but it's

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just intriguing how kind of disjoined itis at the same time. But you
know it's leading somewhere, so it'sfun. It's a lot of fun.
So yeah, I do recommend thatthat movie. I think it was on
probably some porn site that I watched. I don't know, most of his
movies are on porn sites, eventhough this is that where you watched pussy
Talk. Yeah, I watched pussyTalk and it's great. It's it's it's

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a hardcore adult film. And heused his Frederick Lonsak, his pseudonym for
that movie. But the wife startskind of losing control of her sexuality,
like she starts masturbating at parties.There's this woman who you know, she's
married to this very kind of straightedge I think he was like a like
a politician or something I forgot.But she starts losing control and just like

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masturbating at parties and he's like,what the hell's going on with you?
And she's like, I don't know. And then her pussy starts talking and
it's this high shrill. I'm sorryI'm saying pussy, but that's the name
of the name, pussy talking.It has it's this high shrill, like
come on, let's fuck, comeon. It's very funny. It's obviously
it's a comedy, a sex comedy, but hardcore, so it's like chatterbox

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kind of yeah. And it hasthis great like this is muload I think
doing like this artistic look of thepoint of view of the pussy and you
know, it's the camera and ithad you know, there's scenes of of
the wife being fingered, so there'sthere's fingers going out. There's even like
these fake hair around the camera.Wow, Okay, it's it's pretty disturbed.

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I mean there's disturbing moments like itgets a little dramatic, like the
wife is like, I can't takethis anymore. She tries to kill herself
because the pussy's kind of running herlife, and the pussy calls the husband.
It's like, hey, you're tryingto kill herself. Get the hell
over here, you asshole. Likeyou never satisfy me because is the receiver

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in the crotch? When it is, it's not, it's not inside.
But yeah, it's like there,Okay, that's fine. But yeah,
the crazy camera angles like it's goodand spoiler, I'm gonna spoil it for
sure. In the end, thepussy talk is transferred to the husband kind
of like an exorcist deal, sodick talk like it's okay, happened.

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So, speaking of talking genitalia.So Charles from Twitch of the Death Nerve
was here, you know we hestayed here for the week. You got
to meet him for the first time. I yeah, it was funny because
he was like, I didn't expectLance to be so handsome. I expected
Peter bark Well. I already knewCharles, so's handsome. Anyway, I

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don't post a lot of pictures ofmyself. Yeah, I appreciate that.
Charles. So he was here allweek and aside from the books getting here,
we're watching the movies, like John'sdoing marathons and all that stuff.
John found something and he was like, Erica, this is on your watch
your watch list, and it's calledTalk to Me, Dickie, And it's
a Hong Kong movie about a policeinvestigator. Investigator who is looking into some

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rapes that are happening and he needsto learn how to talk to his dick
to help him to solve the crime. And so he learns to talk to
his dick and there's actual conversations goingon, but Dick talks back. The
Dick talks back, but dix canalso talk to each other. So like
that's true. If you have adick and I have a dick, then
they can talk to each other.But I can't hear your dick, so

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then my dick has to tell himwhat your day said. Right. I
love the the talking Genitalia genre.If there's any more out there, people
hit us up. We've got chowderBox, Pussy Talk and talk to Dick.
This is great. Yeah, no, that's there's got to be a
list out there on letterboxed I hope. So if not, Letterbox, I'm
deleting it right now. That listdoesn't exit them pussy talk and talk to

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me, Dicky. Sounds like adouble feature, just yea that everybody should
put together. Let's let's let's callLindsay. Yeah. So there there isn't
a whole lot of information on ClaudeMuloh, Like I wanted more information on
the drowning, like what was hedoing? Like, but I couldn't really
find calling you a shark attack.I know we'll find we'll find more information
when we watch that. You know, he's very proficient writing screenplays, usually

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comedies. He was a big partof the French erotic cinema. Like I
said, he worked with Brigitte Leyquite a bit. Actually, her last
adult film, or a hardcore adultfilm called French Sex Lessons, was made
with Claudemulo in nineteen eighty or nineteeneighty one. And I watched this one
and it's again it's they're funny.It's a funny setup. She's like a

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madam at a brothel and the policecome and shut it down in the very
beginning, and he like jokingly sayssomething like, you know, you're out
of work. You should go backto school or something, or you should
open a school. So she sitsthere and starts like that's a great idea.
Like months later and she actually opensa school to teach women how to

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please their men or please their partner. Okay, yeah, it's extremely hard
course, so she's like on,she goes to the front of the class
and gets blowjobs, have sex withguys, and she's like discussing her techniques
and it's a lot of fun.So some of the students start doing it.
She's like really like a plus,Like, good job, Claudia.

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This is another spoiler. They allpass with honors. Oh good for them.
But yeah, French sex lessons likeClaudemulo wrote some pretty I mean,
I'd watch more of his adult filmsfor sure, because he puts a lot
of humor in it and the actingis actually a lot of fun to watch
too. So there's other crew membersinvolved in The Blood Rose, mainly working
on other films that Claude Mullo did, So there's a screenplay that Mulo co

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wrote with two other guys that prettymuch only worked on other films with him
that he made, so not muchto talk about there. The cinematographer is
Roger Felou, who he also shotBunel's Diary of the Chambermaid. I did
watch this. I got around tothis one mainly because you said there was
a child death in it, soI did watch it for that, so

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thank you. Yeah, it's agood scene, right, it's very dark.
It is dark. I was like, oh, like, I can't
remember how you framed it for me, but I was expecting something a little
less of a downer and I waslike, oh, that's new. Yeah.
I think because has like snails onher legs. I remember. Yeah,
it's very very unsettling scene. Yeah. But Pheliu also shot White Fire

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from nineteen eighty four. I amFire great. Fred Williamson, we both
recommend this one. Any other castyou wanted to talk about or had notes
on, I don't have any othernotes on crew now. So the cast,
there are a lot of recognizable faces. I'm just going to go ahead
and start with one who we recentlytalked about. The star of Demon is

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on the Island. Yeah, AnnieDuperray. She plays Anne, the woman
who's badly burned and needing the facetransplant. Her face hasn't actually shown too
much in this. It's a lotof point of view, kind of first
person point of view angles with theblurry lens because she's losing her eyesight.
But I'm gonna I'm going to sayto go back and listen to demon Is
on the Island to hear us talkabout duperret. Yeah, do that.

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We just talked about her recently.I remember I'm mentioning I wanted to watch
The Blood Rose for Demons online,but I was like, yeah, I
went to this terrible English dub,yeah, which is terrible. So I'm
glad I came back to it.And the true star of the film,
I would say, is Bluemayer,who plays Frederick Lonsac, the husband who's
hiding his wife and trying to finda surgeon to do a face transplant for.

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And he's fantastic in this. He'sfantastic in everything I actually watched that
he's been in, including some moviesthat I watched years and years ago.
He has over one hundred acting credits, starting in his career in nineteen forty
six. He acted in Sylvia Amadio'sfilm called Assassination in Rome in nineteen sixty
five, that's Smile Before Death.Yes, of course, I recently watched

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a Jess Franco movie called the OtherSide of the Mirror or the Obscene Mirror.
I wanted to watch this in sodid John and again this week it's
been a thing. I'm gonna I'mgoing to get to this, I know
Manda Micawber put it out, yes, and it'll probably have to get a
standard edition though it is amazing.It also stars Howard Vernon. He's also
in it, so Howard Vernon isa star in The Blood Rose. But

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yeah, I definitely get to itbecause I loved this movie. It's all
about atmosphere. It was definitely myfavorite film that I've seen with Flamar and
it. Emma Cohen is the lead, given I think one of the best
performance, if not the best performanceI've seen in a Franco film. It
kind of has all the atmosphere youexpect from Franco, but it feels more
like an Argento film to me.That's bold statement. It is. Watch

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it. But it's about like thisyoung girl who's engaged to be married,
which breaks her father's heart played byHoward Vernon's very creepy and so he kills
himself and she finds his body.When he kills himself, he hangs himself
and she finds his body first seeinghim in the reflection of a mirror.
That's a double. Oh wait,spoiler, it's a double because Howard Vernon

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hangs himself in the mirror. Right. Yeah, that's that's where I was
like, this could be a doublethis could be Howard Vernon double feature.
Yeah, okay, I had itall my double feature, Lita pick but
yeah I picked something else. Okay, no, unless you pick mine,
I'll go back to the other side. Okay. But yeah, then she's
haunted by her dead father and mirrorsthrew out and people start kind of loved

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ones start dying around her while she'sspacing out looking at the mirrors. But
yeah, Howard Vernon, like Isaid, plays her father, but lumayre
plays an older man who falls inlove with her later in the movie.
Just very very well done. Ihighly recommend that movie. And then a
few days ago, I watched amovie that you admitted that you couldn't finish.
I tried again the other day.I was like, now Lance finished

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it, I'm gonna fucking do it. And then I tried. I was
like, I don't know, Idon't have time for this. No,
I didn't. Oh shit, youcould did it get better? I don't
know. I was bigger, alot better. Okay, I'm gonna admit
the first time. So I feellike I don't know I won something.
I remember Puma Man, I wrotelike, I watched this so you didn't
have to hear all challenges excepted.I did fall asleep for a bit,
like about about thirty minutes in okay, and then I woke up and I

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was like, wait, what's goingon? And I got you know,
I don't know. I feel likewhen I wake up, like when I
watch movies early in the morning,I feel real rested, and I probably
give him a higher rating than youknow, anybody should m hm. So
I got really involved and into it. So I started it over and watched
it straight through. Okay, itgets better. It's terrible acting. I
mean it is hard to watch.Yes, with the credits. It starts

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off real strong, like it's likekind of these blurry city lights. The
music sounds good, there's a darkcity. It gave me like a softy
Brothers feel, and then it justkind of gets terrible, like it has
a terrible This is a true storythat took place in a Central American Republic.
If you remember that. Yeah,super slow. Like I said,
the performances are very wooden. I'veseen worse, though, you know me.

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I find the charm selling it.I'm not going to go back and
watch this now. But it's made, it's made. It's made twenty five,
twenty four years after The Blood Rose, So Lumaire's in it. He's
very old looking at this point.He plays Inspector Badal, kind of like
a commissioner with the very short fuse. He's very fun to watch. He
starts yelling at people with really withoutany reason. Just a great looking inspector.

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He's very corrupt and you didn't getto it. But there's a scene
about this dead bus. It's calledthe dead Bus, which I have to
talk about it. It's located ina junk yard where all these punks hang
out to get high. And therewas this character named Melissa who seemingly lived
in the dead bus, which isfilled with skulls. Like she's talking and
she's leaning on all these dead skullsand it's hinted at that these are the

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skulls of dead children. Oh,so it's explained that years ago some bus
driver was really high and he wreckedthis bus, which is why it was
in the junkyard and he wrecked itwhile driving and all the kids and all
the children inside died, including Melissa'sson, but they don't have a flashback.
They don't have a flashback. Iwas hoping for it, but at

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the same time, I was like, this is tell me more about this
dead bus. Yeah, and Ithought it was really weird. But you
know, I stuck around for thecredits and they have Charlie Chaplin listed as
assistant director second assistant director. That'sthat's a pseudonym. Then, yeah,
it was. I mean I've lookedit up on IMDb, and you know,
Chaplain's daughter Josephine stars in this.This was actually her last film role,

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which was interesting. But I waslike, this is so Franco,
like it's funny. Yeah. Yeah. And Lou Mayor is also in a
segment of the horror anthology Spirits ofthe Dead from nineteen sixty eight. Yeah,
I really like that film, andso Felipe Lumher actually committed suicide in
two thousand and four at the ageof seventy seven by throwing himself under a
subway in Paris with just a dayafter his birthday. Was he terminally ill

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or something. I didn't mention anyof that when I was reading about it.
I mean I would do that ifI was terminally ill at that age.
I'm just saying, yeah, Imean throw yourself under a subway.
I mean I probably wouldn't do that. Yeah, that's right. I think
I could probably figure out a lesspainful way to go. I don't want
to talk about this. I meanit's probably real. It's probably pretty quick,

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sudden maybe, but you don't everknow you could. I don't know.
But yeah, that's a terrible sorry. He was a great actor,
tons of credits. Check out allhis films because I've liked everything he's been
in. Then we have Howard Vernon. Yeah, so this is the man.
He's of course playing the surgeon likehe usually does in a lot of
movies. He plays like the evilmad scientist Professor. He's either that or
a Nazi or a Nazi, yes, And he plays Professor Romer in this.

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He has about two hundred acting credits. And his face is very much
like Boris Karloff in my opinion,and you know, the kind of bulgy
eyes, the very square defined featuresand when he pops up in a movie.
I'm always like, hell, yeah, Vernon fu Yeah, it could
be good. But he's probably bestknown for all the just Franco movies.
He pops up in She Killed anEcstasy, Faceless, A Virgin among the

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Living Dead, The Awful Doctor Orloff, which is another Eyes without a Face
rip off. I love his Draculaportrayals, and Franco film's Daughter of Dracula.
He plays Dracula or Count Carl stearingcarl Stein. That's a way to
do the Karnstein. Ye, Carlstein. I know a lot of scenes and

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Daughter of Dracula just have these weirdtransitions, just zoom in and quick zooms
on pubic hair, great transitions.It's a mess. My letterbox review was
I don't think this is how youmake a movie, and I fully support
it. But the short scenes alonewith with Vernon alone make it worth the
watch. And of course Franco hasa regular cast of these beautiful women just

(27:25):
running around. And he also playsDracula in Prisoner or Dracula Prisoner of Frankenstein,
which is another Franco and he's cakedup in this weird makeup and he
gave me the creature vibes from likePyro Mandir the Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm an honor rud agar Agriwall.I'll butcher his name, but Josh

(27:51):
correct us later. Yeah, hedeservedly so. And he his face though,
Howard Vernon's face in this this Draculamakeup and prisoner Frankenstein just gave me
that vibes. I loved it.And I always respect a movie with minimal
dialogue, and this literally has maybefifteen to seventeen minutes of dialogue. Damn,
maybe like five minutes total, Likeit doesn't have any dialogue for the

(28:14):
first like twenty minutes. It's awild, wild movie to watch. Okay,
not very good, but O worthit. He also plays a vampire
of sorts in Ogroff, that utilator. Yes, Howard Vernon is just sanger.
Yeah. Everything he's in, you'relike fuck. Yeah. I mentioned
that I love the other side ofthe movie where he plays a creepy ass
father. But I watched a moviethat you also watched too, and it

(28:37):
might be one of my favorite performancesof Howard Vernon, and that is The
Unknown Man of shandygar Yeh from nineteensixty seven, directed by Jean Louis Roy.
Yeah, this was my favorite.Well, I mean, I know
I didn't watch that much for homeworkthis week, but even if I had,
this still would have probably remained myfavorite watch for this. Def Crocodile
put this out. Yeah is thisour first release? Not? I don't

(29:02):
know if it was their first one. Ryan can correct this. Yeah,
there was one. All the thingsthe movie on TWOB is the restoration.
Yeah, it looks fucking beautiful.But yeah, I'm going to pick this
up now. Because Laird played thisat Weird Wednesday last year. I think
I missed it because I wasn't ableto go, and then I'd been meaning

(29:22):
to pick it up and I wasjust like, I'll get to it.
I'll get to it. And thenthis came up and I was like,
Okay, I'm finally going to watchit. But I wouldn't have received it
in time to watch before this,so I didn't order it, but I
am. Now. This was somuch fun. It's just, you know,
pulpy and silly and so much stylelike this one's. You know,
I mentioned that Mula does some disjointedstuff. This is kind of shot in

(29:45):
weird segments where you kind of haveto piece together, what's happening. Yeah,
it's a little confusing, but it'sstylistically, it's like it's like like
Wes Anderson's like black and white WetDream, Right. I feel like Wes
Anderson had to have watched this movieat some point and like it just inspired
him to make movies the way hedoes. I think it's better than any
Wes Anderson movie I've seen, though, Yeah I'm not. I don't really.

(30:11):
I've watched a few of his moviesand I'm like, yeah, okay,
it's cute, I get it,but it's every single one to me,
is like nearly identical, and Ijust I'm like, I don't need
to see any more movies from himnow. I've That's why Fantastic Mister Fox
is my favorite Anderson because it isyeah, different, it's not for sure,
but yeah, there's one scene inparticular where like all of the suit

(30:33):
wearing, glasses wearing men, thefour of them are seated there and they're
all doing the exact same gestures atthe same time while they're being given instructions,
very like Wes Anderson. Seemed tome right there, yeah, yeah,
and Howard Vernon plays an ex Naziwho's now head of CIA. Course,
scenes of the X Nazi what hecan't play anything else except a Nazi
or sometimes type of scientist or professor. Yeah. I think that's why I

(30:57):
like shandygar so much and The BloodRote because it's Howard Vernon in a predominant
role and a lot of the stuff, particularly the Jesse Franco, he just
kind of pops up to just kindof give this creepy presence. Yeah,
Like, not a whole lot oflines of dialogue. I haven't watched a
lot of his earlier films that Ineed to get to, like Alphaville and

(31:17):
stuff like that, But I don'tknow. I love the roles where he
has a huge part, and yeah, I think it's a reason why I
love The Blood Rose so much too. But yeahs, as I mentioned in
the summary for Blood Rose, thereare a lot of other characters that are
important to the plot. They didn'thave a whole lot of credits to cover,
so not a whole lot to discussthere. But is there anybody else
you wanted to chat about in thecast? No? I did watch one

(31:38):
other movie for Howard Vernon though,called Terminus from nineteen eighty seven. Yeah.
On Prime and to be if youfollow me on letterbox, you probably
saw my rating and know that it'snot worth watching this movie just fucking honks,
like it tricks you into watching itbecause it's got Karen Allen and I

(31:59):
love her and playing like you thinkshe's playing like some sort of Mad Max
character, Like you think it's somesort of post apocalyptic film, but it's
about a child robot who's in chargeof some game about driving. So like
she's got this big bus that she'sdriving, the dead bus, No I

(32:19):
wish, but it's like this computerautomated but big bus RV type thing that
the child robot has designed and programmedand the game is like you have to
get to his destination where she's at, and there's he's got. The robot
kid has some motivation behind the wholegame or whatever it is, but like

(32:43):
there's this really so you know howlike in newer cars they have like the
big display screen for you now likereally obnoxious and I fucking hate it,
but you know, for your mapor your you know whatever you're listening to.
H yeah, on this thing theyhave have a mouth with you know,

(33:06):
Like how in Clockwork Orange they havethe things to keep his eyes open.
It's like they have those hooks aroundits mouth and it's talking to you
like series, Yeah, here,this is what it looks like. It's
fucking disgusting, weird. Yeah,and like he's got the most obnoxious voice
too, Like he's just the mostannoying sidekick like type character. He's like,

(33:31):
yeah, but really fucking annoying.And there is one scene in it
though, where like the main So, Karen Allen, here's what else sucks
about this move. Karen Allen diesearly in the movie. Dude, Yeah,
so this is why I'm like,I'm telling you, so you don't
fucking watch it. So then themain character becomes this guy who she met
in prison and they had like areally quick like one night stand or whatever.

(33:53):
And he's in one scene where he'sarm wrestling this like officer guy or
something, and and the officer makesthis face that like was the highlight of
the movie for me. He madelike what in the world. Yeah,
I don't know if he's supposed tobe some kind of a I mean everything.
I like, hey, you takepictures of the screen, but it
looks like it's all computer generated,right, it looks fake. Yeah,

(34:16):
he looks like he's extremely constipated.But yeah, it's anyway, Terminus fucking
sucks. Fuck that movie, don'twatch it. Does Howard Vernon have like
speaking roles? I don't even remember? I think, oh really much?
Oh okay, yeah, yeah,it's one of those movies. Yeah yeah.
And the thing is is like there'sand there would have been an opportunity

(34:37):
for him to be in like ascientist role, because the kid is in
like some information center and there's likescientists around or whatever. He could have
been there. And there's one guywho plays three different roles, like I
think he plays triplets or something likethat. Okay, he's a recognizable face
and like one of the characters orone of the brothers he plays. I

(34:58):
think he's in drag. I don'tknow, but no, I'm going to
back up. I'm starting to makeit sound like I'm trying to sell and
I'm fucking not. This movie fuckingsucks. Movie on. No, not
don't watch Terminus. That is thecrew, that is the cast and crew
of the Blood Roads. Do notwatch Terminus. So the Blood Rose is,

(35:21):
as we already mentioned, eyes withouta face ripoff. Yes, I
don't know if I'm saying this rightfrom our Discord channel clocker in. He
has an ongoing list of eyes withouta Face ripoffs on letterbox. Thank you.
Yeah, it's and he posted thatin Discord. Has about, you
know, fourteen or fifteen on hislist right now. If anybody has any
suggestions, check out his list.I think his what is his letterbox spelled

(35:43):
m I kk E l h H. Check him out on letterbox anyway,
he's great. But some of thefilms listed was one one we covered on
the podcast Scalpel, the Mexican horrorThe Witch's Mirror from nineteen sixty, which
we both love. Yes, theAwful Doctor Orloff obviously already mentioned. There's

(36:04):
a film called The Murder Clinic whichI watched a few years ago. I
think I watched it for a potentialGiallo pick, and I just remember it
was like, okay, it wasfine, faceless right. More recently is
the Spanish thriller called The Skin ILive In from twenty eleven with Antonio Bandettiz.
Ok. Yeah, it's a finelist. Are there any that pop

(36:27):
in your head that might not beincluded? Or I was wondering if we'd
consider Mill of the Stone Women.Yeah, yeah, I think so.
Yeah, I mean that totally works. Okay, Yeah, I love that
movie. I know you were alittle lukewarm on it. I recommend the
Arrow Blu ray. That restoration looksphenomenal. So yeah, but yeah,

(36:50):
you gave me your previous copy.I appreciate that your DVD copy. Yeah,
even though the Blue rays so muchbetter. Oh yeah, yeah sure,
yeah, so without a face ripoff on hundred percent. I think
also the title of the movie,The Blood Rose, which is something I
like it. I really like it. But Vernon's character refers to himself as

(37:14):
the Surgeon of the Underworld, andas soon as he said that, I
was like, WHOA, Like,what the that is this opportunity? No
it's not, but what a titlefor a movie, the Surgeon of the
Underworld. Yeah, but I likeThe Blood Rose because it almost sounds like
a fairy tale. Yes, andI feel like there are so many fairy
tale aspects to this movie, Likethe title adds to it, the way

(37:38):
that characters, different characters narrate partsof their own scenes and their own story.
Yeah, and it's got like theit's past present future, so it's
kind of like the once upon atime like in the past, this happened,
and then she's sort of like thedamsel in the castle where like there's
one really beautiful not one one time, they couple times where like it's nighttime

(38:01):
and you see her in the windowabove, like and it's just really like
it's lit and it's like pulling backand just this like sense of isolation for
her, but also like kind ofterrifying, like if you see that,
it's like you kind of reminded ofPsycho and things like that, like seeing
Marshaman or mother sorry in the yeah, in the window, and yeah,

(38:22):
the love story is like a sweetfairy tale help me come together, and
they kind of they kind of rushit, which feels very fairy tale to
me because it is like the past. It's the past chapter and again the
chapters. You know, I'm usuallynot a big fan of chapters in movies,
like you know, Quentin Tarantino doesit sometimes well, but it works
really well in this because to me, it adds like a fairy tale book.

(38:45):
Like you said, the past,the present, the future. Yeah,
you have the beautiful chateau and thenthe original score which was by a
man named Jean Pierre d'orse who hedoesn't have many credits, but it gave
me, like almost Danny Elfin Edwardssays her hands vibes sometimes, okay,
yeah, and that that's fairy tale. It is very fairy tale like especially

(39:07):
there's a scene of Anne having adream with her new face and she gets
up out of her wheelchair and startswalking around, and it's very like you
know, Winona Ryder and Johnny Depperkissing in the fake snow. You know
it's but yeah, even the helperse Or and Olaf, they're kind of
snow whitey, but I guess theywould be called like rapie and yeah they're

(39:30):
I mean, that's the thing Ilove about this movie though, is because
you're expecting it to be some sortof fairy tale thing. It has the
setting for it, it has evenlike from her point of view, and
I know it's because she's you know, basically like half burned and you know
her losing her vision but like thatsort of foggy vision, and you know,

(39:52):
the forest and all of these elements. But then you have like the
two henchmen who are just like rapey, disgusting, like nonverbal, just what
are the you know, cave menbasically so you have these sort of I
don't want to call it like exploitationelements, but much more like horrific elements,

(40:15):
including the fucking the credit font,the dripping blood amazing, I love
that part. Yeah. So yeah, there's the servants are I mean,
they're treated horribly, like when Annfirst meets them, she obviously screams,
you know, when Lonsac takes herto the chateau at first, and she's
like, He's like, oh,I'll get rid of them, and she's

(40:36):
like, oh no, let themstay. I just wish they weren't so
ugly. Yeah, and I waslike, yes, he was about to
get even uglier. Yeah, exactly, like you know, Carver's a bitch,
bitch. But yeah, I feellike they were almost presented as like
the snow white like I do feellike it does. It was an element
of fairy tale. I don't Again, there's not a whole lot on muloh.

(40:57):
And maybe there is extras, becausethere are the Macaw. There's a
DVD Micabre release of this, andthere's a French Blu ray out there,
but I don't know what kind ofthe bonus features they feature. But yeah,
the horror element, like you said, the dripping blood, and I
thought one of the creepiest moments waswhen Barbara the sister shows up and Igor

(41:20):
and Olaf are just like chasing her, you know, through the forest and
to the chateau. Like that actuallyis the most unsettling scene to me.
I mean, there's rape scenes andstuff that's very unsettling, but as far
as like this is kind of terrifying, that scene I thought was really creepy.
But other than that, there's nota whole lot of like gore or
obscene violence, so it's all aboutatmosphere. I like how it sticks to

(41:45):
kind of a dramatic thriller. Yeah, there's a couple of humorous moments that
I found which I felt like itwas one of my favorites. It's the
future chapter where basically it's where Romareand Lonsac are like, Okay, let's
do this. We're going to geta new face for my wife, and

(42:07):
then it cuts to like the futurechapter and it's them. It's like a
it's like a humorous part of themovie where it's like a montage of interviews
of beautiful faces and I just sawthis is brilliant. I love this so
much. Yeah, another thing thatI love about this movie is, like
I said, it sticks to likea dramatic tone, but the mysteries that
are thrown our way does a greatjob of adding new elements. About forty

(42:30):
minutes in, we learned that HowardVernon's character Professor Romere, and we learned
about his past while he sneaks intoa building and takes it takes a mold
of a man's face, and it'sjust kind of like, WHOA, what's
happening now. Then almost an hourin, it jumps to Anyes's sister,
Barbara, who starts playing detective tolocate her sister. And then with like

(42:50):
twenty minutes left, you get likethis chief inspector that pops up. It
starts throwing these weird elements of mysteryand just you know, at its subplots
that really worked really well for me. I love the design of the institute.
It's so weird. John called itlike he said, it was like
Owen and ant Brews. Yes,yeah, exactly. The architecture it's kind

(43:16):
of futuristic. Yeah, it's kindof like tattooing bungalow. Yeah, it's
so interesting. I think my oneof my favorite things in this though,
is possibly one of the best murderweapons I've seen in a film. A
plant. Yes, it's like,let's just poison this plant and be like,
oh yeah, get in there andwater that, water that thing.

(43:38):
Ooh, she's dead in the heart. Yeah. And I thought for a
minute, I was like, Ithought, because they made such a big
deal about bringing the plant into thehouse and like doing all this thing,
I thought that was going to be. And then it was called blood rose,
so I was like, oh,okay, does this actually bloom some
kind of flower? And then isthat going to be? And then I

(44:00):
got really excited when she used shetold the girl to you know, she's
like, I'll get in there andwater it so she could kill her,
she could get pricked by the poison. And I was like, is this
going to be like a motif wherethey're going to bring in like a new
servant and she's going to get madat her and then she's going to use
the plant to kill her. Andif so, I'm all for that because
I love this this murder choice,murder weapon choice. Yeah, I really

(44:24):
was. I really thought the plantwould have more of like a role as
well, especially because it looked likeat one point Howard Vernon was injecting blood
into plants. Yeah, yeah,which wasn't really explained. And I'm sure,
you know, he's obviously like amad scientist surgeon type of guy.
But yeah, I mean it isone of the best murder weapons. Like,

(44:45):
give you more of that. AndI, like I said, I
love the montage where they're basically interviewingcaretakers or nurses or maids to you know,
to take their face right, youknow their you know, the wife
Anne is kind of looked taking aroundcorners. I thought she'd be more involved,
Like I like her, you know, yeah, I did too,

(45:05):
But would you do you have aface of an enemy or like a friend
that you would take Like it's kindof easy for me, maybe because I
have a twin brother. Yeah,you would just take care. But I
think like if that happens, Sarahwould be completely grossed out with that because
she's like, you know, thespouse that wants she's the spouse that wants
to correct my face, my disfiguredface. She'd be like, get somebody
more attractive than you and Cody.Ah, do they have to be living

(45:31):
well, yeah, you need livingtissue? Oh yeah, well no,
I don't know. You could takeCody's I don't want I want to look
like you. I mean, Charlesthinks you're handsome. But Charles, you
are not wrong. You know,you know Edwige Finek is still alive,
so you know. But I wouldn'twant to take her from this world.

(45:52):
So that's that's the problem, islike, yeah, anyone who I adore
enough to want their face, Iwould not want to take that from this
world. Yeah, it's probably abad question. I mean it's tough.
You wouldn't want to take anybody famoustoo, because then you'd be like,
I don't know, but then youcould live their life. But the whole
premise is, yeah, I don'tknow, bad question. No, it's
not a bad question. Like Ihonestly I was when you said that.

(46:15):
I was like, you, youknow, take their life, and I
was like, well, I'm gonnabe careful. I always say this because
this is recorded, But like ifI were, if I were to step
into someone's shoes and I could correctall of their previous atrocities. It might
be a famous author who wrote veryfamous children's books and is a fucking billionaire

(46:38):
now and is just a enrat heardof a person. I mean, that'd
be a terrible face. I meanI don't want her face though, because
I mean she would Yeah, thatwould end her, That would end her
life. Yeah, because you're takingthe living person's face and tissue. But
yeah, maybe let's just let's sendher a let's send her the plant.

(46:58):
Yeah, okay. I wouldn't wantto walk around with that person's face,
I know, because that's the thingis I was thinking about it. I
was like, well, I'd haveto like basically go on this huge apology
tour as this person. It wouldn'tbe I mean, if anybody can talk
their way out of it, itmight it might work. You might be
able to pull it off. Idon't think. I don't know. She's

(47:19):
dug herself into a hole so deepI can't there's nothing pulling her out.
So never mind. I don't wantanyone's face just you know what, I'm
just going to throw myself in frontof a train, like ELP. Yeah,
I'd like more information on that too. Is there a movie coming out
about that? I don't know,but yeah, some of my favorite scenes

(47:40):
too, I kind of want topull the screenshot. It's when it's before
the fire of the costume party,yes, and they're all sitting there watching
a vampire movie like a projector,and like Moira, who's the jealous the
jealous nothing really comes from that too, the jealous lover. She just kind
of disappears, which is fine,but she's like painted gold. She looks

(48:02):
great. There's people like dressed asDracula and just this amazing looking I took
I literally took a screenshot of itbecause they're just like huddled around all in
their costumes watching this vampire movie ata party. And I don't know if
you noticed, but in the veryback there's a crimson executioner I did bloody

(48:22):
pit horn, yes, fuck yeah. And he pops up like while they're
talking too. He's like in theback, like all yeah, trying to
get in the camera. It's thebest scene in the movie. It is
not the best, but like oneof the one of the best scenes.
Yeah, I would say my favorite, one of my favorite scenes. I
loved all the exterior shots with thefake fog machines and stuff, like,
especially when they when the first maidI think her name is Anya. She

(48:45):
she's buried by Olaf and Igor andthen like you know, Lamaire's he's bringing
her out and carrying her body.But that dream sequence that Anne has where
she takes bandages off her face,she has her beautiful face back. She
stands up out of her wheelchair.It's a long sequence. She goes,
she goes walk to walk outside.It's nighttime, it's very gorgeous, and

(49:09):
that dead body of Anyas rises andshe has like blood all over her.
It's just this very beautiful scene,very very dark, fairy tale feeling.
And then she wakes up. It'sthe blurred vision. She looks over and
sees her wheelchair. It's again.It goes back to like it's very sad,
like I want Anne. She wasvery happy. She was a very
positive person. Other than calling theservants ugly. Yeah, I mean I

(49:36):
was like, she really turned uglyphysically and personality wise. I mean,
the accident did it to her.Accent did it to her. But even
before then, when she's just sayingthat shit to holl Off an Igor or
Eyegre maybe who knows. Yeah,I felt bad for her, But at
the same time, I was kindof like, maybe you shouldn't be fun.

(50:00):
Can calling people ugly then? Youknow? Yeah? I mean,
like I said, it does seemlike it's a karma, like what goes
around comes around type thing. Andthe good thing about Igor or Igor and
Olaf is they don't talk. They'rejust they are kind of presented as pets
sleeping on the floor and stuff.And oh when I don't know which is
which, but when one of themdies at the end and the other one,

(50:21):
he looks up and he's so sadhe lost his best friend. Yeah
that so Oloff was the bald one, okay, played by Johnny Cacao,
and they both and then the guywho played Igor has a one name just
he's like Madonna. Oh yeah,he goes by Robert though, okay,
good for you, Roberto. AndI looked at their credits and they actually
act in a few movies together,other movies. Nothing I had seen and

(50:45):
could find, but they are theywere great, yeah, little Michael berryman.
And yet I wanted to learn moreabout that filming location because, like
you know, you mentioned, theinterior was amazing, amazing, but the
exterior was like this has to beanother movie. Yeah, and I found
where it was like I'm not evengoing to try and pronounce the French chateaus.

(51:06):
I'll kill it. But there's nota whole lot of films that I
could find, you know, informationon it. But yeah, it's maybe
on the blood Rows like releases,there's more information. But they're gorgeous and
they look like I've seen this before. Yeah, so let's talk about the
ending. What do you think it? I like how it all comes together.
You know, you get the inspector, the chief Inspector comes in,

(51:29):
Barbara, the sisters and romare hanging, Professor Romaier is hanging himself. Like
in the other side of the mirror, Igor and Olaf, they start losing
their shit and attacking everyone. Yeah, but I wasn't a big fan of
the true ending, Like when whenLonsac releases Barbera and calls the police and
admits to doing all the killing.I kind of wanted like a hammer horror.

(51:53):
Is that everything on fire? Yeah, Mill of the City. Yeah,
like just give me, give methat classic like Burned on the Chateau.
I mean, this is an earlyfilm for him. So like this
is you know, wrapped up ina tight little bow type of ending.
And it's fine. I'm with you, though, Like I would have preferred

(52:13):
that, you know, his lifereally ended when she lit herself when she
fell in the botton fire. Yes, so let's like bring it full circle
and just fucking burn the whole placedown her yourself, you've already you're already
dying. You know, you gotthat you got impaled by spear or something.

(52:34):
Yeah, he does seemingly die fromthat woe while he's pain he's working
on her final portrait. Right,so it's like, why did he need
to even call the police? Justburn everything to the ground, like your
life is already over at the fire, the first fire anyway, right,
Yeah, I kind of wanted something, and again I guess this this is
a little more fairy tale. It'slike, you know, you made your
own bed and like you you know, you're you're still in love with your

(52:58):
wife. And that didn't make senseto me too, because he was like,
as soon as the dwarfs were attackinghis wife and she was losing her
shit, he was like, allright, killer, Like it's a very
odd switch of character when the wholemovie and his whole life is devoted to
making her happy and getting the loveback that yeah's had. But it's yeah,

(53:20):
you said, it's Claudemulo. It'sit's one of his earliest films.
Yeah, I like when I talkedabout Chuck Vincent during Deranged, I feel
like Claude Mullow was it's a shame. It's sad that he died at such
a young age because it is interestingto see where he could have gone,
and he was going back to themore horror thriller genre. But I mean
even like pussy talk like it's I'dnever seen anything like that before. It's

(53:44):
very artsy like he had. Hehad great ideas, and it's it's a
shame that he died drowning. Yeah, but yeah, I'd recommend The Blood
Rose in a heartbeat. Yeah,this was really fun, great pick.
Charles had just seen it, notlike a month or two ago. Someone
had a marathon at their house andthey put this in it. So oh

(54:04):
sweet. Yeah, did you enjoyit? Yes, very much? Cool.
Okay, double feature pick. Ithink we've hinted maybe on some but
yeah, I was initially thinking,you know, along the lines of some
other like Franco movies, but thenI was like, yeah, I don't
want to go too eyes without aface knockoff close in that realm. I

(54:25):
thought, you know, maybe justHoward vernon double Feature, because you've got
hundreds of movies to choose from.You know, she killed an Ecstasy also
has like a disgraced doctor, althoughit's her husband and that's not Howard Vernon,
so might not really work the sameway. But but I ultimately did
go with one that is eyes withouta Face adjacent, but I think it's

(54:45):
different enough that it would still work, Like you don't feel like you're watching
the same movie. And it's alsoa way different setting because it's you know,
Flemish and so in a movie wecovered very early in the podcast,
Mill of the Stone Woman from nineteensixty. Yes, that's a great one.
Yeah, it's you know, takesplace in a windmill. There's a

(55:07):
display of women stone women, ifyou will, there, and there's a
young man who goes there to learnmore about it and he finds out there's
like this maniacal you know, scientistand he's trying to keep his daughter alive
through like blood transfusions, and he'sgot this whole laboratory setup and the you

(55:27):
know, in the basement of thewindmill. It's it's great. Arrow has
a blu ray of it. Ihighly recommend checking it out. It might
it's probably streaming somewhere by now nice. Yeah, I think what was my
my double feature pick for that episodewas The Man who Could Cheat Death and
then yours was the horrible Doctor HitchcockI believe, of course because yeah,

(55:49):
necrophilia. Of course that whenever Ican. Yeah, coming out strong and
early with your with your favorite,your favorite subject. I was like,
this is what you guys are infor. Okay, that's a great pick
Mill the Stone Woman by you,So yeah. I thought about Jess Franco's
The Other Side of the Mirror fora Howard Vernon Hangs Himself double feature.

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I am picking another Franco film andVernon Howard Vernon film which there are a
lot to choose from. This oneis a German horror called Castle of the
Creeping Flesh from nineteen sixty eight,also known as Castle of Bloody Lust.
Keeping in with the April Showers ofBlood theme. Directed by Adrian hoven Co,
written by Jess Franco, Howard Vernonplays this mad scientist slash surgeon living

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in a remote castle that some partygoers stumble across, and we learned that
one of the uninvited guests looks eerilylike his daughter who recently died and we
find that he needs her and herother friend's bodies to attempt to bring his
daughter back to life. So ithas those similarities and bringing a loved one
back to their beautiful living self.And it also has some very unfortunate rape

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scenes we have in Blood Rows.Yeah, it uses real life footage of
open heart surgery, which goes onway too long. There's too much of
it. The performances the movie,it really isn't that great. The performances
aren't that great, completely unnatural,like in every aspect. I wrote in
my letterbox review that the whole thingfeels like a dream Dale Cooper might have

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while staying at the Great Northern Hotel. Okay, again going back to Twin
Peaks, but it'll leave you scratchingyour head and kind of rolling your eyes
here and there, but you'll befully intrigued. But yeah, I think
it works as as a double HowardVernon as a surgeon feature. Okay,
yeah, seven releases years ago,but it's on. It's on too,

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b if anybody does want to watchit. NICs all right, that is
that's putting the lid on April Showersof Blood. Yeah, we're closing the
jar. We're going to throw itin under a subway, yeah, or
drown it, who knows, ordrowned, Like, yeah, we don't
know. Maybe it'll maybe it'll popup. Maybe again, we'll see.

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I know ed like Adam gave aship for not covering an Andy Milligan movie,
and I'm like, look, maybethat's a big that's a that's a
big ask. There's a lot tothere's a lot to talk about. That's
a long episode. Yeah, Andlike that's why it took a while to
get to Stuckler, because I waslike, I'm not doing this without Zach
right, and uh so a Milliganepisode. I know that there's plenty of

(58:25):
other people I know who like loveAndy Milligan, but Jimmy McDonough like literally
wrote the fucking tomb on him.So yeah, we'll see, we'll see.
Yeah, all possibilities are are open, but I don't I don't want
to promise anything. What I dowant to promise, though, is that
we are never leaving France. Ohwe have another one, here we go.

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No, we are leaving France atsome point. This is the last
French movie I'm gonna pick this year. I fucking promise you guys, I
know you're probably sick of mispronouncing namesfrom French names, so yeah, back
to France. My pick for nextmonth is a movie called Invitation to Travel
from nineteen eighty two. It's moreof a thriller than a horror movie,

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but it has a lot of thingsthat Lance is going to appreciate, including
twins. Okay, this is onCava Forgotten Films under its French title.
We'll have the Lincoln Show notes.We'll paste it in Discord and Twitter as
well. Invitation Awe Voyage is whatyou'll find it on Cava Forgotten Films there.

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So it's actually male and female twins, so it's not identical same sex
twins. That the woman twin sheis a pop singer and she actually dies.
She's electrocuted in a tub of milk, and her twin brother, slash
lover question Mark, stuffs her bodyinto a cello case, straps it to

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the top of his car, andembarks on a road trip. This is
the best setup ever. That's allI'm going to say about the film.
If you go on Letterbox you'll probablysee my initial review of it. I
watched it. I watched it lastyear. I gave it three stars.
But I also like, after Ihad finished watching it, I was like,

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Okay, now that I know whatthis is, I think i'll like
it better on a rewatch. Sosome of you might watch it and be
like, I don't know what Ijust watched, but I liked it,
or you might just be like,god fucking damn it, Erica, you
know whatever. You know, wecan't win them all. We can't win
you guys over on all of them. So but yeah, I think I'm

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gonna like this one a lot moreon the second watch, which is a
big reason why I picked it,because I want an excuse to watch it
again. And I was like,well, it's got twins, so Lance
is going to be down. Soyeah. Yeah, and that's summary like
you just like I said, itsells it. I have so many questions
already. Yeah, what's this tubeof milk? Like I can't wait taking
a bath and milk I guess fora skin to remain. I guess that's
a thing. I don't know.Yeah, yeah, and we'll talk about

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it. We'll figure it out together, folks in our next episode. Uh.
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