Mai bere acqua santa prima di cena. Specie se siete vampiri. I sistemi di auto-protezione del cervello contro i traumi devono essere davvero efficienti, se a distanza di pochi giorni già non ricordo assolutamente nulla di
La Notte Dei Vampiri (anche "Midnight Mass").
Già partiamo malissimo citando
Romero ed i suoi annunci televisivi per introdurre e accrescere il senso di panico che si diffonde nel mondo al propagarsi della catastrofe. Con una botta di originalità senza precedenti abbiamo però qui dei vampiri, in luogo dei nostri amati zombie.
Per farla breve: i vampiri fanno
"outing" e decidono che è giunta l'ora di diffondersi come lupi tra il gregge umano (
very original); contro di loro una piccola comunità rurale (a cui tutti noi auguriamo una lenta e straziante morte
) si stringe attorno al giovane sacerdote - disperato e ad un passo dall'alcolismo, così come il pubblico - intenzionato a riprendersi la chiesa locale a suon di crocifissi e acqua santa.
Volendosi dare un tono psicologico-culturale, poi, il
regista/scrittore ha anche la cattiva idea di introdurre estenuanti diatribe a sfondo religioso sul bene, il male, i vampiri e la cattiveria del mondo.
Pellicola che oserei definire
minimalista, difettando in pratica di tutti quegli inutili orpelli che vanno sotto il nome di trama, sceneggiatura, dialoghi, regia e senso del ritmo (e della decenza).
Il fatto che pressoché nessuna delle persone implicate a vario titolo in questo filmone abbia poi più lavorato nel mondo del cinema, mi pare significativo:
atroce sotto ogni punto di vista, è sconsigliato a chiunque non abbia gravissime colpe da espiare e sia momentaneamente privo di una vergine di ferro.
Col senno di poi sarebbe stato meno doloroso farsi una maratona di
72 ore ininterrotte di
Walker, Texas Ranger. Al qual proposito vi ricordo che osservando attentamente il cappello di
Trivette si possono trarre valide previsioni metorologiche e sulla vita amorosa.
Voto: 1. Trashometro
® 2/10:
(se incontrate questo DVD piantagli un paletto di frassino nel cuore, prima che lui lo faccia a voi!)
Tags: horror, vampiri, chiesa, prete, alcolismo, croficisso, acqua santa, comunità, noia mortale, trash.
Mandile, Tony
Ultimi lavori:
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
"Walker, Texas Ranger" (1993)
Walker Texas Ranger
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Western
Valutazione: 4.7/10 (577 voti)
Durata: 60::(203 episodes) min
Paese: USA
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:Walker, a martial artist, and his partner Trivette are Texas Rangers. They make it their business to battle crime in Dallas and all around the State of Texas.
Trivia random: Jimmy Trevette's nickname for C.D. Parker was "Big Dog".
Citazione random: [after being beaten up by Walker]::Ranger Jimmy Trivette: I'm glad he's in a happy mood.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Romero, George A. (I)
Nome di battesimo: Romero, George Andrew
Data di nascita: 4 February 1940
Altezza: 6' 5" (1.96 m)
Coniuge: Christine Forrest::(1981 - present), Nancy Romero::(1971 - 1978) (divorced), Kate McNeil::(? - ?) (divorced)
Ultimi lavori: Biografia:George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; however, by all indications, he was very successful. The director of the ground-breaking "Dead" tetra-logy was born February 4, 1940, in New York City. He grew up there until attending the renowned Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.After graduation, he began shooting mostly short films and commercials. He and friends formed Image Ten Productions in the late 1960s and they all chipped in roughly $10,000 apiece to produce what became one of the most celebrated American horror films of all time: Night of the Living Dead (1968). Shot in black-and-white on a budget of just over $100,000, Romero's vision, combined with a solid script written by him and Image co-founder John A. Russo (along with what was then considered an excess of gore) enabled the film to earn back far more than what it cost, became a cult classic by the early 1970s and was inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress of the United States in 1999. Romero's next films were a little more low-key and less seen including There's Always Vanilla (1971), The Crazies (1973), Hungry Wives (1972) (where he met his future-wife Christine Forrest) and Martin (1977). Though not as acclaimed as Night of the Living Dead (1968), or some of his later work, these films had his signature social commentary while dealing with issues, usually horror-related, at the microscopic level. Like almost all of his films, they were shot in, or around, Romero's favourite city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.In 1978, Romero returned to the zombie genre with the one film of his that would top the success of Night of the Living Dead (1968): Dawn of the Dead (1978). He managed to divorce the franchise from Image Ten, which screwed up the copyright on the original and allowed the film to enter into public domain, with the result that Romero and his original investors were not entitled to any profits from the film's video releases. Shooting in the Monroeville, Pennsylvania, Mall during late-night hours, Romero told the tale of four people who escape a zombie outbreak and lock themselves up inside what they think is paradise before the solitude makes them victims of their own, and a biker gang's, greed. Shot on a budget of just $1.5 million, the film earned over $40 million worldwide and was named one of the top cult films by Entertainment Weekly magazine in 2003. The film also marked Romero's first work with brilliant make-up and effects artist Tom Savini. After 1978, Romero and Savini teamed up many times.Dawn of the Dead's success led to bigger budgets and better casts for the filmmaker. First was Knightriders (1981), where he first worked with an up-and-coming Ed Harris. Then came perhaps his most Hollywood-like film, Creepshow (1982), which marked the first, but not the last, time Romero adapted a work by famed horror novelist Stephen King. With many major stars and big-studio distribution, Creepshow was a moderate success and spawned a sequel, which was also written by Romero.The decline of Romero's career came in the late 1980s. His last widely-released film was the next "Dead" film, Day of the Dead (1985). Derided by critics, it did not take in much at the box office, either. His latest two efforts were The Dark Half (1993), (another Stephen King adaptation) and Bruiser (2000/I). Even the Romero-penned, Tom Savini-directed remake of Romero's first film, Night of the Living Dead (1990), was a box-office failure. Pigeon-holed solely as a horror director and his recent films no longer achieving the success of his earlier "Dead" films, Romero has not worked much since, much to the chagrin of his following. In 2005, 19 years after Day of the Dead, with major-studio distribution, he returned to his most famous series and horror sub-genre he created with Land of the Dead (2005), a further exploration of the destruction of modern society by the undead, that received both excellent and indifferent reviews and even topped the United States box-office in its first week of release. He still resides in Pittsburgh.
Trivia random: Prior to Night of the Living Dead (1968), he was better known as an industrial film-maker, who created TV commercials, promotional featurettes and industrial training films. One of his assignments was to shoot short films that were used in the TV show "MisteRogers' Neighborhood" .
Citazione random: Yeah, I'm seen by the studios as a genre guy. I've made several non-genre films, but nobody went to see them. I guess I'll never be a member of that club.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Midnight Mass (2003)
Regista: Tony Mandile Scrittore: Tony Mandile,
F. Paul Wilson Genere: Horror
Valutazione: 2.3/10 (156 voti)
Durata: 98 min
Lingua: English
Cast:Trama:A group of people fight for their small town after vampires take over the world.
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
Gilyard Jr., Clarence
Nome di battesimo: Jr., Clarence Darnell Gilyard
Data di nascita: 24 December 1955
Altezza: 5' 9" (1.75 m)
Coniuge: Kathy::(? - ?) (divorced) 2 children, Elena::(? - present) 1 child
Ultimi lavori: Trivia random: He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity
Filmography links and data courtesy of IMDb.
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